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Speaker 2: Well underway.

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Speaker 1: There is all manner and weeping, of weeping, whaling and

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national teeth in Cougar Country. Because this BWIA men's basketball

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Speaker 2: Looked like doodo.

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Welcome in my guy, Double D. Darnell Dixon, the Daily

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Heraldi in himself.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Double D?

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Speaker 4: Very much, pleasure beyond with you again, Ben.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, always a blessing, talking ball with you, Darnell.

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What was your reaction during the game last night watching

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BYU fall to Cincinnati. Never really in the game, not

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very competitive, turning the ball over, not playing good defense,

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can't buying a can't buy a bucket.

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Speaker 2: Aj Maybe it may have been his.

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Speaker 1: Biggest offensive struggle all season long. What were you thinking

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watching this thing unfold?

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Speaker 4: Well? I got to thinking about how Cincinnati is very

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much in the same position BYU was in last year

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in the league, where they kind of got hot and

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started playing well at the end. And I started thinking,

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you know, I don't do a Big twelve men's basketball

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power pool. I could do for the football just there's

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so many games and everything. But if I were to

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rank BYU right now in the Big twelve, where would

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they stand and the way they're playing, I think I'd

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rank them above Utah because they've beaten Utah twice and

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the Newts are in last place, but anybody else, I

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don't know if i'd rank that. I think b YU

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might be playing about fifteenth best in the Big twelve

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right now, and that is such a fall from where

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they were at one point in this season. And you

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can certainly blame a lot of it on losing Richie

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Fonders six games ago, but BYU have had basically six

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games to figure out how to play without him. And

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they might look like they figured something out when they

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beat I with Tata home, but every other game, I

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mean they didn't. They didn't get blown out when Richie

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was playing for and they've been blown out twice since,

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and so there's not a lot right going on. In fact,

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I wrote about my lead today was kind of like,

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you know, I almost feel bad writing anything about him

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because it's it feels like piling on because there's nothing

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good going on in that program right now other than

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bus Branch, the latest sign me who said, yeah, sign

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me up for this. I'll go play for those guys.

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But other than that, there's really I mean, what do

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you say that's positive about what they're doing? There's not much?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, is there was there any silver linings

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Speaker 4: Maybe, you know, it's nice to see Alexi Coasters getting

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playing time and making shots and kept becoming more comfortable

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with more minutes. But you know, they started at dem

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did nothing in that game. So it's been a real

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struggle and you can see the frustration on Kevin Young's

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face as he talks about it. We get a chance

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and you know, We're trying to phrase the questions as

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nicely as we can, but you know what basically comes

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down to is why do you suck now? Because they're

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still talent on that team. I really feel like they

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have the ability to play with most teams in the conference.

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on the floor. But right now they're at rock bottom

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and I don't know how they figured their way out

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of it. They've got one game to end the regular

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season at home against Texas Tech Senior Day on Saturday,

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and then you know, the start of the Big Twelfth Tournament.

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on probably a nine seed. And if they make the

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NCAA Tournament, which their body of work might get them in,

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probably maybe they might be the lost three games of

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the season, And that would be a real shame considering

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where this team started from.

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Speaker 1: What if b like you has to play Utah on

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the Big twelve tournament and they lose to Utah, it

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ruins me like you season, It completely saves Utah season,

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Like I can see it happening, Dole thee Well, it would.

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Speaker 4: Put Utah for BYU fans out of their misery for one,

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and they would all go, well, of course, of course

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this is how this season ends. You know, you can

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just here be what your friends talking about it now?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, so I do like the silver lining Alexa coastic.

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probably like over a month ago, a month and a

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half ago. I'm like, look, this team's never gonna be

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good at defense. Let's not act like they're ever gonna

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be good at defense. They don't have a great defensive scheme.

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by whatsoever. I was talking to my friend and he said,

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can someone please explain to me our defensive scheme?

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Speaker 2: What was it called?

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Speaker 4: There was a play last night where to b YU

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defenders ran to a guy that didn't have the ball

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away from the guy who had the ball, who had

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a wide open tree and made it just how does

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel bad.

