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Let's get out to the hotline and welcome in Cougar

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Sports in Saturn representing BYU Radio. We got Matt by

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a Monte on the line. Matt, how the heck are you?

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Speaker 1: I've never been better? This is I mean, what transpired

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this week and where we're at today. I think I'm

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I'm the best I've ever been. Guys, We're heading to

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a Big twelve title game. We've blocked the Salani Sataki

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Eyo hooks they rolled last night, Like this is you

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just can't be any better right now if you're a

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b A you fan.

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Speaker 2: Shoot, man, it's really there's not a lot to complain

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about now where we have a persecution and complex like

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let's be real, like we're I was gonna poke at

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like the void right Hey, well, but but Kalate's not

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up for the head coach of the Year nationally or

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Beart Bachmeyer's not up for the the freshmen of the

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the Shawnigs Alexander or hey, why is b Yu outside

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the college football playoff at number eleven? There's much to

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complain about, but I'm with you, man, lots to be

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grateful for as well, all as well to a certain

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degree in h Cougar country right now.

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Speaker 1: Well, of those things that you said, we can complain about,

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by far and away, the biggest complaint is the complete

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mockery of the college football playoff integrity with be or

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you being an eleven. It's just the more you read

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into all the different angles that could possibly be at

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play here, there is not a single logical reason that boy,

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you should not be safely in the field and I

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think that is the true, the true gripe that BYU

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have right now. I don't want to cloi one out,

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but I heard someone on social media making the case,

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the tired case that is completely unfair, that if BOU

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just wins, then it's all fine. Well, Yues, that's true.

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If few of you wins, they get in. Yes, we

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get that. But what we're talking about here is having

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a set criteria that we apply fairly across college football,

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and in particular the power for right. And when you

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look at some of the things that BOU has done

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so well this year, six wins against teams with FBS

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teams with winning records, for road wins against bull eligible teams,

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do you have a great strength of record? Do you

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have a good strength to schedule? That is the one

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thing that I think, to your point, been fans and

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greipe about because of it's truly preposterous how BOU is

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positioned right now in the rankings.

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Speaker 2: It does hurt the college football caball the oligopoly, the monopoly,

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the good Old Boys Club, their stiff arm and Brigham.

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But why are they stiff arming Brigham? Why if you

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had a Pike chart of accountability how would the fractionalize

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the pieces of the pie look From your vantage.

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Speaker 1: Point, I would say it is ninety percent due to

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them not being in the SEC of the Big Ten.

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Even though we hear the term power four use the lots.

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It's very clear that the powers that be love the

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power too, the Big ten in the SEC, and there's

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a little to no love given to the ACC and

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the Big twelve in particular the Big Twelve, which I

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think is what is so maddening, is that even though

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the ACC is having a horrific year in which you

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have a Virginia team that is ranked in the title

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game and a seven and five team in the title game,

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the ACC does not hold a candle to the Big twelve.

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But in years past you had Clemson, which is one

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of the best programs in college football. For whatever reason,

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whatever Clemson did in the past, there's still a little

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cachet with that that's not big granted to the Big twelve.

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And I think I think ten percent of it too.

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And maybe it's along the same lines, is that BYU

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for whatever reason, amongst the national media and the elites

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of college football, they are not viewed as being a

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member of a power conference. To me, the national media

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in particular still looks at BYU as an independent or

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a Group of five caliber team, and that is just

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clearly not true. Any metric you want to look at

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would tell you that this team is not only a

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Power Conference team, They're one of the better Power conference teams.

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I'm not saying they belong with an Alabama or a Georgia.

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Those teams have been elite for a long time. But

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you can't tell me that BYU, especially in the last

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five years, have not been better than the upper half

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of the Power four. They have a top ten winning

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percentage since since twenty twenty two. They have some some

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great players that want to play in the league. And

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it's like, anyway you want to slice the dice, it

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players in the league winning percentage, players that make all

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conference teams like they have everything, and that they're just

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not being respected. And I think it is simply due

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to the fact that people don't want to acknowledge the

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Big Twelve as being a good power conference league and

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that BYU is one of the best teams in that

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power conference league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, it's sad, but true. There's uh, there's

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there's there's some issues we gotta that we gotta address,

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and you know, it's hard to diagnose exactly why it

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is the way that it is. You know, some people

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are calling for religious bigotry. You know, they're trying to say, hey,

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there's there's the upper the institutions of higher learning. They

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don't like Brigham anyway, They stiff on him for a

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long time. Didn't want them in the good old boys club.

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I get it. I hope that there's enough advocacy out

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there that will hopefully rally in ba's favorite. We're seeing

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some of it obviously, Stool presidente Dave Portnoy, I think

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we saw earlier today. I just put this out. There's

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others kind of coming to the table and advocating for BYU.

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Will Compton breaking down BoA's unfair college football playoff scenario.

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Will we get enough advocacy to sway the college football

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playoff that if we lose in a close one that

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we could inch in that we could get in as

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an at large bin.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that will happened, because this has been

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the most contradictory committee and quite frankly, the most mind

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boggling committee in terms of their rationale. Week over week.

