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It's a Thursday, November sixth edition of Cougar Sports. Get

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your pre you're ready for that BYU Texas Tech matchup.

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An iconic game in BYU football history.

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Speaker 3: Indeed it is.

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Speaker 1: They've only played a few times, right, they've only played twice,

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and it's one and one. The inn intial game with

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nineteen forty Tech knocked off them Coug's before they were

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actually a football program. They were probably BYU Academy at

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that time, essentially a high school football program. But the

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Cougars won the last matchup in Spitgate twenty seven or

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fourteen in twenty twenty three in Provo. It was a

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great win, and Joey McGuire though, doing great things down

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there in Lubbock, resurrecting a program that had tremendous potential.

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And now it seems that Texas Tech and BYU are

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on a trajectory, right, are on a trajection become the

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iconic brands of the Big twelve. Not everyone's buying into

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BYU being that brand just yet.

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Speaker 3: But we had ESPN the fan.

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Speaker 1: We understand the organizational design, the cohesion, the chemistry, the

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Kalate Satake culture that he's been built over the last

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ten years, and it's about to happen. It's about to

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happen in my opinion. Now, that's not taking anything away

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from Utah. They're gonna be a good football program, no doubt,

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and they they're gonna fight tooth and nail to be

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that iconic brand ambassador of the Big Twelve. I'm sure

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Baylor and TCU have something to say it. I'm sure

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rich Rod is like, wait, give me a few years

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and then will bring back the mid two thousands era

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of of Pat Wide and Steve Slayte. We're gonna resurrect

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our programming into something right. We'll be the brand ambassador

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of the Big twelve. But right now it seems like

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BYU and Texas Tech are the favorites. And I was

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looking in preparation for the shows, looking at college game

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day history for these respective programs, and what's interesting is

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their last heyday, it seems, was at the same time

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almost twenty years ago, when Tech was seemingly at the

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top of the food chain in college football for a moment,

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for a brief moment, and BYU football was winning double

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digit games or doublegit games in regular season from six

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to nine. So, last time game day was in Lubbock

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was November one, two thousand and eight, when number seven

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Texas Tech played number one Texas was the Michael Crabtree game.

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my memory. It's an indelible memory that I have. That

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back shoulder that he took to the house, took to

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Speaker 3: It was glorious. Last time BYU was.

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Speaker 1: Our game day was in Provo was October twenty four,

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two thousand and nine, when number eight TCU took on BYU,

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a ranked foe. And so it's been a minute but

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sixteen years since game day went to Lubbock, in fifteen

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years since they came to Provo. But now both of

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trending in a new direction, the same similar direction that

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of a controversy Mike Leach and Mike Leach went over

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to Washington State and after Washington State ended up at

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my in my bosom, in my plums right deep down

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that this these two teams will be the brand ambassadors

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for the Big Twelve that Brett your Mark is hoping

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to separate from the pack.

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Speaker 3: Right when I chatted with Bret your.

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Speaker 1: Mark at Big twelve Media Days, that's what he told me.

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Speaker 3: He's like, eventually we want some teams to separate.

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Speaker 1: Right now, the parody talk, parody, parody, parody, parody, it's

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and I hope it lives up to the hype. This

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Weaver leading us to glory victory today, Ronnie, how you living?

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Speaker 3: I'm living good, Ben and great to be here. Happy

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Speaker 4: Only one more show after today, so I guess two

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's also up debate AP Andrew Peterson goals and with

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Speaker 4: I'm living great and I'm coming in as I usually do,

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Speaker 3: Okay, give you the hot takes, give you the playgu So.

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Speaker 4: People have been debating where this game falls in BYU history,

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whether it's the biggest or not. I'm here to say

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it is the fourth biggest game in BYU history. My

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rankings go number one natural championship. I don't think you

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could top that unless you win a national championship. I

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think number two is beating Miami nineteen ninety It's the

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number one team in the country.

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Speaker 3: Hard to argue with that.

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Speaker 4: And then I think number three is the ninety six

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this the second biggest regular season game in BYU history.

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winner of this game should move up at least three

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spots in the college Football Playoff.

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Speaker 1: They should be Whoever wins this game should be top five,

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Speaker 4: I think I think if BYU wins, they should jump BAMA,

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Georgia and Ole Miss because they will have something that

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they'll they'll finally have that top ten type win that

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all those programs have, but they won't have the loss

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that they have. And I think if Texas Tech wins,

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they should jump obviously BYU, Ole Miss in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: David Hall put out an article ESPN dot Com ESPN

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writer analyst. He said that the number one team that

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should be angry right now with a resume, with their

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strength of record, their their strength of schedule is actually BYU.

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That was the number one his anger index, if you will.

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angry about number seven but look, I think there is

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want to be angry about it, I think BO fans

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just happy to be here. To not be disrespected. We're

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the club where, you know, happy to be a part

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of the new money, the new power brokers of college football.

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Speaker 3: So you could have put us at ten and we'd

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Speaker 1: But we're still happy to be you know, like, I

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the dance. But to your point, Okay, was the b

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the BYU Utah game bigger than this game?

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Speaker 3: U uh?

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Speaker 1: Like, I mean I think all of these games sequentially

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Speaker 3: Yes, they want to go to the College Football Playoff.

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Speaker 1: But baseline human nature is what have we beat our

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in state recruiting battle so that we can, you know,

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them every single year. So I would say the b

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Speaker 3: And it's a really interesting debate for me.

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Speaker 1: Texas you can lose to Texas Tech and still get

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Speaker 4: You could, but I think it's a little bit difficult.

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Speaker 1: I think a one loss b YU team gets in.

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Speaker 4: But so it's not if you win this game, you've

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Speaker 3: If you lose two games on the back end, I

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Speaker 1: If do you have two games you have you have

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two game tie breakers? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Maybe? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean what if you beat Texas Tech here and

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you lose two other games on the back end, do

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Speaker 3: Do you still get it to do?

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Speaker 4: I think if you beat Texas Tech, I can't see

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you losing the Cincinnati Yeah. I I honestly, I think

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the most difficult they head to.

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Speaker 1: Head tiebreakers of Texas Tech over TEXAEG and Utah.

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Speaker 3: You get in for me.

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Speaker 4: For me, actually the most difficult game after Texas Tech

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they're still good. There's six and two people don't people

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Speaker 1: So that's an interesting debate. Like I'm perfectly I'm open

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one of the biggest games in BWAU football history.

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Speaker 3: I think we're we're we're in that mode right now.

