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Speaker 2: Happy holiday to you, Ben and everybody else there at

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Speaker 1: Hey, we appreciate that. And big Cougar roar to you

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and your wonderful family this holiday season doubled. We've been

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delving into all the nix and grannies, all the news

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and notes coming out of Brigham today. I want to

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ask you this question. Right we're in transfer portal season.

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It's it's untimely for many out there there as you

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prepare for bowl games, there's opt outs. Guys are choosing

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to go to the draft. People are getting into the

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portal and shopping themselves. Agents are everywhere. Look, it's chaos,

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let's be honest. College football chaos, college athletics chaos. But

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what would you say to this question. Has the new

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college football landscape of nil in transfer portal and even

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to a certain degree, kind of this revshare model that's

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coming into play now, has it been more beneficial, more

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detrimental or has it been neutral for BYU athletics or

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BYU football let's not just BA football in particular.

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Speaker 2: Well, then you asked me that question, you know how

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I'm going to answer, right, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know how you're going to answer it. I have

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no idea, because like, what's the for BA football specifically?

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Has it been net benefit, net positive, that negative or

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net neutral?

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Speaker 2: I would say net positive for BYU and specifically and

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for other teams they've also, I mean, if you take

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a look at even Texas A and M what they've

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done under the current system. They've went out and got

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themselves at one of the best defenses in the country

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and now they're playing in the college football playoffs, so

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I think it worked on an individual team basis in

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many cases. But you know me, I'm concerned about the

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future of the sport that I've loved over the year

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in college football and and you know college basketball as well.

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You know, I do a lot of research now as

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I'm preparing for some Big twelve basketball previews, and the

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number of players I see on rosters who have been

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to three or four different universities is shocking to me. Still,

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I have a hard time dealing with it because it

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is a university and they're initially signed as a student athlete.

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I know we all hate that term, necessarily because the

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NCAA uses it at nauseum every time we cover something,

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don't know how anybody that is focused on their athlete

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career and moving from place to place and they've been

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to four different university already can be advancing in their

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degree in any way, shape or form, and so there

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they're not so individually, I think there's some real issues

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with what's going on, and the repercussions of those decisions

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are going to happen when they stop playing the game,

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and that could be pretty harsh for a number of

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athletes who come to the end of their road and

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they don't have a college degree from all of that

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opportunity that they had. And that's what, you know. I

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hope that more and more athletes take advantage of the

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opportunity to get an education to do something beyond playing

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the sport they love, because you get single minded and

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you want to train and do that. And You've talked

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often about the difficulty of being excellent in everything when

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you're trying to be a college athlete, and I don't

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think this makes it any easier with all of the

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movement that's going on and all the money that's out there,

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and it creates a very difficult decision. And I'm not

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saying it's not a tough decision for athletes to this

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night to go somewhere else. I just think it complicates

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things in a way that is going to be difficult

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for many individuals to overcome.

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Speaker 1: How's that, Yeah, So this is what I would I

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would retort. I think you bring up some really good points.

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I think there's a lot to take in there. I

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think for the last you know, sixty years or more,

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STV revenue has been pouring into universities. The finger pointing

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needs to be number one, pointed at the adults that

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were running the program in an antitrust way, in an

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illegal way, taking advantage of the workforce, and not actually

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providing the fair market value to the student athlete. Right

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does that make sense? Like the adult look at all

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the universities and how much money they just had, and

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they took advantage of these guys, and so the market

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pendulum swing right like, it's swinging really aggressively in the

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opposite direction. It'll come back to center as all free

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markets do. But right now we're seeing the pendulum swing

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because of how corrupt the adults were running the organization

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and getting rich off of the lifeblood of these programs

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have been over the last sixty years. So it's just

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swinging right now. So it's there. Those are the people's

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the student athletes right now.

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Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, and the system has you know, was broken

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for a number of years before this started to happen,

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and we all know that the ball committees and those

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who ran the ball were getting rich. Universities were getting

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rich to players were getting a PlayStation. I mean, it

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makes sense that there should be some revenue sharing in

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that regard. The athletes were being taken advantage of, and

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I understand all of that. I just feel like they

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broke this thing loose without any idea of how they

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were going to make it work in an important situation,

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and so we're seeing a lot of those repercussions of

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things that don't work. The Bowl system is dying because

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teams are going, nah, we're not going to go bowling.

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game regardless because their objection was we didn't make the playoffs.

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we don't really want to go through with that, and

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so that creates a vacuum for the end of the season.

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bowling all this time? And I know with b YU

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would go to various bowl games, they'd either break even

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or lose money. So you can see how why would

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we want to continue to do that? You know, your

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weigh the option, Well, we get to have extra practices

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for our young guys. It's a fun activity for the

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at b YU, for the players, and their wives, you know,

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to go on a vacation at Christmas time, make some money,

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do some things, you know, get get some gifts and

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that sort of thing. It's just the system is so

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busted that I don't know what they're supposed to do

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with it. And you can't take advantage of the players

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like they were, but you also have to give them

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some direction on how to move forward. And I don't think,

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as you mentioned, don't think the adults in the room

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are doing that very well.

