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Daily Heraldy and Darnad Dixon to the show. Darnell, how
the heck are you, buddy?
Speaker 3: I'm good, you know, as I used to stay with
the Jim Rome Show. Thanks for the vian so always
good to be on with you.
Speaker 1: Hey, always a pleasure, always a blessing to talk ball
with you. Darnell, Your thoughts, your commentary, your reaction to
the Parker Kingston uh rest and UH and UH being
held without bail? Currently, what if you learned about the situation?
What can you tell us? What is your perspective on
this deal?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, we are a sports show, and we
talk about sports, and we talk about you know, the
various rooms of the athletes and the physicians and all that,
and when something like this happens, my thoughts always turn
to both parties, the victim and the accused, because lives
are changing, futures are changing in this situation, and you know,
I feel for both sides. I don't know all of
the details. I don't know how to turn out, but
I do feel on a personal level for Parker and
the young women involved and their families, because this is
a life changing event that's going to put you on
a very different track than what you've expected to be on,
whether you're on one side or the other. So that's
my first thought is how badly I feel for those
involved and having to go through this, And then you know,
this is this is something that is serious. There's anything
I've ever seen from a by U athlete. This. This
is a felony charge that's been built over the courts
of almost a year. And now that we've heard from
a little bit from Parker's side that he says that
the sexual contact was was consensual. Yeah, so so he's
done a b YU regardless of what happened, because he's
admitted to breaking the honor come and unless he wants
to face a really long suspension for his senior year,
you know, depending on how things worth Rana, he's gonna
be looking elsewhere. But his immediate issue is staying out
of prison because this was a very serious defense. And
so you know, we haven't heard the last from either
side as this goes forward, and it's it's a shame.
It reflects badly on everyone involved, you know, on b
YU side. It's a traumatic experience for both sides. And
that's that's where my mind goes in these situations. Is
it just bad decisions and then on top of that
a legal batter that can ultimately change the course of
your life in a negative way.
Speaker 1: One of the things internally we've discussed today is, you know,
we've had three separate instances UH this this year essentially
UH regarding on our code violations, high profile honor Code violations.
A civil civil suit UH brought up against Jack Orr
Jake Retzlov that led to the suspension. It was a
rape allegation as well. You have Cannard Davis Junior d
u Y UH and UH and that that that process
is still I guess being executed. I don't know if
there's any update on the Canard Davis Junior UH issue
with the du Y, But now you have Parker Kingston
phony rape allegation and an eventual court case. We have
an arrangement tomorrow. Yeah, it beankes. The question these are
This is a lot of drama, a lot of issues
at a church sponsored institution, and the bar is high,
and these student athletes aren't meeting it. What should be
done going forward with these student athletes to make sure
that they're abiding by the Honor Code and not bringing
disdain and dishonor to brig them and themselves for that matter,
and they're families for that matter.
Speaker 3: It's a good point that you make about the bar
being high. There's a high standard set and there's always
the case in a situation like that that someone will
fall short of a standard and then what do you do?
I would think knowing that the people that work in
the athletic department that they are very clear with their athletes.
You know, this is what you're expected to do, and
this is these are the rules you're expected to live by.
And Ben, you and I both attended by you. We
know that's not always the case with the student or
an athlete. They just decide to do something that they
shouldn't because they're young and and sometimes they feel invincible.
Sometimes they think they can get away they not get caught.
Sometimes it's you know, maybe alcohol evolved. Mean, there's lots
of reasons why someone would fall sort of those standards
in terms of what by you should do about it.
These are individuals. This isn't not a situation where you're
back seven or eight guys involved, like back in the day.
But what happened during the Gary Crochton era. This is
an individual making bad decisions and that happens in every
single athletic department around the country, and it happens at BYU.
We had to happen before, maybe not quite this serious,
but it's just an opportunity I think for all coaches
at BYU to sit their players down and say, look,
you are admitting when you go to school here, you
sign a release that says you will follow these rules.
