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Speaker 1: pensive So what do we got here?
Speaker 2: What's the bump?
Speaker 3: Little Chappelle Ron Pink Pony Club on behalf of the guest?
Speaker 2: Wait, is that how you pronounce it? I think so?
Speaker 2: I thought it was Shappele. I honestly it might be.
Speaker 2: It might be.
Speaker 3: You'll have to ask Sammy. I'm I'm not again. Listen,
Speaker 3: this is too This is pretty new music. H not
Speaker 3: like brand new, but like this century, so it's not
Speaker 3: really down my wheels.
Speaker 1: Well, we like to give our guests an opportunity to
Speaker 1: select their walk up song, so we'll bring in Sammy Mora,
Speaker 1: our friend from you Zone. All right, Sammy, how do
Speaker 1: you pronounce the artist's name? I honestly don't know.
Speaker 2: It's Chapel Roone nice porter. There we go. See, I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not in that song though.
Speaker 1: Bro, I'm old enough to be really an older brother.
Speaker 1: But if we stretch it and get weird, I'm old enough.
Speaker 2: To be your father. Yeah, I know. All right, Sammy.
Speaker 2: How are you happy Wednesday? I'm good, be good. Thank
Speaker 2: you for the time.
Speaker 1: So let's start with the announcement that came down yesterday
Speaker 1: that Isaac Wilson is officially QB two. He'll be backing
Speaker 1: up Devin Dan Pierre, and I suppose Sammy the blessing
Speaker 1: in disguise with Cam's son, you know, his inability to
Speaker 1: stay healthy last year is Utah football as a backup
Speaker 1: quarterback with a good amount of Big twelve experience, which
Speaker 1: of course is a good thing.
Speaker 2: What's your reaction to the news.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you have Kyle say that Isaac is
Speaker 4: that backup quarterback, but then Jason Beck yesterday kind of
Speaker 4: slightly contradicted him by saying that he sees it as
Speaker 4: a two A and a two B versus a two
Speaker 4: and a three, so saying and he was talking about
Speaker 4: Bird Ficklan specifically, like he said that Bird can get
Speaker 4: out there and get the job done if they needed.
Speaker 4: But you know, it's kind of interesting to hear Kyle
Speaker 4: say that Isaac is two and then you hear Jason
Speaker 4: say that if a two a two B type of situation.
Speaker 4: But like you said, to a certain extent, it's kind
Speaker 4: of a blessing in disguise, knowing that Isaac does have
Speaker 4: all that experience coming into this season, and I know,
Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of hesitation about him and
Speaker 4: his play and stuff, especially how last season went down.
Speaker 4: But the way that I see it is, you know,
Speaker 4: I think that everybody, everyone in this quarterback room, with
Speaker 4: the exception of Devin, came into this spring with the
Speaker 4: clean slate. You know, they were all learning the offense
Speaker 4: at the same time. It wasn't like someone had been
Speaker 4: in the program for a little bit longer than another one,
Speaker 4: so they had to edge up. But you know, Isaac
Speaker 4: Byrd were both on the same page, same playing field,
Speaker 4: and you know, they this this battle went on from
Speaker 4: the start of spring ball until literally Saturday when the
Speaker 4: or Friday when the scrimmage ended. You know, like that's
Speaker 4: a long time for these two to be going neck
Speaker 4: and neck and back and forth. But I think it
Speaker 4: proves that, you know, Isaac has made the stride that
Speaker 4: he needs he needs to do to be more consistent
Speaker 4: as a quarterback. You know, Kyle said that his in
Speaker 4: head clock is is going off a lot faster, so
Speaker 4: he's you can tell that the game is starting to
Speaker 4: slow down for him. I think, you know, most people
Speaker 4: hope that you only see Isaac in garbage time. You know,
Speaker 4: in a couple of games this year, but I think
Speaker 4: having a backup quarterback who has experience is you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's a positive, but you know, this isn't the
Speaker 4: same offense that he ran last year. Like I always
Speaker 4: joked that Andy Ludwig's offense, to a certain extent, you
Speaker 4: needed like three PhDs, a Masters, and like a bunch
Speaker 4: of other degrees to be able to do a checkdown
Speaker 4: in the in the offense just because of how chaotic
Speaker 4: and how the intense it was. And this offense is
Speaker 4: a very plug and play, user friendly type system from
Speaker 4: what we've heard, So you know, it's going to be
Speaker 4: interesting to see how Isaac you know, has adapted to it,
Speaker 4: how he's he's grown in it, and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I think, you know,
Speaker 4: it is a it's it's a blessing in disguise. I hope,
Speaker 4: I know most Utah fans and I I think everyone
Speaker 4: Maydia included, hope that you know, you don't see any
Speaker 4: of the backups for an extended period of time this season,
Speaker 4: but if God forbid something were to happen, you know it,
Speaker 4: it gives me at least a little bit of comfort
Speaker 4: knowing that you know, there is some experience behind Devan.
