Speaker 1: Stats, say, let's talk about stats. Ben Creital and his
team of former players and eight signers give you the
latest stats, data and analytics that are trending in the
world of Cougar sports stats.
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Banterwealthetterwealth dot Com got to get into it. Let's talk
about stats, same, I got a bunch of key stats
for you here on your Utah ESPN Radio network as
b YU Men's basketball gets prepped, gets ready to take
on Texas Tech tomorrow night. B Y, you not a
favorite on the road versus Texas Tech. And that is unfortunate,
Oh you poor unfortunate souls by you. Men's basketball not
favored in this game on January seventeenth. Is a close
one though, two and a half point favorite for the
Texas Tech Red Raiders. I believe the point total is
one fifty eight and a half is the over under
fifty point four percent chance of victory for ESPN Analytics
for Texas Tech. So by you sitting there, six pm
tip off at the United Supermarkets Arena, you can watch
the game on ESPN, but check out this stat. Let's
check out this stat real quick. Since last February eleven, okay,
just under a year ago, b Wayaman's basketball is twenty
seven and three under Kevin Young and they got a
huge game on Saturday night in love it. Let's welcome
into the show. Let's talk about stats expert. We have
certified financial Planner NFLPA Certified Financial Planner Blaine Anderson on
the line.
Speaker 3: Blaine, how you living man?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Happy Friday to you. Always a pleasure
hoping on.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Happy Friday to you as well.
Speaker 2: When you hear that record twenty seven and three since
February eleventh, what's your reaction.
Speaker 4: Phenomenal? I think it's fantastic. I certainly remember when we
were going through that transition a little bit wondering what
we were going to do after Coach Pope, who myself
included all enjoyed and appreciated. But gosh, this has been
a nice run and sure has been cool Kevin Young
come and coaches here at the Cougars. That's a phenomenal record.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 2: Ed's truly elite, no doubt about it. Another stat of
the day for you, check this out. BYU Football has
been engaged in the transfer portal, not maybe as much
as other teams. Right, it's quality over quantity for BYU.
This offseason then we have eight acquisitions.
Speaker 3: Via the portal.
Speaker 2: They got thirteen, leaving eight added to the squad on
three currently has BYU Football's transfer portal class rate fourteenth
in the nation.
Speaker 3: Your reaction to that news.
Speaker 5: Well, I know this is something that's earned, but wow,
the way that we've been building the last few years,
I can't imagine not being viewed as a national powerhouse
and being a big part of national contention every year.
I think it's phenomenal where we finished last year, but
looking at us as a consistent perennial top twenty, even
top fifteen team and hopefully real soon top ten team
is more of the norm, and I think we're starting
to get more attention even back East, which is something
that excites me. I think is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Let's talk markets and finances and wealth management and what's
going on right now in the markets. I've been texting
you a little bit about this is you know, a
couple of weeks ago, I was discussing, Hey, what you
know silver, silver, silver and gold, gold and silver as
the old Rootolph the red nose reindeer Clay Mason used
to say, was it you Concordelius? Silver and gold, gold
and silver, copper also surging? What is up with the
explosive rad ally sweeps over the metals market right now?
Speaker 3: What are you seeing here?
Speaker 2: Why is it that this particular fluctuation and rise is
occurring right now in the metal markets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I have I've enjoyed our conversation talking about
silver in particular.
Speaker 5: And you know, as I think about.
Speaker 4: The different alternative asset classes or things outside of maybe
the S and P five hundred or the traditional stocks,
people are looking for a few different avenues. They're looking
for some additional options, and a lot of it has
to do with the markets peaking like they have, which
is great, but I think it shows a lot of
people understand that the principle, hey, you want to be
selling when things are up, look for some other balance
and asset classes commodities. A lot of times people think
of it when the markets are down. What we're seeing
is what the market's being up, but being at all
time highs. People are looking at a few different asset classes,
whether it be real estate with interest rates coming down,
or whether it be gold and silver as commodities. And
I think a lot of it has to do with
rebalancing portfolios that often takes place this time of year,
and you want to avoid what's called portfolio drift. And
the market has been up, people are up their asset
classes in equities, their allocation is probably a lot higher
than normal, and there's we're seeing a little bit of shift,
but really it's just creating balance into portfolios. Silver's definitely
been a benefactor and there's been a great run, especially
since November.
Speaker 3: Let's get back to football talk.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw Mark Harland, the ad
of the University of Utah, took his commentary to Twitter.
