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of the Pleasant Grove location of Game Day Men's Health.
Speaker 2: Lane, how the heck are you, buddy?
Speaker 4: See what I'm doing good?
Speaker 2: Then how I'm doing awesome? Man? The silver lining.
Speaker 1: Like I know, it hurts to lose to the Houston Cougars, right,
it was a tough, hard fought loss, seventy three sixty six,
one of the best teams in college basketball.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: I believe that Houston Cougar's team is an Elite eight team.
They have the talent, they have, the ability, they have
the coaching staff. They got it all to be an
Elite eight, maybe even a Final four team when you
take it all in. Is it a good thing or
a bad thing that BYU lost this game? They couldn't
get higher. The only way that they were getting a
five seed was if they won the Big Twelfth Tournament
per all of the bracketologists that we had on our show.
So they remain a sixth seed and they get to
rest up Thursday or they get the rest of Friday, Saturday,
Sunday before the NCAA Tournament. Good thing or do you
feel like it's a bad thing that BYU lost to
the Houston Cougars.
Speaker 4: No, I think it's I think it's a good thing.
I mean, obviously we see some momentum going with this
new crew, of guys that are that are starting for
him now. So in my opinion, I think they showed
really well. Three games in three days is no joke,
and you can start to see it. Towards the end
of that game, they were just I mean, they were
gas right, And so I think going into the tournament,
this gives them a little bit of I don't know,
encouragement motivation, but this team can win, and they can.
They've shown now that they can hang in there with
basically anyone in the country.
Speaker 1: Some of the best ball they've played all season long.
Or like about two months ago, a month and a
half ago, we were hearing that from Aj from Rob,
from from from Richie, Hey, we've found our identity. We
feel like we're finding our identity. We know who we
are now and we didn't really believe it. Right now,
in this post game press conference AJ Rob, they're saying
the same thing.
Speaker 2: Are we buying it now? Have we found the identity?
Speaker 1: Do they have an identity now in the in the
twenty twenty six season, I mean.
Speaker 4: I sure hope. So the question is because can they
carry that into next season?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously this next year's team is going to
look even different with aj Levin Richie leaving cave of going.
So the question is, with the roster turnover the way
that it is over the past couple of seasons, are
we going to be able to continue and have that
type of consistency and find the team a little bit
quicker than we have this past year or I guess
this current season.
Speaker 1: Manlan, you're already moving on from this team, right, I
think that this team's gonna go in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: Like, how what's the ceiling for this team? Do you think?
Speaker 4: Well, I'll say this, like it will be very disappointing
if if we go out in the first round. I
don't know, I see a repeat of last year. I
legitimately think I think more than anything, it's gonna be
this Our tournament is going to be predicted or based
off of who we match up with. I think we
really struggle against teams that have a really big presence,
you know, really big ramp protectors and stuff like that.
But you saw against like West Virginia and Houston, even
like A J and Rob were able to get their
points down well. When we don't have or when we
have worst matchups or less favorable matchups. We really struggle
in the paint.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough, but man, I feel like they're
trending in the right direction and hopefully AJ, Rob and
Cunard the trio, the new Big Three can bring a
ton of victories to b YU. I want to you know,
I want to cast my gaye over to BYU bat
Baseball real quick. I just want to give you an
update on this in this let's in the in the
world of BA sports. BYU men's baseball ended up opening
Big Twelve play with a five to two win over Cincinnati.
Shout out to Cruz, McChesney, Ezra McNaughton each hit home runs.
Dingers starting pitcher Garrison Sumner surrendered just one run on
five point one innings for the win. So, you know,
I'm hoping that we can finally compete in the Big
twelve in baseball because we struggled a little bit in
Big Twelve. I think like we were we were pontificating
once upon a time on just over like about three
years ago, when when the announcement had occurred and we
were we were asking the question, which team's going to
struggle the most within the athletic department in the Big Twelve,
and it was a resounding kind of affirmative that that
we thought b YU baseball would struggle and they have.
