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getting into the heart of January. And I'm loving what
I'm seeing from Hoops and I'm loving what I'm seeing
from BYU Football. Is we solidify our roster, solidify our staff,
and move.
Speaker 3: Forward into the transfer portal.
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of the star set of Gas joining us for this
January eighth edition of Cougar Sports First and foremost behind
the glass in Salt Lake City, Let's welcome in Ronald
good three man.
Speaker 3: We ever to the show.
Speaker 5: What's up, Roddy, What's up everybody? How we doing?
Speaker 6: Bet ben As almost said something else? Goodness gracious forgive
me forgetting my words and everything mixed up.
Speaker 5: I'll just say this.
Speaker 6: Been BTA felt to Booty and the best player on
BYU's team, say, you know what.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna chill. I'm gonna score my average.
Speaker 6: I know I needed twenty six to be the nation's
leading score, but I'm gonna let the other guys who
already played the big twelve cook and go for.
Speaker 5: A career highs. That's how great I am. I'm gonna
throw up my hands on the stretch.
Speaker 6: Why let him throw around the back passes, hit threes
in transition? The coaching staff going crazy. Yeah, man, this
BAU basketball team is something else. I think we can
start to say it. If they beat Texas Tech this
weekend and Houston coming up, you might see that Elite eight, Ben,
you might see it.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping for a final four, get the monkey off
the back, and I think this is the year. This
is the time display as long as we stay healthy,
we stay strong. We've had some attrition, yes, but this
team is bawling out and the Dot King was cooking
last night at the Marriage Center. List Welcome in Brett
always bringing the hammer hammertime show as well to the
crew here, what's up hammertime you bring up tots, I
want to talk about another heated pastry of the pop tarts.
I don't know if you saw John McBride posted on
Twitter yesterday. I think he was toasting a pop tart
in the trophy in the office. I would like to
suggest to BYU a new NIL donation initiative. Let me
just pay ten bucks to come in toast my pop
tart and take a picture with it, because I bet
you if they did that, there would be a line
around the sab a people wanting to toast their pop
tarts with this tape. Put out this question on Twitter,
how much would you pay in uh towards h you
know the NIL funds or maybe it's bou Athletic apartment
to have a video picture with the pop tarts bowl
and maybe you quote tweet the John McBride video or photo.
Hey cougarnation, how much would you pay to come in
and toast your pop tarts on this bad boy? See
where they're at. Let's also welcome in Andrew Peterson to
the show. Was un ap back from vacation.
Speaker 7: Welcome back bydation. It feels good. The Bahamas were nice,
nice and warm.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was beautiful weather.
Speaker 4: You come back and it's finally snowing, and Utah haven't
showed the whole time.
Speaker 7: Every time we got off the boat is clear, sky's
perfect weather, eighty degrees.
Speaker 3: It was wonderful. So I'm back re energized.
Speaker 7: I did not have service for all ten days that
I was gone, so I came back show everything. You
chose not to have service, Well, I could not afford
to have service.
Speaker 8: It's like thirty bucks per for Wi Fi per day?
Speaker 3: Is that her day?
Speaker 7: There is no shot I could pay that. I'm a
college student with a wife. Yeah, that's not happening, not
gonna happen.
Speaker 8: But I will say I do have some advice.
Speaker 7: Something I learned about technology on the cruise is that
you should never take your iPhone snorkeling because it does.
Speaker 8: Not survive salt water.
Speaker 7: Oh really, I do have a new phone because I
forgot to take my iPhone out of my pocket and
it died.
Speaker 3: That's insane. But the last thing I ever watched my phone.
Speaker 4: You can't buy those little like encasements right where you
can still use them.
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 7: But the last thing that I ever watched on my
phone was Evan Johnson intercepting Haynes.
Speaker 3: K, let's go there.
Speaker 5: We go literally thirty.
Speaker 7: Seconds before I stepped on the plane. That's the last
thing I ever watched on that phone. And I think
that's a fitting way to go out.
Speaker 4: That's a fitting way for your your iPhone to die.
Speaker 5: And one in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: Got a new phone. How much was the new phone?
Did you get like a new contractor.
Speaker 7: I got a deal where I actually got it for free.
So okay, it all worked out, It all worked out.
It was meant to be for the new year, all right.
Speaker 6: We got a fantastic The only thing I'm mad being
at ap about is I didn't get any pictures.
Speaker 5: That's the only thing. Because of the salt water.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we did lose half the pictures. My wife still
has some on hers. She was actually more mad about
it than I was, because when it happened, I was like,
well that kind of stinks.
Speaker 3: But she was like, what about the pictures.
Speaker 8: And the videos? And she still got some, but she
doesn't have all.
Speaker 3: Of them, not all of them, unfortunately. Guys.
Speaker 4: Uh, we're gonna delve into all the knicks and crannies,
all the news and notes. We're gonna go into the
BYU basketball dub over ASU in the first segment, stay
tuned okaw anywhere.
Speaker 3: We'll welcome in Darnelle Dixon.
Speaker 4: At three ozh five for a little Cougar beet, delving
into all the nicks and granny's of Cougarnation per the
purview of Darnelle Dicks in the Daily Heraldium bj Rains
of Bronco Nation News joining us at three thirty to discuss.
Speaker 3: To Mario Warren.
Speaker 4: Blay has acquired a couple of Boise State coaches over
the last three or four years, one being Kelly Papinga.
Now to Mario Warren coming into the BYU Cougarnation fold.
We'll get his thoughts, his commentary, his reaction to the news.
At four or five Little college football and Cougar Sports.
Ari Tempkin, He's the co host of Big twelve Radio
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Speaker 3: That out at four oh five.
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in Handy, a little sports cord, getting into and delving
into all of the legal drama as it pertains the sports.
We're gonna have to talk to Mon Williams of the
University of Washington, definitely delving deep in five the five
oh five segment. There's a lawsuit nil contracts.
