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get your prep, get you ready for this BYU matchup
versus the horn Frogs bys eight to one, taking on
the TCU horn Frogs six and three heading into this
uh this.
Speaker 2: Rivalry game of sorts BYU.
Speaker 3: I believe it's five and seven all time against the
TCU horn Frogs. So and guess what. TCU is on
a five game winning streak. BYU's familiar with Sunny Dykes.
Sunny Dikes is familiar BYU. Sunny Dykes actually discussed this
BYU matchup earlier this week.
Speaker 2: We want to play the sound bites for you.
Speaker 3: This press conference sound is he preps his team for
the b YU Cougars taking off this BA Cougar football
team under the lights of level. Enjoy the sound and
the commentary from head coach of TCU, Studdied Dikes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, b Y, you you know, it's really a number
of things.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 4: You know, they're they're a big, physical team. It's a
typical BYU team. You know, they're always built up front,
you go back, and that's always been their history, and
it looks.
Speaker 5: Like that that kind of team.
Speaker 4: You know, they're physical upfront, they're two linebackers. I think
are two of the it's the best two linebackers I
think on a team in the Big twelve. You know,
both those guys are just they're really really good at
what they do. They're fantastic blitzers. They they're long, they're athletic,
they can cover run sideline the sideline.
Speaker 5: They don't give up a ton of big plays.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I think that's one thing that that they've been consistent
doing that They're going to show the quarterback a lot
of different pictures, going to be hard for him to
get settled in and know exactly what you're going to see.
And they're you know, experienced, they got tons of experience.
You know a lot of the guys that we went
back and looked at the twenty three film, you know
when when we were played against them, and they got
a lot of guys that are still playing they've played
on that team and you know, just experienced players and so,
you know, just an overall really really impressive football team.
On both sides of the football. They're kind of the
same way on offense. Really, they do a good job
of taking care of the football offensively, very very seldom
turned the ball over. You know, you turn the film
on last week against Texas Tech, and you know, you
look at the score and you kind of expect Texas
Tech to to dominate them, and it wasn't the case
at all. I mean, they was just came down to
turnovers and you know, BYU had a couple of turnovers
on their side of the field and led to some
short fields by Texas Tech, and Tech had a really
difficult time putting the ball in the end zone. You know,
they're they're one of the best teams defensively in the
entry in red zone defense. I think that's probably one
of the biggest strengths they have is they're excellent in
the red zone. Very difficult again to run the ball against. Typically,
that's kind of a correlation between how good are you
at run defense and how good is your red zone
defense going to be?
Speaker 5: And and you know.
Speaker 4: They're, like I said, they're probably the best team in
the league in terms of red zone defense.
Speaker 7: Thoughts on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've impressed with how he's played. I mean,
I think that he's shown a ton of maturity. You know,
I think that's what stands out is just you know,
he plays within himself. He doesn't try to do too
much you can tell he's got a lot of confidence
in his teammates. He's got a lot of confidence in
the defense. He doesn't play impulsive, you know, he just
makes really really good, mature decisions with the football. They've
done a really nice job of managing him and getting
him to play with that kind of confidence. They've got
a strong run game and that helps him.
Speaker 5: But he's you know, he's really good with the ball.
Speaker 4: He's a big, physical guy, but he's a better thrower
than I think probably he gets credit for him. He's
he's uh, when you give him a clean pocket, I mean,
he can step up and and throw the ball as
well as anybody. So just been really impressed with the
way he's performed this season, and to do it as
a young player, I think is really a credit to
b why you staff, and his maturity and and just
kind of their program. I'm trying to think that we
who we've played, that they're similar a little bit like
SMU probably, you know, just in terms of some of
the some of the run game and some of the
things they do, and and the quarterbacks a dual threat
guy and can make plays and and is a really
really good player. And they've got good skill. Uh so similar.
You know, they're probably a little bit more physical, a
little bit more of a downhill uh team maybe than
then smu is and quarterbacks a little bit different kind
of player, a bit pretty similar in time in terms
of their approach.
Speaker 8: The days.
Speaker 7: You've always had a.
Speaker 4: Difficult Yeah, yeah, I mean go back to Todd Christiansen
or some of those guys way back if you want to.
But yeah, I mean by us always had great tight ends.
They've always been productive, they've always used them. It's just
they've they've always had those kind of guys that that
were physical at the point of attack, but also you know,
really effective in the in the passing game.
Speaker 7: When you look at last week and you talk.
Speaker 4: About things, yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's turning the
football over. I mean that's the bottom line, you know,
it's you. And there was some more mistakes beyond that.
I mean, obviously we missed uh we missed a twenty
four yard field goal, so you can't afford to do that.
Speaker 5: That was costly.
Speaker 4: You know, we had we had some bad communication in
the first half in the run game. You know, we
turned some a lot of guys loose. We had way
too many negative plays in the run game. You know,
once cold Deery kind of came in in the second half,
it took him a while to get loose. We didn't
think he was going to be able to play, and
we felt like we had to play him, and he
was very effective. Once he came in, we got a
little bit more settled in. You know, our line calls
were more consistent, We started getting a hat on the
right people, and once that happened, we were able to
run the football much more effectively. I mean, you know,
Jeremy Paine averaged almost nine yards of carry, and so
once we started to move in the football, then you know,
we had two fifteen plus play drives, which is hard
to do, and you know, we started executing and moving
the ball. You know, obviously the punt return was a killer,
and so you know, you we were minus ten points
and special teams, so that was obviously a difference in
the ball game. And then even after the part return,
we got the ball, we drove it down, got it
down to the fifteen yard line and fumbled and so
you know, look, we know the deal. We've lost three
games this year, and all three of those games we've
had three turnovers and and if we don't turn the
football over, we're going to have a chance to win
against anybody that we play. And if we do turn
it over, we're going to have a difficult time beating
anybody that we play. And so that's that's where it
comes down to. And you know, look, there's it's like
anything else. I mean, we coach it as hard as
we can. The players are aware of it. I mean
we you know, we we do circuits, we do all
kinds of things to ensure ball security. And and you know,
you got to give I always take credit. A guy
made a really good play on the ball. Guy he
punched it out of paying his hands at the end,
and you know, we weren't able to stop him on
fourth down, they got a first down, ran the clock
out for all intentsive purposes. So it's a you know
a lot of plays in that game that we'd like
to have over. We're up seventeen to six and and
felt pretty good about our opportunity to win the game
at that point, and then had some some critical mistakes
down the stretch that cost us. Yeah, we've got to
it's gonna be really important. I mean, that's it's always important,
but it's gonna be particularly important anytime you play on
the road. You know, you just have to You've got
to settle in more quickly than we have offensively. You know,
we've got to do a better job early in the
game of stringing some plays together and getting some drives
and scoring points. It's gonna be really important for us
to do that early in the game this week.
