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It is time for my favorite segment called football segment.

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We're going to celebrate the win over Utah, and I

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want to ask this question in this segment. Is that

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Utah team that is comprised of some very talented football

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players NFL draft picks. You know Kleb Lomu, Spencer Fonnod

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both probably going to be first round NFL draft picks.

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At tackle, you have Smith Snowdon NFL defensive back Taylor Johnson. Like,

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go down the list of high level football players for Utah.

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Speaker 3: It's a good football team.

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Speaker 2: And they have good coaches as well well resourced. Is

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that Youtah team that BYU just beat, the same Youtah

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team that has been winning in the Pac twelve for

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the last few decades. The same type of team that

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wins ten plus games and goes to bowl games every

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year and goes to Rose Bowl games and then loses

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those games. You know, is there on the cusp of

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elite to great greatness but struggles to get over that hump.

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And I would conclude that they are. They're just in

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a better conference now. But to talk about it, to

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discuss it, it's going to be It's going to be

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a former BYU wide receiver to break it all down.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's welcome in Jared Bledsoe of Utah Protective

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Films from a BYU wide receiver to discuss the topic

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of the day.

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Speaker 3: Jared, how thatck? Are you good? Really well? And thanks

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for having me. Ben.

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Speaker 2: It's always great to to just celebrate the win over

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the rival foe, the University of Utah.

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Speaker 3: Break this down for me.

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Speaker 2: What do you think is this this Utah football team

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that BYU just beat on their home field?

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Speaker 3: Is that the same team? Right?

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Speaker 2: Is that the same type of team talent wise, coaching,

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staff wise, resource wise that was dominating the PAC twelve

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and BYUS just surpassed them.

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Speaker 4: I think you're going down the right path on it,

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you know. I think that they every year Utah has

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some NFL quality guys, guys that get picked up, guys.

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Speaker 3: They've been putting guys in the league for a long time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's what they needed in order to be

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successful in the PAC twelve, I think. And if you

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if you look at some of the BA Utah game

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and it kind of analyzed some of their their strengths.

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Their offensive line really good and and in fact, I

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think they played really well still against BYU. But what

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they lacked is that our DB's outplayed their receivers. So

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you got this number one offensive line in the nation,

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who's who gave the quarterback way more time than he

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needed on a ton of plays. I mean, we couldn't

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get to him. And then when we did a sides

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that move around a lot more time. Yeah, but he

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couldn't find anybody downfield open. So that's where I think

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They've got some superstars in different areas, but they don't

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have enough to fill those voids. Just like I don't

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think they had a receiver that was dominant enough that

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they had a go to guy that could get open

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every time, or they would have hit that guy on

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a lot of those places. But I think you're down

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the right path on it. I think you guys are

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always going to be a very good team. They're always

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going to have good players, good coaching. They have the

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means to do it. But on the other hand, was

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the Pac twelve what the Big twelve twelve is today?

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Speaker 2: Utah the team that was the odds on favor to

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win the Big twelve last year, didn't even go to

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a bowl game, had the physical you know, smash in

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the in the mouth that they did not expect. Getting

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into the Big twelve Pac twelve, they were the most

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physical team in the conference more often than not, even

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versus the likes of Washington and Oregon and USC they

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typically got out athleted.

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Speaker 3: In those seeds from those guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, more so than they did get out physical.

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So offensive and defensive line trench warfare is what they

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want at they move up to the Big twelve, not

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as dominant as they were in the Pac twelve in

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my opinion. And look, they're a good team this year.

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Kyle Whittingham came back an additional year. He did not

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retire after last year. He saw the talent on this

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football team returning and felt like they could compete and

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win in the Big twelve.

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Speaker 3: And they have.

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Speaker 2: But they've also lost a tough one on the road

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to their rival, and they.

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Speaker 3: Lost at home to Texas Tech.

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Speaker 2: And there's parody in Culge football.

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Speaker 3: We know that, but.

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Speaker 2: I think they're the same team and BYU has just

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surpassed them, and it hasn't taken them that long to

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surpass them since arriving in the Big twelve. And we're

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only at a half share right now. By the way,

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we're not even at that full share yet or revenue distribution, right.

