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Welcome in, Ronald the three Man. We were live for
the Delta Center. Roddy, how was the first half?
Speaker 3: Look? I mean, Wisconsin might need some help, Ben, They're
gonna have to get in the game. Not too well
for the Badges right now, But I think that's what
Cougar fans want to hear.
Speaker 4: This Wisconsin team did not play all that well in
the first half. I believe they were three of sixteen
from the three point line. Do you think they improved?
Were they getting good enough shots? They were just missing those?
Speaker 3: No, it's Yu's defense, Ben, that's what the perimeter defense
is a lock. Look, we heard the media availability from
Kevin Young earlier, or Wisconsin likes to run the pick
and pop a little slash at the basket. We heard
from Blant Butch yesterday BYU shutting all of that down,
blitzing over every screen. Everybody's playing defense, even down to
rob right right now, the perimeter defense is locking Wisconsin up.
And look, whether they're getting a good look or it's
a forced look that's not going down. They really have it.
Aj debons to look, you wanted to know who was
gonna guard John Blackwell, it's Aj Debonca He's literally taking
this guy out of the game in the first half shooting.
Look what two of seven? I mean, that's your best
player who averages just about nineteen and a half points
per game, and he's two of seven from the field
and one of four from three. AJ's had his number
the whole day so far.
Speaker 4: As far as the offensive productivity and efficiency is concerned
on BYU side of the ball, what stood out to.
Speaker 3: You points in the paint, Ben, They've been able to
get dominant and get downhill twenty two points in the
paint to Wisconsin's fourteen so far, and it is Aj Ben.
I think it was four straight possessions that AJ went
to is not in for excuse me three, he went
to the free throw line. Guys just on Wisconsin can't
guard him. And when he gets to that little mid
range NBA style Kevin Durant s pull up in the paint.
I mean, you have to give it to him. Either
you foul him or you let him hit the shots.
So right now, that's been the big difference. And Rob
Wright's not sellling.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 3: Look, we heard from Brian but yesterday, who's one of
the radio analysts of the Wisconsin Badglers. He said Rob
Right is the X factor, and he's been the X factor. Ben.
I mean, when you look at Rob Right's statue, he's
got five points along with four rebounds and then five assists.
Five of the seven b YU assists have come from
rober Wright. So obviously Kevin Young and the coaching staff
has done a good job to let rober Wright know,
get downhill when they collapse, go create a shot, and
he's done that so far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, it's tremendous to watch this bau minsed
basketball team bounce back and and play really good basketball
after experiencing some adversity. How pivotal has the Kebe Cada Uh,
I guess play Ben? He he got the start, I
mean he had, he'd gone out early in that Yukon game.
Speaker 1: How good is Kaba beIN?
Speaker 3: Oh man, he's been massive, been so far just as presence. Look,
a lot of stuff doesn't always show up on the statue. Look,
kid's got two points, he's got four rebounds, you know,
and he's got one block. And I mean that's the difference.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: A guy like that makes Wisconsin thinks about when they
drive downhill, do we really want this problem? Do we
want to deal with number thirteen? Then when I saw
warming up, you know, I was surprised. I was like, Oh,
it's Caba gonna play, And then heard from the pregame
radio broadcast that Kevin young Get said he would play.
He was day to day with the concussion. He was
in high spirits. He just wasn't clear for the concussion.
But he was smiling, he was giggity, he was bumping
with his teammates, with John lennehand with Chris Burgess. He
was excited already out there, and his energy and his
presence has been a match. But it's not just the
presence of Caba been everybody's been wanting to know about
Kadem Boup and this kid man. He's come in and
he's made a difference. Like his defense is super underrated,
Like he's been switching on everybody one through five and
he had a couple of fouls. Gotta work with that.
But I mean, right now, the minute that Cable's gotten
he's only played eleven. Kadem's backed him up right there
with just about nine. I like what the big man
had been doing for BYU today so far.
Speaker 4: Will you remember when we were chatting after the UCF
game last year when I was out Orlando. You know,
there were multiple scouts there and they were all looking
at at I mean they were obviously looking at a
number of players, Jegory and then the uc There was
two or three UCF players, but they kept out.
Speaker 1: They brought up Kadeeb, they brought up canea.
