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Speaker 3: because we're speaking with none other than Roxy Bernstein. He
Speaker 3: joins the show.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 3: He's a commentator on pretty much every sport invented.
Speaker 4: He he is a play by play guy. Roxy. Welcome
Speaker 4: to the show. How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm great, Scott, how are you?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm living the dream and as I always say,
Speaker 4: it's not a nightmare.
Speaker 3: So I feel pretty good about it. And I am
Speaker 3: I am awakened conscious, So this is this is not
Speaker 3: you know, not made up. You were just in town
Speaker 3: right for time.
Speaker 5: There kind of I try to slide in under the
Speaker 5: radar because it was supposed to be a surprise party
Speaker 5: for they had a retirement down at BYU for Tom
Speaker 5: Homo twenty three years working in the administration for the
Speaker 5: athletic director at BYU, and and so it was supposed
Speaker 5: to be a surprise. So I didn't alert anybody I
Speaker 5: was coming to town like my buddies. I didn't text them, Hey,
Speaker 5: I'm coming in. Just slide under the radar. But it
Speaker 5: was a great event. It was cool to see guys
Speaker 5: like Ronnie Lott and Keena Turner show up. Yeah, in
Speaker 5: support of Tom Homo. But it was a fabulous night
Speaker 5: at it at Provo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Tom did a great jobs as an
Speaker 3: ad and what I thought was a tough situation. I
Speaker 3: thought BYU being in independence was almost almost a prison sentence.
Speaker 3: And then and then you know, of course b YU
Speaker 3: has the unique challenges that it does, and I just
Speaker 3: thought he's just he's handled it so well and made
Speaker 3: some really savvy moves and and you know, got BYU,
Speaker 3: I think in a better place when he left and
Speaker 3: when he was there and when he showed up.
Speaker 5: So no question considering you're now in the Big Twelve,
Speaker 5: you're in one of the power for conferences. And there
Speaker 5: had to be some growing pains along the way you
Speaker 5: alluded to when they went independent and went West Coast
Speaker 5: Conference for their Olympic sports and including basketball, but they
Speaker 5: were patient and this the Big Twelve hunt for BYU
Speaker 5: was a long time in the making. It just didn't
Speaker 5: spark a few years ago like this has been something
Speaker 5: that they were after for a while and it came
Speaker 5: to fruition. And now you look at the league and
Speaker 5: it's just when you look at especially in basketball, Scott
Speaker 5: it's a good football league as we know, and certainly
Speaker 5: the success ASU had last year, but it's arguably the
Speaker 5: best basketball league in the country, at least consistently, although
Speaker 5: the SEC was the best league in the country last year.
Speaker 4: So I'm curious. How many sports do you actually broadcast.
Speaker 5: As of now? I'm doing well, do we count pro
Speaker 5: in college? Is one? If I'm doing the same sport, I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to say no. But because I think it's different.
Speaker 3: I think it's a different preparation. You tell me or
Speaker 3: is it the same doing the same sport or no?
Speaker 5: The prep, as you know, is different. So I do
Speaker 5: both the NFL and college football for ESPN NFL and
Speaker 5: ESPN Radio college football on TV and radio. I do
Speaker 5: college basketball. Tons of it is your listeners who are
Speaker 5: familiar with me. You know that I don't do the NBA.
Speaker 5: I do Major League in college baseball, and I do
Speaker 5: the NHL and a little bit of college hockey also
Speaker 5: for ESPN. So what is that seven.
Speaker 4: I had? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I had eight, but don't trust my math, right because
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I even have ten fingers?
Speaker 4: So who knows that I could be?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: Uh so when can you when you prep for that?
Speaker 3: I was just thinking this, you know how, I think
Speaker 3: it would be maddening, which one of the sports that
Speaker 3: you actually broadcast, you have to like really grind like
Speaker 3: because I'm sure there are things you're just really comfortable,
Speaker 3: really familiar with, but there's got to be a sport you's. Man,
Speaker 3: It's just it's a real grind to find it.
Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't say, but I take it back. I've
Speaker 5: been doing some of that indoor football recently. Also, there's
Speaker 5: a team here to Pay Area, so I forgot about it.
Speaker 5: The Bay Area Panthers are co owned by Marshawn Lynch
Speaker 5: and they're the team in the Western Conference. And so
Speaker 5: I've done and they reached out to me, Hey, do
Speaker 5: you want to do some of our games? Sure don't
Speaker 5: I'll do your home games, yeah, and just drive down
Speaker 5: to San Jose A. So they have the playoffs coming up,
Speaker 5: so we're getting ready for that. That's been the hardest Scott,
Speaker 5: because there is very little information out there on even
Speaker 5: the team's website. It is very elementary. So that has
Speaker 5: been the hardest sport to prepare for. And you know
Speaker 5: the thing that's challenging is, and you deal with this too,
Speaker 5: is for example, an opening college football game, because the
Speaker 5: rosters are so big and you have the guys that
Speaker 5: are at the top of the depth chart. Right, if
Speaker 5: you get a one sided game, which for example, I'm
Speaker 5: probably going to have one of those week one, Well,
Speaker 5: how deep will the school go into their depth chart?
Speaker 5: What true freshmen are going to play? And how big
Speaker 5: can I get my spotting board to make sure I
Speaker 5: have every potential player on there? So that that's challenging
Speaker 5: because you know, right when if Utah has played, for example,
Speaker 5: when they were heavy favorite over I don't know Southern
Speaker 5: Utah or weaker States, right, how deep do you go
Speaker 5: in your depth chart? And you know, you try to
Speaker 5: quiz coach wit and a staff, right who could possibly
Speaker 5: see the field. That's as challenging, I think as it
Speaker 5: is to prepare for a game, to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: Well, and if you get a Utah game, you're going
Speaker 3: to get a lot of Polynesian names and.
Speaker 4: And I feel confident with them.
Speaker 3: But when you're on the air and you have to
Speaker 3: say it just it's got to flow, you know, and
Speaker 3: you get you dig deep, that's it.
Speaker 4: That's a tough one and it takes.
Speaker 5: Some practicing, right. You can't just phonetically. You have to
Speaker 5: say it a numbers and you can't just like repeat
Speaker 5: it in your head. You have to say it out
Speaker 5: loud and numerous times to make sure you get it correctly,
Speaker 5: because the last thing you want to do is offend
Speaker 5: someone's family, especially their mom.
Speaker 3: If you and and a Polynesian mom, is that's that's
Speaker 3: that's a death sentence right there. It's It's like it's
Speaker 3: like throwing a football in the NFL. You just have
Speaker 3: to let it go. You just have to. You can't,
Speaker 3: you can't hold on to it. You just got to
Speaker 3: let it go there. No, just just go for it.
Speaker 3: Just whatever you say, just say it with confidence and
Speaker 3: the and it'll turn out somewhat uh nice. Uh so, well,
Speaker 3: because I want to jump all over the place. I
Speaker 3: just wanted to talk about a bunch of different things,
Speaker 3: different sports. I was I actually kind of wanted to
Speaker 3: play a game. And do you want to play a
Speaker 3: game for a minute?
Speaker 5: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm going to give you a sport that
Speaker 3: you broadcast, and I want you to give me the
Speaker 3: most the most relevant information I need to know about
Speaker 3: that sport today.
Speaker 4: Can you do that?
Speaker 5: I can do my best?
Speaker 4: Okay, college baseball.
Speaker 5: Well, college baseball. The transfer portal is, of course like
Speaker 5: college basketball. Like college football, the talk of the town
Speaker 5: and money speaks, and players are leaving, and unfortunately that
Speaker 5: is taken the thunder away from what we should be
Speaker 5: talking about. But the transfer portal is just as prevalent
Speaker 5: college baseball as it is in football or basketball, and
Speaker 5: maybe even more so.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, really.