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I know you covered the BYU men's hoops team, and

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I know you're looking at this roster like there's too

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many mercenaries on it. But has it been pretty fun

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to watch? You know? I mean, look, BYU basketball is

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possibly going to be a two seed in the NCAA tournament,

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maybe possibly figures cross hopefully a one seed something they've

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never done before.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're definitely fun to watch. And I had to

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kind of rick call when by You played Spacific the

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other night. You know, they obviously played each other when

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both teams were in the West Coast Conference, and the

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expectation for BYU to beat every team in that league

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other than Saint Mary's and Gonzagara regularly made it very

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difficult for the Cougars to play the Pacifics and Pepperdine's

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and Santa Clairs of the world, because you just didn't

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think there was any possible way the Cougars could lose

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those games. And when they did, the sky was falling

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and they were probably you know, what was the problem.

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Why couldn't they do it? And they've they've gone so

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far from that team that that program that played in

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the West Coast Conference. It's it's incredible to reflect on.

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You know, they've got the number one high school recruit

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on the team and they're playing games at Madison Square

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Garden and against I mean, their schedule was really good.

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They're right around seven or eight I think in net

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rankings right now, just exactly where they wanted to be

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based on how they decided to operate and get their

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schedule going the Lack game where aj Debonsa and Richie thunders.

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Speaker 1: And you know the Rob Robert.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they put up sixty nine points and they're

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the best trio possibly in the country. I think that

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they still have a lot of work to do in

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developing a good rotation with the bench and that that'll

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come up. But as they head into Big twelve play

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and a couple of games, they've got a couple left

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against what I used to call what they used to

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call in boxing. Tomato Cans just got teams that you

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can beat up. And it's that time of year where

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they're you know, they just finished their finals and they

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want to get everybody healthy and all that. So this

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allows them to do it. But it's been fantastic to watch.

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I think Kevin Young has has put together a really

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good team, and the team is very different from last

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year's team. You know, you take what you want to

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build with, and he's put this team together and he's

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had to sustain a few losses with you know, Dawson

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Baker and they picking's getting hurt and gone for the season.

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But this is the team he wanted and they're definitely

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producing on the floor. They put seventeen thousand or roughly.

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I mean, I know they announced sold tickets, but you know,

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sixteen or seventeen thousand dollars for our seventeen thousand fans

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for a weekday game is just incredible to me. I

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remember going to BYU games during Christmas break and there'd

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be you know, five or six thousand. So the introg

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levels there. The fans are going to show up wherever

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they go. They're heading into a really good league. Again,

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the Big twelve is just a monster and bway your

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fans need to be prepared. They might lose a few games,

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but this is a really good team that is still

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finding out what they do best and the coaching staff

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still figuring out how to make things work. But so

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much talent on this team and so much that they

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can't accomplish this year.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the Big three. Uh, something that Ronald and

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I are gonna have to debate maybe later on in

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the show as we prepare for our Little Cougar Sports

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basketball pregame show. But uh, you mentioned the Big three, AJ,

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Richie and Rob. What's what are some other big threes

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that in by U basketball history that like that are

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comparable to this crew right now. I mean you have

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the Gimmer maybe uh uh, you know Brandon Davies do

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you put you know, Jackson? Emery is the third you

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know as a three on three squad, Like, who's gonna

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be able to is it? Danny Ainge? Great Kite and

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Fred Warbers? Could they stick it to this squad? The

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goat Danny Ainge? Who could who can win? Who could

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beat that aj Ritchie and Rob Wright trio in in

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their prime in b YU basketball history.

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Speaker 2: Man that I don't know if there's anybody that could.

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Speaker 1: What about a Sean Bradley. Sean Bradley's a tough cover.

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Sean Bradley before the mission, you know, when he was healthy,

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you know what I mean? That dude what it was

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at Emery High School. He's running the floor like a

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gallopings of raft and he's just dunking on fools, you know,

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off of one foot. That dude was a That dude

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was a beast. You know what about Sean Bradley. I'm

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trying to think of who played with Seanda in that era. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Russ Larson was with that group. That was pretty good.

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I think, you know the the like I keep thinking

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of duos too, like Kyle Collinsworth and Chase Fisher. I

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think Noah Hartstock was part of that group. So there's

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there's a you know, a group there, and like you

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mentioned Jimmer and Jackson Emery and and Brandon Davies. But

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I'm not I'm pretty sure there's never been a threesome

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like we've seen a trio like we've seen with this group.

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over the years, even Dave Rose teams that they put

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good teams on the floor and they had opportunities to

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win NCA tournament games and stiled just short. Is probably

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because they didn't have a third option to go to

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when you think about some of those great teams that

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they had. So so the fact that there are three

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options offensively that can go off at any time, and

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you know, do they want to double a j He's

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such a good passer that that's going to provide lots

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of opportunities for others to make baskets? Do you focus

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on keeping Richie from going off? How do you get

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the ball out of Rob Wright's hands. He's the one,

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he's the point guard. He's got in the van of

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all time. And then you see someone like toddim Russ,

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who went off the other night, you know on Alexi

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from three. So their five five three pointers from I

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think five or eight how we finished. But uh, there's

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just so much for teams to have to defend. And

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I do think that it's defensively has gotten better that

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will carry them a little further maybe than they went

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last year, because I thought, you know, they gave up

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something like fifty three three pointers in three tournament games

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last year. They can't do that and expect to get

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any further in the tournament. But I think they've gotten

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better defensively. Keva Keda is as big and strong and

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active and as effective as any post BYUS ever put

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on the floor in terms of getting things done other

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than scoring. He can score a little bit, He can

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rebound and score. He gets that little jump book, but

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he's just touch a rim protector and a rim runner.

