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Speaker 1: Let's start off with.
Speaker 5: The sports court with some Power Conference commissioners defending NC
double A red shirt rule in court. So eligibility has
been a point of conversation over the last few years,
whether or not you were a maybe you were a
juco player, right or maybe you played you know, you
had a red shirt or a medical red shirt. And
so this continues as Power Conference commissioners defend the NC
DOUBLEA redshirt rule in court.
Speaker 1: What what's the summary on this one?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So, I mean why is the LGB eligibility rule
an issue?
Speaker 4: Why are we talking about that?
Speaker 7: Well, it's because of the almighty dollar and what's happened
with nil opportunities for athlete.
Speaker 4: So this is an evolving thing going on, and.
Speaker 7: This is regarding the red shirt rule that the NCAA
has And I'm going to focus on one side of it.
On another piece that we're going to do Garrett's going
to talk about the other one.
Speaker 4: But what's going on here is the eligibility that used
to be that you knew band was you.
Speaker 7: Had five years to have your four years of eligibility,
and there were some exceptions to that, like medical red
shirt things that happened in the transfer. We know that
that it became a little more flexible a few years ago,
where they said, hey, if you play four games or less,
you're still eligible to be red shirted even though you played,
or it used to be if you even played one
snap or one quarter of a game, you gave up
your eligibility. Well, now this is an issue in the
courts and the commissioners have all banded together because they
really want to force this predictability on eligibility. And the
arguments that they're throwing out there are a few, and
one of them is they say, you know, first, they're saying, hey,
this is college sports, and eligibility is something unique to it.
This isn't pro sports. We do have eligibili limits. I mean,
if we just kind of gave it no limits to eligibility,
it really would give a really unstable and unpredictable situation.
The other thing that the commissioners are stating that this
is eligibily focused on. I mean, there's been arguments where
you mentioned ben if you were a juco player or something,
but this is kind of they're going at, if you
played D one athletics, basketball or football, you have four
years of eligibility. And here's what I think they're both.
One of the best arguments was and I hadn't thought
about it, but they said to these athletes that are
seeking more eligibility, and you know, based on this red
shirt thing, they've said, by agreeing to the House Settlement,
you agreed to roster limits. One of the big points
of contention and back and forth before the House Settlement
was agreed to by both parties was was roster limits,
and it was a big point of contention.
Speaker 4: But finally it was reached and the commissioners.
Speaker 7: Saying, hey, if you've agreed to these roster limits and oh,
by the way, if you get another year of eligibility,
guess what that does. That takes another player's roster spot away,
whether it's an incoming high school kid who's got excited
and he's ready to get in there and going, or
someone who is transferred and committed to a university. If
that person gets another year, you take away someone else's year.
And the other point is they said, the courts have
looked at this, and they don't want the courts arbitrarily
deciding what eligibility limits are. Courts decide. They did decide
that athletes can benefit from their nil name engine likeness
and that they could get educated education related benefits, but
they don't want the courts jumping in and trying to
address this issue of eligibility because we've seen different courts
are given different rulings on this. So they want some stability.
That's what we all want in the whole thing. But
this is just another area where they're looking for stability.
Speaker 5: Let me get your your opinions on this, right, And
it's this is more of a maybe a macro philosophical
view of collegiate athletics. We have these institutions of higher
learning combined with athletic departments that are behemos, right, one
hundred and fifty million, two hundred million dollars plus organizations
that focus on sport, right, And they say student athlete,
but we all know it's athletes student for the most
of them.
Speaker 1: Especially for football. Men's football, men's.
Speaker 5: Basketball, because of the the eyeballs, the TV, the money,
and just the bandwidth that you can only only have
twenty four hours in a day. So, like you take
the landscape into account and you wonder if you allowed
for these big brands, right the Ohio States, the SEC,
the Big Ten, the Big twelve, these power conferences to
essentially like almost operate as a professional league with a
brand association with the university that's no longer so academically
n C double A connectivity focused and you allow for
elongated uh I guess uh tenure of eligibility? What would
that do for the football product at the jucos, at
the nai A schools, the D two s, the D three's, uh,
the D one Double a'suh, even the the G six programs.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that wouldn't that improve.
