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We had Jared bledshoe former BA wide receiver Jared, How

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the heck are.

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Speaker 2: You, buddy?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 3: And thanks for having me, Always a pleasure talking ball

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with you.

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Speaker 2: Number one.

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Speaker 3: Everything good in your world? How's the fam? How are

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the kiddos? How's everything going?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're doing great, great, Ready for the summer. We're

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done with the winter already. Yeah, so we had to

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throw a book a quick trip to Hawaii coming up

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soon so that we can get some warmth and some

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sun and some surf.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, it'll be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: You going, You always go stayckoo for sure?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Where do you? What do you stay? Family? Friends, Airbnb?

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Speaker 4: A lot of friends.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And then we've got an airbnb that we stay at

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with a with a family friend and and uh yeah,

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just get some waves and and enjoy.

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Speaker 4: Some warm water and some warm weather.

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Speaker 2: When are you going, April nice?

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Speaker 3: I'm jelly, my friend. Uh, well, we appreciate you showing up,

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showing out today. Look, new acquisitions, new coaching staff hires.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw. So let's let's delve

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Speaker 3: Let's talk to defense for a moment, because, uh, you know,

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there are some key acquisitions and regard Lewis Clark cornerbacks coach. Obviously,

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tomorrow Warren is gonna be the passing and corning He's

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gonna move over to the safeties room. Kelyn Pepina, your

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defense coordinator and inside linebackers coach. Justin that are gonna

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be slowly focused on the special team. So I canna

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be coaching in a position he'll gonna be. And and

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you know why is that? Well, he's gonna be focused

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on the whole team, right, You're gonna be focused on

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the whole team.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be interesting there. You get your thoughts on that.

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Speaker 3: You got toany Puha's gonna be coaching up the defensive line,

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Chad k Chad Kahaha. He's gonna be coaching up the

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outside edges and the outside linebackers. Pretty good coaching staff

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right there with your position groups, your thoughts, your commentary.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I'm excited about it.

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Speaker 5: I think they did a good job of bringing in

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the right people and keeping the right people as well.

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And I think that they It's interesting though, to see

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how many coaches now function within a team, you know,

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inside linebacker coach, outside linebacker coach. You know, it's interesting

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to me And and and with Justin.

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Speaker 2: Cary Anderson's senior analyst overseeing some of that too.

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Speaker 5: And typically, at least from what I've I've always been

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aware of when your special teams coordinator typically was a

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position coach as well. So it is a different things.

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When I first heard that Justin that was his sole position,

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I thought, well, time to shine, right, you know, like,

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this is your sole focus is special teams, that that

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probably should result in some pretty good special team plays

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and an opportunity to really focus on that piece of

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the game and hopefully it turns into a real successful

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special team with Spenter next year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm looking at the staff right now

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with even like your analysts, You're looking at you know,

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defensive assistants, et cetera. Remember Randy Coy defensive assistant, he's

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been with the squad for a long time. Wesley Johnson

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defensive graduate assistant coach. Wesley Johnson, that's the brother Evan Johnson. Yeah,

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so he's there still still coaching up And I think

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that was a nice pivotal.

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Speaker 5: I was kind of hoping they might for him a position.

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I think Wes is a great guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. I really like his vibe I

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like Western's vibe a lot.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, He's is a good person to be around. He

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has good energy. The players like him, and so I'm

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still optimistic that they'll bring him in and give him

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a little bit more responsibility other than just a GA role.

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Speaker 3: He started his career Stevenson School offense coordinator and wide

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receivers coach twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. Came on to

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Arizona State's recruiting assistant job from twenty nineteen twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: I think that was under HERM.

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Speaker 3: Edwards, if I'm not mistaken, Arizona State defensive assistant with

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linebackers twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three, and then

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he came over as a BYU graduate assistant for the

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cornerbacks in twenty twenty three, and then moved over with

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the linebackers in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: So he was working with with Justin Ena and so.

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Speaker 3: I think, now, cool thing is I think he's with

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cornerbacks in twenty twenty six, so he's okay, Yeah, so

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he's going to be with the cornerback.

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Speaker 2: With Lewis Clark.

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Speaker 4: Yeah cool, yeah nice? Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, So they haven't and then you know, you

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now and Tyler Hughes.

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Speaker 2: Very interesting.

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Speaker 3: Okay, NFL experience is we've been in New England Patriots

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and most recently with Alabama. We were discussing the quarterback factory.

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A runs dide a tremendous job in the monte era

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since he came in twenty eighteen. Yeah, look at all

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the quarterbacks he's brought in and look at who's developed.

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And he gives credit to obviously the other supporting cast,

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but you got to give a lot of credit to

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a Ron.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and especially in the recruiting side of it, because

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we're getting the guys that that we want here and

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and they're staying. They're not transferred out, they want they

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want to work with Aron. So that's an exciting thing

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to see happening. And yeah, I'm really excited to see

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what they put together this spring.

