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former BA wide receiver and the owner operative UTAH Protected Films.
Speaker 3: Jared, how are you good?
Speaker 5: How are you doing? Ben?
Speaker 3: Thank you good man.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you hopping on to talk a little world the
BYU Sports. I know you've probably you got the basketball
game last night, and I mean, look by U basketball.
They got to figure out what's going on in the
first half, but there were plenty of silver linings.
Speaker 3: What did you learn about this team last night? Though?
Speaker 5: Well, I think there were a lot of opportunities to
win the game.
Speaker 6: You know, I'll tell you what when that do you
remember that when the Arizona player stole the inbound pass
and laid it back in.
Speaker 5: I remember I was. I was with my brother and
I looked at it. I said, you know that, watch
if this is a close game, that's kind of plain impact.
And it did. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're you're down three versus down one, and
there's a whole nother, whole nother ball game.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think that they're a really good team.
Speaker 6: I think that Devonsa missed a number of shots that
I think that he he makes for those shots, three
of those shots, and and the and the game is
completely different. So but yeah, I thought they had open shots,
just just missed a few here and there. And but yeah,
it's exciting to see why you compete at this level.
Speaker 4: What are you more optimistic about the trajectory of b
AU basketball or the trajectory of b A football.
Speaker 7: More optimistic about, Well, I would say optimistic would be
basketball because you know that you know who's backing basketball
right and there's a pretty good funnel of money available
and a willingness.
Speaker 6: To put it in because it's almost like a you know,
as as a basketball is like almost like a G League. Well,
I mean, look, you've got guys coming back from the
league right to play in it. So, uh, you know,
there there's there's a there's a want and a need
to get some of the best guys in their vicinity
in the beginning.
Speaker 5: That's what I think, you know, So it's a smart
it's smart move by the Jazz.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you wonder you know, you wonder if I have
a theory.
Speaker 4: I have a conspiracy theory somehow, some way that Utah
Jazz are gonna be able to pick a J. D.
Bonsa and he's going to be in Utah for the
years to come.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean that would be the genius of it,
right if if you were to like drop up a plan,
if you're sitting in the office and with your crew
trying to drop how could we do this and make
them want to play in Salt Lake City versus anywhere
else in the country. You know, Yeah, it'd be a
perfect scenario. So we'll see if it really happens, or
maybe they get him down the line, you know, because
he wants to play there, and I think that has
something that that they they could.
Speaker 3: Go after, no doubt about it.
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some football here for a moment. It's been a great
offseason for Kolani and his staff, minus losing j Hill
and Jennar, Right, impactful? How impactful do you think the
loss of Jay Hill and Jennar is going to be
in the next two years?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: I don't know how impactful it's going to be this
next year, but I feel like two years or three
years down the road, maybe you'll see some of the
fruits of that.
Speaker 3: What do you think.
Speaker 6: Potentially, you know, I think that the fact that everybody
still stayed after coaching changes were made and the opportunities
were there to leave says a lot about the program
the players, and I think it's their belief that hey,
even even though we lost, those guys were still staying.
They must trust the system right and trust the coaches
that are there to continue their careers as well and
to stay at BYU.
Speaker 8: So it'll be interesting to see though, you know, I'm
obviously optimistic that I think that having these guys that
have been in the same, similar program and maybe they'll
throw some wrinkles into these defensive schemes.
Speaker 5: That may even be better than what we were we
had with with j Hill, you know. So we'll have
to see. It's gonna be fun to see where everything goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm intrigued, no doubt about it. What was
the the best acquisition do you think via the portal?
And the best retention story?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: In your opinion this offseason?
Speaker 5: Well, the best retention, I don't know that there's a
single story for me.
Speaker 6: I think I think it's more the fact that you
had guys that were that could have gone to the
NFL and chose not to and.
Speaker 5: And every single one of them did it. You know,
that's crazy, right, So it's almost like they're in the back.
