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a positive impact.
Speaker 5: But he's got to get his hands right.
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in those gloves.
Speaker 5: Billy Ambi Puha.
Speaker 4: Also, Byu has been able to get a strong pass
rush in the last four games. They are sacking quarterbacks
at a high rate. What has happened? What's going on
in Provo right now? Why are they much better at
getting after the quarterback over the last four weeks. We'll
discuss even in that Texas Tech game like. It goes
to show that sacks aren't the only thing that matter
in a in a football game. Obviously, we tend to
focus on certain stats, and we love him, but Barren
Morton was pretty much stand good even if he was
sacked many times and was injured his torque leg.
Speaker 5: He's got like a stress reaction.
Speaker 4: It's crazy to me how effective he was even after
getting sacked, after getting hit and suffering a stress reaction.
In the TV anyway, we'll talk with villiy Ambapuha and
talk about that defensive pass rush.
Speaker 5: Bruce Mitchell, who has become one of.
Speaker 4: The best graded offensive lineman, especially the center position in
college football.
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address the media yesterday, I want to read between the
lines in this segment and then nitty gritty. This was
his opening statement from yesterday in preparation for the Cincinnati game.
Speaker 7: Yep, Well back on Monday again and excited for this week.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to the game, going back on the road.
Speaker 7: It's good to be home for the for the this
game over the weekend against TCU, and I love that
the team was able to bounce back from the loss
that we experienced it in Lubbock. And but it's good
to be home play the game for our fans. And
now that we got a home game done with it,
it'd be it kind of refreshes us. And guess it
gets ready to get back on the on the road
again and heading out to East Eastern time zone.
Speaker 1: And play in a.
Speaker 7: Really quality team, you know, looking at that I don't
know Scott Scott Saderfield for a while, and he's he's
got a great reputation, does a great job with his team,
and they played really really well this year on film.
They're dangerous and they do some some I mean they
can be they can put some points on you really quickly.
Speaker 1: With Soresby as a quarterback.
Speaker 7: He can run the ball and he can spread the
ball out in the past game and so and then
they can run the ball with their with their their
running backs and so it's difficult team to prepare against,
but defensively they can make things difficult for you too.
And I mean, they got one of my favorite players
I could like watching and Dante Corneeron. He does a
great job up front and like his personality. I just
like the overall like like their team. I like the
guys on their team, the leaders that they have and
people that we got to see im media day and
things like that. They just you hear how they they speak,
and that you hear about the culture and what Scott's
doing there. And I just can't help but be impressed
with what they're doing as a team, and you know
this is gonna be a big time and looking forward
to the matchup. It's going to require us being at
our best and looking forward to it. We see it
on film how dangerous they can be in there at home,
and so there's a lot there's a lot on writing
on these games at the end of the year, especially
when you're playing teams that are in the mix, that
are you know, up up there in the rankings when
it comes to the standings of our conference. So we
know that we understand that and just like playing TCU,
they're a great team that has won games and has
you know, got caught themselves ready for bowl games and
things like that. So you know, we we know that
this is going to take our best. We want to
create more flow and momentum from last weekend and looking
forward to getting that done starting today with our prep
and so.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 4: That's Killane discussing this Cincinnati football team. One of the
things that stood out to me was a fusive praise
for Brendan sorezb the six foot three, two hundred and
thirty five pounds junior out of Dens in Texas. He's
a good football player. Know if SAMs or much about it.
Two thousand, he's well, let me let me break this down.
So he's attempted two hundred sixty five passes, complete one
hundred and fifty nine of him, and he's he's thrown
for two and eighteen yards. That's a sixty percent completion rate,
twenty two touchdowns, four I in ts. Does not turn
the ball over all that much, but interesting note here
he's thrown three of those interceptions over the last two
weeks in the Utah and Arizona games. Pretty crazy. So
one versus Utah, two versus U of a Okay, he's
only been sacked.
Speaker 5: Check this out.
Speaker 4: EYU has been taling a lot of sacks here over
the last four weeks.
Speaker 5: They've been impressive.
Speaker 4: One of the better teams in the last four weeks
in college football. Brendan Soorsby has only been sacked three
times this season, one against Kansas, one against Oklahoma State,
and then one against U of A. He's got a
QB rating thus far this season of one fifty four
point seven. That's pretty Goshenago. That's one of the best
in college football. And then his QBR is right around
eighty seventy nine point seven, which is also up there
with the best of them. He can run too, That's
the thing. This is the difference between him and Hoover.
Hoover doesn't want to run. He wants to stay in
the pocket, get the ball out on time. Hoover could
run if he needed to, but he doesn't. Soresby does
like to run. At six three two thirty five, that's
a big body. That's a big dude. Eighty two carries
four to eighty three yards five point nine yards per
carry in nine touchdowns. It looks akin to what our
guy Bear Bachmeyer has been doing. Bear bachmeyer rushing stats
are very similar to that so Brendan can ball for
the bear Cats, no doubt about it. Number two is
the number, right is that he reps on his chest,
et cetera.
