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Speaker 2: How you Wednesday?
Speaker 4: To everybody, It's gonna be a glorious Wednesday because it's
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Speaker 2: To extend net twelve game win steaks to thirteen. I
think it happens tonight.
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Speaker 5: If you have more than two bumper stickers on your car,
don't speak to me. I can't trust you. There's nothing
you and I have in common. There should be a
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Speaker 3: That totally changes my outlook on life. You know what,
I am gonna vote for that.
Speaker 5: Person that you put on the back of your If
your car has more than two bumper stickers on it,
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Speaker 1: What about you know, like a forced gump type of
thing where it's like crap happens, you know?
Speaker 3: Is that okay? If it's funny. If it's funny, if.
Speaker 5: It's funny, But you can't have too many like still,
because even if you have like fifteen and they're all funny,
it's like, I don't know, you just look like the
crazy person who's covering up dents and scratches on the
back of your car. If you I'll allow because also, like,
if you have multiple funny ones, it takes I think,
the essence away. So if you're gonna do that, just
do the ones. It's the only thing I have to
look at and I can appreciate it.
Speaker 1: What about the family bumper stickers of mom, dad and
all the kids.
Speaker 3: No, especially on the Midian like and I like.
Speaker 5: Star Wars, but no, no, not those either. I mean
those are fine, But that's that's your bumper sticker. Then
that is your legal limit. You've already you've already hit it,
so you don't get to put any more on there.
I mean, you know, a bumper sticker is similar to
like put a sign in the on the law.
Speaker 1: I got just as many problems with those. The flag right,
it's you know, whether it's religious or political, or maybe
your your favorite sports team. See this is where it
gets a little bit funky for you because the sports team.
Speaker 3: You're like, well, that's okay. I wouldn't put it on
my car. You wouldn't put it on your heart.
Speaker 1: You won't put like a a BYU stretch y on
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You cover boy sports. It's hammer Time show, all day,
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Speaker 3: I guess maybe if I was gonna put like, or.
Speaker 1: Are you so familiar with BYU Sports? You know everything
that's cooking now, You're like, you see what's in the kitchen.
You're like, I don't even like BYU anymore.
Speaker 5: I just feel like the back of your car doesn't
need to be decorated. I don't know, just I think
it looks kind of ghetto. But I will say, look again,
I'm saying you have a two sticker limit. So if
you want to do one of your family and then
one of BYU, that I'm good with that.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying no bumper stickers. I would never do it.
Speaker 5: But for other p well, if you want to do
one of your family and one of your favorite sports team,
or one of your business and one of your space team,
that's fine. But as soon as we start getting into
three and four and five, then it doesn't matter what
those bumper stickers are. You just look like the crazy
dude in the neighborhood. It can get a little bit chaotic.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be an agent's of chaos in
your life, As the scriptures say, set your house in
order and have order in all things, clean, proper, pristine, orderly.
It's where the spirit can reside, right. I used to
tell my Michion campaign, like, hey, we gotta we gotta
clean up our desks here. How can the spirit, you know,
you know, speak truth to our mind in our hearts
with so much chaos in our apartment and there could
be chaos on our car too, you know, And so
let's not invite the chaos in our lives. As Brett
always bringing the hammers, has advised us to do, don't
put too many bumper stickers on your car. It's uh,
he says, it's ghetto two sticker limit.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Maybe uh you know what else, it's another uh. I
tell my wife all the time, we can't we can't
involve too much WT from like our childhood.
Speaker 3: You know, wherever you do you know what WT means.
Speaker 1: It's white trash wrash there.
Speaker 3: That's what I can say.
Speaker 1: I am Caucasian, I am of English, Scottish and Scandinavian descent.
You know what I mean, Like we gotta be better
than our white trash lineage. Oh yeah, you know what
I mean. Gotta be better, So don't invite the chaos.
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was an announcement made from Jimmer for Debt nothing but
net GMO dashen Uh the lonely Master.
Speaker 3: His jersey will be retired here shortly.
Speaker 1: Let's get it from the horse's mouth, from the logo
Jimmer fordet.
Speaker 2: It will be fre Debt forever.
Speaker 5: The b y U A D gave me a call
not too long ago and asked and said, hey, listen,
you know it's time to retire the jersey at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go number thirty two baby going in the
ragners forever, right next to Chrismeir Kositch.
Speaker 3: And Danny Ainge.
Speaker 5: And I am so I am so grateful, and I
can't wait to see all of the Cougar blue out.