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Speaker 3: Tyler Hughes is a nice acquisition that replaces Matt Mitchell.

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Matt Mitchell was a great coach. Matt Mitchell helped with

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the the accelerated install of the offense with Bear Bachmeyer.

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to you know, the ability to retain information is bears

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and negative ability to learn.

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Speaker 2: But you need a good coach, you need a good mentor.

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Speaker 3: You need to be feeding him the right information and

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getting him up to speed. So Matt Matt Mitchell moving

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on to Colorado State as the quarterbacks coach there, you

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had to find someone that was just as good or

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better than Matt Mitchell.

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Speaker 2: I think they got someone just as good or better.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great, And I think I heard you earlier Sam,

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it was not somebody that was on our radar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right.

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Speaker 5: You know it makes you think wonder where if a

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Rod got together with our tight ends coach gilbrid and

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and decide, you know, maybe that's a Gilbride connection that brought.

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Speaker 4: That in as well.

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Speaker 5: You knows, because we know Kevin's got a an expansive network.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: He was with the New England Patriots from twenty twenty

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twenty twenty four or sorry, twenty twenty twenty twenty two.

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Then was at U dub as an offensive analyst twenty

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twenty three, wide receiver coach for the New England Patriots

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twenty twenty four. He's got history with Urban Meyer twenty thirteen,

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Ohio State. He was a head coach at Snow College.

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Became he was twenty and four in those two years,

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I believe it's Snow College. And before that, I think

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he was OC and quarterbacks coach at Snow College. So

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he was there at Snow for a while before becoming

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head coach. And you look at it, I mean, it's

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just expansive experience. It's so many different levels, right, you know,

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from junior college, high school to junior college to the

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to the like power for highest level to the NFL.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so he car carries a lot. I mean, he's

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got a lot of knowledge, a lot of a.

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Speaker 5: Lot that we can bring to the team and to

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the It's nice when you've been around like that, you're

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you're also going to bring a lot to the staff. Yeah,

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you know, the team meeting rooms and and and just

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the coaches meetings, and there's just a lot, a lot.

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You've seen so much football on so many different levels

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that your knowledge is just through the.

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Speaker 4: Roof, you know. So I think it's gonna be great.

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Speaker 5: I'm good look forward to get to knowing him and

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seeing what they produce.

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Speaker 3: I don't see any weak links right now with our staff.

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Remember like you're looking at all the the support roles

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as well. Yeah, I'm looking at yes, the position coaches, Yes,

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the gas Yes, the analysts. I'm also looking at strength

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and conditioning. I'm looking at your general manager, Jay George

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and and many people don't know Trafas Hansen has taken

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a role within football to kind of oversee you know.

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I don't know what his official title would be, but

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he's definitely arm and armhanded hand with the general manager,

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trying to create strategic nil B to B type of

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relationships between corporations that love BYU and love these student

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athletes and combining them. So there's a lot of good

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going on within the football department right now.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm excited about I think they've done a

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good job at at kind of filling the gaps that

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we needed. And uh, you know, it'll as we start

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to progress and see what Kelly Papinion does in uh

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as a defensive coordinator and and how he's able to

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get his players to buy it.

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Speaker 4: Actually, I don't even feel like he has to get

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him to buy in.

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Speaker 5: I think they all love him already, you know, And

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so they're they're bought into what he's going to bring in,

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and it'll just be interesting to see what he decides

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to do and and how he makes his mark as

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a coordinator, and and what his offense or his defense

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you know, does or you know fly around, you know,

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Arey're gonna blitz a lot or it's it's kind of

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exciting to see that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what type of defense do you think Kate Pops

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think he's gonna he's gonna take some

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of the things that he learned with UH over the

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last couple of years and and be able to incorporate those.

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But I'm sure he's had many nights thinking about what

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he would do differently, as everybody does. You know, you

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sit in the coach's room and you listen to your

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coach doc and as good as Jay Hill is, I'm

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sure there's times when he goes would have might maybe

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done a little bit different here, and and I haven't been.

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Speaker 4: Able to coach under under a guy like Jay Hill.

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Speaker 5: I think it gives him a really good advantage going

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into this next year where he can he can kind

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of piggyback off of what they were doing and from there,

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incorporate some of those things that he's been pondering over

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the past years and things that he would do in

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the defense. And and it's gonna be Uh, I think

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we're gonna be He's an aggressive dude right when you

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when you get to get around, and especially when he's

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in a in a competitive moment like that's the guy

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on a back alley when he's kind of.

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Speaker 4: Upset, you know. I think I think he has that

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Speaker 5: I think his whole family think the Papingas in general

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he's going to take to the defense and and and

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it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be real fun to

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see what they do. But I expect them to be

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very aggressive, hard hitting, just everyone to the ball type defense.