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For them to say that they are not comparing Miami

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and Notre Dame because they are not ranked next to

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each other, that makes no sense. That makes absolutely no sense,

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because we've been told for years and this is specifically

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written out in the in the committee's criteria is that

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you group teams, you submit a ballot for the first four,

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and then the next four, and so on and so

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forth until you fill the full twenty five. So if

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you're grouping teams, and we've heard this with BYU been,

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we've heard them say we aren't grouping BYU with with

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a Notre Dame in an Alabama right now, they're being

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grouped with Miami and these other teams. So if they

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are truly grouping teams, why does it matter that there's

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one team in between Miami and Notre Dame when applying

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the head to head metric. We could spend the next

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thirty minutes talking about all the things that this committee

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has contradicted. But the one thing that is certain about

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this committee is that they are not going to suddenly

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use rhyme and reason to determine this this seating of teams,

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because there is no rhyme or reason, and so I

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think the only way deal he gets in is to win.

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I do think that is unfair. I don't think it's right.

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I think the Big twelve having two teams at eleven

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and one, they should be safely in. But that's not

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where we're at. And it doesn't matter if it's still

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president or heck, even President Trump. I don't think any

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president Ben could convince this committee to make sense and

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have rationale when seating, and I don't expect that to change.

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Speaker 2: Is asking for an executive order to expand the playoff.

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Speaker 1: To sixteen too? Please get that execution of ordered, baby.

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Speaker 2: Man crazy time. It doesn't a.

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Speaker 1: Perfect year for sixteen, though, Ben, don't you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, look, we're always gonna want to expand,

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but yeah, sixteen would be helpful this year. I think

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I think sixteen would be perfect. I mean, what's the

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perfect number? Right? Is sixteen the perfect number? The sweet

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sixteen of college football? Is that what we're going with.

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Speaker 1: I've kind of like hear me out on this. I'm

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kind of like twenty. And the reason I say twenty

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is I like that the top four seeds are rewarded

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with a buy. I think there is some mari to that,

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it is. I don't want to say it's unfair because

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they would get a lower seed, but that's a that's

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a tall ask. It's it's very hard to go on

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a run like Ohio State went on last year, where

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you're playing in the opening round and so on and

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so forth. So I like twenty to where you get

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the top four, that bye, and then you've got the

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round of sixteen first, and then and then off you go.

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And then it kind of feels good too, because you're

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saying top twenty, this is the top twenty playoffs, So

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I would say twenty. But you have to find a

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way to cut some games too, because I just I

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just have a hard time seeing them getting all those

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games in in the right amount of time. It's it's

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it's hard to it is hard to figure out what

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is best. But man, it doesn't feel like what we're

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doing right now is best because there's there's teams that

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are not being judged fairly and accordingly, and and I

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think that does use a buzzword of the week, and

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I think it does do a disservice to college football

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that we're not judging these teams fairly and equally.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Everyone's beginning to think that there's

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corruption in college football still. The cabal, the oligopoly of

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college athletics is uh, is just corrupt. It's been uh,

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it's been bought, it's been paid for. It's money. It's

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not true merit as it should be. That's what sports

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all about, right, That's what sports all about. Sort of

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merited and won on the football field.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm well said. And it feels like in this

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year in particular, more so than any other college football

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playoff year. And there's been some there's been some years

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where there's been some gripes, like what happened in Florida

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State was tough. You go undefeated and you don't get in.

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But this year in particular, it feels really tough because

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there's a team like BYU that has uh, you know,

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based on merit, I feel like deserves a chance to

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be in this playoff regardless of the outcome this week,

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and then you have other teams that compare against similar

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teams in terms of record. And yet the logic seems

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the shift based on from you know, from my vantage point,

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we want to have the blue bloods in the in

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the tournament. We got to have that gold Dome. Baby,

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we gotta have touchdown Jesus and this thing, we got

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to have the elephant, we got to have role tied

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in there. And those teams are not clearly better in

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terms the merit from from a b YU. And and

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look even Miami, Miami's got a fair case against Notre

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Dame and that doesn't seem to be happening. So this year,

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this year is the one that I think is the

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most frustrating, and unless it's the most strong opinions, because

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there's just no set criteria, there's no rhyme or reason.

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And that's that's that's very frustrating that.

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Speaker 2: By a monte Ladies and gentlemen, Matt, what else has

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been maybe keeping you up at night, anything else that

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you've been kind of pondering on that you you can

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pontificate on our airways with us.

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Speaker 1: This hasn't been keeping me up at night lately since

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Kilanie extended. But I was, I was very worried about

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the future of b U football when it felt like

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there was a moment that Kilanie was going to leave

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the program, and then BYU the Board of Trustees President

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Reece ad Ryan Santiago for them to be able to

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retain him and in the terms of Brian Santiago, significantly

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invest in the program. This is something that I think

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BYU fans. I know I felt this way, but I

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think most BOU fans would say, this is a day

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in a week that we have dreamed of our entire lives.