Now that could be a good thing or a bad thing,
depending on how you feel about it. But he quote
tweeted Celessie Moa. Okay, so there was a rivals tweet. Actually,
so it says news. Okay, this is what he ended
up quote tweeting, Okay, so this is the original tweet.
Speaker 3: News breaking news four star athletes.
Speaker 2: Celestie Moo will announce his commitment on January sixteenth at
the Polynesia Bowl. Per Greg Biggins, Moa was a short
term Utah signee and and so uh, Celestie is the son.
Speaker 3: Of Ben Moa, Ben Moo in all time Utah great.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: We know Ice Moa and Shoneimoa both played at BYU.
They entered the portal, they went to Michigan State. I
think Yukon respectively, but there's connectivity between Utah obviously and
BYU here. Celestie was a commit signed with bor Shine,
signed with Utah uh in this last class, but decided, Hey,
I'm going to resend that I'm going to open up
my recruitment with the changes with the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: Kyle Whittingham gone, Jason Beck gone, and.
Speaker 2: So Mark Carlin quote with it says, well, Kama, he
was with us in class for last week. Public announcement.
Dot dot dot seen it all now, Probably it doesn't
even make sense. It does it's it's it's a drunken
stupor tweet, and it begs the question, It's like, what
is Mark Harlan's like most embarrassing moment. I got five
of them. Number one, he quote tweeted, give me a break.
When there were reports that the Pac twelve was was
gonna get uh was gonna get poached. Some of the
teams that beg the four corner schops were gonna get
pached by the Big twelve, and the Pac twelve eventually
went into ruin and disintegrated.
Speaker 3: Right, we know that he was very adamant.
Speaker 2: He was digging his heels and on all those rumors
and and trying to scoff at them.
Speaker 3: Obviously they know what happened there. Number two.
Speaker 2: They stole it from us, absolutely stole from us. The
Holy War in twenty twenty four. He was He took
to the to the mic in the post game and said,
I'm disappointed in the Big twelve, and YadA, YadA, YadA.
I was happy to be a part of the Big twelve.
Today I'm not. They stole it from us. Number three
he walked onto the field of play and got penalized
in that same Holy War game. I've never seen an
ad run onto the football field to ty to try
to talk to a ref.
Speaker 3: He did such.
Speaker 2: Number four purportedly pushing out Kyle witting him for the
head coach in waiting Morgan scally. This happened this offseason,
and then Number five recently calling out former signe's and
commitments on Twitter. Which one's the most embarrassing and why?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well there's a nice list there, that's for sure.
I don't know a whole lot about him or his background,
but gosh, some petty stuff there. If you ask me,
my favorite's gonna be though, just actually costing the team
with a penalty and going out onto the field after
the game. He just seems so easily agitated.
Speaker 5: And gosh, not a good look, Not a.
Speaker 4: Good look at all. Sure, it's fun to see from
the sidelines going to watch because he's so easily agitated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely petty competitive, as.
Speaker 2: I like to put petty competitive, not always the most
health thing to be know, ex answer us about it, Blaine.
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Speaker 4: Sounds great, Thanks Ben, Have a good weekend.
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Speaker 3: Let's get out to the hotline.
Speaker 2: Welcome in the former BYU quarterback that we love having
on the show.
Speaker 3: We got Steve Clement's on the Lives.
Speaker 2: Steve, how that are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing fantastic, brother. How is everything going with you? Great?
Speaker 5: I mean absolutely outstanding?
Speaker 3: Give me up there. How's the fam doing anything new
in your world? You know?
Speaker 5: Uh? Fam is great? Married life is great. Uh. Took
my just took my youngest son down for a birthday
golf trip to southern Utah and played Black Desert last weekend.
And man, that's a nice place. Dude, like that was
so much fun. And I kind of surprised him. He
didn't know where we're going and kind of pulled into place.
He's like that or we lost. I could know We're
not lost. This is what we're supposed to be. And
so man, that was so much fun. But uh yeah,
everything's man on the up and up and just just
loving life right now.
Speaker 3: Love the I love that always well in your world.
Speaker 2: And you got some uh uh some quality time with
your your your son and uh nothing better than a
little fathers and sons outing.
Speaker 5: Absolutely yeah, yeah that's you. Gotta you gotta cherish those
moments because they're not gonna be there forever.
