Speaker 1: I've paid my dude.
Speaker 2: Time after time.
Speaker 3: When Ben Crittle isn't breaking down Kobe amounts of film
on his beloved Cougar football team, he's talking Cougar sports
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Speaker 2: My oh yeah, Im, we're talking show.
Speaker 1: You're the Robbery Champions, the Holy Work Champions, three and
all in the last three Baby, You're the champions in
the Holy War seven and zero. On the season, the
head into a road game versus Iowas State, I always
State is coming off of buy though. That's it's got
a little it's it's put a little fear into my heart.
But man, it feels good to win a rivalry game
once again and to be on top, to be on
top of the state. I don't think it looks too
well for the youths, not only for next season, but
in the seasons to come. Not to say that they're
not going to continue to be competitive. I just don't
think they're going to be able to win at the
level they've been winning at over the last you know,
thirteen years or so. While they were the biggest show
in town in the state, the p four affiliation, P
five affiliation. All the resources the twenty thirty forty million
year over year that could be implemented and spent within
their organization. Now there's a free market, capitalistic and il
transfer portal world that they're having to compete into. It
got a whole lot more difficult. It's got a whole
lot more difficult for the University of Utah in my opinion.
And BYU is in the driver's seat now of this
rivaly game. BYU is going to dictate how recruiting is
done in the state of Utah. Now BYU will dictate
how it's done within that the LDS home too. Now,
there's still going to be certain players that want to
go to the U, just like there were certain players
during independence that wanted to go to BYU rather than
Utah even though they were going on a winning streak.
So they'll still have their guys that they can get.
But it is completely absurd to put your money on
the UTE right now for the future of the near
and far future when both of these teams are in
the same conference. Brett always bringing the hammer. That stat
kind of shocked you a little bit earlier today when
BYU and Utah are in the same conference. Kyle Whittingham
is three and five in the rivalry game, not obviously
eleven and six. That's the difference. That's the biggest difference
in this rivalry game. We're on the same playing field.
Now we're on the we're on the same level with resources.
Speaker 4: The college football leitists, they don't want you to know
that number. They don't. They want to keep it from you.
They want you to think that the almighty never losing
to BYU, Kyle Whittingham is still rocking and rolling as
rowdy as ever. And that's not the case. If I'm
not mistaken, Kyle Whittingham hasn't beat Utah this decade, hasn't
be BYU this decade, that's right, right, Yeah, because we
didn't play in twenty twenty, twenty twent and A lost,
and then the last two years we've won. I mean, some
could say that maybe that's why they didn't schedule us
this decade earlier, because they were afraid. Perhaps I don't
want to put that out there. I'm just saying they
didn't schedule him for a reason. And ever since they
stopped scheduling BYU, they haven't been able to beat BYU.
Maybe maybe Mark Garland really just knew what was coming.
He said, you know what, I just can't afford. Also,
can we talk about the dichotomy of last year. You
have Mark Harlan running out, doing his whole press conference,
doing all that stuff, and then the flip side is
BOU also has an elite academic executive who is also
on the field for a completely different reason crowdsurfing, baby.
How I mean, Look, we just do things differently at BYU.
I guess we're not angry. We're just having fun. BYU
owning the Holy War this decade, that is for sure.
Speaker 1: Look, there's a lot to take in here as it
pertains to why byus on top and Utah's now zero
to three over the last three outings. One thing I
will say is that leadership matters. Vision matters. Your vision
of what this athletic department is supposed to be, this
football football program is supposed to be, the students academic
and spiritual experience is supposed to be. There were a
few moves that were made in the early twenty twenties.
Keith four Kink, VP of Advancement, took over and he
oversees athletics as well as BYU TVB you could be
what you can. It's essentially the branding arm of BYU.
You had a new leader in LDS Church Services over
educational services, Elder Gilbert, So you have Elder Gilbert coming
to his calling, Keith wour Kink being hired as the
VP of Advancement. And then in two thousand twenty three,
May first Shane Reeves, the university president okay came around
and all three of these moves in combination with also
Tom handing the baton officially over to Brian Santiago. And
don't get a twisted Brian has been heavily involved since
you know, two nineteen twenty twenty when a lot of
these moves have been were being made because Tom was delegating.
