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the Cougar and we're gonna get into a little Cougar
inside report. One of the biggest surprises for many this
season has been the the productivity of maybe Parker Kingston
five for eleven hun and eighty five pound wide receiver
out of Lighton Utah Orld High School.
Speaker 2: He's been bawling.
Speaker 1: He's got twenty seven receptions, three hundred and eighty three yards,
two touchdowns, fourteen point two yards per reception, along as
seventy five too.
Speaker 2: He's got if you carry, he's as weld.
Speaker 1: Twelve carry, sixty six yards, five point five yards per carry,
and two touchdowns running the ball. I think the beneficiary,
the biggest beneficiary of Kieland Marion entering the portal and
heading to Miami is and was Parker Kingston. And he
continues to, I think, elevate the standard at that wide
receiver role, in that slot receiver position. He's finally healthy,
he's finally strong, and man, he's falling out for Brigham,
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Kingston address to the media, Let's get into this insider report.
What was your reaction to the big win over Utah Parker?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was a big win.
Speaker 3: It was a fun win definitely, to be able to
do it at home and get over our rival. There's
a lot of I mean a lot of emotions going
into that game and you don't really realize it during
the week, but once it's after, there's a lot of
stress that that's like relieved off you.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it was good to get that.
Speaker 1: W Great dub for BYU, great dub for Parker Kingston
as well. Number two, how validating is it to see
opposing defenses show you a lot of attention?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's cool to see, but I
mean I haven't I'm I'm nowhere near where I want
to be right now. I know I can keep getting
better each week and keep proving people wrong. And that's
what I'm gonna keep continuing to do. I'm not gonna settle.
I'm gonna keep being humble and hungry and keep growing
as a receiver.
Speaker 1: Staying humble, staying hungry, continue to work his craft. But guys,
we were talking about this earlier in the show. Parker
Kingston one of the bigger surprises, maybe from a from
a productivity standpoint for some BYU fans, but he's the
biggest beneficiary of Kielan Marion entering the portal. Does he
produce like this at wide receiver if Keeland Marion's all
the roster.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think he does, just because Keelan and and
Parker played basically the same position. They're very similar players,
the speed, the size. To me just looking at the tape,
they feel very similar.
Speaker 2: And I mean, he's done. I said this earlier.
Speaker 4: I didn't expect him to be as effective as he
has been so far, and just the way he's popped off,
like every once in a while, as a sportscaster, you
feel like you've got something when you like like I
felt like I had something where I was like, Parker's
got this history of putting the ball on the ground, right,
He had a few months last year and at the
beginning of the year, he had a few months at
the beginning this year. Only for Parker to be like, yeah,
I was injured and then go and prove that that's
not just an.
Speaker 2: Excuse, that's a that was a real thing.
Speaker 4: Like he went improved the narratives wrong and at the
at the point, at the pace he's going lately, he
could overtake Chase Roberts as the leading receiver on this team.
He's got three hundred and eighty three yards on the year,
Chase four hundred and sixty three and Parker really didn't
do much the first few games.
Speaker 1: Pretty crazy to see where he's at. What do you think,
Brett Hammer? I was watching back.
Speaker 5: Tape from the Utah game in preparation for the game
on Saturday, and the thing that I noticed.
Speaker 2: Was, look at how many yards.
Speaker 5: Look at how much production for BYU they thought they
were going to have and then didn't return in Darius
Lassiter and Kilin Marion. Yeah, that's over a thousand yards together,
and both of those guys are no longer here, So Chase, sorry,
Parker Kingston was the fifth leading receiver on his team
last year.
Speaker 1: Couldn't you throw in I'm trying to think Cody EPs
as well, because he transferred.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, could He didn't play a whole lot last year,
but the year before, one hundred percent. This is a
guy who we didn't know we were gonna have to
see that much from. We didn't know where we were
gonna have to ask that much from because we thought
we would return Kiel and Marion and Darius Lassiter. Those
guys both leave for different reasons, and now Parker has
to step up.
