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into our missionary moment. Let's welcome into the show. Four

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time Super Bowl champion, former b YU great and uh

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the greatest athletic director in BYU history. We got Tom

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Homo on the line. Thh, how the heck are you?

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Speaker 3: Brother?

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Speaker 4: How are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Band?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing good, man, Well, I'm doing awesome. I'm glad

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you're doing well. Called to serve? But brother, how does

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it feel man? To get that mission call?

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Speaker 4: It feels great. Llourie and I are super excited, but

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we realize it's like kind of starting the season. You're

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super excited, but you know there's a lot of work

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ahead and they'll be challenges and trials. And great moments,

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but we're looking forward to it in a big way.

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Speaker 2: You went through obviously as the AD and many of

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your administrative and professional roles the Refining Fire as a

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coach right being in the limelight, dealing with all manner relationships,

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managing relationships, whether it's players, parents, donors. There's a lot

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of stress over that awesome career that you had professionally.

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Now you're jumping into a very unique role as a

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mission president. But I feel like all of this Refining

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Fire you're built for this. Now it's gonna be a

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cake walk for you.

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Speaker 4: Brother, No, please, no, I mean I think that there

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has been many opportunities for me and my wife through

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our experience in athletics, to meet a lot of people,

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to visit a lot of places, to have ups and

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downs and wins and losses, and experience so many different emotions.

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And I'm sure and we're sure that that will follow

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that as we do this work in the mission field,

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that will go at it and attack it in a

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similar way. But it's quite different. But I'm very excited

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to be able to work with great people of that

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Bay Area. I love the diversity there, I love the

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people there in the seventeen years I was there, I

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got to meet a ton of different people from different

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areas of that bay But it's work, and I'm super

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excited to work with the missionaries that are coming to

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San Francisco and Oakland from all over the world to

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be part of the Gospel message, bringing the Gospel message

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to the Bay area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how special is it to go back to the

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Bay Area and serve the people of that geography and

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serve with those missionaries as well well?

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Speaker 4: If I just it's overwhelming to think about it right now,

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because it's such a wonderful place and a place where

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I tell people it's the Homo family roots. That's where

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our children were born, and that's where our children were raised,

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and that's where we saw them grow in the Gospel,

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and that's where we saw so many people just experiencing

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life to the fullest. And we have a chance to

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go back there now and certainly in a way different capacity.

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But if this is the location that the Lord wants

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us to go, that's where we're going.

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Speaker 3: Let's go love that.

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Speaker 2: When do you guys enter the MPC and start your

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training if you will.

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Speaker 4: That begins towards the end of June and there's a

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few days of pretty quick training. I think it's like

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four days, but very very special training, and then we're

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Speaker 2: Do you know how many missionaries you're going to be

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administering to, managing and ultimately serving in that geography with.

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Speaker 4: There's right now currently in the Oaklan, San Francisco Mission

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one hundred and seventy seven. But there's a great influx

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of missionaries coming into the field nowadays, and they expect more,

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especially with new change in missionary age for young women sisters.

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they change the age for young men and there was

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the influx that was rather strong at that time, and

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anticipate the same with young women.

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Speaker 2: How many different languages will you also be overseeing there

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in that geography?

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Speaker 4: Now this doesn't mean that Loren and now will be

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speaking these languages, but there are eleven different languages in

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that mission.

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Speaker 3: We expect you to be fluent at all eleven once

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you get back your teaching.

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Speaker 4: I have hard enough time with English.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy, man.

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Speaker 2: No, it's a very diverse, as you know, diverse population

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and uh, and I can't wait to see how you

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manage it. All like, who have you been leaning on

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as mentors in this process? I don't know all the

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process that goes into this, and and uh, you know,

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you know obviously you were waiting for that that mission

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call you were called to serve, But who have you

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been leaning on for mentorship in this process?

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Speaker 4: The spirit? And I laugh at that, but that is

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so true, Chrid, I'm telling you there. You know, I've

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I've have a lot of friends that have served as

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mission leaders. And you know, I think everyone that's grown

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up in the church. I didn't grow up in the church,

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but I'm an older guy, so I've been around it

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since I was twenty eight, you know how it is.

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But the formally, formally the church has mentors that help

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the incoming mission leaders to begin that process and transition

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from whatever career you've been into the mission field. And

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then I think informally, I have a lot of super

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close friends of mine who have been in the field.

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And you know, some of the council I've received, at

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least so far as you know, this is something that

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you have to do with your heart, with constant player

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every day. It's not something that I'm going to run

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the San Francisco or the Oakland San Francisco mission. Like

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I ran in the athletic department. It's two different things.

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Maybe there's some skills and attributes that I've picked up

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along the way that might help. But on a daily basis,

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I think it's important to follow a spare.

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Speaker 2: Tom Holmo, former b YU great football players, four time

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Super Bowl champion and the greatest athletics from BYU Athletics history.

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Here on your UTAI ESPN Radio network. Tom, on our show,

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we discuss, you know, the ambassadorial tool that is athletics,

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the missionary tool that is athletics. I think you've been

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impacted personally. I know your conversion to the church and

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to Christ maybe came later on after your BYU career,

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But what role did that maybe locker room and all

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the touch points at BOU play in your conversion? And

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how would you say BYU Athletics plays a role in

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that ambassadorial mission that the church has.

