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well as hosting his own podcast, The airin Towars podcast
We Got airin Tours on the line erin how you living, mat,
I'm doing well?
Speaker 4: How am I living? I know you used me as
a college football insider.
Speaker 5: I gotta say I.
Speaker 4: Live in LA and with about eight minutes to go
in the BYU ucon game. The other night they fot
me over to USC women's basketball. So I wasn't doing
very well on Saturday at about you know, six forty
five Pacific time, as AJ Debonsa was putting on a
show for all of America. But I am doing well today.
I know we're here to probably mostly talk about football,
and I think BYU fans right now, you know, there's
still games left on the schedule, but I think right
now I have a legitimate right with what the committee
did last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, let's before we get into b YU,
let's just discuss kind of overall how you feel about
the rankings. Do you see anything that you maybe disagree
with outside of BYU, What do you like?
Speaker 3: What do you dislike?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, So it's funny I talked about on
my show this morning, and I was just telling Ron,
the producer of The Three Man Weave, the legend I
was just on not that long ago, actually in Tuscaloosa,
And it's funny because they're just as about the rankings
as folks in Provo are.
Speaker 5: And this is what actually.
Speaker 4: Makes me really mad, and I'll be perfectly honest, is
that every year, you know, in the off season, and
I don't even know if BYU fans would have paid
attention to this, but in the off season, the committee
put in this new metric called strength of record. Okay,
and I'll give a little backstory. I'm sure you've talked
about it, probably for the last couple of weeks. But basically,
last year, Indiana gets into.
Speaker 5: Eleven and one.
Speaker 4: Not only did they not play anybody in the off season,
they actively like canceled the big games in the out
of conference and so the SEC basically sat there and said,
wait a second, now, you know, we got some nine
to three teams that actually challenge people. You know, it
shouldn't like the rankings shouldn't just be solely out of
win loss record.
Speaker 5: And so they put in the strength.
Speaker 4: To record metric, and it was supposed to, you know,
change the way we're evaluating teams. And so I only
bring that up to say, if that's the metric that
should be most important to the Playoff Committee, because that's
what we were told in the off season, then what's
the metric that we should be using, you know, along
with other things to judge these teams. And so you
guys have talked about it, I know, but by us
ranked six sixth to excuse me, ahead of Alabama, ahead
of Oregon, you know, six spots ahead of Notre Dame.
And it's just like, I guess that. You know, you
asked me what is my biggest frustration? That is my
biggest frustration is if you're gonna tell us something matters,
then that's fine, but it has to actually matter. And
it does just feel like these rankings, at least as
of right now, are largely based on brand bias, preconceived notions,
and frankly just win loss record because Oregon really probably
even more than like a Notre Dame or in Alabama,
I think Oregon is actually the most misranked team out
of everybody in this top fifteen or so.
Speaker 3: Oregon the most miss ranked team. Why is that?
Speaker 5: Oh, Ben, you know, where do I begin?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, listen, you know what it really is, honestly,
and and you know, I think a lot of people
would be surprised for me to say this. They're this
year's Indiana.
Speaker 5: You know Indiana.
Speaker 4: Last year they go eleven and one, just the way
that the schedule broke, you know, didn't beat anybody good.
The only good team that they really played, Ohio State, Uh,
you know they lost to this was Indiana last year
and and you know, but we decided last year and
I understand because again there was no strength of rescord,
but we decided last year that basically an eleven to
one Indiana team should get in. And so with Oregon
this year, and part of it's not their fault. No
one could have realized in real time what would have
happened to Penn State after Oregon beat them. But that
is not a good win.
Speaker 5: It just isn't.
Speaker 4: And so because it's not a good win, just because
of how the schedule broke, they have one real team
on the schedule. Now, they do play USC this weekend,
and the schedule, you know, their their resume is going
to change either positively or negatively in one direction.
Speaker 5: To the other at the end of this weekend. But
they have no good wins right now.
Speaker 4: And so you know, the bottom line that I guess,
the point that I'm trying to get to is we
have to be ranking teams on what they've actually done
on the field to this point, not projecting what could
happen by the end of the year or what should
happen or how good are they actually No, no, no, it's
about what have you done on the field to this
point and right now, just Oregon doesn't have the resume
of the seventh or eighth ranked team.
Speaker 5: Whatever their actual ranking is.
Speaker 4: That I have the rankings in front of me.
Speaker 5: I think they're number seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a tough pill to swallow for BAYU
fans right now, too ninety to one a loss on
the road to texta step are you do you feel
like the committee is not taking into account where these
games are being played home, road, neutral, Doesn't that matter matters?
And who it doesn't seem to matter in football. They're
just talking about, well, this win against this opponent. They're
not talking about road winds, home wins, neutral fields at all.
Speaker 4: So I'll be honest, said, I was, you know, watching
the you know, former Kentucky back or a former b
what you basketball coach, Mark Pope, you know, have a
pretty pretty lousy night last night, you know, And I
was reacting to it right after the rankings came out.
So I don't know everything that the committee said. I
do know to the point that I made a second
ago that they tried to argue that Oregon somehow has
a great win over Penn State because it was on
the road.
Speaker 5: So I don't know exactly what they said.
Speaker 4: I do know that they, you know, and I'm paraphrasing, said, well,
you know, by you lost it in ugly fashion to
Texas Tech, and so that matters.
Speaker 5: But yeah, of course all of this stuff matters.
Speaker 4: And again, you know, I think people sometimes get mad
at me because you can't pigeonhole me as of this
or that or whatever. I just play by the rules
that I've been given. And so again, based on what
we've seen and based on what the committee tells us
are important, tells us is important. A very good win
over Utah, we know that, a very good loss on
the road to Texas Texas. I'm rambling. I don't know
exactly what they said about home versus road and all that.
All I do know is that these are the parameters
that they set out, and they're not following the parameters
that they themselves have created, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. It's an interesting dilemma. Let's talk BYU
here for a moment. First team out, Utah, second team out.
And even if they win out, it seems like if
they get to the Big Twelve Championship game. They may
have to win that game in order to get into
the College Football Playoff. Rick Neuheisel thinks a BYU team
that runs the table and gets to the Big twelve
Championship game at least deserves to be in.