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for Kevin honestly because I think I

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don't think he really is.

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Speaker 2: You know that I think he oversees the offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, Isaiah Thomas, Okay, when Bruce Branch the

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third speaking of a positive silver lining and all this.

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Isaiah Thomas, h two time All Star played for Kevin Young.

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You know he quote tweets Bruce Branch the thirst commitment.

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little brouh, You're going to a great coach in the NBA.

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It is an offensive game. No one plays defense. No

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one can't play defense. Maybe they're just too good at

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offense to play any good defense. That's where kay Why

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has made his hay. That's what Kay Why has done

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in order to get his right and he needs some

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help defensively or just go zone and live with the consequences.

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Put your shooters out there and go get buckets and

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see if you can have a freaking fast pace, just

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back and forth, high fly and high floor, high fly

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and high score chicks dig the deep ball three point contest.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's even more to be concerned about,

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I think with this program. And one of the reasons

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I say that is because Kevin's whole premise with his

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program is we can develop you into an NBA talent

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who on this team is getting better right now individually

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certainly not as a team. But is there somebody on

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this team that is getting better, that looks like they're

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a better player they will in the season started. It's

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really hard to bring I mean, other than Alexi Coast

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that you maybe. Other than that, I don't know if

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there's anybody on these teams getting better. And if you

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build your program on look at all our NBA you

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know pieces we've got an NBA nutritionist, an NBA wait guy.

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When we have all of that, why why do we

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Why are we having all these players who aren't improving?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Uh yeah, I think you make a really good point.

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Speaker 1: We've asked that question too about midseason, like who on

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the roster from last year has gotten better? You could

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you could say that, like rich is Richie? Was Richie

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better than he was the season prior? Some would say no,

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you know, he's kind of on part. In fact, he

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was impacted negatively by having maybe a J and Rob

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take at times, the Lion's share of the looks and

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the Lion's share of like the ISO basketball sets that yes,

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he's he's a he is a He can put it

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on the floor and and get to the rim at times,

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no doubt. But you wonder who was actually improved from

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last year to this year that was on the roster last.

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Speaker 4: Year, Well, there was an improvement for Richie in terms

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of his scoring per game. He went not not quite

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three points I think, but a shooting percentage was down yeah, yeah,

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from three especially, I mean now, and you could see

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that adjustment had to be made because you had two

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other guys who had to have the ball really, but

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they were making that work. I mean, all three of

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them were averaging better than eighteen a game, and that

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that works for you. I have most of most games,

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and you know, Richie, I think impressed a lot of people.

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thirty three spot. It was just really being why he

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was the only offense in the second half. And you know,

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Richie didn't believe really that he was an NBA player

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until last year when Kevin said, I think we can

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get you in the NBA. You can play now. Was

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the first time Richie kevinis said well maybe I can't. Yeah,

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you know, so you know there's one thing, Ben that

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spend a ton of time with it. But last week

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you asked me if I thought that, and this is

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concerning Richie, that somebody, if somebody on the team, one

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of the leaders or one of the starters, had to

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be a member of the church. And I think I

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gave you a lame answer, But I've been giving it

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some thought, and I think it goes well beyond whether

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they're a member of the church or not. And part

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of that is, you know, we're all built on our experiences.

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That's that's what we've become because we've we spend time

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doing things and experiencing things. And a couple of weeks ago,

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when Jimmer's Jersey was retired to have some of the Colorado,

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they invited the media out onto the floor about the

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three point line to shoot pictures and video and things.

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And I'd never bet out on that floor and looked

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around at eighteen thousand people. Now, certainly none of those

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people were there for me, they're for Jimmer, but I

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still felt a really interesting feeling it was and Ronnie

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he did. I felt a real intimacy with those people

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and a real love for Jimmer and through Jimmer, I

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kind of felt that as well. So I'd never had

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that experience before. Jimmer certainly has, and a lot of

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the athletes certainly had. And so when you're talking about

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a basketball program like BYU, Richie grew up wearing BYU

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jerseys and knowing all the players' names and running around

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the church gym and going, I'm Tyler Hawes told ones

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that would looked at me play, and he had that

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love for the program and that intimate relationship with those fans,

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not just the ones in the arena, but the hundreds

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of thousands of BLEU fans, the ones that show up

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when they go play in Texas and California and New

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York wherever they go. Nobody on this team has that.

