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Speaker 3: Welcome in double D, Darnell Dixon, the Daily Heraldi and
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Speaker 2: But yeah, happy holidays, Sure, happy holidays, Happy Christmas. It's
a it's a great day. You know.
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Grateful for the holiday season.
Speaker 2: Uh, Darnell.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let's let's get right into it here.
Speaker 3: The news coming out of Salt Lake City, Uh, probably
not a surprise to to most, but I felt like
there was maybe a wrestling that maybe occurred, uh to
a certain degree. Like obviously, Kyle Whittingham not officially retiring,
he's stepping down, Morgan Scolly taking over as the head
coach for the University of Utah. He's keeping options open.
Where do you think Kyle Whittingham ends up and why?
Speaker 1: Well, he seems like a lifer as far as it
is for the Utah football program. He's had a terrific career.
He's taken Utah to places they've never been, heights they've
never reached. And as you've mentioned on the show and
I am in this camp as well, much of that
reputation has been built on the domination he had over
the YU for you know, ninth straight. Is it time
for him to step down, that's up to him, and
I think he earned that for sure. If he wanted
to come back another year and try to get that
last win against BYU, he's certainly welcome to do that.
But it does appear that this is it for him
as head coach at Utah. I don't know what he's
interested in. I mean, if I close to that program,
I don't know. Maybe he just wants to ride to
jet ski and right off into the sunset. But you know,
he doesn't seem like an administrative type to me, like
someone that would be an ad or special consultant. It
would seemed to me he's the kind of guy that
would just say, you know what, finished, and now I'm
gonna check out my grandkids and go on the lake
and have some fun. So we'll see. But certainly a
former Cougar who made himself into a very very good
college football coach.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: You know, is it the right thing for the university
to say, you know, Kyle, we need you to step down.
It's Morgan Scalley's turned You're a legacy, You're a legendary coach.
Speaker 2: You just like who like. Utah is a top fifteen
football team this year.
Speaker 3: They're three points away from beating their rival on the road,
and they lost to the number four team in the country,
Texas Tech at home, and they gave it a good
effort through three quarters. This is a very very very
good football team led by a very very very good
football coach. He probably you know. I mean, look, he's
got more juice, he's got more gas in the take.
Was this the right thing for the university to do?
All things considered a legendary coach, Well, like I said.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that he had a lot of input
into whether it was time or not. And as we
get along in some of these coaches who've been around
a while and they start to look ahead and see
private equity. They've gone through the NIL and the transfer
portal and all of these things that are changing the
way they have to do their job. And older guys,
older coaches, I think a lot of them look at
it and think this is not what I signed up for,
and it's time to do something else or let somebody
else do it. And that might be where Kyle is.
I mean, he's definitely been grumpy the last couple of years.
That could be because they were losing to BYU, but
maybe he just doesn't want to do it the way
that is required now in terms of every year having
to try to retain everybody that may get a better
offer somewhere else, and that's difficult as a coach to
build those those programs you want, and you know, I
think it's difficult for college basketball coaches. There's you know,
one hundred guys you got on the football team you
have to worry about. So that could be part of
it as well.
Speaker 3: Donald Dixon double D the Daily Heraldi and here on
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American Fork double d. This this BYU football team getting
prep getting ready for the Pop Tarts Bowl.
Speaker 2: Very excited about it. Top twenty five teams, Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: They have an opportunity to cement themselves this team as
one of the best teams in BA football history if
they win.
Speaker 2: You know where would you rank this this team?
Speaker 3: They're probably top twelve, top eleven, maybe top ten in
the College Football Playoff Final poll at AP pole.
Speaker 2: You know what type of special season do you think
this is?
Speaker 1: I do think that until they change the way that
the process works, you really need to have a good
ranking to start the season. And we thought this BYU
team this year would be maybe top fifteen until Jake
Kretzlov left and they weren't a top twenty five teen
or twenty six in the opening poll. But to be
in the top twenty year, in the top fifteen gives
you a leg up if you have a great season,
And so I mean, I think if they win the
Bowl game, they would deserve to be at least top fifteen,
maybe higher with what they've got coming back. We don't know.
I mean, that's AP voters, and they're kind of thick.