Speaker 3: What say you? Where do you stand?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, I understand the frustration of a BYU fan,
and I understand that this conversation is happening.
Speaker 5: I do think context.
Speaker 4: Matters, right, you know, if Alabama loses to Auburn, you
know they're not getting in. I certainly don't think they
should be in as a three loss team over a
two loss BYU if both of their losses are to
Texas Tech, or frankly, if both Texas Tech and by
you enter at eleven and one, I don't think a
three lost Alabama should get in over either one of them.
If Texas Tech were to take a second loss in Arlington.
You know, it's the.
Speaker 5: Same with Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: If Oklahoma loses one of their next two games, If
Oregon loses to USC, I think that creates some interesting conversations.
So you know, I'm not super caught up in all
of that, but I do agree with what I It
seems to.
Speaker 5: Be the sentiment.
Speaker 4: I don't want to speak for every BYU fan or
every media member that covers by ANDU. I know I
don't speak for all of them, but I think the
sentiment is that if BYU wins the remainder of their game,
it shouldn't be a if you lose in the Big
twelve championship.
Speaker 5: Game, you're automatically.
Speaker 4: Eliminated and without the context of everything else that could happen.
I do agree with them, And again, we'll see what
happens with Notre Dame. We'll see what happens with USC,
you know, and by the way, like USC is kind
of an important lynchpin here by the way, and I
know this is a national talking point, the Miami versus
Notre Dame conversation, So you know, I think the broader
thing from last night, and I don't think it was intentional.
I just think it was the way the rankings fell.
I just feel like there's a lot of fan bases
that have to be frustrated right now. BYU is certainly one.
I think Allabama is one for where they fell to.
I think, you know, Miami is like, well, wait a second,
if we went out, are we not going to be
able to surpass the team we beat in Miami? And again,
I don't believe the committee is frankly smart enough to
kind of figure out all of this stuff in real time.
But it just felt like they made a lot of
fan bases very unhappy last night, no doubt about.
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Speaker 4: Do you guys cover a lot of the youth two
or just uh, just the coops out of curiosity Utah.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're always looking up on the hill.
Speaker 2: This is a specific show for b YU, but we're
always looking at our uh, our formidable foe up on
the hill.
Speaker 4: The h Well, since this is the safe space one,
Utah a very underrated, angry online fan base. That's one,
but that's another conversation for another day. I was just
more curious. I know that from my perspective, I've spent
so much focus on BYU.
Speaker 5: I was just curious, you know.
Speaker 4: Do Utah fans think they have a lake to stand on,
or is it kind of they understand the two teams,
you know, two of the teams that are ahead of
them in the standings, they lost two heads to head,
you know, because they're a very good football team. And
I was actually just more curious do they kind of
just feel like, hey, we had our champions against.
Speaker 5: Texas techhead go ahead.
Speaker 2: No, no, So I'll pickyback off of that. Now. I'm
gonna I'm gonna ask you a question. You said they're
an angry fan base. How would you evaluate the at
least the social media and interactions of Utah fans. What
where do you lean if you were to ask yourself
that question. It just off assumptions and feel if.
Speaker 5: They're angry or not, or if they should be in
the field or not.
Speaker 3: It's correlated.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well they're angry.
Speaker 4: They're certainly angry, And I leave the rivalry steps to
the rivalry people. I think they're in the unenviable spot
of very clearly being a very good team that I
just don't really think has a leg to stand on
if they do not make it to the Big twelve
championship game, and certainly they would have to win there.
You know, it's it's almost like Texas in the SEC
is like, you know, you can kind of see, like, hey,
Texas in certain spots, they really give a lot.
Speaker 5: Of people Trump well.
Speaker 4: But I just don't think they have the resume right now.
Actually that's frankly, how we should be talking about Notre Dame.
Like Notre Dame is very clearly an improved team. They
just don't have the resume.
Speaker 5: But apparently that doesn't matter the committee. But that's why
I feel on Utah, and I do think.
Speaker 4: They're a you know, kind of unfortunate bystander and all
this of a team that I think is really good.
But like I said, I just I don't know what
the argument is for them if they are not able
to make the Big twelve championship game. I don't know
how all the time breakers work. I know, obviously if
they went out, there's the possibility they could get there,
depending on who else wins and who else loses.
Speaker 5: But it was more of kind of that conversation.
Speaker 2: You know, they feel like they're playing at a at
a rate right now that can beat anybody in college football.
Speaker 3: Like actually that's how they feel.
Speaker 2: They they lost one on the road to be yu.
It's a robbery game. It should be thrown out the window.
On paper, they should have won. Uh.
Speaker 3: Their their quarterback got a little.
Speaker 4: Bit, a lot of hyals, but yeah, had.
Speaker 2: He not been injured, you know, then then Utah would
have won.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: College game Day came to Rice Ecles and they just
they weren't ready for that game.
Speaker 3: It was too early on in the season. They weren't
trending in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Now they're trending in the right They can beat anybody
in college football. They deserve to be in That's what
I would say that.
Speaker 5: And let me ask the question. I must have missed
this headline. It sounds like they joined the.
Speaker 4: SEC because the SEC is undefeated.
Speaker 5: In hypothetical matchups. So well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: If you know, if if six lost, Mississippi State played
Notre Dame, I mean, Mississippi State would give them all
sorts of trouble. It's like, okay, well they're not playing
in the games on the field, do matter, and uh
and whatever? So yeah, that sounds like an SEC fan
base a lot of hypotheticals. No, you know, no, in
the SEC. I don't know if you've heard this but
they're undefeated in hypothetical games all time, and they play
a lot of them, by the way, you know, they
play a lot of hypothetical games. So that sounds like
that sounds like you tump things.
Speaker 2: Well, it's so interesting because I look at what Sankie
did with his nine conference games, right, they wanted more.
They were pretty strategic about scheduling, not only within their conference,
right because they have this twenty thirty years of equity
built up that they're the best conference in college football,
which obviously from a national championship standpoint, and it is accurate,
but they've also been cheating when nobody else could cheat, right,
and they were allowing certain teams to cheat and have
bag men and all these things.
