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I've seen it back at home. I remember people got
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with the bad news. The bad news is BYU has
lost a commitment. There will be others, that's a part
of this happens every single year, but this one might
hurt you because Cougarnation flipped this commitment from Syracuse to
BYU and now he's going elsewhere. That's right, BYU. Former
BYU commit Jackson gates. He gives his comments which already
here momentarily, and commit d commits from BYU to Missouri.
He sat on social media Missouri, I'm home. The six
foot one, one hundred and seventy five pounder dB from
Damian High School in Lavert, Laverne, California, had initially committed
to Syracuse before decommitting and then committing to BYU. Jackson
was the number fifty six cornerback nationally and the number
forty eight player in California. He ran a sub ten
to four one hundred meters dash. That's super fast, man.
You like that speed, especially if Evan Johnson or not
the comeback, but I think he will. Els was recruited
by Utah, Michigan State, Mississippi State, and more. He talks
about him decommitting from BYU. This is what he had
to say. I was committed to the Kougs for the
Cups for a while talking about Syracuse. I just felt
like I needed to decommit and give myself some time
to really see if it was a place for me.
I decommitted shortly after my visit to BYU. Took a
couple of weeks to come prepare all my visits, the
pros and the cons, all my offers, and BOU just
made the most sense. I just knew the development I'm
going to get from coach General Guildford, who's a phenomena coach.
Speaker 4: By the way, and the trajectory of the program.
Speaker 2: It was just a great place, and he says, I've
been thinking about it for some time the decision. When
I went on my visit, I initially loved it. I
just didn't want to make a rask decision on my visit.
I definitely had some thoughts about flipping on the visit.
I wanted some time to think about it, and I
ultimately knew Miszoo was home. These are more comments on it,
just the development from Coach Pogue and the coach Drink
has done with the program. He's completely turned it around
from where he's gotten it, said Gates. Now to give
my thoughts on this matter. The three star, by the way,
I want to say a star ranking. Look, kid, if
you wanted to give yourself more time, and I'm not
trying to rip the kid, don't know the kid, not
saying the kid's bad, and I don't want it to
be interpreted that way. If you wanted to give yourself
more time, which is totally fine, don't make a rass decision.
And this is where I just invite the young people.
Brett and what I'm inviting Drewsey to do. You're not
you don't anybody excuse me a commitment. You don't. You
can decommit away. Now. I know at the time BYU
was probably the right place, he said, Missouri, But to
make it not look bad the way this is looking
to me as a whole. If I'm looking at this
as an individual, you're committed to Syracuse, ACC NOE BYU,
Big twelve no Missouri sec Like to me, when I
look at this as a whole, that's how I'm viewing
it top to bottom. So I think, yes, you have
to make a decision as best for you at the
end of the day. But watching you flip back and forth,
I just want to say this to all recruits. Will
you decommit if you feel that's what's best. You don't
need to go and commit to someone right away. And
if you really do feel the way, that's fine. But
if you do commit from that place and you recommit again,
that's a lot of flip flopping and hobblin And it
could look like that maybe you're chasing a dollar dollar bill.
Speaker 3: In this day and age, I.
Speaker 4: Think the hard part is that we're asking we're asking
kids to make adult decisions. Yeah, in the context of
there are adults who, for lack of a better phrase,
are trying to take advantage of you by showing you
a flashy thing so that they can pick up your talent.
And so look, does it look odd when you de
commit from Syracuse and then you flip to BYU and
then you de commit from THEOU and you flip to Missouri. Yeah.
But I also think part of that is maybe we
need to get rid of the word commit or change
it to something else, because it's more of an intention,
not necessarily a commitment. Because to me, a commitment is
more I don't want to say contractual, but it feels
a little bit more obligatory, and it feels a little
more solid than what we have in this current world.
But also, again, like going back to what I said
at the very beginning, we're asking kids to make adult decisions.