Speaker 7: For sure. You're does that change might.
Speaker 4: Play Not really, No, you know, we're we're going to
try to put the best guys out there that we can.
Speaker 5: And try trying to win some games.
Speaker 4: I mean, the only guy you might see a little
Terry Shelton this week at outside receiver. You know, he's
he's just really practiced at a high level. We feel
like we need to give Jordan a little bit of
a break. You know, we've pretty much played every single
play with Eric and Jordan outside and that's really difficult
for those guys to do. And so, you know, Terry
is somebody that we think is has you know, earned
the right to get on the field, and we're excited
to see what he can do. And we've put him
in some situations. You know, we had a kind of
a scrimmage on Sunday with some of our young players,
and he performed at a really high level. And so
I think we all have a lot of confidence in
him and looking forward to, you know, seeing what he
can do to help us win.
Speaker 9: Oh ask you this after the game on Saturday and
going back and watching the field. Now, well, there are
some situations where you look back at Josh and felt
that he should have run.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there were some opportunities he could have yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And now part of it was, you know, look, he's
pretty beat up, you know what I mean. I mean
he coming off of the uh, the West Virginia game.
You know, he's pretty banged up. And I think he's
probably like anybody else. I mean, he's a little bit
aware of the fact that he was, you know, kind
of hanging on and hung on in that game, and
you know, it was was not fully healthy last week,
and I mean very few quarterbacks are. I think he
feels a lot better now than he did. But yes,
there were some opportunities for him to do that. He's
been encouraged to do that, and I think he's got
to pick his spots and and uh, you know, and
be able to to to convert some first downs for
us and keep some drives alive and do some things
that third.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we could.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just again it's kind of the same thing
with some of those guys have been a little banged up.
You know, Lafayette is out. He will to play this week,
and so you know, between the three of them, you know,
we're trying to to to keep him uh, you know,
get him healthy and keep him healthy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yep,
he'll play this week. He's fine, and he'll be you know,
he'll be out there playing.
Speaker 7: Is it kind of surprising because we saw earlier in
the year to day Mama was running the football. Is
something he's just getting on them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, it's like anything else.
You just you want those guys to be able to
get a rhythm. And so when you're when you're out
there and there's three four backs, sometimes it's hard for
those guys to get.
Speaker 5: Into a rhythm.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: We'll see how Kavorian responds this week. You know, I
would I would call him questionable you know for the
game probably on Saturday, and we'll see how he does.
Speaker 5: But yeah, as as.
Speaker 4: You know, guys get banged up, obviously they will have
a chance to get out there. And John Demmon has
done some good things as well. But you know, when
when you look at Trent Battle's production and you look
at Jeremy Payne's production, particularly on Saturday, you know, those guys,
you know, we want those guys to get into a
rhythm and give them an opportunity to get a field
for the game and get some carries. And as I said,
you know, I thought, I thought Jeremy was at almost
nine yards of carry last week and did some really
good things.
Speaker 7: What was the difference last week with the secondary?
Speaker 9: The guys have been given up to fifty one game
that you guys played really impressive, I guess a pretty
impressive quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think we just made some competitive plays.
You know, I think our coverage was tight, you know,
but in particular, you know, the interception he got on
the sideline, that was a fantastic play. It was a
really really good throw. You know, I think we you know,
you think about it. We had two fifteen plus play
drives and so I think the offense kept their defense
off the field, you know, for a good bit of
the game.
Speaker 5: They didn't have a ton of plays on offense.
Speaker 4: We were at eighty and I think they were at
sixty five, so we didn't have to defend a lot
of plays. It was kind of a grinded out game
and you know, as I said to me, and we
had our opportunities to put the game away and we
just couldn't do it. And when you don't do that,
you miss those opportunities, they come back and bite you.
Speaker 7: Progress at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we were good in the first half,
not as good in the second half.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: The biggest thing, honestly is first down, you know what
I mean, because what what you know? We're really good
on third down or when when it's third and long,
you know, and we've made a big improvements. We weren't
very good early in the year. We've gotten much better
on third and long. A lot of the third downs
that they converted on Saturday were short yardage third downs,
and so we've got to do a good job early
downs to try to get them into more third and
long situations because I think, you know, as I said,
that was kind of something that we had issues with
early in the year, was third and long and we
let too many people convert those and I think we've
really improved in that area, and now we just kind
of continue to put people in those long yarded situations.
Speaker 7: Eric's leading the.
Speaker 9: Big twelve and receiving yards at the top of the
leading touchdowns.
Speaker 7: How do you kind of compare him to some of
the guys that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's you know, he's very consistent.
You know, I think that's what what the big thing
about Eric is. You know, we've had some guys around
here that have probably been, you know, big play guys
that maybe lack some of the consistency that Eric Scott.
You know, he's a really good catch and run guy.
He's he's elusive. He can break tackles. You look at
some of the quick game throws that we spit out
to him last week, and and you know a lot
of times he'll make the first guy miss and and
not everybody has had.
Speaker 5: An ability to do that.
Speaker 4: So he's you know, you look at Quinton and you
look at Savion, and he's kind of almost in some
ways across between those two guys, probably a little more
physical than than Quinton, probably not quite as physical, cool
oft save on, but has a little bit different skill set,
you know, understands the game. You know, he knows how
to set guys up. He has a good sense of
spacing and timing and tracks the ball well, it's got
a good catch radius.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: He's just a good football player, you know. And the
big thing is as a quarterback, trust him. You know,
Josh and here on the same page. And and usually
when those guys have that kind of that trust in
each other, then you know, you.
Speaker 5: See some good things happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you'll see more Jordan this week. Yeah, yep.