Speaker 6: Room huddled up, going we're gonna we're gonna go after this,
and we're who's all in and we want everybody, you know,
and they and they got everybody, you know, So there's
I think there's something brewing within the team, within the
coaching staff to really make a statement this year. And
so so I don't know if there's a single person,
you know, but but as a as a whole, I
feel like we're really in the right direction.
Speaker 4: This b YU foot ball team returns a lot of
key playmakers.
Speaker 3: We were just reading up on LJ.
Speaker 4: Martin's, you know, returning, and there's talk from Pro Football
Sports Network about how if l J continues to progress
with the rate he's been progressing. He stepped up in
a big way this past offseason, got bigger, faster, stronger,
that he could become a Heisman Trophy candidate. That's what
they're saying about the Big twelve player Offensive Player of
the Year. Agreer disagree with that assessment.
Speaker 5: Well, I think that he has the potential to be
in that mix. We'll have to see if the offense enables.
Speaker 6: And you know, I feel like a lot of those
guys that are in those conversations, especially as a running back,
your offense is almost cheat around you at all times.
Speaker 5: Right, So it'd be interesting to see what the offensive key.
But it may be.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's going to be the number one threat
on offense sides bear blackware.
Speaker 5: You know, and then it will kind of trickle down
to some receivers. But you know, he's going to be
a focal point, and so I think he has the
potential to do it. He would have to have just
like you had this past year.
Speaker 6: He had a super amazing breakout season, you know, and
he'll need to have another one on top of this
one in order to be in that talk for a
Heisman Trophy. But he definitely catapulted himself into a great
position by being the Big twelve Player of the year, right,
And so I'm.
Speaker 5: Excited to see. It's always exciting getting all these guys back.
Speaker 6: I mean, you guys have been in the system a
long time, right, so it's you've got an unbelievable amount
of potential moving forwards. I'm excited about it, and I
don't think the Utah youths are as excited as we are.
Speaker 4: We'll see, Yeah, your projection on I think we may
have discussed this last week, but do you think that
Utah it takes a.
Speaker 3: Step forward with Morgan Scalley takes a step back? Or
is maybe neutral, you know, and I what is neutral?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: As you know it's eight nine wins in a season.
Speaker 6: Probably, I think for them right now, it's it's like
if they make it to make a bowl game next year, right,
I think that's a step forward. I think if they
if they are end up under at five games are
below and they don't make a bowl game, I think
that's a step back.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 6: So I think that as long as you make a
bowl game, Maxture, I think you're making a step forward.
You know, we Colonne with through that, right and we
had to deal with the same things, but I mean
that was more into the Big twelve. But I mean,
I think it's going to be they're gonna have to
shock the world and have an eight win season. In
my opinion, I think that they're going to be rebuilding.
They're going to be finding out who they are a
little bit more under scaley. But it'll take two years
in my opinion, and they'll have the potential for like
a an eleven and one type season.
Speaker 5: I don't think it will take long.
Speaker 4: Not too long to get into the rebuild mode, the
retooling mode for the University of years.
Speaker 6: Because they still recruit really well Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: They still signed a really good class of athletes, So
it's uh, and so that's why I.
Speaker 5: Could be wrong. You know, they could come out and
have a ten win season, but I think they lost
enough and and I lost enough in the coaching set
and are having to make changes.
Speaker 6: Not that they are losing as the ability and the
skill set of their coaches or players, but it's still
they're all new. You've got a lot of new faces
and a lot of new things that they need to learn.
So I think it might take a year or two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of people are you mentioned It's like, hey,
if they can get to a bowl game, that's a
successful season for the US in twenty twenty six. You
look at that that schedule with so many players that
they've lost, maybe along the offensive defensive line, they lost
their OC.
Speaker 3: They've they've lost a lot.
Speaker 4: They've acquired some, no doubt, but some are predicting no
bowl game for the Utes in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean you could see it, right. I mean,
if you're a Utah fan, all they're saying is as
long as we beat BYU, it's a successful season. Right.
