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gonna talk from college football Campkolone twenty twenty six. All
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out of the highlights that have been posted, Like you know,
there's been plenty of great highlights coming out of Camp
Koloney twenty twenty six. One of the like nonchalant highlights
was actually one of my favorites from one of the
wide receivers.
Speaker 4: It was Kyler Casper.
Speaker 3: Watching him on a release at six foot six, two
hundred and twelve pounds, give it a little simmy shake
and get out to the outside, get upfield, get vertical
versus Jonathan Abay. I'm like, dang, dude, that guy moves
extremely well from sixty six to twelve.
Speaker 4: And finally he's healthy, he's strong.
Speaker 3: He's coming off of a uh season any injury last year,
but he looks very very good.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I like the wide receiver room. I like what I'm
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Speaker 2: How you living doing awesome?
Speaker 4: How you doing doing great?
Speaker 3: Man loving the Bley basketball team, but I'm loving Camp
Koalanie twenty twenty six and getting to know this BYU
football team. What stood out from you from your perspective
thus far? We're about two weeks in now of springball.
What has stood out to you?
Speaker 2: Well, I had two clips that I was going to
bring up, and you already took one of them, so
I can Catherine looked awesome. The other one was in
Kellyings miked up. I thought some of those backers looked good,
but I thought Jake Clifton popped out a little bit.
There was a couple times that that Kelly talked about him.
So that's one. I think that because these fresh off
of mission, we're not talking about a ton, but I
think he could be something there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think I think.
Speaker 3: You know, I had I had Kelly on the show
right before springball. He mentioned offseason work that Jake Clifton
had done. He was very impressed by him, and then
continually points him out as a great athlete and a
nice acquisition via the portal. So Jake Clifton linebacker. We've
been seeing him pop up a number of times. Their
linebacker room is just stacked, Like we don't even get
into like Ace Kafusie, who's any other year he'd probably
be one of the best players on the defense, and
we're just so stacked there. It's it's hard to, you know,
find pt for all these young bucks aspiring linebackers from LBU.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and I think that that room has I mean,
it depends on what they do with like Nucy because
he's played both positions, but they've got so much stuff there,
so I think you'll we'll see more odd fronts just
because of that, trying to get as many backers on
the field as we can, even if they're kind of
playing off the edge. But that's an awesome room, no.
Speaker 4: Doubt about it.
Speaker 5: AP what he got for me, well, I just want
to stay in that room. I think somebody that it
was a pretty good recruit a few years ago that
a lot of people have forgotten about ephram Asciata.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you do.
Speaker 5: You see him maybe seeing the field a little bit
this year. I think there's a lot of potential for Ephraim.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I totally think so. I heard all kinds
of hype right during fault camp last year, and I
was the practices I was at. He looked really good
and then he didn't play much. But I think it's
because he was injured, and I didn't realize that through
through the season, but I had heard he had kind
of played that he was kind of behind glass but
playing that type of role because he is small. That's
the hard thing is, you know, with some of the
stuff that went on in high school for him. I've
heard that putting on weight has been such a struggle
for him. So but I think athletic like athlete wise,
he is a stunt and I think he was struggling
and covers the first year. They were worried if he
could kind of be a factor and playing coverage, so
they were just going to try to bring off the edge.
But I had heard last year that he had started
playing a lot better in coverage than they felt comfortable
with him as that linebacker, and then I didn't see him.
Come to find out it was mostly because of injury.
It sounds like, so, yeah, I'm pumped for him this year.
I think I think that room is just crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's stacked, alright, plenty of talent. I was
just conversing with a former BYU Cougar, very much in
the no noseball nose recruiting, and he went down he
got eyes on this BWAU football team and he tried
calling me.
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, I mean, you know, I'm doing
some things. I'll call you back.
Speaker 3: He's like, bro, I just want to tell you. And
this is hype trained stuff. So I apologize.
Speaker 4: I was just calling to say that I think the
Cougars are going to be filthy this season.
Speaker 3: Now I'm trying. I'm trying to keep people hum humble
and hungry a little bit here. They're like, I keep
on echoing the story of twenty twenty one, sorry, twenty
twenty twenty twenty one, and then the eventual twenty twenty
two season where we were stacked, we had a ton
of NFL talent, and we fell short. We really underachieved
going eight and five, and it was a little bit
of a pride cycle. Even after twenty sixteen, I felt
like there was a bit of a pride cycle. There's
been two pride cycles, I think in the Killani era,
and we saw him in two twenty two and twenty
seventeen where we really underachieved versus the talent that we had,
et cetera. So but like he said, they're gonna be
filthy this season. Twelve and zero or eleven and one.
