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nor a cat, and the other one is also a
human bear. I don't know what that all means, but
it's kind of a crazy deal. We've had bear Bachmeer
versus bear Rin Morton. Now we're having the Bearcats versus
bear Bachmeyer. I don't know what's going down with this game,
but it's gonna be a big one. It's a fantastic
matchup versus a prolific a prolific offense versus a very
good defense.
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Inquire a Cincinnati Bearcat inside of Scott.
Speaker 1: How you living good?
Speaker 3: You mentioned Bear Bachmeyer and Brendan Soresby in his press
conference this week came out and he was wearing a
shirt that said bear Raid and it caught my eye
right away, and mayes aren't very good, but I did
catch it, and he I said, it is that on purpose.
I was wondering, It's like, well, we're throwing shade here,
what's going on? And he said what it was was
actually a shirt that they had made in the off season,
you know, take off on air raid Bear raids.
Speaker 4: So it had nothing to do with Bear.
Speaker 3: So we don't have any great headlines for you there
other than you know, it should be a pretty decent
matchup between the two and they're pretty similar sized dudes
with with similar attitudes in terms of the way they
play football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 2: I think your quarterbacks, what six three two thirty five,
Bear Bachmeer's right around there, two six two two forty
or something like that.
Speaker 1: You guys are these are.
Speaker 2: Big, strong, athletic quarterbacks that are going up against each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I haven't seen as much a Bear as
you guys have. But I know Brendan Sorsby typically is
he will slide, but he's not a fan of it.
You know, he would just soon rather you know, spin
or take on the.
Speaker 4: Hit or whatever.
Speaker 3: But I think as they get older, they they're they're told,
you know, Slider, we're gonna do something to you. But
in Cincinnati's case, you know, he's the guy. He's gonna play.
They they have him listed probable on the official injury list,
which freaks some people out overnight. But look, you know,
you don't a guy to the weekly press conference and
then not playing. So I think he had an ankle
issue and it'll be fixed up. They can tape ankles up.
You know, you've probably been taped up a lot more
than me. But it's like, you know, you can be
as good as new with the taped ankle and maybe
a little shot of something.
Speaker 2: Well, I've got to get to know, Yeah, get a
little little lighter cane in the ankle. Who is this
Cincinna Bearcat team? Like, what would you say is their identity?
Who are they?
Speaker 3: Well, they want to be a tough running team, and
that's what they had been. Unfortunately, you got the November
and suddenly they're turning the ball over bend and Soorthy
went September and October without a turnover, no fumble, no interception.
You go back to August twenty eighth, he had the
interception against Nebraska at the end of the game.
Speaker 4: If that's complete, you know that that's a win.
Speaker 3: No interception until they get to Utah there at the
Rice Cycle Stadium and he throws one there and he
costs the ball up a couple of times and they
tried to get back in it, but the youths were
able to pull away.
Speaker 4: And it got out of hand.
Speaker 3: And then the last game against Arizona very disappointing because
a very winnable game that you really should have had.
And you know, Arizona's not bad. You know, there's seven
and three. They took you guys to byu to double overtime,
but you know, you're at home, you had the time
zone in your favor, everything was in your favor. Cincinnati
had a lead, and it just seemed like, you know,
they they just were treading water. And suddenly Noah Flafida
was completing passes and they came back and Cincinnati couldn't
make the comeback, got within three with like six minutes,
got the ball back with a buck twenty, couldn't do
anything with it. They did beat Kansas that way with
a late drive, but at home they didn't finish, And
in my mind, I thought they had to go undefeated
to be a factor in this Big twelve race. Now,
mathematically there may be a chance, but you know, not good.
It's like slim and none, and Slim might have left down.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's getting a good wide receiver and a good running back,
I believe back for this game.
Speaker 1: That has to be a big deal for this offense.
Speaker 2: Could you explain just how good these two players have
been and how healthy are they going to be for
this game?
Speaker 3: Well, it just helps your depths because Tolllly Walker had
done a great job running the ball. He's close to
seven hundred yards on the season, and he's the guy.
I don't know if you saw the video when they
played the Iowa State he bowled over one of their linebackers.