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Those two lobs that Aj threw to him against Clemson

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just back to back man. They ran that play perfectly

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and it's just a great pass and the finish by

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Keva and then he practically takes the backboard down. They

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have to stop the game, which ended up being a

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really good thing for the Cougars because they got a

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chance to rest and they were only playing starters really

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in the second half. So those guys and then Cannard Davis,

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who didn't have a very good shooting night, gither and

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I expect him to bounce back. But this team has

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what it needs and they're really going to be tested

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in the Big Twelve. There's I mean, Arizona's terrific, Iowa

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staters are really good, Kansas is getting better, Baylor, all

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those good teams in this league are going to test them.

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But I'm excited to follow this group and see how

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they finish out.

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Speaker 1: Double D Donald Dixon and a Cougar Beat brought to

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you by Bresa Cleaning Services. Brisa makes it a breeze

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to keep your house clean seventy dollars off your first

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cleaning service. Double D. Did you see after the win

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over Pacific the ad of Pacific And by the way,

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I love Pacific because my grandpa actually attended Pacific once

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upon a time. In their dental program. I believe back

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in like the the fifties. Shout out to Grandpa Webster,

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Rest in love, rest in peace, the greatest grandpa known

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to man. But Adam Tsore says, tough one for Pacific

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men's basketball tonight, good scheduling, lesson for the future in

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this funny money age, We're in no point in playing

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this game at all. You're not even playing a basketball team,

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just walking bags of cash.

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Speaker 2: Your reaction, Yeah, it was pretty funny to follow the

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comments on that. Wanted to see him backtrack once he

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went on there. It probably isn't appropriate for an ad

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to say something like that on social media, and he'd

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probably learned that lesson. We'll see next Steve. Maybe it

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makes those comments later everything else, but we all know.

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I mean with with the non conference schedule for teams

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that are in the top ten or top twenty, they

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all schedule this way, and you schedule like I mentioned

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Tomato Cans and they get a big payday and you

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get to kind of stretch your legs and rest guys

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and kind of experiment with things. That's just how college

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basketball works. And Pacific is one of those teams that

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have to play some by games during the course of one.

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Speaker 1: Hundred thousand dollars, Right, they took that one hundred k

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they took. Yeah, they could give it back right.

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Speaker 2: Right, they could, And they need to have that for

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their because they don't have the kind of budgets that

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a lot of programs do at upper levels. So it's

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a necessary evil, and it's not fun for these teams sometimes.

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I mean I actually feel bad for teams on occasion

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and go out and play you know, Iowa State and

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get beat by fifty or BYU and get beat by

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forty five. That can't be fun for the players. And

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they know why they're playing that game, and they have

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to believe going in, Hey me, we might be able

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to hold with these guys. And we saw Delaware, you know,

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jump out on BYU. And Delaware's probably a two hundred

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plus net ranking team, so things can happen. But I

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think this ad probably learned this lesson that he's not

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going to be making those comments again online. The best

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response I saw was they're not walking bags of cash,

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they're dunking, shooting, blocking bags of cash. Because those are

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good players. But BYU is just playing the game. BYU

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is following the rules in their program the way that

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all the other programs used to and not tell anybody

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they were paying the players. And so the Cougars are

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doing what they need to do to be competitive and

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to be excellent.

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Speaker 1: Darnell, you know this is it's a new era of

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college athletics, a new era of college football, college basketball.

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Do you feel like, I mean, you're an Olympic sports guy,

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are we seeing an improvement across all sports? Though we're

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seeing it. I've seen parody in college football. I've seen

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parody in college basketball. Even we've seen teams elevated to

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new heights because now they can do what the SEC

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schools in the Big ten schools and some of these

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other schools have been doing for years, which is cheating

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and paying their players in liquid cash bag men type

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of funds. Now everyone can do it and it's proper

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as legal. You know, are we seeing some parody and

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is there a benefit on the Olympic sports side as well? Well?

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Speaker 2: At least initially, I see not parody in Olympic sports.

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I see a bigger disparity between the top levels and

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the other levels. I feel like it really depends on

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how much your athletic department and your university are willing

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to put money forward their Olympic programs, And a lot

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of the discussion with all of this has been there's

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going to be schools who are going to say, you know,

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we're just not going to field these Olympic teams as

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many as we used to. We're going to cut programs

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so we can keep spending money on the money making sports.

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I haven't seen that from BYU yet, but I think

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I have seen in sports like women's soccer and women's volleyball.

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I think that there are some universities who are really

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out ahead in terms of how much they're paying their athletes.

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And I can give this example. I was doing a

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women's basketball Big Twelve preview and are going through each team,

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and there are so many teams whose leading scorer is

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a transfer, and you know, why would they leave, Like,

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for instance, of the girl who played at Notre Dame

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that's now at TCU eleven mile, why would she leave

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Notre Dame for TTU. Well, there's probably lots of reasons,

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but I would say you'd have to consider that she

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was paid an offul lot of money to go do that.

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Not a lot of the universities and willing to put

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that much money toward an Olympic sport that doesn't make

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a ton of money for the university. So we'll see

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that play out over the next few years. But again,

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I see more of a disparity between the top and

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the bottom in Olympic sports than than I have in

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previous years.