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Speaker 4: But do you hear Aaron Rodercks that he was on

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the coordinator's corner, right, and he he had made They

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were talking about the quality of our recruiting and how

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we were always a little bit behind Utah back during

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that streak when Utah won the nine nine in row.

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Speaker 3: We they had better talent, right.

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Speaker 4: His comment was, we have better talent now, you know,

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and and and and we're recruiting better talent and we're

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starting to see you know, it's it's not uncommon to

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flip through Instagram and you come across one of those

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top top ten, top thirty recruits and there's Alabama, Auver

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and all these different schools, and then there's BYU over

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in the left corner, you know, as one of the visits.

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Speaker 3: And you didn't see that before.

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Speaker 4: You didn't see these big time recruits with their Alabamas

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and their SEC schools to visit and then BYU. You know,

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so I think it is it is proving. The formula

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that that Kilani and his coaches are together is proving

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to be successful and it's just going to get better.

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Speaker 2: So then what do you attribute the increase in recruiting to?

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the tides. That's what we're talking about here. We're talking

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about the turning of the tides and the rivalry. Three

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in a row, now, okay, that's that's a streak baby.

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And look, I know Utah had nine in a row,

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but they also had we had unequal footing.

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Speaker 3: We did not.

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Speaker 2: We did not have the same resources, We didn't have

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the power for affiliation. Uh, they have never had an

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honor code. The student athletes of the University of Utah

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from what I've been told there, their academic riggers are

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not nearly as stringent as the academic riggers of YU.

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All those things can lead to better recruiting.

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Speaker 4: So what do you see, well, b Yu, I think

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where we turned the corner, obviously is when we got

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a conference, When we got into the Big.

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Speaker 3: Twelve, it changed.

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Speaker 4: The prospects outlook on what's possible at BYU. It before that,

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when we were independent, Yeah, we got to pick our

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schedule a little bit, and we kind of got to

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bounce around. But you had to win out almost to

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get a chance to play in any kind of a

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playoff or any kind of a big bowl game. And

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so it was like one loss and it was now

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where are we at? You know, Liberty Bowl Holiday ball?

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Speaker 3: You know what? Those maybe better balls now.

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Speaker 4: But you know, maybe when you look back at it,

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it was it's different. So you've got players that are

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coming in.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I was in the stands and I spent some time

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with some of the players parents during the game Utah,

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and you know, and I asked those questions, you know what,

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what what brought your son here? You know, and and

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what's keeping him here? Yeah, and that was it's it.

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You need both.

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Speaker 2: You need the acquisition and then you need the rew nowadays, yeah,

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you have to keep them, keep them to.

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Speaker 3: Develop them in your system.

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Speaker 4: The mom that I spoke with, I will keep the

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players out of it, but she said, the atmosphere here

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what Kalani brings, and just you have to try to

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get in trouble in provo. You know, it doesn't just

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come to you. You don't just hang out at the

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wrong proactively seeking trouble, you know, to get it, and

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so at parents I think are seeing more and more

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of that. I think they see that this team, the

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team stays together in the office, you always are going

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to lose some there's just no way around it in

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this day and age with nil and the transfer portal.

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But we retain a lot of players year to year

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that have opportunities to potentially make more money outside, but

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they come back and I think that gets noticed, and

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not just the players, but but from the parents as well,

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and then just a feeling of being here and playing

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for Kilonie.

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Speaker 3: I think Colonie has done a great I've been.

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Speaker 4: Building that network and I think we're going to continue

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to see a lot of higher profile guys coming out.

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I was talking with Justin Anderson on Saturday before the game,

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and you know, they had seventy recruits and families at

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the Bautahay.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, I was that is. I was like, man,

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you got a huge load to deal with today.

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Speaker 4: Seventy recruits with all their families and this was all

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the biggest recruits were there for this game.

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Speaker 3: And what an atmosphere, you know, I mean, think about it.

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Speaker 4: How many stadiums out there are full to the end

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of the game, no matter what. You know, you look

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at some of the games that we've played this year,

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and I know Arizona had a rain delay, but it

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wasn't even close to full before the raindo lay, you know,

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and then after it was even worse. And then you

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look at these stands some of these games as teams

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are getting blown out or they're blowing out the other team,

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and their fans just leave, you know, and all of

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a sudden, it's it's towards the middle of the fourth

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cornering and there's like fifteen hundred fans still.