Speaker 2: And then also you lose Jojo Phillips to injury.
Speaker 5: So it's hey, Parker, we need you to take a
massive role in this offense and basically do something that
you haven't done the.
Speaker 2: Last two years.
Speaker 5: And there's been no part of Parker that's played with
an irrespective chip on his shoulder and saying look what
I can do.
Speaker 2: Look at this. You guys said I was an like.
Parker's just a leader.
Speaker 5: He just goes out there, he plays, he makes sketches,
he makes big plays, and he continues to stay humble
and hungry. The only thing, my only tiny knit pick
bone to pick. And this is more Aaron Roderick than
it is Parker Kingston. Can we get rid of the
Parker Kingston double pass play?
Speaker 2: It's not going to work.
Speaker 5: The worst kept secret in the entire state of Utah
is that Parker Kingston used to play quarterback in high school.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows, so.
Speaker 5: Anytime you throw him the football, there's always the second
thought of, oh, yeah, he could throw this, And every
single time they're on it, I want it to work
so badly because it would be so cool. But every
single time they run it, the defense knows that it's
coming because.
Speaker 2: He played quarterback in high school, and everyone knows. Well.
Speaker 4: It's like I heard some say this one time, and
I don't remember if it was here or somewhere else,
but someone said that Parker Kingston is BYU's version of
Britain Covey, and I cannot unhear, and I can't disagree
with that.
Speaker 2: Both really good punt returners.
Speaker 4: They both play the slot really well, speedy a little bit.
I don't know if he's shorter or but it just
seems written smaller than Britten smaller than him, and they
both did that pass play all the time at when
they're in college.
Speaker 1: Bothim were quarterbacks in high school. Britain was it's a
very good quarterback at Timpu.
Speaker 4: It's like, so I forgot about thought he was huh
Parker Kingston. Like bau fans really were really mad they
missed on Britain Covey and and Britain went because the
PAC twelve, Utah and all these things. Wait ten years,
He's coming. It's just his name is Parker Kingston.
Speaker 2: I like that. I think there's too like that. Yeah,
I think there's some truth to that.
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued to see if Parker is an NFL punt returner,
kick returner, more more likely a punt returner and slot receiver,
but Parker definitely is. Is showcased a skill set that
I think the next level would be interested in, just
like they were with Britain Covey. And look at what
Britain's done when when healthy. Now, Parker, how do you
refocus after an emotional game like the Utah game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously we want to keep going one and oh
each week, and like we said, it's the rivalry week
is it's different, but we try to not make it different.
Speaker 2: Right. We want to go one and know no matter
who our opponent is.
Speaker 3: So I think just having that mindset of one to
oh and this team is just another team in the
way of our end goal. At the end of the season,
we'll prepare the same way.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: We won't take any team differently. We'll prepare like it's
a championship each week.
Speaker 1: Prepare like it's the next game, right, the next championship
and so on. Do you think there's gonna be a
little bit of a hangover? Do you feel like the
energy in Jared Bledsoe talked about this, He felt like
the energy after the twenty twenty four game, you were
just so like you were just so exhausted as a
as a player, as a coach, as a fan, as
a meet, Like it just sucked all the energy out
of you and you had to like just take the
week off and.
Speaker 2: Then you know by you wasn't able to execoot.
Speaker 1: They lost to consecutive games, Kansas in a issue whatever
doesn't seem that way.
Speaker 2: Leading up to this Iowa State game.
Speaker 4: It feels like for me, like when I went to
that Kansas game last year before the game, I still
felt a little bit like hungover from that Utah game,
and I was looking around. I was like, this atmosphere
feels a little dead like. And I wasn't even in
the stadium yet it felt a little dead. During the game,
it felt a little dead the team. It's like I
I was like, I I did not feel good about
that game. And I don't want to say that. I
was like, you know, all knowing or anything. But this
year it has almost the opposite effect.
