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it's not a good football player. But if Trayson had
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with Ben's interview with tight Ends coach Kevin Gilbride, Walker,
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Earlier this week, he participated in mediavailablity yesterday with us.
Let's get caught up with Kilanie and what he had
to say. We were, what or a week away from
springball ending. Let's see what he had to say on
the matter.
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, really good day.
Speaker 5: I mean, really really happy with what we're doing overall
all three phases. But obviously a lot of the focus
goes on to the offense and the defense and Bears
looking good. I thought Trason did some really good things
today too, and saw some really good things from Unich.
So the quarterbacks doing a great job. I like the
old line receivers have done a great job at tight
ends and running back. Overall offensively, I'm really excited about
the group. And then, uh, you know the defense, I
mean the front, what Kate Pop's doing as a as
a coordinator, and what we're doing as an overall staff
with the with the D line, linebackers, outside backers, inside backers,
safeties and corners. I mean, it's we're starting to really
gel right now. And there's a lot of big plays
on both sides. So it's kind of hard for me
as a head coach, you say, well, how how's it going?
Is like it there's there's a there's good and bad
from both sides, And when you have such a highly
competitive team, you're gonna have some big plays on offense
and some big plays on defense. And then we saw
some of that today and just you know, I'm just
really liking the progress overalls of the team and the
leadership in the group.
Speaker 3: And getting some working with Trayson and Bear.
Speaker 1: Obviously in the quarterback.
Speaker 3: I asked a Rod about.
Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago and just to kind of
get your take, can you notice sort of a difference
on him coming in not only early in his ring
loll with him, but to get a couple of ut
reps during kind of a bull practice.
Speaker 5: That yeah, you can definitely see just him being comfortable
with the reps and with the just the timing of
it all. I mean, you have to remember he just
got home from his mission and so but having him
do the extra practices in the bowl prep was actually
really cool, and so I think that was really good
for enix progression and his development. And then even now,
I mean, if you look at practice one to where
we're at right now. He's he's improved quite a bit,
and so it's very encouraging when you have players get
better with the reps that you get them and and
he's not making the same mistakes. It's just a great
indicator that you have a really good quarterback. And so
uh and I think all three of those guys have
done an amazing job in spring camp so far as.
Speaker 7: College football settles more into life with one man rosters, Colon,
how challenging is it to maybe achieve all your goals
that you want in spring ball knowing that the ultimate
battles are in the fall and keeping just guys healthy
to put the limitations.
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's it's it's a little bit of there's
a balance, and I mean, I think you have to
get into that great gray area a little bit where
you have to see some guys, uh do it with
some live stuff. I mean, we on on on the
on the scrimmage at the stadium, it was mostly the
live stuff was with the threes. So if guys are
kind of brand new and never been tackled in that
stadium or never tackled in that stadium, then that's what
we want to see them do, and and we saw
enough from that, but I don't think we needed to
see anything from the ones and twos, And even during
spring I'm I'm not sure how much you're reading to
see them go live, but everything, if you know, the.
Speaker 4: Game up front is live already.
Speaker 5: So when you talk to the old lineman, you talk
to Keanu and the d lineman that they've been going.
They've been battling this whole time, so there's no such
thing as like, you know, thud or tag for them.
Those guys are it's all live, I mean, and so
you know, I've been With that being said, the big
boys are doing a really good.
Speaker 4: Job the skill.
Speaker 5: You kind of just you just assume that guys would
make tackles in space and things like that, but they've
done it before, and with the new guys, we want
to see if they could do it, and they those
guys did a pretty good job at it too, And
so I'm just overall, I think they're still talking to
the Sports Science group and we set the figure it
out or where's the best where's the best balance of
doing it all, And then because you get to to
fall camp, you don't want to just go live a
bunch of fall camp. You got to get ready for
this season too, So there's gonna be us leaning heavily
on the science part. And then every year's got to
be different because we have guys that really don't need
to do as much, but I mean, you still need
to get a little bit of the physical part of it.
Speaker 3: K Pop was the guy that you wanted it as
the DC.
Speaker 7: How what's been your thoughts, you know what nine or
ten practice is in now? Just your thoughts on how
he's operating as a defensive coortner has been a what
you hoped.