Speaker 3: I did not know that. See, I'm glad I asked
Speaker 3: you these questions. I'm glad we're playing this game. Is
Speaker 3: there money out there for these players in a lot
Speaker 3: of I know there was a softball pitcher from Stanford
Speaker 3: who went I think to Texas.
Speaker 5: And back and got over a million.
Speaker 4: Yeah, was a big deal. All right, let's go h.
Speaker 5: Think thing go with that too, Scott. Is you deal
Speaker 5: with the major league draft with some high school kids
Speaker 5: and turning it down and if kids are drafted, do
Speaker 5: they go do they go to college?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 5: How much it really is? It's a fascinating deep dive.
Speaker 5: It can take you seriously down a rabbit hole if
Speaker 5: you don't stop.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I guess because you know, you get drafted
Speaker 3: out of high school, you're going to get some signing
Speaker 3: bonus or something, and where you go to college you
Speaker 3: may get more money, and you may it may be
Speaker 3: a better opportunity for you to grow and develop, and
Speaker 3: you still and you kind of still have the benefit.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're not having the same competition, but you're at least,
Speaker 3: I don't know, getting I struggled with like three hundred
Speaker 3: dollars a month when I played. I can't fathom what
Speaker 3: these players are getting with money and how it's all
Speaker 3: really changed.
Speaker 4: It's so fascinating.
Speaker 5: With the agents involved, and it's it's crazy. I was
Speaker 5: talking to a football agent last week and they're going
Speaker 5: into the high schools now to recruit kids because they
Speaker 5: can make money on their nil contracts and deals that
Speaker 5: they have with schools. So it is starting not just
Speaker 5: okay when guys are in college, it's probably when you
Speaker 5: first dealt with agents, but they're going into the high
Speaker 5: school ranks now because of the money that's out there.
Speaker 5: It is an incredible business now. I'm anxious to see
Speaker 5: how it changes moving forward, and with some of the
Speaker 5: regulations they're trying to put in. But it is nuts
Speaker 5: when you think about high school kids are being approached
Speaker 5: by professional agents.
Speaker 3: So my agent, who I had my whole entire career,
Speaker 3: great great guy, still an agent today.
Speaker 4: He's been in the business forever.
Speaker 3: Tony agnow is his names in Baltimore, And I actually
Speaker 3: had him on my radio show talking about the same thing,
Speaker 3: and he said, he said, I had a former client
Speaker 3: who's the sun was going through all this stuff, and
Speaker 3: you know, he was a young kid, still in high
Speaker 3: school and he goes and I was actually giving him
Speaker 3: instruction and helping him out with the whole thing. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a real thing. And these they're going after these
Speaker 3: kids at a young age.
Speaker 5: It is crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's go to let's go to major
Speaker 3: League Baseball. What do I need to know about major
Speaker 3: League Baseball?
Speaker 5: Well, right now, the big thing is the trade deadline,
Speaker 5: because we're approaching it tomorrow and these trades are going
Speaker 5: to happen fast and furious, and teams like the Dodgers
Speaker 5: and the Yankees are going to be aggressive. And I've
Speaker 5: already seen some interesting trades go down today between the
Speaker 5: Mets and the Giants. And does that mean the Giants
Speaker 5: are waving the white flag that they don't think they
Speaker 5: can make a push for the wild card? But right now,
Speaker 5: that's the talk as far as major League Baseball goes.
Speaker 5: It's the trade deadline, and it's going to get fast
Speaker 5: and furious here over the next probably twenty four hours
Speaker 5: as these trades and teams are trying to strain and
Speaker 5: their roster heading down the stretch toward the postseason.
Speaker 4: Is that what you kind of look for with the trade.