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Speaker 4: Well. I was baptized been when I was twenty eight,

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and I was in the off season right before my

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last year playing with the forty nine ers, But the

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influence came along before that. I actually had some really

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really good friends in high school that were like maybe

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seven to ten members of the church that this is

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in southern California, Los Angeles area that were great examples

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to me in high school. And I start to feel

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their example back then. And then when you come to

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BYU as a student athlete, if your eyes and heart

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are open to it, you're going to feel a lot

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of things. And those things are the spirit and the

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sweet service that is around everywhere. And so I think

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that it's pretty much. I think it's a lot similar

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now to when it was a lot of great member

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missionaries that are trying to express their love and their

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feelings about the Savior. But one of the things today

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now is with technology and the ability to communicate so

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much more efficiently and effectively, the message gets out a

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little more. And I think that in the world of athletics,

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you see that when you see someone like this year

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football Bear Bachmeyer, who's not a member of the church

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but handles himself so well. He's such a great young man,

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and the way he communicates with his teammate, it's the

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way he serves in the community, the way he expresses

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just his love for people. He's not even a member

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of our faith, but he is a great, great individual

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that represents BYU and in so doing, it's a light

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that shined on bringing me on and the church. And

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so I think that that was around a long time ago.

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get out beyond the watch front too much. But now

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if you can have teams that people want to see

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and they feel something when they watch those teams and

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they listen to their players, that's a beautiful thing that

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you can have an athletic program and teams that play

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and compete and do a great job on the court,

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on the field, in the pool, on the track, and

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also represent just living a good life. So people will

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see them and respect them and they kind of want to

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follow them. And for that it opens up a lot

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of doors. It opens up a lot of conversations around

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the world.

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Speaker 2: Well, you bring up some awesome points in these anecdotes

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I've done. I've delved into, you know, these former players

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that have come to b YU and been impacted by

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the church and by all of the teammates and things

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that nature guys like ty deppm Er, you know former

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b YU Great Heisman Trophy when it ended up converting

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to the faith, teammates of mine, setteel Lay and Curtis

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Brown and many others.

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Speaker 3: You can go down the list.

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Speaker 2: I think Robbie, if I'm not saying it wasn't Robbie

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Bosco came to be YU, not as a member.

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Speaker 3: You have this list of individuals that came.

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Speaker 2: To b YU for football, and it was more than

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just football that that impacted them. They were obviously very

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successful in the football field, but they ended up you know,

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convert into the faith and maybe even changing their life

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lives in many ways. So when you evaluate that dynamic

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and maybe the role that the locker rooms play, like,

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what do you ponder, like, what do you think about

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when when you hear of these these stories of I

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think Fosterri just got baptized, uh in the church that

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you discrastulated. There's there's all these stories and I'm like, man, like,

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what is it a person that's individual that's experienced it himself.

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And I know it was when you were twenty eight,

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but you you had these these core experiences at BYU.

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What do you think about when you hear about all

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these stories?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think there's two things. One is when our

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coaches and our teams, our players recruit young men and

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young women. Cod when they recruit these people that have

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to fit, then you got a chance for anything great

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coaches have how did an opportunity to get maybe someone

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that's a higher, better player, but they know right from

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the recruitment that's not a good fit. And I think

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part of it is you have, you know, a critical mass.

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hundreds about now, one hundred and one hundred season, one

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hundred and five players on the team. And when you

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get one hundred and five people that are you know,

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similar not they're not always similar in every respect. They

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have a lot of diverse ideas and stuff. But when

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you come in a locker room and you and you

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bring it all together for one unifying force, and that's

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to be successful together, you can share a lot of

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ideas and a lot of love, and you can serve

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each other in great ways, and that's that's pretty special.

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But I think that the thing that is the most

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important is that I've always said that when you recruit,

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of the church. Those are like the blue bloods, the

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legacy people that their parents and grandparents and aunts and

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uncles and their brothers and sisters. They know what BYU is,

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they know what the church is. They have a strong

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testimony of the Gospel, and they come to BYU and

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they're going to lay it all on the line. That's

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one you have to have. That is your core, is

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that those legacy kids. The second is you have to

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have you have to get the greatest LEDs players. And

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if you see our national championship teams and the teams

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that go really far, they get the best players in

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the country that are members of the church in every sport.

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And the third is then you go outside and you

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find people that are not members of our faith that's fit.

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the great ones that and I could do that in

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every sport. And when you put those three together and

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you have that balance, I think great things are going

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to happen. And if you look at the teams right now,

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the coaches and the administration, Brian Santiago and his people

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and all the head coaches and assistant coaches and the

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team members. That's what they got right now.

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couple of years ago, and I asked the question, is

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BYU athletics a missionary tool?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: I have debates with people within the faith and outside

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of the faith about this, those that are BYU fans

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and not BYU fans. And I always look at it

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from the perspective of Okay, well, if BYU Athletics is

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aligned with the mission of the school and then the

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and then the mission of the Church of Jesus Christ

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and latterday Saints, I think it is an ambassadory, a

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tool for good and a missionary tool for good to

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promulgate and share the positive fruits of the faith and

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and to a certain extent human eyes and maybe normalize

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Latter day saintdom in the modern era. But there are

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those that don't feel that way. They don't like maybe

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the form and fashion that maybe Athletics operates. Uh, they'll

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kind of poke holes at the you know when whenever

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b why you fall short of their own standard?