Speaker 4: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: He's a ton like five eight two twenty bowling ball dude.
But Evan Pryor a little bit more shifty, a lot
more speed, and when Evan Pryor breaks away, you're not
going to catch him where you're probably going to catch
Tallie Walker. So it's a different type of running back.
But they've missed his playmaking ability. Plus he was a
factor catching balls out of the backfield. Caleb Good to
you is the fastest guy and the guy that can
stretch the field. And I think he was averaging about
maybe nineteen plus yards per catch. So does he have
big games every game, No, but he's a threat and
teams have to defense him or otherwise the other guys
are going to be open.
Speaker 4: So they've missed him.
Speaker 3: The last couple of games and prior to the last
couple of games, and so it's welcome.
Speaker 4: To have him back.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, you know, you still got to
shore up your passing game, which is you know, had
its problems in the last couple of weeks, particularly with
man coverage. So I'm guessing that the b YU is
going to do some man coverage because they're tough kids
and they're gonna blitz Sores via time or two, and
so they better have something dialed up and prepared.
Speaker 4: Because this is not an easy game.
Speaker 3: But for Cincinnati, it's their senior night, Big night, you know, spotlight.
You got Big Fox, Big Noon kickoff early in the day,
then eight pm under the lights. They haven't had a
night game all season, so the kids like the night games.
So the stage is there. It's just a matter of
what they want to do with it. Even if they win,
though I think it's it makes the record look better.
Speaker 4: I don't think they get the.
Speaker 3: Factor in into the Big twelve championship game without some
very strange things happening.
Speaker 2: Well, then they're gonna have to play spoiler, right. So
how motivated is this Bear Catch team? What's the culture like?
How would you describe it being led by coach Saderfield
right now? Because I mean, you can still go to
a really good bowl game, you can get to possibly.
Speaker 1: Double digit wins in a season. That's a difficult thing
to do.
Speaker 2: And so give me their mindset, if you will.
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of the seniors that came back to
Dante Corleones, Gavin Gerhardt is a guy that's been around
like like six years. You know, it's crazy how long
college careers go now, but yeah, he's been back. And
these are guys that could have left and came back.
Joe Royers another one could have left came back, and
a lot.
Speaker 4: Of them said, well, we didn't.
Speaker 3: We don't like the taste left in our mouths last
year when they were five and two and then dropped
five straight games and didn't even qualify for a bull
So they wanted to rectify that. A lot of them said,
this is why we're coming back. We want to leave
this place better. And so you're in a situation now
where you've dropped two straight games. If you lose against BYU,
then you got TCU who's at home, not going to
be a pushover. You know, that could be a kind
of an ugly ending to a great season, you know,
going from seven to one to seven and five. So
I think the goal is, let's have the best record
we can have, you know, the cliche one to oh
each week. You know, tremendous challenge ahead when you got
the number eleven team in.
Speaker 4: But again, the spotlight's there.
Speaker 3: The kids get kind of crazy at night, and so
that's what they're looking for. It's like beat b Yu
and then you know, see what happens with everybody else.
I don't see Texas Tech losing. I don't think I
see Utah losing. So I don't know what's going to
happened in the Big twelve. And you know, in my opinion,
barn on the top two have been Texas Tech and
then b By You probably if you're looking at it overall,
Utah's right there.
Speaker 4: Obviously they're they're they're they're very different at home. I
know that much. So I think the Big.
Speaker 3: Twelve needs a little bit more respect in the College
Football Playoff Committee, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, will give me a few takeaways on
the College Football Playoff Committee rankings.
Speaker 1: What stood out to you? What did you disagree with? Uh?
Speaker 3: The one that stands out is the and I hate
to make Notre Dame people mad because there's a lot
of them, but you know, Miami beat them. Uh and uh,
I don't know. It seems like they get an extra.
Speaker 4: I know why.
Speaker 3: You know, Notre Dame means money and so, but they
get a pass so many times. So they're a good
team of Marcus Freeman, he coached here. A lot of
the guys on their coaching staff. I know that we're
coaches Geno Goodooley and Mike Denbrock and Mike Mickens is
a Cincinnati Hall of Famer. So for their sake, I
hope they get in. But if you're looking at it realistically,
there's I don't know, you have to be a little
bit more fair about it and can't just stacked at all.