Speaker 3: It's like if if the team doesn't make a trade
Speaker 3: and you're a fan, you go, we're done. They're not
Speaker 3: They're not going to play make the playoffs. Or is
Speaker 3: there still hope for some of these teams who who
Speaker 3: don't land a good trade option.
Speaker 5: It's hard because teams are just trying to bolster their
Speaker 5: roster right get depth, whether they're adding an arm for
Speaker 5: their pitching staff, whether it's a bullpen, or they're trying
Speaker 5: to bring in a starter where they're trying to get
Speaker 5: another bat to length in the lineup. It's hard if
Speaker 5: you don't make a move because how aggressive these other
Speaker 5: teams are. And you see it, Scott, You know, when
Speaker 5: a team makes a move and they're aggressive about making
Speaker 5: a trade, it sends a message to the clubhouse or
Speaker 5: the locker room right that they believe in this team,
Speaker 5: and everybody in there gets just a little more confident
Speaker 5: knowing that Hey, they're trying to help us, and they're
Speaker 5: trying to give us another weapon that we can use.
Speaker 5: So that's the other the psychological factor also coming up
Speaker 5: of a trade deadline, but or if a team that realizes,
Speaker 5: you know what, we're not going to get there, so
Speaker 5: they start unloading some key veterans or some big contracts
Speaker 5: to try to gear up for the next season or
Speaker 5: at least replenish their farm system.
Speaker 3: So you talked about, of course, the Dodgers Yankees. Who
Speaker 3: do you think makes the biggest move in the in
Speaker 3: the with a trade this year? Are there still moves
Speaker 3: to be made? Do you do you hear things? Who's
Speaker 3: gonna who's going to turn out with the best the
Speaker 3: best new team moving forward with the trade?
Speaker 5: Well, the Dodgers have always been aggressive and they have
Speaker 5: the resources both with some of the talent they have
Speaker 5: in the minor leagues, plus the revenue and the money.
Speaker 5: Then we saw last off season their bullpen is still
Speaker 5: an issue, and they've reportedly acquired about, for example, Mason
Speaker 5: Miller from the Artist formerly known as the Oakland Athletics.
Speaker 5: Camillo Douvall is another one that the Giants closer. But
Speaker 5: I just find it hard to believe the Giants Dodgers
Speaker 5: are going to get together on a trade where the
Speaker 5: Giants would send their closer to their bitter arch rival.
Speaker 5: But teams are going to go for it. They're going
Speaker 5: to roll the dice knowing that everybody else is also
Speaker 5: trying to better their team, and the only way to
Speaker 5: do it is to be aggressive, and will teams overpay
Speaker 5: And the teams that are the sellers are trying to
Speaker 5: hold those teams in the club's ransom to try to
Speaker 5: get the best deal, and they'll try to wait until
Speaker 5: the eleventh hour to make a trade. But the Dodgers
Speaker 5: are going to be aggressive, and it wouldn't shock me
Speaker 5: if somebody like Detroit is aggressive or Toronto with how
Speaker 5: well they're playing. Those are teams that feel that they
Speaker 5: have a chance to contend it. And frankly, Scott, I
Speaker 5: think the American League is wide open.
Speaker 3: H Ryan Sandberg. Ryan Sandberg passes away this past He
Speaker 3: was one of my favorite players. Loved Ryan Samberg. Actually
Speaker 3: have a ball signed by Ryan Samberg. That's funny story,
Speaker 3: but just loved him. Of course he died way too young.
Speaker 3: Just kind of your thoughts on him.
Speaker 5: First off, what a tremendous player, right, Rhino, what for
Speaker 5: sixteen years you think of him with the Cubs, although
Speaker 5: he was with the Phillies briefly as well, But to
Speaker 5: pass away at sixty five is so sad. And he
Speaker 5: fought cancer for a number of years. But that's a
Speaker 5: part of my childhood, right, growing up watching Major League
Speaker 5: Baseball and the Braves and the Cubs were basically on
Speaker 5: TV every day and in every household if you were
Speaker 5: a baseball fan, because they were on those superstations and
Speaker 5: you got to see Harry Carey broadcasting, Ryan Sandberg and
Speaker 5: Mark Grace and those great Cubs teams from the eighties.