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uniform on for the first time four months ago, and

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the time they were recruited by them, when they were

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eighteen or twenty or whatever age they were, so as

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opposed to know whether or not they remember the church.

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None of these players have the experience of feeling like

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this is my school, and I really want to play

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and win. For For a lot of them, this is

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the place where they go to school and play ball,

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and in some regards, this is where they pick up

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their check. And I don't want to despair as the

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players wrong say they're all just there for the money.

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But their experiences are different. This is what I'm getting

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around to this whole idea is the experiences that they've

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had are way different than Richie. And if you ask

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Richie a question like what did you think about the

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fan support of the Rocks tonight? And if you ask

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a j same question, you probably get this similar response,

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but it can't possibly be the same for both of

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those guys the feelings and the experience that they've had

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with that. So I think that's definitely part of this

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end the season swoon is that these guys don't know

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where to reach out and don't know how to handle

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this whole situation or believe in themselves or believe in

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the program or whatever, and that's part whatever part motivates them.

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They don't know where to go with that. Ritchie did.

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And so that's a long way around to the question

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you asked last week, and that shows. I've got a

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lot of time on my hands because I sat around

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and thought about it. But that to me is where

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this program is at right now, and where a lot

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of programs around the country are at. Where they're bringing

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in I mean, I do previews for every team BYU plays,

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do a little scattering port and most of the teams

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are bringing in twelve thirteen new guys. If you do

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that every year, what are you building. You're building one

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team each year. You're not building a program, not not

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for longevity or anything. So you know my concerns about

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ANIL and about the transfer portal and what's going to create,

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But in terms of how it relates to BYU and

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their experience there, I think that plays a really big

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part of what's happening right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's you wonder if k Why is

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learning through this process and.

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Speaker 2: You know his staff who's learning through this process a

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little bit. Now.

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Speaker 1: They are bringing in some guys, some guys, some dudes, right,

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some some some guys that I think grew up maybe

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being BA fans. But how long do they last at Bay?

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We've seen this before, Jake Gualleen Tanner, Toolson, Dallan Hall,

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like they all came to be a there elsewhere right now,

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once at Virginia, whe's at TCU, once at Clemson.

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Speaker 2: Now could they help b why you win this season?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 1: Or have they been stars for their respective teams? Not necessarily,

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but they've all seen significant playing time and even a

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starting role, and they're good basketball players. And the idea

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is you get the most out of the that by

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you try it and true, you know, legacy type of

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kid and once they get to their senior year, they

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can do something special. Right, So you wonder, you know,

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what's what's the GM thinking, what's justin young thinking, what's

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ky thinking? Is that the bigger issue? Is it the

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player personnel issue? Or is it the scheme issue that

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you're saying defensively? Is it the accountability that that isn't

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really there? It seems right? Uh is that a coaching

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issue more than it is a player issue?

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Speaker 4: Well, I hate to be uh Namby Tamby about it,

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but it is a combination of all of that. And

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you know, there's a disconnect between what the coaches want

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the players to do and what they're doing on the floor.

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So you'd say, well, that's technical, that, that's scheme wise,

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and everything like that. And then you look at the

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guys that by You brought in this this year. Certainly

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AJ and Robert great, you know in terms of how

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you know, they've had some great moments and they they've

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probably lived up to the hype. I would imagine those

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people would say that, but there are certainly a lot

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of guys in the roster that haven't. I mean, they

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spend a lot of time recruiting and they spent a

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lot of time talking about these guys and trying to

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get him to fill roles. And that changed when they

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had all the injuries. So some guys that were expect

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to play certain roles, we're having to play different roles.

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I think they imagine Canard Davis excuse me, as a

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Mowatt Meg kind of guy, and he's not. He's not

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a good defender, and he certainly is not shooting as

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well as what shot last year once he got his

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speed got into the lineup. You know, time Rouss has

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been a disappointment, I think, and what he can do

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out there, you know, I think Mihilo Boskovich hasn't gotten

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a whole lot better. He's still kind of everywhere all

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over the place on offense and fouls too much on defense.