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Speaker 3: Well what's the potential for the offense next year? Do

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you think you don't lose anybody? Like, you really don't

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lose I mean what I'm saying is coming from a

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coaching staff, you don't lose anybody, and you didn't lose

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anybody that was impactful outside of like you know, your

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Chase Roberts and your off you have a few offensive linemen,

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but you knew that they were going they didn't have

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any eligibility.

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Speaker 4: I left.

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Speaker 2: It's not like this is attrition.

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Speaker 5: The offense is gonna I think they're gonna do really,

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really well. I found it interesting that we didn't. We didn't.

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who we wanted. But I feel like we we should

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have put another running back in the back there. You know,

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I maybe the coaches know something that we don't, and

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there's some confidence and players that.

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Speaker 4: That we haven't seen enough of yet. Yeah, but you

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lose it.

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Speaker 5: Let's you know, knock on wood right now, But you

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lose an LJ to an injury or he's got to

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sit out a couple of games for one reason or another.

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Speaker 4: You've got to have something solid in there.

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Speaker 5: We we I don't feel like we're gonna be a

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national contender if if ore, if we're still questioning, I.

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Speaker 4: Wonder who are who are uh? Who are running back

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to really is? You know? Now? I feel like will

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be the one two punch on that.

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Speaker 3: But that's this is too years in which has had

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an injury and he's.

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Speaker 4: You don't know.

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Speaker 5: That's why I feel like you need to have now

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maybe Preston Rex and and de Moony are going to

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come in and really shine, but go this whole season.

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Speaker 4: You know, he just always had that little wonder in the.

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Speaker 5: Back of the head, like who's gonna come in if

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LJ goes down or you know l J looks tired,

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Speaker 4: I sure hope that you know, they have a plan for.

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Speaker 5: This and and uh, but I I hope Preston Rex

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gets some more time. I think they build a little

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bit more around his speed on the outside. I think

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that would help. The swing passes to him are great.

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find find the ability to to find the end zone

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or or just get outside and get ten yards. But yeah,

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I'm interested to see what they do the Spring's gonna

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be fun to watch the running back room and just

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kind of see how that develops.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a robust staff. Justin Atta gonna be

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a special teams coordinator. Your reaction to that news and

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he's not coaching a position group, right, I mean that's

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the special teams When I.

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Speaker 5: First heard it, as like I said earlier, I was surprised,

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you know, because it's that's that's new to me in

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the coaching world. And maybe it's not new in coaching

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that the guys the sole special teams coordinator, but I

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think it's I think it's going to do well with it,

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you know, And and uh, deep down, I kind of

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feel like they needed to give him a different, a better,

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bigger role. As you know, I thought he was a

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front run for the DC position, and so once Pepinka

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got it, I think they needed to give him a

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little bit more of a boost and a little bit

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more there. And as a coordinator, he probably is getting

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a little bit more responsibility and a little bit more

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opportunity to grow as a coach.

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Speaker 3: I think it's really cool like to have him not

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have a position group because something really impactful that Kelly

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Pepingas stated in his interview with b Willias Sports Nation

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after he took the defensive coordinating jobs. He said, look

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like I've been coaching the entire team over the last

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three years. I take offensive guys, I take defensive guys,

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and I put them on special teams. I was addressing

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the staff or I was addressing the staff and the

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players more than anybody on the team. Because I'm always coaching,

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I'm coaching special teams units. So it's a really holistic

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role that is extremely impactful. We've seen the impact of

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special teams over the last three years in particularly in

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our wins and losses, even going into twenty twenty. Like

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Edland was a really good special teams coordinator. He was

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really good. He was the assistant aad coach, and he

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was over special teams. Why, because that.

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Speaker 2: You win games. It's competitive ivetage. Who you focus on it.

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Speaker 3: You you allocate proper resources too, You allocate the proper

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bandwidth in strategy schematics.

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Speaker 2: You win football games that way.

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Speaker 3: And Billie's won Yeah, a lot of football games through

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special teams.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you guys, we have.

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Speaker 3: There are very few teams that have created more touchdowns

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and more turnovers through special teams than BYU since twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So the late coach Ron Han from Rick's College, shout.

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Speaker 2: Out to Ron Han. Shout out to Ron what a

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great coach.

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Speaker 4: He used to say.

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Speaker 5: And there are three big plays every single game, and

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those big plays a lot of times happen on special teams, right, Yeah,

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and those are the game changing plays that make or

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break the end of the game.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: So if you can dominate in special teams and and

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you can get your best players on special teams to play,

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you're gonna do well.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: I mean when I when I was punting at ricks

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as a punter, we through three fakes. You know, we're

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three for three ninety five yards, three first downs, but

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game changing plays that had they not happened, and you

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know you're turning the ball over, who knows where that

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would go for me, you know. So there's so much

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opportunity and having justin just focused solely on special teams,

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hopefully we can find some opportunities in.