Speaker 4: Hey, we want to get is on cadieb So the
clay is good there that it's just how quickly can
he develop and gain confidence in order to make an impact.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, I mean the clay is there. You see
how you can switch one through five, how he can
move his feet, he can rebound at a high level.
He's getting tit backs and he's fighting for these fifty
fifty balls. That's what's also been successful. He's in the
mix of every fifty fifty fifty ball. I don't care
if I'm a coach and he's picking up a foul
to two. If you're jumping for every rebound, going for
every steal, diving for every ball, that's what gets you
in the game, that's what keeps you on the court,
and that's what coaches want. So yeah, still, we're all
still got to have a lot of more development. But
to me, right now, I think the team's gonna see
a lot more time in the second half when it
sucks in a few minutes.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like Wisconsin? I mean, they're still hunking
up a lot of threes here. You mentioned that the defense,
the Preimer defense has been on point.
Speaker 1: Do you think they have a few.
Speaker 4: Shots drop this second half and they stay in this game,
or do you think bo breaks it open.
Speaker 3: I think Bo is gonna break it open. I don't
think Wisconsin with the way they're playing been and Ba's
perimeter defense, I just don't see in the world they
would have to really shoot lights side and Look, BYU
wants to run and transition, and they're doing that really
well well when Wisconsin has these long misses been and
Bou is able to push or when they slowed the
ball down and give it to Ah and he runs
the point forward and they're getting them in foul trouble
now like Wisconsin. You know, Ben, they have twelve ten
fouls excuse me in the first half, like an Aj
has drawn like five of them. Like that's that's what's
gonna hurt you, is even if you his shots. When
BAU wants to go to number three, when they want
to go to that number one recruit, it's really difficult
to be at a bounce back. So Wisconsin is it's
possible they were within striking range. You're only down twelve.
But I think BYU is going to break this open eventually.
Speaker 4: Ronald the three man, we were lying from the delta
and are discussing the BYU basketball game that's occurring right now.
I think they're gonna be starting up again here momentarily
there at halftime, but thus far this half, I mean,
I was also really impressed with Rob right at fifteen.
Speaker 1: Minutes play, he only had five points, but he had
four assists, sorry, five assists and four rebounds.
Speaker 4: He's really coming into his own as a playmaker. And
everyone's benefiting from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody's benefited from it for sure. And look, that
was the biggest thing. Like Rob Wright really is the
X doctor. He's the guy that can go get his
own shot when he wants. Like, look, if you didn't
get a chance to watch it, I was breaking down
for fans. He's going in the paint. Saw some boyd
up goals to score if he wants to. Hits Richie
in the corner with a brillion pass, hits a deep three,
and that's what gets the energy going. Like, you have
to respect rober Wright's ability to go to the basketball
when you collapse and when you fear that you leave
the three point shot open. And when you got a
guy like Richie Saunders. They hit seventy five threes last year,
it just makes Richie's case for hitting one hundred this
year a little bit easier.
Speaker 4: Shoot you with forty five points up in a first half,
you're most likely gonna be in the driver's seat. They
were fifty three percent from the field, thirty one from
three point line, and then sixty from the charity stripe.
Got to hit your free throws. Obviously, Richie started to
find his groove a little bit, five of nine from
the field, one for four from the three point line.
Speaker 1: Three point shooting. Still not the forte of this BOM's
basketball team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not definitely not the forte. They've had a couple
of look the games before shots just in fall, Ben,
they've been a couple of bad three point shots, a
couple of rushlings by Tyler Moruss and Dawson Baker. And look,
I love what Dawson did in the first half and
his minutes righty, he played thirteen, had six points. Love
the stroke that he has. The development staff has worked
on that shot. But don't rush the shot, and when
the guy's in your face, don't pull a couple of
ball onces. So there's about look, I'm not gonna say
they would have made those, Ben, but there's about four
threes that they if they don't take those bad shots,
they're about five to twelve, and they're about probably, you know,
a little bit closer in the percentage range that they
want to. But we'll see what they do in the
second half.
Speaker 4: All right, looks like the second half is starting up
and the same starting lineup is out. Actually Kadima Boop
is out for CAMPU Ketta, So enjoy the rest of
the game.
Speaker 1: Roder will get a postgame recap front.
