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into college football discussion. Right the college football world is
in a bit of a precarious situation. Earlier today, college
Football Playoff Management Committee had formally approved the return of
Utah athletic Director Mark Harlan to its selection committee and
named current committee member and Arkansas athletic director Hunter Eurocheck
it's new chair, the CFP announced earlier today.
Speaker 1: The move comes.
Speaker 3: Hours after Baylor's athletic director and Selection committee chair Mac
Rhodes took a leave of absence from his job for
personal reasons amid a university investigation. Baylor stated this, we
are deeply appreciative or sorry. The CFP committee, I believe
stated this, We are deeply appreciative of Mac rhodes leadership
in the service as chair of the College Football Playoff
Selection Committee the season. CFP Executive Director Rich Clark said
in the news release, Mac has informed of of his
decision to step down for personal reasons, and our thoughts
are with him and his family during this time where
police announce that Hunter your check will assume the role
of Selection Committee chair effective immediately. Hunter's experience, integrity, and
committed to the game make him exceptionally well suited to
lead the committee as it continues its important work throughout
the remainder of the season. And then Harlan Mark Harland,
the University of athletic director, previously served one year term
during the twenty twenty three season for the College Football
Playoff Committee. The CFP typically requires athletic directors on the
selection committee to be active sitting athletic directors. Because Rhodes
was the Big Twelve nomination, he was replaced by a
Big Twelve athletic director. The ten FBS commissioners and Notre
Dame Athletic Director Pete Beverquah unanimously agreed to the changes,
and I believe Brett yor Mark he put this out
as an official statement from the Big Twelve. Mark Harlin
is an excellent choice to serve as the Big Twelve
conference representative on the College Football Playoff Selection Committee. Mark's
previous experience on the committee will serve the interests of
all college football alongside the other committee members.
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Speaker 1: We got bread Day on the line. Brandon, how that Heck?
Are you good?
Speaker 2: Awthor is doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 3: Your reaction to the news that Mark Harlin is a
part of the CFP committee as a BYU fan is
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a Cougar Sports insider, what do you got for me? I?
Speaker 2: I first I was like, oh, really, like, we gotta
get a Utah guy in there. But then I started
thinking about a little more. Obviously, there's all the jokes
to be said about how you know. I was excited
to be in the Big twelve, but today I'm not
the type of situation. But I think the good thing
is if he's got to if you want to elevate
Utah all, and I know there's not supposed to be
complict of interest level SIP things. He also has to
elevate BAU, So I don't think that there's any way
to make it a bad thing for us, And I
think having the representation from the Big twelve obviously is important.
So I don't know. I think it's probably a nothing
burger overall, truthfully, but it's probably gonna get obviously hype
up and down from UAU fans.
Speaker 3: So BUA fans don't like it one bit. Break Day,
I don't like it. No Magusta, they say, no me Gusta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I understand why. Like again, my first reaction
was like, oh, well, of all the athletic directors in
the Big twelve conference, that's the one that hates the
Big twelve the most. So that's great for us. But
I really think overall it's not going to be a
super negative thing because if he does want to, you know,
promote the conference at all, he's got to promote us,
and he's going to promote us because we of the
situation we're in above Utah. So I thin't it'll end.
Speaker 1: Up in despite Yeah.
Speaker 3: So apparently just everybody knows mac Rhodes is under investigation
and he took a leave of absence due to this investigation.
It was a violation of the faith based university's policy,
so essentially the Baylor honor Code and practices. Baylor is
obviously declining comment as this involves a personal matter and
an ongoing investigation. So that's why Mark Harlan is now
the part of the committee chair. So it's not just
by you who have who have been impacted by honor
code violations. We have Baylor also that has been impacted
by honor code violations. Ours are just typically our student
athletes rather than the staff. I don't know which is
which one I'd rather have, though, I mean, I don't
know quite honestly.
Speaker 2: They probably would look much worse than the church in general.
Speaker 3: If there'd be a lot of people, there'd be a
lot of people that would be like.
Speaker 1: See, I told you, I told you they don't live
up to their standards. I told you they're evil, wicked, vile, perverse,
horrible people. They can't live.
Speaker 3: Up to it, you know, you know, you know it's funny,
like you know, you throw the stone and then you
look up and you put a mirror up, and you're like, wait,
didn't you have a coach that said some improper terminology
in front of a recruit. Didn't you have a coach
whose wife was indicted on like white collar crime.
Speaker 1: Didn't you have like I can go down the listen.