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Speaker 1: Let me miss this, darn, I'm going to pivot over

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to football because the college football cartel, the cabal, the oligopoly,

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it's still rain in front there. I was. I was

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reading up on psyops recently. Are you familiar with with

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psychological op psyops at all?

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Speaker 2: Not really?

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, there's a couple of signs that you're living

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in a syop where you're experiencing a syop. I thought

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it was very interesting, and you know, I think there's

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a little bit of a college football syop going on.

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You see a lot of the talking heads, right, the

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power brokers of the media world, all saying the same

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thing at the same time. Have you noticed that at all?

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Maybe maybe Kirk Herbstreet, Nick Sabin, Josh Pate, Joel Klatt,

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Paul Finebaum, you know what I mean? They all say

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the same thing, and so I thought it was interesting, Like,

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you know, there's certain signs that you're in a bit

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of a syop, if you will. One of them is

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that the media all say the same thing, they all

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echo the same thing. It's almost scripted, right, and it's everywhere.

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It's like, and if you go against it, your ostracize,

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you're attacked. Right. So let me ask you this. I

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gave you a few of those names, right, Which college

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football talking head is the most compromised, bought and paid

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for by the college football cartel the cabal? Is it

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Joe Klatt? Is it Kirkirbstreet? Is it ex Saban, Paul

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Faibas or Josh Pate.

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Speaker 2: It seems to me that most of what I'm reading

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online is Kirk Kurbstreet takes a lot agreed, and he

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says he's not. I mean, he knows what the what

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the noise is. It's an interesting observation, Ben, And certainly

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we saw that play out during the college football playoffs

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because pretty much every single talking head was not talking

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about by U, regardless of what their resume was, which

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in many cases was better than teams they were talking about,

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and VYU was being left out of graphics of teams

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that were supposed to be in the same area and

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had similar resumes and wins. So you know, it does

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does lend itself to conspiracy theory ideas we all tend

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to pairt what we read and see and and what

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what we what we think doesn't always enter the equation

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and we just well that that makes sense. Maybe I'll

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just say that. Or are they being told by the

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upper management that this is what you have to say

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or want to not do they not want to appear

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that they're not towing the company line. I don't know,

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I mean, it's it was. It was mind boltling to

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a lot of people, including me, that b YU was

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not being talked about as legit. And what's interesting is,

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you know everyone just said, well, you need to play

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better against Texas Tech, and that was really true by

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you had played closer in those games and not them conceded.

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I mean talk about blowbots. Both of those games were

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close in third quarter and then things just kind of

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fell fart. So they did play them well for two

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and a half quarters in both situations, but final score

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indicated that the game was not close, and so that

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was the overriding element and data point that these guys

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argued whenever by was brought up, Well, look, they got

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beat really badly by Texas Tech, even though Texas Texas

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the number four team in the country and has maybe

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the best defense in the country. Those other data points

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that BYU had advantages over the other teams didn't matter

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because of what the eye test told them. So you know,

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they tended to pair it exactly what they knew they

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they'd seen, so b why you kind of could have

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maybe changed that narrative a little bit with closer games.

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But when you're not being when you're not being graded

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or compared fairly in that idea, then you know you

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have limited number of opportunities to change their mind.

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Speaker 1: Darnell Dixon the Daily Heraldi and nobody knows it better. Darnell,

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what have you been writing about over the Daily Herald

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that we can read right now?

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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of basketball. Obviously, you wrote something about

477
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the scheduling. I had a long talk with with the

478
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coaching staff BYU, with Chris Burgess in particular. This just

479
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happened before the Seaton started and talked about the scheduling,

480
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and I've kind of seen it play out over the

481
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course of the non conference schedule. They wanted to make

482
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it kind of like what Arizona did last year, because

483
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by you finished higher than Arizona the standings, had a

484
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better record, but because of NET, Arizona got a better

485
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NCA seed. So that's what B why you kind of

486
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patterned their schedule after, is what they saw Arizona and

487
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other Power Conference teams did to bring their NET ranking up.

488
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And you just mentioned when we started the show, B

489
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why you could be a number two seed. And that's

490
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a lot of schedule work as well as the work

491
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on the floor. So that's something I wrote about. Got

492
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the women's the Big Twelve basketball preview going in tomorrow

493
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and then next week of course the men's Big Twelve preview,

494
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and man, it's just a load. There's some great teams

495
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,039
really looking forward to seeing BYU against the Iowa States

496
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and Texas, Texas and Kansas, and you know, the Big

497
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Twelve is just a great, great conference. And I really

498
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liked then that. You know, once we started playing in

499
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the Big Twelve, they started having posting news conferences with

500
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the opposing coach love. They never did, never did in

501
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the West Coast Conference in the month West Nope, I

502
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mean occasionally, like when you went to the conference tournaments.

503
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They do that, but not regular season games. And I

504
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love to pick the brains as some of these coaches

505
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from the Big twelve teams. They're great coaches and they

506
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,759
have a lot of interesting things to say, and so

507
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I'm looking forward to that as well.

508
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Speaker 1: Darnald Dixon. Ladies and gentlemen, Donna, we sleech you, We

509
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appreciate you, We love you. Great content. I want you

510
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to do some due diligence on this syop in the

511
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college football world. See what you can find. Brother.

512
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Speaker 2: Okay, you have a great weekend, Ben.

