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so stat of the day nine.
Speaker 2: Also the word of the day in German is nine.
Some bad pr You hate bad pr for Brigham, but
we have to talk about it nonetheless. Okay, BYU sends
out nine acceptance acceptance letters, buy mistake. This is like, guys, like,
let's level set here. Let's just kind of when you
are coming out of high school. Okay, and actually let
the pull up. What's our enrollment now is in like
thirty thousand and like the freshman class I think is
like three thousand. Let's double check on that. See if
you guys can cross correlate and check on this for me.
But I think we're at like around I want to
say we're around that that that thirty thousand mark for enrollment,
but double check.
Speaker 3: That for me if you could.
Speaker 2: Anyway, when you get an acceptance letter coming out of
high school to b YU in particular, like this is
like Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where Charlie brings
home the Golden ticket and grandma and grandpa. Grandpa's been
in the bed, like laid up for years, hasn't been
able to walk, and all of a sudden he gets
out of bed and he's heel click and he's running.
He's like, I'm going to be you. I'm going to
the chocolate factory with you. And you're like, wait, Grandpa,
you can walk for like five years. Charlie's been working
for the last ten years, and you know, feeding the family.
Speaker 3: Where have you been anyway?
Speaker 2: But that's how it's like the families coming together and
just celebrating. So I can't Imagine the heartbreak, the devastation,
the depression of the family and the individual that got
the one of these letters, these golden tickets to Brigham
and then was told on the back end, there's been
a mistake. I'm sorry, Lo Cento, my apologies, our apologies.
Brigham Young University is apologizing after nine prospective students mistakenly
received notices that said they had been accepted. The university
told KSL A systems air led to those applicants being
told they were admitted to BAU when in fact they
were not.
Speaker 3: We are truly sorry.
Speaker 2: BYU said an official statement that an unfortunate ra our
Admission's decision notification system resulted in nine prospective students mistakenly
receiving congratulatory messages of acceptance at BYA. Admissions director Chad Johnson,
in a statement, the admissions department reached out that those
impacted to express our regret and our sincere apologies. Johnson added,
we know that admission decisions are highly anticipated, and we
recognize this mistake cause confusion and disappointment. Our BYU admissions
team is working to ensure this mistake does not occur
in the future. For at least one of those students
and his family. It's been a painful experience. Owen Johansson
oh And Johansson, a eighteen year old a high school
senior who lives in Oakden, Virginia, received his acceptance to
BYU two weeks ago. At first, when I accepted, I
was really excited, he said. His mother tlaij Johansson told
Ksel their family was thrilled and celebrated his admission to
the place where both she and her husband went to school.
But last week, as they went through the process of
accepting the admission and finding a roommate, they realized something
was off. A rejection letter had replaced the welcome to
BYU notification in his online portal, and trying to get
bay officials to talk to them that Johansson said, they
eventually learned the acceptance letter was a mistake. I was
really mad, Owen Johansson said, yeah, I'd.
Speaker 3: Be ticked off too, Bro.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, oh man, they could they could have done
it way better, of course. Yeah, they made a mistake.
The whole experience he had and left him pretty sad.
His mother said, he's she's His mother said she's disappointed
that the university has only reached out to apologize to
her and her husband, but not to her son. Directly
to Lee, Johansson wants BYU to honor his acceptance. I
don't want them to just do it for Owen. I
want them to do it for these eight other students.
I want all of these nine students to be admitted
into BYU.
Speaker 3: She said.
Speaker 2: It is the right thing to do, and I have
been completely heartbroken by this entire process. In twenty twenty four,
Bous College of Nursing mistakenly sent out both acceptance and
rejection letters to hundreds of prospective students. The university playing
that on an era in a new system. Look, technology
is is a boon. It's a double edged sort suing.
It is good, it is bad, It is beautiful, it
is ugly. I feel bad for this, Like I think
it's nine students, nine students. Anyone get a number for
me on the enrollment let me I'll do some due
diligence here. I'll do a little let's talk about stat
segment right here. Enrollment of Brigham Young University twenty twenty six.
What is the number I believe we're sitting at now?
Thirty five thousand students?
