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Speaker 1: Welcome in.

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Speaker 3: The five foot, nine hundred and eighty six pounder out

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of Mapleton, Utah was a all stater in three sports

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here in the great state of Utah back in I

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want to.

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Speaker 1: Say, was I want to say?

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Speaker 4: Was it? Was it?

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and one, two thousand and two.

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Speaker 3: Now he's the head coach for the Snow College Badgers

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balling out down in e from Utah.

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in the one the only Zach Erickson to

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the show.

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Speaker 5: Was up, Zach, hey Ben, you must you must have

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some really good producers pulling up all that info for you.

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I mean, I know you know me well, but that

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was pretty specific.

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Speaker 3: Hey, look, I know you're an all state long jumper

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and track and field. You're an all state baseball player

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and an all state football player.

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Speaker 4: I know this.

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Speaker 3: I've done my due diligence on my teammates.

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Speaker 1: I know how good you were.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it, Zach. It's great to have you on

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talk some ball with you.

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Speaker 3: Give us a little update on Snow College, kind of

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level set force the state of the program down in Ephram.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're really excited. You know, we were coming off

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of probably our first what I would call mediocre year.

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You know, we went six and five, ended up losing

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in a bowl game. But we're super excited about what's

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happening with the future of the program. Since I got

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here in twenty nineteen as an assistant, we've been competing

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as an independent with the disillusion of the Arizona Junior

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College football programs, and that is coming to an end.

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Of this We've joined the Southwest Junior College Football Conference,

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which will take us down to play with six teams

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in Texas and then rejoin us with new Mexico Military again.

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So we're super excited to be back into a conference

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be able to compete not only for national championships, with

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conference championships, and to be able to do it with

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with you know what I would argue is probably gonna

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be the best junior college football conference top to bottom

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that there is in the country. I mean, we know that.

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You know, Iowa Western is Iowa Western. They've got three

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teams in a conference. We know Hutch is Hutch very

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top heavy. But from top to bottom, you look at

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you know Tyler who went eleven and zero this year

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and beat us and lost in the national semi finals.

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Navarro is always good. You have Blynn where Cam Newton

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played in won a national championship. You've got New Mexico

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Military who's won a national championship in the last handful

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of years. And so I think it's gonna be one

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of the best conferences in the country, and we're really

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excited to get out there and start competing with some

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of the best teams in the country.

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Speaker 1: Man, yeah, it is. It is a robust conference. There.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the Arizona junior colleges. Do you think they

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ever come back from the dead?

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Speaker 1: Do you think the.

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Speaker 3: Western States Football League day, both you and I competed

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Speaker 1: I was at Easter and Glendale.

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Speaker 3: You were at Dixie balling out for the ReBs once

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upon a time. But do you think it comes back

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from the dead at all?

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Speaker 5: You know, it's funny because you get these you know,

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you get these factions that really are pushing for it

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from everything that we've heard and everything that we've kind

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of been involved with. Because I would be a huge

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component of it. Please bring them back. Yeah, but I

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just I don't think where they are right now, that's

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going to happen anytime in the near future.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unfortunate.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: I still keep in contact with my head coach at

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Glendoe Community College. He was He was a tremendous coach

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and we had tremendous football players come through that conference

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for many years. Rix and Snow and Glendale and Dixie.

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So many great football team, so many great football players

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and great coaches that went through those those programs as well.

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We got Zach Erickson, head coach of the Snow College Badgers.

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You're on your Utah ESPN Radio network. Let's talk a

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little bit about Snow College. Here how many guys did

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you produce put into Division one or D two this season?

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Speaker 5: This season we ended up with twelve guys signing out

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the Division one schools. Probably the headliner in that group

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would have been to Kope Wallace are starting left tackle.

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He narrowed it down between Mississippi State and UTSA. Actually,

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and in this world of nil and money UTSA, you

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know that Texas money showed up and ended up going

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to UTSA, we probably would expect to see him competing

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for a starting spot down there right away. Kept a

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lot of kids in state. You know, Tayson Reid, our

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starting middle linebacker, signed up at the University of Utah

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Weaver State. When they got their staff together. You know,

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former assistant of mine, Tanner Jacobson snuck down here and

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stole our starting safety and starting running back. I say stole,

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I say stole, but I mean good for them, And

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so they're up at we were now we had two

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tight ends get out, one going to San Diego State,

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another one going to Central Michigan. So it was a

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really good year for us. I mean we we normally

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number that we usually put out in a year. Where

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we had twelve. Normally we're kind of in the sixteen

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to eighteen range, but we were pretty young last year.

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coming back. You know, we've got some guys in the

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secondary that are coming back. So we were really young.

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we would like to see that number kind of jump

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back up into the high teens even low twenties. But

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we have a great income a recruiting class. I think

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we did. I think our staff did a heck of

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a job in the state of Utah. If you look

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through who we signed. I mean we signed thirty nine

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of our forty eight incoming players are from the state

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of Utah, which which I think is amazing. I mean,

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we're building this thing from the inside out, and so

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we're excited to see what some of those guys can do,

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as they're going to be asked to probably play right

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away and we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there were a ton of players too in

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college football that were playing at high level institutions. Kiante

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great season. I mean, whoether what other guys from the

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Snow College alumni ended up playing some big time football

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this season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think Keyante is probably the most visible,

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and obviously he had a fantastic season making it all

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the way to national championship. I know, you know Isaiah

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Jadas somebody who our viewers will be you know, really

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familiar with, uh starting left tackle there at BUYU this

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last fall. Dallan Bentley starting tight end at University of

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Utah who had a fantastic year. I think he was

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in that top five of top graded tight ends right

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there behind our tight end from from the coops this year.

