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So there's been controversial commentaries, controversial things that have been
happening here in the state of Utah, and uh Mark
Harlan has been a bit in the crosshairs, if not
only Utah fans, but BYU fans and for BYU fans
is more kind of a joke thing. I mean, like,
you know, they kind of poking fun out of whatever
he does, how he's doing it, et cetera. Utah fans
are kind of evaluating who they whether or not they
like this guy. Whether or not they see a future
with this athletic director. Sometimes they like him, sometimes they
dislike him. Anyway, he was called up from the bullpen
this last season. There was a little bit of a
controversy surrounding the College Football Playoff the selection committee. He
was called up from the bullpen to enter into the committee.
BYU fans felt like this was a conflict of interest.
He wasn't going to advocate for BYU and by you
ended up getting left out of the committee. For all
those conspiracy theorists out there, they feel like maybe Mark
Carlin was not an advocate for the big twelve family members.
Speaker 1: It is what it is.
Speaker 4: But there's some I guess recent news here, Ronald three
Man Weaver that you've been monitoring. It sounds like Mark
Carlin's going to be on the CFP committee again in
twenty twenty six. For secutive years now BYU has been
left out with and without Harland on the committee, I believe,
but one more year if BYU is on the precipice,
this may not bode well, at least from the vantage
point of blau fans for BYU.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Jeff Coles at the Desert News, who covers the University
of Utah Sports. He's the one that put the article
out that after you know, serving of the college football
Selection Committee in the final months of the twenty twenty
five season, he'll be back for the twenty twenty sixth season.
They announced this on Monday. He will be one of
thirteen members that determines which teams participate in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: You know, as we.
Speaker 6: Said that, he's fulfilled the seat last year, you know,
with they looked at letter director Mack Rhodes took a
leave of absence for the personal reasons in November.
Speaker 5: We know what the reasons were behind all of that.
Speaker 6: So yeah, look, he's one of six athletic directors on
this year's committee, Arkansas's athletic director and then obviously the
committee will return Louisiana's Brian Magaret, Nebraska's Troy Dannon, Middle
Tennessee's Chris Morasso, Virginia Virginia's Carla Williams. So yeah, look,
I know people don't want to have Mark Harland on,
but look, you need representation from the Big twelve, and
BYU was the first team out. And look, if he's
gonna have he's gonna advocate for the You it's been.
Speaker 5: We know that for sure.
Speaker 6: But if ba's playing well and they're undefeated, whether Mark
Harland likes by you or not, he's not gonna be
at overlook that BA is gonna come in higher rank
than Utah. Rightfully so because of everything that they did,
so they're gonna be in the mix. And I know
people aren't gonna like this, but in order right now,
been at this stating point for the college football playoffs
to understand for it to be good. If BAU and
Utah are behind each other, that boats well. I know
people are gonna say no, Ron, it doesn't. But if
they're gonna change the resume thing, if they're gonna change
the goalpost and move it every week that they want to,
the only possible way is to have someone who represents
the Big Twelve, even though it's the school of No
and he doesn't like to lose. This is all gonna
bode well. Been as long as BYU beats Utah, That's
how I look at it. As long as BYU has
a better record than Utah on the Big Twelve, they
beat Utah every single year, doesn't matter in my opinion,
how long he's on the committee, whether you like it
or not, that's what it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: I know BAU fans can be like, Okay, replace Mark Carlon.
You know with Tom Homo, he's retired. It's not gonna
be the case. I don't think that would, ask Brian Santiago.
I could be wrong about that, but I think right
now been the representation for BYU and for the Big
Twelve as a conference looking bigger picture, this is the
best you're gonna get.
Speaker 5: You need someone in the room.
Speaker 6: Yes, he's a ute, he's gonna push for them, but
like I said, my points of bou stays undefeated. They're
playing good football, they're covering the spread. You know, they
take care of all that. And I firmly believe it
doesn't matter if he is an ad of Utah. I
think that'll bode well for BYU.
Speaker 4: Still man, I love your optimism, love the optimism.