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Speaker 3: See I told you so. We'll get the the see

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I told you so type of deal.

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Speaker 2: And so it is a it is an interesting dynamic,

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you know, trying to wend.

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Speaker 3: Your way through.

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Speaker 2: You know, the the the mission of of of the

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church and mission of the of the school and and

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what the mission of athletics is supposed to be. But

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I just want to get your perspective on that alignment

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and how b y U Athletics is is going forth

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with that. And I know you you had your vision

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and what you executed, and I know you know Brian's

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executing his vision. But from your perspective, how does it

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all align together?

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Speaker 4: It aligns up perfectly. I mean that we make no mistake.

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be aligned with the church athletically. First of all, when

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I was first hired at BYU as the athlete director

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of President Cecil Sanmuelson sat me down in his office

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and said, look, if you are not aligned and don't

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align the athletic department with what's going on from Salt

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Lake City, the church leadership and that comes through all

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the presidents and the administration of BYU. If you don't

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align yourself of that, you're on your own Tom, You're

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gonna have a hard time, but if you do, then

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good things will happen. You'll follow those blessings. But we

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don't try to hide that fact. I think that we,

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like I said, we recruit to that fit. We try

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to get the strongest and the greatest and the best

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Latter Day Saint student athletes that we can find. When

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you have those young men and young women going out

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on missions and coming back, you get this injection of

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the spirit which is so strong, and that helps the

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locker room that you talk about, Grid and it really

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renews that locker room on a regular basis, and you

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have young kids coming in and then as you can

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see this football team this year, there's quite a few

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members are players on the team that are not members

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of our faith. But they came here knowing what the

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rules were and they were going to live up to

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a certain standard and they love that. And if you

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go in that locker room, you know that the brotherhood

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on that team, there was no guarantee or no didn't

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make them have to be joined the church or had

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come to Seminarrea or anything like that. The thing was

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come and give us with the best you God, Bay

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of the rules and sitting with the team and will

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all help make each other better. And I'm going to

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tell you that a lot of those players on the

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team that are not members of faith have added to,

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not taken away distracted, They've added to a shiny example

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of that by athletics is right now.

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Speaker 3: Love that perspective.

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Speaker 2: Couple last questions before we let you go, Tom Holmo

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here on ESP and the fan. I converse with those

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of the faith as I mentioned, and those that have

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attended in our alums of b YU and one of

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I call them the kingdom builders, and I'll preface I'll

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kind of preface these like the kingdom builders don't believe

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athletics builds up the kingdom. They only believe science, academia, music,

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moral spirituality, those ethical theological tenets or what build up

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the kingdom? Proselyining athletics, Why do even spend money on athletics?

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Speaker 3: It doesn't build up the kingdom? Do you ever have

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the did you.

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Speaker 2: Ever have those conversations with those individuals that just didn't

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believe that we should invest at all in student athletes

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or athletics and that it should just go away, like

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maybe b YU Hawaii or b y u Idah.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I don't really agree with what you

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call the builders. I don't believe that. I don't really

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have a lot of people over my years that would

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come to me and have that discussion. I believe that

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all people are children of God, have our having Father.

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And if you have that light in you and you

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want to make the world a better place, and you

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want to show love and build your neighbor and build

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strong families, then people are going to look at that

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and go, yeah, I like that, that's what this is. Well, yeah,

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you can do that at by football. You can do

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it at UCLA music if you want. You know, people,

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it's all about people and the spirit that they have

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in them and the willingness they are to share that love.

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So if it's just so happens that it's an athletic

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program or an athletic team at BYU that is helping

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people maybe open up their heart a little bit and

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their mind to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so be it.

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But you know, we don't necessarily expect that every time

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we score a touchdown someone's going to get baptized. It's

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just that you got these guys want to play ball, man,

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you know that. But they are fiercely competitive on the field,

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and then when they step off the field, there's a

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certain spirit about them that is doing everything they can

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to help and assist other people and build their own

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lives and look for a better life for themselves, for

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their family and the people around them.

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Speaker 2: How do you think your experiences in athletics will will

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help you in this next niver as a mission president, Tom, You.

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Speaker 4: Know, I'm not really sure. I just look at every

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experience that I've had in every phase of my life

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where there's just challenges. We all know that we're going

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to have them. We're all going to have trials, but

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we all have faith that if we stay on the

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path and we live our life according to the principles

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and the doctrine the love that we believe in from Christ,

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that things are going to turn out okay. And so

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I'm not going to go into this with a predetermined

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idea of how it's going to go. I'm just going

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to go into it with the principles of the Gospel

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that I've learned and a faith in Jesus Christ, who

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we will preach, and then just love those Missonaris to

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do the very best that we can do together.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited for you, Tom. Congratulations to you and

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your wonderful wife, your family as you thrust in your

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sickle with your MC they're in the Bay Area, It's

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going to be awesome to watch from a far last

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thing for you. I love the Kilani culture and I

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view the Klonia culture as an extension of your culture

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that you instituted as a leader, as well as the

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Lavelle culture. Right that and in Kilani has his own

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spin on it, right his love and learning and humble

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and hungry, etc. And I think that culture is winning out.

