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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. Let's talk about stats segment.

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Speaker 3: Check this out five star small Ford Bruce Branch the

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third is currently on an on an official visit to

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Brigham Young University. That's right, a big top player, six

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foot seven senior out of prolific prep in Florida. He's

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ranked those the number four overall prospect in the twenty

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twenty six class according to Rivals. This was Joe Tipton

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that tweeted out earlier today. He was previously the number

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one ranked player in the twenty twenty seven class prior

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to reclassifying. Along with the Cougars, Branch holds offers from Kansas, Kentucky,

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Louisville USC, and several others. In a recent interviews with Rivals,

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Branch spoke briefly about BYU. I've talked to aj degbonsa

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these bonds.

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Speaker 1: As he stated, he.

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Speaker 3: Was just talking about his experience as a BYU student.

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You know, it's interesting, but again, I'm not really focused

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on college at it's prolific. I want to be the

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first to win the Chipotle Nationals with this team. That's

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the reason I came here. In that same previous interviewer,

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Branch discussed what he's looking for at his future college. Honestly,

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a plan. Relationship probably my big thing. But having a

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plan is important. Everyone wants to know what they're doing

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that plan to get me to the next level. That's

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the main thing I'm focused on now. When you hear

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those quotes, right I've talked to Aj it's interesting, he said,

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you know, it's interesting. He was talking about his experience

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as a BYU student, But then he says, I'm trying

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not to focus on that right now. I'm focused on

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the prolific prep and winning a national championship. Honestly, I

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just need a plan, though. Someone needs to pitch me

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the plan to get me to the next level. That's

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the main thing I'm focused on. Ronnie, do you like

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these quotes? Good sign? Bad sign? Where you lean right

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now when you're seeing some of these quotes? He is

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on an official visit per Joe Tipton and Rivals and

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the on three Sports Network. Your thoughts, your reaction.

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Speaker 4: Look, I think a lot of people might look at

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more of all his experience as a BYU students, and

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people might take that out of context, and I just

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don't want that to be Look, everybody's experience as a

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student is going to be different, is going to be different,

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and I'm gonna go there. It's gonna be different as

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whether you're from Massachusetts, whether you're from Georgian and you

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move to Pennsylvania, whether you're from Chicago, whether you grew

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up in Arizona and you move to Utah.

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Speaker 1: Like all of it.

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Speaker 4: I just used everybody that's here, and yes I did

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do that, Yes that's exactly right everyone. But everybody is

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gonna go to things differently, and you can listen to that,

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but your experience is gonna be different, like AJ's experience

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wouldn't be his. So it's value in that, But you

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you know, the next level. I mean, you're coming to

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to develop and play basketball and to get to the

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next level. The coaching staff can do that for you. Ultimately,

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you're gonna get a high level of education even with

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if you're a basketball player, you want every part of that. Absolutely,

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he stays out of trouble, goes to school, goes to practice.

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Speaker 1: They're good people of you.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna treat you well, and you're gonna enjoy your

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experience and be it a play basketball and get your education.

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Speaker 5: That's my main point.

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Speaker 3: There's a key stat there. Let me give you a

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football stat. If I can't actually, let me give you

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a basketball stat. One more basketball stat. So, Kansas freshman

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first overall in the twenty twenty six NBA Draft.

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Speaker 1: This is the number one.

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Speaker 3: Overall pick odds per Fox College Hoops. Darren Peterson number one,

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will be glorious to see these two matchup aj De

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Bonsa and Darren Peterson a week from now. Can't wait

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to see it because look, they couldn't go one and two.

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to see these guys go head to head football football

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stat as well, most explosive receptions over the past two

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seasons per PFF, Puka Akua has eighty three, behind Jackson

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Smith and Justin Jefferson. By the way, so Pooka's at

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eighty three, Jackson at seventy eight, Justin Jefferson at seventy three.

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So Pooka and the Rams fell short last night. But man,

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he has had back to back iconic, singular, amazing seasons

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and hopefully he makes it back into the playoffs and

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I can continue to live out his dream. Hopefully Stafford's

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coming back as well, leading them. A couple other stats

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and by the way, Ronald, the three man we will

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take us to hip off with the Cougar basketball pregame show.

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I believe it's the evening, so state tuned. Oh wait,

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you're not gonna be on that one.

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Speaker 4: No, not not tonight. It is it is will be Saturday,

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but we won't be We will have the UVU coaches show.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we got the uv Okay, I thought you were

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taking a step. That's my bad.

