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Speaker 2: Let's talk some BYU football here for a moment. The
the rent I've told everyone, Look, the retention is what
you should be excited about. B YU has yet to
sign a transfer portal player. I don't know if that
concerns you at all. I put out my poll of
the day, I said, are you more anxiety filled about
BYU not announcing their new coaching staff, who they've retained
on the coaching staff, who's going to be DC, who's
going to be quarterbacks coach, who's gonna be safety coach,
all those things, special teams coordinator? What's going on in
that regard? Or you're more concerned that BA hasn't signed
anyone in the.
Speaker 4: Portal right the second neither.
Speaker 3: I'm not super concerned.
Speaker 4: No, if it goes on much longer, I'll be a
little nervous. I think something that I've noticed, and maybe
it's just that I'm reading into it too much, but
I feel like fans are getting nervous because the portal
windows a certain amount of days. I think what they're
misunderstanding is that once that's the days that people can
enter the portal, that's not when they have to decide by.
And so I don't think we need to get too
crazy about the portal. I think there are guys that
are committed and ready to go. They're just trying to
make sure get you across all the t's not all
the eyes, get all that stuff going. So I'm not
super super worried if it went on a few more days.
Maybe a little bit. And then on the coach's side,
BAU has always been slow in that process. I you know,
they're rumors swirling out there of who who it's going
to be, and I think there's most of the decisions
are made and there's probably a couple of the external
hires are still having to get some of the you know,
the red tape taken care of for that, and so
they're just waiting to do the whole announcement until they
have everybody ready. That's but I'm guessing inside the building
when they're doing the recruiting for transfer portal all of
this stuff, I'm guessing they kind of already have at
all setting Stone and they're just there's waiting at some
of the red tape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, it's an interesting thing going on right now,
this new world, this college football, chaotic transfer portal world.
But I told Kugarnation earlier today, be of good cheer,
lots of great retention stories here. Out of the individuals
that have announced that they're coming back, they're running it back,
which one makes you most joyous? Is it Parker Kingston?
Is it Ray Alexander? Is it New c tom Waypeo?
Is it Fala Taos not Tawala Rater de Moony, Andrew
Jamesry Canada, Talla Vasa, Sialia Sarah Anissi Purcell, Bruce Mitchell,
Kyle super Choke, Sonny Makassini, Isaiah glasger can Allow, Pondohema
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Speaker 4: I think it has the Fallatow for me. Not that
I don't. There's so many others that I loved as
players just as much as I love Fallatown. But I think,
and I was definitely one of those who thought as
soon as Jade you know, was rumored of going, Falatawe
was the one guy that I was like, there's no
matter what, he's the one guy we're gonna lose to
j Hill just because he was a J Hill guy.
Jay Hill did all the recruiting back in the day.
He actually announced and I remember we were up at
the Bountiful Store way back on signy Day for that.
But that was one of those things that I felt
like Fallatow was the was the one I thought was leading.
So having him back is awesome. But I do think
all of them are important. I think like guys like
Nucy are really huge with that. I think having Isaac
Glaster coming back are really big deals. A ton of
USA honestly, all of that. I mean, there's a few
of them that I don't think it would be to
the end of the world that they left, but I
obviously wanted them back. But I think Fala Tel is
the one that I was most surprised by and most
pumped about.
Speaker 3: Big get, big retention story.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Brandon Gurney stated something yesterday. He said,
this twenty twenty six roster is going to be better
than the twenty twenty five roster.
Speaker 3: Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?
Speaker 4: I think I agree we didn't lose crazy amounts in graduation.
I think we're gonna add some of the portal. Obviously,
that's that's going off of rumors and going off some
of that stuff. But we're want to add things in
the portal, and I think a lot of our youth
will obviously mature and be even better next year. So
I think I think Chase Roberts is one hole that
you really get nervous about making sure we can get
a receiver that can fill in there. But I'm hoping
that in the portal we feel that I think if
LJ comes I'm kind of assuming LJ is coming back,
So if he doesn't come back, then I think that
really hurts the roster over like overall to back up
Gurney's stuff. But I think if you can get a
guy with Chase, LJ comes back, obviously Barrett comes back,
and then I think the defense is going to reload
with some of the the guys that we're hearing are
you know a lot of the linebackers that we're hearing
about that that are gonna be coming to us in
the portal. You lose Carson Ryan, but then you know
there's a lot of smoke behind lions coming in and
being in that spot. So I really think, I really
think he's right. I'm pumped about it.