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced yet.
Speaker 4: I'm not convinced that that he's got any love for
the coups. I mean, you saw him in the post game,
marching up to the to the to the microphone like
a tyrannical toddler, marching on to the field. Ronnie, come on,
could have been penalized in a live play and you know,
let's say they would have returned it for that's that's.
Speaker 5: The rivalry game yet.
Speaker 6: But I think he's not gonna do himself any favors
if you go in there, just if Bay is the
only team that's winning in the Big twelve, if you
just say all right, no, I'm not gonna do like,
everybody's gonna look at you sideways like these other five
athletic directors and he's the six will look at you.
Former cultures will look at you, uh differently. Gus Malzohon's
gonna be in the room. So I don't know. I
think they I think there's gonna be enough balance where
by you will get their credit. Now, of course they're
still gonna try to undermine and keep them, you know,
in that ten to twelve range and not have him
go up. But you need him, like I think that's
the thing. You need him to some degree because of
representation for the conference. If you if you're this is
I look at this as bad, like this is just
bad pr If you want to say, okay, remove Mark
harl and have nobody represent the Big twelve and just
have bo you doing on our own.
Speaker 5: I don't think that boats well.
Speaker 6: I think having some representation does that because he's gonna
have to be objective. Still, he can still be biased
if he wants, but you're gonna look goofy in the
room if you don't lean objective. And like I said,
Bou beats Utah, he can't say, well, the one loss
of Utah team, but it goes above under be like
he can't say that. Like and if you sit in
the meeting, your counterparts, you know your your coworkers, who
you work.
Speaker 5: With, they're gonna look at you side.
Speaker 6: It's nobody on the committee can put a one loss
to Utah team. Who loses the b YU and the
BO you are to beat an notre dame above you
can't do that that late in November. Man, that's not
how that works. So I don't think it's possible. Like
and that's not even just optimism. I think that's just
pure facts. Even as a BYU guy, if Utah had
beaten was undefeated and BA, you only had one loss
and it was the Utah and that beat them, and
they're right behind each other, the poles, they're gonna go
above them, Like that's just what happens in the nature of.
Speaker 4: It that your college football report. I know BYU fans,
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and national teeth. With mister Harlan on the committee once again,
they feel like they're gonna be shafted, getting the short
end of the stick once again in twenty twenty six,
twenty twenty seven, they're gonna be knocking on the door
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Speaker 1: Nobody does it better than band or Well. It is
time for a Cougar byte.
Speaker 4: Getting here from Mark Pope, your former head coach now
at Kentucky.
Speaker 1: He was asked a question about his roster resource allocation.
Speaker 4: There's been rumors right that Kentucky their payroll for their
player personnel was upwards of twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1: And you know, Utah.
Speaker 4: Fans think, you know, it was a billion dollars at BYU, right,
but they think it was like twenty million at BUYU.
Now we know that numbers. That's that's that's false. I
saw a recent report that said that AJ's payroll was
his payday was around four point four.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's accurate.
Speaker 4: I had projected in that low four range for AJ,
and then when you couple in all his NIL deals,
he could probably get up to that seven million dollar
mark that some people were reporting. Multiple news sources around
the country were prognosticating that that was the number that
he was making between it all his W nine and
your ten ninety nine income, as well as his his sponsorships,
et cetera. But you know, I think I think by
U basketball this year was probably anywhere from ten to
thirteen million as an entire roster. That's my my feeling,
that's my that's kind of how I how you know
what I've been told and whether or not that that
number is right, you know, But I think that's a
I mean, I'm being conservative for I think it's probably
in between that ten to thirteen. And I do think
the player payroll for basketball was actually higher than the
football payroll. I think that one hundred percent last year.
We'll see what happens this year. At any rate, I
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for fake teeth. Later on in Live all Right, Mark
Pope was asked a question about the twenty two million
dollar roster resource allocation.
Speaker 1: This is what he had to say about it.
Speaker 7: Twenty two million dollar number that was kind of penned
to you guys at the beginning of the year. I
guess did you see that affect the group at all?
