Speaker 1: Just like the Cougar football team. Bn Kreddle was built,
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little college basketball talk here. Yes, indeed, love me some
Kevin Young Kyu and there's BAYU basketball team. They look
fantastic in the exhibition versus UNC and I think they'll
continue to get better and better throughout the season. There's
going to be accelerated growth, accelerated continuity, chemistry and culture
built on this team. Even though there are there is
a significant amount of new faces, new personalities, h just
newness to this roster. They can get old stayaled real
quick in my opinion because k Y you and his staff, right,
they have a fantastic organizational design. Elite organizational design combined
with elite culture creates elite results and it doesn't take time.
There's no me, there's no me first type of situation
down there at for BYU basketball. The culture is winning
out I think this year, and we're going to see
immediate impact. The biggest thing is just keeping them healthy, right,
keeping them strong, and you can keep them healthy probably
with no I can't. I don't want to say. That
may be a histing a byword, a little bit of
load management. You're gonna have to utilize, you know, eight
to eleven man rotation. It may be twelve man rotation
by the time we get into common Frints play and
that's okay.
Speaker 2: Remember we didn't think that that was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: We thought it would be a little bit tighter, but
we saw in at the end of Big twelve play
and into conference tournament and NCAA tournament play, the.
Speaker 2: Rotation expanded.
Speaker 3: I think when were we were averaging Rodnie like eleven
almost twelve players per game. At eleven players a game, yet,
I mean it was it was awesome and I don't
think k why expected that, but that's where he found
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Speaker 2: So now's the time. Now's the place.
Speaker 3: The big twelves bya Cougars have played now two exhibition
games and split them, losing at Nebraska and the defeating
North Carolina Raise up at the Delta Center. Villanova, Okay,
has played and split two exhibition games as well. They
beat the VCU Rams and lost to Virginia. Shout out
to Dalla Hall, We miss you BYU and Villanova have
met three times in the past, with all the meetings
taking place on a neutral court. BYU is one and
two against Villanova all time. Would that win coming way
back in nineteen seventy The Cougars and Wildcats are meeting
as part of the Hall of Fame series in Viva
Las Vegas, So seven thirty pm Mountain Time, Okay at
Team Mobile Arena in Vegas. You can find it on
your TV station wherever you subscribe or whatever you have
TNT and True TV. It's also I don't know if
you saw this online HBO Max.
Speaker 2: You can get it there.
Speaker 3: TV broadcast team is comprised of Brian Anderson, play by play,
Grant Hill, andle the shout out to Grant Hill. Grant
Hill drink Sprite. Sprite is not a sponsor. They can be,
but I'm just reflecting on a commercial of the past
in my childhood. Andy Katz guys, Andy Katz is going
to be on the sideline for this, So it's gonna
be a nice It's gonna be a nice crew. All
eyes on BYU basketball as well. How do you see
this game? Ronald the three man Weaver? What's your scouting
report on Villa Nova?
Speaker 2: What do you see it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think the key is gonna come down to Ken
beat rebat excuse me, good and gracious? Can Bay you
rebound the basketball and give themselves second chance opportunities when
it matters most. That was the key right last year,
Ki Baketa and Fu san Intro set the tone a
lot on the glass. You can't get out rebounded. You
can't give the opposing team. The opposition second chance points.
You need to grab your second chance points and then
grab the defensive rebounds and push the ball in transition.
So I think if they're able to do that, Ben,
push the ball in transition, score at a fast pace,
and grab rebounds. I really think that's how you're going
to be at to slow this Villanova team down. Obviously,
they need to take care of their own things. They
need to shoot the three ball better. Fifteen to fifty
six in the last two exhibition games. But again their
exhibition for a reason, got to guard the perimeter. That
was something to struggle with in that first exhibition. Can
have guys wide open, can't get lost in transosition, Gotta
get back on defense. So and then I think the
bench ben who comes off the bench to give Bou
a spark, when Rob Wright goes to the bench, when
Richie goes to the bench, when aj needs to take
a breather, I think Dawson Aer bakeing me a kick
as fast as you can. Dawson Baker can, I think
really emerges that person. I think we'll see him for
the first time this season tonight. He's going to be
the guy because when you think of a guy who
can go create their own shot, not a guy that
she can draw to and kick. We're talking about a
guy that can go take over a game, a walk
in thirty buckets, thirty points to whatever you want to do.
