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Speaker 2: G Men was was making fun of me because our
family threats is family von Krittle And he said, I
didn't know you were that Mormon. That's what he said
to me.
Speaker 3: I didn't He said.
Speaker 2: I had no idea you were that Mormon.
Speaker 3: No, I knew.
Speaker 4: I knew you guys were that Mormon. Let me clarify,
is that jock versus non jog thing? I guess like
the Gurney family were very very musical, right, extremely musical. Yeah, yeah,
we are not great athletes. We're not even good athletes.
So yeah, it's kind of greedy that you guys are
doing the air Fleet in the in the music thing.
I mean, come on, we stop it.
Speaker 2: I mean we sang around the piano like fag every Sunday, man,
we'd sing the songs.
Speaker 3: Do you guys do it?
Speaker 2: We grew up.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me ask you this. Do you do a
talent show the Christmas?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: We haven't done that? No, okay, no we I mean
we've done talent shows like within the Ward. I think
we actually the Webster Reunion. On my mom's side, they
do a talent show for the Yeah that's your mom,
that's the mom dad side.
Speaker 4: No, you know when my family's exactly the same. My
mom's side extremely musical. My dad's side. Can't not to
say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, my dad's side not very musical. Yeah, but
like I grew up, my mom would like, I mean,
sing lullabyes. I mean they came from great great Grandma
and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, we sang yeah, and you do the
sound of music, which isn't an adopted yeah Mormon movie. Yeah,
much like Napoleon Dynamite and Princess Bragg.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, Princess Bride.
Speaker 3: I have sound of music right there?
Speaker 2: Sound of music. Yeah. What's the most Mormon film? What's
like the most popular mode? Oh, I think adopted. I
think it's Princess Princess Brian. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Princess Bride is stopted more so than any
movie out there. Really, it is a Mormon movie.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. That's your interesting commentary.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can apply Napoleon Dynamite because it's
no because it's old foundation was based on you know yeah, yeah,
more Mormonism or whatever.
Speaker 3: You want to call it.
Speaker 2: So favorite Mormon movies, it's Princess Bride. Yeah, it's gonna
be a landslide. Yeah, I wonder right, you know that
the sound of music's up there? G Man, you were
down at springball. I want to get into some of these.
How do you feel about the Scugar football team after
Day two spring Ball twenty twenty six, Camp Killin.
Speaker 4: It's so hard to gauge anything that's been a new
development beyond what we already ascertained heading into it, because
guess what, we haven't seen a single play at least
at least not from the other side of the field, right,
I mean, we haven't seen anything. So you gotta take
their whorf for it. You gotta take what they say.
And of course everything's gonna be rainbow, sunshine and unicorns
during spring practices. But I tend to buy it because
this team has a phenomenal culture and the one thing
I will read into based on the interviews yesterday.
Speaker 3: Bear looked more relaxed and.
Speaker 4: Approachable than he did at anytime last season. Did you
get that from you were part of that interview? You
were doing your your forty seven minute interview Reggie for
seven It seems like it. I like, walk yet and
event's talking to Reggie. We do like two pool interviews.
He's still there. I wait around, I do my interview
Kato Uluabi. Guess you still interviewed Reggie.
Speaker 2: Firsh When I interview so and I get down to
their you were very very third and I didn't even
get through all my questions.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure you did.
Speaker 2: I didn't even get through all my questions. I was
ticked off to Kenny. Cut me short. I was like, Kenny,
I got a job to you.
Speaker 3: Are you okay? He's clonel look good, just just going over.
Speaker 2: He's like, Kenny, you the credit was like, stop, look,
I need to get to know these young men and
give it out to cogarnation anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bear seemed different to me, and he should feel
different when he sits back and he can relax. Now.
He couldn't relax at any time last year. He was
under it. He was thrust into action much sooner than
he probably should have. He did everything at phenomenal in
every regard. I just think the guy's going to I'm
really really excited for him, and I think he's already
added some bulky. He looked actually bigger to me, like
just interviewing bigger, just a good bigger.