Speaker 4: There, number thirty two going into the rafters. Nobody is
ever gonna wear the number thirty two again at BYU.
Speaker 3: Let you Go.
Speaker 1: That's Jimmer Fredett and Spencer Lytton form the logo with
Jimmer Fordet their podcast. You can check it out on
all the podcasting platforms. Number thirty two retired by BYU
the Cougars game against Colorado on February fourteenth, the birthday of.
Speaker 3: My wonderful wife.
Speaker 1: By the way, shout out to Brook, my better half,
my eternal companion. February fourteen, twenty twenty six, is when
the number thirty two will be lifted. It will be hoisted,
it will be celebrated in the rafters in perpetuity forever.
From now into forever, no one will rep the three
to two going forward.
Speaker 3: For Deck becomes the.
Speaker 1: Fifth player to have his jersey lifted into the rafters
at the Marriage Center.
Speaker 3: He joins the list that includes.
Speaker 1: Roland Mincent number eleven, Mel Hutchins number fourteen, Kresimer Chosich
number eleven, and Danny Ainge number twenty two. Jimmer Fredett states,
ever since I stepped on campus at.
Speaker 3: BYU, I was welcome.
Speaker 1: I felt the love from my coaches, teammates, students, and faculty.
I wanted to be successful at the university, both on
the court and off of it. I never imagine what
was going to come the next four years. It became
some of the greatest years of my life, with one
of the most magical seasons in BYU history. Being a
part of that was an honor. Now to be recognized
among all time greats forever in the rafters is a
surreal feeling. I'm so excited to enjoy that moment with
all of the Cougar, all of Kugarnation in the building
and around the world. A native of Glen Falls, New York,
Fredett finished his high school as the school's all time
leading score with two thousand and four to four points.
He was named first team All State as a senior
after averaging twenty eight point eight points per game leading
his team to the Class Single A state championship game,
and he took that going forward into BYU.
Speaker 3: As a senior.
Speaker 1: At BYU in twenty eleven, Gimmermania took the country by
storm as he led the nation in scoring twenty eight
point nine points per games.
Speaker 3: So it took that twenty eight point eighty He's like,
I'm gonna do this in college too.
Speaker 1: En route to being named the National Player of the
Year by all Major outlets, the six ft two guard
led the Cougars to their highest ranking in program history,
the number three A people at the number three eight people,
and in appearance in the Suite sixteen, He's one thousand,
six hundred and eighty eight one thousand and sixty eight
points are eleventh most in a single season in NCAA
Division One men's basketball history. He scored twenty or more
points in all but four games, including a program record
fifty two points against New Mexico in the semifinals with
the Mountain West Conference Tournament, going twenty two of thirty
seven from the field, seven of fourteen from three, and
one for one from the three from.
Speaker 3: The free throw line.
Speaker 1: Will there ever be another player in BAU basketball history
that attempts thirty seven shots in a single game.
Speaker 3: No, never, No, that is never going to happen. You
have to have the right coach, the right school, the
right player for that to happen. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like because it it takes a lot of trust, a
lot of love, a lot of leeway, a lot of
leash a lot of culture, a lot of selflessness from
everybody else on the squad to say, yeah, Jim or
or whomever that is, that next man up to attempt
maybe even twenty I mean, where are we sitting at
right now?
Speaker 3: How many has to aj in his career thrown up? Right?
Speaker 5: Like, you know, we'll pull that up, But like I don't.
I don't even think he's eclipsed twenty five yet. That
would be my guess, you know what I mean, Like
thirty seven, that's an insane number.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's ever going to be surpassed. I
just don't see it happening. Thirty seven attempts fifty two
points ridiculous.
Speaker 3: It is unreal. And the thing that's even crazier is.
Speaker 5: You can kind of count on two hands maybe the
guys who have or the players who have tried to
be what Jimmer was. Trey Young comes to mind, Buddy
Healed a little bit, Caitlin Clark, and then obviously Steph
Curry's in that zone. But it's just interesting. Like basketball
has progressed, sports have progressed, we still have not seen
someone do what Jimmer and Steph Curry did, which was
pulling up literally ten feet from the logo, ten feet
behind the three pointint, pulling up from forty feet. Even
though the game has progressed, what Jimmer did is still timeless.
Speaker 3: And that's what's insane to me.
Speaker 1: Do you know the single season, by the way, point
record was from Pete Maravich at LSU and sixty eight
points side of the lead average, Like I think thirty
nine points a game. I want to say, it's insane, man,
really a crazy, crazy stat.