He is what he said, And I was like, okay.
Speaker 2: Man, like I trust to you're talking to me.
Speaker 4: Ben. I know Brain, You're a credible source. There's no
doubt about it. And you know ball.
Speaker 3: But I mean, you know you're You're not down there
every day and practice watching these guys and then coming
away thinking, oh yeah, definitely twelve and no.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I think here's the thing. I totally agree with you.
I don't want the team to get complacent and lose
some of that. But as a fan, like I'm gonna
get as hyped as I want to get. Right if
they if they literally are, if they're letting the fans
attitude dictate how hard they're working the off season, then
we've got more problems than just just that. But from
their standpoint, they should definitely be I mean, looking at
what we didn't accomplish last year and what they need
to accomplish this year. But I agree, and honestly the
position that I was, you know, nervous to see anybody's
gonna step up, and that were you know, catch ball catchers.
So between height ends and receivers, I feel a lot
more comfortable after seeing you know, Casper, seeing Sally Apaga
get a ton of you know on Casey Lundquist. I
know you've had them almost of times his videos. I
love being able to see a lot of the stuff,
and and Salia pog Will looks really good.
Speaker 6: Walker Lion's kind of get touched out of the end
of the back of the end zone. So I'm I'm pumped.
I really think we're going to be really special this year.
And I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: Hurt the expectations, but my hopes are obviously where they're
always where they always.
Speaker 4: Have been, and that's twelve and oh baby, let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm optimistic, no doubt. What are what are
our weaknesses? If you had a like pot pinpointed weakness,
what is our weakness right now?
Speaker 2: I think death at corner. We've we've talked about that
a couple of times. I just think that's the only
spot that I see like and maybe some depth of
d line, but I really think they developed that death
and I think getting trust and Kirking back at full
full strengths can be huge to be able to get
news or not news, sorry, I get Keanu fully open,
to be able to play that more than three three
technique into the one technique technique, I think that's gonna
be huge for the defensive line. But really it's just depth.
I think are ones at all positions are awesome.
Speaker 4: So I like the depth. I like the the stacked
nature of this team. They're looking good thus far in spring.
Speaker 3: I've made the point that I think the defense right
now is ahead of the offense just because of the tenure.
Because you've got so many guys returning in the scheme
hasn't changed. How long will it take for this offense
to probably catch up and start, you know, beating this
this I think it's gonna be a top twenty five defense.
You got a lot of new faces at wide receiver,
you got a lot of new faces at tight end.
You got a lot of new faces along the offensive line.
By the way, it looks like Pockey Fenwe is going
to be I think I think it's gonna be your
starting left tackle. So the ub transfer that was a
really nice game. Andrew Jentry has received a lot of
a lot of positive reviews as well at that right
tackle spot. How how soon do you think it'll How
quickly do you think this this BAYU offense could really.
Speaker 2: Gel I think it's gonna be a little bit of
times because, like you said, most a lot of the
contributors on a receiver besides Jojo, don't know the offense
super well. But I think I don't think it's gonna
be crazy because it is there. You have a quarterback
to obviously know the system. Now they keep talking about
how much better it's going to be this year than
it was last year in fall campus because they were,
you know, Bear was having to get caught up so fast.
So I think they're probably behind, especially I think Kaloni
fit in his pressure to the day that the ones
he feels like are you know, both offense and defense
are about the same spot, but it's the depths on
the On the offense, it's behind in terms of install
and kind of be enough speed. So I think that's
where you're gonna see the biggest drop off on a
lot of that depth being either freshman or young guys
that haven't been in the system for a long time, so,
but I do think they're probably a little behind, but
I don't work they'll be ready by this Tennesse season
comes around.
Speaker 3: You're a traditionalist, you're a BYU fan, You're a fan
that loves twelve personnel.
Speaker 4: Does it get you jacked? Does it get you excited?
Speaker 3: Does it get you juiced that Kilani went out of
his way to highlight the tight ends and how they've
stood out through two weeks of springball. He singled out
Walker lines of Roger Saliapaga. But you also look at
the rest of the depth. Key Andin as a playing time,
good blocker and has some receiving ability. I really like him.
Ethan Wood is another junior that could see some playing time.
Speaker 4: He's a big body six five, two fifty.
Speaker 3: You have some young bucks as well, and Jacob Nye,
Josh Davis, Matthew, Frederick wills Undell very fast.
Speaker 4: We've seen him on special teams. Noamo Yaki has also.
Speaker 3: Seen pt and caught I believe the first receiving touchdown
from a tight end last year.