And when you have a guy like Jackson Gates, obviously
there's a lot of people who want you. I think
to your point, you got to understand, like just because
they want you doesn't mean you owe them anything. You
don't have to give them a commitment, however, and so
you can sit there and make whatever choice you want. However,
as soon as you commit, then you decommit. Then you commit,
then you decommit again. Now you have kind of given
yourself up to be scrutinized and say, Okay, you did
it once, fine, now you're doing it twice. Now, the
word commitment doesn't really mean a whole lot, because then
I have to ask the question is it going to
happen again? At the end of the day. Happy for
Jackson Gates. I'm hopeful that wherever he lands somewhere that
he wants to be. But it's just a I think it's,
unfortunately ron just a product of the world that we
live in where people's word doesn't mean as much. And
that's not a shot at the kid, that's a shot
at the environment that we live in. The coaches are
always leaving, players are constantly transferring, and so when you
see something like this, it's kind of just par for
the course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, I like that you brought up your word
about Okay, well, what do we do.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: In changing maybe the word, because I do think the
decommitting and recommitting and decommitting and recommitting can have some
negative connotations with it. I know that kids aren't intentially
trying to do that. I don't think anyone in these
are kids making very important decisions.
Speaker 3: So what's a better way?
Speaker 2: And that's why I said, Hey, that's why I said
what I said to be in the beginning. You're not
obligated to commit to anybody after you decommitted, you feel
like that's the whole give yourself some time, make the
best decision as you meant like, that's totally okay. I
really think that you should and it goes well because
those that commit early for the most part to their
schools that we've seen, especially BAU commit it's been that
way and you've seen that. So again, this is a
tough part. And if you know that you're gonna get
offers later, that's totally okay. But most kids did you
see commit to BYU for the most part, stay there.
They do, receiver the visits, they do take other ovs,
and you should always keep every door open one hundred
percent because coaching staffs could change in a year. You
commit to a certain coach. This is not the NFL.
This is not where everybody's getting paid. You know, they're
fair share and have an agent that can go in
there and get more money or maybe not get more
money from This is college football where people want to
be where they feel as home and that's what the
coach people play for a certain coach. Look at basketball,
I mean if Bill Selftware to leaven go to a
different program, Hounting, people de commit. I mean look at
what happened in LSU. Let go of Brian Kelly, how
many people left? Look at what happened with James Franklin,
I mean Mike Gunny for kron all out. They lost
what I think a top twenty five running back. That
happens when you lose a coach, You're gonna lose those recruits.
Speaker 4: That's a part of it. And the place that you
commit is not always the place that you end up.
It's not. It may be the same school, but it's
not the same environment. To your point, people get fired,
people transfer, people go from being really good to then
they suck. And so you're like, Okay, well I want
to be a part of a program that's on an
upward trajectory. Maybe he feels as those Syracuse isn't that
So then he commits to BYU. But then maybe BYU
pick someone up transfer wise, and he says, oh, you
know what, that's a guy I don't want to have
to compete with. So just because you commit somewhere doesn't
mean what it's like when you commit it is going
to be what it's like when you get there. To
Missouri's credit, Missouri has been on a massive upward trajectory
just over the last couple of months with what they're
doing the SEC right now. So I'm sure how the
team plays has a big piece to do with it,
even though obviously BYU is playing really well, as is Missouri.
What do I always say about the transfer portal? It
giveth and the transfer portal take it the way look
in the same vein Bob Mulatalo. Bob Mulatalo was committed
to organ right and then flips back to BYU. So yeah,
it sucks, but a don't hate the player hate the
game because he's not doing anything illegal. You may not
like it and it may hurt your feelings as a
BYU fan, but he's not doing anything illegal. He didn't
sign a contract, He gave you a verbal Hey yeah,
i'd like to go there, But that doesn't mean he's not.
That doesn't mean he's breaking any rules by going somewhere else.
And also, like, let's be real, when you commit to
a school, everyone doesn't just stop asking you to the dance.
Everyone's still trying to get you to be their date,
even if you already have a boyfriend or you got
it somebody you're going with just because you're committed to
a school doesn't mean BYU and Missouri say oh, well
you know what, Jackson, congrats to you. We won't worry
about you anymore. We hope all is well. No, they
still send you, Hey Jackson, well no, you're playing Westlake
this Friday. Hey, we're not trying to recruit. We just
hope you do well. Like, it's not his fault, he
didn't break any rules, and if this is ultimately where
he wants to be, I'm happy for him. My only
gripe is and this is not targeted towards Jackson, but
this is twrogeted to the landscape as a whole. Is
I think we're setting up young people to fail. And
what I mean by that is, I think part of
the issue with the transfer portal with college football as
a whole is and this goes for coaches just as
much as it does for players. But you're not incentivizing
young people to understand the importance of making a commitment.
