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great show for you. Still celebrating the contract extension of
Kalani stake. We don't know the details of it, but
I'll give you my prognostication as to what it looks
like from a dollar amount as well as a tenure
amount and what I foresee happening in the future at BYU.
The good thing is about this situation and the time
of this contract extension for Kilani, it means that I'm
pretty sure like that most of the Cougar coaching staff
is going to be with you until through next season,
and that includes you know, a Rod and Jay Hill
and Kelly Pepinga. Your your your coordinators, and that's what
you want. You don't want to have any attrition when
you got a good thing going, You have stability, you
have momentum with a.
Speaker 3: Top twenty class.
Speaker 2: You want to keep that moving, you want to keep
that momentum train moving in that direction.
Speaker 3: And so that's the good news here.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's gonna be any attrition in that front.
You're going to retain the coaches and you're gonna retain
I think most of your players, especially coming off of
back to back double digit win seasons, with an opportunity
to win a Big twelve championship in Arlington at Jerry World,
and in an opportunity also to go to a college
fotball playoff, I mean, how glorious would that be. Let's say,
by some miracle, some way, somehow, b YU is able
to knock off the number four team in the country,
the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Arlington, which maybe it's
not all that far fetched to think that they could well,
I because it's very difficult to beat teams twice in
one year, Okay, And I trust Kilane, I trust his
staff to be well prepared heading into that stadium where
the last time they played at that stadium they beat
the Oklahoma Sooners, Okay ranked team led by Sam Bradford, the.
Speaker 3: Heisman Trophy winner of a year before.
Speaker 2: Kolbe Clausen knocked him out of that game, and BYU
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Harvey Unger was not actually playing in that game. Their
lead running back the time one of my the all time.
Speaker 3: BYU greatest backs.
Speaker 2: He was a little bit dinged up that game, but
Max All, Dennis Pitta and that offensive grew. M. K.
Speaker 3: Jacobs said, they led the way.
Speaker 2: Brian Korea had a great game too, b Y, you
got to win the last time they were in that.
Speaker 3: Statement, maybe they'll do it again.
Speaker 2: If you do it, you're gonna get a home game
at Lavelle Edwards Stadium in in November in the college
football playoff.
Speaker 3: We are knocking on the door. We are sitting pretty.
Speaker 2: We are the masters of our own destiny and you
got a huge opportunity in front of you. Hopefully the
distractions are now gone, right b Why you can focus
on football and the coaching staff can be focused as
well limiting those distractions. So we're gonna break it all
down here on your Utah ESPN Radio network.
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and Ronnie, how you living living good?
Speaker 4: I just pulled a couple of audibles adding to today's show.
You know, Ben, I think, for the first time in
month my life, I've lost the guest five minutes before
the show started, and I've added two some upgraded some.
I think Klanie's energy of asking, you know, for more
in market value.
Speaker 5: I think I'm learning how to add value as it
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Speaker 3: And more than this.
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not in the sports media world.
Speaker 1: You gotta be.
Speaker 3: Fleeta foot, my friend. Congratulations on all your success. Ronald
the three and Man Weaver.
Speaker 2: I know it'll continue your hype train, your your train
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of Brigham today here on your Utah ESPN Radio Network.
When to get into some sound Brian Santiago and Kalini
shatake Is, if if we can get through it all
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through that all read between the lines in the initial
segment in the nitty gritty, we'll welcome in a number
of fantastic guests today.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And we're efforting to gain more right. I don't know
if we confirmed. We got Will Snowden joining us.
Speaker 3: At one of the people I was talking about there
we go, Will Snowden joining us at three thirty.
Speaker 2: We'll get in some some sound though at three h
five as well, Chase Roberts Tanner Wall sound about what
it means to be able to retain and extend Kalani
Shatake not only for the current players, but for the
future players of Brigham Young your versity.
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So we heard the news, right, big news coming out
of Bring Him Yesterday, Callantis stock has been extended for
how long?
Speaker 3: For how much money?