Speaker 1: Out from him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was there's no doubt in my mind that
that he was the next one in line. And even
when Jay was here, my job was to prep and
get get on the next one ready.
Speaker 4: So I spent a lot of time with k Pop.
Speaker 5: So why he was still in front of the team
quite a bit, and why I put him in a
position to basically be able to see the entire team
so he can evaluate who could probably possibly play on
his side too, And then you know, I just really
want him to be his own person. But at the
same time, there's stuff that I think we're really really
good at but I think his background, when you bring
it all together, he's a guy that understands how to
how to put this thing together. And I'm just I'm
being honest. I've been really really fired up about how
he's doing it and how he's I mean, he's actually
from my expectations, he's exceeded it so far.
Speaker 4: And we haven't we haven't played a.
Speaker 5: Game yet, but I think this is this is going
to be a pretty good thing for us.
Speaker 3: Are going to come back. I feel like we need
to stop to talk about a couple of things. A
lot of good nuggets so far, bread the recent nuggets
about that he's exceeded my expectations. I think that's high
praise coming from Killanne, especially with all the discussion along
the the the offensive side of the ball, the receiver
room and everything. That's high praise room your your head coach.
Speaker 8: It is, and it's really reassuring for any fans because
you don't know what k Pop is going to be.
Speaker 1: As a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 8: There's no kid, there's no guarantees, right, and we heard
often about how complex the Jay Hill system was, and
so you run into the question of, well do we
do something that's less complex or do we keep the
same thing, And either way there's some complexities involved. So
it's really great to hear from Kilani that he's fired
up about K pop and I think that I think
obviously he is the guy seemed fired up to play
for him.
Speaker 1: We saw some good video.
Speaker 8: Of guys popping pads in practice, like this looks like
a defense that's going to go and get after. It
was aw justin Kirkland getting up there to beat a
pass in some of that video.
Speaker 1: The BAU football set out, so it's a big deal.
And the other thing I liked from Kilani is that, like.
Speaker 8: He said that, I was always working on this with
K pop, Right, great leaders are always working on elevating
those who work with them and work for them. Yes,
you always like that's the mark of a great head coach, Right,
is how many of your coaches go on.
Speaker 1: To be great head coaches?
Speaker 8: I think Nick Saban will tell you that, Like, it
sucks to see the shreeve, but it's a mark of
success for you for someone to leave and be promoted elsewhere.
You unfortunately just can't keep everybody, like h Dan Lanning
had to go to Oregon Kirby Smart had to go
to Georgia like they couldn't just hang out with Nick
Saban for forever.
Speaker 1: And so Kilanie clearly sees it in.
Speaker 8: A way of I'm always working to elevate my staff
the best that they can. Unfortunately, they're gonna get so
good where they're going to outgrow me. But what you
always know is that you're always going to have someone
who's capable of being a head coach at your DC
and your OC position until they eventually get that job.
Speaker 1: So it's a blessing and a curse. But great words
from Kolonie Sataki.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely great words from Kilanie. Look to fire it
up about it. You mentioned, you know a good nuggets
and the reason why I brought up the offense the
offense is having it to change things. Kelly had talked
about that last week in I think Immediate Labidy Beartt
can see that read and they have to do a
better job at disguising, and then a Rod talked about
that the defense is disguising a little bit more embarrassed,
starting to have to think, you know, double check at
the line and still making the right decisions taking the
check downs and not turning the ball over. All of
that breeds a good football team. It just it builds
you that And in too, Caline's points to, you know,
push it back a little bit and stay objective in
middle ground. They haven't played a game yet. They have
to go put it together. They have to. They're gonna
and I'm pulling up the schedule again and Brett, you
might beat me to it, but Utah Tech, I think
it's gonna be September fifth. That's the That's the first game,
Like it's all you're preparing for. That that is exactly
what you're preparing for. And nothing's gonna be said and
stone until then. Even then, even if you do beat
Utah Tech, I mean, is that gonna tell you anything
about yourself? Not really, because after that you play Arizona
week two. Is that gonna tell you anything about yourself? No,
you play Colorado State. Matt Mitchell went over there as
the quarterbacks coach, giving a little tease from my interview tomorrow. No,
you don't like that. That bye is September twenty sixth,
early in the week. Maybe you need that, But you
hit the row for your first game against TCU. What
would the horn Frogs be after losing Josh Hoover, What
does Sunny Dyke's program look like? You have no idea.
