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He's our basketball insider as well as rugby insider. Let's
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Speaker 1: What's up, Ronny, what's up? Everybody? Happy Wednesday to you, everybody,
Please be safe. I think there's supposed to be some
inclement weather. I started as I was working on the
train coming up, but looked like it was gonna rain
earlier then then snow, So hopefully we get that. We
need the moisture. We've not had the snow that I've
woned then twenty twenty three and one back a few years.
It'll snow in three April. We haven't had any the
last two years, so I've been a little bit disappointed.
Speaker 3: You need the boyser Look, I think I think Spencer
Cox and many of the maybe politicians in the state
of Utah, they put out a request to everyone here
in the state to pray for boys. And I'm right there, way,
I'm right there as well. Like we got, I pray
for some boysture. I gotta get the rain, the snow,
whatever it is, pray for it, fast for it, and
let's see if we can get some snow. I'm a
big fan of the moisture, I just am. I'm a
big fan of the snow, big fan of the rain.
We need it, guys. I love it for a number
of a number of reasons. Obviously, we're high desert. We
got to keep our great salt lake, great Salt Lake
filled with water. I want you know the economic component
of it as well up in the mountains. But we're
in a high desert man. We need that water, and
we need to be able to flush the bad air
out as well. We have one of the worst We
have some of the worst air quality in the United
States of America because of our geography, and we sent
essentially just like emit pollution, and then we just breathe
it in. And then we get some of California's, we
get some of Nevadas, we just breathe in all their muck.
Our particulate matter is not wearing. We need the moisture
for our mind, body, and soul health. In my opinion,
pray for it. I'm right there with you, Ronald the
three man Weaver. We got to talk some sports though today,
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From Ronald three Man Weaver by my side, Uh, bred
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He has been the fan starting lineup though. And uh,
maybe in the nitty gritty, I want to get into
this president's report case to me, I love hearing from
Shane Breeese, Keith Voorkink, Elder Gilbert who's uh who oversees
cees because their vision, their messaging determines the trajectory of
b YU as an institution academically, you know, spiritually, uh
and uh athletically. So yeah, I care about what they think.
I care about what they're saying. I care about you know,
how they feel, especially about athletics, because without a vision,
people perish, and you want to have a great vision
of the athletic role that ultimately these programs play within
the institution and within the Church of Jutis Christ the
letty saying, So anyways, one hundred and fifty years of generosity.
Bringham Young University might not exist, might not exist if
it weren't for the generous, inspired people who have believed
in its potential and donated since eighteen seventy five. Pivotal
moments of altruism over the past one hundred and fifty
years have helped the university move closer to becoming the
Byu of prophecy. Okay, the will to thrive. I'd advise
you if you got this thing, read through it. It
was fantastic. I read through it. The statements, our mission,
governance in pursuit of excellence. President see Shane Reese delved
into it. Certain topics of supporting our spiritual mission were broached.
Blessed by inspired governance was also approached. He delves into
it all pursuing excellence as well in all facets. The
future is bright, in my opinion, with Shane Rees at
the helm. So read through it. I'm going to break
down my perspective on this BYU student athletes on page
two are featured BA student athletes aim to bring others
to Christ. Dallan H. Oaks once said, I firmly believe
that is the destiny of Brigham Young University. Become what
those prophetic statements predicted it would become, but that it
would become. But this great goal will not be attained
in exactly the same way that other universe has achieved
their greatness. With your help, it will become the great
University of the Lord, not in the world's way, but
in the Lord's way. He said. So anyway, I love
this stuff because and I know there's a lot of
people out there that are like, man, why do you
talk about this stuff. I'm like, guys, it is the
vision that Shane Reese has, and Keith working have, and
Elder Gribblin have for the institution, and as a part
of that institution athletic It is pivotal that they are holistic,
whole minded humans that love athletics. And you want to
see athletics thrive. If you want to see all time
grades come through Brigham, you want to see them developed
at a high level. They want to win at a
high level. You have to understand the why of what
we do and why they believe that athletics has a
great is a great blessing and boon for the students
and student athletes and the alumni base. Okay, so all
these foundational wise you must have moving forward, So I'm
gonna delvi into that. I'm gonna give you my thoughts
on it in the nitty gritty. We got a star
set of cast though, alongside our talented hosts and co
host here, we're gonna get into some news and notes
obviously throughout the show. Jeff Fuller's going to join us,
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So I read through this president report, and once again
I'll reiterate, why does the president's message about the institution
and about the athletic department matter? Guys, it matters big time.
If Shane Reache is bought in on athletics, You're going
to continue to see high level, okay productivity from the
FA department. You're gonna continue to see it. You see
him rising and shouting. Ronald. You were at the game,
the BA basketball game recently. You took some film of
Shane Reeves getting after it. As a fan, He's a fan,
big fan of all of these things. He's a fan
of spirituality, eternal progress, discipleship. He's a fan of academic
high level, academic prosperity and uh and it just ability.
