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BA sports in this segment. How about a little update
on the BYU women's basketball team. They are taking on
the number two seed right now Kansas UH and that
tipped off at I believe three pm Mountain time. It's
in Wichita, Kansas, so a little bit of a home
court advantage I guess for the Kansas Jayhawks women's team.
You can check out the game on ESPN, U and UH.
Right now Kansas is a leading the game, and they
lead the series two, I, five and oh most recent
meetings this year, and so BYU hopefully finding a way
to survive in advance. They're down three right now now
in the start of the third quarter thirty one, twenty
eight and haven't been able to really hit shots there
at least they're they're three or four from the charity stripe,
but they're thirty five percent from the field, twenty three
percent from the three point line. But they're in striking distance,
no doubt about it. We're gonna welcome at our guests
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my man, Jody Geennessy, formerly of the des Red News
and covering byu Utah perhaps as well as the Utah Jazz. Jody,
how you living?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Give me updates?
Speaker 4: Hey, Ben, good to be on with you man. Yeah,
I'm doing well, so I appreciate you having me on.
It's been a minute.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite Twitter follows as well, Jody. Have
you gotten anybody ticked off at you on Twitter recently?
That seems to be a staple, you poking the bear
a little bit. You know.
Speaker 4: Today I said, Hey, I'm excited to hop lock on
to sports radio with my man Ben Krittle, and I
asked for suggestions of what I say, and I even
said I'd give you a credit perhaps if they gave
me something worthwhile to say or something worthwhile to mock.
I only had one response, and it was my friend
Brady Freddy from Utah. He says, well, whatever you say,
it's going to make people mad. And then I like this.
He says, I heart you, my fiend. I don't know
if he meant friend or fiend, but both were.
Speaker 2: Well, apparently you're getting people angry with political posts. That
was the most recently, I think March twenty six. It's
got fifty thousand interactions.
Speaker 4: Jody, I was just it was pretty milk toast as well.
I just, you know, I said, you know, it's just
it's only jerry mandering depending on which party does it.
You know, if the other party does it, it's jerry mandering.
If your party does it, then it was necessary and
constitutionally correct. So wow, that was a Yeah, that was
a powder ca.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's interesting. So like this is interesting
because like obviously you were you're phenomenal at what you did,
right and in covering sports, and and obviously you were
on beats and other things and colle this etctera. Maybe
you're you're you're foray, you just haven't you haven't gone
into it yet, but maybe it's uh it's on the
political side of things. You really want to draw a
line in the sand to get people debating talk politics
on on on either the radio or on a YouTube
or on social media or in the written content piece.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's if I mentioned by you or Utah
then that, or if I mentioned anything conservative or happen
to tease the liberals a little bit, both of those
subjects just go nuts. And it's usually generally the same
people who are coming after me and telling me how
big of a moron and how I was called dole,
I was called soft, I was you know, somebody asked
what happened to you, Jody, And I actually would like
to know that as well.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is who you've always been. It's just you were.
You know, you had to be curated, you know, people
had to kind of funnel you down a path like, hey,
you can only write about this, but in reality, this
is who you've always been.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like having fun growing up there as a
family called the Staples. In fact, I ran into them.
They came to my mom's funeral last week and great friends.
We were the Byu family. They were the Utah family
on the on the road and on our Street and
we just go back and forth, just fun, tongue in cheek,
just he's you know, and there were friends and nothing
was ever mean spirited. Every time I make a Utah joke,
it's intended with that same spirit, and it's never received
that way on Twitter.
Speaker 5: Holy cow.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we had a good laugh about the Uau
Utah rivalry the other day at my mom's funeral. And
I love the stapleas they need some help on who.
Speaker 2: They root for.
Speaker 4: They think we need help on who we root for.
Speaker 2: But yeah, wow, Hey, I'm sorry, I had no idea.
I didn't know that you lost your mother, Jody. I mean,
obviously sports is to kind of like escape from it
all escapism of athletics and sports and things that nature.
But I'm glad you were able to reunite with with family, friends,
and hopefully it was a wonderful celebration of life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my two brothers are pretty funny. I think I'm
funny sometimes too, So we had a fun time celebrating
my mom's life and maybe poke in front of her.
I'm sure we're going to get a scolding at when
it's our time we are reunited in heaven. She'll be
like why did you mention that? But she's a great lady.
She I wrote a Utah Jazz book a few years
ago at the end of my tenure.
Speaker 6: There, and.
Speaker 4: I had the privilege of dedicating the book, and I
dedicated it to Utah Jazz funds, especially my home team,
and I mentioned her first and said that she's always
been my biggest fan and she growing up my dad
who passed away a long time ago. He was the
one who got me into sports, and he loved the
jazz and by U and one of his flaws is
that he was a Miami Dolphins fan and not a
Dealers fan like me. But we we worked with that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: But she wasn't the biggest sports time. But when I
started covering the Utah Jazz Beat, she started reading everything
I wrote, and she would like text me and she's like,
I hope the jazz keep Gobier that's what she called him,
and and Heyward, and I sure liked this group. And
she would complain to me about the rockets and the
spurs and the referees and yeah, that was that was
some fun times to see Patty Guinness. He turned into
a big Youthah jazz fan.