Iowa State lost their entire like their best players, their
coach to you know, Penn State. You wonder if that's
if you can beat them. You don't know, they can
be better than anticipated. Then you take on the fighting
norder Dames. You have no idea what no one knows
what BYU is going to look like. We have an idea,
we think, but that's why they go play. And I
bring it up of well, by excuse me, basketball, everybody's
gonna say, no, Ron, that's not Look, if Bear goes down,
LJ goes down, that changes things drastically. It really does.
Now I think that obviously. You know football is the
most codependent sports. There's a lot of the things that
have to happen Brett. But you know, losing Richie, that's
like you know, losing or LJ. I feel like a
good running backer.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know if I can say Bear, but
that it's equivalent. It's a big piece or losing like
maybe Bruce Mitchell. Your offensive line injuries can deplete a tam.
I'm not saying that's what's going to happen. But what
I'm saying, my point is, and stay with me, is
that we we think BUYU having expectations rightfully, so after
what they've done with the talent on this roster, with
what they have coming back, that all has to click
and I think they will make it click. But unforre
unseen circumstances always happen. Whether that's injury or this off
the field stuff in the classroom, you don't know, and
those are just things that are unexpected that you just
have to deal with as they come with Let's get
back to the sound. This is Kline Sataki yesterday at
media availability discussing with the media springball.
Speaker 7: And just to follow up on that, colign Uh with
the I'm sorry my trampon. You noted that you're trying
to find the next defense corre even when Jay was here.
Do you did a little bit with the entire staff
because you've got now the assistant position coach, the analysts
where if there's ever a guy that leaves, you've got
the next aligne who's primed and ready.
Speaker 4: To take over. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then and we have guys that have been here
as gas and analysts that have moved on and our
coaching and other places. I just think that there's got
to be a desire for these guys. I mean, if
it was up to me, I wouldn't want to lose anybody.
Just stay here the whole time. But you know, I
think when you when you aspire to do to be
the guy who's calling the plays on defense, and then
you know, it'd be smart for k Pop to think
about himself as a head coach too. I mean, that's
kind of the progression how it goes. I hope he
stays here the whole time with me, you know, when
I'm the head coach. But I think it'd be foolish
for me not to think that these guys could see
themselves in a different position, and it possibly be in
the head guy sometime. I would be doing them no
favors if I didn't, if I didn't put that out
there for him to get after it. And so there's
nothing wrong with with wanting to do more. I just
want them to be like focused on what we're getting
done here. The best thing Kate Paup could do to
be a head coach is be a great coordinator.
Speaker 3: I'm stopping at there. We're coming back because that was powerful. Brett.
I'm sorry for caught you in the middle of your
drinking water. But here's the thing. The reason why you
knew Jay Hill was leaving was not only that comment
from Kilanie. Jay Drew the Desert News asked him when
we were at the pop Tarts Bowl. I was in
the room he did, and Klanie said, I'll let Jay
speak for himself and Colanie there was no upset emotion.
It was all peace of mind. And I said, yep,
that's it right, And that was my speculation of it.
Nothing was said, nothing was official, but you know, it
sounded like things work pretty quickly after Bau won the
pop Tarch Bowl. But I wasn't surprised. And Kalanie is, Look,
Klonie will rebuild, and he is doing that, but he
just said it. I'd be doing them at disservice. These
guys all want to be head coaches. Klanie knows that,
sure would like him to stay with him. It goes
the same thing of this this job, RTT, like, I'll
just compare it. Look, I've been producing you know here
the station for five years. I've been with Ben for
a very long time as executive producer for three years.
You know, all good things come to an end, better
opportunities come. That's just how it is in life, right,
you know, you pick up the goal stor but in
coaching gets the same way. And Klanie understands that, you know,
And I just use myself as an example. Same with you,
right Like you know you worked at BYU TV that
and then your opportunities come out. You know, I remember
you at the hockey club.
Speaker 1: I bring that up.