And it's nice to start off Big twelve play with
a victory and Trent Pratch team hopefully gonna have a
few more wins this year on the on the baseball diamond.
Have you taken in any games there at Miller Park recently, Lane.
Speaker 4: I haven't been to any games yet. We were watching
the game yesterday before the Houston game started for the
for the tournament, and I think, if I'm not mistaken,
I think we were down a couple of rounds when
I was watching, So glad to hear that they came back.
But yeah, I mean it's a competitive league for baseball
for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right now, I think they're eight and eight on the
season and so sitting around five hundred and it's only
going to get more difficult. First pitch I believe just
occurred in today's game.
Speaker 2: So Game two of three uh IS is.
Speaker 1: Now underway it Miller Miller Park and PROVA will get
updates here momentarily and uh and then Saturday's contest is
scheduled for one pm Mountain time. Both games are televised
on ESPN Plus and are available on BYU Radio as well.
Shout out to the b YU men's baseball team. Shout
out to Ezra mcnote he was two for four yesterday,
three RBIs, one home run, Crew mcchassy one of four,
two ribbies and one home run.
Speaker 2: Ryder Robinson was one of two with two walks.
Speaker 1: And then as I mentioned Garrison Sumner, he looked good too.
He had fifty four strikes, four innings pitch, only one
run and six strikeouts. So shout out to this BYU
men's baseball team, showing up, showing out. Camp Killani is
well underway now, two weeks into Camp Killani, and we're
starting to get a little bit more of a of
a vision of what this Cougar football team is going
to be. I chatted with a former Cougar that was
down there yesterday or excuse me Wednesday, and he was just,
I mean, he was so hiped. He said, this BYU
men's football team's gonna be fantastic this year. And so
you know, any of the storylines that have stood out
to you thus far. Two weeks into Camp Killani, twenty
twenty six, Leyna Loo.
Speaker 4: I think the part that I'm most excited about is
just the tight ends group, you know, I think. I mean,
obviously we're losing a lot of production from our passing,
well not the passing game, but from our receivers, and
so to hear that we have two like legitimate stars
or potential stars at tight ends really reassuring, especially since
we got a glimpse of what it could be like
with Carson Ryan last year. So I'm really excited to
see what those most tight ends can end up doing
for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Walker Lines, Roger Siley of PAGA is going to
be much involve Kyler Casper's looked really good, Jojo Phillips,
a slew of wide receivers trying to vibe for more
playing time on the football field in springball. Another thing
that I really like about springball is the end of
spring ball. I'll tell you why, because the Alumni game
is occurring, and do you hear about the the alumni
football scrimmage again. BA will conduct its annual football Alumni
Day on Friday, April third, and it will conclude the
festivities with the twenty twenty six Alumni Game being played
at Lavell Edwards Stadium six pm. The alumni game is
actually free to the public, gates opening at five pm.
Fans can enter the stadium through Gates one on the
southwest side and also northwest and southeast side, with seating
available in the east and west stands.
Speaker 2: Parking is free as well.
Speaker 1: Food concessions and the Bay Store gonna be on hand
five pm for the fans to enjoy meals and the
latest and greatest merchandising.
Speaker 2: Merchandising. So, have you ever been to a football alumni game? Lane?
Have you checked out the Navy versus Royal games at all?
Speaker 4: Oh? Absolutely, They're great fun and it's the cheapest way
to get all your kids there for free.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Man.
Speaker 1: It's uh it's Norm Chow's Royal team versus Robbie Bosco's
Navy team.