Now that see that word commitment's coming back around, but
like your word has to mean something when you say,
when you sign a contract, you are going to have
to stay there. And I mean we see this in
the NFL all the times like, oh, I sign a deal,
but one you're into it. Oh, well, I'm not making
enough money, so I want more. And obviously, if your
talent dictates that, then you can do that. But it's
just I think we're setting up young people to think that.
And look, not all these kids are going to go
to the NFL. Not all these kids are always going
to have a talent that demands money. And so I
don't know what the right answer is. I hope we
can find a balance at some point that says, hey,
you got to sign a deal that says you're going
to be here if you're going to make this dollar amount,
get this benefit, whatever it is. We have no idea
what the reason is why Jackson d committed to BYU
and is now going to Missouri. Maybe he just like
the coaching staff, whatever, who knows. I'm happy for him,
but I do think that we need to start finding
a way to make commitments mean more. Yeah, we do
have to make it mean more. You bring up a
very good point.
Speaker 2: I don't want to linger too long of it, but
just want to give everybody some updates.
Speaker 3: So let's turn to it down.
Speaker 2: The positive news got through the bad as always say
start with the bad, let's finish with the good.
Speaker 3: This is per brock Harris.
Speaker 2: He posted this two days ago on his Twitter page
on October twenty ninth, at ten thirty, he said, honor
to be ranked at number forty of all high school
football players, but not satisfied. This is per ESPN, So
shout out to brock Harris. He's now top forty per ESPN.
And this is the twenty twenty six ESPN three hundred
recruiting database, So brock Harris has moved up.
Speaker 3: This is a big time commitment.
Speaker 2: I know people like Carson Ryan, they talk about Isaac Rex,
Matt Bushman, but this kid has the opportunity to be
one of the best tight ends n BAU history. The
pass catching ability, the run block and ability.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: We've had him on the show to discuss his commitment.
This kid is gonna turn some heads. So he's definitely
moving up in the numbers rightfully, So I think he's
an upcoming five star. He's still a four star right
I don't even think he's a five star at which
is crazy. We'll see still a lot of football left
to be played by the end of the season.
Speaker 3: Will he be a five star.
Speaker 2: But if not, Brett brock Harris has now jumped up
into the top forty.
Speaker 4: Massive deal. I always felt like this guy was a
little bit disrespected. He is kind of the leader in
the twenty twenty six BYU recruiting class clubhouse in terms
of this is a guy who wants not to just
bring his talents to BYU, but him and brother lyons
are teaming up to try to recruit everyone else to
the good gospel of BYU football. They're going out and
recruiting guys to come play with them as well. So
shout out to brock Harris for getting a well deserved
bump in the rankings and super happy to have him
at BYU.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super happy that brock Harris is at BYU. Gon
to be a baller mission first kid. Then we'll get back.
But bre you got some news. I think a certain
quarterback finally per a certain network I shouldn't say really network,
but a website finally got upgraded to a five star,
well kind of.
Speaker 4: So I put out this video a couple months ago
and people are still watching, and I put it back
out out in June about how rivals seems to take
guys down when they commit to BYU and upgrade if
they commit to other programs. So, if you're on the
internet today, you may see this graphic that has rider
Lions listed as a five star. So Rivals at Rivals
on x tweeted out teams with a five star QB
commit and then they put out this graphic and it
has Jared Curtis, who's Committee Georgia, and a couple other
guys and then Ryder Lions is listed as a five
star on this graphic. Now you may be saying, wait,
hold on a minute. I thought Ryder Lions was listed
as a four star sometimes on Rivals and sometimes he's not.
This graphic that you may see out there specifically is
tied to rivals industry ranking, so it is not necessarily
some of those It is not necessarily only what Rivals thinks.
Rivals basically has the proprietary algorithm them that takes all
of the recruiting websites, averages out your score and then
says this is what all the recruiting sites say as
a whole, and as a whole, everyone seems to think
that Ryder Lions is a five star, even if Rivals individually,
given how they're feeling any given Sunday decides to think
that he's a four star, but industry ranking wise, Rider
Lions is a five star as he should be. Yeah,
he should be indeed, no doubt. So it's just a
it's a bunch of stuff that goes into these composite rankings.