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Speaker 3: I apologize for that. There was a little conflict of

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programming there. So, but it should be a fantastic game.

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I know you've been previewing this though, Ronnie. What are

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some of the key stats as you get prepped for

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this BYU you of a matchup.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Arizona's also a top two team along with BYU

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in offensive rebounds. So these teams dominate the glass very well.

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second one. Arizona actually has a losing record coming to

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twenty five. Last year, as you know, Ba, you just

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ran out of steam. Remember the last seven minutes, like

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you want to talk about turning the water off Bau's

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watershed all the way off. Last year there was no offense.

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So Bo, you need to win. And here's another stat, Ben,

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Do you know me and Brad have already talked about this,

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know the last time Bay you beat the number one team?

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And what the record is against the top team in

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the country, number one?

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Speaker 1: Give it to me number one.

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the last time I did it was they ruined gonzagas

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me there's a chance.

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Speaker 4: So you're telling me I got a chance.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: All right, there's our stats of the day. Well, let

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me give you a few others here. ESPN's Big Monday

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is in town is the number thirteen b Way You

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Cougar's host the top rank Wildcats of Arizona at the

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Arizenter Tip is scheduled for seven pm. Monday's game will

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be broadcast on ESPN with John Sciambi and Franfur Scilla

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and Angel or Angel Gray on the call. The game

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will be available on BOU Radio obviously with a Gregorbell

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and Mark Durant on the call, and Monday will be

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the first of two regular season meetings between b YU

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and Arizona this season, with the Cougar schedule to make

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the return trip to the McHale Center in Tucson on Wednesday,

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January eighteenth, Monday, alsomuch the forty second all time meeting

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between the two schools that were once rivals in the

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Western Athletic Conference from nineteen sixty two to nineteen seventy seven.

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The Cougars are twenty and twenty one all time against

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the Wildcats, including a fourteen and five record in Provo

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Bay You actually won its first twelve games against Arizona,

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Cougar's last loss at the Marriage Center came at the

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hands of Arizona on February four, twenty twenty five, where

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Jayden Bradley went eight of eight from the free throw

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line in route of seventeen points, leading the Wildcats to

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an eighty five seventy one victory.

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Speaker 1: B Why You return the favor on February twenty second.

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Speaker 3: Where Richie Saunders of the Todd King scored a team

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high twenty three points, including a pair of free throws

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in the final seconds, to secure BYUS second straight win

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in Tucsons. So those are some of the key stats

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben, I haven't seen anything say.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's definitely it's got to be a second episode.

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Speaker 4: I just haven't seen him post normally the post I

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assume it is. I'm just waiting for confirmation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's got to it. Scots to be a

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Speaker 3: I would say their their defense is going to be

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Speaker 1: With five blocks against Utah.

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Speaker 3: By the way, on Saturday, BYU now has ninety four

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blocks on the season. If the season ended today, they're

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four point nine blocks per game would be the second

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highest in program history, trailing only the nineteen ninety nineteen

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ninety one season that saw Sean brad Limty seven as

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a Saturday morning bo rings twenty twenty seventh in the

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NCAA's in blocks per game. So shout out to this

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BYU men's basketball team and their defensive efforts at the rim.

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his his comments, his perspective on the atmosphere at the

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Merriott Center, and what he learned about this BAU basketball

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team and more.

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Speaker 1: Let's get out to the hotline.

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Speaker 3: Welcome a Big twelve insider representing the Locked On network.

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Locked On Big twelve hosts. We got Drake cea toll

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on the line. Drake, how you living?

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Speaker 5: Ben? It's fun. I'm sitting right here Sundance Resort, right

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outside of Provo, Utah, getting ready for Arizona BYU tonight

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in the Marriott Center. Could not be more excited to

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be back out west and on the air with you.

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Speaker 3: How lovely you Sundays That's where we got married, me

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and my wonderful wife, my better half. That's my one

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of my favorite places on earth. The Foundry love that place.

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They don't pay for me to say these things. By

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the way, love it all. The Cowboy Bar there, the

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the Owl Bar, if you will, that place is great

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as well.

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Speaker 5: Love it. The whole experience has been awesome.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: It's interesting to hear for a lot of YU fans like, oh, Sunday,

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that is right there, isn't it? Like yeah, it's just

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right there. You can go. You know, they allow that

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you can do it. So I'm taking full advantage this week.

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It's been a great place to stay and look, I

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could not be more comfortable, rested, and to go for tonight.

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It's a huge night in Oops. I know we'll talk

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a lot about it.

