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some of our former b YU great some of the
goats are getting to the age of mission presidency.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: One of the all time great defensive acts in b
YU football history, former b y U A d arguably
the greatest ad and b YU football history, has been
called to serve as a mission president for the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
Speaker 1: Tom freaking home Moo.
Speaker 3: We got a SoundBite from his wonderful daughter's Instagram feed.
Speaker 1: Let's play it for all to hear.
Speaker 3: To there you go so is he said Oakland right, Oakland, California,
San Francisco, Bay Yeah, Samsung, Oakland and San Francisco. It's
the Bay Area. I love it, man going back. We're
gonna try to get th h on this show The
Goat on next week to discuss it.
Speaker 4: And I like him, then I can I can say this.
We will have him next Monday.
Speaker 1: Let's go confirm. I spoke with thch earlier.
Speaker 4: We will have him talking all about the missionary work
next week.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, I'm loving that. I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Tom Homo being called to serve with
all of his heart, my mind and strength in the
mission field, thrusting in his sickle with his mic in
the Bay Area, going back home. Baby, Congratulations to Tom Homo.
Also Robbie Bosco, the national champion quarterback. Robbie Bosco getting
called to serve and he's going vic. You said he's
going to Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Baby, Shout out to Robbie Botching.
Speaker 3: Now, Robbie's been filling a role within the BYU Athletic department,
the Varsity Club, the Cougar Club. He's been helping out
any way, shape or form, that again. He's been a
coach at BYU as well, but he's been in athletic
development with the fundraising side of things and a product
out of Roseville, California.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's crazy is. I don't think Robbie
was Robbie a member of the Churchy's Christ in the
lettery Stints when he came to BYU. I don't think
he was.
Speaker 3: He got I always talk about how BYU actually had
a debate with a Utah fan recently. He's like, BYU
is not a missionary tool for good.
Speaker 1: It's not an ambassadorio tool for good. You guys are
buying people's faith.
Speaker 3: I'm like, guys, wait a second, here, wait a second,
wait to tick, young man.
Speaker 1: I have a list.
Speaker 3: Okay, how great will be the rejoicing if you bring
just one onto the fold?
Speaker 1: Need I remind you of the scriptures? Okay?
Speaker 3: And look like we have so many former players that
came to BYU, including Tom Homo. Let me go down
to like Curtis Brown, my guy, Jamal Willis, Caylen Hall,
some ballers in the.
Speaker 1: Backfield for Brigham. How about Tye Freakin' debtmer?
Speaker 3: Okay, you can just go down the list of fantastic
for one set to al Lai. My teammates shout out
to Setde doing great things in the community, Like you
just go down the list, man, I need to aggregate this.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just do it off the cuff.
Speaker 3: But I don't think Robbie was a member. Now he's
a mission president. Now he's going forth and serving in
the mission field. Uh, mentoring the youth as they they
get out there, eighteen nineteen year olds right going and
trying to preach the gospel.
Speaker 1: Oh, my guy, John John just.
Speaker 3: Texted me most recently crittled Foos Foostraora.
Speaker 1: The fos is loose. Just wait till you put Foos
out of the missions.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be a mission president later on in his life,
serving maybe in his country, right, you never know. Going
back to the roots, baby, that's what thh told.
Speaker 1: He's going back to the roots anyway. How great will
be the joy?
Speaker 3: Don't tell me that BYU athletics and a missionary tool
and an ambassadorial tool for good. Yeah, but you don't
live up to the standard. You guys don't live up
to that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you want?
Speaker 3: You want infallibility? Is that what you want or do
you want someone to try their best. Yeah, but you
guys are just buying people saying no, sorry, there's too
much evidence to contradict that, to counteract that.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, I get it, you know, we're all it's gonna
be imperfect. And I think Shane Reese embodied it, encapsulated
it very well when he was uh when he took
on the role of the president of Brigham Young University.
He said, Look, we're gonna try our best in every way,
shape and form, essentially, but we're gonna fall short. Right,
We're gonna be imperfect in all this. We can't sit
here and be stagnant and not maximize our talent, the
parable of the talents which you may have academic talents,
you may have spiritual talents, you may have physical talents.