Speaker 3: What's the staff from aj what's the most attempts he's had?
Speaker 2: Man, I looked at it.
Speaker 4: The most at simps he's taken as in the Villanova
game he was nine of eighteen eighteen eighteen. That's that's
not gonna happen on this team with the production. But
even without the production, beIN he's not the shoot it
at jit like, that's not his strength. He's not gonna
get thirty seven. He might get twenty five at the most.
I don't even I don't even think he's gonna get
thirty ben if I'm gonna be I could be wrong
and I'll et grow happily. But thirty seven is absurd.
Speaker 1: Ridiculous number, no doubt and I'll pull up Pete Merovich's
official numbers here, but he was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks.
Jimmer Fernette was in the first round of the twenty
eleven NBA Draft, eleventh overall for that play two hundred
forty one games during his six seasons in the National
Basketball Association in the Jerry West League. He also played
overseas in China in Greece before transitioning to three on
three hoops for Team USA and to qualify and compete
in the Paris Olympics. Jimmer Fernett one of the goats
of BYU basketball, getting his number hoisted into the rafters.
Your thoughts, your reaction, your commentary, Brett always bringing the hammer,
like you can chime in, and then I'll bring.
Speaker 3: Up the caboos.
Speaker 5: First off, I had a lot of anxiety leave my
body today because I've been sitting on this, I think
for like two months now. I've known about this, and
I was like, I'm gonna do my best. I'm not
gonna tell anybody. I'm just gonna wait. And the only
person I told was my wife. I was like, but
we cannot tell anybody about this, and so like I
was scheduling all the posts today and I was like,
please don't let them go early, like this is such
a big deal. So I had a lot of anxiety
leave my body today. So I'm glad that it's out
and that everybody knows about it. What's cool for me
with this is I think I've said a couple of
times on this program. I didn't grow up a BYU fan.
I didn't grow up in the state of Utah. I
grew up on the East coast between Atlanta, d C.
And Pennsylvania, and my parents didn't go to BYU, so
we didn't watch a whole lot of BYU growing up.
But I remember the very first time living in our
second house in d C, and my dad was like, Hey,
you know BYU's playing tonight, we should watch Dave. This
guy named Jimmer, he's pretty good. We should we should watch.
I was like, okay, And I don't know why. I've
never told Jim or this any of time. I don't
know why, but I assumed when my dad said jim Or,
I assumed he was black. I was like, Jimmer, okay.
And then then I was watching the game, I was like,
which one is Jimmer? Like, Oh, it's that guy's like
that guy's white anyway, So that was my first introduction
to Jimer. And now honestly, that was my first introduction
to BYU basketball at all. And obviously we know what
he went on to do, and it's it's so cool
how even Jimmer stands the test of time, like not
even among BYU fans. I was talking to Jamie Erdall,
the host of Good Morning Football and NFL Network the
other day, and we were talking about some things and
because anyway, she was like, can you just let Jim
or know that I that I love his tournament run?
Speaker 3: And then I still think about it, like twenty years later.
It's like I can let him know.
Speaker 5: Someone who's not associated with BOU is someone who doesn't
have to glaze boy at all.
Speaker 3: She's like, man, Jimmer's tournament run was the best.
Speaker 5: And then you think about like you go back and
you remember like Kevin Durant, the infamous tweet the best
score in the world, and all the other people who
tweeted about it, and just that was like the viral
moment for BYU. I think if you ask non BYU
people about BYU, I think the first thing they go
to is Jimmer, and it's pretty cool now that we're
sitting here in this moment on January fourteenth, the month
from now, the jersey is going to be retired. But
it's cool that the legacy of Jim Ormania is finally
getting a storybook ending Jimmer Fordett is the best score
in the world, said KD once upon a time on
January twenty six, two thousand and eleven.
Speaker 3: So just a few days away from the anniversary.
Speaker 1: Ronald the three and man Weaver, your thoughts, your commentary,
what do you make of all this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, we know what has to happen,
been the requirements. I've talked to some of the information
directors of what it is and what it takes. And
it takes time. You know, there are people that wanted
this last year the year before. It does take a
good amount of time. You have to obviously have a
be you know, some type of national player of the
Year or have some big time accolate conference played drumas
all the records with that, and then you have to
play it professionally. And he's done that, He's even won
with USA Basketball. He has everything that he needs and
you were just waiting on the timeline and grateful that
he was able to announce that. Shout out to Brett
being stressed. Holding information and knowing stuff is always not
the best. But you have to you have to wait
on that. But look, Ben, this is long overdue. Grateful
that Brian Santiago gave the call. Wishes would have gotten done,
you know, two months ago, but here we are now
happy that is getting done.