Speaker 2: The initial report coming out from On three Sports, p Nacos,
Brett McMurphy, et cetera, and all those business insiders as
a relations of collegiate athletics nine to nine point five
million per year. And I've been hearing it's a ten
year deal. Okay, ten year deal, and I wouldn't be surprised. Okay,
I would not be surprised if he also has with
his associate athletic director title currently that there is a
path what I call this sweetheart deal. You are the
sweetheart of BYU. You are the Polonies and Lavell Edwards.
What that allows you to do when you know, let's
say that ten years down the road, right, Killani has
done great things brought BYU into this elite national promidence.
Maybe BOI has gone to a couple of college football playoffs,
maybe they've been competitive, maybe they've won some big time games.
Maybe they're a national champion once again. Because BYU has
allocated also ten to fifteen million in NIL support as
well as additional rev share opportunity. So that is that's
approximately if it's twenty point five million dollars that they're
going to be distributing, okay to BYU football players and
at all of the athletes at BAU twenty point five
million that's the cap. Then seventy percent of that is
probably going to football, sixty to seventy percent. So you're
looking at ten to fifteen already in NIL, and then
an additional maybe fifteen million coming into the coffers for
acquisitions and retention of talent, your workforce, your lifeblood of
your program. You could see twenty five to thirty million
dollars of NIL. Just to give you a little bit
of a perspective here, Texas Tech, it has been reported
we had Trevor Matich hop on the show and give
us this number. Texas Tech this year in order to
become a top four team in the country, maybe a
national champion this year, spent twenty eight million dollars in
NIL dollars name image likeness dollars. So twenty eight million
gets you some pretty gosh day and good football players,
especially if they buy into the culture. So that it's
with Joey Maguire and his staff have been able to do.
They acquire great guys, great football players, great talent, and
then they got to buy into the culture. And I
think Kilani will do a good job of that as
well as he has more fun. So that's kind of
the deal here. That's what I've been told, that's what's
been given to me. Let's get in to some of
these these soundbites from Brian Santiago and Kalanie Satake. By
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Speaker 3: They're at the road home. Let's get into it though.
Speaker 2: Brian Santiago, athletic director of Brigham Young University, and Kalanie
Sataki also an official statement from Shane Reees via Keith Forkink,
your VP of Advancement.
Speaker 7: This is a great day. This is a great day
for BYU and BYU foot. My name is Brian Santiago
and the Director of Athletics, and super grateful to be
here with all of you. We're grateful that you'd take
the time to be here and to cover this. We're
going to start today. Keith Voorkink, the Advancement Vice President,
is going to read a statement from the President of
our university.
Speaker 8: See Shane Reese.
Speaker 1: Keith, thank you, Brian.
Speaker 6: I'm also super happy to be here. It's a great
day for bringing on university. President Reese is traveling invited
me to read this statement. In many ways, Klonie Sataki
is a public face.
Speaker 1: Of bringing me on university.
Speaker 6: He leads our most prominent athletic team, and you couldn't
ask for a better examplar of the christ centered values
for which this university stands. In saying that, I also
communicate the great trust and confidence of BYU's Board of
Trustees that they have in Kolonie Sataki's unwavering commitment to
BYU's mission, which helps to build student athletes who learn
by studying and by faith. Someone recently said that BYU
wants to win, but Boa wants to win as a family.
Kilani is family and we couldn't be more pleased that
he'll be staying at BYU for all the right reasons
and leading our football program into the Big Twelve Championship
this week. And I'll just second President's words, were so
excited for all that Kilani represents and for the future
of him leading our football program.
Speaker 8: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Thanks, okay, So as we'll say about President Shane Raese
as well as Keith Varkink, and then we'll hear from
Brian Santiago. BYU would not be in the situation athletically
from an athletic department standpoint, with alignment, alignment of the
silos as I call them, between the academic mission of
Brigham Young University, the moral, ethical, spiritual mission. I combine
all those with your honor code, which to some may
may seem archaic, but it's all a part of what BYU's.
Speaker 3: Mission is about.
Speaker 2: And then the athletic mission of BA athletics, and it
all stems from kind of going up if you go
up the food chain here, what's the mission of the
Church of Jesus christal attery Saints. What's the mission of
Brigham Young University as an academic, spiritual and even an
athletic institution?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Because I do think God gives the children of men talents,
and those talents are in music, they're in academics, they're
in science, they're in engineering, they're in athletics.