Speaker 3: Oh, how the turn tables? Right? There was a time
during independence. There was a time during independence.
Speaker 4: When you had no you knew where you were going
bowling right there was it was it was natty or
you were going to this kind of middle tier bowl
game and so BYU super Bowl was the Utah game
and they were they went nine straight with L's that
was that was Those were dire times independence, wandering the
wilderness right as a former player, you know what, you
know what when when we were going through independence, like
how did you feel about it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Like what were your where? Where did you where were
your your thoughts right as it pertains? You know, we
have some that were like Jason Buck he said, let's
go back to the Mountain West.
Speaker 3: What are we doing?
Speaker 4: We need to be in a conference, and others said, look,
independence is the way the segue into power fordom, power
five dum.
Speaker 3: We've got to wait our turn and hope for the best.
Speaker 5: Well that I mean, it ended up being a segue, right.
Speaker 6: I think that I don't know if that was the
initial plan or or how that how that was set,
but it ended up being a pretty good segue for us.
Speaker 5: I'm happy for being in a conference. Personally, I think
that the independence was you know, you're you have ultimate,
you have you have more than one goal.
Speaker 6: When you have a conference, you have a conference championship
as a goal.
Speaker 9: Everyone has a national championship as a goal, right, And
so you come in and when you were independent, you
lost one game and was like, I know, we're not
going to get in the mix anymore, you know.
Speaker 6: So, Uh, it's a lot of fun to have a conference,
I think. I think another side of it it's fun
is that you start to pay attention to the teams
in the conference a lot more, right, and you you
start to learn about their programs and about them.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: I man, I went to two Texas Tech games this year, right,
and neither of them at b y U. And I
know more about Texas Tech and the fans and Lubbock
and and things like that. And I love that I do,
because we're gonna play them again and again, you know.
So I think it's a lot of fun. I think
we're heading in the right direction with everything that we're
doing with the program, and just super excited and it'll
be a lot of fun to get it get a
conference championship again.
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As we get into the spring ball that's right around
the corner, right, I know, March Madness is right out
there around the corner as well. What are your like
your to do lists in spring ball? What do you
need to know coming out of springball?
Speaker 3: If anything?
Speaker 6: I think I would like to see who are the
depth in our running back room, like where people where
people are kind of falling into place in there, and
who's competing and where that's going to go. And then
the same thing with the receivers. You know, I'm excited
to see the group that.
Speaker 10: Comes out and who competes, you know, who comes out
and just makes a statement and it's like, look, I'm
your guy, you know, and that's yeah.
Speaker 6: I wish I had that confidence back when I played,
you know, but that's the confidence that these guys need
is going into it, is.
Speaker 5: That you need to go prove that you're the guy.
I think Parker is going to prove that he's.
Speaker 6: The one at the number one in the receiver room
and and uh, you know, let's see who can he
can bring with him and who's going to compete and
and be that.
Speaker 5: So I think that's gonna be a lot of fun
to see both those. I'd like to see those depth
charts after.
Speaker 6: Spring just to get an idea where we're at and
who the focus has been on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you wonder if the strategic move right now is to, hey,
let's evalue what we have in the running back room,
right and uh and then if there is a need
you know, kind of you know, by that time, though,
after springball, you know, the the the the amount of
talent that's still in the portal may be thinned out considerably.
Speaker 5: Maybe, Yeah, tough to say.
Speaker 6: I think there's gonna be there's a lot of people
gonna be stuck in the portal, but I think they yeah,
you're I think you'll be really picking. You have to
have to go deep in there to find the right
people to fit you know, because at this point, unless
there's some coaching changes that happen somewhere, nobody else can
jump in, right, So, so yeah, it'll be uh, it's
never Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. But I don't
I don't foresee us pulling more people out of the portal.
Speaker 5: I think that does a disservice to the guys that
are there now.