Speaker 2: Love it man. Well, like I said, it's important that
we have our sports right, Uh, you know when when
all the real stuff it's we can have a little
bit of escapism and and have some entertainment while we're
at it. Jody, give us a little update. Where are
you working? What are you doing? Do you this covering
teams and writing about sports at all?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 4: I miss it a lot, and I still I still
find ways to write here and there for the Probo
Daily Herald a little bit, and and for some wire services.
So I've actually I've been away from the Desert News
for a few years. And now I do communications and
public relations for a health professions university called Rocky Mountain
University in the old Noble Tower here in Provo. So
we have an undefeated football team, unlike the other team
in Provo, but we don't have sports, but we do
have a mascot. Anyway, I enjoy that. It's it's not
quite as as exciting as as b y U are
covering sports and by U and the jazz and whatnot.
But my first assignment was to do the magazine. And uh,
we have a lot of athletic trainers and people like that.
Colby Clawson who's now overseas athletic training for BYU. He's
a Rocky Mountain alum. So the first you can take
the sports writer out of out of the media market,
but you can't take the sports writer out of out
of me. So we did Alumni in Sports as our
first magazine theme. And so we featured Colby Clawson and
had some other by US alums and the University of
Kansas athletic trainer. And so I still write about sports.
I enjoy it.
Speaker 2: I love it well. I think you should at least
every once in a while write about it. I think
it'd be important to you know, just do some ic work,
you know, a column with Jody Gennessy. I think we
could all like if I said, hey, I need you
to write a column this week. I give you two days.
What do you going to pontificate on in the world
of BUE sports, in the world of jazz, where would
you go? What would you say? What would your thesis be? Jody?
Speaker 4: Right now, you know everybody is talking about BYU lacrosse.
Now I'm just gonna I think that.
Speaker 2: They do have a big game.
Speaker 4: It gets Utah Alley on Friday Night one versus too.
But Obviously, the big question right now directly with BYU
is how how their basketball season was a bit disappointing
and how they didn't go further into the NCAA tournament.
But now everybody's turning their sights on the NBA draft
and where's aja devots are going to go? And you know,
how how much fun would it be if he ended
up with he got Jazz? So I think that's probably
where I would steer my my column.
Speaker 2: It might if I.
Speaker 4: Wanted to rankle some people's feathers or whatever that saying is,
I might write about the football ticket situation because I
know my son is kind of upset that Dad didn't
get thee tickets. But before I could even get a
chance to they were gone. So I think is the
hottest top coming up?
Speaker 2: Look, I like, let's approach both of these. Okay, So
the Jazz have a what a ten and a half
percent chance of getting the number one overall pick. We
all know the history of the Utah Jazz and the lottery,
and to say the least, it hasn't been fortuitous for
the Utah Jazz or the New Orleans Jazz for that reason.
What was it nineteen eighty two. They did end up
picking Dominique Wilkins first overall, third pick or sorry, first round,
third overall. They ended up having to trade that one
because Dominique probably didn't want to play in Utah due
to whatever reason. They got thorough though in the eighty
three that was a great pick in the first round.
John Stockton first round, sixteenth overall. It doesn't seem like
they've ever really had great draft slots. They got cal
Ma Malone first pick or sorry, first round, thirteenth overall,
and eighty five and that ushered in I think a
pretty good era for the Utah Jazz, etc. But you know,
are you telling me there's a good chance do you
think somehow the puppeteers of the NBA bestow upon the
Jazz finally the lottery pick that has a void them
for so long in their history, never had they received
such a blessing. But aj loves BYU, he loves the
state of Utah. His parents live in Utah. My conspiracy theories,
this is all puppeteered, Okay, This is all leading up
to a lottery pick, first overall lottery pick that goes
to the Utah Jazz. And Tony Jones said he said,
within three years the Utah Jazz win a championship if
they get aj Wow.
Speaker 4: Well, hey, Tony, he's the man, so we we we
aren't seeing eyed eye on everything. He has Isaiah Thomas
above John Stockton on his pecking order, and obviously I
have reversed there. So if Tony is a pretty good
basketball mind, so yeah, that's there's a lot there. I
would have thought that maybe the Jazz would get the
benefit of the doubt and maybe some strings pulled in
their direction. But then Adam Silver went ahead and find
them five thousand dollars for when you think a game
earlier this season.
Speaker 2: Look, can I give you my theory on this Jody like,
I think it's all a bunch of orchestra. I think
it's orchestra, and I think this is Hey, well I
find him for tanking, you know. So then when he
does get the pick overall first overall pick, did Jazz
get a j No one can come back and say, hey,
this is all conspiracy theories. But I'm out ahead of it.
I know how the propaganda machine works.
Speaker 4: This is brilliant, man.
Speaker 7: I like it.
Speaker 4: I hope you're right. I love this little plot twist.
Speaker 2: You got going with this, well, are you a conspiracy theorist?
I wasn't a conspiracy theorist still twenty twenty. Are you
one now? I am, but I wasn't before.