Speaker 5: But this guy's good. He can beat you. He's had
two consecutive bad games.
Speaker 4: I imagine he's gonna be better after coming off two
consecutive losses unless I'm unaware, Like I don't know if
he's got like an injury unreported. He did have nine
carries versus Arizona for thirty yards. He had four carries
for twenty eight yards versus Utah, and he had rushing
touchdowns in each of those games. He's actually had four
consecutive rushing touchdowns in the last six games.
Speaker 5: He's at five, so it's a lot of rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Like I said, very similar to what we've seen from
bear Bachmeyer in the red zone. They like to use
that big body of his to tote for tuddies, if
you will. So Brendan sores be getting some love from
Also Kalada's talking Kaladia, you mentioned Saturday night you're not
worried about style points. This will be the third time
you're featured in the big Newton spotlight. How will that
help you when it comes to postseason opportunities going forward?
Speaker 7: Well, when he said it, like, I don't I know
about style points. I know what style points are, you know,
and I want to win. That's the key. You want
to win, and people look at the metrics. I mean,
we were favored to win three points that we want
by a lot more than that. So I want to
win and I want to play it our best and
we can control the game great, But if not, it
comes down nothing's easy. You can't sit there going like
we're gonna go into this with trying to win with style,
Like I want to win the game first, and so
I understand all that stuff and people running up the
scores what style is? Then okay, I understand that whole concept,
But I want to win the game first. That that's
the key, and that's going to be our focus. But
you can't sit there and claim the game before you
actually play it. You got to play the sixty minutes.
Speaker 5: Gotta play.
Speaker 4: Look, I don't know how you guys feel about the
style points steal. Obviously, scoring margin matters, efficiency matters. The
algorithm or the metrics, the analytics, they matter Ken palm
has taking over the basketball world. Evan Miakawa also getting
into the mix. There are other metrics out there that
maybe basketball leans on obviously, but college football was a
metrics based competitive environl through the BCS. There was weeping
and wailing and gnashing your teeth during that BCS era
because they're like, well, the computers don't know, you need
the eye test, right, And so we went to eventually
the college football playoff and there was a lot of
human element and then there was.
Speaker 5: Complains about the human element because it's corruptible.
Speaker 4: Now we're seeing a melding of the human element committee
with the algorithm, computer based, metric based, analytical based methodologies
as well, and it's it's gonna be, you hope, weighted equally, right,
a little bit of the eye test, a little bit
of the metrics, and so like, I hope it turns
out well for BYU. I think bau fans are looking
up at the up on the hill and seeing Utah
have massive scoring margins in their victories and they're blowing
out teams that are inferior to them, and BYU hasn't
been able to maybe do that, granted, playing on the
road versus at home, Like I don't, I don't understand why,
Like we're not taking that into account in these algorithms.
Ken Palm does a really good job of that. Home
and away settings are completely different. So if you look
at Utah, are they winning on the road, are they
winning at home?
Speaker 5: What's going on with that?
Speaker 4: And is the algorithm is the metric based uh you know,
you know, I guess weighted algorithm between the committee and
what they're looking at it, are they taking that into account?
And so going back to what Kladi said, like he
understands that style points matter, I think is what you
heard in a not so direct way. But he's worried
about winning more than he is about style points.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 4: That's what it comes down to. Doesn't want to blow
out any teams. I mean, he wants to, but like
it's not like he's he's looking for a He's I
don't think he's trying to just win with class, just
to win with class. He wants to win and he
wants to win big and he wants to be in
the college football playoff. Now, Kalatea, your team was named
the Big twelve Defensive Line of the Week.
Speaker 5: Your sack totals are way up from last year.
Speaker 4: What has gone into developing that group into one of
the strikes of the team.
Speaker 7: We thought they'd be good, you know, we talked about
developing them and getting them where they want to be
a lot of people question it.
Speaker 1: That's fine. We're playing really.
Speaker 7: Good football right now and we're sitting in a really
good spot. So d line is improving, everyone's improving, we're staying.
You know, we're working on our depth. You're starting to
see a lot of the young guys start step up
and understand the.
Speaker 1: Scheme a lot more.
Speaker 7: And when you're doing that and everybody's clicking and doing
the simple things right, it comes back to the fundamentals.
Guys can do the simple things right and understand their
assignus and they get to play more and eventually, you know,
we'll get them in the right spot.
Speaker 1: So I'm pleased with.
Speaker 7: The way the guys are working their belief in themselves
and in each other in the system, and when they
do that, good things can happen.
Speaker 1: But you know, it works hand in hand.
Speaker 7: The coverage has to be there in order for the
pass rush together to get there too, So it's usually
a good sign if we're getting more sacks and more hurries,
probably more disruption. If we can do things like that,
then we'll have an opportunity to get interceptions and then
create create some havoc.
Speaker 5: Sack leaders, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: Byu has really improved Man college football team sacks much
better than they were a season ago, much better than
they were at even two seasons ago. They were hovering
I think in that like eightieth realm, not a good spot.
