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of these news and notes. Lane Train, how theck are
you buddy?
Speaker 3: Doing good? Man?
Speaker 4: I'm doing so good, just enjoying my my Friday afternoon here.
Speaker 2: Love it man. Well, some cougar fans are not enjoying
their afternoon. Why you may act because tickets have been
taken away from them.
Speaker 1: I asked this question yesterday.
Speaker 2: Who amongst you Cougarnation have been impacted by the season
tickets selection process over the last two years. Please tell
me your stories below. I got about like almost eleven
thousand interactions on this. I got a ton of stories
over like almost fifty comments of different stories being told.
Speaker 1: Have you been impacted by it? What have you seen? Lane?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was. It wasn't this year. It was.
Speaker 4: I can't remember if it was. I think it was
twenty twenty three. That was the year that we joined
the Big twelve, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so twenty three was year one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So by the time it was my pick, they
were all gone.
Speaker 4: And it's it's tough, right, Like I would have loved
to have gone to that, you know, to some of
those games, but it.
Speaker 3: Wasn't in the cards for me unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough, man.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of there's a lot of weeping, waving
and national teeth them onto Cougarnation. They feel like the loyal,
strong and true fans are being kicked out by corporate
sponsorships and big wig donors that don't really truly care
much about the team, and they may be fair weather fans.
They may not show up when boy's losing. They may
not show up when it's rain or snow. They get
a little cold, They're feet and hands aren't perfectly cozy
and warm, they have to sit out, and they don't
like the rise and shout either. They feel like they're
being ousted for the lesser fan, just with the lesser
fan that has filthy lucre.
Speaker 3: What say you, I totally get that sentiment.
Speaker 4: I mean, especially I'm not in the same position as
everyone else. Like I've been going to games on and
off for you know, the past two decades, but I'm
not the guy who's had season tickets for thirty years.
So to those people, I totally feel for them. I
get it, like that was a big part of your
fall Saturdays, and I totally understand. I will say this
to me, it boils down to what we value. Right
when we joined the Big Twelve. We did not join
the Big Twelve to just be mediocre, right. We didn't
join to to you know, go five hundred or anything
like that. We came to to win, right, and the unfortunate.
Truth about that is if we are going to win,
we have to have money, right, And so I think
I don't want to speak on anyone's behalf or anything
like that, but like, the reason these tickets are not
available is because because of the money situation they are.
They are far more expensive than they once were, and
people people are willing to pay a lot more money
for those tickets now, whether that's through the coopar, the
Cougar Club, through sponsorships and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So you have to ask yourself, do you.
Speaker 4: Value BUYU winning and being a national topic or do
you value being able to go to the game in
the answer can't.
Speaker 1: Be boths can't be both.
Speaker 2: Let's talk some camp killani Cougar football as well.
Speaker 1: In this segment.
Speaker 2: I've been evaluating this Cougar football team, right, and it
looks good. This is a good football team, a lot
of talent, a lot of NFL talent. We've got some
good depth coming off two back to back double digit
win seasons eleven to two, twelve and two returning production
this year. You get some strategic acquisitions via the portal,
et cetera, but returning production seventy percent of your returning
production coming back, and that's impressive. That puts me on
your eighteenth in college football, which you know you imagine
returning production, you have returning coaching staff for the most part,
expectations are gonna be pretty high. Can they get to
double digit wins once again.
Speaker 1: In year three?
Speaker 2: Now I've seen this story, I've seen this song and
dance before. Though BYU in twenty twenty and twenty twenty
one had an eleven to one season and a ten
three seasons, two double digit win seasons, two top twenty
five finishes, and going into twenty twenty two, I kid
you not, they had They were ranked number two per
ESPN's s P plus metric of returning production. They had
like ninety percent of their returning production coming back for
twenty twenty two, but they wet the bed.
Speaker 1: They ended up eighting five.
Speaker 2: What makes you believe that that BYU will have another
double digit win season and not fall prey to maybe
the Pride cycle and a single digit win season going
like eight and five, which would be an average to
slightly maybe above average season for BYU in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're testing my knowledge here. But twenty twenty two
So that was our eight and five season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we ended up playevent and five on the season,
we lost or we beat SMU, but we had lost
to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Remember we lost another Dame in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and we were right there, We were right
there knocked another We had, like I said, we had
plenty of talent. We had some injuries. Obviously, Chris Brooks
was the running back. You had started. Pukaaku was on
that team. Pooka was on the team. You had beaten
us up, you had beaten Baylor in that DOUBLET game.