And then he loves athletics too. You see it all
the time when you're around the athletic building, when Shane
ree shows up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see it all the time. I've had the
opportunity to talk with him at games my last year
as a student, right when I graduated. I saw him
during graduation. He's excited about every aspect of YU athletics,
for sure, but not just that, Like when I see
he's like, he's like, so the job you have now
or are you doing that full time?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? How's the little one? Like he
he cares about every single student and not saying that
the ones a past that I had and those before don't.
But he's so jovial, Like I just I've never seen
someone see be so much of a people person to
be so into it with that like he gets really
into it. And that's why I took that video to
put that out there for people to understand, which I
think most most people know if you don't, but he
is so into these sports. I mean, just go look
at baup Photo. Go to bauphoto dot com. He's in
the locker room celebrating like he has water, throwing it
around too. He's so into it and you really have
to give him a lot of credit because he really
believes that BAU Athletics is more than just athletics, is
a missionary tool. And I really love his energy and
his personality and everything that he brings. I was really worried, Ben,
I won't lie to you, is who who are they
going to replace him with? President? Worthing when he was
going to was like all right, who's gonna be the
next guy? Could be him? It could be him. And
even then when he got the positions, like all right,
that's those are still big shoes to feel. How do
you go in that direction? This new responsibility? You know,
how is the Lord gonna lead you? And I feel
like he's knocked it out of the park. So this
is the right man for the job, you know, and
you're not gonna find I think a more passionate present
that I have seen in my time. Again, I'm young
in the history of BYU, and he loves bo athletics.
And it's not just football and basketball band, it's women's soccer,
it's women's basketball. Whatever he can attend to and be there,
he will and he's passionate about it all top to bottom,
and he gives one hundred and twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So in this report, I spent some time going
through it, and my biggest takeaway was pretty simple. BYU
knows exactly who it is, and it's not trying to
become anyone anything else than who it is, not deviating
they know they have a clear vision of who they
want to be. And President Shane Reese makes it pretty
clear that boy isn't chasing the same model as every
other major institution, every other major university. We know that
the goal is into copy what the Ivy League schools,
the Big ten schools are doing. By any means. The
goal is to become what the profit's actually envisioned during
its inception. It's a Christ centered university that is grounded
in its values, excellent, academically stable, financially self sustaining, right,
whose students enter to learn and go forth to serve
their fellow man. Right, That's what it's all about. That matters, Okay,
that matters more than people realize, in my opinion, especially
right now when so many universities, okay, you see it
everywhere are dealing with I believe, identity issues. You're seeing
funding pressures right now. You're seeing certain thing funds being
cut because they've overspent, they haven't been as frugal as
they need to be. They've been very, i would say,
fiscally irresponsible. And when that happens, there's going to be
an eventual repercussion. Okay, you can't continue to operate in
debt mode. Okay, that the government is retracting a little
bit as it pertains to that and Furthermore, you can
make a strong argument that education since the US Department
of Education was founded, education has actually gotten worse. Reading
levels and literacy has gone down. Core competencies in your
stem fields have gone down. More and more people are
just you know, just incapable, just not capable of of
of operating in any sort of entrepreneur or corporate space.
And the academic portion of it around the around the
United States of America has has gotten worse. Man, It's
just it's just not as good as what it has
been in years, in decades, in eras past. So anyway,
there's a lot of governance chaos going on right now.
BAA is something most schools don't. I think it's clarity
of vision. It's the foundational consistency. The university's guided by
the profit seers and revelators of the Church of Jesus
Christ Laritie Saints who are grounded in many ways and
are specialists in the great thing to me about from
a pragmatic temporal standpoint, the profit series and revelators are
individuals that didn't come up in like traditional theological clergy
right like they were professionals in a particular field and
they were really, really, really good at their field. And
so they have the pragmatic portion of it and then
the spiritual portion of it combined, and with that that
keeps you grounded. Don't you want to you know, be
a holistic, well rounded person. And I think that's what
keeps you grounded. Right, the university who's guided by these
men that are grounded in the imbalanced in those two fields.
So b yu's funded and sustained independently from federal dollars.
That's massive and able to make long term decisions without
any sort of political or socio culture pressures that drive
the whims and what I believe appetites of everyone and
everything in this day and age. Right, it's about what
are you gonna complain about today? What is it that
we want to do? What's the what's the next thing,
and what's the next you know, perceived moral ethical thing
to do? You know from a socio cultural standpoint. No,
we're going to stay grounded in our morals and ethics.
Who we are. We have a clear vision. They don't
seem to be tossed to and fro by every wind
and whim. That's how I see it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The stability carries directly into athletics, and that's what we
talk about on the show every single day. But that
solid foundation, that firm foundation allows you to catapult launch
yourself into elite athletics. In my opinion, DYU sports are
in a different place than they were even five years ago.
Big twelve membership obviously is fantastic. That elevated the brand,
expanded recruiting reach, increased national exposure, and raised the competitive
bar as well, rising to the occasion athletically. But what
stands out is that BOA hasn't lost its identity in
the process. Right, you can't lose your identity. It's going
to be transformational, not transactional. The athletes featured in the report,
they openly talk about faith, leadership, accountability, serving missions represent
something bigger than themselves. Everybody wants to be something. It
wants to be a part of something bigger than themselves.
You know, we can't narcissists or the the you know,
eventually the most miserable people because all they care about themselves.