Speaker 2: And then part of the BYU press release.
Speaker 4: You know it's gonna happen, like you said Valentine's and
I think no better way than to spend the day
with his his family, his lovely wife. You know, you
do something in the morning and then you get your
jersey retired at night.
Speaker 2: So so day.
Speaker 4: I love for Kugarnation number thirty two going up in
the Raptors FOREV. And I'm gonna be honest, I don't
think anybody ever wont to play with the number thirty
two after just knowing that about Jim Er. But now
it's officially been it will never ever be worn again,
and no one, even if there's a player better than
they did, don't you ever try to ask for that number,
because it ain't happening. We will petition here on ESP
and the fan love that this is happening. Not many
players get their jersey retired in the Marriott Center. This
is one of the greats, so tip of the cap
to him. Very happy for Jim and his family. Posted
it right away when I saw it, I try to,
you know, give love to the former Cougars. He liked
and retweeted it, so he definitely is feeling the love
cougarnation if you want to think of number thirty two.
Speaker 2: So happy for Jim or Ben.
Speaker 1: You know what, I didn't realize he was on that
KD tweet and we referenced that a lot over the
years on this show. I had no idea that the
eventual director of BAU basketball recruiting was the first response
on that thread.
Speaker 2: Did not know that, and that really January.
Speaker 1: Twenty sixth, twenty eleven, Justin Young what says after after
KD scored forty seven points night he tweets Jimmer Fodett
is the best score in the world. Quotation marks I'm
going to bed now look at I mean, tell me
if I'm wrong like you.
Speaker 3: I'm blown away.
Speaker 1: Just Young the current b YU, the eventual b YU
director of recruiting men's basketball, the brother of Kevin Young
was the first. It looks like at least I don't
know if I'll have to look at the timeline, but
it was.
Speaker 3: Is on that day. It was on that night. Justin
Young commented on it.
Speaker 2: I'm putting in a request we need to get him
on the program.
Speaker 3: To take him back into that moment. Were sitting at.
Speaker 1: He was obviously in his bed, probably eating a sandwich
before he went to bed, probably had a you know,
nice cool glass of chocolate milk, and probably like a
like a turkey sandwich, know what I mean, Just like,
you know, chowing down watching some hoop. I don't know
what you guys all eat, you know, when you're when
you're watching ball on your bed, A colts here, maybe, yeah,
maybe he's got some cinnamon toast crunch he's just chowing
down on.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it was fair life milkle around Anyway,
I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Uh. The eventual director of recruiting for by U basketball
was the first response on that famous Katie thread. Anyway,
I got to know, uh, you know Jim Er a
little bit while he was at b YU. We were
we had some crossover, you know. I I ended up
graduating in two thousand and eight from Brigham University.
Speaker 3: The thing that I always love about Jim obviously.
Speaker 1: His play, his scoring ability, the form, the fashion, the style,
the savviness of of how he operated on the basketball court.
Like obviously all that, but to me, as you've witnessed,
as you've experienced, he's one of those humble and kind
and good people that you could ever be around. Like
he's good to the bone, good to the core, Like
he's just he's pure in that regard, and so like
he's much more. He's even more likable, you know what
I mean in that in that sense, and he really
embodies what you want as a as a b YU
student athlete because of everything that he's able to do.
Speaker 3: He's a he's a dog on the court, a competitor
on the court.
Speaker 1: As soon as he gets off the court, he's just kind,
loving christ like like and that somebody knows that is
very very very difficult to do. It is not an
easy thing. I struggled with it. I really did, Like
you know what I mean, Like it's a dogg eat
dog world in competitive sport, even when you're given a scholarship,
even when you're given opportunities, it's all about what you've
done for me lately, what you did in that game,
what you did you know, in the season, or you're
and you're replaceable.
Speaker 3: And that's why you see.
Speaker 1: Some of like the transhroportal chaos that ensues because like
once you come to the realization of how transactional sports
can be and how like your window of opportunity is
very limited and you have this one time, one shot,
as Eminem said, like you know, dun du du du
du du, you know what I mean, Like it's just
one opportunity.