There are consequences to not following the rule, and because
the standards so high, there are streme consequences in some cases.
So you need to be sure that this is what
you want. We don't want to put you in a
situation where you're going to go astray and change the
course negatively in your life. If this is where you
want to be and you want to follow those rules,
then let's do this. But it again is an opportunity
for not only maybe the coaches, but also your team leaders,
your captains to sit down with players who they maybe
they know about, are a little bit way we're in
doing things they shouldn't and tell them it affects more
than just you, and you need to step up and
live up to your word. It's very important that you
take accountability for what you said you would do, so
that I think that's what they can do. But I
don't think there's any question that you look at this
and say I don't think you can say, oh, the
coaches didn't let him know. This is what he should
or shouldn't be doing. These athletes know, and when they
choose poorly. This is what we see.
Speaker 1: Double D Donnelle Dixon here on your Utah ESPN Radio
network for a little Cougar beat, and I'm intrigued to
see how this all unfolds. It's I think it's it's
everyone's conclusion to Parker Kingston will not be playing for
by You ever again, and he won't be playing college
football I think this year either, with all of this
scrutiny and this legal battle that he's about to face.
Speaker 3: And again, like I said, changing your life from not
the better, changing the course of where you thought you
would go in your life for a bad decision. And
you know, we feel, like I said, I feel for
both sides on this because it is a life changing situation.
And you know, Parker his future is unknown right now
and it's going to take a lot of work on
his part to recover from whatever the deciding factors might
be and how this turns out to continue his life
because it's definitely not going to go the way he
expected when he announced he was coming back for his
senior year at b YU a few months ago.
Speaker 1: Let's talk football related, right, the impact of not having
Parker Kingston on the football field next year for BYU.
How do you see it? How how big of a
loss this is for BWAU football.
Speaker 3: Well, just taking a look at the football aspect of it,
I really felt like the wide receiver group needed to
go out and get an established receiver, maybe somebody from
a smaller division school or somebody that's actually had put
a lot of time in on the field. I know
they went and got the kid from Oregon, but he
hasn't played much and so I was already thinking, even
with Parker Kingston in the room that the receiver groups
had a lot of questions in my mind, And now
with Parker going to almost assure to be gone, I
do have questions about who's going to step up in
that room. Because of everything that Chase Roberts did in
his career. There are good talented players, they just don't
have anybody that's really established themselves as a go to guy,
as a leader, as a player that there Bachmeyer feels
really comfortable with going to on third downs. We're in
tough situations, so there's a lot of work to be done.
In that wide receiver room, and even more so now
as they get closer to springball and then summer workout
and then fall down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just wanted to add on that. Do you
feel like there would be a front runner to take
that spot? I gotta I personally would put Tiger Bachmeyer
maybe in that case, because he has got some He's
obviously got some chemistry with Bear. He's been around college
football while I've been in the program here and then
and then is someone like Jaron Poola maybe able to
get in the in the mix for a starting or
the too deep.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, it is. It is pretty wide open to
to step up that way. You know. I think Jojo
Phillips says all the physical act of Youse, I just
don't know about his mental preparedness to be that kind
of a player. I know he's pretty young in his
football development. I like Reggie Firsni. I think he's got
some great talent there. And uh, it's just a matter
of who is going to step up in that room.
And and uh, Fessy Sataki famously doesn't like to go
too deep in his rotation at the receiver growth. He
likes to go with you know, four maybe five beyond
that is something he's not as comfortable with. So there's
going to be quite a bit of moving back and
forth in their room with who gets to get those
reps and who impresses Bethy and who develops the chemistry
with bear Bachmeyer in order to make that happen. And
there are, as you mentioned, several different guys that could
possibly step forward and make themselves a name and make
themselves a leader.
Speaker 1: Darnell. As we look at the twenty twenty six BYU
football team, will learn a little bit more about this team.
Obviously it's spring ball, et cetera. One of the questions
I've I've broached is, yeah, there's not a wide receiver one.