Speaker 1: I would say you shouldn't ballet any of those talents.
Speaker 3: You should maximize those and and promulgate those and and
ultimately try to bring others to the goodness of the
faith and of the fruits of the faith.
Speaker 1: So that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: Hate me for it, that's my opinion. You know, I
don't say it has good fruits. Okay, it's taking care
of your body. Like I was talking to my buddy
Cedu Chris Morner, former BYU defensive back, and I said, Bro,
do you realize we came down We fought in the
pre mortal life to get a body. We fought like
I don't know if we were like wielding like spiritual swords.
I don't know if we were doing like Judo kicks
and chops, like hand to hand spirit combat with Satan
and the Falling Third.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like we fought though.
Speaker 3: We wanted to come down to this world, give me
a body, give me this body, and then we come
down here and we treat it like doo doo. We
treat it like crap, like fecal matter. Like, bro, we
gotta treat our bodies better, you know what I mean.
We came down here to get this body, to experience it,
you know.
Speaker 1: And we treat it like dude. We got to take
care of our health.
Speaker 3: We got Layne Allo at Game Baymen's out to help
us out treat our bodies.
Speaker 1: Right, Lane, how are you?
Speaker 4: I'm so good?
Speaker 5: And that was maybe the best transition I've ever heard. Fantastic,
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Speaker 1: But you know, hey, you got a bit. We gotta
we gotta treat our bodies.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: We fought, Yeah, we fought, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a blessing.
Speaker 3: You were doing roundhouse, you know, helicopter kicks, you know
in the spirit life, say hey, I want to I
want to get down there, I want to get a body.
Speaker 5: I was just motivating people. I wasn't doing any of
the kicks. I was just like cheering people on, like
you do the kicks.
Speaker 4: I'll just watch.
Speaker 1: It was the war. There was a war in heaven. Yeah,
of course it was. Were you fighting.
Speaker 4: You need cheerleaders though, too, right.
Speaker 1: You were the banner, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Bay Mitel Bwa your director of athletics.
Speaker 3: By the way, Brian Santiago officially introduced Rob Nielson as
the seventh head coach and BA women's volleyball program history
on Thursday morning. This was a quote from that press conference.
My expectations, says the head coach, the do head coach,
are to work hard tomorrow. In practice, we want to
work hard. We're going to get after it every day.
I don't know what my goals are. I don't know
what we can accomplish. I know that almost every time
that I've set expectations, our teams have surpassed those. We
didn't dream high enough at the beginning when we started
to try and write down what we thought we could accomplish.
We just want to get to work. We have expectations
that we're going to work hard every day with the
understanding that we have the talent, we have the character,
we have the women. What that the sky's the limit.
We know what we can Who knows what we can accomplish?
Speaker 1: He says. We can go and do big things. We
can compete for big.
Speaker 3: Toal championships, we can make runs in the NCAA tournament
and compete for national championships. But we've got to get
to work and the expectations are that we're going to
get after it every single day. So Guard Mike Guard
Darnell Dixon was probably down there just saying huzzah, because
he's a volleyball guy through and through. But not only
is b YU football, bo basketball doing well. But even
amongst the tumultuous nature right now of of everything in
UH in the college or in the in the in
the BYU athletic department, like I feel good about about
the women's volleyball team, there are some guys, there are
some gals in the transfer portal, hopefully they're retained.
Speaker 1: But give your overall.
Speaker 3: Thoughts on the collective health of the athletic department at
BUYU laid out up.
Speaker 5: Well, you said it perfectly. Like obviously basketball and football
are doing really well right now. Even women's basketball is
doing fantastic right now. The women's soccer team just came
off of they they made it to the tournament we have.
The cross country team is doing fantastic. I'm sure indoor
track is doing well as well. So this is awesome
to hear that we got a new head coach. But
I mean the athletic department as a whole. I think
that you can count on one hand the amount of
athletic departments at the college level right now that are
doing better than b YU, not just from like a
performance standpoint, and like where they're actually ending up at
the end of the season, but also just monetarily right
there's there's very few athletic departments that are able to
to do as well as we're doing right now from
a financial standpoint.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's truly remarkable per dollar spent would BYU Athletics
has been able to accomplish over the last fifty odd
years in all sports one more in every sport per
dollar spent than I think any other institution in the country.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I.
