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Speaker 2: It's time to talk some college basketball on Cougar Sports

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One of the things that we've been discussing this season

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is the brig three, the Big Three, essentially Richie Saunders,

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the Todd King, AJ Debontsa maybe the first overall picking

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this year's NBA draft, and obviously Rob Right the third

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who had himself a bucket. Getting Frenzy versus Texas Tech

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wasn't enough. He dissicated his pinky and had to come

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off and got cooled down a little bit, but hopefully

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he continues to ball out the Big three. Is this

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the best trio in BYU basketball history. We're going to

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discuss it with a former head coach of BYU in

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into the game with former BYU head coach. We got

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Steve Cleveland on the light. Steve, how the heck are you, buddy?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing well. It's a great time of the year

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with who's going on and football is just winding down.

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So there's been a lot of wonderful things to watch

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on the NAL Dissster, Sure I know that. About the

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Big Twelve basketball, this is going to be an awesome year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny like everyone talks about the college football

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SEC Gauntlet, the true gauntlets in the Big twelve Basketball league.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question about that. Absolutely when you started looking.

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When you're you just consider some of the games we've

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recently seen where b YU got a close win against

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UYU at Utah winning a YU comes back d TCU

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by six. There, Texas tenth kind of puts a wokment

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on the Cougars eighty four to seven. You won, And

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every single game you're gonna play in this conference, there's

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gonna be a nail buyer. It doesn't matter what place

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they're in, if you're playing someone on their home court,

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you've really really got to compete, play well, and just

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kind of fight to the end because any team can

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beat anybody here on any given night. That's the cool

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thing about basketball, whereas maybe football methodically you go through

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this process, you're going to see what it's gonna look like.

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But you know, you get into those last five or

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six months of a game where up a few or

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down to you and he maybe down maybe double figures,

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there's always a chance and an opportunity to come back

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and win.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, what do you make of the brig three?

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What was the best trio that you got to coach

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at b YU. I mean, he had some squads, you know,

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mckelly Wesley was pretty nice with his crew, Terrell the day.

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Speaker 3: I think it was like you had Hopa.

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Speaker 2: Travis Hansen, and I would say big Alow.

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Speaker 3: That was a pretty good trio.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, there's no question. You know you started looking

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at Popa, who was just a beast himself coming out

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of the junior college and then having a huge impact

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in the program. You got to go back to m

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kelly Westway and Torell a Day because I'm not even

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knowing Travis Answer and Mark Biglow because they were they

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sustained this thing long term. But when you looked at

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coming off a one win season and what mkelly and

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and fighting through it, and then you put it into

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the hands of Ratha and Travis and Mark Biglow and

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all of a sudden, you're able to sustain something over

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eight years. And then it continued to be sustained by

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you know, Coach Rose and Coach Pope and you know,

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and everything that's going on with Kevin Young these days.

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So it's been fun to watch and it's been fun

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to watch it and also be a part of it.

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Speaker 3: So who would be the third there?

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Speaker 2: Was it Trent Whiting behind m Kelly Tolla Day and

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Speaker 3: A third right?

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Speaker 4: I would say I would say it was Trent because

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you know, it's interesting, Trent didn't play a whole lot

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but he had a huge impact in big games. And

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it's not to take anything away from Kelly and Trell,

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but Trent came in there and had some big games

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and really had an impact on the program. And then

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when they're done, as we mentioned before, you have Travis Stephane,

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in and really sustained it and took it to another level.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an underrated trio man. And look Terrell to day.

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Speaker 2: Not many BYU fans remember how good Terrell day the

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Day was and how good he was overseas. He he

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had a long and llustrious career overseas.

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Speaker 4: Oh he did have a sixteen seventeen years. Yeah, and

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he's you know, the thing is I hain't coached him

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obviously at a couple of different levels, and but I

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just think the one thing about there was such a

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fact especially with mcklly and Terrell, where you know, I've

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got some great images and you know, a book that

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I just recently released called Touch all the Lines, one

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of my favorite photos is nets over Terrell in m

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kelly and uh with their taps on winning About West

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Conference championship, and it's just, you know, it really really

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makes me. I got so much respect for what they

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had to overcome. And I'm not taking anything away from

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Travis and Mark and others had stepped in them offa

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that sustained it. But what mcklly and Terrell did was

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pretty special. And I mentioned before that I just recently

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read the book. And when I was going through the book,

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I stopped and because you kind of when you write something,

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you kind of forget, well, let's din and all of

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a sudden I picked that day and then all of

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a sudden, I saw Charrell mkelly and that's over her

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head and winning a championship. That that was the foundation

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of where this program has gone to the Neil novels