Speaker 2: I gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the rosters here, Okay, So Team
Royal Norm Chow, you got John Walsh, Charlie Peterson at quarterback,
Jamal Willis, donniyattawaya Fahutahi and a little Pini katoe running back,
Toby Christensen, Dylan Colly, Colby Pearson, alevefo and Neil Powe,
as well as talmus Gun through at wide receiver. The
tight ends comprised of Byron Rex to Be, Tolphen Galway,
and then you got Brian Keel, Harvey Longi, Adam Pulsifer
linebackers Uh and Uh also Josh Arnold, to mctyre, Travisale,
Micah Hannaman, Kainakua, Michael Shelton as defensive back.
Speaker 2: So that's your team Royal. Here's Team Navy for you.
Speaker 1: Robbie Bosco leading that team and also as a quarterback,
so he's a player coach this year. Steve Klemts quarterback,
Brandon Doman quarterback, Jay Keeps, quarterback, Wayne Latu, Manasse Tunga,
Harvey Unga, as well as Reno Mahe running backs Jared Bledsoe.
Shout out to Jared Bledsoe, Spencer Hafoka, Cody Hoffman. Wide receivers,
Brydon Brown, Moronai Lalutu Tao, tight ends Bronson Kalfusi, Mike Tanner, Juaniunga,
Butch Powell, Isaiah Kafusi, Peyton Wilgar, ben Bywater, David Tafuna,
Austin Lee and Caleb Christian are your defensive guys.
Speaker 2: Who you picking and why?
Speaker 4: Lene alo oh man? I I can't pick based off
of that. I mean some of these guys are how
many years removed from the game.
Speaker 2: I know? But who you root? Okay, who you're rooting for?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 1: Is there like a favorite player of yours on the
either roster, like a guy that you really liked watching
when they were in Cougar Blue playing for the BYU
football team.
Speaker 4: Uh I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say Manasse Tonga I
loved he played with like and yeah, all those guys right,
Oh yeah, it's tandem to watch in the backfield. I'm
gonna go. I'm gonna go with Manassa.
Speaker 1: Okay, then Team Navy Manase Tonga, Uh yeah, one of
the kind of the bash brothers back there, the Polynesian
power backs in the backfield, really good backfield with Fuivakapuna,
Harvey Unga and Manase Tonga. That was a lot of
a lot of poundage of Polynesian power in the backfield.
Speaker 2: No if sands or butts about that. And so I'm
kind of leading Team Navy as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, other guy I didn't get to wear the
royal so I got to always pick my team Navy.
Final thing, Lane wanted to ask you this, this BYU
basketball team most likely going to be a sixth seed,
and where do they have to reach though for you
to feel like it's a successful season, Like for you
to feel like, hey, this belly basketball team, you know
they met quota this year.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's so hard to say with all the injuries.
If it was the beginning of the season, I think
everyone would say like Elite eight or bust, right. I
think I think getting to the round of thirty two
is like, man, it was a it was a very
mixed season. Really, if we get to the sweet sixteen,
I'm pretty pleased with with what we're able to accomplish
with the guys that are still remaining on this on
this team.
Speaker 2: Would love to see it.
Speaker 1: Lane, How can the men that are listening to the
show right now get back into the game, get vandergized,
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What's the best process to align themselves with game day men's.
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Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Brother.
Speaker 2: There you go.
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This is Cougar Sports one to three nine, ninety eight
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Speaker 7: Updates starting once more on the court More on that minute.
By men's basketball team lost to the second seed at
Houston Coeckers last night, seventy three to sixty six. A
JAB Bosson once again led Byuns, scoring with twenty six
points and his ninety three points over the tournament said
the Big Twelve record for most points scored in tournament history.
With the lost, Buy's next game will be in the
first round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday. Now Our
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South Carolina election Sunday will take place this Sunday at four.
Speaker 5: O'clock Mountain time.
Speaker 7: The women's selection show will take place right after at
six o'clock, and the latest bracketologies, the men's team was
listed as the number six seed, the women's team as
the first team out. Back to more news on and
with the court as Big Twelve Commissioner Brett your Mark
made the following statement yesterday after the last game of
the night. He said that after talking with the remaining
coaches that quote. In order to provide our student athletes
with the greatest level of comfort on a huge stage.