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Speaker 4: Some ways to break open some of those big plays

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in the special teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And but.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, whether it's field goals, whether it's punts, whether it's

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it's it's changing the the field position and pinning them

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back deep on some good, good punts and and then

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good coverage, And there's just so much that goes into that.

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But there's there's not a lot of plays that give

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an opportunit need to make a big play more than

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a special teams.

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Speaker 2: Jared real Quick.

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Speaker 3: Tell us what you do there at Utah Protective Films

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and why our fans should call our call you guys

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the shop of the guys that work on the car.

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the best place you can go to to kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you also take care of the student athletes.

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Speaker 3: We I mean, how many different student athletes have come

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in and received a car wrap from you at either

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no charge or at a heavily discount of rate, just

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Speaker 4: Over twenty over twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean, it's taking care of the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we got a special special group price for

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those guys and sure, and I enjoy it because man,

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Speaker 3: You know, we've done events over there too with you,

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like they come by, they hang out like we you know,

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we had a great, great event over there between Tesla

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Speaker 2: I love you guys over there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I appreciate it. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: I just like being able to take care of the

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guys and and uh yeah something that we never got

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so we got to give it now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, No, that's that's what that's what we do, right,

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you try to give back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you look where you stand. Yeah, you know, you say, hey,

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what would have been nice?

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you that as a player at b YU,

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what do you think would have been the most beneficial

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to have that you didn't that some of these guys

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have right now?

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Speaker 2: Many all of it.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what I mean, if you could

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pick out something that would be haven't.

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Speaker 5: Been a preferred walk on, it would have been the

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ability to to get that scholar it's not even a scholarship,

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but have all your Twitter. Everybody gets everything before for school, right,

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you make the team your covered right, And that would

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have been big because guys like me, you know who.

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I don't know if I've ran through my my my schedule,

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what it was like for me that first year at BYU.

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But that season I was literally going go, go, go

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to go to team meetings around one o'clock, go to practice,

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and I would go to school in the evening till

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nine o'clock and then I'd go to work from ten

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thirty pm till six am, go home, asleep for five hours,

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and do it over again.

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Speaker 4: And that was my routine.

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Speaker 5: And so being able to have real rest and a

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real program where I didn't have to be so concerned

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about survival, I think my football might have done a

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little bit better.

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Speaker 4: Where I could just focus on football. School but football.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, I'll give you one hundred percent, dude.

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Speaker 3: Like luckily for me, so I had scholarships at Eastern

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and at Glende, be partial at at Glendale, less at Glendale.

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Speaker 2: But more I had three four scholarship in Eastern.

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Speaker 3: So I told my dad I was like, look, you know,

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I had choices, right, walk on it be way you

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walk on it like U of A or.

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Speaker 2: ASU, or I could take like the SUU scholarship or

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Liberty scholarship. But I was like, okay.

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Speaker 3: I told him initially I was going to su and

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then the Lord stepped in and said, no, you're not,

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like literally like step in and like I was like

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heart beating out of my chest, wake up in the

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middle of the night. I had everything packed and he's like, no,

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you're going to be YU. And so I said, look, Dad,

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I want to be successful there. I have a red shirt,

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I have two years. I'm most likely in a red shirt.

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I'm walking on. So it's like gonna be hard to play.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: Help me out financially for the first year and a half,

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you know, and let's see if I can get a scholarship.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think I can. I really believe I can't.

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Speaker 3: If you help me out, right, I'll try to keep

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my cost down all that stuff. I stayed at my

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grandpa's condemned building off nineties ninth fourth, so like, Grandpa,

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let me stay there. I paid for utilities, but he

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was literally condemned, Like you know, who knows what impact? Like,

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who knows what I was breathing? Is the pilot light

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of the furnace is going out every day. There's spiders everywhere,

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abatist in the air, like who knows? Like I just

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pray like it, you know, it's all good anyway. So

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I stayed there and I was on campus essentially riding

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my bike to school and stuff like that. All that stuff,

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I wouldn't have been able to do what I did.

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I wouldn't have scalable macro growth within my development as

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a football player, getting bigger, faster, stronger, focusing even on nutrition.

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saying you know what, yeah, I'm gonna front your cost.

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student loan out like that and that you know you

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pay interest on that.

476
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Speaker 2: He said, no, you'll pay me back. You know, he

477
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paid me back. But and I did. I got a scholarship.

478
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Speaker 3: But like, so I'm right there with you, like you

479
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need you know you need, so you need a little

480
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bit of help And that would have been huge.

481
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Speaker 4: So yeah, now he if you don't mind, let me

482
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real quick little shout outs. We're all sports here.