Speaker 2: Yes, Indeed, it's a great day to be a Cougar.
Lots of great players coming back to b YU, the
one that well, I guess you know, Bear hasn't made
his official announcement, LJ hasn't made his official announcement. Any
concern there from your perch, No.
Speaker 4: I think, I mean, just based off what's happening, you know,
it would make sense that they're announcing it when they
strike into nil deal or a REP share deal and
the ones who have the highest leverage or LJ and Bear,
and so I think there's probably the most amount of
what's the right word, there's the most amount of negotiation
needing to happen there all this stuff going on with that.
So I don't think it's crazy that those are the
you know later ones that are getting announced. So I
don't think it's crazy. I'm not too worried yet if
all of a sudden, I mean, I think it's far
enough into the portal time that Bear would have announced
he's going to the portal by now. In my opinion,
I think LJ. Obviously the draft stuff doesn't doesn't have
to be decided right now, so that one's a little
more up in the air. But I, you know, I
think he's coming back.
Speaker 3: So brighton.
Speaker 2: Uh this uh, this BYU football team had a remarkable
season twelve and two, only lost to Texas Tech, Texas Tech,
Laiden Egg and the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: Maybe that Dowass extinguishes.
Speaker 2: Some of the uh, the hype to a degree surrounding
this BA football team.
Speaker 3: But all time, it's got to be a top ten season.
Speaker 2: This may be a top five season all time in
BA football history.
Speaker 3: How do you see it?
Speaker 4: I think it's one top five, I say top two. Truthfully,
I think I wasn't alive for the well, I was
alive for the ninety six season, but I was two,
and then the eighty four year, obviously I wasn't alive.
But I think those are the other two that it's
competing against. But I think the competition they're playing, I mean, yes,
obviously national championship, you have to say that's the best year.
But I think that team against the exacting competition end
up with as good a record. I don't know, I'm
not saying it doesn't, but I'm not saying it does,
and so I think I think it's definitely gonna be
a top five, but I would put it in the
top three, top two or three.
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Note he took an on campus recruiting visit. The former
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game or taking a long hard look at these schools
that are evaluating in Oregon, Michigan, many others in the mix.
BYU giving it its best shot in this situation, what's
the level of optimism do you think BYU obtains the
talents of one smith Note and then they keep them
home in the state of Utah.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I have an exact number on it.
I think I hope. I'm very hopeful that it happens,
you know, third times, the charm we've tried to there's
been rumors that we've been trying to get him out
of the portal, get him into the portal, to then
get him out of the portal. Over the last couple
of years. But I do think obviously with the Whittingham
and Michigan thing, I would just off the top of
my head say that's probably the number one spot. But
I think we have a shot. I think we can.
Obviously there's some there's some things about being close to home,
doing all those different things. I think there's some pitches
that we can come after him and hopefully get him.
But I wouldn't say I would say probably less than
a fifty percent chance. But I do think we're number
two in likelihood of getting him.
Speaker 3: Where do you stand?
Speaker 2: Who's your projected defensive coordinator, cornerbacks coach and safety's coach
right now at b YU.
Speaker 4: I think the the rumor that I'm here and all
you know all over town is that Pepinga Colla the
thing is going to be the DC. I've heard lots
of different names tossed out there from or cornerbacks coach.
I think the Boise State coach. I think Warren is
his last name, is the one that I've probably heard
the most about. And then I've heard a ton of
smoke about Gavin Fowler being the coach. But he keeps there,
keeps being posted about him the safety coach. Sorry, and
but I keep seeing posted about him recruiting actively for
Weaver So I have no idea what that means. Maybe
he's waiting until he gets announced and then he's gonna, you know,
move on from that, or if it's just not the
rumor's not true. But that's where I'm kind of leaning
in what I've heard so far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could see that happening.
Speaker 2: They're I've seen Weaber State on the recruiting trail offering
out a number of scholarships. And I know Tanner Jacobson
was just acquired by Weber State as well. Eric Carrer
building a powerhouse there in Ogden. A good staff that
he's he's building out there in Ogden.
