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eighth edition of Cougar Sports Live from Salt Lake City.

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He's our basketball insider as well as rugby insider. Let's

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welcome in Ronald the three man Weaver, the bucket getter himself.

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Speaker 1: What's up, Ronny, what's up? Everybody? Happy Wednesday to you, everybody,

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Please be safe. I think there's supposed to be some

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inclement weather. I started as I was working on the

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train coming up, but looked like it was gonna rain

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earlier then then snow, So hopefully we get that. We

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need the moisture. We've not had the snow that I've

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woned then twenty twenty three and one back a few years.

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It'll snow in three April. We haven't had any the

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last two years, so I've been a little bit disappointed.

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Speaker 3: You need the boyser Look, I think I think Spencer

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Cox and many of the maybe politicians in the state

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of Utah, they put out a request to everyone here

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in the state to pray for boys. And I'm right there, way,

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I'm right there as well. Like we got, I pray

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for some boysture. I gotta get the rain, the snow,

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whatever it is, pray for it, fast for it, and

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let's see if we can get some snow. I'm a

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big fan of the moisture, I just am. I'm a

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big fan of the snow, big fan of the rain.

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We need it, guys. I love it for a number

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of a number of reasons. Obviously, we're high desert. We

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got to keep our great salt lake, great Salt Lake

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filled with water. I want you know the economic component

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of it as well up in the mountains. But we're

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in a high desert man. We need that water, and

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we need to be able to flush the bad air

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out as well. We have one of the worst We

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have some of the worst air quality in the United

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States of America because of our geography, and we sent

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essentially just like emit pollution, and then we just breathe

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it in. And then we get some of California's, we

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get some of Nevadas, we just breathe in all their muck.

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Our particulate matter is not wearing. We need the moisture

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for our mind, body, and soul health. In my opinion,

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pray for it. I'm right there with you, Ronald the

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three man Weaver. We got to talk some sports though today,

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ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we appreciate you tuning in,

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chiming in wherever you're tuning in and time chiming in

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From Ronald three Man Weaver by my side, Uh, bred

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always bring the hammer. He's a little bit sickly. Shout

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out to Hammer Time Show. Uh, he'll still be putting

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So keep dial keep his dialed in. Shout out to

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Vic Cram on the data aggregation as well as new

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lets as well as the newsletter. Uh. Check out the wrestler.

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He has been the fan starting lineup though. And uh,

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maybe in the nitty gritty, I want to get into

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this president's report case to me, I love hearing from

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cees because their vision, their messaging determines the trajectory of

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b YU as an institution academically, you know, spiritually, uh

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and uh athletically. So yeah, I care about what they think.

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I care about what they're saying. I care about you know,

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how they feel, especially about athletics, because without a vision,

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people perish, and you want to have a great vision

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of the athletic role that ultimately these programs play within

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the institution and within the Church of Jutis Christ the

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letty saying, So anyways, one hundred and fifty years of generosity.

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Bringham Young University might not exist, might not exist if

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it weren't for the generous, inspired people who have believed

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in its potential and donated since eighteen seventy five. Pivotal

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moments of altruism over the past one hundred and fifty

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years have helped the university move closer to becoming the

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Byu of prophecy. Okay, the will to thrive. I'd advise

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you if you got this thing, read through it. It

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was fantastic. I read through it. The statements, our mission,

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governance in pursuit of excellence. President see Shane Reese delved

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into it. Certain topics of supporting our spiritual mission were broached.

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Blessed by inspired governance was also approached. He delves into

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it all pursuing excellence as well in all facets. The

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future is bright, in my opinion, with Shane Rees at

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the helm. So read through it. I'm going to break

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down my perspective on this BYU student athletes on page

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two are featured BA student athletes aim to bring others

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to Christ. Dallan H. Oaks once said, I firmly believe

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that is the destiny of Brigham Young University. Become what

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those prophetic statements predicted it would become, but that it

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would become. But this great goal will not be attained

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in exactly the same way that other universe has achieved

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their greatness. With your help, it will become the great

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University of the Lord, not in the world's way, but

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in the Lord's way. He said. So anyway, I love

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this stuff because and I know there's a lot of

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people out there that are like, man, why do you

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talk about this stuff. I'm like, guys, it is the

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vision that Shane Reese has, and Keith working have, and

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Elder Gribblin have for the institution, and as a part

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of that institution athletic It is pivotal that they are holistic,

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whole minded humans that love athletics. And you want to

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see athletics thrive. If you want to see all time

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grades come through Brigham, you want to see them developed

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at a high level. They want to win at a

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high level. You have to understand the why of what

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we do and why they believe that athletics has a

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great is a great blessing and boon for the students

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and student athletes and the alumni base. Okay, so all

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these foundational wise you must have moving forward, So I'm

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gonna delvi into that. I'm gonna give you my thoughts

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on it in the nitty gritty. We got a star

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host here, we're gonna get into some news and notes

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obviously throughout the show. Jeff Fuller's going to join us,

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a Cougar beat. At five oh five, four to thirty,

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So I read through this president report, and once again

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I'll reiterate, why does the president's message about the institution

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and about the athletic department matter? Guys, it matters big time.

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If Shane Reache is bought in on athletics, You're going

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to continue to see high level, okay productivity from the

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FA department. You're gonna continue to see it. You see

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him rising and shouting. Ronald. You were at the game,

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the BA basketball game recently. You took some film of

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Shane Reeves getting after it. As a fan, He's a fan,

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big fan of all of these things. He's a fan

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of spirituality, eternal progress, discipleship. He's a fan of academic

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high level, academic prosperity and uh and it just ability.

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And then he loves athletics too. You see it all

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the time when you're around the athletic building, when Shane

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I see it all the time. I've had the

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opportunity to talk with him at games my last year

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as a student, right when I graduated. I saw him

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during graduation. He's excited about every aspect of YU athletics,

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for sure, but not just that, Like when I see

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he's like, he's like, so the job you have now

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or are you doing that full time?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? How's the little one? Like he

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he cares about every single student and not saying that

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the ones a past that I had and those before don't.

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But he's so jovial, Like I just I've never seen

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someone see be so much of a people person to

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be so into it with that like he gets really

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into it. And that's why I took that video to

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put that out there for people to understand, which I

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think most most people know if you don't, but he

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is so into these sports. I mean, just go look

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at baup Photo. Go to bauphoto dot com. He's in

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the locker room celebrating like he has water, throwing it

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around too. He's so into it and you really have

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to give him a lot of credit because he really

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believes that BAU Athletics is more than just athletics, is

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a missionary tool. And I really love his energy and

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his personality and everything that he brings. I was really worried, Ben,

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I won't lie to you, is who who are they

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going to replace him with? President? Worthing when he was

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going to was like all right, who's gonna be the

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next guy? Could be him? It could be him. And

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even then when he got the positions, like all right,

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that's those are still big shoes to feel. How do

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you go in that direction? This new responsibility? You know,

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how is the Lord gonna lead you? And I feel

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like he's knocked it out of the park. So this

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is the right man for the job, you know, and

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you're not gonna find I think a more passionate present

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that I have seen in my time. Again, I'm young

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in the history of BYU, and he loves bo athletics.

