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Speaker 1: We have Chris Comroannie, we have Aaron fulk We're gonna
Speaker 1: interview Coach Witt. Started the week off with Kilanie. We'll
Speaker 1: finish the week off with Kyle. But we'll start the
Speaker 1: show off today with a good front of the show.
Speaker 1: Although it's been quite some time in former Utah safety
Speaker 1: Steve Taate back on the drive on a Friday.
Speaker 3: Steve, Happy Friday, man, how you been spent?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well man? How you been I'm good?
Speaker 2: Man? I'm good.
Speaker 1: This is obviously a really, really fun week. And you know,
Speaker 1: somebody who is an in state kid and played in
Speaker 1: the game. I wonder what sort of emotions, energy, et
Speaker 1: cetera roll through the body and mind of Steve Tate
Speaker 1: during rivalry week.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Man, it's crazy how much it's morphed over the
Speaker 4: years when you look at you know, you look at
Speaker 4: YEU and all the coaches over there who at one
Speaker 4: point were my coaches. So it's unique now, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of looking at this game. And I talked to guys.
Speaker 4: I talked to coach Anderson, who's now defensive analyst down
Speaker 4: by U. I talked to him almost a couple times
Speaker 4: a month at least. We check in with each other.
Speaker 4: So the familiarity takes the next level now in this game.
Speaker 4: And believe it or not, coach Anderson has taken He's
Speaker 4: taken a big role in that staff since j Hills
Speaker 4: and been battling the health issues. So I'm gonna it's
Speaker 4: gonna be fun to watch these two go at it,
Speaker 4: because I think this is probably an all time peak
Speaker 4: of how familiar to these two programs are with each other.
Speaker 1: Do you have any whether it's on few other off
Speaker 1: field specific b y u Utah memories that stand out.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pigeonhole you into one, but any
Speaker 1: any specific snapshot memories that stand out to.
Speaker 4: You, you know, I think the feel good one. I'll
Speaker 4: give you a feel good one off the field is,
Speaker 4: you know, after Reno and I lost our two kids
Speaker 4: when they played, and I believe it was a Bowl
Speaker 4: game right afterwards. I think that was obviously something special
Speaker 4: both both Reno and I kind of they they honored
Speaker 4: our two kids that we lost, so that that was unique,
Speaker 4: that brought some feel good story to the rivalry. And
Speaker 4: then you know, I grew up watching this, so I
Speaker 4: can go back to, you know, the the days of
Speaker 4: kind of Shiro and and those were fun games thirty
Speaker 4: four to thirty one. I mean, you know I can
Speaker 4: go back. I mean it's like an archive in this brain.
Speaker 4: But you know one that I love that I that
Speaker 4: I played in that's kind of similar to what UTA's
Speaker 4: facing right now is we went down to BYU. I
Speaker 4: think we're I know, we were double digit underdogs. I
Speaker 4: think it was seventeen points and we had Ratliff who
Speaker 4: just lost the previous game to New Mexico and and
Speaker 4: Brian towards a c O, Brian Joston towards a feel
Speaker 4: and Ratless came in and you know, ultimately didn't win
Speaker 4: that that that New Mexico game, but we had to
Speaker 4: fight in order to get Bull eligible. We were playing
Speaker 4: at Uyu. It kind of a you know, a last
Speaker 4: ditch effort to get Bull eligible, and you know, we
Speaker 4: threw it. We threw a bunch at him. You know,
Speaker 4: Coach Anderson on defense, we threw out a kind of
Speaker 4: what they call the circus defense. I mean, he threw
Speaker 4: everything at him. It was one of those where we
Speaker 4: are backs against the wall and you know, the whole
Speaker 4: week we had nothing to lose. And so that's what's
Speaker 4: unique right now when in this game, it's kind of
Speaker 4: you to find themselves in that same spot that we
Speaker 4: found ourselves in two thousand and five, just fighting for
Speaker 4: a win.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I think if they if they don't win this,
Speaker 4: it'll be hard to get Bull eligible based on the
Speaker 4: record and the schedule they have ahead of them. So uh,
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, back to backs against the wall right now.