And I know you guys had big injuries, but did
you maybe learn anything from a resource allocation standpoint from
the season.
Speaker 8: Well, we've heard so many numbers go around that it's uh,
it's just as uh, you know, we live in a
really interesting world. I think that the you know, I
think we were disappointed that we never got to run
with the roster that we thought we had.
Speaker 5: These guys did.
Speaker 8: An amazing job adjusting. You know, you think about DA
came here, uh with with one responsibility in mind and
one framework for for a team and had to transition
through the whole course of the year to be a
player that he did not come here to be. And
that goes with a lot of guys on our team.
We we didn't get to play the way that we
planned to, We didn't get to play with the personnel
we planned to, and all of that changed, and I
think our guys uh raised up and they made the
very very best of a of a complicated, difficult situation
roster wise and health wise, and I can be more
proud of them. It's you know, their response has been
has been incredible. So you know, we we we didn't
get to do anything the way we had planned or
constructed just because of because of health situations. But but
these guys still left us with unbelievable moments and memories.
If not getting to the ultimate.
Speaker 7: Goal that that twenty two million dollar number, that was
kind of penty.
Speaker 1: Right, all right.
Speaker 4: So he didn't say no, Ronnie, and he didn't even
really address it. He did say, though, look like it
would have been nice to have the roster, the health,
the wealth right essentially of what we started out this
season with. You know that Kentucky went hard, they went hard,
they got real, They brought in a lot of talent,
no doubt, and they spent a lot of money, and
they got one more game than b YU, no doubt,
And congratulations Mario.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's done well there Kentucky.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think I think this guy is
still the limit for Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats.
I really do a limited resource. Mark Pope is a
dangerous Mark Pope. They're gonna They're gonna refine and retool,
and I expect Mark Pope and the Wildcats to be
even better next year.
Speaker 1: Now, the question remains, though a lot.
Speaker 4: Of BUA fans would love to see Colin Chandler in
BAU blue rather than Kentucky Blue.
Speaker 1: Will he enter the portal?
Speaker 4: It didn't seem that way. In the post game Colin
Chandler after their loss in the NCAA Tournament, the Kentucky loss, Uh,
he he went off on like just how body in
he is too?
Speaker 1: To body in he is with with Mark Pope.
Speaker 4: I mean, he signed up to be a part of
the Mark Pope era at Kentucky. He signed he wanted
to be a part of the Mark Pope era.
Speaker 1: B Yu.
Speaker 4: He's a Mark Pope guy, So I think we got
to keep an eye on it. But I'm not holding
my breath right now. I'm not holding my breath. We
have a couple other cougar bites as well.
Speaker 1: To get to shout out to Delaney Gibb.
Speaker 4: She's gone viral with some of her comments about how,
you know, not playing on the Sabbath. We were talking
about the Sabbath and we were kind of joking around
a little bit, how you know on vacation. You know,
if you really want to keep the Saba day, all
you go to church, You're you're wearing your gs even
on the U on the you know, the the more
tropical climates, et cetera. And you're not forcing other people
to work while you're on vacation either. That's the true way,
the s lesser way anyway. Delanney Gabb on the Sabbath
day playing basketball and why maybe uh, why the Sabbath
is special and what sets b Yu a part in
that regard.
Speaker 9: I think when you step back and look at it
from a perspective of our team and the culture that
we've built and the faith that we have, it's a
day that we get to you know, have a different
perspective on life, and there's things that are bigger than basketball,
and you know, Jesus Christ and having faith in Him
is something that's bigger than basketball.
Speaker 10: Personally, Like Sabbath Day worship is really important to me,
and as it is for a lot of our I mean,
obviously we're a religious school, and I think that there's
a lot of pros that come from taking that day
a week to focus on, like what Delaney said, things.
Speaker 5: That are bigger than basketball.
Speaker 10: And I think for me personally, it's it's just a
day to rest and reflect and really just recenter my
life on Jesus Christ.
