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here on your UTI ESPN Radio network. The Barstool Team,
Big cat Stool Presidente. Their analysts are delving into the
BYU Iowa State game. And one of the things that
doesn't surprise me is I've talked about this throughout the year,
from Big twelve media days to present days, that national
media just does not want to believe what their eyes
are seeing. In relation to BYU. BYU has not arrived yet.
BYU is not a perennial Top twenty five team. BYU
doesn't have the talent, doesn't have the skill positions, don't
have the coaching, doesn't have the resources to be an
elite to great football team. It's they haven't beat anybody yet.
It's the same old adage, the same old rhetoric. They
are not favored in this game. It is what it is.
And barstool is struggling with this. Okay, stool presidente who
was there, David Portnoy in Provole, he saw it. He
didn't pick the Cougars versus the Utes, and he's not
picking the Cougars versus Iowa date. He doesn't believe what
his eyes are telling him for whatever reason.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Barstool Sports pontificating on the BYU Iowa State matchup and
how they're gonna bet in this game.
Speaker 3: Talk about BYU.
Speaker 4: They're also seven to zero number eleven BYU at Iowa
State Iowa State minus two and a half. The over
under forty eight and a half. Dan, we saw what
happened with the Holy War last week, an incredible scene.
Everything looked at BYU quietly. I mean, moving along in
this conference, at the top of the conference right now.
This is a big game though, for the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, taking i BYU last week.
Speaker 3: I love Iowa State. This week it's perfect spot. You
just got to take the spot.
Speaker 5: Even if you don't think Iowa State's very good, which
I don't really think they're very good. BYU off a huge,
huge win against their biggest rival, going on the road
against the unranked Iowa State team that has looked like
trash at times.
Speaker 3: This shar that you know, one week zero.
Speaker 5: And everyone thought it was a big win in Kansas State. Sucks,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Give me Iowa State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, just just real quick, guys, Like he's giving
all these these justifications, right, Iowa States look like crap
this year.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't think they've looked like crap, but.
Speaker 2: Whatever I mean, they've gotten They've lost two games, okay,
one score games anyway, hangover conversation, right, b what he's
coming off the Robber Game, the Holy War.
Speaker 3: Et cetera.
Speaker 6: I don't is that even a real thing other than
last year, like twenty twenty one, we followed up Utah
with a win. Yeah, most of the time we play Utah,
we actually follow up with it.
Speaker 7: I think it's a football cliche. It's a football TV
talking head cliche.
Speaker 2: It's a low hanging fruit cliche. Just like when you
step up to a mic in a pregame show and
you're like, a turnover battles should determined whether or not
you game.
Speaker 3: Gon, It'll be won or lost.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be wonder lotched in the trenches in the
turnover battle.
Speaker 3: Let me say that what was his name? It was?
Speaker 6: He was that Oh, he was a great basketball player.
He worked for ESPN a while. He died a couple
of years ago, Bill Walton.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean like he had a little bit
of it that this is like.
Speaker 3: Anyway, but like.
Speaker 2: You walk through this right and you're like, okay, like
this is these are these are cliches. It's low hanging fruit.
And I don't think they really know what they're talking
about here anyway.
Speaker 7: Just wanted like, how can you say even if you
don't think they're that good. I don't think they're that good,
but I'm gonna take him anyway, because here's the deal.
Speaker 3: It's not as though, like because you're.
Speaker 7: Picking Iowa State, Okay, i Alowa State is favored, but
they're only favored by two and a half.
Speaker 3: So even if.
Speaker 7: We're taking the wins and losses out of it and
we're simply just talking the betting, that also doesn't make
me feel that confident either. But he feels pretty confident,
even saying, yeah, I don't know if you think they're
that good. I don't think they're that good either. Okay,
then how bad do you think BYU is?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, Like they don't they're not buying Brigham,
let's continue.
Speaker 8: I think I will believe in BYU when I'm forced
to a gunpoint. I know they won last week, and
I know they were great. They had a very good
record last year and they were quietly undefeated going into BYU.
They beat beat into Utah, they beat Utah, and now
they're up to number eleven. I just still just don't
believe in this team. Iowa State at home, Iowa State
season on the line, it's Iowa State, Dave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So at gunpoint you got to force him.
Speaker 3: He will not believe. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a game on this schedule
after by you. Part of it has to do with
the margin of victory. This is my theory. Yeah, you
don't necessarily have a convincing win and you've won the
only convincing win that you got maybe last year, like
truly convinced, was in the Alimo Bole versus Colorado, which.
Speaker 3: No one picked you anyway, no one wanted you anyway.
Speaker 2: They just wanted to do her and Pravish and prime
and all the things. But then they're like, well, but
like they didn't really want to be there, Like Shudor
was off gallivanting and Travis was gallivanting, and no one
was practicing, and it just wasn't a big deal anyway.
It was it was we were force fed the entertainment
of the Alamo Bile anyway. That's why I think it's
the margin. It's the form and fashion which BYU wins
typically it's pretty gritty, right, It's not these dominating wins
that are exclamation points what one score games. That's what
it was last year, even in two thousand and twenty
three when you when you lost to top twenty five teams, right,
and you got blown out a lot, right, you got
blown out a lot in twenty twenty three, but then
when you were competitive. This is these one score games, right,
and so there's something there with the margin of victory that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't allow for them to buy into Brigham.
