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Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I've been made aware of like a little bit of
the off season training that's been going on, right You
get into the off season training and get into a
lot of speed work, a lot of mobility work, a
lot of strength and conductioning work. I think that would
you say, what's more intriguing to fans Ronald the three Man? Well,
you've always with the amount of way that one can
move the bench press, the squad, the clean or is
it more so the speed right, the the agility work,
the top end speed, the forty times I said, what's
more intriguing to Kugarnation, would you say?
Speaker 4: I think it depends on the player. If I had
to be honest, like for Parker and you saw the
speed drill that I thought, for a lot of people
that I got feedback from, they really liked this, said,
oh man, I hope he gets in space because you
can't go on on one on one. But for someone
like Keanatanavasa who's pushing away to Bear or LJ, they
like that. I think it's the skill set, man, and
who's the player, Because if I see PK pushing a
lot of weight, it's like, I don't want that. I
want to see speed drills. So I think it's the
skill set and what that person provides. If I'm gonna
be honest, like Trey Stewart, remember with basketball, remember that
agilia drill. That's what you wanted to see, But Kaiba,
you want to see him jump out the gym. So
I think it really depends on what's that person's strength.
I think that's really what it comes down to, because
I think Cougarnation likes both. But I'm being honest, I
would not want to see Parker pushing heavyweight, not that
he's not strong, he is, but I want to see
the speed demon him get up to speed, just like
Legend Glasker. I want to see the igs, the kdu Luavees,
you know, the guys the heavy hitters lift in those wights.
So I think it's both.
Speaker 3: It just depends on the player.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna tell you a little bit about speed, right,
I have a need a need for speed. The fastest
players on this BYU Cougar football team. Okay, now this
isn't a forty time, this is more like top end speed, right,
this is flying forty type speed, flying ten Like, what's
their top end speed?
Speaker 3: Right? Miles per hour? How fast are they? Et cetera.
Speaker 2: So I'll give you the top fifteen or twenty guys
on the football team. And look, there could be some
guys injured, right, So if you're looking at the roster
and you're like, oh, this guy's missing, there's good there's
offseason injuries, et cetera. So fastest guy on this BAYU
Cougar football team, and it may be surprise some, but
it's Evan Johnson. Evan Johnson is your fastest football player
coming in at number two. Kevin Doe. Shout out to
Kevin Doe. Man, that kid's a freak really good, really
good athlete. Kevin Doe. If you don't know who Kevin
Doe is, he's number thirty one on the football field,
sixty three, two hundred and five pound. He's a cornerback
now red shirt sophomore to Salt Lake City. East High
School parents are Philip and Judy. Shout out to Philip
and Judy, big BA fans. They are now major is
in business. Cousin is actually a former BA defensive back,
Diane gon Woluku Diane Lake for those that keep track
of the former Cougars before BA, we started football, basketball,
and track at East High School. Averaged fifteen points per
game while playing basketball for East. As a junior in
twenty twenty one. Twenty twenty two, he was at one
thousand point score for East High Basketball Utah five a
state champion of.
Speaker 3: Both the one hundred and two hundred meters. So this
guy could gallop. He was fast.
Speaker 2: And let me see what is I wonder what is
I've never pulled up his one hundred meter time and
this is something I traditionally do that kind of ticks
me off that I haven't done that yet. Five a championship.
So he ran in his state championship meet. I want
to say his.
Speaker 3: Fastest with a ten to six eight ten six eight.
That's fast.
Speaker 2: It's blazing fast, and he's he's one of the fastest
on the BAU football team. Shout out to Kevin Doe
coming in number three. Joe Douglas, my guy. Shout out
to Joe Douglas. Definitely big, fast, strong. Joe Douglas can
definitely push some weight as well, so definitely strong guy
in the way room. Do we have some breaking news
we need to get into Ronnie or the latest injury
report before let's finish off this football talk before we
get into some more basketball talk.
Speaker 3: So we got Joe Douglas coming in at number three.
Speaker 2: This guy can he can run, He can gallop with
the best of them. In my opinion, watch out for him.