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Speaker 3: They're like baus.

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Speaker 4: Fans stay for the game, you know, and and enjoy

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the game, and they're riled up for the whole game.

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And what an atmosphere that is. And having you know,

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been recruited or being a recruit now and coming into

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that atmosphere and seeing that and hearing and feeling it

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and then come out with the win and just the

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whole atmosphere. There had to be some guys leaving that

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weren't by you guys that that have have them in

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their top three now, I really think so.

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Speaker 3: I think they did a really good job of bringing

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in the guys at the right time. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, there were Utah commits in the locker

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room post game, Yeah, celebrating with the BAYU football team.

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Speaker 3: So I went, there's a few flops I'm waiting for.

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Speaker 4: I think there's some coming that that the guys that

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have signed with Utah that that, and I'm not going

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to say they admitted, have committed, yeah, committed, Yeah, you

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haven't signed yet committed to Utah. Who are going to

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look at their opportunities at BYU.

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Speaker 3: I think there's more to that than.

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Speaker 5: To come here in the near feature ap Andrew Peterson, Well,

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while we're talking about recruits, if we're looking at this

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year's seniors for BYU, these are the recruits BYU was

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getting as independents, right, yep.

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Speaker 6: And the recruiting classes are only getting better. We're starting

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to get the big twelve guys and like fall Toss Talkswila,

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he's a big twelve recruit and he's showing up big time.

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And so I hate to bring that up this question

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for the sake of my Utah friends, but are we

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going to see a talent gap going the other way?

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Speaker 3: It?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's what it was before, even in

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it was.

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Speaker 2: I mean the talent, the best LDS talent, the best

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Speaker 3: Best a lot of the best quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: That weren't getting recruited to the Michigan's, the Ohio States,

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you know, the Miami's, the USC's, you know at that

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time in that era, right like, they were coming to

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Speaker 3: They wanted to throw it.

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Speaker 2: And so you got a lot of really good premiere

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obviously NFL talent to come to Provo at that time,

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and there was a significant talent gap until the nineties

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when coach McBride took over and started stealing a few

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of those guys and creating.

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Speaker 3: A great coach. By the way, he.

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Speaker 2: Created a similar Lavelle Kalani culture there, and it was

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cool to be at Utah and you'd have a chip

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on your shoulder, and it bags the question. Right, you're

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talking about Kilani here and the brand, and you listen

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to the postgame press conferences of Kyle Whittingham and in

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Kilanie and they're completely the opposite. And if you're a player, granted,

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when you're winning, it's a whole lot easier to be

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from him all behind and christening. But who does Who

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do you want to play for? Who do you want

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to play well?

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Speaker 4: And I think there's there's a little limbo going on

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with with Utah because when when is he going to retire? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Is it going to be the end of this year?

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Speaker 4: I I think he should have retired last year, you know.

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Speaker 3: But that's a hard one to go out on. I

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get it, you know.

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Speaker 2: I hope they make a Bowl game so that he

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can feel comfortable. Like I said, he saw the talent.

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He's like, we can win with this team. Yeah, we

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can win with this team.

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Speaker 4: But the drive, the fire isn't there the fire that

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I've always seen with with with coach Waitningham.

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Speaker 3: I don't see it.

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Speaker 2: You know what what extinguished it? It's it's not even

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just the rivalry game. I'm telling what it is. It's

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it's nil, it's transfer portal, it's buy in from donors.

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they because you're a commuter school. When they're there, they're fans.

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It's kind of an as U feel sure they're fans

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and they'll show up and they're going to party, pregame

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and postgaming, Like yeah, I like, but I don't know

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if they have robust buy in from their alumni base

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to sustain and I competitive nature of the top twenty five,

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you know, top thirty five programs of the country that

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ultimately it necessitates to stay there because they've been there

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because of X, Y and Z competing in the PAC twelve,

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having the resources that they've never had before.

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Speaker 3: With the TV money.