Oh I know, I used to be one, So you know,
you don't know how that's going to turn out. But
it is a frustrating thing I think for BYU fans
and for the program itself to be winning the games
that you think you need to win and putting yourself
in a good position and a committee decides no, you're
not good enough. The only way to take it out
of their hands is to win every game, And then
BYU fans and coach to the Brighton will probably do
something else to us, like give us a bad seed,
or you know, there's always this complex of being picked
on and taking advantage of. But I think by you,
over the course of the past two years, like twenty
two and four, they get shown that they're a good
program and need to be reckoned with and a good
start to that next season would be to win the
bowl game and to be a top end to fifteen
ranking to start the season.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a special season, no doubt. And I think
there's two things that will impact Kugarnation how they view this.
It's going to be that potential win or loss versus
Georgia Tech in the Popdars Bowl. And then the secondary
think is where Texas Tech ends up. Where do you
think that had What do you think happens with Texas Tech?
Do you think they take the Natty double D.
Speaker 1: I think their defense allows them to be in every
single game they're going to play in the tournament and
could get them to a position to win it. They're
good enough. I don't think that BA has played a
defense that good in a long time. And I think
Aaron Rodgerick admitted that this week that that might be
the best defense he's ever coached against. That puts you
in a good position against anybody, and I think it's
why and open enough where you know Indiana is the
top team in the country. That's crazy, but it's what's
happening this year, and I think Texas Tech can beat
anybody that's in that field with that defense that they have,
So that would certainly make things look good for BYU
if Texas Tech can can advance in the playoffs and
and even win a championship. It also shows what you
can do when you take care of your nil and
get the right guys and pay the right amounts to
get that defense in there. That's what they did. And
I don't say that you facetiously. I fit in with
the respect because just because you have the money doesn't
mean you make the right decisions with everybody that you
went out and got, and Texas Tech made a lot
of really good decisions and brought in some really good
players that have turned out to make that defense so good.
Speaker 3: Double D Jay Hill was asked whether or not he
wants to be a head coach someday, and he said sure,
but then he kind of went back and forth. He
likes where he's at, he loves where he's at. He
had to be the right spot, the right time, the
right place for him and his family.
Speaker 2: What was your eval of that? Read between the lines?
What does he really saying? What do you make of it?
Speaker 1: The thing that I'm ready was between the lines was
that he was a little taken by surprise with the
question and was trying to answer it the best way
he could, but then started thinking about mid answer, sort
of went around circular answered the whole thing. I mean,
I think that it's something he considers, but he really
enjoys what he's doing right now, and I have to be,
as he said, the right situation for him and his family.
But you start putting together seasons back to back to
back as a defensive coordinator like he's done and like
he's doing, and you're going to get those offers. So
it's something that he needs to consider, and it's something
he will consider, and it's definitely a compliment to the
program that there is interest in someone like Jay Hill
to be a head coach. He's already been a head
coach at the lower level, but what he's doing with
this defense to help put BYU in this position is
something that is drawing attention and he needs He will
consider it. But I do think that that particular question,
he didn't really exactly know how he wanted to answer it,
so he sort of kind of did both and answered
it both ways.
Speaker 2: So what do you think he was really saying? Then
read between lines double d What he.
Speaker 1: Was really saying was, yes, I'd love to be a
head coach, but now's not the time to talk about it.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're probably right. Where do you think he
would end up?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: What's the idealic location head coaching wise, culture wise?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: You know Jay, You've been covering him now for a
long time. You see him at Utah Utah man am I.
Then he goes to Weaver State, he comes to BYU.
What's the idealic look. I think he turned down the
Utah State job last year. Bronco Maendaal end up getting it,
so you know he turned that down. Well, what do
you what do you think? What's the idealic location for
j Hill?
Speaker 1: A really good question. I hesitate to think that coaches
who have been out in this area in the Mountain
West and they're familiar with the West coast and maybe
a little bit southwest, like you know, Texas, some of
those areas, I don't think they want to go east.
I think there's just not as much of a fit
with any programs out there if he were to go,
I don't know for a State or you know, Carolina State,
some of those schools out there. I think anything in
Texas or West would be a place where he would
probably feel comfortable recruiting and finding coaches and feeling comfortable
with his family. I don't think a complete relocation unless
it's for you know, seeing amount of money and guarantees
in the East would be where you want to go. So,
you know, like I said, anything in Texas would be good.