This weekend, we will transition to a hard word court
for the remainder of the tournament. Quote over on the diamond.
BAU Baseball would in game one of Big twelve Play
and currently sit to top the standings as the only
team to win a game in conference play. They defeated
Cincinnati five to two yesterday with a scout from the
Detroit Tigers and attendants taking notes on Bou starting picture
Garrison Sumner. Game two of the series is today at
three o'clock and the series finale is tomorrow at one.
The tennis court. Men's tennis opened Big twelve play yesterday
with a four to zero loss against seventeenth ranked Arizona,
and women's tennis came from behind to meat Cincinnati four
to three, also yesterday. Is first reported by BYU student
newspaper The Daily Universe. Former All American four MICHAELA. Colhankkloff
has been hired on as part of Jen Rockwood's women's
soccer staff. She will have the role as director of
player Development. The remaining events happening this weekend go as follows.
The men's and women's truck field team will have competitors
in ten different events over the two day NCAA Indoor
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in St. George playing three games in the Trailblazer Classic
against Omaha and Utah TEK. Number twenty four women's gymnastics
will take on number fourteen Clemson in the final meet
of the regular season. Number seven men's volleyball will take
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dot com. So, as I mentioned, Pat McAfee had Brett
or Mark, the Big twelve commissioner on his show earlier today,
and let's get into it. First SoundBite here, Brett, what's
the status of the LED cord? Why you're retiring it
and you know, doing away with it? What were the
reasons behind it?
Speaker 8: You're one of the most forward thinking commissioners we have
in all of sport. Tell me about the LED floor
and then tell me about people immediately bitching about it.
I would assume, is that kind of how we got
to this point or how did we land on the
LED board and then why are we going back to
wood right now?
Speaker 2: Brett so pat great question.
Speaker 9: First of all, anytime you innovate, you know there's going
to be a risk, and you know that going in,
and I think it's fair to say that you never
expect one hundred percent Buying that being said, there were
mixed reviews. Some players liked it, some players didn't. Uh,
there was discussion about making adjustments, there was discussion about
a potential slippage. And following the games yesterday, I met
with you know, the four semi final coaches, and I
had been encouraging feedback all week, in fact for the
last two weeks, starting with the women's and into the
men's and I was very intentional about that, and we
decided last night that it must.
Speaker 2: That for us.
Speaker 9: Most importantly is that you've got for the biggest brands
in men's college basketball competing tonight, and the conversation should
be about those teams and not the court. And I
made that decision ultimately following the feedback I had received
some from the some of the key stakeholders, and I
feel good about it. I think it was the right
thing to do, and I often tell my staff, Listen,
we're in the good judgment business, it's critically important to
make good judgment. And I made a judgment call last night,
and I stand by.
Speaker 1: I made a judgment call, and I stand by, And look,
there were so many complaints coming down the pipeline. There
were complaints during the women's tournament, and I think that's
where it's like, okay it. If it wasn't working during
the women's tournament, and you were getting complaints during the
women's tournament, why allow the men to play on it
as well? They probably should have just gotten rid of
it after the women's tournament, after all the complaints that
the ladies were putting out right right like that, I mean,
if your proof of concept has not been proven yet
and you have the ladies were slipping all over the
place the entire time they were complaining about it, Ronnie,
Why wasn't that those complaints enough? Why do we have
to wait till the semi finals of the men's tournament
to make this change? That is an issue in my opinion.
So let's get to the next one. Or was it
did we already play the second one? Were those two combined?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So okay, okay, we'll get to the second SoundBite here momentarily.
But man, uh, you know, I feel for Brett because, like,
I love his innovative mind, and you have to take risks.