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And it's not just football and basketball band, it's women's soccer,

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it's women's basketball. Whatever he can attend to and be there,

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he will and he's passionate about it all top to bottom,

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and he gives one hundred and twenty five percent.

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through it, and my biggest takeaway was pretty simple. BYU

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knows exactly who it is, and it's not trying to

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become anyone anything else than who it is, not deviating

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they know they have a clear vision of who they

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want to be. And President Shane Reese makes it pretty

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clear that boy isn't chasing the same model as every

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other major institution, every other major university. We know that

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the goal is into copy what the Ivy League schools,

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the Big ten schools are doing. By any means. The

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goal is to become what the profit's actually envisioned during

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its inception. It's a Christ centered university that is grounded

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in its values, excellent, academically stable, financially self sustaining, right,

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whose students enter to learn and go forth to serve

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their fellow man. Right, That's what it's all about. That matters, Okay,

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that matters more than people realize, in my opinion, especially

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right now when so many universities, okay, you see it

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everywhere are dealing with I believe, identity issues. You're seeing

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funding pressures right now. You're seeing certain thing funds being

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cut because they've overspent, they haven't been as frugal as

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they need to be. They've been very, i would say,

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fiscally irresponsible. And when that happens, there's going to be

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an eventual repercussion. Okay, you can't continue to operate in

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debt mode. Okay, that the government is retracting a little

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bit as it pertains to that and Furthermore, you can

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make a strong argument that education since the US Department

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of Education was founded, education has actually gotten worse. Reading

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levels and literacy has gone down. Core competencies in your

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stem fields have gone down. More and more people are

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just you know, just incapable, just not capable of of

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of operating in any sort of entrepreneur or corporate space.

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And the academic portion of it around the around the

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United States of America has has gotten worse. Man, It's

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just it's just not as good as what it has

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been in years, in decades, in eras past. So anyway,

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there's a lot of governance chaos going on right now.

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BAA is something most schools don't. I think it's clarity

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of vision. It's the foundational consistency. The university's guided by

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the profit seers and revelators of the Church of Jesus

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Christ Laritie Saints who are grounded in many ways and

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are specialists in the great thing to me about from

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a pragmatic temporal standpoint, the profit series and revelators are

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individuals that didn't come up in like traditional theological clergy

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right like they were professionals in a particular field and

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they were really, really, really good at their field. And

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so they have the pragmatic portion of it and then

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the spiritual portion of it combined, and with that that

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keeps you grounded. Don't you want to you know, be

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a holistic, well rounded person. And I think that's what

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keeps you grounded. Right, the university who's guided by these

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men that are grounded in the imbalanced in those two fields.

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So b yu's funded and sustained independently from federal dollars.

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That's massive and able to make long term decisions without

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any sort of political or socio culture pressures that drive

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the whims and what I believe appetites of everyone and

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everything in this day and age. Right, it's about what

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are you gonna complain about today? What is it that

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we want to do? What's the what's the next thing,

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and what's the next you know, perceived moral ethical thing

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to do? You know from a socio cultural standpoint. No,

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we're going to stay grounded in our morals and ethics.

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Who we are. We have a clear vision. They don't

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seem to be tossed to and fro by every wind

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and whim. That's how I see it.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The stability carries directly into athletics, and that's what we

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talk about on the show every single day. But that

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solid foundation, that firm foundation allows you to catapult launch

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yourself into elite athletics. In my opinion, DYU sports are

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in a different place than they were even five years ago.

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Big twelve membership obviously is fantastic. That elevated the brand,

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expanded recruiting reach, increased national exposure, and raised the competitive

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bar as well, rising to the occasion athletically. But what

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stands out is that BOA hasn't lost its identity in

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the process. Right, you can't lose your identity. It's going

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to be transformational, not transactional. The athletes featured in the report,

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they openly talk about faith, leadership, accountability, serving missions represent

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something bigger than themselves. Everybody wants to be something. It

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wants to be a part of something bigger than themselves.

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You know, we can't narcissists or the the you know,

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eventually the most miserable people because all they care about themselves.

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We want to be something, We want to be part

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of something bigger than ourselves. The haters are going to

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say those that are on the on the sidelines, So

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those are in the that are in the stands, that

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are watching from afar, they're going to say, this is

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just disingenuous marketing fluff. They can't live up to their

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own standards. They can't live up to this. All this

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generosity and this discipleship and this morality and elite academics

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and elite athletics. You're gonna you're buying your way. You know,

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you're you're, you're, you're you're working your way to this

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perceived heaven that you uh that you believe in. No,

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to me, it's it's it's better. Okay, it's better to

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set a bar. Okay, set a bar high, Uh, with

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grace involved. Right, you got to set the bar high,

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try to reach it and fail with grace, then never

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set a high bar at all. And you're doing that

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in all facets of the university. I think that culture

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is winning in all facets at the university. You have

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student athletes who care about competing at a very high

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level and also care about who they're becoming in that process. Right,

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it's more than just sport. It's more than just academics.

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It's more than just the spirituality. You want it all, Okay,

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that combination matters, especially in an era where college sports

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can feel very transactional, okay, and disconnected from any real purpose.

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It's just about the dollar dollar bills, y'all, the filthy lukeer. No,

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it's more than that. You have to have a long term,

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eternal in my opinion, even if it's like long term

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temporal this life approach, right, like what's get Who am

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I going to be ten years from now? Who are

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going to be my my well, who's going to be

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part of my network? Who's in my relational atmosphere? Right?

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You're only as good as the people you surround yourself with.

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The data is sound, it is pure, it is inarguable.

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That's who you get it. So it's it's long term

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also in this temporal space. But you're looking, you're seeking,

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You're attracting transformational experiences and opportunities, and I think that

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will attract and retain the best of the best in

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all facets. So BA is showing that it can win,

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grow progress in all facets and stay around at the

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same time. So I love that. So the report also

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reinforces how important BA use private institutional independence really is,

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and I think that is of note because the university

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isn't dependent on massive federal funding streams. Right. It has

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flexibility and protection that many schools simply do not have.

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When policies, political things happen, social norms, culture pressure just

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shift nationally. Like I said, toss To and fro Bau

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isn't scrambling reacting in a knee jerk way. Their leadership

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can stay focused on building for the long term. And

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that's what it's about, building off for the long term

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in all of those realms. President Reece reference is actually

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President Spencer W. Kimball's vision of VA. You becoming an

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educational everest. I think we're seeing that before our very eyes.

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Excellence is an optional there at Brigham. It's expected. Okay.

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You see that standard in the classroom, you see it

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in research, you see it in facilities. We're getting a

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medical school and in programs that expect to compete nationally. Athletically,

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You're seeing it across the entire athletic department. And I

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love that when you step back, you look at the

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full picture, in my opinion, with the strong leadership, stable governance,

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that clear mission, growing athletic momentum, the culture that actually

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means something and to be a part of something bigger

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than yourselves. It's hard not to feel optimistic about where

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BUYU is heating right now. It's hard not to be

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overly optimistic with the leadership currently, and they're gonna fall short.

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Everyone's gonna fall short. There's gonna be things that we

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can critique and and and poke at and say, hey,

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we've got to be better here. Got no doubt, but

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right now it's a great day to be a Cougar.