Just again trying to get him back healthy. You know,
it's been a little bit of a process.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, I think everybody's upset and dissatisfied that
we we lost the game that we felt like we
should have won on Saturday. You know, again, you look
around college football, it's it's pretty interesting right now, the
things that are happening. I mean, you look at there
were some i think three teams ranked in the top
twenty five this week there were six and two they
lost to teams that you look at it before the
game and you go, man, they probably shouldn't lose to
these guys. There's just a lot of parody. It's a
lot different than it used to be. You know, there
was times, I know when I was at Texas Tech
in the Big twelve. You know, we would play six
teams a year, maybe seven teams a year that had
no chance to beat us. And that's just not the
way it is in college football now. Anybody can beat
anybody on any Saturday. I mean, you look at the
number two team in the country when the season started
was Penn State, and I think they've lost six straight
and so, I mean, that's that never happened. You know,
those kind of things were impossible in the old world
of college football.
Speaker 5: It's just a different game now. And you know you
have to.
Speaker 4: You're going to see very few teams go through the
season undefeated. You're going to see very few one loss teams,
You're going to see very few two loss teams. It's
just difficult to win, and there's more parody than there
ever has been. And so it's a challenge every week.
Speaker 5: You have to play well.
Speaker 4: You can't make mistakes, you got to limit you know it, again,
all these games come down to the same thing. It
comes down to turnovers and then somebody making a play
in a critical situation, and that is going to determine
probably half of your games. And you go back and
look at some of the wins that we've had this season.
You know, we made some plays in some critical spots,
and you look at the games that we've lost, it's
been turnovers. It's been turnovers and our inability to close
a game out, you know, and I think that's been
a little bit frustrating.
Speaker 5: But it's a competitive thing.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a very The college football world is
vastly different than it was for a long time. I mean,
it's just unfortunately the way it is, and there's tons
of parody and men, there's a lot of pressure on
these players to play at a high level because you
can't go turn the oliver four or five times and
just be a lot better than somebody and win. And
that used to happen all the time. You know, you
would take the field and you would say, well, there's
pretty much no way these guys can beat us, and
that's not the case.
Speaker 10: You are listening to TCU's head coach Sonny Dykes in
his pre game press conference previewing tonight's matchup against BYU,
where the.
Speaker 7: Rule would go back to stop in the block after
the first down.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, look, the interesting thing about football is,
you know, the game has played a certain way for
a really long time, and then and then it changed,
you know, and then the you know, the kind of
evolution of the throwing game and the air raid offense
and all this stuff, and then it became going fast
and the tempo, and all of a sudden that the
number of plays went up in games and you were
having teams that were running you know, over one hundred
play was not that unusual.
Speaker 5: And then I think some of.
Speaker 4: The power brokers in college football didn't really like that,
you know what I mean. I think there was some
traditional traditionalists that didn't really like the way the game
was being played, didn't think it maybe favored them, and
had enough power to affect some changes within the game
when it came to rules and you know, and then
you had the evolution of the world class signal stealers
that you know, and basically people hiring entire coaching staffs
to steal other people's signals. You know, that's been going
on for a long time and something probably a lot
of people don't talk about. But once those things started
to happen, then.
Speaker 5: You know, they changed the.
Speaker 4: Rules from a timing standpoint, and then gave the gave
you know, communication with the core and a defensive player.
And when that happened, then people started to huddle more
and so it slowed the game down. People aren't playing
as fast as they used to. So this is a
long answer, but that it's a different game now than
it used to be, you know, And that's led to
some of the parody if you think about it, because
if you're you know, you might play fifty snaps of offense.
Speaker 5: Now that's not that uncommon.
Speaker 4: Well before you might play one hundred, and so if
you played one hundred snaps, I mean, it's just like
going to Las Vegas. The more hands of the more
hands of blackjack you play, the better odds the house has, okay,
because the odds are in their favor. Well, it's the
same thing in college football. If you can limit somebody's plays,
you can turn them over once or twice, they can
miss a short field goal, you get to play on
special teams. All of a sudden, you can win a
game because that team's not getting fifteen sixteen possessions like
they used to. Now, every possession, every play is more critical.
There's more of an onus on everything leading up to
that now than there was in the past, and so
that has, in my opinion, also contributed to all the
close games in college football, all the upsets in college football.
You know, very few teams dominating like they used to.
You know, I used to make the analogy all the
time about the SEC. I used to say, you know,
you never saw Vanderbilt beat Alabama. That didn't used to happen. Well,
I guess what happened, and it happened because the game
has changed, and so it's different. It's like I said,
it puts an onus on It's more like the NFL
with the limited number of possessions. And really, honestly, what
it comes down to on most Saturdays is which team
screws up the least. And that's really different than it
used to be. It used to be which team was
more explosive and which team could take advantage of these
matchups and which team You know, now it's come down
to it so that the same way in the NFL.
You know, there's just so few possessions and so few
plays that there's so much parody in that league, and
that contributes to it.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 9: Just thoughts going up to BYU face a number twelve
team animation.
Speaker 8: I feel like it's a good opportunity for the team,
you know, all.
Speaker 3: Right, there you go that Sunny Dyke's head coach TCU
horned frogs talking BYU in their preparation for this massive
game for the bau Cougar football team. And it's a
big game for TCU as well. Yeah, they're out of
the hunt for the big twelve championship game they are,
but getting to double digit victories in the modern era
for TCU, it's become a bit of a common theme
for them. I believe out of the twenty five seasons
since twenty twenty, TCU has been able to eclipse ten
wins or meet ten wins, or eclipse ten wins in
twenty of those seasons. That is significant. That is a
bar that is hard to meet. That is a standard
that is hard to meet in college football, and TCU's
done it. So that was Sunny Dyke's getting his team prep,
getting it ready, getting them ready for this BYU matchup.
And whenever you're a top twelve team like this, there's
additional motivation realized, there's a target on VOA's back at
every single game going forward, because as a head coach
in college football, as a college football team that is
not going to the College Football Playoff, what's the silver
lining at the end of the season, right, what's.
Speaker 2: The silver lining each and every single week?