Speaker 3: I'll give you guys a post Henricotta just lets you know,
over six NBA teams, over ten scouts are here in
attendant to watch a Debonsa. He's put on a show
the spot for the first half. We'll see what he
does in the second half.
Speaker 1: Been Yeah, pretty insane.
Speaker 4: How much talent is there in the room, in the
on the court, and in that stadium in A ton
of scouts have converged on the Delta Center, as noted
by Ronald the three Man Weaver. Yeah, thirty four scouts
from twenty one teams on hand for this number nine
BYU matchup versus the number twenty three Wisconsin Badgers at
the Delta Center this afternoon. Pretty impressive to say the least.
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Speaker 1: Let's start start with this the health of BYU. Real quick.
Speaker 4: BYU's in the game right now, hopefully they get into
the college football playoff game.
Speaker 1: You're a BYU fan.
Speaker 4: I don't know what your expectations were preseason, but BYU
has for many in Cougar Country, has overachieved this season
nine to one. Right now, heading on the road to Cincinnati,
it's a big game. They welcome UCF into Lavelle Edwards
Stadium and then hopefully they're in the Big twelve championship
game to hopefully compete and win against most likely Texas Tech.
How do how do you see this season? And you
know how entertaining has been for you? Oh man, it's
been a great season.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, with the news that came out right
before fall camp, you know a lot of fans didn't
know if this was gonna be a throwaway season. None
of us knew anything about Bear at that point, and
then you start hearing little reports about him doing well
in fall camp and stuff like that. And even you
and I had conversations when we first met, talking about
like how things were happening in fall camp and ever
since then, I mean, everything that's exceeded our expectations. You know,
we everyone was talking about like, you know, if we
can get to a bowl game, and then as like,
you know, seven seven wins this season, that's kind of
our ceiling, and anything beyond that is, you know, just
is just gravy. But it's funny how as the season
progresses that goalpost moves a little bit, right. You start
winning against these quality opponents and you're like, wait a second.
You know, you see Bear have a big run. You're like,
hold up, Like, maybe we can win more than seven games,
maybe we can win more than eight games. And I
don't think anyone maybe maybe people thought that, but uh,
it has exceeded every expectation that I've that I've had.
Speaker 1: For the season, and it's been fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, Uh, I want to say it opened
at like the preseason win total for BYU football.
Speaker 1: Was at like six and a half.
Speaker 4: It was like six and a half, and we're like,
you know, I'm taking that over, like we were smacking
that over, Like you know, we're definitely smacking that over
for the betting ones out there, but like I figuratively better.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, definitely forget a bet, go
go with the over there.
Speaker 4: I felt like, b what you could, like, my ceiling
was nine and three, floor was uh was uh was
probably seven and five. I felt like that was what
the regular season would would bring us, and then we
we'd get to ten wins with maybe a bowl game
in the pop Tarts balls like that would be tremendous
with its refreshment and you get double did you wins
and what a great season that would be.
Speaker 1: And look, it could still be a nine and three season.
Speaker 4: We don't know what's gonna happen on the back end here,
Like you could lose to you could lose this Incienta
in the road, wheels could fall off versus UCF. But
it doesn't seem like the culture is built to like
flail at the end.
Speaker 1: Of the season.
Speaker 4: I think they should finish strong and right now they're
heading out to Cincinnati. They're only a two and a
half point favorite, which I found to be intriguing.
Speaker 1: We have struggled on the road though.
Speaker 4: You look at the games, even like the ECU game, like,
it wasn't like this dominant start to finish win.
Speaker 1: They ended up you know, separating late.
Speaker 4: But the Colorado game, right, you were on your heels
and then you roared back. Iowa State game took a
little bit of defense and special teams to turn that
one around, and then it was a solid victory on
the road. Arizona Wildcats doublet right, that was you had
a storm delay as well.
Speaker 1: So, like I look at.
Speaker 4: All of these road games thus far, and it's not
like obviously bou plays better at home. Is it fair
to have BYU is only a two and a half
point favorite versus a formerly ranked Cincinnati Bearcatz team, do
you think?
Speaker 5: Well, if any lesson we've learned this year, it's that
the Vegas has no idea what to or how to
anticipate how Bay's gonna play, right. I mean you look
at the last game against TCU. I don't remember what
the line ended up being, but it was.