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The trajectory at BYU viewing sports is bright, in my opinion,

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under Shane Reece, Ronald I broke it down for you,

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your thoughts, your commentary. I know you haven't read the report,

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but anything you want to chime in on here, and

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then Nadie Gritty about the President's report from Shane Reeves

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highlighting how you're giving advances the mission of Brigham Young.

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But also I mean, look, what's highlighted here is the

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ambassadorial tool that is athletics, and I think that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was reading through it as you

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were going, and I don't have the physical copy bo

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what you put on your Twitter that you can find

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at crital Benjamin. Look, I think I think you know

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and I think the biggest thing is the quote of

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the haters will say that the you know that, but

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the marketing fluff like at by You, I think is

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the combination of these guys of Keith working president recent

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and obviously Clark Gilbert of the cargo. But excuse me,

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that's overseeing all this. I don't think they're they're gonna

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miss that often they are gonna miss because we're not

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a perfect people, right we do. But the university I

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think is doing the best job that it can been.

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I really think with everything that it has, and obviously

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they could they could do more of There are other

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things that have occurred that people might not you know,

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like in those things, we have to get that figured out.

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But with the federal government you do what you can.

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But I mean it says that the goal is to

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become more profits and vision during you know its inception,

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a christ centered university that is grounded in its values.

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Have they let me finish because I don't want to

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cut off actually excellent academical stable financial stable stability and

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financials and then the students to enter to learn and

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go for it to serve their fellow men. Like I

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feel like that goal was accomplished for me, I feel

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like that goal was a compon, you know, for some

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of my other fellow people as well. Look, I entered

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the university having no idea what I thought. I knew

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what I thought I wanted to go into, and then

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by the time when I was leaving, that vision was

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much more clear. But it did prepare me more. And look,

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rugby was great, it was fun, I can't lie. Trying

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out for the baseball teams. All of those things were

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great in itself, and even I think those who play

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football would say that was great. But I think, really

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what was more of I think, really what's at the

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core foundation? And to me, I'm gonna go on a

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little bit of a not to try to go too

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long of a tangent, but the gospel things, really what

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did that? I think my religion classes affected me the

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most because been after serving a mission is like, okay,

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so what now Mom doesn't have to watch you, Dad

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doesn't have to watch you. No one has to force

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shit to pray. You can bull drive your way through

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these religion classes. I feel like the spiritual component of

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going to church on my own, that foundation, it really

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set up for what I am now now that I

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have a family. I feel like the spiritual component, that

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pillar of the university really you know, embarked itself and

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me while I was at BYU and after. I feel

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like that is what set the foundational principle. All the

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academic stuff was amazing being and it's good and I

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learned a lot, but I think the spiritual component was

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one of the reasons why I came to BYU, Why

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I wanted to be around people who thought like me,

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or people of other faith that wanted to come to

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express their faith and live it that way, which we've

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seen a multitude of people. It's not just student athletes.

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They are a bunch of fans that follow you that

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are of the Muslim faith, other people who are not.

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And I just thought it was very powerful to be

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able to see that, to be with like minded people.

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And I knew if I didn't go to BYU for

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me personally, I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have walked

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maybe the path of faith, you know, anymore in journey,

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I wouldn't. And that's not to say that my faith

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was broken. But I think your environment and the people

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that you put around yourself really do matter. Your group

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of people, your mentors that you have, and that's one

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of the reasons why I came. And President word than

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the old President said something that I've sat on the

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show before, I'll say it again, and it really impacted

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me in twenty seventeen because you know, return missionary first,

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one of my family convert don't really know, feeling all

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out of place, and he says, b Yu is what

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you make it. He's like, there are people here who

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want you to succeed, and they want you to, you know,

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do it at a high level. You have to find

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those people and when you do, you know, based like

471
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Michael Jordan says, he didn't say this, but the ceiling

472
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is the roof. You know, it's what you make it.

473
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And the possibilities are endless. He did say that, and

474
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I feel like Shane Reese is adding to that and

475
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you know, elevating that. And to me, that's my biggest

476
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takeaway of this. Through all the chaos, through all the

477
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you know, the funding pressures everything, you know, the Church

478
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of Jesus Christ of Lata Day Saints and b Yu,

479
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I feel like, is going about it the right way.

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And athletics is a big tool of that. You're seeing

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by you get the national intention of why and a

482
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lot of people overlook it. But I think the most

483
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positive influence that Boa athletics does is how they highlight

484
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another student or someone from a different university. That think

485
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that will always stick out to me is BYU how

486
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the rivalry start away before Texas Tech, when I forgot

487
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the defensive lineman's name Ben but he like had thirteen siblings.

488
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We interviewed him at a Big two A media day.

489
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He was a police officer on campus in his free time.

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You wanted to get back to the com nothing to

491
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do with football, you know, none of that, and he

492
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was just inspired to that and b A, you told

493
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that story and that's why I got into journalism. So

494
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I just love what the university does, the vision that

495
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they have, the foundation, how they want to go about it,

496
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and look, they're doing it the right way. And athletics

497
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carries a lot. Klani is a part of that, dalg Taylor,

498
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Bron Santiago. So you got to give credit under you know,

499
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Shane recent athletics of the people that are doing it.

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And look, I gotta give credit to you know, the

501
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goat Tom Homo. He was a guy that carried this

502
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you know, for a long time and and passed the

503
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torch down. But I love how BYU is going about

504
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it through all you know, the pressures and the norms.

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I feel like they're gonna succeed once again. Because to me,

506
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when you have God, Ben, when you're asking the Lord

507
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which way you should do, he leads and guides you

508
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in the right direction. I feel like by you continue

509
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to do so at a high level.

510
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Roddy, if yegor demon is

511
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getting in fights, is that a good thing or a

512
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bad thing for Brigham?

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Speaker 1: Look, hey, you can't let me look and this is.

514
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Speaker 3: What they're Look. You push Dylan Brooky. Dylan Brooks is pushaboy.

515
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You can push deal that no one. No one likes Dylan.

516
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Speaker 1: Look, no one likes Dylan.

517
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Speaker 3: No one likes that man. Nobody.

518
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Speaker 1: I don't like that man either. And I know Utah

519
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,480
Jazz fans that are listening to the program that do

520
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like Cougar Sports, But are the the NBA people of

521
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your program, Ben also do not like Dylan Brooks. Now,

522
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I'm trying to do it fast, been on my phone,

523
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but I'm trying to pull it up. But I know

524
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where it's had to a degree. It's either Alma forty

525
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three or forty eight, but it talks about this in

526
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the scriptures. And I'm not I'm not condoning violences, Ben,

527
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but I'm gonna bring up that something to scriptural and

528
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it is and I'll find it and then repeat it later.

529
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But in Alma it does say defend your family into bloodshed.

530
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When you're on a team, that's your family. So if

531
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,559
you put your my mom always taught me being keep

532
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your hands and feet to yourself and don't put your

533
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hands on nobody family. Dylan Brooks was being extra and

534
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,039
was putting his pause as we say where I'm from,

535
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it's a slang term putting his hands and being a

536
00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:57,880
little extra. And the rookie wasn't gonna have it, and

537
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let him know. And remember that was they got into it.

538
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Speaker 3: The flop or no flop? Was that flop it?