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Carson Carson's that name, Ryan, Yeah, who was number one.

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And so you know, those three guys were probably the

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top guys that performed this year. You know, Seth Wilfrid

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was the number two tackle at Auburn still this fall.

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seeing a lot of time for coach Menden Hall up

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at Utah State, and so you know, it.

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Speaker 4: Was it was.

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Speaker 5: It's been a good it has had a good showing

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of former Snow College Badgers. I mean Garrett Bowles was

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playing well and and you know probably had the best

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season of his NFL career, you know, and so it's

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good to see the Badger alumni performing well once they

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leave Snow College.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Buy you mentioned Isaiah Johna. There's a few other guys

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Speaker 5: I can't forget JT. I mean, you know John.

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Speaker 1: This year he was great. John Tell.

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Speaker 3: He was like a little silver back guerrilla man. He

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kind of reminded me of Travis tweet Loma back in

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his prime.

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Speaker 1: He was looking great.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, exactly. So yeah, good see. You know, I

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got to I can't remember who we were playing. I

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got to sneak down there on the field in pregame

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and it was great to get to see. You know,

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we had those four guys. We had Reggie, Jada, j T,

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and Ethan Wood that you know my staff while I've

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They all got to play for me. So, uh, it's

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great to have a good relationship with those guys and

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still be able to get out there and see them, uh,

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you know, achieving their dreams and doing what they want

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to do, whether whether or not it started how they

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wanted it to start. They put the work in to

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get to where they want to be, and we just

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love seeing them achieve their dreams and be able to

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move on and be able to play high level football,

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especially when it's in provo.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, b Y, you just picked up another snow College

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Badger for the twenty twenty sixth class. Raydon Heinz long snapper.

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Came down and saw what they liked. Justin Enna, it

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Rado was really good for us as we go

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through and we kind of you know, when you do

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your film study and you go and you are doing

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self scout and all of these things. One thing has

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really jumped out with us is that Redo didn't have

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a bad snap all season. He handled both the long

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snaps and the short snaps on pat field goal and

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did not have a single bad snap. He's also a really,

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really good athlete. He he came and wanted to play linebacker,

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and as we kind of toyed with that, we identified

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him as our best long snapper probably pretty early. But

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he's He's the type of athlete that you could put

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having that athleticism and the guy that's gonna be able

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to snap the ball and then run down and hopefully

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make a tackle something that Cougar fans should be excited

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about because I think given you know, the right opportunity

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I think he can win the job because A he's

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a great long snapper, short snapper, and b he's a

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really good athlete that just adds to that special teams

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unit being able to do, you know, some of those

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other things as opposed to somebody who may not be

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as athletic running down the field. So we're excited to

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get Rado up there and then see what he can do.

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Speaker 3: So interesting hometown is Brighton, Colorado High School American Leadership

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Academy in Queen Creek. Did he did he move to

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Arizona at a high school? Like, give me a little

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bit more detail on the six foot ye two pound

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or out of American Leadership Academy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, sour, Our whole contact with Rado came while he

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was in Arizona. So that's funny because I would have

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thought he was from Arizona. I didn't even know him

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hometown on Colorado. Every yeah, everything that we you know,

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I believe that he spent all of his high school

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there in Arizona, down there at a LA And you know,

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obviously we have a good connection with former teammates down

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there or that had been there previously, and so usually

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when they have guys that they think can play at

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a high level, they they'll give us a call and

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it's worked out pretty well, especially for Rado in this instance.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The other thing that stands out to be about number

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forty eight Raydon Hinz. Like I grew up in a

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generation of of you know, the traditional video games and

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the arcade video games, Mortal Kombat. I've never seen anyone

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named Raydon before. I'll be honest, I never This is

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my first time I've seen Braydon. I'm like, you know

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what I mean, the electrocuting, you know, hat wearing, I

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don't know, jiu jitsu, karate master, Raydon.

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Speaker 5: I love it. I'll have to ask him. You'll have

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to ask you whoever talks to him next.

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Speaker 1: Like dad was dad of video Gamer. He's like, I

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love Mortal Kombat.

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Speaker 4: Finish him.

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Speaker 3: You know what?

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Speaker 1: I mean like, or is this like a familial name?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I don't know. I

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don't know if it's a familial name or what I'm

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gonna go with you. I think I like I like

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the Mortal Kombat reference. I think that's what we'll go with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it too.

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Speaker 3: Man, what combat that may be banned you know, that

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may be banned of the day tomorrow. In fact, they're

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gonna have that as our intro theme tomorrow. Zach Erickson,

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head coach, Snow College. You guys are always putting out

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great great great football right, great football team, great football players.

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Speaker 1: Uh, there's a tryout.

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Speaker 3: I believe you guys have a lot of people like

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trying out for college football right now.

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Speaker 1: Snow college football. It's been pretty crazy.

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Speaker 3: Explain the impact of nil transfer portal on the JUCO

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ranks right now and the quality of player you're getting.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So, I think what you've seen is especially at the

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high level power for schools, they just aren't really recruiting

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high school athletes like they used to. And I mean

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I was even listening to Bronco on his signing the

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press conference, and I think they told me that. I

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think if I remember, right, they only signed four high

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school players in this entire class, and so that's kind

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of I think what we're seeing with the current landscape

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of college football. And so I think what that's done

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is that's allowed us at the junior college level to

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really get in and recruit high school players that formerly

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probably would have been going to these divisions in schools.