Speaker 3: Steevie. So there, so I gotcha. Yeah hear me, we
lose you.
Speaker 5: I can hear you. Hello, you there, Okay.
Speaker 2: You can hear me. I saw, yeah, we couldn't. I
couldn't hear there for a segment. We have a little
technical difficulties. Well, hey, okay, I wanted to I wanted
to get into a couple of things with you here
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Speaker 3: Uh, you took some heat. We've talked about it before.
Speaker 2: You said that Bear Bachmeyer reminds you of a better
throwing Tim Tebow. Obviously it played out very much like that.
Bear Bachmeyer was tremendous. She was fantastic. Give me an
overall eval of Bear Blochmeyer year one at b YU.
Speaker 5: Uh. To be honest with you, I you know, the
expectation is probably a little bit highering provo for a
quarterback based on the tradition, But you know, you have
a true freshman and you've got to be really, really
careful as far as expectations. So I really didn't have many,
if at all, because you're just setting yourself up when
you have unreal unrealistic expectations to create resentment when those
expectations aren't met. And so, at least for me my
point of view, didn't have a lot of expectations. So
when you don't have a lot of expectations, you can,
I guess, consider that a low bar. I think it
was absolutely phenomenal what he was able to accomplish at
his at his age, with his experience, And really the
one thing that I've always looked at is, yeah, the
performance on the field, but I always like to see,
especially i'm at a game, not TV. It's hard to
see the sidelines a lot of times, but how he
reacts to both plays that might be a bad play,
whether that's a turnover or taking a sack or fumbling whatever,
and even a good play. And what I observed throughout
the year is you really couldn't tell where he made
a bad play versus when he made a good play.
He has a knack and I don't think a lot
of quarterbacks have this. A lot some do and some do,
But I think the difference between maybe a great quarterback
and elite quarterback and an average or a good quarterback
is that ability to come back down or from a
disappointment or an exciting play, you know, a game changing
play or maybe a turnover that's that really you know,
made a big time difference in the game. And what's
your reaction to the result after the result? How do
they act, how they interact with their coaches, their teammates,
And I think he has a really good ability to
what I would say, come back to five, which for
me is even you know you're going to hit a ten,
nine to ten on a big touchdown, but also on
a big turnover as well, How quickly can you get
back to that five? That even kill calm, cool, confident demeanor,
and it just seemed like he was at five most
of the time. Was very aggressive for a youngster to
be able to do that.
Speaker 2: Always stoic, always even killed, never overly erectional, even like
when he got injured, like it was like you didn't
see him ever, really wins in pain. Like he didn't
really have any emotions. It was hard to see even
with the high definition cameras. That that that that exposes
about everything on a football field.
Speaker 5: Yes, and and that's that's the ones that I look
at and gravitate to and go, Okay, he's going to
be something special because it's almost like he doesn't have
a pulse. And that works both ways, meaning yeah he can,
he doesn't. He doesn't get really high. He never really
gets low either. And some people will say, well, he
doesn't care because look, I mean they score big touchdown
and he's just like, ah, whatever. Or he might be
smiling after an interception, or he might just be stoic
after an interception that's really cost you know, the team,
either a.
Speaker 3: Game or whatever.
Speaker 5: And now we're trying to call back and you know,
we have this mistake and and it's it's really neither.
It's just he has an ability to be very stoic
whether things are going really well or things are going
really poorly like Texas tech. Uh. But but you can't
tell from his at least, and his inside might be
chewing him up, but you can't tell. And I don't
I don't see that affecting him on the football field
either whatever is going in between his ears, so after
after that happens, but very impressed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I feel like he he met
that that bar, that standard that you put forth the
right handed Tim Tebow, I really do. I mean, Brady
Quinn even piggybacked off of your comp remember that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, oh absolutely, yeah that was that was kind
of fun. But I do I do think that his
ability to throw, I mean, his ability to run, in
his his style of play lends you, yes, to run
the game, you're the running game, and and and ground
it out on the you know, in between the tackles.
But his ability in a couple of games Iowa State
the ball game to throw the rock and have a
rod just cutting loose man. You know he now, I
think he's shown that ability and really maybe not for
Cougar Nation, but for all the opponents. The next year
is Okay, this dude can throw it down the field.
He's not just a you know, two hundred and forty
pounds running back that's playing behind the center. But my
man can throw too, So we got to be ready
for that too.