Speaker 3: Are they revocable? Are they?
Speaker 4: Are you capable of just saying here's my contract, I
signed it, and then the next day rescinding that and
leaving and going into the portal and sign it with
a new squad and new team. If you don't know,
Demon Williams, the starting quarterback for the University of Washington
side a robust NIO contract with the University of Washington,
their collective et cetera. And then the following day entered
the portal and things are getting a bit dicey. His
representation parted ways with him, his agent parted ways with him,
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got a convincing beautiful Brigham Young win in the Marriage Center.
Last night, it was glorious Richie Sonders, Aja to Bonsa
and Rob Wright combined to score eighty one points as
the number nine BYU Cougars dominated the Arizona State sun
Devils one a four to seventy six at the Marriott Center.
Saunders and Wright finished with career highs, while Debonsa scored
twenty plus for the eighth straight game as the Cougar
shot fifty seven point four percent from the field, forty
five point two percent from the three point line, and
eighty percent.
Speaker 3: From the charity stripe.
Speaker 4: The six foot five senior scored a career high thirty
one points, going ten to thirteen from the field and
six of eight from the three point line and five
of five from the charity stripe. In his last three
meetings against Arizona State, Saunders is shooting sixty percent from
beyond the arc eighteen of thirty.
Speaker 3: Crazy man, that is nuts.
Speaker 7: So can we start calling Richie Saunders the Exorcist because
he casts out the sun Devils like nobody else.
Speaker 3: I like that. I'm down with it. I'm bought in.
Speaker 4: The Exorcist, Baby, I don't know if he's gonna I
think the Todd kicks like like, I don't think so.
I think culturally, I don't think we're gonna buy into
it because, like you know, an exorcism of.
Speaker 3: The sun devils for the game.
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't know how much traction it'll gain throughout
the season, but yes, for a su and his uh
competitive and uh uh spiritual advantage over the devils, Yes,
he is an exorcist. Shout out to the top King
Richie Saunders. Anyway, he also had a team high eight rebounds.
With Keth Kidda not playing due to his sickness, Richie said,
I'll go grab them bounds, three assists and two steals
to boot. We'll get into some sound from Ky and
others here momentarily. But Rob Right the third, also finished
with a career high as a sophomore, finished with twenty
seven points to go along with four rebounds and three assists.
Speaker 3: He went nine to fifteen from the.
Speaker 4: Field, three of six from three, and six of six
from the charity stripe for the eighth ra game. Remember,
Aj has scored twenty points, He's essentially tied. He's second
in the NCAA in points per game at like twenty
one point three. Pretty nice work from AJ, as others
had career highs. Right tied for the eighth longest streak
in program history. De Bons has scored posted twenty three points,
seven rebounds, five assists, two steals, and one block. Shout
out to AJ de Bonce on Wednesday, mark the second
time this season the Trio has scored twenty points in
the same game, while their eighty one combined points are
tied for seventh most in a single game in program history.
Boom Shaka lockup. Also of note, it wasn't a sickness.
It was a little ankle role per Kevin Young. Kevin Young.
So we have obviously, you know, Doss Baker and a
Pickens out for the season, Brodie Coslawskalt for the season,
and Cannar Davis.
Speaker 3: That was a sickness though, right was it? Canard Davis?
Did he? Did he clarify on Cannard Davis?
Speaker 6: I don't think Cliff in the post game, but Canard
did play. He was a game time decision?
Speaker 5: Did it unplaying?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So, but I didn't know if it was you know,
more of like a soft isssue or as a sickness.
Speaker 6: I don't think they think it probably is more of
a sickness because he did play.
Speaker 4: So yeah, okay, let's get into the sound Kevin Young
post game after this era dominant Arizona State victory thirty
one for Richie. He shot at an incredibly high percentage.
What do you think or what did you think of
his performance?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 11: I thought he was, you know, super locked in, and
that's what we talked about coming into the game, our
approach and practice two days ago. I didn't love and
I just challenged the group to kind of start the
game and leave no doubt who was the more focused team.
I thought he kind of set the stage there. But
I thought, you know, his scoring was I thought, really
the product of like our spacing and our unselfishness, and
then obviously his individual greatness.
Speaker 1: It was a great night for him. I think it's
that career high Ritchie thirty.
Speaker 4: One, awesome boomshoting like a career high for the Todd King.
Doesn't get any better than that, at least in the
regular season. Right, you're talking regular season highs, career highs
in the regular season. Obviously, we want equivalency in the
NCAA Tournament. March Madness is not too far away, Ladies
and gentlemen, are we trending in the direction that you feel?
You feel like in February? This team's built to make
a Final four run ap Yes.
Speaker 7: Because the the problem early on in the season, to me,
there's two It was the slow starts, and it was
the three point shooting. B Yu has not shot below
thirty seven and a half percent from three point since
they played against Clemson, so they've been on a hot
streak from behind the line. They seem to have solved
that problem. They're coming together and they haven't started as
slow as.
Speaker 3: They did early on in the season.
Speaker 7: It feels like everything is coming together a lot sooner.
And the only thing that I'm gonna say that I
have pause on is that we're only halfway through the
season and you've already got injuries that are mounting up.
Speaker 3: You don't want any more there.
Speaker 7: That's to me, what could stop this team from making
a deep run.
Speaker 4: I feel good. Obviously they're on a tear right now.
Wins against Wisconsin, Miami, Dayton, cal Baptiste, Clemson, you see Riverside, Pacific, Ablin,
Christian Eastern Washington, Kansas State, and Arizona State, and one
of those was on.
Speaker 3: The road in Big Twelve play.
Speaker 4: Now you got your home opener in Big twelve play
under your belt, and things are looking therein not eyes.
How much luxury is it when those three can literally
outscore an opponent in collective in collective unison.