Speaker 3: Wherever it comes. You want to highlight.
Speaker 2: You don't want to bury any of those talents, and
you want to bring those before your fellow man and
have joy and or joicing in that right. You have
to create alignment of the silence, because there is enmity naturally.
I've said for time, for from time and all eternity. Man,
there has been enmity between the jocks and the nerds.
Speaker 3: I remember I was dating a young lady. She went
on a mission.
Speaker 2: She came back and I remember chatting with her actually
returned from the mission, and she was very heavy into dancing.
I'm just giving you a quick anecdote here, and I said, hey,
you're going to get back into dancing. She said, no,
I will not get back into dancing because it doesn't
build up the kingdom.
Speaker 3: I was like, WHOA, that's crazy, that's insane. I'm like, like, like,
all talents are are are are fantastic in the eyes
of God in my opinion. So what I'm getting at.
Speaker 2: Here is I do think that there is sometimes a
struggle within even the bau Fan based sometimes the academic
side of things, the kind of the spiritual, very self
righteous people that are all about kind of the obedience
to you know, the the building up of the kingdom, right,
and they look at athletics as kind of this this distraction,
this idle worship type of deal. If it's all for
the good of you know, the fellow, and it's not
just about winning, and you're going out and serving in
conjunction with you know, your your athletics teams, your alumni chapters.
You you raise twenty seven thousand pounds of food for
the Cincinnati student body, you know, food pantry. You're raising
hundreds of thousands of dollars for the barber's wife who's
in the ICU, for Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: All of that.
Speaker 2: You're going about doing good while the Cougar football team
at basketball teams are also going out and competing at
a high level and humanizing and and and and I
think normalizing the churches of christo latter States and bring
them the Young University.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Amidst all that, with the f the Mormon chance, and
you're hopefully trying to dissipate that and trying to squelch
that and placate that and try to you know.
Speaker 3: Build bridges in the world.
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is, I know it's along with
Shane Reaches, Keith vour Kink and Elder Gilbert are creating
alignment so that the silos are not competing with each other, okay,
because they are whole minded to a list of humans,
care about all facets, all talents, and to go about
doing good across the sciences, the academic the medical world.
Look at BAUS building a medical facility, you know, I
mean like they're building a medical.
Speaker 3: School.
Speaker 2: I mean, like all of it matters, and you want
to be great and you want to be a laite
at all things. So what I'm saying is this would
not come about unless you have holistic, whole minded people
that also value athletics. And we've never I don't think
necessarily had the the individuals that were built to bring
in different types of people that have different value systems,
even within the Church of Jis Christ and latter Stins
and the BYU fan base, and keep them aligned. Does
that make sense? So anyways, that's what I want to say.
So Shane Rey's via Keith Orkink. You can sense that
in his tone, in his terminology and his verbiage. He
says that Byu, like the face of Byu, in many ways,
is Kilani Sataki. So we talked about ambassadorial toolstionary tools
of the church. Byu is one of those, and bio
athletics is one of those. And essentially I used to
call Lovell Edwards the thirteenth Apostle right because he spoke
at devotionals, he spoke at general confidence.
Speaker 3: Confidence.
Speaker 2: That is a path that I think Kolani is also
walking down as the Polynesian Lovell Edwards, and I think
they view that.
Speaker 3: The board of trustees, that's the other thing.
Speaker 2: The border of trustees have to be willing and capable
and bought into who Kilani is and how he's leading
and how he's leading athletics, and all of those individuals
are involved in that. Shane, Keith Elder, Gilbert, and Brian Santiago.
So now let's hear from Brian Santiago, athletic director of
brigham On University.
Speaker 7: As I mentioned, is a pretty exciting day and we're
really excited to announce the Kolani Satake is going to
be BOE's football coach long into the future. We as
an athletic department in the university, are making a significant
investment to make sure that we have a football program
that is set up and prepared to have success for
the future. One of the things that's been most impressive
in this process is what Klone really really is all about.