Speaker 2: Good bigger. Yeah, not sloppy big.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I that that dude. You you
credit me for my girth. Holy crap, dude, there's been
a more girthy quarterback in the history of quarterbacks. He'd
have to go to JaMarcus Russell. I mean, my goodness,
but Bear does it a lot better than DeMarcus because
Bear is athletic.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, it's not fat.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just really really excited about the kid.
I like how he approached that interview. I liked how engaging.
He was still really short answers, shorter than I'd prefer,
but that's just who he is.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I just I thought he was more relaxed.
I thought he was more approachable, and yeah, props to him.
I mean, you sit back and you think how young
these guys really are.
Speaker 3: And he did all he did last year at eighteen
years old. I mean, what are we expecting?
Speaker 4: My goodness, and what he did. I'm still in awe
of it. I'll be in awe of it for a
very very long time. I just hope fans understand just
how unique it was and how special that season Bear
had was for this Beway football team. It is phenomenal.
It's unlike anything you'll ever see again. And I'll tell
you he's gonna be say Writer Lions comes back, and
I'm a big fan of Writer.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 4: But let's say, I mean, the timeline is probably not
gonna work out in this regard. But he goes out
and starts his first year. Bear is now the standard.
Everyone's gonna be judged by what Bear does. And as
talented as Writer Lions is or any other quarterback, that
is going to be so hard to replicate, yep, so hard.
So my goodness.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Bear Bachmeyer's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: He's more relaxed, and I think he's gonna be that
much better, which is kind of crazy to say, but
I mean it's just hard not to like everything about
this kid and be high on him.
Speaker 3: And I think he's gonna be that much better.
Speaker 4: I mean, now he has spring practice to relax, develop
his body, get a connection with the receivers, which I
think was the one thing that was lacking last year
is he just didn't really have that continuity. I mean,
he developed it with Chase and Parker, but beyond that,
you didn't really see it. Now he's going to have
an entire spring practice of seeds and everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I know this guy, I know where he is.
Speaker 4: He's gonna belt those Max all Austin Collie type connections
and it's gonna be really exciting. So you have that quarterback,
you have phenomenal receiver competition. It's really really hard not
to like this team. And then I talked to Kadu Lawabbe.
This is how I would describe to Katolabe. A lot
of people have heard Keanu Tanavosse interviews a guy that's
just state president just presents almost perfect.
Speaker 3: Keith's kind.
Speaker 4: He's kind of the he's kind of like that, very mature,
very likable, very well spoken. He's gonna be phenomenal. I mean,
I I'm a sucker for this. Yeah, you know, I
am krittle. But the way players present themselves and interviews
to me says a lot to me about their mindset
and how they're going to.
Speaker 3: And I don't even need to be so lunkage. Just
look away.
Speaker 4: He did a calful three years. Are you kidding me? Yep,
He's gonna be very good. He's gonna be a big
part of this defense. And one thing I liked about
what Kelly Poppinga said. He said that there's things Jack
Kelly did at this for this defense that you.
Speaker 2: Just can't repl Yeah, he's not gonna be able to
replate it. He can't replace it. And we'll get to
that sound bite.
Speaker 4: But but he has guys that can do things that
Jack Kelly couldn't that he's going to utilize. Yeah, it's
gonna be exciting. It's gonna be really really good, and
I'm maintained. I'll maintain this until the first game of
the season. Fans are going to be reminded just how
good Isaiah Glaster is.
Speaker 3: They've forgotten.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you ninety percent of the listeners out there,
they forgot how good Isaiah Glaster is.
Speaker 3: He's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Guys, He's really really good. You wait, you have no
idea how gimpy that ankle was last year. I don't
think you should have been playing, to be honest with.
Speaker 3: You, healed back, Matt. He's probably got a chip on
his shoulder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want this. I want to come back. This
linebacking group is gonna wreck WREG teams. They're gonna WREG
teams New Seas, Tomoy Peu, Sarah Man. Now he's got
that competition. Oh man, guy's coming after my job. Phenomenal athlete.
He's got to raise his game. If he wants to
see the field, he's got to bring it.
Speaker 3: It's not it's not given it to him and the guy.