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Culture is everything. As you know, as you've led and

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you've been led. How cool is it to see, for instance,

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this offseason, in the in most recent offseasons, Klanni retain

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pretty much his entire roster, you know. I mean there's

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guys that leave, but a lot of guys that are

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in the two D they just love playing for BYU

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and they love playing for Kolonie.

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Speaker 3: How special is that to watch?

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Speaker 4: It is super sweet. I know Kilani as a friend,

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I know him as a competitor, I know him as

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a leader, I know him as a saint. And by

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the way, Colonia Sintaki served in the California Oaklands, a

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Francisco mission, so we've already had a little discussion about that.

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But he is an extraordinary leader because he's humble and

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because he is assertive and he has he's goal oriented,

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and he has a great amount of love to give.

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And I think that when I see young players or

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people coming in for the first time to meet him

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or to be part of the team, whether it's a

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recruiting trip or they've committed to the team and they're starting,

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I think a lot of people say, I like what

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he's teaching. I want to be like that. I want

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to do what he says we should do to be successful.

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And that's leadership, that's mentorship, but it's also love and

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he teaches that all the time. Now you've seen the

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pictures from the sideline. We call own his love fire. Well,

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I think that fire. People like that, and it's just

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part of his personality that he is going to dream

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and he's going to set goals to achieve them in

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life on the field, and his spiritual desires to do

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all he can for his family. Clown, You've got a

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lovely family, and I can assure you that's the most

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important thing in his life.

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Speaker 2: Tom Home, Old Ladies and Gentlemen, I always appreciate our time.

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Speaker 3: Tom.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations once again, inspired by your words today and then

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excited to watch you get out into the mission field.

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Speaker 3: Brother.

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Speaker 4: Thank you Glen. It's great to be a part of

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the band of brothers that was coined by coach Bendon Hall.

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But that goes backwards and forwards and as one football

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lump to another, Goku's.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Tom Home, Old ladies and Gentlemen, former b

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YU great, four times Super Bowl champion and also the

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greatest athletic director in BYU athletics history. I've said this

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many times, and obviously we're celebrating his mission call.

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Speaker 3: But as the greatest.

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Speaker 2: Athletic director in BYU history, you know you're only You're

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only as good as the HighRes that you make. If

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anyone's been in a sort of executive administrative role where

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you're having to hire people or delegate to people to

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make key decisions and govern certain silos of a business

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or of an entity, man Tom was inspired to hire

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Dave Rose, the greatest basketball coach all time in BYU

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basketball history. Bronco men In Hall was hired right, ushered in.

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I believe the second best aaron BYU athletics history up

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to this point. He hired Kilani Sataki. He was a visionary.

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In hiring Kilani, he took BYU into independence. That was

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a visionary move that helped BYU finally earn through objective

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data points.

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Speaker 3: Okay, a viewership as.

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Speaker 2: An independent B way's like one of two or maybe

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three teams that could truly be successful as independent. He

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had that vision and had that faith that it would

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work out. I thought that was Some people say it's

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a gamble. I'd say it was a vision that he had.

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He was able to persevere too. Through COVID. If you

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guys don't remember, everyone was canceling, Everyone was fearful, everyone

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was fear mongering. Tom entered into that space and said,

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we're gonna go forth with faith, We're going to execute

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safety protocols.

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Speaker 3: And we're gonna play football.

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Speaker 2: And they did and they had tremendous success in twenty

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twenty because of that. In my opinion and obviously his

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career as a player, he's he's the best eighty and

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BYU athletics history appreciate him. We gotta get him an

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the Bay area, something lightweight. Yes, he valuable and provides

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great range of motion for him. All right, let's go

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Speaker 3: Today, the SEC getting attacked.

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Speaker 2: From all angles right now is the SEC got flopped

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into many of their bowl games right and once again,

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for the third consecutive year, the SEC does not have

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a representative in the college football championship game. Well, Joe

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Clatt also piling on, also piling on this narrative, I

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wanted to get into this SoundBite and react to it,

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and then on the back end of this, I want

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to give you some more Cougar sports knowledge as it

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relates to some BYU football nuggets here.

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Speaker 3: But let's get into it.

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Speaker 2: Joe Klatt says, the SEC so called Gauntlet narrative needs

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to die.

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Speaker 6: Of the SEC, it's the best in the world.

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Speaker 3: Look at what we do, Look at what.

534
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Speaker 6: We even though they're the conference that still just plays

535
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eight conference games, even though they're the conference that has

536
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not even participated in a national championship game now for

537
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three straight years. And when you look at the metrics,

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the draft is changing, in particular in the first round.

539
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Look at the last few years. It is not as

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drastic as it used to be. And in fact, that's

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equating out. I mean, there was a strong push from

542
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some in our sport and some networks with deep relationships

543
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with the SEC about well, maybe there should be seven

544
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SEC teams in the college football playoff. Well that's a problem.

545
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That's a problem because it is clearly not the case

546
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that the strength resides in that conference. It's just not

547
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that data bears that out. I'm not even arguing for

548
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another conference right now. I'm just arguing against this narrative

549
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that the SEC is a gauntlet, that it has to

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be rewarded, and that it has to be given the

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benefit of the doubt. That narrative needs to die. It

552
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needs to die a quick death now because it hurts

553
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the sport. We barely got Miami into this playoff. I

554
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mean barely got Miami into this playoff why because of narrative,

555
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Because that conference had to have at least minimum five

556
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because it's the gamblet. Well, listen, no, it's not. I'm sorry,

557
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it's not. The play on the field has been very

558
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clearly shifting for a long time. The Big ten is

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better at the top than the SEC. And that's not

560
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just me saying that. That's what the data tells us.