Speaker 1: You're kind of a unique case study this week, Steve,
Speaker 1: because you played for coach Anderson. You played for Kilane, Uh,
Speaker 1: but you also played at the University of Utah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a poke a little bit. I'm gona dig
Speaker 1: a little bit here. Okay, where's the uh, where's the head?
Speaker 1: And where's the heart? Saturday night?
Speaker 2: What? What? What do you want to see happen? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Obviously you know I grew up a Utah fan. That's
Speaker 4: those those are our roots. So you know, you never
Speaker 4: leave your roots. That's that's where I came from. But uh,
Speaker 4: you know it's it's again having gone through it. I
Speaker 4: grew up in it, and then it kind of morphed
Speaker 4: into life after football and and relationships that I have
Speaker 4: over there, and relationships of course that I continue to
Speaker 4: have it the you The good part about this, Bence
Speaker 4: is is I can watch a game uh and be
Speaker 4: completely emotionless. It's it's unique having played in it. You know,
Speaker 4: I've I've I've you know, sweat, I've had I've spent
Speaker 4: the blood in the sweat and in these games, and
Speaker 4: so it's nice to not be a fan, just to
Speaker 4: sit back and watch it and admire you two great
Speaker 4: coaching staff and not get emotionally attached to it. I know,
Speaker 4: It sounds weird because it is such a game of emotions,
Speaker 4: but it's something I guess I deserve after being so
Speaker 4: emotional for so long in this, in this, and then
Speaker 4: having played in it for once. Now I'm the old
Speaker 4: man sits back on the couch and just watches you.
Speaker 2: Just hit it on the head at the end.
Speaker 1: This is a sign that you're getting old, young man,
Speaker 1: this is a sign that you're growing up. And look,
Speaker 1: it's all good because I actually talk about this all
Speaker 1: the time. Sports are the very definition of a zero
Speaker 1: sum game. And sorry about the parlay, but if you
Speaker 1: have a gambling problem, you know, it doesn't it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Mean you can act stupid.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously everybody wants their team to win.
Speaker 1: And it's been an interesting evolution for me as well, Steve,
Speaker 1: because look, you get into this business, you have to
Speaker 1: be a little bit agnostic or you lose your credibility.
Speaker 1: Like I cannot listen to your leaders, I cannot listen
Speaker 1: to propagandists, I cannot listen to homers because there's nothing there.
Speaker 2: They're not authentic.
Speaker 1: And so you get into this and if you want
Speaker 1: to do it the right way, you have to be truthful,
Speaker 1: so you become a little bit agnostic. But the other
Speaker 1: thing I do not miss And for me, growing up
Speaker 1: in professional sports where the outcome of a game directly
Speaker 1: affected whether or not my father would stay employed every
Speaker 1: night felt like life or death, right, And now that
Speaker 1: he's out of the game, and now that I'm doing this,
Speaker 1: really I am void of emotion with most I want
Speaker 1: my Yankees to win, Like if the Knicks ever go
Speaker 1: deep in the playoffs, I'd love to see the Jazz
Speaker 1: do something special. But call me in seven years, you know,
Speaker 1: so like ultimately, like you, I just kind of hope
Speaker 1: for a good game. But the interesting thing I think
Speaker 1: from and I'm not I don't want to speak.
Speaker 2: For you, but there's actually more.
Speaker 3: On the line for Kilanie and Gary and Jay and
Speaker 3: a Rod.
Speaker 1: Like if b you know, BYU with the win puts
Speaker 1: themselves on a path for something really special that nobody
Speaker 1: saw coming. And on the other side of it, like
Speaker 1: if your Utah you get a win, and of course
Speaker 1: that it's good against your rival, you show in front
Speaker 1: of the community, it's good for instate recruiting, but what
Speaker 1: does it really do. So that's why I was curious
Speaker 1: about where your your heart was here because as a
Speaker 1: guy that played for Klonnie and Gary and all those guys,
Speaker 1: I just wondered if you wouldn't mind seeing them get
Speaker 1: the win so they can continue to march on towards
Speaker 1: something that would be historic for them, you know, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that makes sense. I mean it's it's interesting having,
Speaker 4: you know, now in this phase where I have a
Speaker 4: son that plays, and so when I go to his games,
Speaker 4: you know, it means it means more. Of course, you're invested,
Speaker 4: You've got emotional connection. It's it's your your kid's future,
Speaker 4: and and and so that's why I can now sit
Speaker 4: back and just observe and and and root for you know, uh,
Speaker 4: really for for a good story that comes out of it.