Speaker 3: Holy Cow.
Speaker 2: And so for the twenty twenty six academic ABIOI has
already admitted nine and seventy freshen I was way off
on that one. I apologize for the spring and summer
fall terms out of fourteen thousand and sixty seven applicants,
reflecting a seventy point two percent admission rate. The university
maintains a total enrollment of thirty five thousand students with
a twenty twenty six application process, including deadlines as early
as December fifteen, twenty twenty five for the fall. So
those are the numbers, right when you get the golden ticket, man,
it's all you're you're hopping, you're skipping, you're jumping your
heel click and and you're celebrating with your family. Is
it really that big of a deal to add an
additional nine? I say it in German?
Speaker 3: Nine.
Speaker 2: It is not Ronald the three man Weaver. I know
you're ticked off about.
Speaker 4: This, bomb ticked bomb ticked.
Speaker 3: I think they should they should probably just think this is.
Speaker 4: This is this is man, This is this is some
bull jaf. My word on this is some bulljaf.
Speaker 5: To quote the great Shannon Sharp, No, I've been using
that this is bull jab this is this is this
is poop.
Speaker 4: Stop the throw.
Speaker 5: You're you're you're really poing me today and you're you're
you're acting like, uh, you're not being a peacemaker.
Speaker 4: This was not peace.
Speaker 5: There was heartbreak brought upon and you know, Ben petty
Ron is coming out now and this is not peace
by me. But you know, Utah, Ben has the funniest
thing that they could do. Uh, they can make the
best pr move and give all these kids full ride scholarships.
Speaker 1: They could get full right.
Speaker 5: Give full ride academic scholarship to these nine kids. Because
by used that, I want people to they can listen
to the show now, you can clip that, you can
quote that, you can tag me in and I seriously.
Speaker 4: Be a wolverine, come be a youte.
Speaker 5: I'll say it one hundred percent because you tell them
you can't accept another nine and Ben, here's the problem.
I'm getting upset and you and I'm glad that the
article in Daniel woldrif he was one of the professors
when I was in the journalism program down there.
Speaker 4: Bo you great job, great article.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 5: My friend anihie Giffer graduated this past Uh. You know
what is a winter from the nursing program. She got
one of those letters that was mistakenly of her getting rejected,
but she actually got in the program. So you already
went through this one. So obviously you don't have it fixed.
So I'm not gonna feel sorry for you. Jay Cole said,
you know, fool me once time, Shame on me. You
fool me once, you can't get fooled again. I can't
get fooled again. Ben No, this is an issue. Why
in the world do you not have the system under order?
So your your system is broken because you had a
glitch in twenty twenty four. Now you had a glitch
in twenty twenty six, So it's a problem. Fix the
darn issue and either accept these nine kids or I'm serious,
University of Utah, Utah Valley, give these nine kids full
academic scholarships.
Speaker 4: I'm serious.
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Joe Klatt? Which what do we want to start off with? First,
Ronald the three man Weaver.
Speaker 4: Start off with Kilani as being a top ten coach.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go into a top ten coach in
college football.
Speaker 3: This is what Kolani had to say.
Speaker 6: What does surprise you to find out that there are
only two head coaches with more wins than Sataki since
twenty twenty? There's only two. Those two are Kirby Smart
and Ryan Day Klonie. Sataki has fifty seven wins since
twenty twenty. Obviously, Kirby's up there with seventy three, Ryan
Day was sixty six, and there's Klonie Sataki right there,
tied with Dabos Sweeney Kalein Debor. Sataki is a phenomenal
coach and he and every single year he builds the
same caliber of team, in particular at the line of scrimmage,
which I really love. He over the last two years
have been has been outstanding. He's twenty three and four
over the last two years, just outside of the playoff
in both years. I think it would have been easier
for me to put him higher on the list if
he would have gotten into the playoff in one of
those years, but he but he has not.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's discuss this record.