Speaker 7: But Shahan made this point yesterday on this show, which
he was like, you got to understand, like they're dominating
time of possession. So BYU, while they are not necessarily
blowing teams out, that's not necessarily their mo o. And
part of it is because they haven't really played a
really tough schedule. But the other piece of that is
that's just not what they're trying to do to you.
They're not trying to score seventy five yard bombs every
drive like they are trying to systematically and slowly wear
you down. Dominate time of possession. They're one of the
best time of possession teams in the country. They're not.
So I don't know, and I agree with you. I
think that's why they feel this way. But if you
want to be real about it, Ben, if you really
want to be real about at barstool, you know who's
fifth in strength of record in college football BYU I was.
Speaker 3: Literally just sitting on this.
Speaker 7: So and you know who's ahead teams that that you
don't fit your sec narrative. Indiana the last team that
you want to because I think Indiana's in a similar spot,
like nobody wants to give them credit, especially what happened
in the playoffs last year. You know, Notre Dame, they're
sitting at eighteen, Michigan, they're sitting at twenty. All of
these guys that you want to put up there and say, oh, well,
they've been the big brands, the big daddies of college football.
You know what, they're good, but they're not top five
in strength of record like BYU is and so it's
just it's it's narrative driven, right, it's connotation driven. It's
who do we want to put there? Not necessarily who
do the numbers say should be there? So these are
this is a show run by nerds. I don't think
they played any sports. Maybe they did.
Speaker 2: If you're going to be a nerd, like lean into nerdery, okay,
and they're not leaning into nerdery and analytics.
Speaker 3: So that's my biggest issue.
Speaker 2: And even PFF like finally they're coming around and granted,
I kind of like the doubters, but like lean into
the nerdery a little bit here, Like why is it
that nerds are not leaning into the analytics. It's an issue.
Strength of record fifth in the country for me.
Speaker 6: The problem with national media and people like the is
that you used to be able to play paper football,
Like in college football. You used to be able to
play paper football and be right most of the time.
Used to be like, Yep, Alabama's gonna win by thirty, Yep,
You're just gonna win by thirty, sure, Ohio State by
and sometimes you still can to an extent, but it's
gotten less in the nil and transfer porta portal era.
The media has not adjusted very well, struggling to adapt
to the parody because the players are bouncing around more.
Paper football doesn't work very much. You can win on
paper now and lose on the field.
Speaker 2: You actually have to do due diligence and watch the
games and understand the analytics, the deep rooted analytics, and
it's lazy reporting. Its lazy analytics, or they're lazy analysis
rather And that's why he's saying, you got to force
me a good point, because he's not he's not spending
the time and allocating the proper bandwidth to really analyze this.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying by you.
Speaker 2: Should be favored by seven, agreed, So I'm not saying that.
And I think i Always State's a better team than
what they're talking about here. I Always State can compete
and beat anybody I think in the country, even.
Speaker 3: With UH there, especially at home. That's what I'm talking about.
This is game. This is a game in aimes. This
is different.
Speaker 2: This is going to be a different game, and I'm
okay with them picking it. I'm just not okay with
their justification and the reasoning for it and their logic,
because I think it's illogical.
Speaker 3: Let's continue.
Speaker 2: Let's listen in Barstool Sports discussing the b y U
Iowa State game and just tune in. This is like
they're their logic. It gets more absurd as we go on.
Speaker 3: I don't want to digress here.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna take Iowa State, but I do just want
to It's almost a full circle.
Speaker 3: Let's go back to how we started the show.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, nobody's beaten anybody, and the only wins
that calendar in the SEC.
Speaker 3: This big twelve and stop.
Speaker 2: This is they started the show with They're like, no
one's beaten anybody unless it's an SEC or Big ten opponent.
Speaker 3: That that was what it was. It was their thesis.
Speaker 2: That's their baseline theology for their college football takes.
Speaker 6: We actually haven't played football yet this year, Ben, I
don't know if you know, but not coming up, but
we haven't actually saw in preseason games.
Speaker 2: Once again, they're struggling with the parody. They're struggling that
any team can be at any team. And this is
the thing they're speaking up both sides of their mouth.
They're going to say, and stool President he's discussing this.
He's like, I'm picking Iowas State, but let me tell
you what the situation is.
Speaker 3: So let's continue cruising along in this conference. And who
have they beat?
Speaker 9: Then you go back and look to the playoffs last
year and you look at Arizona State, who came out
of this conference and was a fourth down away from
beating Texas in the playoffs and advancing.
Speaker 3: This is where I think people get confused. There is
so much parody.
Speaker 9: I truly believe where they're talking Big twelve whatever, you
can take these teams and they ain't going to be
very competitive in Land in the same spot BYU would
be very good in the SEC or whatever.
Speaker 3: I do believe that I'm taking Iowa State.
Speaker 9: Here, but people discount Yeah, these conferences even though you
go look at who came out at conference. Laster Arize
State should have beaten Texas, they fell behind. They should
have in Texas, could have beaten Ohio. So I'm just
sick of like, oh, you didn't beat anybody less it's
in the SEC.
Speaker 3: I'm taking a Ihowa State here, and.