Speaker 4: And you know, those guys have worked hard. J Hill
Speaker 4: has gotten you know, he's worked hard to get where
Speaker 4: he's at. He went to Rever State. Now he's you know,
Speaker 4: changed that program over at BYU. I think they've really
Speaker 4: turned the corner with Jay Hill and coach Anderson. I
Speaker 4: think those two puzzle pieces were a big reason why
Speaker 4: they are where they are right now and having a
Speaker 4: chance to potentially get into college football playoffs. And you know,
Speaker 4: good for them and Klonnie. You know, they've worked hard
Speaker 4: for it. They've put together great staff, recruited well and yeah,
Speaker 4: and so you're right, Spence, It's it's odd enough to
Speaker 4: be agnostic right now, but it is what it is.
Speaker 4: It's kind of where I'm at.
Speaker 1: So I want to take advantage of the fact that
Speaker 1: you were a safety and you played defense and no
Speaker 1: Jay and no Gary. Because the interesting thing Steve about
Speaker 1: BYU's defense. There are some portal additions like the Jack
Speaker 1: Kelly kid, and he's awesome, he's there, he leads them
Speaker 1: in sacks with four. But it was a lot of like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's just run it back and develop internally from within.
Speaker 2: And see what Jay can do here.
Speaker 1: Two and now that Gary's been brought in as well,
Speaker 1: tell us about this system since you played in it,
Speaker 1: and what stands out about how improved BYU is defensively.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, that's a great question. I've talked to coach
Speaker 4: Anderson about it. No longer. It was probably a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago. We were talking and then you know,
Speaker 4: I asked him, you know what, what's what's gone on?
Speaker 4: What have you done differently? Because it really this year,
Speaker 4: you know, he turned the page. And if you know,
Speaker 4: coach Anderson, the guy gets the most out of his players.
Speaker 4: He's passionate, but you know he's just he's like a
Speaker 4: father figure to to all the players out there on
Speaker 4: the field. And you know what what he said is
Speaker 4: really no different than what we had it when I
Speaker 4: was at Utah. He says, you know, we go out
Speaker 4: and get guys that love football. We want guys that
Speaker 4: love the game of football. He's like, they might not
Speaker 4: be the most have recruited guys, but they fit the
Speaker 4: system and it's everyone knows their role. And I think
Speaker 4: that's what's really unique and Utah has it as well
Speaker 4: on the defensive side. Is it's a system that you
Speaker 4: can roll in and once you get the guys there
Speaker 4: and you establish that system, every year you're just kind
Speaker 4: of building into that and it's not a rebuild, uh
Speaker 4: over and over again. And I think that's that's honestly
Speaker 4: when you look at it. They've they've got you know,
Speaker 4: Jack Kelly is a great addition, of course, as you mentioned, uh,
Speaker 4: but they just do a great job of bringing pressure
Speaker 4: like Utah always did when.
Speaker 2: I was there.
Speaker 4: They play Manda man, they haven't been able to do
Speaker 4: that a lot. You know, Klanne got there and they
Speaker 4: weren't able to play Manda Man at all. You know,
Speaker 4: under under Bronco, they were primarily the zone defense that
Speaker 4: was soft in the secondary, and that's it now entirely changed.
Speaker 4: So they're able to take a lot of risks now
Speaker 4: because they trust their guys on the back end. So
Speaker 4: you're gonna want You're gonna see j Hill, I mean
Speaker 4: J Hill and and coaj Well, they they're gonna they're
Speaker 4: gonna bring pressure. They'll bring pressure. They trust their guys
Speaker 4: now in the back end. They've got good corners, they
Speaker 4: have good safeties that can play uh and and they've
Speaker 4: got speed at at with jack and linebacker position bringing
Speaker 4: guys off the edge. So I expect a lot of that,
Speaker 4: especially with you know Utah now with two freshman quarterbacks
Speaker 4: possibly playing in this game.
