Speaker 1: Stats, say, let's talk about stats. Ben Creital and his
team of former players and eight signers give you the
latest stats, data and analytics that are trending in the
world of Cougar sports stats.
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Banterwealthetterwealth dot Com got to get into it. Let's talk
about stats, same, I got a bunch of key stats
for you here on your Utah ESPN Radio network as
b YU Men's basketball gets prepped, gets ready to take
on Texas Tech tomorrow night. B Y, you not a
favorite on the road versus Texas Tech. And that is unfortunate,
Oh you poor unfortunate souls by you. Men's basketball not
favored in this game on January seventeenth. Is a close
one though, two and a half point favorite for the
Texas Tech Red Raiders. I believe the point total is
one fifty eight and a half is the over under
fifty point four percent chance of victory for ESPN Analytics
for Texas Tech. So by you sitting there, six pm
tip off at the United Supermarkets Arena, you can watch
the game on ESPN, but check out this stat. Let's
check out this stat real quick. Since last February eleven, okay,
just under a year ago, b Wayaman's basketball is twenty
seven and three under Kevin Young and they got a
huge game on Saturday night in love it. Let's welcome
into the show. Let's talk about stats expert. We have
certified financial Planner NFLPA Certified Financial Planner Blaine Anderson on
the line.
Speaker 3: Blaine, how you living man?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Happy Friday to you. Always a pleasure
hoping on. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Happy Friday to you as well.
Speaker 2: When you hear that record twenty seven and three since
February eleventh, what's your reaction.
Speaker 4: Phenomenal? I think it's fantastic. I certainly remember when we
were going through that transition a little bit wondering what
we were going to do after Coach Pope, who myself
included all enjoyed and appreciated. But gosh, this has been
a nice run and sure has been cool Kevin Young
come and coaches here at the Cougars. That's a phenomenal record.
I love it.
Speaker 2: Ed's truly elite, no doubt about it. Another stat of
the day for you, check this out. BYU Football has
been engaged in the transfer portal, not maybe as much
as other teams. Right, it's quality over quantity for BYU.
This offseason then we have eight acquisitions.
Speaker 3: Via the portal.
Speaker 2: They got thirteen, leaving eight added to the squad on
three currently has BYU Football's transfer portal class rate fourteenth
in the nation.
Speaker 3: Your reaction to that news.
Speaker 4: Well, I know this is something that's earned, but wow,
the way that we've been building the last few years,
I can't imagine not being viewed as a national powerhouse
and being a big part of national contention every year.
I think it's phenomenal where we finished last year, but
looking at us as a consistent perennial top twenty, even
top fifteen team and hopefully real soon top ten team
is more of the norm, and I think we're starting
to get more attention even back East, which is something
that excites me. I think is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Let's talk markets and finances and wealth management and what's
going on right now in the markets. I've been texting
you a little bit about this is you know, a
couple of weeks ago, I was discussing, Hey, what you
know silver, silver, silver and gold, gold and silver as
the old Rootolph the red nose reindeer Clay Mason used
to say, was it you Concordelius? Silver and gold, gold
and silver, copper also surging? What is up with the
explosive rad ally sweeps over the metals market right now?
Speaker 3: What are you seeing here?
Speaker 2: Why is it that this particular fluctuation and rise is
occurring right now in the metal markets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I have I've enjoyed our conversation talking about
silver in particular. And you know, as I think about
the different alternative asset classes or things outside of maybe
the S and P five hundred or the traditional stocks,
people are looking for a few different avenues. They're looking
for some additional options, and a lot of it has
to do with the markets peaking like they have, which
is great, but I think it shows a lot of
people understand that the principle, hey, you want to be
selling when things are up, look for some other balance
and asset classes commodities. A lot of times people think
of it when the markets are down. What we're seeing
is what the market's being up, but being at all
time highs. People are looking at a few different asset classes,
whether it be real estate with interest rates coming down,
or whether it be gold and silver as commodities. And
I think a lot of it has to do with
rebalancing portfolios that often takes place this time of year,
and you want to avoid what's called portfolio drift. And
the market has been up, people are up their asset
classes in equities, their allocation is probably a lot higher
than normal, and there's we're seeing a little bit of shift,
but really it's just creating balance into portfolios. Silver's definitely
been a benefactor and there's been a great run, especially
since November.