539
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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, the original push wasn't but after he could

540
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have stopped himself. And what was flop? I mean you

541
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saw the legs come on, Ben, when he hits the

542
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ground and he goes up. That's a hundred percent. But

543
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what I love the most is not even just that.

544
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,000
Jegor says I'm not gonna do that. And then the teammates,

545
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like I said, the family Terrence Man said, don't you

546
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,039
put your hands on my rookie. You get off the

547
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,079
rookie and getting in it. I loved it. Uh, that's

548
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not falling short in the game of athletics and sports. Though, Ben,

549
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:27,759
you and I wear the same jersey. I'm gonna say

550
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it right now, whether we were on the street or

551
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on the field doing a media basketball thing trying to

552
00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:34,039
be funny, I'm gonna keep it real for the people.

553
00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:37,640
If somebody put their hands on BC twenty one, we

554
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might have problems, you know, problem and I'm gonna have

555
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to You know, I'm about to deal with you nicely

556
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in whatever way that looks like. But you're not gonna

557
00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:46,960
flop because probably when I push you, I'm gonna do

558
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it with everything that I got.

559
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Speaker 3: For sure? Should we should we do the play by play?

560
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,880
I don't know that Son's nets. I did send you

561
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the soal. But for those that no, Yegor demon knocked

562
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,559
out Dylan Brooks, I'm kidding. He pushed them over. Uh

563
00:28:05,599 --> 00:28:09,359
and uh, I mean it was a light push. I mean, Dylan,

564
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I mean it was flop flop delicious, flopp of doodle.

565
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,960
I mean it was flops flop Lake City. He was bad.

566
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,559
He was bad, And so I don't think anyone is

567
00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:22,599
defending Dylan Brooks. But some people, some people going after

568
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,440
a boy jeg or gentleman, especially you fans, you know,

569
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:31,000
they're always uh, they're always the comments back. See what

570
00:28:31,079 --> 00:28:34,160
a cheap shot from yegor gentleman, you know, look at him,

571
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:37,519
just cheap shotting, just like he learned at b YU.

572
00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:40,319
That's what he leves. You learned at b YU. You

573
00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:41,920
can just hear their voice. That's what they sound like.

574
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,160
Utah fans, you know, that's what they learned. That's what

575
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,680
they learned at by cheap shots. All right, keep going,

576
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,200
what is it? Let's get into the play by play.

577
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Speaker 5: Offensively, wait, job defensively, But the sun's crambling, gonna lose ball.

578
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 3: Who's gonna get it? Man, We're gonna tie up here

579
00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:05,480
right now. And that's a tech. That's a tech.

580
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Speaker 1: On dinner, he did literally just.

581
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Speaker 6: Push He literally just pushed Dylan Brooks over well Man

582
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and O'Neill had.

583
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Speaker 5: Been hot this entire second half, and they are nose

584
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:27,720
to nose at the moment and what Royce is a

585
00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:30,119
guy you've got to push and Yla his needs to

586
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,119
stay out of it like Tarriff is pushing on Tomorrow Carroll.

587
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, Terren's man.

588
00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:36,079
Speaker 3: Needs a look.

589
00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:39,559
Speaker 6: He's trying to get Dylan kicked, so he just needs

590
00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:41,160
to Dylan needs to stay out of it.

591
00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:45,279
Speaker 3: There you go. That's uh, that's the play by play

592
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:46,559
of the situation.

593
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: Such a flopper.

594
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Speaker 3: Everyone's surprised, though, you're Joman. He said demon demon pushed him.

595
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,519
Speaker 1: That people are trying to bully Yegor because he doesn't

596
00:29:55,559 --> 00:29:57,599
you know, he's he doesn't really talk a lot like

597
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,720
I mean. And I need to pull this sound by

598
00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:01,559
oft the nets been and I need to do it once.

599
00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:03,240
I give it back to you here in just a second.

600
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But in this sound bite of getting to know their

601
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rook or whatever they say Yegor in the video, he says,

602
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,279
I don't like much talking. Dylan Brooks talks a lot,

603
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:13,640
and I guarantee Yegor does not like that guy that

604
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,359
talks a lot.

605
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, yeappity dooodle. Uh. That was a flop,

606
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,319
mister Brooks. All right, guys, let's go to break. Don't

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go anywhere more to get to on a beautiful Wednesday

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edition of Cougar Sports. We'll get to our question poll

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today and all the dudes and notes coming get a

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Cougar Sports on one of three nine ninety eight point three.

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three ESPN Sports Center.

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Speaker 7: Updates to start off with, the only team in action

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yesterday is YU Men's golf, tied for fourth place overall

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in the Arizona n I t at the Ioting Tucson

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National Resort.

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Speaker 3: Over the last two days.

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Speaker 7: During the fifty four whole event, BYU shot a combined

644
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twenty under par to finish tied with former wcc FOW

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the Saint Mary's Gale Cooks finished strong and the team

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finished the last twelve holes with nineteen guardies in total.

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Truckman golfer Kei hey A Keeneck tied for his best

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overall finish in an event, finishing tied for fifth at

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nine under. Next up for a tenete the Coops is

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a trip to the Hawaiian island of Kawaii over Valentine's

651
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,400
Day weekend. Women's basketball is in action. Tonight is the

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Coops face Oklahoma State, who is currently receiving one vote

653
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in the AP Pole. The Cowgirls is where last year's

654
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point guard Amari Whiting transfer two after spending two seasons

655
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at BYU, starting all sixty three games. Last time out,

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the Coops couldn't quite hang on with the Mountaineers of

657
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West Virginia, but are currently four and oh after a

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loss this season, but the win tonight BYU would match

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its most wins at a season since going twenty six

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and four and making the NCAA Tournament in the twenty

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twenty one twenty two season. Continuing on the court, Diegler

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Yeoman scored fifteen points and a loss for the Brooklyn

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Nets last night.

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Speaker 3: Yegor went three of seven.

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Speaker 7: From the three point line, and then so doing, has

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tied the NBA rookie record from most consecutive games with

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a three pointer at thirty three games. He ties Rudy

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Fernandez and Lane Ruis Shannon from The Good Iron. Former

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by quarterback Darren Hall, who had originally been signed by

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the Birmingham Stallions of the UFL, has stepped away from

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the team's unclear what his plans are next. Finally, for

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the second season in the Row, YU safety Tanner Wall

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Speaker 1: Great the song Ronnie A minus been there you go,

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solid solid.

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00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:16,519
Speaker 3: It's a great day to be a cougar going to

710
00:35:16,559 --> 00:35:18,159
get into all the knicks and Grandy's all the news

711
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:21,280
and it's coming out of Brigham in this segments. Okay,

712
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,159
so a couple of things I want to delve into

713
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,639
on your Utah ESPN Radio network. How about this on

714
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,639
three makes the Big Twelve makes the Big twelve's case

715
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:38,679
for top power conference in college basketball? No doubt about this, right,

716
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,320
Big Twelve's case, true contender. Is the Big Twelve the

717
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,039
best basketball conference in college basketball? It would seem so.

718
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:50,199
The Big Twelve currently has six teams ranked inside the

719
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,880
top fourteen spots of the AP pole. Ask around at

720
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,280
almost every program there has a real chance to make

721
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,559
an NCAA tournament run and lift the raised the title

722
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:05,800
for that one magic moment, right, that one shining moment.