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Speaker 1: Boom shocka Locke.

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Speaker 3: I know the dust is settled on the college football season.

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Speaker 1: How would you evaluate how.

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Speaker 3: Would you grate out the Big twelve college football season?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I think the Big Twelve was far better in

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twenty twenty five compared to twenty twenty four, just because

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we had actually teams in the conversation, teams competing at

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the top of college football, Texas Tech being one of them.

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You know, the way America viewed the ACC this year

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with Duke and oh no Virginia and Wow, Miami sneaks

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in despite Note winning the conference. That's kind of how

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the Big Twelve was viewed in twenty twenty four, Arizona

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State end we were the league that got a team

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in due to the loophole in the rules. And this

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year it wasn't like that. We didn't have to get

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a lifeline given by some rule that a conference chipion

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needs to be in the top four or the top twelve.

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This year Texas Tech certainly earned it. Now at the

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same time, you feel completely scorned if you're a BYU fan,

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and scorn if you're Bret, you're ship Field scorned. His

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purpose has not sounded that way. But a Big Twelve

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fans Big Twelve, you know, fans and those who roots

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for the conference, how how did you leave BYU out

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and just sit on your loves and say that's okay.

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I think you look at the scope of this season

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side of the Texan Tech got it to due. But

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you wonder how Utah and BYU Houston Arizona did not

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get more respect, and you worry about your standing for

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college football to come based on how you were treated

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in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Did you do you feel like who's your favorite right now?

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To win the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 3: I know we're doing all these way too early rankings

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and ratings.

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Speaker 1: Who's your way too early?

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Speaker 3: What's your way too the rankings maybe one through five

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of the Big twelve. I didn't prep you for this,

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but you know, give me some of your favorites here

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to win the conference in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: If you could. I think BYU, Texas Tech, and Houston

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all have to clearely be in that conversation. Think about this,

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Ben is a really strong status one of who's gonna

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be good again. Texas Tech returns six thousand, seven and

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ninety nine snaps on the offensive line. BYU returns six thousand,

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three hundred and seventy. Both of those are top fifteen

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in the country. That shows me they will both have

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staying power in the conference because they're o lines that

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we're both quite solid will earn next season. I think

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that Shuston, who has six thousand, five h twenty two

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slightly about BYU, will also be in that mix and in

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that conversation. Arizona is still a team to watch, so

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I think given their schedule, they will take a slight

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dip this year, but I I'm leaning on Texas Tech

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BYU S Houston. The other two teams that would throw

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them that five would still be Utah's because I think

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the Uths will start five to OHO six and five

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and one this season and have a really nice path

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to early success that will propel them into a comfortable

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spot in the late season. But watch out, bro Oklahoma State.

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They said, Hey, whatever Kurt Signetti do can do, we

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can do as well. They returned then the fifth most

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snaps on their offensive line in the country. Now, their

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offensive line was terrible, but here's what that means. It

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means they can be picky, they can be choosy, They

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can bring competition in and still have guys who have

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played Oklahoma State with from Messamaker at quarterback, Eric Morris's

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head coach. He said, what Indiana did with James Madison

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Kurt Signetti, that whole rebuild, we want to do the

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same thing. Will it work day one? Ah, Yes, it

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will work. Will when you're a national championship No, but

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it will help you compete in the Big twelve. I

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think Oklahoma State ends up winning eight or nine games

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this year in a complete turnaround. But you best know

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that Texas Tech and BYU Houston they will be the

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top three in the Big twelve again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oklahoma State very has gone very aggressive in the

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portal too. People don't realize that they're one of the better. Uh,

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they have one.

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Speaker 1: Of the better portal hauls.

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Speaker 3: I would say they picked up some pretty prospects from

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a multitude of Power five, power power four institutions.

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Speaker 5: They did, and it's it's People are like, oh, it's

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just North Texas, North, this is North Texas light kind

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of yeah, a little bit, Actually, yeah it is. It's

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a large portion of their transfers do come from North Texas,

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but they also got most Phillip Third from Missouri, Dominic

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Macon from Washington, Ei White from Penn State, through Alberi

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from Vanderbilt. The list goes on of players that they

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went and grabbed from other powerful schools like SMU and

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Louisville and even Texas Tech. They are building right now,

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not just from North Texas. They're going and grabbing legitimate

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guys out of the transfer portal. But yeah, they're three

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stars that ban. If we've learned anything it's that the

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portal star system is broken. They're giving stars to anybody

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and taking stars away from anybody. Oklahoma State is grabbing

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guys who are great out of high school, grabbing guys

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who were solid into powerful ranks, and they're flipping them

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on their roster this year. I have a lot of

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confidence what they're going to do. And then if I

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look at YU and Texas Tech, they handled the transfer

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portal similarly this year, which is a weird thing to

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say because BYU is seventh in the Big twelve Conference

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in transferportal rankings this year and Texas Tech is second.

