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to seven Sports just got a nice renewal shout out
to Blair and Goulo hopping on with was Blair? How
you living man? Thanks for joining us?
Speaker 2: Doing well? Ben? How are you? How's everything I'm doing great?
Speaker 1: Man, appreciate you hopping on for a little recruiting talk
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your contract anew with two four seven sports locking you up.
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Speaker 2: Them, Thank you. Yeah, it's been about ten years already
since I've been in this current role, and yeah, excited
to continue to bring all the fans across the West coast.
You know all the latest recruiting news which includes BYU. Right,
they've been recruiting the West Coast harder than any Big
twelve program in recent years. And you know, I'm excited
to continue following along.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Can't wait to see what coverage
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Blair the most recent guy. Let's start off with tightened young.
We got to know him a little bit better yesterday.
But nice recruit for BYU to start off the twenty
twenty seven clash. Is it odd to get a recruitment,
a commitment from a recruit this early on in the process.
Speaker 2: No, they're actually a little bit late. Ben. You know,
this was the first commitment for twenty seven and when
you kind of look up and down the board, there's
a lot of programs that already have fifteen twelve. You know,
double digit commitments. So BYU has kind of played things
a little bit slow here in this twenty seventh cycle.
And I know they're setting up for a big official
visit weekend during the month of June, and you know,
for the most part, I think BYU is always going
to be a little bit more methodical, and they're going
to be a little bit more careful with the types
of offers that they send out and the types of commitments
that they try to push for. You know, I think
they've reversed their strategy. I think a few years ago
I was on this very show talking about how tough
it was going to be for them to hang on
to so many early commitments, right, and they were expending
a lot of energy and a lot of resources early
on in the recruitment, only to see you know, the
SEC schools, big ten schools, a bunch of programs from
across the country jump in with late offers and flipping
players that they thought they had locked up. So I
think BYU has been a little bit different now, a
little bit more strategic. I love the addition of Titan
because he's so versatile, he can do a lot of
different things. It's kind of odd to think of him
as a linebacker because he had over one thousand receiving
yards last year. You know, like that's a marquee number.
That's a number that you look at. It's kind of
a barometer. It's a gauge, right, whether or not a
player in his twelve to fourteen games during a high
school season can reach the one thousand yard mark. And
Titan did that. But that two wave production obviously speaks volumes.
And you know, his savvy, his feel for the game,
his physicality, He plays at a different tempo and I
think he's going to be a terrific, terrific off ball
linebacker when he does arrive on campus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you break down his skill set and you see
a lot. There's a lot to get excited about. And
I was very impressed with him as a in the interview.
He's a high football IQ kid. I mean, I don't
know what position, which linebacker position he's going to play,
but man, he sounds like a Mike linebacker, sounds like
a leader of a defense.
Speaker 2: Ben. I just saw him a couple of weeks ago
at the at the Powerhouse five on five tournament, Right,
and you're thinking about a receiver tight end who plays
linebacker and he's out here getting one on one reps
in a pass rush tournament, and we all kind of
looked at each other. We're like, dude, like what are
you doing here? Right? And you know, he just wanted
to match up and he wanted to compete. And that's
I think that's the type of player that they're getting.
You know, he he's he's a terrific athlete. I think
that's that's first and foremost. You know, his versatility, he's
he's kind of a Swiss army knife with with what
he's gonna be able to do. He can play a
little h back if you need him to, can line
him up inside and the why, can go out wide
and match up against corners and in kind of those
red zone situations on offense and then on defense. You know,
really physical, has a nose for the football, loves to
get after it, you know. And I think when you
when you project and when you look at the long
term upside, there is a lot to dream on there.
And I wouldn't be surprised if we see a C
stitch on his jersey at some point, because he does
have that personality, has the leadership skills and it seems
like he's a big hit with a lot of different players.
Speaker 1: We got Blair and Gulo twenty four to seven Sports
talking some cruiting the Cougars here on your Utah ESPN
Radio network, and this is Cougar Sports. Let's talk a
little bit on some of these other offers that boil
us to hold out. I think for two four seven
confirmed offers, I think there's around like eighty four offers
around that time. Like, how does that compare to like
other universities used to be BOI used to be used
to be like very strategic, like they didn't go volume
with their their offers. They'd be a little bit more
judicious and not dolling them out. But what does that
compare to other P four institutions right now? The offersheet
of eighty four across all position groups.