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Speaker 1: You say it's number two, the second biggest regular season

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in a game in BWAU football history. You know, I

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feel that, and and very it could very well be

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that if BYU is a two lost team, but they

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beat Texas Tech this weekend, they still get into the

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Big twelve Championship.

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Speaker 4: I think it well because and here here's where I'm

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saying that Texas Tech is bigger than Utah this year.

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Obviously not every year, but this year is that Texas

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Tech is basically guaranteed to win out because the last

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two games are incredibly easy for them, but Utah is not.

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probably gonna handle Kansas, but Kansas State is a little

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I think most likely they do, but there's a much

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higher chance of Texas Tech winning out and that game

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holding up as an amazing win for BYU on their resume.

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Speaker 3: Can't wait to delvin all the Knoks and cranny's.

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Speaker 3: Who was We've delvind all the Knicks and crannies of

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Speaker 1: Into j Hill commentary from yesterday's media availability here momentarily

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All right, let's get in to some of the sound bites. U.

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Jy Hill commentary from yesterday. Body Scoonover is coming off

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one of his best games two sacks. How has he

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been from your eyes this season?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, one of our most improved players has had a

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huge impact in a bunch of games. Love his progression

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and the great thing is. He just keeps getting better

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and better. So I think the future is so bright

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for him. He's just going to continue to make more

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and more plays.

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Speaker 1: Body Schoonover is one of the most unheralded players on

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this BYU football rosters, and judging by his recruitment, it

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shouldn't be that way, right. He was backing up a

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pretty gosh dang good football player for a few years though,

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the man, the myth, the legend, Tyler Batty, who's playing

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right now and balling out for the Vikings.

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Speaker 3: So that strong side.

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Speaker 1: Defensive end position, Okay, he's been competing with one of

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the best defensive ends in BYU football history.

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Speaker 3: That's tough, that's difficult, and so I feel for him.

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Speaker 1: Furthermore, he's also competing with vill Puha, who is not

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too bad and comes from a good lineage. His father

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is the defensive line coach, so it's not like he's

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got this easy path to become the starter by any means. Okay,

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his recruiting pro while signing in the twenty twenty class

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six four, two hundred and fifteen pounds out of American

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Fork Utah, he had BYU UCLA, Utah, Utah State and

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others that came knocking. Body kind of shut it down.

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she shut it down. He would have been more than

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likely a four star recruit in my opinion, had he

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kept it open. Number forty eight is a baller. Number

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forty eight. I call him the bull because bulls are

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very difficult to stop. When he gets going, okay, when

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he gets linear, he is a tough guy to slow down.

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Six three two sixty five right now. And he's got

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really he's got a really good powerful base. He's got

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a really good lower half that just drives through contact,

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and he's getting better with his hands. Go watch that

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speed rush that he got a sack on swipes the hand,

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double swipe of the hands, coming around the edge and

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then finishing the play. High MO High Football IQ most

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improved player. As you're giving him more reps, he's reps.

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He's going to continue to get better.

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Speaker 4: In my opinion, Well, he's He's also changed positions during

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his time at BYU because he was a linebacker in

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high school, so he had to learn play defensive end.

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Body is one of those guys, as you mentioned that

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people kind of sat and wondered is he ever going

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to develop? And it's because, first off, he was an

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absolutely loaded linebacker room. That room's been loaded for years.

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for the most part, BYU's had really good linebackers, and

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so they move him to defensive end, and like you said,

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he's behind a Tyler Battie. The great thing about that

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is he's had a lot of time to learn lots

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of different aspects of Jay Hill's playbook, and so he's

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becoming one of the smarter players on the team, not

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only learning his position, but he does know other positions.

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He knows how the defense is supposed to function, and

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I think that plays to his advantage as he's he

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had a bit of a coming out party in his

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last game. He had his first sack of the year,

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and then he followed up with another one. The defensive ends,

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just as a unit, have come out a lot in

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the last few games. There's I think it was the

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first six games they didn't have a sack, and then

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Utah and Iowa State they had really productive games.

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Speaker 1: Well, body, is it bodes well to have body in

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the lineup right now? Is all I got to say,

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because he's getting better and better. Now, Jay, how would

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you grade the defensive line coming off a bye week.

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Speaker 5: Well, I like where they're at. We're getting more stout

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each game. I think we're good right now, run am pass,

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there's so many good things that they are doing. The

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last two games they run the ball a little bit

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against us, but not inside. We've been very stout inside.

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So I think it all starts with those guys.

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Speaker 1: Big hosses up front, eating up blockers and pushing everything

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to the outside.

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Speaker 3: We saw that versus Utah.

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Speaker 1: The Utah didn't want any part of running inside because

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they knew that they wouldn't have success. They kept tending

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him off the bray and they ran the ball effectively

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off tackle. Let's be honest, like it wasn't our best

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rush defense performance, one of our worst in fact, And

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so I think most teams are gonna want to go outside,

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and it'll be great to have Jack Kelly and Isaiah

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glask are finally healthy to be able to elongate and

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extend those plays horizontally. That may be one of the

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biggest things for BYU's defense versus Texas Techs offense and

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limiting rushing yards is the fact that they're not gonna

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be They're not gonna be able to run in between

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the tackles, and you hope that Jack Kelly and Isaiah

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Glasgar for two weeks of rest, not really Isaiah with

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his lower extremity and Jack rehabbing his upper body his shoulders,

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that they're capable of extending those plays of the sideline.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I want to say that the the Utah game

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was more of an edge problem right with the rushing,

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but Iowa State, to me, it felt like that the

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rushing ability of Iowa State on BYU felt like that

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was more on the linebackers. Would you would you agree

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with that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I.

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Speaker 1: Need to I may have to go back and look

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at tape one more time on that to be overly conclusive.

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But like our linebackers have struggled, they've been hearince injuries, right,

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and then Max Alford, you know, being placed into that

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mac linebacker spot remember went out. Yeah, I mean I

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think you could say a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of young players in that game that haven't seen

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a lot of playing time.

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Speaker 3: I'd say that it's probably an accurate depiction.

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Speaker 1: As you post the question, as I reflect back on

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that game in my mind, and what I remember about

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it and missed assignments, missed fits.

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Speaker 3: Et cetera.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be nice. It's too weeks enough time to

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get fully healthy. Maybe not, but I mean Isaiah has

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been playing through it. Jack's been playing through it, so

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I think it bodes will.

