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and the rest of the Star centacast joining us for
this Thursday, December eighteenth edition of Cougar Sports.
Speaker 2: First and foremost behind the glass architecting the show, getting
us all prepped and ready.
Speaker 3: Let's welcome in Ronald the Three Man, Weaver, Executive producer, Ronnie.
Speaker 4: How you living, I'm living good. Happy Thursday, everybody in
the Road Home. Christmas season is officially here. Christmas music
will be played up until Christmas.
Speaker 2: Happy holladays. Everybody love that man, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Make sure your MIC's also turned up there Ronald the
Three Man, We will welcome in AP Andrew Peterson by
my side here at the Road Home.
Speaker 2: AP, thanks for showing up, showing out today.
Speaker 5: Brother, Yeah, I'm it's a it's a good day. About
a week took Christmas?
Speaker 2: Is it one week? It is one week till Christmas?
One week?
Speaker 5: So this is the last time of the year that
I will be on airs, like going on a cruise
right after Christmas.
Speaker 2: By the way, Puerto Rican. Okay, so it should be good.
Speaker 5: You didn't get the honeymoon because we had to go
back to school and got married on November.
Speaker 2: So finally get into it. What was the marriage date?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 2: I think it's November first. You think, now, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Gotta say, I think because my wife isn't here to
tell me, you know otherwise exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you better get that dialed in. You better know
that the wedding I do know is November. Say it was?
Speaker 3: It was the bye we get a note in your
phone and put all the important page. So this is
a note to all the all the individuals that are
listening that are not wedded yet or they are recently married.
The quickest way to anger your wife is to not
know dates. Not know the date, uh well, marriage date, birthdays,
first day first that, yeah, I mean that helps that.
That's a good one, the birthdays of your children, all
those things, because then they just think you don't care.
Speaker 2: You don't care. I do care, But if you care,
AP the dates eleven am on the dot? On the dot?
Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: Ronald the three man Weaver, You got to know the dates.
If you don't know the dates, they think like, oh,
you don't care. You don't love me as much as
I love you.
Speaker 2: This is very true.
Speaker 6: AP.
Speaker 4: If you are confused, I can always help you. You got
married November first, during the bye week because you said
you would not get married in a b what you footbugging,
which I respect, but I just want to let you
know you got to remember certain things like that the
Crittal birthday.
Speaker 2: You know, Rodnie turned you to yourself up just a
little bit.
Speaker 4: Oh go more smiking. Okay, a little bit, ok a
little bit, Okay. I don't want to kill the the
ear drums, but no, yeah, look, you gotta remember December twentieth.
Gotta remember that date, never will forget it. Gotta remember
August fifteenth, right, that's when even when I propose, because
that's what the that's what the ladies do. They pull
these weird stats out to you. And I have a
list on my phone of like, well do you remember
at the exact time I went into labor? Like you know,
they're like, my wife will do stuff like that. So
I have all of that written down, Ben, And she
already knows she can't pull one over on me. So
I agree, ap, get a list, bro get it, get
the birthday, everything, those other things. Trust me, remember when
you thought you were right, Get all of it down
so that way, you know, I'll get all of it
down that way when you mess up. If you even
if you don't clean the house. You know you have
the dates of like, yes, I was wrong here, dear,
you are right.
Speaker 5: It's like how we have that random stat of where
we were when such an absolutely happened.
Speaker 2: For by A football they have it all down for
the relationship.
Speaker 3: Well, we got a lot of UA football content to
get to here with ap and Ronald the Freeman Weaver
by my side.
Speaker 2: So keep it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna keep it in lock. We're keeping loaded full
of information. We're gonna get a Collinie Chataki addressed the
media yesterday, read between the lines here and then nitty
gritty also David Nixon joining us at three thirty former
b YU great talking some BYU football, the transfer portal,
the potential attrition and acquisitions.
Speaker 2: Via the portal. BYU go into a bowl game.
Speaker 3: It's a rarity for BYU in the modern era to
go against a ranked foe in their bowl games. And
now we've had now two consecutive years where you've gotten
a ranked opponent. I believe if I'm not mistaken, like
if I look at all the bowl games, like one
of the last times that we had this opportunity was
like Oregon State and nine in the Vegas Ball and
you played Jaquiz Rogers, a great running back in his
brother Corey, great wide receiver. They were talented, they were good,
they were well coached. Coach Riley legendary coach in college
football in my mind. Out you know, he coached there
for a long time in Corvalle's before moving on to
Wisconsin and then just you know, it was not the
best move in my opinion, but he got a payday.
Sometimes a payday is is great for retirement, if you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean. But it hasn't happened all that often.
Speaker 3: You get in a huge opportunity, and I would make
the argument that this Georgia Tech team is actually better
than that Colorado team last year.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like that.
Speaker 3: This Georgia Tech team at twenty two is better than
Colorado was last year.
Speaker 2: I believe that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5: I I one thousand percent agree they are more well rounded.
It's not just two players, although I gotta make the
case here Haines King is the best quarterback BYU's played
this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's another hot take.
Speaker 3: So not always saying like you know, this is a
maybe a better ranked opponent than BYU has faced in
the modern era, right, I'd even say, hey, that that
Oregon State team was good. I think this Georgia Tech
team's better. And I think the Georgia Tech team's better
than the Colorado team. You're saying this year. Looking at
all the quarters, we faced some great quarterback We face
some good quarterbacks, some of the best in college football.
Speaker 2: But I think Haines King is the best. I really do.
I think he's really really good.
Speaker 3: You better come with some objective data with PFF and
QBR and quarterback efficiency.
Speaker 5: Then how many quarterbacks that we faced finished in the
in the Heisman voting?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think any ero zero. Ainsking was tenth. Okay,
so Haines was right there, I mean the top ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah, top ten player in college football according to the
Heisman voting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which I don't always trust.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I need Look, I'm a I'm a committee guy.
But it can only be weighted fifty percent. So you
better give me some objective data points shit for you. Yeah,
I need more data, So give the data.
Speaker 2: Eye test. No, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't trust any human eye test unless I'm like
Cougar Board. I only trust my own cogar. I only
trust my own eye test unless why I love Cougar Nation,
Cougar Board, Cougar fans. They they'll they'll listen to the media.
