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You've got a great show for you as always. It's Monday,
January fifth, and we're getting rocking a wrong with the transferportal.
It's wide open and buy is building its staff. There
were some attrition, right. We heard the official news essentially
over the weekend that Jay Hill and Genaro Guildford will
be taking their towns to an arbor. And you know,
one of the polls that I put out from over
the weekend, who do you blame the most regarding the
college football chaos that has impacted our great state? Right?
This is a marvelous state for college football, for high
school football, et cetera. And all are impacted by dominoes
that are falling. But what was that first domino to fall?
Who do you put the blame on? Who are you
most anger at? Who are almost at pod at? If
you will, regarding all of this tomfoolery, all of the
hullabaloo that has occurred over the last two weeks in
the college foot world that is impacting our great state. Okay,
and I I it's a poll I put it out there.
You choose. Is it the man who fell from grace
he thought with the wrong head? If you will, Sharon Moore?
Is is that the guy who ticked off? At? Are
you ticked off? And Mark Harlan the guy that ticked
off and disrespected a legendary coach up in Salt Lake
City who goes by the name of Kyle Freaking Winning Him,
who is now the head coach of Michigan. Are you
mad at him you met at? Are you met at
Kyle for coming in and taking your DC and assistant
head coach as well as your quarterbacks coach? Or is
it somebody else? Maybe just mad at Jay Hill? Jay?
How dare you? I thought you were a BYU cougar.
I thought you had been adopted into the branch you
had been, you had been grafted into the tree of
Lavelle of Brigham, and you portrayed us judas I'm kidding Betteredcdarnald,
how dare you? Jay? Maybe you tak Dovid Jay. Maybe
you're ticked off at somebody at BYU. Maybe you tik
David the upper campus administration. Give me your thoughts, give
me your come. Maybe you took Dovid b san Kalate
keep four k Shan raise all of the main players
in this wild and wacky world at b YU. But
I give you the first three. Those are the ones
that you're typically gonna be ticked off at. Give me
your thoughts on that and why you feel that way. Guys,
keep us tuned in. It's gonna be a fantastic show.
I'm also gonna get into the coaching staff vacancy's at byu.
Who's going to take the baton as the defensive coordinator,
assistant head coach. Who's gonna be your safety's coach? Who's
gonna be your quarterbacks coach? Will there be more attrition? When?
Will we finally find out the news on your coaching
staff on this BAA Cougar coaching staff also transfer portal
who could we lose? And why? Who's signed and who
hasn't signed yet? All that and more here on your utah.
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Speaker 4: I've been very happy appreciate you saying that I'm a
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Speaker 4: If you catch me on Thursday nights at the Creekside Basketball,
I'm going to put my shoulder into your chests.
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thirteen year old teacher geekin.
Speaker 4: Or whether you're a seventeen year old priest. Everybody can
get the smoking, get the business. They all have have
transpired and had to take it. That's just how it goes.
Speaker 1: There go Ronald and the three band Weaver. Let's also
welcome in Hammertime show Brett always bringing the hammer. What's
up Brett Hammer? Ron could we hit it? Freaking news?
We got breaking right off the back? Oh yeah. Do
we have our DC? Do we have our coaching staff?
Is there attrition?
Speaker 5: I'm telling the people I talked to Rider Lions with weeping,
So I'm convinced at this point that Rivals like actively
disliked Rider Lions because I don't know if you saw this,
they put out an article last week saying, oh Rider
saying after his mission.
Speaker 1: There's school's interested. He said he might be interested.
Speaker 5: So I went and I just said, hey, this is
what Ryder apparently told Rivals, And I just made a
video strictly about that I hear from Rider Lions clickbait
Go Koog's.
Speaker 1: So I just want.
Speaker 5: Everyone who sees all these wild commentaries from everyone at Rivals,
who I'm sure do great work, but I also think
they have a little bit of a personal vendetta against
Rider Lions. I don't know who started it, I don't
know who's finished it, but it's been going on for
quite a while. But I can tell the people who
may be worried about Rider Lions going to Michigan, Michigan
thinks they can just keep stealing from the state of Utah.
They will not be stealing Ryder Lions because he told
me this is clickbait go Kogs.
Speaker 1: Well, so just to kind of give a little bit
of background here, you mentioned on three and Rivals. The
report came out. This was I believe on the third
of January twenty twenty six, after all the all of
the Kyle Whittingham announcements occurred. Kyle's obviously going to Michigan,
He's the head coach, and he's got some coaches to
go along with him that are are you know ldesh
and have connections to to Utah and BYU. Okay, it
is what it is. So the title of the article
written by EJ. Holland of On three and Rivals states
this Michigan could be optioned for top one hundred BAU
quarterback commit writer lines after one year mission. Okay and
so and I quote everything lined up for it to
be the right choice for me. Okay, this is for BYUN.
We can all tell that the football program is on
the rise. They won twelve games this year. Coach Colodia
Sataking just turned down the Penn State job. It looks
like he's going to be there for a while. Being
a part of what they are building is special to me.
By the way, his wonderful mother and his final games
reping the y where the BYU hat Okay, that's besides
the point. I guess I'm definitely committed to BYU. But
you never know what can happen. Lyon said, you just
have to be prepared. I know coach Kyle Whittingham really well.
Utah was like my second scholarship. My brother almost went
there his brother Walker Lyons, who's currently in the portal
coming from USC what will be his ultimate destination. But
he goes on, I really like Michigan as a school
in a program. I like the area they got. They
got my DCJ Hill from BYU. There is just a
lot of familiarity. And then he goes on, I think
it's a great hire for Michigan. This is Kyle Whningham.