723
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,960
That kind of contender depth is rare, says on three

724
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,400
to find across college basketball, and has set some marquee

725
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,840
matchups over set up marquee matchups over the past month,

726
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,320
with more to come in February, and of course, with

727
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,800
March mad news around the quarter undefeated Arizona, they lead

728
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,119
the way number one in both Ken Palm and net.

729
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,239
The analytics back up the strong case of these Big

730
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:35,559
Twelve schools BYU, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, and Texas Tech

731
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:40,880
all join them in the top seventeen of both analytic models. Okay.

732
00:36:41,639 --> 00:36:45,840
Despite that, the Big Twelve ranks number two in average

733
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:50,960
net ranking okay, with just seven teams in the most

734
00:36:51,079 --> 00:36:55,559
recent bracketology update. They also ranked third at ken Pom,

735
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,119
which weighs the value of the teams projected to finish

736
00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:02,400
above five hundred in conference play. The disconnect is simple,

737
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,880
though they stayed a lack of debt. UCF is the

738
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,039
only team outside the top tier projected in the field,

739
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,400
with Baylor and TCU the only other team seriously in

740
00:37:13,519 --> 00:37:16,840
bubble conversation, your thoughts, Ronald three Man Weaver, is there

741
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,599
any doubt? Is there any argument in favor of any

742
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:23,960
other conference right now? Big twelve has to be labeled

743
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,119
as the best basketball conference in college basketball?

744
00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, I would love

745
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,400
for SEC teams or you know, Big ten teams to

746
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:40,679
constantly have to play the top draft picks. And I'm

747
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,000
gonna push off on the ACC because I think that

748
00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:44,679
you have some teams there that have a lot of

749
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:46,719
talent that can play at the next level, But how

750
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,440
many projected first round picks are from the Big twelve.

751
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,519
That's the data that I'm going to use. I remember

752
00:37:52,519 --> 00:37:54,440
how many were last year. It was a handful. Remember

753
00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:57,800
VJ Edgecomb he came in and dropped twenty eight in

754
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,079
the house to Jimmer built phenomenal top top five picks.

755
00:38:01,119 --> 00:38:03,840
So yeah, to me, it's the Big Twelve. Ben, it's

756
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,159
nothing against SEC. They got good players. But you saw

757
00:38:06,199 --> 00:38:08,639
the talent in Arizona and I went back, Ben, I

758
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,440
went back because you wanted to know, and I said,

759
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,719
you know what, how many four stars are on this roster?

760
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,400
How many five stars? You know? With Coed Pete Brandon,

761
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,360
Berry's Toby o'waka, remember he transferred from Tennessee. Ben, you

762
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,400
know he's a four star transfer Ivan. You know the

763
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,679
kid that's from Las Vega, he is a four star.

764
00:38:28,159 --> 00:38:30,239
You got multiple other kids. Bryce is a three star.

765
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,719
They got four four stars, two five stars on this roster.

766
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:33,199
Speaker 3: Ben.

767
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,159
Speaker 1: So I mean that's what you have to go up against.

768
00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:36,760
And I know people gonna say, well, Ron and see

769
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,320
the SEC has the same thing. Yeah, but how many

770
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,639
of those guys are next level players?

771
00:38:39,639 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 3: Though?

772
00:38:40,159 --> 00:38:43,119
Speaker 1: How many? Like a roster is constructed like Arizona has

773
00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:46,320
the deepest roster and deepest team in America by you

774
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,039
just came down to the wire against that. Think about that,

775
00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:51,320
you know, And Jared Bletso brought up a good point yesterday.

776
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,440
Ben if they don't let that bucket come back and

777
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,400
haunt them, which I didn't even think about, they would

778
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,719
have to lead potentially maybe in that game with a.

779
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 3: Chance to is it.

780
00:38:58,519 --> 00:39:02,159
Speaker 1: So Look, I think it's the Big Twelve constantly. You

781
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:04,880
just see the gauntlet that it is. And I don't

782
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,760
know another conference where you can just flip around with

783
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,960
one win. BA. You lost yesterday, excuse me two days ago,

784
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
been doesn't really matter if they win Saturday, No, because

785
00:39:14,039 --> 00:39:16,199
guess what, that's a premier matchup. That's a quah wan

786
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,320
win on the road that you haven't gotten yet. That's

787
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,239
the best thing that I love about this conference is

788
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,000
you can change your trajectory. You can change your seeding

789
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,079
in a matter of just a week. It can go

790
00:39:26,159 --> 00:39:28,519
up or down. I mean, for crying out loud, being Kansas,

791
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,039
they imploded last year. To the end of season, they still

792
00:39:31,079 --> 00:39:33,519
had a top ten seed, s had a top seven seed.

793
00:39:33,519 --> 00:39:35,519
I think a top eight seed. That's not supposed to

794
00:39:35,519 --> 00:39:37,679
be possible. You're not supposed to have a top ten seed.

795
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,079
If you implode like that. Other teams in other conference

796
00:39:40,119 --> 00:39:42,480
has been missed a tournament. If that's an SEC team,

797
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:45,440
they missed the tournament. I believe that too. I don't

798
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,400
think that's hyperbably. So I think it's the Big twelve

799
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,880
and I think it will continue to be the Big

800
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,719
twelve for a long time. And it's just it's a

801
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,480
blessing bo he's in this conference because they get to

802
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,480
play against it. You saw it Monday. We'll have another

803
00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:57,079
thriller in a couple of days on Saturday.

804
00:39:57,119 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 3: Band.

805
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: It's amazing.

806
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm all in on this. Just looking at

807
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,960
the analytics, looking at the Ken Palm. If you just

808
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,079
go Ken Palm, you know which is the best conference,

809
00:40:09,119 --> 00:40:12,880
Which is the most formidable conference. It's Big twelve all day,

810
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:15,760
every day. Arizona at the top. You have Iowo stayed

811
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,360
at number five in Ken Palm. You have Houston at

812
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:26,519
number seven, you have Kansas at fourteen, BYU at fifteen,

813
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:32,679
Texas Tech at seventeen. I mean, look, it's not even

814
00:40:32,679 --> 00:40:35,320
closing in West Virginia is not too far off either.

815
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,599
UCF is at forty six, So you really don't have

816
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:45,159
bad teams in the Big twelve. West Virginia's at fifty seven,

817
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,880
Baylor's at fifty two, TCUs at forty nine. Okay, just

818
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,719
to give you a little taste of what Ken Palm

819
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:58,960
is saying about this particular conference, I want to transition here.

820
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,679
I want to talk Kyria if I can for a minute.