They're like, yeah, but I don't trust them fully. I
gotta go see with my own eye. So they go
down there with their Cougar Club membership. They flash the badge,
they flash the card, you know, and then they go
into the the uh, the screw Imitch, the fall Camp
scrimmage of the spreenship. He's like, all right, I'm gonna
see all conclude.
Speaker 2: So I need a little bit of both.
Speaker 3: I need the human element the committee, and I need
the PFF. I need the QBR, I need the qback
efficiency rating as well. So, uh but a couple of
hot takes to start off the show, we'll get into
Kalonie sound.
Speaker 2: David Nixon, John Beck will join us.
Speaker 3: At four oh five former b y U great talk
Jake Retslof and his uh his potential uh versus ole
miss here on uh on a on a great opportunity
for Tulane in the wave. So shout out to Jake
retch Loft and John Beck's gonna be joining us to
discuss him and then we'll have a little sports court
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Speaker 3: So we'll get into a few soundbites here from Kalani Satake.
You're not gonna want to miss this. As he addressed
the media, yesterday. Kalani is in a great mood right now.
Why is it in a good mood because BYU, its
donor base, its corporate sponsorships, ponied up and decided we
want Kilani as at our as our football ambassador. We
want you Kilani to be our guy for the foreseeable future.
We want to make you the Polynesian level.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: That's what happened. That's what occurred, and it was a
glorious day. It took a little bit of leverage to
get it done. You had to have a Penn State
offer of over eleven million per year and unlimited nil
resources and YadA, YadA, YadA. But we got it done.
So he's in a good mood and he's optimistic and
he's positive. Let's listen in. As Kilani Satake addressed the
media yesterday, I don't I don't see I see Kevin Young,
I see I see Kevin Yach. Okay, how do you
feel practices have gone in preparation for the Bowl game?
Speaker 6: I think practice has gone really well.
Speaker 8: We need them for the development part of our players
and then getting some live work, you know at the
end of practice.
Speaker 6: We got that done today and it was good. It
was kind of a good precursor to.
Speaker 8: What we're seeing spring ball, probably, and I like the
guys being able to, you know, just get as many
practices as we can.
Speaker 6: Obviously there's things that we can still improve on. So
it's all part of the work and.
Speaker 8: I'm thankful that we have the extra work to get
it done.
Speaker 6: So it was nice.
Speaker 3: So typically, you know, people wonder, Okay, how many practices
can you get in? I mean, you have a maximum
amount of practice you can get in. I think it's
roughly about fifteen practices. You don't always take up all
those practices, though, more often than not you get about
ten of those practices in from what I've seen and
what I've heard, and then you do a lot of
walkthroughs in film work and stuff like that. You're still
trying to maintain health while providing experience for the backups.
Speaker 2: What backups right now? Would you say? Which roster players
right now?
Speaker 3: Wow need a little bit more development to become stars
or playmakers next year?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I look at last year for instance, like okay, which
players got practices during the during Bowl preparation prior to
the Alamo bole that ended up showing up showing out
this year, right. I think John tom Waypey was a
great example of a guy that got reps. You know,
he did play some lady, but he got significant reps.
He had accelerated reps and accelerated development, and we saw
what he did this year as the little silver Bat
guerrilla next to Chiano Tanavasa, Papa Bear, next Toime that
three tech and one tech. They were phenomenal this year.
That's one example that I think. I think as KALFUSI
got a lot of reps last year too, and we've
seen more of him this year. He became more of
a prominent player for b Y and I expect him
to be maybe a star next year. But those are
a few of the guys that I thought, okay, they
they developed during that those bull practices and got more reps.
And uh, I think even Trey Alexander too, Yeah, you know,
Trey Alexander was another one that really accelerated his development
through the Bowl week and into spring ball, et cetera.
So that those are the guys that I look at
and like, Okay, who's the next guy who's going to
be the next man up to develop and get more reps?
Speaker 2: This week?
Speaker 3: And leading up to Bowl Bowl, this Bowl game versus
Georgia Tech.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I think another player to add to the
list of players I want to see this year.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 5: See someone like Siona Moa, just because I know he
would have contributed this year, but he didn't because he
was hurt and so he's had a lot of time
to sit on the sidelines watch He's watched a lot
of tape, but he hasn't been able to do a
whole lot due to his injury.
Speaker 2: I want to see him get some reps.
Speaker 5: I want to see him play in the Bowl Game
because there's a real chance we don't have LJ.
Speaker 2: Martin next year. He could go to the NFL.
Speaker 5: That's a real possibility for him, and I'm not sure
where he's leaning, and so you need someone like to develop.
We probably need some guys to come in via the
transfer portal because there's not a whole lot behind l J.
Speaker 2: Martin and that I.
Speaker 5: Really trust to be guys that are top level contributors
in the Big twelve.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 5: And then I want to I want to see someone
like Taan Nkua because you're gonna lose Chase Roberts. You
I don't know what's gonna go on in the in
the wide receiver room through the off season. I want
someone like Tanakua to come in, get some get some reps,
get some development, because there's a lot of question marks
behind Parker Kingston where that wide receiver room is next year.
Speaker 2: I like the Tanakua Teke.
Speaker 3: We've seen some flashes of potential in springball, in fall
camp and and these opportunities, and you know, I think,
you know, maybe had a few injuries here and there.
You see two guys Letation Waller and uh and and
dom Mackenzie Lee. Okay, so now we okay, who's gonna
be that next guy, that next man up? And you
expect it to be Tatakua because of the last name
of the Kua. Now then Akua name as is being
had for good and evil in the world's been in the.
Speaker 2: News in the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: It's like when you're talking statistics, uh, I mean, Pooka's
taken over the NFL as the number one receiver. He's
the best receiver in in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: Gotten it a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 3: Apparently this is an ignorant thing like Pooka Nakua is
a vibe.
Speaker 2: By the way, Pookaakua. Everyone loves Pooka kakula.
Speaker 3: Uh. He's just He's a guy that that you gravitate
towards because of the positive energy, because of the smile,
because of.
Speaker 2: The he's a vibe. He's fun to be around.
Speaker 3: He's fun to be around, and like, he would never
do anything like that that would be offensive. Like I
think there were some hecklers saying like go Ravens. He's
like Ravens suck, you know, like, you know, just having
fun with it. He hops on to podcasts and he
talks about takes shots at like refs and how refs
are are ego driven and maybe even a little bit narcissistic.