Speaker 11: Look, I mean, and this is what I told the group,
and when we're really trying to just continue to I
think we formed an identity of how we want to play. Now.
I think the next step for this group is just
forming it like having the right approach and mentality that
gives you the edge to go out and.
Speaker 1: Be a team that leaves no doubt. Right, that's what
I want.
Speaker 11: Like we watched that game, there was no doubt how
focused our guys were. And when those three guys in
particular have that with their talent and the unselfishness that
they play the game with, sky's the limit not only
for that trio, but for our team as well.
Speaker 4: That trio is. Is this trio the best trio in
college basketball?
Speaker 3: Right now? Is it the best? Ronald chime in on.
Speaker 5: These, Yes they are.
Speaker 6: They lead the nation in scoring off the best trio
in basketball. All the numbers back that up, the record
backs it up. There only loss is to Yukon. So
you have to wonder if the third person, the third
option who, Now they've corrected who, Let's just say it
been And some people don't think this is judgmental. Roberd
should not have had the ball in his hands in
the Yukon game. Let's just say he should not have.
It should have been aj making the decision, and maybe
by wins on the buzzer beater, or maybe they take
that game over time. Maybe they still lose. You know,
they should have could have world, but that's your only loss.
It to the time who was a top five team.
So to me, I think this not only is the
best trio in college basketball, it's the best trio in
BYU history from what we've seen. If they're gonna make
a deep run in this tournament, and granted I think
it's the it will be the best trio been if
they win the Big Twelve tournament alone, But depending on
how deep of a run they go. You're talking about
not just in BYU history, in college basketball history. So
they have a chance to do something really special this
year under Kevin Young.
Speaker 5: So again I say, enjoy it.
Speaker 6: Because look, you might get other future talents like number
one overall picks, but nothing like aj De Bonds. I
think it's gonna come into me for a very long time.
This kid is extremely gifted. And remember he reclassified. He
should have been in an exerous class, but he reclassified early.
He's a youngin and he got the best sophomore port
a point guard and Robert Wright, one of the best
shooters in the country and the Richie tracker of three pointers.
Richie's gonna hit one hundred threes. I'm gonna be declared
of about that. It's coming is just not a matter
of if, but when. And with that recipe and with
the way they played last night, and now the defensive
side of the ball, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 5: To lock people up at the perimeter. They do that.
Speaker 6: They got a good shot Ben and going going out
and winning this whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think it's up for debates. This is
the best trio in BAU basketball history.
Speaker 4: It very well could end up being that, depending on
how far they go in the NCAA tournament. There may
be some out there that want to go into the past,
the Jimmer for Debt era possibly go back into the
fantastic runs in the Mountain West Conference era, the Coach
Cleveland era in the early two thousands with many NBA players,
Remember you had you had Travis Hanson half together, those
guys both were n b A draft picks. Half A
first round, Travis second round. You could throw big a
low in there with them.
Speaker 7: You know you have some guys, But do you ever
have a team that had three guys that could go
in the first round in the same year.
Speaker 3: I don't know if if Richie is Richie going to
the first round? I don't know if he could be.
Speaker 5: He could be second round guy now.
Speaker 4: First it'd be a late first round or if he did,
I don't know. If he's probably in the first round.
I think he's getting drafted. I don't know second round,
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I think first round.
Speaker 7: But have you guys I agree? Have you ever had
three guys that could be drafted in the NBA?
Speaker 3: Though? And that's the because because the Jimmer for.
Speaker 7: That team had at Jimmerfreet, Brandon Davies, Jackson Emery was
pretty good.
Speaker 4: Well, you had you had Kyle Collins without that team,
and you had Tyler Haws on that team too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they were they weren't NBA draft picks.
Speaker 4: Tyler Haws was a undrafted free agent, I believe, right, Yeah,
both of them. Well, I mean, look and they were
in their prime. Kyle Calls were stop playing time in
the year.
Speaker 3: They weren't developed. Kyle Calls.
Speaker 4: There's a triple double king. And the granted he was
in his youth right, it was in his younger days.
But you know, like I said, like you got to
go back, like I said, Travis Hanson and Hafa, Travis Hansen,
HAF like you have a first round pick and a
second round pick and an international superstar and Travis Hansen
at that time, who was there their third player.
Speaker 3: That's where maybe where there's a.
Speaker 4: Little bit of weakness, someone will say, But uh, you're
also going to bring up like you know, certain eras
that Danny Ainge era, Greg Kite, these guys were all
NBA players in all were in the league. Fred Roberts,
all those guys were in the league for like fifteen years.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well you know what I mean. And here's the
other thing.
Speaker 3: And that's they went to the Elite eight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but here's the other thing. The Mountain West and
the whack. Are great conferences and all, but the competition
level is not even close true to what uy is
going to go through this season. If this, if the
big three that BAU has this season keeps us up
against the competition that's coming up, there's no doubt that
they're the best in BAU history.
Speaker 8: I don't think it's a question. I think we got
to continue to discuss it.
Speaker 3: This is a great debate.
Speaker 4: Let's get back to k whystound postgame versus Asu?
Speaker 3: You had ten blocks without Kaba Cata in the on
the roster.
Speaker 4: How ridiculous is that without being in the lineup? How
happy were you with? How how difficult you guys made
it for Asu at the rim?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, look that's what Beato does. You know,
he's a you know, now all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of depth at the five spot.
Speaker 11: I think that reird had said tonight, I mean he
had five blocks in seventeen minutes. You know, he started
cramping up. That's where we took him out. But you know,
Mihailo has been playing better for us. You know, he's
got great length. Aj obviously is all world athlete who
also had you know, seven to one wingspan, So I
think that's but bottom line is having hopefully forty minutes
of Kaba and Bido as our back line defense is
you know, very comforting for sure.
Speaker 4: Abdullah Akamedbido a blessing for Brigham right now, Ronald, do
you think that was the missing piece we really didn't have?