Speaker 3: And that's why they've won.
Speaker 2: Now that the playing field has ultimately been leveled, and
they're scared out of their minds, why Nick Saban retired,
it's why you know they're they're they're kicking and screaming
here and they're talking about even expanding the playoff. And
that's why they decided to play more in conference games.
And then they were very strategic about who played who
within the conference so they could get as many teams
Sanki did a great job. It was very It was
our textural, it was schematic, it was chess. And you
look at how many teams are in the mix from
the SEC and they really don't play each other, right
they they're not.
Speaker 3: And so there's.
Speaker 4: Some of it, you know, is beyond any like like
when they put together those schedules, like they could have
never guessed that A and M would be who they
are and they literally don't play at top half of
the SEC team. I do think the one thing that
Sankie has done well that I would like to see
Brett Yormark take out of his playbook is that thinking
is really good at getting you know, taking public narratives
and getting ahead on them. And what I mean by
that is, you know, I remember back to Big twelve
media day when Brett or Mark said that we believe
that we are going to have two teams in the
college football Playoff this year. Okay, well, if you have
two teams in the college football Playoff this year, Brett,
you know it's great to say that. In July, Well,
guess what b Yu to the whole conversation that we're
having right now. Ben b Yu is on the outside
looking in with a better resume than teams.
Speaker 5: Ahead of them.
Speaker 4: This is the day that Brett yor Mark should be
doing Ben Kurtle's show, should be doing Sports Center, should
be doing college football whatever, you know, whatever the college
you know, college game day on Saturday. I think Big
Noon is coming to you know wherever, Cincinnati, like like,
this is where Brett or Mark needs to step up
and earn his paycheck. And the one thing about saying
whenever there's whenever there's an opportunity to push the sec
narrative whether it's true, can he continue?
Speaker 5: Can can they continue to sell that big picture?
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to talk AJ to Bonsa in this segment a couple
of different things here early projected NBA draft slots. Is
he going to be the number one overall pick. Some
people have have stated he will. Others now after evaluating
the first few games, they're stating that he's going to
be number two. We'll see what they what they're specifying
and why he would drop to the number two position
behind Darren Peterson of Kansas. So I want to delve
into that, also discussing why AJ ultimately chose b YU.
Myron Metcalf recently caught up with him and penned a
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Let's start off with this bou Basketball projected Jeremy Woo's
mock Draft twenty twenty six NBA mock Draft already dropping,
creating a little conversation and controversy. Darren Peterson an aj
to bonsa even cam boozer. Some have said on NATA
men too, he's a nice product. These top four guys
have kind of like changed and jock heat for position
during the recruiting battles. Who's the number one overall recruit
per two, four, seven, on three, et cetera. And now
it's going to be the same thing for these one
and done's. Jeremy wu puts Darren Peterson number one to
the Brooklyn nets Aj de Bons at number two to
the Washington Wizards, Cameron Boozer to the Utah Jazz, which
is funny because his father played, you know, for a
long time for the Jazz. Nata med to the Indiana
Pacers at number four. Overall, I've said this many times, okay,
and this is the feedback that I received during the
recruiting processes. Aj was balling out at Utah Prep Academy.
Darren was doing his work as well as a highly efficient,
highly productive hooper before attending Kansas and Darren's Darren's a
refined product. Darren is a three level score, a great
ball handler, really really good shooter. He's got a pure stroke,
he's got good size, he's got good length, and I
think this season you may see Darren have more success
statistically than Aj, just like he did to a certain
degree in the prep world. In the prep seed, you
pull up Darren Peterson's stat his efficiency, he was very, very,
very impressive and arguably the best player in high school basketball.
But we all know that the NBA's not all about
those numbers. It's also about upside, and Aj Debanca has
way more upside. The height, the length, the athleticism. He's
a galloping gazelle in transition. He elevates off one or
two feet, And he's actually quite physical for his like
spelt build right, Like, it's not like you look at him,
you're not seeing Lebron, You're seeing more like a thinned
out kind of Jason Tatum, right, Even Like when I
go back and I look at like Tracy McGrady, like,
I feel like he's a little bit thicker than AJ
coming out of college. My personal opinion. AJ is very
physical for his body type in my opinion, and I
think that's impressive because he'll body up guys on the
defensive end, and he'll he'll lower the shoulder on the
offensive end and back down guys that are bigger than him.
Speaker 3: So to me, AJ has the higher upside.
Speaker 2: Would I like to see a little bit more explosivity
after that first step, after that first cross, once he
gets a guy on the shoulder, Like, I don't know
if he blows past anybody, right, I don't know if
he's in that you know, fifteen feet where you have
to create separation and blow by a guy like, I
don't know if I see that from AJ. But as
he gets more muscle mass. That will happen period because
the neurological component, you can see it in him. He
has the ability. It just needs a little bit more
muscle mass. So to me, this isn't overly controversial, but
it's something I wanted to discuss with you. Ronnie Agreer
disagree right now. Darren Peterson being predicted number one overall
in front of AJ to Bonsa and a mock draft.
Speaker 3: I know it's way early.
Speaker 2: It's these guys are watching Darren, They're watching aj, They're
watching Cam, They're watching Nate. Jeremy Woo's got a good
eye for talent. He's picking Darren, the more refined product
over the upside of Aja Bonsa.
Speaker 3: A Greer disagree.
Speaker 8: No, I disagree now First to your point, right now,
it will get defined of getting down here right now.
Speaker 7: He doesn't need to.
Speaker 2: Though you notice he has the body he does.
Speaker 3: He's not a fly and by.
Speaker 8: Them, and and I think because of his size and
his length, he also doesn't have to because because he's
so long, and because that first step gets guys, they
foul everybody does everybody that game. Look look at Yukon,
he fouled the guy out like guys are flopping because
they fear AJ's length of getting to the basket.
Speaker 7: That's what they're doing. They're like, oh, I can't slow
you down.
Speaker 8: But that hesitation been that step, it's so effective where
he doesn't need to blow by. But when he gets
past someone, you're out of position where you're like, okay,
like number twenty three, don't know his name, but he
felt like three times even Agent caught a highlight because
you can't guard that right. And yeah, that's the difference
with Darren and Aj is A's gonna bait you to
get into the free throw line. And one he doesn't
necessarily need to do that with the explosivity that he
needs to get. Darren has the explosivity, he'll go right
by you. Both are great how you look at it.