Speaker 4: I just continue ASKFUSI and then the other transfer. Kelly
keeps bringing him up. Man, Jake Clifton, he brings him
up all the time. And I've said that, I say
this every time. Watch for the guys that coaches bring
up without being prompted. That's why you're interviewing Reggie Frishneck
because guys who coaches brought up all the time. Right,
And let me tell you something about bank Criddle guys
here stuff.
Speaker 3: What he gets, he gets inside information.
Speaker 4: So so when Bank Credel interviews Reggie Frishneck first day
of Spring Price, I'm sorry, I'm giving away your method
or don't do it.
Speaker 3: It means you're hearing good things. Don't do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, I'm I'm I'm letting out state secrets here anyway,
Jake Clifton. That's intriguing. That's really intriguing. You can tell
Kelly really really likes what he's seeing from Jake Clifton.
So yeah, I think this could be the best BA
defense we've ever seen.
Speaker 3: I really do. The potential of this defense is through
the roof.
Speaker 2: Through the roof. Oh, it's stacked.
Speaker 4: Considering what they have returning and what they have In addition,
where's the weakness on this defense.
Speaker 2: Tell me, I think the biggest question mark right now
is actually, well, Tanner Wall.
Speaker 3: Might be the toughest got to replace.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah. So I think it's like safety and
corner right now. And not to say that we don't
have great players that we do, it's just it's just depth, right,
quality depth. And you have new coaches there. So you
have new cornerbacks coach, new safeties coach. You have Wes
Johnson who's a holdover and he's an assistant corn cornerbacks coach.
And now you have Danny Sorenson as the assistant safeties coach.
So that's great news. You got four really good coaches.
But to be determined how they all interact, how they coincide,
how they how they coach up, how they how they
you know, just rear and develop. This squad comprised of
follow Tausatawala great player, Tommy prass Is, great player, Rater,
Dow Mooney, great player. You're gonna have Canon Debrize. I
think move over to some free safety as well. Maybe,
uh you know, kind of crossram between Nicol and free.
You have Matthias Lee's and some young bucks there. You
have Matthew Mason coming in some you know, some young guys, uh,
coming in to try to make some Hey. I like
Crew Clark too. I think he's kind of an IT
Stings study. He was a transfer might of State young buck.
But we'll see kind of how it all plays out
there in the safety in the cornerback obviously Evan Johnson
and Trey. Then you have Tavon Williams, and then it's like, Okay,
who's that fourth corner, who's that fifth, who's that sixth corner?
Where are we at there?
Speaker 3: Maury did a pretty good job last year.
Speaker 4: He had he had good moments you would have liked
a little more consistency for I'm sure, but I think
that's gonna be a little tough to replace the guy
I'm expecting a lot of.
Speaker 3: I still I'm still really high on Johnathan Kabeya.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I think coming back from his injury was a really,
really tough thing for him, and I think he struggled
a lot of fans saw that. I still think he's
got a lot of good stuff, and I think he
can be very good at that nickel position. So yeah,
but the thing is, you talk about question marks and
the guys.
Speaker 3: You really, that's a lot of guys.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of talented guys, and you have to
believe that they're gonna figure it out. Strong safety might
be the deepest and strongest position on the team. I mean,
you got to figure out how to how to how
to play follatwe and and Raider to Mooney on the
field at the same time, because you're gonna have four
linebackers that are gonna be demanding playing time.
Speaker 3: So so how do you do that alignment? Does Raider
go to free safety? Maybe? I mean fall of Towe.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's got to be strong safety, right, I
just can't see him doing anything else.
Speaker 3: He's kind of that hybrid linebacker.
Speaker 4: But but yeah, the options, my goodness. Yeah, yeah, your
boy Tommy Prasses, man, he's gonna have to earn his spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, safety rooms stacked.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good football players there.
Speaker 3: It is stacked.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's hard not to be excited about this
Bwave football team. That they have a lot of pieces
in place. Even with the unfortunate departure of Parker Kingston.