Speaker 2: I would think that just based on the quantity, I
would think that BYU is kind of on the lower
end of what some of these power for teams are
are shelling out. You know, there's some schools that have
over two hundred offers out there right They'll offer everyone
in the top twenty four to seven. They'll offer every
four star that's on the list they'll offer, you know,
all the three stars in their own state, and you know,
when you you know, before you kind of think about it,
they're already up to two hundred, three hundred offers. So, yeah,
BUYU plays it a little bit differently. They played a
little bit slower. I don't think they really send out
more offers until they know they have an answer on
a certain prospect, right, Like they're not going to offer
more than they can want, or that they can take,
or players that they would want. And so I think
they're a little bit slower. They're a little bit more methodical.
You know, even some of the players that they landed
in this twenty six class, you know, like Glasger, you know,
the legend Glaska from Lehigh I think he had to
wait for his offer, you know, a little bit, even
though he had other Power four and they were just
in you know, he was just in their backyard as well. So, yeah,
the eighty four numbers a little low, But I think
that's how they want it. I think that's by design.
I think that when they do that, it creates a
little bit more value for the offer. It makes it
mean more, right, it has a little bit more significance.
When BYU doesn't send out a lot of offers, but
they are targeting you as a recruit, I think it
sends a clear message that you're going to be a
priority for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you look at the offer sheet for that
they've doled out eighty four of these. I know you've
done some nice features on some of these prospects that
have have maybe you know, scheduled out official visits, et cetera.
But who stands out to you on this list of
offerrees for Buyu.
Speaker 2: I mean it has to start with Body Sparrow. Right,
he is the number one player in the state of Utah,
another two way talent, can play safety, can play receiver.
I think could play at the powerfoard level at any spot. Also,
so an elite basketball player. I mean he's on the
Nike youth circuit in the summer, you know, and he's
won a state championship over at Davis in hoops. I
think a terrific all around prospect, a top one hundred
national guy too, So you know, he he kind of
has to start and he has to be the headliner.
I know they're kind of in a heavyweight fight right
now for him. Oklahoma has a lot of smoke. Michigan
and Utah are involved. He likes Oregon, he likes Tennessee.
You know, there's a number of other programs still trying
to stay in the picture. You know, from the sound
of it, sounds like Buyu will be getting an official
visit this summer, right before he makes the decision. Now,
you know, it kind of remains to be seen whether
or not he'll even make it to that official visit,
because it does sound like he's open to making a commitment,
you know, whenever he feels like that that might be.
So you kind of wonder, right like June nineteenth, if
that's the weekend that he makes it down to Provo,
you know, will he all re be committed or will
he even take that official visit? You know, So that's
something I think the coaching staff has to figure out,
you know, whether or not they're going to be able
to in a way accelerate that process. You know, he's
he's he's unquestionably the number one guy in the state
for this twenty seven class. Another one that we really
like is edge rusher Uhila Wolfbrahm. We just saw him
at the Adidas Polynesian Bull National combine in showcase, and
he just picked up offers from Oklahoma and Michigan this week.
Also Colorado offered him today. He's a national recruit with
dozens of offers, and I think that's one player that
BYU fans should get plenty of familiar with because it
does sound like the Cougars are doing a really good
job there. They were on him first. He's kind of
in their backyard there in Spanish Fork. And so another
player that I think they're doing really really well with
that I wouldn't be surprised if you know, when it's
all said and done, he ends up being one of
the marquee signature for BYU. And then the other one
that I that I really like that I think b
YU is doing well with is Jeremiah Williams. He's a
defensive lineman from Tustin out in southern California. He was
just on campus this week and really really hit it
off with the coaching staff, coach coach Popinga, coach Sataki.
They all got rave reviews from Jeremiah Williams, who I
think right now is trying to decide whether he's going
to play at b YU. He's gonna play at ASU,
or he's going to stay close to home and play
at UCLA. I think those are the three schools out
in front for him and his recruitment. But I mean,
from everything that we've heard and all the indications that
we've gotten, b YU is firmly in that race and
could even be potentially considered the front runner.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's awesome. Yeah, he's got an official visit setup,
doesn't he.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he's supposed to a head out there for
the June nineteenth weeekend, right, So, I think when you
look when you look at those weekends and when you
look at the official visits, it becomes kind of clear
what a program feels is going to be the right call, right, Like,
there are some programs that schedule an official visit early
and those kick off this weekend. By the way, Ben,
So I know BYU doesn't have any schedule for this weekend,
but there's gonna be some programs like bringing in official
visitors this weekend and then it goes on until the
end of June, right before commitment season. But you know,
there's some programs that are either chasing or they're fighting enough,
facing enough fill battle to get to get a player
to commit, and you know, they have to schedule an
early official visit just so that they have a eight
puncher's chance, you know. And then there's other situations like
BYU does a really good job of making sure that
they lock in all their top targets for the same weekend.