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Because now I see us where we used to have

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one or two recruiting battles with maybe the FCS school

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in state, over the last couple of years, almost every

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kid we're identifying and wanting to recruit, we're having to

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beat out Utah Tech, SUU Weaver in an effort to

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try to get those kids. And sometimes that works in

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our favor and sometimes it doesn't. But where you know,

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the FCS schools can kind of break up their scholarships,

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sometimes we might be in a position to give the

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kids a better scholarship than they can at the SCS

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school and sometimes when that comes into play, that really

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can help us, you know, win on a kid. But

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ultimately what that means is there's I think there's hundreds

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and hundreds of thousands of high school kids that aren't

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getting recruited that should be. And so while we can't

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see everyone in a single cycle, we try our best.

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But we feel it's hugely important for the success of

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our program to be able to have these tryouts because

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there might be some kids that didn't you know, maybe

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they grew on a mission, or they were a late bloomer,

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or who knows. I mean, perfect example of that is

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Dallon Bentley. Dallon Bentley showed up here coming out of

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Taylorsville High School, goes on a mission, wasn't a great

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football player coming out of high school, shows up to

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our January tryout. He grew four and a half inches

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on his mission, gained thirty pounds, gained another twenty five

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pounds in the off season, and became a six foot six,

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two hundred and sixty pound tight end that every school

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in the country wanted. And so I think it's usually

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important for us to have those tryouts. And so you know,

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we had one here in January, and that one is

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usually just for kids that are enrolled in school, and

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then we'll have another one, usually the Monday before the

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fourth of July. So usually right there at the beginning

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of July, we'll have that open tryout and ever since

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I've been here, we've had anywhere from one hundred to

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one hundred and fifty kids show up to the tryout.

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And again that's just a testament to these kids that

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are are getting under recruited or not recruited at all,

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that you know, maybe have a future in college football.

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And so we love being able to get them out

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and if they're good enough, if they are you know,

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or if we have a need. Uh, it's good to

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be able to get those guys out here and hopefully

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see what they can do and add to our program.

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Speaker 1: You got a JV squad you're cooking up down there

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because of all the.

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Speaker 4: Guys we do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we just finished up our second year of

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JV football. Funny story, we had a running back uh

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this last year Kennon Boswell played a little bit of

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varsity football for us, but was our starting JV running back.

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Got a scholarship the Southwest Oklahoma.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 5: And and so that's just another way for us to

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continue to get opportunities for these guys.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: And in two years that jam team has gone what

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are they eleven and one? And so they're they're still

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really really good and we've had some guys that started

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on the JV program that obviously moved up and became

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starters for us the next year, and we're looking to

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do that again this year. We'll have that JB squad

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and they'll play six games again this year and another

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just trying to fill a need, right as you and

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I know, I mean, kids love football and they want

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to play football, and if we can provide that opportunity

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for them, then we want to be able to do

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that as best we can.

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Speaker 3: How many scholarships annually do you have allocated in your

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budget for these football players?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, so we have seventy scholarships. It's pretty easy

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for us to kind of be fully transparent about that.

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So our scholarships down here at SNOW cover all of

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your tuition and all of your core class books, and

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then that total number is seventy and then it gets

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broken up. We have thirty five in state scholarships. We

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have twenty five what they call WUI scholarships, which is

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the Western Education Exchange the Western United States, So that's

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pretty much any state that touches us to the east,

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and then anything west of US, including the Dakotas, and

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so we have twenty five of those scholarships, and then

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we have ten what we call true out of state scholarships,

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which is pretty much anything east of like New Mexico, Colorado,

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anything that's that way. We have ten of those scholarships. So,

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you know, like I said, we want to build our

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team from the inside out. We think there's great high

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school football here in the state of Utah, and as

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we are able to kind of compete for those kids,

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and you know, we have we call it our housing

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money pot right where you know, if kids are a

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deserving or in need, we can also in some cases

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help out with housing and try to help them as

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best we can in their attempts to be a good

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What term we don't hear very much anymore is student

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athlete because down here that's still kind of what we're about,

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is being a good and successful student athlete and then

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being able to get them to get their education taken

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care of and be able to move on and hopefully

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be able to develop into good husbands, good fathers, good

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young men, young people that can go out and be

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productive in society. Because as you and I know, it's

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way different from when you and I stepped foot in

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the locker room twenty years ago to what it is now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's truly it's truly changed, right, And and for

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some things, I think it's for the better. Some things

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maybe not for the better, right, And you know, you

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try to navigate it all and trying to set these

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kids up for success long term rather than just short term.

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Speaker 5: Right exactly. And that's you know, that's kind of what

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we're looking at is hopefully when the kids come here,

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you know, and we've talked about this before, you know,

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when I've been on we have kind of two kinds

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of kids that come here, Kids that don't qualify and

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they have to go to Junco route or their recruiting

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wasn't what they wanted it to be, and so they

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chose to come this way. And so we've really got

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to build long term vision.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: We've spent a lot of time in this offseason, uh,

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talking about goal setting and teaching these young men how

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to set goals and the process of achieving those goals

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and how that can really help them long term. And

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so you know, it's just really exciting to be able

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to get to work with those kids and and and

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these are guys that still love football, right, they're they're

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not getting paid, they don't got some big nil deal.