Speaker 5: Or give maybe more opportunity for those I just wonder
what the the the socioeconomic and also the product portion, uh,
how that would maybe impact the overall product of of
the still the the the altruistic student athlete component? Does
that make sense where like all these other schools are
still yeah athletics.
Speaker 7: I think players and students at these schools are they're
seen as you know, student athletes.
Speaker 4: I mean they're not getting ANIL deals.
Speaker 7: They're happy to get their their scholarship or whatever. They're
getting to earn a degree and they're not caught up
in this. But you know, as we know happens. You know,
if you perform at one of these schools, guess what
you're jumping into the NIL world and your focus change.
I don't know the answer to this, Ben, I've wondered
about this now that the NIL world's come into there.
What are the academic requirements of a player?
Speaker 4: Do you have minimum requirements?
Speaker 7: I mean you used to hear, oh that so and
so couldn't play because he didn't make grades or she
didn't make grades.
Speaker 4: You never hear that anymore.
Speaker 7: I mean the example you're you're going to hear is
I mean the one locally is aj Debanta. I mean,
he's going to school this semester.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 4: He's not to finish the next semester. He's not even
to finish the next semester.
Speaker 7: Basketball ends and he's gonna You're gonna withdraw from school
and the end of story. So I don't know what
the academic requirements are at you know, not just BYU
all schools, you know, for these players. But it has
changed it and you know, and as you point out,
I think it's most people think it's heading towards a
semi pro model, you know, where there might be a
collective bargain agreement, which in my opinion would be good
because it would give some guardrails and predictive predictability.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Well, it's very intriguing that this is
also anti trust, isn't it like when you say when
you put a when you put a limitation legally on eligibility,
even if so if I'm I'm thirty year old Ben
Krittle and I'm I'm not thirty, I wish I was,
but and I still have you know, I still want
to play football, and I'm enrolled at school. Why can't
I enroll in play football? If someone if I'm good
enough to play football, does that make sense? Like, is
there any anti trust legality that limits me? And can
I go in and try to sue somebody the university
of the NCAA from not allow me to play?
Speaker 7: Well, yeah no, Garrett's going to talk about that in
another story that's pending with five players, But that has
been the claim of all the players that not allowing
me to compete is a violation of anti trust, and
that's how they're getting around this.
Speaker 4: Whole eligibility thing.
Speaker 7: But you know, I mean, okay, so you get a
fifth year of eligibility, Well, someone might go, hey, that
was pretty sweet.
Speaker 4: How about a sixth year? You know, that was pretty sweet.
I was doing pretty well and I I've met a
lot of money.
Speaker 7: The patron saint of this eligibility is Diego Pavia, and
we'll talk about the case that has come on the
heels of that, and he had six years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's follow up. I know you let's talk
about the five players real quick. I know we're gonna
go out out of step here, but let's talk about
the five players run to court seeking injunction to allow
to be allowed to play a fifth year.
Speaker 1: What do you got for me?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure.
Speaker 6: One of the lead plaintiffs in this in this case
is actually one of Diego Pavia's teammates, a linebacker from Vanderbilt,
and so he and five other players have filed this
lawsuit seeking it seeking to be a class action, and
what they're seeking right now is an injunction because we
are at the very tail end of course of the
college football season, and they're trying to wonder if they
can get a fifth year. And so what these players
have in common again a little different than somebody like
a Diego Pavia who played at a you know, like
a D three school or a Juco or something. These guys,
these players all played their full four years in four years, right.
I mean again, as as Preston's mentioned, I mean, you've
got you know, five years to play four. But these
players didn't take a red shirt, right, they didn't. They
played as freshmen and all the way through his seniors,
they've you know, graduated with bachelor's degrees and they want
another year. And so that's that's really what's going on.
They've got the same lawyer, I think is this is
kind of interesting and probably a good strategic move at
this point. But they've got the same lawyer that did
represent Diego Pavia. And again, as we've kind of talked
about already, I mean, they're they're citing that this violates
antitrust laws, right, that they're being prevented from opportunities to
either have that fifth year to you know qualify for
you know, to be seen by some NFL scouts or
you know, up their draft stock or really just to
make more ANIL money. So I think it's really what
a lot of this comes down to.