Speaker 3: If you can knock off a top twenty five team
and push them out of their college football playoff bid,
you create chaos and there's a ton of validation in
regards to that in my opinion. So guys, we're gonna
take a brief time out. We're gonna come back. There's actually, look,
if BYU doesn't get to the CF RON and I
have been discussing this. You know, we'd love to go
to the Alamo Ball again if that's where they go.
Speaker 2: But look, there's a part of me that's like, no, I.
Speaker 3: Would be perfectly fine going to the Pop Tarks Ball,
you know what I mean, Little Orlando getting to the
warm You know, I don't need to be in the
cut in order to, you know, make myself feel like
it's been a successful season.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's nice to get to a warm weather destination and.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, maybe hold my Harry Potter wand and
throw it around a little bit at Harry Potter World.
It it did at Universal Studios or at Disney World anyway. Uh,
we're gonna talk with one of the scouts of the
Pop Tarks Bowl that's taken in the game tonight.
Speaker 2: Here momentarily. Don't go anywhere, Cogarnation.
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Gett your prep getting you ready for this b y
U TCU matchup. It's a big game and Uh, we're
also watching the BAU basketball game. The second half is
just tipped off. B YU down eleven, thirty two to
forty three through the to the Yukon Huskies. B Way,
you finally hit a three point shot at the end
of the first half.
Speaker 2: What's the uh, the the attempts is it?
Speaker 8: So tell them russ at the second one to cut
it to eleven.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're playing your best three points.
Speaker 2: For the love of all that's holy man, I think
they are out there.
Speaker 3: Goodness gracious, this may be one of the worst three
point shooting teams in BAU basketball history.
Speaker 2: I hope it's not, but it may be.
Speaker 3: I do want to talk some football in this segment
despite the BOU basketball game going on to the background. Guys,
once the basketball game, what you should do is, you know,
with about ten minutes remaining in the basketball game, come
on over and watch the end of the Boa basketball
game with us here with the esp and the fan
and get a hot dog, get a hot chocolate, get
a swig, and come celebrate. Hopefully the victory a nice
comeback victory for the Cougars. But as I mentioned, we're
getting your prep getting ready for this BAU TCU matchup
TCU six and three overall and Bau's eight and one,
Bou's slightly favored three and a half point favorite, and
the over under set at fifty one and a half. Now,
look BYU needs to win the next three in order
to get to the Big toelve Championship game. If they don't,
and they become a potentially you know, let's just say
a two lost team, and you're gonna have these these
ties between two lost teams in the Big twelve, you
may not get to the Big Toeal Championship, which means
you could be in the Alimble Bowl or the Pop
Tards Bowl, Okay, and either one would be fantastic experienced.
The Alimble Bowl last year was a good payout and the
pop Tars Bowl ain't too bad either.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 3: Uh, b YU and Iowa State had a had a
had a tie last year. Iowa State ended up going
to the Pop Tards Bowl last year because the Alimble
Bowl wanted b YU and Colorado they got first DIBs uh,
and so Pop Tards will get the second dims on this.
So it'll just kind of depend on the former Pac
twelve teams that are available in Bowl eligible in the
highest rated ones and uh where BYU's at in the
in the mix as well. So to talk about the
Pop Tars Bowl, though, we've seen from time to time
the scouts come in for these bowl games and pot
Tards Ball scouts are in attendance.
Speaker 2: He I picked him off. He was getting a swig.
He got himself a whistletoe medal. Ye, yeah, he did.
Speaker 3: Let's welcome in a scout for the Pop Tarts Bowl.
We got Jimmy Betzel here. Jimmy, how that are you, man?
Speaker 2: I'm I'm good. I thank you for having me on.
Speaker 11: You know, it's a great, great day, beautiful football weather
for mid November here.
Speaker 2: I mean, so yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Jimmy.
Speaker 3: This is your first time in Provo. How is your
experience being thus far? And I know you're looking forward
to the game.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, it's been good. I got here about an
hour ago. I just started walking around some of the
parking lots and everything, and I mean, yeah, no, it's
a it's a definitely a very cool college town.
Speaker 2: For sure, very cool.
Speaker 3: So tell me what scouts do for these bowl games.
You're coming in, You're gonna take in the game. Yes, Now,
both of these teams very well could be candidates for
a pop Tarts Bowl Berth, But are you looking at
one particular team, Uh, you know, we are just looking
for two teams that will create a compelling matchup for
Orlando in a national TV audience.
Speaker 2: So we have a whole.
Speaker 11: Program where basically we cans and send scouts to any
power for matchup. Because we have the pop Tarts Bowl,
which is the ACC Big twelve. That was Iowa State
Miami last year. Great game that was I was there.
That was a nuts game to take it in Orlando.
And then you have the Cheese at Citrus Bowl which
is the SEC in Big ten so and that was
South Carolina Illinois. So yeah, so we just have we
kind of send scouts around to all these Power four
games just to take in the environment.
Speaker 2: And yeah, well I love the fact that you're here.
Speaker 3: Obviously b YU fans they want to make it to
the CFP, that's what they want.
Speaker 2: But a nice landing spot if you.
Speaker 3: Don't go to the CFP is to head out to Orlando,
and that would like if what who are the teams
right now that are trending maybe in the ACC that
could also be candidates for this Bowl game, which you say.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 11: Like you said, we just keep we just a good
scouting profile on all these teams and then you know,
we'll make.
Speaker 3: A decision when we make a decision. What goes into
that though, Like obviously the Rakings where they're at the
bowl games, get their bids right and they got they
have to.
Speaker 2: They get first dips, second dims.
Speaker 3: You guys get the second didips for the Big Twelve
and then you guys get also for the ACC. Is
that kind of the first first position for the ACC
that doesn't go to the CFP.
Speaker 2: I don't know off the top of my head, okay,
but it's a higher up there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it is. I think it may be
first position for the ACC. So you get, you know,
the second best Big twelve team versus the next best
a CC team that's not in the CFP. You look
at the profile these teams, what's the attraction to come
to I guess Orlando right now? Why would the pop
Tarts Bowl be a great bowl game for b y
U if they don't get to the CFP.
Speaker 2: Well, the pop Tarts Bowl is just a great bowl.
Speaker 11: You know, pop Tarts has treated us really well as
a spot oncert since they came on the game in
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's they're very good about.
