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men's basketball. How about ag De Bonsa. He has been
named Jersey Mike's Natesmith Trophy Men's finalists.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: The freshman has joined on the list by Arkansas Darius Acuff,
Junior Duke's Cameron Brewiser and Michigan's XL. Lindenborg. Congratulations to Aj,
one of four finalists for the Jersey Mike's Naysmith Trophy.
The Atlanta tip Off Club announced today the Naismith Award
for Men's College Basketball Player the Year has been presented
annually since nineteen sixty nine. Nice The winner will be
announced Sunday, April fifth, at the Nasmith Awards Brunch presented
by Jersey Mike's Love Me Some Jersey Mix We Gotta
Get Them as a sponsor during men's the Men's Final
Four at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis. The nation's
leading score to Bonsa averaged twenty five point five points
per game while shooting fifty one percent from the field,
thirty one point one percent from three, and seventy seven
point four percent from the charity stripe. His eight hundred
and ninety four points are third most scored by a
freshman NCAA Division One men's basketball history and the most
since Kevin Durant had since he had in two thousand
and seven, he had nine hundred and three points, so
he was the Big twelve Freshman of the Year. Scored
in double figures in thirty five of his games. In
all of his thirty five games as the Cougars included
twenty eight twenty performances, sorry twenty eight twenty point performances
and eight thirty point performances highlighted by a freshman record
forty three point points that was a forty burger in
a win over Utah on January twenty fourth, one of
our favorite games of the season, no doubt about it
here on ESPN the Fan in Cougar Sports. He averaged
thirty one points per game in the Big Twelve Tournament,
where he broke Durant's tournament scoring record with ninety three points.
Hotly Conoli, he recorded his first thirty ten and ten
triple double in program history. He recorded the first ever
a thirty ten to ten triple double in program history
and second only by the Big twelve player by a
Big twelve player, and ba's win over Eastern Washington on
December twenty second, twenty twenty five, finishing with thirty three
points ten rebounds in a career high tennis shists, showing
his playmaking ability in my opinion, this year, fans will
have a say in determining the winner through the Naysmith
Awards Fan Vote presented by Jersey Mikes starting March twenty seventh.
This is interesting. Fans can visit www dot naysmithfanvote dot
com to cast their ballot for the Jersey Mikes Nasmith
Trophy finalists. Voting ends noon Eastern on April first, and
fans are limited to one vote per day. The fan
vote will count for five percent of the total vote.
You know what I'm seeinging, Ronnie, it's time to jimmer
the poll. I've already voted every hour. You can only
do it once per day.
Speaker 4: I know, I'm joking. That means I haven't voted. I
have not.
Speaker 5: I'll leave this to the fans, right because I'm not.
It's only five percent of the way, but I know,
But I mean, I'm a media member, so I didn't.
I have sent it all my family and friends though,
and they definitely did vote.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 5: There's a group chat I'm in with some family members
that are guys and some of our friends and all
the brothers that voted, and they was mad, like only
once a day, it should be once per hour. I said, well,
if you do that, then Age is gonna He's already
gonna win it. You know, if you give he's gonna
win the fan vote. Let me be declared, but it's
gonna even go further. But yes, you have to jumber
the poll. So if you're listening right now, aj Debotza
deaf and needs to be voted for every single day
by every fan along the Wassats front in Arizona. I
know they are Lds people there in Mesa and in Gilbert,
in Texas, in Orlando where we love California.
Speaker 4: Not many of you in Chicago, But don't do that.
Do it for Ronald the three men Weaver.
Speaker 5: But anyway, the point I'm bringing up is, I'm going
on this tangent dietrit is age is gonna win the
fan vote, I think.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 4: We'll see if he wants the award.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna win it. I don't know
if he deserves it, but I do love that he's
being recognized as the best player in orderably he is
the best player in college basketball despite what happened with
his team.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, that's uh. You know, we know these were
these awards. Yes, they're about the team, but m v P.
When they look at I know they're like, well, your
personal success to transition to your team success. That's more
of the NBA because everybody's talented in college.
Speaker 4: That's not the case. I don't I don't agree with that.