Speaker 1: Of course, when you.
Speaker 5: Look at all the data, the the the rulings thus far,
like do you lean one direction or the other as
to what the ruling will end up being? And I
mean it may be by state too, right, Like I
don't know if there's going to be a federal ruling
on any of this, because these are all filed within
you know, state law. But any any way that you're
leaning or what you guys are leaning in this, well.
Speaker 6: The way I'm the way I'm leaning on it is
I'd like to see some predictability. I mean, I don't
see how we can't have eligibility rules right in college.
I mean because right, I mean, this is the classic
flippery slope argument. I mean where does it ends? As
we've talked about, I mean, when you finish your master's degree,
can you get a PhD and you're still you know,
you're still enrolled in school? Why can't you play? Yeah?
So yeah, anyway, so yeah, i'd like.
Speaker 1: To but from a legal standpoint, what do you make
of it?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: I think there's a baseline foundational like moral, ethical, uh
even yeah, you know, like pragmatic part of all of us,
Like no, dude, you got five years, like to move on,
go do something else with you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: But then there's been Yeah, from a legal standpoint, Look,
let's let's let's be clear. I mean, the n C
double A has has not had good luck in court
winning anti trust cases, right, and that's what this is.
It's an anti trust case. And so I mean, if
we just look at their track record, it's not good.
So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens.
Speaker 5: Well, great content there, great breakdown. Let's go over to
the suspended sprinter asking second circuit to revive case over
tainted Gatorade gummies.
Speaker 1: What the heck's going on with this one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's kind of a wild story. I mean,
this is this is involving at the time he was
a high school senior, is some I some asinga out
of Texas and he was really an up and coming star,
you know, in one hundred meter dash and also two
hundred meter and he was selected to be the Gatorade
National Player of the Year by Gatorade, a big honor,
and and part of that Gatorade provided them with more
or less some I'm calling it some swag, right, and
and part of this was some Gatorade recovery gummies. And
on the on the packaging, and.
Speaker 4: I think this is all in dispute.
Speaker 6: It on the packaging, it was certified that it was
safe for sport, meaning that it had gone through some
rigorous testing, and that it didn't have any sort of
band performance enhancing substances or drugs in and there's like
two hundred of them that are identified by the World
Doping Anti Doping Agency. And so anyway, he's taking these
gummies and he submits to a drug test and it
comes up with a banned substance called cardine GW one
five six. The trace amounts, right, what the heck is that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 6: I don't even know, honestly, and he didn't know either.
He's going, wait, what is this? And so it starts
going through all of any substances that he's taking, Right,
He's taking melatonin for sleep, and airborne to fight off
a cold, and you know, drink mix or or whatever.
And so he sends in all these substances to the
anti doping lab and they test it and it's the
Gator EIGHTE gummies that come back positive. And so anyway,
he's he filed a lawsuit a couple of years ago.
The lawsuit was dismissed and now it's been appealed to
the Second Circuit Court, and in the meantime, he's fighting
the suspension because I guess what I didn't mention he
was handed down a four year ban in track and field,
and so it's pretty crushing for somebody when you're eighteen
years old at the you know, just about to be
a breakout star. He's gonna head he was going to
run in the Paris Olympics in twenty twenty four for Sirnam.
He had a full right scholarship to scholarship to Texas
A and m a Nike endorsement deal right that potentially
worth millions. I mean, he'd really proven it on the
on the track that he had a promising career and
so he's he a legend this lawsuit that that was
taken from him, and he's suffered a lot of harm
because of it. But you know, there's some real legal
technicalities for why this case was dismissed by the lower
court and now it's on appeal. And it came down
to the fact that he couldn't show that by ingesting
those Gatorade recovery gummies that he'd suffered any physical harm.
But any harm that he'd suffered was really just economic
and refutational, not that sort of harm you know, by
preventing being prevented. And so it's a kind of a
technical legal thing depending on the types of claims that
he that he brought forth in his case. But yeah,
pretty interesting, and there's a whole story, right, we don't
have time to get into it, but about the testing
back and forth of the different lots of Gatorade gummies
and and you know, test coming up positive and negative
and anyway he's.