Speaker 9: This conference doesn't get the respect they deserve.
Speaker 3: These are good teams. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I agree, no, because it is true there is the
SEC does get a benefit of doubt where they rank
all their teams.
Speaker 3: At the beginning, this was all fine.
Speaker 8: Who said anything about the SEC.
Speaker 3: We're talking about yu Utah.
Speaker 5: Oh he's saying that the Big twelve getting like, you know,
being like that no one beats anyone in the Big
twelve or there's only gonna be one team that's in
from the Big twelve. Like there's some good teams.
Speaker 3: I believe in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 8: I just haven't believed in BYU.
Speaker 9: Well, it started with Casey being like Ohio State hasn't
beaten anybody, Like, why if they beat the teams, if
you nobody says that about SEC teams, Yes, only other conferences,
Yes they do, No, they don't.
Speaker 4: Brandon has literally told me all season, I haven't beaten anybody.
Speaker 8: Correct, I do say it about A and M because
an M outside hasn't been a name outside.
Speaker 2: He literally says, I know, but that's I mean, it's
just insane, like this one is that you're circling.
Speaker 3: Is number one in strength of record.
Speaker 2: By the way, this guy idiots like I said, if
you're gonna nerd nerd like that, you know they're not
taking him to you. Hasn't played anyone except for not
a Nord Dame is a top ten team in the
country in my opinion. Like, they're at worst, the top
fifteen team in college football this year. Okay, I understand
they're a two lost teams. They are a top fifteen
team at worst in my opinion. So he just doesn't
know ball and then he doesn't take the time to
delve into any sort of the analytics.
Speaker 6: Well, this guy just said I believe in the Big twelve.
I just don't be believe in BYU. He also said
Iowa States not very good. So he's taking all the
teams that are at the top of the Big twelve
and saying they're not good and then saying, oh, but
I believe in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. No, it's both out. It's it's it's.
Speaker 2: Speaking out both sides of their mouth. They don't even
know what they're saying, and they're they're talking in circles.
Speaker 8: Let's continue, no, no, no, what we have conversations about
them being the best team in the SEC, and I
was like, your SEC schedule, you've beaten four bottom feeders,
so so let's just wait until you beat somebody number one.
Speaker 4: The number one strength of record is But that's the point.
Is My point to you is like they have what
are you doing?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 4: That means like if they so ESPN puts it out.
Speaker 9: Where do you have to who do you have to
beat in the SEC?
Speaker 3: To have beaten somebody, you gotta be well for A
and M. I think they got to beat forty Florida State.
Speaker 8: They got to bet l s U this Saturday does
have the.
Speaker 3: Number one strength of record.
Speaker 2: It's a bad analytics.
Speaker 4: It's it's like if you if they put.
Speaker 6: All it's a bad analytic because it doesn't fit your narrative.
Speaker 3: Let me explain to the people what strength of record means.
Speaker 7: Strength of record essentially takes into account your schedule that
you have already played. And they said how they say,
how would the average top twenty five team fare. So basically,
whatever your ranking is is how they're ranking, like in
terms of how impressive it would be for the average
top twenty five team to do what you've done. So
it also takes into account who you played, but as
well as how you played them. So if you played
if you just played bottom feeders in the SEC, let's say,
but you blew all of them out, you get a
lot of credit for that because they're taking into account
the fact that you are blowing teams out.
Speaker 3: Be always not blowing teams out, but they're still.
Speaker 7: Top five and strength of record because what the metric
is saying is the average top twenty five team could
not do what BYU is doing.
Speaker 3: Sagrin another metric.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame's strength of schedule is sixth in the country,
Alabama's third, Miami's is ninth, LSU's is seventh, BYUS is
actually fifty fifth. The record is fifth, but their strength
of schedule, for Sagarin is actually fifty fifth.
Speaker 3: Well, and strength of schedule and strength of record are
are different.
Speaker 2: I understand that they're different, But like if you're gonna,
like if you want to like throw in another metric
because you don't trust the shred of record and you're
gonna undermine strength of record, then you can go Sagarin
strength of schedule to determine who's played who and and
and and kind of taken take away like how you
played them by the end result, but just like what
those teams have done thus far this season versus their
respective opponents on their schedule.
Speaker 3: So anyway, Uh, last couple of.
Speaker 2: Soundbites as we wrap this up, but I think they
just keep on talking and circles here.
Speaker 4: The teams that have played our schedule only eight percent.
It's an eight percent chance we haven't played that yet.
Speaker 8: More.
Speaker 5: Strength of record.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an analytic.
Speaker 10: It's it's like an ESPN FBI type like, yeah, because
they have the SEC.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: But my point, like I'm gonna say to you, Dave,
like no one says about the SEC is we literally
have this argument every week. I'm Ohio State is the
best team in the country. I'm just saying that when
it comes down.
Speaker 3: To they have to beat who do they have to beat?
To have beaten somebody that.
Speaker 4: You can only win the games on your record, I guess,
I mean on your schedule.
Speaker 9: But but we're in an era where people haven't been anybody.
Speaker 3: But who are they that you have Ohio State and
everyone else?
Speaker 9: I guess Indiana, Oregon, Like I don't. I don't know
because I think the SEC is to junk.