I mean, some people will say Mihailo was your backup
five behind Keba. They're different players. He's more of a
stretch five with some rim protection there. He can rim run,
no doubt. Not a pick and roll guy, more of
a pick and pop guy.
Speaker 3: When he is on.
Speaker 4: Abdullah brings you know, great length, great athleticism, great rebounding,
and great shop locking ability. He's pretty well well rounded.
I've really enjoyed watching him play. Ronald, what do you
make of it? The missing piece, the void piece that
maybe get you over the hump into a final four run.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Look, the reason why I said missing piece is we
had saw Exavion Staton not maybe coming to make the
impact right away that maybe we were looking for. We
did believe that he might have been a little bit
you know, or all coming in and I take some
development and remember I want to give some some you know,
some some praise here. Jordan Brady's done a phenomenal job
with the player development. Look at Haadim in his second
year of what he's been able to do. So maybe
X just needs that full offseason been to be with
the team and senior year or so. I believe next
year he'll be at a step up. But right now
you don't have that backup rim protector that you need,
and you're asking the young buck to make a bing
kickback and that might be tough, but you go get
a guy that is not a young buck that has
G League experience. And remember I said it, you know,
on the pregame show, I should it be why you're
not breaking any rules? I explained that if you want
to know, go download them on the podcast. They'll tell
you about the G League rules, so that within the rules,
it's not like they're taking dudes that have been drafted.
Speaker 5: Hashtag Baylor.
Speaker 6: Don't know why I said that, but anyway, the point is,
I don't know why I said that, so sorry.
Speaker 5: Anyway, The point is been, this is the missing.
Speaker 6: Piece because if Caba got into foul trouble, I was
worried of who could come and protect the rim and
they can throw different options, but you need a true center.
Speaker 5: CABA's a true five, Beto is a true five.
Speaker 6: If they get in foul trouble, you want to switch
up lineups, you can do that, but hadim true positions
at the four. Mihilo's a stretch five if you go
small ball, but he's really now at the four, you
can do that. I like what they have, but mihilo
skill set is not defending the paint. Kaba and Beatle
give you the paint, so that backup that duo. Now
you won't miss a beat and you saw it last
night with Kava out, so that gives you probably extreme
confidence as a fan and definitely his coaching staff of
going forward of look, this is what you're gonna need.
Speaker 5: I'm serious.
Speaker 6: In the Houston game, been a Texas Tech game, you
might see nine to ten eleven dudes play because it's
gonna be a defensive matchup. I think I think you're
gonna have to throw everything at the best players, throw everybody,
So that pickup, I feel like, is the missing piece.
Speaker 5: You were riding your.
Speaker 6: Take two weeks ago when you said he was that seven,
that six or seventh guy? Who do you trust? You
can trust Abdullah Beatle. I like what I've seen thus far.
Speaker 4: Getting back to the sound K why talking Cada. What's
the status of Kevin Cata right now?
Speaker 3: What do you got for is k Why?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I don't know as far as uh when he'll be
right back. But it was a small tweak of a
little ankle. He's I mean, he probably could have played
the night, honestly, but we held him out.
Speaker 3: Okay, so small tweak of an ankle.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like Kevin says more than I wonder
if some people want him to like and I and
I just look at it from like a pr perspective,
because like you don't hear a lot of coaches where
they're like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, this is exactly what the injury is. He
probably could have played, like you just don't hear that.
Speaker 4: But I think for Kevin, like he only thinks in
terms of basketball. He doesn't care like what the narrative
is or what the problem like, He's just like, this
is what it is. But sometimes a lot of times
you'll hear him say like if he doesn't know. Usually
he'll say, I'm just doing what the doctors tell me
to do. But I thought it was really insightful that
he's like, look, come on, man, He's like, he probably
could have played, but it was a small ankle injury.
Speaker 3: It's not a big deal. I love I love Kevin
Young's authenticity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's an NBA guy, So he's willing
to talk about injuries, right because I mean, I mean
he's an NBA guy, right Like college is a little
bit more like, hey, we don't want the injury report
out there, but now it's changing too.
Speaker 3: Aren't injuries changing?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Because you didn't.
Speaker 4: I mean, before the Big twelve injury reports, you didn't
have to say anything you didn't want.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if it's shout out to break
your mark. I don't know if I like it. But
somebody's getting money from the gambling guild.
Speaker 3: I know it's not coming to this show, but I
hope somebody's benefiting from it.
Speaker 4: And that's that makes the questions like injuries and injury reports.
Are they monetizable? Yes, from a Vegas betting standpoint, But
why is it that certain institutions, Uh, maybe sports information
departments don't want that out And I'm talking you know,
Kyle witting At very sensitive about even you know, we
have the We have the most recent example where Ky
goes onto a podcast and says, there's a third season
any injury. We start talking about it, and it's like,
well should we talk about it?
Speaker 3: Are we not allowed to talk about it? He put
it out there, He put it out.
Speaker 4: Is it improper for media to like, what's the natural
sequence of things?
Speaker 3: What is human nature? And what is what?
Speaker 4: What is the the the next step when the coach
says on on a podcast there's a third season any injury.
Speaker 8: If the coach goes on record, I think it's freeing.
Speaker 3: No, this is what you do. I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 4: This is what you do because we I've seen it
from working media in the past before. Unless that podcast
is live, which most times they're not. This show is live.
But you go to that podcast and you say, hey,
we're gonna need you to clip that out. And I'm
telling you, as someone who has worked in media, I've
seen that. But if you don't want it out there,
got go and say hey, can you clip that out? Yep,
and you and then that gets clipped out before it
gets posted.
Speaker 5: I get mad about that. That's what you have to
do with yah when you let them.
Speaker 3: Post that then is it okay?
Speaker 4: Is it okay then to theorize who the third season
injury season?