They say they have their text threats like hey did
you see what I did? You see that call I made?
Amongst their friends. They take pride in that whatever, you know,
taking shots there. Well, recently he was on a podcast
who this podcast, I'm not familiar with this particular podcast,
but apparently it's a Jewish male that runs it and
is interviewing him and tells Puka that he needs to
do this little anti Semitic dance. The guy's Jewish and
he's telling him to do some sort of anti Semitic dance,
and so now Pooka, after he does it ignorantly, has
to go on to social media and apologize to everybody
because he didn't know it was an anti Semitic dance.
But the Jewish guy was the one teaching him, and like,
I don't know what the equivalency would be.
Speaker 2: Got to be careful where you get your advice from.
You know, it's like, you.
Speaker 3: Know, it's like me like teaching people, say yeah, leading
the charge at at at Cincinnati, saying f the Mormons,
you know what I mean, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing it. Anyway, he had to go to
social media apologize.
Speaker 3: Thank goodness, we're not in like cancel culture anymore, like
where this guy would get rapedol the coals and everyone
just back.
Speaker 2: He's uh, he's so immoral.
Speaker 3: He should never play another down in the National Football League.
He should donate to anti semitic or to to pro
Semitic UH organizations. Take all that money, by the way,
he's not making that much, maybe a million, and he
takes home because of taxes in California.
Speaker 2: Never live in California, don't live in California. It's a mess,
uh fifty place you'll lose because you don't make any money.
Speaker 3: Like the taxes are so freaking high. He always coming.
He's only he's a rookie. He's leading there.
Speaker 2: Not a rookie.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's he's on his rookie contract and
he's only gonna take home four to eighty thousand dollars and.
Speaker 2: He's a sixth round rookie deal. He is the number
he's the number one wide receiver of the NFL.
Speaker 3: That that's this is this is the thing. Life is
not fair, right, nor is the NFL apparently so uh,
he'd be making Puka Nakua would be making more money
as a college football player had he stayed in college,
like I'm telling you he's stayed in college rather than
been drafted.
Speaker 2: He'd be making more.
Speaker 3: Money at BYU than in the NFL because he'd be
an independent contractor nine ten nine to nine employee that
would not be taxed up front. And if he had
a good financial planner wealth advisor like vander Wealth and
a good CPA, he's he's got some tax smart wealth advantages,
he'd probably be making more money as a college football
player had he continued to play and and and uh,
you know, exhausted his eligibility.
Speaker 2: Right, So anyway, that's a sad day. It's just said. Anyway,
I'm going around in circles here.
Speaker 3: Samson Kua also got a rested for stealing a Los
Angeles Laker basketball player is suv. Apparently they valid it
at the hotel and it was it was not. Uh,
I guess permission was not given to take the suv.
So I I hope Tayana Kuwa is not in the
news for bad stuff.
Speaker 2: I hope he's in the news for good stuff. Learn
learn from the stakes of his older brothers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gotta be careful, right, you gotta be careful now.
Pooka's was out of ignorance like that.
Speaker 2: Dude's a vibe. He would never do anything.
Speaker 3: I don't think that would be yeah, accidental if you
view the video.
Speaker 2: He was kind of set up. He was set up here.
So anyways, state goodness, we're not in cancel clock.
Speaker 4: That would be like me, as a brother been setting
up one of my would that'd be like me as
a brother set up my brother in to make you know,
maybe a brother joke or maybe brother's terms on here
and I bring that up.
Speaker 5: There are certain brother words that I could use that
you set up your Brotherreo for can't can't, can't do that.
Speaker 4: I think that's bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can't do that, man.
Speaker 3: You know So anyway, that's kind of what I'm looking
at with these bowl practices.
Speaker 2: These man, that's my pick. I like that. It's a
great pick.
Speaker 3: Reggie Frishnet is a guy that that balled out at
Snow for a season, goes to Weaver. He's way too
good to be at Weber and so he transfers to Byu.
So Reggie uh is a is A is a target.
I think you're it's a great take, great size, great speed.
He's gonna be a good one. He's like I think
he's a more explosive. Chase Roberts is how I would
describe him right now. Faster, top top end speed, so
Chase can stress the field. There's no doubt. But I
love Chase actually in the slot. Love him in the slot,
kind of like a Neil Powell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I like him out of the slot, big body, he
can play on the outside, There's no doubt. But I
like him as a slot guy at the next level,
even like look at Pooka. Pooka's playing the slot in
the NFL, big body possession receiver. That that can get
you if you don't have a matchup a good matchup
on him, because he accelerates so quickly, he'll get behind you,
stack you stack the route, meaning he'll get up on
top of the dB in those first ten yards and
then you're done. You're done because he's gonna kind of
break away because he's so strong.
Speaker 2: That kick. You guys have never had it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you covered anybody, but if you
if someone if a wide receiver stacks you and that
and that cleat comes into your shin, you're done.
Speaker 2: You're done. You know.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like when you're riding the bike when
you're younger and you have like the metal pedals, you
know what I'm talking about, and you slip and.
Speaker 2: He goes right into the shin. It's just like that.
The abrasion, the blood, the bruising. You just let you're done. Yeah,
you go.
Speaker 3: It's it's an open wound and you're just done. Anyway,
let's get back to Kialaani sound here and the Nady Gritty,
brought to you by Complete Circuit Electric, Complete Circuit Electric,
Utah dot com KILLADI. How locked in is this team
right now?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I think these guys love football, so I mean they're
they're excited to play the game, and they're excited that
we extended the season. And then we have a chance
to do with the seniors again and we have to
go to Orlando and have fun there. But at the
same time, we know we're going there for a game
and sold these guys are. These guys are focused, and
I feel good about other preparation.
Speaker 6: I think they'll be ready by the time we get
there next week.
Speaker 3: Locked in, baby, locked and loaded. And that's what you
expect them to say. That's you know, it was like,
that's coach speak. Are they really locked in? Or some
of these guys flirtations of the transfer portal? Are some
of these guys uh negotiating their contract?
Speaker 2: Because now it's the contract contract season.
Speaker 3: It's contract season where you're renewing contracts or entering the portal,
so you're going in your negotiating with the GM.