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They're here because they love it. They're here because they

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want to work. And you know, and we're super excited

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about that. We've got I Before I you know, you

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kick me off, I got to put a little plug

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in for one of our players. So a lot of

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your listeners will probably recognize this name. Uh Mode Taime

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Longa from tim View a couple of classes ago, ended

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up having some clearing house issues. Uh. You know, he

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came over from Tongo when he was a freshman to

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Timbu and and b Yu didn't catch it till he

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was you know, only had like two months left on

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his mission, and so he ended up ultimately being a

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non qualifier. Uh. And he showed up here and and

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this kid, Ben, I've had some really good football players

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down here. This kid might be the best I've ever seen.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 5: And I am hoping and praying. And what's awesome about

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this kid is forget the forgets the football talent and

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that type of stuff. The leadership that he has brought

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to our football team over the last two months that

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he's been here. He got home in late July from

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his mission in Florida and then has been here. Uh

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he got here in January, and the leadership that this

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kid brings. He stepped foot on campus and it was like,

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oh my gosh. And so here's what I'm saying. I

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really hope we can get him back to BYU. But

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I but as you as you know, there might be

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a certain staff that is now in the Upper Midwest

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that has already called and ready to you know, try

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to get him to go wear yellow, blue and yellow

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instead of blue and white. You know, Coach Frank Miley

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showed up here offered him on the spot. You know,

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he's gonna he's going to blow up and I think

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he could be the defensive player of the Year this year.

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But again, just the different type of people that are here,

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it's just such an awesome thing because they love it.

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They they love what they're trying to accomplish, and for them,

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they still have these big dreams and these big goals

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that hopefully, in some form or fashion, we can be

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a small part in helping them achieve in their time

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here at Snow College.

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Speaker 3: Last thing, Zach, appreciate you hopping on Reggie frishnett ethan

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Wood still on the roster officer. We're gonna be looking

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at raid and Ayden could be the starting long snapper

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for BAU this next season. What are your expectations for

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Reggie and Ethan this year? Do you think they can

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play a big role in ba's offense.

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Speaker 5: You know, I really do. I know that in talking

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to Ethan, Ethan's now back to being fully healthy, and

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Ethan is a special athlete with his size and his strength.

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I would I would really hope that Ethan gets an

480
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opportunity throughout springball UH to be the guy that replaces Ryan.

481
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I think I think he has the skill set. I

482
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think he has the ability. I know he has the

483
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work ethic. So I'm really excited to see what Ethan

484
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can do this year. Reggie, I mean, I I may

485
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be biased, but but I think Reggie will be one

486
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of the starting three receivers come fall. I think I

487
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think Reggie is I think you know, when he came

488
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into camp and and had the hamstring injury early, I

489
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think that kind of set him back a little bit.

490
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But I think, you know, we saw him progress and

491
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develop throughout the year. You know that changed a little bit.

492
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I don't know if you know this. In the Bowl game,

493
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Reggie came down and made a block on an outside linebacker,

494
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broke his jaw and played the rest of the game

495
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with a broken jaw. He had surgery the next day.

496
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And that's the kind of that's the kind of toughness

497
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that like. Reggie is a tough kid. And you couple

498
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that with the athleticism that he has. If he stays healthy, right,

499
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if he doesn't tweak a hamstring or break a jaw,

500
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I think what we'll what we'll see out of him

501
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in the spring is gonna be I mean, the way

502
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Reggie works, he's gonna make it really hard on festis

503
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to not put him on the field. And that's all

504
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you can hope out of a player, right is as

505
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a coach. As a coach, you say, make me keep

506
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you on the field, right, And I think I think

507
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we're gonna see that out of Reggie. His catch radius

508
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is insane. I know, we you know, we didn't get

509
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many balls thrown to him this year. I think he

510
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only had one catch actually, of the one ball that

511
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was thrown to him. But I think once he gets

512
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an opportunity to get some more balls coming his way,

513
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we'll see that his natural catching ability is pretty dang good.

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And we know how good Chase was, and I'm not

515
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I'm not ready to say that he's on that level,

516
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but I truly believe that that's his projection. Right if I

517
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was to say, you know, this kid can be a

518
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lot like so and So, I mean, he had a

519
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great role model this last year of what that looks like.

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And I know, if I'm not mistaken, I think he's

521
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a little bit taller than Chase. I think he is

522
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maybe a little faster than Chase. I'm not exactly sure,

523
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but I just think I think Reggie has a huge,

524
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huge future in front of him as a BYU Cougar.

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So I'm really excited love.

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Speaker 1: Chat and ball with you.

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a former boy wide receiver, talks on ball with us today. Jared,

585
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how there are you, buddy?

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Speaker 4: What's up? Ben? Doing great?

587
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Speaker 1: Live in the dream man. Let's start off with this.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, from an eligibility standpoint, there's a USC

589
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,160
linebacker that just got his ninth year of eligibility back,

590
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,960
sell them on to leave at Oh no, he's at Montana.

591
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,319
So yeah, he's a former USC linebacker now at Montana.

592
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Speaker 1: He's got like five medical red shirts.

593
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,759
Speaker 3: You wonder, it's like, Okay, if this guy is getting eligibility,

594
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:47,039
there's got to be a former BYU Cougar that has

595
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some eligibility remaining that could come back to Provo if

596
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they need him.

597
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Speaker 6: There should be yeah, and there may be. Yeah, we'll

598
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,880
have to see what happens. But yeah, it's it's crazy.