Speaker 11: Fan activations and whatnot, especially when you get there. I
tell people, there's so many like cool little things they
do at the stadium in Orlando that you're not gonna see,
like when it's a TV timeout when you're watching the
game here. And so it's a great I mean, the
Florida weather is beautiful, obviously, and you know Li said
it's great with the activations and how you know, Pop
Tarts treats us for the Bowl game, and yeah, it's fantastic,
and yeah.
Speaker 2: Love that. Jimmy, Jimmy, give me a score prediction.
Speaker 3: Give me how do you think this game plays out
tonight under the lights of Laville BYU versus TCU.
Speaker 11: I think it's gonna be a good game. I think
it's gonna be a good game. So I look, yeah,
two very good football teams.
Speaker 2: So well, Jimmy, we appreciate you. How's that drink from Swig?
Speaker 11: It's pretty nice. It's it's pretty nice. I've never been
to Swig before, so.
Speaker 3: Well, hey, we what we do best here in Provo
is cold sugar eat drinks. So that's how we roll.
That's our vice. I'm caffeinated at that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I got you. Jimmy.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you, man, Thanks for joining us, thanks for
letting us get to know you, and thanks for being
here to scout the BA Cougar football team as well
as TCUs.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, hopefully it's a good fun game.
Speaker 11: And yeah, I'm excited to take in Lavelle Edwards for
my first time personally.
Speaker 3: So awesome, man, Well, we appreciate you. That's Jimmy Benchel
scout for the Pop Tards Bowl. Guys, I just had
my guy Vic Kraham pull the numbers. Right now, Boa
Basketball's taking on Yukon. They are down fifty two to
thirty six with sixteen minutes remaining.
Speaker 2: I asked the question, is.
Speaker 3: This going to be BYU's one of BWA's worst three
point shooting teams in the modern era going back to
nineteen ninety seven. So the ninety seven ninety eight team
shot thirty point four percent from the three point line.
They were a fourteen and sixteen team. Now Boa is
gonna win more games than that. Ninety three ninety four
they were thirty one point eight percent from the three
point line. That was a team that was fifteen and
fourteen in twenty eighteen. Twenty nineteen, they shot thirty three percent,
uh and they went nineteen and thirteen. Are we going
to right the ship with our three point shooting? Ronald
of the three man Weaver? Is this a product of
the strength of schedule thus far? Or is this just
not a good three point shooting team.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's a long season. People were counting them out.
After the Providence game. I was getting questions like I
don't think this team is gonna make the tournament. I said,
their five games into the season, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6: So they have a chance to rewrite it.
Speaker 8: But what I'm worried about is I'm watching this game.
Is the perimeter defense you if you're gonna trap and
then have lazy effort like I'm sorry, I'm gonna swear
to do as I say kids, not as I do,
but lazy ass effort Like I'm watching Richie Saunders not
get up to the three point line. I'm watching Rob
Wright and I go to the coint like that's occurring.
Like that's not talent or personal, that's effort. If you're
not gonna have f then that's gonna kill you in
games like you have to do better. So I don't
think the three point shooting is gonna be a problem,
But the defensive perimeter right now is starting to showcase
what it was last year, and that's a big issue
why they're down.
Speaker 6: It's not the only reason.
Speaker 8: You got to play better perimeter defense, ben So I
am more concerned about them guarding the three with effort
than putting up threes.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, right now on the season, they are shooting thirty
two point four percent from the three point line, seventy
six point nine percent from the charity stripe, forty eight
point seven percent from the field. In general, they've been
good offensive. They put up a lot of points. Obviously
with the Big three Richie Saunders, rob Right the third
and aj De Bonsa. How are those three performing tonight
under the biggest lights of I guess the initial the
inception of this BYU college basketball.
Speaker 2: Season, how are the big three playing?
Speaker 6: Look?
Speaker 8: I mean the scouts out on edge of the bonds
is to be extremely physical to see multiple bodies at
him when he drives down, rot it over, and they've
done a great job of collapsing. Maybe at times AJ
has forced a little bit, but look, when you're on
a statue, you have to do that. Rob Wright actually
hasn't played bad. He's got nine points some four to
seven shooting. I don't even think Richie has played necessarily bad.
Been like he picked up two quick fouls, but he's
also got nine to three or six. I really think
the guy that has really stepped up big tonight in
the assen of Moo Davis.
Speaker 6: And we know why.
Speaker 8: Pert Kevin Young on the pregame with Jason Shepherd saidue
violating the team a rule.
Speaker 6: That's why moves out.
Speaker 8: He's there on the bench, made the trip like you said,
But it's not playing Dawson Baker.
Speaker 6: Dawson Baker's playing phenomenal.
Speaker 8: I think tonight nine points, two of three from the field,
both of those that come from the three, and he's
made all three of his free throws. So look, Dawson's
got nine points in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: See high low Boskovic got the start, he did the
placement of Moo Davis.
Speaker 8: He got the start at that was more of a
matchup thing, right, Yukon's long because a lot of people
like Ron why is Dawson not starting well? Dawson is
not he doesn't not the right matchup to start with
that group. But coming off the second group, and look,
I'm gonna be honest, Milo ben two points one or
seven er oover five like he missed his third. They
got the offensive rebound, then he air balled his for it,
and look he was He's a minus twelve in the
court sixteen minutes. I look, he kind of got benched
in a way. Like you just Mihilo's gotta play better.
They brought you here for a reason. You have not
been playing well. You have di did play well in
this Yukon game. Still sixteen minutes left to go, But
you gotta correct that like that, you have to play better.
But I said it multiple times. I said Dawson did
not practice because he was hurt. Now what is he
starting to do. He's starting to heat up. So I
love Dawson the bucket getter. Hopefully he's able to keep
a scoring because Bill he needs everything they can get.
Speaker 6: Been there down about sixteen us.
Speaker 2: We call him a high low.
Speaker 3: Bucket bitch, highlight bucket itch, but me highlight BUCKETVICH.
Speaker 2: But Andrew Peterson producing our show today.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like he's looking like my Hilo bucket, bitch,
my highlight bucket, nch.
Speaker 2: What does he look like tonight?
Speaker 10: To be honest, this is not a representation of him
as an overall player, but tonight he's playing like Mahilo
bucket myths.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my goodness, yeah, yea, yep, yep, yeah yeah.