Speaker 5: And he was the dominant offensive second basement of his generation.
Speaker 5: And what was it like, ten time All Star I believe,
Speaker 5: but gold gloves that he won, Silver Sluggers, and he
Speaker 5: was a no doubt Hall of Famer and just a
Speaker 5: phenomenal career that he was an MVP led the n
Speaker 5: National League and homers one year. Just a tremendous player.
Speaker 5: But also you hear the great stories about him off
Speaker 5: the field and what a great person he was. And
Speaker 5: that's what makes it even sadder, is just you lost
Speaker 5: somebody so young. It's such an impact and was really
Speaker 5: revered and loved by every Cub fan everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well said, I really was upset by that because
Speaker 3: the same I have the same thing. You know, Braves
Speaker 3: and Cubs were in my living room, and he was
Speaker 3: one of my favorite players. Speaking of baseball, we'll stay
Speaker 3: on that for just a minut Major League Baseball, there's
Speaker 3: there's been a lot of talk about Salt Lake City
Speaker 3: potentially getting a franchise, and it seemed like, uh, they're
Speaker 3: they're I don't want to say they're the team, but
Speaker 3: they're certainly in significant consideration for a spot when expansion happens.
Speaker 3: Do you get a sense that that's reality or are
Speaker 3: we just living a non reality life here in Utah.
Speaker 5: No, I think it's realistic Scott, that Salt Lake City
Speaker 5: could become a major League team. There's some issues that
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball needs to get through. First, they need
Speaker 5: to figure out the Tampa Bay situation. It appears they
Speaker 5: have some clarity on that now, and they also have
Speaker 5: to get I think some clarity on the athletics because Okay,
Speaker 5: yes they did their quote unquote groundbreaking in Vegas. I'm
Speaker 5: still not one hundred percent sold that they're moving to Vegas.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's more than likely than not they
Speaker 5: will end up there. But nothing having worked for an organization,
Speaker 5: which I did for ten years, nothing would surprise me
Speaker 5: with that team. Like could they go back to Oakland?
Speaker 5: I think every option is on the table. Could they
Speaker 5: stay in Sacramento. Could John Fisher, who owns the team,
Speaker 5: get fed up with a situation and things are stalling
Speaker 5: in Vegas because keep in mind, he's got to pay
Speaker 5: for the majority of the ballpark himself, and as he
Speaker 5: get frustrated and decide to walk away and look to sell.
Speaker 5: And if that's the case, then would for example, Ryan
Speaker 5: Smith be active about trying to get the major league
Speaker 5: team there to Salt Lake City? We saw how aggressive
Speaker 5: he was in pursuit of bring him. Then the Coyotes
Speaker 5: up and now the Mammoth getting ready for their second
Speaker 5: year and it is the whirlwin And how crazy it
Speaker 5: was that how quickly that deal came together. But I
Speaker 5: wouldn't rule anything out at this point. But I think
Speaker 5: major League Baseball has some other issues Scott to deal
Speaker 5: with as far as both Tampa Bay and the Athletics.
Speaker 5: And I also think the whole labor situation because we
Speaker 5: could be headed toward a lockout potentially after next baseball season.
Speaker 3: Ooh, were you with the A's when they were doing Moneyball?
