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Speaker 2: And we're going to get into a little alleged football

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little recruiting segment here. Ryder lions is live right now

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on his Instagram fet. He may be committing, maybe signing,

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he's already committed. He may be signing with the BYU

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Cougar's had to work a few things out earlier today.

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We'll see how it plays out here momentarily on the

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Instagram live. But let's get out to the hotline. Welcome

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in Brandon Huffman of two four seven Sports to tell

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us a little bit about what's cooking with the Cougars

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in the recruiting order.

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Speaker 4: Brent, And how the heck are you, buddy?

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Speaker 5: Hey, I am doing great.

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Speaker 3: It would be nice if we get this announcement from

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jameson pal here because it's kind of a lot of

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thing I'm waiting for on.

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Speaker 5: This crazy day. Oh and there's also the Rider Liones

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news chack.

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Speaker 2: It yeah, I mean, any surprises, any flips, anything that

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kind of has occurred today that you were taken back by.

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Speaker 3: Well, the big one is Henry is the top receiver

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in California. You know, his teammate Kid and Dixon, why

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he was committed Ohio State flipped to USC this morning.

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And then Chris Tendu was on his way to school

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when he got the news about Brian Hartline. So he

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is not yet signed anywhere. Oregon is making a push,

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USC's making a push, Texas is getting involved Ohio States.

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You know, he's been committed for two and a half years,

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trying to get him back in the full So that's

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been kind of the big one so far today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he have a prognostication on where he could end up.

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Is it going to go to the highest bidder type

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of deal. It sounds like he was pretty connected to

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heart Line there at Ohio State. Now with hardline head

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the USF, he's got to find a new home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he's going to USF. Sorry, bullstand.

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I know you're probably a little excited thinking that by

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the possibility that ain't happening. From the sounds of it,

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it's going to likely the Oregon us He is making

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a push right now. I think that Oregon has in

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the school that has been involved the most in trying

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to flip him for the last couple of weeks and

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nearly for the last couple of years, if we're really

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being honest and so, I think that the dust could

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end up being even with will Stein leave and I

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think that could end up being the ultimate destination for him.

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Speaker 4: Why isn't Byu in on the mix.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't he have some connectivity here locally, somehow, some way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's Paulynesian, have Polynesian. I think he's got family

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ties into Utah. You know, it's funny this morning that

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the school that I was hearing that was the wild

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card was actually West Virginia. You know, his dad played

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for rich Rodriguez at West Virginia. But you know in

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West Virginia had a home of close today. But I

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don't think that's going to happen. I think it's going

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to eat to be Oregon or USC, which has been

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you know, rumored for months that those are the two

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schools that had the best chance of getting him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's hope he finds a home. I'm sure

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he will. He's one of the highest prospects, highest rated

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prospects in the country, so Rider Lyons. I don't know

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if we've heard official news. I don't know if we

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have any breaking news, Ronald. I'll try to keep an

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eye on this stuff later. Signing. It looks like I

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think we just had got off the phone with Will

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Speaker 4: Have been worked out.

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Speaker 2: I think he should be signing with the Cougars if

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he does. How good of a get is it for BYU?

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Speaker 3: Well, it'd be a significant because now you know, with

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the emergence of Bear Bachmeyer, it gives them a quarterback

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that can take over the reins in two thousand and whatever.

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twenty twenty seven. Now you've got a year to get

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him back acclimated. It again, you got Bart going into

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his junior year, and you've got that bridge before Bear

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goes on to the NFL. If that's the calendar that

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we're looking at. But obviously he would be a significant

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get for BYU from a procession standpoint going into California,

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you know, beating Oregon, beating USC, beating Lane Kiff in

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an all myth, and then in the last couple of weeks,

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you know the transpiring of Lan Kipp and going to LSU,

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eleventh hour now that Miami has been in contact and

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trying to get him, and I know Oregon never relented

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even with will Stein Leavin. Now like with Chris Henry.

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I don't think he's going to West Virginia. I don't

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think there's any chance that Riderlands goes to Kentucky. So

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it's a big one because it's not just the challenge

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that you got, but it's the player, the teams you

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beat to get him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a special class for by. Is this

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the best class in recruited class in BA football history?

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Speaker 3: You know, I was looking and trying this thing from

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a rating standpoint. It's going to be one of their

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higher rated classes ever. But I got to think back

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to maybe the twenty ten class the Jake.

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Speaker 5: Keeps Ross Apo.

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Speaker 3: Was that Alani Fua zach Stout type of twenty ten

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class where they were, you know, really doing well in

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cooking under Bronco. To have a class that's got the

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national caliber recruits that they beat so many elite schools

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had to head.

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Speaker 4: For, yeah, that was I'm looking.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the composite ranking on the website and

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that ended up being I think thirty third in the

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country at least what I have in front of me.