Fifty five to thirty nine right now, the Kougs flailing
a little bit, the cook's trying to find answers a defensively,
I don't know if I'm more concerned, quite honestly, if
I'm more concerned about the defense or the offense.
Speaker 6: The defense is what I'm more concerned about.
Speaker 2: Oop.
Speaker 10: I want to be clear, that's not my overall opinion.
It's just he's having a rough night tonight.
Speaker 6: He's having a very rough night. Ben All five is
a rough night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very rough, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Very rough night indeed for this Cougar basketball team taking
on the Yukon Huskies. Let's get a little report coming
out of the Top twenty five college football scoreboard to
Utah's up twenty eight to ten versus the Baylor Bears.
Speaker 2: Utah's thirteenth in the country.
Speaker 3: Indiana ended up knocking off Wisconsin in convincing fashion thirty
one to seven. Or leaders today, Virginia knocked off the
Duke the Duke football team thirty four seventeen. Right now, Ole,
Miss and Florida are duking it out. It's a close
one right before half, about forty five seconds before half.
Florida's actually up twenty one to twenty. That could be
a boon for byuf O. Miss balls to a three
and six Florida team in this one.
Speaker 8: You need that one ben because a reminder, Alabama did
not defeat Oklahoma, so both of those teams are going
to be in the top ten next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ucla losing to Ohio State by seventeen seventeen to zero.
Georgia is looking to take down the Texas Longhorns fourteen
to three. Right now, there's eleven nineteen left in the second.
In the second, Texas A and m ended up finding
a way to win after being down twenty seven points
at the half. They beat South Carolina three and seven.
The South Carolina team thirty one to thirty, found a
way to win. Oklahoma number eleven taking on Alabama at
number four They beat them by two as a close
one by the skin of their teeth. So that's twenty
three to twenty one. Texas Tech dominated UCF, the number
six best team in the country. I think they're a
top five team now forty eight to nine. Notre Dame
beat Pitt thirty seven to fifteen. Miami took on Ins
State beat them up pretty badly forty one to seven.
Georgia Tech barely got the win versus Boston College thirty
six thirty four. Usc took down Iowa twenty six to
twenty one, Michigan twenty four to twenty two, over Northwestern
Tennessee beat New Mexico State forty two to nine, and
then Navy took down South Florida forty one to thirty eight.
And guess what, Cincinnati lost to the U of A
Wildcats thirty to twenty four.
Speaker 2: So that's your update there from.
Speaker 3: College football little Top twenty five scoreboard report. Let's take
a freef time out. We'll come back and talk more.
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BYU men's basketball game, as well as many of the
other college football games. Bay is down seventeen right now
in the second half, trying to find a way to
get back into this game versus the Yukon Huskies. We
wish them well, let's make it respectable, please, for the
love of all that's holy, as we tried to find
ourselves early in this season. Look, I'm there's no doubt
in my mind that BYU will trend in the right
direction at the end of the season in February. You
gotta trend in the right direction. You gotta get to
that point where you're playing your best ball in February.
And I believe that k Y will do what he
did last year with this BOA men's basketball team.
Speaker 2: It will be a better three point shooting team. They'll
be a better defensive team come.
Speaker 3: January and February, so early on, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: You just gotta keep it close.
Speaker 3: You gotta keep it competitive, you gotta keep it respectable,
in my opinion, and not get a.
Speaker 2: Twenty point blowout loss.
Speaker 3: On a neutral court, albeit it's probably more of a
home court advantage for the Yukon Huskies at any rate,
I do want to delve into BYU football matchup versus TCU.
One of the things that I'm hoping for tonight. If
I had my way, ideally you want to get And
I was just talking to my guys. The Holkinson's the
biggest BYU fames known to men here in Cougar Country.
The thing that you want in this game is a
three score victory. If I had my ideals right, you
win by seventeen points, a convincing.
Speaker 2: Victory at home.
Speaker 3: After a bit of a pr issue in love it now,
I know we have silver linings and moral victories on
the road versus Texas Tech. I've been able to look
at those and evaluate those, and I think when if
a certain sequence of events occurs, I think the College
Football Playoff Committee will go back and look at that
game and see it through a different friends, maybe.
Speaker 2: Don't see it from a different vantage point.
Speaker 3: They're gonna say, look, if BYU wins out right, so
by wins out By wins this game versus Teachu are
ReSpectacle beat poll team that six and three, that can
compete with just about anybody.
Speaker 2: In the country.
Speaker 3: They're high flying, high score and offense. They can sling
it with the best of women. And we all know
college football. Everybody loves the deep ball. Okay, chicks did
the d ball, and so does the College Football Committee
and media members. They love it, and it's it's a
part of what TCU's identity really is. So if by
you can win this game by seventeen points and then
they go on the road and beat Cincy, you don't
have to beat them convincing.
Speaker 2: You just gotta beat them. You know, win is it?
Speaker 3: Win is a win by one point, It doesn't matter
you're on the road. You just gotta find a win
to win, and then you have another convincing victory at
home versus UCF. It doesn't have to be a demolition
like what Texas Tech just put on late on UCF today,
It was like forty eight to seven. You don't need that,
but you gotta have a nice, comfortable victory once again
at home versus uc if you're gonna then get into
the big Toeal championship game, and then you gotta be
semi competitive with Texas Tech. It's gotta be better than
the twenty two point loss on their home field. At
that point, by is a two loss team and you've
been competitive versus I believe a top five team in
college football. There are five, maybe six elite teams in
college football this year, and then you have from five
to fifteen.
Speaker 2: These are great teams.
Speaker 3: I believe BYU at least three fourths of the time
they're a great football team. Okay, they are a great
football team. Did we showcase a few of our weaknesses
offensively and on special teams this last.
Speaker 2: Week in Lubbock, No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I was less disappointed in my in the offense, and
I was very disappointed in the special teams because I
don't go into these games thinking, Okay, BYU offense has
to be the catalyst for momentum. We're deferring to the
second half whenever we win the toss. That tells me
a number of things. That tells me Kilani and his
coaching staff believe that the defense and special teams are
going to win US football games, and they're going to
be the momentum changers, the field flippers, the turnover takeawayers.