This is a great football coach, but this is one
of the great people on planet Earth. He's committed to
everything that's good. He's committed to not only running a
first class football program. He's so committed to his staff,
everyone in the building. He cares about every single person
that is part of this program, and maybe most importantly,
he's all in for these players. There weren't very many
times in this process that he was talking about himself,
talking about his own compensation. He was talking about, I
want to take care of all the people around me,
and that's what tells you a lot about Colonie Satake.
The other part of this it's pretty awesome, is Kilanie
is in this with his family. Not only Timberly, his
amazing wife and his children, but his dad and Pops
is right back there. He's a big part of this
program too, And we're grateful to you, Pops, grateful to
you for your commitment not only this program, but for
raising such a great man in Kilanie. I just want
to I just want to add too, when you get
in the trenches of college athletics, you want to do
it every day with people that you love and that
you can actually have a great time with. And I'm
most excited about walking the path with Kilanie and continuing
to see him build men that aren't only going to
do incredible things on the football field, but he's preparing
these young men to go and change the world. And
the culture that he's built here is second to none.
And we're not just investing in a football program. We're
investing in Colonie Satake. I'm grateful to be here and
sit next to him as the athletic director, but more
importantly as a friend and a confidant.
Speaker 2: Let's go, all right, So they have it, Brian Santiago
giving the flowers to Killani, his family and everything that
he has already accomplished in what will accomplish. He's earned
this right, He's he's earned this deal is what idem
is a nine million dollar deal over ten years now
that has not been confirmed. The ten year mark. I'm
just saying I think it was a long term deal.
I don't think this was a five year deal. I
don't think this is just through twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty.
This is through this. This makes him the paulities are
level edwards. Okay, he's already been ten. He's gonna be
coaching for another ten and then he may right off
into the sunset as associate athletic director from you know
that that twenty to twenty five year mark until he
retires at sixty five. That's how I view the path
and the trajectory of Kilani A.
Speaker 3: Brigham Young University.
Speaker 2: Okay, love that he went out of his way to
thank Tom Tamasi, who is the patriarch ride He's I
call him the patriarch uh Tom, the father of Kilani Stake.
I can tell you many stories about Tom h during
the Bronco mendenh Hall era, he just show up to
practice and you could just tell he wanted to be there.
He wanted Kilani to be there, and I think Kilanie
manifested this. Kilanie. You hear him talk that M word
a lot, like he has he has dreams, He has visions, dude,
I tell you like things that he said to me
when we were playing at Eastern Arizona Junior College, and
like he would just see things before they happen.
Speaker 3: He would manifest things before they happened.
Speaker 2: He was crazy. He's always been that way. He's a special,
singular human.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's why Cougarnation has rallied around him when they
thought that Penn State was going to steal him from
us with their robust resources, unlimited funds, with everything that
they had going for him that eleven million plus okay nil,
unlimited staffing resources, unlimited anything you wanted, Kilani satake, you
got it. Will do anything to bring you to State College. Okay,
Kilani said, you know what, No, I'm gonna be here.
This is my dream job. And BYU's taking care of me.
He's taking they're taking care of the staff, and they're
taking care of the players. And that's the that's the
main thing too. He's always been about the staff. He's
always been about the players. I believe, even last year
with the contract extension, I don't think I think outside
of the years, right, that's that's an additional two years
that was added to it. Through twenty twenty nine to thirty.
I think the only pay raises and only resources that
were ultimately allocated were to the staff and to uh,
you know, to support staff.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's where I think that in any additional funds.
Speaker 2: That came through the the athletic department down to the
football program was to the support staff and the coaching staff.
Guys like Jay Hill got pay raises this go around.
I think they made sure to take care of Kolate
after a special, remarkable season that could end very much
in the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: By the way, By the way.
Speaker 2: It's a sold out game now in Arlington Jerry's world.
He sold out Texas Tech BYU It's the It's the
biggest Big twelve championship game ever. Ok, a fourth ranked
team versus an eleven ranked team, and you could get
possibly if BYU beat Texas Tech, you get two Big
twelve teams in the College Football Playoff. Joey maguire, we
won't hold it against you if you keep it closing
to let BYU win, because the committee is hoping, praying
fingers crossed that BYU Oka loses this game and they
can keep them out of the Playoff. They will not
even the COLLG Football Playoff Comittee ESPN, Fox, CBS.