Speaker 2: This Utah.
Speaker 4: It feels like it energized the fan base, it energized
the team. It just get It's a jolt of energy.
Whereas last year it took everything out of the team
to win that game because of how the trench play
was and how beat up it got.
Speaker 2: BYU.
Speaker 5: Last year felt like they were climbing a mountain to
win that game, and they were proving themselves to win
that game. This year, the game that you watch between
BYU and Utah, at least for me, I never felt
like BYU was trying to earn the win in that game.
I never even when Utah was up in the fourth quarter,
I still felt as though that BYU controlled the game.
Utah just happened to have more points, and Utah felt
the one that was climbing the ladder that day, and
so I don't know that they're gonna be as emotionally exhausted.
I also think they do a really good job with
their mentality this year in terms of how they celebrate.
Last year, it almost felt like we don't talk about winning,
we just move on to the next thing. We don't celebrate,
we don't get crazy. This year, they're like, no, we're
gonna celebrate because we're proud of what we did and
we're not shying away from that, and we're not worried
that we're gonna jinx ourselves by celebrating. But we do
that on Saturday, and they do a really good job
of compartmentalizing this happened Saturday, and we're gonna milk it
and love it while it happened on Saturday. But on Monday,
it's back to work, and they don't really let those
two things mix. And for that reason, I have a
good feeling about there not being a hangover.
Speaker 2: However, I do think we should.
Speaker 5: Tell the fans, like, even if this is a close game,
and let's say BYU hean't for bed loses to Iowa State.
I still don't think that that means that there's a hangover,
because what BYU is taking on with Iowa State is
much different than what they were taking on with Kansas
last year, even though Kansas was we know one of
the elite offenses in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 2: Iowa State is so one of the elite complete teams
in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 5: So however this thing goes, assuming bou plays it close
or wins it big. Either way, I don't know that
it'll be because there was a hangover. It would to
me just be because I alway State's a good team. But
I don't foresee a hangover happening this weekend.
Speaker 2: Let's move on.
Speaker 1: How do you think this team has performed without Jojo
Phillips Parker, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean we we had guys step up and we
have guys that can play no matter what who goes
down at all position groups. And I'm excited to get
Jojo back. I don't know when it's gonna be, but
hopefully soon because I miss playing with him and it's
gonna be It's gonna be fun when he's back home
field with us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when do we expect Jojo Phillips. Who's the question
he went out? Was it the Stanford game? Stanford game? Right,
I believe so? Yeah, so Stanford game Man that was
over four four weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Now that was on.
Speaker 1: And we had a piper six, so it's it's almost
been six or six seven weeks. Yeah, it's crazy. So
six seven, Oh shoot, I did it six seven six seven.
Speaker 2: Ah, I can't believe I did that.
Speaker 5: My wife hates that so much because all her second
graders do that to her all day and so like
it's hit the point now where she doesn't even think
it's funny.
Speaker 2: When I do it, she gets so mad.
Speaker 5: So now I'm not that big in tweet either, but
because it rubs my wife the wrong way, I try
to do it as.
Speaker 2: Much as possible.
Speaker 1: Well, growing up in Arizona, and did you guys take
Spanish as your second language in high school? Huh?
Speaker 4: I took German just because I was a little spiteful.
All my siblings, all my siblings and my mom. I
was friendship my high school, all my siblings and my
mom would have secret conversations in Spanish, and so I
didn't want to join in their secret conversations. I wanted
to have my own conversations, and my dad knows like
a few words here and there.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, here we go. Okay,
so German, Okay, I get that. In German? Did was
there at uh like in Spanish? We it became kind
of a viral thing, I guess. I mean this is
a long time ago, guys. This is like late nineties,
early two thousand. In my high school, we'd joke around
and say I see masamanos like anything was like it
was so so yeah, I c s ma somanos. And
that to me is the modern eary sixty seven right
six seven is a csci ma smanos. Right, all right,
I can see you know what I mean? Yeah, I
can see it now. We didn't we didn't have YouTube,
we didn't have social media. We just were walking around,
you know, joking around because we learned the new word.