It looks like June nineteenth it's going to be the
one where they'll bring in a lot of players that
they feel really good about, not only with you know,
where they are as prospects, but also how they maybe
sit in the in the prospects list. And so he'll
be among those visitors that makes it down to campus
on June nineteenth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but body scoone over, I want to go back. Sorry,
Body Sparrow, I want to go back to him. What
position do you think he projects at? What position do
you think he'll play at the next level.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be an incredible safety. Like,
like it's tough, right because we're talking about another one
thousand yard receiver who can go up and high point
the football and he can play above the rim, and
he's so dynamic as an offensive prospect and kind of
reminds you a little bit of you know, Chase Roberts
and Puka Nakua and you know some of these other
big time pass catchers. So Lesie moa right that we've
seen in the state of Utah in recent years. But
then you look at his awareness and just the way
he tracks the football and his closing speed, and you know,
I saw him at the season opener Life last year
and he returned an interception seventy five yards and it
was it was just instinctive. He broke on the football,
caught it in stride and then he was gone and
no one was going to stop him, you know. And
that's the type of impact that I think he can
make at the college level, you know. And that's right now,
one of those positions that is super sexy in terms
of like being able to match up against tight ends,
being able to match up against slot receivers. If you
need to cover as a nickel, you can drop down,
if you go into the box, you can track and
tackle and chase the ball in the flats. And then
he's got, like I said, the awareness to play kind
of a center fielder Rover roll as well. So he's very,
very versatile and instinctual as a safety, and I think
from an upside standpoint. That's that's probably where he's going
to make a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Blair Angulo two four to seven Sports Dock and recruiting
here on your Youth Die ESPN Radio Network. A couple
of other guys. I'm intrigued by Peyton Higginson, Manase Brown
and Jaglone. Peyton's right down the street from by. You
think he plays at Salem Hills And uh, you know,
Jag and Manasi are both really good prospects. Break down
those guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Peyton is another player, another kind of in that
Titan Deyong mold where he can play a little bit
of everything. Just had three interceptions in a in a
single seven on seven on seven game down in Dallas
this past weekend, So you know, it's kind of showing
his ball skills as a defender. Could also play some
some receiver and and and uh, you know, I think
the multifacetedness of his game really makes them attractive as
a as a next next level prospect. He's supposed to
be at UCLA later this week for a visit as
they kind of try to figure out where he might
fit in their recruiting class. I know he's really high
on Michigan and Utah obviously, with the long standing connections
to coaches on both staffs and just the familiarity and
and you know how how long some of those coaches
have been recruiting him, you know when you think about
Jay Hill and Morgan Scallee and you know, Kyle Whittingham
and all the guys that have those ties to the
beehiveh State. So you know, by is kind of a
in a in a battle there. But but I think
they're in a really good spot with him, and they
will continue to be in a really good spot with him.
You know. Jag yawn A is another one that that
I think has all the tools to be a really
really good edge rusher and and kind of a pass
rush specialist at the next level. He's supposed to visit
on the June twelfth weekend, so they would be the
weekend right before that big one on June nineteenth. Washington's
also involved. Utah is going to get kind of that
final official visit. It does sound like this is going
to be a b y U versus versus Utah battle
for one of the best players and one of the
best defensive prospects out west. You know and and so
I think for for those two, you know, it's it's
kind of looking good. You have to feel good about
their chances to land him. And then Manase Brown, a big,
raw offensive lineman who can kind of play some tight end,
has also you know, dabbled on a defensive line at
at Corner Canyon down in Provo. You know, a player
that that really didn't get a lot of run. You
know when you think about how deep Corner Canyon has
been at the high school level the last couple of years.
But I think has really started to entrench himself as
one of those big intriguing prospects. He's about six six
sixty seven two thirty and kind of a ball of
clay that you're going to be able to mold. I
don't think he truly has gotten a grasp of like
how good he might be able to be or how
good he's going to turn into. But that's another player
that right now has has scheduled an official visit with Bhyu.
I think it's the only trip he has scheduled, and
that would be for that June nineteenth weekend. So you know,
when you when you follow the visits, then you kind
of think okay like Uyu either likes him, he likes
them a lot, and it's very mutual. And you know
that's that's a prospect to watch for sure.
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Speaker 2: Thanks man. I'll see you around here in the next
few months. I'll be making making the rounds for Sphinx showcases,
so I anticipate you.
Speaker 1: I missed you at the Powerhouse, Bro. I missed you
at the Powerhouse. I was there. I did.
Speaker 2: I did see the radio set up over there in
the corner. Uh you know, I think I had a
flight to cat So I did miss you.
Speaker 1: All right, mag come and hit me up next time
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Speaker 2: All right, yep, all right, Ben, take care, all.
Speaker 1: Right, appreciate you. There you go. That's Blair Angoulo and
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