Speaker 4: I'm like, if that was BYU, if that was happening
at BYU, oh my, we would have ourselves so much hate,
so much Mitchell Solly Tribune would be having a heyday, right,
I mean Utah fans, anti Mormons, anti Byuers, they'd be
pilot on.
Speaker 1: See. I told you so.
Speaker 3: They're horrible, horrible people. But we're over like it's all right, hey,
you know you tell them it's great. Forgiveness is great.
You know, no one gets canceled, nobody gets canceled. Let's
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the reaction was sad, I I was okay,
I gotta went into the game always, we always talked
about this on the show with me is. I'm a
blue goggled guy, and so I knew I believe that
we could win or we were going to win. But
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like and I just can't do to win this. But
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harder to swallow. But I do think you look back
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there that could have really changed the game. I don't
know that we win the game with them, but it
doesn't look as ugly as it did, just you know,
executing in a couple of places, both offense, defense, end
special teams. Obviously, I think the defense performed by far
the best. But I think it's gonna be a good
wake up call hopefully and the guys wake up from it.
And I think the chances of us meet matching back
up with them in the covert championship game, we're pretty high.
Whether we you know, whether we won that game or
lost that game, and so I think winning it the
or losing it the first time probably gives us a
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bid to the playoffs even if we lose in the
Comfort Championship game, unless we get absolutely throttled again in
the Comfort Championship game. So I feel pretty confident.
Speaker 1: I love it always breaking the optimist.
Speaker 3: Uh, and then that's why I love talking to you,
braidon the Blue Goggle banter. The positivity keeps me on
the right track, and uh, you know keeps the the
the doubter or in me at bay. So, Braden, what
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makes you optimistic? B YU is gonna beat TCU at home,
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Speaker 2: I think defensively, I'm I'm really, I'm Obviously, the last
time we played josh Ueber he made us look real bad.
But I think we're such a different team than we
were defensively back when we played, so I think the
defense will be able to hold them in check. And
then I think offensively, I'm pretty sure from some of
the stuff I've seen, they're they're really good rush defense,
which you know is a little nerve wrecking for us,
But I think if we can, if we can, like
max protext will really kill this against Tech and only
having three route concepts going, and I think we're not
gonna need that here, and I think there's gonna throw
the ball around and then hopefully we'll be able to
off of that have some quarterback run game and then
hopefully we can you know, get on the edges with
guys like I mean, if LJ is healthy, But he
looks healthy that first run of the game against Tech,
but then he looked like he got didn't feel very
great after that, so I'm a little worried about the
run game. I think with this defense will probably able
to run up better than we were against Texas Tech,
even without you know, LGB one. But I think offense,
we will be able to move the ball, especially for
the air.
Speaker 3: Love that very optimistic about what BYU can hopefully do
on the ground. Hopefully Lj's healthier, I know Bear will
be able to run the ball more effectively I think
at home than versus a top five defense.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh that.
Speaker 3: And and and being in on a way setting so
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defensive players, right. Tommy Prash is also red shirt in
this year from uh you know, has been injured I
think with his hand.
Speaker 1: Justin Kirkland not divulged.
Speaker 3: And then Justin Tommy's is the lower extremity Your reaction
to some of the red shirts that the defense is
fielding right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I had heard some rumors that Justin was
thinking about red shirting it and going that route, and
I think that's probably smart. It'll be good to have
him next year fully helping get a full year out him,
rather than getting kind of the half healthy version of
when we got I was actually really surprised that Ephraim
was never on the availability report that I remember. So
the fact that like it was because of an injury,
that's where they're going about it. It's kind of surprising
to me, just because I would have expected him to
be on the availability apart, but maybe he was hurt
just enough that he couldn't. It was him full sell
his full self, so they didn't play him. I always
wonder what was going on with him specifically, and.
Speaker 1: Then I knew.
Speaker 2: I figured that would happen with Tommy because of you know,
how long he's been out and what he means to
the program. So I think, I honestly think all three
of them is a good thing. And then hopefully that
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Speaker 2: It's football season. I don't care about basketball.
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Speaker 2: No, I would say I'm not definitely not as on
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really good for next year.
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and then kJ Perry, the number one JUCO player in
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Speaker 3: Ronald the three man weaver, out of the four acquisitions
signees yesterday, who's your favorite and why he's with? The
big man will open shout with really high upside, great wingspan.
Speaker 1: Great athleticism. Uh, he could play the four, he could
play the five. He's got to have a stretch four.
