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Speaker 3: Today it is stoport.

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Speaker 2: Little college football segment going to welcome to college football

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inside from a college football coach. He's training up the

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future of college football players down in Arizona now, and

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we're gonna get into his mind. He's been a part

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of the robbery, He's been a part of recruiting battles.

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He's been a part of both Utah and BYU football programs.

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He knows a thing or two about ball, and we're

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out to the hotlight. Welcome in the legendary coach. We

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got coach Guy Holiday on the line.

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Speaker 4: What's up, Guy? How are you, hey, Ben? How are

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you guys doing. I'm doing great.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 2: It's football season. Basketball season is about to tip off.

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We're gonna get into recruiting seasons. Well here shortly with

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all the flips that will be occurring. Always something cooking

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twenty four to seven, three sixty five in the college

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football world. Do you miss a little bit of it?

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And what don't you miss about it?

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Speaker 5: Well? Yeah, of course I think you always going to

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miss it.

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Speaker 4: I miss my players, I miss the game days, I

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miss recruiting. I don't know that I would miss recruiting now, Yeah,

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because it's it's just different.

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Speaker 5: It's not about building relationships.

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Speaker 4: Of course, that's always part of it, but money now

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plays such a big part, and and and there are

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so many different factors playing players wanting to play now.

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Speaker 5: In those days, I.

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Speaker 4: Can't say I missed Sunday night late light meetings and

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Monday night late.

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Speaker 5: Like late night meetings.

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Speaker 4: Uh. It eased up a little bit on Tuesday Wednesdays,

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but that would be the only things I don't miss.

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Speaker 2: Hey, there's uh, there's pros and cons to the game.

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And I know you're enjoying the uh retirement from college

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football and your endeavor into entrepreneurship. Give us an update

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on what you got cooking down there in ag at Oyd.

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Speaker 4: Uh, we're on your dream sports academy. We're doing we're breaking,

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we're overbreaking even now. So we're training athletes. We have

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several NFL players, Isaiah Stalberg from the Saints and a

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few others. I just mentioned him because he is left

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on his off week, and so we get quite a

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few guys, and we have several top notch basketball.

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Speaker 5: Players that come in.

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Speaker 4: Going to keep that quiet, but we do anywhere from

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seven year olds up to professional athletes. So it's been

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fun and it's always fun to watch people grow and

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that's where I've always gotten my satisfaction.

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Speaker 2: From the development, right, buying into the human and developing

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and maximizing their potential. That's what coaching's truly all about.

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And you know, the new era of college football is

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a little bit different. You look at the why of

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why you got into college football, and things have.

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Speaker 3: Changed a little a little bit for some coaches.

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Speaker 2: Right now it's about the filthy Luca or the ninety dollars,

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but also the transactionality of it. You see coach Franklin,

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who I think is a builder of men who got

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into coaching for the right reasons.

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Speaker 3: He was just in the CFP.

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Speaker 2: Last year and because he lost three close games, right,

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he get fired and Brian Kelly gets fired, one of

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the best coaches in the modern era. You look at

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all these coaches being let go and maybe some of

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them are justified, some of them I don't think are justified.

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But the transactionality of it all, it's limiting the transformationality

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Speaker 4: Well, it's it's kind of like being on cruise ships now, right,

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you know, two ships.

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Speaker 5: Passing in the night.

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Speaker 4: As they say, I mean, that's that's common.

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Speaker 5: Now, it's so much different.

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Speaker 4: When I got into coaching, I got in and people

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know me, know, coming from a single parent background and

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and father died in Vietnam. I got in it because

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my coaches were father figures to me and they laid

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down accountability, responsibility, how to grow as a person, how

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to be a man, and helping me through things that

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my mother just couldn't couldn't help me understand how to

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become a man. Nowadays, it's let's be honest, it's all

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about win now. James Franklin, you you know, it is

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what it is. He didn't win a championship. People want

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to win national championship. See, you know in fourteen years

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is a long run. Brian Kelly, You know people always

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say that just wasn't a good fit. Well, a good

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fit is anybody who wins. And when you're going to

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LSU if you don't win a national championship in four years, you're.

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Speaker 5: Going to be out.