They are top twenty five in the country this season
with two point six sacks per game. The teams that
are ahead of them, they're right on pace with Utah.
Right now, Utah is sitting at two point seven sacks
per game, and a lot of those sacks from Utah
are coming from one guy, whereas for By, you see
kind of this dispersed accumulation of total sacks. Jack Kelly,
Isaiah Glasker, Sialia Sera, the linebacking corps. Obviously, you're seeing
it from Evan Johnson begetting his first sack. You're seeing
it from Keyato to Navasa. You seen it from John
tollmoy Bay. You've seen it from Logo, the Twoey and
Body screwed over. Just the the full fledged totality of
sacks is what I'm getting at. Love seeing it, and
you know who. I gotta give a lot of credit
to coach Chad k. Not very many people know about
coach Chad k Not talked about a whole lot. You
need to get to know Chad K. He's a senior analyst.
He's been at BWAY since twenty twenty four. Coaching experience
started out at Baldwin High School two to four. We
were state defensive line coach oh five to eight, Utah
Defense Utah State defensive line from two thousand and nine
to twenty ten.
Speaker 5: Then he went over to Utah.
Speaker 4: So went from Utah State to Utah's defensive line twenty
eleven twenty twelve, then Wisconsin with Garby Anderson from twenty
thirteen to twenty fourteen. Then to Oregon State as the
associate head coach and outside linebackers coach from fifteen to seventeen.
Boise State defensive line coach in twenty eighteen. You see
a USC defensive line coach in twenty nineteen, UNLV defensive
line coach in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, you see
la defensive line coach in twenty twenty two, took a
year off and came to brig him in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: He's been good. He played defensive.
Speaker 4: Line and linebacker at Utah from ninety three to ninety six,
so a lot of playing experience and a lot of
coaching experience. And between him and Gary Anderson, Look, this
is it's a big reason on why byus balling out
on that defensive side of the ball, shout out to him,
coach Chad can't get to know him and thank him
when you see him in provo, never in front of
the camera, always working behind the scenes. You face a
lot of you faced a lot of good quarterbacks season kalatate.
Where does Brandon uh Soresby rank amongst the best of them?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's right up there with all of them. I mean,
you look at the stats and you can see he
can make things really dangerous and and and he's he's
really difficult at home. You know, I think, uh, we know,
we know how the advantage can be. And so when
when teams come here in the mountains, it's it's a
hard game to to It's hard for people to figure
things out.
Speaker 1: And I think that's been an advantage for us.
Speaker 7: We have to go on the road and play at
Cincinnati against him, so uh, you know, they can be
a different team, and especially when they have a lot
to play for.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: And and also this is a senior senior night, so
there's a lot riding on it. And we know he's
going to step up. I mean, the great players do it,
and so we we have to be at our best.
That's going to be the key. But he can do
all of it. And he throws the ball, he runs
the ball, he does he does everything right and and
we have to figure out a way to disrupt him.
Speaker 1: That's not easy though.
Speaker 5: So klate given some love to Brank and the sores be.
Speaker 4: I'm checking PFF right now to see kind of how
he compares to the rest of college football. Get to
that here momentarily pull up those those grades. But I
imagine he's up there as a top twenty five quarterback
in PFF, which you know by his efficiency qbr QB
efficiency rating, his quarterback rating, and.
Speaker 5: His rushing ability. He's a good one.
Speaker 4: Like I said, by us face some really good quarterbacks
when you combine you know, some of the the Pac
twelve and Big Twelve quarterbacks. You know, with the melding
of these two conferences, you can make an argument that
that the Big Twelve has the best quarterback play top
to bottom. Quite honestly, you can. You can make that argument.
Just pull up pff bear Bachmeer's looking a whole lot
better after a rough and tumble game. And in Lubbock,
it's unfortunate all pull up these grades, all aggregate them
for all you Cougar fans here momentarily. But let's get
back to Kalani Sound. You mentioned Dante Corleone.
Speaker 5: I love that day.
Speaker 4: By the way, what do you make of their overall
team makeup?
Speaker 7: Yeah, really good roster. You could tell that they have
a really good culture in place. I mentioned Scott Saderfield.
You could tell that he's done this before and he
knows what he's doing. And so the guys that believe
in their coaches there, they play really assignment sound football.
Speaker 1: And so it's it's not gonna be easy. Man.
Speaker 7: There's well coached teams in in in this league, and
and then you match that with great talent and and
and great culture. I mean, that's that's that's gonna be difficult.
So nothing's easy you saw over the weekend how hard
it is for guys to get wins. And and even
with that, the people can get yards on you. They
can dick an advance the ball. You have to find
ways to to gain victories and use it. That comes
in disrupting things and the stats that the stats that
matters the most is the score. But everybody wants to
focus on how you win, and but they skipped the
part of actually getting to win first and securing it.
Speaker 4: Brendan Soresby, by the way, is top ten in PFF.
His total offensive grade thus far this season is ninety.