Speaker 6: Right, So, if you wanted running backs, you should go
pull them in the portal now so they can compete
in spring, because if you bring them in, it's kind
of that to to your to your running back room,
to all the guys who have been there competing, and
then you bring somebody in who essentially is being brought
in to have a step ahead of you, Right, So
I think it's important that they go after who they
need now so they can all compete together.
Speaker 4: Is there another player on the roster that they could
move to the running back room?
Speaker 6: Do you like?
Speaker 4: You know, like some of some of the guys that
that saw pt this year, is Preston rexa guys gonna
be a dude?
Speaker 3: Is he gonna elevate his play?
Speaker 5: Is uh?
Speaker 3: Is joevesa moody?
Speaker 4: Moody gonna elevate his play, CHIONI moa gonna elevate his play.
Speaker 3: What about Logan Pain. We heard some buzz about the
former uh, the the the great, uh, the hardest hitting
punt had hit that Pain his son, Logan Pain.
Speaker 6: You know you wonder Yeah, yeah, No, It'll be interesting
to see who who kind of fills into those roles.
Speaker 5: And but that's what spring ball is going to be.
Speaker 6: It's going to be super competitive, and these guys are
gonna got and earn their spots. I think that Preston
Rex has a ton of potential, but he he has
a different skill set. But sometimes it's good, right if
you have three guys that you can rotate three, you
have your bruiser, you have you have Preston who can
get on the outside and has speed on that outside right,
and he's a smart offensive player because he's played almost
every position in football.
Speaker 5: You know, I've known the Rex family for a long
time in San.
Speaker 6: Clementian, and so I hit him up and wanted to
get all the INFI could about pressed it other than
I already knew. And you know the biggest thing was
this kid has played almost every position skill position on
the field.
Speaker 5: He knows football, you know, and I think he needs
some more time.
Speaker 6: But you know, de Mooney, I think did it really
did really well in the ball game, you know, to
prove that that he can play.
Speaker 5: But everybody on that team can play football, right, It's
just we need to get people filled into those spots
that are going to make a difference, not just in
one game, but that can make a difference game after game.
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Speaker 3: But what else is going on in the Cougar athletics world?
Speaker 4: How about BYU women's basketball BYO Oklahoma State face off
and still Water on Wednesday? We're just the day, That's right.
The Cougars had to still Water in search up their
fifth bounce back win of the season. So after following
the number twenty two West Virginia, the Cougar's look for
that fifth consecutive bounce back.
Speaker 3: Will they get it? We hope?
Speaker 4: So tip off e set for five to thirty Mountain Time,
with the game streamed on ESPN Plus and the broadcasting
live on BAU Radio. Matchup breakdown. BAU trails three and
two in the all time series that dates back to
nineteen eighty nine and is zero to two against Oklahoma
State and games at Gallagher EBA Arena. In the most
recent meeting, however, the Cougar's handed the twentieth ranked Cowgirls
a sixty eight sixty four defeat in Provo on February fifteen,
twenty twenty five, the last year's bout Delandy Gibb.
Speaker 3: In last year's bout, Delaney GiB went.
Speaker 4: For fourteen points, seven rebounds, six assists, and three steals
in the win. Former b WAU guard Amari Whiting scored
nine points to go along with four syss, four rebounds,
and two steals in the win over her current squad
all time, as I mentioned, three and two with a
one one win record right now, And how about this, Ronnie,
I know you're intrigued by this. Mari Whiting is on
the other team is Stott, And I don't know. I've
been keeping track of her stats.
Speaker 1: Like intrigued. There might be others that we know that
are more intrigued than myself. But I mean, look, I
mean her mom was you know, she stepped down and
she was no longer the coach. They chose to go
a different direction, and I knew the minute that happened,
I knew a Mari wasn't gonna stay and she was
gonna go elsewhere. And for her basketball career, I told
everybody she was a big twelve guard. A lot of
people didn't think that because of how the team, you know,
maybe was run. And she ended up at Oklahoma State,
which is a top twenty five program. It's a great
place for her where she's able to thrive and play defense.