Speaker 4: What grade?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, like everything that they're talking about, Like
obviously like Walker and Lions are great, but do we
have debt where, like you know, true twelve personnel is
going to be a part of our identity this year,
game in and game out.
Speaker 2: Do you think I think twelve personnel is going to
be the most successful it's been in the last few
years because both of those, both Roger and Walker are
guys that can do both. Where I think we've had
some receiving tight tight ends that couldn't block very well
and then guys that maybe really good blockers that didn't
receive soup well. Or or you have a year like
last year with Carson Ryan where if Carson was in
you didn't know what was gonna happen. But if you knew,
if you had kid needed or even knowa Moyaki, like
every once in a while you're getting passes to those guys,
but it was very rare, you kind of knew, hey,
runs coming. That's the thing I'm most excited about those two,
the two starters, is that I think they're the first
few years we've had that are full dual threats, So
we can do turk twelve personnel with dual threats there
instead of just having you know, twelve personnel with one
of the guys you know that's going to be a
run off his side or he's not going to be
catching the ball, or one of the other side as
actually a passing threat. Where this year to both of
the both sides being a passing throughout. I think it's
dangerous because it really keeps defenses honest.
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a couple of last things before we let you go.
I was able to get my eyes on Legend Glass.
He's been featured, He's been talked about a lot by others,
other wide receivers. Legend the true freshman midyear transfer from
Lehigh High School looking to make some hey today on
this BYU Cougar football team. I was able to interview him,
and then I watched his film again and I watched
some of the highlights from springball.
Speaker 4: This young man, he kind of reminds me of the
way he moves, the way he looks, the way he
catches the ball like a young DeShawn Jackson.
Speaker 3: And if he's anything close to Deshaun Jackson, light, we
got ourselves a gem in Legend.
Speaker 4: What are your expectation for him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think we can go back a
few weeks even on this radio station and listen, that's
the guy that I feel like has the Parker Kingston
type replacement. He can be that guy that's shifted super fast.
I mean, that's the Sean Jackson too, right, is a
guy that's super fast can play that slot get open
breakaway from defenders when he gets to that spot. So
I think he's he's the freshman I'm most excited about
contributing this year. I think Terren Sirion the Pula twin
that's I cannot remember which ones. I think Jaron's the receiver.
I think those guys have chances, but I really think
Legends the one who can contribute the earliest.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, uh yeah, we've heard some great things from
uh for regarding both the Polacka twins through two weeks
of practice.
Speaker 4: Cannon as well, get some love.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to ask a quick question. If we're
going back to the corners, really quick, I question marks
the question mark. I want to pose this take and
get your.
Speaker 4: Thoughts on it.
Speaker 5: Okay, I think the corners are better and deeper than
people are giving credit for. Okay, because if I'm looking
at this roster, Evan Johnson Trey obviously your two starters
obviously the best.
Speaker 4: But look at behind them.
Speaker 5: Jonathan Cabay has seen some playing time recently the last
couple of years. I think he's had a few injuries,
but he's he's putting. He's put in some solid minutes.
You've got Javin Williams slotted in in there behind them.
He's a red shirt senior coming from the SEC. He's
played power for football. I think he can play. I
feel comfortable with him coming in for a few weeks.
And then the other one I would say that I
feel decently comfortable with coming in for a few plays
would be Kevin Doe because he's a red shirt junior.
I understand he hasn't had a lot of playing time,
but those are all guys, with the exception of Javin Williams,
who have had several years of coaching from Gennaro Guildford,
who we all know was a great coach and a
great developer. I just want your thoughts on that take.
Are they maybe deeper at corner than a lot of
us give them credit for.
Speaker 2: I would say Jami Williams is one that you know,
I hadn't actually thought that much about, and I think
him having playing in the SEC, I think we'll obviously
have a spot where he'll definitely get playing time. He's
the most proven there. I think Kevin Doe's one where
athletically he's totally there. Like I think the depth in
terms of athlete whites just questioned, I think did he
even play in high school or was it just a
senior year or something like that. I feel like I
remember hearing the story that he played one or two
years in high school at most, so he's pretty raw.
But I think I've heard so much about him athletically.
And then I also another one that I keep hearing,
Jordan Cris is one that I've heard from a couple
of different players over their interviews or things like that,
So I definitely think they're there. I just feel like
there's no there's nothing proven behind Trey and Evan. I
do think there's talent, it's just and Jonna Cabay it
plays more of that. I feel like he's playing a
lot more of that Nichols. Yeah, that Nicol spot. So
we'll see what that looks like. And I felt like
last year, I don't know if it was just injury,
but I was so pumped for him. I was hearing
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