There's a lot to be excited about.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 2: Let's take a time out. We'll come back with Kelly
Papingo sound and we'll read between the lines. That was
a bit of a Cougar beat with Brandon Seagurny. Any
other comments before we move on to the sound. Anything
else you want to make a point of.
Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot of It's one of those things
where I have a lot to say, so I can't
really perry it down to just one thing.
Speaker 3: So let's go to break.
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you say?
Speaker 3: K pop?
Speaker 2: Addressing the media? K Pop? What's the what? How's the
change been for you in spring ball is defensive coordinator
compared to special teams.
Speaker 6: It's been the main The main thing has been just
the schedule and the routine of it all right, and
just being able to stay, you know, just be able
to find the routine of how how things work and
how things operated. So it's been an adjustment, but I'll yeah,
I'll get used to it.
Speaker 3: But that's I.
Speaker 6: Would say, that's the main thing, is just getting used
to the amount of time.
Speaker 2: Not here yet, so we'll get that back Roland I
was not able to hear the comments there. We'll see
if we can get that done, get that get that soum,
you know, for for all of kugarnation in Cougar Country.
But there's a number of questions we dealt into adding
the coaches. What has it been like building momentum with
them after forty eight hours? What we remain takeaways from
the K pop media availability, just the guys that are
gonna come on and benefit this team, and the alignment
and how this defense is gonna be a lot of
the same, but it's gonna be different and.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be fascinating.
Speaker 4: The fronts are gonna be very interesting to know, and
like I mentioned, I think the linebacker competition is gonna
be very interesting to watch throughout spring practice and we'll
fall practice because we don't want to spring practice. But
and he's very capable. We've he knows what he's doing.
I mean, he's not a guy like a certain two
former defensive coordinators and we're just like, oh, I gotta
do this, No, I gotta present myself, I gotta coordinate this.
Please don't make me do it every Please don't make
it me do an interview. No, Kelly's on it, man,
He's like, nah, this is my show.
Speaker 3: He's so ready for this.
Speaker 4: As far as guys being elevated to a certain position,
it's hard for me to think of someone that's been
more prepared than Kelly Poppinga. Of course, I'm a fan.
I've love Kelly for a long time, ever since he
was a player. But he's very easy to connect to.
That's the Poppinga family. They He has a lot of
same qualities that Klannie has. In my opinion, he's he
has strong emotional intelligence and I love the story. I
think I've told him before. But just prior to the
Colorado game, I'm there and we're all up against the
fence and they're going out with the Buffalo, and I
had no idea that the entire Bway football didn't come
out the locker room and we're right behind me, right Kelly.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just figured these guys, Okay, escape time.
I'm not talking to anyone.
Speaker 4: Kelly just strikes up a conversation because, Hey, Gerdy, were
you there at the Alible Bowl. I'm like no, He goes, oh, dude,
you should have seen. He's just in the buffalo he
pith that. I mean, he's just striking up a competition.
I'm just like you are.
Speaker 2: But that's just how he is.
Speaker 3: He's just very approachable, very likable, and.
Speaker 4: I think that's gonna play and I think that has
played very well with these these players. I mean, look
at the position that's seen the biggest upgrade at BWAU Defensively,
I would absolutely argue it's the edge position. Who's been
coaching the edge position, Kelly POPPINGA I don't think that's
a coincidence. So anyway, big fan of Kelly Pupping. I
think he's gonna do a fantastic job. And I don't
think fans are going to be missing j Hill nearly
as much as they thought they were.
Speaker 3: Love this.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the sound bite. Saw, how's the
changement for you guys in springball is defensive coordinator compared
to special teams coordinator.
Speaker 6: It's been the main the main thing has been just
the schedule and the routine of it all right, and
just being able to stay, you know, just be able
to find the routine of how how things work and
how things operate. And so it's been an adjustment.
Speaker 3: But I'll yeah, I'll get used to it.
Speaker 6: But that's I would say, that's the main thing, is
just getting used to the amount of time people are
coming to you asking you question.
Speaker 2: All right, we weren't able to hear it, so hopefully
Cougarnation was though hopefully Kugarnation was able to hear it.