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Speaker 4: And that's just you know, when you take a job

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like that, it is what it is, and you know

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it's hard for me to say, Oh, I feel bad

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for a staff. I can't feel bad for anybody that's

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going to take home fifty four million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Sure, I mean that's at.

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Speaker 4: Sixty four years old, fifty four million dollars richer. He

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just he and his family generational wealth. So kudos to

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him for that. But as a coach, you always want

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to be winning. I mean, that's the bottom line.

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Speaker 3: Do you think.

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Speaker 2: Do you think these coaches Coach Kelly, coach Frank Klint,

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some of these high level coaches, do you think they

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get back into coaching despite you know, the big time pals,

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because I think their contracts state that if they do

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take a job in TV or another job, there is

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a I don't know, some sort of mitigation clause that

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the universities don't have to pay out the amount that

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was guaranteed to them if they get another job.

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Speaker 5: I think it's all about the right job.

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Speaker 4: You know, when you've had LSU and you've been at

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Notre Dame, what jobs are better than those? And so

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for Brian Kelly at sixty four, he'll get the itch

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just like me. I mean, I'm sixty now not there

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are times I want to go back and you do

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miss it, and he's going to have that itch because

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you've been around in your whole life. James Franklin, There's

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no doubt James Franklin will coach again. I know James,

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and you know he was a perfect fit at penn State.

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He was from Pennsylvania and went to college at a

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Division two school in Pennsylvania. So I know I can

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say with any doubt in my mind, James Franklin will

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be coaching again. There's no doubt in my mind, and

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he'll be a head coach. With the number of jobs

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that's open, and you look at a guy at average,

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I think ten wins a season, there's a lot of

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teams that would take that Guy Holiday.

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Speaker 2: Coach Guy Holiday, former coach at BYU and Utah talking

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some college football with this year on your Utah ESPN

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Speaker 3: What did you make of the robbery game this year?

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Speaker 2: What do you make of the rivaly game in its

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present state? Both teams in a conference now and BYU's

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won three in a row.

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Speaker 3: How did that happen?

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's a that's a great question. I think it

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it's hard for me to say twenty twenty one. You

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know that was that was a little bit different. The

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last two years, BYU has earned to win. They they've

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and I'm not saying they didn't earn it in twenty

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twenty one. I don't want to leave that on, but

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there was several injuries that occurred and we all know

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the track record of that. These last two years watching BYU,

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they just believe. I mean, I think I tweeted out,

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you know you can at some point you got to

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say they're not lucky.

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Speaker 5: They just believe they can win.

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Speaker 4: And that comes across to me when you watch them

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on a game and you watch that sideline. I am

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a big person who watches body language. I watch relationships,

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player relationships, and.

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Speaker 5: If you look at the sideline, the sideline will tell

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you a lot that you want to know.

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Speaker 4: I've never seen BYU look like we can't win this game.

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They believe they can win every game and that that

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is a culture that has been built in that program

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and they've done a great job. And watch a true

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freshman perform as Baar did, and I think a couple

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of weeks ago I talked about he's not a great

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thrower yet, but hell, he proved he can. He can

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beat you with your arm. He can beat you with

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your with his feet. But what comes across about him

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on the field and watching the huddle, those players respond

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to him. I don't know him personally, but I'm fairly

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confident he has a dynamic leadership personality quality about him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's intriguing to see what's going on here.

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And and I was pulling stats right when when b

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why you got the win. I was like, I wonder

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what the record is BYU versus Utah when they're in

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the same conference in the modern era, and b YU

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and Utah when they were in the Mountain West Conference

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era to together went once Kyle Whittingham got the head

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coaching job from five to twenty ten, it was three

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and three. And now that they're in the same conference,

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you know, based two to zero in the Big twelve.

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when they're the same conference. And I wonder if when

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there is an equivalent footing of resources conference equivalency, you know,

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recruiting equivalency to a degree, it kind of maybe flips

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think if you look at it that way,

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you can surely make a case for it. I think

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going in the game statistically, if you look at the

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two teams statistically, and you buy into the that Vegas

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knows something that we don't know. I think many expected

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Utah to win that game, and I think a lot

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hens on And I said this when I was at Utah.