Speaker 2: Let's discuss what Kilani has been able to accomplish essentially,
Like I look at it, even going back to twenty
and twenty that's the modern era Kilani, Kilani culture, Kilani football.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a dip, There was a little bit
of a of a dip here, but in two thousand
and twenty two that that was a disapoint of your
twenty twenty three have a little bit more gracier. Was
the first year of the Big twelve and you finished
strong to give us hope. You finished strong, almost knocked
off two top ten teams. But you're eleven to one,
ten and three, eight and five, five and seven, eleven, two,
twelve and two. You got you're you're a top ten coach,
your top three and wins in that in that era
that he that he just discussed. And that's why the
ten and a half million from Penn State kim and
knockin the the Nitney Lions wanted Killanie as their as
their their their figure piece, their mouthpiece to uh to
all of of of Penn State alumni and all the
Penn State recruits. A storied program, they had all of
the filthy lucre to throw at Kilani and Klanie said, nay,
I'm a BYU guy to the day I die, so uh.
The the Polynesian novelle Getting some love as a is
a top ten coach in college football, which he deserves,
and he deserves top ten pay as well. Now he's
not getting that, but he's getting good pay right now
because of a little bit of leverage in the offseason.
You get an offer like that and you become a
little bit flirtatious, and then you know Patty Edwards, rest
and love Rest in peace has to has to put
put her foot forward. Elder Rasman has to rally and
make sure that you don't leave the Board of Trustee
says no, you will not go, b Sach. You gotta
do whatever it takes to keep our guy. And that's
what happened. They kept them. They got their guy and
now getting some love from Joe Klatt. Your thoughts, your
cop to your follow up, Ronald the three man Weaver.
Speaker 5: Yes, I was looking at this list, Ben, I was
really trying to think of Okay, you know, is Joe
Klatt right about this wrong? You can go catch the
rest of it. You know, it's a little joeklat show.
But here is top ten college football head coaches. One
hes kurtz Snetti. I don't think any of us can
disagree without what kirtch Sinati did at Indiana the last
two years. Number two is Ryan Day at Ohio State.
Number three is Kirby Smart at Georgia.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 5: Number four is Dan Lanning at Oregon Marcus Freeman. Number
five in order dame the quitting Irish, excuse me to
the quitting Irish. Number sixty Sarkesian number seven, Kyle Whittingham,
number eight Kline Sataki and then number nine Mara Crystaball
and then number ten Lang Kiffin. It's crazy to think
about it to Ben, speaking of you know the great Patty,
you know Edwards, three guys from Lavell. You think about
that Sarkisian, Kyle Kilani like on this top ten list,
like Lavell's coach, you know, coaching tree or guest players,
Like that's crazy to think about just the b the
b YU pipeline showing strong up in college football.
Speaker 4: But there you go. Do you agree or disagree with that?
Speaker 5: Li was Kilane number eighth behind Steve Sarkisian, Kyle Whittingham,
Marcus Freeman, Dan Lanning, Kirby Smart, Ryan Da, Kirk Sinnetti.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm vio. You fans are gonna take
a little bit of issue with Kilanie being behind Kyle, right.
Speaker 5: That they're gonna Kyle won two Pac twelve championships though,
like like that that's tough. Like I understand the argument, Ben,
but until Klinie wins the Big twelve title, I think
I think he's behind Kyle.
Speaker 4: Not saying he should be eighth, but he's behind Kyle I.
Speaker 2: Think does what what's the PAC twelfth? Does that exist anymore?
Speaker 5: It doesn't, But I mean Kalani existed in the Big
Jo's and got boat steams.
Speaker 3: Cause did it? Did it go away for a season?
Speaker 2: I mean a defunct demolished sub I mean it's not
even it wasn't a conference. It died so like it
was the worst conference in college football BYU as an
independent without the resources that the PAC twelve teams had,
was undefeated versus those teams in twenty twenty one that
some of the best teams. Furthermore, Kyle Whittingham has lost
how many in a row to Coloni Sataka. Now I understand,
like if we want to live in the past and
the resume of you know, a decade ago, Like, I
understand where you're going with that. I just think there's
gonna be some bway fans that take issue with it
because of his head to head record versus Kyle and
what he's done in totality of wins. And Utah had
a good season this year, there's no doubt, but there
were still behind Brigham Young University and BYU. Whenever they're
in the same conference as Utah, they're more likely to
beat them. That's what the data shows, whether it was
in the Mountain West or in the Big twelve. So
I think some BWA fans will take issue with it.