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Speaker 3: I think we're gonna be okay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, especially with Isaac Glaster, I think it's

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harder for Jack Kelly to get fully healthy. But I

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think at least for me, in my experience and my injuries,

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my ankles have healed up a lot better than my

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shoulders have. But uh, I guess it just depends on

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the severity of the injuries. It is. It is promising

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looking at the injury report that a lot of guys

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that have been out for a while are coming back

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like a Jojo Phillips.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I think the overall health of the team is

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trending up.

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Speaker 3: Love it.

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Speaker 1: As far as the linebackers are concerned, What are you

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looking at or how we look at health wise?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think they're healthier than they've been for the

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last three or four weeks, which is huge for us.

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I don't know that they're one hundred percent full go,

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but I don't know that anybody at this stage of

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the season, So I would say better than they've been,

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but not like they were the first game of.

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Speaker 3: The season, So they're.

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Speaker 4: Right, I would take I would take eighty five ninety yeah,

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and I take that with I would say, if the

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Way's linebackers are eighty five ninety percent, I'm pretty confident

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that we can hold their offense and give our offense

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a chance to win the game.

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Speaker 1: Gotta hope for the best from that linebacking corps. What aspects, Jay,

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are you focused on heading into the Texas Tech game.

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Speaker 5: We get we've got to continue to be stout against

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the run. That's where we've had a little bit of problems.

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I would say the last two weeks a couple of

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creases that we gave up that we got to be

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better with. We've given up a few too many of

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those long drives, you know, the ten plus play drives.

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We can do a better job of getting out of

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drives early. That would just keep us fresher as the

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games will wear on. But this is a tough, resilient defense.

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Even when they got their backs against the wall, they've

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shown up in the right times and they've done that

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all year.

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Speaker 1: There's been a few moments right where I think fatigue,

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you know, the exhaustion of long drives is uh exposed

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some things. But they they typically they fortify as a

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as a unit. Once the red zone is ultimately uh

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uh is uh eclipse and they're getting into like that,

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the opposing offense is getting into the red zone. It

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seems like we figure out, hey, we gotta, we gotta,

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you know, settle in and they create stops and force

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field goals obviously, but he doesn't want those long sustained drives.

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Speaker 3: It hurts field position battles.

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Speaker 1: It just does and uh and it and it does

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tire out your football team too, and exposes you more

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to injuries. Nor Muscular fatigue is a real thing. Whenever

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you have nor muscular fatigue, exhaustion sets in, right, and

476
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you gotta you gotta be really judicious and it's smart

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about how you're uh inserting your your backups, defensive line,

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uh the linebackers, even your secondary and you do expose

479
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yourself more injuries with with nor muscular fatigue. So it's

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all it's it's it's it's not just a race, right,

481
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it's a bit of a marathon in a college football season,

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and and so he's he's still concerned about that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he mentioned in there that that we've been

484
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gashed a little bit by the run. I think this

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game is going to be largely determined by the performances

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of the running backs because l J. Martin and Cameron

487
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,799
Dickie have pretty similar stats. They're both over seven hundred

488
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yards rushing, they both have several touchdowns. I think it's

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really gonna be like he mentioned, by has got to

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be stout and stop the run. It feels like the

491
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last few weeks BYU's defensive philosophy has been we're gonna

492
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let you like they they've let opponents drive on them

493
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a bit, but they've just been counting on it not

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being explosive plays and accounting on them making a mistake

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on the end.

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Speaker 3: Yep, yep.

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Speaker 1: Billy's read some defense, by the way, ranks number six

498
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nationally and topson the Big Twelve, allowing a conversion rate

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of sixty nine point two percent. Opponents have reached the

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red zone twenty six times and converted just eighteen into points,

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with only eleven being touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: That seems a little bit weird.

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Speaker 1: So wait, so twenty six times and converted just eighteen

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into points.

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Speaker 3: We may have to look at that status.

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Speaker 4: They so if they've been in the red zone twice

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six times, they've yeah, eighteen of those guys have been

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points to eleven touchdown, seven field goals.

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Speaker 3: Eleven touchdown, seven field goals.

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Speaker 1: There, Okay, the Texas Tech rush attack is one of

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the best in the conference. What stood out to you,

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J Hill on the film the way they run the ball.

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Speaker 5: Well, they have very good players. I think they're good

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in every position group from the old line to the

515
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tight ends, running backs, receivers, quarterback. They're very balanced, they

516
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can run it, they can throw it, they're veteran. They've

517
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got a lot of players that have played a lot

518
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of college football reps. So we definitely have our work.

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Speaker 4: Cutout for us.

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Speaker 3: There are no weakness.

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00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: There are no weaknesses personnel wise at Texas Tech right now,

522
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very very few, if any. Like it's hard to even

523
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,599
it's start to diagnose that on film, and they really don't.

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So you hope that mistakes are had in my opinion,

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from the offense, you know, giveaways from the offense. I

526
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think Texas Tech is essentially an equivalent team at taking

527
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the ball away they do it a little bit differently,

528
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maybe not as many picks, but.

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Speaker 4: More force fumbles, which is insane like that feels.

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Speaker 1: So they're right on pace with takeaways with BYU right

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in turnover margin. Will not necessarily turnover margin though, but

532
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they are up there where they at turnover margin wise.

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Speaker 3: I'll have to pull that up real quick.

534
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Speaker 1: But but they just take the ball away extremely well,

535
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and they just do it a little bit differently than BYU.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a brief time out. We'll come back.

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Speaker 1: Bear more Shorton is an interesting study at their quarterback position.

538
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He's been very good at times when he's healthy, but

539
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also can be prone to making a few mistakes and

540
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hopefully Jay Hill can expose that. We'll discuss Barrel Morton

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on the flip side. But that was your nitty gritty

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will be the fourth time in school history. Bo, you

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guys actually participated in a game home or away featuring

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college game Day. The Cougars are oh and three in

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those games.

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Speaker 4: Really, I thought still oh and three. I knew that

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SAT a few years ago. I thought, for some reason

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we'd cracked that owing three. Baby, will we break the curse?

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech is playing their fifth game check this out

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with a one in three record.

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Speaker 3: Who's gonna you know?

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Speaker 1: I hope we break the game day curse on the

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biggest stages in the modern era, BYU football has fluttered.

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Speaker 3: Bro, I was a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Like six, we should have been a playoff or a

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BCS busting team. We had a ton of NFL talent

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offensively and defensively. And we lost in essentially double overtime

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to Boston College. And we lost by a fifty two

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yard game winning field goal to U of A at

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u of A, so both away games, both essentially Power

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four teams, and we lost in double overtime one play

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and then on a game winning field goal fifty two

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yard by Nick Folk, who's still playing in the NFL

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by that, and then I've been retired for almost twenty

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00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:23,480
years from football, and Nick Folk is still kicking field

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goals in the NFL for the Jets right now. And

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that's when kickers struggled to make things forty plus. It's

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only recently, at least for me, where I'm confident that

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college kickers can make a forty.