It's Dawson. It's number twenty five on the BAU basketball team.
So how they rotate their bench players and not how
they come I think that will determine what it comes
down to in that middle portion when guys are getting
a breather, but I do believe that aj Rob and
Richie will put the game away when.
Speaker 4: It matters most. In BYU covered tonight.
Speaker 2: Villano is in a little bit of a reset mode.
Speaker 3: Coach Kevin Willard takes over a revamp roster featuring two
key transfers Bryan Bryce Lindsay, Duke Brennan and Giant Stamford.
The Wildcats win two and two in their last four games,
by the way, and split their twenty twenty five exhibition
matchup and beat VCU and lost to Virginia. As I
mentioned a couple of things here as it pertains to
the lines, by US a heavy favorite nine and a
half point favorite.
Speaker 4: Uh and uh.
Speaker 3: I believe the over under set at one fifty three
point five so ESPN Matchup Predictor gives by US sixty
eight point five percent chance of victory there in Vegas.
All right, let's hear from Kevin Young. Okay, uh, your
head coach. Uh, this was on Halloween by the way
of prepping, uh, you know, kind of a post exhibition
eval update on the BYU Cougar basketball team and prepping
for your for your matchup versus Villanova.
Speaker 2: Let's tune in.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna get back to it having a
little technical difficulty there as we get your prep, get
you ready for this BYU Villanova matchup the Villanova Wildcats
Little Cougar on Cougar Action, seven thirty PM. As I mentioned,
and can't wait to see what happens with this game. Obviously,
Villanova ended last season. They their season ended versus UCF,
disappointing loss for them. Who was in ot right one
O four ninety eight and so and then BYU obviously
ended their season last year versus Alabama and and and
that was a that was a disappointing loss for the
BAU Cougar basketball team one thirteen to eighty eight. But
this is a revamped, remodeled restructure, a better defensive team
and a better, hopefully three point shooting team. We haven't
seen the efficiency from the three point line yet, still
a question mark, but I hope it it begins to
pick up from the perimeter. All right, let's get into it.
Kevin Young, head coach b YU men's basketball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kevin, I was wondering coming out of the exhibition games,
was there something maybe you learned about this group when
you reviewed the film that maybe you didn't realize about
this team during summer and fall practices.
Speaker 7: Everything, honestly, I mean, I'm still learning about our group.
But so I was just telling the coaches in our
meeting just now. You know, it's really hard to learn
about your team when you're just playing against the same
bodies every day in the same schemes and everyone knows
what you're doing. So it would be really hard for
me to just pinpoint one thing. I mean, I think
I'm learning where to get aj the ball. I'm thinking
and learning about what do we need to do when
Rob penetrates.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about, you.
Speaker 7: Know, when we take Rob ab out, who we put
in you know, it literally litany of things, and so
you know, it's great to have the caliber of opponents.
I wish we were healthier for the nebrask games so
we could have treated it more like a real game
like we did the Carolina one to really learn.
Speaker 2: But I could go on and on. I think the
for college.
Speaker 7: Basketball, I think the exhibition games have been a tremendous
I wish they would go more to the NBA model
where you have a lot more of those games.
Speaker 4: I think it's really good for the game.
Speaker 7: I think it helps the product when the regular season
comes to be that much better.
Speaker 6: And then when it also ask you just your thoughts.
I mean, year two for you to start things off
in a spotlight game where you know it's one of
the marquee games in the opening night of college basketball.
How far this program has evolved under your watch to
where it's a it's in a marquee spot nationally in
the sport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think about it. It's what it should be.
Speaker 7: It's what I said we wanted to make this place
when we got here. I'm grateful that people have decided
to come here to help us put us in that situation.
But this isn't like a you know, a feel good
moment because we have a quote unquote big game. Like
this is we want to play with the big boys.
We want to be a contender and all things college basketball.
And you know, it's not like a badge of honor
because we got a big game. It's like, that's what
we to, what we should want, and I'm glad that
we have it. And now it's a matter of going
out and h and producing.
Speaker 3: A couple of things here just kind of pontificating on
the and following up on the exhibitions and just being healthy. Look,
this BAU basketball team was not fully healthy versus Nebraska,
did not get into the rotations that he wanted to,
didn't have access to him. UNC game a little bit different.