Speaker 3: I really don't want what they are, how they really work.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think a lot of these kids are
definitely borderline five stars for sure, four stars, so we'll see,
I mean different metrics. It's about what you do on
the field, because you've seen multiple people come in and
that I remember chass I was ready one of the
highest stars to ever come and BWAU football history one
of them, right, not saying you was Lee, but one
of them, and he got what he got hurt and
those things happen like that's a part of it. Injuries,
derail things always come up. So there's nothing you can
do at the end of the day. So yeah, the
end of the day, life, life happens. It goes your way.
Sometimes it doesn't. But as a couple of other news
and notes and updates and just to let people know,
broadcast four star Bob Mula Talas to the four star
Jack Stanner. I think believe he was elevated to a
four star. Brax and Lindsay they still got them listed
as a three star. Wonder if he'll get elevated right
A Lion's five star Legend Glasgow was bumped up to
a four star. Ty Getchi was also bumped up to
a four star. I remember Kawe Akhanna three four star,
Matthew Mason three star, Setafini a Latini three star, Namya
Cologne three star, Graham Livingston, he's a three star. He
might need to be a four star. Graham is nasty.
If you look at the film of Grand Limits to
My Goodness, you want to talk about a guy that
can replace the role of Parker Kingston and what he's doing.
Graham I think can fulfill that role when he comes
in Juda Mulla three star, Parker Or three star, Adam
Bywater three star, Terrence Serion three star, Antonio Johnson three star,
Devon Echa three star, and then Justice Breakaway three stars.
So a lot of talent coming in this twenty twenty
six class guys, But that was your crew.
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Gonna discuss some Cougars in the Pro something we do
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got vic CRAM data aggregator by my side, Let's break
it down. These are the games that BYU Cougars are
gonna play this week. What happened yesterday? Actually, the Ravens
defeated the Dolphins twenty eight to six.
Speaker 3: I was the final score.
Speaker 2: It was on primetime on Amazon Prime Videos at Primetime
Primetime Prime Video Amazon. It kicked off at six pm
Mountain daylight time. Still that will switch. Actually in a
few weeks we're gonna be hitting daylight savings where we
will gain the hour or however that works. I don't
really look too much into that, so I've been told.
But Kyle Vanoy played balled out in this game. Yeah,
let's go ahead.
Speaker 4: Let's go through Kyle's stats really quickly.
Speaker 2: He had one total tackle, one which was solo as well,
and he had a tackle for loss as well. Ever
since he's come back, Vic KVN has made an impact.
What if you liked about KVN's return.
Speaker 5: Oh, just that he's ageless. I mean he gets there,
he's just as quick. He's a cat out there and
you can tell because they're usually have a guy come
and help out whatever side he's on, and they're they're
aware of wherever he is on the field, and that's
that says a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you said he's ageless. I like that you brought
that up.
Speaker 2: I feel like as he gets older, he gets better,
and he's in the perfect system. He's in the perfect
scheme to be at to make plays. Having a tackle
loss of Levi at a sack last week against unfortunately
my Chicago Bears. But this defense has gotten healthier and
they're playing at extremely high vel. Lamar Jackson return was
eighteen of twenty three for two oh four nine yards
per attempt and had four Tuddy's at quarterback rating of
ninety two. Quarterback Yeah, quarterback qbrc's me of ninety two
and the rating was one forty three. So it looked
to be as if the Baltimore Ravens are back, they
still have an opportunity to win this division, which is
well know. Zach Wilson was shown to a tongue of
ILOI did not play well. You have to think with
Miami being two and seven, one and three at home,
J just see Zach Wilson play. Maybe they got rid
of their general manager per Adam Scheffner. Today, Mike McDaniels
will stay the head coach through the end of the season,
which lets me know Vic that they're probably gonna move
on from him at the end. I just you can't
have two and seven seasons only make the playoffs once,
not get passing the Wildcarado Division one or whatever it
is that they played in.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna Bowl too well.
Speaker 2: So Mike McDaniels his time could come to an end,
but he's still gonna be the head coach for now.
They're gonna let him ride it out in the season.