Speaker 5: They had six season ending injuries, Ben, that's the most
I've ever seen in my life in a really, really
long time. I don't know if I've seen anybody else.
And you saw other teams were able to do without
their best player. You know, Christian Anderson could only take
Texas Tech so far. So I don't know. AJ was
one of a cond all around great player. For the
fact that that led the nation to scoring bin and
they didn't have their the heart and the soul of
the team and they had all those injuries tells me
what this team really could have been. So I mean,
for the fact he's a finalist, when was the last time,
you know, you saw a BYU basketball player be a finalist.
So I'm gonna be honest. I'm not trying to be rude,
and I would love to be proven wrong. But I
don't know if Bruce Branch is gonna be a finalist
in these awards next year because he's coming to BYU.
He might be a semi finalist, But AJ's on a
different calibers, on a different beast. So I mean, yeah,
but anyway, everything, like you just said in our previous segment,
nothing really matters because ajb Utah, he had all the
time great performance and that is like bear Bachmeyer AJ's
forty three bear Bachmeyer. There's a bear on the loose
in provo that will submit them into the raptors. You
know what I love about both of those, Both of
those or non LDS guys that had big time moments
in BOE basketball history. So you have the Gimmers, You've
had the Jonathan Tabinari's, the leak Kamartz, and now you
have the bear bach Myers. You have the aj De Balances.
So I love to see that Ben for byus. You
have the people of the faith, and now you have
those not of the.
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Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 3: We got the six foot three, two hundred and thirty
five pound linebacker Salt Lake City Olympus High School where
he bowled out on the rugby pitch as well. Let's
welcome in my guy, Ben Bywater to the show. What's
up Ben?
Speaker 1: Then? What's up?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm living the dream baby, feeling good and yeah, man,
all is well in my life. Feel grateful and happy.
We're in spring right and we're getting more sun, getting
the vitamin D. I know you're an outdoors man. I
know you like to get out and about and do
crazy things, whether it's on the motorcycle or just maybe
hiking a mountain or hunting, doing crazy stuff, so I'm
sure you're grateful.
Speaker 1: Right now, man, I've got my tarp off.
Speaker 7: I'm just catching some rays right now on the work
from home schedule.
Speaker 1: So it couldn't have fit better.
Speaker 3: Love it, man, Well, give us a little update. Where
you working, what are you doing, Give us update on work,
and then we'll talk family.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so doing a few different things.
Speaker 7: But I am working for the Miller Group, so Larry H.
Speaker 1: Miller Company.
Speaker 7: You guys probably obviously if you're listening to this, you
probably know them as the group that had the automotive dealerships.
They divested all of those back in twenty twenty one.
Obviously they own the Jazz and then, so that's right,
Smiths grew.
Speaker 1: But now it's it's a family office.
Speaker 7: They're doing a bunch of cool things, and I am
on the sports and entertainment side, so we're trying to
bring an MLB team to Utah.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of like all hands on deck there.
Speaker 7: But they obviously own the Salt Lake Bees.
Speaker 1: They just bought into RSL Real Salt Lake and then
the Megaplex theater chain. So it's fun. I mean, we've
got my hands in a bunch of.
Speaker 7: Different pots and I'm doing FP and A form so
it's financial ops.
Speaker 1: So it's been it's been great. I'm doing that and
then what I also.
Speaker 7: Help out with the family office called Watersome Capital where
it's real estate private credit so it's all you know,
collateralized loans, short term bridge financing, lending on all different
sorts of projects. But that's been awesome as well. So
it's picking up right now this time of year. So
doing that and I'm enjoying both of them. I'm happy,
I'm healthy and training for a marathon, so that's been
a grind a love of eighteen miles this morning. So man,
I mean these marathon these marathoners are no joke. I
got such respect for these people. So I'm trying to
move my two and twenty com body around. It's not easy,
but we are getting it done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't don't you know that like fast twitch athletes
should not do slow twitch sports.
Speaker 5: Like you you're Yeah, I mean, look, I love it
that you're doing it. Your challenge is up.
Speaker 3: But like I'm I'm dangerous over short distances, not long distances.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know I've heard that, and I just
don't know if I'm I'm a quick twitch athlete anymore, sadly,
so I'm morphed into the the software. So it's been good.