483
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

484
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Speaker 5: Yes, So my brother in law has been the CFO

485
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for the athletic department down at UNLV. Oh really, dude

486
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just got hired. He is now the CFO the athletic

487
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department Miami.

488
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Speaker 2: No way, your brother, my brother in law, your brother.

489
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Speaker 5: In law shut out Taylor, my sister's husband, Taylor.

490
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Speaker 4: Yeah, locked in.

491
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Speaker 5: He's been interviewing all around, trying to get go a

492
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little bigger than ULB and get into a little bit

493
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better program. And yeah, he just locked in. So they're

494
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moving to Miami and yeah that won't be there next Yeah,

495
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so super excited. A little shadow is awesome and yeah,

496
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it really exciting. I'm my hope is one day and

497
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his hope is too that that BYU finds him and bringing.

498
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Speaker 3: Up Yeah, so b yu and you know, because I

499
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was looking at the organizational chart here within the athletic

500
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department and BYU's control. Well, so you have a GM

501
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right now, like Dave George is awesome.

502
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Speaker 4: If David David Taylor know each other, I've connected us,

503
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you did.

504
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Speaker 3: Okay, so we're working so like yeah, so but he

505
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would be you know, Taylor would be more on the athletic.

506
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Speaker 2: Department side of things rather than just over football.

507
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Speaker 5: Right, Well, but I think that because the football team

508
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is now more like an organization, like like an NFL team,

509
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I think that there will be eventually kind of like

510
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a CFO of football because there's so much more money

511
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coming in there. So you're right, Yeah, good stuff, congratulations.

512
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Any final football thoughts before we let you go?

513
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Speaker 4: Brother, Now, let's go.

514
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Speaker 5: Let's got springball coming out of Guys are working out,

515
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Guys are getting stronger.

516
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Speaker 3: Yeah, anyone we need to keep our eye out for,

517
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Like he's gonna step up, show up, show out.

518
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Speaker 5: I don't know yet, you know, I want to get

519
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these guys in and start seeing what they do when

520
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the pads are on.

521
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna meet with Uh.

522
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Speaker 5: We're gonna do some work on the new wide receiver

523
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from Oregon's car. UH here soon and I get to

524
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meet him and kind of get a fill for them

525
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Mulu Aaby. I have to chatted with a little bit

526
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about doing some stuff in his car. And so I'm

527
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excited to meet the new guys and see where they're

528
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gonna fit in. And yeah, I'm just excited for springball.

529
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Super competitive and expectations are high.

530
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Speaker 2: Do you think, b what you ads are running back

531
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after springball.

532
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Speaker 4: I wish we would have done it before, but it's

533
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always a possibility.

534
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Speaker 3: Yeah, gotcha, they're gonna, yeah, they'll they'll evaluate. See what's

535
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going on in the locker room. See what's going on

536
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in the depth chart. All right, that's Jared Blatcho Utah

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few of the news and notes of the day before.

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We welcome in Double D the Darnell Dixon, the Daily Heraldean.

575
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What has been cooking up with the Cougars, ladies and gentlemen,

576
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boys and girls staff updates. Congratulations to the new guys

577
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or elevated guys. Railing Singleton is gonna be your assistant

578
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wide receivers coach. He's been a graduate offensive analysts, I

579
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believe over the last few years.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations of Rayland Singleton.

581
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Speaker 3: Dylan Allman BAU Football Assistant Special Teams coach.

582
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Speaker 2: Congratulations to him.

583
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Speaker 3: Also, Tyler Hughes BYU Football Assistant quarterbacks coach.

584
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Speaker 2: The quarterback factory is alive and well baby.

585
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Speaker 3: Shout out to Tyler Hughes and then Tayas Mooe BA

586
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Football Assistant Linebackers coach is getting the call up. I

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was delving in and putting these into like sub groups.

588
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I was looking at all of the different positions right.

589
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Speaker 2: That are filled now on the staff. So I have a.

590
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Speaker 3: Little bit of an organizational chart here that I want

591
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to delve into. So on the offensive side of the ball,

592
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you have Kalanie Sataki kind of overseeing it all, right,

593
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I guess you could say, but he's a senior Associate

594
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athletic director overseeing football. Aaron Roderick is your offensive coordinator.

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Quarterbacks coach Vetsi Shataki, your passion game coordinator, Wide receivers

596
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coach TJ. Wood, offensive line coach and run game coordinator.