You can tell like, I don't know if he has
any remorse about giving it a whirl.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he has any remorse about it.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, Man, I'm a I am an initiator,
I am a an individual that's a visionary and I
press the envelope. I'm always pushing, I'm always shoving towards
that threshold of uh stepping over the line right and
he he may have stepped over the line with this one. Okay,
he may have stepped over the line right then there,
and but I don't sense any regret. I don't really
sense any regret all this. Should he be feeling some
remre some regret in your opinion, Ronald the three Man Weaver.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely think there should be some. In my opinion,
I definitely think.
Speaker 10: You didn't really fully test it the way you should have.
You should have given people more than one practice. Maybe
they should have been allowed to maybe scrimmage as a team.
Because Ben, when you're going to practice, you're you're running plays.
But it's not like you can't you can do only
so much been to replicate game reps.
Speaker 5: You can't really, you know, replicate the.
Speaker 10: Opposition and how hard you're gonna play. And although I
think it's a good idea of aesthetic and what it
brought and how it looks like if you're watching on TV,
anybody who watches on TV that says it's ugly, I
think they're just you're wanting to be mad about it.
But the way it looks on television is fantastic. And
I think they've knocked it out of the park when
it comes to the visual part of it.
Speaker 5: But I don't think he's taking account it.
Speaker 10: But like Christian Anderson's hurt, and I think that's the
reason why he said, all right, let's exit. If Christian
Anderson doesn't get hurt, and I think they keep the court.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I think even with
all the moaning and groaning, you know, and pushing in
from the coaches and players, if Christian Andersen doesn't get hurt,
of Watts doesn't roll as aco even with the manual
sharp hitting the deck as hard as he did with
the AJ Debonds's highlight dunk. I don't believe that because
now they become accountable, Ben, Now, lawsuits other things start
to get involved because of that, and you don't hear
that portion of where sorry, players got hurt, Like they're
like you just mentioned, they're strategically not apologizing for you
know what did happen. Oh, I still think it's the idea.
I still like that lad court. Oh like bringing it back.
It's like, no, go away from this, just go normal.
But they're not taking accountability. But the only accountability that
they took portion of is, hey, someone did get hurt.
Speaker 5: That did happen.
Speaker 10: People are complaining and now because we have actual tangible thing,
if someone could really go out there and like tearing
acl and that will really be on us. They've changed
the court. But those are my thoughts on it. I
just think they should go away with this court. It's slippery,
it's not enough traction. Players can't really push off the
way they want. And look you go to the last year, Ben, sure, Oh,
our players are the one that'sn't designed the court. Everybody
on television didn't like the court. Well now and everybody
likes on television that's watching loves the court. But the
players don't like it, So which one is it been.
I think they've swung and missed on these. They got
to do a better job, That's all I'm gonna say.
And until your point about the women's team, Yeah, like
you open up title nine. I believe that, like Olivia
Miles for TCU, was slipping all over the place, right,
one of you know, the best basketball players in the
Big Twelve on the women's side, and you didn't change
it then, and they were complaining and asking about it
like this is.
Speaker 5: A big this is a big no no. I think
they got to do better next time.
Speaker 2: Look, there's plenty of people chiming in all this.
Speaker 1: I sent you another sound by with Stuart excuse me,
this is from a ESPN discussing it. Kind of the
breaking news there with the led court being done away. Look,
this is this is, in my opinion, waving the wait
white flag. But it is much needed, right It's it
was much needed. If you haven't heard Big Twelve Commissioner
Breight you or Mark stated, after consultation with the coaches
of our four semi final teams, I've decided that in
order to provide our student athletes with the greatest level
of comfort on a huge stage. This weekend, we will
transition to a hardwood court for the remainder of the tournament.
We look forward to a great semi finals and championship game.
The Big twelve U, you know, is the first to
take to jump into this led glass floor Foray and
I would say, there was what seventy five negative reviews
on I mean, what level of like dissatisfaction was was
this particular floor? Can we attribute to the particular floor right?
What level of dissatisfaction? I mean, are we talking like
fifty percent of the people that were playing on it?
Speaker 2: No, I dislike I.