Speaker 1: So on the other side, let's move over to the
Speaker 1: Utah defense, and you know, they really rate well when
Speaker 1: you look at the meat and potatoes and defensive numbers.
Speaker 1: But what they don't do, Steve, is they don't get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and they don't first force turnovers.
Speaker 2: At least not yet.
Speaker 1: Right, So like between the twenties, meat and potatoes. They're
Speaker 1: good against the run, they're good against the past. They're
Speaker 1: number one overall and scoring defense in the conference, but
Speaker 1: they haven't.
Speaker 3: Been able to apply a lot of pressure to the QB.
Speaker 1: And again they're last in the conference in fumbles forced
Speaker 1: and fumble fumble's recovered. From your vantage point, why do
Speaker 1: you why do you think Utah struggled in the main
Speaker 1: areas where they usually excel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I know coach Winningham has tried to,
Speaker 4: you know, find find the reasons for that as well,
Speaker 4: but that's been it really has been anomaly this year.
Speaker 4: They haven't no get pressure on the quarterback. I know
Speaker 4: they've been fighting some injuries, so you know that that's
Speaker 4: one thing they're battling with. I don't think they have
Speaker 4: the definitely have in the past. I think, you know,
Speaker 4: one thing that's unique with Utah a year after year
Speaker 4: is that they bring pressure, but they're bringing it from
Speaker 4: different position groups and I think, you know, the safety position,
Speaker 4: of course, is one They lost their their their guys
Speaker 4: last year in the NFL, so I think they do,
Speaker 4: although they don't you know, probably looking at their roster
Speaker 4: to begin this sea even didn't look like they had, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, some some new guys. I just think that
Speaker 4: they just have some inexperienced guys that are still cutting
Speaker 4: their teeth. But in order to you know, to beat
Speaker 4: Buyu tomorrow, they've they've got to be able to put
Speaker 4: pressure on the quarterback. I think that's what they're going
Speaker 4: to try to do. You know, he's been prone to
Speaker 4: make mistakes and and and and cough up some some
Speaker 4: balls here and there. So I think that they will,
Speaker 4: they'll bring the pressure. They need to find ways to
Speaker 4: create that pressure. I think, you know, they had to
Speaker 4: Ti had a couple of injuries in their secondary corners position,
Speaker 4: so I think, you know, perhaps again not able to
Speaker 4: bring that pressure trusting those guys. But you know, this
Speaker 4: is one of those games. As as I mentioned prior
Speaker 4: that you know this point, you're now, how how many
Speaker 4: games that you've you've got to You've got to bring it,
Speaker 4: You got to you know, you got to take some risks.
Speaker 4: I think I think Scally will do that same thing
Speaker 4: with Uyu, and that's why it's going to be fun
Speaker 4: to watch. I think Scali will dial it up this game.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to get your take on and I've
Speaker 1: asked all the former players this this week because we've you.
Speaker 2: Always hear these stories.
Speaker 1: You always hear these, you know, legendary tales of the
Speaker 1: way Kyle coaches this week juxtaposed to the way his
Speaker 1: opponent coaches this week.
Speaker 2: And you always heard.
Speaker 1: And we had Austin Collion on Tuesday, and Austin essentially,
Speaker 1: you know, affirmed the legendary stories about bronco Mennenhall just
Speaker 1: like not coaching this week any different than he would
Speaker 1: coach any other say it's nameless, faceless players, our opponent.
Speaker 1: It was never there was never extra added emphasis. Well,
Speaker 1: on the other side, it always seems like Kyle sends
Speaker 1: the message like we don't lose to them. How does
Speaker 1: coach Wit prepare you guys during this week for the
Speaker 1: game on Saturday.
Speaker 2: From a player's perspective.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I guess it goes back to Urban.