Speaker 5: Out though, and you wonder, okay, well where are they
manufacturing these?
Speaker 1: What else are they menu? How did the cartering get
in there?
Speaker 5: Because are they also in that same facility producing some
sort of supplements or you know cartering you know element
that somehow was cross pollin, a cross contaminated you have
cross contamination within these you know, so called f the
approved labs that aren't really regulated, many of them probably
aren't regulated. But gatorade should be regular Holy cow it's
a major organization. Anyway, that's crazy, wild and wacky stuff.
You know what's happening there. Let's let's move on a
couple last things before we let you go. Two federal
judges in cases against DraftKings allow Look, gambling has just
taken over. I mean, it's always been a big part
of sport, but now it's really accessible to everybody. But
DraftKings allow allows cases to go forward for on risk
free betting promotion to go forward.
Speaker 1: What's going on here?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so a group of playtiffs become a class that
put together a class. They have sued DraftKings and their
claim is there is claims of fraud, there's claiming that
there is advertisement and ads that claim where Draft Kings.
Speaker 4: Puts out an ad where they said this.
Speaker 7: Is risk free betting, this is no sweat betting, meaning
you have nothing to sweat about. Well, they brought a
lawsuit against him, saying, hey, wait a minute, it wasn't
exactly risk free and right here this I'm like, anytime
you place a bit, Matt, isn't there a.
Speaker 4: Risk involved with it? And you know that. But their
claim was that according.
Speaker 7: To the complaint, I don't know this from the losses
were reimbursed on as site credits that could not be withdrawn,
So I guess they got money that they couldn't access.
They said there was limitation on the credits were disclosed
only in small print within ads or through linked terms
of condition. That was essentially they said that the disclosures
were insufficient for an average consumer, you know, someone who's
just betting and doesn't know what they're doing to understand
the true costs of the participation. Well, the court rules
with them, agreed with them in large they disagreed with
them in large parts, but they did agree with him.
Speaker 4: They said. The judge came back and said, yeah.
Speaker 7: There are critical terms in tiny print and varied links.
They could become deceptive to the advertising, you know, under
state law. And they were relying on this new Jersey statute,
the new Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, and the judge, the
judge basically agreed to him, says, we're gonna allow this
to go forward. And what will happen now is it'll
get into a discovery phase where these plaintiffs, who are
represented by lawyers, will start collecting documentation and be asking questions,
doing depositions. That time to learn about what went into
these what they considered were fraudulent ads. It's interesting, Well,
there's an Illinois court that agreed with this in large part.
There was New York court that disagreed with it. They said, hey,
you know, you couldn't really point to that these ads
were misleading. They said, you couldn't point to a specific
ad that was misleading. So he bumped it, he kicked
it out. He was kind of the same claim and
he didn't agree with what the New Jersey and the
Illinois court did. And there's pending lawsuits in a number
of states, so.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Crazy stuff.
Speaker 5: Guys always appreciate a sports court segment.
Speaker 1: I got one more for you, though.
Speaker 5: It is related to the University of Utah in part. Jenshaw,
the wife of I believe Sarishaw, has been released from
prison and it looks like she's back in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: What's the latest on this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben, we want.
Speaker 7: To throw a curveball at the listeners here to try
to gain a bunch more listeners. You know, you know
we're talking about on sports court for one one simple reason.
The jen Shaw who's her fame is that she's one
of these real housewives, reality celebrities. But she is the
wife of the loved University of Utah coach Sharif Shaw.
So that's why we're sneaking in here. But maybe we'll
gain a bunch of more listeners. But yeah, a few
years ago, it was hot news while on that reality
show she was arrested. She was charged, and she was
prosecuted for claims of conspiracy to commit wire.
Speaker 4: Fraud and Monday laundering.
Speaker 7: The claim was that she had a business services group
that marketed to elderly and some business services and they
were fraudulently allegedly. But she pled guilty to these claims
and was sentenced to six and a half years in
prison federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of six
point six million dollars to the victims. Well, here we
are three and a half years later. She has gotten out.