597
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Kevin o'brid is your tight ends coach. Harvey Unda is

598
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your running backs coach. Tyler Hughes as I mentioned assistant

599
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quarterbacks coach Tyson McDaniel's assistant tight ends coach Raylan Singleton

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assistant wide receivers coach Al Papuno's offensive analyst. Brandon Kipper

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is offensive graduate assistant coach, and then Carter Shaw is

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your offensive graduate assistant coach. Defensively, Shony Pouhas your associate

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head coach and defensive line coach. Kelly Papinga is your

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defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach Demario Warren is your

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defensive pass game coordinator and safeties coach. Chad Cahaha is

606
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your outside linebackers coach and outside edge rushers coach Lewis

607
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Walker is your quarterbacks coach. Randy co junior defensive analysts

608
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Wesley Johnson defensive graduate assistant. Tyas Moe assistant linebackers coach,

609
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and you have Gary Anderson your senior analyst Special Teams,

610
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Justin Etta, special teams coordinator, and then Dylan Allman is

611
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your assistant special teams coach. On the strength and conditioning

612
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and performance and nutrition side of things, Colby Klausen Assistant

613
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Athletic Director for Football Health and Performance. Skyler Maine is

614
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your Director of High Performance. Ryan Phillis Director of Strength,

615
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Strength and Conditioning, Nate Patashnik Associate Director of Football Strength

616
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and Conditioning, Christian Tupo Assistant strength and conditioning coach, Tim

617
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Ishmail assistant strength and conditioning coach, Zach Shaw assistant strength

618
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and conditioning coach, and then Dan Wilcox, Director of Football Nutrition.

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On the recruiting and scouting side, Brandon Bradley, Director of Recruiting,

620
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Vince Fayula, Director of Scouting, and then Nanny Barnam Barham

621
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your director of on campus Recruiting Football op and I'm

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sure you have.

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Speaker 2: A slew of.

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Speaker 3: Interns under them Football Operations and Adaman John Swich, Chief

625
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of Staff, Dave George, General Manager, Justin Anderson, Director of

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Player Personnel, Mike Hall, Director of player Development, Jack to Mooney,

627
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Director of Football Relations, and then Josh Weir, director of

628
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Football Equipment Operations. On the sports medicine and rehabilitation side

629
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of things, Terrence Motley, Director of Football rehab, Brett Mortensen,

630
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director of Football Athletic Training, Jackie Knight, Associate director of

631
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Football athletic Training, TJ. Bash football athletic trainer, Paul Webb

632
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football athletic trainer, Devin Anderson football athletic trainer, and then

633
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Kandus Gun on the sports medicine secretarial side of things.

634
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It's a robust staff. It's a fantastic staff. Ronald the

635
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three man Weaver. How are you feeling about the football

636
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organizational design that they have put together for the twenty

637
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twenty six season and beyond.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like this is a good rebuild. This

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is the best I feel like that they could have

640
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done with what they had been and what was available

641
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on look. Just the best way you do something then

642
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is you promote with then right outside people are great

643
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and you do those needs if you need to, Like

644
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iways needed tomorrow, Warren needed a cornerbacks coach who had

645
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to have those Those are needs and that's good to

646
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have them, but DC you want to promote someone that's

647
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already on your staff. They did that, right, they moved

648
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justin and over the special teams coordinator. You're moving people

649
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up that have been analyt excuse me, I mean you

650
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think of it, Tias Moe. I mean he was a

651
00:31:05,079 --> 00:31:07,440
defensive analyst last year, right, so he was that and

652
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,000
now he's an assistant linebackers coach. You always want to

653
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be seeing guys in the program building elevate.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 6: You have a good system, You have good guys that

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are learning, that are qualified for the job and that

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you don't have to replace. You love seeing that. You

658
00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:21,599
love seeing Dylan Allman now a special teams coach. And

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to me, the one I think that like really stands

660
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out the most, Ben is this is a former Utah

661
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wide receivering Ravens Singleton, Like, I mean to see him,

662
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you know, be on as a as a GA and

663
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now you know, help out with the wide receiver group.

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Now he's an assistant wide receivers coach that bowl as well.

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I mean, this is a guy that is ala modern,

666
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well not all my mater, but a guy at place

667
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he played it in Utah could have brought him back,

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and by he's been able to retain him and elevate him.

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Speaker 4: So you love to see that.

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Speaker 6: I love these staff updates and who they promoted, and

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this is good. The Clonie culture is working. And look,

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it's gonna be a learning curve. I don't want fans

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to get too high listening to me. Everybody's gonna have

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their their cup of tea of what they have to

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deal with up and downs. There could be some growing

676
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pains of any new role. Right when I got into

677
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this role full time with you and you know, learning

678
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it took some time obviously when when I took over,

679
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but that's how the job goes. But once you get

680
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it dialed, it's great success and they'll run it back

681
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in the Big Ze Championship, I believe next year.

682
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Speaker 3: So the other individual that I put on this list

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is Travis Hansen. He's a senior associate athletic director. He's

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over revenue sharing in NIL and I think he's taking

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a vested interest in football specifically, maybe overseeing some of

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the day to day NIL offerings and strategic partnerships within

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football specifically. So Travis Hanson also is leading a coordinator

688
00:32:41,279 --> 00:32:45,039
boy strategic approach to that rev share model. Name aims

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of likeness and opportunities for student athletes, but in particular

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he's focused on on football. So the former BYU great

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NBA player overseas superstar to Sonny Companies founder and chairman Eddie,

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co founder and chairman Sunshine Here's Foundation and co founder

693
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and board member Baller's Shot Collar uh currently residing Mapleton, Utah.