You know, any of the Arizona schools.
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a new era. And again it
has to be the right place and the right fit
for Heat and his family. And you know, we were
ben you and I are familiar with BYU coaches who
were lifers. Even the assistants didn't go anywhere. They stayed
in Provo for their whole career. And that's that's kind
of not what I expect to happen in the future,
especially if the YU keeps winning. It just seems like
there's going to be more coaches that would be getting
offers to leave. So far, we haven't lost really anybody
that can think of significantly, but it could happen.
Speaker 3: Crazy times in Cougar Country could be occurring in the future.
Look BYU is in a good spot. Eleven and two,
eleven and two. Chance to go twelve and two this season,
it'd be glorious. They just signed the top a top
twenty one class in college football. It's the best recruiting
class in BAU football history. It doesn't seem like there's
going to be any coaching staff attrition. We've only seen
two enter the portal from the offensive side. They're both
wide receivers le Mason Waller and and and Dom McKenzie.
Speaker 2: That is a loss. Both those guys are very talented.
They had people offers. What's the state of the program?
Double D? Is this the new glory day?
Speaker 3: You grew up in the eighties, you and g Man
it was a glorious time to be a Cougar fan?
Speaker 2: Is this the new glory? Is the modern day glory
days for Cougar football?
Speaker 6: It really is?
Speaker 1: And And because BYU decided to, uh, you know, restructure
the contract for Klannie and he got his assistance raises
as well, and some of some of the staff members
you mentioned the recruiting class, they're definitely on a trajectory
that puts them among the elite. And you know, you
and I had this conversation last week you were asking
about a question of the day, something about you know,
what could maybe derail what by was trying to do,
And I said that college sports may go somewhere that
BYU doesn't want to go, and that might be private equity.
I don't know. I mean we at this point by
US as an a really good trajectory and momentum, but
the future is unknown and we look around and see
the discussion. You know, a Notre Dame thinking maybe it
wants to join a conference, but who in they have
would want them in their conference. You know that that
kind of ego and that kind of a mess would
just not be a lot of fun for current members
of any conference. You know, we're seeing conferences with eighteen
was the ACC had like eighteen members and they had
five teams tie for second. I mean, it's just a mess.
And things changed in the playoff system, so you know,
it's it's difficult to reject ahead too far. But as
you finish up twenty twenty five and head to twenty
twenty six, this is a program that is putting itself
in a great position to be competitive every single year.
Speaker 3: Double D talking about the glory days now the modern
days of glory here in the b YU Cougar football world.
The signing class something that we haven't talked about with you.
I know you're not one for for recruiting necessarily, but
look what a great signing class and a lot of
in state recruits you keep you keep tabs on the
Utah prep scene. Is this the turning of the tide
when you're seeing BYU win in state for the majority
of these high level recruits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a very positive sign. And I
have seen quite a few of these guys play. You know,
kawi Akana, Lapetti Mwala, He's he's our Valley Player of
the Year from RMI. He's just a great defensive player
that's headed to b YU, Bought Mulutalo.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of really good players in Utah and
and they just impact the game. And that's kind of
what I watch when I watch high school football especially,
you know, you hear about certain players are really good.
I want to see how they impact the outcome of
the game. How they do that on sides of the
ball or one side of the ball, or you know
they are they out there every single play or are
they taking plays off? I mean they're it's easy to
see at the high school level, and there's a lot
of really good players that BYU has brought in, And
of course they're extending beyond the Utah and bringing in
great players from other parts of the country as well.
So it's a really terrific recruiting class, and I think
that they're close to being a top twenty class is
pretty amazing when you consider when Bronco was here. I
remember we were talking about most of the Regreen Glasses
were in the eighties or nineties. It seems like they
really made that work for them. And part of that
is the money. I mean, obviously, when you can pay
athletes in this day and age, it works well for you.
But it's also the culture. It's also the kind of
experience they're promising. It's what they're telling the parents and families,
We're going to take care of your boy. We're going
to make sure he knows how to live is life
and what he's going to do after football, and those
things resonate with the parents and families and even the
kids nowadays. They understand this is really important for me,
not only to play football, but to do whatever it
is I want to do. For the rest of my life.