Speaker 3: What will you do with it? And so you're like,
oh my gosh, I gotta just go maximize it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, with that pressure, sometimes you become transactional and you're
like not all that like engaged in community. You're like,
I got to put in work because I could be
replacing anything anyway. That's what stands out to me about
Jim or is is and that's why I love Jened
Like I've had him on the show so many times,
I've interacted with him so many times, uh, and just
love and appreciate him as a friend, as as a
as a human and yeah, and as a bad ketball player.
But to me, all of this stuff on the on
the court obviously is is just amazing to me because
of what he was off the court and what he
has become off the court.
Speaker 3: That is I think the thing that surprised me.
Speaker 5: Most about meeting Jimmer because the first, so, the first
time I ever worked with Jim Er was I think
two or three years ago we called a Big twelve
women's basketball game together, and I was like so nervous.
Speaker 3: To be working on a broadcast with the Jimmer for that,
And like.
Speaker 5: He's standing there like we're doing TV, and like he's
not pretending like he's the smartest guy in the room,
Like he's asking questions.
Speaker 3: Like he he never you never, I don't know.
Speaker 5: When I talk to Jim Er, I never feel like, oh,
I'm talking to this esoteric basketball great. I just feel
like I'm talking to just a dude, just a goofy
guy who loves basketball and he loves ball. Baby, he
just loves ball. And he's just a human being. And
and and as as we work in sports, like we
run into a lot of individuals. We meet a lot
of individuals, and and some of them are more warm
than others, some of them are more cold than others
and you never really know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: And to your point, probably the.
Speaker 5: Best thing about Jimmer is that as good as he
is on the court, as great as he was on
the court, he's just as good, probably even better, of
a human being because he has every excuse in the world.
I mean, let's be honest, if he's still walked around
every day like yeah, I'm the b YU legend man,
like I don't know why you're coming and talking.
Speaker 1: He could he could do that, he could walk like that.
We're like, yeah, that's generous.
Speaker 5: I mean, he earned it what he did fifteen years ago,
Like he he got it, he can have it. He
he never he doesn't do that. That's not how he acts.
That's not But I think at the end of the day,
like it comes down to who are you like at
your core, and at Jimmer's core as a human being,
that's just that's just not who he is. He doesn't
need to be the guy with his face on everything.
He doesn't need you to know who he is, like,
he's just a kid who loved basketball and happened to
be really good at it.
Speaker 3: I also want to give a big Cougar roar to TJ.
Speaker 1: Furdett, his older brother at the contract like, you guys
don't realize. I mean you hear me say, there's a
lot on the show, those that are around and those
that tune in, Like.
Speaker 3: You know, we're mammals.
Speaker 1: Mammals need mentors, and you're only as good as the
people you surround yourself with.
Speaker 3: Right, it rubs off on you. You know you need
like you.
Speaker 1: Raise a line in captivity and you send them out
to the wild. That thing's gonna get is it's booty beat.
It's gonna die, you know what I mean? Why because
it hasn't been mentored in the wild by wild lions
right to be able to survive and thrive. So I
look at, say for dead as the older brother who
was a good basketball player in his own right, and
he saw the potential and the clay of a chubby, smart,
hard working younger brother, and he said, look.
Speaker 3: What goals do you have? Because you know, TJ is
probably like I wish I would have had this. I
wish I would have had I look I wash like
I was.
Speaker 1: I look at my brothers. I was like, I'll tell them, like,
why didn't you guys help me out? I was by myself.
Dad was working long hours, you know, and any any
work that he you know, after the after the practice,
after his dental price.
Speaker 3: He would go over to the school board. Me and I.
Where were you guys?
Speaker 1: Mike was studying, Josh was getting into all manner.
Speaker 3: Of of of mischief. David mostly just hit me, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean that a whole lot of mentorship there, man,
I had to, I had defend for myself, mammalsdean mentors. TJ,
for that deserves some credit for the path I've seen.
Speaker 3: Jim did it? Jim or did it? Uh? But TJ was.
Speaker 1: A foster of of greatness and accountability. We all need
a bar to leap over, right, You need someone to
set that bar up.
Speaker 3: So some of us are self starters.
Speaker 1: Some of us need you know that, uh, that additional
help right in that mentorship to really take us to
that next level.
Speaker 3: TJ was one of those guys for Jimmer.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Jimmer, foret let's go to break. That
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into b YU basketball versus TCU real quick. The injury
report has dropped how we feel in right now regarding
our injury report coming out of Brigham Young University, Obviously
you have the four uh, you know outs that you
don't like to see. You don't like to see guys
that are out for the season, Brodi Koslowski. Uh, you
have Nate Pickens and Dawson Baker all out. kJ Perry
is red shirting.