She's apparently there's some terms of parole. It's stated that
she will She has been released to community confinement program
and looks like to be released in full August thirty
of August thirty of twenty twenty six, so about ten
months from now.
Speaker 4: Crazy time listeners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, well I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 5: I'll give you a social commentary here and you guys
can retort if you want if there was a and
I'm not trying to throw rocks.
Speaker 1: At at at anybody here.
Speaker 5: But if this is a BYU football coach that whose
wife was released from prison, there'd be a lot of
Utah ads jumping on this one. May be a lot
of you tough fans talking about this all the time. Anyway, guys,
great sports Court segment, and we appreciate you joining us.
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Speaker 5: Earlier this week, Bear Bachmeyer's name two four seven Sports
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Speaker 1: Now Bear didn't get.
Speaker 5: Like the the love nationally that he deserved, but at
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bear Bachmeyer tonight, but well deserved, well earned shout out
to bear Bachmeyer. Look, if you're gonna list off the
guys that you just can't lose this offseason, bear Bachmeyer
is probably priority number one for retention. Any concern that
you could lose bear Bachmeyer to the portal, because I'm
sure there's some big time offers that would love to
maybe take a run at him.
Speaker 1: What do you make of it, Ronald the three man Weaver.
Speaker 8: Look, it's everybody's up for grabs, Ben, right when you
have a good season, what a Rod's done. And look,
I don't want bear to go into the portal at all,
you know, because that would just have fans in uproar, right,
But at the same time, I do for this factor
it would validate a Rod, and it get all those
nitpicky nappy headed BYU Cougar fans. It will get you
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the end of the day, it's not gonna happen. I'd
be very shocked if it. Where he came to Bau
for a reason, a Rob recruited him, but just to
validate that of what a Rod would do is the
only reason. Kind of like a stick it to you, gotcha, Johnny,
But no, everyone's always on the docket. To get pulled
from the portal, you kind of have to say you're
coming back, because if not, then people think you're out.
But I don't think Bear is going anywhere Ben. I
think he'll stay in Provo. But selfishly I would like
to see that, so fans could, you know, kind of
eat it some because sometimes they go at it with
a Rod, And I think a Rod has put Bear
in a phenomenal position, like if he were to leave
and go somewhere else, then it would be because of
what a Rod did it wouldn't just be all because
of Bear.
Speaker 5: File A Tau Satowala, the defense so the Ball was
named second Team of All American by the Football Writers
Association of America, presented in partnership with a good Year
Cotton Bowl Classic. The six foot four, two hundred and
ten pounds sophomore from Battle for Utah laid in all
thirteen games for number.
Speaker 1: Twelve BYU Koogs.
Speaker 5: He led the cougars and tackles with seventy eight four
fumbles two and was third on the team at interceptions
with three and seven and a half tackles for loss.
He was previously named All Big Twelve First Team by
Sports Info Solutions in All Big Twelve Third Team by
the conference coaches.
Speaker 1: In addition, Sotawala was.
Speaker 5: Honored at the Lot Trophy Player of the Week and
Big Twelve Defensive Player of the Week for helping BYU
to a forty one to twenty seven win at Iowa
State in the week nine of the season. Satawala was
also a candidate for the Polynesian College Football Player of
the Year ward. As a true freshman of twenty twenty four,
Totawala played in twelve games for the Cougars in his
first year in Provo, collecting nine tackles and an interception.
Satuwala baby followdown that one's also a priority to retain.
Get him signed, Get him re signed, and he's gonna
be a great win. Do you think he's a strong
safety next year? Do you think he's an.
Speaker 1: Outside linebacker a la ig?
Speaker 5: You wonder if Ig goes to the league, does Satuwala
move to his spot.
Speaker 8: It's a good question, Ben Right, we've thought about that mainly.
I think with the way he played in safety, they
might keep him there, but I think it might be
one more season. Ben I think I don't know if
they'd move him this offseason, especially with the depth they
have coming in. They're gonna have to see what the
depth can do, how they can be tested. Rado will
be a senior. Tommy prasss, do you like him a nickel?
What's your nickel depth look like? I don't necessarily know.
There's a lot of questions they need to be worked
out in springball. It's definitely on the table, Bend if
Ig goes to the league, because falla Tallas phenomenon in
the box, all right, when he comes down here, he's great.