Speaker 5: You can always just you know, if they would BAU
fans who are out there listening, if they want that
smoke BND, then go schedule Michigan and see what happens.
Speaker 2: To be determined if that, if that non conference game
ever comes to fruition.
Speaker 3: Let's get Do you have one more SoundBite from Joel
is at it?
Speaker 4: No, that's the only one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, there you go.
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in the Cougar segment. Gonna get to know four star
wide receiver Blake Wong. The a you just offered him
is a little late for my liking. I'll be honest,
I've been waiting for this offer for a minute now.
I was hoping, praying, fingers crossed that they would offer him.
You know, he's got a lot of offers now and
b where he finally comes in, he's like, you know what, hey,
we also like to get in in the mix now.
Speaker 3: He's a twenty twenty seven kid.
Speaker 2: And so I know BAU doesn't always dole out offers
early in the recruiting process, and that's just the name
of the game.
Speaker 3: They have their processes, which I respect. But I thought
I thought.
Speaker 2: The offer could have come a little bit earlier. But
let's get to know Blake Wog a little bit better.
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Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Blake Wong tweeted out not too long ago that he
got his official offer from Brigham Young University.
Speaker 3: This was February twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: He stated, blessed after a great conversation with Coachvesi Saizak,
I've been offered to play for BYU football. Grateful, he
is grateful, and look, I'm grateful that it finally came
down the pipeline. Now he's a three star two from
per two four seven sports, but his composite rating is
a four star rating when you combine all of it.
So twenty four to seven is not as high on
him as maybe rivals. And so I'll pull that up
here momentarily to tell you you know, in the composite rating,
he's a four star. Now check out his offer sheet. Though, Okay,
very very nice UCLA Oregon. Those are the two schools
that are war missed right now Arizona State BYU, Michigan State,
Ohio State, Perdue Washington, Washington State, Colorado State, Nevada, San
Diego State, Toledo Duke. Duke's not offered yet and then
Kent State. So that's his offer sheet. Here's his little
scouting report. Here is we break down the six foot
one hundred and seventy pounder out of the at of Norco,
California in the twenty twenty seven class.
Speaker 3: He's a multi sport athlete who runs track. He did attend.
Speaker 2: Maria, California Maria Valley as a freshman in track, ran
sophomore best time.
Speaker 3: This was a sophomore year.
Speaker 2: Remember eleven point seven in the one hundred and twenty
two point sixty nine in the two hundred per mile
split posted in eleven point three to three one hundred
as a freshman in spring of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: He's only gotten faster, by the way.
Speaker 2: Finished sophomore season with forty receptions five hundred and seventy
seven yards five touchdowns at fourteen point four yards per catch.
Speaker 3: Started going to.
Speaker 2: Camps and getting offers in that summer, and he continued
to tallly offers throughout that offseason.
Speaker 3: He gets into his junior year and Blake Wong skyrocketed. Man.
He took off. He started producing at a very very
very high level.
Speaker 2: Okay, junior season was monumental for this young man. Eighty
four receptions one and seventy yards, seventeen point five yards
per reception on who undred and forty seven yards per game.
He had twenty receiving touchdowns twenty Okay, pretty impressive work
from the junior.
Speaker 3: And you know, how would I describe him? I mean,
he has like Dax Milne to him. If I'm gonna
if I'm gonna take.
Speaker 2: A player cop for this young man right now, he
reminds me of Dax Milk.
Speaker 3: Like Dax Milne when he came.
Speaker 2: Into BYU as a freshman, could play on the outside,
could play on the inside. I see him maybe more
of a sly guy, but Blake is pretty versatile. And
like I said, he's only gotten faster, He's only gotten bigger,
he's only gotten stronger. He is a Latter day Saint,
He's LDS. So I think this is a big offer
for the family. I think they were hoping that it
would come earlier.
Speaker 3: As well.
Speaker 2: I'm connected to the family through former BYU defensive back
Chris Warner. Connected to the family out there in California
through the Warner family.