Speaker 3: Year, no doubt.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm really really excited because he's of course
he's got another year experience, but I think I think
you may see a little bit different offensive philosophy this year.
And man, just take the reins off the horse, letting go.
Speaker 3: What improvements would you like to see from Bear Bachmeier
in the off season.
Speaker 5: Boy, I don't know. I mean, I mean, you can
always it's hard to go against speed, right, It's hard
to defend speed. It makes it the the defense very
very difficult to defend when you have speed. And so
I would say, I mean, if if there's one thing,
I would say, get faster, But I would say that
to an out lineman and the dB just as much
as a quarterback, if if not more so. But and
I'm sure he's doing that. I'm sure they all do that.
They have a great weights program and strength and conditioning program,
and that's going to be handled between you know, January
and August. But yeah, I would say, just a little
bit more speed. He's going to throw the ball more
so in practice this spring. I guarantee he's gonna get
his rep with his arm. So obviously arm endurance is
going to be play a part in how well he
does next year. He just didn't throw it, probably as
much as he's gonna throw it this next year and
probably in year three, is it's gonna move up even
more so, So I would say speed and arm endurance
and get ready for to light up the skies.
Speaker 2: I was debating with a few people earlier this week
about weight gain, weight loss, you know, staying the same.
What have you seen, like you know, in your career
as a as a quarterback and coaching quarterbacks. You know
he's a big quarterback, obviously a big body guy. Do
you kind of try to keep him at that weight?
Do you want to lose weight put on but like
you know, gain lean muscle mass? Do you want to
put on weight? What do you where do you put that?
You know, if I was to ask you what you
would do with his body, uh, as far as strength
and conditioning and things of that nature are concerned, what
would you say.
Speaker 5: Well, I think you're not going to go wrong with
lean muscle mass. He hasn't had you know, he hasn't
really had a full off season to be in the
weight room and to increase his speed and his strength
and his lean body mass. And yeah, it would be
great if you know he's at five percent ten percent
body fat but still at two twenty five to twenty
and my guess is that's probably where they're gonna want
him to be. You don't want him to, you know,
be at one ninety five because that's kind of not
really part of the offense. But again, I don't think
it matters with a rod because he's got plenty in
the pantry to utilize. And this is just one aspect
of his offense. Having a kid that's you know, six
two sixty three, two hundred and thirty, two hundred and
thirty five pounds versus someone like Zach Wilson wasn't even close.
I mean, he might have been two hundred pounds or
two oh five. But so I think the lean body mass, yeah,
is going to be essential for him, but he still
has to be able to sustain. And if you're gonna
throw the ball more, that means you're gonna run the
ball less. And this is projection, This is not law
that says they're gonna throw the ball more. One of
them to throw the ball more, I think you would
tend to think they might throw the ball more with
one year experienced by your freshman quarterback. But so if
that's the case, then he's gonna run a little bit less,
so he's not going to take as many hits, so
he doesn't have to be two hundred and forty pounds.
I didn't think he would sustain the offense they were
running in the first two or three games for the
entirety of the season, and the only thing he had
to show for as far as injury was was an ankle.
They're in the championship game, so and that was it.
So like he went beyond my expectations as far as
being sustaining, being really relatively injury free the entire season,
running as much as he did in between the tackles.
So I think, you know, you're two twenty to twenty five,
lean body mass, more speed. It might create a little
bit more of a dynamic offense because now it's not
in between the tackles anymore. Now he even bounced that
sucker outside, you know, and instead of going to take
as many hits, maybe he avoids a couple of those
hits because he's a little bit quicker and he has
a little bit more speed, and he's a little bit thinner,
but lean, you know, muscle mass type, If that makes
any sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm intrigued to see where Bear takes his
game this off season. I'm sure he'll be training with
three DQB John Beck and the crew, as well as
he's putting in reps there in provo with his wide
receiving group. What do you how would you evaluate the
supporting cast right now that's coming back. Obviously Parker Kingston
had himself a season. You got Jojo Phillips coming back,
Cody Hagen. They went out and got Kyler Casper from Oregon,
a four star for four star wide receiver. Not much
productivity though that though there at Oregon Walker Lions coming
in from USC at tight end obviously LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin coming back.
Speaker 2: How would you evaluate the skill position players that surround
Bear going into his sophomore season.