Speaker 4: I am not one. But there have been some really
shady things in the NBA draft, Yeah, really shady. I
have several big time picks that were traded and then
that team ends up getting the number one pick the
next year, most notably recently the Dallas Maverick's getting rid
of Don Chic and one of the stupidest trades ever.
But you know, he end up with number one pick.
So yeah, the Jazz have just been the opposite. They've
been this model franchise for so many years where they
refused I mean, they wouldn't even come close to saying tank,
you know, and to their detriment, they would try to win,
and even on years or like I remember Jerry Sloan,
he should have tanked and he still pulled out forty
two wins. Should have been coaching the year that year
after Stockton retired, but continuing on tod until recently they
finally decided, hey, this is the only realistic way we
can get some top tier talent, and they got a
Bailey last year, even though the lottery draft didn't favor them.
His agent helped them out more than anything by being
a knucklehead and keeping him away from teams.
Speaker 2: But ACEH.
Speaker 4: Bailey is a nice player. So I hope AJ ends
up here in Utah. He would be like the perfect
He's the missing link for them, the missing piece, and
I just you know, I didn't get to see him
play in person, which was really a bummer for me
this year. But when I watched Lebron James earlier, you know,
fifteen years ago or so, when I was covering the NBA,
I would watch him and I was down low on
the core and it just felt like the court was
too small for Lebron. I don't know if you've ever
had that sense, but when I see AJ playing, I
get a similar sense. He's just so big and so athletic.
He's not as muscular as Lebron. Obviously, he can cover space.
He's got that long leg span, white wingspan as well.
He just can get around. He's got such good footwork.
He's so big, and he's clever too, So he looks
a little funky out there sometimes, but then he like
make this amazing move and he's got so many tools.
I yeah, I think he's the the no brainer number
one pick. I know that Peterson and Boozer getting a
lot of love as well, and you can make some
arguments for him, but AJ is the man in my book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, AJ is gonna go first overall. I mean, he's gritty,
he's competitive, he's uh, you know, he's not injury prone.
Like I just don't think there's any negative. He's got
some dog in him too, so you can build a
you can build an organization around AJ. In my opinion's
still young, no doubt, but extremely talented and hard working,
willing to do the lonely work. In my opinion, we
got Jody Gettessy on the Lion Cougar Sports ESPN The
fan Talk in some world of BYU Sports. You mentioned
the ticket issue. You said you would write a column
about the tickets. What's going on? Why would you? Why
would you delve into this? You're gonna get a call
from the SID Why you Why are you throwing the
ticket scandal into the column?
Speaker 4: Yeah, my my son, my seventeen year old. He's a
big boy. You fan, He's like dad, you gotta get
season tickets for US next year. And so I looked
into it and I thought, oh, maybe I'll join the
Cougar Club. And I was going to join one of
the lower tiers. And if I had joined that and pop,
you know, three hundred bucks or whatever it was going
to be, I wouldn't even I still wouldn't even get
a chance to buy season tickets. So look, I get
the bigger donors are going to get more opportunity to
buy a bunch of tickets, and I respect that, and
actually I agree with that, Like twelve, I think it's
the top level for the athletic Director's circle or whatever
it is. But I think at some point they're letting
these these they have these people that you know, they're
great great great grandfathers help Uyu build the football stadium
right after bringing young got here, and they're still like
grandfathered in and they're getting half the seats. And then
I think they need to limit it to four seats
instead of six or eight, just get more people an
opportunity to buy tickets. And I don't know, it's just
a little frustrating. I get it's a good problem to
have for the program. Overall, you've got this exciting product.
Klanie Sataki's an amazing coach. You got Bear, You've got
all these great things are happening at UA football. So
that's a good thing. But I think the more people
you get involved, get their butts in the seats, I
think that's going to be better for the program overall,
rather than getting letting so many There's so few people
buy so many tickets, So that's one of the frustrating
things for a lot of fans and possibly for me
as well. I'm used to being up in the press box,
you know, but now I have a kid that I
can't bring with me to the press box and got
to find a way to get him in the seats
as well. So yeah, I don't know what the right
answer is. I know DUAU probably mimics what a lot
of other big time programs do, and so they're not
doing anything nefarious by any means. But I think maybe
some serious conversations have to end. They're probably already ongoing,
and maybe they've already happened, but maybe expanding the stadium
it's time for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do see that. I do see it sequencing
out that way. I think I think what they'll do
is they'll they'll revamp it, remodel, at restructure at et cetera.
They could do a standing room only portion for the
time being. I don't know what the fire code says
or allows in that regard. You could do a standing
room only area that allows people to kind of watch
from the balconies, et cetera. But even that's limited. But
one of the things I brought up tell me, I
feel like this idea, it's a gift and kind merit allocation.
So like, Okay, if you don't have the money to
buy a bunch of you know, to buy your way
into access, what if but you have time and you
have a skill set. You know, for instance, Jodi Gannesstry
wants to allocate his time and resources and talents to
the building up of Brigham Young University. You can sign
an NDA, right, you can sign an NDA and and
aid and support and you know what, whatever it may
be your your skill set, you know, maybe a crew
gift and kind cougar club points. You know, you can
nallocate ten fifteen hours a week to the athletic department
with your respective skill set, and you a crew per hour,
a certain amount of dollared points does that make sense?