I know I'm making up words here, you know what
I mean, though, these are the momentum Uh, these are
the momentum creators. And the offense's task to run the
ball effectively, maintain the ball, have time of possession, and
then create play action pass and every once in a
while take you know, take a shot down field.
Speaker 2: Okay, our intermediate to short passing.
Speaker 3: Game has been phenomenal in eight games minus in the
Texas decade. That's who we are, that's our identity, and uh,
if you can keep it respectful, BYU, I think if
you went out and you do what I just eloquated
on these airwaves, you're gonna get into the CFP. I
think the College Fotball playff Committee, with algorithms and human
element will would give BYU the bid that you're looking
for in order to get into the college football Playoff.
Now you're gonna be, you know, in a seating that's
gonna put you up against some of the best the
elite teams in college football with that at large band,
So you got to take what you get, and you
could get blown out in a similar fashion to that
of SMU.
Speaker 2: Remember what happened with SMU last year.
Speaker 3: That's the team that BYU competed with and b on
their home field.
Speaker 2: BYU was just as good or better than SMU. Last year.
You saw SMU get.
Speaker 3: To the ACC Championship game and they lost to Clemson.
They were not castigated and punished for losing in the
conference championship game. They win into the College Football Playoff
and then they got pummeled by.
Speaker 2: Like twenty seven point side thing and.
Speaker 3: Many said, hey, they didn't deserve to be there, But
they didn't I guess not deserve to be there. That's
where you have to position yourself right now. If you're BYU.
That's the most likely probable scenario for BYU football to
get into the College Football Playoff. Now, a miracle could happen.
They could win out and they could beat Texas Tech
in the Big Toal Championship game and get a phenomenal
seed in the College Football Playoff, and that's our hope, right,
that's the that's the hope. But the probabilities are not
in BYU's favor to do that because Texas Tech spent
twenty eight million dollars on their roster and a lot
of that was on the defensive side, and BYU's the
weakest point on their football team out of the three
fastests is actually their offense so week versus strength, and
they actually have a really good offense too, and their
special teams is improving there at Texas Tech. So I
wanted to lay that out for you Cougar fans because
I think that that's the scenario that is most likely
to occur, and starting tonight, starting tonight, right, and look, yeah,
I understand like certain teams could lose, right, there could
be more college football cannibalism. I still feel the Big
twelve still, as the ACC does a branding issue.
Speaker 2: When you're going to against Big ten and SEC teams.
Speaker 3: I know Alabama was left out last year, but there
was so much kicking and screaming and weeping and wailing
the national team. I don't know if they do that
again to the SEC. I don't know if they do
that again to the Big twelve or sorry, Big ten.
I think there could be a little bit more of
a shift towards those two power conferences from this year's committee,
and they're they're going to align with more of the
algorithms and the analytics and maybe the strength of records,
strength of schedule that could pivot them away from what
happened last season.
Speaker 2: But ap you want to chime in on it, feel
free to do such. What do you got for me?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was just uhh.
Speaker 10: Greg Rubell just tweeted that, according to Klonie Satake, we
might see a new punter tonight. Bowler's shirts may end
up handling the punt and Sam Vanderharr might be limited
to just holding duties tonight.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a breaking news.
Speaker 3: Look, this is why you listen to our show in
the off season. Okay, there was attrition. There was a
former there's a legacy player, Landon Rico, who's a good bunter.
By the way, Ryan Rico's younger brother, Landon Rico entered
the transfer portal.
Speaker 2: It was a bit a surprise to all of us
here Adio.
Speaker 6: We were surprised by it.
Speaker 3: Right, Lanta Rico ended up at UTSA. He's their starting punter.
And if I'm not mistaking, land Rico's a really good puncher.
We maybe have to pull pull the seats on where
Lando Rico's at right now and how he's punted.
Speaker 2: But he's at Utah State, So I I got a.
Speaker 3: Little bit more detail on this, and and what happened was, uh,
Landon Rico essentially got beat out.
Speaker 6: By Fuller Shirt yep.
Speaker 3: And and they were so excited about Fuller Shirts that
like they kind of had to let go of Landon Rico.
Speaker 2: And Fuller has been.
Speaker 3: Pressing and pushing Fuller or excuse me, Sam vander Harr
uh the offseason and into the season now with Sam
Vanderharr struggling a little bit on the road and with
Fuller Shirts punting so well in practice, you're gonna see
them tonight. You're gonna see that big old and that
that's crazy.
Speaker 6: That's crazy, Ben, because one one one game, one game.
Speaker 8: Been two punts that were shaying that were bad and
you lose your spot. Like that's how close it is
in cousin football. I want to point that out to people, like,
that's what it is. Sam vander Hart, who was good
last year has been good. This year, Texas Tech wasn't
his game. But that's how slim the margin is. When
you have talent behind you, you can lose your spot
in a heartbeat. So I don't want to hear from
fans that are like, no, this is that that breaking
news that's big, Like I never would have thought Sam
would not you know, be kicking from the au for
the rest of the year.
Speaker 6: Potentially love that man.
Speaker 3: Uh. Look, if you're tuning in right now for the pregame, okay,
and you're hearing this, I want you to show up.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want you to show.
Speaker 3: Up and uh, I may have two tickets to give away.
Speaker 2: I may have two front row tickets to give away.
Speaker 3: If you are in need of tickets, you come up
to me and make your case on why you deserve
these two tickets.
Speaker 2: These are actually Reno Mahes season tickets.
Speaker 3: He can't make it tonight because he's serving the Lord
with Elvis heart, mind and shout.
Speaker 2: He just texted me he said, look, I have.
Speaker 3: Two tickets, two extra tickets, my tickets I want to
give away to listeners that tune in to your show.
Speaker 2: That's why I love Reno. Reno was my coach in
two thousand.
Speaker 3: Men in two thousand when I came to my my
only BYU camp, my first and only BAU camp, I
became MVP of the defensive backs and the entire camp
in two thousand with Reno being my coach in the
seven on seven Championships.
Speaker 2: So he's given back to.
Speaker 3: His uh his uh oh I guess his player, his
acco went back to the community giving back.
Speaker 8: Have the statsree too for Lando Rico Atlanta. Rico's punted
the ball forty six times this season that's not included
today's game for two thousand and sixteen yards. That's forty
three point eight two yards per punt. He's has a
long of sixty three this year.