We want to be something, We want to be part
of something bigger than ourselves. The haters are going to
say those that are on the on the sidelines, So
those are in the that are in the stands, that
are watching from afar, they're going to say, this is
just disingenuous marketing fluff. They can't live up to their
own standards. They can't live up to this. All this
generosity and this discipleship and this morality and elite academics
and elite athletics. You're gonna you're buying your way. You know,
you're you're, you're, you're you're working your way to this
perceived heaven that you uh that you believe in. No,
to me, it's it's it's better. Okay, it's better to
set a bar. Okay, set a bar high, Uh, with
grace involved. Right, you got to set the bar high,
try to reach it and fail with grace, then never
set a high bar at all. And you're doing that
in all facets of the university. I think that culture
is winning in all facets at the university. You have
student athletes who care about competing at a very high
level and also care about who they're becoming in that process. Right,
it's more than just sport. It's more than just academics.
It's more than just the spirituality. You want it all, Okay,
that combination matters, especially in an era where college sports
can feel very transactional, okay, and disconnected from any real purpose.
It's just about the dollar dollar bills, y'all, the filthy lukeer. No,
it's more than that. You have to have a long term,
eternal in my opinion, even if it's like long term
temporal this life approach, right, like what's get Who am
I going to be ten years from now? Who are
going to be my my well, who's going to be
part of my network? Who's in my relational atmosphere? Right?
You're only as good as the people you surround yourself with.
The data is sound, it is pure, it is inarguable.
That's who you get it. So it's it's long term
also in this temporal space. But you're looking, you're seeking,
You're attracting transformational experiences and opportunities, and I think that
will attract and retain the best of the best in
all facets. So BA is showing that it can win,
grow progress in all facets and stay around at the
same time. So I love that. So the report also
reinforces how important BA use private institutional independence really is,
and I think that is of note because the university
isn't dependent on massive federal funding streams. Right. It has
flexibility and protection that many schools simply do not have.
When policies, political things happen, social norms, culture pressure just
shift nationally. Like I said, toss To and fro Bau
isn't scrambling reacting in a knee jerk way. Their leadership
can stay focused on building for the long term. And
that's what it's about, building off for the long term
in all of those realms. President Reece reference is actually
President Spencer W. Kimball's vision of VA. You becoming an
educational everest. I think we're seeing that before our very eyes.
Excellence is an optional there at Brigham. It's expected. Okay.
You see that standard in the classroom, you see it
in research, you see it in facilities. We're getting a
medical school and in programs that expect to compete nationally. Athletically,
You're seeing it across the entire athletic department. And I
love that when you step back, you look at the
full picture, in my opinion, with the strong leadership, stable governance,
that clear mission, growing athletic momentum, the culture that actually
means something and to be a part of something bigger
than yourselves. It's hard not to feel optimistic about where
BUYU is heating right now. It's hard not to be
overly optimistic with the leadership currently, and they're gonna fall short.
Everyone's gonna fall short. There's gonna be things that we
can critique and and and poke at and say, hey,
we've got to be better here. Got no doubt, but
right now it's a great day to be a Cougar.
The trajectory at BYU viewing sports is bright, in my opinion,
under Shane Reece, Ronald I broke it down for you,
your thoughts, your commentary. I know you haven't read the report,
but anything you want to chime in on here, and
then Nadie Gritty about the President's report from Shane Reeves
highlighting how you're giving advances the mission of Brigham Young.
But also I mean, look, what's highlighted here is the
ambassadorial tool that is athletics, and I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was reading through it as you
were going, and I don't have the physical copy bo
what you put on your Twitter that you can find
at crital Benjamin. Look, I think I think you know
and I think the biggest thing is the quote of
the haters will say that the you know that, but
the marketing fluff like at by You, I think is
the combination of these guys of Keith working president recent
and obviously Clark Gilbert of the cargo. But excuse me,
that's overseeing all this. I don't think they're they're gonna
miss that often they are gonna miss because we're not
a perfect people, right we do. But the university I
think is doing the best job that it can been.
I really think with everything that it has, and obviously
they could they could do more of There are other
things that have occurred that people might not you know,
like in those things, we have to get that figured out.
But with the federal government you do what you can.
But I mean it says that the goal is to
become more profits and vision during you know its inception,
a christ centered university that is grounded in its values.
Have they let me finish because I don't want to
cut off actually excellent academical stable financial stable stability and
financials and then the students to enter to learn and
go for it to serve their fellow men. Like I
feel like that goal was accomplished for me, I feel
like that goal was a compon, you know, for some
of my other fellow people as well. Look, I entered
the university having no idea what I thought. I knew
what I thought I wanted to go into, and then
by the time when I was leaving, that vision was
much more clear. But it did prepare me more. And look,
rugby was great, it was fun, I can't lie. Trying
out for the baseball teams. All of those things were
great in itself, and even I think those who play
football would say that was great. But I think, really
what was more of I think, really what's at the
core foundation? And to me, I'm gonna go on a
little bit of a not to try to go too
long of a tangent, but the gospel things, really what
did that? I think my religion classes affected me the
most because been after serving a mission is like, okay,
so what now Mom doesn't have to watch you, Dad
doesn't have to watch you. No one has to force
shit to pray. You can bull drive your way through
these religion classes. I feel like the spiritual component of
going to church on my own, that foundation, it really
set up for what I am now now that I
have a family. I feel like the spiritual component, that
pillar of the university really you know, embarked itself and
me while I was at BYU and after. I feel
like that is what set the foundational principle. All the
academic stuff was amazing being and it's good and I
learned a lot, but I think the spiritual component was
one of the reasons why I came to BYU, Why
I wanted to be around people who thought like me,
or people of other faith that wanted to come to
express their faith and live it that way, which we've
seen a multitude of people. It's not just student athletes.