Still needs to work on a little mobility, but as
far as his speed, his clay Man one of the
best in my opinion, one of the best athletes on
this Cougar football team. Watch out for my guy, Joe
Douglas coming at number four, Parker Kingston. No surprise there,
Parker Kingston the specher, wide receiver, punt return specialist. Jordan
Chris coming to number five. Man, this guy can this
guy can run. I'm intrigued to see what Jordan can do.
Coming in at number six, Tommy prasss Okay, Tommy, I
see you dog. He's he's in the top of the
food chain. There also kind of a surprise here after Tommy.
Crew Clark, also a safety. He can he can run.
Crew Clark, if I'm not mistaken, came from Idaho. He
was a transfer walk on. I don't think he was
even on scholarship when he came to BYU. Decided he'd
he'd come over to Brigham and and and and see
if he could make some Hay originally had a Sugar City,
Idaho Sugar Salem High School six one one ninety five safety.
Speaker 3: He was a freshman this last season. I think he
red shirted maybe at the A.
Speaker 2: He attended the University of Idaho, so he was a
two time state champion, first team All State defensive back,
named first team All Conference as a Receiver's junior years
have played some receiver, and I think that's I think
that's what he played actually at at Idaho. Was recruited
by Boise State, Montana State, University of Montana, University of Idaho,
University San Diego, and amongst others, and after one year
at the Universe Idaho, it looks like he's balling out
at Brigham.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he got any pet this last
season though.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he saw any special teams time.
But going to be I think either a sophomore or
red shirt freshman in two thousand twenty six, after Crew
Clark Cannon debrees. Alright to Cannon the nickelback punt returner
like Canada a lot. I think he's going to be
a good one for the Kougs. He could be really
good at wide receiver too. Shout out to Canon Logan Pain. Okay, Hey,
everyone's been talking about Kevin Orr Devon Ekka. What about
Logan Pain becoming RB two, Ronnie, are you buying who's
selling Logan Pain?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm still buying him. It's a guy that's been in
the program already.
Speaker 3: It's nothing.
Speaker 4: He is Devon. But when you're coming from high school
to college, there's a level you have to jump and
learning to playbook. Logan already has it down. He's already
been around the guy that was dinged up. It's gonna
come down here if he's healthy. But you have that
advantage already, been having a year under your belt and
knowing what is expected of you and having a year
to be at away train and physically be back. He's
a little bit more stocky with muscles. So yeah, by that,
I mean, look, RB two is open, in my opinion,
wide open. Someone's gonna have to take it. I mean
people are gonna say, oh, we'll see whence he Ony
moy is healthy. He has to prove that. So right
now it's LG. Martin and then it's open for business
for whoever wants to step up and raise there. And
it says, hey put me, pick me, so we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 2: But I buy that Logan pain there Raider DEMONI rounding
out the top ten after him, you have Kyler. It's
good to see all those safeties in the Kyler Casper
wide receiver, Willsondell tight end, Trey Alexander cornerback, Jovesa de Mooney,
Jared Esplind wide receivers. Jovesa's up there too. At running
back has some speed follow Telsatawala. There is at number
fifteen Trey Roberts full of shirts, kata Ulaowave, LJ Martin,
Charles Miska and Walker Lyons round out essentially your top
twenty fastest players on the ba You Cougar football team.
Speaker 3: So pretty pretty cool to see some of these.
Speaker 2: Names pop up in the top end speed rankings. All right,
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Speaker 5: After a second straight two lost week, BYU has now
fallen from sixteenth to twenty second in the latest edition
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get back on the right foot tonight in the game
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at b YU for the twenty twenty six class. I
want to break it down in three phases. Right, you
got your your your your freshman class. Right, some of
those are going to go on mission, some of them.
Speaker 3: Will play immediately.
Speaker 2: You also have the transferportal class, which has been very strategic.
I will break that down, and then you have like
your return missionaries coming back. There's always a trifecta. Actually,
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Speaker 3: How you living?
Speaker 6: Living pretty good? How are you guys doing good?
Speaker 3: Doing?