Speaker 11: So it's something that I really value that I know,
every Sabbath Day or Sunday a week, I'm going to
be at home with my wife and kids and be
able to worship the way that I choose.
Speaker 4: So that's that was Delandy Delaney GiB commenting on not
playing ball in the Shabba and I'll practicing on the Sabbath.
Brittley Cannon as well as Lee Kamar, your thoughts, your
commentary to this. I know, I don't know what the
exact question was and who it came from. Ronnie do
we know that?
Speaker 6: You know who knows a reporter asking about not being
able to participate and practice on Sundays because they don't
and the game was on a Monday. So they asked him,
how do you prepare for that when the day before
you don't practice and you don't play on Sundays in
the game is money?
Speaker 5: How do you prepare for a game like that? That
was what the question was.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, Well, look, uh, yeah, we don't play on Sundays.
I remember when I had this trial. You know I
had this trial. I remember I I I went to
a three on three basketball tournament. It was a Saturday
Sunday thing, and uh, I'll be honest, I kind of
tweaked my ankle.
Speaker 1: That was my listener.
Speaker 4: And my dad said, hey, if you want to go,
you can do it. But I don't support it. But
letting you make your own decisions, okay, if you if
you don't want to keep the sabbathday. Like kind of
tweaked my ankle. I'm like, all right, all right, lord,
I'm not going to play play on the Sabbath anymore.
Speaker 1: I will keep it wholly. We had to learn the
lesson the hard way.
Speaker 4: Uh, let's get into a couple more cougar bytes. Got well,
this is more of a college basketball bite affect. Okay,
Tommy Lloyd on his name coming up as the noon
Arra North Carolina coach, this is what he had to
say about it. He could be could he be taking
his talents from you of A to North Carolina?
Speaker 1: Raise up.
Speaker 12: When you made that comment in San Jose about there's
gonna be a great coach after me.
Speaker 5: I know you've made similar.
Speaker 12: Comments like that before about the program history. But some
people who think taking them to think, well, maybe maybe
he's gonna go. So what do you make of that?
And has anything changed me? And as there's still is
talk out there.
Speaker 13: It's absolutely true, there's gonna be another coach. This is
a great program. I didn't say when.
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, and.
Speaker 13: People are gonna speculate all they want. Guys, this team
has my full focus. Nothing nothing, I promise you, nothing
is knocking me off that path. And and you, guys
might calm distractions because you're distracted. That doesn't mean I'm
distracted or we're distracted. You know what's pretty cool once
you get some experience in this deal and you're a
player or you're a coach who's been at it a while,
you get pretty good at, you know, eliminating the distractions.
So I think I'm pretty good at that. And uh,
i just can't wait to get the practice today. I'm
gonna go meet with the staff right now. We're probably
a little bit late. That's why Nate's pushing me to
get up there. And uh, and I'm going to go
try to have a good practice.
Speaker 4: Okay, do you feel like he's getting a little salty
about all these uses?
Speaker 6: He definitely getting salty, hundred percent. Every coach get salty.
He's getting salty. Kilina got salty in his thing. Yet No,
it's like he's salty. That's what it is. Because again,
you know how this goes away. Ben and I there's
a guy who I graduated, Carter, Carter Bond. He put out, Tommy,
you can make you go away, And this is not
my take. This is you could say I'm not leaving Arizona.
I'm staying here and I'm staying put. You know why
he doesn't say that, Ben, and we say this, you
know what the question I would have asked, Hey, Tommy,
is there a reason that you haven't said that you're
staying and staying put in not taking another coaching job
because you're trying to leverage your contract. That that's the
question I would have asked, because that's the reason he's
not saying that. And I get tired and serious, I
get freaking tired of these coaches bull jobbing us immediate.
Speaker 5: You're distracted.
Speaker 1: We're not distracted, dude, we know darn well what it is.
Speaker 5: I'm not stupid.
Speaker 6: You're not saying that you're not gonna leave because if
you win a national championship you want to go back
to the table and says, okay, well I will leave
for that job. This is how business works. Like Tommy,
don't get mad at the media, like it's our job
to ask that we're supposed to keep you on us
and do that. If you want to get mad, then
go talk to your ad Go talk to the donors.