They were finally healthy and they were able to get
into their rotations. A couple of other things. Here is
some of the questions that are still on the docket. Okay,
when he benches Rob Wright, who am I going with?
That has not been determined yet. And who's gonna be
the primary ball handler? When Rob right the thirties off
the court?
Speaker 2: Is it Aj? Is he gonna be your point forward?
Speaker 3: Is he gonna be your primary ball handler, distributor playmaker?
Speaker 2: If there could be that, like, they may have more.
Speaker 3: Trust in Aj setting up their half court offense and
finding the right shots for not only himself but for
the rest of the playmakers of this squad, of this
roster as the second unit, if you will, with Rob
on the bench, is it Nate Pickens, who's been a
guard a point guard? Is it Dawson Baker? To be determined,
that's gonna have to be earned. And that was one
of the main questions that he posed to himself and
the media in this media availability on all hallow Z
just a few days ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely think what you said is absolutely accurate.
AJ is one hundred percent being going to be the
next ball handler. I think if Rob goes out. You
saw it in the Blue and White game and Rob
didn't even play. AJ was playing point forward. So based
off of what we've seen and even the Nebraska game,
in the North Carolina game, when he goes out, AJ's
gonna have the ball in his hands.
Speaker 4: Kelly Youngs told him make the right read. So definitely
gonna see agent.
Speaker 5: But I think a couple of the guys that have
an opportunity tonight, what does Nate Pickens maybe give you.
He's gonna be more of a defensive guard in the
Tray Stewart type role, but they.
Speaker 4: Also can score. He can move to basketball as well.
Speaker 5: And then Dawson Baker is gonna have his opportunity to
night Ben, He's gonna have his opportunity to play the
scoring point guard, not really maybe set up the offense.
Maybe that's evolved in that development. We might see that.
But Dawson's gonna have the opportunity to run to pick
and roll. Remember last year when he and fus Or
in that pick and roll, they were so dominant because
if you play too high, Dawson would be at a
pinion deep and then get to the basket or get
that ball to Fos and work. Now a different team
inside the paint. But I think Dawson's another guy that
might have the opportunity. And lastly, I think this is
the guy that gets forgotten about. If he's in the game,
he can score. Canard Davis Junior can play some point
guard now Ben he can score, he can pass the ball,
set up the offense. One of Canard's biggest strengths is
not just his ability to shoot the three ball bin
and play defense, but Kannark can pass the ball as
well and stretch the floor and make the right lead.
Speaker 4: So I think those are your guys.
Speaker 5: Ag is your primary one that will do it when
Rob's out, But I think Nate, Dawson and Cannard they'll
rotate the ball through those three guys in the point
guard position, no doubt.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get back to the sound Kevin Young
the media on Halloween just a few days ago.
Speaker 4: A right go Jackson.
Speaker 8: Then Jay, Thank Kevin, I know that you had some
guys sidelined during the exhibition games. Just wondering where you
guys are at healthwise and if guys like Dawson and
Nate are going to play against Villanova.
Speaker 7: Still still to be determined on Dawson. I think we'll
have an update on Nate shortly. That's where we're at.
Speaker 9: Go ahead, j Drew, Yeah, Kevin.
Speaker 2: You're jump all right.
Speaker 3: Roddie, any any thoughts on this, you know his comments.
Any concerns here in your opinion?
Speaker 5: No, I don't think there are any concerns. I think
it's guys that are available to plays. Just do they
want to play them? Bean, do they want to get
them out there?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: I think these are week the week, you know type injuries,
maybe daily day.
Speaker 5: I think these guys are practicing, Ben they might be limited,
but I think that's the thing when you're practicing, Like
you mentioned in the first early SoundBite that we heard,
playing against yourself and doing what you're doing is a
little bit different than playing against someone else. You never
want to send a guy out there and get him hurt.
That's what they hell rob out. So I think it's
like that type of situation. Of these I think are
week to week. I don't know anything. This is just
assuming from what is common, so I don't think there's
any concern there. I think both of those guys can
be available to play, is just will they play, So
we'll find out.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get back to the sound talking some
BYU basketball with Kevin Young.
Speaker 9: With a really good opponent in Villanova. What's kind of
your readiness level of the team as opposed to maybe
last year at this time.
