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We got Braiden Day on the line. Braiden, Merry Christmas
to you late Christmas. Didn't catch up with you last week.
How was the Christmas with the kiddos?
Speaker 4: It was awesome. They're in that perfect age where everything
super exciting for him. The magic is there, so it's
it's a really fun time of life to be able
to have Christmas and have a kid.
Speaker 2: So thanks, of course I got to ask you know
the kids. I know you got triplets. You mentioned that
my daughters is not old enough to just go crazy
with the wrapping paper, so it's a very slow turtle motion,
but very slow to exactly you say, your the nephew.
But eventually she got there. Eventually she got there and
then like kind of like helped the box and just
looked at me.
Speaker 3: It's his dad, you know.
Speaker 5: And my nephew was like this where he's like almost
at some points more interested in the wrapping paper. I know,
watching these monster trucks and you're more interested in the
wrapping paper than you are the actual gift.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, Samsa, just watching these presents relaxed, like
you need to pay attention to the present.
Speaker 3: But I'm glad it went well all lasting.
Speaker 2: On the Christmas topic, what are the traditions that the
day family does on Christmas?
Speaker 3: What do you guys do on Christmas? Even Christmas?
Speaker 4: So we actually were down, we went down to my
in laws down to Henderson. So that's this year. We
haven't really created our own tradition check because we're still
doing kind of some of our own family traditions. So
hopefully in the next couple of years begins to get
ourselves settled and do some stuff just our own family.
But right now we're kind of still bouncing around with
in laws and my parents and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So Branden, we've been having the long debate on the
Christmas pajamas.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know.
Speaker 6: Some people do the Christmas pajamas.
Speaker 5: Some people buy something like a Nike sweatsuit that they'll
actually wear for the whole year. Where did the day
family fall on the Christmas pajamas?
Speaker 4: Well, this is asking, This is a pretty personal question.
O're in just kidding. So my family, with the kids,
we definitely get Christmas pajamas and we do those. I'm
just not a pajama guy really, and so I don't
really care for pajamas, and so we don't do it
for the adults. But all my kids always we always
have Christmas jamas that they wear on Christmas Eve and
all that kind of stuff. So we're kind of in
the middle, I guess, not fully in, but not fully out.
Speaker 5: No, I think that's a good way to do it.
My wife is she's the same where she's like, no,
we have to do it. It's it's tradition. We have
to do the ten dollars pants from old Navy. And
we had a little bit of a not at our disagreement,
but just a discussion this year because I wanted to do.
Because I'm with you, Brydon, like, I don't really pajamas
aren't that much to me. I'll pretty much wear like
a Nike sweatsuit around the house. So I said, hey,
what if we do that instead? She said, no, tradition,
we gotta do the old navy pants all that stuff. Well,
I bought her a Nike sweatsuit for Christmas. Afterwards she goes, yeah,
next year, She goes, next year, We're not doing the
old navy sweat with the old navy pants anymore. So
I'm like, all right, cool, So I won that battle.
So I'm with you, Brad, like, let me wear something
that I'm actually gonna wear for three months after Christmas,
as opposed to the ten dollars pajamas I'm gonna wear
for one night of.
Speaker 4: The year exactly. I agree that, And that sounds like
I've got a trick for next year to be able
to get out of it even more so, thanks for
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Speaking of earning business, b why you earned its business.
Braiden got that twelfth win, first time since two thousand
and one. What'd you make of the pop tarts bow?
The Koogies took care of business down there against Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was. It was really frustrating because,
I mean, just three plays change in that game, and
it's a totally different ballgame and we dominate. So it
was hard to to not feel like the score was
indicative of what was going on. But that also made
it so. I really wasn't stressed. Even you know, my
wife was with their sisters and so she was teching
the score and texting me, and she kept txting Zor
like what's going on? Are you nervous? And I'm like no.
She kept them Then twenty minutes later, sorry, you get
nervous now, Like no, Like I wasn't really, I just
wasn't nervous. I knew that we were gonna come back.
I felt comfortable that we were in control of the game.
We just hadn't capitalized, and I knew that we were
going to capitalize. There was the only time that I
really started getting a little nervous was was after you
know that four fifteen and they go and get down
and those last few plays. I was actually a little nervous,
but I wasn't. I still believed, but but I definitely
feel like it was a game that I wish it
would have been a little more lofsided, Like I feel
like the game actually was just so even more proof that,
like this team is incredible, But I think we took
care of business. We beat another ranked team, just another
thing to add to the resume to show we definitely
were left out and we should have been.