Speaker 3: What do you make of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a great staff. I mean, obviously
there's there's a lot of unproven he's he's unproven that level.
He's obviously very proven at the high school level. I
think getting Tanner Jacobson was huge just for the success
he's had as being a head coach at the A
D two level. I kept trying to remember if Tanna
was a SCS it was junior coy j oh Yeah, Hugo. Yeah,
but still I think that's awesome to somebody who's been
a head man there get him on staff. I think
obviously guys like Gavin who again they're smoke that he's
coming to Bau. Who knows what that actually is going
to look like. But I think the stuff I think
Garrett care is gonna be really good for that, for
that for Weaber, and I think, I mean, it'd be
really cool if we can keep developing. We've we we
talked about it last week or two weeks ago on
the on the show that a ton of our talent
and production over the last few years has come from
Weaver State. So I think having good ties and good
and BYU guys there at Weaber would be really huge
for us to be able to continue to hopefully pull
some of that talent in as they developed there at Weber.
So love it.
Speaker 2: Man, Well, I feel pretty optimistic about this BYU football
team going into twenty twenty six and beyond. What are
your priority positions in the portal right now as we
head into this, uh, this chaotic time of the year.
Speaker 4: Before I answer that, sorry, I gotta go back. Do
you feel as optimistic as I feel? Is the real
question for you here, Ben, No.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I'm never like, uh, we're gonna go undefeated,
Brady's Uh.
Speaker 3: I feed here.
Speaker 2: I'm optimistic. I'm a positive person. I'm a glass afffle guy.
But you're like glasses already full and overflow it. Uh
And I'm more like glass apffle guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I just had to.
Speaker 4: I just had to bring it up because I love
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time you're right, But the last two years I keep
going with that, and I keep being right out of
those two So I'm just gonna right to me until
it until it comes to bite me. But some day
they'll come back to bite me, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no doubt about it. Uh.
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Speaker 2: The SEC no longer the powerhouse conference? Crazy what happens
when everybody else can pay their players with filthy lucer?
The SEC no longer the best conference in college football?
Paul Fine Bob, the mouthpiece of the SEC, chimes in
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Speaker 3: Go to you. Is the SEC dominance over as.
Speaker 4: We know it?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm under contract to disagree with you, because
I'm really sure about the contract.
Speaker 3: Yes, Uh, I mean I have.
Speaker 5: I have been on that hill, Stephen a uh, and
I am getting destroyed.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: There's no way to defend the SEC. It has been.
It's been terrible.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Now I'm sure somebody at the SEC office is whispering, Hey,
don't forget Ole Miss could win it all and that
would that would solve some of the wounds. But this
has been a long year for the SEC. And I
think in the end because I kept wrapping my arms
around Alabama and saying, Stephen, they did you remember what
they did? They went through that gauntlet in the middle
of the year. Well, a lot of those teams they
beat really weren't very good.
Speaker 3: Answer.
Speaker 5: After all, they lost in bowl games and they looked terrible. So, uh,
it's a rough year for the SEC.
Speaker 3: Listen, is it?
Speaker 5: Regardless of the Waane Kiffin story, which I know we're
going to talk about, but there's no if If Ole
Miss loses Thursday night and I'm sitting around having to
defend this league to you, Stephen As saying, Oh, no
big deal that it's three straight years without an SEC
team in the National Championship game. I mean, there's no defense.
Speaker 2: It's been rough here, Ronald the three man, We've been
talking about this consistently over the last two weeks or so.
What do you make of Paul Finebaum no longer being
the guy that's just getting paid to advocate he had
to tell the truth?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I find that funny. First been at Paul fine
Bomb Miss. I'm contract contractedly obligated to disagree, but I can't.
Speaker 7: So Look, I.
Speaker 6: Appreciate Paul FONBM being being honest with all his dealings
with this fellow man. I really appreciate that, first and foremost,
no all jokes aside a SEC has not been. I mean,
look at the last two national champions I mean that's
what it's been. You know it's been you know, Ohio State, Michigan.
I mean, those are the people you know who have
been running the game. And I think for the thirty
in a row, it's not going to be an SEC school.