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Speaker 3: Doing awesome? Man?
Speaker 2: No no room for improvement. We feel too blessed to
be strict.
Speaker 6: Okay, I wish I was living that kind of life.
But good for you.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's it like right now for you? Right?
Speaker 2: Has the dust settled a little bit with all the
craziness of the recruiting twenty four to seven three sixty
five world that you typically live in.
Speaker 6: Not even a little bit. So you know, it's kind
of funny. I haven't done your show in a while.
But to hear you introduce me as on three Rivals,
I'm still get used to that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, how long how long were you with two
four seven and the movie?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I want to say like seven years or
something like that. And you know, before that it was
it was scout dot com. We kind of merged with
two four seven, but I want to say it was
like seven years. I think the easiest way to remember
is it was the year of Trevor Lawrence justin field.
That was that was their graduating class. That's kind of
how I remember dats you know, who was the quarterbacks
that were in that class. So, yeah, made the move
a little bit before December. It's going, it's going well,
but yeah, it's super busy. So doing have a little
bit more on my on my plate right now in
terms of, you know, covering recruiting. Before I was you know,
kind of doing moreatch just on the evail side. Now
it's covering recruiting and it's also still doing the grading
and so with with Rivals. Have a big twenty twenty
seven update coming up in a few weeks, I think
at the end of the month. So right now just
kind of grinding on that, and so you know, it's
event season. There's always something going on every weekend, whether
it be a seven on, whether it be a five
on five line and competition, whether it be a you know,
an under armoured camp, whatever, there's there's always something. So yeah,
even though signing days of coming gone, I would say
event season slash. You know, scouting season is year round.
So still kind of trying to keep my head above
water right now.
Speaker 2: Hey, well, we appreciate you spending some time with us
to kind of evaluate where BYU stands and they're recruiting.
How would you evaluate how would you grade out the
twenty twenty six class for BYU football this year?
Speaker 6: I thought it was awesome, you know, I wish I
had time. I was going to try to actually go
back and I know it was a you know, I
want to say it was a top twenty five class
right right around twenty to twenty five. Yeah, I was
trying to kind of go back over the last ten
to fifteen to twenty years. I think it's our highest
rated class in like a long time, right, Like, I
don't think we've had a top twenty to twenty five
class and at least a decade and you can kind
of keep going back and back. So you know, I
love what they did. It was a great year for
talent in Utah. I think one of the better years
for talent in the state. And they were able to
get you know an Adam Bywater, you know, a broad Care,
a Bond, a low Petty Moala, the Pulo Toy. I mean,
they really did a great job just in state. And
then obviously you know kind of just what I like
to do for me. Great in a recruiting class. You know,
if you have a big need at you know, say
off at the line and you signed you know, twelve receivers,
you know, even if those receivers are all really good,
did you really see you know, fill a bunch of
your needs. So for me, it's it's need balance and
then you also want to have that star power. So
in terms of the balance and fill the needs, I
mean they got the quarterback, they got the running back,
to tight end the skill players. It just filled gaps
everywhere all over the board. So I really liked the
class a lot. And like I said, man to be
labeled the point, but probably the best class that I've
seen BYU have in a long long, long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's probably their best class ever.
Speaker 2: Quite honestly, I know the twenty ten class with like
Jake Heaves and Rossoppo and Zach.
Speaker 3: Stout and there was a it was a pretty good crew.
Speaker 2: But I think that that in the modern era, I
think this one made take the cake, and it kind of.
Speaker 3: Makes the question.
Speaker 2: Okay, since twenty and twenty, b YU has gone eleven
and one, ten and three, then they had a little
bit of a drop eight and five, five and seven,
and then they've had an eleven and two and then
twelve and two seasons. You know, you look at the
wins versus they recruiting rankings. BA has to be it
has to have some of the best ROI you know
in college football for the I guess the recruit that
they get.
Speaker 3: What does that speak to? Do you think?
Speaker 6: I think it speaks to a lot of things. You know,
obviously we'll say forever this is not an exact science,
but I think they're sentence to be said about development.