Speaker 5: I was not? And when so when Moneyball that was
Speaker 5: back the two early part of the early to mid
Speaker 5: two thousands. I was working for the Marlins at the time. So,
Speaker 5: but it was prevalent. You know, every buddy paid attention
Speaker 5: to what Oakland was doing, and it just seemed at
Speaker 5: the time that they were ahead of the game. What
Speaker 5: Billy Bean was doing and he talked about were hard
Speaker 5: counters at the casino, and they were creative about the
Speaker 5: way they did things. And for example, the movie Moneyball,
Speaker 5: really it cracks me up, to be honest with you, because, well,
Speaker 5: for example, it featured Scott Hadiberg and Chad Bradford, who
Speaker 5: were key players on that team. I'm not saying they weren't,
Speaker 5: But what the movie neglects was the Aides had three
Speaker 5: dominant ages at the top of the rotation. They had
Speaker 5: Tim Hudson, Mark Bulder, and Barry Zito, and two of
Speaker 5: those guys won Cyug Awards at one point in their career.
Speaker 5: Yet it kind of gets glossed over in the movie.
Speaker 5: And oh, by the way, that year they also had
Speaker 5: the American League MVP in Miguel Tahata, which kind of
Speaker 5: also doesn't really get featured in the film. And the
Speaker 5: other thing, I hate to burst the fan out, there's
Speaker 5: but you never had to pay for soda in the clubhouse.
Speaker 5: That's complete hogwash.
Speaker 3: I love this And Rudy wasn't wasn't real either, by
Speaker 3: the way, I know that one too.
Speaker 5: They had to make it more appealing, right, of course
Speaker 5: they did for the audience. Oh, it was such a
Speaker 5: great start. Chad Bradford, who is this, you know, submarine
Speaker 5: specialist that comes in and Scott Hadiberg teaching him to
Speaker 5: play first base. It's it's got to be more attractive
Speaker 5: than talking about Moulder, Hudson and Zeno.
Speaker 3: But don't you think that sports actually in its raw form,
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't have to embellish it. There's plenty
Speaker 3: of great stories that you know, you can just state
Speaker 3: of the true true nature of them, and they're they're
Speaker 3: very compelling. I don't know, I just I don't think
Speaker 3: you have to embellish it to make it wonderful.
Speaker 5: No, And look, the twenty game win streak was incredible.
Speaker 5: Right to see the A's win night after night and
Speaker 5: think about that, twenty consecutive wins and that's you're on
Speaker 5: top of your game for over three straight weeks. That's
Speaker 5: incredible to do. And then, of course the Indians or
Speaker 5: the Guardians, I think they were the I think they
Speaker 5: were the Indians. Were they the Guardians at the time
Speaker 5: that they won the twenty two in a row?
Speaker 4: I remember because I thought they were the Indians.
Speaker 5: Okay, just Cleveland, I'll say, if and just go Cleveland.
Speaker 5: But that's it's crazy to think about how consistent you
Speaker 5: need to be. And the other is you know this
Speaker 5: as well as anybody. Those professionals on the other side,
Speaker 5: I don't care, for example, how bad the Colorado Rockies
Speaker 5: are this year. That is a major league team and
Speaker 5: they're professionals and they're competing at the highest level. And
Speaker 5: to win twenty consecutive major league games, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Well it is because you talk about the bad teams
Speaker 3: are still really good, and they are. And that line
Speaker 3: between winning and losing is so thin, and it's just
Speaker 3: and it moves all the time. And you know, you
Speaker 3: can walk into a game and say, oh man, we
Speaker 3: got this, and we are just on top of the
Speaker 3: world and we're playing a garbage team today and you
Speaker 3: get it handed to you or the other way around.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like, I don't know if we got
Speaker 3: a shot today, and all of a sudden, you beat
Speaker 3: the best team in the world. So yeah, it's to
Speaker 3: do that is absolutely incredible to win that number of
Speaker 3: games in a row.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go ahead.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, just about upsets. Okay, upsets happen, but to
Speaker 5: do it on the road and you're fatigued, you're tired,
Speaker 5: but you keep grinding and you see upsets, crazy upsets
Speaker 5: more in college, and you do professionally because the pros
Speaker 5: are just not upsets. It's because they're professionals. They're getting
Speaker 5: paid just like everybody Else's all.