I think he matches up well when they blitzed him.
Speaker 1: He's great.
Speaker 8: You saw what he did in the Texas Tech game,
tackle for loss, get into the quarterback. So look, we'll
have to wait and see, but that is a possibility.
But I think he stayed in safety from the moment being.
We'll see what happens after springball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just such a good box player. I just
want to exactly box more.
Speaker 5: It's just and but you want him to be somewhat
untouched and meaning you don't want him necessarily getting into.
Speaker 1: Scuffles fisticuffs, bros.
Speaker 5: If you will. With offensive lineman. You want to keep
him on the periphery. You want to keep him with
tight ends and slot receivers and have him win those
blocking matches right where he's able to get off a
stock block and go make plays. He's so good at
reid reacting, getting downhill. I just love see him in
the box. Let's flip the scripting head on over to
the hardwood with the bau Cougars and the number ten
bau Cougar Cagers look to extend at their non conference
home winning streaked to twenty five games, taking on Abilene
Christian at the Merry Center for the first time on Friday,
December nineteen. Tip is schedule for seven thirty pm Mountain Time.
By the way, Kate Finnegan, former BYU quarterback, ended up
transferring to Abline Christian. He did play a little bit,
not a lot, but got his final season there in
Ablen Christian in the great state of Texas where he's from.
Shout out to him as our Abilene Christian featured athlete
of the show.
Speaker 1: Anyway, where to watch it?
Speaker 5: Friday's game will be broadcast on TNT with Brian Anderson,
Grant Hill, Grant Hill, Drinke Sprite, Andy Katz on the call.
This is the first TNT broadcat has to originate from
the Marriott Center ever. Oh my goodness, gracious dude, I'm
stoked to have Grant Hill there. Man, I'm a huge
fan of Grant Hill. I grew up watching Grant Hill,
one of the stars of an era, and I can't
wait to see what happens this is Friday will be
the first all time media between the two schools, as
Abilene Christian made the move to the NCAA Division One
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Prior to that, the Wildcat athletic.
Speaker 5: Department won a total of sixty four national titles at
the Division two and NAIA levels, sixty one of those
coming on track on the track or cross country course.
The Wildcats are one of four schools that BYU has
played or will play for the first time this season,
joining Holy Cross, Delaware and cal Baptist. Roddy thoughts commentary,
You're gonna be breaking this game down tomorrow on the
Cougar Sports basketball pregame show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Look, I like this matchup for BYU. It's another opportunity
to be able to get the depth Alexi Coasters are
now due to illness Ben you know now he has
what the game was on, you know, Tuesday, so you
get a full you know now three days to maybe recover.
I loved it, first of all, go back to your
point backtracking. Love the Grant Hills on the call. Love
Grant Hill. That's a great opportunity, does a great job.
Love that this game is on tn T. Look, I
think the best way of being to get AJ talked
about more in a national spotlight it's more national spotlight games.
So at the beginning of the season it really didn't
matter then Wy you kind of not necessarily took a dip,
but they played games where other people were being featured
when they're playing their non conference matchup. So I love
that this is a game that's on TNT Grant Hill,
an opportunity to be nationally televised, and Age is gonna
ball out like Look, he's come close to a couple
of times having a triple double outside of the Clemson game,
so I think you'll have another phenomenal performance by you
would definitely cover the spread. But what I need to
see is Tyler Moruss and Alexi Kosch do what they do.
I trust Kadeem. I know Dominique can throw you into
points in there, but I need to see the shooters
who are going to be the main guy's knockdown shots.
I'll be breaking it down tomorrow for you. A little tea.
Should have assistant coach Tim Fanning with me on the
pre game as well.
Speaker 1: Boom shock alaca real quick.
Speaker 5: Because I mentioned holy Cross, the Wildcats are one of
four schools that Bilias played or will play for the
first time the season, joining holy Cross, so.
Speaker 1: I sent you a sound by the Paully and Tony
Fusco Show.
Speaker 5: They are a two Time winner, Best Sports Comedy in
Sports Comedy in Sports Podcast Award winner, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Laughing about it. I'm laughing about it here. But they
broke down a different rating system.