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who who was a punter for us too. It's so

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many examples, all of our place kickers. But I always

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go back to Mitch Wiznowski and nothing against the kickers previously,

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but Mitch Wiznowski and Matt Gay, they that was two

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of the best combinations I've seen.

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Speaker 5: And I think since then.

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Speaker 4: I know they had the transfer kicker come in from Colorado, but.

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Speaker 5: Since then the st game hasn't been as immaculate as

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Speaker 4: The University of Utah, and it cost him that game.

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I mean, you know, people, of course, with Wi's going

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to defend his staff. That's one thing about with man,

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you will You're going to get some shots behind the scenes,

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says a lot. And the analytics, I'm sure fourth and one,

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you gotta go for it, the fourth and three, fourth

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Speaker 5: I think that came down to as much.

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Speaker 4: About how he felt about his kicking situation, whether it

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Speaker 4: But now I think with K Pop and J Hill

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gurer and so bringing those two together is that's powerful.

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Speaker 5: Let's take talent.

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Speaker 4: We can go back and forth, Oh we got more

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talent here, we got more That's always debatable.

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Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, the execution.

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Speaker 4: Of BYU right now is a lot better in the

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st department than it has been in the past. And

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I think that was as big of a contributor to

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that game as anything else. I mean, you had to

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turn over on the punt return by Utah. You had

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to didn't come up and kick the extra or kick

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the field goals. And that is a we're talking about

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four plays created much more than a three point swing

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in that game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy times, no doubt about it. In this robbery game.

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And I do believe you're right. Special teams. One of

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the key stats that I was looking at leading up

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to kickoff in this most recent robbery game was that

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Utah special tas unit was like forty fifth, forty fourth

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in the country at that time from an efficiency standpoint.

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you know, kicking, et cetera. And BYU was sixth in

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the country. I mean, that's just stark difference. And that's

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the difference between winning and losing a game.

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Speaker 4: There's no question, and it is an emphasis that a

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lot of coaches missed or miss I should say, and

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and I don't know, I'm not at the University of Utah,

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but I can guarantee you after that game the pressure

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was felt. I promise you that, and I think you

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will see improvement down the stretch and on that end,

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but right now by us execution all around, I think

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they're executing at such a high level and the quarterback

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is not turning the ball. I think Jake the last

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couple of years was subject to turning the ball over

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at critical times, even though he made his fair share

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of big plays. You don't see the turnovers from Bear,

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which they are playing such really good, complimentary football. They

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run the ball well, they played great run defense, and

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they get turnovers. And anytime you do that, you're gonna

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be in football games. And then the key component that

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comes in is down the stretch. Who believes they can

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win DYU believes they can win football games down the stretch.

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Speaker 5: You see it over and over again.

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Speaker 4: You saw it against Utah, you saw it against Iowa State.

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were down. I can't recall. They came back and won.

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So to me, that means the players are bought in.

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The players are taking ownership, and they're saying, put the

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ball in our hands, coach, we're gonna win the game.

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Speaker 3: I love that breakdown.

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Speaker 2: We got Guy Holliday here on ESPN the Fan talking

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some college football.

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Speaker 3: Rivalry Holy War football.

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Speaker 2: One individual who has received a significant amount of criticism,

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as all offensive coordinators do at BYU. You saw it

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with Robert and I when you were at BYU, and

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I think Robert and I produced some of the best

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offenses in BYU football history. He set records with these guys,

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Harvey Ungo, Curtis Brown, both rushing record centers. Jamal Williams

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ended up being a rushing record center. Austin Colley, Dennis Pitta,

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Max Hall, John Beck. Go down the list of like

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the yards and the points, and you know you can criticize,

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you know, for like in big games going against big

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time opponents. Maybe the play calling wasn't as creative as

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bau fans wanted to be, but the productivity stands the

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test of time. A Rod, I think is producing at

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a high level and definitely has improved over the years.

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Speaker 3: But I think he's always been I call him.

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Speaker 2: This spectacled booth strategist, film junkie, and now the fans

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are finally giving him his flowers. Give me your thoughts

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on the trajectory of a Rod, the unfair criticism, and

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where he currently stands.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think, first of all, let's go back to

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Utah where him and I work together, and I've known

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I knew a Rod prior to even working with him.