But one of the things I want to point out is,
you know how ecstatic he was about Jack Kelly balled
out like I had made the prognostication of the prediction
that Jack Kelly was going to improve his Jack draft stock,
and he did significantly. I think at the end it's
been the main thing has been actually surprise ran a
four six four. I thought he would eclipse the four
to six. I thought he would be at least in
line with maybe Jack in the forty at worst, but
he was not.
Speaker 3: He was four six four.
Speaker 2: He did really good in the jumps, uh obviously in
his explosivity there thirty seven eighth vertical and a great broad.
I was surprised he did not participate in the three
cone and pro agility because I thought that that's where
he would shine too. Because Chase has great footwork. He
round routes. Well, he's got good hands, he's got great size,
all those things, but forty time a little bit lackluster.
And some people bring up, hey, well Pooka to Koua,
he didn't have a good forty time, And that's true.
Remember Pooka didn't get the invite to uh to the
NFL Combine and he should have. Uh, but remember he
had some injury issues, et cetera, and that that comment
maybe it maybe limited him at BYU. Uh, he is
gonna run a better forty at BYU. He'll probably get
into that four six or four five six, four five seven,
four five eight, he's gonna get down. It'll be maybe
a tenth faster. Typically, what I've seen at the combine
is if they run a certain time at the combine,
they'll they'll at at at best they're gonna take a
second off of that or sorry, a tenth excuse me,
not a second, a tenth off of that. At worst,
it's probably like a half a tenth. Okay, so I
I predict that I'm projecting that. But uh, you mentioned
this who replaces Jack Kelly?
Speaker 3: No one? No one?
Speaker 2: And that's unfortunate because you don't have like an explosive
four five seven edge rusher. That's what you don't have
next year. Lucy is interesting. Noucy is very interesting.
Speaker 3: I think Nowcy could replicate a lot of things that
Jack Keuilly. Yeah. Personally, yeah, I think they're very similar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Noucy's the most intriguing. And tow Seely also off
the edge. Yeah, but he hunter's not Jack. Does that
make s o He's a pure the end? Yeah, He's
a pure the end. Tow Celi and News are like
that high.
Speaker 3: Especially Noucy. Yeah. Like tel Seeley, I mean, phenomenal edge rusher.
His past rush is great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but I haven't seen him cover space and
and and go laterally like Lucy did Lucy watch him
in the Pop Darts Bowl, Guys, he was really good.
Speaker 3: If you want to see what News is gonna do
this year, he's watch.
Speaker 4: What he's He's gonna be very and the routine of
it all right, and just he's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: As far as the rest of the conference, we're trying
to get some sound cued up, et cetera. We're having
no little technical difficulties. We apologize as well. We break
down some of the UH comments from Kelly Papinga. One
of the questions that was asked was you kept so
much of your roster at top contributors. How much confidences
that give you as a first time coordinator to keep
so many ingredients in the kitchen. Like they are stacked defensively,
how they feel with this defenses, Like there's no there's
not a whole lot of room to bring anybody else in.
There's not a whole lot of room for like projects either,
Like there's just no room. Yeah, they feel stacked at
every position. And the only position that you're like, okay,
well you could maybe try to poke holes in is
maybe at corner and maybe at safety.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So they feel really good right now. They feel
very very confident, and they also feel very confident about
the acquisitions the coaches that they've brought in and for
the secondary. Justin Enna is a full time special teams coordinator.
He's not coaching a position either, which I find very interesting.
It's awesome, it's really good. It's great, it's great, it's wonderful.
So and and K Pop is taking like inside linebackers
as the defense corner because that's yeah, he played inside lineback.
That's who's his position like he knows it better than anybody.
It's it's his position. Now, he was an outside edge
outside linebackers coach as well to diversify, but that man
can coach up inside linebackers with the best of them,
and so I think it was a good move. A
couple other things here, Uh, Kelly, coming out of camp,
what would you like to see the most from your defense?
You know, I think as a defensive coordinator, looking for
who's going to be the playmakers? Right, who's going to
be the standouts? Who are the guys that are going
to elevate not only you know, one of the the
names that has been brought up is Jake Clifton, the
Kansas State transfer. You what if he showcases as a newcomer,
he's already impressed in the weight room, can't he be
a playmaker on the football field.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for Sarah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you keep on bringing up Jake Clifton.