Speaker 5: I know, why does he need to be on the
I'm sure there's a reason for it, but there I
don't know.
Speaker 3: Red shirting. Yeah, if he's red shirting, like, I don't know.
I don't remember that with football, did we?
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because he's eligible, But anyway,
like that's a question. Maybe for the the Tyson Jecks,
you can you can send that one over to to
UH to the s I d if you want Ronald
of the three man Weaver, Yeah, questionable x X go
not gonna give it to you, possibly tonight, uh Zadian
Stton going to be available. Looks like questionable is what
he's being labeled as. Abdullah Ahmed Vidu is number thirty four.
He's probable, So that's good news for Brigham. We don't
want any more attrition amongst the bigs. I don't think
we can have any more attrition amongst the bigs. Like
we're still we're pretty aren't we.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: Unproven Staton Keba has had some concussions, et cetera, and
he's been a little bit sick. Abdullah Ahmed, you brought
him in and gloriously like, I mean, he's a nice product.
He's a he's a pretty polished product. And uh he's
played a lot of basketball. You can tell that one
turnover was like ah, you know, but he looks pretty good.
He looks pretty balanced in his skill set, and he's
becoming abreast. I think of the schematics both offensively and
defensively quite rapidly.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: But the injury report, it's okay, we know where we stand.
For or TCU, they have Vianni Salachikum and Malik Diallo.
Malik actually is a former, if I'm not mistaken, a
BYU recruit, so they have a lot of different connection
points with with BYU. Malik Diallo was heavily recruited by
the BAU coaching staff six ten two thirty center and
uh TCU cal Vanderbilt. Obviously BYU Miami raw in the mix.
He went to Wassatch Academy, So there you go. You
have obviously Tanner Toolsen and Adam Stewart all with connections
with the BAYU Cougar basketball team as well Malik Diallo
out though for the TCU horn Frogs. BYU. Have you
favored in this game? Last time I looked at was
twelve and a half points. So if you're a betting man,
would you pick the over?
Speaker 3: Would you? Would you? Sorry?
Speaker 1: The the over is a I think the point total
is like one fifty five and a half and then
that seven and a half line. Do you think BYU
covers in this game? Is it plus twelve and a
half that you'd be picking?
Speaker 5: TCU has top six defense, I believe in the Big twelve,
but I also believe they're one of the lowest scoring
offenses in the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: TCU Ken Palm rating is fifty second. Their net ranking sorry,
their net rakings forty second. Ken Palm is fifty second.
They're eleven and five right now, and let me pull
up their offensive and defensive stats real quick for you,
by the way, stat of the day brought to you
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have all had these three things in top common an
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Palm offensive efficiency rating, and then a top twenty five
defensive efficiency rating. BYU currently has obviously the number one
overall pick in aj DEVONSA. Most likely they are number
eight in offensive efficiency and number eighteen and defensive efficiency.
Speaker 3: So you're telling me there's a chance, hammertime show, I'm
telling you there's a chance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tc was bring the mic up a little closer, brother,
BOYU is tenth sorry. TCU is tenth in Big twelve
offense and six in Big twelve defense, so they are
one of the best defensive teams in the conference.
Speaker 3: They have twenty five per Ken Palm.
Speaker 5: They're actually tied at sixty six sixty seven point seven
points per game with BYU. So as good as Bou's
defense is, TCU has also been good.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would.
Speaker 5: I think I would take the over in this one,
actually because for two words, let me give it to
you like this Marry It Center, and I think, look,
I think with the announcement today, that place is gonna
be extra buzzing. I realize the retirement's not happening today,
but I just think Cougar Nation is feeling amp today.
They're coming back in the building after a win over Utah.
I think as good as TCU is, I think BYU
wins this thing by fifteen.
Speaker 3: So I think I would take. I think you will
cover the spread on that one.
Speaker 1: At home, they're scoring a lot of points. They've surpassed.
They've eclipsed over one hundred points the last two outings,
and they flirted with one hundred.
Speaker 3: With Versus Pacific Pacific there.
Speaker 1: And then you see riverside of the eclipse one hundred.
Now tc is a better defensive team, So I don't
know if they eclipse one hundred, but they can definitely
get buckets, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: At the Marriott Center.
Speaker 1: They should be in Fuego, they should be looking good,
feeling good, playing good b WLLU fifteen to one thus
far the season, second in the Big twelve, and statistically,
AJ debots is scoring twenty two point nine points per game.