Speaker 8: To be honest, I think Ohio, Ohio State has to
beat Michigan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what they have to beat. I hate they're
not going to do that.
Speaker 1: I hate that.
Speaker 6: I have to.
Speaker 8: Satisfy what you want here, but Ohio State has to
be Michigan because it was going to be Penn State,
and the Penn State fell off.
Speaker 4: The biggest, the biggest thing overall in college football this year,
it's all parody, like there is, it's parallel.
Speaker 8: Correct, everybody's supposed to everybody?
Speaker 4: He is right about that, Yes, so it's parody across
the board.
Speaker 3: So so so that agreed.
Speaker 9: So it's just we need a paradigm shift that haven't
beaten anybody, well, then nobody can be.
Speaker 4: There because nobody's anybody is that fair and nobody ever will.
Speaker 8: Andy's beating Oregon on the road. That's impressive. Yeah, so
that's the number of Alabama one at Georgia. Like, yeah,
people are beating people, people are beaten people. Yeah, that
George is an impressive win. You can say it's not
it Georgia.
Speaker 3: Who cares? George is not that good? All right?
Speaker 1: Can't wait to get back to be what I'm taking
b YU.
Speaker 4: I do, I do believe in this team here you're taking.
Speaker 10: I love Iowa States. It's not even that I don't
believe in b YU. Like they've been a good team
that had a big road win. They probably shouldn't have
gone against Arizona, but he had classic.
Speaker 3: College football spot.
Speaker 10: Ioa also like good coach, good good veteran quarterback. I
trust rock up back that trust Iowa State in the spot,
I bet the game.
Speaker 3: Already love Ioa State? All right?
Speaker 2: They yea, they finally get back to beat YU and
Iowa State.
Speaker 7: Nobody's beating anybody, and nobody ever will, no one ever will.
Speaker 3: College football actually doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you want to get dumber just and look, I
like the barstool guys.
Speaker 3: But that was one of the.
Speaker 7: Dumbest conversations I think I've ever listened to about this sport.
Speaker 2: I think they actually arrived at truth correct who but
who believes the truth?
Speaker 3: And it's the parody conversation.
Speaker 2: It's It's what I talk about day in and day
out on this show. And I had to try to
convince cougarnation in twenty twenty when nil and transfer portal
became a reality. I told you from the beginning, like
this is going to even the playing field. It will
not ruin college football. It's going to create a better
product collectively for college football, so that there's more opportunities
for the Byus and the SMUs and the Boise States
and the Indianas and the Vanderbilts. Look at all these
teams rising to power. Look at all these teams that
can beat anybody on any given day in any given conference.
Speaker 3: That's what it's about.
Speaker 2: It's hope in life without hope, right, what.
Speaker 3: Do you have?
Speaker 2: Hope for a better life, Hope for a better future,
Hope for a better football team. Hope, hope, hope, that's
what you want. And now there's hope in college football
in all of these universities. And it's not like this
dwindling hope. It's not this fleeting hope that the system
is against you. Now, it's there's true, unadulterated parody in
college football, and it is glorious and it is fantastic,
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Speaker 3: Football and basketball.
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Speaker 11: Happy Friday to you guys. Great to be here.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure talking metrics and numbers with you. Let's
start off with a football in basketball metric. Here a ranking,
if you will. Last season twenty twenty four, I always
look at BYU.
Speaker 3: Football and BOU basketball. Those are the.
Speaker 2: Premier sports of Brigham BYU football wasn't even predicted last
year to make a Bowl game, let alone to win
eleven games right and end up thirteenth overall in the country.
With that monument to win in the Alible Bowl, eight
million viewers watched as the Cougars demantled the the primetime
Shadeur and Travis Hunters show, it was great BYU basketball. They,
on the other hand, at the beginning of the twenty
twenty four twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 3: They were kind of on the outskirts.
Speaker 2: There was like there was expectation for them, but they
weren't in the top twenty five. They were in that
twenty six, twenty seven to twenty eight range, and they
ended up at the end of the season with a
sweet sixteen run.
Speaker 3: They ended up thirteenth overall as well. Kind of an
interesting number.
Speaker 2: Thirteen and by the way, I think BYU basketball and
football were both predicted in the preseason.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, it was just football.
Speaker 2: Football was predicted to be the thirteenth best team in
the Big twelve. Kind of interesting this number thirteen popping up.
I don't know what that means. I don't know what
the significance is. Maybe you can elaborate on it in
the financial world w thirteen actually meets. But anyway, I'm
looking at this this season here BYU football was right
on the outside of the top twenty five preseason. Right
now they're eleventh in the country. Pretty crazy. Where will
they end up?
Speaker 3: Do you think? In your opinion?
Speaker 2: And then BYU basketball preseason is eighth in the country.
If BYU continues at this rate, BYU's gonna end up.
BAU football is gonna end up in the top ten
as well as BYU basketball ending up in the top
ten by the end of two thousand, twenty six, the
twenty twenty six season, twenty five twenty twenty six season.
What do you make of those rankings, those metrics? What
stands out to you?
Speaker 11: One thing that stands out to me has to do
with just being a Cougar fan. I know that I'm
not the only one out there. One thing I love
about BYU is let's be in the underdogs, and I
feel like we do achieve more with less. And that's
those rankings and those statistics tell me a lot of times.