Hopefully you can find one now, But what about RB two.
Who's your favorite to become RB two from this BYU
football team? And why.
Speaker 3: At this point most people would Probays, they say, anymo
I like Devon Eka's skill set. I think that if
there's a position for a freshman to step up and
make some plays, I think Davon can do it. He's
a really good receiver out of the backfield. He's grown some,
he's gotten bigger and thicker. I think you know that's
important when you're you're back there, how much the coaches
trust you to be part of the passing game and
if you can block and fill gaps, one of those
guys blitz. But but catching well out of the backfield
is important. And I feel like maybe Devon Eica might
be a guy if he puts in the work and
find himself with a few reps once the season starts.
Speaker 1: Darnell, this is, you know, a hot debate right now
with b YU basketball. Who do you expect to step
up and be a supporting player to the brig three,
the triple combination, if you will.
Speaker 3: It's it's been an ongoing problem this season, and Kevin
Young's admitted and much to us that the depth is
an issue. I think that affects their defense because the
big three are maybe a little hesitant to stick their
nose in there sometimes because they know they can't get
in foul trouble. I think, you know, the Canard Davis
situation has had its moments where I felt like he
maybe was breaking through and he didn't. He had a
nice game against Baylor, hit some free tros, made some plays.
That's the thing. And you know, as you look at
what this team needs to do when they are focused defensively,
and in that Baylor game, there was probably two specific
areas where when they had Boop in there and they
were going small that their defense was outstanding. And it
was once it happened when they were down thirty four
or twenty one in the first half, they had a
couple of really good defensive sequences that turned into breakouts
on transition buckets and then they got back into game
tied to the forty one, and then earlier in the
second half they had I think it was a fifteen
or sixteen to two run and that was fueled by
a block by Richie and a steal by Richie. When
they can find those moments more frequently, they're going to
have a better opportunity to win. And Cannar Davis came
here as a guy they said can play really well
defensively and as a good open shooter. He has not
been a good open shooter, but he can definitely make
a difference on the defensive end if he focuses there,
get some steals, make some plays on that side. And
I think we're all pretty much in awe of that
Big three and what they've done offensively, but we if
YU wants to be successful moving forward into the Big
Fell Tournament and the NCAA Tournament, they need more plays
made by others and Cannard Davis is one of those
guys that needs to make more plays.
Speaker 1: Darnelle Dixon the Daily heraldy and what are you going
to be working on for is double D What can
you tease us with? What are you going to be
publishing here shortly at the Daily Herald?
Speaker 3: So we know jimmerfer Dead is having a jersey retired
on Saturday. I had a nice long talk with one
of his former assistant so just Tim Lacombe, and he
told me some great things about the way that it
kind of happened, you know, behind the scenes a little bit,
and so I'm working on that. I'm sure we get
a chance to talk to Gimmer on Saturday. Anybody who
lived through that time, whether they were watching it on
TV or following the team or going to games, it
was unprecedented. And I don't know if we'll love to
be duplicated because one of the things that Tim talked
about with me was, you know, everyone knew when Aja
Debonsa came to BYU he was the number one player
in the country and he's probably going to be top
draft choice in the NBA. When Jimmer game, he he
had two scholarship offers, and nobody really knew much about
him until towards the end of his junior year when
BYU beat Florida and double overtime in the NCAA tournament,
and then the following year when he had that big
game as Utah, suddenly he was the social media darling
and social media was just getting started that time. So
the way that it happened and the experience that we
all had kind of following the team at that time
is just such a unique adventure and you can experience
And that's kind of what I hope to write about
heading into Saturdays after the game of Colorado.
Speaker 1: Love it man, Double d. You always appreciate our time
to get it. Thanks for hopping out for a little
Cougar beat here on your Utah ESPN Radio network.
Speaker 3: Right, you guys have a great day, all.
Speaker 1: Right, brother, appreciate you. That's Darnold Dixon and a Cougar Beat.
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