You lost to Oregon by like twenty one. You beat
Wyoming thirty eight twenty four, then Utah State thirty eight
twenty six. Baalil Romney replaced I think Jared Hall in
that game and got injured, and then it was like this,
we were up in the air. Jaren Hall or Jacob
connoveror Jacob Jaren Hall ended up starting that Notre Dame game.
Then you lost to Arkansas home fifty two to thirty five.
You lost to Liberty. That one really hurt. Shot through
the hardest. G Man likes to say he's a big
fan of John bon Jovi. Shot through our forty one
to fourteen, You lost the Liberty and then you lost
the ECU at home twenty four to twenty seven on
a game winning field goal. Luckily, you beat Boise of State,
you beat you tah Tech, you beat Stanford to kind
of finish off the regular season. Then you beat SMU
in the bowl game to save it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I mean, if you look at I mean, what
it boils down to me is like when we have
solid quarterback play, uh, we do pretty well. So I
think we can attribute the volatility in that season of
just quarterback play to why we didn't end the way
that we wanted to, which is a bummer because twenty
twenty two you said that was the year that or
one of the years Jared started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jaron was the starting quarterback. Yeah, you Blake Free
on that team, was on that team. Chris Brooks was
on that team. You have some dudes, You have some guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you had some guys that were that played really well.
But you know, I think with with bar coming back
for a second season, having a full off season to
prepare for for this year, I feel confident going in.
You know, it's not just I think overall the level
of skill at BYU. Just the average is higher than
it has been maybe maybe ever. Right, we have some
really talented players. So I think that a double digit
season is in the cards for us once again.
Speaker 3: I think that we've proven it over and over. The
one caveat to that if there's anything that.
Speaker 4: Potentially might derail that is just the continuity of this defense. Right,
So changing up a big portion of the coaching staff
and stuff like that, can we install a defense that's
going to have immediate success or is it going to
take a little bit of time to ramp up. You're
hoping that because we didn't bring someone in from completely
outside of the program as DC, that we can have
some continuity that it's not.
Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't look too different than it has
and in the most recent years.
Speaker 4: But I think that a double digit season is not
something that's out of out of reach for us.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: I love the optimism. I too believe that b way
you can get to double digit wins again, But it
is off based off quarterback play most likely, right and
health quarterbacks? Do you trust what's behind Bear Bachmeier tracing
Borgae and Enick Watson? You know, because you had to
get down to QB three in that twenty twenty two season,
and instead of going with QB three, they ended up
just starting the injured Jared Hall. We don't even know
what percentage she was at. He could have been at
seventy percent. They chose to go with the seventy percent
seventy five percent healthy quarterback, you'r QB one instead of
going with QB three.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know what to think about the
quarterback situation. So hopefully knock On wood Bear stays healthy, right,
I mean he stayed relatively healthy throughout the majority of
last year.
Speaker 3: Obviously in that Bowl game he.
Speaker 4: Wasn't on he wasn't full health with with his lower externities.
To think it was like an ankle or something like that.
So hopefully we can stay healthy. Enick Watson, he's he
got home from his mission, what with past six months
to a year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's been home, I want to say since
like October.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so I mean, like who knows where he's
at and in terms of just shaking off the mission rust.
But you hear great things about him. I think he's
one of those quarterbacks and you're starting to hear a
little bit more of it because people see him now,
but he was one of those quarterbacks that there were
a lot shinier, brighter quarterbacks that have been part of
recruiting classes in the past couple of years, and so
we oftentimes forget about some of these guys like Enich,
but you hear great things coming out of camp about him.
Trayson Boorgiae is a guy that's probably pretty serviceable. I mean,
we heard good things last year when it was the
battle between Bear him and McKay and so, I mean
there was points where were like, who's it going to be?
Speaker 3: It's a toss up. But this is also a guy.
Speaker 4: That's now been in the program for a number of years.
So if his number is called, is he someone that
can go in there? No know the plays, understand what
we're trying to accomplish, you know, do we have the
running back room that can you know, carry him a
little bit?
Speaker 3: So I don't know, because we haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: In gameplay with with UH, with Trason or with with Enich. However,
I want to I want to stay optimistic and hopefully
we don't even have to find out right.