Speaker 3: That's how things go. You know, you work hard where
you're at so you can get that promotion and get
the better job. And that's how it is. But Klinie's
point is right. The best way Kelly can become a
head coach is like what j Hill did, be the
best defensive coordinator. And then the calls will come. And
now I'm always interested to know bru it's Kalanie. You know,
people call him, Hey, should we uh tick Kelly as
a head coach? I don't think Kilanie is accepting those calls.
And I'm being tongue in cheek when I said it,
but I believe Colone's vouching for these guys. You know,
he wants them all to be head coaches. I think
he has no problem with seeing the people on his
staff get those jobs and being happy for them because
you see j Hill, right, Jay Hill's going to be
a head coach, maybe even in the Big Ten, rightfully so.
And that's because he came to b YU. It wasn't
just because of what he did at Weaver State as
a head coach. He came to a P four institution
as a DC, excelled it, uplifted it, put talent any
NFL in that defense still have high level recruits that
are here. And then what happened after that, and now
Kelly Pipingka accepts a job and the same thing. But
to your point, and I'll let you speak on it
and then we'll go to break You said it. The pipeline,
Nick Saban's pipeline is amazing. Go look at it. It's fantastic.
I think Kilanie's doing the same thing you say. Obviously,
Kyle Whittingham and Michigan people might not like it. I
said that, but that's the point. I love that, Kilane.
You know, there's no type of entitlement, there's no type
of anger. But also at the same time, be focused
and lift where you stand, be present, where your feet
are at. But at the same time, after you've done that,
when that opportunity comes, he understands it and he's willing
to wish you well and he loves you and knows
that you worked hard as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I just said, like Nick Saban probably wanted
to keep all those guys.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 8: But it's the sign of being a great coach that
you elevated everyone on your staff. Like, the reason we
knew Jay Hill was leaving was not because anything Klannie
did or didn't say, you know what, you know how
we knew Jay Hill was gonna leave because he was
a freaking awesome defensive coordinator. And anytime someone gets really
great at their job or really popular. Dave Portenoy talks
about this all the time. When he hired Pat McAfee,
he's like, dude, we knew Pat McFee was gonna leave
someday because of how great he is at its job,
at his job, And so.
Speaker 1: That's just a fact of life.
Speaker 8: If you're a great manager, you uplift those around you,
and when they eventually move on, like, you're bummed to
see him go, but you're so happy to have had
them a part of your life and everyone else is
is infected as a result. And so yeah, it sucks
that Jay Hill had to leave, But someday we're probably
gonna say that about Kelly Papinga. The reason that Penn
State was even interested in Kalonay Sataki is because he's
a freaking good ball coach, and so true it is.
It is a bummer that people want you, But if
they want you, it's because you are like that. It's
because you are that good, like people want to take
what's yours because it is that great. And so if
that's the kind of energy that continues to infect this building,
that continues to infect biu's players and coaching staff and
just the culture as a whole, then they're set up
for success for a long time coming.
Speaker 3: Yep, long time coming. Let's finish up the sound they
we'll get to break. This is Kline Sataki from yesterday
Media Vality Springball.
Speaker 6: And I know there's another pretense of day Turneys showing
up here.
Speaker 3: I thought that's how i'd tell you about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so Isaiah's been I mean, Isaiah's playing the
the CFL, so he's, you know, on his off time,
he's coming here and training, and he likes being in
the in the in the community, and he wants to
learn more. And so I love having him around here.
You know, he has a great relationship with our guys
and so, uh he comes in there and he's learning
as much as he can. He's he's trying to understand
the game. He's already increases for by Q and so,
I mean he can be a coach easily. I just
he's still playing.
Speaker 4: He's young.
Speaker 5: Become a culture and you get old like me and
you and your body doesn't function well, you know. So
but yeah, I love having I love having those guys
around and and uh, you know, it was good last
week and seeing a bunch of the alumni come through,
and we'll start seeing more of the older alumni come
through there as they all start getting ready for the
alumni you know game next week.
Speaker 4: None of them are working out until about tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Then they'll start stretching and getting ready for you know,
hopefully not to pull anything next week when when it's
their time to shine.
Speaker 6: What does like? What does like when they come from here?