We mentioned this before his attempt total. His max attempt
toal has been eighteen attempts. Jimmer fer Dat his senior year,
it tally thirty seven attempts in that New Mexico game.
What's the highest attempt rate do you think we're gonna
see from Aj to Bonsa this year.
Speaker 5: Part of the issue with that question is my guess
is I haven't done the numbers on this ron proved.
Speaker 3: Tell me if I'm wrong. My guess is AJ's shooting
more free throws than Jimmerferd.
Speaker 5: That was but only by virtue of I think AJ's
driving to the brim more than Jimmer was.
Speaker 3: Not by a massive margin, but I bet he is.
And that's why I think.
Speaker 5: Even if, even if, because I think we'll get a
forty point game from Aj at some point, I don't
think he's gonna be taking thirty seven attempts because I
think a lot of his points are just gonna be
him getting buckets at the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Jimmer to give you some feedback here. I'll give you
the totals free throw attempts, and he's kind of his
senior now. In that New Mexico game where he went
off for fifty two, he only had one free throw attempt,
but he had in the NCAA tournament seven five, twelve,
eleven versus San Diego State, six twelve twelve, six, sixteen,
nine eight four, sixteen eleven, five eleven, seventeen attempts versus
Colorado State his senior year, ten versus UNLV, ten versus Buffalo.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, he was getting to the he
was getting to the free throw line a lot. But
that being said, AJ's free.
Speaker 1: Throw attempt highest free throw attempt was versus ACU.
Speaker 3: He had twenty.
Speaker 1: He's got twelve eleven, ten, eleven, twenty ten versus Clemson.
Speaker 3: It's a similar.
Speaker 1: Rate, but you're right, it's probably more towards AJ, just
because he I mean, he can get literally anywhere on
the court. Jim Or could, but he was pulling up
from the logo. He was pulling up from the logo
as well. There's no doubt he was much more. I mean,
he was definitely taking plenty of three point shots. In
conjunction with his free throw attempts, and that's why he
became the Nasmith Award winner. Took He took fourteen attempts
versus un M from the three point Lives fourteen fifteen
versus Florida.
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Speaker 4: I was debating if I wanted to do this, but
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Speaker 2: I will read as follows.
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at the thirty first day after the head coach of
departures is after the championship.
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the basketball transfer window opens through January. Second and basketball
media transfers are not eligible to compete at a second
school if they enroll at an NCAA school.
Speaker 2: During the first academic term.
Speaker 4: Regardless of whether they are whether they are what is
it competed there or not?
Speaker 2: That is per the NCAA been so a new transfer window.
Speaker 3: New transfer window.
Speaker 1: There you have it, a little timeline, little calendar. Look,
the calendars messed up. I think the biggest issue And
I wrote about this when the Kilani, the potential Killani
collapse was occurring, the Penn State attempt to acquire coach
or coach, and I was like, Man, it sucks that
we're having to deal with this right now. Amidst we
were on the brink of getting into the transfer portal, right,
and and that opening and getting prepped also for the
Big twelve championship game, like we shouldn't have had to
deal with that at that time at any rate.
Speaker 3: It is what it is.
Speaker 1: The calendar needs to change, and they're trying to make amends.
The head coaches from around college football. They're meeting right now.
They're trying to vote on things, they're trying to evaluate things,
and so we've seen a couple of different things come
out of those meetings. One of those meetings is or
one of those those decisions was the nine game red
shirt rule that we'll have to go to the I
believe the NC Double A subcommittee, and that has to
be approved per the NC Double A.
Speaker 3: So that's where we stand right now. A little breaking.
Speaker 1: News, not the biggest breaking news we've ever broken here
on the show, but some breaking news, no doubt about it.
A couple of things here as we delve into the
prep for the BYU versus TCU, we hopped on or
rather we caught up with Matt Carlino yesterday. For those
that missed it, download the podcast. One were BYU point Guard.
I found it an interesting you know, the reasons why
he entered the Portal Once.
Speaker 3: Upon a time.
Speaker 1: Now this is over a decade ago, right, and he
had played at he had committed I believe the UCLA
he committed and ended up at BYU. He was kind
of a midyear transfer when he came in to BYU.
Ended up being, in my opinion, one of the best
point guards in his two and a half year tenure.
It was pretty impressive to see what he was able
to accomplish. He entered the Portal, if you will, the
former portal because the coaching staff was one to move
him to the two spot, okay, alongside Kyle Collinsworth. Now
we all know Kyle collins Worth ended up being one
of the best point guards in BAU basketball history. The
triple double King, right, he still leads. He still has
that record. I believe triple doubles NC double a history guys.