So all those things together have created a program that
people want to be part of.
Speaker 3: It's a special time, no doubt about a double d
What what are you going to be writing about? What
can we see at the Daily Herald, the Daily Heraldi
and Penning pieces, you know.
Speaker 2: I love them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're as I mentioned, we're during our all valley
for we did for soccer and girls volleyball and football
is going in tomorrow's paper. That's a that's a beast
of a of a of a bunch of work. And
then you know it's basketball season and this BYU men's
basketball team is really something else and putting them in
some uh spotlight kind of positions. I mean, what be
what you accomplished at Mattson Square Garden with a last
second victory against Clemson on Tuesday. It's just insane. I mean,
you see the reaction of people in the stands, You
see reaction to people online that aren't necessarily affiliated with
b YU but recognize game. I mean, these three guys,
AJ and Richie and Rob Wright, they are legit NBA
players and not only that, but they are great college
players that are going to possibly lead this program. Beyond,
but it's ever where it's ever been. So it's really
fun to follow this team and to see what Kevin
Young and his staff have cooked up this year because
it's really a completely different kind of team in terms
of how they attack and how they play defense. And
it's just amazing to me that b YU was able
to go out and get a Kevin Young that I
think is one of the smartest coaches I've ever seen
at any level, especially in the college level. He's doing
terrific job he and his staff and making this a
national contender out of Provo.
Speaker 3: It's crazy Double d Donell Dixon talking BYU Sports, last thing,
is BYU a football school or a basketball school?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 1: Man? I mean like directly right now or over the door.
I have to take into account the entirety of BYU
Sports or can I is it just today? Like right now?
Speaker 2: What's your feeling on it?
Speaker 5: Right? Like?
Speaker 3: It's so funny, right, what's the feeling on it right now?
Because you have an ad who is over basketball now
he's over football. You just had a contract extension. This
is a great deal, right that you know? This extension?
What's the the word they've used, like unprecedented U presitented
deal in uh in provo.
Speaker 2: Right, it's never been done. We don't know the details,
but it's never happened before ever.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: But in BLAU football eleven and two, eleven and two.
Speaker 3: Last two seasons, BAU basketball has a sweet sixteen run
and a lot of nil, a lot of nil resources.
Speaker 2: Billions of dollars. You know, you could say millions is
do you get a sense?
Speaker 3: Brian Santiago said football drives the ship, but some may
not believe him.
Speaker 2: What do you make of it?
Speaker 3: Read between the lines football school or football or basketball school?
Speaker 2: Double D.
Speaker 1: I think I'd still lean towards it being a football
school for a number of reasons. One is you have
the entire summer where nothing's going on, in the anticipation
for twelve games of college football or thirteen when you
talk about the bowl game, it just drives people insane.
And there's you know, they put sixty thousand people in
the stands every home game. I just think football it's
more a little bit more of a football school. But
Kevin Young and BYU basketball are making a hard push
it at creating some competition with that as well. And
when you're talking about Glanie's salary and what just happened
this last week. I can't help but think about Lavelle
Edwards making barely six figures and working on a year
to year deal where he just walk into the office
and go I think I want to coach again, and
they're like, okay, same contract as last year. Okay, got it.
They moved on. Certainly that's not the case anymore. But
I would lean towards football as Brian Santiago Mans is
still driving the ship.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. Double D has declared it. It
is truth.
Speaker 3: It is Naked's doctrine, it is BYU sports athletic doctrine.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: Darnell speaketh into the mic, Double ed, I always love
talking ball with you. Always great conversation. Appreciate you, buddy.
Thanks ropping off for a cougar beat.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, YouTube man, have a great weekend as well. That
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the stuff that was prevalent obviously, you know,
I hadn't caught up with him in a while, so
started with the nice one about Hey, I was Thanksgiving,
you know one I always ask about people's families. Football
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I didn't shy away from those things. I think, you know,
you have to ask those questions. And then I said,
from yourster vantage point, you're in the room where not
we don't see things as medium members and the fans
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linebackers is going up against Baron LJ.
Speaker 6: Please give us some insight on that.