Speaker 3: Let's get back to football talk.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw Mark Harland, the ad
of the University of Utah, took his commentary to Twitter.
Now that could be a good thing or a bad thing,
depending on how you feel about it. But he quote
tweeted Celessie Moa. Okay, so there was a rivals tweet. Actually,
so it says news. Okay, this is what he ended
up quote tweeting, Okay, so this is the original tweet.
Speaker 3: News breaking news four star athletes.
Speaker 2: Celestie Moo will announce his commitment on January sixteenth at
the Polynesia Bowl. Per Greg Biggins, Moa was a short
term Utah signee and and so uh, Celestie is the son.
Speaker 3: Of Ben Moa, Ben Moo in all time Utah great.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: We know Ice Moa and Shoneimoa both played at BYU.
They entered the portal, they went to Michigan State. I
think Yukon respectively, but there's connectivity between Utah obviously and
BYU here. Celestie was a commit signed with bor Shine,
signed with Utah uh in this last class, but decided, Hey,
I'm going to resend that I'm going to open up
my recruitment with the changes with the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: Kyle Whittingham gone, Jason Beck gone, and.
Speaker 2: So Mark Carlin quote with it says, well, Kama, he
was with us in class for last week. Public announcement.
Dot dot dot seen it all now, Probably it doesn't
even make sense. It does it's it's it's a drunken
stupor tweet, and it begs the question, It's like, what
is Mark Harlan's like most embarrassing moment. I got five
of them. Number one, he quote tweeted, give me a break.
When there were reports that the Pac twelve was was
gonna get uh was gonna get poached. Some of the
teams that beg the four corner schops were gonna get
pached by the Big twelve, and the Pac twelve eventually
went into ruin and disintegrated.
Speaker 3: Right, we know that he was very adamant.
Speaker 2: He was digging his heels and on all those rumors
and and trying to scoff at them.
Speaker 3: Obviously they know what happened there. Number two.
Speaker 2: They stole it from us, absolutely stole from us. The
Holy War in twenty twenty four. He was He took
to the to the mic in the post game and said,
I'm disappointed in the Big twelve, and YadA, YadA, YadA.
I was happy to be a part of the Big twelve.
Today I'm not. They stole it from us. Number three
he walked onto the field of play and got penalized
in that same Holy War game. I've never seen an
ad run onto the football field to ty to try
to talk to a ref.
Speaker 3: He did such.
Speaker 2: Number four purportedly pushing out Kyle witting him for the
head coach in waiting Morgan scally. This happened this offseason,
and then Number five recently calling out former signe's and
commitments on Twitter. Which one's the most embarrassing and why?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well there's a nice list there, that's for sure.
I don't know a whole lot about him or his background,
but gosh, some petty stuff there. If you ask me,
my favorite's gonna be though, just actually costing the team
with a penalty and going out onto the field after
the game. He just seems so easily agitated and gosh,
not a good look, Not a good look at all. Sure,
it's fun to see from the sidelines going to watch
because he's so easily agitated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely petty competitive, as.
Speaker 2: I like to put petty competitive, not always the most
health thing to be know, ex answer us about it, Blaine.
Let's talk a little bit about finances, and let's talk
about wealth management.
Speaker 3: Those that are tuning in and listening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have wealth management officers in Idaho, Utah, Colorado,
and Arizona. So you do great work in all those
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for their long term financial future.
Speaker 3: Without a vision, we perish.
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Speaker 2: I have never had a wealth management advisor, but I've
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I aligned myself with you and Batterwealth this year. It's
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Ben. We know how it works and we're
looking to help and there's been plenty of people that
have helped us along the way, and so happy to
be a part of the community, and thank you as
well as the listeners for the opportunity they go.
Speaker 3: That's Blaine Anderson at Banterwealth Batterwealth dot com. Thanks so much, Blaine.
Speaker 2: We'll catch up with you again with another let's talk
about stat segment next week.
Speaker 4: Sounds great, Thanks Ben, Have a good weekend.
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