They are a bunch of fans that follow you that
are of the Muslim faith, other people who are not.
And I just thought it was very powerful to be
able to see that, to be with like minded people.
And I knew if I didn't go to BYU for
me personally, I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have walked
maybe the path of faith, you know, anymore in journey,
I wouldn't. And that's not to say that my faith
was broken. But I think your environment and the people
that you put around yourself really do matter. Your group
of people, your mentors that you have, and that's one
of the reasons why I came. And President word than
the old President said something that I've sat on the
show before, I'll say it again, and it really impacted
me in twenty seventeen because you know, return missionary first,
one of my family convert don't really know, feeling all
out of place, and he says, b Yu is what
you make it. He's like, there are people here who
want you to succeed, and they want you to, you know,
do it at a high level. You have to find
those people and when you do, you know, based like
Michael Jordan says, he didn't say this, but the ceiling
is the roof. You know, it's what you make it.
And the possibilities are endless. He did say that, and
I feel like Shane Reese is adding to that and
you know, elevating that. And to me, that's my biggest
takeaway of this. Through all the chaos, through all the
you know, the funding pressures everything, you know, the Church
of Jesus Christ of Lata Day Saints and b Yu,
I feel like, is going about it the right way.
And athletics is a big tool of that. You're seeing
by you get the national intention of why and a
lot of people overlook it. But I think the most
positive influence that Boa athletics does is how they highlight
another student or someone from a different university. That think
that will always stick out to me is BYU how
the rivalry start away before Texas Tech, when I forgot
the defensive lineman's name Ben but he like had thirteen siblings.
We interviewed him at a Big two A media day.
He was a police officer on campus in his free time.
You wanted to get back to the com nothing to
do with football, you know, none of that, and he
was just inspired to that and b A, you told
that story and that's why I got into journalism. So
I just love what the university does, the vision that
they have, the foundation, how they want to go about it,
and look, they're doing it the right way. And athletics
carries a lot. Klani is a part of that, dalg Taylor,
Bron Santiago. So you got to give credit under you know,
Shane recent athletics of the people that are doing it.
And look, I gotta give credit to you know, the
goat Tom Homo. He was a guy that carried this
you know, for a long time and and passed the
torch down. But I love how BYU is going about
it through all you know, the pressures and the norms.
I feel like they're gonna succeed once again. Because to me,
when you have God, Ben, when you're asking the Lord
which way you should do, he leads and guides you
in the right direction. I feel like by you continue
to do so at a high level.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Roddy, if yegor demon is
getting in fights, is that a good thing or a
bad thing for Brigham?
Speaker 1: Look, hey, you can't let me look and this is.
Speaker 3: What they're Look. You push Dylan Brooky. Dylan Brooks is pushaboy.
You can push deal that no one. No one likes Dylan.
Speaker 1: Look, no one likes Dylan.
Speaker 3: No one likes that man. Nobody.
Speaker 1: I don't like that man either. And I know Utah
Jazz fans that are listening to the program that do
like Cougar Sports, But are the the NBA people of
your program, Ben also do not like Dylan Brooks. Now,
I'm trying to do it fast, been on my phone,
but I'm trying to pull it up. But I know
where it's had to a degree. It's either Alma forty
three or forty eight, but it talks about this in
the scriptures. And I'm not I'm not condoning violences, Ben,
but I'm gonna bring up that something to scriptural and
it is and I'll find it and then repeat it later.
But in Alma it does say defend your family into bloodshed.
When you're on a team, that's your family. So if
you put your my mom always taught me being keep
your hands and feet to yourself and don't put your
hands on nobody family. Dylan Brooks was being extra and
was putting his pause as we say where I'm from,
it's a slang term putting his hands and being a
little extra. And the rookie wasn't gonna have it, and
let him know. And remember that was they got into it.
Speaker 3: The flop or no flop? Was that flop it?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, the original push wasn't but after he could
have stopped himself. And what was flop? I mean you
saw the legs come on, Ben, when he hits the
ground and he goes up. That's a hundred percent. But
what I love the most is not even just that.
Jegor says I'm not gonna do that. And then the teammates,
like I said, the family Terrence Man said, don't you
put your hands on my rookie. You get off the
rookie and getting in it. I loved it. Uh, that's
not falling short in the game of athletics and sports. Though, Ben,
you and I wear the same jersey. I'm gonna say
it right now, whether we were on the street or
on the field doing a media basketball thing trying to
be funny, I'm gonna keep it real for the people.