561
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What's clear is that the Big Ten has dominated when

562
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it's mattered. They're four and on in the playoff of

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the last three seasons. They are a game away from

564
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their third straight national championship. And maybe, just maybe, what

565
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would be better for the sport is if we started

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to step outside of our silos and stop arguing about

567
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who's the best silo, because when we do that, all

568
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we do is point fingers, and nobody looks.

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Speaker 3: At fixing the entirety of the sport.

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Speaker 6: So as we argue for our silo to be so good,

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I want to this conference, that conference, Well, guess what

572
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happens in the meantime. No one's looking out for the

573
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overarching product. And we see that with a broken structure.

574
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We see that with a broken calendar. We see that

575
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because we can't get a CBA done, we can't get

576
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Congress to give us anti trust exemptions, we can't do

577
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,279
a lot of things. We're playing semi final games on

578
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a Thursday and Friday night. Why because the structure of

579
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our sport is broken. We can probably start to fix

580
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these things if we stop yelling about who's the best.

581
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The Gauntlet talk needs to go away.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to hear it.

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Speaker 6: SEC coaches who text me about the Gauntlet, stop it.

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Iowa just dropped a thirty burger on your darling. Vanderbilt,

585
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get out of my face.

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Speaker 2: Losing its stranglehold, losing its foothold, losing its brand equity.

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Speaker 3: Why because everyone can compete now at the.

588
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Speaker 2: Same level with pay for play models, and that's why

589
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they're really that's why they want to continue to say Gauntlet, Gauntlet,

590
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GAUNTLT and only play each other. What we need is

591
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just more P four versus P four data points, and

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they don't. We don't want them to come at the

593
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end of the year. What we want is for me,

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I want FCS games buy games to move to a

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spring ball schedule.

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Speaker 3: We've talked about that.

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Speaker 2: If you want an FCS by game or by buy game,

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I mean, you know, bu y viviam, welcome them in

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for a spring scrimmage and pay them to be there

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for a springball scrimmage versus your second, third, fourth stringers.

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Speaker 3: Your JV squad.

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Speaker 2: Right at these P four institutions that could should be

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your buy game. You get one G six opportunity maybe

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to start off this season. You can be strategic about

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that and then you should have you know, depending on

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what we want to go with as far as our

607
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internal scheduling, I would like eight. I would like personally

608
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eight conference games, not nine. But if you go nine,

609
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then you have to fill that in with some P

610
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four objective data points, interconference, interconference type of games. Okay,

611
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,039
I need to see Big ten versus SEC in the

612
00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:18,920
preseason pre conference. I need to see Big twelve versus ACC.

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I need to see Big twelve versus Big Ten in SEC.

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We need as many of those data points as possible

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so we can come to conclusion at the end of

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the year of who should be in the college football Playoff. Now,

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we all want to see that college football Playoff expanded

618
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into sixteen teams, But Tony Pettiti and Greg Sink have

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to come to some sort of a conclusion on this, Okay,

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some sort of an agreement on this to expand it.

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The two power brokers of college football main college football

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power brokers, and I don't know if they're going to

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come to that consensus.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they want that. I don't know

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if they want expansion.

626
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Speaker 2: Quite honestly, you know it needs to be sixteen, but

627
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it may turn into four. We may see a twenty

628
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fourteen playoff in the next few years if we can

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come to an accord. But I am excited that Joe Klatt,

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even though I know's he very well could be a

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mouthpiece for the Big Ten as a Fox affiliate of

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that particular conference.

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Speaker 3: There needs to be a balancing of the force.

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00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 2: There's got to be checks and balances, if you will,

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in college football, and I love hearing it. It's truth

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that's being spread and promulgated to the college football world.

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what they've done as all pro football players, and also

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want to get into the newest commits via the transfer

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portal to BYU from Stanford, from usc and other places

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on the docket for the BYU Cougar football team. BYU

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has eleven players that are transferring out of Provo and

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BYU and they've added three to the roster. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: Number one?

687
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:18,679
Speaker 2: Zach Yamauchi in tier offensive lineman from Stanford, Kyler Casper

688
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wide receiver from Oregon, Walker Lions tight end from USC

689
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We've talked a little bit about Kyler and Walker.

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Speaker 3: We haven't talked about Zach.

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Speaker 2: Zach is officially committed to the BYU Cougar football team.

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Let's get to know him a little bit better. Coming

693
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out of high school, played at Bishop Gorman High level

694
00:38:41,639 --> 00:38:46,639
three star recruit, he was eighty six overall. Now as

695
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a transfer, he's a borderline four star recruit. Check that out.

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Per Blair Angulo, the Mountain Region recruiting analyst projected him

697
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as a power for starter at the next level. He's

698
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described as a well proportioned athlete could frame with growth potential, strong,

699
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sturdy offensive alignment with positional versatility. Could fill any of

700
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the interior line rolls. Effective in the run game given

701
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:21,039
his toughness and mobility. Thrives in poll situations where you

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can venture a field open sols with a forceful initial punch.