Let's keep on the list of the rest of the
Cougars in the pros. Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say the Ravens are definitely a
different team without Lamar.
Speaker 3: He is so fun to watch, yeah, isn't he?
Speaker 4: He's just and he takes care of the ball.
Speaker 5: He only has one interception this year, and you know
it's just guaranteed he's gonna get touchdowns, not turn the
ball over. And Derek Henry, can I say it would
be so blank and scary to look at him coming
at you full steam. Can you want to ask you
that know that man, he is a man and his
thirties still so that's impressive. Running Backs.
Speaker 2: You know, NFL stands for not for long, and running
backs is probably the most rude of position. So for
the night that he's getting to his thirties still producing
at a high level, it's an anomaly.
Speaker 3: It doesn't always happen.
Speaker 2: Let's continue on the list of the Cougars and the
pros that will play this weekend. Everybody will play on Sunday,
November second. The Bears at the Bengals, Ryan Rico would
be an action on CBS at eleven am Mountain daylight time.
I think the Bengals are going to defeat my Chicago Bears.
I think that's what it's gonna have. Rico can flip
the field opinion days. Wow, I should have got that
sound clip cut up. Ben will be upset with me
if I didn't do that. Vikings at the Lions. Tyler
Brady actually has been playing. You know, we'll get a
couple of tackle for losses, chasing down some running backs
and quarterbacks. He's gonna be on Fox at eleven am
Mountain daylight time. The Panthers at the Packers, Brady Papinko's
go pack go the shot through the heart bond joby
for me, because again I have to see the Packers
in the NFC North A p will be happy. Brady
Christensen action Brady's seen some time this year up from
blocking Zaan train. I think had a fumble rec on
a muff punt if I'm correct me. If they're not
Chris Brooks. That game also going to be on Fox
eleven AM Mounts in daylight time. And this is going
to be local whatever your network is, unless you have
the subscriptions where you can watch all of them. So
depending what side of the country you're on, you'll probably
get Panthers, Packers, You'll probably get Vikings Lyings, depending where
you're at your East Coast person, That's why I'm bringing
up the Panthers. If you're more in the Mountain time
a now Mountain time zone, Central time zone, you'll probably
get the Vikings and lines. Check this out the Falcons
at Patriots, Tyler als Year and Kyristarga on CBS eleven
Amount to daylight Time.
Speaker 3: Vick, what do you like about that game? Oh?
Speaker 4: Just Tyler.
Speaker 5: I love watching Tyler And well we'll get to mister
Tonga here in the second because he's doing a great job,
but it is I am so excited that he is
a free agent after this year and he'll have the
opportunity to go somewhere and be the number one ocause
after that rookie season, we saw nothing but incredible play
from him, and and he looked like a number one
back then. Yeah, you know, and I believe once he
gets that opportunity, you're going to see him at the
top of some yards per carry yards a game in
the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, I believe Tyler can be a bruiser.
I believe he can have success in the NFL. Maybe
not to the high level he did in college, but
I think he can have a good amount of success.
Now does that mean he's RB one or RB two?
Speaker 3: He did?
Speaker 2: We played a sound club. I think it was three
weeks ago, if I'm correct me. If I'm wrong, Brett
always bringing the hammer about that he likes Bjon Robinson.
He likes being in that system, so he very well
could seem he could stay in Atlanta. He seems as
if he was in high spirits. Saw him during the
bye week when he was at one of the BYU games.
He seemed, you know, pretty happy, likes the situation. Obviously,
I hadn't asked him too much. Hey you're in a contract,
got and ask that. But he seemed to be happy
when he talked about, you know, work and where he's
at and having a mic up.
Speaker 3: But I agree with you that rookie season.
Speaker 2: When I feel like he was disrespectful a little bit
and it should have been a conversation. I know Garrel
Wilson is a phenomenal receiver, but for the fact that
Tyler wasn't even in the discussion, that's what I'm bringing up.
Speaker 3: Was a problem.
Speaker 5: Just to hear other NFL players talking I tell him,
and the commentators they just they just love the guy.
And so that's why I'm thinking that, uh, you know,
he might get an opportunity to he could be you know,
or be one somewhere.
Speaker 2: Dollar dollar Bill's talks. So we'll see what happens with
Tyler in this offseason. But still a lot of games
left to go right now, playing for.