If somebody put their hands on BC twenty one, we
might have problems, you know, problem and I'm gonna have
to You know, I'm about to deal with you nicely
in whatever way that looks like. But you're not gonna
flop because probably when I push you, I'm gonna do
it with everything that I got.
Speaker 3: For sure? Should we should we do the play by play?
I don't know that Son's nets. I did send you
the soal. But for those that no, Yegor demon knocked
out Dylan Brooks, I'm kidding. He pushed them over. Uh
and uh, I mean it was a light push. I mean, Dylan,
I mean it was flop flop delicious, flopp of doodle.
I mean it was flops flop Lake City. He was bad.
He was bad, And so I don't think anyone is
defending Dylan Brooks. But some people, some people going after
a boy jeg or gentleman, especially you fans, you know,
they're always uh, they're always the comments back. See what
a cheap shot from yegor gentleman, you know, look at him,
just cheap shotting, just like he learned at b YU.
That's what he leves. You learned at b YU. You
can just hear their voice. That's what they sound like.
Utah fans, you know, that's what they learned. That's what
they learned at by cheap shots. All right, keep going,
what is it? Let's get into the play by play.
Speaker 5: Offensively, wait, job defensively, But the sun's crambling, gonna lose ball.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna get it? Man, We're gonna tie up here
right now. And that's a tech. That's a tech.
Speaker 1: On dinner, he did literally just.
Speaker 6: Push He literally just pushed Dylan Brooks over well Man
and O'Neill had.
Speaker 5: Been hot this entire second half, and they are nose
to nose at the moment and what Royce is a
guy you've got to push and Yla his needs to
stay out of it like Tarriff is pushing on Tomorrow Carroll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Terren's man.
Speaker 3: Needs a look.
Speaker 6: He's trying to get Dylan kicked, so he just needs
to Dylan needs to stay out of it.
Speaker 3: There you go. That's uh, that's the play by play
of the situation.
Speaker 1: Such a flopper.
Speaker 3: Everyone's surprised, though, you're Joman. He said demon demon pushed him.
Speaker 1: That people are trying to bully Yegor because he doesn't
you know, he's he doesn't really talk a lot like
I mean. And I need to pull this sound by
oft the nets been and I need to do it once.
I give it back to you here in just a second.
But in this sound bite of getting to know their
rook or whatever they say Yegor in the video, he says,
I don't like much talking. Dylan Brooks talks a lot,
and I guarantee Yegor does not like that guy that
talks a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, yeappity dooodle. Uh. That was a flop,
mister Brooks. All right, guys, let's go to break. Don't
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get into all the knicks and Grandy's all the news
and it's coming out of Brigham in this segments. Okay,
so a couple of things I want to delve into
on your Utah ESPN Radio network. How about this on
three makes the Big Twelve makes the Big twelve's case
for top power conference in college basketball? No doubt about this, right,
Big Twelve's case, true contender. Is the Big Twelve the
best basketball conference in college basketball? It would seem so.
The Big Twelve currently has six teams ranked inside the
top fourteen spots of the AP pole. Ask around at
almost every program there has a real chance to make
an NCAA tournament run and lift the raised the title
for that one magic moment, right, that one shining moment.
That kind of contender depth is rare, says on three
to find across college basketball, and has set some marquee
matchups over set up marquee matchups over the past month,
with more to come in February, and of course, with
March mad news around the quarter undefeated Arizona, they lead
the way number one in both Ken Palm and net.
The analytics back up the strong case of these Big
Twelve schools BYU, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, and Texas Tech
all join them in the top seventeen of both analytic models. Okay.
Despite that, the Big Twelve ranks number two in average
net ranking okay, with just seven teams in the most
recent bracketology update. They also ranked third at ken Pom,
which weighs the value of the teams projected to finish
above five hundred in conference play. The disconnect is simple,
though they stayed a lack of debt. UCF is the
only team outside the top tier projected in the field,
with Baylor and TCU the only other team seriously in
bubble conversation, your thoughts, Ronald three Man Weaver, is there
any doubt? Is there any argument in favor of any
other conference right now? Big twelve has to be labeled
as the best basketball conference in college basketball?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, I would love
for SEC teams or you know, Big ten teams to
constantly have to play the top draft picks. And I'm
gonna push off on the ACC because I think that
you have some teams there that have a lot of
talent that can play at the next level, But how
many projected first round picks are from the Big twelve.
That's the data that I'm going to use. I remember
how many were last year. It was a handful. Remember
VJ Edgecomb he came in and dropped twenty eight in
the house to Jimmer built phenomenal top top five picks.
So yeah, to me, it's the Big Twelve. Ben, it's
nothing against SEC. They got good players. But you saw
the talent in Arizona and I went back, Ben, I
went back because you wanted to know, and I said,
you know what, how many four stars are on this roster?
How many five stars? You know? With Coed Pete Brandon,
Berry's Toby o'waka, remember he transferred from Tennessee. Ben, you
know he's a four star transfer Ivan. You know the
kid that's from Las Vega, he is a four star.
You got multiple other kids. Bryce is a three star.
They got four four stars, two five stars on this roster.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's what you have to go up against.