These are the quarterbacks that are ahead of him, Darien Mensa, Duke,
Jayda Mayava, USC, Tucker Gleeson, Toledo, Haines, King, Georgia, Tech,
Byron Brown, USF, Joe Fagnano, Yukon, Fernando Mendoza, Indiana Diego, Pavia, Vanderbilt,
and then Julian Say and Ohio State.
Speaker 5: So per PFF, he's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 4: Right behind him is joey Aguilar Tennessee, Drew Mestiger, Mesta Maker,
North Texas, Dante Moore, Oregon, Taylor, Green, Arkansas, Lake, Horfat Navy,
and Guess who else is in the top twenty five
of PFF.
Speaker 5: Jake Retslob too late. That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 4: No Fafita is also there, so as I was mentioning
its like okay, well big twelve, like how do they rank?
Speaker 5: How good are these quarterbacks?
Speaker 4: No Fafitas there in the top twenty five per PFF
kind of Interestinger caten Hauser of East Carolina is right
there knocking on the door a team a player that
BYU's faced this season, so be you always face some
of the best quarterbacks in college football this season. Hoover
off to pull him up, see where he's at. But anyway,
just a little brief breakdown of the top twenty five
PFF quarterbacks in college football this year. Kaladi, how do
you guys cut? How did you guys come out health wise?
And what was or what has Max Alford added to
that linebacker room?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Max has been really good for us and then creating
some Quaaludi depth, especially when we lost Chay and so
Max filled into the position. He's super smart and you
know we were able to use him when we had
some guys get banged up. When when Jack and in
Glasger and see how they were a little banged up,
and nobody's one hundred percent right now. So after the game,
we we know some guys are still getting evaluated. We'll
have we have partly more information for you on Wednesday,
but we've got some guys that were kind of banged
up a little bit, but we'll be fine. This is
everybody's in the same situation where everybody's sore, and then
there's some people that that are you know, because it's
at the end of the year, are running on fumes.
That's why you have to leave. You have to depend
on your depth. And so we've we've been through this,
We've we've we've prepped for it. We want all our
guys to be ready to go. But if if if
guys aren't able to perform, then the next guy will
have to step up and make it work.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 4: That's Kilani breaking that down health wise, and Max Alford
has been a contributing uh linebacker. Look, you got to
rotate your linebackers a bit. You got to keep fresh. Okay,
they can't be out there the entire game. We've seen
that there's been rotations.
Speaker 5: No doubt.
Speaker 4: LJ had a nice game. LJ said on Saturday played
with a whole lot more confidence. When he is playing
with confidence, what will that do for you guys going
down the stretch of this season.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's good, I think.
Speaker 7: I think the physical part of the game is what
he does, and so I'm not sure if he was
ready altogether on.
Speaker 1: When we played Texas Tech.
Speaker 7: I think maybe we could have benefit from him resting
a little bit, but the moment was too big. He
wanted to try it and how can you say no
to him? So, you know, and it does make a
difference when you get to heal a little bit. I
think sometimes people think that the bye week is a
magical healing week, you know what I mean. And sometimes
things take a little bit more time to get better.
And we've seen that. I mean, we've had guys that
have been banged up and they're playing a lot better
now than they did a few weeks ago, a couple
of weeks ago. So I think he fits in that
in that same category. But what's really nice about LJ
is his leadership and his ability to communicate with his
teammates as a captain and as a leader from us.
Speaker 4: LJ need him at his best, in my opinion, in
order to make it into the Big Twelve Championship as
well as being competitive in that Big Twelve Championship game
and getting into the CFP need lj's best effort down
the stretch. He needs to run like he did versus TCU.
Run like the win, Run like the win.
Speaker 5: LJ.
Speaker 4: Getting back to Kolate here with the CFP rankings. I
know you said you don't get caught up and all that,
but does it get a little bit frustrating at all
that your team only has one loss and you're sitting
behind a handful of two loss teams.
Speaker 7: When I said I don't really pay attention to it,
I know it exists, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm not dumb, you know. I know all the stuff
that's out there.
Speaker 7: I know what people are saying in the metrics and
analytics and the style points and all that stuff. My
focus isn't on that, so I understand everything that's out there.
I got to be focused on what we can control,
which is playing football and the preparation today.
Speaker 1: That's what I got to focus on. So it's nice that.
Speaker 7: We're in the mix and that people are recognizing what
we do, But what does that matter if we don't
go on and know this weekend. So my focus and
what I'm trying to keep the team focused on is
the stuff that we can control. I know one thing,
we go out there and play at our best, and
I like our chances. But until then, I'm not going
to sit here and campaign and waste my energy on
stuff that I can't control. I don't know all the
other people's schedule. I can't speak as an expert on
everything because I don't know what everybody's done and what
everybody's played. All I know is in my view of
what I'm controlling with this team and what we have
on our schedule, especially this week, that if we take
care of business and to do things one step at
a time, then things should work out in your favor.