703
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An assertive get off, balanced blocker who shows technique, savvy flashes,

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good feet in hand usage in pass protection could continue

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to provide his base foundation and reaction to counter moves.

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At times loses pad leverage. These are the negatives and

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allows defender to slip through underneath. Potential multi year starter

708
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at of power for institution level. Later in Collegeguerard with

709
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some NFL draft upside. Now, what did he do at

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Stanford where he committed six foot four, three hundred and

711
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twenty five pounds okay as a freshman in twenty twenty five. Reminder,

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he came out I believe in the two thousand and

713
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twenty three class.

714
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Speaker 3: Okay, so technically I think he would be.

715
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 2: Would he be a red shirt freshman that he's transferred in,

716
00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:20,840
Maybe a red shirt freshman. So this is what he

717
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did In twenty twenty five, appeared in eight games for

718
00:40:24,079 --> 00:40:27,280
the Cardinal, making three starts at guard. He made his

719
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,039
collegiate debut in Stanford season open at Hawaii, started at

720
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:35,440
left guard against Virginia on September twentieth, and then shifted

721
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:39,320
over to right guard and started in Stanford's win in

722
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,320
the one hundred and twenty eighth Big Game on November

723
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:46,119
twenty second. Played at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas,

724
00:40:46,159 --> 00:40:48,119
Nevada for head coach Brett Brown. Or you have to

725
00:40:48,159 --> 00:40:54,440
wonder he probably played alongside BYU signee Alai Kalaniavallu. Remember

726
00:40:54,519 --> 00:40:59,760
Alai committed to Oregon, committed to BYU, then Oregon, and

727
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:04,800
then came back to BYU. But so's he's familiar with

728
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:07,880
a lie I imagine having played at the same high school.

729
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,320
Zach was a unanimous top ten recruiting Nevada, ranked fifth

730
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,760
by twenty four to seven Sports and Rivals. Played obviously

731
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:21,280
offensive guard and was a two time first team All

732
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,960
Conference player, two time first team All State player, Polynesian

733
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,320
Bowl All Star, was a part of the National Honor Society.

734
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,599
Obviously going to to Stanford like to get all the

735
00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:32,639
Stanford guys, give them give like all the high level

736
00:41:32,679 --> 00:41:35,760
Stanford guys that are seeing time you want him at BYU,

737
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,920
they can make it at BYU as well. Has two brothers,

738
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,239
Noah Eli Uh and enjoy spending time with family, playing

739
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,800
video games, working out plays the piano. Two served a

740
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:51,400
two year mission before attending Stamford. There You Go, so

741
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,599
served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of

742
00:41:54,719 --> 00:42:00,719
Latter day Saints. So yeah, Zach Yamauchi gonna be Byu

743
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,960
Cougar A nice pickup for BYU.

744
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 3: Very excited about this.

745
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,119
Speaker 2: Anyone coming out of the greats, the great the beast

746
00:42:10,119 --> 00:42:14,559
that is Bishop Gorman, it bodes well for bo, especially

747
00:42:14,559 --> 00:42:17,679
if he's got three starts under his belt. He had

748
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:22,199
offers by the way out of high school from Boston College, Arizona,

749
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:28,000
cal Colorado, Maryland, Nebraska for Resno State, Washington State, Nevada,

750
00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:31,480
San Diego State, ODLV, Utah State, and Dartmouth. B YU

751
00:42:31,519 --> 00:42:34,920
didn't offer him at a high school but wants him. Now,

752
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:38,400
this could be a growing trend where you're you're you're

753
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,400
a high level football player, you go to a respective

754
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:47,079
institution and lo and behold, you get some starting PT,

755
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,760
you prove yourself on film, and then take your talents

756
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:55,599
to BYU. I wouldn't mind that that path going forward.

757
00:42:55,679 --> 00:42:57,679
We're in a new era. We're in a new age.

758
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,519
You can't take everyone and have them as a developmental project.

759
00:43:02,559 --> 00:43:05,079
Sometimes they got to go develop elsewhere, and it's really

760
00:43:05,159 --> 00:43:07,400
nice when they develop at a P four institution and

761
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,360
get good film. Okay, And obviously I don't know if

762
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,119
he saw PT. I don't know if if Zach saw

763
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:17,119
PT in that BYU game, but I imagine he did.

764
00:43:17,119 --> 00:43:19,679
And then by you got eyes on him. At any rate?

765
00:43:20,599 --> 00:43:24,119
Who else his BYU added to the fold? Who else

766
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,840
should we get to know? Kyler Casper six foot six,

767
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,960
two hundred and twelve pounder out of the University of Oregon.

768
00:43:32,039 --> 00:43:35,559
Really good player. His father played in the NFL. Comes

769
00:43:35,559 --> 00:43:40,719
from good stock, good lineage. As a prospect, I believe

770
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,000
coming out of high school he was a four star.

771
00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:46,519
Now coming out of the Portal he's a three star.

772
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,719
He's only a crew to what six or seven receptions?

773
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,840
Not much statistically outside of maybe special teams, but a

774
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,800
really good football player in high school.

775
00:43:57,039 --> 00:43:59,559
Speaker 3: Obviously traycon Borgay knows him well.