He's referring to the type of football he's going to
coach fits Michigan in my mind, the physicality and how
they're going to play violent. Lions also had high praise
for a new Michigan offense coordinator, Jacent Back. Utah had
a really explosive offensive unit this year. They did really
good with a quarterback who can run and throw the ball,
very similar to me. I don't know him too well,
but I do know him a little bit. I also
know he's LDS as well. Lions is the number five quarterback,
the number forty three overall recruit nationally. He's going to
serve a mission in Orlando and hopes to work closely
with Spanish speaking communities there while this while this time
to train for football, we limited Lions is excited for
the opportunity to fully immerse himself in the faith. I'm
very excited to take a step back, grab myself and
realize it's all God's plan. Ultimately, football is a big
part of my life, but my relationship with my heavenly
father is most important. So he didn't say like, like,
I'm going to be interested with Michigan. This was a
not necessarily hit piece, but this is a piece that
he Hey, now that Michigan has these guys, are you
open to being re recruited after your mission? These are
the side type of questions that will be asked because
of his LDS affiliation, And he really just kept it
somewhat open ended. I don't think he as you mentioned, like,
I don't think he was like, oh, this is this
is something that I'm definitely interested. And he says it's
a little bit of clickbait. It's a little bit of
a what do they call engagement, not rage engagement, but
like not rage bait. It's more so, you know, kind
of a click engagement type of thing. So I think
it's of intrigue. Look, he's right in the sense that
anything can happen after you never know what can happen Klannie,
like I think he talks about in this interview, like
Colonie almost went to Penn State, so like literally anything
can happen. Sure, yeah, but I think he wants to
be a part of Cougar Blue and b Yu I agree, so,
But I just I do think it's a little odd
the thing.
Speaker 5: There's I think person only there's something going on between
him and Rivals. I don't know what it is. I
don't know who started it. But you look at this,
you look at someone at Rivals. I can't remember the
name of the individual, but he said, oh yeah, rder
Lions isn't going to be signing today on signing day
with everybody else.
Speaker 1: Two hours later, rider Line signs. We go back to
the summer.
Speaker 5: Where as soon as he committed to BYU, it seems
like he lost the star that. I don't know if
there's anything going on, but I just look at the
interaction back and forth and it just seems a little
odd to me. But to your point, ryder Lions said,
he didn't say anything weird, anything that he shouldn't said.
He literally exists in the world that we live in,
which is anything that can happen, and he gave very smart, adult,
real world.
Speaker 1: Answers to me. If you want to play chess with
Rivals or twenty four to seven, you just say, yeah,
my recruitment's open, and then all of a sudden you
get that fifth star because Michigan offered. Ah, yeah, there
it is, so if you want to play that game,
you can. You're like, oh, yeah, well, we don't know
what's going to happen after the mission because of all
the dominoes my recruitment, and you're like, oh, yeah, Michigan
wire the offer. I'd be interested. The Michigan offer comes,
and then all of a sudden, five star. I guess
we should bump them up to a five star. Guys, right,
I mean, he got a five star offer from Michigan,
so he deserves that fifth star. Twenty four seven bumps him,
Rivals on three bumps them, and lo, behold, b why
you gets their five star quarterback rather than their four
star quarterback? If you want to play the game, the
polz look, I respect the game, you know what I mean.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. I got my
dudes here side by side. We broke news right off
the bat right per per rider Lines himself. He stated,
what do you say to you? He said, clickbait? Go
Kog's clickbait, Go Coog. So be of good cheer, Cougar Nation,
be of good cheer. All is well in Giant or
is it cougarnation? Because you lost your DC, you lost
your Susan Haco, you lost your cornerbacks coach? Do you
how you feeling about your Cougar football team? Will tail
bend all the Nickson and Granny's all the news you
know it's coming out of Brigham in this show. We're
gonna welcome in a number of individuals to our show today.
Jonathan Tabinario four to thirty, Aaron Torres, Uh, college football,
college basketball inside and bring up at five thirty. Uh,
We're gonna get into a ton of sound, ton of commentary.
We're getting into the BAU basketball game as well, that
occurred over the weekend. But I really want to talk
coaching staff and I want to highlight that throughout the show.
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you blame? Let me start off with this polo day. Okay.
The reason why we bring this up, like sometimes we
give credit like Jack Golky. We love Jack Jack Jack
Jack Golki. What did he do? Ky? He took the
world by storm in an NC Double A tournament versus
Coach Cal and the Kentucky Wildcats, and he had a
gimmer for debt like performance in March Madness and started
the first Domino. Coach Cal ends up getting criticized. He's
a one and done. He has too many one and
dons as players, and he has too many one and
dons in the NC DOUBLEA tournament. He says, you know,
I'm gonna take my talent, so I'm gonna go to
the transport. I'm going to University of Arkansas, but they're
gonna pay me pretty and I'm not in a glass bowl.
I'm not in a fish bowl. I'm not gonna just
sit here and get criticize year and the you out
for doing a great job. Anyway, he moves on Kentucky
swings and misses on some of the high high profile coaches.
They end up going after Mark Pope, an alum that
is supported by alums and some power brokers there, and
he hasn't done so well. It hasn't been good. The
last I mean, last year is okay. Last year, I
think they did okay, and then they get to the
sweet sixteen around to thirty two, if I'm not mistaken anyway,
this year it's been a little bit more tumultuous trials
and tribulations about anyway, I digress. But that started the
domino effect. You lost Mark Pope and you thought all
was not well. In Cougar Country, Bison, Shane or Shane Reeves,
Keith King execute at a high level with an expeditious nature.
They get it done literally within like three or four days.