And you could probably you know what I mean. Like,
if you don't have the money, let us work for it.
Let us work our way up. You know, maybe I
want to be an usher for the football game. Don't
pay me, Just give me Cougar Club points, you know
what I mean. Give me the Cougar Club points. You
know what I mean. Let me.
Speaker 4: They might be yelling at me, Hey, hot dog man,
turn around, tell me hot dog stop watching the game.
Speaker 2: No, I like that.
Speaker 4: I have a big box of unsold jazz books that
I could I could donate. Maybe that could give me
a little bit of a.
Speaker 2: Cooper Club points.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe they can open up more seats
for Here's one thing I know. This year they do
have seven home games, which is because of that order
dam game. They need their big time program. Now do
seven games every single season? Play like the other boys,
you know, just do that. Get more opportunities. Maybe they
have one game where they don't let season ticket holders go,
they just open it up for everybody.
Speaker 2: Hey would I would love to see it. I'm all
about the ideas. So if you've got great ideas, let
me know. One last thing, Jody. In the world of
b a sports. I don't know if you saw this,
but b weave baseball finding a way to hit dingers
walk off home runs two of them, I believe. Over
the weekend versus Oklahoma State. Are the Batcats back? Are
they ready, finally, hopefully ready and willing to compete in
the Big twelve and win some baseball games?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I saw that.
Speaker 4: In fact, my son loves baseball too, So we're gonna
be heading over there to Miller Stadium. That's a beautiful
place to beautiful venue. And I love the they had
to walk off catch there in the outfield against the youth.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Utah's new, really cool stadium as well. So I know
there's a bunch of Big twelve teams at five and
four and by US four and five, and so there's
a logjam in the middle. But they've got Yeah, they've
got a nice team. They kind of had a few
years where they were down in the dumps, but it
looks like they're they're coming back, and they got some
pop in their bat and some nice pictures. So that
would be really fun because they have a nice legacy.
Big Twelves are a tough team, but they do get
a lot of I don't know, five six teams into
the World Series, so let's hope that they keep on going.
That's fun. We need some stuff to cheer about in
the spring.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Amen to that, Jody. Always appreciate
our time together. Glad you're able to hop on for
the little world to BYU Sports and can't wait for
your column. Can't wait for that that that independent contractor column.
Wherever you want to write it, I'll you post it,
I'll retweet it, I'll read it, my friend.
Speaker 4: Hopefully it gets me some Cougar Club bucks and doesn't
get me banned from the stadium.
Speaker 2: So there you go, like, hey, just just allox. It's like, look,
I'm really I'm late, willing and ready to do press
releases for Sugar Club points. Whatever it is that you needed, Skid,
you could totally do it.
Speaker 4: I want if nothing else, I want some Bend bucks.
Speaker 7: So there we go.
Speaker 2: I'll take you out to dinner, man, I'll help you
on your quest for a little bit of side hustle. Jody,
we said please, We appreciate your brother, Thanks as always
for hopping on and talking to some ball with us today.
Speaker 4: Have me back anytime, Ben, good chat.
Speaker 2: With you, buddy, all right, appreciate you, Jody Gennessy, Ladies
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Speaker 8: March is wrapping up, but the madness continues to ramp up.
We start with well wishes today for the BYU women's
basketball team, who is playing in the WBIT semi finals
at three o'clock against the Kansas jay Ows. Delandi Gibb
has averaged twenty eight points per game in her last
two games, and the team has been seeing big production
from Olivia Hamlin, Sydney Benali, Cambrie Barber, and Brittany Cannon
during the tournament. BOYU will look to avengers twenty one
point loss the Jayhawks back on February fourth, when the
team was dealing with the flu. Winnever, we'll head to
the championship game, which takes place on Wednesday nine. Recapping
the events from last weekend, softball finished their series going
one to two against Kansas.
Speaker 2: So Friday's wins.
Speaker 8: Saw a walk off home run from Danica Acosta, what
was her first career homer, or Costa cent won over
the right centerfield wall to win at four to three
for BYU. That wasn't the only walk off of the weekend, though,
as Easton Jones had a walkoff homer for the UYU
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to two. Number twenty three BYU Men's golf took fourth
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Akeina coming in second for his third straight top two finish.
EA swimmer Tanne Nelson wrapping up his week at Nationals,
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boys and girls. Look at everyone's talking about Kid. Everyone's
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man Weaver I mean prior to this interview during the
offseason won by you got their transfer portal class, Ronald,
you said some crazy things. You said, this may be
the best acquisition via the portal like in portal history.
I was like, WHOA well, I was. I was taken back.
I was blown away that you would say such a thing, Ronald,
because we've had some great portal acquisitions. But it could
it's it may be trending that way. Aaron Roderick was asked, Hey,
who on the defensive side had stood out to He said, oh, yeah,
A lot of them have been Ka Luav whenever his
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I know that Kelly Pepinga has definitely been high on
k too Luave as well. The six one, two hundred
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Jenni Paratree. He was first team All ACC in twenty
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All right, let's get to it. Ronald the three Man,
we were catching up with the starred linebacker, the stud
linebacker Kdoulaave.