599
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,079
It's crazy to think that you you you've got that

600
00:29:57,839 --> 00:30:02,680
that that much time in college football. But yeah, and

601
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,920
and and yet they denied Hinckley rebody, you know, So

602
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,920
it just makes you wonder, you know, maybe he knows

603
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,359
somebody that that Hinckley didn't know, you know, up in

604
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the in the offices of the n cul A and

605
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,279
whoever's making those decisions. But yeah, it's crazy to think

606
00:30:17,319 --> 00:30:20,920
that you're you've been with in college football for the

607
00:30:21,359 --> 00:30:25,960
Trevor Lawrence graduated and went into the graduate high school

608
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and was in the class that he was in going

609
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into college.

610
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Speaker 4: What did that take you back?

611
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Speaker 1: Not only that, what's crazy is course and pact?

612
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Speaker 4: Uh right? It was?

613
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Speaker 1: It was It was it cursion anyway.

614
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Speaker 3: You know, you have these situations where it's like they're

615
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they're student athletes, but they're not even.

616
00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 6: Going to school right right right, they're not. So it

617
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,359
makes me wonder what are the requirements now? Because you know,

618
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I was deemed ineligible at one point going at at

619
00:30:56,119 --> 00:30:59,960
Saddleback Junior College because I was missing three credit hours.

620
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Three credit hours I was missing and I already had

621
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my my my associate's degree, everything done, and they deemed

622
00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:09,720
me ineligible based off off three credit hours. So it

623
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:13,359
makes you wonder what those stipulations are like you're if

624
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,559
you don't have to go to class.

625
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 4: You don't have to, but you don't.

626
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 6: You have to, don't You have to enroll in a

627
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:20,759
certain you'd be a full time student in order to

628
00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:21,759
play football in college?

629
00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:22,039
Speaker 4: Yeah?

630
00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 3: Well, I thought Carson Beck went to Georgia, completed his

631
00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:28,160
undergraduate degree like two years ago, goes to Miami.

632
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:29,079
Speaker 5: Uh.

633
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Speaker 3: He has not gone to class in two years. He

634
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,319
said that in his press conference. I think up to

635
00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:35,960
the National championship game. I don't know if you saw this. Yeah,

636
00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:37,519
he says, I haven't even gone to class in the

637
00:31:37,599 --> 00:31:38,160
last two years.

638
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Speaker 1: Is he enrolled? I have no idea. I have no idea,

639
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,400
but he you know, that's what he's saying.

640
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Speaker 4: You know. So it's like the wild Wild West.

641
00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 6: You do what you want and as long as everybody

642
00:31:52,319 --> 00:31:54,200
is okay with it and nobody's turning you in for

643
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something you're.

644
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 3: I guess you can do like underwater basket weaving. You

645
00:31:57,759 --> 00:31:59,720
can just be enrolled, but you're not going to class

646
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because they're all electives.

647
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Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter if you fail it, right, as

648
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long as you're enrolled and you paid your tuition. We

649
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:09,319
had to have a certain GPA, didn't.

650
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Speaker 3: We You haven't otherwise, Yeah, was educating and administrative when

651
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,960
it meant something. There was a graduation rate. Uh, there

652
00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:21,640
was definitely some certain standards, et cetera. So we gotta

653
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,240
have some standards here, right, But at the same time,

654
00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:25,880
I wish we could have taken advantage of you get

655
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your juco eligibility back, I get my jubility back. I

656
00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:31,359
was telling you know, you guys offline, I'm like, wait

657
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,799
a second. I could have played in eight and nine.

658
00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:36,680
I could have been the winningest defensive back in BUA

659
00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:37,480
football history.

660
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Speaker 1: And in the n C Double A.

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Speaker 3: They stole it from me, right, they stole it from me.

662
00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:44,400
I was proud of being a part of the n

663
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C Double A whatever. Not today I am not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well today I am.

665
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Speaker 6: I would have loved to have those years back because

666
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,119
my meeting with coach Chow would have been a whole

667
00:32:53,119 --> 00:32:53,720
different meeting.

668
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Speaker 4: When he when he realized only had two to play two,

669
00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:01,920
I was I was not on his top. If you

670
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,079
had three to play two, if you could red shirt

671
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,559
this year, you'd be in a good spot. But apparently

672
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,599
it didn't work out. My favorite on that one.

673
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Speaker 3: But spring balls around the corner though. Storylines heading into

674
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Spring ball, would you say, what are you looking at?

675
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Speaker 1: What are you evaluating? What are you intrigued by?

676
00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:19,759
Speaker 6: So I was able to meet Kyler Casper. Oh yeah, yeah,

677
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he got his car in and we tinted his truck.

678
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You got a new truck. And so I asked him,

679
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,519
you know, he's coming from one of the best programs

680
00:33:26,599 --> 00:33:30,920
in college football coming through Oregon and and uh, I

681
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,000
it's asked him, what's the difference like when you've you've

682
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,400
got here BYU the amount of guys that has stayed

683
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and didn't transfer.

684
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Speaker 4: So what is that like?

685
00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 6: He said, You know, the crazy part is we were

686
00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:43,799
in the playoffs and we had twenty guys in the

687
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portal already.

688
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,519
Speaker 4: You know. Yeah, he said, So you come here and.

689
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Speaker 6: You've got all these guys that could have left or

690
00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:51,319
could have done something else, could have gone to the

691
00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:54,839
to the NFL, or or even transferred out for more

692
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,200
money maybe, and they all want to stay. He said,

693
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,799
he feels it from from the get go. He felt

694
00:33:59,839 --> 00:34:02,759
the difference, and he said, it's something special with the team.

695
00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:03,799
Speaker 4: I tell you what.