Speaker 4: And he says that the reason that the off that
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Speaker 2: We were caught up with Justin and the linebackers coach
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that we you crank it up a little bit more
for the pop Tarts goal.
Speaker 4: Gives daughts On a pop Tarts bowl. I supposed to
be Norton Dame at first, and then being Georgia Tech.
Speaker 6: YEA excited.
Speaker 5: I mean both are good teams, so we're really excited
about Georgia Tech. They got an explosive offense. It all
goes through that quarterback and he's he's special right there.
I think that Aine Skiing is a is a really
really good football player, and uh with him running the
ball or passing the ball, he's he's a dual threat
and he's the offensive rush leader.
Speaker 6: So we better be able to stop him for sure.
Pop tarts ball, opportunity to go down to Orlando.
Speaker 4: What are the activities you guys got planned to go down?
Speaker 5: You know, I think we're got Disney World and we
got like Universal Studios, so I'm pretty excited about that.
Here there's a lazy river at the hotel, so I
might just be getting as much of the sun as
I can.
Speaker 4: Absolutely got to get the sun, definitely while you're in Orlando.
Any any golf, any golf plan. I am a horrible golfer,
so I will not touch that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not very good at golf.
Speaker 4: So all right, the light had yourself us get back
to the serious thing. Evaluate how Jack Asiana Glasster linebacker
room has performing the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jack hitting that ten sacks was a big deal.
I'm excited to see even gets a couple more. Great
leader does things right. I'm excited to just see him
go out with with a thing. Isaiah Glasker's got another year.
Whether he stays or not, we don't know, and so
it's really up to him. It's been banged up a
little bit throughout the year, but I think he's starting
to hit that peak.
Speaker 6: Again of making sure that he's just locked in and
doing what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 5: They're both both again, they're all conference players, and I
would love to get him back. But if he doesn't
come back, appreciate of what he's done for the program
you mentioned.
Speaker 6: You know, getting back is no secret. Obviously he could
declared for the draft. How do you manage as a
coach and having those conversations with the players, You know
what it's it's it's all about the players these days.
Speaker 5: So again, whatever they feel is best for them, we'll
sway him either way what we believe, but completely.
Speaker 6: It's up to them.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're grown men and they get to make
their own decisions and choices and and well we'll support them.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent. So again, when it's all said and done,
it's it's their choice.
Speaker 4: When I talked to you about a year ago, he
said that Isaiah Glaska is one of the best athletes.
Speaker 6: That you've coached and that he can be.
Speaker 4: How do you feel like that assessment has come into
coruition now a year later.
Speaker 5: No, I still believe that, And that's one thing I
think with a few of uh he's been banged up
a little bit here and there, but he is by far,
and I think I told him that this week, that
he's the best athlete that I've coached thus far. It's
now just making sure that we get the very most
out of him too as well. And so and again
there's there's injuries that do occur, but it's also making
sure that we understand what we have and we try
to be put him in the best position possible.
Speaker 6: And Coach Hill does a heck of a job that way.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm telling you that's why that's why Jack
Kelly has ten sacks, is because we know what their
strengths are and this is are and we want to
make sure we always play to their strengths.
Speaker 4: Evaluate guys, how ASKFUSI and Max Alfred a player.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I love I love As and Max there.
They're really good football players. The way they're flying around.
I'm excited to see Max come back from his injury.
Speaker 6: And he's he's a tough guy.
Speaker 5: He's a throw kind of a throwback in one of
those guys where he just he loves ball. Ace is
a very good athlete, a lot in the way of
Isaiah Glasger. Long, tall, athletic and uh and then a
mismatch for a lot of people. He's he's great to
put on a tight end or a running back because
of his length, and they do some good things. Sally again,
I love his speed, the ability of him just flying
around and letting him play football. And so we just
got to make sure they keep on working on on
just the instincts with all our young backers, making sure
that they see what they're supposed to see and then
go attack. And so I love what Dewey Gray said,
just again, we need to be more violent, more physical,
and that's going to be a huge, huge focus for
spring ball, making sure that we're more violent physical and
that we that were hell raisers inside.
Speaker 4: Speaking of more violent physical, getting Brax and Lindsay. You
can talk about it now, the signing class of the
twenty twenty six class.
Speaker 6: What do you like about it?