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They have twenty one commits versus ye's nine. But for

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the Cougars, most of the good guys are coming back.

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Like the players are returning, you don't have to replace

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that much. You're just kind of positive attrition to get

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rid of the guys who weren't really contributors to the

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guys who entered the portal, by and large, weren't massive

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cruxes for BYU to win in twenty twenty five. For

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Texas Tech, it's kind of the same thing. They got

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twenty one guys, but a good portion of what they're

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bringing in are players that are going to compete, not start.

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They will compete for starting jobs and possibly start, but

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not be instantly out yet that you know, we're gonna

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play you, and an exception to that rule woul be

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Brendan Sowars beat their quarterback, and an exception for By

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you would be their linebacking Corse. They brought guys in

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not just to compete, but to start day one at

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the linebacker position understanding what they're losing. And I like

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the way that bo attacked the linebacker position of the

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transfer portal. They did not say, Hey, let's just go

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get a hodgepotch of everybody. They said let's go get

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what we need and from there allow the guys on

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our current roster to compete.

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Speaker 3: Do you believe that Brendan Sorosby is an upgrade to

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Baron Morton.

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Speaker 5: Upgrade? Yes, savior of the program? No, can he win

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a game of the College Football Playoff? I do believe that,

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but we got to keep in mind. And I watched

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Swordsby this year. He didn't have a wealth of riches necessarily,

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but the cover wasn't bear. It's a decent Cincinnati roster

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he was working with, and he was a fifty good quarterback,

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and I won't take that away from him, But was he

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a five star in the portal? Was he an elite

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portal pickup? Was he better than Josh Hooper? A better

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pickup than Josh Hooper? Ah better pick up than Sam Levitt?

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Speaker 2: Maybe?

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Speaker 5: But I don't remember Brendan Soorsby for the first steven

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games this season. I remember him for the last five

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games of the year.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I look, I'm a what have you done

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for me lately? Kind of guy. People are forgetting the

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drop off, the fall off at Cincinnati had this year.

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Brendan Soarsy had this year. So I think the Texas

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Tech is better with Sorzy versus Baron Morton. Yes, better

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is the right word A signing a national championship caliber quarterback?

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I cannot say yes at this time.

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Speaker 1: We got Drake Toll here on ESPN.

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Speaker 3: The fan locked on, locked on Big twelve is what

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he represents, amongst other things. He's a very busy man.

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Give us a brief UF day really quick. Because you

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have your own radio show now as well as being

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a part of the Locked On Big twelve network.

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Speaker 1: You do a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: You're moving to groove and are you still part of

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the Savannah Banana's crew?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? So play by play with the Savanna Bananas organization.

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I'll be calling a game Friday, part of our spring training.

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We're getting ready. Jackie Bradley Jr. Got a hit in

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his first ab with the organization in spring training this

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which is really cool to see. Yeah, they'll calling games

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and those guys. That season kicked up here in a

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few weeks. Then Westwood won the Drake Toll Show every

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morning six am and nine am Eastern time, so four

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to seventy. I was up very early today to do

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the show from here just outside of Provo, and then

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Amazon Fire TV's College Football Kickoff with formerly with coach

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Gary Patterson. I'm not sure if he'll be able to

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come back with us next ball. He's kind of tied

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up a usc alongside the Dallas Cowboy Jesse Hotley. That's

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of course locked on Big twelve. So the better question is, Ben,

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what am I not doing? And when am I sleeping?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know what you are. I'm a

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busy man.

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Speaker 3: I'm an entrepreneur myself, running a couple of businesses and

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then doing this radio gig is for fun.

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Speaker 1: You're very very busy, a busy bee if.

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Speaker 3: You will, And you were busy on Saturday night as well,

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you covered I think the BYU Utah holy war on

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the hard wood, and then went over to Chubby's one

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of our favorite places to eat, give us a breakdown

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of the game, and then in the and the post

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game experience as well.