Announcing that k Y is coming to town, Kevin Young
is coming to town. And then he built a robust staff,
an NBA like staff, one of the most well re
source staff staffs in the country, with the Phoenix and
nutritionist Milwaukee blocks, strength, the additioning coach, all of the things,
with great college and professional experience. They went out and
got aged about all the things. Right, we give credit there.
Now you're talking about blaming people for the chaos, and
you're wondering will it get better? Are we gonna be
thinking Haron Moore? Are we gonna be thanking Mark Harlan?
Are we gonna be thanking Kyle Whittingham when the dust settles?
Are we gonna get into the blame game of like, ah,
they made us worse, they didn't make us better. What
do you make of it? Yeah? I mean number one
point of blaming Sharon Moore?
Speaker 5: Right, Like, I don't think I don't think there's a
there's it's no one else's fault other than Sharon Moore.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you want.
Speaker 5: I don't even really want to blame the assistant. I
just want to blame Charon Moore for being an idiot.
He's at fault number one. I want to blame Utah
a little bit for not just letting Kyle stick around
for another year, depending on what reports you believe. But
I just don't know else why Kyle would have gone
somewhere else to coach, So I do blame. Plus he
just feels good To blame Utah feels cathartic, even if
it's not true, like, it just feels good. So I'd
like to blame Mark Carlin and the University of VIEWSA
for pushing or I guess I shouldn't say that for
allegedly not wanting Kyle to come back for the other year,
because if Kyle is it. First of all, if Sharon
Moore thinks with the right head, he doesn't get fired,
that job's and never open. But let's say he still does.
If Kyle doesn't leave Utah, Jay Hill doesn't go with him,
and therefore Gennaro doesn't go with him. So number one,
the person at fault is Sharon Moore. However, he could
probably plead insanity on that case because he just is
a little not making totally reasonable decisions. So if you
want to blame someone reasonable, you could blame.
Speaker 1: Kyle winning him. Yeah, I mean I put it on
I put it the feet, I put it on the shoulders,
of Sharon More, he started the tumultuous domino effect that
has impacted our great state. But you know, I wonder
I put it mostly on Shrum right. Yeah, Mark Carlin
probably could have handled this a bit better, no doubt.
But how long has Morgan scally been waiting for his opportunity?
Like as soon as.
Speaker 5: They for telling him that it was his job to have?
Did you tell him too early? Because maybe you thought
Kyle was gonna be gone a lot sooner than he was.
And now you're sitting there because look, I understand everyone
making the point saying, oh, well, Morgan Scalley's the coaching waiting.
Whose fault is that though you told him way too
long ago that it was his job to have?
Speaker 1: So now the chicken has come to roost. Yeah, and
that could be a Kyle Winningham issue. I mean I
think it was a made official I want to say,
roughly around. I mean, we knew about this through like
COVID because remember when when Scalley gotten hot water for
certain verbiage lexicon utilized right, and he was the head
coach in waiting, but that was rescinded during that probationary period,
but he got it back he earned it back through
merit on the football field, so he got it back.
So we've known about this for I mean five plus
years that he was the head coach and waiting. Who's
false that, right, It's not our fault.
Speaker 5: It's like you can't sit there as a utah and
be like, well, he knew he was gonna get the job,
yet nobody told him or nobody told you that. You
had to give that to him if you were, I mean, like,
either stand on business and say we think he's the
best decision and that's why we want him.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's people who are saying that.
Speaker 5: But the only reason he felt, hey, this is my
job and if I don't get it, I'm gonna leave
is because you told him.
Speaker 1: That was the case.
Speaker 5: You can't tell the kids they can have ice cream
for dinner, and when your mom your wife comes home
and says we're not doing.
Speaker 1: That, it's your fault.
Speaker 5: You told him they could have ice cream for dinner,
knowing that was a poor chase to make in.
Speaker 1: The first place. Gary Anderson hopped onto a state a
radio station here locally, and he said, in a tongue
in cheek manner, you know essentially, Oh, you know, I
guess everyone can you know, be mad and angry and
blame Kyle Whittingham for doing all of this? Right? My
question is this, and this is my statement as I've
delved into the data and guess what I think. Brandon Gurny.
Brandon Gurney and I discussed this, I want to say
two two and a half three months ago, probably when
the defense was really starting on the rise, and we
may have broached this subject on the show together as well.
But he was giving all the credit to Jay, and
that's what a lot of the fans were doing. I'm like, dude, Yeah,
of course you got to give a lot of credits.
He's the assistant head coach of the DC. He's a
great recruiter. I think he's got a holistic skill set
that allows him to do a lot of great things
for any football program, including BYU over the last couple
of years. But in twenty twenty three when he took over, Okay,
the defense wasn't that good. Twenty twenty three, it was okay,
twenty twenty four, elevated top twenty five, twenty twenty five,
it was about the same as it was that You're
priborly about top twenty five. You could say the red
zone defensive efficiency efficiency was better. Takeaways were good as well.
So but you know that there's a corollary data point
here that everyone skips, and I go back to when
Jay Hill was a head coach at Weaver State, when
he was still operating and managing also the defense. The
first few three or four years they were okay. You
know when they elevated their defensive play when Gary Anderson
became an analyst at Weaver State. Those two years best
defensive units at Weaver say look it up, Google it. Okay,
those final two years when Gary was an analyst for
Weber and Jay, they were great. Guess who Jay didn't
have in twenty twenty three, did not have Ga the
general authority of BYU's defense, right, Okay, he didn't have Gary.
What did he do immediately in twenty twenty four? Hired Gary?
Hired Gary when they had a down year. Look like
I remember when if you look at that twenty twenty
three BYU football season, right, twenty twenty two BYU fans
just were up in arms. They hated Elisa, they hated Dad.