Those are the people because you guys can have this
wrapped up. You could easily have this wrapped up. Tommy
Lloyd has a new extension deal. But no, you're trying
to win a national championship. You're trying to leverage that
and if they don't give you what you want, or
you do lose, then you can bounce like cause that's
what I firmly believe. I frombly believe if he gets
as far and he doesn't win, then I believe he's out.
But I believe if they win then they'll stay in
the conference. Still be a pain to BYU because he's
a great coach under the mark future if you don't
know where he comes from. But man, no, I'm just
I'm over this with coaches. Stop being salty, don't. You're
not mad at us, you're mad at something else. If
you don't, you can make it go away. I always
say that you have the power to make it go away.
And again, like Ben said, you never said no. You
never said no in my.
Speaker 5: Opinion, so it is what it is.
Speaker 6: But I will say this, if he does go away
from the conference, Ben, I don't know who Arizona would get,
but it would help be YU because they got everybody
this year been they even got Kelvin Samson. And if
he stays after winning a national championship, that's good for
the Big Twelve Conference, but that's gonna be tough for
BYU year inning and out.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Look, do we want Tommy Lloyd
to leave, yes and no.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Yes, to maybe be at the top of the food
chain at the Big twelve would be nice, but no,
you want to keep it competitive if you want to
be in the best league in America, to go through
that refiner's fire. And Tommy Lloyd has definitely he has
done a fantastic job there at you of a And
all my brothers would be pretty kicked off if he
left anyway, and that impacts me and my.
Speaker 1: Family at any rate.
Speaker 4: Sean Farnham hopped onto BYU Sports Nation and discuss what
are some of the biggest needs for BYU men's basketball
in the transfer portal.
Speaker 1: It's a topic of conversation we've been broaching at our show.
Speaker 4: What does Sean Farnham college basketball analysts have to say
about it?
Speaker 3: Size?
Speaker 14: Size, productive size and look, I know, okay, why I
want shooting.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find shooting. But they need size.
Speaker 14: And you look at Michigan extremely long, athletic depth to
protect the rim, rebounds at a high clip, their defensive
efficiency number one in the country, number two in the
country's Arizona the defensive end of the floor, Like, what
do they have? They have size on top of size.
They win the rebounding more they win points in the paint. Okay,
let's go to Illinois. Illinois in a really good offensive
rebounding team. They've got multiple guys that are six foot
eleven that are productive around the basket. If you want
to be elite in college basketball, you have to have size.
It's different than the NBA. In the NBA and nowadays
that the floor space and everything else, it's kind of
changed a little bit, but in the college game it's
still a little bit traditional. Like if you can how
Man eight points in the paint, if you can get
extra possessions because of your ability to offensive remount. Look
at the one seeds across the board, Florida great size.
Yeah they got upset, but great size, great length underneath.
Speaker 3: Go look at Duke.
Speaker 14: Duke had great size with Patrick Gungba and Cam Boozer. Like,
you have to have production down low if you're going
to be successful in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I love this take. I think it's spot on.
Speaker 4: I'll do an equivalency take here, Like in college football,
the running back, a premier running back and NFL running
back can get you to double digit wins if they're
healthy right, and they typically can't stay healthier in college
football than they do in the Nflber you're going against
the one percent in the NFL, and those linebackers are
just as big, just as strong, just as fast as
some of those running backs in college football. Still like
you can win football games through the run game. They
changed the dynamics of your team.
Speaker 1: We saw it. We have LJ. Martin the last couple
of years.
Speaker 4: We saw with tyler Ow's year in the in the
twenty twenty twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 1: So you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Like having tyler Ow's year in NFL running back a
mid round NFL draft pick. I mean he he won
football games for byu periods like he put boy on
his back sometimes.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was very impressive.