She I feel like this team, if she'd have stayed,
this team could have utilized her. They could have It
could have been great. But it's also been great because
de Landy Gibbs had the ball in her hands more.
She's been playing the point gard position a lot more
ben rather than playing it too because Amaro was a
point guard last year. But yeah, I mean this game
will be personal for a Mari. I don't think it'll
be really personal for BYU. The players coming in is
not I mean this. You have a lot of new
additions that will just be trying to go out there
and get a win for her. She probably has the
game circle just like other people we've spoke in Eli
Wahlbrook when she left UCLA game of circle and Aaron
Bailey left, you know, to go to Arkansas Circle Bau's game.
That's just how it goes at the end of the day.
That's sports, that's athletics. I don't think I think Boe
is trying to go in there and knock off the
top twenty five team. They've done it before, they have
the ability to to. But Amari being on the other side,
is looking to stop Bau and get a victory.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, Marii's a great player.
Speaker 4: Twenty one games played, twenty one games start at twenty
nine point two minutes per game. She's averaging ten points,
five point five rebounds, three point three assists, one point
nine steals, point three blocks, and two point one turnover.
She's limited her turnovers this season. That's in a movement.
She's forty four percent from the field. She's shooting the
ball much more efficiently as well. She's taking more three
point shots this year, and she's more effective from the
three point line thirty five point eight percent from the
three point line. Free throw also improved her UH. She
went from fifty nine sixty two and out of sixty
eight point five percent from the charity stripe and she's.
Speaker 3: Not getting any foul trouble either.
Speaker 4: She's at two point four personal fouls per game, so
she's she's playing good basketball for this Oklahoma State cow
Girls team. We wish her well, no doubt about at
the five foot ten junior out of Birdley, Idaho, the
former Cougar and once Coog, always a koug right, Ronald,
the three man.
Speaker 1: We wants a Coog, always a Couga. And I mean
she leaves the team and steals like you said, just
about two him. Here's the best part, Ben, and this
is gonna be a tough match for Leekamar squad and
now few wins. This is is a really good win, Amaro.
Like you said, averaging ten points. They have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
not Amazon the bank account as you know, a certain
rapper would say, Ben, But a Mari's the seventh score
in this team that's averaging double digits. They have seven
players at average over ten or more. A really tough squad, Ben,
But she's the third leading rebounder on this team, so
she gets after on the boards for sure.
Speaker 3: Let's talk some football.
Speaker 4: Shallowy Tanner Wall, the Great Wall of Provo, as we
like to call him, shout out to him, he's a
true student athlete. BA senior captain Tanner Wall was named
to the Academic All America First Team by College Sports
Communication Communicators for a second consecutive season. The CSC Academic
All America award recognizes the nation's top student athletes for
their combined performances on.
Speaker 3: The field and in the classroom.
Speaker 4: While is the only repeat selection from the twenty twenty
four CSC Academic All America team and becomes just the
second BAU football player to be recognized twice as a
first Team Academic All American, joined joining wide receiver Chuck Cutler,
who was honored in nineteen eighty seven. In nineteen eighty eight,
shout out to Chuck. A great wide receiver for the coops,
Wall helped lead BA to a twenty five and four
record while starting in safety over the past three seasons.
The six foot one, two hundred and five pounder out
of Arlington, Virginia was previously named two twenty five first
Team All Big twelve by the Conference Coaches All America
honor role mentioned by Phil Steele, Academic All District by CSSE,
and was also a member of the prestigious All State
AFCA Good Works Team. As a senior in twenty twenty five,
Wall was second on the team in tackles with seventy
one and interceptions with four. He was also a finalist
for both the All State Worfeo Trophy and the Pop
Warner College Football Award, as well as a semi finalist
for the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award.
Speaker 3: He graduated with a three point eighty six GPA and in.
Speaker 4: The Finance program and is currently enrolled in the NBA
program at the Marriot School of Business. Wall was one
of five Big twelve student athletes earned academic All American
recognition this season.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Tanner Wall.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts, your reaction to the news, No surprise, Tanner
Wall doing it right on and off the football field.