Speaker 1: Tell me what you've learned about Bird, because to your point,
Speaker 1: it is kind of funny to hear Kyle emphatically announced
Speaker 1: them back up and coach back be like, wait, hold
Speaker 1: on a second, and I wonder how much of the
Speaker 1: messaging is to It's just such a weird thing now
Speaker 1: and obviously the transfer portal is not open, but so
Speaker 1: many players, if they're not happy with their lot, decide
Speaker 1: to withdraw and maybe go elsewhere. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how much of that messaging is to you know, let
Speaker 1: Bird know, like, no, we still like you. But in
Speaker 1: the instance, I mean Sammy, as you know, the past
Speaker 1: few years, it hasn't just been QB one, QB two.
Speaker 1: I mean how we've seen four and five quarterbacks at times.
Speaker 1: So if we do see Bird this year, and we
Speaker 1: hope that we only see Devin, to your point, what
Speaker 1: have you learned about him?
Speaker 2: What kind of quarterback is Bird? Ficklin, Well, Bird.
Speaker 4: Is back even said that Bird does things a lot
Speaker 4: similarly a lot, more like a lot, the same way
Speaker 4: that Devin does things.
Speaker 2: Bert.
Speaker 4: It's like the fun fact that I have about Birds.
Speaker 4: He's a leftist, so you know, they kind of have to,
Speaker 4: you know, shift a few things here and there because
Speaker 4: of you know, the left tended quarterback. But other than that, like,
Speaker 4: he's a he's a big guy. He's up to two
Speaker 4: hundred pounds now. He's very, very, very like. That was
Speaker 4: one of the things that I think was when I
Speaker 4: watched his high school tape, you know, late in the cycle,
Speaker 4: when Utah started pushing really hard for him down the stretch.
Speaker 4: He's a fast guy, he's very shifty, he's hard to
Speaker 4: bring down, and you know, I can see a lot
Speaker 4: of the same qualities that Devin Dampier has in Bird Ficklin.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, yeah, he's still young, and you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to You're gonna have to see how he
Speaker 4: adapts to you know, playing in a live snap and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. But from just a film standpoint and
Speaker 4: just watching his high school film and watching the little
Speaker 4: bit we've got to watch in the spring, Bird plays
Speaker 4: very similarly to Devin. He's very mobile, he is he's elusive.
Speaker 4: Like there were times that like when you go back
Speaker 4: and watch high school film and even like, you know,
Speaker 4: I think there was a moment during the spring game
Speaker 4: where it looks like he's he's dead in the water,
Speaker 4: like the defense is going to get to him and
Speaker 4: he is somehow able to get out of there and
Speaker 4: turn it into a positive play. I you know, upsidewise,
Speaker 4: I like where Bird is at. You know, maybe it's
Speaker 4: for the best that he sits for a year, gets
Speaker 4: his feet wet, gets his feet underneath him, and the
Speaker 4: game starts to slow down because you know, if Devin
Speaker 4: has a massive season this year, you know Utah could
Speaker 4: have a wide open quarterback spot heading into next season,
Speaker 4: and you know we might have this whole battle all
Speaker 4: over again between Bird and Isaac, depending on if someone
Speaker 4: Alexa transfer or not. But there's a lot If you
Speaker 4: haven't went and watched Bird's highlight reel from high school,
Speaker 4: I encourage everyone too, it is. It is a very
Speaker 4: fun highlight reel to watch.