Speaker 3: Right, in our little game we're playing here, I'm going
Speaker 3: to let you it's it's dealer's choice, So you get
Speaker 3: to pick which sport you want to talk about that
Speaker 3: you broadcast. Give me relevant information that I need to.
Speaker 5: Know, relevant information that we need to know. Well, I
Speaker 5: went and watched by U basketball practice the other day.
Speaker 5: Is that relevant?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah, we're on the we're on the Voice of Utah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm kidding.
Speaker 5: Rival from hang.
Speaker 3: On, let me give you because this is this is
Speaker 3: my perspective, and I'm a big fan of Look, I
Speaker 3: went to Utah and I left and I went, you know,
Speaker 3: and played professional football and all that stuff. And I
Speaker 3: want my uthes to be on the national stage. And
Speaker 3: I think by U basketball is headed there, if it
Speaker 3: isn't there already, and they're making that commitment, whether it's
Speaker 3: financially and whatever they're doing. You know, they get the
Speaker 3: number one prospect in the country and and it looks
Speaker 3: like they've got a pretty solid basketball team this year.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it's and it's mind boggling to me because here
Speaker 3: you're in the Big Twelve and you talk about what
Speaker 3: is this? This conference is known for basketball, and it's
Speaker 3: certainly not known for BYU basketball, But they are making
Speaker 3: a name for themselves. And I'm just saying, hey, big
Speaker 3: brother up the street forty five minutes away, you better
Speaker 3: get your act together or you're going to get left
Speaker 3: in the dust.
Speaker 4: That's my take on this.
Speaker 5: Well, I think the Big Twelve took notice that byus
Speaker 5: a player last year with look what Kevin Young did
Speaker 5: with certainly some support both financially and off the floor
Speaker 5: that they're going to compete and they've got the resources
Speaker 5: to do it. And last year, for example, Jegor Demon
Speaker 5: the top ten pick this year in the NBA Draft,
Speaker 5: and they go out and as you alluded to, Aj
Speaker 5: Debantsa coming in as the top prospect of the country,
Speaker 5: Richie Saunders staying, they have depth, they're really talented, and
Speaker 5: they're going to be really good and I don't see
Speaker 5: it slowing down anytime soon. And maybe that's what motivated
Speaker 5: the coaching change in Utah and to try to kind
Speaker 5: of copy. I don't want to say copy what they're doing,
Speaker 5: but certainly the way the Utah puts their stamp on it,
Speaker 5: because we know how proud of a basketball program the
Speaker 5: running youth have.
Speaker 3: You do you think that basket, you know, you talk
Speaker 3: about putting a stamp or copying it. You know you
Speaker 3: have Kevin Young who's it? You know, watching by U,
Speaker 3: it looked more like a pro style game. You know,
Speaker 3: the floor was spread out more and and it looked,
Speaker 3: you know, more of a free or flowing game and
Speaker 3: as opposed to kind of hunkered in and you know,
Speaker 3: and in a half court game. And and so Utah
Speaker 3: Alex Jensen, who was a former player but had a
Speaker 3: lot of extensive experience as an assistant in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's a just a one or two
Speaker 3: off just just because of it, you know, the nature
Speaker 3: of the schools here, or is this potentially a trend
Speaker 3: in college basketball in general.
Speaker 5: Well, I think for example, with Utah seeing a success
Speaker 5: that Byu had, I'm sure it had some influence on
Speaker 5: hiring Alex Jenson and of course the former player, but
Speaker 5: with the NBA experience, but you're seeing that some NBA
Speaker 5: guys in the college game and have success. And for example,
Speaker 5: my alma mater over at cal Mark Madson, who was
Speaker 5: at Utah Valley, did a really good job as a
Speaker 5: college head coach coach in the NBA with the Lakers
Speaker 5: played in the NBA for a long time. USC Eric
Speaker 5: Musselman was a head coach in the NBA even the
Speaker 5: mid major quote unquote programs. Mike Bibbie gets hired as
Speaker 5: the head coach at Sacramento State. You're seeing that NBA
Speaker 5: influence now come in to the college game. And it's
Speaker 5: not just that influence, but when I watch Arizona play,
Speaker 5: for example, the free flowing offense that Tommy Lloyd has
Speaker 5: and when they were doing at Gonzaga when he was
Speaker 5: there as well, that's kind of what the thought process is.