Speaker 4: You know, I think Urban really took it to the
Speaker 4: next level. Yeah, he educated. I mean we had highlight
Speaker 4: films in the locker room that was lacking twenty four
Speaker 4: to seven. We memorized that when we were you know,
Speaker 4: getting changing and out of it for practice. I mean
Speaker 4: there there was this low this this highlight reel just
Speaker 4: playing on uh endlessly in the locker room.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know he had the opposed He had b Yu
Speaker 4: jerseys when you came in, and like, you know, the
Speaker 4: classic uh urinal cakes in the urinals and you know, uh,
Speaker 4: he had a way, you know, credit Urban, he had
Speaker 4: a way of just creating that emotion and and it's
Speaker 4: carried over to the coach Whittingham's there's no urinal cakes
Speaker 4: like like we had with Urban. I mean, Urban may
Speaker 4: have taken to the next level, but uh, you know
Speaker 4: it's you don't. There's no make no mistake. You got
Speaker 4: the n State kids know how they you know how
Speaker 4: important this game is, and especially now that they're in conference.
Speaker 4: You know, for a while there, you had to probably
Speaker 4: create a little bit more emotion for this game for
Speaker 4: those guys that weren't familiar with the rivalry game. But
Speaker 4: now that it's an in conference game, it means even more.
Speaker 4: Uh So it's kind of back to where it was
Speaker 4: when I played, which is good for the rivalry. But
Speaker 4: you know, you can't treat it like any other game.
Speaker 4: I mean, the football, the beauty football is. It is
Speaker 4: a game of emotion. Now you've got to keep your
Speaker 4: emotions in check, and you got to know when to
Speaker 4: you know, make sure you don't peak too soon. But
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what I's that's how I thrived playing
Speaker 4: this game. I was an emotional player. I talked on
Speaker 4: the field, you know, I gave it my all. And
Speaker 4: I think that's the way the game has to be played.
Speaker 4: If not, then you're not the right game. You know,
Speaker 4: you can go play baseball and that's the right sport
Speaker 4: for you, even basketball pass, but you know, football, that's
Speaker 4: what the that's what's beauty. That's what's so beautiful about it.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the beauty of the game is that
Speaker 4: it is emotional. And that's why rivalry games means so
Speaker 4: much more when it comes to honestly when it comes
Speaker 4: to football than in the other sport because it's the
Speaker 4: motion that you that you bring to it.
Speaker 1: What about Morgan On Morgan's side of things, we all
Speaker 1: saw the classic clip on college game Day back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, and you know, it's funny because
Speaker 1: a snapshot moment like that, and certainly from a guy
Speaker 1: like Morgan, who really is a sweet guy, you know,
Speaker 1: like he just he's a very committed husband, father, all
Speaker 1: those things. So uh a comment like that, I hate
Speaker 1: those bleeping you know what, hate them with a passion.
Speaker 1: It endears Morgan to the youth fans that want to
Speaker 1: hear that stuff out loud.
Speaker 2: Then it leaves them up. I remember b YU fans like.
Speaker 1: Calling for his temple recommend It was like the perfect
Speaker 1: holy war thing to say, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But you know, Morgan and you Safeties are all one big,
Speaker 1: one big group. What do you think this this week
Speaker 1: is like for Morgan, who, as we know, is going
Speaker 1: to take over when Kyle's finished.
Speaker 4: Well, that was that was what was great about Urban.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know that that clip is right before the Fiesta Bowl,
Speaker 4: right before the Festal Bid and and we had to
Speaker 4: be by you in order to really fulfill that uh
Speaker 4: that that dream that we had to start that or
Speaker 4: to end that season of going to BCS. And so
Speaker 4: that's that's exactly what Urban did. You know, Urban was
Speaker 4: smart and he got the in state kid, the guy
Speaker 4: that grew up in this rivalry and and you know
Speaker 4: that just happened to be ESPN at the time when
Speaker 4: Morgan was in front of all the cameras and and
Speaker 4: uh and made for some some great rivalry smack talk,
Speaker 4: but uh, you know, in state kids make it and
Speaker 4: and and you got in state kids on both sides.