Sec big ten and and Notre Dame kind of gets
not a free pass.
Speaker 4: They've certainly earned it. But I think they have a
little bit more power than they should.
Speaker 3: But you know what's fair in life. You know, I
listened to Rick new Heisel a lot Nael new Heisel,
I know, a new Heel and a Nineheiel. That's why
I get these confused. But the former coach you know,
he said his line is the affairs where you put
a blue ribbon on a pig, And that's pretty accurate
because that's just the way it is.
Speaker 4: There's not a whole lot fair in athletics.
Speaker 2: Talking some b YU versus Cincinnati here on your Utah
ESPN Radio Network, a little no the faux segment with
a Cincinnati Bearcat inside a Scott Springer of the Cincinnati Inquirer.
As far as the kind of the preview of this
game and how Vegas is seeing it, I believe BYU
is only a slight favorite on the road versus the
Bearcats two and a half points to be exact, ESPN
Analytics givings BYU sixty seven point nine percent chance of
Victory's a six pm kickoff at Nippert Stadium.
Speaker 1: What do you think the environment's going to be like?
Speaker 2: And do you think this is going to be kind
of like a hard fought, close, one score type of game.
Speaker 3: That would be my guess. You know, anything's possible. I
don't see Cincinnati getting blown out at home. And it
seems like the home field in football and even home
court in basketball is so huge in the Big twelve,
and particularly when you're going across time zones, they're different games,
and so I think there's enough in seid Of for
the Cincinnati fans to rise up and make some noise
and give BYU a challenge. They make me make predictions
each week, the Cincinnati Inquirer does. So my prediction is
I have BYU winning, because based on the last two
games I've seen, I've not seen what looks to me
a team that is going to make a big postseason push. Now,
are they capable of it? They certainly are. Is a
talent level better, It certainly is, and they have had
tremendous games, and they've surprised me in a couple of them.
Earlier in the year, you know, they beat I was
stayed up pretty good in the first half, but then
kind of let them back in. They beat Baylor decently,
So yeah, there's been some surprises in the year. I
had actually kicked them to win seven games. They got
to seven and one, and then I said, well, you know,
maybe we're onto something here. But the last two games
that they just haven't a problem they've.
Speaker 4: Had the previous two years.
Speaker 3: It's just not finishing games, having games where you maybe
outgained the opponent and I think that even happened two
years ago at Lavelle Edwards Steaghum. I believe they outgained
BYU by a significant measure and still lost thirty five
twenty seven. So you got to figure out ways to
score and take advantage of games and finish games and
not cough the ball up, which has not been a
problem until the last two games.
Speaker 4: So obviously they need to play clean football and.
Speaker 3: You know, otherwise it's not going to be anything that
the Cougars haven't seen it. It's a little chilly here,
but you know, like I've told you before, I've got
a son and daughter in law in Utah, so I've
been there and I've certainly been called in Utah, so it's.
Speaker 4: Nothing new here.
Speaker 3: What they really needed last week was it needed to
be about thirty degrees for Arizona, and it wasn't.
Speaker 4: It was nearly seventy.
Speaker 1: So it'll be like, what forty one degrees at kickoff.
Speaker 4: Something like that.
Speaker 3: I believe rain's coming on Friday. I think if I
looked at it, because my wife's got tickets and going,
and I think it's the highest fifty one or two,
but the low thirty seven, So yeah, I would what
about forty forty one around kickoff time?
Speaker 1: Seats? What forty thousand?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: Is it natural grass or turf?
Speaker 3: It's turf. It's a unique field. It's a little different.
It's kind of built right into the campus and it's
one of the rare fields where you can walk through
there during school hours or afterward, and it's not unusual
to see kids down on the field, you know, throwing
frisbees and this and that because it's wide open and
they can't really.
Speaker 4: Block it off. It's very strange.
Speaker 3: It can be even though it's only forty thousand, can
be very loud though, because there's two adjacent buildings and
once things get repped up, that noise bounces off those buildings.
Speaker 4: So it's a.