Speaker 4: Where Vegas gets it really mixed up, Like I think
they they more accurately depict maybe the close games on
the road, but at home, you can't account for the
royal army, true, and just how rockets they get, as
well as just how good this b or your Cougar
football team plays under the lights of level.
Speaker 5: In the entire game too, right, I mean some of
those false starts. Was was it in the fourth quarter
that those false starts were happening? It's like that rarely
happens at other stadiums.
Speaker 4: By the way, b YU is seven and three against
the spread, So I mean that's that's good teams win,
great teams cover, and so by that metric you would say, hey,
like they're over achieve and they're beating the spread. And
so you're right, Vegas hasn't necessarily dialed in BYU this year.
Texas Tech is actually ten and one against the spread.
That shows how great they are. Ohio States number two
in the country against the spread. They're eight and one
and one against the spread, and then you Qutah States
eight and two against anyway, and so is Utah anyway. Uh,
you know they they It's just just saying, you know,
good teams win, great teams cover.
Speaker 1: There was some validity to that. Yeah, no, I think
you're right.
Speaker 5: Your original question was about like the spread for this game, right,
so you said it's at two and a half two
and a half, they're two and a half point favorites.
It's hard to say. I mean, it's going to really
depend a lot. I have full confidence in BYU. I
think they're really clicking after that TCU game. It's like
they have exceeded all expectations up to this point. It
will be interesting to see how Cincinnati this game, being
back at home sounds Soresby sounds like he's gonna play. Uh,
they get their running back back as well. Who I
know he he had a really phenomenal beginning to his
season as well. I think he was carrying the ball
for like over seven yards a clip or something like that,
which is which is nuts. So it'll be really interesting
to see. I do think that we we cover, Like
I don't see a world in which which that doesn't happen.
Like I anticipate a close game closus. I like that,
But I don't know. I think it's gonna be more
than two and a half points.
Speaker 4: Yeah, away results just so everybody knows, right, points four
points again against one thirty nine points four one seventeen
points against. So average margin is four point four points
per game. You know, obviously you take out Texas Tech
and that changes things a little bit. You beat East
Carolina thirty four to thirteen, you beat Colored out of
twenty four to twenty one, You beat Arizona thirty three
twenty seven, and then you beat Iowa State forty one
to twenty seven. B yuse a good team on the road.
I don't know if they're a great team on the
road just yet. And this is you know, would we
compare like, is is Cincinnati better than Arizona?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: They're about the same. I mean, look that that game
was just played and Cincinnati lost. Now Cincinnati was maybe
a little bit digged up. They lost by three at
home to u of A. And Sworsby has a little
bit of an angle issue. And they have a running
back and wide receiver that are returning that are both
starters or rotational guys that are impactful players. They're pretty
safe similar. So if you took you're going to take
these equivalencies. It's not too far off to say if
they're equivalent. Teams are close to that equivalency. This is
gonna be a really tough game on the road, and
it's a one score game on the road. When you
look at Arizona specifically with common opponents.
Speaker 5: Sure, I will say I think Arizona's trending upwards, and
obviously Cincinnati's kind of on a on a slide right now,
but I think you do bring a good point. I'll
also say, what was Arizona? Was that the fifth game
of the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't too long ago. I mean it's
you know, middle of the season, a few weeks ago.
Speaker 5: So that was that was Bear's fifth start ever, Uh,
he'd only played was that maybe the second?
Speaker 1: It was October eleventh, so a little over a month ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, So I think that I think that he
he's had a lot of experience between between that Arizona
game and this game. Also say, like, while it obviously
it hurts when when LJ goes out because we we
don't have like a very established running game beyond him
and obviously Bear.
Speaker 1: At times as well, but.
Speaker 5: Like him going out allowed Bear to air it out
a little bit more, and so during some of those
earlier games, we really weren't throwing all that much. So
it'll be interesting to see now with with LJ back
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BYU without that Texas Tech game has been pretty good
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Their average margin of victory eleven points, but they've had
to find ways to win in kind of a gritty fashion,
not just a complete game control. So we'll see how
this one plays out at Cincinnati. Tough one on the road.
The one thing that makes me optimistic that the way
you can find a dub and maybe even a double
digit dub, is that Sowarsby and his running ability could
be impaired by an ankle injury. He did show up
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Speaker 1: They're just pointing at each other, you know what I mean.