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Speaker 4: Five yard field goal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's my I guess my key stat of

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or away.

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Speaker 3: We haven't been able to get over the hump.

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Speaker 1: We haven't been able to get ever since post nineteen

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eighty four. The only thing that we have really going

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for is is ninety is, which you've mentioned one of

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the biggest games in BLI football history, along with the

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Miami Game and the National Championship game with the win

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over Michigan. What was the regular season game that you

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said the Miami the Miami game was with the regular

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season regular season had the biggest one because of all

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of all of the things that that surrounded that that

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particular game with the number one team coming into provo.

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Speaker 3: But You're gonna go into an.

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Speaker 1: Away shetting, a volatile and violent setting, a rockush and

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wild one and college game is going to be present.

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What makes us believe that blas built different than it

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has been in the past.

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Speaker 4: I think You've got a different kind of quarterback than

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BYU has ever had, to be honest, like b Way,

643
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You's had a lot of great quarterbacks, but none of

644
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them play the game quite the way that Bear Bachmeyer does.

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00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:53,359
None of like Taysom Hill, had the size, but Taysom

646
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Hill was not as accurate of a thrower. He was

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much faster. Let's get that out there. Here's a I

648
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think Taysom Hill is a better athlete because he's probably

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the greatest athlete ever to come out of BYU. But

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BYU has never had a quarterback play the game like this,

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and he's coming off of bye week. He's had plenty

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of time to get film on this Texas Tech defense.

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00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,039
Texas Tech is also on its sixth straight game. That's

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when injuries start to happen. I think that could be

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a big factor. I think Texas Tech might see a

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few guys go down as the physicality of the game

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goes on, and I think that if BYU is going

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to win this, I think they have to show up.

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They have to be physical from the beginning, and they

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have to wear down what has to be a pretty

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tired Texas Tech team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm intrigued, right, Like I believe they're built different

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because of the refining fire of independence, wending their way

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through the wilderness of independence forty year like the Israelites

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of old, you know what I mean, just wandering, praying

666
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for mana, praying for opportunity, praying for an undefeated season,

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just to get to a bowl game not named the

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Independence Free Vegas Ball, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Like you're like, oh, man, you know they or the

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points that the Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, at least you're going to San

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Diego though, right, yeah, you know, at least you're going.

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Speaker 3: To San Diego.

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Speaker 1: You may not get, you know, per premier matchup, you

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know when we're in the Vegas Bowl era, in the

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Mountain West Conference era. Like you got one in twenty fifteen, right,

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you got one in two thousand and two with BYU

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and Utah.

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Speaker 3: That was it was a great ball, great bowl.

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Speaker 1: Two nine win teams that were fighting for a ten

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win season in Vegas, you know, but like it was

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just intermittent like these Bowl games, and you went through

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the refining fire, though the vicissitudes of independence, and you

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built a program, you know, with grit and with fortitude

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and fine, you got into you got the invite, and

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you started kind of building up your resource budget and

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you started hiring more recruiters, You started hiring more admin staff,

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You started hiring uh, more individuals to support a premiere program,

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a power football program. You got the invite to the

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Big twelve, and you're now getting those resources and with

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those resources comes nil money, and you're just built a

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little bit different.

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Speaker 3: Now, Are we over the hump yet?

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Speaker 1: Are we like tried and true and sober fined that

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we can win these games?

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Speaker 3: To be determined now?

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Speaker 1: Were But we're winning some pretty gush damn close, good, competitive,

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high quality premiere games right now this season. Uh and

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and it seems like we're on we're at a kind

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of a tipping point, like we're we're on that threshold

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of breaking into that breaking that ceiling, that that glass

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ceiling that has held us for so long from getting

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into the the the big time games. Postseason six seven nine,

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Great Football, Great Football, teams NFL talent just couldn't get

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over the hump. Twenty twenty couldn't get over the hump.

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Twenty twenty one, couldn't get over the hump. Two thousand

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00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,400
and four couldn't get over the hump. Four way tie,

708
00:37:24,679 --> 00:37:26,360
couldn't do it. You got to the Alamo bole.

709
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 3: Great job.

710
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: Now we want that next step. Before it was the

711
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:35,480
BCS computers. Now we have the College FOOTBA play off,

712
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,320
an extand playoff, and you still couldn't get in, right,

713
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,039
You still couldn't get in. Now's the time, Now's the place,

714
00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:44,280
in my opinion. So let's get back to j Hill

715
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,760
what he had to say, and then I'll get some

716
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,119
other questions that I've been posing the cougarnation. Let's go

717
00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:54,559
to number seven scattering report, Baron Morton. It's Bear Bachmer

718
00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:57,199
versus Baron Morton. That's kind of interesting, is it not?

719
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,360
I mean, any when talking about that, I don't know

720
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,559
what he is? Does Baron Morton go by Bear?

721
00:38:03,679 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 4: I feel like someone probably called him that? I mean,

722
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,039
come on, how can you not bear?

723
00:38:08,559 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: When in college football history have there been two individuals

724
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,679
with either the name or the nickname Bear going up

725
00:38:15,679 --> 00:38:17,000
against each other at quarterback.

726
00:38:17,079 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 3: Never never.

727
00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: In Lubbock the college game day on hand, there has

728
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,119
to be go to his profile. There's he's got to

729
00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:33,840
have a nickname. He's Baron Morton has to have people

730
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:38,239
that call him Bear. There's no way, Like if I

731
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,079
had a buddy named Baron Bear, right, I'd be I

732
00:38:41,079 --> 00:38:42,000
wouldn't say Barn.

733
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,639
Speaker 3: I'd be saying Bear, wouldn't.

734
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,039
Speaker 4: You, Especially if you grow up playing football, you have

735
00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:52,480
a nickname. I guarantee you. His high school, his middle school,

736
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,079
little league teammates called him bear like.

737
00:38:56,159 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: There has to be people in his circle that call

738
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,920
him bear. This is insane and I can't believe I

739
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,760
haven't talked about it at all this week.

740
00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:06,199
Speaker 4: It's the bear Bral.

741
00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:10,079
Speaker 1: It's the Bear. It's the Bear Bral. Anyway, let's get

742
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:14,079
into quarterback Baron Morton. Bear Morton returned from injury against

743
00:39:14,159 --> 00:39:16,440
KTCHS State. What challenges does he pos?