513
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,279
Speaker 1: He said, okay, but he acted like he's not gonna

514
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do it. That that that's exactly He's like, Oh, we

515
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don't oh donkey, he said, Man, come on, let's go.

516
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,960
Let's get into syops. They're real guys, that's our segment.

517
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Is a Pokemon it is not. I'm sure there's probably

518
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some syop power, uh you know, illustrated by or you know,

519
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emanated by one of those pokemon's anma people things. Anyway,

520
00:28:38,839 --> 00:28:42,400
I'm not sure, but uh, Darnell, love and appreciate you, man.

521
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Thanks for propping off.

522
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Speaker 2: All right, see you later.

523
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Speaker 1: There you have it. There, you have it a little

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time to get to know Isaiah Glasger, how he's doing,

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how he's recovering, how he's bounced back after the Big

570
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twelve championship loss to Texas Tech. At what his plans are,

571
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what's the situation with Isaiah Glasker. He became a star

572
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for bu in that at that second level at the

573
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linebacker spot last season, had a good start start the season,

574
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got a little bit deemed up, and then has started

575
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to play up to his potential over the last few games,

576
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I think, But still he's been riddled with some lower

577
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extremity injuries this season, and you wonder, okay, is he

578
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coming back to give it one last shot? Is he

579
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going to the NFL or will he enter the transport

580
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to see what type of market rate his true market

581
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Isaiah Glasker Ladies and gentlemen addressed the media earlier this week. IG.

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Where does the motivation come from to play in these

612
00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:30,960
extra bowl games? Really?

613
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Speaker 3: Just thought we thought we should have been in the playoffs.

614
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I feel like that's enough of a drivy factor for us,

615
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and I feel like we're gonna be ready for the

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bull game.

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Speaker 1: So gonna be ready for that Bowl game, he says.

618
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It's just it's another game to play. This is a

619
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fun game. How important would it be to get a

620
00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:48,359
twelve win first time since two thousand and one?

621
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 3: I would say really super important, just because especially going

622
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,920
against the ACC, it's like people, I feel like people

623
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overlook the Big twelve and how good the talent is here,

624
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and I feel like, if we can catch this win,

625
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then we can really make a difference for the Big twelve.

626
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Speaker 1: So playing for the BYU brand, playing for the Big

627
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:09,440
twelve brand, amongst other things, right, playing for your own

628
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,800
individual brand as well, what stands out most about Georgia

629
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Tech when you check tape, I.

630
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Speaker 3: Would say just because as a defensive player, I would

631
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say their offense. Their quarterback is a super a well

632
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:23,480
rounded guy. He can run the ball, throw the ball,

633
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and I feel like we're in for a good competition.

634
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Speaker 1: So Georgia Tech is a good football team. They're well coached,

635
00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:34,239
they got a great quarterback, they have plenty of skill

636
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:39,519
position players that have athleticism. Okay, and they're actually they're

637
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:43,320
pretty good about protecting their quarterback as well. Plenty of

638
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,960
great personnel and they're well coached. Ig. Do you feel

639
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,880
like you have something to prove in this game? You

640
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,559
might have been overlooked for the playoffs. Can you make

641
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:52,960
a statement with this game?

642
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Speaker 3: Most definitely. I feel like we can get a win

643
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,440
right here. We can kind of show the committee what

644
00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,559
the Big twelve is really about.

645
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Speaker 1: So gotta make a statement. You got to prove him wrong. Look,

646
00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:08,679
it's about momentum into the off season, about the ball practice,

647
00:35:08,679 --> 00:35:11,480
about the development of the second and third stringers. It's

648
00:35:11,519 --> 00:35:15,280
about celebrating with teams, with your team, your your teammates. Uh,

649
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,719
you're gonna remember that last game, John Beck told us

650
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,079
a story about Jeff Grimes and O six going to

651
00:35:21,199 --> 00:35:23,960
the seniors and say, guys, you will always remember that

652
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:26,800
last game, that last college football game you played in.

653
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So go out and uh and and and do your

654
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,199
best because you're gonna remember this forever. And uh, I

655
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,079
think that was a wise Those were wh wise words

656
00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:40,079
given from Jeff Grimes to the offense and the seniors

657
00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:44,039
at that time. Uh Ig Isaiah Glasger. Everyone has been

658
00:35:44,039 --> 00:35:46,400
focusing on Bear's ankle. How's your ankle doing it? And

659
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,119
how has this season been for you as you battle

660
00:35:49,159 --> 00:35:49,480
through that?

661
00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 3: Honestly, kind of get banged up every game is kind

662
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,880
of part of the game. And uh, my ankle has

663
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,559
been bugging me since what Colorado? But this off what

664
00:35:58,679 --> 00:36:00,960
week I think we've had we can have baby, has

665
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,039
been good just because allow my body to recover.

666
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:07,199
Speaker 1: So get that body back on track and recovering and

667
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,760
getting back to one hundred percent. This week off prior

668
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,679
to practice was beneficial for Ig.

669
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Speaker 4: You can I make a comment though, yea, just that

670
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is just tells it. He's they played Colorado the last

671
00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:20,920
week of September. I was there in that in that stadium, man,

672
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,440
I was there in Denver. You sent me out. So

673
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:26,920
you're talking about what almost four months after, three months

674
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,039
after that, he's been dealing with that and having to play,

675
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,239
like that's a long time to have something like that

676
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,440
bothering you been and you played through injury. So to

677
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,400
still produce this way, to still be, you know, up

678
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,840
on candidate lists for awards like that, that's tough to do,

679
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you know. And the ankle injury, I feel like it

680
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,239
affected him a decent amount, you know, at times, Gurney

681
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,280
said he was a shell of himself. So he just

682
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,960
thought just like, hey, I've been dealing with this since

683
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the last week of September, and that's early part of

684
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the season been that's not on the latter half.