Speaker 1: A great football player, Well, I guess I gotta go
good better, best, right, better football player, best person that
you'll get a chance to know. When you talk to
this dude, you felt truly, you know, the christ like
love that he had. He always was thoughtful with This
response is always to tell people you want to interview
somebody on the BILLI football team or its just individual
to talk to, talk to tanner Wall. That guy is
truly remarkable. I always said, which one's gonna happen first? Ben,
Who's gonna get called to be a mission president first?
Is going to be tanner Wall. There's gonna be Kyanma Tonavasa.
I think it might be the Great Wall of Provo.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Shout out to tanner Wall, the Great Wall of Provo,
real quick. Shout out to all the academic All Americans
that have come through Brigham twenty ten. We have Brian
Korea running back, second Team All American two thousand nights.
Speaker 3: Scottie J.
Speaker 4: Scott Johnson loves Scotty J. He was also first Team
All American. Matt Bowman Academic All American in two thousand
and eight, two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3: Shout out to him. Kellen Fowler two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4: Shout out to my teammates Dave Oswald, Nathan Mikkel, Ryan Denny,
Jared Lee, Ben Cahun, Alan Boardman Cook Alan Boardman twice
ninety ninety four and ninety six, Eric Drage Okage Drage,
I See you Dog ninety two and ninety three. Uh
and Uh Brad Clark, Andy Boyce, Fred Whitieham. Ohkay, Freddie,
I see you dog. Uh now a coach at inn
Ann Arbor, Tim Clark, Chuck Cutler, obviously, Ty Matting Lee, Marvallen,
Steve Young, Danny Plater, Scott Phillips, Stephen Miller, Steve Stratton,
Dan Taylor, Dan Taylor, and Virgil Carter BUA Academic All
American shout out to the smartest football players to come
through Brigham Young University.
Speaker 3: Look at all those Look at all those players.
Speaker 4: Man, I gotta we gotta get some of these Academic
All Americans on our on our show to highlight that
I'm about you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean.
Speaker 4: We got to get some of these Academic All Americans
doing it right on and off the football field.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: A couple of other news and notes as it pertains
to BYU Athletics here in this world of b oy sports.
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A couple other things here, How about this little I
Believe Golf news. Blia men's golf finish Day one of
the Arizona n it in and fourth place at ten
under par before the events suspended play on Monday due
to darkness at OMNI Tucson National Resort, Arizona, the host
of the tournament, sits on top at twenty eight under
par and leads all schools and birdies with forty four.
Texas is one stroke behind the Wildcats and second at
twenty seven hundred par, and St. Mary's holds third at
fifteen hundred par behind Blau two. Round out the top
five is New Mexico State and Cow sharing the fifth
spot with nine hundred par. On the scorecard, Freshman Qina
posted a six hundred par and tied for seven with
seven holes to play. In twenty nine holes, a Quena
kip his scorecard clean and wait bogey for you to
go along with six birdies on the day. Shout out
to Simon Kwan Hit the Kwan? Well, where's that sound bite?
Speaker 5: Is it? Is? It? Is it?
Speaker 3: Hit the Kwan? Isn't there a song says hit the Quand?
Speaker 1: I don't know we had a sound by hold on?
Speaker 3: Please, No, I had no idea that we had one either.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if they know there's a song
called hit the quand trust me, I know the song.
Speaker 4: Hit the Quan and Tyson Shelley round out the top
twenty five by recording a two hundred par and tying
for twenty fifth with six holes to go. One of
Shelley's silands was an eagle on whole ten and in
round UH two. Shout out to uh, This Cougar men's
golf team doing great things, obviously, and we want to
highlight that. Also, want to give a big gro to
b Way women's basketball. GiB was named to the Big
twelve starting five after the upset of number nineteen Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: So she's getting buckets.
Speaker 4: Definitely the MVP of that women's basketball team leading the way.