They want to get rid of them, Okay, it is
what it is. You know, they had some good defenses,
they had some bad defenses. The bend but don't break
philosophy didn't work well enough for BYU fans. But twenty
twenty three wasn't significantly better than I would say twenty
twenty two. Maybe a little bit like but you gave
up you know, thirty one to Arkansas, You gave up
thirty eight against Some of it was on the offense.
You have some defensive touchdowns. He gave up twenty seven
to Sincy. You gave up forty four to TCU, You
gave up thirty five to Texas, You gave up thirty
seven to West Virginia, you gave up forty five to
Iowa State, you gave up thirty one to Oklahoma, and
you gave up thirty or forty to Oklahoma State. That
is not a good defense. And I know the offense
struggle a little bit running the ball and all those things,
et cetera. But it wasn't a great defense by any means. Okay,
So when I'm I remember making the statement, I was
like fire to Iyaki after like one of these games,
and like BA fans just were like pissed. They like,
don't do not you know, But I'm like, dude, the
defense that didn't really improve all that much year one.
That's fine. You're only as good as the people you
surround yourself with, and you do need well resource, you
need good is Ky why in and of himself good
enough to coach an elite college basketball team? I don't
think so. I think he needs this staff. I think
he needs him Fanning. I think he needs you know,
Craig Manning on the mental performance. I think he needs
his son's nutrition is I think he needs to the
developmental piece. He needs to be able to pitch. This
is every time such point is NBA. Well, Jay Hill
went out and got Chad k got you know, he's
got Kelly, He's got he's got Gary Anderson. Why wouldn't
you want to come and get coached up in this
defensive front. Okay, we were really good stopping the run.
We were really good, and obviously Gennar was very impactful too,
and that that's the reason why Jay took Gennar with him.
So that'll be a big gap you got to fill.
But Jay's only as good as his supported cast, is
what I'm getting at. And without Gary the g a
right the general authority of the BYU defense. Going forward,
he's gonna be a senior analyst. He's being retained. I
don't know if he's as good as he's uh as
he was the last two years at b YU. I
think Ga is a huge pivotal piece, and I think
all the coaches deserve a lot of credit. Kelly Papinga, Justinetta.
Both those guys have coordinating experience. It was the the
collective sum of talents within that coaching staff room, and
that's why I think we're gonna be okay. I think
we're gonna be good. Will we will we improve from
last year to be determined. I feel pretty confident that
people you can be just as good as they were
this these last two seasons.
Speaker 5: Though it almost makes you wonder if Ga is like
the mastermind puppeteer without the title, where he's like, look,
I'm gonna be the defensive coordinator, but I only want
to come into work for X amount of hours a week.
You guys do all the work while I'm not here,
and then when I get in, I'll give you guys
lots of things to work on.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But when you tell that story and you kind
of give the anecdote of Jay Hill with and without Gary,
and how much better everything is when Gary is in
and we know like he enjoys where he's at in
life right now, gets to kind of spend time doing
what he wants, hang out with the grandkids. I almost
wonder if it's like he has enough knowledge in his
own brain to just kind of disperse to everybody, here's
what's going down.
Speaker 1: You guys, take care of this.
Speaker 5: I'll be back tomorrow for my three hours however long
he comes in for. I wonder if he's almost the
mastermind puppeteer behind this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Hey, all I'm saying is that you got to give
credit to everyone involved whoever. That next DC is okay,
And it looks like obviously Jennaral wasn't offered the DC
job or else he probably would have stayed right. Okay,
he was the passing game coordinator. He had been elevated
by whom Jay Hill, and so that was a pivotal piece.
And you understand why Gennar was highlighting the Baylor game,
as you know, in that final call to seal the
pick in twenty twenty four on the Road Crew, Wakeley
ends up picking it off, but it was a great
coverage call from Jennar, so he was elevated and kudos Jennaro.
He I thought we should have done everything in our
power to retain him. But Kalani, you know, is probably
given the DC the defensive coordinating duties to somebody else,
or he maybe if he maybe said, hey, you're gonna
be a co coordinator. If he said hey, you're gonna
be a co coordinator and you're gonna be under GA
and he's you know, he's gonna be that senior analyst,
you know, but like you're not gonna have the defense
coordinating role as your title. Then he's like, oh, well,
I'm gonna go to Michigan and I'm gonna hitch my
car my wagon. Okay, two to Jay Hill, which is
not a bad play. I don't think there's a bad
decision here for for Gennaro, and so I'm intrigued as
to where BYU goes forward with their DC higher. I
think it it's most likely gonna be I think I
think it's most likely Kelly Papingka. I think he's got
co coordinator. Uh experience, and he's next man up. If
you look at the best overall unit, okay, offense, defense
and special teams over the last three years, what's been
year over year the best unit per espnsp plosity? You
think linebackers, well overall unit, offense, defense or special teams? Oh, sorry, Sory, Sorry,
I kind of want to say special team. I'll give
it to you. I'll give it to you on the
flip side. And that's who has been operating, you know,
Kelly Popinga. You can make an argument for the defense,
you can make an argument for the special teams unit,
and even over the last two years, the offense has
been much improved. But what's been the best on average unit?
There's a fierce competition between special teams and defense. We'll
elaborate on it next, but give me your thoughts, cougarnation
is does Garry Anderson maybe deserve a little bit of
credit here? How we optimistic are you about the future
with Gary being retained and if Kelly Papinga becomes the DC.
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It's spinning all of us Right round, baby, right round?
Speaker 5: Do you like it?
Speaker 1: Do you do you like it? Do you love it?
Do you hate it? Do you mech it? Well? How
do you feel about the new college football world? Brett
always bringing the hammer because the numbers would say, the
numbers would say, it's uh, it's been better for the sport.
Because I compare it to look. I feel like the
ladies in our lives. They love what they love reality TV.