Speaker 3: No one is even willing to put.
Speaker 2: BYU's profile, their resume up against in a visual format
during these selection shows, during these College Football Playoff Committee
ranking shows up against Miami and Notre Dame and Oklahoma
and Alabama, they will not even put the school name
of the logo up there because they have already pushed
them out and they will be on the outside looking
at if they lose to Texas Tech and Artist, which
is sad. It just tells you a little bit about
the monopolistic, oligopolistic, the corrupt college football cubal that we
are seeing here that we are experiencing here. And I'll
tell you on the flip side where it stems from.
I'll tell you exactly why they're doing this. I do
not believe it's because some sort of like religious bigotry
or BYU bias or Big twelve bias. I don't think
that that is the main thing here. There's a component
to maybe some of that for some individuals. Everyone has
their anecdotes. We're only as good as our anecdotes. So
there are people that have certain biases within the colleg
Football Playoff Committe, where theyre subjective eye test or their
thoughts on the Big Twelve, or their thoughts on BYU
are the thoughts of the faith that's associated with BYU.
That's their prerogative, that's their deal, And there could be
some of that, but I'm going to tell you what
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Speaker 3: Let's take a brief time out, We'll be back.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why I believe is what the main
problem with the college Football Playoff Committee is why there's
so much bias and why they are stiff arming Brigham
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Speaker 3: I want to tell you a little bit.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you a little story about the
college football Playoff Committee and why they are the way
that they are now. Look, I will I would be
I would even rememss if I if I did not
state that I do think there are some like Big
twelve bias here as a a non power to conference.
Speaker 3: There's definitely that. But where does that stem from?
Speaker 2: Why is it that they're so aggressively ardently uh just
stiff arming BYU and then also like dropping Utah multiple
slots after after winning football games they if they didn't lose, Yeah,
they didn't have the same similar style points in the game, control,
et cetera that you wanted to see, and they give
up a lot of rushing yards. But like it, it's
insane that they've dropped as they have. It's very disappointing,
There's no doubt about it. Right now, you're looking at
the collegeotball playoff rankings that dropped yesterday Ohio States number one,
Indiana number two, Georgia number three, Texas Tech four, Oregon five,
ole Miss six.
Speaker 3: How in the world did Ole Miss like elevate? Why
did they move up a slot? It's just insane to me.
Speaker 2: Texas A and M seven, Oklahoma eight, Alabama nine, Notre
Dame at ten, By's at eleven, Miami at twelve, Texas
at thirteen, Vanderbilt fourteen, and Utah's at fifteen.
Speaker 3: So even though Utah was right behind.
Speaker 2: BYU and they won their games the last few weeks,
they've dropped to number fifteen in the country.
Speaker 3: Why is that? What is going on here? We have
to go back to last year.
Speaker 2: Okay, you gotta go back to last year and what
happened in the college football playoff last year? Okay, the
expanded playoff. This is the initial foray into this expanded
player and who was ultimately left out of last year's rankings.
Do you remember, by chance, Ronald the three man weaver,
what happened last year and the storylines that came out
of that final ranking right from the committee and the
bracketology that ensued.
Speaker 3: Do you recall what happened, what the storylines.
Speaker 5: Were, Yeah, if I'm correct, correct me if I'm wrong. Alabama,
I believe he got left out of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So they got they done, got left out the perennial
annual national champion under Nick Saban, the golden child of
college football, arguably the greatest college football coach.
Speaker 3: To walk the face of this earth. That's what happened, right,
They got left out.
Speaker 2: The SEC's darling over the last twenty years was left out.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of weaping, waving and nash the teeth.
Speaker 2: There was all manner of just just anger, right and
threats and who knows what happened, you know what in
that process. But it was not fair, and you know
what happened. Then you look at the teams that got
in and you wonder if it was the best team.
Speaker 3: So this is the debate.
Speaker 2: Does the regular season matter? Do conference championship games matter? Okay,
is it your resume or is it where you're trending
in November as one of the best team's most talented
teams with that subjective feeling eye test that people are
going to discuss, right, that's the debate here. So who
got in Clemson Texas? Remember Clemson knocked off SMU in
their conference championship game, giving SMU the only their second
loss on the season. Their first loss was at home
to BYU. Won score game, okay, three points or whatever
it was. So you had that scenario and Clemson, by
the skin of their teeth beat sm It wasn't like
it was a dominant victory by any means. Who else
got in? Arizona State got in and they got to buy.