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I don't know if it's an accurate depiction, but I

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mean it's right there.

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Speaker 4: Man. This this this crew.

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Speaker 2: If everyone's retained right, you never know what can happen.

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like this is a kind of a pivotal shift for

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b What we thought this shift was happening in twenty ten,

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but then BAA was essentially forced an independence and they

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didn't get the call up to the P five ranks,

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and it was just a different time, different places. They

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had to go into independence and wander the wilderness for

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you know, almost most thirteen years. But now it seems

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like this is the time, this is the place, this

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is the change, This is momentum that's really creating some

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positive momentum in Cougar Country.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, if you look at the

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timing of really you go back to last fall when

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scenes really turned around on the field. There was that

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obviously really tough twenty twenty three season as they're getting

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adjusted to the Big twelve events, twenty fourth season happened,

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and it seems like, you know, ever since then with it,

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whether it was the ballgame in San Antonio, the you know,

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you get a Bear Bockmeier out of it, and it's

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like things have been just cooking for BYU for the

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last play fifteen to sixteen months. And I think that,

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you know, this is going to sound weird, because I

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would imagine that the last seventy two hours ninety six

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hours have been some nashing his teenth and some freaking out.

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It's Kilana going to go to Penn State. And you

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know how many times we heard Plani's name mentioned, and

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you all know that the culture he's built there, we

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always hear his name mentioned, but you never think he's

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going to leave, and this maybe looked like it was

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the closest he's ever to leave in that should tell

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you what kind of demand that he has as a coach.

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of shows like, hey, you know what, Bilani has this

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thing exactly where we want it to be, and he's

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catapulting him to even be further than BYU probably thought

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that they could be after that.

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Speaker 5: Twenty three season.

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Speaker 3: And so the momentum continues to build and it's trickling

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down into the recruiting ranking, just thing down into the

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recruiting class, and I think that that you know, you

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can't have a better ninety six hours, even though it's

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stressful at the beginning.

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Speaker 5: Of the week.

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Speaker 3: I think with him doubling down, sticking with BYU and

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now writer with a talk that maybe he wasn't going

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to sign to now signing today, you know there could

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still be some late drama here with BYU with a

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couple other players. You know, this is the kind of

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stuff that if you're a BUYU fan, this week has

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been a roller coaster, but you are exhilarated with the

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results of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do.

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Speaker 2: We do have some I guess breaking news. Rider lines

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are signed. Who's l OI to b YU and so

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he's a BYU Cougar. Big news for this BYU Cougar

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football team. As far as quarterbacks are concerned, right, you

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mentioned Jake Keeps, he was a big time recruit at

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that time. You look at some of the other commits

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that boy has received in the quarterback room since kind

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of the inception of two four seven and and the

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recruiting rankings. Where does Ryder rank out amongst the best

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quarterbacks that have signed with BYU.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean from a ranking standpoint, obviously, Jay Keith

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was the highest rated guy five star at the time.

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I was at scott dot Com. We had him as

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the number one quarterback in the country in that twenty

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ten class. From a overall talent standpoint, I mean Rogers

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Steve Young signed or Jim McMahon signed. So I'm not

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even going to try to football is different back then anyway,

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Speaker 5: This has got to be.

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Speaker 3: In the social media era, this may be their most

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significant signing period, no matter what position it is on

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the football field. You know, Twitter wasn't as big in

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twenty ten as it is now. But I mean, Rider

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Lion is also a brand. Jake Keath is a quarterback,

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very talented quarterback. Obviously things didn't work out like he

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had hoped, but Ryder Lions is a brand. And I

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think that from a perception standpoint too, You're getting a

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guy who is being off the field, and that doesn't

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even get into discussion of how good he is on

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the field. Got a chance to win second state championship

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as a starter at Fullsome. They got a regional championship

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game this weekend and then if they win that they

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played for the state title in two weeks. You know,

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he's been selected to play in the Under Arming Game,

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the Navy All American Ball, the Polynesian Boll. I mean,

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able to get in recent years, and that you know

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is pretty significant too in an era where it is

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about branding just as much as it's about the ability

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on the field.

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Speaker 2: Ryder Lyons is an interesting study, you know.

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Speaker 4: BYU fans.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've talked many times with the years, we

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Speaker 4: Complex, right.

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Speaker 2: We feel like the ratings go down for our prospects

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once they commit to BYU. You've heard it, Tom and

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Tom again, Brandon. They feel like Ryder Lions should be

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a five star. Why isn't he a five star? Huffman?

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the brink of a five star rating?

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Ben, I haven't heard any

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of the questions of like, oh, Adam Bywater moved up

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to a four star. Oh no, Petty Mlwaala moved up

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to a four star. We only people only complain about

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the player who dropped. They never acknowledged that it's a

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ranking sucked and they must suck that we rated a

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bunch of guys hired than where they are to begin with.