821
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,800
I've been doing a little bit of independent research on Kiris Tonga,

822
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,079
getting to know him a little bit better. He's I

823
00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:10,440
believe he's the only Cougar that's going to be playing

824
00:41:11,559 --> 00:41:15,960
in the Super Bowl February eighth. Yes, indeed, shout out

825
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,239
to Kiris Tonga. Do you realize that Kiris Tonga coming

826
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:26,360
out of Granger High School? I believe West Valley he

827
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,800
had one offer coming out of high school. One offer

828
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,800
and it was the Byu. Kalani Satake and Elisa Tuiyaki

829
00:41:36,079 --> 00:41:40,320
were his recruiters, So didn't really arrive with a whole

830
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,480
lot of hype. Now, no headlines. He's a two star

831
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:51,000
prospect seventy six, seventy six. He was his composite rating,

832
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:57,840
and there was obviously no hype surrounding him whatsoever. He

833
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,960
was actually committed to the University of Utah and Kilanie

834
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,199
and Elisa remember ended up at Oregon State for a

835
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,719
season before coming to BYU, and when Kyrus got off

836
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:14,280
his mission, he committed to bring him Young University and

837
00:42:14,559 --> 00:42:18,079
to be coached by Kilani and Elisa along that defensive line.

838
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,199
Enrolled in twenty seventeen, someone is in like a developmental prospect.

839
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:27,280
I would say he was a project. Okay early early years,

840
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,960
you know, he's okay, kind of in the rotation. Nothing flashy.

841
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,920
Junior season had a breakout though growth was obvious. Tongua

842
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:41,320
finished with forty five tackles and you could see the

843
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,960
raw talent beginning to be formed. The clay was being

844
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:53,159
formed into something really special. I want to give him

845
00:42:53,159 --> 00:42:55,480
a Comicca roar too, because he also served a mission

846
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,159
for the Church's Jesus Christ of latterday Saints and that

847
00:42:58,199 --> 00:43:01,719
can sometimes set you back a little bit. And but

848
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,920
for him, I think it was the right decision in

849
00:43:04,159 --> 00:43:09,679
always stayed loyal, strong and true. Right amidst the overtures

850
00:43:09,679 --> 00:43:11,639
maybe of the NFL, he decided to come back for

851
00:43:11,639 --> 00:43:15,079
a senior season. Payoff came in twenty twenty. Tonka became

852
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:18,840
a steady force on that eleven and one BYU team

853
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,159
that climbed into the national rankings anchored the middle of

854
00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:26,599
the defense. I thought he collapsed pockets well, knockdown passes.

855
00:43:27,079 --> 00:43:29,880
He's really good at getting his hand in passing lanes.

856
00:43:31,079 --> 00:43:33,840
And he's got good length, you know, for a six

857
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,199
foot two, three hundred and twenty five pound beast in

858
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,199
the middle. But he actually had a twenty eight inch

859
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,360
vertical at his at his pro day and a eight

860
00:43:43,559 --> 00:43:46,679
foot nine inch broad jump. It's pretty impressive for three

861
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,840
hundred and twenty five three hundred thirty pounds. By the

862
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,159
time his career was done at BYU, he had compiled

863
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:54,480
one hundred and thirty tackles, seven and a half sacks,

864
00:43:54,519 --> 00:43:57,800
fifteen tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, twelve pass breakups.

865
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:02,199
Look at the pass breakups, like, that's pretty impressive, guys

866
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,920
for a defensive lineman. I don't know where he ranks. Actually,

867
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:09,400
I'm gonna look this up here. I wonder where Kyris

868
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:16,639
Tonga ranks all time in PBUs defensively, Like some defensive

869
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:22,519
backs that played that started two years at BYU don't

870
00:44:22,519 --> 00:44:27,760
have twelve pass breakups. It's a really impressive number. It

871
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:33,199
really is like in a season, I think the the

872
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:38,079
best season all time for total pass breakups I want

873
00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:40,360
to say was Tim mctire. He had he had like

874
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:46,639
seventeen in nineteen ninety six. Jordan Johnson had fifteen in

875
00:44:46,679 --> 00:44:51,519
a season. Shout out to Jordan Johnson. But on the career,

876
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:58,400
Kiris Tonga all time, Like I said, this is impressive, Okay,

877
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:05,719
time I believe he's ranked. He's in the seventies. It's

878
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:12,480
pretty impressive, tied tied for like seventy seventy third. Did

879
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,519
you know this is the fun fact of the day.

880
00:45:16,039 --> 00:45:20,320
This is gonna blow you a way, Okay, Kiris Tonga

881
00:45:21,159 --> 00:45:26,639
has as many past breakups as Andrew rich and Kinda Kua.

882
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,280
Andrew rich and Kinda Kua have twelve apiece in their careers.

883
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,760
Fun fact today, let's talk about stats brought to you

884
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,679
by Batterwealth Batterwealth dot Com. Does that blow you away?

885
00:45:39,039 --> 00:45:41,719
Ronald Kinda Kuah an all time great, Andrew Richard, all

886
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:47,519
time great at safety has as many past breakups as

887
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,400
Andrew rich and Kinda Coula.

888
00:45:49,559 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: That is crazy fun fact for a fun fact for am,

889
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,480
I never would have thought that you know a guy

890
00:45:56,639 --> 00:45:58,519
you know putting his hand in a dirt in between

891
00:45:58,599 --> 00:46:02,239
would have that that that is shocking. I'm lost wardsman,

892
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:03,920
that's all I have to say. The great ends rich

893
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,559
and kind of cool, good football players for that university.

894
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,440
That's yeah, that's crazy that they're tired. I'm I'm I'm shocked.

895
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,239
You got me. I was stumped at that was out

896
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,039
of my Bengo car for twenty twenty six.

897
00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 3: Oh man, No, that's pretty crazy. So anyway, I'm highlighting

898
00:46:17,039 --> 00:46:20,400
Chius here and his trajectory obviously off the field tongue,

899
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,840
his journey carried, uh, you know a lot of weight

900
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,760
as well. I believe he's been a great person off

901
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,800
the field. And uh and and as I mentioned before,

902
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,079
you know, he he was due to his production and

903
00:46:33,159 --> 00:46:35,599
due to his I think his pro day, he wasn't

904
00:46:35,639 --> 00:46:38,280
invited to the NFL combat he should have been. Uh

905
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:43,280
he was drafted in the seventh round. Okay, and uh,

906
00:46:44,199 --> 00:46:45,760
by the way, he had thirty five reps on the

907
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,719
bench press. Pretty strong, pretty strong. He's a beach. Uh

908
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,199
he you know, scouts liked him, you know, but they

909
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:55,719
looked at him and he's kind of an older you know,

910
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,119
they're like a he's still rough. He had high pad level,

911
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,760
high pad level. He ever really kept that he didn't

912
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,960
have the hip mobility yet and the bend. Now you

913
00:47:06,039 --> 00:47:09,360
see him line up. You saw him in that Denver

914
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:16,159
Broncos game. Massive TfL just destroyed the the center. I

915
00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:17,800
don't know what his name was, but I mean just

916
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:23,199
destroyed him. Shout out to Kyris Tonga. He's got a

917
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,760
super Bowl opportunity with New England. He's been with like

918
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,800
five teams in the NFL in a short period of

919
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,559
time in the NFL, Tonga finds himself in the position

920
00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:37,679
to be a Super Bowl champion. Luke Wattenberg got destroyed

921
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,639
by Kyris Tonga. That man, I know, Puka says, he

922
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:46,639
lifts waits. Kiris Tonga lifts waits. Yeah, yeah, that dude

923
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,760
lifts waights. Man. Shout out to Kirish has as many

924
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:56,039
pass breakups as Kindaku and Andrew Richard b Why that's

925
00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:59,360
impressive and now doing great things in the NFL. My

926
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,599
guy Kyra. Shout out to tiris uh and uh, No

927
00:48:02,679 --> 00:48:05,400
one really talks about, you know, how much of a

928
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:06,960
diamond in the rough he was, how he was a

929
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,320
development of projects we tend to like lean on, like

930
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,639
you know these Zigyanza's story and he and that was remarkable.