But yeah, just for the mind too, So it's been great.
But your life is life is awesome.
Speaker 3: How's the body feeling. I know you had the shoulder injury.
Is that coming back? Do you feel like you're getting
back up to one hundred percent yet with the shoulder.
Speaker 7: It's interesting because my obviously I had nerve damage, and
the motor control in my deltoid is fine, like I
can move my arm, but my frontal delt it's still
it looks I mean, it's just skin and bone.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like a did it it's real fun day.
It looks weird, but I can still golf. I can
do everything.
Speaker 7: But uh yeah, I mean it hasn't come back full health,
but I can.
Speaker 1: All my day to day functions are fine.
Speaker 7: But you know, sadly, like playing football was it was
over for me when that happened, unfortunately, But I'm feeling
I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: Thanks for asking.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, did did the doctor lit that that
nerve will ever regenerate? Can the milin sheet effort it's
been stretched out for that one kind of like that
muscular you know, nerve intervation innervation does that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So actually I'll tell you a quick story. When I
was coming back. So twenty twenty three was my senior year.
I got hurt Game four versus Kansas, and then I
was trying to make it back for twenty twenty four
and I thought it was just a routine shoulder tear. Uh,
it was my labrum, and so I went out had
doctor elatrosh in LA's the RAMS team doctor.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: He patched me up, he put the anchors in, got
my labor and put together. But after a week, like
we went and did some checkup calls and he's like, hey,
something's not right with your shoulder. Like you should go
see my buddy at the USC CATCH School of Medicine.
So I went over there and it's this guy from Slovenia,
I mean.
Speaker 1: Really smart, really good guy.
Speaker 7: If nerve damage is like people don't have doctors, don't
have nerve damage doctors just like in their phone.
Speaker 1: Like it was hard to get a hold of somebody.
Speaker 7: But he went in, sliced me up and pulled out
the nerve and then tried like jumping it, you know,
like the ready clear you know, and the wake that
nerve back up and I woke up from surgery and
I'll always remember, in like broken English, he's just like, hey,
if this doesn't wake up by July, it probably never will.
And I was like, geez, I mean this was this
was obviously I kept the hush because I was trying
to make it back, and we did everything we could.
We did everything we could to get it back rock
and rolling, and it was all hands on deck. But
and it's come back a lot more so, yes, it well,
if it did wake up, but the nerve reps from
your back to your around your shoulder to the front
kind of where your peck is at right, And so
my rear dell is almost one hundred percent and then
my lateral DELL is about seventy. But my frontal dell
isn't getting that reinnervation like you're saying, But the other
two parts of my deltoid.
Speaker 1: Have, so I think just with time. Yeah, it's it's
it's very you know.
Speaker 7: I went, I was back and forth in the Mayo
Clinic in Minnesota, and they were really happy with my progress.
So I think it's probably plateauing, but I'm still working it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I was actually having a conversation about like milind sheath
and like nerve health with with one of my employees
actually earlier this week, and I was like, well, we
were asking we were talking about the composition of like
the milin sheath, like from like a if you were
to kind of like dissect it into what its structure is,
and there's like fatty lipids and proteins and stuff that
I was like, I wonder how much nutrition can nutrition
play a role in, you know, nerve regeneration, Like how
much does it? Because like what else can It's not
it it's like you know what I mean, it's like
a powercord. It's not like there's blood supply to it.
So anyway, I will have to get off air as
we're talking nerdy here, like if it's fall asleep is
we're talking about it?
Speaker 4: When I was like, so where's that at?
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to figure.
Speaker 3: Out anterior.
Speaker 4: Around the back right here.
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, man, I'm got to schedule some
more delt work.
Speaker 4: Ronald's well no, I'm like all right, but what it is?
Because I was like I was a drap damage.
Speaker 3: Uh you got married recently, Ben how's how's married life?
Speaker 1: Very life is awesome.
Speaker 7: My wife is a rock star, so she makes my
life easy and it's been great. Married life is it's
definitely different right from wheeling and dealing in college, but.