776
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 2: Arius Lasser knows him, but we gotta I know, we're

777
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,119
working on getting Darius on the show to discuss who

778
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:11,400
Kyler is. But Kyler Casper, big bodied receiver, looks similar

779
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,840
to maybe like a Mitch Matthews type. Okay, if you're

780
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,800
gonna compare them to anybody on film on height, weight,

781
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,679
uh and and maybe even speed, then you would look

782
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:26,199
towards Mitch Matthews as maybe a player comp there. Kyler,

783
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,119
coming out of high school, had offered from Oregon, Tennessee, Arizona,

784
00:44:29,119 --> 00:44:32,639
arisona State Cow, Colorado, Duke, Georgia, Iowa. I mean, he

785
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:36,559
could have gone anywhere, LSU, Miami, Michigan State hasn't seen

786
00:44:36,559 --> 00:44:39,199
a whole lot of PT though at the University of Oregon.

787
00:44:40,199 --> 00:44:45,360
And finally, last but non least, h b Yu is

788
00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:48,960
uh looking to bring in Walker Lions who we've we've

789
00:44:49,199 --> 00:44:52,079
we've broken down out of the three that you have

790
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,519
in front of you, Ronald, the three man Weaver, which

791
00:44:54,559 --> 00:44:56,079
one are you most amp for Which one are you

792
00:44:56,159 --> 00:44:56,960
most excited for.

793
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 3: Is it the big former four star wider receiver.

794
00:45:00,519 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 2: Is it the tried and true USC transferred Walker Lions

795
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,760
that is essentially committing with his brother Ryder Or is

796
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,719
it the offensive line? It's all one up front right

797
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,960
and Zach Yamauchi can be a guy to help replace

798
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,400
any the attrition that's on our roster.

799
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,039
Speaker 7: It's not the offensive line. And the reason Ben is

800
00:45:19,119 --> 00:45:21,840
I trust t J, Willis Kalani and a Rod. They

801
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,880
always make sure that they have a good offensive line.

802
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,559
I mean, look at how many guys are playing in

803
00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:28,480
the league right now on active NFL rosters that go

804
00:45:28,639 --> 00:45:30,840
so I know that they always recruit well at the positions.

805
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,800
Not every day that you get four star tight ends.

806
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,199
You got Carson Ryan out of the portal and now

807
00:45:35,199 --> 00:45:38,079
you got Walker Lions, Ben, so it's Walker. Look the

808
00:45:38,199 --> 00:45:40,280
days of the tight end. You can say that the

809
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,960
production on the field struggled it. Did you know before

810
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:47,079
Carson showed up in whether that was due to injuries

811
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:49,480
and things that happen other things. Maybe that was certain

812
00:45:50,119 --> 00:45:52,559
quarterbacks that play, you know, like to throw the different targets.

813
00:45:52,599 --> 00:45:54,840
All of that matter. But this year we saw I'd

814
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,000
be back. We saw Carson ran in the blocking game

815
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,840
on tape. We saw him dominate, you know, in the

816
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,800
run game as well. We saw him catch the ball.

817
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,159
I mean the Pop Tarts Bowl had his career day.

818
00:46:05,199 --> 00:46:07,159
So for me, it's Walker and what he can do,

819
00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:08,800
because he can do all of the things that Isaac

820
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,679
Rex and Carson can do if he puts his mind

821
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,280
to it. I believe if he really puts his hand

822
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,199
in the dirt and learns how to block and be

823
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,360
in his physical he can be one of the best

824
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,360
tight ends in BYU history. And that says a lot.

825
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,719
I know you might not have the time, but he

826
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,440
can make that up. And I think this is the

827
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,400
next level player. So to me, it's Walker. You don't know,

828
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,320
maybe he has the chance to play with Ryder, we

829
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,679
don't know, but I love to see Bear throw to

830
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,920
Walker next year. And look, anytime you have a tight

831
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,199
end ben that can lineup in the slot. The last

832
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:37,760
tight end that I saw line up in the slot

833
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,440
the run routes was Isaac Rex, and you know that

834
00:46:40,559 --> 00:46:42,559
was post injury, and we saw what he was before.

835
00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:45,880
I truly believe Walker can be that red zone threat

836
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,960
that by you need so you need a guy like that.

837
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:50,079
You need a big body, possession receiver that got that

838
00:46:50,119 --> 00:46:53,280
in Kyla Casper. You have Reggie Frishneck as well. But

839
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,920
now Ben, they have multiple threats down in that red zone.

840
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,440
It becomes a problem, and I think you'll see Walker

841
00:46:58,480 --> 00:46:59,920
get into the end zone a lot. So for me,

842
00:47:00,039 --> 00:47:02,039
it's the four star tight end from USC that buoes

843
00:47:02,119 --> 00:47:02,800
up that offense.

844
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:07,119
Speaker 2: Give me all the offensive lineman, Baby, I love the hosses.

845
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:10,079
Speaker 3: I like the hosses up front. Baby.

846
00:47:10,519 --> 00:47:13,679
Speaker 2: The better that offensive line is, the better the quarterback play,

847
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,000
the better the wide receivers. I always said a great

848
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,800
elite offensive line play can make an above average or

849
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,800
average running back look great at above average, the average

850
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:27,760
quarterback look great, above average to average wide receivers look

851
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,239
great at all moves better, looks better, is much more

852
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,800
efficient with offense line. Give me all the talent on

853
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,400
the offense line, and that leads me to my final

854
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,960
Okay potential edition here. He's not official yet, but Washington

855
00:47:41,039 --> 00:47:44,320
offensive line with Pockey Fenale is closing in on a

856
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:48,360
transfer decision and BYU is trending in the right direction.