And I know people gonna say, well, Ron and see
the SEC has the same thing. Yeah, but how many
of those guys are next level players?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 1: How many? Like a roster is constructed like Arizona has
the deepest roster and deepest team in America by you
just came down to the wire against that. Think about that,
you know, And Jared Bletso brought up a good point yesterday.
Ben if they don't let that bucket come back and
haunt them, which I didn't even think about, they would
have to lead potentially maybe in that game with a.
Speaker 3: Chance to is it.
Speaker 1: So Look, I think it's the Big Twelve constantly. You
just see the gauntlet that it is. And I don't
know another conference where you can just flip around with
one win. BA. You lost yesterday, excuse me two days ago,
been doesn't really matter if they win Saturday, No, because
guess what, that's a premier matchup. That's a quah wan
win on the road that you haven't gotten yet. That's
the best thing that I love about this conference is
you can change your trajectory. You can change your seeding
in a matter of just a week. It can go
up or down. I mean, for crying out loud, being Kansas,
they imploded last year. To the end of season, they still
had a top ten seed, s had a top seven seed.
I think a top eight seed. That's not supposed to
be possible. You're not supposed to have a top ten seed.
If you implode like that. Other teams in other conference
has been missed a tournament. If that's an SEC team,
they missed the tournament. I believe that too. I don't
think that's hyperbably. So I think it's the Big twelve
and I think it will continue to be the Big
twelve for a long time. And it's just it's a
blessing bo he's in this conference because they get to
play against it. You saw it Monday. We'll have another
thriller in a couple of days on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Band.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm all in on this. Just looking at
the analytics, looking at the Ken Palm. If you just
go Ken Palm, you know which is the best conference,
Which is the most formidable conference. It's Big twelve all day,
every day. Arizona at the top. You have Iowo stayed
at number five in Ken Palm. You have Houston at
number seven, you have Kansas at fourteen, BYU at fifteen,
Texas Tech at seventeen. I mean, look, it's not even
closing in West Virginia is not too far off either.
UCF is at forty six, So you really don't have
bad teams in the Big twelve. West Virginia's at fifty seven,
Baylor's at fifty two, TCUs at forty nine. Okay, just
to give you a little taste of what Ken Palm
is saying about this particular conference, I want to transition here.
I want to talk Kyria if I can for a minute.
I've been doing a little bit of independent research on Kiris Tonga,
getting to know him a little bit better. He's I
believe he's the only Cougar that's going to be playing
in the Super Bowl February eighth. Yes, indeed, shout out
to Kiris Tonga. Do you realize that Kiris Tonga coming
out of Granger High School? I believe West Valley he
had one offer coming out of high school. One offer
and it was the Byu. Kalani Satake and Elisa Tuiyaki
were his recruiters, So didn't really arrive with a whole
lot of hype. Now, no headlines. He's a two star
prospect seventy six, seventy six. He was his composite rating,
and there was obviously no hype surrounding him whatsoever. He
was actually committed to the University of Utah and Kilanie
and Elisa remember ended up at Oregon State for a
season before coming to BYU, and when Kyrus got off
his mission, he committed to bring him Young University and
to be coached by Kilani and Elisa along that defensive line.
Enrolled in twenty seventeen, someone is in like a developmental prospect.
I would say he was a project. Okay early early years,
you know, he's okay, kind of in the rotation. Nothing flashy.
Junior season had a breakout though growth was obvious. Tongua
finished with forty five tackles and you could see the
raw talent beginning to be formed. The clay was being
formed into something really special. I want to give him
a Comicca roar too, because he also served a mission
for the Church's Jesus Christ of latterday Saints and that
can sometimes set you back a little bit. And but
for him, I think it was the right decision in
always stayed loyal, strong and true. Right amidst the overtures
maybe of the NFL, he decided to come back for
a senior season. Payoff came in twenty twenty. Tonka became
a steady force on that eleven and one BYU team
that climbed into the national rankings anchored the middle of
the defense. I thought he collapsed pockets well, knockdown passes.
He's really good at getting his hand in passing lanes.
And he's got good length, you know, for a six
foot two, three hundred and twenty five pound beast in
the middle. But he actually had a twenty eight inch
vertical at his at his pro day and a eight
foot nine inch broad jump. It's pretty impressive for three
hundred and twenty five three hundred thirty pounds. By the
time his career was done at BYU, he had compiled
one hundred and thirty tackles, seven and a half sacks,
fifteen tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, twelve pass breakups.
Look at the pass breakups, like, that's pretty impressive, guys
for a defensive lineman. I don't know where he ranks. Actually,
I'm gonna look this up here. I wonder where Kyris
Tonga ranks all time in PBUs defensively, Like some defensive
backs that played that started two years at BYU don't
have twelve pass breakups. It's a really impressive number. It
really is like in a season, I think the the
best season all time for total pass breakups I want
to say was Tim mctire. He had he had like
seventeen in nineteen ninety six. Jordan Johnson had fifteen in
a season. Shout out to Jordan Johnson. But on the career,
Kiris Tonga all time, Like I said, this is impressive, Okay,
time I believe he's ranked. He's in the seventies. It's
pretty impressive, tied tied for like seventy seventy third. Did
you know this is the fun fact of the day.