Speaker 7: I think the two exhibition games forced us to get
a lot more ready, with all due respect to what
we did last year's preseason. You know, it's a lot
different playing the caliber component of opponent. So I think
through that that's helped us, you know, I think. But
at the same time, it's early, right, it's super early
in the season, and we're still learning on how to
play together. I'm still learning how to sub this group
of learning on the on the right actions that need
to be run, the defenses that need to be employed.
So I feel good. I just told the coaches in
our meeting, I mean, this is the best I've felt
all offseason or preseason in terms of just how I'm
wrapping my personal head around what this team and what
this group of players needs. And you know, it's an
exciting challenge as with makes coaching really fun, you know,
especially in this era right where things change or changing
constantly year to year. It really really puts a lot
of strain on your mental capacity to to have to
think through all this stuff and get things ready. But
I'm enjoying that challenge.
Speaker 9: And then what have your preparations been, Like, obviously Kevin
Willard just knew Villanova the scouting, what what has gone
into that? What do you kind of expect from Villanova?
Speaker 2: And what have you prepared for?
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, he's obviously a veteran college coach,
so I think he has an identity. You know, I
have a lot of several coaches on my staff that
know the East coach really well. We've tapped into a
lot of our coaching friends out that way, have an
understanding of what Kevin Willard is kind of hangs his
hat on. Obviously had a lot of success, and so
you know, I think watching their exhibition game against Virginia
was we try to learn from that. You know, they
played VCU and like a secret scrimmage and so that
film is not available. But actually the head coach at
VCU is one of the few college coaches that I know,
Phil Martelly Junior. He was with our sixers organization for
a minute when I was out there, so we've chatted
with him, and you just try to do your homework
the best you can.
Speaker 4: I think it's it can be, it can be, it
can be. It can cut both.
Speaker 7: Ways where you try to forecast too much and now
you know, maybe they don't even do what you what
you had forecast, And so I think it's really important
to go out there and be the best version of
ourself and not try to get so caught up in
a guessing game of what they could do, but still
want to give our guys a little bit of a
heads up the best we can and based on the
things that you know, we we think they're gonna do.
So it's a it's a it's a bit of a
balancing balancing act, all right, Mitch.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kevin, I was curious, with a Monday night game,
how much does that kind of alter uh routines. I
know it's the first regular season game for this team,
but with no Sunday, you know, practice or anything like that.
Speaker 2: How does that alter things for you? Guys at b YU.
Speaker 7: Don't know honestly, Like, well, we'll figure it out, you know,
one of our first times doing it.
Speaker 4: But you know, not to get to like churchy or
spiritual with you.
Speaker 7: But what I found in my life, man, is when
you when you when you, when you kind of do
what you're supposed to do, and in this case, not
playing or doing things on Sunday is what we're supposed
to do. Usually you know you're blessed and you're not.
You're not, uh, you know, you don't get a ding
because you're trying to do the right thing. And that's
just kind of how I've always approached these kinds of things,
albeit more in my personal life and not not necessarily
in a work life. But that's that's my general approach there.
Speaker 6: And then also kind of going back to the court,
was there anything that you attribute the team struggles last
week from three against Carolinas or any concern moving forward
in that regard they were five to twenty five last week.
Speaker 2: No, it's a one game, all right, Ronnie. What do
you got for me? Some A couple of nuggets there
in my opinion, First, there.
Speaker 5: Let's start the last night. I'm just gonna tell my
colleagues everybody in media can't be asking Kevin youung those questions.
Speaker 4: He's gonna keep.
Speaker 5: Hitting you with those responses. It's an NBA coach like,
that's just how it goes. But he's got one game. Like, look,
this guy's not He's a no nonsense guy. You can
hear it in his voice. He wants to play ball
probably and get to it and keep it pushing. He
talked about, you know, the Big Boys club, that they
should be here. He's not gonna hang his hat and
get a participation trophy. He knows where they should be.
To the point of identity, I think it's good to
know who this Villanova team is. Obviously, I'd done a
little bit of a homework. Remember they went from Jay
Wright to Kyle Neptune. Kind of that was more physical.
They space in the four out, you know, one end
type offense switching. That's kind of what those teams deal with.