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Speaker 5: That's so cool, Ben, That atmosphere is fantastic and I

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don't think I saw the Marriott Center at it. That's

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the best part is Yeah, it's a rivalry, but it

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reminded me a lot of when Baylor would play PCU

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in basketball. Baylor was always so much better that, Yeah,

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it was a rivalry and everybody showed up. You're like, Okay,

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we're gonna beat the doors off these guys. And boy

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did BYU ever in the second half especially, that's where

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this team is best. And gosh, when it did come

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alive when Aj dropped his fortieth point, that it was

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a mad out. That place was as raucous and as

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loud as you will find in Aretna in the Big

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Twelve Conference. It was as the electrical environment as you

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will find in college basketball today. Given the implications for BYU,

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given the fact to our top fifteen team, how did

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they set up I'm gonna throw up. Then I'm gonna

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throw up. How is a seventeen and two team, five

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and one and Big twelve play thirteenth in America. The

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disrespect in football is carried over to basketball. They have

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one of the best home atmospheres you could ever conter upt,

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and they still don't get any respect. I was blown

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away on Saturday by BEYU, away by ag Debontsa. He

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is the most twenty five year old teenager that I've

473
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ever been around. Like he carries himself. He looks like

474
00:22:08,599 --> 00:22:10,720
he's in his mid twenties. He's ready for the NBA,

475
00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:13,880
but he's still in college basketball playing for BYU. Loved

476
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,160
everything about the Myriad Center, everything that I saw. But

477
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,720
I know tonight will be amplified times five times ten

478
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,519
because Number one Arizona is coming down. Tickets at their

479
00:22:23,599 --> 00:22:27,519
cheapest are two hundred dollars, and BYU have still I

480
00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:30,240
guess for the other talking heads a lot to bru

481
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,039
their game tonight. But Ben loved Saturday, loved chuppies afterward

482
00:22:34,079 --> 00:22:36,279
and getting to meet hundreds of people who showed up

483
00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:38,440
for a postgame show and to meeting greet And he

484
00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:41,000
has just the heart of BYU and it just a

485
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,200
lot of good people with good hearts, good attentions, that

486
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,759
loved their school, and it's really neat to see.

487
00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, byus.

488
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Speaker 3: We had a deep discussion right when all these new

489
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schools came into the Big twelve and you've added a

490
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,240
few other schools, right, and as you evaluate the new acquisitions,

491
00:22:59,279 --> 00:23:02,559
the acquisitions from the old PAC twelve may at rest

492
00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:05,480
in peace the Conference of Champions. And you look at

493
00:23:05,519 --> 00:23:10,119
the the ucfs and they obviously byus and these G

494
00:23:10,319 --> 00:23:13,839
sixers that came to the to the to the fold of.

495
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Speaker 1: The Big twelve.

496
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Speaker 3: H how would you grate out those acquisitions top the bottom?

497
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Speaker 1: What's been the best acquisition for the Big twelve? Would

498
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you say?

499
00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:24,559
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's still it's BYU at one and Deon Sanders

500
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,440
at one b right, Like it's it's hard to say

501
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,480
even Colorado, but Deon Sanders edition of his presence in

502
00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,559
the conference has been huge. The reason it's BYU at

503
00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:39,359
one is in large part because of this beautiful merger

504
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,319
between elite level athletics, commitment to football, basketball, the revenue sports,

505
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,559
and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saint.

506
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You're grabbing one of the most passionate groups of people

507
00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:51,559
in the world in the world, one of the fastest

508
00:23:51,599 --> 00:23:53,960
growing faiths in the world, and you take their flags

509
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of university and you sat a Big twelve patch on

510
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,200
their shoulder, and you grab one of the best rivalries,

511
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,960
one of the most underrated rivalries in all of college football,

512
00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:05,079
all of college sports, with the Holy War BYU in Utah.

513
00:24:05,279 --> 00:24:08,400
You added to this conference and it's brought a whole

514
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:13,400
different level of care. And you know, even something with

515
00:24:13,759 --> 00:24:17,759
Texas and Oklahoma, everybody hated Texas and OU. They hated

516
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,640
the rivalry. You didn't pick sides. You wanted both teams

517
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,400
to lose because they were so pompous with BYU and Utah.

518
00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:26,240
I think some Utes fans of how vocal they've been

519
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:27,519
about how they want to go to the Big Ten,

520
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,200
and maybe they feel vibe devalidated and feeling spited by

521
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,319
that they have garnered their their reputation of being kind

522
00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:36,440
of the heel of the Big twelve. And a lot

523
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,640
of fan bases love BYU. They come to their stadiums,

524
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,960
they bring the ice cream, they bring the cougar tails,

525
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and and they have started to find a soft spot

526
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for this school who is underrated, underrepresented, under underappreciated in

527
00:24:50,039 --> 00:24:51,960
the Big twelve, and that is BYU think they've been

528
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,880
a great acquisition because of their ability to win and

529
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,039
their ability to merge with the conference, embrace the conference

530
00:24:57,079 --> 00:24:58,839
so much. Maybe that's what I'm looking for here, Ben

531
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,960
Byu has e the conference more than anybody else out

532
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:03,960
of these new eighth.