Speaker 4: So I think the big man, like the big man five,
that seven footer that in college basketball though, like the
NBA used to be a big man's lead the eighties
and nineties and maybe even the early two thousands, but
then it became more of a shooting league. Right space,
you know, just just spreading the floor five out and
stretch four, stretch five, et cetera. It's not to say
that big men don't have a role in in the NBA,
but it's just not as impactful as it once was.
Was shot blocking and back to the basket basketball. The
Shaquille O'Neals, the Kimmi mctumbo's, the Achema Lajah wants that,
David rob and sins Right, that's what I grew up
in and these were first overall NBA draft picks.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I remember in college though, like guys that didn't have
a tremendous amount of like NBA success, they would be
really good in dominating college and lead their teams to
Final fours and national championships. I remember Big Country, Big
Country Bryant Reeves seven foot, two hundred and ninety pounds, right,
just a big, burly boy. Big country is what he
was called. Man and uh man, he was fantastic. Reeves
was an imposing physical presses on the Gordon was prime
to become a dominant center in the NBA. Had a
strong collegiate career with Oklahoma State University, where he averaged
twenty one point five points per game as a senior
and led Oklahoma State to the nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: Five to Final four. He was okay in the NBA. Okay,
he was all right.
Speaker 4: He was an NBAL Rookie second team in ninety six
and that was about it. Played six seasons with the Grizzlies,
average thirteen point three points per game, solid rookie season,
and he evered sixteen point two points per game in
ninety six ninety seven season. Was subsequently awarded with a
six year sixty one eight. I mean, he had success,
there's no doubt. But he was dominant in college basketball.
And that's what a big seven footer can do that
has some skill and right now, that's what b what
he's looking for, and that's what Sean Farnham's looking at.
And Kyle Collinsworth, by the way, Kyle Collinsworth is all
in on the Saint Mary's transfer. He is all in
on getting a seven footer that can be fantastic with
his back to the basket and also be heavily involved
in that high pick and roll game. So that's what
Kyle's looking for. That's what Kyle wants. He even posted
some highlights of the big man from Saint Mary's that
he would like to see come to Provo. McKeever, right, McKiever,
that could be going to ASU, by the way, with
Randy Bennett, but your thoughts, your commentary follow up, Ronald
the three man Weaver.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look what if I always said, I will stay
true to this.
Speaker 6: The best thing about Kevin Young is the NBA and
all this experience and everything. The worst thing about Kevin
Young is the NBA, in the experience and all that
it can be with. Look, your greatest strength been could
sometimes be your greatest weakness, pride, Right, it could get
in the way.
Speaker 5: I've learned that like the gift of gap.
Speaker 6: My dad always says, but it can get me into trouble,
but could also get me out of trouble. It's a
lot of stuff, and it could be with this take
and what I've already said. But look the reason why
I kept saying, if you just want to have insanity,
then you're gonna keep getting the same results. They had
a great run to the Sweet sixteen last season, but
it's been insanity even having undersized guys do that, because
even in the NBA he had guys that could shoot
the three that were six ten, six eleven. But that's
that's his style, that's what he wants and I'm sorry,
that's just that's not gonna work.
Speaker 5: They will continue to lose and.
Speaker 6: They will continue to not be able to compete at
the highest level with these teams. And you're not talking
about the Sweet six teams. You're talking about opportunity to
be in the elite and go to a final four
year in a year out with this coach that can
develop talent.
Speaker 5: And Sean Farnham, who I.
Speaker 6: Think Kevin Younger would expect, and everybody down at BYU
and those who played the game, and who's one of
ESPN's top college basketball analysts. What do you say three
times in a rows, size size, productive size and he
listed all the teams. So I'm gonna reiterate it all
off season for the fifty fifth time. And thank you
Sean for saying shooting will come.
Speaker 5: That will come.
Speaker 6: If you want to focus on shooting, can continue this stretch.
Five six' ten, undersized sixt eight sixt' NINE byu will
continue to get killed in the most important, games in
the crucial. Moments because The texas, GAME i DON'T i
don't think it had anything to do With texas playing
the game. BEFORE i think it had to do That
Voca titus was seven seven foot and BAPTIZING byu and
they were they couldn't do anything about. It and they
had nobody that could look to on that bench that
could put their back to the, basket that could put
him in foul trouble on, score that could rebound with,
them and that could stop his. Shot they didn't have.