744
00:39:17,119 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 3: You know? He throws it very good.

745
00:39:18,679 --> 00:39:20,599
Speaker 5: He's played a lot of college football. He's smart.

746
00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:22,079
Speaker 3: You can see he goes to the.

747
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:24,679
Speaker 5: Right places with the ball and so yeah, he's playing

748
00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:26,400
good football.

749
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: Baron Morton been playing for a long time too. He's

750
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,119
a ten yured talent, right, he's been bawling for a

751
00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:39,679
few years now. He started off his career at Texas

752
00:39:39,679 --> 00:39:40,599
Tech and he's been.

753
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 3: With him ever since. He's from Eastland, Texas. Six to twenty.

754
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 1: It's a big body. Not bear Bachmeyer big, but pretty big.

755
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,119
It was bear Bachmeyer at at the beginning of fall

756
00:39:51,159 --> 00:39:55,800
camp per you know, the Sports information department, and Ronald

757
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:56,519
and I showed up to.

758
00:39:58,679 --> 00:40:02,519
Speaker 3: Fall camp and like he told, he told us two

759
00:40:02,639 --> 00:40:04,599
thirty five, and he does not look to it, and

760
00:40:04,639 --> 00:40:05,599
then they corrected it.

761
00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:08,519
Speaker 4: We were on the elevator coming down right after the

762
00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:11,239
Utah game and they said it'll be updated to two thirty.

763
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,719
I'm like, all right, because I'm like, he's not two twenty.

764
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:14,280
That's some cats.

765
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I don't believe it for a second.

766
00:40:16,559 --> 00:40:19,159
Speaker 4: It was one of those stats like every every team

767
00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:21,159
does it where they put in the wrong like they

768
00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:24,400
inflate someone's height, yeah, or they you know. Sure, they

769
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,639
thought they could get away with that one until people

770
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,360
sat down and thought, this kid.

771
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: Is not too twenty. He's at least to just look

772
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,760
at my legs. There's a possibility he gets up to

773
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,119
two forty two hundred of his poundage is in his

774
00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:42,719
lower half. I'm just saying, but Baron, what's interesting. He's

775
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,559
his completion percentage. His career completion percentage is what bear

776
00:40:46,639 --> 00:40:48,920
Bachmeiers is. I think for the season sixty two point

777
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:54,199
seven percent. Fun fact of the day, he's thrown one

778
00:40:55,199 --> 00:40:56,119
and fifteen times.

779
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 3: As a college football player. That's a lot of throws.

780
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:02,159
Speaker 1: Six hundred and ninety nine comps and fifty six yards

781
00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:04,679
through the air, seven point one yard per tamp, sixty

782
00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:06,119
four touchdowns.

783
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,199
Speaker 3: And twenty six hinets.

784
00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:11,079
Speaker 1: Okay, he's got an overall quarterback rating of one thirty

785
00:41:11,079 --> 00:41:13,599
six point nine, but this year he's won seventy point four.

786
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,039
Speaker 3: Doesn't run the ball whole lot.

787
00:41:16,159 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: It's not the dual threat that byus maybe become accustomed

788
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,000
to this season.

789
00:41:20,679 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 3: Is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing?

790
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,280
Would you like a running quarterback? Again? I don't know.

791
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,679
Speaker 1: Like sometimes it's nice to hit a quarterback because he's

792
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,159
running around extending plays. And I think we've gotten after

793
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,719
quarterbacks and times that like to run, and we make

794
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,440
them pay a little bit. They have to pay their pennants,

795
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,639
they have to pay their tax, right, they have to

796
00:41:35,639 --> 00:41:37,679
pay the tax, They have to pay the toll.

797
00:41:38,039 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 4: I think by you got into. I mean they played

798
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,519
Caiden Salter. They they got him back eighteen yards. I

799
00:41:44,519 --> 00:41:47,679
think gonna play Isaiah Glasker. Devin devp Here took a

800
00:41:47,679 --> 00:41:51,039
few hits from Byu. By's gonna make sure that if

801
00:41:51,039 --> 00:41:53,599
you run, they're gonna they're gonna hit you, and they're

802
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:56,239
gonna hit you pretty hard. They're gonna let you know that.

803
00:41:56,559 --> 00:41:58,679
You know, we're not gonna We're not gonna let this

804
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,840
slide type of deal like you see in the NFL

805
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:04,840
where Patrick Mahomes starts to go down and everyone you know,

806
00:42:05,039 --> 00:42:05,679
walks away.

807
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,039
Speaker 1: If you run against Byu, they're gonna lay you out.

808
00:42:09,559 --> 00:42:12,599
Yeah that no doubt about it. I know if handsw

809
00:42:12,639 --> 00:42:14,760
or buts about it. Let's get back to the sound. Uh.

810
00:42:15,519 --> 00:42:19,320
Folatile Satawala leading the team in tackles, guys leading the

811
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,639
things in strong safety. He had a big gamers that

812
00:42:21,679 --> 00:42:23,599
Iowa State. How has he progressed this season?

813
00:42:24,599 --> 00:42:26,599
Speaker 5: Well, super proud of him because he's another one of

814
00:42:26,599 --> 00:42:29,119
those guys that just keeps getting better and better every game.

815
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,239
He's making a lot of huge plays right now. You

816
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,960
can just see his progress coming.

817
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:38,119
Speaker 3: So proud of just.

818
00:42:38,119 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 5: Where he's at right now. And again He's another one

819
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,679
that he's just scratching the surface on what he's going

820
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:43,400
to become.

821
00:42:44,119 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 3: Just scratching the surface of what he can become.

822
00:42:47,119 --> 00:42:50,159
Speaker 1: Thus far this season, he's been a boon for byu

823
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,880
Folla Taos Satawala. He's overachieved, Like as far as individuals

824
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:59,280
over choosing the expectation that Cougarnation and even the fan

825
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,119
base the media members have put on him. Follow Town

826
00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:04,719
and bear Bachmer had like neck and neck for.

827
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 4: Me, follow Tub has been really good.

828
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,199
Speaker 1: I mean like, I did not expect this from Falla Town.

829
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:10,599
I know he's a four star, but I did not

830
00:43:10,679 --> 00:43:13,440
expect him to be this good this season. I thought, hey,

831
00:43:13,519 --> 00:43:16,360
junior year, senior year, he'd be really good. Not this year,

832
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,599
especially judging off of what I saw last year. I

833
00:43:18,639 --> 00:43:20,840
was like, yeah, he was okay, he's okay, he's coming

834
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,119
into his own, he's developing.