696
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Speaker 6: This guy though, I uh, he's a big body. I

697
00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:11,800
think he is an aggressive I talked to him a

698
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,840
little bit about his style of play and and having

699
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,079
some more aggressive wide receivers out there that are just

700
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,320
physical and I think he's going to bring that.

701
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Speaker 1: Uh.

702
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Speaker 6: So it was fun to talk with him. And I

703
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,159
will say though he did show up and and his

704
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,000
keychain was from Oregon.

705
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Speaker 4: I had a real problem with that.

706
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Speaker 6: So I made some phone calls and some text messages

707
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out I did to the equipment manager. I said, we

708
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need to replace this. I even take Klawney at text

709
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and I said, look, you a rod got one too.

710
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Speaker 4: This is our guy. He needs a new keychain. Somebody

711
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,920
needs to step out and get him a new keychain.

712
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Speaker 1: And get this freaking organ.

713
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Speaker 4: Yellow made some choice words when I held it up

714
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:54,639
to him.

715
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,079
Speaker 5: What is what?

716
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,039
Speaker 3: Get this out of here? It is Hopefully he's repented. Yea,

717
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,840
he's he's uh, he's switched it out.

718
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 6: Because he's like a real solid dude. I'm excited to

719
00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:09,000
see what his.

720
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: Come from lineage.

721
00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 3: His dad was a fantastic football player in the National

722
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,360
Football League, played with the Broncos Ed McCaffery there there

723
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,119
was a day, had a kind of a really good

724
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:20,559
crew there in Denver.

725
00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: A good football player.

726
00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:24,599
Speaker 3: Comes from good stock, so there's a reason why he

727
00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:26,559
was a four star out of high school and you

728
00:35:26,639 --> 00:35:28,280
wonder it's like, hey, if you would depress him, like, hey,

729
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,199
why why weren't you able to maybe get into the rotation?

730
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: What limited you? What? Why didn't they give you an opportunity?

731
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good questions. Yeah, maybe I should ask it.

732
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,199
Speaker 3: Come on, that would have been the right question. Why

733
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,719
why why why didn't you get any pt No, he did.

734
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,239
He played special teams and he got separate perceptions. But

735
00:35:48,559 --> 00:35:53,119
like obviously, I'm sure you wanted to know about him

736
00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:55,360
in high school and you know, he had so many offers,

737
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,519
just couldn't get him. Look, I love his bounce back.

738
00:35:57,519 --> 00:35:59,920
Puka was a bounce back essentially. He was at Washington,

739
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,280
came into b y U. Samson was that Utah came

740
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,079
into b yu. We want Pooka floated into that ISSUV.

741
00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:09,719
You want to make sure Pooka. Someone's gonna reach out

742
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,559
to pook Like, hey man, you want to be in

743
00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:18,039
the limelight, but not this type of limelight, you know. Yeah, yeah, anyway, great,

744
00:36:18,079 --> 00:36:22,559
but at any rate, we want these guys and hopefully

745
00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:25,239
we can highlight them and hopefully they ball out. Yeah,

746
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,719
the wide receiver when we're still trying to figure out

747
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,239
he's his PK the wide receiver one very well could be.

748
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: But who's who's going to be the top three? Who's

749
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,559
going to be the top four? Right now?

750
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,159
Speaker 3: Mike Guy, Zach Erickson, who we chatted with early in

751
00:36:38,199 --> 00:36:40,760
the show. He says, Reggie's going to be in the

752
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,280
top three. Reggie Fish Connect.

753
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 6: Reggie the baller. Yeah, I love Zach. That's a good deal.

754
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,800
I ended up wakesurfing with that dude.

755
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, Zach, we love that. Yeah, he's my teammate.

756
00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, great, great guy runs a great program. Yes he does,

757
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:55,280
I mean amazing.

758
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,199
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think Reggie's going to do well too.

759
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,639
I Reggie's got size, you know, And once they started

760
00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:02,079
getting in the game, you know, I think he's gonna

761
00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:05,320
do well. Yeah, it's it's gonna be fun to just

762
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,519
see these guys now where it's a little more open.

763
00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:12,320
Chase is gone there, there's some more competitive juice going

764
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,360
in to see who's really gonna take those spots, and

765
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:16,239
it is kind of open the two, three, and four,

766
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,159
it's like who who who is gonna be there? There's

767
00:37:19,159 --> 00:37:22,079
probably six guys that have an opportunity to get that rotation.

768
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:24,480
So let's see who can do it. You know, I'm

769
00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:27,760
interested to see. Also, as A Rod was talking a

770
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,679
little bit about the running back kid out of Lee.

771
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's been impressing in the off season.

772
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 6: Right And and usually we've we've known and as I've

773
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:39,280
known a Rod for for as long as I have,

774
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,559
he he's not quick to put names out there.

775
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,599
Speaker 1: He's not not quick to get veryant.

776
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so he did it with Bear last year,

777
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,719
right And I mean from almost from the get go,

778
00:37:51,119 --> 00:37:53,639
this guy's you know, the intelligent and and and he

779
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,880
backed it hundred percent of Bear backed it up as well.

780
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,599
Speaker 4: So if he's already talking like that, this this.

781
00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 6: Could be you know, a one two three punch with

782
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,840
and ljuh and it could be a lot of fun

783
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:05,239
to watch.

784
00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:09,639
Speaker 1: So I'll give you some insight from the off season training.

785
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,039
This may intrigue you. Everyone wants to.