I c I s ma somanos like you know food,
I see I si ma somanos, the girl I see
I see ma somanos. We played like crap, I see
I see ma somanos sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's what I think of.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, let's go uh more sound I hate
the six seven, but I understand it.
Speaker 4: More if that got us out of the like, when
is Jojo going to return? Yeah, six seven, I'll just
say I expected. My guess, I don't have any sources
on this. My guess is after the bye week. Eight
to twelve weeks is what I've typically seen for full contact.
Speaker 1: So like if September, let's say September fourth surgery date,
that would put us at well, we're seven weeks postop
right now, Okay, and so you got five more weeks probably,
you know, anywhere from three to five more weeks, which
would set us up for what three to five.
Speaker 2: Weeks down the road.
Speaker 4: Three weeks from from last Saturday would be that Texas
Tate game, because you've got the bye week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but from the surgical date. Ten weeks after the
surgical date is what you're looking at. He got surgery
that Monday, right, it was on the fourth. You said
the fourteenth, you said, yeah, so like weeks ten through
twelve would be November thirteenth.
Speaker 2: Through through the end of the season. We're talking Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're thinking TCU. I think TCU is what you're
looking at. I agree, you'd be lucky to get him
back for Texas Tech. But maybe it's a possibility. I
would say more than likely you're looking at TC or Cincinnati, Yes,
probably the likelihood. Just to kind of project here with
the ten to twelve ten to twelve week mark, Jojo
feels like.
Speaker 5: A nicing on the cake situation, but he doesn't necessarily
feel like a massive ingredient to the cake. And the
only reason I say that is because even when he
was playing again, granted it was a.
Speaker 2: Game and a half, he was the guy in the
Stanford game that was highly targeted.
Speaker 5: He was so on the season. He's three catches for
thirty yards. Sure so, and again I understand that's a
game and a half. But my point that I'm making,
which is less of a point about Jojo and more
of a point about the completion of the offense, which
is Chase Roberts and Parker Kinkson and also Carson Ryan
have been more than enough in this byu passing game
in the absence of Jojo Phillips. So it's not as
though you're hinging the effectiveness of your offense on.
Speaker 2: Oh Man, we gotta get Jojo back now.
Speaker 5: When Jojo does get back, that provides in a completely
different element to your offense, which is awesome, but at
least you're not in a situation where you're starving and
struggling to get him back.
Speaker 2: At this point, I wonder if he gets a medical
red shirt.
Speaker 4: Because you played a game and a half, if you
get back for Cincinnati, say you come back to Cincinnati,
you haven't played four or full games, and I don't
think they count postseason towards that.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, he would play if he comes back
for Cincinnati. You yeah, that would that would be your
four games, right yeah? Red shirt? Yeah, probably strategy strategically,
red shirt there. Okay, that's good to know. A couple
of last things here as we uh get into this
Kugara and saddle Port.
Speaker 2: Uh, there seems to be a really strong team culture.
Where does that come from, Parker?
Speaker 3: I think everyone's just finally buying in, well not finally,
but like everyone's buying into our into our culture and
what Colonie is teaching us. I mean everyone's bought in.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I think when you win these games where they're
tough and you're down fourteen, oh you're you give up
twenty one unanswered points and you win a big rivalry game.
Everyone starts to see that when you buy into the
culture you do the little things right that it pays off.
And I mean stuff that you don't think affects your
affects your game actually does affect the game. And it's
been awesome to see everyone buying in and we just
got to keep doing the little things right and keep
going one to know each week.
Speaker 2: All right, last thing for Parker, what do you see
from this Iowa State defense? Yeah, I mean they're a
good team.
Speaker 3: They got a great defense, and we'll watch more film
on them as the week goes on. But I mean
we're gonna we're gonna attack the week like we normally do.