Speaker 12: We do get doubted, we don't get the.
Speaker 11: National recognition, and it seems like we're underappreciated across the country.
But these kind of stats and finish in top fifteen
this year, probably top ten for both premier sports. We've
got to start getting a little more recognition. But I'll
tell you what it makes me proud as a BYU
Cougar fan. I love being the underdog and I love
us overachieving and what I feel doing more with less,
I think it's cool and it gives me a little
more Cougar pride.
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All right, let's get into it. Matt Campbell, I always
stayed head coach. How would you evaluate this? BWAU Football team.
Speaker 3: Att.
Speaker 12: I think you hit the word right is they're a
really great team. And obviously I think you know, I've
talked about Colonie before, my respect for him. Man, if
my own son could play for anybody in college football,
I would want my son to play for him. I mean,
that's how much I think of him and how he
you know, how he leads a football program and a
team and you see it. I mean, they play for
each other. They play really great, complimentary football, and they
play great team football and so all the things that
when we've been our best and we're at our best,
there's some similarities in terms of how we want to
play the game, but so much respect for them, and
you know, across the board they're playing really good football
right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he brings up something that I've brought
up consistency, consistently about Iowa State. How they win, how
they recruit, how they develop, how they invest in their
organizational design, the culture that they're building. It's akin to
what Brigham has. They don't have necessarily the religious element
to it, kind of the legacy program that is BYU,
but culturally, when you look at these two teams and
you look at even how they play their game schematically.
There's a lot of similarities there, and I think he
sees that when he checks tape twenty two, he's seeing it.
Even as his relationship develops at a more in depth level,
at a higher level with Kilane, he's seeing the mirror effect.
Speaker 7: Is there a higher compliment that you can give another
human being? Then to say, if if I if I
could have my son play for anyone, it would be
Kilanie Sataki.
Speaker 3: I don't think we've heard anyone say that.
Speaker 7: And Kilani has coached against some guys throughout college football,
throughout this league.
Speaker 3: We've never heard anyone say that.
Speaker 7: I mean, I imagine Brent Brennan over at Arizona would probably
say something similar.
Speaker 6: I think Kenny said Kenny Dillingham actually said that last year.
Speaker 7: You know what, I think you're right, So, I mean,
it's incredible that you can he I don't know. It
just speaks to who Kilanie Sataki is. And Kialanie's never
the guy who's out going to do promo for himself.
In fact, he doesn't really love doing the media. And
that's not because he's a hermit or because he doesn't
like interacting with people. I think He just prefers interacting
with people on a personal basis, and I think sometimes
he maybe feels like media is not always that way.
And not to say that he dislikes it or he's
bad at it either, I just think he would prefer
a one on one conversation with an individual than he
would do media.
Speaker 3: Even though he's great at it.
Speaker 7: We see him dancing pregame, but I mean, we're kind
of getting lost in the sauce here.
Speaker 3: The whole purpose of that question was to talk.
Speaker 7: About how he would evaluate Biolo football team, but I'm
just hung up on the fact that he said if
he could have his son play for anyone, it would
be for Klonie Satakia.
Speaker 3: I think that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 6: Well, I think it speaks to just klan is a
great networker. Yeah, he's incredible networking. Like I've never you've
never heard a coach say a bad thing about Kilani.
I'm and coaches don't usually make a habit of going
out and saying bad things about.
Speaker 7: Usually they just won't say anything about that, which we've
seen recently.
Speaker 13: Most most coaches, most coaches won't just go out of
their way to compliment the other coach when it's not
a question about the cut, right, And so the question was.
Speaker 7: Not at all about Kalan because like Brent and got
questions specifically about like, hey, what's your relationship like with Glaniy,
same with Kyle Whittingham. There was nowhere in this pressler
where he was asked what do you think about Klaney Stuckey.
He went out of his way to say, man, I
love this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, and it's incredible.
Speaker 7: He talks about how this is a team and we
can elaborate more on this, but he's going to talk
more about this BYU football team and what they look.
Speaker 3: Like as a whole.
Speaker 7: So, Matt Campbell number two, what stands out to you
about BYU's offense.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is just the physicality
across the board from all eleven players. You know, it
starts with the toughness of their quarterback. I love their
running back, tough, physical football player. And then man, you
look at those five offensive linemen. Man, those guys are
really talented players, guys that played a lot of football.
So I think when when you start with this BYU team,
you talk about physicality and their ability to run the football,
and then on top of that, they've got playmakers on
the perimeter. You know, you see it in their special
teams game, you see it off All those guys are
doing great things in all phases of the game. So
they are a complete offense and can really attack you
in all facets of it.
Speaker 3: There's really no divas on this team.
Speaker 7: It's easy to like talk about oh, humble and hungry,
and I feel like that's a lot of coaches mantras
that they want to give to their players, but there's
usually one or two guys who kind of throw that
off because sometimes that's just the nature of playing the
wide receiver position or the quarterback position, or that's the
nature of young people these days with nil and media gratification,
all of those things. It's incredible that Matt Campbell notices that,
but I actually agree. I think that's one of the
things that makes this Buoy football team so special is
there's no me on this football team.
Speaker 3: Even LG.