Speaker 5: Can we talk about how dumb it is to see
these graphics from various universities saying resigned resigned.
Speaker 2: A player, like are you kidding?
Speaker 3: But that's what's happening, though, Hey, that's what happening, And
they're utilizing as a as a positive public relations moves, like, hey,
we retained our guy, we got our guy, we got
our quarterback, we got a running back, we got a
wide receiver, we retained him. Like it's it's just the
calendars off, right, But in this particular, in this particular situation,
I mean, I understand there's a little bit of a
down time with finals and all that stuff, so they're
negotiating all this leading up to Bowl week, which for.
Speaker 5: Me, it's I don't see it as a positive pr thing.
It's like, yeah, we we are not a strong enough
brand that we couldn't keep our guy without Well, that's
more money at him.
Speaker 2: That's what it says to me. Signed, that's what resigned
says to me. That's the thing. Value.
Speaker 3: Your value goes up or down depending on how you
produce and how healthy you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's that's the issue.
Speaker 5: With just I'm okay with upping the salary and everything,
but to make it a big social media deal that hey,
we we had to resign our guy or he was
gone is a little interesting to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine with it. I'll be on it. I
understand where you're coming from. It's a new era.
Speaker 3: Everyone's struggling to like like the optics of it, right
because like we're kind of I'm saying, you're just saying,
like the optics are stupid, Like what.
Speaker 2: Are they doing?
Speaker 3: Resign and they're promoting it. I'm like, this is the
world we'll live in. That's the competition you're in in
that day, that week, and the competition is.
Speaker 2: It's like we get excited.
Speaker 3: If you're a b YU fan, you're getting excited that
a Texas running or Texas linebacker is in the portal
portal and he's looking for ANIL deal and Texas said, nah,
we're good. You know, you're like, yeah, huzzah, he had
an offer from BYU, let's go get him.
Speaker 2: Uh And then if it's your own.
Speaker 3: Guys like, oh yeah, we didn't want to pay for
him anyways, like Crew Wakeley A, we didn't want to
pay for him anyways.
Speaker 2: He was overpriced. Go to Purdue, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Keeling your overpriced, good to Miami whatever, You're probably anyway,
you're not even gonna see that much playing time. There's
so many great wide receivers there in the MIA. There's
so many Dade County products out there. Oh, you're probably
not gonna see a kind of like fingers crossed. You
hope he's not as good and productive there, but like
you still want to support him. Yeah, you know what
I mean, Like it's this whole dichotomy within your own persona.
Speaker 2: Who else did we lose?
Speaker 3: We talked about Yeah, Harrison Taggart, right, Harrison Taggart.
Speaker 5: And he didn't he he didn't have a great year
being I struggled. He wasn't as good as he was
the year before.
Speaker 3: Once again, you have to what everyone discounts is like
the system and the position, coach and the coordinator. So
you have a trifecta there that's not associated with the
dollar amount. So you're getting a bigger dollar amount to
go to these other places, But there's not a coach
worth their salt that's going to guarantee a starting spot.
They may say, oh, yeah, you're gonna be right in line.
I think Crew thought he was gonna start. I'm sure
Harrison thought he was gonna start. Keeland thought he was
gonna start. You're still gonna have to go merit it
like you have to produce otherwise you will be benched.
That is football. That is the transactional nature of football.
So when I mentioned it's like, yeah, every year you're
negotiating your value off of the prior season and also
your health. If you're not healthy, you have no negotiating
power on less leverage, Like it's significantly reduced if you're
coming off in acl And they're like or an Achilles.
Speaker 2: I mean, who's willing.
Speaker 3: To pay for you? Who's willing to pay for you?
You're probably better off sticking where you're at, you know,
And it's not always weird to look at Cody Epps.
Cody EPs was a good football player for BYU?
Speaker 2: Was he not?
Speaker 3: And then you know, towards the end of his career
his last yet hurt. Well, after the twenty twenty two season,
right he had that breakout Gambers, his Notre Dame and
all this stuff.
Speaker 2: He enters the portal, he gets a nice payday at BYU.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but after that when he went into the portal,
what happened Western Kentucky? And he's like, nah, I'm good,
Like I'm not even gonna play football anymore because Western
Kentucky's not where I wanted to be. Yeah, in the
first does that make sense? So it's kind of an
interesting world. There's no doubt, and you have to negotiate
at the end of the season every season. And so
from a from a I would say a reality TV show,
it's great for us.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it gets for media. Yeah.
Speaker 3: People said that this new world would limit the it
would ruin the sport. Some people say it has but
like from an entertainment value, it's improved the sport. And
that's an issue we all struggle with right now.
Speaker 5: I mean, think about last summer. Normally summers there's like
you're just going through evergreen topics.
Speaker 2: You know, should we expand the statum? Should we not?
Type deal? Last summer was great in terms of content.
Speaker 5: It wasn't all positive for BYU, but boy there was
a story every day.
Speaker 3: A story every single day. Let's go go to break,
we'll come back. A key question to Killane bear bachmeer.
Is he a full go right now? In practice? Is
he healthy?
Speaker 2: Is he strong? Is he nourished? Is he strengthen?
Speaker 3: How's that? How's that ankle? We'll discuss it on the
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Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: I am and I'm actually gonna be going to the
pop Tarts Bowl. Guy, So I actually leave on Christmas.
So I'll leave with leave my family. But it doesn't matter.
There's so many things that you can do. The wife
and I will celebrate the anniversary on the twentieth, like
I told you guys. So there's a lot seal going
on Jersey's first Christmas. But look, hey, don't dress up
as Santa. Give her everything that she needs, you know, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. The new old fashioned way going to
the pop Tarts bowls for Christmas? Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Can I tell me lots of pop tarts too.
Speaker 5: I have an opinion, Okay, I think that the National
Championship Game should be the pop Tarts Bowl just because
of all the things around it.
Speaker 2: The pop Tarts Bowl is American culture. It really is.
Speaker 5: Everything good about America is the pop Darts Bowl, and
that should be the college football National Championship Game.
Speaker 2: Why is Orlando and the pop Tarts Well, why is
that America?
Speaker 6: God?
Speaker 2: Why is that hashtag America? I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's just the all the pop tars bull mascots are
hilarious to me.