It cannot be understated, it can be, It can't be
overstated how impactful the vision of these men are, because
without a vision, you perish if you don't value the
whole person, which includes athletics, truly value it, be passionate
about it, being whole minded. At times in the past
you had people that and no offense to them, like
they wanted athletics probably to do well, but they weren't
good at aligning the silos. Those that have listened to
my show for over a decade now, since twenty and twelve,
twenty eleven, I have I have coined this phrase, align
the silos. And every institution and every corporation there are silos.
Those that have worked in corporate America, okay, those that
have even worked in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a little bit
more fleet of foot, and you can get alignment a
whole lot more quickly because you're not being overshadowed by
certain politics and an enmity within those political silos. Once
you align the silos, though, and you get a vision
of what you want within your organization, you can move fast.
You can move with execution, and you can move in
such a way that allows you to win at a
higher level. And that's what we're seeing right now. We've
seen alignment of the silos, where you combine all these facets,
all of them are equally important. Spirituality very important, right,
you know, in the moral ethics and code that we
abide by at the university and within the faith academics,
finding truth through scientific discovery, peer reviewed right reading from
all good books, shall we right? You need that you
need to be social. Our relationships in this life determine
how long we live. Do you know that no other
thing determines longevity of life? Then enriching synergistic relationships, so
the social aspect of our lives in church and in
our communities is an imperative if you want to live
a long and fruitful life.
Speaker 5: Surrounding yourself with greatness, right.
Speaker 1: As Chad Lewis teaches us. Right. And then the talents
that we are given, also physical talents, athletic talents, all
of these things matter, so you'll talk about aligning the silos.
That's what you're seeing in full effect right now. And
it's a great day to be a Cougar if you're
a fan, if you're an alum, if you're a coach,
if you're a player, if you're a student, if you're
an administrator, Because there's alignment here. Everyone's lifting, everyone's supporting.
If you're a donor, you're you're crumble. You're a donor,
you're like, i'll pay the fifty thousand dollars fine. So
Cougar fans can run onto the field and have a
core memory in a core place with core people in
their lives. That's what it's about. Right now, guys, you talk.
Speaker 5: About leadership, Ben and Uh, as far as I can
remember in the near future, I have I've thought that
Utah kind of led with the coaching staff as a whole.
I think they were maybe a little bit better as
far as uh, you know, uh coaching the players and
getting them ready more resources.
Speaker 1: They could get better coaches at times.
Speaker 4: Right and right now, I think b YU as a whole.
Speaker 5: Has a lot better coaching staff and uh and you
can see it. You can see how Jay and the
defensive staff has come in and and uh got they
have their kids here now and there. You can see
that their evaluations of talent is is just incredible. With
volatile you know you mentioned earlier. You know, we we
thought maybe it would take a couple of years, but uh,
you know, Jay has him going in here two.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Uh B Hammer thoughts momentary follow up.
Speaker 4: Sometimes in life you feel as though things are not
going your way, and you get turned down for a job,
or you get turned down for a date, or you
get rejected from whatever it is the thing that you
felt like was supposed to be yours. And I go
back to this conversation we're having with the stars aligning
with people and groups aligning. I remember many a times
feeling like, why in the world can be why you
not get into a conference? Why couldn't we get into
the Big twelve the first time? Why couldn't we get
into the PAC twelve? Why did nobody want BYU? And
then you see the fall of the PAC twelve and
you see the rise of the Big twelve, and then
you get invited to the Big twelve and you realize
it's it's good the way it is. You wouldn't have
wanted to have to make a decision. You saw the
PAC twelve as a sinking ship before you even got
thought about getting into the boat of the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: It would have been nice to be in the pack
towe and get that money. But that being said, but
here's the deal. We the PAC twelve was never the
eighties loved me? Why you the administrators never liked BYU
because of its its academic institution and the theology and
the religion that's associated with period.
