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Dot God. Let's get out to the hotline. Welcome in
the one the Only. Jared Bledsoe to the show to
talks and BWA football. Jared, how the heck are you?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 3: Ben?
Speaker 1: I'm doing really well. Thank you, hey man.
Speaker 2: What a great season it was.
Speaker 3: But now we're getting into transfer portal season and BYU
has lost twelve transfers right now. Polk I Jounga entered
the portal earlier today. Max Alfred entered yesterday and ended
up at Michigan. Tavian Beasley entered and he's at USF.
It looks like Lemason Waller, the third ended up at
SUU of all places, it looks like so he's committed
to SUU. McKay Hillstead Utah State, Marcus McKenzie Utah State,
Jake Griffins heading to U of A, and Dominique mackenzie
to San Jose State. The wins, the losses. What BYU
has ultimately acquired? You got Zach Yamauchi from Stanford, has
some starting experience as an interier offensive lineman, kde uluave
and All acc linebacker, four star transfer from cal Jake Clifton,
Kansas State linebacker.
Speaker 2: He's coming to BYU.
Speaker 3: Kyler Casper, Oregon to BYU wide receiver, Junior Sia Utah
State offensive tackle heading to BYU. Pockey Few from Washington
to b YU, and then Walker Lions USC to BYU.
How would you assess the transfer portal season so far
for BYU?
Speaker 1: I think it's really positive. I think that the ability
of Koloney to build an atmosphere where players want to
stay is a big deal, you know. I think that's
what is the bigger story and everything that's going on
right now is that b y U isn't just retaining players,
They're retaining starters.
Speaker 4: And so there's there's some really really good work going
on behind the scenes there, and a culture is being
built that these players want to play in and and
I think these guys want to.
Speaker 1: Play for them, for each other, and they want to
show that that even though there's a coaching change, there's
still the players that are playing on the field, and
they're gonna they're going to come together and have a
great season next year. So but but I do think
that we've done well in the transfer portal. I think
that the guys that we're leaving, you know, Tavion, I
think is one that he did He had some games
that he did well. But we know we will what's
his name coming in that came for a visit last week.
Will soon Snowdon He's a nickel.
Speaker 2: It would be nice to get Smith. It looks I mean,
I was a little bit.
Speaker 3: I was more optimistic last week than I was than
I am this week. Michigan may give him an offer
he just can't refuse.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: We will, yeah, But at any rate, I think we've
done well. I do think that we could use one
more key receiver.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I was able to go down and spend some time
at the guest the Bowl. Super fun, great atmosphere. It's
a little different when you're going to a game that
you're not really into either team, but you want to
see football. But then you can't really see very well
because you're in the stands and you know, you say
you're you're at the game. I was able to hang
out and it was fun to watch Kilan Marian's dad
kind of live in and out of every play and
they were sitting right in front of me, and so
that was fun. And and but yeah, I think byu
is we need a Quiel and we need a guy
that it's just going to be a breakout receiver. I
feel like the guy that's coming in from Oregon is
going to do well, but he's he's got a guy
that has to come and compete. I don't feel like
he's slotted as a number one, two three guy. I
think he has to come in and make his mark,
and every single guy that's in that room right now
has an opportunity to beat that guy. So I don't
think he was coming in as a starter without earning it.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, Yeah, you got to see just how dynamic,
how productive Keelan was in Miami this las are a lot
of people thought, hey, Keelyn's moving on and and and
we were sad to see him go. But they're like,
he would have played more at b Y, you would
have been more productive at b YU. And I don't
know if you can make that argument now after watching
him ball at Miami. I do think that that is
a priority right now. At wide receiver? Do you truly
have a wide receiver one? Some people would make an
argument for Parker Kingston. Others will say, you know, there's
Reggie Frishnett or Jojo Phillips, or maybe a transfer from Oregon,
Casper Kyler Caspy who comes from NFL lineage. His father
played in the NFL. He could be the wide receiver one.
What do you see right now.
Speaker 1: In that room? I think there's five two's right now,
and every one of those five, maybe even six, have
to go in there, and it's a big spring for
a lot of these guys, and somebody will stand out
as the one. I feel like, whether he's brought in
and still the guy's brought in, the guy still has
to go out and play and perform and beat out
the guys that are there. Although he'll probably be given
a lot more opportunity, you know, than some of the
other guys. But yeah, I think that there's a lot
of there's a lot to be taken this spring. And
that's what I love about springball, man. It's probably some
of the most competitive football that you ever play, because
everybody feels like they need to prove themselves and everyone
feels like they either are making their mark or or
they're maintaining the mark that they've already made. So springball
was probably some of my most time football that I
ever played.
Speaker 3: You mentioned there's five two's. There's some good wide receivers
in this room. If you were to pick maybe one
guy that you thought maybe could elevate his play to
become that dominant alpha dog playmaker, separator of of space versus.
Speaker 2: Zero coverage, who would it be? And why?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: Jojo? Is it Parker? Is it Cody Hagen? Is it Tanakua?