And then Connor Page for the last year, I'm sure
they're saying a lot of the same things that you,
you and the assistant coaches are saying to the guys,
but does it almost make a different coming from somebody
who's maybe a little bit closer to these guys age
some of them, some of the some of them are played.
Speaker 4: With back sort of just sort of right, some of
them are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think I think when when guys
and then they're familiar with the guys that have just graduated,
you know, and so there's already a connection of teammate connection.
Obviously once they get here and then they come back
as as graduates and they've exhausted their eligibility, then we
want them to head towards that professional relationship, but there's
always a connection. I mean, that's it's just good to
see our guys come back home and so anytime they
can do that. And there's a lot of cool things
that Bagno has learned in the in the Canadian Football
League that he's really helping us out with.
Speaker 4: Right here, you have anything one more for Jacob.
Speaker 3: What he's gone through to get himself back on the field,
and just kind of gratifying that as.
Speaker 5: Opposed to yeah, No None is back to his old
self and I'm so excited. Man, it's just it's gonna
be nice to have him and and you know, and
LJ be ready to roll by the time we get
the fall. But it's been really great for us to
see him here in spring get the bulk of the
rest because because LJ is still still recovering. But that
and then you're adding like you know, Devaughan and and
and you still have like Logan and and all those guys,
I mean, you Pressed and the guy. The guys can
still play. So Harvey's done a great job with that group.
And None is like he's like a he's a he's
a one of the older guys now you know, he's
married and all that stuff. So uh, it's good that
he's he went from being one of the youngest guys
now to like one of the oldest.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of how it works, all right, That's that's.
Speaker 3: Kind of how it works, right, And there you go.
That is Kalani Sataki and that is how it works. Brett.
That's a good note to end on. See you anymore
running back one in spring ball. But he's back. He's back,
is running back to Klanni And look, I know I'm
reading between the lines, but None, he's back to his
own and look, everybody said if healthy he was RB two.
He's healthy, right, But I still think you need to
keep an eye on and I've said this before, and
Brandon sy Ernie, if he's listening, he'll back me up
on it. If you get ding once, you could get
dinged again. That's just the nature of it. So look,
obviously you don't wish injury upon anybody, but running back
is the most brutal beat up position. You want to
make sure that you have guys. So yes, LJI. When
those guys are healthy, they are so they're performing rightfully,
so they should be talked about. But he also mentioned
Devon Neca. Sounds like Devon Necka is going to be
running back three or there could be an Ornex Tora's
name of pres and Rex and Logan. So we'll see
all those guys. I think he contributed one way or another.
Didn't hear about Joveessa de Mooney, but I know he's
in the mix two. Anyway, all those guys I think
you need this year in some way, shape or formance.
So we will see what happens. But that reading between
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our first guest of the program we have. He is
a BYU TV satelline reporter. He does the Cougar sports
and er updates every day. We got the wonderful Cam
Clark on the line Cam. How are we doing today? Brother?
Speaker 10: Thanks for joining us, doing pretty good. Glad to join
you guys.
Speaker 3: Of course you were there last night, saw you in action,
caught some pictures of you. Sorry to spy on you
a little bit, but I couldn't. I couldn't help. But
see how gorgeous. You were in the in the suits
and and doing your job. BYU women's basketball defeated MISSOO
last night. What did you see from the Lady Koogs.
I believe this is the only team in the state
that's still playing basketball. But they they dubbed Missouri last night.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was a blowout in the first quarter of
twenty eight at one point in the first quarter eight.
Missouri didn't do much to keep it close early on,
and they clawed their way back later on, but b
YU pulled away early in that first quarter. Cambrie Barber
and Delaney Gibb were a large part of that, and
listening into some of the huddles, one of the big
takeaways just from that first quarter alone is Missouri their
shot selection was just not great shots. Lee Kamard has
talked about how he he prides himself and their defensive ability,
and Missouri knew that coming in, and they just bought
the pressure on Missouri and Missouri couldn't find any good
shots and they were leaving BYU wide open. So that's
why they jumped out twenty eight to seven.
Speaker 7: Early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they jumped out really fast. The threes were falling
and It's interesting because it looked like Missouri didn't want
to let BYU play in transition and once once they
put up a shot, they were just getting back. But
BYU still was able to play and transition the way
they wanted and blew the doors off.