People were picked off that Arizona.
Speaker 3: State got to buy.
Speaker 2: Now they showed well versus Texas because Texas beat Clemson
and then they it came down to the wire thirty
nine to thirty one Arizona State in Campskataboo and Sam
Levitt they had they had a nice they had a
nice outing, Okay, they really did. They kept the competitive,
they kept entertaining, and so you know, but like a
lot of people felt really disjointed about Arizona State, I know,
you know, but they got the buy because they were
the Big twelve, you know, Big twelve champion, right, so
they earned that right to get that buy Tennessee Ohio State.
Tennessee got knocked off by Ohio State. No problem there
because these are you know, SEC versus big ten. Oregon
got the buye remember, and Oregon ended up playing Ohio
State in the quarterfinals. This is where people are ticked SMU.
They believe did not deserve to be in the in
the College Football Playoff. They were not one of the
best twelve teams in college football, okay, and they got
just blasted by Penn State, who was the sixth seed.
Speaker 3: Okay, it was thirty eight to ten. See I told
you so.
Speaker 2: Boise State got a buy okay, because they were so
highly ranked and they had Ashton gent and they had
some say they had pomp and circumstance, and they were
a highly rated program and a good football team obviously.
But they got They got beat up pretty good too.
Like it wasn't really a close game. Penn State beat
them up thirty one fourteen in the quarterfinals. Once again,
like they're saying. What they're going to say is, see,
Boise State didn't deserve to be in there because it
was a it wasn't a close game.
Speaker 3: The game control the margin of victory.
Speaker 2: Right, Ashton GenZ couldn't run the ball very effectively until
later on in that game. All of those things, right,
is what the tur the the the rhetoric is okay,
Indiana Notre Dame. Indiana obviously lost to Notre Dame, but
they were fine with that because Indiana has been kind
of a new Bello of the ball. Signetti's, you know,
a very popular figure right now. And then obviously Georgia
got to buy. So this is where it stems from.
They don't want to have the SMUs The Boise States
are gonna have to let in somebody, right, They're gonna
have to let in you know, tu Lane, They're gonna
have to let in somebody. But you know how, how
does the Collegeotball playof Committee view Tulane right now? With
some erre all leaving. Is North Texas gonna be the darling?
Is James Madison gonna be the darling? What's gonna happen there?
Are they gonna drop et cetera. We don't know right
now with the conference championship games on the horizon, but
they don't want to be in that same situation. They
don't want the same critiques. They don't want the same anger,
vitriol and criticisms coming down their way. They're going to
lean on the brands this go around, and they're gonna
see if it's more entertaining. They're gonna see if it's
more competitive. They're going to see if there's better viewership.
They're going to see if there's more money to be
made by putting the traditional brands of college football into
the top ten.
Speaker 3: That's what they're going to do this year, unless chaos.
Speaker 2: Ensues, Unless BUYU beats Texas Tech, right, that's one of
the chaotic things that occur. They are hoping, praying, the
committee is hoping brain that that does not happen, because
then they will be forced to have Texas Tech and
BYU in the College Football Playoff. They will because they're
not going to reprimand a team that just spent twenty
eight million nil and has all the talent in the world.
And you know, I guess they could try to justify it.
They could try to say, Okay, well they lost to
ASU earlier in the year, right, and ASU lost to
U of A and they're no longer apartner. They could
try that. I don't think it would happen, though, I
think Texas Tech is still a team that spent the
money and has a ton of respect from the traditional
brands and those that are spending a lot of money,
and therefore Tech six is not bounced. So that would
mean Notre Dame, who has been the team that Brett
your mark has specifically picked a fight with, and a
lot of teams have picked fights with Notre Dame. You
compare and contrast the resumes, and you can make an
argument that BYU has a much better resume, at least
marginally better resume, depending on what metric you want to
lean on. So that is the reason why they don't
want the same critique. They just want something different this year,
and the colleget Ball Playoff committee and all of the
media entities surrounding that college fort ball Playoff that are
buoyed up by the filthy lucre of college athletics are
leaning that way.