Speaker 1: How is that wide receiver room shaken out? I know
Speaker 1: I asked you this last week, and I'll ask you
Speaker 1: this probably up until we actually see see the games
Speaker 1: and see what they look like. Coach Witz said they've landed.
Speaker 1: I think he said seven or eight. And the reason
Speaker 1: that number is applicable is that's how many you travel with.
Speaker 1: And we'll see. I mean, when asked about it. Devin
Speaker 1: has good things to say. The wide receivers were made
Speaker 1: available last week. They all said things you'd expect them
Speaker 1: to say in fall camp. But any thoughts on who
Speaker 1: the wide receiver won is wide receiver two is how
Speaker 1: that room is kind of shaping out as of now.
Speaker 4: So I honestly I said this to you last week,
Speaker 4: but I still think Tobias Merriweather is going to be
Speaker 4: wide receiver one. I mean, it's kind of hard to
Speaker 4: say who's gonna be where on a depth chart, considering
Speaker 4: Kyle said we're not getting depth charts anymore, which I know,
Speaker 4: like there's people that are like what we need them,
Speaker 4: but I'm like, honestly, per past game one, nothing really
Speaker 4: ever changed on a Utah depth chart unless someone had
Speaker 4: a season ending injury, So you just kind of had
Speaker 4: to like base it off of what you're seeing, uh
Speaker 4: like during war ups and stuff. But I will say
Speaker 4: that Tobias I think is wide receiver one. We've heard
Speaker 4: a lot of great things about him coming out of camp,
Speaker 4: and you know, he's a big he's a big guy,
Speaker 4: big playmaker, and I think that he could be like
Speaker 4: a very dynamic pass catcher for this Utah offense, I
Speaker 4: still am very uh bullish on Larry Simmons at that
Speaker 4: wide receiver wide receiver two position, just you know, another guy,
Speaker 4: big guy who can make a big downfield play, is
Speaker 4: a big playmaker, threat guy, very good at making contested
Speaker 4: catches too, So I'm still high on him. And then
Speaker 4: but the slot receiver position is one that I over
Speaker 4: the last few weeks have kind of went back and
Speaker 4: forth with. You know, at the beginning of fall, I
Speaker 4: honestly thought it was going to be it was going
Speaker 4: to be Ryan Davis, and then I didn't know who
Speaker 4: was going to be at the two. But now I honestly,
Speaker 4: if there was a depth chart, which I think, I
Speaker 4: think that that's I think it would be Ryan Davis
Speaker 4: or Creed with him or now just you know, we've
Speaker 4: heard good things about both of them coming out of
Speaker 4: Faull camp. But you know, Creed really really really came
Speaker 4: on the last few weeks, and I think that he's
Speaker 4: firmly worked his way into that rotation and he might
Speaker 4: even you know, at some point of season he could
Speaker 4: possibly overtake RD depending on how his production is going
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. But that that that slot spot
Speaker 4: has kind of evolved for me over the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: So you sent out a tweet, Sammy, and I followed
Speaker 1: you last week when you joined the show and your
Speaker 1: follow I'll encourage people to follow Sammy at s Underscore
Speaker 1: more two four seven. That got quite a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: and it was you were the first person I saw
Speaker 1: tweet this. I later listened to the sound as Devin
Speaker 1: Dampier said that he sometimes has up to eight seconds
Speaker 1: in the pocket with the Utah offensive line, the big
Speaker 1: boys blocking up front, and it got quite a lot
Speaker 1: of attention. Looked like some BYU fans decided they wanted
Speaker 1: to chime in, which I'll you know, it's always kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting dynamic that way, but.