Speaker 4: And that's what I really like about this rivalry because
Speaker 4: it means more for those in state kids. And you
Speaker 4: know especially, I've always said it like when you go
Speaker 4: on a beau. I was part of some of those
Speaker 4: those losing skids with with coach Whittingham as he took
Speaker 4: over for Urban, and we had a couple of years
Speaker 4: where we had back to back or maybe even three
Speaker 4: losses in a row. And what I do believe wholeheartedly
Speaker 4: is that when you when you when you go on
Speaker 4: those losing skids, it's it's really the in state kids
Speaker 4: that are fighting, right those guys, because they're more invested,
Speaker 4: they've got everything to lose. They're still going out there
Speaker 4: even though they're they might have a losing record or
Speaker 4: they have they still aren't fighting for their friends, their families,
Speaker 4: something that they love, their passionate about. They grew up
Speaker 4: watching the team that they play for now, so they
Speaker 4: tend to fight a little bit more. And when it
Speaker 4: comes to this rivalry, the in state kids, they just
Speaker 4: it's in bread, it's just in their system. They just
Speaker 4: have grown up in this and so you know, you
Speaker 4: you rely on those guys pay of the team all
Speaker 4: week to really get them emotionally ready for the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting, you brought that up, because there are nine excuse me, no,
Speaker 1: that's right, there are There are nine Utah players on
Speaker 1: the roster that have actually played in this game. And
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact number of BYU, but it's
Speaker 1: around the same.
Speaker 2: There's just a handful.
Speaker 1: And obviously it's been a few years, but it is
Speaker 1: a different day in college football here locally, where you
Speaker 1: pull up Utah's roster, you pull up BYU's roster, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of California, there's a lot of Florida,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Texas, there's a lot of different states,
Speaker 1: Canada even, I mean from an in state perspective, Did
Speaker 1: you have to prepare your out of state teammates for
Speaker 1: exactly what Saturday Night is going to be? Is there
Speaker 1: any way you can prepare them or is it something
Speaker 1: you just have to experience, Because I just don't know
Speaker 1: that players who didn't grow up here with the frame
Speaker 1: of reference for what this means, really understand what Saturday
Speaker 1: Night is going to be about.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, you're right, you do. You do have
Speaker 4: to educate them. It's like my son right now, he
Speaker 4: has to get educated to the big game. You know,
Speaker 4: Calvers for Stamford. I mean, we coming from the outside,
Speaker 4: we don't know much about that game. It's a historic rivalry.
Speaker 4: But my son has teammates that are educating about that game.
Speaker 4: I mean, the same thing. I'll never forget. Brent ratleft.
Speaker 4: So Brett Ratliffe came in. You know, in two thousand
Speaker 4: and five, he came in for like one well, I
Speaker 4: think it was one series to finish the Drive against
Speaker 4: New Mexico. We lost that game because Brian had the
Speaker 4: ACL and all week, you know, no one was giving
Speaker 4: us a chance. No one even knew Brett Ratlif's name.
Speaker 4: And I remember pulling Brett Ratleft aside on Monday after
Speaker 4: practice and it was just him and I in the
Speaker 4: locker room. I was like, you know, I turned, I
Speaker 4: just sat with him. I said, you know, Brett, you
Speaker 4: don't realize what a legend you will be in this
Speaker 4: game if you win this game with these circumstances, coming
Speaker 4: in as a backup quarterback down seventeen you know, seventeen
Speaker 4: point hundred Bucks. You will be You will be a
Speaker 4: legend in this rivalry game for the rest of your life,
Speaker 4: no matter what happens. You walk in on this campus,
Speaker 4: you b BYU, in this cech that you will be
Speaker 4: a legend. And so you know, yeah, you educate these kids,
Speaker 4: You educate the be out of state kids, because they
Speaker 4: should know a little bit more on what it means
Speaker 4: for this fan base, what it would mean for Utah
Speaker 4: to really start this season, I guess, or restart the
Speaker 4: season with a win against BYU, crushing their hopes to
Speaker 4: get to the playoffs, and vice versa. You know the
Speaker 4: b YU. This isn't they're really the last game, the
Speaker 4: big game, last game on their schedule to to possibly
Speaker 4: get to the playoffs. I mean, this is this This
Speaker 4: has got to mean a lot to those guys in
Speaker 4: the locker room, and it does. But it's still in
Speaker 4: state kids educating them, and they really should because for
Speaker 4: a lot of those guys coming out of state, they
Speaker 4: don't know, they don't know this rivalry and it is.