We're gonna want to throw the ball, run the ball.
We'll put in the game plan later today so we'll
know more what we're gonna do. But yeah, they're a
good team and I'm excited to play them.
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of Level BYU Versus Utah, the Holy War, the ninety
seventh meeting of this holy and hallowed rivalry, we hit turbulence.
Speaker 2: Look in twenty twenty five. Our fear is probably based on.
Speaker 1: AI, but AI also has given us this tremendous song
that you're gonna listen to you right now.
Speaker 2: Artificial intelligence is not as evil as you think it is.
This is proof of that. It's the Holy water. Baby Elly. Yes,
lit like a five storm. We hit turbulence. You already
know what that means. Cougar's on top again.
Speaker 3: Let's go big.
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Speaker 2: No fear in it. So jumped over two utes man he.
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the one hundred plus on the ground, change moving you
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Speaker 2: You've ever seen. We hit turbile, lips hell, Yes.
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Speaker 2: Pride free in the row.
Speaker 6: We riding that tie from lave Ale's house to the
mountain ere you felt that spear electric everywhere you tah red,
but the night was blue cougar nation.
Speaker 2: We believed the word we hit something. This no calm,
no peaces warm here on that stream. Don't free rise
and roll like the Owners Wall.
Speaker 6: Yeah, saying loud Coop was raised a pre We shook
that pre.
Speaker 2: Straight right that in the Holy Wall.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's pretty insane, Like we've gone from the Ti
dep Mertiseman rap, which you got, are you guys familiar
with the all right?
Speaker 2: Right, you guys know uh to James the Mormon, I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say when I was about that, right, and
those are humans that are creating these And then you
listen to this and there's no way that a human wrote, recorded, produced,
and edited this song and produced a music video in
less than forty eight hour without the help of AI.
I am one hundred percent story and this is AI.
And it's great, It's fantastic, it's amazing. We hit turbulence.
It was posted by uh Todd Crump, So Todd, thanks
for posting it on YouTube. We got to put it
up on iTunes so we can all download it and
hit turbulence for the Holy War. In twenty twenty five,
thank you.
Speaker 4: I'm convinced when the prophets and apostles talk about using
AI righteously and the misuse, I am convinced that this
is what this is the This is the righteous use
of AI.
Speaker 2: This is righteous. And also whoever made the sign of
dallan Ah jokes.
Speaker 5: Doing the udwn you doubt at big neute kickoff that
I think that's also what they meant when they talked
about the benefits.
Speaker 1: How elder Oaks feel about feels about that, Like he
granted he was a president of the university. He was
Cosmo a little he was Cosmo. You know, he threw
that at one he may have thrown it down.
Speaker 4: Can we get an AI generated of the of the
dallan h jokes Cosmo doing the U down?
Speaker 1: That would be tremendous, you know, speaking of the U down?
Did we know who the original U downer was?
Speaker 2: Like? Who created the U downer? Does anyone know?
Speaker 1: Like when when I first saw pop up it was
actually I want to say it was like two thousand
and eight or two thousand and nine vic so to
my teammate threw it up? Okay, when the utah started
the U maybe it was so right because because Utah
did not have you have the you did not have
l sign until two thousand and eight when they were undefeated.
That's the first time Utah Utah fans started throwing up
the U. So it's probably it's probably your teammate who
was the original who just flipped.
Speaker 2: I think it was Vic.
Speaker 1: I think it was two thousand and nine in that game,
he was playing defense line. He threw the U down
and there's a picture of it in somewhere in the
in the ethos, you know, in the in this in
that internet world that we live in, somewhere out there.
But I think it's vic ohe number thirty seven. Shout
out to Vic. He's actually the the co defensive coordinator
for the col Bears right now, Oh, let's go. Yeah,
So he's he's.
Speaker 2: The reason that Harrison Taggart left.