533
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd agree with you there. It seems like I mean, look,

534
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,920
they were on the outside looking. They were wandering the

535
00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:13,799
wilderness for a long time during independence Mound West in

536
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:18,119
the whack and kind of always felt stiff armed. But now, uh,

537
00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:21,359
they're They're a part of the power structure, even though

538
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,039
the Big twelve has been viewed by some as the

539
00:25:24,079 --> 00:25:27,240
redheaded stepped out of the power conferences. Do you think

540
00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:32,119
that they're in a position to be ranked at number

541
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,519
three in front of the ACCIO or has did Did

542
00:25:35,559 --> 00:25:37,799
the the Miami team.

543
00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: Kind of set the Big twelve behind?

544
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 3: And like the lack of of productivity and and the

545
00:25:44,519 --> 00:25:48,200
lack of of maybe a good showing from Texas Act.

546
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Speaker 1: Did that hurt us in that question to be the

547
00:25:50,279 --> 00:25:52,000
power three?

548
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,759
Speaker 5: Yeah? But I think the problem is this is me

549
00:25:54,799 --> 00:25:58,039
being a little dowur, But it's it's honesty. The problem

550
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,319
is there is such a large scalp right now, from

551
00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:04,680
a revenue standpoint between two and three, it's kind of

552
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,240
an afterthought. That fight for third versus fourth, fourth versus

553
00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:09,759
third is one that I think the rest of the

554
00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:12,359
country isn't quite paying attention to because they're so dialed

555
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,279
into the SEC in the Big Ten, and even more honestly,

556
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,559
the number one spot in the country belongs to the

557
00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:21,160
Big Ten and there's a pretty sizable gap between them

558
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,759
and the SEC. Now we're starting to see the class

559
00:26:24,799 --> 00:26:27,039
of college football rise out of the Big Ten. For

560
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,880
the Big Twelve conference losing out on a College Football

561
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,640
Playoff victory again this year, I don't think it was

562
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,359
marred by what Miami did, and the reason is the

563
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,519
winner of the AEC was in Miami. It was due

564
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,519
eight and five embarrassing and complete embarrassment from the ACC

565
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,839
that their league champion was eight and five Dukes who

566
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,799
lost to Yukon. That gave the Big Twelve still a

567
00:26:50,839 --> 00:26:52,839
lot that you saved face by having to keep my

568
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,240
Texas Tech go down mat and conference play and be

569
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,079
respected amongst its peers in the country. That puts the

570
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,079
Big Twelve in a great spot even though they did

571
00:27:01,079 --> 00:27:03,279
not win Texas second is still a name. You're hearing

572
00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:05,759
the top five, top seven, top eight going in the

573
00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:08,440
next season. That's important to the Big Twelve Conference. I

574
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,839
think the ACC is, especially given the Miami and Clemson,

575
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,000
Florida State is probably won't out. They're not in a

576
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:14,559
great spot.

577
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: Drag.

578
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 3: I got an interesting question for you that I think

579
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,640
your insight and your opinion on would be insightful. So

580
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,000
last week we had it as our question of today. The

581
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:29,720
NCAA approved the logos of these corporate sponsors. Right, you

582
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,640
can throw a patch on your on your on your jersey,

583
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,279
and then I think you can also wrap a corporate

584
00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:36,880
sponsor on your equipment.

585
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,559
Speaker 1: Right, You're you're abreast of that.

586
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,599
Speaker 3: I imagine, correct, Yeah, no doubt. Okay, all right, so

587
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:47,079
you're a breast of this. So we had the conversation around, okay,

588
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,559
well what what what BYU friendly brand would be best

589
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,960
for BYU athletics, And some people jokingly said, hey, why

590
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,519
not the logo that the Church of Jesus Christ of

591
00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:03,079
Lattered Saints use it. It's the Christus, right and throw

592
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:05,480
it on there. It's like, okay, that could be viewed

593
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,880
as controversial, putting Christ Christ's logo on an athletic uniform,

594
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,920
but the sponsoring institution is the Church of Jesus Christ

595
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,799
of Latter day Saints for Brigham Young University.