Speaker 3: Because they just want to see what happens.
Speaker 2: They want to see something different than what occurred last
year when they got a whole heap of amount of criticism. Okay,
that's the situation, So those are my thoughts. All right, guys, Well,
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read between the lines a little bit here, but real
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Speaker 2: Brian Santiago and our good friend, a friend of the show,
fan of the program, Kalai Satake, head coach of b AU.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Keith kind words from President. First of all,
I just want to express my gratitude to our president,
to President Reese and our Vice president Keith wur Kinkin,
and also our athletic director Brian Santiago on their leadership
and just just doing this. I mean, if I'm being honest,
I just wanted to be here long, you know. That's
that's what it's all about. I've had a amazing mentors
along the way, including level Edwards and Kyle Whittingham, who
likes sticking where they're at, and I appreciate all their
examples to me, and so this is a place that
I want to be for the long run. And luckily
I grew up cheering for this team and I played
here too, so it helps to play for the legend
Leavelle Edwards. I also want to show my gratitude appreciations
to the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter day Saints for allowing us to be a great
partner in the Big Twelve but also to function well
as a program. And the goal here was to for
me not only to be here for a long time,
but also to take care of my coaching staff and
my support staff. And this allows us to do that
and also to take care of our players. So there's
a strong commitment from the university to do those things
and that speaks to my heart. And so that was
easy for me to agree to do that if they
took care of my people, like Brian said.
Speaker 1: And and then.
Speaker 8: I want to express my love to my family. Yeah,
Pops and my all my family. I mean, I got
tons of cousins, you guys know, even some that claim
me that we're not blood related. But it's okay, but
thank thankful to all my family. I've been raised by
a village and you know, I hope, I hope I
can make them proud. And so with that, also want
to express my love and appreciation to my best mentor
that's my wife, Simply, and my four children Sky Sadie, KK,
Colney Junior we call them too, and then our baby
girl Sylvia. So they've been amazing throughout the whole process
and they're the best supporters for us, and I appreciate them.
I also want to tell the players how much I
love them. They're amazing and they make my job so
much and so enjoyable, and I love being around them
and being their coach has made me a better person
the last ten years and I got a lot more
improvement to make, so I'm planning to be around for
a while to get better. And but I'm so proud
and honored to be their coach, and I'm honored that
I get to learn from such a wonderful young men.
And then and finally, I just want to I mean,
this is goes to everybody, just thank you. Thankful for
everyone here at the university. I've had amazing support from
everyone involved. I mean I have amazing mentors all over
the place, championship coaches and championship people and the support
stuff and the administration E've been awesome and so it's
been It's easy to when you just sit around and
if you just listen to people around you, they can
influence you and make you a better person. And so
thank you to everyone here and everyone involved in media.
I know I like to hang out with you guys
and talk about you know, how I wish I had
a goatee to grow, my cover up my double chin
and stuff like that. So thank you for laughing at
all my jokes and humoring me. So I enjoy all
my relationships with everybody. I'm a people person, so I
like to hang out with people and get to know them.
And so finally, I always want to express my love
to all the fans. My wife said that the last
day or so, it was probably one of her favorites
and my family and she called it a love bomb
from all the fans. And yeah, it's it's hard to
leave when you have something so special and you have
amazing people that support us. And so I'm just grateful
that I get to be around the amazing fans and
to make things easier, just we'll just quit all the
drama and I'm here. You know that way people don't
have to stop in the middle of the road it's
not safe, and row the windows down and yell at
me to stay. There's a student that sat out here
by my parking spot with a sign, and I asked
him how long he was waiting there, and he said
a couple hours. He had no idea when I was
going to be there. And gave him a hug and
took a picture of him. But the fans all over
the place, it's it's super special. When social media can
be toxic and danger sometimes and so negative, thank you
for making it a loving place where my children can
feel proud of their dad and I could just be
really proud of the friends that I got to make
and the memories and so those are things that we
that we get to hang on to forever. And so
I still have a goal of hugging every fan, every
BYU fan. I got close in the last ten years,
but I feel like there's going to be more. So anyways,
I want to get back to get back to the
game and the focus on the game. That's that's the
goal here. I think that we can. I'm a little
maintenance guy, so as you can see, this is I
just came from practice, So this is what I wear.