Speaker 1: No, still not necessarily no, I think, but he is
coaching the linebackers. I could probably text him, Hey, you
want to get on talk about Harrison. Maybe we could
maybe get him on get him on record. But I mean,
Harrison has not played a whole lot. I mean he's
played some, and let's be honest, we love Harrison. How
much would he have played with these guys. I think
I think he'd be playing. I mean, I think he'd
be playing. But it would be tough. I mean, with
Shay and and Harry are in the same room, that
was going to be really difficult. But you look at
the injuries, and and Harry is athletic enough to play
a lot of different positions in the linebacker room.
Speaker 2: He's fast.
Speaker 1: I think they'd be running a different scheme. I don't know,
I don't know. I mean, we got a lot of linebackers.
I don't know if we'd be running a different seam
because we got more stacked. The best, the best position
group on this team depth wise is the linebacker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I just remember last year we ran a lot
of three linebacker sets, and this year it just feels
like you've got more of the two linebackers most of.
Speaker 2: The run, even running a lot of four two five.
Speaker 4: But last year it felt like there was a lot
of Taggart and and Uh and Jack Kelly and Isaiah
Glasker out there together, and this year it just feels
like it's been trimmed down to two.
Speaker 5: But do you feel like that's because of follow to
us Attuala in the safety room, and they feel like
they have enough depth there that they can run some of.
Speaker 2: That down there.
Speaker 1: Remember I mean they were playing four to five with
Tommy at Nickel, and they had planned on having Jonathan
Cabea there.
Speaker 2: They had brought in Tavian bees Leaves and Cannon.
Speaker 1: Devrez was in that room, and then they moved Tommy
from free safety to Nickel.
Speaker 2: It probably has a lot to do with a guy
like Kena just wants to play a four two five.
I agree.
Speaker 1: That's just Jay saying, like, you know, like obviously the
personnel would say you're probably better built for like a
three four quite honestly sure, And like you could put
Justin Kirkland in the middle and Keano with a five
technique so he can be out on the edge a
little bit more, and then you'd have four linebackers Roman
right like that, Technically it feels like what I think
the personnel is built for. But Jay wants to run
a four two five because he's recruiting to a four
to two five, and so he's going to showcase the
four two five and he's gonna go out and recruit
the four two.
Speaker 2: Five and and and it doesn't always work out. That way.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to Jay and the coaching stafford being able
to execute at a high level.
Speaker 2: No one can really run the I mean, well, you
tip round the.
Speaker 1: Ball against b Wayu, but that felt like the quarterback
scrambled a few tips, like was Shaun Parker it was.
It was bray off the edge too, but like Washaw Parker,
he didn't have a whole lot of reps either, come
up off the edge like that ten two speed is legit.
Shout out to Marie Bamba for tracking it on that
fourth down too.
Speaker 4: But like like Wayshaun Parker rest in peace to his
Twitter because he said he was going to run all
over Keanu. I think he had eleven carries for twenty
three yards. Yeah, nothing was happening up the middle.
Speaker 1: It had to go off tackle, had to go off tackle,
It had to go off you know, speed option, and
then off of Jets.
Speaker 2: It was the Jets sweep Bawl. Let's be honest. Yeah,
no one was running.
Speaker 1: I mean well, Byu was able to rock the middle,
but they were also countering it with some Jets and
they were successful at.
Speaker 2: Times and other times not so successful. Let me ask
you this.
Speaker 1: After that, you know big Newton Kickoff, Barstool sports port Noy,
everybody was having a good old time. And I think
John McBride, okay, who's over pretty much all of sports
information there at BYU, for BYU Athletics earlier today he
said something to the effect of they've never had this man.
The impressions on their social media across all their social
media platforms. It's a historic day for BYU Athletic Department
and BAU football because of how money eyeballs have seen
BYU Football.
Speaker 2: So shout out right too.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to find the exact where it's still
going through the numbers, but this past weekend we may
have seen the most digital reach in the history of
BOA Athletics.
Speaker 2: Are cool.