Speaker 2: Look, it is the positional group.
Speaker 1: Like ESPN did their top one hundred players in college
Speaker 1: football today, Spencer is at seven in the entire country
Speaker 1: at any position, you know. And I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this the other day. I was just kind of doing
Speaker 1: some prep for the show. We never talk about Michael Mochafisi.
Speaker 1: He has thirty three starts under his belt and all
Speaker 1: the attentions on like Spencer and Caleb and Jared's a captain.
Speaker 1: So tell me about your thoughts with that dynamic and
Speaker 1: certainly going up against Utah's defense projected to be one
Speaker 1: of the best in the Big twelve, the line has
Speaker 1: that type of performance in them, I honestly.
Speaker 4: Do, Like, you know, this is like you said, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of experience on this line. You know, Spencer
Speaker 4: and Kleb are getting most of the of the preseason
Speaker 4: praise and stuff, but you you got to remember to
Speaker 4: know what Togi I also, he graded out as one
Speaker 4: of PFF's top guards last season. Like he is also
Speaker 4: a high, high level player. So you know, it's not
Speaker 4: just the tackles that are good at what they do.
Speaker 4: Those three interior guys are also really well And it's
Speaker 4: it's it's good that you bring up Moco because you know,
Speaker 4: people seem to forget. People seem to just use that
Speaker 4: last season as the reason why, you know, maybe he's
Speaker 4: not playing the best and stuff, but he got hurt
Speaker 4: last season, he didn't play majority, he didn't play majority
Speaker 4: of the season. So but before that, I mean, I
Speaker 4: can think of times his freshman in his sophomore year
Speaker 4: where he was making some really big plays that made
Speaker 4: everyone really excited for his future. And so you know,
Speaker 4: those thirty three starts. Those are going to be really important.
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, all five of these guys
Speaker 4: have played quite a lot of football together and they
Speaker 4: know each other, they know how they're going to reacty
Speaker 4: know what's going on. So I think that that's great.
Speaker 4: And you know that tweet that we did, go on
Speaker 4: mute as as soon as I saw that it was
Speaker 4: making waves, I just I just went onto my notifications.
Speaker 4: I just hit mute. But the thing is is like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if that eight seconds people are saying
Speaker 4: that that's the indicative of the defensive line. I don't
Speaker 4: think so, because we're also hearing that the defensive line
Speaker 4: is still making a lot of big time plays. You know,
Speaker 4: those two things can happen and they can coexist in
Speaker 4: the same universe without one being negative and one being positive,
Speaker 4: you know. And so yes, the offensive line could be
Speaker 4: given Devin to eight seconds, but that's not maybe one play.
Speaker 4: The next play, the defensive line could get back there
Speaker 4: in two, you know. So it just kind of depends
Speaker 4: on the situation and what's going on. But I don't
Speaker 4: think those two things one can exist without the other
Speaker 4: one being negative. I think is how I'll put that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well said I wonder. You know, you're in a
Speaker 1: generation where it's not your fault. But we raised you
Speaker 1: guys with cell phones. They were your babysitters, they were
Speaker 1: your friends. You probably had a phone when you were young.
Speaker 1: I didn't have my first phone until I was in college,
Speaker 1: and so the Internet wasn't a thing when I was
Speaker 1: in college.
Speaker 2: So let's be clear about that.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to the online dynamic of your job,
Speaker 1: is it uncomfortable for you or I mean anyone in
Speaker 1: our space amy has to develop leathery skin, and I
Speaker 1: think for some older people it probably takes some time
Speaker 1: because I was not raised with social media like you were.
Speaker 1: Is that an uncomfortable part of your job or is
Speaker 1: it just something that you can kind of roll with
Speaker 1: because you're used to it.