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and great coaches and big time basketball love it.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to get your thoughts on this current by

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U basketball team. Obviously, Uh, they they're playing great basketball,

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doing great things. What's been the most like what has

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stood out to you through Now we're almost we're getting

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into three fourths of the season, now getting close to

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March Madness.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think a J. Davatsa. You know he he

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he speaks for himself. Everybody knows you he is. He's

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not going to be the first set He'll be the

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first or second pick in the NBA. Spending on what

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people need. And when I watched this young man play selfless, uh,

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kind good teammates, amazing teammate. You know, all this attention

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on him in the whole world watching him, He's not

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lost his composure. He hasn't he hasn't gotten a big

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hit about anything. He is a great teammate. And when

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you take a young man like that, who you know,

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everybody kind of knows he's a one and done, he's

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going out. But then you have a senior, Richie Saunders,

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who has done incredible things averaging nineteen five and two

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and really is the foundation of that team. And then

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maybe the most surprising thing for me personally was seen

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just the Rob Wright influence on this team, and they

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needed a point guard and he steps in as the

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sixty three sophomore averages eighteen four and five and has

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become the leader of this team, has made some big

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shots and has really been the cohesion part of this team.

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aj riche an't going to be with the next year.

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the market himself in terms of, yeah, he want what

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he looks like in the NBA. That would be a

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I have no doubt that Kevin Young can replace and

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still and do whatever he has to do following me

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this year. But to lose all three of them, that's

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that's a lot of experience. And I have no I

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have no insight information. Uh we know Richie and Hey

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j are gone. Where the Rob is? Uh Eritana Tim

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you've got some younger guys. But they're kind of all

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the guys and have five sixty seven points per game.

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they understand that A J and Miss not going to

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be there for sure. I'm thinking that maybe Rob uh

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will stay and be a part of this thing. He's

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he's just did a great influence on this team. But

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potentially youth the Drews three Stiper star guys, and that's

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hope that doesn't happen. I'm wanting, you know, Rob to

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stick around, and I want to see you know, Davis

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You know, I want to see these guys develop and

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become who they can become. But I do know this,

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if this is a coaching staff at BIU that has

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a pulse. You know, I was reading the bios of

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all of the coaches today and thinking about all over

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the world where these guys that coached have contacts, you know, internationally,

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all over the planet. And I don't doubt for a

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moment that they won't, you know, start this thing right

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back up where they left and they'll fight a lot

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of guys. And hey, one thing about it, when you're

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my assistants going all over the world trying to find

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guys and identify guys, knowing that we have to replace

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some of three good players. So nobody's going to be surprised.

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we won't know the communities where they're from. But this

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is a program with under the Turtles coach out. They'll

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find guys. They've already found guys and del Field And

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that being said, it's never easy to fill in for

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an Aja and Mitchie Samers who have been really, really good,

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and then to see rights development in those three Uh,

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it's been a wonderful, wonderful group of guys to watch playing.

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next six or seven guys are all contributing five, six,

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seven points a game. So uh, but they're gonna they

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are gonna have to replace, there's no question. But let's

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just enjoy what we have. Let's see if this team

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can get to a final four, they will finally to

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whatever it might be. But this is an awfully good

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team coached by amazing coaching staff with lots of experience.

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and the support groups, and specifically about these young men,

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these players. Uh, they've come together. And let's borring any

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any type of injury. Uh, this is a team that

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you can't get to a final form.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If we're to point out one position that it's been

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tough to recruit to BYU over the last you know,

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thirty forty years, and to get high level guard play

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has been difficult, especially at the point guard position, someone

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that's dynamic. I remember you had, you know, Kevin Woodbury,

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a good player. I remember having to I remember going

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to basketball games when I was like a freshman.

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Speaker 3: I think he was a senior in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: I mean, definitely a dynamic athletic dude, came from the

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if we've ever had a guy like Rob right the

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third is what I'm getting at, Like you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I mean, Like, I don't think we've ever

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had a point guard like him.

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Speaker 2: Jim Or was different, he was not the same type

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of player. Rob is completely novel in BA basketball history.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, eighteen games.

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Speaker 2: I mean you can take anybody off the bounds, can

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literally get to any place on the floor with like speed, quickness, agility,

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and physicality.

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Speaker 4: I know if a j Or Solders, if one of

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those players you know had just you know, finished their

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uh the retired of BYU and so you know we're

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going to lose those two. But if that happened earlier

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down the road, you know, right, like, your guy's averaging

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thirty a game and not eighteen. And because he, for me,

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has been the biggest surprise of his team. And it's

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only because I'm not made myself fully aware. I mean,

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I know who Rob Ryant was, and I've rid a

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few things, but not until I started watching him play,

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did I really get a sense and a feel that

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he's gonna be He's the piece that makes this team

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a Final four team, borring injuries and other things. Because

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the coaching staffs elits, the players already lead, the culture

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is elite, and everything is just kind of in order

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to be successful and make a long run in the

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NC two tournament.