596
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: So look, we were kind of discussing a little bit earlier.

597
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,759
Speaker 3: Today it's like, Okay, well, what are you trying to

598
00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:25,920
accomplish by playing sport? And you know, if it truly

599
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,200
is your mission to bring people to Christ and introduce

600
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,200
people to maybe the positive fruits of of maybe the church,

601
00:28:33,839 --> 00:28:34,680
would that be.

602
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: Improper?

603
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,119
Speaker 3: Would that be uncouth or unco would it be would

604
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:42,319
it be kosher to do such?

605
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: Do you think in your opinion?

606
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,079
Speaker 5: A great question? And I'll answer this to somebody who's

607
00:28:47,119 --> 00:28:48,559
not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of

608
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,799
Latter day Saintans you get the outside perspective of somebody

609
00:28:50,799 --> 00:28:52,680
who covers the entire Big Twelve. When I went to

610
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,680
high school and blowing Yarkansas Little Rock Christian Academy on

611
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,920
the road, they wore l RCA across their further jersey

612
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,920
or it would say Christian on their uniforms. And if

613
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,240
they cross behind that, their logo BEN was across Central

614
00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:10,200
Arkansas Christian. Their logo was across like that. That was

615
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,440
the forefront of what they did as a school, as

616
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,759
a private school, if they wanted to further this mission,

617
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,599
and as a private Christian you know high school, they

618
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,079
were creating and women for Christ. So if your BYU

619
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and your goal is as the flagship university of the

620
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,640
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saves, the flagship

621
00:29:28,759 --> 00:29:31,000
university of a faith needs to be not just the

622
00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:34,160
front porch of a university institution, be the front porch

623
00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:37,119
for that faith. I don't think that goes to I mean,

624
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,720
like again, we're talking about little Rock Christian with the

625
00:29:39,759 --> 00:29:42,640
best intentions having the cross in the middle of their

626
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,480
jersey as their logo. I think if BYU does that,

627
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,359
this is what BYU stands for, is what BYU stands on. Ben,

628
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:49,920
here's an example. Can I give you an example? Can

629
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,319
I do it? Can I preak for a second? Please?

630
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: I want you to get up on your pulpit please.

631
00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna start slapping the table here. We're about

632
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,160
to go, all right. I got a lot of buddies

633
00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:02,160
who visit TA and they would they look, this is

634
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,799
not against them. How to slide on them? Is what

635
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:06,000
they said when you walk on their campus. They tell

636
00:30:06,079 --> 00:30:09,880
you we are TCU. They are no longer Texas Christian University.

637
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,480
They're played by play guys for ESPN, for Fox. When

638
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,960
they're given their game books their game that they're told, hey,

639
00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:17,480
please only reference us at TCU. And the first thing

640
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,920
you hear on campus is you can to see as

641
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,079
big or as little as you'd like when you walk

642
00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:24,160
on campus at Baylor University. My first case, it's the

643
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,640
reason I went there. They say the students, they say, hey,

644
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,559
first thing before we say hello, you know your name

645
00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:33,039
and we tell you our name. We are unapologetically Christian

646
00:30:33,599 --> 00:30:36,160
now university. Where's the proverbial cross on the front of

647
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:36,720
their jerseys?

648
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 2: Right?

649
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 5: They want you to know day one, think one bullet

650
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,000
point one they are a university of faith. I think

651
00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:45,880
DYU doing that is not something that steps too far.

652
00:30:46,079 --> 00:30:48,039
I think the use of that logo is less of

653
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:51,240
a sponsorship necessarily. I wouldn't view it as that as

654
00:30:51,319 --> 00:30:53,400
much as I would, Hey, this is just like a

655
00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:56,799
high school for their Michigan showcasing who they are as

656
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,519
loudly as they can. I personally have no issue with

657
00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:01,519
it as a now SI Yeah.

658
00:31:01,319 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: And look, I don't think it's gonna happen.

659
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 3: It's probably gonna be Coca Cola, or it's going to

660
00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:08,799
be you know something else, right, maybe Crop Bowl, Qual Tricks, whatever,

661
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,920
it may be Mountain America Credit Union. So it'll be

662
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,759
most likely because I think the athletic department gets to

663
00:31:16,759 --> 00:31:19,359
eat what it kills. And I'm sure the corporate sponsors

664
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,839
want additional revenue coming in for for advertiser, tell booy

665
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,160
up there athletic Department. But I do think it would

666
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,240
be on brand. I think it'd actually be I actually

667
00:31:28,279 --> 00:31:30,480
think it would be the right thing to do. Remember

668
00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:33,000
what happened with Tim Tebow. You may have been too young.