685
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Speaker 1: So this In twenty twenty four, he had seven total,

686
00:36:57,199 --> 00:37:00,440
seventy total tackles, forty two solo, twenty eight years assisted.

687
00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:02,880
He had four passes defended, he has three. He had

688
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,119
three and a half sacks. He had one forced fumble

689
00:37:05,159 --> 00:37:09,679
and three i in tsu and one touchdown. In twenty

690
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,880
twenty five up to this point, a little bit of

691
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,360
a drop off. Sixty total tackles, thirty three solos, twenty

692
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,119
seven assisted, he has one pass deflection. He's got three sacks,

693
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,599
one force fumble, two I in t's and no touchdown.

694
00:37:24,679 --> 00:37:26,519
So you see a little bit of a drop off there,

695
00:37:26,559 --> 00:37:29,920
but not like a ton. But he hasn't been you

696
00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:34,159
haven't seen the progress that you expected coming off such

697
00:37:34,199 --> 00:37:38,320
a remarkable twenty twenty four season, And so you wonder

698
00:37:38,559 --> 00:37:41,239
how does that influence him to go one direction or

699
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,800
the other? Is this his final game as a BYU Cougar.

700
00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:46,280
It very well could be because he's gonna take his

701
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,079
talents to the National Football League. He could also say,

702
00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:50,840
you know what I want to see? You know what

703
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,480
type of you know what type of market rate I'm

704
00:37:53,559 --> 00:37:55,320
gonna get if I go into the portal. I think

705
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,880
that's the less least likely. I think if he if

706
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,480
he wants to play college football, he'll be able to

707
00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:04,239
negotiate something that's fair at BYU and they'll be more

708
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,079
than happy to retain his talents. Know if answer butts

709
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:09,719
about it. So let's get back to the sound ig.

710
00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:14,400
How important are these extra practices for the team's camaraderie.

711
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 3: I feel like the camaraderie has always always been here.

712
00:38:18,519 --> 00:38:20,079
I feel like all the boys love each other, and

713
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:22,079
then we're willing to play for each other. So I

714
00:38:22,119 --> 00:38:23,920
feel like we're just we're excited to get to the

715
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:24,599
to Orlando.

716
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: So go to Orlando and have a have a blast

717
00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:31,280
with your teammates and have a little bit of camaraderie

718
00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:34,639
off the field as well as far as the future goes.

719
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:39,039
Have you made any decision, Isaiah Glasker.

720
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 3: Oh, it's really just up in the air right now.

721
00:38:41,519 --> 00:38:43,360
I'm just trying to wait, just trying to focus on

722
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,440
the ball game and then I'll just figure out from there.

723
00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: So okay, so he's gonna focus on the ball game

724
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,880
and then figure it out afterwards. Uh yeah, it's true

725
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,800
or false. But you think he said he's vetting and

726
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,159
evaluating all that right now here, he's negotiating his future

727
00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:56,599
right now.

728
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 5: I think it depends Ben.

729
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,519
Speaker 4: I think he's negotiating it maybe, but not like heavily.

730
00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:04,159
Speaker 5: You know, there's times when we're all in on something.

731
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 4: It's like, look, when you're doing work, you're still checking

732
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,519
your phone, You're still distracted at some point by other things.

733
00:39:09,559 --> 00:39:11,079
Speaker 5: It doesn't mean you're not doing the main task.

734
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 4: You're not saying that you're not all in, but you're

735
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,960
bandwidth is allocated elsewhere.

736
00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 5: You are a little paying attention, so it probably has

737
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:17,760
come across his mind.

738
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 4: He probably has had a number, he's probably talked about

739
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,719
it in passing, but I don't think it's more than

740
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,639
you know, ten to fifteen percent. I think he really

741
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,039
is mainly focused on the bowl game. So I think

742
00:39:26,079 --> 00:39:29,400
he has mentioned it and maybe set up a time. Okay,

743
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,360
this is when I want to do it. But after

744
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,360
that it's done and now he's focused on the ball game.

745
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,039
But I don't think he's in hard conversations talking NFL draft.

746
00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:38,920
But I think he has set of meetings and things

747
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,679
and that those are going to be in the work.

748
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:42,679
So I think he started the process, but I don't

749
00:39:42,679 --> 00:39:45,119
think he's necessarily in the process, if that makes sense.

750
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued. I'm definitely intrigued. I think, guy, he's got

751
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,440
some tough decisions to make, no doubt. What or who

752
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,239
do you consult with in these moments? Coaches, parents, family, friends, agents,

753
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,880
Who do you consult with? Really?

754
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,679
Speaker 3: Just I would just say my family mostly. I talked

755
00:40:00,679 --> 00:40:02,719
to my parents about all the time, and I feel

756
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,000
like this is my best interest is to wait.

757
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: So best interest is just to wait and then go

758
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,679
for That's interesting. Uh So I think it bodes well

759
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,280
for b YU some of those comments that he just made.