This is gonna blow you a way, Okay, Kiris Tonga
has as many past breakups as Andrew rich and Kinda Kua.
Andrew rich and Kinda Kua have twelve apiece in their careers.
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Speaker 1: That is crazy fun fact for a fun fact for am,
I never would have thought that you know a guy
you know putting his hand in a dirt in between
would have that that that is shocking. I'm lost wardsman,
that's all I have to say. The great ends rich
and kind of cool, good football players for that university.
That's yeah, that's crazy that they're tired. I'm I'm I'm shocked.
You got me. I was stumped at that was out
of my Bengo car for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Oh man, No, that's pretty crazy. So anyway, I'm highlighting
Chius here and his trajectory obviously off the field tongue,
his journey carried, uh, you know a lot of weight
as well. I believe he's been a great person off
the field. And uh and and as I mentioned before,
you know, he he was due to his production and
due to his I think his pro day, he wasn't
invited to the NFL combat he should have been. Uh
he was drafted in the seventh round. Okay, and uh,
by the way, he had thirty five reps on the
bench press. Pretty strong, pretty strong. He's a beach. Uh
he you know, scouts liked him, you know, but they
looked at him and he's kind of an older you know,
they're like a he's still rough. He had high pad level,
high pad level. He ever really kept that he didn't
have the hip mobility yet and the bend. Now you
see him line up. You saw him in that Denver
Broncos game. Massive TfL just destroyed the the center. I
don't know what his name was, but I mean just
destroyed him. Shout out to Kyris Tonga. He's got a
super Bowl opportunity with New England. He's been with like
five teams in the NFL in a short period of
time in the NFL, Tonga finds himself in the position
to be a Super Bowl champion. Luke Wattenberg got destroyed
by Kyris Tonga. That man, I know, Puka says, he
lifts waits. Kiris Tonga lifts waits. Yeah, yeah, that dude
lifts waights. Man. Shout out to Kirish has as many
pass breakups as Kindaku and Andrew Richard b Why that's
impressive and now doing great things in the NFL. My
guy Kyra. Shout out to tiris uh and uh, No
one really talks about, you know, how much of a
diamond in the rough he was, how he was a
development of projects we tend to like lean on, like
you know these Zigyanza's story and he and that was remarkable.
Obviously a Disney a Disney story, if you will, right,
a Disney story. Uh and uh and so and yeah,
you make a you make a good point. Vic Uh.
Kiris Tonga did play some fullback and I think he's
played some fullback right now in the NFL too, right,
So shout out to Kiris. Let's take a brief time out. Uh.
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he just went into the Super Bowl and maybe he's
gonna have a ring come February eighth. Guys, let's take
a brief time out. Let's talk about stats on the
flip side. Schools that have produced both a World Series
MVP and a Super Bowl MVP. B Yu is one
of them. We'll tell you who those World Series MVPs.
The Super Bowl MVPs are coming up next this is
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that have produced both a World Series MVP and a
Super Bowl MVP, let's talk about it. USC. So they
have Randy Johnson, pitcher love Randy, the Big Unit, Marcus Allen,
Lynn Swan, and Malcolm Smith. Mark Allen one of the
best running backs in my opinion to play for the Trojans.
Loved watching him play. Just silky smooth runner and had
some physicality to him, but more of a silky smooth,
dynamic runner and definitely great pass catcher out of the backfield.
So Randy Johnson marks out. I didn't know Randy Johnson
attended USC, by the way, that's a little fun fact.
UCLA Troy Gloss Oh yeah, a blast from the past.
And then Troy Aikman Troy Squared. Shout out to Troy Aikman.
I was a Dallas Cowboy fans as my Arizona Cardinals.
My Phoenix Cardinals were really bad growing up, so I
had to find a winner. But I was a fan
of both Florida Dave x Steyle Okay x Steyn like
if you want to, if you want a underdog story.
Do you know I'm looking over at Vic because he's
my baseball guy, you know, David Eckstein, Right, I mean
you're yeah, Yeah, that's an underdog story right there. Emmitt
Smith though not so much of an underdog story. He
had the best offensive line in the NFL for many years.
Loved me, Sammitt Smith, Wazoo, Mark Rippin and Ron is
it Ron say? Ron say yeah? Anyway? Uh? Sam Darnold
could add himself to the USC part of the list
if he wins a Super Bowl on February eighth. But
check this out, b YU, They've got one two, They
got a crew, Jack Morris and Steve Young. Okay, one
of five schools that have produced both a World Series
MVP and a Super Bowl MVP. That's your status of
the day. Pretty cool, cool, Jack Morris, Steve Young. We
salute you great baseball players, great football players. I bet you.
Jack was actually a pretty good football player too. Jack
was a big man, athletic man. Uh So, shout out
to Jack and Steve uh and we highlight them. We
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favorite basketball player all time, lebron James. We got some
breaking news. Can I get a breaking news sounder?
Speaker 1: You can? But don't you ever say a favorite basketball
You're not gonna see me for a few days. And
I'm not sick.
Speaker 3: Hey, I know you guys don't like to talk about
religion here, but Joseph Smith was right what he said.