Speaker 5: Yes, you're you're allowed to be freely and do that.
Speaker 6: Because like, well, don't don't get mad to know that.
Speaker 4: We're not supposed to Like, how are we supposed to
know that? Kevin wasn't supposed to say, you go.
Speaker 5: Get mad at me for theorizing because he said the clip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm saying, like, can I go through the Ross Bank? Well?
Is it Kava? Is it my hi? Low? Who can't
we lose? Is that okay? Or is that like no,
I can't do that. You can't do that. Don't you
theorize about who could be injured? How dare you?
Speaker 4: I do think there's a little bit of ethics to it,
but like to your point, like we don't know that
Kevin wasn't supposed to say that. We were not there
for the interview, so there's no way of us knowing.
Oh shoot, like as far as we're aware, pr is
good without being out there, because if they were good
he with him of being out there, they would have
clipped that out before the podcast got posted. Is it
professionally like non ethical to theorize about injuries when when
that has been stated publicly.
Speaker 3: Is it? Is it an immoral issue? You know for
media to say you.
Speaker 6: Spend a segment on it, bend and after that we
move on. So we talk about it when it comes up.
We spend the twenty to thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: We were gonna want to know about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I get pinged about it, like when
it happened. I'll just be honest and I don't care. Look,
this is gonna sound really harsh. I don't care what
Pierre has to say about that. I got asked a question.
I have to do my job. They have to do theirs. Again,
it goes back to Brett's point again. If you don't
want something, then plan it. We plan this show, right,
there are things that we plan.
Speaker 5: You have to plan.
Speaker 6: And if the coach goes on record and says that,
then you need to go back, like Brett says, and
tell those hey.
Speaker 5: Could you one clip that, or could you do this?
Speaker 6: Or as I always say, if you just be prepared
and when someone brings something to the table and they
ask you something about it, you won't have to then worry.
You'll be like oh yeah, and you just look, it's
that's just a part of the business.
Speaker 5: You got to deal with it. Stuff comes up.
Speaker 6: Sometimes coaches say stuff that they shouldn't. They make mistakes,
not saying Kevin made a mistake. Kevin seems like he's
pretty open about talking. Because this is what I believe.
I've seen this from two coaches. I've seen it from
Kevin Young and I've seen it from Jen Rockwood, And
this is the Vibey game. They know that they still
have to win a game, regardless of who's on that roster,
and that they're getting paid to win games.
Speaker 5: They don't care about the injuries. That mean they do,
but they don't.
Speaker 6: They don't got time to be warrying about Okay, this
dude's is out for the season or this game he
is paid to win. Okay, cap is out, he still
got to be ASU been like, no one cares like that.
That's what That's not what the people paying the salaries
care about. Like, if I'm paying yourself, I don't care
who's out. You gotta win that gamest. And I think
that's the mindset I think more coaches need to go
about because if you're going with the mindset of competitive advantage,
don't tell. Then it tells me you don't you're not
confident in your coaching staff ability and your roster to
do that. Because me as a coach, I don't care
if AP's out for a game. I want a p there.
But I got you and I got bread and we
can take down whoever it is. That's my mindset as
a competitor.
Speaker 3: Let's get back to the sound here.
Speaker 4: When aj Rob and Ritchie are cooking like that, as
a coach, do you talk about not getting in their way?
Speaker 11: One hundred percent? Yeah, I learned that in the NBA
guys are good. Just get space and get them the
ball and shut up, move and sit down and so.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, let me say that tongue
in cheek. I mean what I challenge those guys with though,
is like we're going to give.
Speaker 11: Them spacing, but then it's it's a lot of responsibility
though then they have to make the right decision. And
that's really all I talk to not just them about,
but really our team. And we play a pretty free
flowing style, I think, and there's certain responsibilities that come
with that. And you know, those are three really mature
guys that understand the game and uh, you know, allows
them to be.
Speaker 4: Great, allows them to be great. Ladies and gentlemen, just
stay out of their way.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't want to impede You don't want
to get into you don't want to mess up the mojo,
don't want to impede them from You don't want to
be a Bottlenecker.
Speaker 3: No certain, no way, no how Uh.
Speaker 4: It is fun to watch these three right there's no
doubt it's it's there's a reason why the.
Speaker 3: Ticket sales are as high as.
Speaker 4: They are right now, and you look at any of
these stub Hub opportunities. It's expensive to go and attend
a bau basketball game right now. The Utah games insane,
by the way, that might be for other reasons that
people are theorizing about, Oh what's that.
Speaker 7: What's the theory that there might be a university that's
taking away tickets they've sold.
Speaker 3: They would never do something like what do you mean?
They never high and they.
Speaker 7: Don't you ever say that ap They they might even
have fans that like to go to that arena every
once in a while, probably for a different sport, not
for basketball.
Speaker 3: But that's another conversation. You wonder this is just a question.
Speaker 4: Is it the product that's been so bad that that
no one wants.
Speaker 3: To show up.
Speaker 4: Is it like a cultural thing that they just don't
like hoop up in Salt Lake? Or is it like
the location that's the biggest issue. It's just it's just
too far away from parking. Have you have you got
up there before? Yeah, it is a bit of a jaunt.
Speaker 3: But they used to.
Speaker 8: They used to sell out that arena during the a
Jerious era.
Speaker 3: They used to.
Speaker 7: I mean, the Jazz gets plenty of fans of the
Jazz are terrible. I don't know what's going on. Maybe
it's the the end game experience, the product.
Speaker 4: Maybe they feel like because there's already a team up there,
like because they're the Utah Jazz are already up there,
They're like, that's where I get my basketball fixed from.
And Utah is more likely to suck and not be
a professional team, whereas like I think Provo is far
enough away that it's secluded and differentiated from that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel young.