Speaker 10: Yeah, a lot of that too. You talked about, you know,
just get a shot and head back. You know, I
think even on the offensive side of the ball, BYU
is getting a ton of offensive rebounds. Cambrie Barber came
away with three offensive rebounds in that game, and you
may not think or you might not think that's a
whole lot, but for her, she grabbed a double double
eleven points, twelve rebounds and is doing some of the
prep for that game. She's in the ninety seventh percentile
in the nation and offensive rebounding opportunities meaning you know,
the available offensive rebounds when she's in the area. She's
one of the scrappy players that's going to go in there,
grab the offense or grab the offensive rebound and kick
it back out. And you saw a large part of
BYU a lot of second chance points coming because of
Barber and GiB even got it down a couple offensive
rebounds Binali got an offensive rebound late in the game.
Everything was just working on all cylinders for BYU And
as far as the transition goes, BYU averages over ten
steals a game. You know, It's a lot of back
and forth in the Big twelve, lots of turnovers from
both teams, but it was really nice to see BYU
won not turn the ball over much themselves. And two,
like you said, get there quick. A lot of three
pointers went up town and Gibb career high seven three
pointers in that game. She was money from deep.
Speaker 3: She's ridiculous. She hits a thousand thousand points in her
career in fifty seven games. Cam describe what was the
atmosphere like for her. It feels like it was a
weight lifted off of her shoulders to finally have that achieved.
It seems like that was in the back of her
mind coming into the game because you're a player, you know,
but they never want to focus on it. They want
to win the contest. But it seemed like after I
don't think she was going out for that, you know.
I think she just played a great game because she's
a phenomenal player. But it seemed like that was in
the back of her mind and kind of could have
been poking the pok pokner a little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think she knew kind of at least, you know,
maybe not going into the game, maybe at halftime when
she had sixteen points. I believe at the half she
probably had the idea of, hey, I'm pretty close to
a thousand. When I was talking with her after the game,
you know, she she didn't sound surprised. I asked a
question about her seven three and she had no idea
that she'd made that many. So with not having as
big of a reaction when asking her about her thousand
points makes me think that she probably had a little
bit of a little bit of an idea just on
what the you know what the occasion was. Again, those
seven three pointers helped her a lot, and it was
just a great atmosphere last night. Still not a whole
lot of people in the crowd. I know coaches are
hoping that you know, here coming up at least for
this next game, that they'll be able to get a
bigger audience there in the Marriott Center as they take
on Stanford, And we'll get to their preview a little
bit later. But it was it was just exciting to
see how much energy was able to be there with
how empty almost the Marriott Center looked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy because the vibe of when I
was sitting there, you know, in the media section, is
still felt like when Billie was hitting threes, you could
hear people, you know, I obviously Mazoo kids behind me
have missed the free throw, so it seemed that way,
but for not a lot of people. But there's a
a lot of the big dogs in attendants. When I
said big dogs, I mean obviously the BYU athletics personnel
or you know, those of the University Bron Santiago court
side saw him a VP of Advanced McKeith Vorkin and
his wife where their Tom Homo and Lorie Homo were there.
Obviously President Shane Reese was in attendance. He had Hadeen
Boop and John Lenehan court side. Robert Wright the Third
and Tyler Russ and Xavion Styton were present as well.
A lot of people were in attendance to watch this game.
It felt like at least at the court side level.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's a large part to what Leaks
of already has done with the program. This year. He's
at twenty four wins now on the season, ties Judkins
for the most in the first year the EYU history.
And Lee's done such a great job with this team,
turning it around for a team that really struggled last
year and even the year before that. They had a
hard time adjusting to play in the Big twelve. You know,
they were comfortable with the play in the WCC when
they were playing teams like lmu and and Saint Mary's,
gonzag and Portland, but that transition to the Big twelve
was really hard for this team. They seemed to take
a little bit longer to adjust than the rest of
Qubar Sports. And so this transition now with Lee Kamar
here in year one has been incredible. He's pushed the girls,
Delaney said in her postgame interview last night. He's been
very personal with them. Impersonable, I guess is the better word.
That he gets to know them. They're not just his players,
but they're you know, they're they're a team, including himself.
