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We've got Jared bled So, former BILIA wide receiver in
the house.
Speaker 3: What's up, Jared? What's that?
Speaker 1: Ben Wellly good man? I'm doing good. New Year's Christmas
was good for you.
Speaker 3: It was really fun. Yeah, we had a good time.
Speaker 4: Just a bunch of boys being crazy and try to
open and get rid of and you know, go through
the whole Christmas on holiday.
Speaker 3: I'm glad the trees down, so.
Speaker 2: We're you put it away?
Speaker 3: Thanks gone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, seventy dollars bins from home deepot to have
wheels on it, and the tree still had to go
partially in there and partially in the.
Speaker 3: Box still, so yeah it did work. But yeah, no, yeah,
we've kind of.
Speaker 4: Cleaned up and and uh getting ready for the week.
Speaker 2: Man, getting ready for the week, getting ready to roll.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're heading down to the Miami game.
Speaker 4: I heard, I am Yeah, boys, yeah, Kilan, I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And uh, we love Keeling by the way. I love
and hate him like I love him.
Speaker 4: I love him, and he's is such a good, good
individual as a person and and is really out just
trying to make his mark and do the best he can.
And you know, I feel for all the forty five
hundred other people in the portal right now thinking that
they're going to have a Keeling the year, you know,
a cause very few of them.
Speaker 3: Will have that opportunity.
Speaker 4: But but congratulations to killing was able to do that.
You know, Jake was able to do it. Uh, Seeing
was able to do it as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh had a great year. Harrison Tag did okay,
he did okay. At col but he's back in the
portal by the way.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't surprise me, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean that once you jump, the second jump is easier,
at third jumps even even easier in the fourth one.
Speaker 3: You're diving at first, you know.
Speaker 1: So I got to be saying for that once you
go portally, well I did hear you know, I would
love to see some kind of a contractual agreement comes
soon in the nit cuble a which would somewhat limits
some of whatever.
Speaker 3: But he's just able to do. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean just every year renegotiating everywhere. There's
no commitment, you know. And and uh, I'll tell you
what next year. I hope I don't have to see.
After much reflection, I'm coming back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That being said, well, have fun down in Arizona.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's gonna be a lot of fun.
I mean, I you know, and for me it works
out great. There's a new wave pulled down in in Mesa.
Uh and so I'm gonna go hit the wave put
real quick and get over to the game.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: And I'm excited to just kind of feel that atmosphere
a little bit.
Speaker 3: I've never been to a game that big.
Speaker 4: And and uh, yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Do you think Keelan is like what if I would
have been at b y U? Or do you think
he's like that? Not? Now?
Speaker 1: How much money do you think it would have take
take to excuse me to uh to retain Keelan? Because
I think I think he was approximately I think this
is me approximately right, not confirmed.
Speaker 2: I thought he was probably like too fitty. I think
if we would have got the five hundo we could
have retained him.
Speaker 4: I think, I think probably because that would have put
him in the same category at that point as LJ
and and some.
Speaker 3: Of the others.
Speaker 4: So I think at that time he probably would have
knowing going into the season, you know.
Speaker 3: But the portal it's crazy.
Speaker 1: It giveth and it taketh away. None of the cut Wait,
so god, did you I was gonna say none of
the How many coaches have portaled J Hill portaled and
then General portaled offensively though it seems like we no
news is good.
Speaker 3: News, right, I mean we haven't heard anything. I mean
that Rod, I'm coming back.
Speaker 1: I want I want a Leonardo DiCaprio, a Rod videos
what I wanted, like grenation.
Speaker 3: After much.
Speaker 4: Much prayer and thought on us and meeting with some
guys that have bigger calculators, I'm coming back.
Speaker 3: That would be uh, that would be all.
Speaker 4: But my assumption is, yeah, I find myself like I
talked to the air, text back and forth with with
Aaron a little bit, and and when he responds right away,
I know things are just being figured out. When he
doesn't respond, I feel like they're heavy in some negotiation.
I drove by Saturday and there were a couple of
range rovers parked out in front of that football off
the time.
Speaker 3: Who's negotiating what right now? You know?
Speaker 4: So I think that because we haven't heard anything, I
think that's a positive. I would assume now I am
anxious to see what we are or we aren't doing
in the portal. You know, you see so much going
on in the news, and you see you know, Klonie
is always that guy that it kind of tries to
keep it tight lit. But you know, I want to
know what's going on in the portal, you know, I
would like to see where we're going.
Speaker 3: We need to get a d C in there so
that if we can enter. I mean, what we just
heard glasger Glasker's coming back.