B YU is very you know, a very unique school
and how they recruit, and obviously you know the wins
versus the recruiting class in imperfect world, right, you want
if you have like a top five recruiting class, then
if it works out the way you're predicting it to
with a in two to three years, that top five
class should translate. And you've got to put together multiple
top five classes for this to actually workout, right, it
can't just be a flash in the pan. But the
way it's supposed to work is you put together a
couple of top five top ten classes and within a
couple of years you should be a top five the
top ten team. That's how it's supposed to work. Obviously,
there's always going to be an outlier. Indiana probably is
the biggest outlier, and a lot of you know, a
lot of people came in and I'll promise all tie
this together. I'm not going too far off, too far
off on a tangent, but you know a lot of
people kind of came out with the whole stars don't matter.
Indiana shows it, and you're kind of saying, you know,
back up a little bit, there's this thing called an outlier. Right.
Just the first time you know in the in the
BCS history that a team has one national championship that
had under fifty percent of the roster made up of
three Stars. Usually every other national title in the BCS
era had over fifty percent of the roster made up
of four five star guys. While Indiana was unique was
because they had about twenty three players that were fifth
and six year seniors that that doesn't happen very often.
I think with BYU the correlation is oftentimes they have
a little bit of an older roster as well because
they have, you know, a lot of their returned missionaries come.
These are you know, these are grown men who could
just go out and bully. And for years watching b YU,
they're they're men up front, right, they bully guys, They're tough,
they're physical. And Indiana when you watch them, they were
so tough, physical upfront in that box many they were devastating.
And I think they also had a generational coach in
kurtze Netti. So I think Indiana a little bit of
an outlier. But the way it's supposed to work is
the class, you know, should reflect wins, and I think
b YU, you know, had a great class. It's kind
of a chicken on the eggs that people will say, well,
would the class become better the more times you win?
Will that get recruits and or you are you saying
you need to get the recruits first and then you
win the game. I think it kind of has, you know,
a little bit of an overlap for both. But you know,
I think the way By used to play on the field,
I think it's going to become a norm for them,
honestly to have top twenty five recruiting classes. They have
a great staff in place, and I think it's another
I think the talent in Utah overall the last three
or four years could used to come up again. Watching
this twenty seven class I'm doing right now, another pretty
good year for talent in twenty seven. So I think
there's no reason why By you shouldn't be a perennial
top twenty to twenty five team from a recruiting class
down point, and then you should compete to see those
nine to ten even eleven win type seasons from the koops.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, there's a theory that is
pervasive amongst cougarnation the fans, right, and this is a
little bit of a maybe a persecution complex. Maybe it's
because BYU athletics wandered the desert of the Whack, the
Mountain West and then independence for so long, and we're
stiff on by the power brokers.
Speaker 3: Of college athletics. They didn't invite them to the pit,
and you know, power for them, right, I know where
you're going.
Speaker 6: I know where already, So.
Speaker 2: Like because of this, I know, No, I'm prefacing all
this because like, yeah, look, I cover you know, I'm
a former BOU athlete, right, I cover.
Speaker 3: BYU as a as.
Speaker 2: A media member and things like that, So I get,
I mean, I have to field all this stuff. And
I'm like, okay, Like I'm gonna ask the experts. They
believe that as soon as a BYU recruit commits to
their school, right, they could have been committed to any
other school, and then they do commit from that school
and then they go to BYU and they signed with BOU,
that their recruiting ranking drops.
Speaker 3: Have you heard this theory?
Speaker 6: You know, I've heard that theory by not just BYU,
but about one hundred and fifty other schools. There is
literally not a school alive that doesn't have that same
exact complex of all of our guys. You know, it's funny.
There's this thing called the Bama bump. Right, It's a
pretty well known name years and years, right, you've probably
heard that term, right, And every year it's always oh,
as soon as a guy gets offered by Bama or
if he commits to Bama. And I promise you this
past year I even heard people from Bama, you know,
because that's my job. I searched the message boards, you know,
when i'm dropping intel and so I'll take a minute,
I'll kind of scan the message boards. I promise you.