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Speaker 2: Steve Cleveland, former b YU head coach doctor said, b

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YU basketball here on your utah is Radio network. As

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we we get down the stretch, what are some key

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things that look this it's been a blessing watching this team, Like,

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it's very difficult to critique anything they're doing.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: You got two losses, one against.

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Speaker 2: Yukon and then one on the road on a neutral

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court technically a.

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Speaker 3: Uh not.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was a home game for Yukon and

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then one on the road to Texas Tech, ranked top fifteen,

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top ten team in Lubbock.

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Speaker 3: So there's not much to complain about.

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Speaker 2: What is it that that is that that baby BYU

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needs to do though, to to become a Final four,

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Elite eight type of team, do what only one other

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team has done in BA basketball history.

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Speaker 4: So hold on to that question for a minute. Okay,

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I'm gonna come right back to me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there's some really good.

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Speaker 4: Stuff there, but I had something on my mind. I

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just want to talk a little bit briefly, because you know,

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most of the fan base, everybody's being the fan base

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knows who Kevin youngs. Yeah, and he had an NBA

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experience in Arizona. I mean, he is a season coach

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around the world internationally in our country. And I started

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looking at Dutch student who's the chief of staff. He's

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dealing with all of the nil He's been at Tulane,

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he's been in Nevada, he's been at Ouria State, he's

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been a Brown, he's been a basketball coach. They're a

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team family. And the associate head coach who's just has

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a complete post on the euro basketball. He's recruited all

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over the world and isn't basically an NBA draft expert.

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He played with mccabie for six years and coached there

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Will White. Another associate head coach in Europe. United States

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the NBA Brandon Dunson Stanford Denver, Fullerton, as U, si U,

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Chris Purchase, who is a by U and UU and

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Indian Hills and Saltwake Community College and played professionally for

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eleven years in Turkey. It was pretty South Korea, Egypt.

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So when you look at this coaching state aff and

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where they've been and what they've done, it's real easy

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for us to give a great deal of credit to

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the recruiters and the development guys that are really working

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with great guys here. But I don't know if there's

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ever been a coaching staff that has been just prepared

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for this moment. And I consider Dave roh is one

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of the all time Hall of Fame coaches and I

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spent a lot of time with him, but there wasn't

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the kind of support that we have now. Well, we're

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bringing guys in and just back then in those days,

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you weren't. You weren't bringing in players from all the

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world internationally, and it is it's just a different climate

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and it's a different sense of how we're going to

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go about doing things. So anyway, that's my feeling on

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the coaching staff.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me let me follow up history and let

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me fall up with this, like you know, with this

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coaching staff thing, Like.

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Speaker 3: I brought this up to you.

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Speaker 2: I want to say when the new coaching staff came

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came about right, like right now currently with all the gas,

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all the nutrition is strength and conditioning, It's like it's

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two to one ratio right now, coach to player. Okay,

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I don't know what your ratio was, right, but you

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know you're you're laughing here. It was it was like

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three to fifteen, right. I don't know how many guys

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you had in gas and student assistance you had, but

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like you had to get creative.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we had like five myself and you had

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four assistants, and then you had a personal trainer, and

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you had some guys dealing in the you know, we

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had a great room guy. But you've probably put all

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of our guys together. And you're talking about six seventy

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eight people that are there day to day. I'm not

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talking about trainers and all those people today that numbers

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in the twenties. Yeap, and and God bless them. I

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mean it works, and I love it. And if I'd

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have had that opportunity, I jump out and.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, where is it that

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you needed more help when you're at buy If you

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had it your your way right, if you could have

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executed your vision with some you know, to a certain

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set not unlimited resources internally, but like robust resources. Where

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did you need maybe a little bit more aid in

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support to take maybe BOI basketball to the next level

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at that time, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, probably financially recruiting all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so like a robust recruiting, like a recruiting staff,

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like an internal recruiting staff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you're talking about adding players, and you know,

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and can we mentioned them briefly about all of the

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staff they have and all the experience and you know,

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and all of these assistants have coached and played and

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prepared teams to be the best they can be. And

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so yeah, I think recruiting is the foundation of anything

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you do in all sports from that matter, but certainty

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for basketball, where you know you're depending on eight or

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nine guys and like you know, you're gonna lose aj,

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You're gonna lose Saunders. I think I think makes days.