Speaker 4: Sure, plus we were Packed twelve self champions before we
were even in the back co champs. Baby yeah, yeah,
So we didn't even need to be in the conference.
We had already won it. So all of those things
come together. And obviously Bou has the infrastructure. Everything's great.
And then you get into the Big twelve. And then
because you're in the Big twelve and because of the
branding that you've already worked on, I mean, let's be honest.
For a lot of years, Utah included people use the
weaponized the honor code against BYU. Yes, and they said,
you don't want to go there because you don't want
to be held to those standards. Well, now look how
and you can you can call it God, you can
call it Bou, you can call it whatever you want.
But look how the the view of the honor code
has been flipped around. That's why Ali Khalifa came to Bou.
That's why Fucini Triori came to BYU. That's why aj
Debotsa came to b Au. Because you have parents to say, oh,
I know they're going to be taking care of him,
They're gonna be safe at that school. The honor code
that for years was weaponized against BYU to tell kids, hey,
well you can't go do the Arizona Arizona State party.
Speaker 1: It up.
Speaker 4: The rob Gronkowsi type of schooling. If you go to
BYU and now athletes are realizing, oh, I actually.
Speaker 1: Don't want to do that.
Speaker 4: I want to go and just focus on ball. So
the stars have aligned in so many ways, and then
the cherry on top is b Yu's ready. Now they're
in the Big twelve and it's a skyrocket.
Speaker 5: I interviewed LJ last week and LJ I asked him
that what are some of the reasons you came and
he talked about the focus. He you know, he didn't
want to come here at a party. He wanted to
come here and work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's that's what I mean. Look, we've
been we've been harping on this for a long time.
If you've been following the show. The terminology I've used
is distractions. Do you want the distractions of life that
have little to know ROI, then go elsewhere. If you're
not about that action, if you're not about that business,
then maybe b YU is not for you. Don't force
a square peg into a round hole. More and more
people are becoming familiar with BYU's game and the virtuiferous
nature of it, and you're seeing more and more high
level recruits want to be a part of it. There's
been a flip of the script. If you will, b
YU is cool again. I'm telling you right now. G
Man was in here earlier and he grew up in
the eighties, right, BAU was very cool. ESPN Okay, ESPN
and BYU lived and breed their inception into the college
football landscape with at the same time, right eighty four,
when BAU became a national champion, Nike ESPN to b
A that the Swoos and Brigham, Phil Knight and Lavelle,
they were like arm and armhand in hand, like they
grew up with each other. Okay. One of the manufacturers
made manufacturers that I work with, DonJoy Orthopedics. B WAU
was one of the first to implement prophylactic biomechanical supports
across their entire team, bracing supports, compression, where modalities, et cetera.
They were always at the front, forefront. They were cool,
and then somewhere along the road line they weren't as cool. Now.
B Yu's cool again, and there are many more wins
to come with the champions. Right now, you gotta keep
your eye on the prize right now, because Iowa states
on the docket, Iowa States right around the corner.
Speaker 4: Uh.
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first rivalry experience? Like, all right, we're gonna get that
dialed up here momentarily. But Bear's always been a stoic
we've had him on the show, like we had him
on the show when he first committed to b Yu,
super soft spoken, like not over the elaborative in his
in his responses. You know, we we're in the business
of asking questions. So it was like one after the other, right,
one after the other. And so even to this day,
like he hasn't really uh been all that elaborative. He's
becoming a little bit more loose though. Listening as he
discussed his first rivaly experience.
Speaker 6: And but yeah, it was just crazy. It was exhilarating.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of emotions, but you know it was
good to get the win, good to get the win.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 4: I will tell you this, and I love Bear and
he gets this. This interview gets better as we go along.
But he said, glad we got to win, to finish
at least five or six questions. But again, like g
Man talked about earlier, that's not him being a jerk
or disrespectful like that is just truly how his brain works.
He's not really concerned about the flashing lights or all
of the big things. He's really solely focused on executing
the play and winning football games and scoring points like.
Speaker 1: He's he's not.
Speaker 4: I mean even the hurdle, Like, I don't think he
hurdled because he's like, oh, this is gonna be sick.