Speaker 3: Know a lot of people they get a little bit
uncomfortable when you talk about sexual performance stuff.
Speaker 1: Look, I always say this. I'm like, let's go back,
let's get scriptural here.
Speaker 3: When when when God addressed Adam and ebe what was
the first commandmit he gave Adam and Eve?
Speaker 1: Huh, what do you say?
Speaker 3: Multiply multiply replaced here or at least practice it, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And so there's something to it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's not good for man to be alone. It is
better to be alone in the willderness and with an
angry and contexious woman. Though that is also scripture. But
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Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: No God related things like what are like? No, no,
no deity? And he's you know, what is it?
Speaker 3: He's like, probably just survive and have sexbody there you go,
you know to an degree. So hey, it's not wrong
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we're also seeing performance issues with with sexual health at
a much younger age than we used to. And so
if that part of your life is lacking, we can
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this is something that like I need to address so
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BYU Sporting News type of deal, but I loved it.
Connor Stallion's kind of a controversial figure.
Speaker 1: He was the science.
Speaker 3: Stealer of the University of Michigan in their quest for
perfection and the national championship. Ever since nil kicked in,
this is what he said, the college football National Championship
Game has consisted of Michigan, Washington, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Indiana,
or Oregon in Miami rural. This is so funny that here,
because yesterday I was poking fun at the rural south
car dealerships that were paying players.
Speaker 1: And he's right on with it too.
Speaker 3: He says, rural Southern car dealerships are no longer the
X factor in college football. And don't even start with
but nil started in twenty twenty one b as when
you were doing nil for decades prior in the five
to six figure range deals, there was no transition when
you weren't and can afford six to seven figure deals.
It took a few years to adjust, create collectives and
convince donors to put their money toward players and not
the athletic departments.
Speaker 1: You are now seeing the product of that. Does that
make sense? Like a lot of the money the donor money.
Speaker 3: What athletic departments have had to figure out is their
corporate sponsorship, advertising synergies, what they're willing to give corporate
sponsors and donors for their money.
Speaker 1: But they've also had to say, okay, well.
Speaker 3: We know that the collectives need money in order to
pay the W nine salaries of these football players until
revshare kicks in, right, and then we can help and
aid and support in that. But even then you're dealing
at a competitive disadvantage if you're only gonna rev share that,
if you're only gonna take the sixteen million or so
and give that to your payroll for football and then
oppkate the rest or to basketball in your Olympic sports right, However,
you want to do that with your TV money that
you're receiving from ESPN, Fox, et cetera. But that's been
an interesting dynamic for athletic departments and they had to
figure that out. And some of them have said, hey,
corporate sponsor, why don't you take some of this and
also go to the collective so that we can pay
those guys.
Speaker 1: And we're not going to take all of it.
Speaker 3: So it's been a difficult transition for a lot of
these universities. Does that make sense, Like it's been very difficult.
And I do think that the biggest impact on these
SEC schools isn't that necessarily the transition, but the fact
that others can do what they've been doing for the
last twenty five thirty years. And I think Connor that's
what Connor Connor knows. Like Connor was knee deep in it.
He he's he was there. If anyone's gonna know about
the cheating, Connor Stallion's gonna know about cheating.
Speaker 1: And circumventing the rules a little bit with the sign stealing.
Speaker 4: Oh, he's the face of it, right, Yeah, And I don't.
Speaker 3: Look he was operating I think to a degree within
the rules that were like, it's just stupid that there
was no headsets, like like, why didn't we have headset?
Why did we have to come to this. It's because, guys,
I'm telling you, there were coaches out there that had
a competitive advantage for the last thirty years that had
been sign stealing and had had done a better job
than anybody else in sign steeling. If you have more
resources from an athletic department, you can hire certain individuals and
all they're gonna do is sign steel. And Connor Stallion's
with his his academic and military military background is encoding
and decoding and sign stealing essentially utilized it for his
his favorite team.