760
00:40:14,679 --> 00:40:16,639
Last thing from i G. I assume you guys are

761
00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:20,480
going to Disney World. Where were you at Disney kid?

762
00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:22,280
It grown? Is this Sean Walker's question?

763
00:40:22,559 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 4: Oh you think it is? Is Danny Green's of ABC four.

764
00:40:26,519 --> 00:40:28,760
I thought this was no, Sean did not ask any

765
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:29,320
Disney question.

766
00:40:29,639 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 5: Was all business.

767
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 4: It was Dana Green actually asking about Disney Orlando. All

768
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,880
of those questions been so we didn't have to take

769
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:36,800
that role that was not shot.

770
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I think for me, like is it are

771
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,119
you a a Disney kid or you were like a

772
00:40:42,159 --> 00:40:44,639
Harry Potter World kid, right now, That's what that would

773
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:47,280
have been my question. You more, This is a good question.

774
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,079
I like Harry Potter guy, Harry Potter her Harry Potter

775
00:40:50,119 --> 00:40:52,519
World guy. Uh, this is what i G had.

776
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:58,039
Speaker 3: To say, Like, my favorite movie probably Cars. Okay, yeah, well,

777
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,960
I've never been actually to Disney or Disney World, so

778
00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:02,599
I'm excited for the experience.

779
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 4: Wait wait, wait wait did he say he said I've

780
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,920
never been to Disneyland or Disney World, so I'm excited

781
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:09,679
for the experience.

782
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:11,119
Speaker 5: But my favorite movie's Cars.

783
00:41:11,199 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 4: I set that in reverse, so his favorite movies Cars,

784
00:41:13,519 --> 00:41:15,599
Like yeah, but I've never actually been to Disneyland or

785
00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:17,880
Disney World, but I'm excited for the experience. So never

786
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,079
has been been I know crazy, so he's never been there.

787
00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:23,639
But look, my favorite movie's Cars too.

788
00:41:23,639 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: I love it.

789
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 4: I love one two three, four, Like look that's just

790
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,199
not a four, but love the one two three got

791
00:41:29,199 --> 00:41:30,760
my daughter to start watching as well.

792
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,119
Speaker 5: Really, she likes Monsters, Inc. And Toy Story a little

793
00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:33,440
bit more.

794
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 4: But look, it's either, like you said, been, are you

795
00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:37,639
more Disney or you more Harry Potter. I think growing

796
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,920
up was up serious, growing up more. I was a

797
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,760
Disney kid. And then once I got the hot like

798
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,800
not even high school, middle school, that weird moment I

799
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,760
transition to Harry Potter, like when I go to these

800
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,559
these parks. When I go, I go to Universal and

801
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:51,800
I look for Harry Potter, Like I'm a Harry Potter kid.

802
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,000
Now October Halloween comes, I watched the Harry Potter movies.

803
00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:57,119
So it's a good question that you brought up I

804
00:41:57,159 --> 00:41:59,320
am not. I don't think a Disney kid. I'm more

805
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,159
of a universe so type guy Harry Potter.

806
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: So you're you're you're a Harry Potter guy, Harry Potter guy.

807
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm Nerd Gryffindor and my wife is my wife

808
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,920
is my wife is Ravenclaw, so that that kind of

809
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,360
gives us personality.

810
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: And you and you know, did you test that out your.

811
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:16,519
Speaker 5: She's the house of raven Claw.

812
00:42:16,519 --> 00:42:20,639
Speaker 4: And I think I think you've never been tested yet.

813
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,079
Speaker 1: I mean, I got my blood tested game day Bett Health.

814
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,000
There you go. I gotta hit my house. My my

815
00:42:27,039 --> 00:42:31,320
house affiliation, Harry Potter affiliation. Uh done as well?

816
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 5: Do they have Harry Potter credit cards?

817
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 4: Because you know, I know you've been discussing, you know,

818
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,599
the Disney.

819
00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's not. Do they have Harry Potter

820
00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:40,199
roll at Universal and Cali?

821
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:42,679
Speaker 4: I'd have to check. I know they have it down

822
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,199
there in Florida, which I've been. That's where I go,

823
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,920
and I have to tell people, you know, guys from

824
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:46,840
the mid West, Chicago.

825
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,559
Speaker 5: My family every year being growing up is.

826
00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:50,639
Speaker 4: We would go to Disney and then we go to Universal,

827
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,199
you know, up until us about eleven.

828
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 5: So that's what we did.

829
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 4: And then when I got older, I could go if

830
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,039
I wanted to with friends or other family members, and

831
00:42:57,079 --> 00:42:58,239
as an adult That's what I've done.

832
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,519
Speaker 5: So we've gone to the Universal Parks. I love the

833
00:43:00,559 --> 00:43:01,079
roller coaster.

834
00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:04,639
Speaker 4: It's funny that new Veloca rapt or whatever roller coaster

835
00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:07,079
that they had in Florida. But right when I started,

836
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:10,320
I think a year after working for you, they were

837
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,920
test writing and my wife and I went down there

838
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,159
while you were like upside down.

839
00:43:14,199 --> 00:43:15,119
Speaker 5: Oh man. It was a daze.

840
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:17,559
Speaker 4: And so I'm a Universal guy, Harry Potter guy for sure.

841
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,400
I pulled off the Disney but a little one.

842
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:19,639
Speaker 1: Now.