I think he hurdled because in his mind, he truly
thought there are only so many ways that I can
get around this individual, and the best one, the most
efficient one, will be for me to go over him.
That's just how his brain works.
Speaker 1: And I have stress fractures from all the helmets I've
taken to my shins thus far over the last five games,
six games of the season. This man is taking on.
He's like a he's like a tie boxer, you know,
just taking like just beatings to his shins, just callousing
those shins. He's like, all right, enough is enough. I
gotta jump over this. Dude. You were at Stanford a
few months ago, Bart, this is likely different than what
you thought things would be, like not too long ago.
Has it set in yet?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I guess so.
Speaker 7: I mean, uh, it's it's a crazy kind of roller coaster.
But you know we were we were seven and oh
last year, and so a lot of the guys are
are calm and in Miami, Holy cow, you know, set
it and no.
Speaker 6: But you know, we've been here before and we just
got to keep going.
Speaker 1: He's like, man, we're seven, and oh everyone else like, yeah,
we were seven. Oh last year. He's like, oh, man,
all right, we're supposed to be here. This is what
we were supposed to do.
Speaker 4: I guess you can clearly tell this is the first
time that the thought that was posed to him has
ever crossed his mind. He's never thought, oh, yeah, it
is weird that I thought I would be at standard
right now and I'm not. Oh yeah, it is crazy
that we're seven. Like he truly just doesn't think about
these things the way that we do. And that's what
makes Bear so singular and so unique.
Speaker 1: You seem frustrated in the final seconds with the first half.
Bear what happened there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was you know, it's a tough scenario.
Speaker 7: We had no timeouts and you know, so that was
that and and you know, but we went a putting
up a field goal and and uh, you know, three
points in this game is uh, it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're going to criticize anything, you can
criticize the end of the half. And then the end
of the game. Uh, in the time management and maybe
some of the certain play calls, et cetera. I do
you think you know A Rod and Bear po probably
both need to evaluate and practice this coaching staff needs
to practice a little bit more two minute drill going
in how you want to operate when you have little
to no time remaining and how many timeouts do you have?
As Coach Peterson brought up in the war room, Coach
Peterson one of the greatest coaches in college football, uh
in the modern era. You know, he said, look like
it's obviously they they haven't practiced that enough. They don't
have simple lexicon that is executable in those situations, and
the time management was a little off. It's okay to
it's okay to criticize that. You can give a ton
of praise to a Rod his play calling, Bear Bachmeyer,
his execution, his playmaking ability, the right handed Tim Tebow
better throwing Tim Tebow that's built like a centaur. You
can compliment all those things. Aaron Roderick, the bespectacled booth
strategist up there, he's a junkie of the film. But
they need to practice out a little bit more, and
there needs to be some criticism. They need to allocate
a little bit more bandwidth to that.
Speaker 4: The bigger issue for me is not what happened in
the final two minutes, because this same issue that I'm
talking about that I'm referencing also happened in the second half,
and it also happened in a number of other of
BYU's games this season, and that is using timeouts when
I don't know that they're absolutely necessary. Because look, the
biggest problem, the reason they couldn't do what they wanted
in those final two minutes is not it's I don't
know that it was necessarily a Bear's fault that he
didn't get the play call or that he didn't communicate.
The problem was you got to your two minutes row
and you didn't have any timeouts left because you you
had used them in other scenarios. Now, this may not
be have been the worst case scenario because some of
those timeouts, we know, we're used for fourth down stops,
which I'm good with. Yeah, but you've had other games
this season where you burn timeouts early and a half
and you didn't absolutely need to, and then you got
to the end of the half it ended up not
burning them, and it hasn't burned them so far this season.
But I do feel like, and that goes to some
of what you talked about, which is communication. To me,
that communication needs to be happening earlier on in the
half so that way you don't have to burn those
timeouts because that could be something. It hasn't shown itself yet,
but it could be something that shows itself in a
game later down the line when you absolutely need that
timeout and you don't have it.