Speaker 5: Oh, there's there's there's a bunch of guys. I can
go on and on with those crews. I think Braxton
is just a tough guy. I hope we get him
in January and he's gonna be He's gonna be exciting
to be on our roster because of what he is.
Whether he's an outside back or an inside back or
a d N he can do it all. But the
kid is a kid loves football and a guy that
loves football. We can't get enough of those guys here
at b YU.
Speaker 4: Coach, what does that say about the program being down
an SEC team like Arkansas coming to BYU.
Speaker 6: The times are changing and by autheticals, it really has.
So it all pretty much works around Kilane, right. So
the culture is very very strong here and.
Speaker 5: It's it's making sure that we find the guy that
fits us. And to be honest with you, a lot
of these guys need BUYU more than Bay he needs them.
But once they figure that out, I mean, b YU
is a We've had a few people transfer out and
I'm telling you a lot of them want back in
because of what we are and because of what Kilani does.
He promotes brotherhood, family love, and they go other places
like hey, it's not the same and it's not the same.
Speaker 6: B Yu is a special place.
Speaker 4: Take us through that moment when he announced that the
team hey staying, not going anywhere.
Speaker 6: That was exciting because there was a good for him.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was like a week for us, it was
like seventy two hours of like touch and go, like
what the heck's going on? And when we were able
to announce that, when he was able to announce that
last week, it was a lot of weight off our
shoulders because we know what he does. We know what
he does not only for the players, the staff, the coaches,
but for our families as well.
Speaker 6: So it's all about making sure that we take care
of family and.
Speaker 5: He is a perfect example of emulating love and making
sure that everyone.
Speaker 4: Is part of the full Ron Weaver here with Cougler
Sports Here with linebackers coach Justin and a coach Clnnie
said that Chae Brown strala coming back next season.
Speaker 5: How has he been so far? I think with the rehabbit, Yeah,
Chase done a good job. So he towards acl the
week of the Stanford game, and so he's probably about
three months out and he's done a really good job.
He went out to a surgeon in Atlanta, and he's
kind of fast tracking right now. I think we want
to make sure that we're we're not pushing him in
too quick.
Speaker 6: But he is flying around and doing a lot of
things right now, and I think he's ahead of schedule.
Speaker 4: Last couple of things for me, what is it going
to take defensive wives from the group to be able
to pull off this one against Georgia Tech in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: It's just when you're one eleven, being more assitement sound.
They they run that quarterback. I mean, there's a lot
of misdirection everywhere. It's going to be making sure it's
almost the option football, right. Make sure we have someone
for the dive. It's the keep and the pitch and
and and all the aspects in all the realm of
the of our defense is making sure that we do
our job.
Speaker 6: And if we have eleven guys doing our job, we'll
be successful. Last two things I'll ask you.
Speaker 4: One is about the offensive player of the Year as
well as the freshman year.
Speaker 6: Have they made this defense better? Better back mari J Martin.
Speaker 5: Yeah, LJ is a beast, and so like when you
when you're dealing with a guy that's just power and
speed and just a humble, humble teammate. He makes everybody
around him better and then having their step up in
the way that he did when we needed someone to
step up.
Speaker 6: He's just he's he's Uh.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you can really describe an eighteen
nineteen year old kid with all the weight of the
world on him, of all Creer nations just watching him
and he's rosen the occasion.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm really really grateful for both.
Speaker 5: Those guys and really for the whole offense right for
making sure that everybody was in tune in step and
making our defense out much better. So going through fall camp,
and it's nice because we still go good versus good
this whole season, and it's fun to see the development
not only on the defensive side of the ball, but
the offensive side.
Speaker 6: They just keep on getting better.
Speaker 4: You mentioned, offense, keep getting better. Look you're in the room,
give us a little bit of insight. There's always these
and I don't understand it. The negative things about you know, offense,
and fans don't understand what's going on. You guys obviously
know way more than we do. But I feel like
the disrespecting Aaron Roddocks sometimes is too far. To have
a coordinator have a too freshman eleven and two. I mean,
I don't know what else you can ask for. No, no, no,
that's that's almost impossible.
Speaker 5: I mean that's I kind of compare it to having
an inside backer that was a freshman trying to come
in and play.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's nearly impossible.