Speaker 3: Little bit more intimidating than you would guess because you're
looking and you're going on a big deal forty thousand.
Speaker 4: But that's the feel of it.
Speaker 3: And some people call it like the Wrigley Field of
football because it just there's a lot of stone structures
and it's unique. It's totally unique. Now doesn't have the
view that your place does. I don't know who does,
because that's that's outstanding, you know, standing in the press
box and looking out at that all you're doing is
taking pictures and not even concentrating on the game. So
there are hills in Cincinnati, but certainly no snow capped mountains.
Speaker 2: B Yu's three and zero all time against the Cincinnati Bearcats,
but this game has only been played from twenty fifteen
to present day. Each of these games, though BYU, I
don't think it's one necessary handily. The closest margin was,
I believe the last one in twenty twenty three, thirty
five to twenty seven. By You've gotten the Bearcats in provo,
and so you know it's they've been competitive games, but
BYU has found a way to win, and win by
you know, eight to double digits.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the sign of a good team.
Speaker 3: I remember the first game in twenty fifteen, and I
think Cincinnati had that twenty four to seventeen lead, and
it was twenty one straight points by the Cougars and
the fourth quarter, So I don't know if the altitude
is probably a combination of the altitude and you know,
by you're just getting it together. And then the following
year it was twenty to three, and that was a
pretty lopsided one.
Speaker 4: And that's the one if.
Speaker 3: You remember right, the future senator from Alabama yelled at
one of the fans that made the YouTube reels and such.
Speaker 4: But that was kind of one side. And then the
one that you described.
Speaker 3: I believe Cincinnati threw a pick six in the first quarter,
and then right before halftime there was a field goal
where Cincinnati went up, but they.
Speaker 4: Gave the Cougars the ball.
Speaker 3: I think there was a quick touch down before half,
and then another one and that's what's killed the Bearcats
in a lot of games. That's so called middle eight,
you know, the last four of the second quarter, first four,
the third. There's been so many games where they lose
a coin toss or they give up the score before halftime.
Then the team has the ball back to start the
second half, and those minutes can kill you. And that
was one of the problems with Arizona. I think the
offense sat on the sideline for nearly an hour because
they had a fourteen to seven lead, and then Fafita took.
Speaker 4: Arizona on a long drive and then they had won.
Speaker 3: The toss, so they get the ball back, and then
you got guys that haven't been on the field, you know,
seemingly since the day before, but it was you know,
an hour and that it just throws the rhythm off
because any offense once a quarterback gets gone. I'm sure
you've seen it with Bachmeyer and I've seen it with Swersby.
When they get rolling, it's like you can't wait to
see him back out there because it's just up and
down the field. But when things get sluggish, it's not
so fun to watch or.
Speaker 1: Right about what what happened to these last two games?
Speaker 2: That the Utai game was the most maybe disappointing at
least the uv game was close and competitive. You know
what were the keys to these losses on the bearcat
side of the ball.
Speaker 3: Well, fumble in the red zone when you're about ready
to score, and I think that would have tied it
at that point. I can't remember off the top of
my head, but it was a crucial fumble. Uh then
then you had to pick and then another fumble, and
you had a couple of red zone miscues there and
then other than that, it was you know, I'll give
Utah credit. They're tremendous at home and they took advantage
of the turnovers and uh, you know, the two quarterbacks
that can run like the wind, and that was tough
to defend. And they they gave you Cincinnati fits in
the passing game, you know again, you know, no goodie,
no prior. I don't think with those two though, that
night they were gonna win. It was just that that
was Utah's night, and fair and square, they were gonna
win it either way.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to watch this game. A lot on
the line for BYU. Spoiler in a double digit win
season with a big bowl game, right, Cincinnati could end
up being you know, the Pop Darts Bowl or the
Alimo Bowl if they win out right, if they win
big and so these are big games for big time
teams in the Big twelve, and I can't wait to
see how it plays out. Appreciate you hopping on for
a know, the faux segment and letting us get to
know the Cincinnati Bearcats from your purview, from your eyes,
your voice, and it was a great segment.
Speaker 1: Great catching up with you.
Speaker 4: All right, Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. We'll do
it again sometime, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Thanks Scott, We'll see you out there in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
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