They love the soap operas. This is our soap opera,
This is all our reality TV show. This is our entertainment.
This is our guilty pleasure. It is sports, and it
is the chaos and the drama that ensues through sports. Right,
So like, do you like it? Do you hate it?
Do you love it? DM? Mech it I you know
the mech is like, eh, eh, how do you feel
about it?
Speaker 5: I will disclose to the people in high school. I
was roped into, uh getting into the Bachelor, and I
wish I could say. I wish I could say I
didn't enjoy it. I wish I could stand on this
is at a but I did enjoy it. And I
will say, like I've been saying for years, sports is
just reality television for men.
Speaker 1: I mean literally we.
Speaker 5: Have hard knocks. Hard knocks is literally reality television. I
do think it sucks living in an era where you
don't have a lot of continuity. That's I think the
only place where I really have issue with this, because
like nobody has any issue with free agency in the NFL.
We don't have an issue when Devontae Adams goes from
the Jets to the Rant or where like, we don't
have issue with that. What we have issue with is
that every year it feels like our college team is
the difference is different, and.
Speaker 1: People are more.
Speaker 5: Manipulated by money than it feels like people are at
a normal professional level. And I think part of that
is just because a lot of this is more public,
Like you don't know all the different companies that your
buddy is interviewing at and things like that, and so
when you see things like Sam Levitt and how crazy
that story is getting and he apparently is heading to
the transfer portal like three weeks before the season ends,
and then is hold up one sec.
Speaker 1: Are you able to hear Brett Hammer? Ronnie? Uh? We're
just getting some feedback from from some and saying they
couldn't hear him. So what do you got for me?
You got me Ronnie? Yeah, okay, you can hear it. Okay,
all right, see we'll see if that fix it. See
if there's an issue there still from some of our listeners. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: I just think that the what's hard about it is
we see a lot of issues that are similar to
this in the real world, but we don't have all
the knowledge that we have when it comes to sports.
So like we know, oh, Sam Levin took a visit
to this place, and now he's taking a visit to LSU,
and lots of people thought he was done at Kentucky
and apparently he's not. And then his brother's posting on
his Instagram story that nothing Pete Naco says is true,
and then it turns out that it is true. I
gotta be honest with you. From a media standpoint, I
find it a lot more fun, man. It gives us
a lot more to talk about. There's a lot more
chaos involved, and so from that standpoint, I get it.
But as far as being a fan of a team goes,
it does suck knowing that at any point some donor
from another university could steal one of your top players.
Speaker 1: I think if we're sitting here.
Speaker 5: On Monday morning finding out that fall Teles going to
another school, I don't think I maybe feel as good
as I do right now.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 5: I do understand the people who feel as though NIL
has ruined the sport.
Speaker 1: I don't know that.
Speaker 5: I'd say Nil has ruined the sport. I'd say we
open Pandora's box and we haven't found a good way
to funnel it yet. Because obviously we all agree players
should get paid. The problem is we still don't have
a really good uniform collective bargaining way of dealing with it,
and you have guys who take money and then go
to another school before they've really lived up to their contract.
I don't know how we get contracts in the college
football when it comes to players. As soon as we
figure that out, then I think this narrative about Nill
ruin the sport, I think that really takes a dive.
Speaker 1: Who's in the College Football Playoff Final four right now?
And how many times have those teams been involved in
any sort of BCS championship or high level bowl game
over the last twenty years? Who Oregon, Indiana and ole Miss?
And who's the fourth one? Oh, Miami?
Speaker 5: Well Miami, yeah, but ole Miss not really, I mean
in Miami not for twenty something years. Indiana definitely know,
one of the losingest programs in the history of the sport.
And then Oregon like they've always been a great program,
but they were never running to national titles.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I say it's fifty fifty percent new money,
fifty percent old money, legacy money, generational money. Does that
make sense? We all know Miami went out and bought
a a brand, or rather a football team and and
a coaching staff. They built, they built a they they
had They've always had a pretty good brand. They've had
a pretty good brand. But they went out and bought
a football team along with their well resourced coaching staff.
They picked off. Remember Crystal Ball from Oregon. Isn't that crazy?
That's where crystal Ball was at. It's kind of like
this Lane Kiffin situation where he's going to LSU and
he very well could bring LSU into the College Football
Championship next year, right, but like Ole Misses over here, like, hey,
guess what, like we're we're we could be in the
national Championship as well this year without our entire offensive staff. Anyway,
That's how I know this is working because Indiana and
and and you know, new Money is essentially in it.
Ole Miss in Indiana, Ole Miss is I've been a
respected program, I think for the most part, but they
this this is New Heights. Respected, yes, but they're a
nice little SEC program. Yeah, that's it. Indiana has on
ten games like once over the last fifty years before
signety So to me, that tells you that this is
a good thing for the sport. Agreed right now? Will
it be long term? Depending? I mean Texas Tech, their
new money. They're new new kid on the block. They
got ousted. It was disappointed. I hate it, but they
went out and got their quarterback from Cincinnati. They're gonna
be probably pretty good this next season. Anyway, I think
it's a good thing. I think it's a good thing
for the sport. I think obviously it's entertainment. It's chaos.
You know who hates it the most, probably coaches put
the Alabamas of the world, the Notre Dames of the world,
the teams that were cheating for a long time with
bag men or had their systemic processes down to where
they were able to aggregate and conglomerate talent and retain
talent and then win championships off of that. They're pissed,
like they fallen from from the pettis the sec is.
So they're punching air right now because everyone knows the
truth of the matter about the sec everybody knows now
the truth has set us free.
Speaker 5: Ed.