Speaker 2: He's a pop I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's like pop Tarts, sugar, sugar, processed.
Speaker 2: Food, ready made, pre made. It's just good fun. It's
good fun. Everything about the production is great, Universal Hollywood.
Speaker 5: The production of the of the Bowl is great. Everything
about the Pop Tarts Bowl is great.
Speaker 2: It's America. It's America, sob city, It's diabetes, absolutely, all
sorts of different flavors. It's the melting pot.
Speaker 3: Oh my heavens. Anyway, hot take from Andrew Peterson. Let's
get into a couple more kilate cuts. Bear Bachmeier's health.
Bear Bachmeyer your starting quarterback. He's sustained what seemed to
be a high ankle spray in the Big twelve Championship
Game number five for Texas Tech. Is a large human.
I believe he weighs well over three hundred pounds. Caleb
Payday Douglas is his name, and I'm gonna confirm this,
but I think he's well over well over three hundred pounds,
Caleb do Douglas. He's a junior in tier defensive lineman.
He was very he was dominating in that game. Unfortunately
for by U. Unfortunately for that that particular situation.
Speaker 2: With with bear Bachmeyer.
Speaker 3: But he rolls up on on on Bear's ankle and
it externally rotates the toe.
Speaker 2: That's never good. You never want that.
Speaker 3: But this is what Kilani had to say about bear
Bachmeyer's health status yesterday.
Speaker 6: He's right to sing, yep. I mean, you know full goal.
Speaker 8: We we've still a long long time to get there,
but we'll keep improving. I like what I've seen from
the other quarterbacks too, so you know it's a process.
But I thought he had a good practice today.
Speaker 3: So correction, Caleb Douglas is the wide receiver number five
on offense, and then the defense will live at Number
five is who Rodnie you whispered in my arm.
Speaker 4: Number five for texattack is Colewanowski. That's the safety. Lee
Hunter is number two, the defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: A number thirty pounds three yea three thirty yeah, three
and thirty six foot that's.
Speaker 2: Hundred and thirty pounds. Rolls up on my ankle. I'm
not walking for it.
Speaker 4: No, you're not walking for three for three months?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry my internet. I mean it's just sitting there,
just scrolling. I'm like, as I'm trying to look up number.
There he is right there. Okay, Lee Hunter, big man,
big boy, three hundred and thirty pounds high ankle spray.
Speaker 2: So he's practicing. Is he fools? To me? Though? How
healthy is bardy thing?
Speaker 5: I would give you probably seventy five eighty percent, That's
what I think. There's no way that three hundred thirty
pounds brains my ankle. I'm not bar Bachmeyer, but I
bear Bachmeyers a lot of things, and he's great, But
I don't think he has super healing abilities to get
off of three hundred and thirty pounds rolling on your ankle.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm right there with you. I think it's like
seventy five eighty seventy five eighty at best. Let's get
into a few more sound bites. How motivated is the
team to get that twelfth win? It would it be
the first time in twenty four years that they got
over eleven wins.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there's plenty of motivation. The guys, like
I said before, they love football. Another opportunity to play.
I mean, obviously everybody's going for the playoffs, but the
truth is we have an opportunity to play again, and
we had the opportunity to practice again. So last year,
those Bowl practices are really good in our development for
this year and this year.
Speaker 6: This will be the same thing for next year.
Speaker 8: So it's good for the developmental guys, the guys are
still underclassmen. For the seniors, good that we get the
extended season one more time.
Speaker 6: The disappointment that.
Speaker 8: Goes real quick, that goes away real quick when you
have attitude of appreciation what you get to do. So
these guys love the game. They love that they get
to represent the right way, and then they're they're they're
more than anything. They're they're grateful that they get to
play this game again.
Speaker 3: Look you look at year over year BYU Cougar football,
uh and it's uh, it's difficult to get into that
that twelve win mark. Right typically these you're playing eleven
games historically, Uh, so you're not getting to that mark.
In twenty nineteen ninety six, you had fourteen wins one
loss because you had the University of Hawai, you went
to y and so you got an extra game, I
believe on the mainland. Uh, and so that that's when
you typically get you got. You got an undefeated season
in nineteen eighty four, which was the you know, for
many the best season in BYU football history. Uh, you've
gotten eleven and two, eleven and two the last two seasons.
You got an opportunity to get to twelve and two
with this Georgia Tech Bowl Game ten and three in
twenty twenty one, eleven and one in twenty twenty. You
came a yard short that that season because you lost
to Coastal Carolina Mullets versus the Mormons. In twenty eleven,
you had ten two thousand, ninety had eleven. Two thousand
and eighty, had ten two thousand and seventy, had eleven
two thousand and six, you had eleven wins two thousand, sorry,
two thousand and one was the last time there was
twelve and two that season, so it kind of went
off the rails, right. You had two I believe, two
consecutive losses final game of the regular season and then
your bowl game loss as well.
Speaker 2: So it's been a minute, it's been over.
Speaker 3: It's been twenty four years since Boa you got to
twelve wins, What would that mean to the program?
Speaker 2: Maybe, well, it's one of those.
Speaker 5: It's another one of those before Andrew Peterson was born stats.
So we live in a college football world where it's
what has what have you done for me recently? I'm
a believer that the reason Cincinnati was able to get
into the fourteen playoffs is because one they've done it
a few years where they've been consistently that good and
UCF went twelve to zero, and so it put teams
like that on the radar. And so getting to twelve wins,
if you get it, it further puts your your your
name as.
Speaker 2: A brand, a national brand.
Speaker 5: If you're able to get eleven twelve wins year and
year out ten to twelve wins, people take you a
lot more seriously when it.
Speaker 2: Comes selection time. So I think it's a huge deal.
Speaker 5: If you can get to twelve wins, you can you
can really sit there all off season and gain momentum
in the eyes of the national media.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how does getting a win in a bowl game
versus a ranked opponent impact? Like I'm talking about like
the donor base, the fan base, and.
Speaker 2: Even the media to like how we view this season.
Speaker 3: Those that appine on a season like if BYU loses
Georgia Tech, is this season a bit soleied? You'll they
have two losses essentially to two teams. Yeah, I mean
you you have a potential national champion that you lost to,
and then you lost to the twenty second best team
in college football, which could be better than They could
be better than U of A. They could be better
than Utah. You know, it just it's depending on how
you look at it. Uh but uh, how much does
that does that solely the way you view this season?