669
00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: How old are you? And the Tim Tebow era was

670
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:35,359
going on?

671
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,359
Speaker 5: I okay, okay, right?

672
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 3: I mean how many people went to the interwebs and

673
00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:46,599
started googling scripture and I'm trying to understand scripture and

674
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:52,480
We're being exposed to the Bible and in Christ's teachings.

675
00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, Well, and part of that too. You have

676
00:31:56,319 --> 00:31:58,680
NFL players that they put John three sixteen on their

677
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,480
EyeBlack they get fined. Yeah, this was a guy whose

678
00:32:01,519 --> 00:32:04,640
mom died of Naven D'Angelo Williams, whose mom that I

679
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,400
hope I can play it correct. Whose mom passed away

680
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,119
a breast cancer and he wore, you know, screw cancer

681
00:32:09,279 --> 00:32:11,720
or end cancer, you know, cure cancer on die black

682
00:32:11,759 --> 00:32:13,799
and they find him for it. In a world where

683
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,720
that's going on, I think institutions like Baylor and by

684
00:32:16,759 --> 00:32:19,200
you should hold hands and be as vocal as vocal

685
00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:19,880
as possible.

686
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:21,519
Speaker 1: Love that breakdown.

687
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,839
Speaker 3: Let's preview the byu U of a matchup tonight, a

688
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,680
big hitting it's cougar on baby bobcats.

689
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: That's what they are.

690
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 3: Wildcats are little baby bobcats and ducks, and that's what

691
00:32:32,279 --> 00:32:35,200
they are. They're not true wild cougars. This is going

692
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,880
to be a dominant performance I believe by ag De

693
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,119
Bonsa coming off of forty three of forty Burger versus

694
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:41,599
the Utes.

695
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: What do you see? What do you think will happen

696
00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:44,880
tonight at the Merritt Center?

697
00:32:46,519 --> 00:32:50,359
Speaker 5: Then it's not the Bonsa, It's not right. It's not

698
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:56,680
Saunders Cada tonight, it's kada ah. This game goes as

699
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,400
he goes, I think, because here's the thing. Then everybody

700
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,359
this level college basketball, and this is a final fourth

701
00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:03,880
caliber matchup. It's in the lead eight caliber matchup. When

702
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,319
you get there everybody has a big three. Everybody's got three.

703
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,519
We go three deep. We can do that. Hoot your

704
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,240
fourth guy, and it might not be Kata's the fourth

705
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,839
best guy on the b YU basketball team, but I

706
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,799
think with his physical presence down low and by the way,

707
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,400
he's not gonna bully some seven foot two kid islamatav

708
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,720
Movkrevov from Perduce. He's not a bully that guy, right,

709
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like Kate. That's not Kata's game. But for the games,

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he's consistent when he is on, when he is pulling redounds,

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when he goes eight points twelve boards, you might read

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down on the status shoot and think, oh cool, eight

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points out of ninety one. Great, But no, Then his

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ability to scream, his ability to pick and roll, his

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ability demand the middle of the defense when they go

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to zone, that is different. That is the difference, and

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that will be the difference with a BYU win over

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copeat At, Arizona over Tobyo Waka and Arizona the very

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deadly group of the Wildcats. And by the way, this

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is an Arizona team where only one of their starters

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had to play more than thirty minutes in their last game.

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Against West Virginia on Saturday, and they don't have to

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travel that far to go play BYU in this matchup.

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It is fresh on fresh that the Coopars needed some

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rest and got it in the middle of the week

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last week. But this is these are two teams. You

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saw it second half, especially clicking right now. If by

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you wouldn't this game. It sends a message to the

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rest of college basketball. And somehow, some way, it starts

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with Kata.

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Speaker 3: Drake told ladies and gentlemen, Drake, best way to support

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you what you do, how you do it on all

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your platforms.

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Speaker 5: I should say, man, it starts with Cata, but it

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ends with aj Debonds, So come on.

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Speaker 3: Who we can Devons, Come on, I was gonna let

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you ride with Kava like I love Keva. I just

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wish he could do more than dunk and rebound. But

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he's getting there, he's developing, getting there.

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Speaker 4: We'll see.

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Speaker 5: I think he'll be he could be a strong catalyst.

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Tom bars at Drake's Toll on Twitter, I do to

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six saying that I am Eastern.

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