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's going to be. It's
going to be as the potential to be really good,
especially on the outside. Now, in order for you to
throw the ball, you've got to have the five guys
up front, and where we're losing three, I believe that
would be a bigger concern for me than on the outside,
because I guarantee your help is coming because you've got
the Pula twins. One's probably gonna play defense. My guess
is the Jaron kids is going to be offense. You've
got the Glaster kid that's coming in from Lehigh, which
I think makes I think he plays on the special
teams really really early and makes an impact on their
special team, especially on their kicking game. That allows Parker
maybe Cody to focus a little bit more on receiving
and on the offensive side of the ball. But because
my man can do it like that kid is He's insane.
I'm telling you, this Alising kid is absolutely insane, and
everybody's gonna see this next year. And yeah, I'm making
a prediction that he's gonna he's gonna be on the
field and be a difference maker, especially initially with his youth,
probably in special teams first, before you know, a rotation
into the receiving corps, but just because of his inexperience,
but talent now he's that's already there. It's it's it's
beyond anything I think I've seen. I got to watch
him in practice every day the last two years, and
the plays that he made in practice were crazy. Dude. Anyway,
so I think you know, you got to shore up
in the middle. Obviously, the line. But I think on
the outside, you've got another year experience with all three
of those guys. You know, Jojo, I think was just
trying to find his footing this year, and I think
he's fine there. I think they're gonna be really but
I think they're going to be deeper than normal I
think for those guys typically in a typical year. But
there's gonna be some inexperience too with that depth, and
so that's going to be you know, Fessi's job to
get them up to speed and learn the offense and
timing right spring is all about timing with Bear and
the quarterbacks and new receivers and where those guys are
on campus. Now, I'm looking forward to a really good
year and really I see him just throwing the ball
lot more and LJ is, Yes, we're gonna lean on him.
We've got to have five solid dudes up front though,
for anything to work. So that's the backbone of the team.
That's the skeleton of the team. It's the offensive line.
It's not the quarterback. It's not the defensive backfield or
the defensive line. I think most important position on the
field is offensive line.
Speaker 3: Well, they went out and got three offensive linemen of
the portal.
Speaker 2: Thus far looks like they're fortifying that front right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Last thing for you, what's been your favorite Mark
Harlan moment? Has it been the the you know that
the game was stolen from us after the Holy War
in twenty twenty four? Was it?
Speaker 3: They give me a break?
Speaker 2: Tweet that he he he quote tweeted Dennis Dodd. Dennis
Dodd had reported that the Big twelve was ready to
pounce on the four Corner schools. As doubt creeps in
about the Pac twelve's viability, he retweeted that obviously they
eventually went to the Big twelve. Is it? His most
recent tweet attacking a former BYU commit and signy who
entered the Portal and is now taking his talents elsewhere.
He kind of got a little petty there. Do you
have a favorite moment from Mark Harlan?
Speaker 3: Oh? That guy?
Speaker 5: I don't say about him. I don't, I don't. I
don't know if I haven't a favorite moment, but I
have an unfavorite moment. As soon as more Scalley became
the head coach, that's my un favorite moment. And obviously
he's the athletic director. He made that happen. He's he's
gonna be good. I'm I'm concerned because he's he's not
gonna be like Kyle was there. There's they're two different.
I know a lot of people are like, oh, it'll
just be the same, od utah, this, that and the other.
It's not. Trust me, it's not. As a matter of fact,
we had a conversation Morgan and I a couple of
days ago with quite a lengthy discussion, and he goes
back to the years of when he was recruiting down
in Texas. I was at a Uless trendy high school.
He'd come down and recruit and we go out to
lunch and so we've kind of been friends over the
years and kept in contact, and yeah, we had a
pretty lengthy conversation and man, he's he's a culture guy,
and yes, he's gonna he's gonna want to beat us
to a bloody pulp in those four hours when we play.
But he's not flaming. I mean, he's not gonna fan
any of the flames before and after the game. And
I think that's that's that that concerns me because he's
a culture guy and Klaonnie is a culture guy and
that's I guess that's my most unfavorite moment, at least
as a b y u alam Uh. He's good. He's
gonna be good, and Utah is gonna be good for
as long as Morgan's running the show. And that's from
a yu alam. But I have a lot of respect
for Morgan. He's a good friend of mine. And yeah,
there's some things going on up there that are a
little bit concerning to be at least for those four
hours uh on a Saturday in the fall.
Speaker 3: So yep, yes, indeed, Steve, we appreciate you man.
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Speaker 5: All right, dude, see ya, my guy.
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