Speaker 5: I think it does because people remember, like the last
there's there's a few things people remember when it comes in.
They remember the first and the last, and so when
you everything in between is a little bit muddy than there.
I mean, beating util is always great, We'll always remember that.
But when you end on a high note, you just
you look back at things fondly, Like we looked back
last year great because we destroyed Colorado. If we'd lost
to Colorado last year, it would be a good season.
But we wouldn't think of a view that last seasons like.
Speaker 2: It was such a disappointment at the end. Maybe the
twenty eleven season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like, oh, you got the ten wins,
but that's a fake take.
Speaker 5: We don't look at twenty twenty one as fondly because
we lost to UAV.
Speaker 3: It would be similar to twenty twenty one season. Yeah,
no doubt, no doubt about it. Before we get into
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the Bowl game and Bowl week. They're gonna be taking
off to head out to Orlando for the Bowl festivities
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Speaker 2: A grand time.
Speaker 3: But it's a business trip because why the big Because
if By doesn't win, we're gonna look at this season.
Speaker 2: Maybe I will never eat a pop tart again. I will.
Speaker 3: Well, you also have the element too, like I'll add
another competitive element to this game that not many people
are talking about. We'll go to break, don't go anyway,
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the holiday season. All right, let's get back to some
kilane cuts if you will. Kilani was asked a number
of questions, some really good ones. Zero Let's read between
the lines as well. You mentioned the pop charts ball
wasn't a consolation prize. Could you expand on why others
might not feel the same way.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a football game, so those people probably don't
love football as much as we do when our fans do.
So that's okay. I think everybody has their opinions. We
love any other opportunity. I mean, when you sit there
and you try to try to judge Bowl games, I
think Bowl games are amazing. It gives It's different than
an away game because we had to spend more time
there in the community. So we're a program that's based
around connection to people, and so we were excited to
go out there and do some service and hang out.
Speaker 6: And get to know the community.
Speaker 8: We do well and you never know some of these
guys might in the professional world, might work or play
and might live in that area. And so I don't
know how many opportunities guys on our team have a
chance to go to Orlando, and I a should get
to hang out there and be treated.
Speaker 6: Like rock stars that these guys are. They're rolling out
the red carpet.
Speaker 8: For us, and we're really thankful for all that everybody's
done and sacrifice so that we could play this game
and enjoy all the festivities that are around it.
Speaker 3: So it's not a consolation prize, ap I mean it is.
I understand what he's getting at.
Speaker 2: This is culture, right, This is culture culture.
Speaker 3: Traditional football culture is faith, family football. You love the game,
you love your family, you love your teammates, right, you
love God, you love your father.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. That is baseline foundational football culture.
It's weed, not me.
Speaker 3: It's all about playing the game that we grew up
loving and representing the name on our backs, representing our faith,
representing our team.
Speaker 2: That's what it's about.
Speaker 3: So Kalate saying, hey, we love football, we love just
the community, we love all these things. And Ronald whispers
in my air and says, it's also.
Speaker 2: A shot at Notre Dame, the.
Speaker 3: Shot at the fighting Irish rather the quitting Irish as
we're calling them here on ESPN.
Speaker 2: The fan.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's a real thing. It's like you said,
this is a test of how good is your culture,
Because in twenty twenty one, when they went to play
UAB and they did not get up for that game,
that said the culture wasn't quite where it needed to be.
Speaker 2: This is a test as to where is your culture now?
Speaker 5: Last year when they missed out on the conference championship game,
they could have thought of the alimable as a consolation prize.
Speaker 2: No, they got up for the game.
Speaker 5: Their culture was in the right place and they went
and they beat Colorado. And so this is the difference
between BYU's culture and Notre Dame's culture is BYU's playing
this game and they're gonna get up for this game
because they love the game of football. Notre Dame will
not play that game because they're playing to get a prize,
not because they love to play football.
Speaker 3: I love it, man, No, I think there's a lot there,
and I love the Kilani culture right now. Stay humble,
stay hungry and love learning it's working, love to play
the game, love your faith, love your family, and go
out and represent them the right way.
Speaker 2: Now. There is more than just a game and a
season on the line here.
Speaker 3: BYU has been a little bit more aggressive and K
Pop's kind of led the charge. They've gone out and
found Georgia based talent, and they were recruiting Georgia based
talent again this offseason. They lost a guy that they
were trying to get. They're trying to make some headway
in Georgia. You lost Keelan Marrion yep to Miami.
Speaker 2: Not good. I didn't like that.
Speaker 3: Trey Alexander is still on the roster. Okay, there's a also.
I believe Keller Heer from Georgia is on the roster
as a tight end.
Speaker 2: Culturally, they fit in to BYU.
Speaker 3: It's a faith centric community and football culture out there
in Georgia, and that's why Kate Pop and the coaching
staff has been aggressive about recruiting those fertile grounds. But
you wonder when when kids get home, So it's Trey
getting I'm sick. If BYU goes out there, they lay
an egg.
Speaker 2: Right. It's like, did I pick the wrong school?
Speaker 3: I'm not saying he's going to say that, but you
know what I mean, you lose to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: Did I pick the wrong school to be playing for? Man?
Speaker 3: I kind of wish the warm I miss the warm weather.
It's winter here. You know it's a little bit dreary. Man,
That inversion is getting to me. I don't really like
this class. Keeling's in Miami, now, my buddy, you know
what I mean? Like all those things can kind of
been to stack up against you. So that's what you're
playing for here too. You want to make sure, like
you you tell, you put everyone on unnotice. In Georgia,
BYU is a better program than Georgia Tech. So yeah,
you're gonna go if you go to Georgia, congratulations, you
go to any of these surrounding p fours that perception wise,
championship wise, you know, it's it's closer to home, and
it's it's a premiere school. Georgia Tech is in the
ac They're a great program, There's no doubt about it.
You do not want to get them any ammunition if
you're still trying to attack, You're sure still trying to
thrust in your recruiting sickle with your might on those
fertile grounds. Does that make sense. I've been thinking about that.