Speaker 6: Here with the bo linebacker klau Cade. I'll spring gone, football,
go gone for you. So far, it's been good.
Speaker 7: It's been good.
Speaker 3: It's been a good experience for me and you know
to grow as a as a player and as a person.
Speaker 7: So it's been good.
Speaker 3: It's been good to learn a new system and you know,
have a bunch of different opinions and everything. So I'm
just excited to be out here and just blessed and
just happy he.
Speaker 5: Went into the transit portal.
Speaker 6: What led to that decision to change, to take a
different journey of your college football career.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was. It was a hard decision.
Speaker 3: It was you know, being able to being able to
come into a new school and hopping the portal was
it was a long decision and ultimately kind of led
down to you know, you know my time at CAL.
Speaker 7: I loved it, you know, I you know, it was
like my second home playing at CAL.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Some coaching changes happened, new staff coming in, so uh
for me, you know, being my last year, I was like,
you know what if I hoped the portal, see something,
get a new experience, new scenery and then and then yeah,
so then once be why you reached out. You know,
I'm like, Okay, there's no better opportunity to come back
home and play for my last year and just have
a good experience.
Speaker 7: So that's that's pretty much it.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe why you so attractive even after they reached out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think one just it's buyu really
like you look at their season last year. There's successful
season with a bunch of dudes on defense especially that
could play, you know, and so you know, kind of
filling in those roles, you know, and just working each
day is just like a cool opportunity for me. And
so you know, bo I use that a national stage, right,
and like people are like, wow, you I use a
real deal, you know, And so that's something I want
to be a part of. And then even stepping down
to the culture, you know, I want to be a
part of a team that has a strong culture. You know,
being from Utah obviously helps live like thirty minutes away,
and you know, just and then by you being a
part of the church. You know, I'm a member of
the church, and so that's definitely you know, a pro
for me. But ultimately just just grateful to be here.
Speaker 6: Really, how has how has it been so far with
the culture getting adapted to the guys and welcome me
into the team.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been good.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: It's been awesome, and it's it's a good experience for me,
you know, something very different.
Speaker 7: I think Callum BYU are very different, very like a
lot of ways. But I love it.
Speaker 3: You know, it's been great, and you know, at times
it can be difficult being the new guy, you know,
fitting into a new team, the new system and learning
all that. So simply you know, had bumps in the road.
But you know, with the people here and the support
that we have, you know, they're help they're helping you
twenty four seven, you know, And so that's what I
love about this place. And so just continue to keep learning,
keep building, keep growing, and just you know, as spring
balls are kind of wrapping up towards the end, just
keep the momentum going into you know, summer and into
the fall camp.
Speaker 7: So and then next thing, you know, it's about to
be seasoned. So we're excited.
Speaker 5: Are you planning on standing here for the offseason working
out or going elsewhere?
Speaker 3: I'll probably Y'll be around. I mean being only living
like thirty minutes away. You know, I'll be up and
down all the time, you know. So, uh yeah, that's great.
Speaker 6: Well, when you went into the portal, who is the
person to contact? Choose and I guess you're recruitering the
process to come to Uyu.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the main guy was coach Pop Coast Pop.
Speaker 3: He reached out, and you know, me and him had
a relationship previous, but when I was in high school,
he was he was recruiting when he was at Boise State.
Speaker 7: Same with coach Demo he was there too, And so
both those.
Speaker 3: Guys, you know, I knew, you know, I created a
relationship with so then you know, when they reached out.
Speaker 7: I was like, man, this is awesome.
Speaker 3: Like both those guys are phenomenal coaches and phenomenal guys
off the field, you know, And so that's one thing
I really admired about both of them, and you know,
they've been great mentors to me and so trying to
soak it all in and learn each day, and it's
been great.
Speaker 5: What he likes so far about playing in K pop system.
Speaker 7: It's great. I love it. I think I mean him.
Speaker 3: I think having a defensive coordinator as your position. Coach
definitely helps because he kind of sees the defense through
your eyes, which I think is awesome.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So we're out here blitzing, we're out here, you know,
dropping playing man coverage, you know, doing all sorts of stuff,
and so that's what I love, you know. I like,
I like being able to play all over the field
and doing my thing rather than just sticking in one spot,
you know.
Speaker 7: And so that's one thing I love and just just
super grateful to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 6: How would you describe your your skill set you just
said in coverage getting out the quarterback. If you look
at your tape, it's a lot of stuff you know,
that you can you can take away and.
Speaker 7: That you can like from that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just think you know, for me, I've
kind of just always been an explosive player really, and
I just honestly that's just God given talent.
Speaker 7: Really just always been explosive since I was.
Speaker 3: A little kid and everything so pretty twitchy and you know,
and then another reason I came to buy used to
like to develop more really, and so there's been things
that we've been going through that I've been learning a ton.
So it's been a big learning curve. But like I
always think about this, you never you never grow if
you're comfortable. So that's really the main thing for me
is like change is inevitable, but growth is optional, you know,
And so that's what I love. And so I've been
learning along the way and learning from all these great
coaches and great players.
Speaker 7: So it's been it's been great.
Speaker 6: What does it like to play with, you know, Isaiah Glasker, obviously,
Jake Clifton is new and then see all this here in.