Speaker 4: Well, to be fair, like I was one of the
Speaker 4: last kids in my school to get a phone. My
Speaker 4: parents didn't get me a phone until I think I
Speaker 4: was in like fifth or sixth grade, and I was, like,
Speaker 4: I graduated high school in twenty seventeen. Just to like
Speaker 4: put that into perspective, So I was like one of
Speaker 4: the last kids in my grade to get a phone.
Speaker 4: But you know, like I'm When I first got into this,
Speaker 4: it was hard because you know, the more followers you get,
Speaker 4: the more eyes you get, and the more attention you get,
Speaker 4: and sometimes it does get to be a lot at times.
Speaker 4: But you know, I have a great support system around
Speaker 4: me that like make sure that they're like, Okay, well,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe let's let's put the phone down for
Speaker 4: a little bit and like go watch a movie or
Speaker 4: go outside and hit some golf balls in the backyard
Speaker 4: or something. And so I always, you know, I'm very good.
Speaker 4: I have my notifications off on Twitter, so I don't
Speaker 4: get constantly blown up with things. But you know, it's taken.
Speaker 4: It takes time to get used to. But I'm at
Speaker 4: the point now where you know, it's just it's just
Speaker 4: kind of like water off a ducks back to a
Speaker 4: certain extent.
Speaker 1: Good because the Internet is where cowards go to feel
Speaker 1: brave and certain BYU fans are a certain kind of
Speaker 1: coward and they want to be a certain kind of brave.
Speaker 1: So don't let it get you down, Sammy, You're doing
Speaker 1: a good job. I've been asking all of my guests
Speaker 1: the following question. I will ask you this as well.
Speaker 1: What does success look like against Ucla. I'm not plane
Speaker 1: home from the Rose Bowl. What sort of dynamic result?
Speaker 1: Obviously a win, but beyond that, what does success look
Speaker 1: like for coach Wit and the Utes Week one at
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl?
Speaker 4: Well, I think, yeah, like you said, the win is
Speaker 4: probably the best, is the biggest thing, and I think,
Speaker 4: you know, getting out on a one in start is
Speaker 4: going to be massive for this thing. But team, but
Speaker 4: I think, you know, offensive success at this point, you know,
Speaker 4: everyone's going like UCLA is basing their game plan off
Speaker 4: of what Beck did at New Mexico and what Beck
Speaker 4: possibly did at Syracuse. So right now, nobody knows what
Speaker 4: to expect of this Utah offense. So Utah has the
Speaker 4: ability to catch UCLA off guard with his offense and
Speaker 4: you know, just you know, shock them and push them
Speaker 4: back on their heels. This defense is going to be
Speaker 4: this defense. They're going to do what they do. And
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, the offense, if the offense
Speaker 4: can come out and put up good numbers. I don't
Speaker 4: want to put a number range on it so that
Speaker 4: everyone's like, well, Sam, you said this many yardage is
Speaker 4: going to happen and stuff, But you know, I think
Speaker 4: you want to see a good amount. Like I don't
Speaker 4: even know what yardage to say on this one, because
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's about consistency with one of
Speaker 4: these guys too. But I think offensive performance needs to
Speaker 4: be strong, and I think, you know, keeping the ball safe,
Speaker 4: whether it's Devin, whether it's the pass catchers, whe whether
Speaker 4: it's the running backs. I think that's what the big
Speaker 4: thing is going to be for this game, because you
Speaker 4: have the opportunity to, you know, have a massive game
Speaker 4: and put the nation on watch, be like, hey, this
Speaker 4: is what this new offense has the ability to do,
Speaker 4: so everyone just like, watch out type of thing. So
Speaker 4: I think offensive success is going to be the biggest
Speaker 4: thing that I probably you know, look at it from
Speaker 4: you know, the defense. I don't have concerns about. I
Speaker 4: just I think more than anything, I think everyone's just
Speaker 4: ready to see this offense because there's been a lot
Speaker 4: of talk about it. So I would just say offensive success,
Speaker 4: what sort.