Speaker 4: It is intense, and it's emotional, and it to me,
Speaker 4: it's one of the greatest rivalries in college football.
Speaker 2: All Right, you're you're my guy.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to do the thing where I
Speaker 1: corner you into a pick because I don't want you
Speaker 1: to make people upset. But here's what we'll do, Steve,
Speaker 1: and we'll start with BYU. Okay, I'm going to pose
Speaker 1: the question and then I'll give you the space. By
Speaker 1: you beat Utah tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: If what.
Speaker 4: The what you beat Utah tomorrow is they score more
Speaker 4: than four touchdowns, that's simple. Huh, yeah, that's simple. I
Speaker 4: think if they if they put up twenty eight I
Speaker 4: I just don't know right now. And and that Utah's
Speaker 4: had a well they both have had bye weeks, but
Speaker 4: Utah's had you know, maybe a bye week to work
Speaker 4: on on the offense. But I just they've got to
Speaker 4: be able to put up more than twenty eight points.
Speaker 4: And that's going to be hard on on a J
Speaker 4: Hill coach Anderson defense. But if Utah does it, you
Speaker 4: know they they've got a chance to win this game.
Speaker 4: But it's going to take I think four touchdown by
Speaker 4: doy you to win this.
Speaker 2: Utah wins tomorrow night. If what.
Speaker 4: Utah wins tomorrow night, if if they've got if they
Speaker 4: forced three turnovers that go their.
Speaker 2: Way, you think they need three.
Speaker 4: I think they need three.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: I think I think they need I think they need three.
Speaker 4: I think. Let's put it this way. They have to
Speaker 4: have a positive. They have to have a positive too.
Speaker 4: They have to have a net to so you know,
Speaker 4: if you give it, they've got to have a net too,
Speaker 4: and and and turn the turnover margin if they get
Speaker 4: If they get that, I think you I think they
Speaker 4: win that. I think they win this game. But they've
Speaker 4: got it. They've got it. They've got to create turnovers.
Speaker 4: They do go a great turner alwers not defense.
Speaker 1: No, I agree with that. I was gonna say, if
Speaker 1: it's plus three, that's tough. I think they can get
Speaker 1: plus two.
Speaker 3: How's how's our guy?
Speaker 2: Bo?
Speaker 3: I know it's been a difficult season for Stanford.
Speaker 2: How's how's our guy doing?
Speaker 4: Hey, he's he's good. Thanks for asking. He's he's doing well.
Speaker 4: He's you know, red shirting, red shirting this freshman year,
Speaker 4: which I'm absolutely a big proponent of. You know, it's
Speaker 4: a man's game, and so he's he's he's up to
Speaker 4: two almost two twenty five and looking good, competing. You know,
Speaker 4: the two guys ahead of him are are are both
Speaker 4: graduating and and so he's going to have a great
Speaker 4: opportunity to be possibly a four year starter there, push
Speaker 4: for a great time next year. So he's healed up
Speaker 4: and and and love and love and Stanford, and you
Speaker 4: know he's it's studying football. That's about it. That's that's
Speaker 4: all he does. But you know that's why he chose
Speaker 4: that place. And he's fortunately he's much smarter than I.
Speaker 1: In I was gonna say, just so you know, let
Speaker 1: let your boy know that my brother in law is
Speaker 1: the Stanford grad and he's about to retire at forty five.
Speaker 1: So he's in a your boys where he.
Speaker 2: Needs to be. Man, tell him to take advantage of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, thanks, then appreciate.
Speaker 3: It all right, all right man, good chot with you.
Speaker 1: Steve Tate, former Utah safety I always appreciate Steve's time.
Speaker 1: He is on social he and his wife do a
Speaker 1: bunch of different things with their foundation.
Speaker 3: You can find him at Tate twenty eight is where
Speaker 3: you get him.