Speaker 7: Well, twenty twenty three, Utah's team, they weren't great. I
think they were in the n I T. They had
a really good point guard. They played really well at home.
It was on the rod that they lost all their games. Fans,
if they like basketball, could have had good experiences going
to those games. I just don't understand. Maybe it's a
marketing issue. I don't I don't know what's going on
with no fans going. Because now you've got the coach
who's literally it's he, it's there. It's their dream coach
who was their favorite player of all time probably I
don't know, one of one of the one of the
all time fan favor rich as your head coach.
Speaker 3: It's their home run higher. Yeah. Yeah, and they're still
not showing up. They're still not there. Yeah, let's get
back to this sound.
Speaker 4: We'll try to finish this up and then move on
to the next segment with a little question poll today,
et cetera. But the fourth time the season this group
has shot forty five percent or higher from three point line.
What does it do for this team when they're knocking
them down from the three point line?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I mean, and tonight I thought we had appropriate volume
as well to get up thirty one threes and shoot
twenty five free throws.
Speaker 1: I means you're not settling. You know. They started out
with the big lineup. I thought we were able.
Speaker 11: To sort of open the game up with their bigger
lineup out there.
Speaker 1: But look, I mean AJ and Rob both and Ritchie too.
Speaker 11: Honestly, I know he's a great shooter, but you know
he's able to drive the ball to the basket too.
Speaker 1: So you got three guys like that.
Speaker 11: That are putting immense pressure on the rim. You know,
you got to decide what you want to do and
if you help, you know, we got guys that can
knock shots down.
Speaker 1: Thought. Tyler came in and was part of that as well.
Speaker 11: So so I do think although I talked about the
identity sort of being forged, I think that part of
our identity is still a growth process in terms of,
you know, last year, that's kind of all we were.
Speaker 1: You know, now it's starting to become more of who
this team is as well.
Speaker 4: Love the identity. Three YU Baby. Buy the T shirt
today at Royal Army dot com. Three Y You We're
back Baby. We're a three point shooting team. We weren't
there at.
Speaker 7: The beginning of the season shooting twenty percent. We were
not three YU Baby. We're in church ball at the
beginning of the season.
Speaker 3: I will say it good. It's mostly just three guys
who were shooting those. It's not really a whole lot
of anybody else. However, the point still remains the same. Yes,
yes it does.
Speaker 4: What did you make of the play in which Rob
was tracking the ball down to a behind the back
pass from what was it from aj to make them
behind the back pass to Richie for a three point shot?
This is like the best play in Marriott Center history,
per s.
Speaker 11: I thought it was all just mainly because of the
joy that it brought to the team. Like, I love
I show clips all the time with just joy. I
love as if we're lucky because we get to play
an awesome sport for you know, our living or whatever
you want to call it. And uh, there's a lot
of joy that comes with the game.
Speaker 1: So it's fun.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 11: It makes you feel like a little kid and everyone
out there, the fans are enjoying it.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, man.
Speaker 4: Like, as far as the plays that you've been able
to witness at the Marriage Center, even in Bay basketball history,
where does that one gonna rank out?
Speaker 3: Is that one a really high one? To be a day?
It was fun?
Speaker 4: But isn't that is that one of the best plays like,
give me the only child's dunk over Utah. Give me
the half court buzzer beater from from Jim or fer
Dad at the Huntsman Center.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Give me.
Speaker 8: But those didn't happen in the Marriat true.
Speaker 3: True those sites. Uh so the dunk AJ had a
few weeks ago. Yeah, it was at the Marriott Center.
Speaker 8: He did a windmill dunk last night.
Speaker 3: Can we can we.
Speaker 4: Talk about how the fact that it's not that he
did a wind mill in the fast break, he did
that in a half court set, and they were talking
about that on the broadcast.
Speaker 3: I don't know the last time I saw a guy
do a.
Speaker 4: Windmill in the half court that was not on a
fast break.
Speaker 3: That is absurd.
Speaker 4: I mean a the fact that Arizona State lets you
do that, be the fact that you did it with
four minutes ago and you were up by thirty, and
see the fact that the Wayne was even that open
at all unreal.
Speaker 3: I liked the TJ.
Speaker 4: Hawes buzzer beater at the Marriage Santa versus Saint Mary's.
Speaker 3: That was a great one. I went to that game.
That was That was what.
Speaker 7: That was one of those games in high school I
was saving up money to go to and convince my
mom to let me to go that that was an
all time great game.
Speaker 8: Was a great game because he also had a child
later that night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, he did, he had his first born.
Speaker 7: I think I think they asked them in the postgame
what he was thinking about. It was like, oh, I
was thinking about my Wow, that's gonna be born later.
Speaker 4: To I awesome, awesome, Oh man, we've got those awesome
Where do you feel like the team succeeded defensively last
this last night?
Speaker 3: K Why?
Speaker 11: Well, I thought just our attitude to come out I
thought was really good. I mean we put a lot
of time and effort into.
Speaker 1: To mo Odum. I think he's a really dynamic guard.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 11: I think it also speaks to how good and move
and AJ can be on the ball with.
Speaker 1: I mean they're different, right moves like this Burley strong guy.
It's hard to get past.
Speaker 11: Where AJ's got the length, so I think it gets
a nice little one to two punch to it. We
brought Dominique in as well to give him another look.
But I mean to hold him seven points under his average,
I thought was clutch. But you know, I'm not trying
to be the whiny coach, but I think they scored
literally ten straight times in the second half when the
game was already away, So you know, the stats are
are what they are.
Speaker 1: I wasn't happy with that, but for the bulk.
Speaker 11: Of the game, with our main guys out there, I
thought we were suffocating defensively.
Speaker 4: Couple last things here, how do you feel about the
progress of your team's defense, I.
Speaker 11: Mean the whole I mean, look, that's a really good
offensive team. You know, they there's a lot of you know,
we do obviously a lot of scouting, but also a
lot of statistical research with our analytics department, and look there,
you know, they show up in a lot of top categories.