Speaker 1: Of balance, or maybe I'll even say lack thereof, because
Speaker 1: there is a part of me that believes this is
Speaker 1: going to be a very run heavy attack and I'm
Speaker 1: only basing that off of the personnel that we feel,
Speaker 1: you know, more or less confident in and maybe this
Speaker 1: wide receiver group will blow us all away. And maybe
Speaker 1: Devin is better with his arm than he was a
Speaker 1: year ago in New Mexico.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I certainly leave space for the possibilities of things manifesting
Speaker 1: that I don't know about. I'm no expert at all,
Speaker 1: but it does feel like with your line being what
Speaker 1: it is, in two backs they like a lot and
Speaker 1: a quarterback that can really run, it feels like we
Speaker 1: could be in for a little bit of a rush
Speaker 1: heavy system, which you know, or maybe in you know,
Speaker 1: intermediate passes. But maybe it's more explosive than I'm expecting.
Speaker 1: But as far as just generally speaking, the balance between
Speaker 1: the run game and the throw game, what are you expecting, Sammy, Well.
Speaker 4: I think you know this, Like you said this def
Speaker 4: this offense is I think gonna be rooted in a
Speaker 4: run first option, in a run first mentality. I've said,
Speaker 4: I think sometimes I say it's gonna be fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I say it's gonna be sixty forty in terms
Speaker 4: of run to pass. But I do think, you know,
Speaker 4: Utah's gonna take their chances. They're gonna, you know, Devin's
Speaker 4: a good quarterback. Devin knows how to get to get
Speaker 4: it done through the air. I think they're gonna they're
Speaker 4: gonna make them. They're gonna do some damage for the air.
Speaker 4: I mean, Dampier even this week said that the area
Speaker 4: that he thinks sees them like that he thinks is
Speaker 4: going to thrive the most is the run game. He's like,
Speaker 4: that offensive line is making up these these massive holes.
Speaker 4: And if the offense is making these massive holes and
Speaker 4: leading to these big run plays, you know, that's just
Speaker 4: gonna open up the pass game. You know, you got
Speaker 4: to keep teams honest. You need to keep these defenses
Speaker 4: on their toes. And I think that, you know, having
Speaker 4: a quarterback like Devin who can run and who can
Speaker 4: throw is going to be a benefit this year. And
Speaker 4: you know, the pass catchers are gonna be great. I
Speaker 4: know Wayshot Intokar are great in pass Pro, which is
Speaker 4: another added benefit for this offense. And so you know,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, I think it's just
Speaker 4: gonna come down to the pass catchers, because if the
Speaker 4: pass catchers aren't doing what they need to do, then
Speaker 4: you're gonna start seeing this offense move to more of
Speaker 4: a run primary system with occasional throws. But you know,
Speaker 4: Beth said that, you know, they don't know right now,
Speaker 4: Like in practice it's one thing, but when the lights
Speaker 4: are on, it's a different thing. Like he again referenced
Speaker 4: that in New Mexico team last year where he thought
Speaker 4: it heading into this, like heading into the season last year,
Speaker 4: that he had like six or seven pass catchers that
Speaker 4: he could rely upon, and then they all started struggling,
Speaker 4: but the running backs were really thriving, and so they
Speaker 4: turned into a run first offense. So it's just gonna evolve.
Speaker 4: I think that you know, we're gonna see how this
Speaker 4: offense maybe, like I honestly, the team we see week
Speaker 4: one might not be the same often we see the
Speaker 4: last week of the season, and it's just going to
Speaker 4: depend on who is performing at the high level and
Speaker 4: who's earning becks.
Speaker 1: Trust, have you landed on where you think Utah exists
Speaker 1: in this Big twelve ecosystem? I'm telling you every whether
Speaker 1: it's a podcast or an article or you know college
Speaker 1: football media members or experts, who who I trust?