And that's what I'm banking on happening, and that's what
I want these guys to be focused on. It's hard
to talk about three weeks from now when you can't
even control what you're doing right.
Speaker 1: Now with everybody else.
Speaker 7: Let's just go play the game, be at our best,
and then see what happens next week.
Speaker 5: Ronald the three man, what do you got for every buddy?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think the issue that I'm seeing is, you know,
and of course I listen to all the sound get
it cut up, so I knew that this with this
sound club was the sound clip before it played on
the air. And I think the what fans are saying
is when they hear that, right, if you're not quote
unquote his word's not dumb. If you know about the
style points, if you know about all that, yeah, but
you can't control that. You can control winning, then the
fans are thinking that why don't you win by more?
That's what the fans are saying. If you know that
this exists and the only thing you can control is winning,
then why would you kill the clock with six minutes
left and I go score another touchdown? If that's all
that you do. The fans want you to win by
more and if you know that you need to win,
that's I think the issue that is occurring from what
I see on social media, from interacting with fans, and
from what people say, and maybe even the committee itself.
It's a bill he plays in too many you know,
one score games, and if you have an opportunity to
game to do that, Like I'm gonna be honest, I
think you needed that pick six to win by thirty.
And I said yesterday on the show, that was the
first thirty US victory for Kalanie Sataki in the P
four era, and you know in the Big twelve like
that was the first time that happened. Those need to happen,
Like I think that needs to happen again this weekend,
you know.
Speaker 5: Just from looking at it.
Speaker 6: Because if the metrics and numbers are coming out of
you're saying it's supposed to be a resume and they're
doubting that it's your resume now, then what can you
control how much you win by? And I think there
is some validity maybe with the fans of what they're
saying is, yes, you can't control all these other things,
but what you can't control is what you win, how
much you win by, and that you win the game.
And I think that's the issue is Yes, I know
you don't want to turn the football maybe over late Ben,
but look, if the committee's gonna judge you compared to
Utah that you didn't score enough points, then I think
there is you know, some accountability of that maybe is
your fault, Like you can't just go, well, we won
the game, that should matter. Well, if that's not what
they're saying, then you do have to tailor. I think
maybe your plans to be able to execute that way,
you just can't win the game at that point. I
think that's how fans are singing and listening to that
comment from Kilani and reading between the lines just a
little bit more.
Speaker 4: Well, I look, fans are gonna want the stop points
because it puts BYU in a position of prominence and
hopefully analytically waited in their favor.
Speaker 5: The problem with.
Speaker 4: Kilane or Jay or Kelly or a rod any of
the coaches being overly consumed by what's happening on on
the outside of their program and how they're being viewed
and what the scoring margin are like, they have absolutely
no They can't allocate bandwidth to that like. All they
can do is create great break game plans, coach up
their boys, get them to focus on their technique, on
their schemes, on their execution, and when they play at
their best, you can see a game like you did
at Lavelle Edwards Stadium versus TCU.
Speaker 5: When you don't execute.
Speaker 4: When you don't have a good game plan from a
coaching standpoint, you don't have good play calls, you don't
have good execution from the players. Then you see a
game like the Texas Tech game where a lot of
the wheels are just falling off. So that's what he's
getting at. I understand the fans, I understand the media.
I understand both. Like Kilannie cannot allocate bandwidth to scoring
margin and college football playoff, et cetera.
Speaker 5: When the dust settles and like the seasons kind.
Speaker 4: Of over, the regular season's over and you get to
the Big Tour championship and all that stuff happens, the
b YU SID can probably put out some stuff and
give some firepower to Kilanie when he gets out in
front of Jim Rome or he gets out in front
of Colin Coward or anyone that's willing to interview him.
Speaker 5: Right, he could do that. The SID could feed.
Speaker 4: Him information right, and then he could promulgate that correct.
But I'm fine with his answer. I love the competitive
assault of Kilaney. Does he want to go plow out
every single team and then and being the colleg football PLAYERFF,
no doubt, does it impact it?
Speaker 5: We don't know yet.
Speaker 4: We don't know if all these scoring margins are really
going to impact the final right, the final ranking, because
we need more data points here, and we don't know
how much of the subjective eye test combined with the
algorithm is going to ultimately sway the committee in one.
Speaker 5: Way or the other. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's hopefully win by twenty one points this week
versus Cincinnati. Maybe from the committee's eyes, they have to
see a dominant victory similar to what the other two
teams maybe over the last couple of.
Speaker 5: Weeks have done.
Speaker 4: Right, if you're as good as Utah, then you have
to go and beat Cincinnati as Utah did. That may
be the human and I guess algorithmic way of approaching
this game.
Speaker 5: If you're a part of the committee, if.
Speaker 4: You only win by one score, some people on the
committee haters out there are gonna say, well, yeah, BYU
could very well be a three loss team, just like
Arizona Wildcats are. They got by the skin of their
teeth down in in in Tucson. Remember, though, Utah had
the blessing and opportunity as they did versus Texas Tech
to play at home.
Speaker 5: Right, Utah played.