Speaker 1: It's so much better. Like I I've loved it.
Speaker 7: We're living in Salt Lake and so yeah, it's just
it's good having your person and she's, you know, in
my corner, supports me.
Speaker 1: So I'm blast man, it's been awesome.
Speaker 4: Awesome man.
Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, happy for you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Springball.
What do you miss about springball? And what don't you
miss about springball?
Speaker 1: Then? I miss nothing about springball. I miss zero, I
miss I miss springball. Ending it's a man.
Speaker 7: Springball is a grind, and fortunately for me, I was
dealing with so many shoulder bugs in the off season.
Speaker 1: I only had to do like one or two real
real spring balls, but I mean that was enough. I
still got.
Speaker 7: I still wake up in cold sweats thinking about those days.
Just I mean, I shout out to these guys. They
work their tails off.
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard. I mean, if you've.
Speaker 7: Never been through a spring ball, it's like fall camp,
but more physical. I mean, it's there's no game, so
it's they're trying. I don't know how it is now,
but when I was there, it was full pads three
times a week and you're just you're just hating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well contact.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like that was more like Klanni lead
like Ed lamb led. I don't know if you got
to experience a springball with Jay Hill when he was
associate head coach, but you were I think you were
kind of around, but like, where did you feel that
like it was a guy of being pushed from you can?
Do you get a feel for it a vibe for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was there for both. With Kilanie, what happened was.
Speaker 7: A lot of the older classmen were injured, so I
was the one that was just taking on all the
reps and it was real physical in my opinion, because
I was obviously competing and we had some new transfers
coming in and everyone was trying to prove themselves. So
it came from Kilani. I would say he was set
in the tone and this was twenty twenty two, right,
But then when Jay came in, I was hurt. But
I mean, we know how Jay ran practices. It was
I mean, it was no joke. I mean Jay did
a great job too, So two different cultures, but both
are awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. Uh, Look, who are you
excited about this year? What do you know about this
This BAU football team in twenty twenty six. They're coming
off of coming off of two consecutive double digit win seasons.
They go eleven and two, twelve and two. Pretty pretty awesome,
you know, to have that in the powerful conference. Expectations
are high, like sixty nine percent of the returning production
you know, comes back, which is awesome, high expectations. What
do you know about this team?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean if you would have asked me that I
thought we were going to be terrible last year, having
you know, Jake leaving and Bear, and I knew nothing
about Bear, so who knows that my opinion might not
be worth much. But I if you would have told
me we'd have won you know, ten eleven twelve games
last year, I would have I would have laughed. But
what I know about this year is from just what
I've seen on socials and kind of like just putting
my ear to the ground is our transfer portal? We
crushed it. Like Kadu Luive looks great. I know Jake
Clifton's you know, doing as far as backers, those guys
like studs. Obviously led by Isaiah Glasker, who is an
All American type player in my opinion, will be the
first one through three rounder next year. And then I
feel like on offense we got some nice tight ends.
Speaker 1: I think with LJ.
Speaker 7: Will probably run a bunch of twelve personnel, and Bear
I'm sure, with a year of experience under his belt,
will loosen it up and throw it downfield. But that
Kyler Jasper kid looks like an athlete. I'm like, yeah,
I would have loved to play with him.
Speaker 1: He looks good. He looks really good.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean I think the personnel wise, I
think we're there. We got all the pieces. I think
our offensive line has not taken a step. I mean,
they've obviously matured and done well. They did enough last
year for us to crush it, so I'm excited for them.
Speaker 1: And K Pop's gonna do a great job. So I'm
a big fan of K pop.
Speaker 7: I'm sure a bunch of people listening have reservations. Don't
know if he's going to be j Hill, but K
Pop's got all the intensity that Jay had, and he's
come from a unique coaching tree and he's learned a
bunch from Jay, learned a bunch from Bronco. Obviously Killanny,
but yeah, he's a he'll do a great job. So
that's my that's my take on the twenty twenty six Cougars.
Speaker 3: Yeah like that, you know, going off of K pop.