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I think when you work, the thing about coach, with

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his personality and his demeanor is so demanding that you

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catch yourself trying to please with more so and you

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sometimes don't listen when he says, do what you have to.

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Speaker 5: Do to win the game.

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Speaker 4: But in your mind, you know, when you're on the

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headsets or some other things, you can become intimidated or.

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Speaker 5: You can say that you know, maybe.

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Speaker 4: This is how I think he feels versus and so

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I think that it's stifled a Rod. I think my

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first year with a Rod we were productive, tim Patrick

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were productive.

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Speaker 5: I believe we won nine to ten games that year, and.

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Speaker 4: I thought he was really good. I thought he was

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really good taking the pieces that he had and trying

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to get the right people of football and still trying

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to play complimentary football because you don't want to put

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your defense in situations where they will ultimately fail. You

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don't want to have interceptions on the minus thirty five

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yard line and the offense gets the ball on the

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plus twenty because they returned to pick fifteen yards.

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Speaker 5: I think.

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Speaker 4: Being in oc particularly at DYU. That's got to be

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the hardest job in the freaking world. And it's because

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we're talking about we're talking about legends, legends. Lavelle Edwards

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is a legend, an offensive legend, Norm Child offensive legend.

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I mean, Brian Billock worked there, Mike Holmger, I mean,

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just keep going. Andy Reid, oh my god, I mean,

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just give it some thought like so that the.

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Speaker 5: I don't even I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, just the goal to reach the plateau that you're

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trying to achieve its Hall of Fame status. Okay, And

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then every BYU fan, as every Rabbit fan base, has

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an opinion. He doesn't throw the ball to the tight

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end enough. You won the game, Well, the tight end

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needs to get the ball more. But you won the game, well,

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he needs to throw the ball to Chase Roberts more.

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Speaker 5: Guys, you won the game.

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Speaker 6: At the end of the day, does it matter if

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you won the freaking game? And that's what I think

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gets lost And so I love, like some of the

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most fascinating things is listening to educated fan base because

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BYU has an educated fan base, and so it's intriguing

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how many great offensive coordinators are sitting out there who

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doesn't look at.

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Speaker 5: Film day in and day out, and.

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Speaker 4: We'll complain because we aren't running full back.

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Speaker 5: Guy, why aren't we using the fullback one? Well, we

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don't have one. Well why is he running the speed

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sweep so much?

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Speaker 4: Well, guys, on film, that's what they saw that worked.

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It's easy to sit back. Well, don'get throw the ball

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to the tight end. We got this transfer from Utah.

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He's an NFL guy. He needs to touch the ball. No, guys,

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the whole objective is when the freaking game get to

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the college football playoffs, win the Big twelve.

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Speaker 5: That's what matters to me.

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Speaker 4: But man, to watch this guy take quarterback after quarterback

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after quarterback and be successful is I think is commendable.

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And I won't even get into the Utah situation as

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far as the players there, but let's talk about BYU. Okay,

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you had a first round pick, all right, Zach Wilson,

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first round.

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Speaker 5: Pick, second pick of the draft. Wow.

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Speaker 4: Oh, then you go and you got Jaron Hall. Oh

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well he gets drafted.

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, then you get Ratlift and or I'm sorry

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if I pronounced the name.

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Speaker 5: You take this Reslas, I'm sorry you take him and

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you take a kid.

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Speaker 4: Who was virtually unrecruited, and you win ten games with him.

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Guys with noticed send a trend here. So now you

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take a kid who walked fresh off of high school

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campus and you are eight and old with this kid

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ain't and freaking oh. You got to give credit where

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credit is due. You gotta give credit where creditors due.

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And I give all the credit to a Rod the

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offensive staff. I love what Fessi is doing. He's got

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those kids believing they can make plays. They don't have

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to be the fastest, they don't have to be their

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well coached. I watched the route running. The route running

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is good. They know how to separate. Chase Roberts is

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doing an outstanding job. Kingston played his butt off this

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last game. The contested catch he made for the touchdown

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and the quarterbacks getting protection. Not to mention, you got

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a freaking human bulldozer back. They're playing quarterback that's hurtling

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people to running over over people at two hundred and

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twenty five pounds. I've read so many statistics on how

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big he is. I don't even know how big the

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kid is. I mean, i've heard six two to two

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twenty five six foot two thirty five.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we got it a fut No, he gave

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it to his official leagus. I should have I to

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have texted you.