I believe that Old Miss is going to loose. I
believe it's going to be Indiana and Miami. That's what's
gonna come down to. And Miami has been on a
very hot run. But the days of the SEC are over.
And I appreciate the NIO aspect because of that, because
that they forced Nick Saber to retirement. Now he's one
of the greatest college coach has been of all time,
and no one's disputing or debating that. But for the
longest time, you know, it was they paid and they
got away with it. They paid to play understable. We've
heard Coach oh talk about it. And now that it's
an even playing field, that's how it is. Little brother
has finally learned how to punch back and knows how
to get within the fight. It's like sports been, you know,
we see greatness in that, like you know, the Lebron
James Michael Jordan.
Speaker 7: They were still great, they could still play at a
very high level.
Speaker 6: But when these young guys came in that were just
as talented, who are ready to take over when they arrived,
those days of those guys who have made an impact
on the game were over.
Speaker 7: And it's the same thing with college football.
Speaker 6: The SEC has been a dominant conference, has put great
talent in the league, but now you just don't need
the SEC.
Speaker 7: You can go to Miami, you can go to even
the SEC.
Speaker 6: The schools in there, Vanderbilt, Diego, Pavia like there are
other schools that deserve a chance that can make an impact.
Speaker 7: B YU, now, Texas Tech.
Speaker 6: It's even now and everybody has a chance to make
it even play through, and I love it. I love
not seeing the SEC on top, and specifically it's more
better because of my family. Everybody in my family is
an SEC member and I can't stand that. So I
love seeing the SEC fall.
Speaker 2: Personally, well, they struggled this year. They're not at the
top of the food chain, maybe anymore. Obviously, the Big
Ten is the dominant force right now, and the Big
twelve not too bad.
Speaker 3: Be this is your Bowl game winning percentage.
Speaker 2: Some want to say it doesn't matter, boll game teams
don't matter, but I think they still do.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Speaker 2: American Athletic Conference five and four, ACC eight and four,
Big twelve four and four, Big Ten nine and four,
Conference USA four and three, Independence zero to one, MAC
two and three, the Mountain West two and five, PAC
twelve one and zero, SEC four nine, and the Sun
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this Cougar Insider report, I put out de Mario Warren's
resume summary potential BYU defensive back coach. Warren has coach
did only two programs in his career, Southern Utah from
two thousand and eight to twenty twenty one and then
Boise State from twenty twenty two to present day. Been
a defensive coordinator and been a head coach. They're at
SUU and at Boise State. Has been a special teams
coordinator and a cornerbacks coach.
Speaker 3: Good resume.
Speaker 2: I think it's one of the most intriguing things to
me is that he's been coaching almost twenty years now
and he's only been at two schools.
Speaker 3: It's a typical I would say, that's extremely atypical.
Speaker 2: Never seen really, you know, you don't really see that
a whole lot. It's more common to see five, six,
seven spots that you're jumping. You're jumping every two to
three years as you level up. As you move up,
this could be viewed as a good thing or a
bad thing, depending on how you're interpreting. You see loyalty,
you see familiarity of the of the of the region.
You see recruiting ties, you see relationships. That's why you
end up staying at these respective schools. Obviously, sgu a
lower rung in the in the FCS world, not a
prominent program, but they've improved under their new coaching staff
that actually replaced coach to Mario Warren.
Speaker 3: There in Cedar City.
Speaker 2: But you know, he may have been throw into the
limelight early on in his career to get that opportunity
as a head coach. He did good things early on
in two thousand and sixteen, in twenty and seventeen, but
then after that kind of dropped off. It's hard to
manage people, it's hard to manage budgets, it's hard to
manage recruiting, all of it when it falls on your shoulder,
and it.
Speaker 3: Can be a little bit daunting, a little bit overwhelming.
Speaker 2: Anyway, he gets picked up by Boise State and Andyavolos,
and even amongst the chaos that occurred with Andy, I
think he had won like nine games and it just
wasn't good enough. He was released from that job, was fired,
let go, and Spencer Danielson came in and retained to
Mario Warren as his cornerbacks coach.
Speaker 3: I think that's actually a really good size.