Jay Ryding, Kal Neptune, Kevin Willard, you know, coming from Maryland,
a little bit of a different thing. I think they're
gonna play a lot of man to man defense. They're
gonna be very hard. They're gonna be scrappy. They're gonna
try to force a lot of turnovers. So we're gonna
find out how tough I think BYU is tonight. I
think you can see BYU earn their their money at
the charity stripe Ben. They they like to be very
guard centric in the offense, so I think you're gonna
see again this is gonna be where we can see
Canard Davis Junior if he can be a big twelve
defensive player selection All type team, right, We're gonna see that.
So how do those two things take into effect? Just
thinking of the style of basketball Kevin Willard play when
he was at Maryland and what he's gonna ask of
his player. So I'm excited to see the defensive toughness
because they're gonna play Manda Man try to control the tempo.
And then they got experience offensive guards that they really
like to create off the dribble and create space for everybody.
Speaker 4: So we'll see what they do.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling good about them BYU Cougar basketball players and
are feeling good about these team.
Speaker 2: That's our segment.
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Speaker 2: Let's start off with this.
Speaker 3: By Football is in a good spot, I'd say a
great spot as a top ten team, and I think
more and more analysts are buying into the BYU hype,
more and more commentators are buying into the BYU hype.
ESPN college football insider Heather Dinitch is one of the
most recent to buy into the BYU Cougars. She makes
the case for BYU as a seventh seed in the
College Football Playoff initial rankings why they could be in
this spot. The Cougars had a bye week, and the
bye week did BYU pretty gosh dang well. A number
of teams ended up losing that. You know that we're
in the top ten, But will the committee's loan undefeated
Big twelve team be considered a high profile college football
team this go around. B yu's back to back wins
against Utah and Iowa State are collectively better than anything.
Undefeated Georgia Tech has it's on its resume heading into Saturday.
Aboo's ranked number five in ESPN Strength of Record, metric
ahead of number eight Georgia Tech. The more glaring discrepancy
is in the strength of schedule, though, where BYU was
number forty nine and Georgia Tech was number eighty three. Statistically,
boy and Georgia Tech have been extremely even in most
major categories, but the Cougars have done it against better competition.
So we're going to find out here shortly what the
College Football Playoff Committee think about the BYU Cougar's Where
do you see him being ranked?
Speaker 2: Ronald and why?
Speaker 5: Yeah, when I look at it, I'll just give you
mine a little bit of how I think the rankings
will go. I don't think actually Ohio State will be
number one, Ben. I think when you're taking the strength
of schedule and who's been played and how it looks.
I know Texas has done better and obviously they will
help Ohio State's case. I think Indiana will be number one.
I really think that program and what they do. The
extension came obviously we know to a certain coach. But
I think Indiana one, Ohio State two. I think Texas
and m will be three. I think those are the
three best teams in the country, no doubt. I do
have Alabama at four. I have Georgia at five, Oregon
at six. I believe b YU will be seven. I
believe Ole Miss will be right behind BYU at eight.
I just believe when they look at the conference champs
of who's leading, you have to take an undefeated team
into account. I don't think you'll put a one loss
Ole Miss over all undefeated BYU, and I think that's
why Old Miss will be right behind at eight. Then
you know Texas check at nine, and I think you
round it out with Norder Dame at tim. But I
got BYU at seventh tomorrow and the College Football Playoff ranking,
I think that's where they will be similar to what
they were last season. So I think I got the
Kooks locking in with head of Dinage. I agree right
there at seven.
Speaker 3: Speaking of other rankings and ratings, the AP pole, right
what's the high and the low of the AP pole.
BYU's low ranking is actually ten in the AP pole
right now, bus high is four. Most of them sitting
in that that eight to ten mark, though, and BYU
shows up right there add number eight. So look, I
don't know if the College Football Playoff Commitee is going
to give BYU a seven seed to unfurl their initial rankings.
But they deserve it in my opinion, No if sands
or butts about it, and it's it's one of those games.
It's one of those those PR games that you really
want to see more credence to the Big given to
the Big twelve brand, right is BYU the iconic premiere
brand of the Big Twelve. I don't think anyone's really
accepted that yet. Here at two and a half seasons
in the new, rebranded, remodel restructured Big Twelve, Texas and
Oklahoma had you know, the PR game figured out, they
had the resources, they had all the hypes surrounding them,
even though Texas fell flat, I would say, since you
know post two thousand and seven, you know now with
Sark at the Helm, they're doing a whole lot better
with their SEC brand, etc. I don't know if it's
a whole lot better, but I think they're doing better overall.