But still, look, I'm picking at Darren right now. Is
having a problem already stand healthy. He didn't play in
the game against Duke and Kancas got clapped, they got beat,
then he get clap but they lost about twelve, Right,
he didn't.
Speaker 3: He didn't.
Speaker 7: You know, that didn't work.
Speaker 8: And if look, this is all I'm saying, if you're
the if you're the truly refined player. Your team didn't
come you know, highly ranked like AJ's did. Like that's
what the number on overall recruit and projected number one
pick will do. Like you and I get it. You
saw that they didn't win the Duke. I mean you
also haven't played the schedule that AJ's played. Like they
lost to North Carolina, who by you beat in an exhibition.
By the way, if that was a game they would
have won that AJ did what in that game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought so. Darren baldout two.
Speaker 8: Don't act like he didn't like a j against Villanova
dropped twenty one. Yes, he struggled from the free throw line,
no doubt, but he shot fifty percent twenty one points
in thirty one minutes against Yukon in a game that
they were down. He scores twenty one of his twenty
five in the second half.
Speaker 7: I guess what he did.
Speaker 8: He finished the game eight to fourteen, shot fifty seven
percent from the field, was seven to ten from the
free throw line. Better still need to make all your
free throws two or three. The problem that they're gonna
what they're gonna grate ag on is the same thing
they're gonna get on AJ four three point shooting. That's
gonna be the biggest thing of what I see. Okay,
he struggles in't making three point shots, but look, Darren's
averaging twenty one and a half right now, ages averaged
in twenty point three. But Ah is grabbing seven boards
a game. He's dishing now to assist. He's shooting fifty
seven percent from the field. Darren's given twenty one three
point three point five rebounds and the three assists on
sixty percent shooting. Like look, in the NBA, you need
guys to rebound, you need guys to be able to
score points, you need guys to play defense. AJ has
all that he's a better defender than Darren, not saying
that Darren can't play defense. Again, but AJ's length that
upsiding transition that's just way better. So am I surprise
that this mock draft came out knowing I just texted
you something, Ben, because this has dropped a little bit ago.
But they and again, you have to play in fifty
percent in games for this to be decided. So Myron
Metcalf and Jeff Borzello don't want any hate emails coming
from them from Kansas fans, but they they ranked the
top ten freshmen right now, you know of the year contenders,
who's number one?
Speaker 7: You know who's number one? AJ debonsa like they're right there.
Speaker 8: Ajed de bons the biggest performance so far twenty five points,
six rebounds versus Ukonum November fifteenth. AJ has the most
primetime matchups I think, compared to Kansas.
Speaker 7: And even if Darren is.
Speaker 8: Not to play, that hurts your stock, Ben, not being
able to play in these games, not being able to
play in that do game, that will matter down the stretch.
That will when these two go ahead to head, Like
I think all of it will be settled when they
play against each other in fog Allen. If AJ goes
to Kansas with BYU and they get a win, that
will really solidify it how they look against each other.
Speaker 7: So all of this to me is just noise.
Speaker 8: All of this is once they get the conference play
and playing against each other will But look, we're reading
articles saying that AJ right now, you know the stats
that I mentioned is put here beating Villanova and the
comeback loss almost against Yukon, Like, I mean, we're gonna
get all of these articles in these points the whole year, Ben,
But it truly won't be decided till January.
Speaker 7: Yeah, then when they play and then the tournament in March.
Speaker 2: When it's gonna matter more in the on the background
about it, I just there's gonna be continue like it's
always been a job and it will continue to be
that in my opinion.
Speaker 7: Look a booster kid looks great too, and let me
give some love to him. Like broke Ben, he looks phenomenal.
Like he looks great too, like he very well could
be the number one overall pick.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go that far like Booser's ices ice, but
I don't think they overtake. I mean, I would think
Darren has to be like severely injured or aj has
to really craft the bed for something like that to happen.
But that's why those could happen.
Speaker 7: I don't think they will.
Speaker 3: But I don't think that dude's too much of a competitor.
Speaker 2: I love me some aj de bonsa competitive nature.
Speaker 7: I do worry about Darren's health, though, Man, this is
something that happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah because of my hamstring issues.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I worry about thes. I do worry about that,
But I checked this out.
Speaker 8: Boozer projected to go to the draft I mean the jazz,
how about that, Like Pop's played so hey, I just
wanted to throw that out there. And then Native Man,
I like, this is draft class band is great. I
know this is maybe obviously he's a talk but I
don't see Rob Wright leaving because when I see all
these names, he's high profile mans. I'm like, Rob, You're
not getting drafted over these guys. So I think this
is good maybe for you for the future, because I
think this is good for Rob Wright to come back
for one more year in developed. But that's a conversation
for another day.
Speaker 3: A couple other things here.
Speaker 2: Myron Medcalf caught up with AJ DEBOTSA and some of
the reasons why AJ ended up taking a visit to BYU.
He actually reached out. AJ reached out to Kad Kevin Durant,
one of his heroes Ace. His father had told him, like, hey,
keep keep your communication open with BYU. I advice from
the father was also a catalyst year. I don't want
to let that go, you know. Unnoticed here kd though
told AJ to go on the visit. I actually hit
Durant up just to ask him. This is what AJ said,
just asked him about Kevin Young. He was like, Yo,
you're going to like him, so just take the visit
and see how you feel about it. Sure enough, when
Debontsa arrived, Young sold him on the ways. Bou modeled
itself after an NBA team with real NBA professionals. The
players on this team have meal plans designed by Danielle Lafada,
who was previously the director of Performance Nutrition for the
Sons of the Phoenix Mercury. Young has also assembled one
of the largest staffs in college basketball. After every practice
a multitude of staffers, there are sixteen student managers of
six graduate assistants crunching numbers and looking at film on
computers stacked on a long table near Young's office, with
the goal of taking this program to the place it
has never been. Particulous. Approach appealed to Debotsa, who wanted
the perspective that Young's love for analytics has produced. When
Debonsa missed a three pointer at a September practice, Akash
Sebastian bioi's director of the Analytics and Strategy, knew which
point on the rim the ball had clanked, the trajectory
of the shot as it left De Bonce's hands, and
its exact location on the court when he released it. Crazy.