Speaker 5: And Kyler Lars and kyris, by the way, incredible, what's
this his fifth year? Now? Yeah, I mean he's just
going and playing and clogging up the middle. He's perfect
for an NFL defense and he is just balling.
Speaker 2: I love that he's in the perfect system with the
perfect coach, Yep, Mike Mike Babrol, who knows defenses need
to be I know Kyris bounced around. He was with
the Patriots before, with the Bears, with the Vikings, right,
I don't even know.
Speaker 4: I can't remember if he was with the Falcons. Be
wrong about that.
Speaker 2: No, I know he's bounced between those teams and he's
back with the Patriots, and rightfully so, this coach is
going to know how to utilize them. But you have
defensive minded coaches. I felt like he needed to go there.
I felt like he would be in phenomenal in the
Ravens system, the Lions system. Guys that have good defense
and good defensive lines to generate pressure that stop that
are good run defensive teams. Right now, he's with the
great opportune Drake Mace playing good ball. So I think
Kyris is doing great over there. Out He's excited for him.
So see what happens with Kiris and Tyler. Does Tyler
get a contract Stanger? Does he go the Dalla dollar bills?
Talk all in the NFL. As he ended today, this
game is I think the one that all BYU fans
might have their eye on the mind included Vic, this
could be your game of the year. Excuse me, the
game of the week for Cougars and the pros, I'll
ask you. But the Saints traveled to the Rams, Taysom
still getting disrespected. They've ben Spencer Raller and they go
with Tyler Shuck. I'm like, why is Taysum not the quarterback?
Why do you continue to look over you know the
bull those are at number seven. He can do it all.
But look, they want to keep discrediting. But Taysom will
be an action. Michael Davis will be an action. And
then pook Pooka Hooka is He's He's back.
Speaker 3: He right, that's right.
Speaker 2: If book had been out for a while with that
and I shouldn't say a while, a couple of weeks
and that's not really two weeks with that ankle, And honestly,
you could see a little bit of a drop off.
I mean, Devanta Adams still Deavante Adams, but you saw
moments where they struggle not having Pooka. He said, Okay,
you see the deficiencies in the offense a little bit.
Because he's a bona fide number one wide receiver. They
get him back, he commented earlier. I saw common earlier
this morning. I think that he either said yesterday the
day before he's feeling great. I wish I had got
that soundclip cued up or found it. But he feels
extremely healthy. Ankle feels great. Sounds like according to him,
he's back. That game is going to be I think
the game of the week is going to be we
might not be the game of the week, but that's
the Cougar is in the Pro Spotlight. Game of the
Week per BYU Football is Saints at the Rams. That
game is going to be on Fox at two of
five Mountain daylight time. I know a lot of fans
will be tuned into that. I will be at least
for the first part of it, the first twenty minutes
until I'm watching this game. The Kansas City Chiefs and
the Buffalo Bills. Cacy Suell Mantilla will be in action
and Andy Reid. I know that they don't put the
coaches on the air and Andy Reid on CBS. They
traveled to Bills Mafia to Buffalo to take on Josh
Han the Bills such a rivaly. Andy Reid is so
good in these games, so good when he goes on
the road. Kingsley has played phenomenal ever since they moved
him to left guard.
Speaker 4: Inside.
Speaker 2: I know last year tackle didn't really go his way,
but left guard, they've been playing phenomenal. Patrick Mahomes has
played great the last three to four weeks, even in
at Jaguars loss, and it's all because of this offensive line.
You see the trust that he has in Kingsley and
the rest of the boys up front, because they've been
slinging it all over I think Mahomes has thrown for
at least two or three touchdowns in every single game,
if not running for another. So they got the protection
up front and they're starting to look like a super
Bowl continuing offensive line. I think at one point you
could say Kingsley and the rest of the team did not,
but Andy Reid has got these boys in check and
they are bought in Kingsley.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you he's just gonna get better. He is.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's still relatively young. He is his second
year in the league, and I'll tell you he's gonna
get better. So watch out for him Cougar Nation, because
you're gonna see that guy play some great football in
the future.
Speaker 4: Got drafted at the end of the second round.