Speaker 1: If you convert a fourth down, right and you've utilized
the timeout in order to game plan for that fourth
down conversion, you should have probably another play or two
called for when you do, you're planning your forecasting and
you get up and maybe they did right. So if
you're gonna run the ball once, great, Okay, you have
to be in a hurry up mode. If you're playing
on running the ball three straight times because you have to,
you're gonna you gotta clock it on that and rather
than running it on that third time, you gotta clock
it for your if you're you haven't picked up a
first down yet, you just gotta clock it. So hopefully,
ideally it would have been best to throw three straight
shots to the pylon right that that would have been great.
A back shoulder, uh, A corner post post corner right,
whatever it is. Have something called prior A couple last
things before we get to break. Take us through that
play that where you broke a couple of tackles and
you tossed it away and you got the targeting call.
Speaker 7: I just didn't want to get sacked, so I could
have thrown it actually, but I don't know. I got
held onto it and uh so I was like, oh shoot,
I probably gotta make a play here, and but just
threw it away and yeah, got it, got a good call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank goodness, got the targeting call. Uh. I don't
know what Tao Johnson was thinking, Like he had him
wrapped up and then he kind of just let him go.
He maybe just thinking he was maybe he heard a whistle,
Maybe he thought that he didn't want to take on
some sort of a penalty. Maybe he was fearful of that. Anyway,
they got one. They got one anyways with the lander
Barton targeting.
Speaker 4: Maybe Bear was just too strong. Maybe it wasn't even
Johnson's fault. Maybebe bear strong.
Speaker 1: The centaur broke another tackle, that's right, let's go to break.
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back to it. Did you think Bear, on that twenty
two yard score that you were gonna enter the end
zone and get six points there?
Speaker 7: No, so I was trying to get the first down
and uh oh, I don't know. I was standing for
some reason. After after some guys tried to talk to me.
So I just saw the the line and uh, I
think Whalen pushed me in and and uh yeah, so.
Speaker 6: That so that was a fun, fun kind of deal.
Speaker 1: Bear Bachmeer is the epitome of staying present. Most of
us in this world have no idea how to stay present.
We are uh, we are ridden with anxiety, We are
ridden with forecasting ifs and what and like Bear's just
sitting there like in the moment present. I'm executing my
task right now, I'm talking, I'm running, I'm covering up,
I'm leaping, I'm jumping, I'm continuing to push forward. Oh
my gosh, I may get it. I may score a touchdown.
Waylon Laoi, Bruce Mitchell, elevate him, push him, and he
scores a touchdown. Now he's gonna celebrate. Then he hands
the ball to who was it? Was it Andrew Gentry.
He hands it to Andrew Gentry. Andrew Gentry taps on
the helmet, he gives it back to him. Bear then
hands it to the ref. I think Bear was telling
him spike like it. Spike it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: It was just It's just one sequence after the other side,
step by step for Bear Bachmer. Staying present is the
Bachmeyer way.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It It feels like, if you want to ask
anybody give me a play by play of what's going
on in your brain. Bear Bachmeyer is the guy to ask.
I mean, he probably remembers how many bites it took
him to eat his cereal in the morning, because he
just remembers. I love how he says. Then some guys
tried to tackle me, Like he was standing there and
he got jumped in the middle of the street and
he didn't know why they were trying to tackle him.
I'm just standing there like he just remembers what he
was thinking at every millisecond of the activity. There is
no one like Bear, and I pray that that kid
never changes.
Speaker 1: Love it. What was the difference for you guys collectly
on those scoring drives in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 7: Bear, Yeah, I think we mitigated mistakes and I thought
we just executed really well. I mean from the top down. Yeah,
it was just we just executed and we just played
by a football.
Speaker 1: Just played b yu football. That's what we do. This
led me to ask this question. I was like, you
elaborate on your relationship with Aaron Roderick, your quarterbacks coach
and offensive coordinator. What makes it so unique? So special?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the OC quarterback relationship is the most
important relationship in all of sports. And uh, he's got
so much confidence in me and and you know, I
have so much confidence in him, so that that that
relationship and that bond is special. And knowing that he's
got my back and I got his, you know again,
it's it's special and and uh, you know, I think
that's that's why we're winning games, will be we just
got to keep it rolling.