The data helps Debonce understand where on the court he's
most likely to help himself and his team. Higher percentage
points win, higher percentage shots win. Debots has said, So
for me being able to take those and create those
and generate those high percentage shots, if it's me shooting
or somebody else shooting based off the fenders I attract,
the more games were going to win.
Speaker 3: I had never thought of the game like that.
Speaker 2: Badusha granular professional uh type of program that very few
are replicating in the college basketball world. Kate, why is
doing it? What?
Speaker 7: I mean? What else can you ask for if you're
a recruit?
Speaker 8: I mean, isn't that why I got Abdullah Achman like
Ahmed Akmen.
Speaker 7: I want to make sure.
Speaker 8: I said, amen, make Suremed Acmen Med Akhmed cat bet okay,
I thought, I said, men, my sorry, Akhmed socmen adulah Achmed.
Speaker 7: I just want to make sure you. Hey, look, I
learned this from Gregor Bell.
Speaker 8: You can do You can make mistakes on air, but
if you if you mess up someone's name, we.
Speaker 2: Try, that's like no forgiveness.
Speaker 8: So get a nucie's name, right, look, I'm gonna make
shut try to get those right. Anyway, back to business,
then what else could you ask for for your recruit
Like h said that on again going at the greatest,
I want to say the greatest, but one of the
most probably controversial, you know, TV personalities out there, Steven Smith.
Why can't I play du kid by committing on ESPNS
and they got NBA. Everything from nutrition is down to
strength and conditioning, down to analygics. You just read it
from Myron Metcalf. I need to put in a request
to get my Ron on the show now. But like,
look at that, like he thought about a cash the
guy that they have setition is finding out why he
missed the three where he was at who passed in
the ball? Like all of that, Like I would never
think about that. Like that's exactly what I want my
son or daughter to have. I want him to have
the best possible opportunity to play in college, because where.
Speaker 7: Are you trying to go?
Speaker 2: Ben?
Speaker 7: If you go to college, you're trying to play at
the next level.
Speaker 8: Well, why would you not go to the place that
has everything laid out for you from what you're gonna eat,
when you're gonna sleep how you're gonna lift and how
you can get better and practice in the gym.
Speaker 7: Head on, shoot the corner. Three, that's actually bad.
Speaker 8: I think the reason why AJ made two out of
three three has been did you see where he took
those threes at? He didn't take him in the corner,
He didn't take him at the way he took him
right at the top of the key. You got to
notice that this is where nerds and maybe Kevin Young
likes when you get into the nitty gritty of it.
Look at where AJ missed his five threes at in
that Villanova game. Look where he was forcing them. You
have to take that into account. Look Rob right, look
word Dawson Baker. Look where they all made those shots
at the top of the key, bind, not on the
not in the corners, like look at Richie, like those threes.
All of that is coming from a cast, from Kevin Young,
from the staff, everything that they have to say, Hey,
these are the high percentage shots you need to take
the Look this is a fantastic program.
Speaker 7: Bin salute to Kevin Young.
Speaker 8: Look they lost earlier to Yukon, but then if they're
battling back against Yukon in a neutral environment aterix around
neutral because Yukon is like seventy miles away. They're down
by twenty in the first half, they're down Kiba, They're
down one of their premiere defending guards from the perimeter
that violated a rule and is not playing. And aj
drops twenty one and you come back. Like the announcers
were saying it. If you listen to the game, it
felt like an Elite eight game that did. That's going
to prepare a net loss. I know you don't get
this credit in football, but in basketball you do that
quad one loss.
Speaker 7: beIN will help BYU and march I guarantee you it will.
Speaker 2: One last thing that I'm up pulling up here the
did you read the kind of the personal old testimonial
of aj De Bonsa.
Speaker 7: Yes, I didn't talk about slam oops that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was like the players yeah, which yeah that one. Yeah,
I did reach it. It was a player's tribute, player tribute.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I thought this was interesting. A couple of
things that stood out to me. I remember he said
we were in English class. This is how you know
maybe the COVID nineteen pandemic factored into his basketball journey.
I remember when we were in English class that the
teacher mentioned the COVID nineteen outbreak. This was in seventh
grade at Trinity Catholic. We were like, all right, cool,
what does that mean for us? Two weeks later it
was masked, a month later it was hybrid, and then
it went full online. There was nothing to do, so
I started hooping every day, doing three hour workouts a day.
It's crazy. There were no indoor courts available, so we
were just outside playing with the guys with a mask
on eighth grade was an online hybrid year, same thing.
I was bored. I'm so serious. I was just bored.
I was like, yo, I'm just trying to hoop, so
that's all I did, and I just started falling in
love with it.
Speaker 3: COVID made me snap.
Speaker 2: I went from being a kid who had a pretty
normal childhood, not obsessing over the game or caring too
much about losses, to thinking about it all the time,
can't wait to get to the court, willing to make sacrifices,
keep this thing in my life. I just fell in
love with getting better. Loved that. Pretty cool to see
how an adversarial situation, you know, turned in the kind
of the beast that he is today the gym rat
that he is today, So I love that. On choosing
to play basketball at BYU, he said, b YU felt
like a place I could make more of those kinds
of memories, the ones that last forever to me, That's
what it's all about. I remember I narrowed my list
of schools down to seven. I had been posting all
my visit dates online and I guess boy fans saw
that and knew I was coming in October, so they
made a whole bunch of posters and stuff. When I
got here, people at the football game were chanting my name.
The basketball team was chanting my name. They had signs
of me all over, and I don't know that really
sold me. For a kid from Brockton, Massachusetts, seeing people
show that much love meant a lot. With BYU, I
knew I would be going somewhere. I was really wanted
where I could belong. His goals at BYU. I'm so
glad I chose BYU. It's a very late, it's very
laid back over here. I mean, it's a vibe and
I truly think we can win it all. I wouldn't
have come here if I didn't. I came into this
season thinking we're going to put in max pain if
we don't win a national championships is a disappointment. That's
how I feel. Just think about last season Florida one.