But Ronald, what do you got for me? I know
you wanted to chime in on a few more things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think just tell Bou's case of why they
should be seven. But I mean they'll definitely be in
the top ten. But they shouldn't be lower than the eight.
But here's the reason why. When you look at, yeah,
the college Football Power Index, Yeah, BYU is in the top,
you know, fifteen. But when you look at resume, and
that's what we go off of, right, Ben, we always
talk about resume. People want to say, well the conference
in the resume. Well, here's the resume per ESPN, the
home and the home the big dogs. What we look
at number four? Who are they behind Texas A and
m Indiana Ohio State ba US number four, it's Gordon resume.
This Gordon resume to the college Football Power Index ba
used resume is better. That has to be taken into account. Efficiency. Well,
let's look at efficiency too, Ben, who's above them? Indiana
Ohio State, Texas Tech orgon rightfully? So then right after
that BYU who is above Utah?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 4: By the way, vegas betting on all of these things.
Speaker 5: I know, Josh pay cost some heat, but it's per
vegas the betting odds of a neutral site said Utah
would be BYU again or would win BAUS ahead of that.
So I just want to bring up these metrics, bring
up these numbers of Look, you can as a committee
do what fits your narrative, fits your agenda. If you're
gonna say, resume matters, efficiency matters, opponents matter, conference matters.
BYU has data that backs it up. Now go out
there and take care of business and stand on it.
Speaker 3: ESPN FPI rankings BYU fourteen Texas Tech eleventh. Just to
kind of give a little big twelve thing here with
this matchup on the horizon, ESPN FBI strength of Record
BYU four Texas Tech ten, ESPN FPI Strength of Schedule
BYU forty six, Texas Tech actually has a worse strength
of schedule than BYU up to this point. Fifty eight.
Now for Texas Tech. Get the lines at nine and
a half in favor of the Red Raiders. Guess what
BYU has won each of its last two games as
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Speaker 3: Going to get an update on Rider Lions, your five
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I believe on the current roster there's fifty plus maybe
fifty six players on the roster right now, about half
of the team that have served missions for the church.
I think ten languages are spoken in that locker room
besides English. Pretty crazy, and Lions is going to be
bilingual when he comes back. Okay, now how long will
he be out? Well, it could be a year to
two years. His brother served a year.
Speaker 2: And then came back.
Speaker 3: He's been playing for UC Okay, So could be out
a year, could be out eighteen months. We'll see how
it plays out. I imagine he'll be leaving on his
mission after the high school football season. And by the way,
he's been bawling out this season for Folsom, accruing some
pretty impressive stats. They only have one loss on the season,
one loss, two four sixty eight yards through the air,
one hundred and eighty completions on two hundred and thirty
five attempts a it's to seventy six percent completion percentage,
and he's got twenty four touchdowns and six iron t's
on the air. He also's run the ball effectively when needed.
Speaker 2: Shout out to him.
Speaker 3: He's got seven rushing touchdowns. The product out of Folsom,
the five star Rider Lions.
Speaker 2: What do you got for me? Ronald the three man Weaver?
Speaker 5: I mean, shout out to Natalie Miller. She's a part
of the USC football communication student assistant. She wrote this
article been two months ago, just about almost to the date,
it was September sixth, talking about how when USC defeated
Texas A and M in the twenty twenty four Las
Vegas ball that Walker Lyons, you know, was able to
meet up with the Aggies tight end and say good
game in Swedish, you know, to his opponent, and then
he learned how to speak Norwegian. On his eighteen to
my mission with the Church of Jesus Christ, I thought
it was on like, you know, thirteen or fourteen. I
didn't know it was eighteen. So I'm wondering, like, what
would Wryter even consider that, you know, when would he
get back, you know, and all of that.
Speaker 4: Because Bear's going to be a junior.
Speaker 5: I bring this up, ben of I think you know,
writer probably would read share right, and this is just
us taking a guess. But this would be Bear's junior
year if I'm correcting me if I'm wrong, probably his
last year before maybe he would declare to go to
the league if you know, he didn't get injured. So
this is interesting of timing because a big brother served
eighteen months, what would little brother do?