Speaker 1: An elaborate answer from Bear Bachmeyer, who typically doesn't give
it elaborate answers, your thoughts.
Speaker 4: That was the longest answer of any question that he
was asked all night, and he was asked, I think
something close like twenty questions. It's interesting because again we
talk about how Bear really doesn't have a whole I
don't know if not doesn't have a lot to say
is the right phrase. But he doesn't give long answers.
And so when you ask that question and his longest
answer of the night is talking about his relationship with
Aaron Roderick, it just shows you that's his way of
telling you, Hey, this is a really special relationship to me,
and it means a lot. That's what he's saying without
saying it, and.
Speaker 1: You better respect it. Cougarnation, that's right, respect that relationship.
Speaker 5: He doesn't like to focus on himself. You can see
that he likes to pass it off, like giving the
football to his lineman to spike it.
Speaker 4: You know, that's what makes them special.
Speaker 1: When you were named the starter, Bear, could you have
envisioned how these seven games would go?
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess you know, I always want to
compete and always want to win. I guess I guess
reality said he in that we are seven to zero.
But yeah, you always want to you always want to
win games, and so just happy that we're here.
Speaker 1: I guess, man, I just don't want to win. I
just like came in. I wanted to win the job,
but I want I wanted to run the football, I
wanted to pass the football. I wanted to hand the
football off. And then all of a sudden, I'm the starter.
And then yeah, I mean I thought I was gonna win.
He he thinks he's gonna win every game. Let's let's let's
not get a twisted. How fun is it to be
a part of such a physical, downhill offense?
Speaker 7: Bear, Yeah, it's really fun when you got when you
got a number four in the backfield and you got
those boys up front that are just physical as as
as heck, and uh, I mean it's fun.
Speaker 6: It's just a testament to them and uh yeah, we
gotta go celebrate. We gotta go celebrate them.
Speaker 1: It's imperfect perfectly to h double hockey stick physical. Heck,
like you wonder if he were he grew up saying
those same things as we did, right, I think so,
Like did he use the h double hockey sectories? He's
just a really good at impact because part of me
wonders if he grew up saying it, But now that
he's here, no, I think he said.
Speaker 4: I think said hell growing up, and now that he's here,
he's like, oh, I have to say this way?
Speaker 1: Do you think so? Or I don't know.
Speaker 4: I could see it.
Speaker 1: I could see it either it was either very good
at being a chameleon or like he grew up that way,
one of the two.
Speaker 5: I listened to Hank and his brothers. They they're the
same way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's been times where, like especially the first
time they talked about it, he stuttered before he said heck,
which makes me think like he doesn't have a problem
saying it. He just knows I'm the quarterback. I shouldn't
speak that way. So I don't because my guess is
it's not all sunshine and rainbows during the huddle all
the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, ap, what do you got for me? Brother?
All I gotta say is he came in playing Settlers
of Katan and chess. He absolutely grew up saying heck.
The thing is, he did not grow up playing Settlers
at Catan. That was the first time he played. I
confirmed that with Kean Nead, But he did play chess.
Speaker 4: Chess was and he was homeschooled for a little while correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in my experience, I'm all about a school kid.
Don't grow up cursing.
Speaker 1: That's just in my homeschool and all my kids. Now
I talk to my wife, I'm like, Babe, get ready
for it. We're homeschooling the kids. You know, that's how
we're gonna do it. I want them to be weird.
I want him to be stoic. I want him to
like not give an elaborative answers to media. You know.
That's what I want for my children now. I want
to be playing chess Settlers of Catan, saying h double
hockey sticks and heck, that's what I want for my children.
That's what I want. That's my vision for my children's future.
Speaker 4: I'm just bummed that when he talked about celebrating, we
didn't get another drop of he's going to get milkshakes.
When Bear says he's going to get milkshakes, like he
already lights up like a little kid all the time.