Speaker 1: Michigan congratulation.
Speaker 3: So the fact that it was still in play these
rules of being capable of signal only during the game,
though you can only do it during you can't go
and scottle It's so stupid, so dumb, because there were
other every coach was doing it that had the resources
to do it. Lincoln Riley was calling out Kyle Whittingham
and his staff were stealing his signs at USC.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's uh, I'll say this, I'll focus
more on on on BYU. How nice is it that
we have a business school that can figure these stuff
out or this stuff out before the rest of the
nation catches on, right, like in terms of just nil
allocation and revshare and all that kind of stuff. We
have some of the brightest minds who are helping assist
us in figuring out how do we make all this work.
And it's because I mean so many people here in
Utah have such great business minds and so the rest
of the country.
Speaker 4: We have figured it out relatively.
Speaker 5: I mean, look at when this all happened and then
when it coincided with the Big twelve and all that
kind of stuff. I mean, we were able to figure
things out in a couple of seasons, whereas other schools
are going to take I mean, who knows years decades
to figure everything out.
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from the state of Arizona. He was down in the
beautiful home state where I grew up in the state
of Arizona, watching Keelan Marion have his best performance of
maybe his career for the Mammi Hurricanes in there win
over Ole Miss. Let's welcome in Ryan Eldridge to report
on it. Ryan, how are you, sir? Doing great?
Speaker 2: It's not snowing atmals Well, I'm a happy man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, hey.
Speaker 3: We need the moisture here in Utah though, and I
know that you like a little snow on the ground too,
because we get more tires on those vehicles. But how
good was that game last night? Watching Keeland ball out
for the Hurricanes.
Speaker 2: It was epic, back and forth, defensive dog grid iron
fight in the first three quarters, and then the offenses
just went off in the fourth quarter. And like you
already mentioned, Marion had a game, and I think if
you just look at the stat line, yeah, he had
a really good game, had great over one hundred guards
receiving touchdown, but they also had three pass interference calls
on him which caused all obviously three first downs, but
also he catches the ball. He has well over two
hundred yarders receiving last night if they don't have those pis.
But he got three first downs because of those, eventually
letting him win. And the atmosphere was so cool, so electrics,
so loud. Ole Miss fans were definitely louder I'm gonna
give him the notch on that. But Miami, Miami pools
that went out in a great, great game.
Speaker 3: You're around these guys a lot, you know him well.
I was chatting with Jared Bledsoe about the Keelan Marion saga.
You know, it's like, man like, I'm happy for Keelan, right,
but there's a little petty competitive in me that's like, ah,
dag it, Keelan, why'd you go off and do that?
Why'd you make me feel so bad for allowing you
to go? I mean, you look at the Keelan Marion story, like, man,
what could have been? Do you think that Keelan would
have made BYU a team that could have beaten Texas.
Speaker 1: Tech one time? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: That would that one piece have allowed By's offense to
produce in such a way to keep it a closer
game and maybe even.
Speaker 1: Beat Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there is a chance. I really do.
You watching him last night and I'm trying to cover him,
they just couldn't cover him. And how he stretches the field,
he just gets back in the that cast that secondary
so fast. He's not only is he fast, he's so agile.
He reminds me a lot of last letter. Once he
gets the ball in his hands, good luck hitting them
so explosive. So yeah, I think it definitely changes our
offense against a team like Texas Tech, which obviously they're
they're gonna beat us up on the trenches. But when
you got a guy like Marion Ann Parker and Chase
that's such a different ball gamer. You can scheme different,
you can. They're gonna have to drop more guys back
out of the into the out of the box as well.
So yeah, I think it makes a different hundred percent.
But happy for him. Go Miami.
Speaker 3: Uh do we need to find I mean, look, we
we went out and got Kyler Kasper in the portal,
he's a University of Oregon transfer.
Speaker 1: Do we need to go out and find another wide receiver?
Speaker 3: Do you think do we need to go out and
find a Keelan Marrion type of player in the portal
in order to continue to produce at a high level
offensively With Bear Bachmeyer at the helm, does he have
enough firepower in the wide receiver room and out now
tight end room Because Walker Lyons just committed.