Bama fans are even saying, dude, our guys are getting screwed.
So and so just got dropped only because he committed
to us, not thinking to myself, wow, a Bama fan
is now actually complaining about a reverse Spama bump. Now
was the Bama drop right? And it was because, oh,
because we don't have save it anymore. And no, all
of a sudden, our players aren't respected as much. Literally,
I promise you, there has never been a time and
in my twenty four come at twenty four seven to
my time with Rivals, when we're sitting there, we're spending
hours trying to you know, try to grade these kids
and get it right, and we're taking like people would
be shocked how much we take one player to evaluate
one player. And it's a process. And again I've said
it to you before, it's not just about how good
you're in high school. It's an NFL draft projection. So
we're big on measurables, not at the expense of tape.
Tape matters that thousand percent. We watch so much tape
it's insane. But we're also looking at things that the
NFL draft values, and that could be things like armspan,
could be things like wingspan, could be things like a
multi sport background. You're looking for a full athletic profile.
And there were plenty of guys who committed to BYU
that actually moved up after the fact, and I you know,
Adam Bywater, junior Maala, there was a number of them
who actually moved up and because the senior tape was
not just good, but then you kind of evaluate the player.
For example, a junior Mahala. Right, here's a guy with
near an eighty inch wings fan, who's a hyper athletic
kid with a big frame, who's obviously the game tape
put up huge numbers. I honestly don't know who was
the State player of the year, probably should have been him,
put up incredible numbers and his ranking was bumped up
after the fact. So and there's guys like that in
every single school. So it's again kind of a long
winded way of saying, in all of our meetings, there's
never been a time when we said, you know what,
he's gonna go to b YU. You know what, let's
let's drop his ranking just because we want to that guy.
Just that doesn't we're trying to get this right. Ideally,
we're trying to get every kid right, and we're trying
to project to the draft. Hey, this guy's first rounder
that he should be a five star. If he's going
to be, you know, drafted between rounds two through four,
he should be rated in this pot. And that's kind
of how we do it. And so what school you choose,
I promise you it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I love the commentary.
Speaker 2: I think it needs to be addressed with so many
conspiracy theories out there, and you know, quite honestly, some
of these conspiracy theories sometimes they come true. So I
appreciate you delving into that, mister Greg Biggins. Now let's
talk a little bit about the class you have. The
transfer portal class, right, B and YU was a little
bit more strategic than other schools.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many schools were like at that
ten or under mark with acquisitions via the portal. I
imagine that that was not common, only acquiring ten guys
via the portal.
Speaker 6: You know what I think is that what it was?
Always sign ten portal guy? I think, yeah, they got
we're dude like Walker Lions and Packy. Now I'm big
fan of Yeah. Yeah, But you know, honestly, I think
if you're signing again by us unique, right, you wouldn't
know better than I would. I know, the high school
classic extremely well.
Speaker 3: Nine guys.
Speaker 2: Nine guys Roger Saliapaga from Oregon, Javin Williams from Mississippi State,
Zach Yamauchi offensive Lineman from Stamford, Kato Luave from cal
Jake Clifton from Kansas State, Kyler Casper from Oregon, Junior
Cia from Utah State, Pockey fenw from Washington, and then
Walker Lions from USC. That's what they That's what they got.
Speaker 6: I like most of those guys, And what I was
gonna say was, I think you would know more than
I would the return who's coming back? Right?
Speaker 3: So you know what they retained.
Speaker 2: They retained a lot of their their players outgoing transfers.
You have Shay Bryant Strawther, he's injured though, Pokahunga is leaving,
Max Alfred's leaving, Tavon b leaving, and uh, you know
a lot of young pups Sonny Tualasioni, Hangano Yah Tucker Keller,
Ikeanacio Tupo. Some people would view that one as it lost.
He was a high level three star. Jake Griffin ended
up at U of a Dom McKenzie. So there there
were some losses. Le Mason Waller the third left to SUU.
There were some losses there, but no like major key
contributors that weren't coming off injury.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I'm more curious, So how many returned missionary you
are coming back though?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So return missionaries? Uh, kind of interesting here. I think
there were about six or seven that they are inviting back.