Speaker 3: Very well, could be on the mission field for eighteen months,
but that would put him eighteen months from from January
he'd be coming in and unless he's working out, which
he could be in Orlando. I do always recommend, you know,
making sure you take care of your mind, body and soul,
your spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well being when out
serving a mission. I don't think I did a good
enough job of working out. I should have worked out
and taking care of my body a little bit more.
I always thought it was sinful to engage in it.
Speaker 2: The schedule was also different for us. Yeah, it was
way different.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't get to approve it until about I
think seventeen months into my mission. Where you could do
everything in the morning how you wanted to be. It
was strict for us. So it's definitely different for these
kids going out now, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt, no doubt. So he could be working out, throwing
the pick skin around a little bit. They're in Orlando, Florida, Orlando.
Shout out to Ryder getting the mission call and and
and being willing to serve UH for as long as
he is he deems necessary. UH.
Speaker 2: If you are called UH, if you have desires to
serve God, you are called to the work. That's what
DMC says.
Speaker 3: It doesn't necessarily say specifically the amount of time, but
if you have desire to serve God, you're called to
the work head on out there and thrusting your sickle
with your mic.
Speaker 2: What do you got for me?
Speaker 5: Look, I want to jump ahead. We got to focus
on this season because it's magical. But could you imagine
Ben Rider Lions in Orlando and then by you go
to the Pop Tarts Bowl next season? Would Rider Lions
be allowed to come to a b YU versus whatever
port of Pop Tarts Bowl?
Speaker 4: Never twenty six season?
Speaker 3: Hey, if we want to go to a CFP, we're
setting our sites higher. The bar has been raised, Ronnie.
Once we get to a CFP, that's all Kugarnation is
gonna w I agree with you.
Speaker 4: Once that happens is over, you wonder how.
Speaker 3: Many like so once you've gone to the CFP, Like
I see all these fans, I see all the donors
of these respective schools, Penn State, Florida, LSU uh, and
you just go down the line Auburn and they're firing
their coach because ultimately they're not going to a CFP.
You don't go to CFP. Kirk kurb Street went off
on this during a College Game Day segment last week.
To play that sound, yeah, and I kind of want
to play it because I think it hits home here
because and I wonder, like how much success would BYU
football have to have consistently over the next you know,
expansive of time.
Speaker 2: I don't know, five years, ten years, maybe you.
Speaker 3: Go to the college football Playoff two, three, four years
out of those and then all of a sudden when
you don't make it, or you're just bowl eligible, right
you're seven and six, or you know, you're six and six,
seven and five, eight and four. You know, with bo Fense, maan, hey,
we gotta get rid of this coach. We gotta get
rid of Killanie. We gotta move on. We're not winning. Like,
I don't think our fan base is that way. I
still think quota is eight wins, and I think our
quota will in the regular season eight win regular season quota,
you know, with an opportunity to go to a bowl game,
it has to be an eight and four seat if
it's if it's seven and five and you get to
eight and five, like now, you fans like, it's not
quota eight eight wins in the regular season eight and four,
and then you go to a bill gam you lose
and you're eight five, Like, Okay, that's quota. Does that
make sense? Like, you know, that's the psychology I think
of our fan base. So eight wins are still the quota.
I wonder if in the not so distant future will
be akin to LSU Auburn Penn State where we go
to a CFP and then the following year, you know,
we lose three straight or something like that. Right, we're
firing James Franklin, We're firing people.
Speaker 2: I wonder, man, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, look, I hope that's not US athletic directors don't
I shouldn't say they don't run anything, because they do
because they get the donors. But the donors are the
faces that run the place.
Speaker 4: They pay, right.
Speaker 5: I mean not to talk about our brother up North,
but I feel like the coaching basketball did well. What
happens what I heard, you know, some of the donors
didn't want them. At the end of the day, that's
who runs the place. But if very well could be
if Klane gets the CFP beIN. And I think it
has to be this right, because if you're getting to
the College Football Playoff every year been but you're not
winning the title game, I think those are two different
things because that's harder to do is to get to
the CFP but not win the title game.
Speaker 4: I think you have to both.
Speaker 5: If Kline's winning the Big twelve title getting to a
CFP and the not advance, I think that will put
it up because if you're getting this D eleven to
the twelve team, man, you're not hosting a game. You
haven't elevated that because I look at Okay, you can
get to the College Football Playoff, but did you host
a game where you a higher seed?