But when he talks about going to get milkshakes. It
is literally like you're taking your seven year old kid
or nephew or whatever to go get ice cream. That
is how he feels about it. That's one of the
joys of getting to hear from Bear bachmer you know it,
but I'm sure they're going to get them. And he
said it in the plural. Wait, so it wasn't like
he's going to get a milk chickens.
Speaker 5: Well we're going we're going wanted to get mill chicks
with his guys.
Speaker 1: Well, he's taken a lot of hits the season. Bear,
Have you felt any toll in your bodies if you
as you've had to run so much the season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody has. Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 7: Everybody gets a toll on their body and and uh,
you know Nixon bruises and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, we got to
go win the game.
Speaker 1: What was the preparation like this week for such a
stout Utah defensive front.
Speaker 7: There was there was some more intensity, but we didn't
change our process. We we you know, we feel like
we have we had a great process through the first
six games, and we just we just kept our whole
process and and what we do and and uh, you know,
testament to the coaches and getting us prepared, and all
we had to do was go out and.
Speaker 1: Execute, execute, execute Execute. Was there anything you saw in
your film study that maybe stood out to you in
this game?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: They you know, they they they're playing a lot of
man and they wanted to, you know, kind of ninety
to get to the quarterback, and that's what they showed.
And so we just skeemed up, schemed up, and you know,
got out with the one.
Speaker 1: So they want the man up and then let John
Henry Daily get after the quarterback. And John Henry did
hit bear a few times. Speaking of those hits, A
couple of those hits came from number ninety. He's got
nine sacks on the season. Does John Henry Daily go
to the NFL Draft after this? I was talking with
g Man about this. Logan Fano probably gone, John Henry
Daily could be gone, Spencer Fonuo, Caleb Lomu, Smith Snoden
could be gone, Tao Johnson. I mean, all their best
players could be going to the NFL after this season.
I think there's a reason why Cott Whittingham came back
this year rather than retiring, because he had a squad.
He's got some talent in that room on both offense
and defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: Weird stat for you BYU when they were passing in
a non play action form negative three yards passing against Utah,
which tells you that this defensive line, when they weren't
having to gauge the play action, when they knew it
was a pass, they were getting after the quarterback. Now,
Bear Backmeyer, per those same stats, is one of the
best play action passers in the country. But I think
that just goes to show you, like this Utah defensive
front was elite. The pass rush is crazy. Fano, John
Henry Daily. These guys made Bear Bachmeyer's life really difficult,
and he really shined through against such a touch tough
defensive line, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: A couple last things from Bear. What was it like
experience this game with the fans? Yeah, it was. It
was electric.
Speaker 7: Even on the cougar walk that was I was, you know,
clapping people's hands and it was just like I couldn't
It was like my ear drums were just exploding.
Speaker 6: I was, you know, it was just it was loud
as a different environment.
Speaker 7: And yeah, I mean the the Utah BYU robbery it's
it's uh, I mean, it's up there.
Speaker 6: It's up there, and those are the college football robberies.
Speaker 1: For sure, up there for certain. You said you mitigated
mistakes played BYU football. What is BYU foot to you?
Speaker 7: I mean it's it's physical and and and and fast
and just ferocious and and uh you know, just just
execution and so you know those two drives without that,
we executed really well.
Speaker 1: Did the intensity of the robbery live up to the hype? Bear?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it was crazy. I mean the stadium
was rocking. The rock was rocking, and so it was
just the there was intensity, but uh yeah, I mean
it was it was it was a great game.
Speaker 1: They go great game. Have you ever been involved in
a crowd storming before?
Speaker 6: Bear?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: No, I was actually kind of scared because, uh I
was kind of getting claustphobic.
Speaker 6: I was like, holy cow, like let me get out
of here. But uh yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1: Uh who was more claustrophobic? You were President Reese out
there crowdsurfing? Oh?
Speaker 7: Probably him, But he looked like he was having Yeah,
he was having a good time.
Speaker 6: But we were all having a good time. It was
just you know it wanted to get to the locker
room and Celbarry with the boys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's trying to get out of there, bro, Yeah,
that's what he was trying to do, right.