835
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a He's.

836
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: A great talent that needs to develop into a safety.

837
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,920
He's played really well once they've moved him into the box,

838
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,880
which that's where I prognosticated him. I thought he was

839
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,000
gonna be an outside linebacker anyway, and when they roll

840
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:38,719
him up into the box, he is a game changer

841
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:39,559
for BYU.

842
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 4: It's like, is there anyone on the defense off the

843
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,039
top of your head that you can say is definitively

844
00:43:45,079 --> 00:43:47,320
better than Satwala.

845
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:50,559
Speaker 1: Thus far this season, no fifty three tackles, thirty two solo,

846
00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:53,920
twenty one assisted, six and a half TfL's one sack,

847
00:43:54,039 --> 00:43:56,400
two force fumbles, two PPUs.

848
00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 3: Two I and t's for passes defense, did one touchdown?

849
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:08,519
Speaker 1: The only players there's only maybe last year Johnson, Yeah,

850
00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:14,159
last year Lasker was disimpactful rights and Evan this year

851
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,840
is probably right there with He's right there, But you

852
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:21,159
can't say, like definitively that he's definitively better and sought

853
00:44:21,199 --> 00:44:21,519
too well.

854
00:44:21,559 --> 00:44:25,199
Speaker 4: As a sophomore, he's barely been in the system.

855
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 3: Yep, yep.

856
00:44:26,599 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 1: It's it's been impressive. Shout out to Folatile. He's just

857
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,760
scratching the surface per j Hill. As far as safety

858
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,079
depths concerned, are you expecting raider de moonyback?

859
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 3: What does his presence add to the defense.

860
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,039
Speaker 5: Yes, he's and he's looked really good this week. No speed, physicality,

861
00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:44,159
He's played a lot. He gives us the ability to

862
00:44:44,199 --> 00:44:47,519
get into a three man rotation of safety, which keeps

863
00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:52,000
those guys fresher and all three of them play well together.

864
00:44:52,119 --> 00:44:54,840
So I really like that group. When we get a

865
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,599
little bit of a rotation going and just late in

866
00:44:57,639 --> 00:45:00,000
the games, that helps us be you know, a little

867
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:02,039
bit more on it not be worn out at.

868
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:07,119
Speaker 3: All, that three man rotation right right now with.

869
00:45:06,679 --> 00:45:11,639
Speaker 1: With with the Tanner Wall, Folatile and Raider, and we've

870
00:45:11,639 --> 00:45:14,800
seen Talon Alfred get some pet Tommy Piasters had been

871
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,840
had been moved under Nickel and he's I think he's

872
00:45:19,079 --> 00:45:24,280
was he questionable, A doubtful doubtful, which makes the question

873
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,440
if he's doubtful right now, and you know that lower

874
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,079
extremity injury is hindering him from going back into the

875
00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:33,000
Nickel spot or moving back to the free safety spot,

876
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,280
they may just end up red shirting Tommy. He could

877
00:45:36,599 --> 00:45:39,079
and if he does rechart, remember you can get him

878
00:45:39,079 --> 00:45:40,880
in the bowl game. You can get him the Big

879
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:44,519
Twelve championship game and any bowl games, so the championship

880
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:46,079
game does not count, so you can get him back

881
00:45:46,639 --> 00:45:48,079
and get him back into the depth chart.

882
00:45:48,159 --> 00:45:50,159
Speaker 3: Then, uh so, And I.

883
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 4: Think the same is gonna go for to be honest, Yeah,

884
00:45:54,559 --> 00:45:56,599
they both went out about the same time they're both.

885
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,440
I don't know if they're gonna and I don't have

886
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:01,039
any sources.

887
00:46:01,079 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 3: I just it just.

888
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 4: Doesn't feel like they're going to be back enough this year.

889
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,119
Sure they could both read shirt.

890
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: Sure, And the injury report it dropped last night for

891
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,800
those that missed it. We'll give you a little update

892
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,239
here momentarily on that official injury report. Well, I'll just

893
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,599
give it to you right now. Sim out, Marcus McKenzie

894
00:46:21,639 --> 00:46:23,239
out an E. C. Percell out. So you have a

895
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,920
running back two deep running back, you have a two

896
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,679
and a half three deep Marcus McKenzie, but a number

897
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:38,800
one gunner or you know, punt cover outside player, defensive tackle,

898
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,760
and E. C. Percell he's one of your two deep defense.

899
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,960
Tommy's doubtful. You're starting Nickel to start the season in

900
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,480
the first four games, and then you have Radier, De Mooney, L. J. Martin,

901
00:46:51,519 --> 00:46:54,400
Jojo Phillips all probable and they'll all play. So that's

902
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,199
your injury report right now. So Jay Hill has asked

903
00:46:57,199 --> 00:47:00,000
the question, what's the status of Tommy Prass.

904
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,639
Speaker 5: He's still nursing a foot injury. I think if he

905
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,400
had to play this game he could. He's really close

906
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,519
to me Mack and see all he's.

907
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 4: Expected by it.

908
00:47:11,199 --> 00:47:15,119
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I'm intrigued to see if they if they

909
00:47:15,159 --> 00:47:19,119
play Tommy this year, if they need them right, or

910
00:47:19,199 --> 00:47:22,559
if they choose to redshirt him right. And it's all

911
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:24,639
going to be dependent on probably injuries and how guys

912
00:47:24,679 --> 00:47:27,840
are playing in front of him. Uh, he probably could play,

913
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,280
but is he at ninety percent. If you're at ninety percent,

914
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,079
you can play with a lower foot ankle injury, but

915
00:47:33,159 --> 00:47:34,960
you want to be one hundred percent. I typically think

916
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,719
that you know you're as a defensive back, especially at.

917
00:47:37,559 --> 00:47:39,599
Speaker 3: Cornerback, you need your feet and ankles.

918
00:47:39,639 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: If you've ever had like a big toe injury or

919
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,559
an ankle injury, and you're a footwork guy, you're you're

920
00:47:46,599 --> 00:47:50,679
a point guard, you're a you're a defensive back, you're

921
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:54,000
a defender. Right that that's having to stay in front

922
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,159
of people. It's all reaction and they put you put

923
00:47:57,159 --> 00:47:59,719
a significant amount of tension and loading on that foot.

924
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,599
Name that's hard to push through when there's pain.