Speaker 5: And I thought how creative Mark Pope was when he
Speaker 5: was the coach at BYU and their offense, and now
Speaker 5: he carries it to Kentucky. So I think we're seeing
Speaker 5: more of that NBA influence come into the college game.
Speaker 3: All right, I got one more question for you, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to pick the sport. Uh, this is our last question.
Speaker 3: The game done amazing, by the way. I'm very impressed
Speaker 3: how you play this game. But so the Mammoth, of
Speaker 3: course they were the Coywites.
Speaker 4: Now they're the Mammoth.
Speaker 3: We're trying, we're slowly being convinced that the Mammoth was
Speaker 3: a thing here in Utah. But it was just a
Speaker 3: long time. It's ten thousand years ago, it's but we're
Speaker 3: catching up to history. What is it going to take
Speaker 3: and have the Have the Mammoth done enough to make
Speaker 3: it to be a playoff team this year?
Speaker 4: In this in this NHL season.
Speaker 5: I thought they could have been a playoff team last year,
Speaker 5: but things had to go right and they had so
Speaker 5: many injuries. Got in the blue line right, with John
Speaker 5: Marine missing as much time as he did, Sergachev was
Speaker 5: banged up on Dursey was out for an extended period
Speaker 5: of time. It makes it hard to compete when guys
Speaker 5: you're counting on and that was basically you didn't have
Speaker 5: half of your defense corps for a good chunk of
Speaker 5: the season. I like the move they made to go
Speaker 5: get Paterka to give them some more firepower up front.
Speaker 5: And look, guys that score twenty five thirty goals a year,
Speaker 5: they don't grow on trees. And when I look at
Speaker 5: the top six offensively that they have with the great
Speaker 5: season that Keller had, the emergence of Gunther like, this
Speaker 5: is a team that can't compete. The problem that they
Speaker 5: have is you look at the division and how good
Speaker 5: Dallas is and the firepower Colorado has. It is a
Speaker 5: very tough division to compete in and that's what they're
Speaker 5: going to have to do. But I think they can push.
Speaker 5: I think that there's a lot of young talent that's
Speaker 5: pushing under the radar move I like to pick up
Speaker 5: a Brandon Tanev. You need to have a little sandpaper
Speaker 5: out there and some depth. This is the team that
Speaker 5: I think is definitely the upswing and could push for
Speaker 5: a playoff spot next year.
Speaker 4: I sure hope so.
Speaker 3: For the sake and the sanity of all sports fans
Speaker 3: in the state of Utah, we.
Speaker 4: Need some winning.
Speaker 3: We're in the process of rebuilding all of our professional
Speaker 3: sports teams except for RSL. RSL is doing quite well.
Speaker 5: So well, I'll say that Mammoth. They're not rebuilding at
Speaker 5: this point. They're rising. They were bottomed out and they
Speaker 5: consistently been getting better, so they're on the rise. How's that.
Speaker 3: I love the optimism. Hey, and thank you so much
Speaker 3: for humoring me with this little game we played. I
Speaker 3: hope it wasn't too much for you. I didn't ask
Speaker 3: you to name any Papolynesian names, so hopefully it was
Speaker 3: a good day, a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate thanks for having me. Man.
Speaker 4: All right, have a good day you too. All right,
Speaker 4: there you have it. Roxy Bernstein, of course, he is
Speaker 4: the man.
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