Speaker 5: Some people, they say, are a little bit disappointed. If
you're a BYU fan or Notre Dame fan, you're disappointed
because you're out of the college football player. But they
have a different rating system, a Heaven rankings system, and
BYU is in the top four. Parently, let's tune in.
We'll get to that here momentarily, but.
Speaker 1: Sorry for the build up.
Speaker 9: Sorry for sure, all the Notre Dame and BYU players
are upset about being ranked too low in the college
football rankings, but they have to remember that they're still
ranked very high in the Heaven rankings. You know, this
is the current list of schools most likely to see
all their players get into Heaven at number four, BYU
at number three, Noda Dame at number two, Villanova and
holding down the top spot for the forty seventh straight year.
Holy Cross of cause, of course, just so much needed that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure all the noted. Okay, all right, all right, So.
Speaker 5: All these are like Catholic Jesuit schools, essentially you know,
Notre Dame, Holy Cross, Villanova and Boyers on the outside.
Like my first thought was like, man, like, you know,
we're always playing second fiddle to the Catholics, you know,
getting into Mormon religious history theology. Yeah, I know you
you taught the uh, the apostacy and the restoration a
lot on your mission, right, Ronald three man Weaver. And
I thought to myself, like, be you, here's at number
four once again, just outside of the Trinity, you know,
the Credle Christians and Trinitarian Christians.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know they lean on that top three.
Speaker 5: We were hurt by the non conference Creeds, if you will,
the Creedle uh non conference games and uh once again
once again, ecumenical councils and the Committee strike again, leaving
BYU out of the.
Speaker 1: Top spots in college football.
Speaker 5: But most likely no, it was most likely to most
of their players enter Heaven. Interesting stuff anyway. A couple
last things here for your news and notes. I had
one more basketball element here in aj de Bodza. Okay
he's been bawling out. Was what a thirty players name
to the lout Olson Award Early Season watchless on Thursday afternoon.
The award is named in honor of Hall of Fame
coach Loud Olson, who won seven hundred and seventy six
games and thirty four seasons, twenty four of which were.
Speaker 1: Spent at Arizona.
Speaker 5: During that stretch, he led the Wildcats to eleven pack
ten conference titles, twenty three consecutive NCAA tournament's, four final
four appearances, in a national championship in nineteen ninety seven.
Aj De Bonds, who's averaging a team high twenty one
point one points per game while shooting fifty five point
six percent from the field, thirty two point one percent
from three, and seventy four point three percent from the
free throw line. He is also averaging seven rebounds, three
point three assists, and one point three steals per contest.
He is electric, He's amazing. He's the best player in
college basketball. And Darren Peterson wants to be at that
spot up right now, I think it's aj debontsa your thoughts,
Ronald the three man weaver.
Speaker 8: Yeah, look, Darren just hasn't played healthy. And you know,
look at it's not an excuse, right because it's on
the player to stay healthy. You know, whether it's nutrition, lifting, rested,
it's on the player himself to be to do that
when you get to the next level. That's just how
it goes. So I don't know what it is, but
Darren's gonna have to get healthy and then play better.
Can't be playing in these games and then getting taken out,
costing your team. That doesn't help it all. But right
now it's Aj. Look, we talked about it the other day.
A source put it out Cam Boozer. People don't know
if he'll fit at the next level like that because
he's going to be a four or five kind of
same thing that Carlos did his dad. So you have
no idea. So right now, to me, it's clearly AJ
number one high score recruit and who I steal. I
will keep saying day in, day out, I think will
be the number one overall recruit in the twenty twenty
six in BA draft.
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Ronald the three man we were before we sign off?
Speaker 1: No, we got to get out in sixty seconds, all right, Hey.
Speaker 5: Statement from rams wide receip pro can Coup about his
recent controversial comments on a live stream and with Aiden Ross.
When I appeared the other day on social media, live
streaming suggested me to perform a specific movement as part
of my next touchdown celebration. At the time, I had
no idea this act was into semitic in nature and
perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Jewish people. I deeply apologize anyone
who was offended by my actions, as I do not
stand for any form of racism, bigotry, or hate of
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