Speaker 4: At home rice Ecles Stadium in front of their fifty
five thousand fans, with all their lights, with all their
pomp and circumstance. Right, that's they got the home field advantage.
Look what happens when b while you plays at home? Yeah,
bigger wins.
Speaker 5: So I feel like.
Speaker 4: Like the committee up to this point and eat whatever algorithm,
whatever metrics they're utilizing, is not taking into account home
field advantage. They're not taking into account that at all,
and that may be unfortunate. So go win on the road.
I don't know if you're gonna win. I mean, look,
that was a close game. You of a barely got
by Cincinnati thirty to twenty four. Came down to the
final few possessions hopefully BYU wins by double digits.
Speaker 5: Kalate, what have you?
Speaker 4: What have the young guns like new c Talmoy peyuteil
Kaanakini law for Ahma brought to the defensive line.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they brought depth out of depth and athleticism and
skill talent, a lot of that stuff. And then when
you when you have a deep team like that in
a lot of different positions and you can use different people,
and when you have upperclassmen that are that are not
selfish and that are bought into what the team is
trying to accomplish, they realize that other guys can help them,
and that that maybe them at at you know, them
tired is not better than their the young guys or
the backups being fresh. And so what you're seeing is
a nice rotation guys that are trusting each other and
then and then doing it for the greater good of
the team rather than just trying to get your personal stats.
And so I appreciate all the field for the team,
the brotherhood that they have and their their willingness to
share and then understand that they don't have to do
it all by themselves. And you can do that when
you have depth and quality depth. And those guys are
still babies. Man, these guys are gonna get big and stronger.
I mean, there's gonna be They're gonna be a force.
And right now it's good to see that that they have,
you know, they have an opportunity to contribute, you know.
But but I think eventually when they grow up and
get bigger's gonna be pretty scary.
Speaker 1: Very scary.
Speaker 5: I mean, these guys are gonna be very very good.
Speaker 4: Uh, phenomenal football players, phenomenal motor. Go back and watch
that tell Celia kana qb hit late in the game,
on Hoover goodness, gracious, comes off the edge, looks like
he's going with the speed rush, turns inside with an
inside spin move, gets jumps up in the air, tries
to the Kimbi tumbo, a ball that's not thrown, peels
out of that tracks down Hoover as he extends the
play to his right and hits him on the run.
Close that space and lickety split time.
Speaker 5: It was phenomenal. Final few things from Killade.
Speaker 4: When you talk about unleashing Bear in the past game,
is that not going max protection?
Speaker 7: No, I think we've kind of gone through this transition
of bringing him along, and now that we're at this position,
we can really do whatever we want. Challenged Aroon, and
they understand that that was the plan going forward.
Speaker 1: We knew what we were trying to.
Speaker 7: Get done, and by the end of the year we
could do whatever we want depending on what we see
as an advantage against who were preparing, who were playing against.
Speaker 1: So is this hard?
Speaker 7: We can think differently now going to this game eleven,
and then we could back in game one even though
it was a SCS opponent. So you can kind of
just go step by step, and then we're going to
a position now where we can do whatever we want
with him. He's mentally he was already there. He started
studying and knew a lot of the other places. The
question is, we can't practice everything. We can only execute
what we practice this week. And so let's figure out
what we do, what he does best when he's the
most comfortable with and then what highlights our talent and
our and our skill and then you know, let's go.
Let's go into this game pretty much with whatever we
want to we want to accomplish, but that's not just
game day. That's what we want to accomplish and what
we want to prep this week.
Speaker 4: With last thing from Kilane Bronco Maennerhol said on his
radio show recently that he's already talked to players on
his roster and sat them down and discussed what their
future looks like where their spot is on the roster.
Do you have conversation with your players during the season
about their future.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the key is creating a vision for
for everybody, and it's hard to do when you have
one hundred and twenty guys, but you know, eventually you're
going to have to get towards that, towards the end
of the year, and I think there's a moment where
everybody understands their individual contribution to the team and then
also their their goals and what they want to do individually,
you know. So right now we're asking everyone to put
the team first and then we'll discuss what possibilities there
are for them individually. But right now we got to
buy into what we can do as a team, and
eventually we'll get there. But there's conversations happening all over
the place, and they're not they're they're all separate, so
like you can't it's not like one conversation covers the
entire team. It's all going to be, you know, basically
specialized for who that person is and how many years
they have left and what they're what they want to
get out of this experience that they have in college football.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll come back with a question today who you
most concerned about losing next year? This next season in
the portal, Like I had an inkling last year that
Kilan Marrion, with his kickoff returnability was involved in those
jets and running off tackle as well as being targeted
in the passing aid that there was going to be
a plenty of teams knocking on his door and I
was not wrong. I'll tell you who I think it
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Speaker 3: Scholarship was from the hands of Kolani, said talk.
Speaker 2: Kilani immediately went in that city criddle on the bench
Juco ball and told Gary Krouge, so walk Williams the
pro bow instead walk did new show the criddle?