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So I just I just feel like the coaching staff

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is definitely playing a role in this too, because you've

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got to evaluate talent. You got to bring him in

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and figure out how they fit, and that hasn't worked out. Again,

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the injuries have made mess of that. But I think

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there's a lot of guys on this roster that should

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be very comfortable at the end of the season that

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they're going to be back here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, how many of these guys are on the

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roster next year? Do you think double D?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I would imagine,

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you know, you take a look at the nucleus of

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hopefully bringing back Rob but you don't know, he could

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get offered a bunch or feel like he needs to

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go somewhere, or his body language hasn't been great for

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a few weeks as far as I'm concerned. And then

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you've got Bruce Branch coming in, and you got kJ

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Perry who's already with the team, And I think there's

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some there's some strength to be there with Boops. I

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think Mike probably will be back. You know, you wonder

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about somebody like Koslowski who has never even really played

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for me, maybe played in a couple of games in

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two years. Maybe he wants to change in venue and

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hopefully he can get healthy. I would imagine, you know,

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if you're talking about fifteen roster spots, I would say

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there'll be at least five or six new players, maybe more.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: I know you're a bystander, you're an indo in Capital

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Jade journalists, but put yourself into the shoes of every

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Cougar fan. Were you more ticked off last night because

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of one the poor ass passing or number two the

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brokeass defense?

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Speaker 4: You know, for me, it would have been the fact

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to check this out. So I crunched a few numbers

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because I was curious, basically byu WI down double digits

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for more than twenty seven minutes of that game. So

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the forty minutes, at least twenty seven, maybe a little

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bit more than that, they were down double digits, and

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then they were down nine for a while, So I

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would say probably ten minutes of that forty minute game

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they were competitive. That's the most disturbing thing to me,

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because every night's going to be different. You're going to

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miss some shots, you're going to make some mistakes on defense,

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but your ability to respond the adversity is really important,

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and they didn't do that last night at all. Adversity

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hit him and they just died. And then they played.

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They played most of the game down double digits, and

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that's really discouraging as a player that you can't break

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into it. I mean, they were down I think from

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about the eleven minute mark on the first half, they

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were down double digits the rest of the first half.

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Open the second half, they cut it to seven with

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a couple of baskets, and then I think down to eight.

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At one point it was forty eight to forty or something.

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And then for the last about I don't know, fifteen

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minutes of the game, they're down double digits again, as

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many as twenty six. So if you want to point

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at the offense, it wasn't great. The defense was lacking,

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But the overall feeling is you got to be competitive

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in those games and they weren't, just like they were

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competitive at home against UCF down thirty six with three

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minutes to go or three minutes played in the second half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be honest, darn, I think I was most

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disappointed I was most ticked off in the poor ass passing,

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like I hate like I hate when you have, you know,

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two players essentially on I don't know, the extended elbow,

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extended wing, and there's like a lazy like a lazy pass,

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just a lazy pass that is easily stolen taken in

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transition you get an easy layup Like I'm like, that

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is like the biggest fauxpa to me, Like AJ did it,

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Rob did it, everybody did it, like everyone was involved

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in the poor ass passing. Anyway, that probably got my

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goat the most. But dart out, uh real quick before

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I let you go. Camp Killani discussions.

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Speaker 2: Where have you? Where you've been gazing? Where have you

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been looking?

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Speaker 1: At the first three practices or so of Camp Kilani,

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twenty twenty six. What stood out to you about springball?

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Speaker 4: I think I think one of the things was hearing

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Aaron Rodgers talk about how he doesn't want to talk

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about his younger player because he's afraid that they're going

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to get recruited up from under it.

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Speaker 5: The paranoida is real already, right, Yes, it is, indeed

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it is, hey man that hey, even even with the

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portal window not open, I mean, shoot, we've we've seen

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crazier things in this modern era.

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Speaker 1: Nil transfer portal world. Maybe someone hires the Laurie and says,

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you know what I'm transferring. I can go get money elsewhere.

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