Obviously I played with him, so I have my my
internal you know, friendship biases. But when I was asked this,
I said, look like, if you're looking for like as
close to Jay Hill as you know, because everyone loves Jay, right,
it's like at JJJJ this Jay, and he deserves a
ton of credit for what the Beauilder defense was. But there,
you know, there's a great supporting cast around him, coaching staff,
wives and also personnel wise. But I said, if you
want to get as close to Jay as possible, it's
K pop. I don't know anybody else out there in
the market that is a player's coach, that is, you know,
high intensity on the accountability side of things as well,
But like he coaches you up well with that intensity
and accountability, but you still like him after it all,
Like you see where it comes from. And he's got
great schematic background too. I mean he's been doing this,
you know, seventeen eighteen years between Bronco Kalani j. Gary's
there still. I was like, I thought that was the
best hire. Would you kind of a red with that
assessment of personality?
Speaker 1: I would yes.
Speaker 7: When when he he was always my dark horse in
the race when they were looking for a d C.
Speaker 1: I think uh K pop has a great emotional intelligence.
Speaker 7: Like you said, he's gonna hold people accountable, but he's
you like him, like you like playing for him. He's
a good dude, and I don't think he lets you know,
his friendship get the way of coaching. He'll hold guys accountable,
but it comes from a place of love like you said.
So he's a guy that I thought it was a
home run higher and there was no question.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, the defense has been crushed in
the past few years.
Speaker 7: Let's don't don't change it too much, Like let's not
go external and change the whole whoopy whoop. So I
thought U K Pop was a was a great hire,
and I'm excited to see what he did.
Speaker 1: He I mean, he turned around.
Speaker 7: People don't understand he turned around the whole special teams unity.
Speaker 1: We had had like a kickoff return for a touchdown
since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: And that's when they was there at BYU.
Speaker 7: Exactly and he came back and obviously Keelan and Parker
that I mean, we had amazing special teams un in
these past two years and so so important.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got no I got no doubts about
K pop.
Speaker 4: You have the ten year drought.
Speaker 1: The last.
Speaker 3: Doctor he's he's he loves Yeah, he's a doctor. He's
a doctor of dental science. Or I can't yeah, something
like that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Big question for you. You didn't play this year and
it was your red shirt year, so I don't count that.
So in my book, you know, you're undefeated against Utah.
How does it feel to be undefeated against uh those guys?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: I mean being a Salt Laker, there's nothing better. It's
it's amazing. It's like I can walk around head held high.
You know. It's they like to they like to chirp
up here. It's it's being and I'm living up here
in Salt Lake.
Speaker 1: They like to chirp. They like to talk about the
private equity money.
Speaker 7: But it doesn't erase the fact that you know what
the scoreboard has been in the past few years. So man,
it's hard to complain when you're turing over to Utah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, indeed undefeated. Hey the Bens are undefeated against
Utah because I'm also in defeat, I'm to it, o baby.
Well so we're four and oh together, baby, but what
that means they're six and oh oh yeah, because you
made sure of it. Those only games I played, Well,
I played trash the game. But I'll take it in
my bat. It's doctor of dental surgery. That's what I shouldn't.
I should have known that Adam he and a doctor
dental surgery. Shout out to Adam Hene, one of the
better UH kick returners.
Speaker 1: You gotta get a history.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh yeah, we got to get Adam on, no
doubt about it. Ben. Always, I always appreciate our time. Man.
I can't wait to see what this Billie, you Cougar
football team can do. Love that you said, like, I
don't miss anything about springball. You wonder it does seem though,
like with depth, like when they have depth, there may
not be as much of a need to maybe go
as ferociously live like I don't know if they've had
any like true lie segments. I think they've gone everything
the thud, which does pros and cons right to me,
as long as you're doing pursuit to thud and you're
in good position coming inside out. What I didn't like
in the in the ed Lamb era was like, I
felt like the tag off like a lot of these
guys were never in position to even make the tackle.
They just kind of run by, and I'm like, he
missed that tackle, bro, Like, So, I think there has
to be accountabilit if you're if you're gonna go to
thud and you're not gonna go live, then your pursuits
better be on point with your angles and you better
be in a position to make the tackle in a
true tag off thud situation. Does that make sense?