It's uh.
Speaker 4: But the good thing is Bear's actually healthy, fully healthy,
looking good.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how it plays out.
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Speaker 4: There's a Lee High location as well, and then you
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Speaker 5: Shoot, they're popping up every day, but I think we're
at about like six or seven at this point. We
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give you an update on this Boa men's basketball team.
They're taking on the Wisconsin Badgers at the Delta Center
and on a neutral court.
Speaker 1: It's a home court advantage though you know how it is.
Speaker 4: Bau's wearing their their black with royal trim, and they
played good so far, sixty six fifty two. There's about
ten minutes left in the game. Since fighting they are contesting.
I feel like Belie has not been hitting as many
shots in the second half. They're shooting percent has gone
to dropped about four or five percent from the first half.
Forty eight percent now from the field, thirty three percent
from the three point line. They're eight of twenty four
from that three point line, and they're seventy two percent
from the charity stripe. They're thirteen of eighteen and Wisconsin
is in a couple more threes. But they're not shooting
the ball overly well either, thirty eight percent from the field,
twenty two percent from the three point line at sixteen
nine percent from the free throat line. Bli's defense, though
he has much improved that athleticism and length has been
really fun to watch coming off of that Yukon game
where it felt like Yukon was just hitting everything. But
as far as the scoring is concerned, Richie Saunders now
leads all scores with seventeen. He's seven to thirteen from
the field, two six from the three point line, one
for two from the charney stripe, in three rebounds to
assist only one turnover.
Speaker 1: He's got who steals aj debotsa.
Speaker 4: The number two score twelve points, three of six from
the field, one for three from the three point nine,
five to six from the charity stripe, six rebounds one
it's just two turnovers. She's got four personal fouls though,
so I think he's been put on ice for a moment,
just to give him a little bit of rest.
Speaker 1: Nineteen total fouls, right now.
Speaker 4: Getting close to the bonus as we get it to
the second half deep into the second half.
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Speaker 4: All right, as we gave you a little update on
BYU basketball, I want to talk some BYU football now
with Pro Football Focused, they did a quick preview of
this game by versus Cincinnati. Obviously b YU a slight
favorite in this game. Let's listen in as Adult Wasserman
and Max Chad would break down this matchup and how
they see it.
Speaker 2: So you have Bear Bachmeier against the Bearcats and this
one Dalton.
Speaker 1: What should we know? This mashup? Got to love it.
Speaker 2: So one bit of tape that I wanted to watch
is this matchup's obviously very interesting. You've got BYU's offensive
line in their zone run game against a really good
run defense for Cincinnati right down the middle of their defense,
Dante Corps, Jake Golde at linebacker, right Antoine Peak at safety.
But I wanted to look at how Bear Bachmeyer could
have success in this game.
Speaker 1: So what did I do?
Speaker 2: I went back and watched him play against Iowa State,
which runs the same exact defense as Cincinnati. There's not
a whole lot of pass rush, It's a three man
rush up front, a lot of drop eight, a lot
of zone coverage. What did he look like in that game?
Just to remind I did watch it obviously a few
weeks ago, and he was outstanding in the drop back game.
That was maybe the best game of the year for him.
But what was the difference? What did he do in
that game to have success throwing the ball to the outside.
Remember earlier in the season, Max, when I was talking
about bart Bachmeyer and how good he was throwing down
the middle of the field and the opportunities that Aaron
Rodgers creates for him down the middle, he started to
throw more to the outside lately. That game against Iowa
State was his highest passing grade throwing at or outside
the numbers. Then he comes back a couple weeks later
this week against TCU and he has another great game.
He had his third best passing grade of the year
on those outside throws against TCU. So when you look
at the last three games throwing at or outside the numbers, okay,
are not necessarily used to seeing BYU make these throws
eighty six passing grade thirty three for forty seven three
hundred and eleven yards, four big time throws just on
outside throws in the last three games, especially against Iowa
State and TCU, he was really good. To me, that's
where you have to attack this Cincinnati defense in the
passing game. We've seen them get hurt out there in
the pass of corners. Matthew McDoom and company. They really
have to be on it against Chase Roberts, against Parker Kingston,
who's gotten even better this year on the outside. That's
where Bachmeyer to me, has to attack Cincinnati in the middle.