Speaker 7: Martin, who's going to go for a thousand yards, he
doesn't give a rip about how many yards he gets
in the game because him, Bear or the offense I guess,
not the offensive line, but him and Bear. When you
ask them about the run game. You know what their
first response is, Oh, well, the guy's blocking it out
of me. They they're never saying, oh, well, I had
to make a move here, and I just the first
thing always, even in Bear's first game at Portland State
he said it in his Sports Nation interview, was they
were like, well, what do you attribute the success tonight?
Speaker 3: So and he goes, Oh, the guy's in front of me.
The guy's blocking in front of me. There's no me
with this team.
Speaker 6: Well, I think it's funny because it feels like the
offense has just taken on the personality of a Rod.
A Rod doesn't like the spotlight. In fact, he prefers
to stay in the shadows. I feel like he's more
I don't know if he's introverted or extroverted, but to me,
he just seems more like I'm gonna keep to myself,
do my job, my one eleventh, you know, and all
those things. And the other thing that occurred to me
during the SoundBite is Matt Campbell was also describing his
own offense. True because it feels like BYU's offense and
Iowa States offense are essentially this. They both are very
complimentary run pass run sets.
Speaker 3: Up the pass.
Speaker 6: They've got good like Rock Obect and Bear Blackmyer actually
have pretty similar stats in terms of completion percentage and
and all those things. And and they've got good running
backs the same way we've got LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin. I think they've got more depth.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I think the biggest difference between this b YU
and Iowa State team right now is the injuries to
Byu happened at the running back position, and the injuries
to Iowa State happened at the defensive back position.
Speaker 3: I was going to say happened literally everywhere else.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this Iowa State team is going through it right now,
which look, there's been years where we were looking at
it saying.
Speaker 3: Man, BOU is going through it with the injuries right now.
Speaker 7: I do think Ben made this comparison a couple of
minutes ago.
Speaker 3: I think the comparison between Iowa State and BOU really
is very similar.
Speaker 7: Like it's in a part of the country that nationally,
most people don't really want to be, even though I
wouldn't compare Utah to the state of Iowa, Like I
think the connotation of it's not really somehere people think
they want to live. I think that's real, and I
think sometimes it's hard to recruit to those places a
because you don't have a ton of hometown kids who
you could convince to just take a home discount, even
though I think the recruiting in Iowa and in the
state of Utah speaks for itself.
Speaker 3: But I think you're right, like rock O and Bear
very similar.
Speaker 7: The other thing that he touched on that even Iowa
State's defensive coordinator touched on, how often do you hear
about in an opposing coaches presser them talking about the
wide receivers blocking. I think that's another part of this
team that's really underrated. It's part of the reason that
BYU's run game is so good is because when they
get to the outside, Chase Roberts, Parker Kingston, Cody Hagen,
none of these guys give up on blocks, which and
I think I think Carson Ryan, Yes, we got to
give Carson Ryan a ton of credit because because he's
not on the offensive line and he's not a receiver,
therefore he doesn't get thrown into either one of those groups,
but he should because he's basically a sixth offensive lineman.
And so it's Carson Ryan's credit as well. Like, that's
part of the reason that Lj's able to get a
lot of these downfield plays is because the dbs who
normally would be there have been taken out by Chase Roberts,
by Cody Hagen, by Parker Kingston. And the nature of
the wide receiver position is I run fifty routes a game,
and I only get targeted on five or six of them,
So I'm basically just doing cardio out here. That's why
they have such a deeper mentality. But you don't ever
see that with any of the guys in this wide
receiver room.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I think it goes down to the scheme because
Bayu runs a lot of jet sweeps. If you're gonna
run a jet sweep effectively, you have to have good
wide receiver blocking. Yes, it's almost more important than like
some parts of the offensive line on the jet sweep.
I would say, like that the the side you're coming from,
that offensive line, it's important to block those guys, but
it's not as important as the wide receivers on the
side you're going to.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, the wide receivers and Carson Ryan have
been a massive part of the run game too, in
the success of this run game, and.
Speaker 3: They deserve a lot of credit. Matt Campbell.
Speaker 7: Number three, how important is the line of scrimmage gonna
be in this one?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 12: I mean as big as it can be, you know.
I think the reality of it is you're playing one
of the most veteran and complete O line in D
lines that we face this year, and so they're big,
they're physical, and really they've done a great job in
all the games of winning the line of scrimmage, and
we're gonna have to be ready to compete in those areas.
Speaker 1: For sure, one of.
Speaker 3: The most complete and veteran lines we will see this season.
Speaker 7: And honestly, even at that point, you're wondering is he's
talking about the offense or the defense, because either way,
both sides of the ball in the trenches have showed up.
That was the thing that impressed me, I think maybe
the most about the Utah game and especially the Arizona game,
especially at the beginning, was it felt like no matter
how many yards LJ went for, it felt like this
offensive line could get like a two or three yard
push guaranteed every time. And clearly Matt Campbell recognized that
where I would be worried if I was Iowa State
because I think we all agree like Iowa State's offense
is not the problem here.
Speaker 3: It's the defense.
Speaker 7: The defense, and given all the injuries, Big Citrus our
guy Dominique Orange is probably not going to play. I
think he was doubtful on the availability report last time
I checked. Iowa State rush defense is seventh in the conference.