Speaker 7: That linebacker around. Yeah, no, all those guys are dudes.
They're all ballers, you know.
Speaker 3: And I think I think Zay was one of the
first guys to reach out to me, and you know,
like let's go.
Speaker 7: I'm hived.
Speaker 3: And so me and him have a good connection. We
get along well. And and then both and then both
and and Zay know the defense super well. So any
questions I have, you know, they're there to help me
along the way. And then and then me and Jake
were kind of in the same boat, just being the
new guys, working it in, fitting it like, filling it
out and just working each day. And so me and
him have a good connection. So it's it's been great. Really,
the whole linebacker room in itself is is a good
group of guys that love football and are super talented.
Speaker 7: So it's it's blessed to be a part of that group.
Speaker 6: Coach Pop said that Jake got off of a mission
of his power cleaning three thirty five.
Speaker 5: Can you confirm you know his numbers and just him
in the weight room?
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, Jake's dude. He's strong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me and him live together and he's he's a strong,
explosive guy. So yeah, he gets after him. We push
each other in the weight room, which I love. That's
like what it's all about. Iron Sharpen's Iron. So yeah,
he's a baller, he's a dude, and he's super smart,
flies around, makes play, So yeah, he's a he's a
good dude.
Speaker 6: He said, this is your last season of eligibility. What
do you want to accomplish emotion in this last year?
Speaker 3: Really, that's a great question, because you know, that's kind
of question I was asking myself, you know, hopping into
the portal, what do I really want? And that kind
of stem down to, you know, you know, I wanted
to be on a team that's one that's gonna have
a good experience. Two that's gonna develop me, and three
that's gonna win that that's the main that's the main
three right there.
Speaker 7: And so got all three here, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So when when the opportunity came, I'm like, dude, I
can't say no, Like this is awesome. And so with
the guys we have and the talent we have, you know,
it's everything's looking well, you know, and so obviously everything's earned.
You know, we got to you know, keep building, to
keep getting better each and every day. But just from
what I've seen, I think one of the first things
I I realized when I came here is like, like
these are these are some dudes, Like these guys are
these guys are big, these guys are strong, these guys
are fast, you know, and so what's helped me and
pushed me even more and so no, but I love it.
Speaker 5: It's opportunity to play in the Big twelve Conference. Obviously
playing over.
Speaker 6: There, I thinking, you know, acc you know, what is
it like to your what your thoughts on the play,
you know, competitive football week in and week out, and
on Utah being in the conference.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, it's great, it's great.
Speaker 3: I think I've had the COO opportunity of playing and
you know a few conferences, first playing in the Pac
twelve and then out to the ACC for two years,
so I've kind of seen I've kind of seen a lot,
so I mean, and then going through the Big twelve,
I'm gonna see even more, you know.
Speaker 7: And so that's just gonna help me as a player.
Speaker 3: I think of, you know, just getting a ton of
experience and learning just you know, all these different schemes
and everything, and so that's gonna be a COO opportunity.
It's super excited just to get after it and learn.
And I could tell, you know, like from coach A
Rodd's defense or offense excuse me, you know, like he's
he's the real deal, you know. So some of the
times I'm out there, I'm like, well, she's offense a
little tricky, but no, it's good for me.
Speaker 7: So it's good for me.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 6: Thoughts on the rivalry, I mean, obvious you're gonna get
that in the season, but you're from Utah, you know
how that goes?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that I'm super excited man.
Speaker 3: That That's one thing I think like one of the
main things I'm excited for is this game day at
Lavelle Edwards.
Speaker 7: Like I'm just super pumped. And especially the rivalry.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think a lot of people will obviously
know the rivalry and everything, and then I mean being
from Utah though, then now you know, like it's legit,
Like this thing is bigger than most people think, and so, uh,
it's a cool opportunity to.
Speaker 5: Play in it, and just super excited for a b
A linebacker Katy Lulavi.
Speaker 6: The last couple of things was seeing Jack Kelly and
seeing what Isaiah Glasker did last season. Was that one
of the reasons why you wanted to come to be
to play this defense?
Speaker 7: For sure?
Speaker 3: Definitely, both those guys had crazy production last year and
they were fine Oliver Field and everyone knew.
Speaker 7: And so you know, for me to be able to
be possibly in that role was just is awesome, you.
Speaker 3: Know, And I think just that's really the one thing
I was looking for of like, you know, these linebackers
are out here making plays, you know, and that's awesome
and I love it.
Speaker 7: And so you know, to Jack, I've known Jack for
a while.
Speaker 3: We used to train back in the day a few
times cross pass and then and then now being able
to come and play with day like it's a cool opportunity,
Like those guys are some ballers, and so I'm excited
to get for it.
Speaker 6: Which one's a linebacker's dream to pick off the quarterback
and have a pick six or a strip sack?
Speaker 3: H that's a good that's a good question. I would honestly,
I would have to say pick six. Really, I mean,
you get a you get a nice drop going, you
read the quarterback side, you get a pick, you take
it to the house. Man, Now you're just now you're
up six points, like you know, so as long although
a strip sack is pretty sick, I'd have to get
to the pick six.