What other news of notes we got cooked in Cougar Country?
Ronald the three man weave or anything that you wanted
to delve into as it relates to BUYU athletics.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think off the top of my brain.
I do have some some not really I guess breaking news,
but I guess it's something I can't announce.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I mentioned it a few weeks back on the show
that I ran into my former rugby coach. It was funny.
It was just outside the studio. I was like, what
are you doing here? I was like, this is my territory. No,
but the BYU schedule for rugby for the spring has
been dropped. You know, I gotta show love to where
I played at. They gotta win against Grand Canyon this
over this weekend close ball game, so they already want
to know. They'll play UCLA bin February twelfth. They'll play
Cal That's a big time game February twenty. First, they
take that road trip the first couple of months because
we know the weather's cold and we actually can't play outside.
They don't allow us to even though the weather has
been decent, because we'll get in trouble, like rules actually
state we have to stay inside. Then what is in
March seventh? They play Arizona Improvo Navy March thirteenth, and
then they play Saint Mary's in Provo to twenty first,
and then Sacramento State to twenty eighth. If you want
to catch any of those games on the YouTube stream,
I won't be doing one of them, but I guess
to announce talk to coach and actually we'll be doing
the play by play this year for the BAU men's
rugby team for their home games at Southfield, so you
can catch all of those on BYU Rugby on YouTube.
I'll be calling the games with my former teammates, so
this will be a fun opportunity to be able to
do that, to see the boys hopefully have an opportunity
to win a national championship, something I couldn't do. So
hopefully the program these guys can get it done and
fulfill that need and put that hole in the wall,
because I'm still waiting to see that done in my
time while I'm alive.
Speaker 4: Ben, I want to give a big cougaroar to obviously
the rugby team and you, of course, Ronald, but how
about Cairos Toga at twenty nine years of age, the
product of West Valley with side the six foot two three,
three hundred thirty five powder at a Ranger High school
who came to bring him as that no star recruit.
Nobody wanted him, nobody needed them. And shout out to
Elisha Tuiaki for bringing them. That was an Elisa recruit.
Ladies and gentlemen, you get thanks, get thanks, and Coloate
and Klotate hit the quad Simon quad.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See, dude, Kius is probably hitting the quad right
now because why he's going to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Ben, I want to say something. I figured it out.
This is what you have to do to be a
b y U grading to get a to go to
a Super Bowl. Do you know what team you have
to play for. It's not bang Bang niner gang. It's
a bang Bang Kyle choking away gang. That's what I've
been calling it because Kyle Shanaham just seems to choke
it away. That's not really funny. I was trying to
have a play on words. You gotta go to the Patriots,
let's go. You gotta go to the pictures. There's one
the kV inn was a Patriot when he went and
was a part of that Super Bowl team. And now
Kiris Tonga the Patriots are my pick. Ben, I think
Kiris is going to add himself to that. Lit He's
going to be a Super Bowl champion. I truly belew
that I wanted to be Puka Puka versus Kiris, but
I didn't get that. You know, you don't get everything
you want in life. But I think the Patriots it's
the organization you seem to have to go to to
get a ring if you're a b a you cougar. Now,
I just wanted to state that, but I think Kiris
is going to be a Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 3: Ben Man, I hope.
Speaker 4: So Drake may underrated, underrated man underrated, So was Ciris.
Speaker 3: Kris Bear should have picked him, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And well we have Kiris for a little bit to Bears.
Speaker 4: So yeah, shout out to Kiris Tonga ladies and gentlemen. Really,
I mean, it's pretty cool to see Kiris did not
play defensive line in high school.
Speaker 3: He's a tight end.
Speaker 4: Comes to BUYU a bit as a project, you could say, uh,
converting over to the defensive line and becoming a fantastic
football player just walking back offensive lineman time and time again.
Speaker 3: He did that in this last game.
Speaker 4: He's leaned out too like he's not a and by
lean out like he's he's he's taking care of the fat,
trimmed up the fat, and put on some muscle mass.