Speaker 2: Listen, I'd play both sides. Yes, I think we need
one more dog, proven dog P four level that has
when staff that has proven it. Not like this Skiff
Morgan's not going to do that, but I would love prove.
But also, how much do you buy these three freshmen
that we're bringing in. Do you think one of them
day one could come in and earn a slot at starting.
So I think it depends if your refrescie and you're
a rod, you say, hey, how much do we believe?
And these Twins and Lasker, if you think that day
one they the one of these guys could be a
dog and come in and compete, then yeah, you probably
don't get another proven P four star at wide receivers
because you believe that we're gonna be all right when
we have one already coming into our class and buy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's it's great to see guys like
Parker Kingston be featured. I think with Keelan leaving, Parker
had himself a season. He was tremendous. Chase, I think
played well and did what he was I think supposed to.
I would have liked to see a few more games
changing play from Chase. I'll be honest. I want to
expected a little bit more from Chase. Not saying I'm disappointed,
just felt like I thought he could be a little
bit better and really be a star for the offense.
But it seemed like we were missing, you know, that
outside threat. I wonder if Reggie Frishkennett could be that guy.
I'm wondering if Kyler Casper can be that guy. I'm
wondering if there's anybody on the roster right now Cody
Hagen can be that guy. Who's the next guy that's
gonna step up and be wide receiver one for this
BA Cougar football team.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, yes, is he in the portal and
he's coming to b YU.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna be
very optimistic and hope that Jojo has a great offseason
and a good spring camp and he can surprise us all.
Speaker 1: Jojo Phillips is the answer.
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 1: Why is that? What do you like about Jojo?
Speaker 2: He's very physical. I mean you have talked in the past, Ben,
he is great in the wrong game. He can block
very well. He's a huge body. He is athletic, and
he's a huge human being. And he and one second body. Sorry,
my kids playing basketball once he'll play with them. Doesn't
like him on the phone because I have my headphones
in my apologies. So I think he can put it
together right. This will now be his third, third or
fourth year in the program.
Speaker 3: Third year, well, I think this will be now He's
I want to say it'll be his fourth year in
the program or if year.
Speaker 2: In the program he did get some good quality reps.
This year he's got the playbook down. Just get some
more catches involved and not drop some balls. And I
think he could be that guy. I really think he could.
And with I mean, they're gonna be zoning on Parker.
He's gonna be you know, I'm sure they're going to
have him before the teaven start as projected as all American.
He's gonna have a lot of attention on him. So
I think that it's gonna give an opportunity for the
receivers in that room to get more targets. And hopefully
it's Jojo or like you said, maybe it's someone in
the portal. I don't know, but I think it could
be Jojo. I'm hopeful.
Speaker 3: Out of all the players that have decided to come
back to BYU, who you most ampt about, who you
most excited about? Is it about the offense? Let's let's
split it up offense and defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2: Offense most excess I did. I'm gonna go with PK.
I think it's gonna be a cool story to see
that he stayed his whole career at one school. Wasn't
a huge four or five star profsc coming in. We've
we've developed him, and not only have we developed him
on the receiving side, but he's a special team specialist
as well. You know, he's got three touchdowns of punt
return already. I would love to see him returns and
tick returns. I know we never saw it, but I
would just like to see it. I think on offense
that's what I'm most excited for. And I just talking
about who came back. I want to make a plug.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think Cougar Nation understands how amazing what Kalani
just did. Know, right, Kilani has built a culture that
has allowed every single started or he contributed to our
offensive defense last year to come back when you had
the head coach of up North and our DC and
our corners coach leave and not one person lacked.
Speaker 3: Well and the offensive coordinator was flirting with Utah, so
he did something to retain a ron too, and in
the entire offensive staff.
Speaker 2: Yep. So people don't realize that is a testimony of
Kilanne and the culture that he has built and how
he treats his players and that BYU is just more.
It's a lot more than just football. It's about relationships,
and we care more about than yours performance on the field.