Speaker 2: He just great news. That's ig coming back, baby.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited about that. And I think, you know what,
I highly doubt that Bear feels like he has to
go online and announce he's coming back. I don't think
that that's gonna.
Speaker 2: Because he hasn't made the announcement yet.
Speaker 3: But I don't think he needs to. I think he's.
Speaker 1: Doesn't need to. I mean, everybody else the assumption is
Gentry did it. I mean, everyone's doing it right. It's
all at some point Kilani did it? I'm coming back, baby? Yeah,
I guess I'm coming back. I ain't going to Penn State.
I ain't leave it. He had a press conference, Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I hope that it goes away that we have to
sit and listen to everybody say they're coming back every year.
But for right now, the way that the NCAA draws
it up, that's where we're at, you know. And but yeah,
it My assumption is no announcement is a positive for
most of these guys, you know, other than LJ hasn't
announced yet, and his is because of the the NFL,
you know, but I don't foresee us losing anybody else,
you know, in that bad aspect. So it should be
a lot of fun to see what the next couple
of months old. But you know, what are you thinking
on the on the defensive coordinator?
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: I think this is this is an intriguing situation, right,
Like I lean towards Kelly Papinga right now, just because
he's been a coordinator at a p for institution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at Virginia and that was multiple years. Now. Was
he the primary breake caller? No, but he was the
co coordinator.
Speaker 1: So you're talking game planning, implementation, install But he's been
on he's been on the field too, uh at b
YU so as he's the special teams coordinator. And and
therefore we're you brought a really good point off there.
Speaker 2: It's like, well we got Justin Eno there too, who's
been a d c.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: He's had DC coordinating, uh you know these coordinating jobs
at Utah State. I think he also was the coordinator
at Utah Tech. So he's been a coordinator.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and and and the thought I had initially, my
thought was give it to Gennaro let's bring it. You know,
I don't know the internet. I texted with him a
minute about just congratulating him essentially.
Speaker 3: Uh. And I'm a general Gennaro Guildford guy.
Speaker 4: I will follow him wherever he goes and and will
love to watch Michigan football because of Genero and and because.
Speaker 2: Of j So. Uh.
Speaker 3: But but at any rate, I I I don't know
lost for train out there?
Speaker 2: No, but we're talking about the d C.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's so Yeah.
Speaker 2: My thought on Justine it feels like it's going to
be an internal hire.
Speaker 4: It should be. I think I think that we have
enough guys there that could do that. My thought on
Justin was that he's been in the booth with Jay.
Ever since Jay's been in the booth.
Speaker 2: And Gary has been up there, he's retained. He's a
senior analyst.
Speaker 4: As long as Coloni has been planning for Jay to leave,
which I assume he has almost since day one, because.
Speaker 3: That's kind of the way it's worked out.
Speaker 4: And so why not have Justin if that was your potential,
go to be their hands on, sitting next to him,
listening to every play call and be a part of that.
So and then maybe the co coordinat where you have
a guy, so.
Speaker 1: You could see a co DC situation occur where Kelly is.
Speaker 4: On the field justin in the booth something like that.
I mean, there has to be something really cohesive about that.
Those two people, whoever they are, I don't know who
Jay Woilds talking to on the field per se. But anyways,
it's interesting to get everything out there. But I think
player wise, and if we are going after certain guys
in the portal, we kind of need to get that
thing settled pretty quickly because you know, I don't know,
maybe we're not after the top five percent. I don't know,
but you know, those that were after I feel like
they probably have a strangle hold on It's probably not
the right word, but they probably have good contact with
and and and they probably all know who the DC
is before we will.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned it should be an internal hire. I've
gone back and forth with this with BYU fans. Many
BYU fans say this, and what's your retort, what's your uh,
your your commentary to this? They're like, we're in the
we're P four institution worth year three and going into
year four, why don't we go out and get Justin Wilcox,
Head Coaching Experience DC. He has been at all these
high level P four institutions. Why not Justin Wilcox? Why
not the former Texas DC. Why don't we go pick
off U of A's DC. We can pay more than them.
We were paying Jay more than these other dcs. Let's
go get a top twenty five DC to combine forces
with our top twenty five OC. What's your response, why
internal rather than external?
Speaker 4: Well, I think if you're you're keeping almost the same
team together that you had the same almost the same
defense coming back, you know, and so you've already got
the system in place. Why change the entire system? You
bring in a new DC. He's bringing in everything that
he does, which is one hundred percent is not the
same thing that Jay Hill does. Luckily, if they retain
everybody other than Jay and Gennaro, you have a whole
bunch of staff that has now worked under that system
and can easily transfer that system and continue to coach,
maybe with some twists and some other things that.
Speaker 3: They want to add to that.