Speaker 1: Eighteen million impressions from snapback sports content and so much
more through Big New Kickoff on Fox. Tons of other
media influencers, micro influencers, you know, I think what Benson
Boone was there? Who else was there? Like Covanoy, Jamal Williams,
social media, aj to Bonds, it was there anybody else
that you guys can recall a lot of recruits. There
was over seventy recruits.
Speaker 2: Jamal had some Utah recruits that are thinking a little
bit more blue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. So anyway you got to you gotta
give some love. There no doubt about it. Pat McAfee.
You know who wasn't involved in this. ESPN wasn't involved
in this. And Pat McAfee is a part of the
Game Day ESPN crew, and he's to a certain degree.
You have you have Stuart Mandel, you have Pat McAfee,
you have Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith. These are the.
Speaker 1: Faces of ESPN, but Pat McFee is the face of
college football for ESPN and NFL.
Speaker 2: Right true. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 1: About game day not showing up and how he kind
of regrets game day not showing up there to to
uh provo in Utah.
Speaker 2: No losing on most weekends on where game day goes.
I think we should have won the Utah BYU last weekend.
I think that was a miss.
Speaker 3: I think I said that in real time too, like, hey,
they were to shut down the whole state for us
to just celebrate what.
Speaker 6: That holy war was.
Speaker 1: And by the way, game was great, that great game,
great game BYU remains undefeated, so they he regrets, he said,
I said at real time, I was trying to convince them.
I was trying to do my due deals is we
should have been there. I mean, I'm sure they had
a good turnout where they ended up, Yeah, right, and
I think they went to Georgia Athens.
Speaker 2: This is so great, awesome.
Speaker 1: But from a metrics standpoint, from an experience standpoint, I
think ESPN Game Day is looking over at what Big
New Kickoff did and like, what if you just pull
up some of the digital stuff and you see what's
being reported and then do we have data right now
on TV viewership? Sometimes this comes out on Tuesday or
Wednesday yet, but like, well we'll pull that up as well.
Like it was a missed opportunity to be introduced to
one of the most iconic and unique rivalries that I
think the rest of the nation they don't know about.
You know, they just don't know about this. Like SEC
is gonna say, oh, we're this and that. I'm like,
I'm telling you guys, this one's different.
Speaker 2: It is different.
Speaker 5: And I think the hard part is, I mean, in
the words of Kolonie's Talckey, they don't know, but they're
about to find out. They found out Big New Kickoff
the national media social media, they found out on Saturday.
I think the hard part with game Day and making
the argument to go to Athens. And look, you're talking
to a guy who grew up a Georgia fan. My
parents went to school there. I grew up in Atlanta.
Like even I'm telling you the better buye, the better
business move is to go to bou because guess what,
you know how many times college game Day is in Athens,
Georgia at least once a year. There's been times where
they've been twice, so you already know what that experience
is life like. And on a national scale, what more
do you have to show the country about the University
of Georgia that they haven't already seen before. They've seen everything,
they know everything. Why not go to a BYU Utah
game where you don't know that much, where you could
find new experiences, expand to a new fan base that
frankly has always loved you, but you haven't always loved them.
And clearly I'm sure Efien is waking up today yesterday saying, man,
the social impressions alone.
Speaker 2: Speak to the fact that we should have gone there. Now.
Speaker 5: The argument against it, I guess is, well, they have
the sec on ABC, they are invested in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 2: But the Big twelve is is shared and.
Speaker 5: Divided up among TNT, Max, Fox, and ESPN, so they
don't have the exclusive rights. So I guess from that standpoint,
the argument is we have exclusivity with the SEC, so
that's why we went there. But the numbers, the social media,
it all speaks for itself to tell you there was
so much more for you to explore that you hadn't
already milked at Georgia and Ole miss and all these
SEC schools. You could have done so much more had
you gone to BYU, Utah and they missed out big Yeah.
Dave Portnoy also showed some love on social.