Speaker 3: However, well you know the story. Now he's running the show.
Speaker 4: Who knows Kruger Sports kelk one of three nine.
Speaker 5: Stopped Bring back Race Gated Arizona.
Speaker 3: The music plays playing.
Speaker 5: Great memory all day. You'll come around that end. Yeah, buddy,
welcome back.
Speaker 6: This man.
Speaker 4: Let the music class.
Speaker 5: I wonder if g Man would like this song. G
Man likes this.
Speaker 1: Texting.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't like this, I don't truss his music
choices anymore.
Speaker 1: What did?
Speaker 3: What did this song?
Speaker 5: This came to this?
Speaker 4: This dropped in nineteen eighty three, the glory days of
b YU football.
Speaker 5: Yes, we're in a new glory day though. That's what's
so cool man.
Speaker 4: You had a whole generation of like these eighties b
YU fans, right, that became just ordained advocates for b
YU football. And it came to pass that the fans
of Cougarnation did rise up along with their phenomenal football team,
and you created, I mean, you've created a multi generations
of fans. And now I feel like that's trending in
the since twenty twenty what Kialani's been doing double digit
victories twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, a little bit of
a drop off with an eight and five season and
then at U underwhelming five and seven season, But it
really ended up that last those last two games in
twenty twenty three, you almost knocked off two top twenty
five teams, double digit win teams, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State,
and you felt like, Okay, something could be grooveing here,
something could be moving.
Speaker 5: Let that music play, uh and.
Speaker 4: Uh and and then look what happened last year eleven
and two, baby eleven and two Alamo Bowl win and
a nice little payout from that ball he knocked off
shoe Or Sanders and Travis Hunter and Dion. Now you're
about to do it again, maybe even better this time.
Let that music play, By the way, Brandon Gurney listening
in and says, I love it. Look gimmy an all right,
I love you, man. I know I will never question
you music choices ever. Again, where are we see the
eye to eye here? I don't agree with the white Snake.
I don't believe with the What did you say like
this disturbed order?
Speaker 5: What is it? What's the song that he liked? This
disturb your natural distortion? Social distortion? What is it again?
G man, it was dude, new order?
Speaker 6: No no, no, it's not no, no, no. I think
it might be social distortion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so. It was not good.
Was not good.
Speaker 6: But hey, but you got it on record, you approve now,
so he's un aclaire. Just so you know, not trying
to snitch. Address that she did play it when you
were gone for your birthday. He got it in there
and didn't care. But I have to follow what the host. Wait,
what did he play the artist that you didn't like?
It was your birthday he played he played the artist?
I mean, look, I have to do what the host says.
I'm the producer. I have to follow the rules of
those in charge of the show that day.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, question today he says, Look, we have
a situation right this from this last year, Like I
had kind of an inkling that Kilan Marrin would be
on many opposing teams like reach out List, like hey,
we need to reach out to Kielan. We need to
reach out to his agent see if he's gonna be
shopped or not, just so everybody knows, like Sam Levitt
is shopping himself for ASU.
Speaker 5: We've prognosticated.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna prognosticate here that that he's gonna end up
at Ole.
Speaker 5: Miss Lan Kipp is like, yeah, I'll take.
Speaker 4: Him because Trinidan Chamblishes is gonna be I believe he
is a senior this year, So I think Sam Levitt
could be handed heading out to sec Country and old Miss.
I mean, I'm sure. We call up Jackson Darby like hey,
how was it, and Jackson's like, hey, it was great
for me, It'll be great for you anyway. But Keelan
was one of those guys that are like, oh, he's
gonna be targeted, there's no doubt about it. Who are
you concerned about this offseason? Ronald the three man Weaver,
Who you're gonna be concerned about that? You're like hey,
we better get out in front of this. And because
we heard Klani say, hey, yeah, we gotta have conversations
bron coo Bennerhall had conversations team recently. You get it
towards the end of the year, you're ten games in,
et cetera. Who are you concerned about right now? If
you're kolate, if you're this Cougar coaching staff, who do
you gotta get?
Speaker 5: You gotta get out in front.
Speaker 4: Of things because they've showcased so well that you're talking
six figures, maybe even seven figures being thrown at some
of these guys to take them away from Cougar Country.
Speaker 6: Kids do as I say, not as I do. Been
the whole damn roster.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6: I'm kidding, uh No, but I'm joking, but I'm being serious.
Like Valateuse saw Touala is probably the one that I'm
the most worried about. Along the defense. That guy's may
play after play Ben in the secondary and I'm like,
kids earned his money, Like, you better be prepared that
people are gonna try to target that guy.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I think Jack and Isaiah right, they're gonna if
they decide to come back I'm not too worried about
them because they know the scheme. They played high. I
think they're at their ceiling here. I don't think they'll
go anywhere else. But him Folatile, Oh yeah, Ben Da
that's the guy t wall is leaving. So that's different,
but volatile. I'm really worried that Falatel saw Toula could
be could be poached by some people. Another one is
Evan Johnson been like, look SHMV. Like I know SHMEV
has you know, family here, you know, on the staff,
but like, look, you never know what could happen in
the day of college football. Like he's a red shirt junior,
still has another year. So like, those are two guys
to me along the defensive defensive part that I'm really
worried about. If I had to flip it over to
the offense, then obviously LJ. Martin has one more year, right,
Like with LJ who's about to have a thousand yard season,
he's eighty eight yards away Ben from that, he has
one more year. Would he decide to you know, come
back and say, all right, I'm gonna take my talents elsewhere.