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I was thinking about this earlier today. Ben. I remember

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vividly and I'll never forget this being in Rice Cycle

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Stadium as a fan in twenty twelve. That was the

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infamous game where mo Lee scooped and scored and BYU

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had multiple cracks at field goals late fans running onto

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the field and they don't and they can't get it done.

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And that was that was very That was very early

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into independence and early into Utah's timing in the PAC twelve,

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and you just felt like, can we compete with the resources,

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specifically in terms of poaching, salaries and investment into the program.

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And I just remember driving home with friends and family,

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the long drive back from Rice Cycle Stadium down to

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Utah County. Is there ever going to be a day

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where the church invests into BYU athletics at the rate

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that they need to to compete at the highest level,

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and it felt like at the time it felt like no,

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but you could help yourself with dream about what it

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would be like in terms because we know the daughter

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base is there, we know the alumni bases there, everything

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is there. It just felt like for so long we

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were doing it at a disadvantage because the resources were

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not matching those playing at the highest level. This week,

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I think we can now say BYU is invested at

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the highest level. They want to win. These are all

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things we've heard at the press conference. Significant investments. We

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want to win at the highest level. We want to

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do it the BYUA that is happening. We're in a

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Big twelve championship, we got two top twenty five ranked teams.

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that are are doing very very well, crossing country, all

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the track and field under coach dil G Taylor, women's soccer,

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the women in nice little Ryn Like there's there's so

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much success and there's so much investment, and now we're

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finally getting to live out that dream then of what

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BYU could do if the investment in the resource backing

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was there to match the passion. It's all aligned and

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for a moment there this week it felt like that

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might be something away a little bit, but no credit

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to all those individuals who helped retain Kalani and invest

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into football. This thing is can continue to rise and

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it's it's a beautiful thing. Man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're a Utah fen you're kind of you're

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kind of ticked off and you lost three in a row.

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Now they had they had what a thirteen fourteen year

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head start on their rival, and they hey, they want

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they got nine in a row. Credit to them with

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that PAC twelve logo that no longer exists. It got

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destroyed with their their their their Conference of champions Right,

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But it's gott to really tick off the seeing BYU

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catch up so quickly and surpass them so quickly. And

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by the way, it's flip season. We may have a

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few flip recruits soon.

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Speaker 1: Hey, that would be fantastic. This is already a great

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signing class. I know there was a little stress there

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with the Ryder Lions, but he signed on the dotted line.

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This is one of the great recruiting classes at Build

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You Football history. This is why I feel like with

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the investment in Kilani in the program, you're going to

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continue to see an upward trend. You're you're getting good

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talent out of the transfer portal. You are building great

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high school recruiting classes, which I think is key been

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to maintaining success, which is what Brian Sanciago told us

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he wants to do this week. It's not just about

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having a one year or a two year, it's about

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sustained success. You got to do it the high school ranks,

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and then you got to have that resources or retained

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coaches and players which they're pumping in there. So hey,

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if a few people flip and you continue to keep

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this train on the tracks, we could be seeing a

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lot more of BYU in meaningful games like the one

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coming up to Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Score prediction, What do you Got for Me? BYU Texas

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and ESPN Analytics when he gives him like what a

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thirty four to thirty five percent chance of victory?

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Speaker 1: I think that if you has any chance to win

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this game, there's going to be They needs to be

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some ball control, it needs to be a slower paced game,

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which I think would favor BYU. Their top of the

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conference and time of possession. I think getting Kialani back,

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extending him that was a jolt of energy into the program.

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I think that there is tremendous motivation, not only from

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the loss, but also knowing, well, if these players and

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coaches aren't they're not naive to what's happening in college football.

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They know how how they're probably going to get left

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out if they don't win. That is a huge motivating factor.

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I have come all the way around from BYU having

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a hard time winning this one too. I have the

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Tubes winning and I think the score will be one

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d four to twenty, twenty four to twenty. There you go,

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twenty four twenty Coups winning their first ever Big twelve championship.

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Speaker 2: It's been it's been almost twenty years since we won

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a conference championship. Man twenty years. Nice time was seven.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen, eighteen, nineteen years. Yeah. Crazy, And this is the

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most important one of them all. Of all the twenty

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twenty three previous conference championships, there was nothing on the

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line like this, So this is this is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Matt, best way to support you, what you do,

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how you do it for all the listeners.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this season I joined bou Radio. I'm with Greg Rebel, Hans,

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Mitch Jurgen's Jason Sheppard. I do. I'll be doing pregame

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this week live from AT and T Stadium on all

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Cancelings Radio, on BOIU Radio, all those things. So follow

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and that's where you'll find me.

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Speaker 2: My god Matt by Monte. Ladies and gentlemen, make sure

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you're follow him on X and listening to him on

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BYU Radio. Thanks so much, Matt, great content as always.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, thanks again, Ben, appreciate all you guys. Have

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a good one.

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