Speaker 3: Is it Tiger Bockmeier, Reggie Friscannet or Kyler Kasper?
Speaker 2: Who's your favorite to elevate and why?
Speaker 1: And that's a tough question, especially considering I just put
all of them as a two, But uh, yeah, I
mean that's the thing is you've got from what we've seen,
you would expect that we would be able to get
maybe that out of out of Parker. I think Jojo
has some opportunity as well to come out, but they're
not They're not there yet at that spot, you know.
So that's why I think that the Spring is going
to be big. I think the Spring, like.
Speaker 5: Last year was huge for Kiwan because he came out
of Spring as the alpha in that room a hundred percent,
like there's no questions about it at that point, you know.
Speaker 1: And and so I feel like we're going to have
some some standouts come out of Spring. So unfortunately, due
I really don't have a number one. I think that
there's potential in a couple of guys there, but then
other guys, you know, you never know. You can have
a guy that just comes into plays and gets his
opportunity and takes advantage of it and becomes you know,
maybe a Tainakua comes in and does something like that.
The guy's got more energy than anybody I've ever seen.
And his mouth doesn't stop running either. That guy likes
to talk, so he should be a fun one to
get in the mix. But yeah, it's gonna be it's
gonna be a fun spring to watch and see who
really comes to play and who who makes their mark.
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Speaker 3: When you're looking, you know a rod well, you look
at the acquisitions thus far in the portal on the
offense side of the ball. Three offensive linemen pretty interesting,
right a tackle, two guards, pockey can probably play some tackle.
I think there's a total of eight eight transfer Sorry
I said there were seven, but there's actually eight with
Poky fenw or sorry, no, there were seven.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 3: So you got three offensive linemen, you got a tight end,
and you have a wide receiver on the offensive side
of the ball. What does that tell you about maybe
the mindset the vision that a Rod is trying to
accomplish this offseason via the portal.
Speaker 1: Well, he can. He knows he needs depth at the
offensive line, right. I mean that the guys are going
to get hurt. But you've got to have good depth
at the offensive line if you're going to have to
be able to protect a quarter who likes to run
and uh, and we need to throw, you know. So
we've got a great quarterback and we've got great running
backs coming back. So the old line is going to
be key because LJ doesn't have lj's ear. If the
old line doesn't block well, right, you can have the
most outstanding running back in the backfield and he can't
do much if he can't get away from the five
guys that are done to tackle, you know. So it Uh,
it's gonna be a lot of fun to see what
they do. But yeah, I feel like his mentality is
to make sure to solidify that front line. And I
think there's some other ones that they're toying with out
there to see who they bring in there. They're just
real methodical in the transfer portal. It's it's kind of
like I feel like how walk ons used to be,
you know at BYU, and when I was coming in
and it was like you had your preferred walk on
and then and then the rest of them. It was
really hard to even get an opportunity if you weren't
in that preferred group, right, And and I think by
us been real particular about who they bring in and
and it's going to make sense, I think long term.
And I think Coloni and his staff really want people
that are bought in to what the culture is and
to be able to maintain that. And I think they
want guys, you know, unless they're keeping they know it
only has one year. They're trying to get a couple
of years out of players as well. I feel like, Jared, is.
Speaker 3: This BYU football team. I think we may have discussed
this even when you were in here last week. Do
you feel like this roster is going to be better
than it was last year?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like be.
Speaker 3: Always trending with its retention efforts as well as its
acquisitions to a place where this roster is better than
it was a season ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, how can it not be almost you know,
when you start to look at the guys coming back
and having another a year under their belt, having a
spring under their belt in spring, not only is it competitive,
but you get the opportunity to implement a lot more test,
a lot more. Your timing is built heavily over that period.
So yeah, we we we definitely should be better going
into this next season. And yeah, I think we're setting
ourselves up for a really exciting year. I don't think
there's going to be too many people that are are
going to be expecting to not have an excellent year
next year.
Speaker 3: You get to know these players, right you look at
the retention list, is there one player two players that
you're you're pretty pretty stoked to see come back, whether
it's on the offensive or defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Well, when you when you lose your like a double way,
I mean, when you lose both your coaches, right when
that would be uh you know a Trey Alexander and
and Evan Johnson, those two they lost their decordinator and
they lost their quarterbacks coach. You know, so I could
easily see those guys. So you know, Train was real
quick to say he's coming back, and Evan was the
you know, took his time, you know, so that is
a little bit more delayed, whether or not they need
to do that. So like it's kind of trending that
way where people are gonna expect it now, you know,
you need to tell us if you're coming back. So
but yeah, I think those those were two that I
was really happy to see Glasgar of course, ld of course,
I didn't think there was a question with Bear. In
my opinion, I don't know that there was any drama
going on there other than I'm sure that they were
negotiating as every good player would do nowadays. But yeah,
I think that the retention is amazing and it has
something to definitely do with the culture that Claudie's building.
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