925
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,199
Speaker 4: I will say this injury to Tommy. It's been interesting

926
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:10,400
because if you remember during the transfer portal when by

927
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,320
you went out and got a tav On Beasley, people

928
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,039
just kind of looked at him as like why, Like

929
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,079
he doesn't really crack, you know, the rotation. He's actually

930
00:48:21,079 --> 00:48:23,320
played a significant amount. He's played in four games. He

931
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,679
played a significant role in the Arizona and Utah game,

932
00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:30,880
and so that's a sneaky good pickup in the offseason. Yeah,

933
00:48:31,039 --> 00:48:32,840
while Process has been injured.

934
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: No doubt about it, and now Jonathan Gabay seems to

935
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,679
be back and healthy and we'll probably be getting more reps.

936
00:48:38,679 --> 00:48:42,440
He has listed in front of Tavon, but I think

937
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,159
it's an or delineation, so it'll be Jonathan Gabay or

938
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,320
Tavian Beasley and then Tommy's number three right now and

939
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,880
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data aggregates. Appreciate everyone tuning in, chiming in today as

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we break down all the news and notes coming out

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of Cougar Country. So one of the questions I put

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out to Kugarnat I wanted to get their thoughts.

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00:51:02,159 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 3: On okay, and there's a number of them.

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Speaker 1: Hit me up at Crutal Benjamin Poll of the day

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College Game Day history last time. Last time in Lubbock

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was November one, two thousand and eight number seven text

992
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,639
Tech versus number one Texas. There was the Michael Crabtree

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game that occurred in two thousand and eight. Last time

994
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,440
game day was in Profa October twenty eight. Excuse me,

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October twenty fourth, two thousand and nine, TCU and BYU,

996
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,840
both ranked teams faced each other. My question has been, well,

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00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,400
these two teams become the iconic brands and band ambassadors

998
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of the Big twelve for years to come.

999
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 3: How do you feel about this? Right?

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00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:44,039
Speaker 1: Do you feel like each team from an organizational design standpoint,

1001
00:51:44,119 --> 00:51:49,440
their leadership at at head coach their resources right now

1002
00:51:49,599 --> 00:51:53,360
within their program. For text Tech it's the oil money.

1003
00:51:53,559 --> 00:51:57,400
For BYU, it's the tech money. Are these two teams

1004
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:01,719
best positions to become the brand ambassadors of the new

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00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:02,280
Big twelve?

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00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 3: Under Brett your mark? What do you make of it?

1007
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 4: Give me give me another brand that has the nil

1008
00:52:09,119 --> 00:52:11,559
support in the Big twelve to keep up with these? Sure,

1009
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I just don't think it's there.

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00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:14,119
Speaker 3: Yep.

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00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest. I think most years, I think

1012
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,280
every once in a while you're gonna have a down year.

1013
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,360
Like it's gonna happen. It happens everywhere. Sometimes a player

1014
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that you pay for doesn't pan out. That happens everywhere.

1015
00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:29,239
But I think for the most part, b YU and

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Texas Tech are best positioned structurally, and I think they're

1017
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both very stable situations. Their coaches have been there for

1018
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a while, They've built their culture, they have an il support,

1019
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they have enough revenue to pay the twenty million in

1020
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the paying players out of the school. The revenue sharing yep.

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I don't see another brand in the Big twelve that

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can do that year in and year out.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: I do think that in Iowa State is gonna be

1025
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good every few years. I do think that Utah is

1026
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gonna be able to build up good. Kansas State Kansas State,

1027
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but they're gonna cycle through. It's gonna be a three

1028
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four year build up to a great team and a rebuild.

1029
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I think for a lot of these brands, whereas the

1030
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UYU and Texas Tech, they have the support to do

1031
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it for the most part, year in and year out.

1032
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Both And here's the scary thing, both in football and basketball.

1033
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's fun to watch, no doubt about it.

1034
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:35,079
Speaker 1: I don't think really there's a there's another team that

1035
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,800
you know. Look, I think Cincinnati's doing nice things. I'm

1036
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,280
in I'm intrigued to see what UCF does with Coach Frost,

1037
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,760
like I really am. Their enrollment is insane, you know,

1038
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and they're growing their alumni base.

1039
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Speaker 4: They do have a good recruiting hotbed, like they got

1040
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:51,440
a great.

1041
00:53:51,199 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 3: Recruiting CUB And I don't I don't.

1042
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: I don't know what the economy is like right now

1043
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:01,360
surrounding ORLANDA. But imagine it's fine, Like imagine good like

1044
00:54:01,599 --> 00:54:05,840
Florida is, you know, with with with how they maybe

1045
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politically align, is.

1046
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Speaker 3: Is good for business, you know what I mean.

1047
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: So like, but there's a lot of teams that are

1048
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:17,800
also competing with from a recruiting standpoint, but their donor

1049
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base is growing.

1050
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Speaker 3: So I'm intriguing in the future.

1051
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Speaker 1: Like I think when we initially launched into the Big

1052
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twelve UH and we were valuing the new teams, much

1053
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of the rhetorics surrounded B Y, U and U c

1054
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F as being like the favorites to make immediate impact.

1055
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

1056
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,559
Speaker 1: Right, they were the immediate impact brands UH for any

1057
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number of reasons.

1058
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Speaker 3: But if you looked at Cincinnati, U, c F.

1059
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Speaker 1: B YU, and you know some of the other you know,

1060
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:47,360
newcomers that came in, like you know, they they had

1061
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:52,000
similar win loss records as G five programs at the time,

1062
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,079
with similar trajectories going, and they earned their seat at

1063
00:54:56,119 --> 00:54:58,400
the P four table, is what I'm getting at. But

1064
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it's intriguing to see what be why You has done

1065
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with their new found prominence within the power for structure.

1066
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Texas Tech has always been there, They've always been a

1067
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Power five team, like at least in the modern era.

1068
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:18,880
Only recently have they found their t boone Pickens, right,

1069
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,280
they found their guy that wants to win, a former

1070
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:26,800
football player that loves Red Raider football, that got himself

1071
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:30,880
some of that black gold, the oil money, you know

1072
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,159
what I mean, you know that black gold ladies and gentlemen,

1073
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boys and girls. So I look at Colorado and you're like, well,

1074
00:55:40,159 --> 00:55:40,920
what about Prime.

1075
00:55:41,599 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 3: I just this is Prime.

1076
00:55:44,519 --> 00:55:46,639
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to be there after this year.