Speaker 7: No, that makes sense. No, it's one hundred percent practice
how you play. You gotta me in a position to
actually make a tackle. The tag off is it can
be wishy washy. So I'm I'm I'm with you there.
Speaker 3: Not only that, the offensive guys when you do the
tag off, they always like, oh, you didn't touch me.
The house. Everything's to the house, everything's to the house. Like, dude,
I tagged off, Like.
Speaker 5: When you're talking about at every camp house, Tommy, you
did you didn't touch me. It's just like up there
they go and look, it prepares for the game. It
prepares for the game. Guys don't actually get to the house,
you know, when they get to the house.
Speaker 1: They don't even get me started on that.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, now you mentioned Kyler Casper. He's nice, like
he's finally healthy. Right, you have a couple of organ
transfer and Roger Sallypaga number two at the tight ends
spots and then Kyler Casper. Both those guys are going
to be heavily involved. I think in the receiving game,
Roger reminds me of like a bigger uh Neil honestly
from that that slot flex wipe. Yeah, just Neil Neil
was I mean he was awesome, Like yeah, yeah, but
yeah Rogers really he can separate, that's the thing. Like
he can separate through speed, end, quickness, and physicality all three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited about him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my little brother who's committed to be a he's
hot on Roger. I think he want I mean his
high school tip because I knew he tore up his knee,
a little bit of that organ. But he's my little brother,
says Roger's high school tape is pretty pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: Is there a possibility that Adam it's better than Ben?
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 1: I know he's coming, dude, don't mind. I mean, honestly,
I'm I'm high.
Speaker 7: I'm so high for him. He crushed it this year.
If you haven't watched Adams Huddle, go watch it. He
had an amazing year. So I'm really excited for him.
I mean, it's hard right being my little brother. It's
like there's definitely a lot right on his shoulders.
Speaker 1: You're going to live up to it, and he has.
And he's a big boy.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's he reminds me a little bit of
a Lander Barton type build. He's six y four, he's
every bit of six four. I gave him a little
a little bit over six four. Anybody's two twenty now.
And he's smooth. And I think with h the strength
conditioning pro the be what he has, which is top
notch s here, I think Adam can be the Sgui's
Alemba for that kid. Just all about staying healthy, right,
It's time, luck and opportunities so he can do those things.
He's a smart kid. He's a yes or noeser, get
it done, take accountability, and work his tail off. So
I don't see any reason why he won't be better
than me. And he's learned from my mistakes. You guys know,
it took me a little bit to figure it out,
but once it did, it clicked. So I think I'm
really excited for him. He's going to Chile on his mission, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll be back.
Speaker 7: I'm sure he'll be back a little early, probably spring
Ball of twenty eight around there, and we'll be rolling.
Speaker 1: So I'm really happy for him.
Speaker 7: So yeah, if you're a BAU fan, you got a
lot to look forward to an Adam because he's a.
Speaker 3: Stud that's pretty quick. Goes to Chile, You went to Guatemala?
Where did where did Dad go? Where did Pop.
Speaker 1: Pops went to? Dallas, Texas?
Speaker 3: Was it Spanish speaking or was it English speaking?
Speaker 1: It was a Cambodian speaking believe or not.
Speaker 7: That's crazy, Yeah, lots of I think there was a
bunch of refugees that he taught. Wow, so he only
had there was only like six elders that he would
rotate companions.
Speaker 1: So for the full two years.
Speaker 7: Right, he just rotated between six elders that spoke cam body.
Speaker 3: So that's funny good honestly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it depends totally. I had great companions. I got lucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm happy for Adam.
Speaker 1: He's good.
Speaker 3: When does he uh, when does he go into the
EMPTC or when does he leave?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he leaves early June and then it's at home
EMPTC a little bit and then he'll be off to Chile,
I think early July.
Speaker 3: So he just got hooked up with Odeon too. He
got hooked up with Odeon suit.
Speaker 1: Actually he did. He was. He looked, he was suited
and booted. I was.
Speaker 7: I was happy for him. He looked good. So I
love Odion. They hooked me up a bunch of buy
Or when I was at BUYU. They do a great job.