One of the best ever, right and a great distributor
of the ball. There's no doubt about it. So I
understand the thinking the methodology of that because Kyle was
a fantastic I think he had twelve triple doubles and
the following year in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen or with
the two fourteen, twenty and fifteen I can't recall, but
it always stinks to like lose great players via the portal.
Basketball really hasn't been impacted as much as as football.
Speaker 3: Like you look at the you know, the difference that you.
Speaker 1: Compare, contrast the two.
Speaker 3: Rosters over the years.
Speaker 1: Who's transferring out, who's who's who's transferring in? And I think, man,
I want to say football has done better than basketball.
I think, you know what, let me point this out
real quick. I think BYU has been more impacted by
actually players going to the NBA or going overseas than
they have necessarily transferring away from b Yu Elijah Bryant,
Elijah Bryant hurt, Eric Meeka hurt.
Speaker 3: Matt Carlino actually brought that up yesterday.
Speaker 1: Had Eric Meeker been able to play the following year,
that team probably could have made it a little bit
deeper in the NCAA tournament. I think they were a
little bit guard light, and it didn't have a whole
lot of big men either on that squad. It was
kind of a five out if it kind of felt
like a five out type of offense that year. But
any rate, if you haven't if you haven't listened to
that interview with Matt Carlino. I thought it was interesting
how it all played out. I think we're past the
statute of limitations, and Matt was willing and ready to
talk about a little bit.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was in full full depth.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was getting into the minutia, but
he gave a few of the reasons why he left
BYU and went to Marquette.
Speaker 3: That final season.
Speaker 1: So something to maybe take a look at if you're
a BYU fan, if you'd like to get into the
past element of what happened, how it happened here on
your Utah ESPN Radio network. Let's take a brief time out.
We talked to some BAU basketball BA versus TCU BA.
You heavily favored, obviously Obviously in this game, we welcome
back Matt Carlino to the Merriatt Center, Tanner Toolson back
to the Merritt Center, and Malik Diallo as well as
Adam Stewart, all with connections to the BAU Cougar basketball program.
And I'm predicting a big victory over the TCU Hornfrog.
Speaker 3: No if ans or butch about it.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I'll mention here when we
when we first jumped into the Big Twelve, we were
discussing rivalry games. We were discussing, okay, apart from remember
Utah was not in the Big Twelve at that time,
we were discussing who would be BYU's rival in football
and basketball, and I want to say it was pretty
conclusive from BYU fans, they felt that TCU would be
their rival going forward.
Speaker 3: Has that played out? Has that played out on the
football field? Has that played out on the basketball court?
Do you think Brent always bringing the hammer? I don't
think so. It really hasn' like, uh, who was Spitgate?
That was Texas Tech? Texas Tech was Spitgate. I honestly
think Texas Tech is. I mean, it's a one sided
rivalry for recent history given.
Speaker 1: But BYU got them out on their home right field
a couple of years ago, I think.
Speaker 5: And honestly, if you're the Big Twelve, if you are
Brett or Mark, I think you want BYU Texas Tech
to be a little bit of a rivalry because I
think you want that to be your new Texas Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna beat out the rivalry that Bui Utah have.
Speaker 5: But I think in the branding of the Big Twelve,
you need to know who are your top dogs. And
BYU and Texas Tech are both great football and basketball schools. Yeah,
I think if you're the Big twelve, you say, hey,
what do we have to do to pump BYU in
Texas Tech to the top Because if that becomes like
a true rivalry every year there competing for the Big
Twelve title, I think that makes the Big Twelve more desirable.
Speaker 3: To the national media.
Speaker 1: Honestly, there was a little bit of Baylor, Yes, like
to like Baylor was gonna be a team that there
was gonna be some some rivalrous activity with both in
football and basketball.
Speaker 3: A lot of people felt that way.
Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, Utah is Utah and
that's gonna be. But it was before Utah got involved.
It was was invited to the Big Twelve, before they
got the invited in and accepted it, before the Pac
twelve came crashing down.
Speaker 3: But I like the idea of Texas Tech.
Speaker 1: Right You're you're looking at Tech and by U in
both football and basketball resource allocation. UH kind of a
chip on the shoulder. Similar cultures. UH in in the
sense of like roster roster cultures. But you've already had
Spitgate and and uh, you know you've had some competitive
battles on the football field, and I a basketball court.
Phero could end up being BYU in Texas Tech. Let's
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