It's right around where Utah was when boy, you played
them last week. But then on the offensive side of
the ball, the Iowa State rushing offense is ninth as well,
so kind of middle of the pack on both ends.
I feel for Matt Campbell because I like him. I
think he's a nice guy. But I do think this
is a game where bou should have an advantage in
the trenches. It definitely on the BYU's offensive side of
the ball. Defensively, I think it'll be a little bit
more of a fight, but I think that they should
They shouldn't get dominated.
Speaker 3: On either one of those sides.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think BAU probably has the advantage
in the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: Just you mentioned the injuries and the scheme.
Speaker 6: I aloways State likes to put three defensive linemen on
that and on the on the defensive line, yep. And
that makes it a lot easier for b Why you
to win the line of scrimmage up there? I know
they've got some good linebackers that they've got some linebacker health.
Speaker 3: Issues too, yes they do. So it's just a.
Speaker 6: Really beat up Iowa State team, and I think that
gives BYU a big edge. And when BYU wins the
last time, B why you lost the game where they
won the line of scrimmage. I mean, you win the
line of scrimmage, you win football games most times. The
only time I can really think of that as probably
Boise State twenty twenty one because we copped up the
ball so many times, right, But when BYU wins a
lot of scrimmage, they usually win.
Speaker 3: The football game. What a nickname, by the way, Big Citrus.
Speaker 7: And look he earns it because if you go look
at that guy, I think he's like six four, three
point thirty. He looks like he reminds me of like
Jalen Carter Jordan Davis at Georgia back in the day.
But uh yeah, shout out to Big Citrus. I'm happy
he's not playing. But I'm sad because I really like
the guy and again, incredible nickname, all right, Matt Campbell.
Roco seemed to take his performance very personally postgame after Colorado.
How do you help your guys balance taking accountability while
maintain any confidence.
Speaker 12: Well, I think that's the great thing about you know, Roco,
and I think you know, I would say, are all
of our leadership here like it means the world to us?
And you know, I don't think any of us want to,
you know, put our team in a situation where we
don't feel like we're doing our best. And I think
that's the that's the hard thing about a guy like Rocco.
Roco has given us every opportunity to win every game
we played, and that guy puts it on his shoulders
no different than I feel like I put it on
my shoulders and coach Haycock puts it on his shoulders
and Mouse puts it on his shoulders. You know, you
want to have leaders that want to take responsibility, and
unfortunately we're probably in a world where I don't know
if the leaders want to take the responsibility. But in
this building, the leaders want to take responsibility and lead
from the front, and so I'm way more grateful to
have those kind of guys in this football program. It
means we're going to work really hard to try to
get things fixed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think that's the type of person you want to
have in your life, at your job, wherever it is is.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's a blessing and a curse.
Speaker 7: I think accountability, but I'll always take the guy who
will take extra accountability and me have to prop him up.
Then the opposite where you have to force someone to
take accountability that they don't want to.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Rock Gobeck number five.
Speaker 7: In the last two games, you've accounted for almost half
of your penalties all season.
Speaker 3: How'd you address that in the bye week? Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 12: I think those are things where, you know, a little
bit of it is our guys are pressing, you know.
I think a little bit of it is guys are
you know, trying to, you know, go make something happen
instead of just kind of being man one play at
a time, and that happens sometimes. And again I think
it goes back to man our kids care. I think
there's a high end investment and you know, I think
those are things that we work really hard at and
how we practice. And the only way I really know
how to address those things is the detail in which
we practice. And you know, it's really what we've tried
to get our sinker teeth back into is the fundamentals
it takes to win football games. And again, we've been
probably a hair off and how we've won games for
the last two weeks and been really working to try
to get those things corrected. But you know, that's the
nice thing is they're all correctable. Those are things that
we can correct and we can control.
Speaker 7: This is an Iowa State team who had a lot
of things to work on in this by week, whether
it's defensive depth, whether it's injuries, whether it's finding a kicker.
Speaker 3: They got a lot of things to work on.
Speaker 7: Speaking of finding a kicker, though, what's the offensive decision
making process like when you don't really feel like you
have a kicker because of all the injuries that.
Speaker 3: Are power up.
Speaker 12: It's certainly a unique challenge, right, So I appreciate the question,
and it's unique. But again, and as I told our kids,
that is why they call you team, right, this is
a team sport, and you know the reality of it
is we handled it against Arizona. We probably they didn't
handle it as well as we needed to in those
other games. And again, those are things that that is
a unique challenge to it, and so there's nothing you
can do about it other than man, pick up, pick
it up. We got to be those are things that
some of those things are self inflicted though, like I said,
and man, those are things we have to clean up.
When you know this covering us as much as you
have is when we're really good, our detail is usually
pretty during good and when we're not, you know, our
details a hair off. And those are things we can control.
And so there's no excuse, there's no man would have,
could have should like. We had every opportunity to make
it happen and we didn't. And so I think getting
those things fixed are really important no matter who's in
the kicking game or what situation it is. That's that's
that is team football. And so it's been a unique challenge,
but that's part of it. And I think in some
ways we did some really good things. In other ways, man,
we needed to be better and we just weren't. And again,
you can put that on me first, and I think
it's a trickled down effect a little bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we don't fully know exactly what the kick kicking
situation is going to be like for IBA State, we
know they have a ton of guys injured.