Speaker 3: So the ties are are pretty good with BYU LDS
LDS connection.
Speaker 2: But right now, the two schools that have given him
the most love, Oregon in UCLA, I believe, are in
the lead. So BYU has a ton of ground to
make up in the recruiting. You gotta come hard, you
got to come strong, gotta be all in on this kid.
If you really really want him, and you bring him
out to a recruiting trip, you bring him out to
the summer camps, etc. Let him get a little taste
of the gloriyo, see what it tastes like. You have
a healthy nil offering. I think you could get him
what you don't want to see, right is a kid
like this go to Oregon again an LDS wide receiver
going to Oregon like Gatland Bear now Gatland like a.
Speaker 3: Five star wide receiver out of Idaho.
Speaker 2: Initially he was committed to Boise State, one of the
fastest one hundred meter times in the nation four foot
slash five star. He's returned from his mission for the
Church of Jesus Christ Latter States, and he enrolled I
believe this semester at Organ. So he's gonna be playing
spring ball for Oregon. We'll keep an eye on Gatland Bear.
But the reason why you keep good relations and you
recruit well throughout the processes because many of these eldest kids,
like you know, even if you don't get them the
first time, you can give him the second time.
Speaker 3: It may not work out at Oregon, Kingsley.
Speaker 2: So I'm at the e Harrison Taggart both transfer from
Oregon back home to you dah and at b YU.
Now I know Harris Harry went back out to cal
but still you can get him on the back end.
So you gotta keep them, keep them someone attached, keep
them having good relationships with BYU and PROVO and the
UH and the coaching staff and the fan base, et cetera.
Speaker 3: So you don't want that.
Speaker 2: You don't want to lose these guys out of high
school if you if you don't have to go out
and get them and keep them, retain them, develop them
like we did, like we've done.
Speaker 3: Maybe in the past. Uh.
Speaker 2: But a guy that I I just don't want to
miss out on it could very well turn out that way,
but uh uh, it's a new offer. He caught up
with Blake, caught up with Casey lundquiz I've been in
touch with coach Fessi since last June, Wong told BYUSA
on Si. Wang is already familiar with the BA campus
as well. He took an unofficial visit to BYU in
June of twenty twenty five. Besides a well established relationship
with Fessi Shataki, Wang has other connections to the Boa
football program. Wong was a freshman at Marieta Valley High
School in twenty twenty three win now BA quarterback Bear
Bachmeier was the starting quarterback. He's also family friends with
Renchship freshman offensive lineman Kayden McKee. Wog has an obvious
connection to the school as well as he's a member
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
We'll see how it plays out. This guy's a baller,
fantastic route runner, great boody controlled, great acceleration. He can
be a possession receiver for Brigham and maybe even more.
Speaker 3: He's pretty explosive.
Speaker 2: Quite honestly, he ruinds me at Dax Mill in his
route running at precision, catching radius, and overall playmaking ability.
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Speaker 3: For a little insider.
Speaker 2: Report, gonna talk Bruce Branch the third and his crystal
ball who is in the mix, who's recruiting him at
a tenacious level, and is bay you a part of
his future. We're gonna get into it here on your
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know I sent you first match. The third is a
six foot seven hundred ninety pounder out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
twenty twenty six Class prospects small forward play. He could
probably play the point, too, like he's got great handle,
great scorgabilities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he is an.
Speaker 2: Elite score elite, you know, just multi faceted player all
three levels, and from what I've seen on tape, a
good defender as well. I think twenty four to seven
has him ranked six nationally. He's the number two small
forward in the country and then number two in Florida.
He's the number two prospect in Florida. Uh, so you know,
take that. He's been heavily recruited by you know, USC
U of A, Arizona State, cal Houston, Indiana, Kansas, Kansas State, LSU, Louisville,
NC State, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Tennessee, Virginia. He's got offers
day everywhere, Washington, West Virginia, Fresno State, Nevada, Xavier, and UCLA.
So he's uh, he's the Krem Dela Crem, the kakaa
wok baby as they say. And and BYU fortuitously has
received the crystal Ball production with a seven okay confidence level.