We care about your development, your family and the kind
of man you're becoming and how we can help you
become a better person. And Kilane has shown that BYU
is the place where people want to be and people
want to s.
Speaker 1: I love that. I think it's tremendous. I think it's powerful.
Speaker 4: UH.
Speaker 1: The Kilani culture is UH is a retention tool.
Speaker 3: By football football in general, it's a developmental sport, right,
and and we're developmental program. We had like the seventieth
most talented roster this year, twelve and two with two
losses to a top five team in college football, Texas Tech.
Pretty impressive. What is this roster gonna be better than
it was last year? Do you think Brandon Gurney seems
to think that our roster will be better?
Speaker 1: What do you say?
Speaker 2: I agree with Gurney and the prete once again, Bear
did not have a scream ball, and everyone's gonna get healthier.
They coming back. You got Glaster come back with the
number year Endrews belt and with the playbook. Same with LJ.
You're bringing back three of the five stars on the
old line. I will Harbert think we're going to be better. No,
I'm not worried about that at all. I think we're
gonna be better Ross.
Speaker 3: Rowe har what's your biggest concern right now heading into
the offseason, Ryan Eldridge.
Speaker 2: The biggest concern is left tackle.
Speaker 1: Ah, the tackle position.
Speaker 3: We got to find someone to protect the blind side
of Bear Bachmeyer.
Speaker 2: Yep, let tackle.
Speaker 3: Are you liking any of the prospects that BYU is
interacting with right now?
Speaker 2: I don't know of anyone that has been announced or
said publicly, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: Okay, are you optimistic that by you can go out
and find someone akin to you know, Brady Christiansen A.
I mean this last year, I thought Isaiah Johna did
a pretty good job. I mean, everyone's struggle against Texas
Texas defensive front, so I kind of throw that one
out the window.
Speaker 1: But like I thought, Isaiah did a pretty good job.
Speaker 3: Caleb Etn his senior season, did a pretty good job
at left tackle. Do you think we can go out
and find someone akin to those guys? Blake Freeland? You
look at our tackles, King pleisilm at the year. We've
had some talented tackles over the last five years.
Speaker 2: I believe we can. I think TG Woods is a dog,
is a great developmental coach. I have not met one
player on the old line that has not loved their
experience with him on and off the field and how
they how he coaches, how he helped develop them and
make them better players. So I think we are gonna
go get a dog. It's just a matter of win
and if they're gonna line up with the colt WYU
and our future what we want. But I mean you
you just said, like five tackles that have been here
in the last seven eight years that are all have
all been in the NFL, anyone that's in the portal.
Why would you not want to come to a place
like d YU.
Speaker 3: Yep, Yes, Indeed, A couple last questions before he lets
you go and let you play some hoop with your boy. Uh,
which of the transfers leaving b WAU has hurt you
the most? Tavian Beasley, Cioni Hingano, Sni Tuala, Tucker kellerher
Icanacio Tupo, Lemson Waller, the third McKay Hillstead, Marcus McKenzie,
Jay Griffin or Dom McKenzie Marcus McKenzie.
Speaker 2: I know that one hurts. That one did her. I
think he had a lot of potential. He didn't banged
up the last two years, but his freshman year he
came on the scene on special teams and kill for
k pop. I do remember that two years ago. Even
this year, he had some good would played on special teams.
But it sounds like he's going to Utah State.
Speaker 3: Correct yep, Utah State along with McKay hill still to
Utah State, so.
Speaker 2: He's not going too far. So he could go ball
out and get some good reps. And he knows Biby
comes back next year when Evan's gone and either's a
little more open spots for him.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 2: I'm still optimistic that he could come back. But that's
what that's on most uh.
Speaker 3: That about can we create a little like synergistic pipeline
between b YU and Utah State. That's our that's our
minor league, you know, developmental program is that. Okay, can
we do that and we'll send down our guys for
development as as we see fit.
Speaker 2: Totally okay with that. I think Rock's okay with that too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want he's pretty competitive. I don't
know if he wants it.
Speaker 3: Looks like he likes our guys, there's no doubt, But
I don't know if he wants to give up any
but he may.
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