Speaker 3: I do wonder if that does give you an.
Speaker 7: Advantage though, if you're this BYU defense, knowing, hey, more
times than not, they're probably gonna go for it on
fourth and I guess maybe that makes it a little
more difficult for your defense because you know it's four
down every time, and you know, just winning three downs
doesn't guarantee you this is a team who's probably gonna
be more likely to go four down football all the
way down the field.
Speaker 3: And I think it's that's why it was so important.
Speaker 6: Another reason why I was so important for BYU to
do so well against Utah on that on those fourth downs.
So that's a huge confidence builder, you know, like, hey,
Utah was a good fourth down team. I think they're
still top in the country and fourth down and you
stuffed them to a twenty percent conversion rate, and you're going,
no matter how good this team is on these fourth downs,
we are better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 7: And honestly, when you look at it, like we're looking
at the Siowa State team saying, wow, they can't kick
field goals, And then you look at BYU the last
couple of weeks, and you look at Utah last week
again not that not same situation because BA is fully
capable of kicking the field goals, they just haven't. And
Utah we don't really know if they were fully capable.
We think they were, but clearly Kyle Whittingham didn't, so
they didn't. So maybe this is more familiar than we
thought it was going to be. Matt Gampbell, how do
you take this bye week and learn from these two losses?
Speaker 3: Will not allowing your team to wallow in it?
Speaker 12: I think that's where I can say what I want
and I've said this forever, right, I mean, at this
point of the season, they're shutting you off.
Speaker 3: I don't care who you are or where you're at.
Speaker 12: And that's where the locker room and the leadership and
the veteran leadership in that locker room has got to
be about what's right. And I mean we're living in
like a reality show now in college athletics, right, it's
reality show USA. And if you don't have player driven leadership,
then I just don't know how you have the focus
to get through the entirety of the year. And I
think that's why I said from the beginning of the season,
toughness is not physical toughness physical, it's mental toughness. Can
you mentally stay together, stay at the task in hand,
and keep driving forward? And I think the great thing
here is we've had so much of that the last
couple of years, and man, the great leaders have passed
that down to the next group and passed it down
to the next group that it's really rewarding to be
somewhere where you can kind of lean back and say, hey,
we've been here, we understand what this looks like. How
do we keep moving ourselves forward? So you know, I
think you just talk about those things. Those are things
you better have talked about, honestly before the season even started,
because I think if you just get to it and say, oh, man,
we're here, and how are you going to get through
it now, then I think you're a big mistake. And
those are things I think we try to talk about
through Man the fall, I say this, every year, You're
going to have adversity, You're going to have tough days. Man,
our world here, that's just how we're going to live
and how we respond to it defines who we become.
And yeah, those are the crossroad moments.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 12: How do you respond when it's not going well? How
do you pull yourself up and keep moving forward? So
I look forward to the challenge. What I love about it,
what I love about our kids. But you know you're
going to hang your hat on our great leadership in
that locker room. And we're really fortunate to have great kids.
Speaker 7: Right now, man, I'll tell you what if I had
to have my son play for someone and it wasn't
Kalanie Sataki. The more I listen to this, I'm like,
it might be Matt Campbell. And I'll tell you even more.
If I was an Iowa State fan and I was
worried about coming off back to back losses and a
bye week, now headed into a BYU team that looks
very tough, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6: This is a Matt Campbell guy. I would go into
battle for this guy. If you want a leader, you
want Matt Campbell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I'm this is the BYU show.
He is.
Speaker 7: He is convincing me that Iowa State is a team
to absolutely be believed in. Matt Campbell, what do you
see at a Bear Bachmeyer.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's really tough. You know, I would just say
the first, the first word that comes to my mind.
He's he's just tough. He's gritty, He's tough man. I
really love his ability to extend plays. I think he
does a great job of that. He's physically tough that
he can almost, you know, literally run the football in
the A and B gap throughout the football game and
have the ability on the next play to make a
great throw on the outside ten yards deep. Like that's
hard to do, you know, when you're physically running the
football like that. So really impressive in terms of just
his mannerisms, his toughness, and you can tell that football
team believes in him. He's got great leadership ability, and
you know, credit to him. He's really done a great
job this year.
Speaker 3: Bear Bachmeyer has been awesome.
Speaker 7: I had this stop the other night and I was like,
you know, I don't know what Bear's college career will
look like, but if he gets the NFL and they
don't want him as a quarterback, why don't they just
make him a running back?
Speaker 3: And I and the guy back? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, look, make him like a Peyton Hillis type.
Peyton Hillis is the guy who came to mind for me,
uh six' one two forty, which frankly is pretty close
to what Bear is. So, you know, if if he
is tough, and I'm glad that Matt Campbell noticed that
last thing.
Speaker 3: Matt, what are your keys success this week?
Speaker 12: I don't think it's really changes too much with us.
You know, I don't care what game it's been. We
got to win the turnover margin number one. You know,
we got to do a great job of creating explosives
and eliminating explosive plays. And then you know, I think
from a special team standpoint, we got to be able
to do a great job of playing what we're capable
of playing in special teams. And so I think those
three things are still pillars of our success. And you
know there'll be pillars in this football game for sure,
that they will.
Speaker 3: That they will.
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