1077
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,480
I think he's either going to retire because like he's

1078
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,039
had so many and I know we say this every year,

1079
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,679
but at some point, the medical conditions they catch up

1080
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,559
and you've got to take a break. I think he

1081
00:55:58,599 --> 00:56:01,599
at least takes a break or the schools in Florida

1082
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,599
all those jobs are opening up, including I expect Florida

1083
00:56:06,679 --> 00:56:08,920
State to let go of their head coach, which is

1084
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,719
where he went to school. You can't tell me that

1085
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,960
if Florida State comes Colorado, Deon's gonna say no, they

1086
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:15,360
want him.

1087
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

1088
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 4: When Florida State said we're, you know, gonna make the

1089
00:56:20,519 --> 00:56:22,800
decision at the end of the year, that told me

1090
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,239
we're getting the donors together to come up with a

1091
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,239
buyout money. Yeah, because they're not happy with Mike Norvel.

1092
00:56:29,079 --> 00:56:31,760
I do think Deon's gone, and I don't think. I

1093
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,960
just don't think the structure at Colorado is sustainable.

1094
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:40,679
Speaker 3: Yeah. So Colorado's out of prime leaves. Yep. So the

1095
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:42,519
the trajectory.

1096
00:56:42,039 --> 00:56:47,639
Speaker 1: Is is based off of two things. Who's the head coach,

1097
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,599
does he want to be their long term? And furthermore,

1098
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:57,159
what are the NIL resources looking like for those respective programs.

1099
00:56:57,199 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 4: I will say the third team I would throw in

1100
00:56:59,039 --> 00:57:01,079
the mix with b Way and Texas Tech. I do

1101
00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:03,840
think Arizona State has the structure to do well, which

1102
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:05,960
I think. I think Kenny Dillingham is a heck of

1103
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,519
a coach and I think he's one of my favorite

1104
00:57:09,519 --> 00:57:12,800
things about him, which I realized isn't a very popular

1105
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,400
phrase around BYU. We don't like Kenny Dillingham for some

1106
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,360
reason because.

1107
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 3: He looked like a toddler out there.

1108
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,519
Speaker 1: Well, he connects with his fan base female canine and

1109
00:57:22,599 --> 00:57:23,800
on the football field, well.

1110
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 4: He connects with his fan base in a way that

1111
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,519
most coaches cannot. Yeah, because he literally was a fan.

1112
00:57:30,599 --> 00:57:33,320
He never actually played football there, he went there, but

1113
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,320
he knows how to connect with his fan base. Get

1114
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,679
ahold of those donors. He's revitalized. It was a very

1115
00:57:39,719 --> 00:57:43,039
dead fan base four years ago. Yeah, I do think

1116
00:57:43,079 --> 00:57:44,679
timp is a very That's where I grew up.

1117
00:57:44,679 --> 00:57:47,519
Speaker 1: I grew up in Glendale, Arizona, hopskipping and jumping away

1118
00:57:47,519 --> 00:57:51,199
from from from Arizona State. Most of my friends attended

1119
00:57:51,239 --> 00:57:54,400
Arizona State. My family, most of my family to my

1120
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,760
brothers attended Arizona University of Arizona.

1121
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:04,159
Speaker 3: You know, there's a unique culture and a unique attraction

1122
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:05,400
to Tempe.

1123
00:58:05,519 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: There's no doubt what they've always struggled with, just like

1124
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,360
all the Arizona schools have struggled is trench warfare.

1125
00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 3: So they're gonna happen.

1126
00:58:12,679 --> 00:58:15,239
Speaker 1: They need to tap into the Polynesian pipeline, and you

1127
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,519
have to have really good offensive and defensive line coaches,

1128
00:58:18,039 --> 00:58:20,599
and otherwise you're good to continue to lose versus the

1129
00:58:20,599 --> 00:58:24,760
better programs. And that includes BYU, and that includes Utah,

1130
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:29,400
that includes I mean, look like Iowa State and Kansas State.

1131
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:35,400
They have good offensive and very physical, sound, technically sound

1132
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:40,599
defensive lines like they're physical. And that's what Arizona State

1133
00:58:40,679 --> 00:58:43,119
has struggled with over the years. And that's what you

1134
00:58:43,519 --> 00:58:46,360
have struggled with just year in and year out developing

1135
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,360
good to great offensive and defensive line. The Pac twelve

1136
00:58:49,519 --> 00:58:53,760
was weak in the trench warfare game. That's why the

1137
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,360
University of Utah came to power, came to prestige, came

1138
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,400
to probody else out of line that could Competeington and

1139
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,800
Oregon they were they they were decent, right, but Oregon

1140
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,559
was more of a speed They were a finesse team.

1141
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and.

1142
00:59:07,719 --> 00:59:10,639
Speaker 1: And they they got at they they they've recruited well too.

1143
00:59:10,719 --> 00:59:18,079
But Oregon, UH and USC and Stanford and you know,

1144
00:59:18,519 --> 00:59:23,000
those those programs would come in and take like the

1145
00:59:23,039 --> 00:59:27,400
Greater Mountain West good offensive and defensive linement. Jackson Power's

1146
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,480
light offensive line. Remember Kingsley Suata went out to Oregon

1147
00:59:30,519 --> 00:59:35,159
before transferring back. I want to say, uh u c

1148
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:40,159
l A too. Oh gosh, uh goodness gracious. Anyway, there

1149
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:43,679
there's been a number of l LDS guys, polynesi and

1150
00:59:43,719 --> 00:59:47,199
guys that ended up at those schools, and so that's

1151
00:59:47,199 --> 00:59:49,239
what you're gonna have to tap into at a s

1152
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,719
U while competing with the rest of the best. And

1153
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,320
the Big ten's getting in on the action now, you

1154
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,760
know what I mean. SEC pretty much has like their

1155
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,280
guys like but the Big ten has been very much

1156
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:03,519
interested in some of those offensive and defensive linemen and

1157
01:00:03,559 --> 01:00:06,800
they have for for a while now. Anyway, interesting debate,

1158
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:09,119
chime in on it. Want to hear from you and

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01:00:09,239 --> 01:00:12,159
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1166
01:00:28,719 --> 01:00:31,199
Let's get into some cougar bytes and much more. Yegor

1167
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:36,800
demon discussing why he chose BYU. Really interesting commentary here.

1168
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,679
Now we've heard a number of comments from yegor gemmen.

1169
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:43,719
Excuse me, gentlemen. I always say demon it's Gilman, but

1170
01:00:44,639 --> 01:00:47,559
he's gonna pontificate and elaborate a little bit more. Also,

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I think Andy Staples sound bite much more coming up next.

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point three ESP