Speaker 10: Think it's more than that being I mean with the
how it's been highlighted and going to locker rooms, you
have to really do some capitol j journalism, and I've
done some digging down.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of players that dislike this court.
Speaker 10: They like the idea, right, they keep saying the idea
of what they're trying to do, which you can't knock
people for trying to be innovative. But Hadeem, you know
a J I don't know if we've heard Rob speak
on him with Christian Anderson other play like I think
you're at like eighty eighty five percent.
Speaker 5: Ben, I think you're up there.
Speaker 10: I won't go ninety that might be too far because
me mom on Chilovich, I think, you know, in an
interview with What a Chance for Johnson will ask him
in the the five thirty segment about it. But I
think he likes it. But outside of that, Ben, I
mean TODJ. Manning for Kansas State did and his teammate
out of Migraine. I think for the most part, you're
like eighty five fifteen percent. I don't think people eighty
five dislike fifteen Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I got I got one more brett Or
Moore commentary from from the Pat McAfee show that we
can queue up and play this. This is what brett
Ormark pulled the owner. Okay, this is a he reached
out to the owner of the manufacturer of the led
glass floor.
Speaker 2: This is what he had to say. So breaking news
from Heath Damn. The Big twelve will be changing.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to Pat McAfee and uh and
and brett Or Mark he discussed, uh, you know, his
conversation with the owner said that one to you as well.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh. This is what he had to say
to the owner.
Speaker 1: About the uh, the floor and where they're going and
how they got to get back in the lab with it,
with the proof of concept here and to you know, look,
I can I can quote you as well.
Speaker 2: Here. Let me let me just give you the quote
on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, and uh and I quote this is what brett
Or Mark had to say about I said to the
owner last night and his staff, you gotta go back
to the lab, you know, you gotta refine some things
and let's keep the conversation going.
Speaker 2: It's on the it's on the thread. It was about
twenty eight minutes ago. It's on my thread. Uh.
Speaker 1: But candidly, they got to go back to the lab.
They gotta figure it out. And nothing's perfect in life.
They gotta We're gonna stay in touch with them. But
you know, listen, I'm an innovator and I believe in
trying to be different and lean into that point of differentiation.
And that's what we did. So there you have it.
That's the quote. All right, let's get to SVP here.
Let's get to SVP and what he had to say
about in the breaking news about the led Glass Court.
Speaker 2: This was from Sports Center just a little bit ago.
It was late last night when he discussed it with
some breaking news from Heat them.
Speaker 11: Well, the Big Twelve will be changing their led glass
court for the remainder of.
Speaker 2: The Big Twelve Conference tournament.
Speaker 11: Now, you might recall what I had to say a
little bit earlier. The league had initially said in a
statement it was a profound statement. We said, this whole
thing is extra and unnecessary. But as long as the
court played like a normal court, well, I said, fine,
Well it didn't. I will give the Big Twelve credit
for this tlust. Everyone said this was unnecessary and silly,
and when it proved to be dangerous on top of
all that, when people slipping all over the place, rather
than being stubborn and defiant, the Big twelve is going
to eat it and they're going to punt.
Speaker 2: That's the play. Oh and move on.
Speaker 11: Boog Shabi bore context on the changing of the floor
in Kansas City.
Speaker 6: Throughout the tournament, I got a chance to talk to
a number of coaches about the floor and what their
take was on it, And for the most part, they
said their players were not real happy playing on it.
They noted the fact that the court was especially slippery.
It's interesting because the led court is designed to have give,
and in fact, it probably has a little more give,
so it's not as hard as a hardwood court. But
what they experienced was that when they really had to
dig in and make an explosive move, that is when
the slips started to happen. And a number of coaches
told me that they didn't really like the court as well,
that the lights were a bit distracting, and then of
course they had a difficult time really making out some
of the markers on the court, like the three point
line and the out of bounds line.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, plenty of problems there, no doubt about it. And
you heard it there late last night on on the
SVP show at Sports Center.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: So that's our segment. Thank goodness, brett Or Mark's retiring it.