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Speaker 5: So there's my answer.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that as soon as people give us

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the flowers. On those players who saw their ratings bump.

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Speaker 2: Up, It's very true. No, a number of players got

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their ratings bump up. Look, your your your team, your crew,

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you yourself. You got eyes on these guys, especially late

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in the season. You did in person evals and you

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elevated certain players you got eyes on.

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Speaker 4: And look, you guys have shown you guys are the most.

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Speaker 2: Credible uh credible in uh uh you know platform in

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the industry as it pertains to this, and you're way

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more right than you've ever been wrong.

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Speaker 4: So I think you got to trust the process.

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Speaker 2: If you're a BYU fan and say, hey, this is

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the rating, this is what it is.

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Speaker 4: Take it or leave it.

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Speaker 2: Take it or leave it now it's up to ride

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or to say, hey, I was a five star and

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go out and get go go out and get his flowers.

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Maybe put a little chip on his should because he

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didn't get that five star.

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Speaker 3: For sure, and I mean he's still considered one of

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the top half dozen quarterbacks in the class. He's still

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projected at worth a second round draft pick. Which when

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was the last time b YU had a first round

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draft pick quarterback not named Zach Wilson? And what was

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he when he came out of high school? He outplayed

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his ranking, So you know, you got to trust if

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you're byu. Hey, our coaches turned a three star into

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the number two or three taken the draft, and now

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we've got an elite quarterback that if our coaches developed

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like they did with previous quarterbacks, then we're gonna have

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that first round quarterback again. So I think again, yes,

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the quarterbacks are the ones that draw the attention, They

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draw all the eyeballs. But I think that the bigger

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story here is getting in on a ty Getchee when

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he was starting to see his recruitment blow up, and

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then washing him become a four star Jack Stanner, who's

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a composite four star as Paul is ready alignment, and

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now they got a wait two years. You know, I

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talked to a coach that I know in the state

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of Idaho who has been going up against him for

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three years. He said, do one of the happiest days

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my life was tight was Jack Stanners senior night because

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I'm sick of having to try to defend him or

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try to have to, you know, get my defensive players

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to go against him, you know, and a little Petti Mawala.

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I mean, I think it was on this show a

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couple of weeks ago where I said that the best player,

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best defensive player I've seen this season across six states

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and that includes you know, going to California, going to Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado,

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and Arizona. Lopetti Mawala is the best defensive player that

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I saw and the jump that he made, So you know,

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we could bemoan what Riders done. But I think get

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the few i U stuff some credit for some really

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good Ben Ben Bodywater. Sorry, Sorry Ben, Sorry Adam. You know,

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the younger brothers never want to be called their big

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brother's name. I mean, that's the thing that I'd be

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really excited about. And then we haven't even talked about

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the best player in this class, not name writer in Bob,

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who was an elite defensive lineman. They flipped him from

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Oregon and Oregon doesn't lose a lot of recruits that

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they get early on and Bot, you know, wants to

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be an offensive lineman. He goes out wins the MVP.

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Speaker 5: At the under Hummer camp.

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Speaker 3: I mean this class, if you're a DYU fan, you

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could look at this twenty twenty sixth class as being

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one of the most you know, satisfying classes because in

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an era where some guys nail it in as a senior,

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you saw three or four guys that they just raised

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their game to another level this year, and you had

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to be jack. If you're a YU.

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Speaker 2: Fan, Yeah, this is a fantastic class. I always always

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ask it, who's the most underrated in this class? Would

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you say, Brandon Houffin, you got Bot, you got Brock, Harris,

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Adam Bywater, Tigetchi Lapetti, Mawala, Jacks Tanner, Terrence Serian Brexton,

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Lindsay Kaboacana Legend, Glasger, Matthew Mason, Graham, Livingston Parker, ord

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Cepaniah A Latini, Antonio Johnson, Neamiah Cologne, Justice Braithwaite, and

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Devon Ecka.

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Speaker 4: Now writer lines.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Sef and I a Latini. I'm a

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big stand of Seth and Iah. You know that league

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that he plays in, the West Castle Athletic League, is

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the best league in northern California. He's been a stalwart

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for an outstanding Saint Francis team the last couple of years.

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I think that, you know, he's a player that just

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doesn't get a lot of attention.

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Speaker 5: He's hurt a little bit in.

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Speaker 3: The offseason, hasn't been able to do a lot of

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the offseason camp. But I think he's going to end

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up being a very valuable player, whether it's the safety,

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whether he ends up moving up into the box.

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Speaker 5: I love the way Seth and Ia plays.