And so Lee's done a great job at Their offense
is very fast paced, you know, they dropped ninety three
points last night, and granted Missouri's defense is definitely not
a strong suit, ranking two hundred and forty eight out
of the three to fifty five Division One teams, but
still to put up ninety three points, knocked out fourteen
to threes last night, shooting forty one percent from the
three point line. If you're gonna do that, you're gonna
win ball games.
Speaker 3: You are gonna win ball games. They're gonna need that
as they can go deeper into the b B I T.
We got Cam Clark on the line with us a
by a TV salide reporter and he does the Cougar
Sports and her updates here for us at ESP and
the fan fan excuse me, Cam? How far can this
team go? Can Lee take this team? You mentioned Cambri Barber.
They call her along with Brinley Cannon the twins. I
feel like you're gonna need those two like to be
the X factor. You know what you're gonna get out
a Banali. You know what you're gonna get Olivia Hamlin.
Delaney's always on the scatter and report regardless of what
it is. But I feel like it's those other two
that really can carry not Carrie, but really helped by
you add to the stat sheet. If they want to
really go out, go out and win this thing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 10: Cambri Barber is an interesting story. She was in your
the very beginning of the year. They mentioned that she
could barely get through, you know, and you know, just
a couple practices earlier in the year without having to
take a rest again. But I loved watching and even
I'm blinking on her name, Cannon, Britley Cannon, She like
both of them, were on the boards all night long.
Britley Cannon at one point was on triple double watch.
And so it's it's a fun team to watch, especially
those two. But I think the X factor to this
team is is their centers, Laura rocl and bullet YUSAF.
They're sixteen and oh when either one of those two
score ten plus when they're in double When they're centers
in double figures, BYU has won every single game. I
think I think it draws the defense all of a sudden,
The defense has to start looking down low, realizing that
that's you know, a viable option to kick it down low.
And you know, they're not drawing up you know, most
most teams aren't drawing up plays for for their center
to score. But when those opportunities come. Rocal's top five
in BYU history and single season field goal percentage, so
she's gonna make it when she gets the ball down low.
Bullet Yusuf has been incredible. She's, in my opinion, one
of the most one of the more one am I
trying to say, one of the most improved players on
this team from beginning of the year to now. Just
as a freshman watching her, she really struggled to even
just with the fundamentals at the end of the year
to now where she's star coming off the bench, she
can provide valuable minutes. She had six rebounds last night,
two blocks, and only kept it to three fouls, which
has been a struggle for her and Rocal with only
two fouls as well last night. They stayed in the
game while they only combined for ten points for two
of them. Like I mentioned earlier, you get one of
them to ten plus buys won every single game this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a good stat and they're gonna need
that in a play from those whose you said, you said,
you know they're sinners, Well, they're about to play a
team that has won a national championship in the last
five years that has been there. They have a team
that you know, you think of Cameron Brink. You go
back to that, like, there's a lot of talent that's
come through Stanford that's play. This is a team that's
kind of on it down here, right. They were eight
and ten in conference, you know, twenty one. I think
in like thirteen or fourteen. Overall, not a bad basketball
team they have. You know, they're about five hundred on
the road. But give us the scout on report on
this team. I feel like the bigs are going to
be I feel like they're top heavy. I could be
wrong in that assessment. What has your your preparation told
you about who the Stanford women's about excuse me, Stanford
women's basketball team is.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so you mentioned, you know, a national championship within
the last five years, you think of Cameron bring. This
team's a lot different than in those teams. And I
just mentioned that they no longer have Tara Vanderveer at
the head, one of the all time greatest coaches in
all of college basketball. She retired after the twenty twenty
four season, but Kate pay their head coach, has been
with the team, you know since two thousand and seven.
In an assistant coaching role. They promoted her after Van
der Beer retired. She was player on the team under
Vanderveer and from ninety one to ninety five, and so
it's not like the program changed a whole lot. But
obviously when you lose a head coach like Tara Vanderveer,
who's one of, if not the greatest coaches in women's
basketball history, you know there's there's gonna be a bit
of a drop off. And that's what you've seen from
them over these last two years. You know, they're not
quite as strong moving from the Pac twelve. And it's
still shocking to me that they're in the ACC. With
all the travel that they have to play, Especially with
basketball where you're playing multiple games a week, that's got
to be tough just on the wear and tear, and
so it's tough just to get in a rhythm when
you're traveling that much. But their most recent game against Quinnepec,
they had six players in double figures, and so they're
a team that they may not have one big star,
but they have lots of girls who can get in.