Speaker 1: Ordron went on to busting with the boys, said, look,
I could coach in this round.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: All I need is the bagman coming through the front door. Now,
then the back door to the back door, like me,
come on. Everybody knows the truth. You were cheating over
the last fifty years, especially over the last thirty Your
brand equity SEC was built off of cheating, cheating, And
now all they want to do is just play each other.
And we're just gonna play each other because we have
such a robust strength to schedule. Right, it's a cutlet
here in the SEC wrong anyway, crazy times. Now, I
wanted to give you some data points, I promised them
I will give them unto you. So on average, has
the offense, defense or special teams unit been the best
year of here since twenty twenty three, since Kilane brought
in essentially a new staff defensively and offensively. Remember Kevin
Gilbride was was added I think in twenty twenty four,
as it was TJ. Woods twenty twenty three was still
funk as well as coach Clark and so A Rod
got to boost it a little bit in twenty twenty four.
So it's hard to like grade out twenty twenty three
because I don't think the offense was getting as well
resourced and as much coaching talent allocated to them as
they should have. But what do you think's who's been better? Right, offense,
defense or special teams. I think I don't know this.
Speaker 5: We didn't have this conversation pre show, but I think
you're trying to prove a narrative and my and so
I think my guess truly, I think I want to
rock with special teams.
Speaker 1: I think that's the answer that I want to go with.
It's close. Like I said, dude, you compare the like,
let's just go with twenty twenty three. For instance, at
the end of the season, BYU was not a great team,
but they were decent, right, I mean they almost knocked
off two top ten teams Oklahoma Oklahoma State. That special
teams unit was ranked eleventh in the country. The offense
was seventy fifth, and the defense was ninety fourth. Twenty
twenty three pretty bad, huh yeah, pretty atrocious. Not good, Bob,
not good at all. We saw improvement in two thousand,
twenty twenty four, right, And this is what happened. BYU
became a top twenty five team. Collectively great finish, overachieved.
They ended up seventeenth in s p plus, their offense
thirty sixth, their defense twenty first, and guess where the
special team's unit was fourth? Wow? Fourth in the nation,
fourth in the nation. Okay, so you begin to see
the pitcher here. You can begin to see, you know,
what went on over the last three years. Now, the
special teams took a dip this year, right, took a
little bit of a dip. Where did they end up though,
and was it as bad as what the defense or
offense was in the last few years. Offense was twenty fourth,
defense was twenty third, Special teams was forty seventh. So
even if you combine all those, right, okay, you can
see how how the defense and special teams are probably
pretty combative. But you tend to lean towards the special
teams unit just a little bit because they were so
elite eleventh and fourth in twenty twenty three and twenty
twenty four. Without the special teams in twenty twenty three,
we probably would have been a three win four win team.
It would have been that bad. It was bad. They
took a dip this year. Why did the special teams
take a dip in twenty twenty five? I mean b
Yu was in good field goal position, like will I
think there was a there was a combo. It's like, okay,
how was the long snap how's the hold? How was
the kick there? You saw a little bit of a
drop off. Parker muffs some punts. Wasn't as explosive there?
You lost Keelan in the trans report. Yeah, you probably
we probably should have paid up to keep keeling because
we look at him, look at how well he's done
there in Miami. He's a good player, not only at BYU,
he's a good player at Miami, a final four team
in the College Football Playoff. So we probably should have
uped the andy a little bit and then maybe allocated
what we needed to in order to retain him. But
you know, forty seventh is not bad. It's above average, right,
But you had two elite seasons. So that's what I'm
getting at here. If Kelly Popinga becomes the defensive coordinator,
can he do what he did with special teams on
the defensive side of the ball, especially with Gary Anderson
being retained too.
Speaker 5: And if I'm not mistaken, Kelly does work with the
edge rushers as well, Yes he does. He's not just
the guy in charge of special teams. He does work
with the defense as well.
Speaker 1: So I don't know he's the special teams coordinator though.
The last three years, right, all right?
Speaker 5: But yes, I'd like to say yes, and I do
think he should be in the running for the defensive
coordinator position. But I also wonder, and I don't know
the answer to this question, because I think you can
make the case either way, But do you make the
case and say, hey, we're a P four institution now,
we don't just have to hire the BYU guy. And
I'm not saying Kelly doesn't deserve the I'm just saying
Alabama when they need to do DC, they don't just say, oh, well,
we'll just hire the internal guy. They say we're gonna
go out and get the best candidate. And so for me,
I really like Kelly. I think he could be great.
I just don't want it to be Kelly is the
option because he's the only option. And so but on
top of all that, you look at the number of
special teams wise, those numbers speak for themselves. So I
do think there's a lot of potential. I will say
I really like the way that Kelly looks at the game.
I remember we did an interview with him once when
I worked at Sports Nation, and and and he's talked
about this a little bit since. But he said, we
don't necessarily track, like sacks are not the most important
thing to us. He said, the most important thing. I
think he called it. They called it havoc plays, I
think is what they called where, Yes, havoc rate, That's
exactly what it was. And where he So he's not
sitting there saying, oh, well, we didn't get a sack,
so that was a failing. He's like, no, we're worried
about did we create pressure, did we create chaos? Did
we create havoc? And I really like the way that
K Pop looks at the game, and so I do
think you have the mentality to back it up. You
have the numbers clearly on special teams to back it up.
I think he could do great if he was the
defensive coordinator for BYU, But I also think I want
BYU to get the best defensive coordinator, not just hier
Kelly because he happens.
Speaker 1: To be in house. If that makes sense, Yeah, one
hundred percent. You want an expansive search. You want to like,
but you also like one of the things that could
determine roster attrition, YEP is not implementing the same defensive scheme.