It's been keeping me up at night.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, does it also have an influence on recruiting in
Florida Because BYU has an interesting Florida is a great
place to recruit from. They've got a lot of good talent,
and because UCF is in the conference, in every couple
of years, BYU's going to UCF and then maybe every
couple of years you play your bowl game in Orlando,
You've got a lot of time in Florida. Yeahere you
can establish a brand that is this is a unique opportunity.
We've never had the kind of opportunity to establish a
brand in the South, never, I don't think ever. But
because we're in the same conference as UCF and we play.
Speaker 2: Them, yeah every year or.
Speaker 3: Every few years, and we go into Florida with a
running back pipeline.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and now we're playing bowl games there.
Speaker 5: This is an opportunity to continue to establish a brand
that say, Hey, if you're thinking about going to the ACC,
why don't you, you know, if you're that good of
a player, why don't you come play for a program
that goes and beats the ACC teams?
Speaker 2: I need it.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's get back to Killane cuts in sound bites.
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great cause. Any players who have NFL decisions to make kilane,
have you have any of them opted out.
Speaker 2: Do you have any updates on players?
Speaker 6: No, we haven't had any opt outs.
Speaker 8: And I mean this is still time between now and
the game of their practicing, and you know, I think
the biggest issues can we get guys healthy one hundred
percent by the time we get to the game, and
is there enough practice time to get them ready? And
right now I think there we're a good trajectory for that.
But you know, there's a lot of different things and
decisions making that go into It's hard to generalize it
in one statement, but we've been through this before and
so what we want was best for the for the players,
and and you know, we think playing the game is
gonna be the best thing for them. Some of them
are over trying to overcome some injuries, so that that's
pretty much it. And if people are off the out
or inserting in the portal, most of the time it's
for playing time. And so that's that's kind of been
the the biggest reason. That's not just here, that's from
other places too. So we'll just keep working with it.
And I'm enjoying the practices and how much how much
probless we've mentioned in the last game, I.
Speaker 3: Think there's there's some truth to that. Keelan Marion was
probably more money than playing time. Harrison Taggart, he wanted
to be the starter. I think Crew wanted to be
started more playing time for b Yu, it's typically guys
that are looking for PT. Sometimes they have to downgrade,
you know, being in conference affiliation to go out and
ball out and look, that's that's.
Speaker 2: The new model.
Speaker 3: Go play at a D one double a, go play
at a D two, Go play at a at a
juke o, go get PT, get film and then level
up because free agency is every single year.
Speaker 2: Yep, I agree. Yeah, a couple last things challenges.
Speaker 3: Does Georgia Tech present as an ACC team?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Brent Key's a really good coach and I mean he's
an alignment, so they're gonna be focused on running the ball.
The quarterback runs the ball really well. I just like him,
and the more I hear about him, I like him
as a person even more. I mean, but he's he's
a tough notes player. They can throw the ball, can run,
and so very similar to what we do. I think offensively,
they do a lot of things. I think it's were
similar in a lot of different ways, but more than anything.
We're built on the same type of principles. So they're
a tough team and it's going to require all of
us being at our best and and we're looking forward
to the game and the matchup and and what it
can make it could bring out of us.
Speaker 3: It's it's a well coached I look, Georgia TeX's culture
is fantastic. They have a great coach, and they have
great players. They have a great quarterback p f F
grade by the way for their store quarterback in ninety,
which would put.
Speaker 2: Him in the top.
Speaker 3: I'll give you official ranking here here shortly. But yeah,
great football team, great football program in well coached, no
doubt about it. Real quick, you know, because I want
to get through some of these sound bites, so we're
gonna go a little bit long in the segment. One
of the most controversial things that have happened this offseason
is is Kyle Whittingham essentially being pushed out at the UVU.
Now he stepped down, he has not officially retired.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: No one knows because there hasn't been a press conference.
Morgan Scaley doesn't even a press conference yet. It's gonna
be pushed to like January. Apparently it's January sixth, apparently
day Kyle's gonna he's gonna coach in the bowl game.
But he's gonna be speaking to the media here shortly.
But he made the rounds earlier today. He got on
with Scott Mitchell, and we'll try to play some of
those sound bites for you before we get some official
statements from Kyle, because he's gonna be asked some hard
hitting questions I'm sure later on. But this was Kilane's
response to, what's your reaction to Kyle Whittingham stepping down
at the U.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, uh, I think we kind of knew
that that eventually he'd have to and it's inevitable. Party
can't just keep playing or coaching for forever, even though
we would like to. But I just for me, my
reaction is just gratitude.
Speaker 6: For everything that he's done.
Speaker 8: He's helped change the game of football, especially in the state.
And he's been able to to, you know, be a
player under Lavelle here at BYU, and and then what
he's been able to do as a coach as a
position coach and a coordinator and also a head coach.
He's been connected to all those all those coaches and
so it's it's amazing his career and just wish him
the best and everything. Yeah, So that's I mean, and
I'm really happy for Morgan. Morgan's been head coaching waiting
for a while and this is his opportunity. He'll do great.
I've been around him for many years. We worked together
for ten years. So it's a really good program and
they're in good hands with Morgan Scatt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is the passing of the baton,
but Kyle winning him. Do you think he's going to
coach next year? Do you think he's going to take
that assistant personal assistant Associate Athletic director of three point four.
Speaker 2: To five million and stay at Utah?
Speaker 5: It would have to be if he's coaching again, it
would have to be. Uh, it would have to be
a three year job at Michigan to stabilize the program.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing I could see him taking because
he's he would take an assistant head coach DC role.
Speaker 5: No, No, because I think he's at that point where
he's just a little.
Speaker 2: Bits he's done.
Speaker 5: Not that he's worn out, but he's at that age
where he's like I could enjoy some other things in
life without the rigors of recruiting and game planning all
the time, to be with his family type of deal.
He's at that age where it's time for him to
be with his family, is what That's probably what I
That's what I.
Speaker 2: Think he's feeling.
Speaker 5: And so I think it would have to be a
really lucrative deal from a program like Michigan where he's like,
I'm only gonna be here three four years and then
I'm done.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So right now, Calshi online betting platform has Kenny Dillingham
as thirty two percent chants. It has dropped three percent recently.
Kilin de Boor is the number two at sixteen percent,
and then Kywenhem at ten percent probability.