Speaker 5: Brandon, what was your favorite play slash moment of the
game and why was it?
Speaker 6: The scissor kick into a fund?
Speaker 4: That one was pretty sweet. If if if you can
come out and news you can come out and tell
us that that was on purpose, then that will definitely
be my favorite play of the game. I thought that
the Enich run was pretty fun when he used that hurtle,
that was a pretty fun to play there, and then watching
him get a little bit of run there. I know
you put a lot of work into the program, whether
he's pro up und or not, so that was kind
of fun to get it. Having to that bear on
that two point conversion, I think with a pretty cuts
he play for him to on such a bump ankle
to go out and still drive himself through that middle
linebacker and get it the zone. So honestly, that's probably
my favorite player right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 2: You bring up Bear just speak to what you've seen,
you know, as just a fan, like the toughness of
that to So he tries to run on second and five,
right normal, Bear runs over those three dudes waiting for
him at the goal line, gets in, but tries to
push off and even before he gets it back to
the line of scrimmage, ankle kind of not even kind
of ankle gives out and he goes down and then
two point conversion eight. They have to have it right
to make that game the way it was a field
goal game, one score game. He says, you know what,
screw it, bump ankle. I'm gonna run bro over, which
I do, and then I'm gonna carry two other dudes
and still get into the end zone.
Speaker 3: Speak to that toughness.
Speaker 4: Well, and that was that was the cool part because
you can tell him that moment because he tried to
make one of his cuts and he's super famous for that,
just one little cut and he gets upfield and that's
when he heard his ankle. If you could tell him
that last Ricon or that two point conversion. He could
have cut and made it a little easier to get in,
but I think he knew if I cut, there's a
chance my ankle doesn't hold up. So I'm just gonna
I gotta go straight through him. And it was really
cool to see, like, Hey, I'm willing to do this,
put this on the line in a bowl game. It
doesn't really matter, it doesn't really count. So I just
thought it was showed a lot of heart. As a fan,
it was. It was an awesome moment.
Speaker 3: Speaking of going straight through.
Speaker 2: Michigan, Kyle Whittingham, Kyle Whittingham is trying to go straight
through byus now trying to take Jay Hillen whoever else
maybe wants to go along your thoughts and all the
reports about that, Do you think Michigan will end up
taking j Hill?
Speaker 3: Do you think b YU will retain him?
Speaker 2: Sounds like By's trying to make a push to keep
Jalen Provo rightfully sell your thoughts on everything going around
with the news related to Jay Hill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I my thoughts are I think Jay was great
for us and I'm sad that he's I think most
likely gone. I don't know if it'll come that'll Hill stay,
but let's just for the ten tens of purposes that
he has gone. I we're gonna miss it. But I
do think he got a little bit too much credit
for the program in general. I think a lot there
are fans out there that think that Kilanie is just
a puppet for j Hill on the back back end
doing stuff. And because all of a sudden we started
getting good when Jay was here, well people don't remember
that in twenty twenty one we won ten plus wins.
And then also the same thing that happened at the
same time that Jay got higher was the same time
we got we got him to the Big twelve, so
recruiting automatically got easier. He had more resources. Well, who
got j Hill here, Klanie did. I'm not worried because
I think in Colonia trust and I think we're gonna
get there. That could be a short term, you know,
a little bit of gamper there that if if he
leaves and let you know, I know this, hey Rob
Rivers too, it's both of them left. Next year could
get a little icy because you don't know who follows
them to the portal and things like that. But long term,
you know, next two to three years. I'm not worried
about the program as long as Lane's the helm and
there's the investments from the from the boosters, the donors,
all those different places. I don't think I'm gonna I'm
in a super nervous standpoint. I was really nervous when
Colonne was thinking Penn State, but I'm not crazy nervous now.
Speaker 6: It is interesting that that you say that. I do
have to.
Speaker 5: Disclaim though, for everyone listening, this is also the same
guy who believes b Yu's going twenty and oh every
season even though there's not schedule.
Speaker 7: So hey, hey, I'd rather be happy before the season
and then have it be worse than going and and
be thinking that I'm miserable my whole life, and then
hope that they actually prove me wrong.
Speaker 4: That's the situation.
Speaker 6: So you wish that I was as positive as brain.
Speaker 3: Day, like I wish you would be, because.
Speaker 5: I wish I could sit there saying I watched the
Pop Starts Bowl and the whole time I was like, hey,
no way we lose.