Nobody will remember that Houston made it to second place.
So it's championship or bust. That's AJ and who he
is and what BYU got. And I'm still like, you know,
in AWE, there's a reason why the tickets are so
expensive right now on the side Delta price.
Speaker 8: Normally they're like twenty to thirty bucks. I think it's
one hundred bucks to sit up to watch the BYU
Wisconsin game. Is my four hundred lower bolts in sane.
I have a credential. That's all I got to say.
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Speaker 3: We got the GM man brandan segourney. G Man, how are.
Speaker 6: You doing well?
Speaker 2: Guys?
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Cougar Sports.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's start off with this, g man.
Speaker 2: Are you are you pro committee or anti committee right now?
After the latest rankings, you.
Speaker 9: Know, looking all that, I kind of I kind of
take solidarity with Klawe in h Yeah.
Speaker 6: It's it's you can make any argument this way or
that way, but what can you do?
Speaker 9: It is what it is, and what they came out
was shouldn't surprise anyone. We know what this College committee's about,
we know what they look at, we know what they
want and.
Speaker 6: B way you use an annoyance, they just aren't. They're
an annoyance. It's like, no, you're not a serious team.
Speaker 9: You don't play in the SEC, you don't play in
the Big ten, and they're looking for reasons and they
have a very bright and shining reason in that bway.
You had a chance to validate itself in November playing
on the road against Texas Tech.
Speaker 6: And got whacked.
Speaker 9: That's and there's no forgiveness right that, there's no allowance
the other way for Bayu because they're looking for a reason,
they don't have the credibility in their minds historically to
match up. So you're given to just take any excuse
whatsoever or not put Bwayu in. I am sympathetic to
the argument that what you're doing November is far more
important than September.
Speaker 6: My problem is.
Speaker 9: That when they is when they make an unbelievable statement,
it's like, yeah, we're still regarding Oregon's win over Penn State,
where not only did that happen a long time ago,
but Benn State's just not good at all. Right, it's
been revealed. So it's there's inconsistencies and you can just
nitpick it all you want, but the fact remains b
where you did get whacked on the national stage in November,
and that's very pression in the minds of the committee members.
Everybody watched that game. It's not doing b Way you
any favors. But here's the good news. Be what you
has the opportunity to go back win out face that
same Texas Tech team and I know you we kind
of disagree on this, but I think it'd be what
he gives Texas Tech a good game and despites to
their very end. I think the Committee's going to give
some allowance for that. Maybe I'm being naive in that regard.
Speaker 6: I don't know. Probably, Well, that's a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Let's start off with the BYU element here. Okay, so Hunter,
you're a check. The committee chairman said this regarding BYU
and where it's ranked. It's really the way they looked
in that game against Texas Tech. They were dominated on
both sides of the ball in that game against Texas Tech.
Then you look at their wins. They have a win
over Utaho's ranked thirteenth, but then their other wins are
against what we would consider quality wins against unranked Iowa
State team, Arizona and East Carolina. Albeit, like, let me
just clarify, those are all on the road, right, these are,
And that's one other things that they're not. They're not
specifying in these wins on whether or not it's one
at home or on the road. That's one thing they
are not waiting into their human and metrical algorithm. Here
he goes on then you look at the two loss
Alabama team that's got wins against number four Georgia, number
fourteen Vanderbilt and.
Speaker 3: Number twenty one Missou and number twenty Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame's got to win over number fifteen ranked Southern
cal and then last week of domin I even went
on the road at pitt who's ranked Dan Oklahoma has
wins at number eighteen Michigan, number twenty Tennessee and then
number ten Alabama. Hunter says, I think it's just the
number of quality wins that are with those two loss
teams ahead of them, and how they looked in that
game two weeks ago against Texas Tech. Your reaction, Yeah,
it's a strong argument.
Speaker 9: It's not an argument, but I'm just like, Oh, that
guy's up in the ninety.
Speaker 6: He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 9: It is a strong argument against BYU or b way.
You had a chance to elidate itself when on the road.
But I agree with your road argument, but no one
else does. It doesn't matter, but that is.
Speaker 6: What it is.
Speaker 9: BAYU is not going to get any allowance. They're gonna
make any excuse they can to exclude BYU. But the
fact that it was played in November. That is very
pression in people's mind. Is absolutely working against Bayu in
this regard because that gives everyone the excuse they need
when they're looking for team, they're looking for competitive games.
Speaker 6: They don't want someone to.
Speaker 9: Come in as like, oh they don't belong and all that.
They don't want to hurt their own credibility and they
don't believe that the way he's going to match up, well,
they see b Way You're going against whoever, Alabama, Notre Dame, Oregon, whatever,
that is going to lay an egg like like it
did against Texas Tech. That's the fact of the matter.
And until b Way you proves otherwise, they're not going
to give any allowance to get in.
Speaker 6: It's I mean, it sucks, but.
Speaker 9: I feel like I'm just arguing and then just yelling
and nothing's gonna happen with anything. And none of this
should surprise anyone. This is the lot, the way you've
been handed. I do believe that it be way. He
gives Texas Tech a good, solid game where it could
go either way, where it's like, yeah, we belong. I
do believe that people in the committee will notice that
and maybe give Bway some allowance in that regard, but
it might be too late by that stage because it
just matters with the carnage that might have up and
in front of it. But I do see a pathway
where b Way you at large team could get invited.
It's very very slim, very slim, but I do believe
it's there, and it better be there because if that's
the argument, and that's the shining argument you have, and
if b Way you counteracts that argument says hey listen,
we respond and we can do this, now we can hang,
then it kind of smacks their credibility and puts that
whole argument aside. Where where yeah, we saw that game,
b Way you wasn't able to hang, or b Way
you proves it can hang. No, you have to flip that.
You have to flip that script and you have to
allow b Way you in. That would be my argument.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like the preseason rankings combined with TV
contract revenue share, influenced ultimately by population density and conference
affiliation factors? Are these the things that are contributing to
the rankings as they are and combined with you know
the other component herees enough objective data points between power
conference foes right, wins and losses, and they were all
early on. So to your point, anything that happened early
on is now negated by anything that's occurring now. Whoever's
trending in the right direction is the team that's favored,
especially if you're in the Big ten and the SEC.