That if they had one third of, it you need
all three pieces of the. Puzzle So i'm. Serious the
first piece there you need to do when you get
into the. Portal forget about, shooting forget about guard. Play
Kevin young is very skilled offensively with schemes that he
will get that and get guys to the. Basket you
need to get With Chris, burgess who's the big man.
Coach he meets with The, fords and go get a seven,
Footer go get a guy that's six ten six,' ELEVEN
because i ultimately believe a guy that can put his
basket in the back like they have with foos can
really change this team and really put this team with
the talent the McDonald's all american GUYS like, Bb three bruce,
BRANCH third i really think that. Can help but if
they don't, have that if they have the same type
of big production that, they did this should been is
going to be another disappointing season for the, next season
even if they don't, have injuries because when it, matters
most you, need reboundings you need second, chance points and
you need shot blocking around, the rim and they just
simply did not have enough of that.
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Speaker 1: Of getting they.
Speaker 4: Recruited him he ended Up, At, houston okay and the six,
foot six two hundred and twenty pound guard Originally, From,
pocatello idaho came To Uh wassatch academy balled. Out there he,
got minutes, He played he got playing time this year
last season For The. Houston cougars he saw. The, floor
okay it wasn't maybe, enough though wanted, more time wanted.
More opportunity played in all three, two, games okay averaging
thirty team point eight minutes. Per game so it's not
like he. Wasn't playing it's not like he wasn't on a.
Successful team but he's entering. The portal will he come
back To The houston cougars or is he gonna take
a look AT The. Byu cougars brings a an awesome.
Skill set is he a type of, player though this
combo Guard big gord? CAN handle.
Speaker 1: I think you.
Speaker 4: CAN shoot i mean he always shot twenty seven percent
from the three. Point line he did take in those
thirteen minutes, per game fourteen minutes, per game he took
almost three three point shots per game two. Point seven,
in fact didn't shoot over lee well. Overly efficiently but
could he be a guy that you want to BRING?
Into byu and, if so why would you Want to
ronald the Three.
Speaker 5: Man, weaver yeah this is a guy that can handle.
Speaker 6: THE ball i think in. His size, you know he
obviously can play and pick a Roll Like. Kingston fleming
he can shoot it really well. As well he's got
athletic ability to be able to finish at the rim.
Speaker 5: Really strongly it didn't work out for Him.
Speaker 6: In, houston look sometimes things just gonna go. AS well
i don't think he's gonna BE back i think he
is gonna.
Speaker 5: Move on don't know if it was a.
Speaker 6: Good fit look Playing for using is, different man Playing
For kelvin, sam says a. Different beast you really got
to fully buy into. All aspect that's like, a gritty,
you know tough nose where guys aren't gonna, you know
it's a different type of culture over. There ANYWAY but
i do Think b yu could benefit from this because
if if you were asking him to Take the mahilo minutes,
and play you know as, a stretch, you know two
maybe three of his, size right because he can handle with.
THE ball i think he could. DO that I think
byu is gonna take a look. At him, YOU know
i think they're gonna make. A contact but it, really depends,
you know who else is gonna go into the pole,
of needs who's Gonna stay again, a reminder the transferport
opens up in a, Week bend, April Seventh next tuesday
is when you'll know who will and who won't. BE
going i assume people will start announcing that they'll be going,
this weekend, you know the, pre PORTAL as i like,
To say, BUT no I Think, isaiah harwell it's a
kid that was here in your. Back door you didn't
get him the, First time this would be a great
opportunity for him to.
Speaker 5: COME home i. Don't know it depends if they have
any staff.
Speaker 6: Changes too this might be a good opportunity To Contact,
anson Winder Maybe, paul peterson, you KNOW because i know
they were. Down THERE but i would love to see
him come Back to provo and, be here, you KNOW
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