‘We will be ready to roll’: Kalani Sitake wraps up BYU spring football camp with renewed sense of optimism

Brigham Young University Cougars head coach Kalani Sitake celebrates with his team after they beat the Colorado Buffaloes 24-21 at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo. , on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025.

| Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News Barring something totally unforeseen, like what happened last year at the quarterback position, the BYU football team that wrapped up spring practices in Provo will be identical to the one that takes the field at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Sept. 5 against Utah Tech. That was the message sent by head coach Kalani Sitake, offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick and new defensive coordinator Kelly Poppinga when all three men met with reporters via Zoom on Thursday afternoon.

“We will be ready to roll this fall,” Sitake said. “We have a good football team,” Roderick said. “I feel really good about where we are at,” Poppinga said.

In past years, there was a bit of roster uncertainty coming out of spring camp, because the transfer portal was about to open and players who didn’t have the kind of camp they wanted — or saw the writing on the wall that they weren’t going to be on the two-deep or a big part of the coaches’ plans in the fall — would seek greener pastures. This year, there’s no transfer portal opening when spring ball ends across the country, so what you see now is pretty much what you get, Sitake said. Sitake and Roderick both said that spring practices showed them that they can win a lot of games with the team as presently constituted , and they won’t be looking to add any more bodies unless something catastrophic occurs.