Speaker 2: Some argue could have been a first round, you know,
top ten, top fifteen or later on pick that didn't
happen falls at the second round.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Anytime I think a team drafts you in the first
or second round, they expect you to play that year
at some point, whether you're a starter or whether you
come in halfway point, they expect that of you. And
Kingsley didn't go his way unfortunately, had to be benched,
played on special teams though, kept working probably a full
off season, probably some you know, some good coaching. Yeah,
talk with Danny and offensive line, good offseason, and look
what happens. And you know what he did at BYU,
So you knew he always had the he just had
to put it all together and he did that and
shout at the kings League. So that's your Cougar's in
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nine two three seven five seven Inside Report. Aj De
bonsa name to the NABC Player of the Year preseason
watch list. He was announced yesterday morning the twenty twenty
six na BC Division One Player of the Year to
be selected by the nationwide voted of Division one head
coaches at the conclusion of the regular season. This will
be announced the week of the twenty twenty six men's
Final four. So that's what it is. There's a bunch
of names on here, a lots of them from the
Big twelve. Let's just tell you who he's gonna be
going up against. Obviously some of the big names Native
Mint from Tennessee, Camera Boozer at Duke, Alex Condon at Florida,
Devon Dent at UCLA. AJJ on the list. You also
have the likes of Darren Peterson from Kansas. There's multitudes
of people on here.
Speaker 4: J T.
Speaker 2: Toppin from Texas Tech, Milos Uzon from Houston, and then,
of course we can't forget the guy that transferred coming back,
Darrion Williams at North Carolina. Say, there's a bunch of
other people on this list, to a couple people from
Yukon and Zaga. Graham Ike from Gonzaga. I'm Alex Carbon
from Yukon. I think I'm saying his last name. I apologize.
It's a bunch of people on this list. Brett. Can
J win this award?
Speaker 4: It feels like every day when I get on here
and I open the laptop looking for what press releases
we got going on, it feels like every day of
the week it's a new award that aj is being
nominated for. I can't remember if we've seen him being
nominated for. Nate Smith Player of the year yet I
can't remember if that's come out. I'm sure someone's gonna
tweet it me and tell me that it has or
that it hasn't. But look, i mean preseason all Big twelve,
we saw him give it to UNC the other day.
I'm it's just hard to compartmentalize, right, because until you
see it, it's so hard to believe it when you're
talking about a guy who could be the best player
in the country, just simply because the last time something
of that caliber happened, it was Jimmer for Debt, and
so now you're talking about the possibility that something that big,
that dynamic, that number one happens again. I'm having a
hard time getting a tangible sense of what that looks like.
I'm excited for it, I don't know how the story
ends here, because I believe aj will be number one
overall pick. I believe he'll be Player of the Year.
I believe he'll be Big twelve Player of the Year,
all of those things. But until I see it, I
don't know what it looks like. Because again, he's not
the only guy here. There's Darren Peterson who's competing for
a lot of these same spots. There's a lot of
guys in college basketball who won it, And just because
AJ was nominated preseason doesn't guarantee that you end the season.
All I know is the potential is limitless. I think
he'll win that. I think he'll win Nasmith Player of
the Year, and I'm really excited for everything that is
to come this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, normally the big high freshman can win the Natesmith
Player of the Year.
Speaker 3: JT. Toppo would really have to go off.
Speaker 2: And this is goes into my argument of what I
was saying yesterday about the preseason poll. JT has already
set the bar high. If anything you do that's the
same or less than that Brett, you don't get credit for.
Like Richie's usage went up and it's production went up.
You don't see that that happened to Texas Chech with
Darien Williams. His usage went up, but numbers went down,
because that's just how it goes. It's a lot turnovers
when the balls will get into your hand, it's more
it's hard to replicate. So that's why I bring it
up and people saying, oh, well, he's back. I get
that he's back, but do you know how hard it
is the average eighteen points a game. To redo that,
to play that well in conference again, when you have
this kid who has no skin in the game and
has all the hype. If you're a returning player, to
be honest, everything I think discredits you to win the
award in that regard. I don't think if you're a
new kid on the block that goes against you, I
think that benefits you more. Especially aj and this. I mean,
look this kid, he's racking up the preseason accolades. They
continue to roll in for this freshman from Massachusetts. I
just want to remind people he was named to the
Nasmith Starting five Julius Irvin small Ford Ford of the
Year preseason watch list as well on Wednesday, you know,
early the month. He became just a second player on
program Mystery to earn ap preseason All American honors. Another
one was Jim or So look that this is a
kid that is going to be able to ball. In
the two exhibition games, remind you the six nine forward
he averaged twenty four points, seven and a half boards,
three steals.