Speaker 3: But like him a lattin ruker combo guard that can
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Speaker 1: Abdullah Achmed g League, that's nice, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: A seven footer coming to to Brigham or kJ Perry,
number one juco player in the country, he's a point
guard with tremendous athleticism. Who's your favorite and why?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 5: My I think the best is probably kJ Perry because
that's a that's a big position of need for b YU.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: I feel like going forward, my favorite is probably Dean
Rookert just because I've had I've had a chance to
call a few of his games, and he, like you said,
he's a very versatile player. He can he plays the
two through the four, tf you just because high school
basketball oftentimes you don't have a lot of tall guys.
He's one of the tallest on their team. He's been
asked to play almost every position at one point in
time or another, and he's done it really well. Like
he can shoot the three, he can go inside, he
can throw it down, he can do almost everything that
you ask him to, at least at the high school level.
I think it'll be a year or two of development,
but I think he's gonna be a really good player
for b YU.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say my favorite, you know, I'm kind
of with you, Like Dean Rukers, a local kid. The
best interview that we've had thus far, and all of
them have been ready. Every we've interview kJ Dean and Will.
I think I like Will the Basket, like Humble Hungry,
just to like, as far as likability is concerned, just
a very very likable guy.
Speaker 1: Bill has also overlooked.
Speaker 5: He's he's a very overlooked player, sure, and I think
he's better than people realize.
Speaker 3: Immediate impact, obviously, it's gonna be a du Lahmed and
uh in kJ Perry, right though, you have a Jucal
guy and a G League guy and they're coming in
and they got to compete. They gotta make an impact,
they gotta they gotta win immediately in the twenty twenty
six twenty twenty seven seasons. So from that perspective, I
would probably lean kJ Perry and uh and or Abdullah.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: Actually, kJ Perry, I really really really enjoyed the conversation
with kJ. I loved his film, Uh Super Athletic and
he's an Arizona boy. Shout out to my easy boys
Valley the Sun Baby. U. kJ is very very good,
very nice and uh he he's also got a lot
of grit to him, a lot of I would say,
just competitive fire to him having to go through the
JUCO ranks.
Speaker 1: Juke My Juco guys, they know what it's like.
Speaker 3: It ain't easy coming out of the Juco ranks. Dogg
eat dog world, as they say, you gotta become a dog.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's how you get the dog tags. You get to
merit the dog dad. You gotta become a dog. All
these people out there wearing dog tags but ain't dogs.
They never earned that dog tag. You know, kJ, He's
a dog, no doubt about it. Ronalie three man Weaver.
What do you got from? Who's your favorite and why?
The best acquisition from that signing class this signing period.
Speaker 6: Look, i mean Ben Walter Clayton junior, what position did
he play?
Speaker 1: Guard? Point guard? He's cobo guard, but guard.
Speaker 6: Right right guard, scoring guard. Kay, he got drafted right
you judge?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 6: So well yeah, then it's kJ Perry like, Look, you
want to win national championships, you want to get to
that point, you need good guard play. You haven't had that. Look,
b YU has struggled in the past of getting good
point guards, losing out with Kevin Young. That's not gonna
happen anymore. I mean, and I'm just gonna say this,
Number one recruit in high school number one euro now
number one's you go. Brennan Dunson is a big part
of this. So as long as Brennan Dunson justin young
and you know you got John Lenehan on this staff.
To me, that's why I'm going with kJ Perry. Look,
I mean, this kid betted on himself.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 6: By the way, if you missed the interview, fantastic here,
you need to go download on the podcast. And we
had thirty minutes with him and it just went on
because of just his energy is great.
Speaker 1: He's a leader.
Speaker 6: When he speaks, he speaks like he's the future face,
the future guard of BYU's program.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 6: Like, if you lose Rob right next year, okay, that
guess what you stick kJ right in there?
Speaker 1: No problem?
Speaker 6: Like if kJ would have went to college, he'd have
had an opportunity excuse me, not college. If he'd just
started off at a P four program, maybe he wouldn't
have played right away, but he would have worked this way.
But look, offers from Kansas. You beat out Kansas, been,
you beat out Organ, you beat out TCU. Like that
that has to mean something that has to matter. So
I mean this kid is he's a dynamic score.
Speaker 1: His bounce is ridiculous.
Speaker 6: Like John Morant ask, I mean, look, you've been waiting
on to get recruiting talent like this, players like this
for a while. So I'm gonna go with the kid
that if you put the ball in his hands and
change the game to take over a game. You saw it,
Rob Wright did Granny It was delaware. But that's what
that type of high level talent's able to do. You
haven't seen that yet in a while at BYU. So
give me kJ Perry, not just as a favorite, but
I think it is the best prospect I think that
could come out of this out of all of the
other prospects that they have that they signed yesterday.
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