Speaker 1: Said, oh man, what was his He just had a
blast and I don't have the post in front of me,
but he gave a whole lot of love to everybody
here in the state.
Speaker 2: And then check this out. Do you have the TV viewership? Okay,
we'll try to get that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Average ticket price, by the way, of admission to the
Holy World was about three three hundred and fifty bucks.
That was the average admission price. Now that's online, that's
the average like what it was selling for online. Like
if you have season tickets. That's a different thing. Sixty
and forty eight attendees pretty crazy, Pretty crazy, man. If
the average ticket price of all of them sold at
that rate, I mean, that's like twenty two twenty plus
million dollars that you got in ticket sales.
Speaker 2: If you're by you. Honestly, my favorite part of the
weekend I fit outside of the win.
Speaker 5: My favorite part was mark Ingram jumping into the pool
with Cosmo and then Rob Stone is up there and
he's trying to throw it to break. He's trying to
toss it to the next game, and then mark Ingram
and Cosmo pick him up and throw him in the pool,
and that to me was just I mean, that was emblematic, right, yeah,
that was a microcosm of what the entire weekend was.
I mean, we did the show on Friday, and it
felt like every every twenty minutes we had a new
piece of content from some social media micro influencer to
react to because there were just so many people in
Provo learning.
Speaker 2: About so much that they had no clue.
Speaker 5: And the funny part is all these guys who came here,
they go, oh my gosh, this is such an unreal experience.
How did we not know about this, and a lot
of them left being BYU fans frankly.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the world of BYU Sports also checked
us out. Crumble Cookies founder ended up taking on that
fifty thousand dollars fine fort forming the field, but there
wasn't any announcement from the Big Twelve, which I think
was steers on a state one. We see are going
to state one too uh in Texas Tech Game, but.
Speaker 5: We have not been notified about the BYU find which
I find interesting.
Speaker 4: So maybe they followed protocol. Yeah, it might have to
do with the b YU doing everything that they can
to stop it. Now, if I'm the Big Twelve, you
have to do the fine. Otherwise everyone else is just
going to do the exact same thing, and you're not
going to stop what you want to stop, which personally,
I think you should let storm like the field storming.
I think that's part of the fun. But I think
they have to if they if they want to have
any sort of control.
Speaker 1: Crazy thing happened though, the a issue folding uh uh
uprights almost destroyed humans on the field, so that could
have been devastating.
Speaker 2: Someone could have lost their life. It is so tough
because what is the solution.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying that this is but that was
their solution because they don't want to lose their goal posts.
So their thought process was, I mean, we will all
a machine that drops the goalpost and break.
Speaker 1: Them paintball guns. If they jump up on there, you're
shooting with a paintball gun. I mean, I don't know, man,
like you know you're.
Speaker 2: Up that that would be like, well, I make it.
Speaker 1: Make the other team's colors, That's what I'm saying. Like
it'd be the opposing team's color to be red, red,
right or red? You just shoot them as they're trying
to climb up the pole. That would be awesome, you
know what I mean? You could have you could have.
Speaker 2: Little snipers sitting around their security snipers. Anyway, guys, that's
our show. We're sticking to it.
Speaker 1: Any other news and notes we want to delve into, guys,
as we wrap up the world of BA sports.
Speaker 5: UH Big twelve media days for BU basketball. They are
headed out today, they'll be there tomorrow. So again, unfortunately,
we love BYU basketball and we did do an interview
with Jonathan Tabernari and we look there will come a
point on this show when we will not have enough.
Speaker 2: Time to talk about basketball.
Speaker 5: There's just so much football, There's so much of BYU
beating Utah that we have to milk for as long
as we possibly can. I told you I'm gonna be
retweeting the score in January to shout out to BLI
basketball is. They had out to big twelve media days,
So Billie Basketball. There's still stuff going on, but we
gotta milk the Holy War. Ap anythinks just twenty four
to twenty one. That's all I gotta say.
Speaker 1: All.
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