Let's go back to the lab before we bring that back,
before we roll that back out. I do think it's
interesting that there's a little bit more give to it,
a little bit more bounds, and that can be good
on the knees and ankles and hips and back. Okay,
I will say that as an old man now, you
want to reduce some of the impaction the loading on
those things and get a little bit more bounced too.
There can be a performance element, but when it's slippery
like that, no way know how Knee injuries, ankle injuries,
back injuries, groin injuries.
Speaker 2: Can't have it too much of a liability.
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Cougar Sports. What about Kalani Satake heading into essentially his
his tenth year of coaching the Cougars. How does he
rank out amongst the best in college football? Per The
New York Times and The Athletic? What did the Athletic
have to say about Kalani Sataki? Where he comes in
rankings wise? He's been tremendous since twenty twenty going eleven
and one and then ten and three, eight and five
not bad. Five and seven is low point, but remember
he almost knocked out two top twenty five teams in
the back end of that twenty twenty three first year,
the Big twelve schedule and then lone Behold he bounces
back goes eleven and two and then twelve and two
in twenty four twenty twenty five. One of the few
coaches that have been at their respective school for over
almost ten years. Most of the coaches are getting fired
elsewhere because they can't. If they they're typically either getting
fired they're moving on to the next the next you know,
stepping stool, stepping ladder program. So we're gonna break it
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check this out. Kalani Sataki College football coaching staff rankings,
The head coaches right. Obviously, Kirk Signetti's at the top
of the food chat here, but kalan coming in at
thirteen overall last year, by the way, twenty twenty five,
he was number twenty one. It took just one ramp
up year for Sataiki's program to start competing for Big
twelve titles as BYU is fifteen and three in conference,
playing twenty three.
Speaker 2: And four overall overall.
Speaker 1: Over the past two seasons, and his Cougar football team
have now notched double digit wins in four of the.
Speaker 2: Past six season.
Speaker 1: Penn State eight Pat Kraft, for one, took notice and
tried to higher away BYU's head coach of ten.
Speaker 2: Years, fair or foul, Ronald.
Speaker 1: The three man Weaver is thirteen the right number for
Kalani Satake over the last year or two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is really tough.
Speaker 10: I mean when you think about it, obviously there's a
lot that goes into this. You look at the coaches
above him who are proven, you know, you look at
the coaches that have been to Big twelve titles and
I know a lot of people gonna say, no, that's
not true. But based on not just winning, but at
the highest level Christineti's won a national championship, so that
one is correct. Kirby Smart has won multiple Let's get
out of that. Ryan Day in Ohio State. Yes, Dan
Lanning has also gotten far. He's beaten BYU and Klanney
already had to head remember the Jaron Hall So yes
with Oregon Kellen de boor in Alabama, that one, you know,
you could say is debatable, Ben Right, I know Alabama
has gotten to the college football playoffs, but look what
happened when they first got there, So I don't know
that's a question mark one. I know Washington made it
to the national championship, that's why, but like at the
SEC level knows so that one's debatable question. Marcus Steve
Sharkeisian's approven coach. I think Texas done it. I'm not
gonna deny Texas and Marcus Freming in Orre Dame. They've
been there, but people are gonna call them to quitting
Irish people gonna say that's question markers. But I mean
that man, what season or two ago been had the
most top twenty five wins against the program and got there,
So got to give the nod to him. Lane Kiffin
Lane's been doing the work at ole Miss for a
long time. Been if they could have had the old
college football playoff rules, he had been in a year
after year, So got to give him that. Kyle Winningham
no disrespect there, no BYU fans are gonna say, Ron,
you're wrong, But it's like, yeah, but what if would
Kilani and Kyle when you look at both of them,
if they if Michigan had to pick who what they picked?
They go with Kyle even though the Pac twelve doesn't exist.