931
00:48:16,679 --> 00:48:20,679
Obviously a Disney a Disney story, if you will, right,

932
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:26,119
a Disney story. Uh and uh and so and yeah,

933
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,159
you make a you make a good point. Vic Uh.

934
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,840
Kiris Tonga did play some fullback and I think he's

935
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played some fullback right now in the NFL too, right,

936
00:48:36,519 --> 00:48:40,159
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

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gonna have a ring come February eighth. Guys, let's take

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a brief time out. Let's talk about stats on the

946
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flip side. Schools that have produced both a World Series

947
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MVP and a Super Bowl MVP. B Yu is one

948
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of them. We'll tell you who those World Series MVPs.

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The Super Bowl MVPs are coming up next this is

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check it out today. Let's talk about stats. Guys. Schools

971
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,920
that have produced both a World Series MVP and a

972
00:50:39,079 --> 00:50:45,760
Super Bowl MVP, let's talk about it. USC. So they

973
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:51,400
have Randy Johnson, pitcher love Randy, the Big Unit, Marcus Allen,

974
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,400
Lynn Swan, and Malcolm Smith. Mark Allen one of the

975
00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:01,079
best running backs in my opinion to play for the Trojans.

976
00:51:01,159 --> 00:51:04,639
Loved watching him play. Just silky smooth runner and had

977
00:51:04,639 --> 00:51:07,119
some physicality to him, but more of a silky smooth,

978
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,960
dynamic runner and definitely great pass catcher out of the backfield.

979
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,920
So Randy Johnson marks out. I didn't know Randy Johnson

980
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,280
attended USC, by the way, that's a little fun fact.

981
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,639
UCLA Troy Gloss Oh yeah, a blast from the past.

982
00:51:20,639 --> 00:51:25,119
And then Troy Aikman Troy Squared. Shout out to Troy Aikman.

983
00:51:25,159 --> 00:51:28,679
I was a Dallas Cowboy fans as my Arizona Cardinals.

984
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,239
My Phoenix Cardinals were really bad growing up, so I

985
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,719
had to find a winner. But I was a fan

986
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:39,360
of both Florida Dave x Steyle Okay x Steyn like

987
00:51:39,559 --> 00:51:44,039
if you want to, if you want a underdog story.

988
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,320
Do you know I'm looking over at Vic because he's

989
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,639
my baseball guy, you know, David Eckstein, Right, I mean

990
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,320
you're yeah, Yeah, that's an underdog story right there. Emmitt

991
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,800
Smith though not so much of an underdog story. He

992
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,159
had the best offensive line in the NFL for many years.

993
00:51:58,679 --> 00:52:06,440
Loved me, Sammitt Smith, Wazoo, Mark Rippin and Ron is

994
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:12,760
it Ron say? Ron say yeah? Anyway? Uh? Sam Darnold

995
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,360
could add himself to the USC part of the list

996
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:19,840
if he wins a Super Bowl on February eighth. But

997
00:52:20,119 --> 00:52:24,400
check this out, b YU, They've got one two, They

998
00:52:24,559 --> 00:52:30,920
got a crew, Jack Morris and Steve Young. Okay, one

999
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:35,079
of five schools that have produced both a World Series

1000
00:52:35,199 --> 00:52:39,039
MVP and a Super Bowl MVP. That's your status of

1001
00:52:39,039 --> 00:52:42,920
the day. Pretty cool, cool, Jack Morris, Steve Young. We

1002
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:49,280
salute you great baseball players, great football players. I bet you.

1003
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,559
Jack was actually a pretty good football player too. Jack

1004
00:52:51,639 --> 00:52:54,960
was a big man, athletic man. Uh So, shout out

1005
00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:00,719
to Jack and Steve uh and we highlight them. We

1006
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:04,280
salute them today. That's your let's talk about stat segment,

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bron to you by our good friends over at Vanderwelth

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1009
00:53:11,199 --> 00:53:15,920
favorite basketball player all time, lebron James. We got some

1010
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,199
breaking news. Can I get a breaking news sounder?

1011
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,119
Speaker 1: You can? But don't you ever say a favorite basketball

1012
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:24,920
You're not gonna see me for a few days. And

1013
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:26,280
I'm not sick.

1014
00:53:26,639 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 3: Hey, I know you guys don't like to talk about

1015
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:35,400
religion here, but Joseph Smith was right what he said.

1016
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,440
What he said, do not partake of the alcohol. It's

1017
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,480
not it's it's for the washing of the body, not

1018
00:53:42,679 --> 00:53:47,599
for the bosom, not for the internal nature of your body.

1019
00:53:47,599 --> 00:53:51,440
It's poison. Guess who finally found out that it's poison.

1020
00:53:51,840 --> 00:54:02,199
It's lebrona lebrono bitch James. He's not drinking out gool anymore.

1021
00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:05,320
He's not doing it, so he must. I don't know.

1022
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,039
Maybe he got, you know, with all of the you know,

1023
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,000
hanging out with Aj de Bonds. I remember AJ was

1024
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,360
seeing at the Church of Jesus Christ. The Latinity says,

1025
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,800
I only AJ don't drink. Maybe AJ's running rubbing off

1026
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:22,039
on him. Maybe maybe, yeah, maybe just maybe shout shout

1027
00:54:22,039 --> 00:54:25,039
out to Lebron for finally, you know, abiding by the

1028
00:54:25,039 --> 00:54:28,280
word of wisdom. Maybe he'll play till he's fifty. How

1029
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:29,559
old is Lebron now? Forty three?

1030
00:54:29,679 --> 00:54:31,199
Speaker 1: Forty Yeah, let me double check that one.

1031
00:54:31,199 --> 00:54:32,599
Speaker 3: Say that's ridiculous, dude.

1032
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: Hey, look he has the same birthdays my friend Musse. Si,

1033
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,760
i'mso shot at Musse, but yeah, I think he might

1034
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,239
be yeah, forty two, forty three.

1035
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:43,199
Speaker 3: Like I have a little bit of like, like there's

1036
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,800
a part of me that like, can I get you

1037
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,480
can I get a conspiracy theory going right now? Christy

1038
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,719
forty one? Okay, I got a conspiracy so I think

1039
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,679
and Vic, you know, you you may you may want

1040
00:54:56,679 --> 00:54:59,079
to chime in on this, but your mic is is

1041
00:54:59,079 --> 00:55:01,400
is floppy? Dude? A he may may check check your

1042
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:06,199
mic there, yeah, get a different mic. But my theory

1043
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,719
is that like obviously Tiger Woods arguably one of the greatest,

1044
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,880
one of the most dominant, if not the most dominant

1045
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,639
golfer in his prime. You know, I feel like because

1046
00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:24,719
he swaying, swung so aggressively, so violently, that his body

1047
00:55:25,199 --> 00:55:30,280
was deteriorating pretty quickly. And and since he was deteriorating

1048
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:31,760
a little bit and having so much wear and tear

1049
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,840
because he would spring swing so violently and he could

1050
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,400
poke it out there with you know, you're better than everybody.