Speaker 4: But there's not a lot of change, you know, with
what happened the first year. As good as j Hill is,
his first year at BYU we went five and seven, right,
and so it does take time to implement and get
everybody bought in to that throught. So we want to
go in and win big this year with the guys
we have right now.
Speaker 3: I think you don't change the system. The system's working.
Speaker 2: The system's working. That's where retention comes in, right.
Speaker 3: And it's the players, you know, And that's I believe.
Speaker 4: The coaching has a lot to do with scheme and
getting things together, but in the end, the players have
to play, you know. And I know that it is
about the players, and these guys need to come ready
to play, no matter who's coaching them. And but we'll
get we'll get good coaches in there.
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Speaker 1: Jared Ledze former bou wide receiver Chase Roberts. Okay, do
you think he's an NFL wide receiver? Do you think
he's a draft pick? Or and if he is a
draft pick, round would he go? How will he tesched
out in a combine situation?
Speaker 3: Do you think give me a.
Speaker 2: Few like his resume?
Speaker 3: I'll give it to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give you his resume six four two ten,
one hundred and seventy receptions, two thousand five hut or
eighty six yards, fifteen point two yards per catch, eighteen
touchdowns and he improved every single year, right, you're years
saw that projected forty time per NFL draft scout is
a four to five to four, five to five.
Speaker 2: His high school vertical was actually thirty six inches.
Speaker 1: That was at the Spark Combine and he ran a
four point zero seven pro agility laser. That's tremendously quick
for a big bodied wide receiver. So we know his
route running and his Spark score was one of the
top wide receivers in his class. That's his collective explosivity speed.
He ran like a four to seven to three laser
in high school, which is fast. Right, It's not blazing,
but you know, his hand time probably would have been
in that four to six range, and so we imagine.
Speaker 2: He's got faster. That's that's where we stand.
Speaker 4: What do you make of it, Well, he's definitely got
the size to compete, and you know, it'll be interesting
to see what kind of you know, he had hit
such a different role this year than he had even
with retslov because Retzof would throw that deep ball a
lot more, and I think he was that that was
kind of his go to a lot of times, was
that deep ball. And you know, it's see how see
how he works out with the speed of the defenses,
and and I think he is an incredible player as
a better even better person. But yeah, I think the
scheme is gonna be big for him. He has to
fit a scheme where he is. I think he's a
he's not your every down across the middle guy, you know,
but he's big, he's tall, he's athletic on the outside,
you know, and and you know, with some of these
guys that might be able to throw a seventy yard bomb,
it could change something for him because he.
Speaker 3: Didn't get that this year. You know, he got a
little bit of that with Jake.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I know he's he I could also see
him going and not getting drafted and having some free
agent opportunities. You know, it could go either way, depending
on on what a team's needs are. But they're getting
a great hard worker and and somebody that I think
deserves an opportunity for sure.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Anything else that you're concerned about, as far as let
me give it, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you what
I'm concerned about. I think our offense was limited because
we didn't have a wide receiver that was consistently capable
of winning one on ones all the time. Parker, I
think was the closest thing that we had to chase
is a possession receiver. In my opinion, you can line
up ab outside inside, but he's more of a possession guy.
He's quick, not necessarily blazing fast. Cody Kagan has the ability.
Speaker 2: To be that guy. I believe that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: When Cody, I just think he's a bit discriminated against
because he's not as good at stock blocking. If you
can't block in this offense, you maybe don't see the field,
you don't get as many targets. I also think bears
arm strength as far as his vertical stuff is maybe
a little bit limited, and that limits Cody Hagen's ability.
Speaker 2: But do you have to go out.
Speaker 1: And get a couple of wide receivers in the portal?
Do you have to go find a keeling.
Speaker 3: I say yes, I think that we need the various Yeah.
Speaker 4: My thoughts are if you if you look back between
the last two seasons, the we have great receivers on
both years, but the athletic ability of the receivers with
with Retsov was higher, you know, and and with with
Darius and with Kewan. So, yeah, it would be be
great to have another one or two to come in
and compete at that position because we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna need it.
Speaker 4: We need we need an active second running back that
is dynamic as well, that can catch the ball out
of the backfield and maybe more of.
Speaker 3: A side to side. Not a bruiser because we got
that with l J.
Speaker 4: He'll bruise and he'll go side and side, but but
a real kind of side to side run, a real
quick uh you know that can catch those quick balls
and get upfield and give l J a rest. So yeah,
I think there's definitely stuff we need to fill in
the portal.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I would agree with you. I think that
getting a couple of receivers would be huge for you.
Speaker 1: You do you have Reggie Frishnet as well. Yeah, the
transfer from Weaver. Can he become a guy? Can he
become a dude?
Speaker 3: I think he's he.