843
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 5: I'll let her make the decision. We'll see.

844
00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: I love it. Or Ig Isaiah Glasker. After listening to

845
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,840
that Ronald the three man Weaver, where are you leaning

846
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,960
right now? Do you think Ig goes to the NFL?

847
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,800
Do you think he stays at BYU, or do you

848
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:38,960
think he goes portally.

849
00:43:39,639 --> 00:43:42,639
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest, if I really had to pick

850
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,199
right now you're telling me, and after the information that

851
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,679
you gave earlier, you know about it might be fifteen

852
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,280
to seventh round for LJ. We don't know, right That's

853
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,920
tough for me to think that Isaiah would be higher, really,

854
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,800
because AJ had a better year than Ig, was the

855
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,119
best running back in the Big twelve Jacob O. He

856
00:44:00,119 --> 00:44:02,039
guys is the best linebacker in the country that's already

857
00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:04,199
been solidified. So you're not beating that out. Is he

858
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,039
better than Jack Kelly? I think you have to see

859
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:09,159
maybe Mail Kiper's big board or others. So he might

860
00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:11,639
not even be ahead of his own counterpart there. Granted

861
00:44:11,679 --> 00:44:13,360
different they're asked to do different things, but in the

862
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,800
linebacker room nonetheless, and then he's competing against all the

863
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,079
other linebackers in the country at Ohio State, Texas, A,

864
00:44:18,159 --> 00:44:20,280
and M. So with that being said, after I've gone

865
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,679
on that fifteen second Tangent, I think he has to

866
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,360
come back then. I mean, he said his ankles have

867
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,199
been bugging him since September, and look, it goes in

868
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,039
the nature of nil. Right now, there's no point for

869
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:32,440
him again, just like LJ. Lose out on money and

870
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,840
you haven't done that. He could come back and make more.

871
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,840
He's gonna be a prime face. He could be a

872
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,239
guy a close upward to seven figures right next year,

873
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,639
we don't know. So I think Ig does come back,

874
00:44:43,159 --> 00:44:44,599
But at the same time, I want to throw this

875
00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:47,360
out there. If he doesn't feel he's getting his market rate,

876
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,920
ben I definitely think looking I don't want to be

877
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,360
a Debbie downer and people are gonna think that I'm

878
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,440
being you know what, Gurney and you know sometimes Jay

879
00:44:56,519 --> 00:44:58,039
Drew did. They think I'm gonna be the ie word.

880
00:44:58,039 --> 00:45:00,480
I'm not gonna say it. He he ended up in

881
00:45:00,519 --> 00:45:02,760
the portal Ben. I think if Heigi doesn't get his

882
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,480
market rate and if they don't pay him, I think

883
00:45:05,519 --> 00:45:08,840
you could see a Keelan Marriyon type situation. I think

884
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,079
Ig would take off if he felt like he wasn't

885
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:13,639
getting his value in good else. I don't want to

886
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:16,039
see that happen. But if he came down to it

887
00:45:16,079 --> 00:45:18,079
at the end of the day, the money talks. So

888
00:45:18,159 --> 00:45:20,239
I think he comes back, but he's not getting that

889
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,480
paper to pin of what he wants.

890
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 5: I think he'll be gone.

891
00:45:22,679 --> 00:45:24,679
Speaker 1: I love that analysis. I agree with you. I think

892
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:29,159
he's coming back. But look, he was good this year.

893
00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:31,880
I mean, that's a good stat line that you saw

894
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,719
that I just did. Enumerated for all of kugarnation sixty

895
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,519
total tackles, thirty three solo, twenty seven assisted, one pass defended,

896
00:45:38,559 --> 00:45:41,599
three sacks, one for fumble, two I and T's and

897
00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:45,440
Partridge and a pear Tree. Look, heats, he's gonna get paid,

898
00:45:45,519 --> 00:45:49,079
and he's gonna get paid healthily and strongly. Tenders and

899
00:45:49,119 --> 00:45:53,280
Franklin his nil body. Okay, to keep him at Brigham

900
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,719
his uh. I mean, look, legend's there, Legend Glasger, he's there.

901
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,239
We got family in the building. There's nothing more special

902
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:07,159
than playing ball on the same team with your your

903
00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:11,000
family members. Okay, you're gonna see it. You're gonna see

904
00:46:11,039 --> 00:46:12,960
rider lines and Walker lines. I'm telling you you're gonna

905
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,719
see them playing. You got the mckensey twins. I know

906
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,079
Dom's in the portal now, but he got to experience

907
00:46:18,159 --> 00:46:20,800
it now. He wants to go play ball and he

908
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,920
just didn't see a path to play ball at b

909
00:46:24,199 --> 00:46:26,519
YU in the wide receiver room. I get it. It's okay,

910
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,880
we wish him well. You never know. Dom could come back.

911
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,840
Le Mason Waller could come back. They entered the portal,

912
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,000
they could end up coming back. We'll see how it

913
00:46:33,079 --> 00:46:36,280
plays out. But ig he's coming back. I hope. So

914
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,880
six five to forty ballers shot collar on a South

915
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:44,280
Jordan Utah, stay home, b B where your feet are

916
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,400
nowhere's better And I don't disrupt the legacy, long term legacy.

917
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I always say this, like your long term earning potential

918
00:46:50,079 --> 00:46:52,239
is greater than your short term earning potential at b

919
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