Speaker 2: Let us pray on the basketball side of things, UH,
the only team still playing basketball right now is BYU
women's basketball. Shout out to Lee Kamard, the finding Lee
Camars right now, these lady coups. They got the win
over Stanford last night at the Marriott Center. Boom Shaka Laka,
Delaney Gibb and Brittley Cannon combined for forty two points.
Is pulled away from Stanford seventy six sixty one on
Thursday night at the Marriott Center.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And now Lee, in his first season as the head
coach of BYU surpasses jud Jeff Judkins uh for the
most wins in a first season as a head.
Speaker 1: Coach for BYU women's bat basketball. Uh.
Speaker 2: Pretty cool to see this, Uh, and see what this
women's team is doing in the wb I t They
should have made it to the NCAA tournament. Let's be honest.
They should have been attorney team. They didn't get there.
It is what it is. No advocates for Brigham sometimes
in the tournament committees. But how about them lady Kougs,
And how about Lee camarda former BYU great on the
men's team, international superstar comes back and now is leading
the ladies to Glorian victory.
Speaker 3: No, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll be honest, I I can't remember was
it was lee early two thousands for basketball, so.
Speaker 2: He was you know, i'd say like mid to late
two thousands is when he was playing at by US
kind of he was a he was a contemporary of
of myself. He was a he was a colleague, if
you will. At the same time. Let's see here what
years was he there?
Speaker 1: Uh? He was.
Speaker 4: I think I was on a mission. Honestly, I think
I was on a mission. Like like I'm I'm super
familiar with him.
Speaker 3: I remember when he was on.
Speaker 1: Nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's why I missed the majority of his career,
to be completely honest.
Speaker 3: But what he's done has been awesome.
Speaker 4: I mean one thing that I'm I'm sure people are
talking about it, but we had some players leave this
women's basketball team that could have helped out pretty significantly, right,
So what these what these women are doing right now
is pretty phenomenal. And I know, I know they felt
like they got snubbed for the tournament. But anytime that
you're playing, you know, after the regular season, and you're
playing these other teams that had you know, quite a
bit of success during the season, it's a it's quite
the accomplishment. So it's awesome to see that he's having
some success, especially in his first year.
Speaker 3: Right, Like, it'd be great if.
Speaker 4: We could have both a men's and women's team that
are having a certain amount of success moving.
Speaker 2: Forward, talking men's basketball, now, the transfer portal is alive
and well, and there's a ton of play that have
connectivity to either the State of Utah BYU or are
members of the church at Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints,
and they all played pretty well at their respective schools.
Guys like Jake Wallen about Jackson Holcombe of Utah Valley University,
Carson Templan of Utah State. My question to use this
lane train from game day, what is it then BYU
basketball needs. What is it that they need from a
skill set standpoint going forward via the portal?
Speaker 4: I think for me, when I think about like where
we're at as a team, one of the things is
we need players that we can bring up through the system. Obviously,
obviously transfers are gonna happen. There's gonna be some guys
that just don't work out, But I think we need
a solid group of guys that we can get. As
you know underclassmen and develop through the program, Guys like
Richie Saunders, guys like Trevin Nell and I don't know it,
like these these are like historically like BYU guys right
and I'm not sure how many of those types of
people we have right now. I know that we have
some that are in like the recruiting ranks and stuff
like that, but I want to see that, like in
addition to these superstars that we're bringing in, like the ajs,
like the Rob Wrights and stuff, I feel like we
need a solid group of guys that are like BYU
core guys.
Speaker 3: Who understand their role, who can play that role. What
is that role? I think?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think every team's looking for this, but
we were. We were really struggled with defense. I think
we thought with Canard Davis, and I know that he
was off and on throughout the season, but I think
we thought we were getting like kind of like a
Mwatt mag type player.
Speaker 3: And at times we had that, at times we didn't.
Speaker 4: But I think we need more players like that who
just play their hearts out.
Speaker 3: On defense.
Speaker 4: And some guys who've been knocked down some shots. Because
we really felt that as soon as Richie was gone.
Like our three point ability just to spread the floor
was hurt pretty significantly. We had some guys that we
brought in then thought we're gonna have a bigger impact
in that regard, and they.
Speaker 3: Just they didn't quite have that full effect.
Speaker 4: So but there are some there are some bright spots
on that roster from this past year as well that
you know, we hope to see continue to develop and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So I think more.
Speaker 4: Than anything, we're not having an issue bringing in these superstars.
It's now about finding the right role players and then
more than anything, it's just like keeping those guys healthy.
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