You know, they get to the line a ton. You know,
they're they're they're dynamic. Like I said, I think I
think Odem's a good players. To hold that team to
thirty points in the first half, I thought, really, ik
scept the stage for for how the game was going
to kind of play out.
Speaker 4: And finally, you said the other day you hadn't looked
at Utah. Uh what are your opening thoughts of going
up up there and going against this Utah team?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Still you know, still tick that we lost that. I
know Trevin Nel is somewhere mad that he missed those
free throws. Uh, and just want to go up there
and get a win bottom line.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like, I, uh, it's interesting for me.
Speaker 11: I like obviously grew up in the church, but I
never really grew up just like a super huge b
y U fan.
Speaker 1: I mean I always.
Speaker 11: Respected the program and what it stood for and things
like that, but so I didn't grow up with the hate,
right and now that I've been here and you kind
of experience.
Speaker 1: It, like you just want to go up there and
beat those.
Speaker 11: Guys, you know, and so uh, you know a little
personal flavor too, knowing Alex and West their their GM.
It'll be you know, I've known those guys for a
long time, so it'll be fun to compete against those guys.
You tack on the rivalry component, you know, it'll mean
a lot for guys like Ritchie, you know, for his
last time, to be able to try to get a
win in their building.
Speaker 1: Be fun.
Speaker 4: B YU basketball. You know, I didn't have many losses
last season. One of them came at the hands of
the Utes at the Huntsman Center. But that one hurt.
And how about k Y calling out Trevin and the
just getting catching strays.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, man, poor Trev.
Speaker 6: Hey, look, coaches never forget, but let's keep it a buck.
The last two seasons have struggled in that that Utah game.
Speaker 5: Let's keep you.
Speaker 6: I love Kevin and not Kevin Trevin, but look, he
hasn't played well the last tew times when he was
at the Huntsman.
Speaker 5: A couple of free throws have been bricked.
Speaker 4: All right, poor Trev getting getting catching strays on his head, coach.
Speaker 8: I have a bold prediction, all right about this Utah team.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go.
Speaker 7: They will win less than four conference games. Oh wow,
they're They're not a good team. They're really struggling this year.
Speaker 4: No hope other than so, no, no more than four games,
No more than four games. Last year overall they were
sixteen and seventeen. How many wins in Big twelve play
did they get?
Speaker 3: Do you know? Was it six? Or?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 6: Did not mean to say that. I apologize that was
an action. I really apologize, so sorry. But I'm yeah, yeah,
I know, yeah, one of the I guess.
Speaker 4: I believe they had three four I'm count of five.
Speaker 3: They had seven eight.
Speaker 8: That eight a out of twenty at eight, twelve, eight
and twelve.
Speaker 3: Man eight wins.
Speaker 6: So no more, are you firing Alex Jensen if he
doesn't get eight in his first year. No, I'm kidding.
Look that's a joke. I just feel I look, look, look,
look I'm joking. I just want you guys know seriously,
people listen to joke. I just feel like Kraick Smith
called astray. That's all so Craig Smith. I think he's
a better coach than people give him credit for.
Speaker 3: Oh, no doubt, man, no doubt.
Speaker 4: The pressure of what was going on in Provo got
to the Ye, got to the decision makers.
Speaker 3: We did left department. We gotta go get Alex. Anything
it takes. Ye throw the filthy lucer and Alex bring
him in.
Speaker 4: We need our heroic higher, we need our game changing,
program changing higher.
Speaker 3: Let's go get Alex. Let's go to break. Guys.
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so uh uh, Soda Pop the K Pop demon Hunters.
Kelly Papinga is your DC, he's your defensive coordinator. I
asked Cougarnation like whether or not they wanted an internal
or external hire, and it was about seventy internal thirty
percent external, so I think. And this is after Gennaro left,
so they had kind of knew a little bit. If
you stayed privy to the game, you knew that it
was most likely either K Pop or it could be
justin Enna if you liked the internal opportunities. Kelly Papinga
gets it, and I think this is a fantastic higher.
Speaker 3: I think he's earned it, I really do.
Speaker 4: I think he's earned this opportunity to be the guy,
to be the DC to lead these young men. I
think a really good sign of this being the right
decision is the fact that you've retained pretty much everybody
on the defensive side of the ball up to this point.
Speaker 3: To be determined.
Speaker 4: Evan Johnson, I don't know if he's locked in or
running it back.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's made the post yet. I
don't know about that. But like everybody else, we.
Speaker 4: Saw body schoon over, we've seen Tommy prasss today it
seems like everybody else is getting their contract signed and
buying in and they knew this was probably coming down
the pipeline even before Kelly was announced, because I bet
you Kelly was reaching out to all these players, reaching
out to him and saying, Hey, this is what's going on,
this is what we how we see you, this is
how we're gonna utilize you, this is who we're retaining,
this is who we could be targeting.
Speaker 3: As far as position coaches are concerned. All of that.
Speaker 4: They knew it, and they moved forward with k pop
your guys' reaction, APU, you haven't been able to chime
in on this.
Speaker 3: Were you a part of the internal external crew?
Speaker 7: Not only was I a part of the internal, but
I wanted Kelly papinga yeah, because I feel like, well,
Number one, he was a key part of that defensive
staff that Jay Hill had and so he knows how
to have a successful defensive scheme and plan. He's been
a coach for several years. It's BYU guy, all the
things you look for there. But he was the special
teams coordinator for one of the top special teams units
in twenty twenty four, and there was I'm not going
to lie. There was a lot of special team struggles
I feel like from this year, but I felt like
those were more execution based than schematic problems. To me,
I felt like the scheme was still sound. It's just
your kicker missed some kicks he should have made. Yeah,
and your punt returner could not catch the ball for a.