That's not Kyle's fault. That's Bretty or Mark. And then
Mara Crystobal Miami. That's one that you can look at.
They're like, okay, yes he got there Miami, but question
Markers like it's only been one. He's had a good
run a couple of times, but still. And then Matt
Campbell Penn State. Matt Campbell's been to a few Big twelve.
And then James Franklin not gonna argue that he's been
a proven coach. So all the guys in front, they're
about six of these guys, excuse me, about sevent these
guys that wouldn't argue, but there they are about three
or four I'm like, oh, that's debatable, but for the
most part, the people in front of Kilane all have
an argument to be so. So I think for the
most part, Stuart Mandale got the list right. I like
Kilani at thirteenth. Everybody han Kalanie should be Killanie. Maybe
the highest you have him as eleventh bin, maybe tenth
at the max. But I think I like the list
for the most part. I'm not I'm not gonna have
too many qualms with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I mean the the the kind of the
the infrastructure of this particular article by Stuart Mandel and
what he's basing it off of is and he he
he qualifies it right. He talks about how I'm more
concerned with the trajectory over the past three to five years.
That gives you a pretty robust set of data points, right,
Kirk Signetti at the top of the ugina. I think
you can make an argument for for Kilanie being ahead
of Matt Campbell, James Franklin. You can make an argument
for that. You can definitely make an argument for Kyle
Whittingham as well. I know Kyle's done great things at Utah.
He's a legendary coach, but but Kilani head to head?
Does head to head matchups matter?
Speaker 2: Right? Do? They? Do?
Speaker 1: They matter? And I think they do in this particular case.
I think that's one that he may have gotten wrong there.
But everybody else, I'm okay with anybody behind Kilani that
could make maybe move up.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I am a big fan of Vanderbilt's program right now.
Clark Lea is fantastic. He said this about Clark. It
seems hard to believe now that this Vanderbilt program didn't
even make his just Myths section last year. However, he
did go nine and twenty seven his first three seasons
in Nashville prior to a seven and six showing in
twenty twenty four. That seems like ancient history now, after
leading the Commodores to their first ten win season in
program history and their first top fifteen poll finished since
nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 2: What Vanderbilt and I mean Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: The fact that Vanderbilt in Indiana and their coaching staff
is being highlighted here just tells you that the nil
transfer portal era is working. It's leveling out the playing
field a little bit. These have been bottom feeders. Shout
out to Willie Fritz two of Houston, He's at sixteen.
You know what I mean, right, like we are working fans, right, yeah,
he was.
Speaker 2: He was part of too late.
Speaker 1: Lance Leipold with Kansas like seeing Kansas, you know, being
as good as they've been over.
Speaker 2: The last five years.
Speaker 1: They were a bottom feed realized in this top twenty
five list. Armies here too, Jeff Munkin at twenty three,
SMU at twenty four. So you keep on going down
the list of these head coaches and what they're doing
and what their their respective teams are accomplishing over the
last three to five years. This is a proving point,
the objective proven point that the nil transporportal arrow is
benefiting the bottom feeders, the little brothers formerly of the
college football cabal cartel that we were living in before
SMU reread lastly at twenty four. Jeff Munkin of Army
twenty three. Okay, Lance Leipold of Kansas twenty Come on, dude,
Willie Fritz of Houston at sixth, clark Ley of Vanderbilt fifteen,
I mean Iowa too, Kirk ference fourteen, Kilani at number
thirteen of BYU always being stiff, Arb Barby always being
held out of the power structure of college football. Finally
we're in baby Matt Campbell Penn State. He was at
I always State for a long time. Kyle Whittingham, now
at Michigan, was at Utah. I mean, this is a
good sign. This is a good thing what we're seeing here. Anyway,
that's your college football segment. Kaloni Sataki coming in at
number thirteen overall in Stuart Mandel's top twenty five coaches
over the last three to five years. Those are his parameters,
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