Speaker 6: There was a part of me that was like, I
don't know, man, I think we're gonna lose.
Speaker 5: But I think like I don't think there's as very
many BYU fans like Braidon day because Braidon, I'd be
willing to bet you watched both Texas Tech games and
you probably thought BYU was gonna win all the way
until the third quarter.
Speaker 4: Well, I will say that the second game, in the
conference championship game, when we were still not by six,
it was not looking great, but we and fired, you know,
right there close enough, but I felt like we had
a chance. I don't know that I felt optimistic though,
because that's the difference Technic Tech we we were getting
even if the score was still saying tight because the
defense was keeping them from scoring so much. But I
just felt like in the Georgia Tech game, it the
field like it was obvious that we were actually dominating
the situation. We just weren't actually capitalizing when it counted.
Speaker 6: So valid.
Speaker 4: I'm not always positive. There are times I'm a negative
a little bit, okay, just not I'm more positive than
negative for sure, So.
Speaker 5: Well, I want to lean on that positivity there. Braiden,
tell me what makes you optimistic? What are are you
looking for for b U Yu to go out and
grab in the transfer.
Speaker 4: For well and before maybe maybe jump in on that
last conversation with this one. I think the person the
coach that I'm most worried about if we lost is
actually Jennaro Guildford. I think you guys have talked about
this in the lit is. I think I think coach
ge is is somebody who, being a double minority, being
in a situation where he played at YU, he can
recruit in that position so well and and develop. I mean,
look at Schmev. He was nobody. He was a receiver,
walk on receiver coming in and no liqu he is.
And so I don't want coach g leaves because I
think if coach g leaves, then when there's a chance
that a lot of those guys in that room follow,
I personally don't think if and when Jacob's there's gonna
be that many. I think there will be a couple.
I think, like Pausause off the Wall, I think he
was a He's a big j Hill guy, so I
think he probably ends up going. I think there's probably
a couple more. But I think I'm more worried about
replacing Coach g than I am anybody any other coach
on the staff. Saans Klawnie.
Speaker 2: Good point good thing. Look, Brandon Gurney was to one
of the credit. Todam was the one to put the
tweet out there and I backed it up. And when
he brought it up to me was we were down
there in Orlando and then put it on social media.
I was like, I'm not even gonna hesitate. The double
minority at BYU matters. It doesn't matter at Michigan, but
that helps. That helps guys. I mean look to be
able to bring guys like Trey Jonathan Cabea, to bring Schmev,
to get him to come to the other side of
the ball. As you mentioned, that means something that matters,
and to lose that that will hurt. The cornerback is
one of the toughest positions to recruit in college football
in general, but especially at BYU. You just think of
what Gennaralo's been able to do the longest tenure coach
on Kilane's staff, Like he wanted to be here and
he got promoted to defensive pass game coordinator. Do you
think that they could retain him though, if Jill decided
to leave, yeah, you will want him. But if Kilanie's like, hey,
Gennaro will make you DC do you think that G
would take that pay raise and stay at BYU now
that he's the guy and he could call all call
plays the way he wants to recruise the way he
would like to.
Speaker 4: I think so. I think that's possible. I hope that
they're willing to keep him for that or even maybe
maybe there's another guy that Coloney wants is as a
defensive coordinator. But maybe you make Jay, maybe make coach
G the I said, the head coach. Maybe you give
him that title or do something to get him to
retain him. I think he is the most important coach
to keep, and I think they'll do it. I think
Colone will get him to stay. And I think I
think coach G has shown, obviously being the longest ten
years kind on the staff, that he wants to be
here if we can make it make sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to make it make sense. Has to
work out, lots to work out, lots. Will see what happens.
We'll discuss this. We did talk trans report obviously, but
it seems like that, like brettet said this couple of
questions ago, but the backup quarterback is not problem. You
have to anticipate that when Mcha Hill still lost a
job to Bear Bachmeyer that he was gonna leave.
Speaker 3: Maybe people just in.
Speaker 2: Fans are thinking about it because of how where Bear
was playing in the wins. But now it's a serious issue,
you're gonna have him. So I think Enig Watson is
gonna come in. He's coming off of a mission and
he got Traycon Borgae.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be tough, Raydon. How do you go get a.
Speaker 2: Guy to say, hey, look, you're not really gonna start
over this this true sophomore, but it also needs to
be approven. I think veteran guy unless Tracon's the one
that can get it done, because if if Bear goes
down now that there's nobody behind him, there's some fear
there in that quarterback room.
Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, and I think Trayson. If Traycon stays, I
feel pretty confident and comfortable in that position. Not because
I think Trayson's a world beater. I think he's great, though,
I think he's he's a very very low floor guy,
or sorry, a high floor guy. And I don't think
very many programs have number two quarterbacks that are ready
like that have played it, that had a ton of
experience there. And then I think Enik Watson is the
guy that has high upside that maybe not quite there yet,
and so I think having those two behind bear really
make me feel pretty dang comfortable, honestly. Obviously, if there's
somebody in the portal that's willing to come and behind
the guys, but it's just hard to go out in
the portal and grab somebody who wants to hear to
be telling them, hey, we want you to come and
be the backup. I just don't know how many most
people go to the port or for more playing time.
So I think we're gonna have to settle with those guys.
But as long as we can keep Trason, like if
it got down to where it's just in it, you
just have no idea what he is gonna pan out
like because he just got home a couple of months ago.
But I feel comfortable that if we keep tracing any
I'm not super super worried about it.
Speaker 5: Are you more concerned more needy in the quarterback depth
room or the running back to death room?
Speaker 4: Running back? For sure? Yeah, for sure. If you if
you get LJ, if you get LJ back, that does
obviously shore that up. And I'm probably a bigger believer
than the average vau fan. I think there's some others
on our on team's team mo also, but I think
has obviously been hurt enough this year. I think his
department syndrome was bloky enough to I don't think you
can count that, but let's just say you can't trust him.
I do think there's a huge drop off between RB
one and two and then RB three four, and so
I think we're definitely gonna want to go get a
guy in the portal for running back even if Lj's back,
And if LJ is gone, then you really got to
go hard in the portal and get two guys I
think to build comfortable to because we're always down to
RB three or RB four by the end of the
year in depth. Obviously LJ came back, but he wasn't
even fully healthy by the end of the year.
Speaker 5: So do you think b why you can run it
back with bear Bachmaer being your second leading rusher.
Speaker 4: I think he's built to be able to handle that. Obviously,
he got hurt and that's not good, and then is there.
But I think he's built to withstand that and be
a pretty good I don't know if you wanted to
be in terms of like total yardage, be the number two.
But I think him being in that two or three
zone isn't the worst thing because it's what keeps people
on us on the defense if he is running it enough.
But I think finding a way to find that balance
is a good thing. And I think having an RB
two that's comfortable. And I think if was healthy all year,
I think probably has a pretty similar yardage to what
Bear had this year. And Bear probably takes a little
bit of less yarage and l Jacobs any the less
yardage there. So I think they want would want Bear
to be a little bit less, But I think he's
gonna be right there in the RB or you know,
rushing yards number two or three every year he's planning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't like I'm not not a believer.
Speaker 5: I just look at the reality of the situation in
terms of how many games he's missed. That make me
feel like, hey, you may need to go get somebody
else in the portal just in case that pattern continues
to occur and you don't have him again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's totally fair, and that's why
I'm fine with it. My thing is some people think
that Oh, well, we don't have a big enough sample player.
I mean, Siona's gotten I think he's between fifty and
sixty carries on his career, which isn't a crazy amount,
but it's sill pretty good about. And he's averaging five
point one yards per carry, which l j's a like
five point two or five point three like he's he's
he's totally like performed when he's gotten opportunities. So it's
the only thing that makes me think he can't be
a you know true are like very very confident. RB
two is just injuries but compartments into a so fluky
that I have a hard time holding that against him
this year. And he only missed three games the year before,
four games the year before, So I don't think it's
the end of the world that he's like this crazy,
you know, injury prone guy. It just puts fluky he's
last two years.
Speaker 7: But I think you have.
Speaker 4: To go get another guy that you can just in
case it is something that the pattern is there and
he actually is naturally injury prone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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go get a guy or two just because of depth.
I think Logan Pain had made the trip as well,
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they'll give other guys an opportunity. Jovessa to me earned
his spot. So there's lots of discussions. This is what
this time is now, is to discuss what moves need
to be made.
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Look good, feel good, and do good today. Braidon, Thanks
you Tom today.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 3: We'll get caught up with you next year.
Speaker 2: The next time we get caught up with you, it'll
be twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Happy New Year to you and the family.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys, go coogie.
Speaker 2: That was Braidon Day. The CEO of Odeo mends we
appreciate braid Day. Join us for a college football segment.
Speaker 3: We'll go right to break.
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