I'm not really worried about, you know, Bear, but those
are my three guys been looking at the roster, like
Fola Tala is probably my number one, Evan would be
number two, and then number three would be LJ. I mean,
I think you even maybe throw Trey in there because
Trey's had a good breakout year he started to perform well.
But those are my three, Ben I'm really worried about
Fola tele the most.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if I've been to create an equivalent toy here,
like Kilan Marrion was going offered anywhere from like five
hundred thousand to a million dollars from teams. Okay, he
got a payday there at Miami.
Speaker 5: He just did.
Speaker 4: Now, I don't know if it was a milli cool,
clean cut millie, but it was. It was pretty gotch
stand close. So that's like game changing money. That's family
changing money for most families. Like you say that much
like that changes the game for certain families if they
utilize it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Okay, So there's probably a couple of players that fit
into that mold. I do think Evan Johnson is going
to fit into a same similar mode.
Speaker 5: He is truly.
Speaker 4: True CB one right Falla Taos Satawala. He's earned his money.
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 5: LJ. Martin, no doubt. Anyone with remaining.
Speaker 4: Eligibility that's producing it is one of the stars, like
guys like Chase Roberts. He's going to the NFL, right, Like,
we're not going to see him. He doesn't have any
eligibility left, Tanner Wall, no eligibility left.
Speaker 5: On the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: Right, You've already had, like guys like to Celia Kanna
and Lucy Talmapayo that have transferred. I don't see them
as like rising stars. I think they're gonna stick it
out at BYU.
Speaker 5: Isaiah Glasker is a red shirt junior like he was.
Speaker 4: I mean he was, you know, I'm sure reached out
to in this process.
Speaker 6: Said that him and Jack did like they came back though.
That's why I'm like, with another year, would they do
that though?
Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm saying, Isaiah very well, could, I
mean depends draft status?
Speaker 6: Is uh.
Speaker 4: Jack Kelly's a red shirt senior, so he ain't coming back.
Speaker 5: He's going to the NFL.
Speaker 4: Isaiah Glasker, though, was gonna be one of those high
level targets that I know Jojo was was inquired about too.
Red shirt sophomore that you know, implemented in the rotation.
He got injured this year, so that made it to
others right because he doesn't have the productivity in order
to marry it. But even look at uh Crew Wakely,
Krew Wakely got a lot of money to go to
Purdue to be a rotational player, so that gives you
a little bit more like you have Kielan Merrin, who
is a essentially a rotational wide receiver. He's a top
three wide receiver, top four wide receiver at Miami. Kielan
Marion has not had like tremendous overwhelming stats this season.
He's been good and he merited probably almost a Klean
Millie and thus far this season he's got I mean, he's.
Speaker 5: Got good stats.
Speaker 4: Thirty three receptions four under and sixty five yards fourteen
point one yards perception along with sixty one he only
has one tuddy. He's got two carris for thirty five yards.
I don't know if he's had any kick returns or
punt returns though I don't think they have him doing that.
Speaker 5: But that that's what you're looking at.
Speaker 4: Crew Wakely got maybe less than less than half of that,
but he's pretty godstaying close to half of that going
to Purdue is being a rotational special teams guy. Pretty
crazy to think about that on the free market. So, yeah,
those are some of the guys I'm looking at right
now that I would definitely get out in front of
and make sure, Hey, you're happy, you're healthy.
Speaker 5: You know, we're going to make sure we take care
of you.
Speaker 4: Because as soon as you enter the portal, I mean
that's when that's when you find out really what your
market rate is.
Speaker 5: But you begin to hear whisperings.
Speaker 4: Right, You've got agents, you got you got tentacles reaching
far and wide, you got connections. These dollars show up,
and they show up real quick because everybody wants to win.
They want to win now. They want to win, and
they want to win now. And if you're a rotational guy,
you're probably targeted. You're probably targeted going into the off season.
You know, Body is an interesting study. Body was you know,
three star almost four star recruit, plenty of P four offers.
He's produced really good. Now he's a BYU guy. I
don't think he's going anywhere, but you never know, could
be uh getting some calls.
Speaker 5: Kenna thought of vas As a REDCHERD junior.
Speaker 4: I don't see him going anywhere, but he would definitely
merit a pretty penny, especially how he played versus TCU
this last week. So a number of guys, you gotta
keep an eye. You gotta make sure you get out
in front of no doubt about it. Guys, that's our
question today. Pull that chime in on it. Want to
hear from you. We're gonna take a brief time out.
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