One prediction is in regarding him. It's it's the twenty
four to seven Sports staff projection. So it looks solid,
it looks good. We had heard reports from Jamie Shaw
rivals as well as two four seven that Bruce took
a long, hard look at Brigham.
Speaker 3: Took an official visit to Brigham and liked what he heard,
like what.
Speaker 2: He saw, and one of the main things that he's
looking at is fit fit on the basketball court. How
will I be developed for my next step into the
NBA Once upon a time, guys like AJ, guys like Darren,
and maybe guys like Bruce Branch. I don't know if
he's in that same realm, but he's right there. He's
on the precipice of that could be one and done
type of players. So getting assimilated, getting prepared for the
NBA is an imperative for many of these prospects. It's
not just about coming in and maybe winning a national championship.
Even though many of them want to win, they want
to win a high level. AJ wants to win a NATI.
He's been talking about it for over a year since
arriving at BYU, even even prior to arriving at BA.
I don't know if we've got the horses to do it,
but obviously AJ is one of the best players in
college basketball. He'll be the number one overall pick barring
you know, some sort of unseen circumstances. Maybe DMP shows
up in the in the March Mad News NCAA tournament
and just takes the world by storm.
Speaker 3: To be determined.
Speaker 2: But but Bruce Branch is one of the best in
the country, and so as a BYU fan, you got
to be excited. This is this is going to be
the norm. It looks like going forward. In the first
year of K why he went out and got Yegor
a one and done. Second year of K, why he
went out and got aj This year twenty twenty six,
it's Bruce Branch the third at least it's trending that way.
Speaker 3: K Y hitting home runs, hitting grand slams.
Speaker 2: With his recruitment, is he has he you know, extracted
you look at is he extracting the most out of
the talent?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: How much of the Yegor situation is impacting these recruits?
Do you think you're looking at Yegor what he did
at BYU?
Speaker 3: His He started off.
Speaker 2: Hot, dipped, struggled a little bit, and then had a
crescendo in the NCAA tournament and peaked there to a degree,
gets drafted first round, eighth overall, and he's one of
the best rookies in the NBA. And I imagine Jegor
will credit k y b why you in that preparation
and the schemes employed, et cetera at Brigham A J
you hopefully you hope has the same type of feedback
for Bruce. But which one is more powerful? Is it
Yegor in the NBA or AJ currently at b YU?
Do you think Ronnie that swaying Bruce Branch the third
to beat Crystal Ball to b Yu?
Speaker 5: Well, the right answer is going to be obviously. You
know AJ and talking to him, remember he sat down
with AJ. He came across his visit. He said his
experience and just his time was interesting. That really hit
home hearing that band and look, I'm gonna go to
a place that maybe people don't want to go to.
All three of these guys are non members, right, but
one is a non member from the United States. You know,
both are brothers, both through African American men. Like that connection.
When you're hearing that from a top pick who's going
to be one or two that resonates with you, It's like, Okay,
it hits home right, Like you know, Birds of Feathers flocked.
They're like, when you're hearing that, that really is hitting
home to you, and then you see it on the court,
and then you're watching it yourself.
Speaker 4: You're like, yeah, this this is home.
Speaker 5: And then you're seeing the development all I can get
to the next level too, like prolific prep. That's where
you know Darren Peterson played. He's looking at all of
that and these other players around the twelve in the
country says well, if Kevin Young just and then now
jumping Diegor, it should be Yegor right because AJ hasn't
played in the NBA, not saying it's not there. AJ
had all of his talent already here already before Ben
yes Ky elevated it put in that situation. But Yegor
to me is I would say the better reason. But
the personal connections AJ. He just had his career night
and assist. He's a rising star, Like, you can't I
get that the AJ thing. You know that's gonna hit
home of face to face. But he has to look
at the next level of the NBA like that guy's
already there. That guy was a lottery pick, he was
a top ten pick. He went to the Rising Stars,
challenging and he consistently plays better. He leads the league
in clutch shots. I think it was in December or whatever.