Speaker 5: Have you had a pick six to your career?
Speaker 7: Pick six? No, I haven't.
Speaker 5: I've had a lot of play.
Speaker 3: I've had a scoop and score. Okay, so I've had
a scoop and score. I've had a strip sack, but
I've never had a pick six. So maybe that's on
the goal this year.
Speaker 7: That's the goal this year.
Speaker 6: We'll get you out of here on this Who would
you like to highlight from the defensive side of the
ball and then from.
Speaker 3: The offense defense side? Man honestly, just everybody. I think,
especially the d line, I think, I think those guys
are awesome. Keanu is a dude, like I've you know,
playing behind a bunch of guys like Keanu.
Speaker 7: Is a dude. That's he's he's nice, and he's and
he's a leader and he gets after it and he
you know, hypes everyone up, and so he's a dude.
And then I think the whole team.
Speaker 3: You know, you look at the other linebackers and you know,
all those guys are ballers. And then you look at
this near the dbs. I think both our corners are studs.
You know, both of our safeties are dudes. So across
the board, it's defenses is awesome. And then on the
offensive side of the ball man a lot of talent too.
I mean, bear like that dude is he's good and
you could see it, and you could see that you know,
he's he's developed and he's and he's not the same
as he was last year. And so that's super exciting
and that's good for us to play against. And you know,
I think the offensive line is big and strong, and
running backs are good.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm excited to play with LJ.
Speaker 3: You know, he hasn't been able to get any reps
so far, but once he gets in, I'm super excited.
And then tight ends are good too. Tight Ends are big, strong,
fast guys. So I mean, like across the board, it's
like it's looking good.
Speaker 7: So we're excited.
Speaker 6: Last messages for Kugernation as you head into you know,
the off season, but you'll still be working.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, Cougarnation is excited to get it going, get
it rolling, keep working, stacking days one by one, and
when it's time, we'll be ready and we're gonna get
after it.
Speaker 7: So let's go go.
Speaker 5: Koot's da backer kid.
Speaker 2: Everyone they go, that's Ronald the three man. We were interviewing.
Kate uluave impressed by the young man. Uh, he's he's
gonna be a good one for b YU if if
he's healthy, which he is right now. He is clubbing. Uh,
he's got a club on his hand, but he's healthy
enough to still ball out, make plays. Uh and uh
get past breakups, make tackles, et cetera. Man, if he's healthy,
he's gonna be a beast on the football player. I
would not be surprised if he leads to the team.
In tackles Ronald the three man Weaver.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you right there.
Speaker 6: Uh, Guna leaded teams and tackles like Ben bay Water
had him on the program last week.
Speaker 7: He missed it.
Speaker 5: Go go check it out.
Speaker 7: It's still linebacker you Ben. You know, I know we
call it offensive line.
Speaker 6: You tighten, you joke bo He's got a plethora of
great positions and NFL talent that's played in guys that
have played at b AU. But no, I mean when
I said that take that he was this was arguably
the best get out of the transport on b A
in BA football history.
Speaker 5: It wasn't.
Speaker 6: I probably because the number one linebacker like this guy
could have gone anywhere else. And he said, why coaching change?
You know, Kate Pop reached out to him.
Speaker 5: I thought that was.
Speaker 6: Interesting that he knew Demo too, you know, knowing them
going back to Boise State that a connection knew Jack
Kelly from working.
Speaker 5: Out back in the day. So there's a cade was
always supposed to. I feel like, make his.
Speaker 6: Way eventually to BYU and like you always singing, I
won't sing it because I'm terrible and no one wants
to hear the bad vocals in my throat. But you know,
they brought him home and I think as long as
he's healthy, he's going to make a big impact. This
is a guy that when when he's whether it's dropping
in the coverage or getting off the quarterback, he's a playmaker.
He's a next level guy, NFL talent. And he said
to himself seeing Isaiah Glasker, seeing Jack Kelly make plays,
and he talked about BO he develops people. It's not
just you know, I wanted to go where they win,
where they can develop me, you know, where the coach
is good.
Speaker 5: And that's what I said.
Speaker 6: They got all three of b A because they do.
They're winning at a high level, performing at a high level,
guys are developing for the next level, and the culture
is great. And when you got all of that, it's
really hard to say no to b YU. And you know,
Kelly Papinga reached out to him quickly, got it done
and and look, this guy is gonna truly be a
standout for BA. You can hear his name called a
lot this year, like he could be on the preseason
All Defensive team. Rightfully so, because every you know, every
year that he's played football, he's been he's been able
to make plays, so they got a good one.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 6: Appreciate him giving his time to me because he obviously
doesn't have to do that. And uh, look, I know, Kugarnation,
you've been asking for it, so you finally got it
that we'll hear from obviously walking lines we've been in
in you know, in a little bit. But you know,
these are the high profile guys the BAU struck out
on or didn't get Ben back in the day, and
now they're getting them. So you got to enjoy it
while it last, whether it's a year, whether it's all four.
The tides have turned, and you know all these guys
that b A you didn't you know, necessarily succeed on there,
they're succeeding now and they're gonna make impact and leaving
and you're gonna set yourself up for life. So shout
out to Kate Luave and you'll be seeing them a
lot in Provo because he's only thirty minutes away in Herreman.