K Pop does Katol Hobby Sally, They're coming for you.
Speaker 2: Man, He's gonna have to a legitimate four star talent.
Speaker 3: He is. But that's what I'm excited.
Speaker 4: About because he absolutely has the ability and he showed
some amazing flashes last year.
Speaker 3: But that's just gonna it's gonna be a very very
good thing for CLA.
Speaker 4: High character guy, a guy that works, he's not a
guy that slups it off. He's wanting to put in
that time and him being pushed by Jake Clifton, Kato Alabbi.
Speaker 3: That's just gonna.
Speaker 4: Be really really good for what is already a very
strong position at b Will you.
Speaker 2: You don't always get like I mean, I think in
the past we used to get really jazzed, really excited
about former players coming back to coach, and then like
some we've had some they had some misses, some failures
along the way. And now how do be Ony fans
feel about like former players coming back to coach? Now, Wow,
that's an interesting question, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: I think when it's a former coach that has NFL experience, Yeah,
a formen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's kind of all right. Yeah, give me
that guy.
Speaker 4: It's interesting to me that Danny is coaching because to me,
Danny's that guy that was so far removed from what
a normal player did as far as output work ethic.
Bronco gave Danny Swarnson the highest compliment I've ever heard
Bronco give and he essentially said, if I had a
team full of players that put forth the effort and
perhap that Danny Swarnson does, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I would never lose a football game. That's who he is.
And to me, that guy's kind of maybe hard.
Speaker 4: Where he's trying to coach these guys and they're not
giving four the effort that he did.
Speaker 3: You kind of wonder how that's gonna relate.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: If Danny's a very intelligent individual, obviously tremendous.
Speaker 3: Success probably played.
Speaker 4: What he did in the NFL with talk about maxing
out your talent and giving everything you have, that's Danny Sorenson.
So if he can realize how to convey that and
dispel it onto other players and harness just harness it right, Yeah,
it could be a tremendous boot because that's Danny Swarnson.
That's culture. I mean, it's no how, but to me
more importantly, it's the cultural aspect where this guy. I
mean seriously, if he if he's able to get these
players to just tap into even part of what his
work ethic and his preparation, I think that's the benefit
of a Danny Swarnson where he's like, look at me,
yours talent as I am, I played what ten seasons
in the NFL?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You can do it.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm What I'm saying is I think
it's a really good thing that Danny swarts it's upstand
A big, big fan.
Speaker 2: Of Danny Swartson, as in my as in my I
think it was a nice get.
Speaker 4: Even though even though he didn't give us good interviews
while he was a player, you gotta remember I have
forgiven him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got burned. He got burned.
Speaker 2: He got burned by who.
Speaker 4: Well, he said something prior to a game, remember the
White Boys comment, and the media kind of went, oh.
Speaker 2: What did he say?
Speaker 4: It was a preparation for a big game? He says, yeah, yeah,
they're underest me. They don't see these white boys coming
and and and being able to do much or something
like that, which I thought it was fine, but the media,
of course, you know, somebody you gotta you know. And
he kind of shut down after that. He shut it down,
kind of like what Austin Colly did with the Magic Happens.
Austin shut it down, not as much as dandy. Danny
absolutely shut it down. He won no part of the
media after that. I get it, but that's kind of
who Danny Swarrnson is. It's like, dude, I don't need this.
I don't need the hype. I'm doing my thing. Other
players don't do that. I want to do good interviews
with you, right, But yeah, I mean always forgiven. He's phenomenal, Right,
I just wish he could have talked more his final
two years of BAYU.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm bringing that up. He's very gregarious.
I've talked to him since.
Speaker 4: He's a very fun person to talk to. And as
far as perspective and know how, I couldn't think of
any safety that could dispel more knowledge than Danny Swarnson.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Who give me a name? I don't know of anybody. Yeah,
get me that guy on stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great news, great news for Bway.
Speaker 2: Let's take a time out.
Speaker 3: We'll be back.
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