What he said, do not partake of the alcohol. It's
not it's it's for the washing of the body, not
for the bosom, not for the internal nature of your body.
It's poison. Guess who finally found out that it's poison.
It's lebrona lebrono bitch James. He's not drinking out gool anymore.
He's not doing it, so he must. I don't know.
Maybe he got, you know, with all of the you know,
hanging out with Aj de Bonds. I remember AJ was
seeing at the Church of Jesus Christ. The Latinity says,
I only AJ don't drink. Maybe AJ's running rubbing off
on him. Maybe maybe, yeah, maybe just maybe shout shout
out to Lebron for finally, you know, abiding by the
word of wisdom. Maybe he'll play till he's fifty. How
old is Lebron now? Forty three?
Speaker 1: Forty Yeah, let me double check that one.
Speaker 3: Say that's ridiculous, dude.
Speaker 1: Hey, look he has the same birthdays my friend Musse. Si,
i'mso shot at Musse, but yeah, I think he might
be yeah, forty two, forty three.
Speaker 3: Like I have a little bit of like, like there's
a part of me that like, can I get you
can I get a conspiracy theory going right now? Christy
forty one? Okay, I got a conspiracy so I think
and Vic, you know, you you may you may want
to chime in on this, but your mic is is
is floppy? Dude? A he may may check check your
mic there, yeah, get a different mic. But my theory
is that like obviously Tiger Woods arguably one of the greatest,
one of the most dominant, if not the most dominant
golfer in his prime. You know, I feel like because
he swaying, swung so aggressively, so violently, that his body
was deteriorating pretty quickly. And and since he was deteriorating
a little bit and having so much wear and tear
because he would spring swing so violently and he could
poke it out there with you know, you're better than everybody.
Like you'd see him like nine inches of rough and
he would just take his freaking his iron and just
just literally just destroy the grass and hit it two
hundred yards. I'm like, holy cow, how do you do that? Anyway,
I think he got on some some some vitamin s.
I think he got on some some uh some little
trt if you will, got on some juice, got on
some uh some vitamins uh and uh supplementals and and
I think you know that eventually turned into like an
acl tear because he would that left leg he would
like hyper extended, remember when you go into you know,
into contact position. Anyway, these are my theories. I'm not
saying he did. I'm just saying these are my theories.
So I wonder and like you know, and obviously that
you know, he just never went back. I mean he
had injuries and then he got into car accidents and
had all yeah, a lot of things. Anyway, but I
think they allowed him to take the vitamin that because
it was so good for the sport. It kept people watching,
it kept people intrigued. It kept people glued to their
TVs whenever Tiger's golf and were all washing what is
he gonna do? And the same thing happens, I think,
not the same thing, but it's similar with Lebron Lebron
playing at this level, at this rate. It it kind
of seems like there's like and it kind of seems
like there's something fishing going on. And when he's asked,
like he's been asked before, Ronnie, see if you can
find this for me. I know this is a little
you know, just real quick, when he was asked about like, oh,
what vitamins do you take? Right? Like, what supplements do
you take? How's your nutrition? How's your diet? He couldn't
even tell you. He couldn't get into any details, had
no idea. And people say, well, his nutrition just handles that,
you know, They just you know, put it in front
of him and then he eats it all. He just
considers it. I'm like, yeah, maybe, but he's a pretty
smart guy. I just don't. I bet you it's a
little vitamin s it maybe a little vi vitamina DOMI
mass Gasolina. Keep the gas in the tank anyway, anyhow,
and and the NBA. We all know how corrupt the
NBA is. They you know what I mean? They we
don't know about gambling. There's gambling. Oh, I have no
idea about gambling. This gambling. Oh, I had no idea.
Like just look at look at the commissioner. I have
just look at him. That looks like a slimmy dude.
I'll be honest, Like, he looks he looks like who's
the Who's the evil wizard in Harry Potter? Who's the
evil wizard in Harry Potter? Someone helped me I keep well,
he looks like Baltimore. He looks like a human Baltimore.
He looks like a snake. Sounds like a snake. Yeah,
it's like a snake, snake, snakes, I don't know, know, snakes,
just getting after the holiday season, and it's like he
looks like Baltimore. Anyway, the NBA's are like, oh, I
had no idea. We just know like they want to
keep Lebron around for as long as possible. It's why
the whole Lakers Luca trade happened. And then subsequently the
Mavericks somehow some way got their guy. You know, congratulations,
you won the lottery Cooper Flag to Dallas. You know
what I mean. It's like, we're in entertainment industry. We
like reality TV. You guys all watch The Bachelor and
Bachelor and I hate it because I'm like, this is fake, babe,
don't get into it. Don't watch fake. That's why I
don't watch the NBA as much anymore. That's why I know,
because eventually I'm like, ah, this is fake. They're let
him play a little bit. It's still orchestrated, my friend.
There's still a lot of puppeteering going on, and I wonder,
you know, Lebron's like, yeah, okay, you know the vitamin
essas is wearing off a little bit. Well, maybe because
you drink so much damn alcohol. Maybe you need to
read the Word of wisdom. Excuse my language, apologize all right.
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