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Speaker 2: He told us he's two thirty five six thirty five two.

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Speaker 4: Six two to two thirty five quarterback that you're using

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in the quarterback run game. So we're fitting all these

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pieces in and I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I apologize to

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the Cougar fan base. Not every player can touch the

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ball as much as you like. Your job is to

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win the game, and that's what a Rod is doing,

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and he's playing complimenting with football.

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Speaker 5: The defense is always in good situations.

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Speaker 4: They aren't starting on the plus twelve thirteen yard line.

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They're freaking protecting the ball. They're running the football. Well,

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oh and take away to run last week, Well, we'll

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just throw it. We'll just throw it. And I'm gonna

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show you I can be a passer. I'm going to

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prove to you I'm gonna be able to open up

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that playbook just a little bit more and I'm gonna

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be a passer. I'm a true freshman, guys, I am

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a true freshman. And I will say that is the

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best freshman quarterback in the country based on performance.

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Speaker 5: I could give a flip about.

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Speaker 4: Star ratings, who recruited who that kid is the best

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freshman quarterback in the country right now?

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Speaker 3: Yep, you know what's funny, And you'm.

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Speaker 5: Got to give the coach some credit.

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Speaker 3: Well that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Like, soho, anybody that is still hating on no, I'm

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and I start to interject, because anybody that's hating on

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a Rod still even after this year, their rhetoric turns to, well,

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it's only because Bear Bachmeier is his quarterback.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, female K nine bro.

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Speaker 2: The reason why he's at BYU is because a Rod

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recruited him, Like he's here because of a Ron.

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Speaker 4: Right, well, let's let's get this straight. The only reason

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Andy Reid is Andy Reid is because of Patrick Mahomes.

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Come on, guys, give me.

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Speaker 3: A break, Give me a break, Give me a break.

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Speaker 5: Give me a break. Got players play coaches? Coach?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, no, no, it's a it's a you know, preach.

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Speaker 2: Last thing before we let you go, guys, tell us

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a little bit about o Yd for any way that's

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listening down in the Valley of the Shun.

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Speaker 3: How can they come in and train with you guys.

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Speaker 4: Now, just look us up on the web. O ye

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D Sports h O y D Sports Academy and you can.

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You can find us when you'll pull us right up.

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We have a great baseball academy. I got three former

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pro baseball players that run it. We have any sport

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you want. You want your kid to get faster, send

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them in. We got a speed coach and that's all

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he does. So you get him in. We'll get it fixed.

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And don't let your child. If you can provide the

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training and you want them to excel at the best

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possible ability that his athletic ability allows, bring them on

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in and you.

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Speaker 5: Can find us.

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Speaker 4: Forty nine sixty West Railroad, Chandler, Arizona and Ben. I'm

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waiting for you to get your butt down here so

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we can get on the golf for bro.

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Speaker 2: You know I got two kids now, I'm working two jobs.

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You know you know I don't I don't vacate.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm not gonna let you say that you've taken

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the most vacations this year, and that's been true.

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Speaker 5: To hold it down.

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Speaker 2: That's true, you take vacation this year, But I don't

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determine where we all go on Maca, sure you don't

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determine that I do not determine that I am led

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by the leader of our home.

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Speaker 3: Better three forces.

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Speaker 2: I was like to say, Brook, Brooke says where we go?

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So I just have to convince her, like, Hey, I

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think I need to go down to Arizona just to

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be with my people, you know what I mean. So

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I'll see if I can get down the guy. We

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love and appreciate you here. Thanks so much for hopping on.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: And Jordan had his first baby, so he's learning like

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you learning. Not only does mama run it, but the

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kids run the house too. You just there for the ride.

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Speaker 2: Have a great hey, love and appreciate you guy. Much

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love to you and your family. Shout out to Jordan Leslie.

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We gotta get Jordan on the show. We gotta get Jordan.

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Speaker 3: You gotta get Jordan. Great, great guy. Holiday. All right, guys,

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we're gonna take a brief time out.

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Speaker 5: We'll be back.

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