So owen Borg owen Borg Canyon. He was from Corner Canyon,
I believe. I'm trying to think if there was like
any like high level guys though that were were like
big time recruits.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm trying to think I should have a
list of these guys I'm pulling.
Speaker 6: Like like Reiner Swan said, he's not coming back yet, right,
He's got is not.
Speaker 3: Coming back, but he's going to be a baller like
he's definitely.
Speaker 6: No, that's what I'm saying. He'll be He'll be an
impact guy for sure. I was just thinking about him
and their day. I don't know why. I think it
was because I was I was at the beach and
I know he was a big surfer and fall and whatever.
That's kind of weird how how his name pumped into
my head. But no, so I think when you add
the return missionaries to the portal class, that's probably a
solemn group. And then again, if you're not losing anything,
I think in a perfect world, I think, tell me
old school, and I get this is kind of I'm
an outlier, but I still think you want to build
that you know, build with high school classes. I think
if you have a if you trust your ability to develop,
you know, if you can have a guy who's you
signed a twenty five member freshman class and you're able
to develop those guys for three years and by the
time those guys are junior and seniors and they know
your system and they know your strength habits, they know
you're nutrition, they know how your coach, Like that's such
an advantage. And then getting a guy who's coming in
who's been somewhere else for three years, and yeah, I
get the instant gratification. And I'm not saying you shouldn't
pick your spot. You absolutely should the portal, you know.
I think that was Dabo Sweedey' probably the biggest air
was he was kind of hard headed say you know what,
I'm not gonna use the portal because that's almost admitting defeat.
You know. It's almost like it saying, hey, I didn't
recruit well out of high school. I'm gonna trust my guys.
I think you still want to pick your spot. I
think between five to ten is perfect. Now, if there
was like a dude, right, a quarterback, an elite first round,
second round receiver, he wants to come, you take that
guy one hundred percent. But I still say, bill from
high school, and I think that's the b YU did
this year, and I'm for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: As far as the return missionaries go, there was no
key headliners. Owen Borg, Matthew, Frederick Tighten and East Blake
low linebacker, Jet Nelson wide receiver, two week putu Tao.
I can't remember what he recruiting Raak was Adney read
to me is a really nice prospect, but under recruited.
DN David Tungu i Lanu defensive tackle in then Enick
Watson at American Leadership Academy at quarter back. I actually
low Ki really like Enick Watson. But those are those
are the turn missionaries that were part of class. I
don't think it necessary bumps your recruiting ranking. A lot
of these guys for the three star guys, but I
think it overall it's a really good class, best class
in BAU football history. From a freshman class. A lot
of those guys will go on mission, some of them
will play and then a really nice train. What grade
would you give the transfer portal class?
Speaker 3: Real quick? Those nine guys, I.
Speaker 6: Mean, yeah, I think they're all. I think they're all
really good players. I know probably at least five or
six of them really well in ters of gaming them
A grade if we're just be like an individual player grad,
I would give it a solid, you know, B. Plus,
I can't really say, you know, what is it compared
to other schools, because again, some schools probably in like
fifteen to twenty but from an individual standpoint, I see
at least four or five guys right there that I
think could the impact players right away, and at least
three or four that should be drafted. So I give
it high marks for sure.
Speaker 3: Love it, Greg.
Speaker 2: Best way to support you what you do, how you
do it for all of our listeners that are tuning
in today.
Speaker 6: Brother, Yeah, I mean I don't need I mean just
you know, come.
Speaker 2: On, no you need what's your Twitter? What's your Twitter
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Speaker 6: Right all that good stuff. Yeah, Rivals on three at
Greg Biggins. I lost my Twitter. I got it back,
thank God for that. So yeah, but yeah, there you go.
Those are those the avenues.
Speaker 2: Hey, appreciate you, Greg, always a pleasure, always blessing. Thanks
talking ball with you. Thanks for talking some recruiting today
on our show.
Speaker 6: Hey, you make it fun for me. I appreciate it.
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