Speaker 6: Man, God, I know crazy sick.
Speaker 2: I'm not ranked college.
Speaker 8: That's the next TI I'm gonna have to go look up.
And he's punched the ball above fifty five times four times.
Been wow, That's just why I said I never thought
Sam loses fun Willard.
Speaker 6: He will must be really good behind him.
Speaker 8: If if you made that quick of a judgment after
one game, been that, he must be really that, he
must be fantastic.
Speaker 2: I don't think Parker Kingston is losing his punp return job.
Speaker 6: I don't think. I don't think he is.
Speaker 3: I think, especially with Cody Hagen out and not being
as explosive.
Speaker 8: With Tiger not being EXE And this is where the
double ed stort comes in. You're gonna go with Parker
because although Parker made the mistake, Tiger's not as explosive.
He caught upon going into the end zone. You really
can't take that. You gotta take that into account. And
then Cody out. You go with your more experienced guy
and you trust him in that situation.
Speaker 6: That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, crazy crazy stuff. Any other updates on the
personnel front, the injury report, Cody Haiggins out, Tommy Farrastus
who's out, Matthias Leitch is out, Marcus McKenzie, Marcus McKenzie out,
and I'm forgetting one more on the defensive side of
the ball. I'll pull it up here momentarily. But by
you overall fairly healthy, you do have some issues there
with some defensive backs being unhealthy. And what Jay Hill
did mention, He's like, it's really good to get Raider
back because we can rotate the safeties a little bit more.
Follows out Tanner and Raider can now rotate talent. Alfrey
is also in the lineups of talent ten uh player
at that strong safety spot. He's also played some free
safety for the KuPS. So, uh, that's kind of the
situation with the injury report.
Speaker 2: What do you make of it?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Look, the guys that have been out, the guys
that have been out for a long time been you
know who they are, right, you just mentioned the names. Uh,
look you've been making do without Tommy Prastis sounds like
he's going a red shirt.
Speaker 6: It's good to have righted back.
Speaker 8: I think the biggest one that might be overlooked as
an easy percell not having an easy per sell, especially
with Justin Kirkle's available. And that's on me having him
back because he's available now. Depending how healthy is if
he'll play, that's another story.
Speaker 3: But Justin Kirkland has been dubbed as a red one hundred.
Speaker 6: Well that was the thing without Justin.
Speaker 8: I mean, look, Anissa is playing well before you got
a little bit dinged up Ben, and that's the guy
I think you need to have along day defensive line,
that front to stop the run of TCU, to make
things easier in my opinion for your your b AU offense,
CC wants to throw, well, how do you affect the
quarterback pass rush? So Jack Kelly and Isaiah Lasker, look,
don't be surprised if they have a phenomenal game again.
But I really wouldn't even say the linebackers. I think
the defensive line is gonna get after. I think John Damapea,
I think Keana Tanavasa, Logan Latilion, Hunter Klegg. I think
those guys can break out like I would not be
surprised if Hunter Klegg And I know he was credited
with the sack earlier in the season, but if he
really got like his first sackle, he wraps the quarterback
up and takes him down, not like hurrying him out
of bound. So I think the defensive line bin is
going to be a big factor in this game more
than people think. Not necessarily Bay's linebackers that always.
Speaker 3: Are gotta slow down the pass game of Josh Hoover.
Speaker 2: That dude could sling that pill.
Speaker 3: Now we do have reports coming out that Hoover has
a hand injury. He ended up playing with a glove
this last week, But did that really slow him down?
Speaker 2: Ap We've discussed this on the show. He's he's utilized
the glove in the past.
Speaker 3: He threw the ball fifty times in that Iowa State game.
Now they lost twenty to seventeen. They could not establish
the run. He completed sixty eight of his passes even
with a hurt hand and thrown with a glove one touchdown,
but he did throw two I and teas.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 3: How do you think that will impact this throw game
of Hoover and the TCU Hornfrogs tonight.
Speaker 10: Ap Honestly, my opinion, I love Josh Hoover as a quarterback.
He's actually one of my favorite quarterbacks. But when you
don't have a run game to support you, it just
gives the defense such an advantage. And throwing against the
secondary that has guys like Tanner Wall Raider, De Mooney,
follow tausatuwala, Evan Johnson, Trey Alexander throwing Maury Bomba, he
might find himself in some trouble and start throwing some
more interceptions. If TCU doesn't have a run game and
he's got a hurt hand. I like BYU's defense.
Speaker 3: I love that we may we'll get into our hot
takes in our score predictions here in this next segment
and delve into all the data as we prep you
get you.
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ultimate Tailgator. We got the BYU men's basketball game on
the on the on the flat screens here, sixty four
to fifty three BYU in the bonus with nine to
twenty seven in the second half. They're making this a
game after being down almost twenty points in the second half.
Speaker 8: Well, the kid that wears number two four, Dominque Diamonde,
the defense and energy that he's brought in in the
last three minutes has really helped b Why you cut
this lead to eleven?
Speaker 6: Still a long way to go, but he has really.
Speaker 8: Changed the game. Coming on the core, affecting and mucking
it up. So look, I mean, you're gonna have a
lot going on. He's got to learn not to commit fouls.
You know when guys are shooting three. He's still young.
Remember he was that you nineteen France team. You know
you're stuck his leg out there. That was a freaking
Jane's hard move. Look, they they gotta they're gonna have
to go review, review, and.
Speaker 6: Right now personally not seeing that yet.
Speaker 2: You can't sick your leg out like that.
Speaker 6: You gotta do.
Speaker 3: You gotta who shoots the ball that throws their leg
up up like waist high body James Harden, Jaferson and
obviously the Yukon starting point guard. Yeah, that that should
be an offensive foul.
Speaker 6: No, I agree with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 8: Yeah should Yeah, And I was gonna be what you
recruited in the off season, just so you know, like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I would like him on my team right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: With day Pickens down one hundred percent, you know, but
I'm look, that guy was a starter. Uh look, I
mean Nate Pickens was was coming.
Speaker 6: As a backup. Silas was a starter.
Speaker 8: That's tough to say, Hey, play on fifteen minutes a
game like he's it's gonna be tough to pitch that
once again.
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