786
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 3: Know who's the fast who are the fastest guys on

787
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,960
the team? Right, Sure, everyone wants to know, Hey, who's

788
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,159
the fastest guys? So I got I got your top

789
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,079
ten here, at least their top end speed. I won't

790
00:38:22,119 --> 00:38:24,559
tell you what the the mphs are, but like this

791
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,320
is the this is the fastest guy. Who do you

792
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,519
think the fastest guy in the team is. Who do

793
00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:30,760
you think the fastest guy in the team is?

794
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,639
Speaker 4: It would either be Parker or or well, I don't

795
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:36,400
know who is at top speed.

796
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:38,639
Speaker 3: Top top top end speed. Who's got the fastest top

797
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:39,760
end speedy?

798
00:38:40,599 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: Cody?

799
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,159
Speaker 3: Cody's up there, Cody's up He's fast, but he's also

800
00:38:43,519 --> 00:38:45,519
remember he got a little Remember Cody got a little

801
00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:47,599
bit deemed up, which is a different than a forty right,

802
00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:49,880
because you're yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is like, this

803
00:38:50,039 --> 00:38:51,360
is like top end speed.

804
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,079
Speaker 4: The fastest, right fast, got the longest stride, you know

805
00:38:55,079 --> 00:38:57,320
what I mean? And uh and so.

806
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 3: This is the entire team. This is an entire team,

807
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,440
all right. So fastest guy on the team is Evan Johnson,

808
00:39:06,559 --> 00:39:10,880
Evan second fastest. I mean, look, and this is you know,

809
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,559
like I said, fastest is like is it in the

810
00:39:13,639 --> 00:39:15,000
twenties and the forties?

811
00:39:15,199 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: This is like top end speed.

812
00:39:17,039 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 3: Kevin Doe the project out of the East East uh

813
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,480
East High School. Will played basketball and was a converted

814
00:39:23,519 --> 00:39:27,039
football player. He's been a defensive back. Yeah and uh

815
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,960
and has he's seen playing time as a special telayer.

816
00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:32,119
Speaker 4: He didn't play in high school? Is that the story?

817
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,559
Speaker 1: He didn't really play. I think he played one year

818
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:35,880
of high school football.

819
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,679
Speaker 3: This was a This was a guy that FESSEI I

820
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,199
think evaluated and brought him in and then I think

821
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:43,360
Jay Hill signed off on it.

822
00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: And obviously he's been a defensive back and he's played

823
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:47,360
a little bit.

824
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:47,559
Speaker 4: Right.

825
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 3: Number three, my guy Joe Douglas. Now not many people

826
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:58,440
know about Joe. You will park area right, So he

827
00:39:58,639 --> 00:40:01,280
was running, he played high schoo football. But whose tight

828
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:05,280
ends d end right? Really linear kid ends up coming

829
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,280
off of his mission and he's he's running sprints and

830
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,559
maybe gonna potentially do the the Catholic modeling. Yeah, he's

831
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:16,599
a model there. Like he's like, keep your aud the ladies.

832
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:22,119
The ladies love this guy. I tell Job I stay

833
00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:24,239
away from the ladies for now. Like let's make sure

834
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,599
you get into the rotation, get into specialty. Anyway, So

835
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,039
Joe third fastest, but he you know, he's playing playing safety.

836
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: Made the team.

837
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 3: He was he was at Utah State last year running track,

838
00:40:34,639 --> 00:40:37,239
tried out, made it as a walk on, and he's

839
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,119
been playing free safety. You know, still has a ways

840
00:40:41,159 --> 00:40:43,719
to go, but he's he's super fast and explosively probably

841
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:44,239
pound for pound.

842
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,079
Speaker 1: Also the strongest guy.

843
00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 3: He's like, he's like Max Tuley, you know Max similar, Yeah,

844
00:40:50,559 --> 00:40:53,559
like Max. They did move Max to free safety for

845
00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:56,320
a spring ball because they're like, maybe we could use

846
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,159
this speed. I don't know if you remember the u

847
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,159
U s F game at USF where Max Tuley was

848
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,880
like tracking down from the opposite side of the field. Anyway,

849
00:41:06,199 --> 00:41:09,960
he's kind of like Max Parker Kingston number four, Jordan

850
00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:16,639
Chris cornerback number five, Tommy Prass's number six, Crew Clark Shotton,

851
00:41:16,679 --> 00:41:21,000
Crew Clark, the Idaho transfer at number seven, Canada Brees eight,

852
00:41:21,159 --> 00:41:25,280
Logan Payne nine, Raider de Moony ten, Kyler Casper eleven,

853
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,719
will Zundell twelve, and then Trey Alexander thirteen, Joe Vessa's

854
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,320
right there, Jared esplind wide receivers there followed Tels out

855
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,239
to wallet top fifteen.

856
00:41:35,639 --> 00:41:36,119
Speaker 1: So those are you.

857
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 3: That's like your top fifteen top end speed guy. Sure,

858
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,559
I thought that was interesting. Anything stand out to you,

859
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,199
anything surprised you?

860
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,559
Speaker 4: I don't know if it surprised me. I think top

861
00:41:48,639 --> 00:41:52,239
end speed is one thing. It's not a football metric really, Yeah,

862
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:52,960
you know what I mean.

863
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,119
Speaker 6: Like there's Sti's so many guys that are you know,

864
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,480
one of those guys that maybe I clocked a four

865
00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:00,239
five nine one, so I can say I'm a four

866
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,639
or five guy. But but in reality, you know, it

867
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,159
was all about getting in the space where you need

868
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,360
to be, and it's not about full speed all the time,

869
00:42:08,599 --> 00:42:10,599
you know. And and so I think that it's it's

870
00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:14,079
great to have some just some lightning speed guys, but

871
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,360
really for me and football, it's the first three steps, right,

872
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:22,199
So I tell everybody, there's one dude I played football

873
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,400
with that had that zero to one hundred and three

874
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:26,920
steps it was almost two steps.