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Speaker 4: Love that breakdown.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Huffman here on ESPN the Fan talking BYU's recruiting class,

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their signing class for the twenty twenty six crew, the

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Cougar Crew of twenty twenty six. Pretty pretty impressive work

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that Kilane in his half of put Together. You look

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at the momentum, You look at the recruiting rankings here

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by US right now, eleven and one they have. They're

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coming off an eleven and two season, their their third year.

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Speaker 4: In the Big twelve.

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Speaker 2: You know their average recruiting ranking under Kolone I wouldn't

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say it's been overly impressive, right, but you're seeing would

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you say that like b YU overachieves under Kilanne versus

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their recruiting ranking year over year, and if so, like

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by how much?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's funny because you look at the schools

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that consistently are competing for national championship, they're using the

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ones that are you know, kicking above their their weight class.

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We're punching at their weight class from a recruiting standpoint.

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And I think that you know, Kilani has done a

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fantastic job of really in this. I don't want this

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to sound as a flight because there's some very content

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players that were highly talented coming out of high school

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that had been really.

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Speaker 5: Good at BYU.

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Speaker 3: But he really did a good job of finding fits

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for the programs, cultural fits, and then development. The player

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development there is as good as you're going to see

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in the Western United States. And I think that that's

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what he's done is he may not in previous year

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has not had the flashiest class, but those guys really

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fit what BYU was looking for and what BYU was

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really trying to do. And I think the coaching.

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Speaker 5: And the development and the other.

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Speaker 3: Big thing is the consistency in that staff. There's such

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little turnover with that staff in comparison to so many

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other schools that that there's something to be said about

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that those guys know that that same voice they're going

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to hear for three or four years on one side

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of the ball or at one position group. That guy

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that was there as a freshman, that was sitting in

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their living room when they were in high school, he's

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going to be there when they're senior. Maybe when they

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come back to their mission, he's there still. And I

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think that that's that goes back to culture, and that's

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why Penn State, I think, was so interested in hiring

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colonies because they have that culture. And then there is

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the player development, whereas you know, maybe Penn State didn't

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get that kind of development from their coach who did

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have recruiting classes. Maybe they were looking for something a

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little bit opposite that that kind of run the most

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talent he could out of that rag. And I think

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that's what Kolani does is he does such a good

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job at evaluation and then developing that it looks like

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consistently they're out playing what their ranking is.

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Speaker 2: So my question is this, now that they're ranking, if

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they get into this mode right where they're overachieving on

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the football field and they're obtaining top twenty talent year

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in year out, let's say top twenty, top thirty talent

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year in the route. What's the potential for them as

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a college football playoff contender? Do you think they can

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obtain enough talent develop enough talent to compete and win.

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Speaker 4: In the college football playoff?

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Speaker 3: I mean, they were what a couple turnovers early on

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a year ago from playing for the Big Twelve title

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and potentially being in the playoffs, and we're seventy two

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hours away from seeing if they're going to be, you know,

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getting a playoff home game if they knock off Texas text.

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So I think that, you know, the momentum has already

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been building and now it's okay, you're getting the players.

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You're doing this with good players. When people were questioning

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is Kwani the right man for the job? Those guys

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that maybe when they were scuffling in the first year

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of the Big Twelve are now the reason that they

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have a chance to play on Saturday for a chance

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of going to the playoffs. And you know, what are

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they going to do when they get better talent coming

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out of high school with the ability to develop that

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they've been showing. I don't think there's any any way

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to think otherwise that DYU is going to be a

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top three program in the Big twelve for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 2: Love the breakdown, Brandon, always love talking ball with you.

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What a great recruiting class for Kilani and his crew.

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Hopefully Klinie can keep all the coaching staff together for

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another run next season and they can continue this momentum.

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But pretty tremendous to see what they've accomplished over the

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last few years. Best way to support you, huff and

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what you do, how you do it For all of our.

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Speaker 3: Listeners, Hey, twenty four to seven Sports is where to go.

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You can find all my content there on twenty four

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twenty four to seven network the YU side, but at

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Twitter at Brandon Huffman or I guess x whatever we

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call on in you know, there still might be some

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more recruiting stuff going on these next couple of days

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to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I was wondering is it flip season possibly?

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Speaker 5: Can we see some any guys?

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Speaker 3: There is buzz that there might be some flipping in

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the future.

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Speaker 4: Here, flip season, let's go.

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Speaker 2: You said forty eight hours, seventy two hours, what are

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we looking at?

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Speaker 3: So let's see, seventy two hours is when the big

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twelve championship games be done. Forty eight hours in the

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signing period, and so let's say the next seventy two hours.

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: All right, Huffman, we appreciate you. That's why you guys

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me all the insight, and they do it, and it's

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always worth it.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so muchf Man. We appreciate you any time.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate it.

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