Speaker 4: Can I say this genius marketing by the way, Crumble
deserves a lot of credit because I don't know that
BYU's I mean, look, I'm sure he's donating to Bye irrespective.
My guess is the way it's structured, he can't go
in directly pay the fine. He would have to pay BOU.
But either way, regardless of whether or not BYU takes
his money, Crumbles now the official sponsor of crowdstorming at BYU.
That is genius level marketing by the.
Speaker 1: Guys crowd this crowd storming brought to you by Crumble.
Speaker 4: That is awesome. They need to put that post out
like they need to make that this is free you
guys go ahead and take the idea. They need to
make a post that says the official sponsor of BYU
crowd storm ris.
Speaker 1: I got two questions in in the post game. This
was one of my questions. I asked, you've been called
the centaur, the right handed tim Tebow. How do you
sell lebrate these moments while also staying level headed.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well it's a cliche, but you kind of, I mean,
stay off all that the social media stuff and you
just you know, you just hang with your buddies and
and I I say, it's a lot, but it's a
testiment to my family and how I was raised. And
we didn't you know, we weren't the flashy kind of
kind of deal. Is just just put your head down
and work. And so we keep doing that, we keep
winning games.
Speaker 1: Stay humbles, stay home like like guys, Like I've said
it so many times on these airways, and I've had
many fans kind of push, uh, push the envelope on this,
and like try to press me on it, and I'll
never fold on it. Like entitlement does not work at
Bay by Us at its best when there is no
entitlement in that locker room. There's no entitlement, and especially
when it's coming from your playmaking leaders, like it makes
it so much easier because then everyone has to buy
into we not me, right and and and buying into
the team first mentality. I still believe that. I don't
think you know that that in tournament works for Bay Football.
I don't think it works for Bou basketball. I think
when we've had it, I don't think the Boau basketball
does as well. I think there's always a poison. There's
kind of an undermining us subterfusion of the mission of
winning as a team. And right now Boa football is
winning as a team. They are a complementary football team.
Yes they have stars, Yes they have great football players.
Yes they have NFL caliber football players, but they're not
ego centric, narcissistic maniacs that have to take all the credit.
And Klonie epitomizes that as much as anybody in the team.
First mentality, if.
Speaker 4: There ever was a b y U Aaron Roderick quarterback
with no ego, all ball, Jaren Jaren was very much well.
Speaker 1: But Jaren and we would all.
Speaker 4: Agree Bear Bachweyer and Jaron Hall are pretty similar.
Speaker 1: They have a similar they have a similar feel. And
that's I'm saying, uh final thing, take us through the hurdle,
bear Bachmeyer, you jumping over you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just uh, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I wanted to do that the first game, but I
guess I didn't do it the first six weeks. So
got an opportunity and I don't. Hopefully I didn't really
see it. Hopefully look cool. If I got up, hopefully
I could jump high.
Speaker 6: So we got it.
Speaker 1: Kidding me.
Speaker 5: The best part of that was he got his feed
up before that guy coming low right after he landed.
Speaker 4: Ye, that was close. Also, that's actually not true because
he has hurdled before this season. I think it was
I can't remember. I don't remember, but he has hurdled before.
Now it wasn't that good and it wasn't against Utah,
so therefore it doesn't matter. But uh, the person who
asked this question posed it all the lines of because
in the media room where they were, there's a picture
of Taysom Hill hurdling at Texas, and so he said, hey, like,
in my mind, this could go down as a hurdle
on the level of Taysom Hill jumping over Texas just
because of what this game meant and what happened on
that play. And then he asked that question, and I thought,
you know what, given bears performance, given Bear's legendary performance
this season, given that play, kind of cherry on the
top of all of it. Like, I do think there's
a world where that picture of Bear Bachmeyer hurdling because
it's emblematic of everything else that happened in this game
this season. I think that picture could be up there
with the great ones.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine him and McKay in the backfield together,
those guys here in a couple of years.
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Speaker 4: Time for Bou basketball today. We didn't have time to
give aj De Bonts a shout out for being a
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And don't worry, we'll be talking about him.
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