Speaker 2: And this isn't just the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: And look, I've always been of the opinion Sammy that
Speaker 1: this is the sport that is the hardest to predict
Speaker 1: year in and year out. And that's before every roster
Speaker 1: had the changeover and the turnover it does now during
Speaker 1: the offseason. I mean, every team has at least, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty forty new players. Some teams have more. Utah State
Speaker 1: has eighty. So it feels wide open. Both the race
Speaker 1: for the CFP the race for just college football is
Speaker 1: elite in in the Big Twelve. I feel like most
Speaker 1: people believe Utah is still a Tier one Big twelve team,
Speaker 1: including Vegas. But just generally speaking, where do you think
Speaker 1: Utah exists in this Big twelve ecosystem?
Speaker 4: I honestly like this conference is so hard to read
Speaker 4: and predict, like you said, and it's just kind of
Speaker 4: it's it's interesting to see. I mean, I've been asked
Speaker 4: so many times to do in pre season ranking, and
Speaker 4: at this point, I just split it up into tiers.
Speaker 4: I have contenders, middle of the pack and bottom of
Speaker 4: a pack, Like I can I see Utah being in
Speaker 4: that contender's top half top third of the conference. You know,
Speaker 4: Arizona State's up there, Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas State, Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: You know those are all those teams that I see
Speaker 4: in the in the in the top half of the
Speaker 4: conference or the top third, I should say, actually, and
Speaker 4: then you know by U, Cincinnati, Colorado, Kansas TCU in
Speaker 4: the middle pack, and then the bottom would be you know, Arizona, UCS, Colorado,
Speaker 4: West Virginia. I know I probably forgot somebody because they're
Speaker 4: sixteen teams. But you know, I think Utah does if
Speaker 4: you talk and stay healthy, I very strongly believe that
Speaker 4: they can go toe to toe with all with every
Speaker 4: team in the conference. You know, you know, you have
Speaker 4: Texas Tech at home, which is an added benefit. You
Speaker 4: have Kansas State at home added benefit, you have Arizona
Speaker 4: State at home. So that's that's all nice, and that's dandy,
Speaker 4: and that's good. You have that home field advantage Baylor
Speaker 4: on the road, by you on the road. Those are
Speaker 4: going to be tough environments to play in. But Utah,
Speaker 4: if they stay healthy and do what they need to do,
Speaker 4: I really think this team could go toe to toe
Speaker 4: with anybody.
Speaker 1: All Right, before I sayd you loose, what are you
Speaker 1: willing to say about where you believe Utah will be
Speaker 1: prior to their trip to Provo? So it's the opener
Speaker 1: at U SA LA at the Rose Bowl, it's a
Speaker 1: cake walk against cal Poly. At home, it's a road
Speaker 1: trip to Laramie against a Wyoming team they should handle.
Speaker 2: Then home versus Tech Morgantown, West.
Speaker 1: Virginia, then home Arizona State bye week mixed in there.
Speaker 1: So after those six games, prior to the trip to Provo,
Speaker 1: where do you believe Utah football will be?
Speaker 4: Oh? God, that's so, that's that's that's that's hard because
Speaker 4: you know, I could see losses to Texas Tech and
Speaker 4: Arizona State, but I could also see Utah pulling off
Speaker 4: wins against both of them. So you know, I could
Speaker 4: see Utah maybe going six and oh, but I could
Speaker 4: also see five and one. I think that's that's a
Speaker 4: safe bet for me. I mean, worst case scenario is
Speaker 4: six and two. I think you or not six and two,
Speaker 4: four and two. Don't do math on the air, kids,
Speaker 4: but I think that worst case scenario four and two,
Speaker 4: best case scenario six and oh. Realistically, five and one
Speaker 4: probably fair enough.
Speaker 2: All right, Sammy, where can people go find your work?
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Sammy, I have a great weekend. We'll catch
Speaker 2: up soon.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks Vince.
Speaker 2: All right, our friend Sammy.
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