Speaker 3: Two blocks per game.
Speaker 2: He plays defense, and the crazy part is I don't
even see assisting. Kevin Young told us after the Blue
White game, Brett, you and I were there. He said, hey,
make the right read, which means, hey, have you getting
double teamed? Don't force the shots. You shouldn't take past
the ball. I don't even see assist On here. So
for the fact that he's still doing that, man, I
just I mean, what do you want him to do?
And then he finished with eighteen points, eight rebound, stree blocks,
and three steals in BYU's seventy eight to seventy six
win over Kayleb Wilson and number twenty five North North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Like, think about that.
Speaker 2: Eighteen points, eight boards, three blocks, and three steals against
the top twenty five team.
Speaker 4: And this is after he dropped a thirty thirty PI.
Speaker 2: I mean, BYU fans have been raving, They've been looking
for where's the player that's gonna take us to the
next level. Where is the player that's gonna have the
opportunity to be able to get us to an Elite
eight or a Final four. It's this kid. When I
look at these numbers and watching balling. North Carolina's not
a scrub team. Nebraska's not a bad team. So look,
I don't know what he's gonna drop against Villanova. We'll
break that down on Monday. We won't get ahead of ourselves.
But I'm looking at the video right now, you're watching
Nebraska game. He takes on content that does a seven footer,
that's a seven foot dude, and he and wondhm and
he's got another dude that's six's not trying to reach
a block, Like, come on, man, like, I know you left,
Like this kid is unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I mean, the thing that's even more unbelievable to me
is that even when he goes left, he still finishes
with the right. Witched crazy it like it's it's like,
people are gonna call me out for this. But one
of my favorite clips I've ever seen is Taylor Jwan
talking about Patrick Mahomes and they said, hey, describe Patrick Mahomes.
Taylor Wan goes, you know, I've heard a lot of
coaches have a lot of rules for quarterbacks and tel
quarterbacks don't do this. Yeah, Patrick Mahomes does those things
and it works out tremendously for him. I think aj Debonza, like, again,
you see him going left, he's still finishing with the
right over top of you because he knows you can't
stop him. It's not because he can't finish left. He
just knows that he can still go right, still go
up with the right and finish over top of you.
I mean, here's the deal. Ron, Let's say aj only
scores fourteen points in the first game and twelve points
in the second game. Let's just say that that happened.
There would be no change up from us. There would
be no concern, there would be no worry going, Oh,
can he score the basketball? We would be like, no,
it's it's good. It's exhibition, Like that's solid for a
college basketball game. It's different than the NBA. Now he's
not having to have those excuses made for him. He
did drop a thirty piece and then eighteen points in
exhibition games against top tier opponents. Like, what's he gonna
do when he plays some of these weaker games at
the end of the non conference schedule. What's he gonna
do against guys like Villanova? What's he going to do?
Speaker 5: Ron?
Speaker 4: When he goes to his hometown playing in d Garden
and Yukon comes to town, he says, no, no, no, no,
So yeah, can he win this award? One hundred percent?
My question is not going to win the award. My
question is what else is he going to do that
we can't even expect right now?
Speaker 2: Random basketball question of the day. I haven't had you
put it out there, but maybe I need to have
you put it out there now. How many awards will
Aj Debonsa finish with the end of the season. How
many accolades will he have? Because I think this kid's
gonna have a handful. He might have what is it
a Michael Jordan's shack. He might have one, two, three, four,
five on the ring, he might have a couple Tim
duncan status actually five on the finger. We're gonna find
out by the end of the season. You might have
to put that out there. We'll see if you do, guys.
But that was your little insider report. Aj Debonsa racking
up accolaes named to the NABC Player of the Year
preseason watch list. How many will Aj finish with? I mean,
you better enjoy a while the last because it's only
it for a year. You're not getting it anymore at all.
I promise you you're not. And reminder of the number
eight BYU opens up the twenty twenty five twenty six
season tip off Monday, November third, when Boa takes on
Villanova in.
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