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I don't know, but at the end of the day,

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all of a sudden, I have confidence in their staff

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that they already have people in place that will come

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in and have an impact. But it's not going to

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be immediately. AJA soldiers a run that little niche that's

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you know, twenty three nineteen and eighteen points a game,

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four or five assists the game, you know, steels. This

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isn't a group that we're just going to throw people

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in there and immediately have what we have. It'll take

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time to develop it. And they're recruiting now and this

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staff is so prepared. We've had so many different experiences.

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I just love being Adam. I love watching them. On

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the other day, I was in a high school game

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and I sat there with Kevin for about fifteen twenty

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minutes and just kind of talking. Not the most bastologists people,

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and we're looking at one of the recruits that's that

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came to high school, and you know, it's just down

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to earth and connected. Is the best board out He

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just this spot is so connected. These coaches are so

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connected to these players. And you're right, we did not

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have those tools and we didn't have the sustainability to

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do what's being happening because you're different, and it doesn't

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mean you can't win. I mean we got we turned

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it around and got success. Dave Rose took this thing

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to new levels and had year in and year out

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at the tournament. But with this group approaches and players.

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You know, we're jumping in that answer to a tournament

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is a piece, but the next piece or two is

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a final. You know, you're the final eight, You're a

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final four. You played for a national championship and that

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was year and that's you know, I don't see that

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changing here as long as they have the youngest year

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of coaching with that staff. Uh, that just wasn't something

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that was plausible at the time. And I give great

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credit for Days because Dave really turned it and got it.

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You can imagine what both of us have said this

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to each other before, which can you imagine having those

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resources and being able to do those things and having

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guys that were so experienced And you know, he Shorter

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was one of my assistants for a couple I mean,

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he's as good a coach as you can find in America.

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He's an athletic director now and is doing great things.

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But today is different. Today it's different, and we had

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good coaches here, we just didn't have the ability to

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sustain it. And especially as you reach out to the

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world and.

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Speaker 2: Recruit coach Steve Cleveland, former head coach b y U Basketball,

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Hopefully this BOU basketball team does something that they'd never done,

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which is get to the final four.

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Speaker 3: They have the most NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 2: Ventures and births and that without getting into a final four.

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Speaker 3: And so this could be the year.

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Speaker 4: I think, Steve, No, there is a door and it's

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it's it's just filling up. And again just talk about

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the experiences of coaching shafts at the international and within

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the main line, all the things that are happening there.

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When you just look at the resumes of just all

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of these coaches and where they've been and what they've done, uh,

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you know, Kevin Young, Gudge Stewart, Tim Fanning, Will Boyd,

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that does Chris Burgess. I mean, go down the road

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and look at what you know. And these guys either

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coach internationally or playing internationally or playing the MBA, and

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it's the pieces are in place. The pieces are in place.

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I realize that injury here or there, anything can happen

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to muddy the waters. But I love I love this team.

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I love the staff, and I love what the coaches

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in the past have done too. But this is with

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different resources and different opportunities than any team that I've known.

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Speaker 2: Here in turn out, Steve, we salute you. We appreciate you.

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Always a blessing talking ball way. You let us know

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if you need anything from us.

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Speaker 4: Guys, thanks so much, love listening to you.

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Speaker 2: Always love chatting with Steve Cleveland and appreciate his time.

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a lot still been to get to Tomorrow and Friday

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and then Bay. You ticking on Utah. I know a

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lot of us are looking at the number one team

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you got to take care of the task an because

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last time somebody tried to ask Kevin Young about a

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team after that he completely ignored him. So so you

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can't talk about Arizona until b what he takes on Utah.

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But I do have to say, I think a week

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off been is good for Bou men's basketball. I think

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it's good for AJ, for the shoulder, for the sickness,

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everything that's going around. Well, you got a sick house.

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I'm starting to get a succ Everybody should be safe.

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do all of it.

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Speaker 3: Trust me.

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Speaker 1: But now I expect a big win on Saturday from

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Bou men's basketball before they have a big week next

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week and not to have hYP probably which two big

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important games that can determine seting in that final four

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run that we think they're capable of.

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Speaker 2: Boom Shaka Laka Ronald three Man. We for Big Kugarota, You,

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Big Congoda Vic Kram, Big Cougaroda Brett always bringing the hammer,

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habit type.

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Speaker 3: Show branded c Currenty joint USh as well.

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Speaker 2: We had a star studded cash and we appreciate everyone

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that showed up showed out today on the show.

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Speaker 3: Guys, we appreciate you. We can't our show without you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning in as always, and we'll be back

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Tomorrow's always here on your Cougar Sports Insider Radio network.

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