Speaker 4: I've watched him practice a lot, and I think he's
he's really good. He's got great hands, he's got good
size as well. But it's the thing, you know, I
thought Cody Hagen was going to have a breakout year,
and in my opinion, he left something.
Speaker 3: To desire for me.
Speaker 4: As I look back on the year, I just feel like,
I don't know if it's getting used to the speed
of the defenses, if the physicality of some of this
is more than I don't know.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: But in the end, I thought he would have a
bigger year than he had, and I expect him to
have a bigger impact this next year. So whatever those
hurdles that he needs to go through and jump, hopefully
he figures those out here in the spring and it
becomes a bigger impact player. But we need dynamic guys
that can make a double move and be how did
that guy get so wide open?
Speaker 3: You know type stuff. We didn't have that this year,
you know.
Speaker 4: And although we have great possession receivers, we need.
Speaker 3: That one guy. You know, I would take two.
Speaker 1: But there's a player in the portal from Oregon, six
foot six, two hundred and twelve pound junior out of Gilt,
Arizona who's got some connectivity to the program. Tracy Borge
played with this young man in high school, Kyler Casper
number three. Now, his stats over his career maybe not
extremely impressive, right, He's only got six receptions seventy seven
yards twelve point eight yards per reception, but coming out
of high school was a four star wide receiver with
offers galore Tennessee, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Ors on to State cal You know, is that what
you're looking for? High upside?
Speaker 1: With two years of eligibility, maybe you can get more reps.
But he wasn't able to really break the rotation at all,
break into the rotation at Oregon.
Speaker 3: Well, he's not going to break the bank, you know. Yeah,
you know, coming in, but.
Speaker 1: He's looking at for PT right, he's looking for power,
for mid level power for to high level power forward
but with an opportunity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's not a guy that you would
expect to come in and have that time given to him. Yeah,
you know, he'd have to come in and beat people
out in order to play. Yeah, but I think you
need a little bit more proven track record guy to
come in that has played.
Speaker 1: Would you rather take a four star limited productivity at
the P four level with high upside or take a
Darius last year type that was at like Eastern Michigan
but had like forty to fifty catches for seven hundred
yards eight touchdown.
Speaker 4: I'd rather take a Juco guy that had seventy five
catches really because that guy is coming off games playing, playing,
not just and and then being the best, you know,
at his spot. And so I buy into playing time
and and it kind of goes with with the whole
playoffs series that we just have. We can't except for Indiana,
which a pretty incredible team. But you watch these teams
come in, they've been sitting for almost a month and
they come into play football. So imagine, you know, you're
kind of the practice guy and you're you're not getting
that game experience, that game time. These guys that are
playing and they have that kind of receptions and they're
in a good league, they're worth looking at it. I
think that they come in and compete just as hard,
if not harder than some of the guys that are
transferring around like that.
Speaker 3: So I'm big on Juco guys.
Speaker 4: If we can find good Juco guys that that are
have proven track record and good like our Southern California
junior college leagues are just phenomenal, you know, and there
are a lot of really good start came out of there.
Speaker 1: You know, just what about a bounce back Juco Cioni
le Lao, who was at Orgon as well. LDS four
star defensive back that struggled to break the rotation was
a JUCO player College of San Matteo. He had offers
from pretty much everywhere. His first offer out of Juco
was actually b YU, but he saw the glitz and
glamour of Phil Knight and the swoosh, and he said,
I want it, I want it all and uh and
now he's he's back in the portal. Should be an
opportunity for BYU to saying, hey, we because we could
lose some guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could lose Evan. Do you think what's the problem?
Speaker 3: Possibly? You know, I've thought about.
Speaker 1: I know you're a big fan of Gennaro and j
those guys, they could be knocking on Evan's door.
Speaker 3: If I'm everyone's talking to Evan.
Speaker 4: I mean, Evan and his brother are both I really
really like this. These guys that come from a great family,
great parents. I've spoken to parents a number of times.
They're just good people and I would I would hate
to lose them. On the other hand, you know, it's hard,
you know, if you look at if he's if he's
stepping in to a potential starting role and let's just
say they offer his brother.
Speaker 3: A real job and he's no longer a ga.
Speaker 4: You know, b Yu hasn't offered him at least up
until I know, and so that could be a great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Western great dude. I hope we offer him you know, or.
Speaker 4: I hope he gets offered positions something in the Defense.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's been he's been these one of the
signal guys for the Defense now and he's a He's a.
Speaker 3: Great guy, good guy to have around.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I could wouldn't shock me if him and
Evan I took the opportunity and went to Michigan. I
just don't know Michigan's depth. I don't know what they need,
you know. Sure tough to say.
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