Speaker 9: Well, well, unless you have the favorable outlook like Oregon does,
where you want to give them credibility because you want
that team in there because they have the establishment, whatever
it is, the track record of doing stuff in the
PLAYFFS or Bayu hasn't. What would be their argument. I
would argue that it's different every year that the teams progress,
being teams E and flow.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but yeah, of course.
Speaker 9: That's a big factor that they had their blessed collection
of teams that they want to sign any credibility in
any regard whatsoever, and that's what you're seeing play out.
I don't know, a lot of this discussion is really
frustrating to me because it just doesn't matter, right.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter what I think.
Speaker 9: It doesn't matter matter how many inequities you're going to
point out anything, it's.
Speaker 6: Not gonna matter.
Speaker 9: B way, he has its path they have that opportunity,
and you corarespond to that, it's real. And if be
Way he does go to that college champion Big twelve
Championship game and gets wife against Texas Tech, I mean,
it's hard for me to make the argument.
Speaker 6: It's like, well, it would be different in the playoffs.
Speaker 9: It would absolutely be different. I don't know if I
could float that. I don't know if I could credibly
argue that, because I don't really believe that.
Speaker 6: So to me, the past just cut and dry, all.
Speaker 9: The speculation, all the conspiracies and all that. Just get
to that Big twelve championship game and validate yourself.
Speaker 6: That's it. Because seriously, if you're a b Way You
fan and you're and you're.
Speaker 9: Ranting and raving about all this, and if b Way
he goes back to that Day twelve championship game and
gets done like it did the last time against Texas Tech,
it's really really hard to argue. It's like, hey, well
it's going to be different in the college football. Of course,
if Texas Tech goes and Robson wins the national championship.
Speaker 6: They have an argument in that regard. I don't know.
I do think Texas Tech's capable being that team, but
to me, it's just noise. It frustrates me.
Speaker 9: I'm not smart enough to understand all the components, everything
that goes into it, all the different factors and whatnot.
Speaker 6: But I just didn't know what the Pappy way you have.
So yeah, I'm standing with Kilawney.
Speaker 9: I'm frustrated, right, I'm frustrated because none of what I
say and what I think matters.
Speaker 6: None of it matters.
Speaker 2: They don't care.
Speaker 9: Validate yourself, get to that big cold championship game. Certainly
win the game against Cincinnati because the last thing you want.
Speaker 6: Is for Utah to get in there.
Speaker 2: That would really sting.
Speaker 6: And just get it done on the field. That's all
you can do.
Speaker 9: Sorry, I know that's a simple man's take on the matter,
but that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2: What issue? What's your biggest issue in the rankings right now?
Is there one in particular that you play as like
they got this wrong? Right? Is that they got wrong?
Speaker 6: Well? The Notre Dame always bothers me.
Speaker 9: I just think that Notre Dame is perennially overrated, and
it bothers me considerably that.
Speaker 6: They are where they are.
Speaker 9: But I don't have a lot of inks toward anything
ahead of BYU. It's not a huge outrage like, no,
that team doesn't belong. I'm not seeing that with the
teams ahead of BYU. I'm really not. I mean, Oklahoma's man,
they beat Alabama. I mean you gotta give some credit
in that regard that that's probably going to prep BAUS
hope for now large bit as much as anything that.
Speaker 6: No one was expecting that.
Speaker 9: And if you watch that game almost kind of got lucky.
Alabama shot itself into the foot. But the committee apparently
doesn't care about that as like, no, they they did it.
Speaker 6: They beat.
Speaker 9: The way Oklahoma beat Alabama was kind of the same
way b way you beat Utah in a lot of regards.
Speaker 6: It was similar, although I think Oklahoma was even more lucky.
But no, they're gonna give Oklahoma the benefit of the down.
I'm not really seeing a team.
Speaker 9: In front of the where you where you're just outratus
like nahye, way, he deserves to be ahead of that team.
You can make like little arguments here and there, but
as far as just being a saying no, there's no
doubt be where he deserves to be ahead of that team.
Speaker 6: I'm not seeing that.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm just done. Yeah, let's pivot here a little bit.
Let's talk prep football recruiting, something that you know you're
very much privy to. You were at the semi final games.
You were sitting next to Brandon Huffman of two four
seven Sports getting all the deats on these prospective local recruits.
What did you see? What did you like? Do you
feel like anything's brewing in the twenty twenty six class
for BYU with some flippage, give me some evals if
you will, Malala Pula's all the all the deeds.
Speaker 9: Please, Just so people know, Brandon Hoffman is extremely in
tune with what go on.
Speaker 6: I just want to prop that guy up. He knows
his product. And while I was.
Speaker 9: In by him, he he I don't think he'd be
mad for me revealing this, he said, he Judy Mowalla
has got to be a four star. What I'm seeing
now there is a four star alignment, And sure enough,
two days after Brandon Huffman has a lot of pull
with the two.
Speaker 6: Four seven network. Guess he's granted four stars.
Speaker 9: Judy Mowata everyone calls him Juni by the way, and.
Speaker 2: Seeing him myself, man, he's good.
Speaker 9: He He is going to be a dominant inside lineman,
probably three technique. He's probably going to play the position
that JT's playing this year. I think he could boke
up and play no nose guard, zero technique.
Speaker 6: Whatever.
Speaker 2: He's good.
Speaker 6: He's really really good.
Speaker 9: And while this and I've been consistent b way the
last piece for BYU and they're getting there because they're
better in that regard this year with the tackle play.
Speaker 6: But once they get.
Speaker 9: That's all a six man rotation of dudes. They can
just rotate in and out and take on guys, have death,
not tire out, and just punish an opposing offense on
the interior man. That's going to be formidable because be
what you kind of has figured it out at every
other position. Defensive end looks fantastic for the coming years.
That's going to be the strength of the defense. Linebacker.