Speaker 1: They're tough.
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 2: Those tight windows and zone coverage are really good. But
I think the teams like Kansas, Iowa State at times
Arizona last year, they've hurt them on the outside outside
of the numbers, challenging these corners. If Bachmeyer plays the
same way and as that same success he did against
Iowa State against TCU, I think he could have a
really good game because Cincinnati, as we know, this defense
is just structured basically not to have any pass rush
they go.
Speaker 4: That's the pro foot focus commentators Dult Washerman and Max
Chadwick breaking it all down is and look, this BAU
team better win this game. Bear Blackmeyer starting to show
an increased ability to throw.
Speaker 1: Outside the numbers, opposite hash throws.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't necessarily say they're They're coming out with a
whole lot of zip, a whole lot of vigor and vim,
a whole lot of velocity, but great timing throws to
the outside, and we're gonna expect more of that. Obviously,
Cincinnati has a few players coming back, a few players
coming back that will be beneficial for them.
Speaker 1: BYU's injury report, you'd wish it was better, you wish Waylon.
Speaker 4: Lapa Wahu was not out, but other players have stepped up.
I think Kyle super Choke obviously, Sonny Marcasini. They've played
their fair sheriff reps this season. And we've even seen
Austin Leus move out from the right guard position. I
think he maybe even played the left guard and he's
been moved out to tackle. So we'll see kind of
what the best five is for BYU heading into Cincinnati,
but I expect a very good run game. TJ Woods
did a phenomenal job coming out of that Texas Tech loss.
They that offensive line was revamped, remodeled, restructured, recalibrated. They
looked fantastic at Levelle Edwards Stadium on Saturday night and
I expected once again versus Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: A couple other insider reports here check this out.
Speaker 4: A number of recruits in the state of Utah got
reevaluated in from the twenty twenty sixth class. Brandon Huffman
came into town and evaluated all the playoff I don't
know how many games over a couple of day period.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 4: Top ten recruits in the state of Utah now are
all four stars in the twenty twenty sixth class. Celesimoa
four star. He's heading to Tennessee. Brock Harris four star
heading the BYU. Bob Mullaitalo four star heading the BYU
offensive lineman, Trenton Bezinger quarterback into Iowa. He's also a
four star East Santafa. He could be heading the USC
he's committed there currently. Heliman Kasuga also quarterback, Texas A
and m Lopeti Moala defensive line. He's heading the BYU.
He got the four star bump. Jared Pula four star.
He's committed to Utah right now, but he was wearing
some BYU football gloves at the state championship game just yesterday.
Matali Benjamin out of Lehigh in Lehi, Lehigh High School.
He's committed to Utah, and then Kennon Pulla also committed
to Utah. He got up up to a four star.
So many phenomenal recruits here in the state of Utah,
and BYU out of the top ten, has three commits
out of the top ten. Pretty nice. Would it be
great to have Celestie? Would have been awesome to have Celestie.
His brothers were playing at BYU just a couple of
seasons ago. Now ones at Michigan State, and I think
the other ones maybe at Yukon last time I checked
Sioni Boa and Ice Moa, respectively. Celestie's heading to the
SEC to take his talents. Great wide receiver, great athlete
that will ball out. I believe in the SEC. But
you never know, could get a bounce back there with
Celestie if he's not having the greatest time in Tennessee.
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Speaker 6: What do you got for me, ap, Well, I just
I just wanted to add in, just really quickly on
that recruit stuff you're talking about. Oh yeah, yeah, Kennon
Pula and Jaren Pula. Those are two. I think those
are two guys b way. He needs to do everything
to flip. I covered those two for two years.
Speaker 1: From what like.
Speaker 6: Jaren is easily the best of the I don't want
to say easily of the two. He's a step above
in terms of receiving. But Kennon is an incredible safety.
He's a really good safety. He can play corner, he's
a great specialist, and he's only a step below, I
would say, just a small step below Jaren in terms
of receiving those two are incredible players, and BYU should
do everything they can to flip the two.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like I mean, J Hill has been
there at practices. J Hill has said that, hey, it's
it's a lot easier to recruit, and maybe even he
didn't say this, but it may be able to you
may be able to flip guys when you're winning.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like Jay Hill? And I think T. J.