So if you brought in Justin Wilcox, you brought in
Tony Wite, you brought in Kwakowski from Texas, any one
of these guys. You want to bring in Danny Gonzalez
from U of A because you can pay him more,
You're gonna change your scheme. You want to bring in
Bronco in and all. You gonna change your scheme. You
get to change your scheme and you run some risks
that way. You run the risk of losing players because
of that. So does does follow town want to play
in the same scheme. Yeah, Well, there's two places that
are doing this particular scheme this particular way. It's b
YU or Michigan. Those are two options, right. So, if
you're trying to retain guys and build on continuity and culture,
you went out and you retain Gary as a senior analyst.
You could give the play. You could have give the
play called Duties to Jen r. You didn't and at
least not not holistically, not completely. So if you give
it to K pop, you know what you're getting if
you go out and get If you if you try
to retain or bring back Gavin Fowler, you retain your
safety room. If you retain Wesley Johnson, who's the GA now?
Has he has he been going out and recruiting? Maybe not,
but Wesley has been there as the GA behind Jennar Guilford.
Maybe he retained Evan Johnson because Evan, I don't think.
I don't know if you can you can confirm this.
I've been looking at social media Ronald and the Three
Man Weaver. Has Evan Johnson been confirmed as a as
a signee? Run it back? As Isaiah Glasker said, let's
run it back yet, Ronald the Three Man Weavi be there, buddy,
I don't know if you stepped away from the mic. Okay, well,
I'll try to multitask on this one and get it
out there. So that's the question, right, I don't I
haven't seen any confirmation from either one of those guys,
but Folatile said, yeah, I'm coming.
Speaker 5: Back, which to me, that's the biggest deal because I
think my personal theory, I think Gennaro and j Hill
love BUYU so much. I don't think either one of
them like if they could have had the prestige frankly
and state at BYU, I think that's what they wanted.
But I think they both understood like dude, Michigan is
one of the best gigs in the entire history of
the sport.
Speaker 1: We gotta go.
Speaker 5: I don't think they tried that hard to take Folatau
because I think they were cool with him being at BYU,
because I think had Jay Hill said the word Folla
Taw would have been gone. And to me, if Folatouse staying,
who is a that as big a j Hill guy
as exists on the planet. If Fala Tause staying, that
tells me that a lot of these guys, defensively are staying.
And the other point that we haven't mentioned why k
pop makes a lot of sense is what's going on
right now. We're in the middle of college football free agency.
We are in the middle of the transfer portal and
the worst thing you could do. We're talking about some
of these risks that you run. You bring in a
new coach who brings in a new scheme, who doesn't
know the system, who doesn't know BYU, who doesn't know
the guys who have been on your transfer portal board
for a while, he may not be able to go
out and get all the same guys because he's not
on the.
Speaker 1: Same game plan with everybody else. And so you're sitting
here in a transfer portal era right now.
Speaker 5: And if it is Telly Pepinga who gets the job,
that makes a ton of sense because he's already on
the same page with everybody as far as it goes
with recruiting guys from the portal.
Speaker 1: So let's get into this. Let me give you a
little maybe let's talk about stat segment or a little
inside report on the flip side. Who are the candidates
to be the next cornerbacks coach and the next safeties coach.
I would lean towards the defense going and I put
it out there. You can look at all my different options.
There's plenty of options, right. But you went out and
got like I said, you retained Gary Anderson, which was
a big retention act. That was a fantastically done effort because,
as reported, Jay Hill was trying to bring two people
specifically Jenal Guilford and Gary Anderson with him. He swung
and he missed on Gary, but he got Gennaro. Congratulations
to him. But by you got him and Gary went
online and talked about this, He's like, I want to
be a great coach, I want to be a great mentor.
I feel like being an analyst is the thing for
me and I want to be a great grandpa. Fills
all of the cups for Gary. Now you have an
option to go out and get a good experience. You
got to go out, and I agree with you. You
got to go find someone that's in the competitive G
six or power for landscape to bring in that's familiar
with the region and recruiting at that cornerback spot, typically
a double minority non LDS African American that can recruit
well develop well at that position. And you gotta go
find a safeties coach that can that is also that
fits that mold. So we'll see how it plays out.
But chime in Kugarnation, how do you feel do you
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I want to talk about an interesting stat now. I
was asking uh Brett always bringing the hammer. He's by
my side as well as Ron of the three man Weaver.
We were discussing some of the topics we want to
broach today and a couple of stats I want to
bring up are football related and basketball related. First and foremost,
let me talk to you about most watch bowl games
on the ESPN networks. Non CFP balls on ESPN networks
are up thirteen percent year over year through December twenty seven,
twenty twenty five. Okay, the Pop Tards Bowl, the bowl
game that no one supposedly wanted to watch, that was unimportant,
not entertaining, and that ultimately led to Notre Dame the
quitting Irish to say, you know what, we're good, We're
just gonna sit this one out. Received eight point seven
million eyeballs eight point actually it's twice that seventeen million eyeballs.
We're watching that game. Eight point seven million viewers. That
was the top non CFP NY six Bowl since two
thousand and nineteen. Twenty twenty Citrus Bowl. That's the best
since nineteen ninety one. Pretty crazy to see that stat.
Pop tars Ball is becoming the best non CFP ball
in college football. Alimo ball was it was last year?
How many? I think? Was it? Nine point three million?
In the Alimo Bowl last year with BYU and Prime
going head to head BYU versus Colorado, so back to
back seasons. Now BYU has been a part of the
most viewed college football game outside of a college football
playoff game. Do you know who played in that Citrus Bowl?
By the way, I don't know. Two of the biggest
brands in the history of the sport. Wow, Michigan Bama. Wow.
I mean that's like good, that's a national championship matchup
right there. Obviously it was brand base game.