They have solid death safety, cornerback. They're looking really really
good at all the positions, and they're not looking bad
at defensive tackle. Don't get me wrong, I think they
have some guys, but once they get the up there
where it's matching the talent, it's a band linebacker that's
going to be really really big for this defense, and
that's where you're going to reach the next tier, to
have a.
Speaker 6: Truly dominating unit game in and game out.
Speaker 9: Whereas you're seeing teams that they can still do things
against Bayu on occasion. But once you shut that down
and get that interior and getting guys like Juni Muala,
who I believe will play the interior, that's gonna go
along Rain in that regard. So, yeah, be excited about
this kid. He's going to be very very good. The
only thing is you need three or four of these guys.
That's the goal, that's what you want. But this is
a really really good start because he's tremendous.
Speaker 2: He's very very good.
Speaker 9: I mean, you had the foremost two four seven evaluator
watching him live and he came away just saying.
Speaker 6: No, I got to bump this kid up. He's really good.
So and he was good. He was dominating his assignment.
Speaker 2: I think Cannon Pola also earned his fourth star per
two four seven Sports.
Speaker 3: What do you make of the Pula twins.
Speaker 9: I think what's hurting Canon is people are comparing him
to Jaron, and Jaren's a legitimate four star guy.
Speaker 6: Cannon hasn't been as good as a.
Speaker 9: Receiver, but I would argue he's as good as a
safety prospect his ability to hunt down a ball. And
everyone saw that catch. My goodness. I mean it wasn't
only on Sports Center they interviewed him about it. He
was the most final catch I've ever seen ever. I've
never seen a catch like that. I'll probably never see
a catch like that. Again, that's athleticism, that's no hell.
But more so than anything, that's confidence, the confidence to
go up.
Speaker 6: There and sneer that down.
Speaker 9: I think what you see with a lot of defensive backs,
it takes everything within their power just to be in
the right spot, right, but reaching that next tier whereas okay,
I'm not only in that right, smile, I'm making a
play on this thing, right, I.
Speaker 6: Can do this. Man's that's that's hard to come by.
Speaker 9: Sure, And and I kind of believe that j Hills
saw that and just like, hey, no, I need to
step in here because it's kind of been a receiver thing.
Jerry's kind of headed this, and yeah, you get Kenon
as the bonus. And I think Keenan maybe reached the
tier where it's like, no, I'm my own guy.
Speaker 6: I can lead this thing, and we're kind of equal
in that regard.
Speaker 9: I'll get it done on the defense, Genal will get
it done on the offense, and we'll just be happy
and we'll contribute heavily to these teams.
Speaker 2: But these guys are athletes.
Speaker 9: These these are legitimate college players that will contribute sooner
rather than later. They're very, very good, and from what
I understand, b Way He's not really in it right now.
They could get it in a moment's notice, because I
think the kids like b Way You, that they're hanging
around b Way You, they want that.
Speaker 6: So I think it's just up to j Hill.
Speaker 9: I think it's up to j Hill if he wants
Keenan Poole is a safety and that's going to move
in that regard, because I don't think Fessi's.
Speaker 6: Enamored with Jared. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 9: I don't know, but I just haven't seen anything where
it's any movement or any percolation where yeah, yeah, b
Way's on the cusp of getting these guys. So I
think it's gonna take Jay Hill falling in love with
Kennan is a safety prospect, which I think could happen.
I think probably should happen because because the kid's tremendous.
Speaker 6: Yep, he's really really good, so.
Speaker 2: Really good player, no doubt about it. B Yu still
to a certain degree, is the master of own destiny.
You got to focus on the task at hand. They
got a f because on Cincinnati on the road. How
do you think BAU finishes out the regular season?
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a tough game.
Speaker 9: I hope fans understand this is gonna be a lot
tougher than that TCU game you pointed out, and you
preach it all and I believe you. I hate it
when I have to give you cred, but I do
in this regard where I think Bau's advantage being on
a grass field is pronounced this year just because of
what bear Bachmeyer can do and his strengths as a player.
Cincinnati's gonna be tough. This is gonna be a big,
big game. This is do or die for Cincinnati. And
even though Utah whacked Cincinnati, look at Cincinnati's total yardage.
They were making yards. They were doing things against that
Utah defense, and that gives you pause. Things obviously didn't
go well the turnover battle. Utah dominated that, but what
Cincinnati showed is yeah, it can't make yards against a
very good defense, which Utah is Uta is a very
good defense. I believe the ba's defense is better than Utah's.
But given the fact that it's on the row on
a surface that since Natty's Uh comfortable with, it's gonna
be a tough all. It's gonna be really tough. I
do believe the Bau's offense with what it showed and
what I loved what Clawey said said this week is
Bear's arrived to the point where they can give him anything.
He's he understands the playbook. He can beat you with
his arm, he can beat you with his legs. His
progression is now to the point where where they can
do things. They can do a lot of things against
an opposing defense. And since then you don't I'm that
good of a defense. So I expect Bear to have
a huge game again. I'm still waiting for that Chase
Roberts game where he just dominates like he did in
American Fork High School.
Speaker 6: I think it's coming, and I think it might be
this week against him uh Cincinnati. But but yeah, it's
gonna be tough. It's gonna be a lot tougher than
TCU for a lot of factors. But but you get BWAY,
you the edge.
Speaker 9: I think the team culture of what they showed coming
out out against TCU is tremendous. I think it's gonna
overcome and I think it's going to be way the
victory of this coming Saturday.
Speaker 2: The g man, g man, best way to support you,
what you do, how you do it? And uh, then
I got one more question for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Great content is always.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: If one last thing, if b YU gets to the
Big Tal Championship and loses to Texas Tech and makes
it competitive, your stance is that the committee is going
to include b YU like a one score game, like
a seven.
Speaker 6: No, that is not my stance.
Speaker 3: Now, I thought you said that.
Speaker 6: I believe that b what you may have that opportunity,
but they're looking for reasons. Critical, they're looking for reasons,
and it all depends on what happens in front of BAYU.
Speaker 9: But I do believe the bay you can get that
at large bid if it's competitive against Texas Tech, even
if it loses in that big twel championship game.
Speaker 2: I do believe that g Man. We salute you, we
appreciate you, we love you. Thanks so much for hopping
on today.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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