Speaker 4: Did you win the title game? That also matters. So
that is for a discussion.
Speaker 5: But I think if Kilania is winning Big Soel wins
the Big Sel Championship goes to the College Football Playoffs,
yes that's going to be the standard.
Speaker 4: You know how I am with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 3: Going back to the mission call from Ryderrans heading out
to Orlando, Florida, Spanish speaking, just real quick, there are
many head that have served missions right for this BYU
Cougar football team.
Speaker 2: Many of them are Spanish speakers too.
Speaker 3: Shout out to all the Spanish speakers, some oversee some
state side. I served state side Spanish speaker. Was a
fantastic mission. So Ryder gets the best of both worlds.
I'll be honest, like double duty, baby. I really think
like serving state side Spanish is the best.
Speaker 8: I mean.
Speaker 3: There are some negatives, right you, like if you're not
in a highly like like Spanish community, like meaning you're
having to forcefully speak it, like you're not getting yeah yeah,
and like integrate into the culture, like it could be
a little rough and you may come back speaking Spanglish, right, Like,
there's definitely that issue, and you're like you never feel
like you really learned it and all those things because
you're not completely enveloped in it. You're not completely just bodying,
you know, completely into it. You're having to speak English
a lot of the time. But I think I think
he's gonna be able to speak it a lot, and
he may have to translate. I had to translate on
my mission and a few of my wards, you know,
they were attending essentially an English ward, and I would
translate into Spanish every once in a while. You'd have
that help me learn Spanish a little bit better. Anyway,
best of both worlds, learn a language and stay in
the States.
Speaker 4: You still use it to us see all the time.
Speaker 2: You're still yeah orthropros.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do a lot over that orthropros for for
all of our Spanish speakers here the state of ut
We take care of him, no doubt. But yeah, over
fifty return missionaries on this bayu cougar roster real quick though, Okay,
because we got to go to break.
Speaker 2: I do want to get to this now.
Speaker 3: I wonder if there's a time in the not so distance, fute,
not so distant future that BYU okay, they they they
become so successful as a power for institution, buoyed up
by fantastic donors, a fantastic fan base that's willing to
invest in nil and also great coaches, writing, great retention,
a great organizational design, and a great culture.
Speaker 2: If we.
Speaker 3: In the next five to ten years would be would
be having a knee jerk reaction akin to what Kirk
Herbstreet is describing here. Listen, and this was from College
Game Day last week, discussing all the firings, all the
missiles of these high level coaches at high level programs.
Speaker 10: Well, this where you still have expectations. But if you
go to LSU, you don't make the playoff, you're fired.
You go to Ohio State, you don't make a playoff.
Speaker 6: You're fired.
Speaker 10: You go to Alabama, you don't make a play.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 10: Maybe that it's kind of like college basketball. Kunzaga saved
your Butler, University of Maybe those are the places to
be instead of Kansas.
Speaker 2: Duke, you know, North Carolina.
Speaker 3: So I think BYU is ten years away from being
spoiled rotten to the to the point where you're like, okay,
we got a fire coach.
Speaker 2: If we're not going to a place, I.
Speaker 4: Agree, five years is too short of data.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it, but I can see it happening absolutely. Quota.
Speaker 3: Quota always moves up in in in the business world.
You want to always elevated. The bar is always elevated.
When once you've won, once you've been there, once you've
experienced the sucker of victory.
Speaker 2: It's it's delicious.
Speaker 4: Let's be honest.
Speaker 5: Let's say that in the next ten years, twenty thirty five, men,
we both are still around. We're still young. Right, you
look a day over twenty five, you and I both
see BYU go to the CFP five times. I think
you could see it. I mean, for crying out loud,
James Franklin is not at Penn State. Ben I remember
him as a kid, gotch a younger. I remember that,
and he's not there, Like that's crazy to think about
James Franklin not at Penn State. I mean, it doesn't
get better than that. But every fan base gets greedy,
even BYU fans do to a degree. I think you
even see a little bit of a dabble here, but
I agree. I think in the next ten years span
you could see it happening to BYU because no one
is immune been too succumbing.
Speaker 4: To, you know, being a little bit greedy. We all do.
That's why it's a commandment, don't be greedy, don't cover it.
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