Speaker 2: Spenster Danielson a good coach, obviously a man of faith,
which I appreciate in the A day and age or
the last it seems like the last ten twenty thirty years,
everyone's kind of disassociated schools sports from deity, and I'm like, hey,
it's not to have a little faith family football culture
back in popularity. Anyway, I do think it's a good
sign that he was retained there at Boise State. So
background includes FCS head coaching, FBS coaching, experienced defensive specialization
with an infas on pass, defensive takeaways, professional ties to
the Utah football community, and BAU adjacent coaching circles. Staff
continuity at bois State under new head coach coach with
Kelly Piping as well at Boise State. If tomorrow becomes
the next cornerbacks coach, is that good enough?
Speaker 3: Does that get your hyped right? It may just be
good enough for some people.
Speaker 2: We won't know how good it is obviously until the
fruits of the labors are effectuated, right.
Speaker 3: Are brought forth before the jury. The Cougar fans, the
Cougar faithful.
Speaker 2: But I do think that it would be a respectable
hire and it could turn out really well. Now, remember
it's not just about the position coach, okay, it's about
who you're also bringing in. From an analyst standpoint and
a GA standpoint, you could do a lot with like
Remember like the day and day out operations of a
position coach are not the same as always a developer
a technician. Even Gennaro Gilford at times took a backseat
as a position developer and he became more of an
administrator of a position group. Wesley Johnson GA. Remember Rob
Daniel GA. You can go down the list over the
last few seasons, have got Eddie Hecker GA. All of
these guys were more of the technician, taking the guys
to the side, making sure their footworkers on point, their
hip flexibilities on point.
Speaker 3: As a cornerback, their eyes were on point.
Speaker 2: And a position coach more so oversees the entirety of
the position and becomes more of a guy that can
help game plan, install, and execute a scheme alongside their
d C if that makes sense, and you become a
little bit more of a collaborative play caller too, as
they're on the headset. Anyway, that being said, okay, I
think you know, most BYU fans believe that as a
position coach, you have to be a developer. You got
to be the technician, a tactician and technician. I think
in this case, because Tomorrow did not play cornerback. He
didn't play corner he was a running back. But he's
become a defensive back coach. That's not to say he
didn't play some defensive back in high school. He probably
played it in his youth. You know, if you're a
good enough athlete to play college football, you probably played
on multidy positions over your high school and a Pop
Warner career, etc. But if he becomes the guy, I
think this is a good highre I really do. It's
still up in the air. We'll see if it's going
to be made clear this announcement. Maybe it'll be, you know,
by the end of this week. It'd be nice to
have something announced, get everyone on the same page. I
think a lot of the resources right now are probably
being allocated towards retention of players. But how do you
attend players if you don't have all of your coaching
staff in place? I imagine the players know who the
guy's going to be. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: I imagine the players know who their DC is. I know.
Speaker 2: I imagine that players when smith Snotan's on campus yesterday,
I imagine he knows who the quarterbacks coach is gonna be. Okay,
and they already have a pre existing relationship. That's your
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updates on UH. The players that have been retained in
this UH transfer portal season. Guys that are sign sealed,
delivered and are gonna be all in On twenty twenty six,
Parker Kingston, Trey, Alexander Nucy, tom Waypeu Folataosath Dwala, Rader,
To Mooney, Andrew Gentry, Kando Talavasa, si Alia Serra, Anissi Purcell, Pruce, Mitchell,
Kyle super Choke, Sonny Macassini, Isaiah Glasker, Kenny lau Fonehema
Villiambi Puja, Joe Vesa de Mooney and I believe there
was another one that just dropped. I'm trying to find
it here, but your favorite, Ronald, the three man Weaver,
which one got your most hype out of all those
guys returning?
Speaker 3: And why?
Speaker 7: Uh, this is tough, Ben, I mean it's a good
list that you know.
Speaker 6: Tana Coua is is this oh yeah, Tanakua as well,
Tannico is another one. Ah man, this is a This
is difficult to pick right because the Falatao South Tuala
on right, that's the one where he's gone off. Jay
Hill's gone and then he was, you know, crazy being
one of what the first like five or six to
do it.
Speaker 7: So that's that's a big time.