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Speaker 2: They're not there anymore though, Like now they're on equal

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footing with a lot of these other programs and they

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don't have the nil to to keep them in the

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top thirty five, Top forty year.

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Speaker 3: And in year out, or at least they're teetering there.

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Speaker 2: It's not a foregone conclusion that they're invested. And I

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think wits like, well, he's already declared it. It's his thesis,

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like the more you pay, the more you win. He

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went on record in regards to Texas Technic. That's his

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low hanging for. That's what he's saying, like that's all

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it takes. And he's calling out his own donor base.

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He's calling out his nil donor base there and he

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doesn't like any he doesn't like the variables involved.

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Speaker 3: Is the same reason why Nick Saban.

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Speaker 4: Got yeah, No, I think I think that the older

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generation of coaches are seeing the riding on the wall

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as to the changes that are being made within the

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n C double A. And if you're not willing to

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change and just jump into that cycle, now you can't survive,

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you know. And so either you get out you change,

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or or you're you start to fall back. And you know,

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you mentioned the fans. I don't know about you, but

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were you surprised at how little Red was in the stadium?

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Now I get it. Tickets more expensive, right, yeah, And I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, look, b y U fans, they don't They're pretty strategic.

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These are smart, well, I shared fans that know that

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when they sell their tickets, they do not put them

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on the free market.

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Speaker 3: So that you tough fans tickets on the free market.

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Speaker 4: So for me for so for from what you were

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saying is and and what when we saw we expect

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that were ten to twenty percent of this fan base

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is in the CRA that's going to be from Utah.

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think I think Portland State had almost the same amount.

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Speaker 3: They had a pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Turnout in that same sliver corner of the north end zone.

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And and so I was, yeah, I don't, I don't know.

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nobody travels like BAU, you know. And and because we've

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got fans everywhere that are church related and whatnot. And

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but you know, just to jump back to the game

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real quick, something that I a couple of things that

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I that stood out to me that I hadn't really

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paid as much attention to. But one one was the

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pocket presence of bear bachmer on undred percent has improved.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean just his ability to step up to make a move,

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but then the decision making.

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Speaker 3: I mean there were there were two specific plays.

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Speaker 4: One was a hand off to LJ where he had

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shifted LG to one side and then hurried and shifted

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him right back and handed the ball.

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Speaker 3: LG ran for like thirteen yards and it was like

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he saw it change the play and moved him over.

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Speaker 4: And then the one went with to Preston Rex, you

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know that it was that was the third read was

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the president. If you weren't paying attention to that, it

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looked like that was the play call.

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Speaker 3: And then you go watch it and he goes one

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to two to three and throws.

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Speaker 4: It and it Yeah, and I'm ready to see a

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little bit more Preston, you know, get him in the

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open field.

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Speaker 3: He's finally healthy.

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Speaker 2: You saw he's more accelerated, accelerative, he's he's more explosive.

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Speaker 3: He's faster than what he was even a week ago.

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Speaker 4: And I think a Ron's gonna find some ways to

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get him the ball in open space.

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Speaker 3: He's not the brute. He's not gonna you know, running

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through the tackles in the guard.

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Speaker 4: Get Yeah, he get him on that outside and and yeah,

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and LJ made a great block on that that run in.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that was one day.

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Speaker 4: And then and then our secondary, I mean our I

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was so impressed. But he's gotta playing man almost the

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entire game. And they could lock down to where Dan

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Pierre was having such a hard time finding somebody open,

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and he had plenty of time, you know, and and uh,

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and then you know he'd scramble and have to get

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laid out and throw it away and take a pic

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here and you know. So I was just impressed by

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by those stats. I was happy to see us get

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out of there without any major injuries and and uh,

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you know, no targeting calls, and yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was a fun game. It's fun to see.

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Speaker 4: I don't feel like there's gonna be quite the letdown

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that we had last year after the Utah game because

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the energy even as as a being at the stadium

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and leaving after the energy, you didn't feel drained like

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last year leaving you were like, wow, I don't even

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know if I can get up tomorrow. You know, it

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was it was draining. So this year, I think we're

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gonna be in a better state. And but we got

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a difficult, difficult battle ahead and one game at a time,

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let's see where we go.

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