875
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:27,679
Speaker 4: Is Ronnie Jenkins.

876
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 6: There was nobody. I mean that guy saw a hole,

877
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,159
would cut in two steps. Yeah, he's full speed and

878
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,039
at one point he was clocked at a four to

879
00:42:38,079 --> 00:42:41,840
one six at b YU. I mean, just just insane.

880
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,920
Great dude, Love Ronnie, but yeah, fastest guy I ever

881
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:45,320
played with.

882
00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 3: Then the next tier of guys though, could get you excited.

883
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,519
Trey Roberts wide receiver, obviously, Chase Roberts, brother fuller shirts punter,

884
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,199
Holy cow, katou La Lave's right there.

885
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:55,519
Speaker 4: L J.

886
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: Morten's right there.

887
00:42:56,519 --> 00:42:59,599
Speaker 3: Charles Miska running backs there and then Walker Lions and

888
00:42:59,679 --> 00:43:00,599
Roger Sally.

889
00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 4: His shirts to was the back.

890
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the back of Butcher, the one that dropped

891
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:07,519
the ball.

892
00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 4: Why why come on, hey, hey babe man bring that up?

893
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: He had he had one.

894
00:43:14,199 --> 00:43:16,679
Speaker 4: The best thing about that. I don't know if I

895
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:17,039
told you.

896
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 3: By the way, Jared Bloodsoe former punter at Ricks so

897
00:43:21,039 --> 00:43:22,920
he do it all wide receiver butter So.

898
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 6: After that that game, we took our our players to

899
00:43:26,039 --> 00:43:28,519
the to the practice one day and as soon as

900
00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:30,239
he walked in the field, guess who I saw in

901
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:31,320
the jugs machine.

902
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 4: Was taking jugs balls just like.

903
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 3: I don't think it was that he dropped it. He

904
00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:40,880
like just he he well, he dropped it in front

905
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,280
of himself, but he didn't swing his leg. It was

906
00:43:43,559 --> 00:43:46,400
it wasn't it didn't look like he fielded it. It

907
00:43:46,559 --> 00:43:49,440
wasn't a relation where that ball was about to be kicked.

908
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,400
It went out of his hands before he his arm

909
00:43:53,039 --> 00:43:53,960
kind of just it was.

910
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,199
Speaker 4: It was really odd. But he's fast, so it sounds

911
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:59,480
like we should brust some pig punts.

912
00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:04,039
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm just let's go, hey, Justin and let's dial

913
00:44:04,119 --> 00:44:06,440
it in. Uh, Let's let's go justin.

914
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 3: I mean K pop has done a really good job

915
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,920
with some of his fakes. I know there was a

916
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,599
controversial one this last year is versus Tech though, and

917
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:14,960
like we're like, we can't.

918
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,519
Speaker 1: Even move the damn ball anymore and.

919
00:44:16,599 --> 00:44:19,519
Speaker 6: You relying on your Australian puncher to throat come on,

920
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,280
you know, yeah, not gonna happen.

921
00:44:22,559 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: Not not very good.

922
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,639
Speaker 3: Interested in the short side of the field anyway, they

923
00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:27,920
were trying to get something, Yeah, yeah, you know pole.

924
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,360
I was hoping they pull out the old uh you know,

925
00:44:30,599 --> 00:44:34,480
the Tyler baddie Tyler baddie. Uh, you know, delay release,

926
00:44:35,039 --> 00:44:37,320
you know, with the personal protector. Just run them right

927
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,199
up the middle. See if you can get somebody wide

928
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,280
open up the middle. Anyway, But you know, Spring balls

929
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,960
around the corner. Very excited about it and I can't

930
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,599
wait to see what cam Klani looks like. In two

931
00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:49,760
thousand and one of the things that was interesting, Brady

932
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:58,039
Papinga brought this up. So Brady said that he's intrigued

933
00:44:58,039 --> 00:45:01,000
to see how they operate. Spring will be a traditional

934
00:45:01,079 --> 00:45:03,840
competitive environment or will be like an Ota NFL type

935
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,519
of thing, where like there's.

936
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,159
Speaker 1: Not much competition because you don't want to lose guys.

937
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,559
Speaker 3: There's not much competition because you don't want to necessarily

938
00:45:09,599 --> 00:45:13,039
get guys injured. It becomes a traditional ota you know

939
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,599
very much, thud very much, speed work, very much like

940
00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:17,440
technique work.

941
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: And then you get into fall camp.

942
00:45:19,639 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 3: Because they had a they had some attrition last spring

943
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,559
along their defensive line because they went after it a

944
00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:27,159
little bit. They were it was kind of like a

945
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:31,679
refining fire. Uh, and some guys left after spring ball.

946
00:45:31,679 --> 00:45:34,639
Speaker 4: Anyway, But I think they have to be competitive unless

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it's a group.

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Speaker 6: If you know all your starters already, you know who's

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already going to be going, then I see the point

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in doing that.

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Speaker 4: And maybe some groups do that more than others.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that that's what they're going to do.

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Is just he he brought it up. I was like, Oh,

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that's intriguing. Is it going to be more of like

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an NFL style or will be a traditional college competitive style.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I think it needs to be competitive for a lot

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of the position groups in order to really show who's.

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Speaker 4: Going to stand out. Yeah, but yeah, all.

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