Speaker 3: Few games there, muffed it. Yeah, don't worry.
Speaker 7: Cody dropped one also, and Cody Cody dropped one. Also,
your your kick return. That's not on the scheme, that's
not on the coach. There's only really one time I
felt like you shouldn't have done. That was that fake
punt on Texas Tech where he didn't even run the
guy out past the first That was that was not
a great call. But that's the only that's the only
one I can think of. I thought he's done a
masterful job with the assignments he's given.
Speaker 3: I think he's earned it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The special teams units from twenty twenty three to twenty
twenty five have ranked eleventh per ESPN s P plus eleventh, fourth,
and then this year forty seven they dropped. There's a
drop out, But like through through I think seven games.
Right before the Texas Tech game they were ranked fourth
in the nation yep.
Speaker 3: And then the willstleg was like what happened?
Speaker 4: They got kind of got back to to homeo stasis,
but it wasn't as good as the prior two years.
Speaker 3: At any rate.
Speaker 4: I think you look at all those things and all
of the evidence, I think this is the right hig.
Speaker 3: I'm actually more concerned if you're gonna say, if you're
gonna ask me, hey.
Speaker 4: Well, what are you concerned about with the new hires.
I'm getting to know Tomorrow Warren. I was aware of
him at SUU. My brother was committed to SUU coming
out of high school, and then he ended up deciding
he wanted to go to the JUCO route and then
transferred into BYU. But Tomorrow was the head coach in
twenty sixteen when he came back from his mission.
Speaker 3: And his staff reached out.
Speaker 4: They loved him, they appreciate him Obvitually, he was a
defensive back coach as well as the DC and and
became the head coach at SUU. And he's only been
at two places over his seventeen eighteen year period. Eighteen
years of coaching SUU from two thousand and eight to
twenty twenty one, and then Boise stayed from twenty twenty
to The president. Dave Bartwo of CFB Matrix chimed in
on it and said, this is a great hire. He's
a rising star. I need to probably be convinced. I'm optimistic,
but we're gonna see how this plays out because he's
got big shoes to fill in Gennaro Guildford as the
passing game coordinator and cornerbacks coach. If there is any
question marks I have so far as you gotta sell
me on Tomrio that he's gonna be that dude, gonna
be that guy, and he can be just as good
as Gennaro or better. The one thing that I would
point out is that to Mario or excuse me, Gennaro
trained under to Mario.
Speaker 3: As a defensive back coach at SUU.
Speaker 4: Remember Gennaro was with SUU before coming up to BYU
with Ed Lamb. I don't know if you guys realized that,
but Tomorrio was the guy that was training up Gennaro
prior to his arrival at B one because Ed then,
to remember, Ed took the job up at BYU and
tomorrow became the head coach in twenty sixteen at SUU.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, but I'm willing, I'm I'm ready, I'm look, the
truth shall set you free, and we'll see what the
fruits are here going forward with to Mario.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, and you've already kept one of your
main like Trey Alexander, keeping him as a big deal. Yeah,
I think that's a I think Trey probably knew this
guy's coming and he trusts him, and so I think
there's something to be said there. We'll see what happens
with Evan Johnson. For me, the other question mark is
is the new special teams coordinator? How is he going
to be able to keep things going on the special
teams unit? Is he gonna be able to pick it
back up, bring it back up to a top level,
elite special.
Speaker 3: Teams unit that it was two years ago?
Speaker 7: Are we gonna be able to get a kicker to
replace Will Farren? Will Farren had his struggles this last
season for for a portion of it, but let's make
no mistake about it, He's still he was still one
of the best that Bay you sad certainly in twenty
twenty four that's you've got some big shoes to fill.
To find a kicker to fill that that's a big
deal to the success of your team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what's interesting. Let me just take a step
back here with Gennaro. Jennaro didn't start coaching college football
until twenty twelve, twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3: You guys are aware of this. He was at Whittier
College as a graduate.
Speaker 4: Assistant, so he was working you know, maybe corporate America.
Remember he had graduated from Brigham Young University in two
thousand and one. I believe that was his final season,
maybe two thousand and two, and then finally got into
coaching over a decade later and from Whittier College. Then
he came over to SUU for the twenty fourteen twenty
fifteen season under Tomio Warren. Tomorrio brought him in to
be the cornerbacks coach.
Speaker 3: Sgu and he.
Speaker 4: Was only yet SUU for two seasons before he got
called up to Brigham. Shout out to Gennaro for his trajectory.
Much deserved. But I would say the one thing that
I'm like, Okay, it's gonna keep me optimistic about this
is uh Demrio is uh you know the guy that
trained up and found Gennaro and brought him into the
kind of the coaching the college football coaching world.
Speaker 3: Right as a as a true position coach. That was
his first position coach job, not as a GA.
Speaker 7: Well, and you said he's only been two places prior
his entire career.
Speaker 4: And he was retained by Spencer Danielson at Boise State
when Andyvolos was let go.
Speaker 3: I think that's another point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, to be optimistic is this guy has been good
enough coaching. Changes happen all the time in college football.
It's very easy to lose your job, even if you're
good at it.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 8: But he's been great enough at it that he hasn't
had to deal with that. He's been able to move
when he chooses instead of being moved by someone else.
I think there's something to be said there too.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. Let's go to break.
Speaker 4: We'll go into a Cougar bea coming up next. I
want to get into Kyler Casper, former four star wide
receiver out of the Great State of Arizona. He's been
at the University of Oregon the last few years and
BYU got him out of the transfer portal.
Speaker 3: Can he be a guy. Can he be a dude?
Can he elevate his play?
Speaker 4: He only had like seven receptions at Oregon, hasn't played
much been uh not even I don't even know if
you can consider him a rotational player at Oregon.
Speaker 3: Can he be a guy?
Speaker 4: For BYU We'll discuss on the flip side with Darnell Dixon.
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