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Shout out to Travis Hansen everything that he's doing as well.

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So it's a robust architecture and Uh, I think it's

696
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only going to get better. Guys continually acquiring, retaining talent,

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creating a culture that we can all be proud of.

698
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And I really like what I'm seeing here on the

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on the football operations and admin side of things as well.

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You can say, you know, from a player development standpoint,

701
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a football relations standpoint, kind of a communal approach as

702
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well with the alumni. Uh, Like there's touch points everywhere.

703
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:48,279
There's there's really specialists in all areas, all arenas of

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00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:52,519
this football program. So shout out to the the athletic

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directors that are that are executing the vision right now

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for b UYU Athletics. Let's take a brief time out.

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We'll come back with a little Cougars in the pros.

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What's happening with Kyro's tongas he preps for the Super Bowl.

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That's right, Kairos Tonga again to get a chance to

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win a Super Bowl this year. He's having his best

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season I think of his career. He's found a home

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in New England and he's making the most of it.

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Let's delve into it. Coming up next. You're listening to

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the Cougar Sports on one of three, nine ninety eight

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Speaker 1: Colin he s Taki once told Ben Krettle to get

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into coaching. Lucky for you Cougar fans, Ben Krittle didn't listen.

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He wants to continue talking Cougar football every day here

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Speaker 2: If you tadd America Fork.

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Speaker 3: If you are an offensive or defensive lineman getting heading

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into the off season, you're gonna be heading out to

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camps doing some big man challenges and getting bigger, faster, stronger.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, but if you're competing, you're doing a lot of

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one on one.

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Speaker 3: Showcases, make sure you break up those knees, those ankles,

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those risks, those elbows. You don't want to, uh to

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to get injured while you're out competing, uh, in those

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in those one on one showcases.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And you want to perform at your best biomechanical sports.

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Around the knees, around the ankles, around the elbows and

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and long term of those joints. Think of articular cartilage

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as the tread on the tires.

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Speaker 2: That's what it is. Eventually it will wear down.

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Speaker 3: You see a gnarled and burly offensive lineman of of

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of a different era, uh that they are osteoarthritick. Okay,

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you don't want that. You want to limit, you want

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to decompress. You don't want to limit injuries and you

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want to decompress those joints every single season, everywhere you go.

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and eight. That's eight A one four hundred five through

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and eight Orthropos of Utah Orthroprosiutah dot com. Kyris Tonga

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getting a chance to be the guy to bring home

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a ring. Okay, I love me some Kiris Tonga and

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let's talk about him. What is it that Kiris first

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and foremost loves about head coach Kalani Satake and how

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he spurned Penn.

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Speaker 2: State for Byu.

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Speaker 3: Kolana is everything man Tonga told mister Cummings in an interview.

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I think every I think that Byu was looking to represent.

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I think Kolani is the perfect image. Super happy for

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Kolanie and happy for Byu and excited to see where

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they take their program even further. I can't wait for sure.

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His time as a Cougar definitely instilled a work ethic

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in Tonga that he's leaned into during his five year

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NFL career.

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Speaker 2: For the Pro Football Network, he.

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Speaker 3: Said, at BYU, we were always working, working hard and

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never really taking the shortcuts, taking pride and being where

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we came from and how we ended up there. I

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took that mentality and ran with it in the NFL,

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just always making sure I'm doing the extra whatever I can.

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Speaker 2: Do to be able to be in the league.

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Speaker 3: For Tonga, watching from AFAR remains a point of pride.

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I'm tuned in every week, every Saturday. I'm watching no

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matter where I'm at. Loyal, strong and true. Is Kiris

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Tonga pretty special player. Obviously he was fantastic at BYU

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and he continues to be fantastic. Can't believe he's starting

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in five years. Five years that he's he's been in

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the league. Tremendous talent, but tremendous work ethic. His strong

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work ethic from BYU has sustained his career across multiple teams,

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culminating now in this historic appearance. It's been super fun

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to watch BAU play. And I love what head coach

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Kalani Satake has going on with them boys. I'm tuned

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in every week, every Saturday. As I mentioned, I'm watching

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no matter where I'm at. Remember, Kiris played high school

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football at Granger High School and is a twenty twenty

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one seventh round NFL pick. He remains deeply connected to BYU.

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And you know, despite being in the professional ranks for

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the last five years, Kiris actually discussed Boa his early

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success in the Big Tail twelve. They're getting closer and

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closer each year, he continued to talk about the momental

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Kolani and his staff had built. I'm exc for what

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they got going. Can't wait for the next year. And

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uh and and.