Speaker 5: But when you're when you have Georgia Tech and BYU
doing the biggest thing since that, that's pretty insane, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it. It is pretty insane. So it just
feels good, Like, I mean, what does this mean for
BYU as a brand, BYU as an entity, BYU as
a football program. It's on the rise. As Ryder Lions mentioned,
b YU football is on the rise. Now, it's unfortunate
that by you got stiff armed by the oligopol the cartel,
the cabal. And like I said, new Money's it's gonna
be tough to get in unless you're perfect. It just is,
it's gonna be tough to get in. And maybe there
was some sort of bigotry, Maybe there was sort of
you know, X, Y and Z discrimination against BYU this
year because you could make the argument that b YU
should have been over Alabama. You could make the argument
that BOA should have been over Oklahoma, that they should
have been in over to Miami. Right, all these teams
that were you know on the back end, you know,
I know JMU and Tulane, they were the highest ranked
G six conference champions, right, and because the ACC poop
the bed, you know, they got in or two of
them got in, right. I understand all that it's contractual
and they had to go with those teams, but you know,
by you got got ousted unfortunately, and you thought maybe
this was the year to get over the hump. What
makes you believe, though, you know that that BYU can
continue to play at this level this consistently and continue
to maybe overachieve versus their roster because they had the
seventieth best roster in college football this year and by
the way, Indiana behind them, it was like right there,
there's like they were around seventieth two. Indiana is in
the final four right now with the seventieth best roster.
But what makes you believe b why you can get
there again and maybe finally hopefully get over the hump?
Speaker 5: I mean Number one, the recruiting class twenty twenty six
classes crazy yeah, and you add in like guys like
to pool A twins, the tight end class that's coming
in BYU is gonna be okay, definitely Offensively, you know
your quarterback is gonna be next year, which is awesome.
So from and sounds like, I don't think we have
official do we have? I don't know if we have
an official word from LJ, but the reports and the
rumors sound like Lj's coming back. So offensively, you have
no issues, no holdbacks.
Speaker 1: Your only questions are going to be about defense, and
from what we know players wise, outside of Isaiah and
Jack and maybe Schmev, sounds like everybody is coming back.
So really all you you could get Jonathan John, Tomoy
Peu back well, trying to get that juco year.
Speaker 5: Right, so you're not losing. Like there's no real massive
blows to this team on the field. Obviously we've talked
about Gennaro and Jay are gone. But if you believe
that Gary carries enough weight and whoever is gonna be
the next DC fills that spot seamlessly, then it also
almost makes you feel as though, BOI, you can run
it back and do it again next year and frankly,
they are gonna have a game at the beginning of
the season. And look, the biggest point of conversation in
the playoffs every single week this year was what well
Notre Dame loss to so and so, but then Miami
beat Like that could be what happens with BYU next year,
where BYU beats Notre Dame and that's the win.
Speaker 1: That everyone remembers.
Speaker 5: And so if those things all work out and the
defense doesn't even have to net positive, it just nets
zero and stays as is. Given the fact that you're
losing coaches and you're having to bring guys in, that's
gotta make you feel really good about what BYU has
going into next year. And frankly, I think there's parts
of this team that underperformed that still looked really good
and could get even better next year.
Speaker 1: I like where your heads set. I think the sky's
the limit right right now for this bau Cougar football team.
It's all trending in the right direction. And so don't
you know, just take hart Cougar Nation, don't don't be
too down in the dubs. Is it a big to
lose Jay Hill? Isn't a big loss of his Jenner,
no doubt about it. But if BYU is able to
uh to retain Gary Anderson, let's say the DC becomes
h is Kelly Papinga. Let's say they go out and
get Tomorrio warret from Boise State, Okay, who's the special
team's coordinator or quarterbacks coach right there? Tomorrow? Remember he
he was the guy that brought Gennaro into the fold
ed lamb was the head coach tomorrow. Warren was the
defense cordina at SEU, and Jenneral Gilfer was the cornerbacks
coach at SEU Okay, Jennar. Remember Tomorrio became the head
coach at SUU. He struggled a little bit as the
head coach. It's hard to be head coach, h But
as soon as he decided not to be a head coach,
guess we picked him up. Boys to State one of
the best G six programs in college football, and they've
had success in the last few seasons, not only recruiting
but developing high level athletes in that cornerback room. So
and the special team's units had its ups and downs
since Tomorrow's taken taken that group over. But if you
get tomorrow. Let's say you retain Gavin Fowler, you may
be looking pretty good next season. Like the fact that
I have this on good authority. When the Weaver State
defensive coordinating job opened up when Eric Carrett took over
as head coach, good authority that Jay Hill and Gary
and Anderson both called Eric Carrot and said, look, Gavin
did so much for us on the defensive side of
the ball. He's a star in the making. He's gonna
be fantastic for you. You need to hire him as
your DC. I think that speaks to something that's cooking there. Now,
did Jay Hill hire Gavin to be the safety's coach
at Michigan. No, he went out and got co defensive
coordinator at Boise State. You know who's a brother, right,
and so he's got ge and the co defensive coordinator
of Boise State head up to Michigan. That was his
strategic move. It wasn't to get Gavin, So take it
for what it's worth. I do think Boias in a
good spot. Let's go to break, don't go anywhere. Let's
talk some college basketball. On the flipside, BYU basketball got
a nice win on the road that first Roade victory
in the Big Twelve. It took a little bit of grit,
took a little bit of competitive fire and juice. They
had a nice victory, though I wouldn't say it was comfortable,
but it was a great win on the road. It
just feels a little bit better when you're winning on
the road in the Big twelve, big win over Kansas State.
Let's break it down and get into some of the
news and notes coming out of bring them on the
basketball side and get into some sound bites. That segment
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