Speaker 4: Woods has been seen at Loan Peak. I know Kate
Pop has been there before even I believe justin Ena
two he hops in every now and again when there's
a particular recruit. But do you feel like, are you
optimistic that BYU can flip Jaren and Kennon pulla heading
into the initial signing period.
Speaker 6: For me, I think it comes down I give them
a thirty five to chance, and before this weekend I
had him about a fifteen percent chance. But seeing I
don't know something about seeing Utah commits where BYU gloves
on Utah's field, I think that adds a little bit
of intrigue to me. Maybe there's something there that's not
a done deal. They're a packaged deal. There's no secret there.
I think BYU, if they.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I feel like if they clinch a Big twelve title
quickly here, there's a real shot at them getting the
Poola Twins.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 6: I think BYU's got a good relationship with the two.
I don't know what their relationship is like with the
Pola Twins parents, I don't I don't know what that is.
I genuinely don't don't have any source there, and I
think that does play a factor with these two. So
I just I want to see the Poola Twins in blue.
It would hurt to see them in red because they're
such talented players and quite frankly, they're the kind of
players that that could really hurt BYU in a future matchup.
Speaker 1: Well, you have to wonder what's the what's the price tag? Yeah?
Speaker 4: How much are you willing to pay for players that
may or may not play for you? As true freshman?
It's one thing to put a price tag on on
a four star that's gonna play for you, and you're
you're pretty sure that he's gonna play for you, whether
that's Jaren or Kenned. Yeah, it's hard to come in
immediately and and and ball out as a true freshman.
We very rarely see, it just doesn't happen, not at
the P four level for that matter.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to pay.
Speaker 4: A decent amount for that four star and you may
not have an ROI in the first year, year and
a half, maybe even two years. Well, and that's the
difficulty when you're trying to budget, especially from a revenue
distribution standpoint.
Speaker 1: We are fiscally minded at Brigham.
Speaker 4: We don't want to spend unless we know these guys
are gonna be impactful. We're seeing the basketball team right
now on the court, the impact and the depth of
a roster, right. Yeah, and we paid a lot for it. Yeah,
let's be honest, we did. We were at the highest bidder, right,
but we paid a lot for it. But they're producing.
They are producing now.
Speaker 1: I know n A.
Speaker 4: Pickens is out, Canard Davis Junior is out. But you
already had a tremendous amount of debt. You had proven entities,
and and Richie and Dawson who were coming back, Keba
coming back, and you probably had to pay for them
to with a j pretty penny rob right, the third
pretty petty Dominique Diamandi and Cademuh even Mihailo Boskovic, Tyler
Morn all these guys. It's a it's a it's a
decent chunk of change. Uh, guys like Jaron and kenn
It may not be in the rotation now. Chase Roberts graduates, right,
he's gone, he's going to the NFL. Parker Kingston may
be coming back. I'd imagine he's coming back. He'll probably
have some suitors. Jojo hopefully comes back. There are opportunities.
You have Lamason Waller, you have other rising stars like
Tiger there remember Tiger Backmeyer.
Speaker 1: Coby Hagen.
Speaker 4: Is Jared better than what is in the in the
depth right at that four or five six spot is
the question. Thus far the season, Jared's has ten games played,
fifty five receptions, eight hundred and twenty one yards fourteen
point nine yards perception, He's got eleven touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's a really good football player. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Kennon, you know, may have a good opportunity to play
at safety possibly if he acclimates, or he.
Speaker 1: Could be a return specialist.
Speaker 6: If if the coaching staff wants to take Parker and
Cody or maybe try to keep them from getting hit
as much and keep them in a wide receiver role.
Speaker 1: Very possible, right, and so I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4: Both of them great size, great athleticism, six three one
ninety five. The Pula twins would be boons for BYU.
Let's take a brief time out, we'll be back. Real
quick update though. BYU basketball up eighty two to fifty eight.
Now they're stretching that lead five fifty five left in
the second half, and this Cougar basketball team balling in
front of all of these or sorry NBA scouts that
are in attendance right now. Shout out to this squad
doing what they needed to to shock the world. Richie
Sader's got twenty six, now AJ with fourteen and Dawson
Baker with eleven. Those are your top three scores. Let's
take a brief time out, We'll be back. This is
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