It was, like, that is true nature. That's what you're
trying to get to, you, not that you're not trying
to get to college. The AJ thing is nice, but
I think what you really should be looking at is
the Yegor thing, even though I do believe for him
it's AJ. But to me, the overall thing is Yegor
because that's what you want to look at. You don't
want to look at college, as great as that is,
because Yegor wasn't a great three point shooter in college.
Ben he was, He was terrible. You can say that
he is not terrible in the NBA. That is what
you have to look at. You have to look at both.
But I lean more towards the Yegor thing because the
development was already there. He credits Ky. You see that
selvishly Been. I hope Yegor is in a Utah Jazz
jersey one day so I can see him up close
and personal. But once AJ gets to the NBA, when
AJ goes number one or two been, then I think
Branch will you know, it's all about getting to the NBA.
Speaker 4: That's my point. The college is only a little bit
of the factor.
Speaker 2: Five star Bruce Branch, the third is par Rivals the
number ten overall recruit in the twenty twenty sixth class,
but the six foot seven small forty of note playing
at Prolific Prep in Florida was previously Remember he was
the number one ranked player in the twenty twenty seventh
class prior to reclassifying, so he stopped ten in the
twenty twenty six class. But like, this is a young puff.
This is a young kid that should be in the
twenty twenty seventh class. So this is what the new
un and done players are going to do. They're going
to reclassify going into their senior years or going into
their junior years rather and and they're gonna get out early,
and they're gonna go make some hay and then they're
gonna be one and done in the NCAA.
Speaker 3: So, by the way, Branches a native Arizona.
Speaker 2: So he he's not from Florida. I forgot about that.
He's playing at Prolific Prep. But he's from az That's
where family's at. Guess who else is from a z
kJ Perry. You wonder if they have some conversations too.
There's some az guys on that roster, so a native
of Arizona. He has looked at b YU and USC
that's where he's been warm. He's been deemed as warm
too because he's taking those two official visits. Sounds like
he's unlikely per Jamie Shawn Rivals on three Sports to
take in more visits. A private decision is close to
being made.
Speaker 3: It's in clear.
Speaker 2: The timeline of when he'll announce a commitment publicly from
everything gathered BYU is the clear front runner branch also
holds offers, as I mentioned, from Kansas, Lougo, Kentucky and
others recruiting his flutes to stay tuned to Rivals dot
com as well as twenty four to seven to get
the latest updates.
Speaker 3: But that's the latest on the Bruce branch.
Speaker 5: The third recruitment that has to give you confidence though,
man no more visits, oh yeah, like no more visiness,
no more visits, which okay, let's just say he knows
where he wants to go.
Speaker 4: He knows, he knows, he just about now.
Speaker 5: It's time been of Then listen to the gusts because
I'm glad you brought up kJ Perry. This skill set
with kJ would be great because the biggest thing about
branch Ben is that three point ability. I mean he's
connected on thirty nine percent of his threes five per game. Bay,
you needs to right now. And this is nothing against AJ.
AJ's the freak beIN. We know that he can play make,
but he's not The three point is not his strength, right,
that's not aj strength.
Speaker 4: This guy's strength.
Speaker 3: He's come on, he's come on.
Speaker 5: He's on strong recently, right, And that shows you the
development of work that they just put in. But it
wasn't there when he got there. This guy, if he
goes to BYU, he's already got that. Ben. He smoothed
the ball in his hands. He can finish with both sides.
Like you couple that as a point four with the
guy like kJ Perry, that is a matchment in heaven.
That's what Kevin Young is looking at. Look, you're focused
on this year before the future. Ben, can you imagine
that you got a six to nine point four with
the seven to one wing span, good natural frame, like,
so you compare that with kJ Perry's got great bounce,
who can rebound, who can play defense. Both of these guys.
You have to like that, Ben. If you're BYU fans
and the BYU basketball team in the program for the future.
Speaker 2: Great inside reports gotta get BYU fans jacked and excited.
You know, when BYU basketball loses to UCF at home
and they're down thirty thirty six, the only thing that
can keep BYU fans from, you know, the weeping and
wailing and national teeth is finding out that another four star,
five star excuse me, he's coming to Brigham, coming to
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