857
00:47:49,039 --> 00:47:52,960
Few entered the transfer portal last Thursday. He quickly narrowed

858
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:58,719
his focus to just three programs, Arizona State, BYU, and UCLA.

859
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:04,159
Of that trio, BYU has emerged as the early leader,

860
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:10,719
securing the first and potentially his only, official visit. Female

861
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,239
is scheduled to visit BYU. He was scheduled this last Friday,

862
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,559
so he took a visit and has indicated the trip

863
00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:21,000
could determine his decision. He told Greg Biggins, I believe

864
00:48:21,079 --> 00:48:23,719
I want to take this visit and see how I

865
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,639
like it before scheduling anyone else.

866
00:48:26,159 --> 00:48:29,199
Speaker 3: If the trip goes well, this could be it.

867
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 2: A key factor in BYU's momentum right now is offensive

868
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,880
line coach TJ. Woods, who recruited female out of high

869
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,760
school while at UNLV and stayed in contact during a

870
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:44,519
previous portal window. Says, Pockey female coach Woods recruit me

871
00:48:44,559 --> 00:48:46,199
out of high school and again when I was at

872
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:47,159
the portal last year.

873
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 3: I'm already comfortable with him. So who's Pockey?

874
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 2: Fenale six foot five, three hundred ten three hundre and

875
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:59,199
fifteen pound offensive lineman from Hesperia, California, a wretched freshman

876
00:48:59,199 --> 00:49:02,000
at the University of Washington. Now he's in the portal obviously,

877
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,679
a highly regarded interier offensive line prospect out of Oak

878
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:09,320
Hills High School. Fenwe enrolled early at UDUB in January

879
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,599
of twenty twenty four and quickly earned a meaningful Big

880
00:49:11,639 --> 00:49:14,559
ten reps During the twenty twenty five season, for Now

881
00:49:14,559 --> 00:49:18,039
appeared in twelve of Washington's thirteen games and made four

882
00:49:18,159 --> 00:49:23,519
starts at left guard against Rutgers, Michigan, Purdue, and UCLA,

883
00:49:23,599 --> 00:49:28,079
showing early trust from the coaching staff. Gaining early trust,

884
00:49:28,519 --> 00:49:33,079
and he's got some positional versatility as well in that

885
00:49:33,159 --> 00:49:36,639
interior line. Remember in twenty twenty four as its refreshment

886
00:49:36,679 --> 00:49:39,760
saw action in the season's first three games and the

887
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,760
Sun Bowl before red shirting, thought that was injury's rotational

888
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,840
guy to start and then played in the Sun Ball.

889
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,400
That goes to show that they really like Baki final.

890
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,360
At Oak Hills High School, Fenale was a two time

891
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,320
All League lineman and a first team All CIF Southern

892
00:49:56,639 --> 00:50:00,239
selection a Southern Section selection. As a senior, play the

893
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,679
Bulldogs to attendant two record in a conference championship here

894
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:04,599
at all CIF honors in back to back seasons and

895
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,239
was rated one of the top in tier offensive lineman

896
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,360
prospects nationally ranked number fourteen among in Tier alignment by

897
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,760
two four seven and and many others in Top twenty

898
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,360
California Prospect by ESPN.

899
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 3: And he had it definitely. He had a nice national profile.

900
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,119
Speaker 2: He had Oregon, Penn State, and Auburn, Florida State, Miami,

901
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,239
Nebraska BYU, Utah, Ucla, Arizona.

902
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 3: State, and many others knocking on his door.

903
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:34,039
Speaker 2: He's got three seasons of eligibility remaining, and he's definitely

904
00:50:34,119 --> 00:50:36,480
viewed as a plug and play player. He can play

905
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,519
in Tier, but they could move him out to tackle.

906
00:50:41,199 --> 00:50:44,599
He's got that ability, but most likely in tier offensive lineman.

907
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,440
We'll see how it plays out if BYU gets Pockey

908
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,480
fenw Man, that's a nice initial haul for TJ Woods.

909
00:50:51,519 --> 00:50:56,320
You said it, Ronald in TJ Woods, we trust. I

910
00:50:56,559 --> 00:50:59,039
don't know any concerns about the offensive line as long

911
00:50:59,079 --> 00:51:02,280
as TJ Woods is at the helm of the tip

912
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,480
of the spear. So we'll see how it plays out.

913
00:51:06,519 --> 00:51:11,119
But pak trending towards BYU in his recruitment. Let's go

914
00:51:11,159 --> 00:51:15,119
to break, don't go anywhere. A cougar beat coming up next,

915
00:51:15,159 --> 00:51:19,119
Sean WALKERKSL dot com will be joining us. We'll ask

916
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:23,679
him the question, why is it that BYU fell two

917
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,280
spots in the eight people?

918
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,559
Speaker 3: Is Ky ticked off about it?

919
00:51:28,639 --> 00:51:32,679
Speaker 2: What did Ky say to the media just about thirty

920
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,320
minutes ago. We'll delve into it in more here on

921
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,320
your Utah ESPN Radio Network one oh three nine ninety

922
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eight point three ESPN