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Speaker 2: Look he's he's he's watching from Afar at b Yu.

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Speaker 3: We always are working hard and never taking those shortcuts.

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Speaker 2: So shout out to Kyris Toga.

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Speaker 3: Do you think New England come home, comes home with

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a Super Bowl trophy and a Super Bowl ring for

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Kyris Toga Ronald the three Man Weaver.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I do.

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Speaker 6: I believe that it does happen. I got the Patriots winning.

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I know everybody's bought into the Seahawks. I'm gonna go

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a little bit different. Take the people that everybody's not

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betting against. Excuse me, that's not betting on my apologies.

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And I think Kyris Tonker, Mike rabrol I believe in him.

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A lot of people don't believe in Drake May been.

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But look, I mean, if you had, if you had

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to put Sam Donald in those inclement weather positions in Denver,

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do you think Sam would have lit it up the

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way he did for over three hundred and thirty yards

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and three touchdowns. I think if you put Dre May

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in an environment that was the weather was nice and

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it wasn't snowy, and win factor and the windshields not

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gonna be the way in California been over. So I

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think Drake May has been doing what he does all season. Heck,

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even might win the MVP bin. And if he does,

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we can pull tape and check it later. But I'm

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gonna take the Patriots in this one. I'm gonna take

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the organization that's been there a few more times, a

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coach that's played in this game, and an organization that

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knows how to win.

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Speaker 4: So I'll take those guys.

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Speaker 2: Uh Yeah, I'm not.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna continue to do my scouting report

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on this. I want I'm rooting for the Patriots, but

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I feel like the Broncos may come out victorious in

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this one. Sean Payton one of the best coaches in

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in my opinion, one of the best coaches in the

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modern era of the NFL, and he may solidify himself

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as one of the greatest coaches all time if he

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brings Denver a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Here another super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: So sn Peyton is a great coach, and I think

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he's a great developer of talent.

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Speaker 2: I think he's a great judge of high level talent.

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Speaker 3: Look what he's done with the drafts, Look what he's built,

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and to turn round has been so abrupt in Denver

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with this Denver Broncos team that was kind of a middling,

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lower level NFL team for a long time after the

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Paint Manning era that was short of lived there with

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Paint Manning, but in the Von Nelson et cetera era.

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But look, I'm I'm intrigued, There's no doubt about it.

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I'm rooting Kiris Tonga on from Afar. He had a

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great BAU career and it's trending towards a great NFL career.

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That's our segment that's keeping up with the Cougars in

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it.

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Speaker 3: Keeping up with the Cougar segment coming up next with

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Kyle Collinsworth.

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Speaker 2: Don't miss it.

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Speaker 3: H Kyle collins Will joined us to talk some BAU basketball.

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This is Cougar Sports on one O three nine ninety

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eight point three is.

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Speaker 1: Eb Strive stra rid all about it. Let's get the

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latest news coming out of BYU Athletics with a Cougar

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Sports Press release.

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Speaker 6: This is Ronald the three Male Weaver bringing you to

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Couger Sports Press release. UAU are Richie Saunders earn a

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spot on the Big tast starting five for the second

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time the season after a standout week that saw him

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flirt with the double double average. The Cougar's lost to

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number one Arizona and number fourteen Kansas. Despite that, Saunders

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put up twenty five point five points and nine point

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five rebounds per game while shooting in a fishing sixty

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percent from the field. He also shot forty two point

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nine percent from beyond the arc at seventy five percent

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from the charity spack the top came also contributed across

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the board with four assists for steels and a block

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over the two games. The product out of Rivers in

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Utah finished with eighteen points against Arizona on Monday, hitty

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seven of eleven shots, including three triples, while adding a

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team's best nine rebounds, four of them came on the offensive.

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Last on Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas, Sunders delivered.

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Speaker 4: One of the best performances of.

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Speaker 6: His career as he scored thirty three points in fog

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Island Fieldhouse. Twenty four of those points came after halftime

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as bau nearly erased a twenty point deficit, marking the

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third straight close call for the Cougars.

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Speaker 4: Against the Jayhawis.

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Speaker 6: His thirty three points a time for the most ever

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scored by a VAA player against the ranked opponent dating

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back to nineteen ninety six. Snders also matched a career

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high with six to eighty three pointers and pulled down

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ten rebounds for his third double double of the season

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in fourth of fifth career bus back in action on

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the road this Wednesday, February fourth, as they traveled to

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Stillwater to take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Tip off

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of sep for eight pm A Central time on FS one.

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The Cougar still looked for their first QUAH one win

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on the road in Big twelve play the Cowboys. There're

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sixty seventh in the net and BYU can improve the

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five and four with the win in kuah one match

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of this season. For more Cougar Sports press releases in Putting

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