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off ben Bywater Ladies and gentlemen. Always a pleasure, always
a blessing, talking ball with you. Thanks for hopping off
for keeping up with the Cougar segment, h Ben, And
anyway we can support you, let us know for our listeners,
anyway they can support you out there in Cougarnation.
Speaker 7: Man, I'm just I'm in the alumni game next week,
so just take it easy on me.
Speaker 1: If I get my ankles broken. It's been a minute.
I so just have a little patient me.
Speaker 3: Are you going to play the first few years?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And I was, and hey, I we won a lot
of games, and you know I was d C. You
know d C, and up we're slowing things down. My
biggest my biggest mistake like this is this is where
like my empathy and my love for my my fellow
men kind of gets in the way of my coaching
and my strategy. Final drive, right, I'm DC, and there
were some guys that it was their turn to go, right,
it was their turn to go and I didn't put
out my best, my best seven. I didn't put out
my best at it. I said, okay, I'll let you
do it. I guess we got beat the guy. Some
of the back end guys that I shouldn't have had
it in the game. I should have had certain guys
that I were gonna go make plays and execute the scheme.
And I tell you what, first play of that game,
it was that same guy that messed up and I
and I just I was I'm too kind in my
old age to Christ Like in my old age, I've
learned so much and I don't have that competitive fire.
I don't have that dog in me anymore. And that's
why I lost. That's why I lost. Yep, that's why
I lost.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: So so I'm for the time being.
Speaker 7: Oh it's I will say, it's a young cast right now.
I was looking at the roster. I'm like, there's some
young boy.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love it.
Speaker 7: I love a Heapo stillhouse burners, so geez goodness playing
it the next thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta I gotta go hit the field a
little bit. It's get my back pedals rolling. So ye guys, Yeah,
that's just the goal is no injuries. That's uh. I
got a nine to five o'clock.
Speaker 5: I need a new Mexico though. I need a new
Mexico ball all over it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was pretty speedy. We were in
the box.
Speaker 5: I might need to We saw that play developer like
this is gonna be a screen pass like the one
media play that we can actually like develop out of
the five hundred that you guys have.
Speaker 3: I think I was high stepping with you.
Speaker 4: I was so excited, like, well, like that's gonna be
a screenplay.
Speaker 5: And then you came through, and I mean I remember
asking about in the post game and it just man,
the way it just developed. And then you ran and
then I was like, oh man, he's fast, and I thought,
I was like, what's that for?
Speaker 1: Geo? Little get up? I had a little I had
a little a little horse to me, I was a
little get up.
Speaker 7: So I was that's I mean, that's my greatest play
of all time. I love I'll go back and watch
that when I've had a bad day, just you know,
console me a little bit. That was awesome. So I
appreciate you guys gutting me up there. I might have
to whip that. I might have to whip that one
out next d ye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, get juiced. You know it's funny because you know,
Pro day just happened and you didn't get to showcase
your athleticism. I thought you could have actually done really
well in your pro day. I was actually looking at
NFL Draft Scout. They had projected from like your film,
that you were between a four five three and a
four six two is where they projected you on the forty.
Speaker 4: It looked like a four or five on the pick six.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's spot on.
Speaker 7: I really think, depending on the training and how well
it went my health, I think I could have run
anywhere from the four five to low four to six.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yes, indeed, I guess we'll never know.
Speaker 3: It's all right. Hey, maybe once that that that that
reinnervation occurs, right, and then we can get it all
dialed in. We can get all they new here. You
can just come back for the pro da. Killani, let
me do my pro da. I still got this. You know,
you may make because how old are you right now?
How old are you? Twenty five? Twenty six?
Speaker 1: I just turned twenty seven, All right.
Speaker 3: Come back an you're twenty eight. Hey, well I'm just
coming back just for I think actually now they yeah,
just to say, hey I ran a four five four
six low for you know what I mean, it would
be it'd be fantastic. All right, Ben, We'll let you go.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Much love to you and your family. Thanks for hopping on, brother.
Speaker 1: Much love you. I appreciate you grabbing me on and
we'll see you soon.
Speaker 3: All right, to talk to you soon man. That segment
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