Speaker 2: So bring him home, bringing them home, ladies and gentlemen,
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news and notes if you will, recruiting battle for a
touted defensive lineman Jeremiah Williams per Blair Angulo of twenty
four seven Sports at twenty four seven Sports is intensifying
as the Tustin, California standout locks in his official visit
with BYU the latest after his weekend in Provo. He
would be a boon for BYU. Big twelve contenders are
going after right now. Official visits are going to play
a prominent role in the ongoing battle of Jeremiah Williams,
says Player and Gulo, But there are several programs making
it very clear how much of a priority the talented
defensive tackle is for their blueprint. The big defensive lineman,
uh Jeremiah is going to be taking an official visit
to Brigham Young University and uh I can't wait to
see what he could do in Cougar blue if he
does commit to the BUYU Cougars. Look, you have Kanu
Tonavasa justin Kirklin. You lose John Tomoy Peyu. Right, you
have Ulevai Fatuli who's on the come up. You got
a good defensive line. There's no dat about it, but
you gotta reload here. You know this next year with
so many talented, tenured guys that are going to be
moving on, most likely to the NFL and beyond that.
So Jeremiah is a is a priority for Cioty Pooja,
the assistant head coaching defensive line coach, and uh I
guess Jeremiah spent a lot of time with uh with
with Killane and Shone, and he has officially scheduled his
official visit to b Y. You very excited about this
young man. Also, I caught up with my nephew shout
out to tell afenga four star offensive lineman, and Harriman
came in to get braced up over at orthropros of Utah.
Here at American Fork, he's kind of offers from Michigan, Washington, Purdue,
b YU, amongst many others. Truly, this guy's a limit
for this young man. He's the son of Ray Fanga,
former b y U great an NFL VET. Uh that
you know he's Uh, he's only a junior. Guys, he's
only a junior. He's going into his junior season. Uh,
he's gonna get I think I'm I'm prognosticating he's gonna
have Oregon, USC, Michigan, Washington, Uh, you know, and probably
b YU. I think I think those are gonna be
his top five. Utah is gonna be in the mix too,
and so I can't wait to see what happens with
his recruitment. But I think Bowie was in a good spot.
I think TJ. Woods is putting in the work to
develop a high level relationship with the family. I get
really good feedback. I don't think I think everybody loves TJ. Woods.
And when you hear you know, when you hear about
the players saying we love playing and getting recruited by
Shony Pooha, and we love getting recruited and coached up
in these camps by TJ. Woods, it makes you a
whole lot more optimistic, Ronnie about the Trench Warfare and
the ability to win at a high level, at a
P four level in the Big Twelve, and when you
get that opportunity, hopefully again to win a Big Twelve championship,
and if you win a Big Twelve championship to get
into the CFP and not just compete but actually win.
The future is bright with Shione and TJ. Woods as
your two position coaches. Okay, in the Trench Warfare game,
So shout out to both those guys putting in work
and figured out. And didn't we get a commit Ronald
of three man? We were. Isn't there a new commitment
coming to BYU football as well? Do we have the
latest on that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, give me one second. I just pulled it down
because I'm Garay hit the breaking news breaker.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, let's get it. So. Yeah, so this this
happened just a little bit of Titan DeJong. He says,
first off, I want to thank my Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and my family for giving me the opportunity
to be the person and player that I am today.
That being said, after a lot of a lot of
thought and prayer, I'm excited to announce my commitment to
brig Up Young University. Is that's titaned DeJong, Ladies and Gentlemen,
three star out of the class of twenty twenty seven.
He's a linebacker wide receiver out of Mountain Ridge High
School and he's a part of the mountain Ridge High
School football team. There in herriman h six foot three,
two hundred and fifteen pounds. BYU lands its first twenty
twenty seven commitment as a local star. Titan Dejeong chooses
the Cougars. The two way standout from Mountain Ridge is
excited for his future at BYU. This's just a few
hours ago. Shout out to Titan Dejon your thoughts, your reaction,
one of the three man, we were a nice pickup
for the Coups.
Speaker 6: Yeah, first committed to twenty twenty seven class. Already have
texted Blair and Google to get him. Wanted to discuss this.
So but yeah, Ba, you needs to continue to build
that linebacker room. And you have to wonder, we just
got done hearing from Kadu Luave why he came. That
has to be one of the reasons why you know
he committed to b Yu got always like I say,
start within the backyard and then go elsewhere.
Speaker 5: And now this is a good pickup for him for sure.
Speaker 6: So we'll see what happens, you know, as they get
in a part of the twenty twenty seven class.
Speaker 2: Titan DeJong, congratulations to Titan. I can't wait to see
him ball out For Brigham, we'll get to know him
a little bit better, I'm sure in the days and
weeks to come, we'll try to get him on the
line and get his he's reasoning behind his commitment. But
he had offers from cal Michigan, Purdue, Stamford, Utah, Boise State,
Oregon State, New Mexico, Utah State, and Utah Tech. Six
foot three, two hundred and fifteen pound two way player
out of Mountain Ridge High School in Harriman, Utah. That's
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