Speaker 5: And not only that, the very most important position of
all positions at quarterback, and what he does with their
is just it's been phenomenal. We're we're eleven and two
because of a rod.
Speaker 6: Definitely last day coach favorite pop tarts. I like the
cinnamon and sugar Womans. It's really good. And that's okay.
Kellie likes those two and they're they're they're tasty.
Speaker 5: I'm not a big pop tart guy as much, but
I'll make sure I get a box or two and
make sure I down on So.
Speaker 6: So what are you a big what? What's your favorite sweet?
Speaker 5: I guess treat then you know what I like candy
so like nerve rope and stuff like that, and I
love Skittles.
Speaker 6: What's your favorite? They have a bunch of new flavors
coming out. I'm standard. I go with the red bag
and that's about it right for me. I like O Gackers.
Coach doesn't everybody? Thanks Roy, Thanks coach, appreciate you, thank you. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: That's Ronald the three man Weaver getting caught up with
Justin Ena your linebackers. It's got a lot of gems there, Roddy,
tremendous amount of gems.
Speaker 2: How about that hot take? Hey we're we're eleven to
two because.
Speaker 6: Of a rod.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Look, I think the best way been to
sometimes get the best answers from is just to ask it,
you know, and preface a little bit like, hey, this
is coming out like, you know, give a defend, you know,
and in that way, my job is asked a question.
Speaker 6: I thought it was a great answer of it's nearly impossible.
He compared it to his room.
Speaker 4: It's like taking an inside back und as a freshman
to say, hey, do this, it's nearly impossible to do.
Speaker 6: And we're eleven and two because of a rod.
Speaker 4: That was a quote I mean and look he talked
about also the culture of BYU, right, Kalani stan, A
lot of guys will leave BYU and they want back
in because they realize and I should have maybe asked
them who are those guys? And maybe that's an off
record conversation, but he mentioned there are people that have
left at one back, right, that see the success that
the grass isn't always green or been right, that that's
how it goes.
Speaker 6: And I think that's powerful of you know that he said.
Speaker 4: He said that he says people BYU needs these players
more than they need BYU, and I thought that was
extremely powerful, and I agree with that. There's so many
people that whether members of the church or not, that
can make an impact. You're like, look, yeg Or, let's
just to basketball, right, I know I always bring that up.
You're telling me that by you didn't need didn't need
Yegor more than yegor need a BYU, you know, like
it was a matchmate in heaven. But I love that example,
sena troior like right, b Yu needed those type of people,
Like I know some people are gonna look at this
in a negative light, and you can come from me, right,
there has to be accountable.
Speaker 6: But I even believe Jake Rhetz laugh.
Speaker 4: I believe Jake bought into his faith, you know when
he became the starting quarterback. I think he truly fully changed,
you know, wearing his faith around his neck, right, still
doing it at too late?
Speaker 6: That changes you, right. There are things that maybe you
don't know.
Speaker 4: We evolve every year, ben So I love that those
are a couple of gyms that he brought up and
look to be funny. He's not a big pop Tarts
guy been, but he's an O G Skittles guy.
Speaker 2: I like it. I like about Shay Bryant Strather make
it his way back.
Speaker 3: Don't want to rush him too much, but he's gonna
be a baller for Brigham next season should be Uh
should vote well for Brigham as you know, you you
could You're gonna lose a couple of key playmakers, uh,
you know, and Jack Kelly and and maybe others. Right, So,
uh did you did you ask him about I g
Isaiah Glasker?
Speaker 6: Yes, I did. I asked him about I.
Speaker 5: G Uh.
Speaker 4: He said that that you know, Isaiah has a decision
to make and he and again good inside another one
maybe not as big as the other ones. He's gonna
they they said, they try to sway him, you know,
but at the end of the day they're going in.
They said, so yeah, So I G has a decision
to make Ben. It sounds like they've given their pitch.
It's some TOI He's gonna probably test where he's at.
But he's another one that could could come back.
Speaker 5: Ben.
Speaker 6: But I G's in that process. I think with l J.
Martin and you know Keanu Tonavas as well, those guys.
Could they go or could they come back with that last.
Speaker 2: Year, No doubt about it, No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Great segment, great interview, fantastic question and comments from you
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