Speaker 6: But even if volatile left, which that guy's getting drafted right,
he's getting the he's getting a high draft pick. Ben,
that's an NFL safety that will play on Sundays, no doubt.
It's just where Hashtack hopefully goes to my Chicago Bears. Folatile,
if you go there, I'll take you out for dinner. No,
I think I'm gonna go with that, Dad Glaska. Though
this was Lily before he got hurt, Ben, he was
a legit bupp Gets Award winner.
Speaker 3: I know that that.
Speaker 6: People are gonna say, yeah, but Jack Argus is light
years ahead before he got hurt on one IG's aunt,
even seventy five eighty one hundred percent closer to that.
Speaker 7: You know that line, he's phenomenal.
Speaker 6: You allow a guy to rush and Isaiah goes and
makes place. Now when all this work gets worked out
of when Bou announces the DC, the coordinators, uh, you know,
the cornerbacks coach and the safeties coach. I would imagine
once that's all with Newzy down up al coming back Ben,
when you let him get after the quarterback and whoever
by else is able to pick up in the port
and already coming back with a Si Alia Sarah at
number sixteen is gonna do some damage next year he
stays healthy. I think that guy's, you know, a third
round pick at best. When he's playing at his best,
so we'll find out. But I'm gonna go Isaiah Glasker
the heartbeat of that team in the middle.
Speaker 7: As much as I do.
Speaker 6: Like Follying and how Folatile would have played well, I
think that Isaiah Glasker is the biggest one, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is a tough oney picking my favorite child.
It's very, very difficult. I don't have a favorite. But
if I'm gonna say the guy that gets me most hyped, uh,
it's it's gotta be Noose. He's got the juice coming
into something like I believe Noose can be a first
or second round NFL draft pick.
Speaker 3: That's I believe it. I believe in my heart. Now,
he got to put in the work. He's got to
get bigger, faster, straw.
Speaker 2: He's got to be that guy. He's got to be
that dude. He's got to put in the film work.
He's got to become a Kyle van Ney type preparer
and uh, really elevate all fascets of his game on
and off the football field. But if he does, if
he stays on that trajectory, the news with the Jews
will become one of the best defensive players.
Speaker 3: In the modern era.
Speaker 2: And I think he'll end up being a high level
draft pick in the NFL draft, maybe coming out a
little bit early. I don't know if it'll be after
his sophomore or junior season, but but I think he's
gonna be very very very nice, as they say. And
so that one got me pretty stoked. But that being said,
like you're gonna get excited about defensive line, you're gonna
get excited about back end talent too. BYU is linebacker
you in many ways, right, we'd all agree with that,
no matter like what it seems like BYU finds a
way to produce NFL talent in that linebacker. Isaiah Glasker
had like no offers. You know, we were a state
offering a BYU offer. He was brought into safety. Not
many people wanted Isaiah. But now look at him, Look
at the man, look at the myth, look at the legend.
He's become an NFL linebacker, getting him back, his mass
of getting Kingston back is massive, all those things, uh
FLA Taos Satawala is one of those guys. It's like
is he a safety or is he a linebacker? He's
a little bit of a hybrid, right. Uh you get
excited about him because he's an All American, Right, he's
also on a fast track to becoming an NFL uh
an NFL draft pick.
Speaker 3: So there's not a wrong answer here.
Speaker 2: Last year it was, you know, like the the the
acquisitions that you were most excited about was probably a
Kiano ton of Austin And everyone's kind of lost a
little bit of the the hype around Kiano ton of
Austin because he wasn't as impactful, as disrupted, as violent
maybe at the point of attack as you want him
to be.
Speaker 3: But that's massive to.
Speaker 2: Getting Keanu back and being a leader in the middle
of that defense. Uh So, Bruce Mitchell, the tip of
the spear, redshirt senior, remember he's an All conference player,
is gonna receive he he could have perceived a pretty
penny and he jumped at the portal. That's not a
wrong answer, But I mean, the guy that has the
most upside, most potential in my opinion, as an NFL
guy and an impactful football player is in college football.
Speaker 3: It very well could be news. That's kind of where
I'm leaning right now. But plenty of really good players
here on this list. That have been retained.
Speaker 2: Let's take a time out. We'll be back. Cougarnation, don't
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