1051
00:55:38,039 --> 00:55:40,320
Like you'd see him like nine inches of rough and

1052
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,920
he would just take his freaking his iron and just

1053
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:48,039
just literally just destroy the grass and hit it two

1054
00:55:48,119 --> 00:55:50,360
hundred yards. I'm like, holy cow, how do you do that? Anyway,

1055
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,400
I think he got on some some some vitamin s.

1056
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,119
I think he got on some some uh some little

1057
00:55:58,159 --> 00:56:01,360
trt if you will, got on some juice, got on

1058
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:06,719
some uh some vitamins uh and uh supplementals and and

1059
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,119
I think you know that eventually turned into like an

1060
00:56:09,159 --> 00:56:11,760
acl tear because he would that left leg he would

1061
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,000
like hyper extended, remember when you go into you know,

1062
00:56:15,039 --> 00:56:18,639
into contact position. Anyway, these are my theories. I'm not

1063
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,039
saying he did. I'm just saying these are my theories.

1064
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:26,239
So I wonder and like you know, and obviously that

1065
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,119
you know, he just never went back. I mean he

1066
00:56:28,159 --> 00:56:31,320
had injuries and then he got into car accidents and

1067
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,719
had all yeah, a lot of things. Anyway, but I

1068
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,239
think they allowed him to take the vitamin that because

1069
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:42,559
it was so good for the sport. It kept people watching,

1070
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,840
it kept people intrigued. It kept people glued to their

1071
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,639
TVs whenever Tiger's golf and were all washing what is

1072
00:56:51,679 --> 00:56:55,639
he gonna do? And the same thing happens, I think,

1073
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:59,199
not the same thing, but it's similar with Lebron Lebron

1074
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:05,679
playing at this level, at this rate. It it kind

1075
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,440
of seems like there's like and it kind of seems

1076
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,360
like there's something fishing going on. And when he's asked,

1077
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:13,559
like he's been asked before, Ronnie, see if you can

1078
00:57:13,599 --> 00:57:15,480
find this for me. I know this is a little

1079
00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:19,079
you know, just real quick, when he was asked about like, oh,

1080
00:57:19,079 --> 00:57:21,920
what vitamins do you take? Right? Like, what supplements do

1081
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,079
you take? How's your nutrition? How's your diet? He couldn't

1082
00:57:25,119 --> 00:57:29,000
even tell you. He couldn't get into any details, had

1083
00:57:29,039 --> 00:57:32,880
no idea. And people say, well, his nutrition just handles that,

1084
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,400
you know, They just you know, put it in front

1085
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,079
of him and then he eats it all. He just

1086
00:57:38,119 --> 00:57:43,519
considers it. I'm like, yeah, maybe, but he's a pretty

1087
00:57:43,559 --> 00:57:46,880
smart guy. I just don't. I bet you it's a

1088
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:52,280
little vitamin s it maybe a little vi vitamina DOMI

1089
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:56,199
mass Gasolina. Keep the gas in the tank anyway, anyhow,

1090
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,239
and and the NBA. We all know how corrupt the

1091
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,320
NBA is. They you know what I mean? They we

1092
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,559
don't know about gambling. There's gambling. Oh, I have no

1093
00:58:05,639 --> 00:58:11,119
idea about gambling. This gambling. Oh, I had no idea.

1094
00:58:11,719 --> 00:58:15,840
Like just look at look at the commissioner. I have

1095
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:20,119
just look at him. That looks like a slimmy dude.

1096
00:58:20,119 --> 00:58:25,480
I'll be honest, Like, he looks he looks like who's

1097
00:58:25,559 --> 00:58:30,639
the Who's the evil wizard in Harry Potter? Who's the

1098
00:58:30,679 --> 00:58:34,440
evil wizard in Harry Potter? Someone helped me I keep well,

1099
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,800
he looks like Baltimore. He looks like a human Baltimore.

1100
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,440
He looks like a snake. Sounds like a snake. Yeah,

1101
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,880
it's like a snake, snake, snakes, I don't know, know, snakes,

1102
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,760
just getting after the holiday season, and it's like he

1103
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:51,159
looks like Baltimore. Anyway, the NBA's are like, oh, I

1104
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,920
had no idea. We just know like they want to

1105
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,320
keep Lebron around for as long as possible. It's why

1106
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:03,679
the whole Lakers Luca trade happened. And then subsequently the

1107
00:59:03,679 --> 00:59:10,920
Mavericks somehow some way got their guy. You know, congratulations,

1108
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:15,840
you won the lottery Cooper Flag to Dallas. You know

1109
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:20,119
what I mean. It's like, we're in entertainment industry. We

1110
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:24,679
like reality TV. You guys all watch The Bachelor and

1111
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,280
Bachelor and I hate it because I'm like, this is fake, babe,

1112
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,880
don't get into it. Don't watch fake. That's why I

1113
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,360
don't watch the NBA as much anymore. That's why I know,

1114
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,760
because eventually I'm like, ah, this is fake. They're let

1115
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,559
him play a little bit. It's still orchestrated, my friend.

1116
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,159
There's still a lot of puppeteering going on, and I wonder,

1117
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,760
you know, Lebron's like, yeah, okay, you know the vitamin

1118
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,199
essas is wearing off a little bit. Well, maybe because

1119
00:59:49,199 --> 00:59:51,960
you drink so much damn alcohol. Maybe you need to

1120
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:57,519
read the Word of wisdom. Excuse my language, apologize all right.

1121
00:59:58,119 --> 01:00:03,840
That's my diatribe. That's my I off the cuff conversation today.

1122
01:00:04,039 --> 01:00:07,360
These are deep thoughts with Ben Crittle. You're on your

1123
01:00:07,559 --> 01:00:12,639
Utah ESPN Radio Network. Don't sue me. These are just theories.

1124
01:00:12,679 --> 01:00:14,880
These are not true. None of it's true. When I

1125
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:22,320
just said, or is it. Let's go, guys. That segment

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my wife takes like four hour hour showers. I don't

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know about your wife. Your way, Ronnie, does your wife

1141
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take like four hour showers?

1142
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buy ten windows, get twenty five hundred off. That's by

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ten windows, twenty five hundred dollars twenty five hundred dollars off.

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That's a fantastic deal. And uh, Jake Weber a BUYU guy,

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combined with Nate Orchard, a Utah guy, they've made it purple.

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They're up at our, up at Advanced Window Products. They've

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even signed Jimmer for debt to a sponsorship, an nil deal.

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We love them, we appreciate them. Uh, then go go

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oeut and support them. I'm telling you guys, they're gonna

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they're gonna give you a great deal. Eight O one

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eight five zero nine one zero zero. That's eight one

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eight five zero nine one zero zero Advanced Windows, Advanced

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Windows dot Com. Buy ten more more Windows, get twenty

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five hundred dollars off. It's a great deal. Take advantage

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of it while you can. Eight A one eight five

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zero nine one zero zero. Let's take a brief time out.

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We'll be back. Don't go anywhere more to get to

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this is Gougar Sports on one of three nine ninety

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eight point three