Speaker 3: His pad level is lower than ever.
Speaker 4: His hip mobility is as flexible as it's ever been
and shout out to Kyri's Tonga. He was a seventh
round pick and he's played with I believe, I want
to say he's played with like five different team Chicago, Atlanta, Minnesota,
Arizona now New England Patriots boom seventh round, two hundred
and fiftieth overall pick coming out of Brigham. His pre
draft measurable six two to one eighth three hundred and
twenty five pounds, His arm lake thirty one inches nine
and five eighth inch hand. He ran a five point
zero seven forty yard dash that's blazon for a three
hundred and twenty five pounder. His tenhsplit was one seven four.
That shows you his uh explosivity. He had a twenty
inch vertical Ladies and Gentlemen four seven three twenty yard shuttle,
a seven point eighty three to three cone, a broad
jump of eight feet nine inches, and guess what he
benched pressed to twenty five thirty five times.
Speaker 3: He's a brick house. He's a brick house. Ladies and
satt you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's a song too.
Speaker 3: I think yes, it is uh and uh in totality
in his career. I believe.
Speaker 4: In the NFL sixty seven games played, fifteen started, one
hundred and thirteen combined tackles, forty six solo, sixty seven assisted.
Uh and I believe he's got maybe one sack, maybe
two h six pass defended.
Speaker 3: Shout out to shout out to this man.
Speaker 4: This is going into like this last year through twenty
twenty five on, so he may have added a few
of these a few other stats to his productivity. So
shout out to kiris Tonga making it to a Super Bowl.
Let's hope he comes home with that trophy. Very proud
of kiris Tonga and what he's been able to accomplish
in the National Football League thus far. And it continues
to hopefully get better. It's getting better all the time,
in my opinion, getting better all the time.
Speaker 5: To be.
Speaker 4: He had a cougar, okay being a cougar. Yeah, this
date age any other news of notes. Ronald the three
man weaver that you've been itching to get off your
off your mind. I know, Yegor Demon, you're a basketball guy.
Speaker 3: I am I.
Speaker 1: That's actually what I had pulled up on my phone.
Diegor DEMI gonna be a part of the the All Star,
one of the Rising Stars Rising Stars. And I just
want to tell all you people, all you national people,
there are some you Cougar fans out there too. You
talk to me about Yegor couldn't shoot the three mechanics.
It ain't the mechanics. I tried to warn you all.
Try to tell just wait till AJ's drafted, when he's
knocking down threes in the NBA and he's all over
ESPN and Sports Center, I want you to apologize. You're
not gonna do it. You're not gonna do it because
we all have probably it's okay. We don't like being wrong.
As humans, we don't like being called out. But I'm
telling you right now, if somebody gets called out by
the wonderful face of this program, you have to take
it on the chin. You have to get better. But
the rising Star and Diego which he is, he's a
lottery pick. The scouts knew what they were talking about
Ben and the three point shots have been falling. Very
happy for Yegor and shout out to Kevin Young and
what is a Jordan Brady development staff. I've got it,
not surprised by it, like I will, honestly not be
surprised Ben if AJ's a number one pick, because the
NBA scouts know more of what they are. I haven't
had the privilege to sit next to any I guess
they took it away because I guess I reveal too
much on the airways. But the next scout I get
a chance to talk to, I'm gonna ask him, would
you pick Aj aed one or would you pick Darren?
I'm just gonna straight a basket And they might not
like it. I don't care, but I must know. I
must have an answer Ben, because Aj is a rising
not even rising star. AJ legit it can be all NBA,
probably in the first couple of years of his NBA career.
I think he's just that phenomenal. But this is about
Yegor and happy that Joemen. We said we were wrong.
We were saying Denn jentlemen, Joeman's been hitting the threes
and we'll see what he does at the Rising Stars.
I watched the NBA All Star anyway, but I definitely
will be watching to watch number eight from Brooklyn.
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