They won that game by twelve, and lots of different
players can make a difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they definitely do. I mean, Courtney Ogden can light
it up. You know, the junior from Atlanta, Georgia. There's
a bunch of people, Chloe Clardy like, they got a
bunch of girls. I think they got what one, two, three, four, five,
six players that come in average in above ten. So
this is going to be a good test. This is
a good test. I have to wonder cam if they
are able to get Stanford and go to the semi final,
can they win this whole thing like this? I think
this is going to be their biggest test, not just
of the tournament, it's one of the seasons. Just when
you think of the history, what do they need to do?
What's the keys to the game to be able to
get a victory on Thursday.
Speaker 10: I think a lot of it's going to come again
from the defensive side of the ball. Stanford's can score.
They've proven that they are averaging a similar not of
points per game as Missouri, who we know has you know,
it didn't almost it didn't look like it a lot
last night, but they got a killer offense. Stanford's got
another one as well. You have player coming off a
career high in alex Eshmeier. Their center who's in there
at six five, so a little bit taller, and some
of the players BYU has faced so far this year,
so you're gonna have to watch out for number four again,
that Alexander Eschmeier. She played twenty six minutes last game,
eighteen points, only grab five rebounds though, but she was
six for seven from the field, two for three from
three point land. So they can stretch out bigs that
can stretch out the floor and hit those threes.
Speaker 8: And so with.
Speaker 10: Stanford, really it's just going to be how much can
you limit They're almost the spread of the ball right
if you can. If one person goes off, you know
that's not the end of the world. But you have
to be sound defensively. You have to be able to
know who you're guarding, whether you're a man or zone,
be able to make sure that multiple players aren't going off.
Speaker 3: Make sure to scoutter reports locked in. Hopefully we're able
to talk with BAU Women's assistant Paisley Johnson as well.
Cam you're giving us a great scouter report and a
recap of the game before we let you go. What's
the best way we and the listeners can support you?
What you do and how you do it man.
Speaker 10: We Yeah, I'm kind of new to this whole business,
so it's been a lot of fun. But you can
follow me on X Clark Cam twenty seven. I think
let me double check, I changed it recently. I used
to be BYU work stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to change that.
Speaker 10: Changed it recently and so yeah, it's Clark Cam twenty
seven on X. You can follow me and I'll be
doing sideline again on Thursday for the ESPN Plus broadcast.
So it's been an exciting time. I appreciate you guys
having me on.
Speaker 3: Of course you can check them out at Clark Camp
twenty seven on X. He also does all the Cougar
Sports and ourp dates that you can hear played throughout
our show from two to six pm. And he's gonna
be doing sideline again Thursday, March twenty six BYU Women's
basketball take on number two seeded Stanford in the WBIT
tip off set for seven pm Mountain daylight time at
the mayorout Center.
Speaker 2: CAM.
Speaker 3: Thanks for your time today at BA Women's basketball advances
to the semi final. We might have to hit you
up and have.
Speaker 10: You back on thanis sound good?
Speaker 3: Look forward to of course, we'll let you go. That
was Cam Clark. That was a little college basketball segment. No,
we didn't have an opportunity to be able to discuss BYU.
But Lee Kamard want to highlight lead does a great job.
Fantastic job with this program. They've come a long way.
I think the biggest thing about Lee's retention and the relationships,
Like Cam says, you don't retain all these players if
you don't have a relationship. And I know there was
always some skepticism about the higher in the beginning, but
I'm gonna say it right now. I was always a fan.
I thought this was the right move. He's great, he's
cut his time, and look, it was the right decision.
Lee Kamar was the right hire for BAU women's basketball.
And it's playing out well, and you hope that they're
able to make a deep run and they get Stanford
and go to the semi final, head to Wichita. That's
gonna make some national headlines, I believe for sure. Let's
take a quick time out. Let's get into a quick
Cougar Insider report on the flip before we welcome in
Matt Brown of Extra Points in our four o'clock hour
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