Speaker 5: So I bet that Deboor number goes up if they
lose to Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: So if they lose Oklahoma, that goes up, and he
could make the move to Michigan or rather Alabama. Say
we're done with him. He's not good enough, he's not
smart enough, and dog on it, not enough people like him.
We're moving on, Kayln, you can go to Michigan. Great
grand wonderful, I mean, but Kenny's still the favorite per Calshi.
Speaker 2: He's a good coach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got really emotional when asked about ASU and
he loves it there, and that's his alma mater, you know,
he's an alum and loves it and wants to build something.
Speaker 2: But he also lost Sam Levitt.
Speaker 3: You lost your your iconic, your brand ambassador, right, the
guy that's supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be your guy.
Speaker 3: And and Sam is gonna level up, He's gonna get paid. Oh,
and he's gonna probably go to either an SEC or
Big ten school most likely.
Speaker 5: And could you what this might be a little bit
too conspiracy theory for you, but if Sam Levitt got
a little wind of Kenny Dillingham leaving, did he get
in the transfer portal to follow Kenny?
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's true. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if Kenny's going to Michigan, Sam may be the
starting quarterback for Michigan, which.
Speaker 5: Would be a heck of a journey Michigan State to
Arizona State back to rival Michigan.
Speaker 2: Michigan State fans hate Sam Levitt right now, that would
be that would be something that happens only Cannoley Holy only.
Speaker 3: Anyway, We'll see what doy Cole winning has to say
later on the show. But a couple of last things
from Collotte. What have you heard or what have you
learned in your first ten years of you? What lesson
can't what lessons can you take away?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I don't know if I can say
that in one answer, but I mean I've learned a
lot and so in ten years as a head coach,
I think I came into it with a lot of
ideas and thoughts and a lot of them worked out,
but some didn't. But I think I'm not afraid to
try things, you know, and I'm not afraid to be bold,
and so going into the next you know how many
years I got left in coaching, Yeah, I probably have
the same type attitude. But I've actually learned a lot
the last ten years. So I'm still trying to learn
as much as I can.
Speaker 6: And Strawberry, I don't know who's in there. Is that
PK in there? You look good at that Parker.
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 3: That's h Parker Kingston in a pop tart suit apparently.
Speaker 2: But I do like what Colonie had to say.
Speaker 3: Look, I've had some good ideas and that's some bad ideas.
Some things that work, some things happened. I'm going to
continue to be bold. My favorite gift or jiff whatever
it is, I typically drop after Kilani goes for it
on fourth down in some outrageous situation and it's like
this this bowl, that's like walking in a field, and
he's got the largest balls you've ever seen, just like
dangling and swinging like he's got he's got big balls,
being honest, like he's always doing bold things. He's going
he does bold things, like very bold, and I'm gonna
continue to be bold.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's Kilani Kilanie.
Speaker 3: He's swinging the verd like I'm gonna go for to
four the nineteen. That is what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna go forward to you know, backed up por I
mean Johnny linahand became a legend because.
Speaker 2: Bailed big big Khonis. Ull say.
Speaker 5: The only the only player I think that has bigger
balls than Kilani is that punter that faked it on
fourth and one in twenty twenty when they're up by
thirty and then stood next to Kilani hes talking about
Ryan Rico, I think who fake at the.
Speaker 2: End of the game, and he was mad, not mad.
Speaker 4: He was mad, but he's not happy about that, not
happy him and austar Rigg shout at Austrigs, I want
to be he told me. Austin's done, he told me.
Kalani chewed them out the minute they got to the song.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I totally did. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: A couple last things here, Kalani, do you have a
favorite Disney character or movie?
Speaker 6: I like it all.
Speaker 8: I'm a food guy, so if you ask me, well,
how's that vacation, I usually say the food was really good,
so I loved it, so yeah. For me, and then
seeing my kids have fun, and seeing that the players
have a good time and allowing them to enjoy it
with their families, it's gonna be cool. I think, you know,
Christmas around the Bowl time is it's a lot of fun,
and that's kind of I hope we have to deal
with Christmas, travel and all those things from here on out.
Speaker 6: With the Bowl games.
Speaker 8: I think the Bowl games are amazing opportunity a player.
That's we were making memories that last on my lifetime
and for me as I played in those games, and
so it's a great reward, but a great opportunity for
everyone too.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the number.
Speaker 3: But I think there's like thirty plus guys on the
team that are married, and I'm sure there's a kid
or two.
Speaker 2: And that's a great thing.
Speaker 3: You get to go to the Bowl game, you get
to go to Orlando, Uh, Disney Universal Studios, what have you?
Speaker 2: And uh, you get to bring them. You can't bring girlfriends,
you can't bring fiances. You can bring your wife. It's
a very very smart move from d Yu.
Speaker 3: I love it man uh and klate stating if if
there was good food on the vacation, then I enjoyed it.
All Right, let's get to the final one kilate. You've
had a handful of players enter the portal. How clear
is it that, How clear is that for the rest
of the roster?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we we have a good idea what what we
what we have with Yeah, we we have a good idea.
Speaker 8: What what we what we have with our roster and
the returning roster. And we know that there's going to
be some attrician attritions a little different now than it
was in the years past, but we're working with all that.
We're trying to communicate with all our players, allowing them
to see where they where they where we see them
on our depth chart and uh what we're our expectation
as are of them, and sometimes it matches up and
sometimes they're looking for something different and we want to
help them as much as we can. I mean, we're
excited about it. Once you're a cougar, you're always a cougar,
So we want to want to help them, whether they're
here or they're moving on, and so that's always been
our mindset. I mean, we were still connected to Jake Reslof.
He's getting getting ready to play this weekend and we're
gonna be cheering him on and really excited about him
being in the playoffs. So there's nothing but love here
and communicating and making sure that we're all on the
same page as gonna be key they go.
Speaker 2: That's Kalate Satake. Guys, we're live from the Road Home.
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Shatake and it was brought.
Speaker 2: To you by I don't know what that's saying.
Speaker 4: That is from kicking and screaming ban I was trying
to find it, but it's in the movie.
Speaker 2: Says he's got ball. So I was trying to.
Speaker 6: Do I can't. I was trying to do it.
Speaker 4: If you will, Ferris.
Speaker 2: Filling in my plums, he's got large plums anyway. Uh, guys,
let's go to break. Don't go anywhere.
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