It's all free and and so I just plan on
just you know, to get the focus back on the boys,
back on us playing Texas Tech and this amazing conference
with the Big twelve, with a great commissioner like Brett
your mark, and looking forward to the matchup against Texas
Tech this weekend, and let's have more fun with that.
And we can just I can answer the questions for
you guys, but we can just move on and and
know that this is settled and get back to the game.
So love you.
Speaker 2: There, you have it right there, Coloni stock a couple
of nuggets there, A couple of gems. Number one, the
genuine nature, the emotion, the love that he has experienced
and felled from all of Kugarnation. Those that have had
anecdotal personal synergistic experiences with Kalani can all testify, can
all agree that he just makes you feel unique, He
makes you feel special, He makes you feel seen right,
the embrace, the big Polynesian Polynesian bear hug that he
will give you and just makes you feel like you're
a part of his family. He's super relational and the
human oriented. He's not transactional, he's transformational in his approach,
and so when you see the the mirroring of love,
that that that has been expressed.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So he's he's shown a lot of leve a lot
of people over the years. And then when push comes
to shove and you're you're, you're, you're incentivized to leave,
and you're offered something that is very difficult to refuse,
a new challenge, a new uh uh, you know, big
time college football at a big time place, generational money.
You may feel also that like, hey, you know, you
never know if B what is gonna invest what it takes,
and you don't know if the oh shout out to
Jared Bledsoe, my guy bringing in toothpaste, Utah Protective Films,
showing up.
Speaker 3: Showing out, you got more stuff? Okay, DJ, do you
want to help him out with that?
Speaker 2: My guy Jared Bledsoe showing up, showing out, dropping off
some some items for the road home. And we appreciate
him always uh lifting where he stands U top Protective Films,
U Toprotective Films dot com.
Speaker 3: But as I was saying, you know, when.
Speaker 2: When you feel the love and you feel this, you
see this outpouring of love from Kugarnation its donors, it's
fan base.
Speaker 3: It can be very overwhelming. And you heard him just
tear up and start crying.
Speaker 2: In those moments as she was explaining to you just
how his family has felt. How Hey, I want you
to stick around, to come hang out with me for
a minute. Here we're talking about Kalani. Here, former BYU
wide receiver Jared Bledsoe showing up dropping off some shampoo
and some crash Pro Health Advanced stopping cavities before they
start shout out to Jared Bledsoe, but timberly and uh,
it was just taken back by all the love, the
outpouring of love. And you know, his children who are
of age and are on social media and see the
outpouring of love from the fan base, they can look
up to dad and say, wow, like we have a
special dad, because you know how it is like within
the walls of your home we call it. We kind
of look at our parents fecially we're growing up like, ah, yeah,
there's just our parents, you know. Are they really that special?
Are they really that cool? They're not like I want
to hang out with my friends. You discredit everything that
your parents do. You don't think they're wise, even though
the commandment says, honor thy father and thy mother, that
thy day's baby. But long upon land. You just throw
that out the door. You forget about Sunday school lessons.
You're like, they're not cool. It's great to see the
world if you're a parent, you know, Timberley and Killane
and the kids get to see how much love and
appreciation there is in Cougar Country in byu Land for
them and what they've accomplished and what they've done, and
the impact that they've had in the community.
Speaker 3: So love that, love that, Jared, you hop on real quick.
Speaker 2: You heard some of the sound bites I'm sure from
Kilani's who's getting emotional coming in you know Killani, Well,
you came to bring them young university and and and
you got to know you're friends with all these guys.
You're friends with all these guys down in Provo. So, man,
your your reaction to the news from yesterday. Hold on
one second. Let me switch this up really quick. Let
me get that other headset. Get that other headset here.
Speaker 3: Sorry, we're having a few technical difficulties.
Speaker 2: We get them dialed in. Okay, there you go, right there.
I think that one's live. That one's live good. Okay, there,
you sound good.
Speaker 10: Okay, what's I've known Cloney for a long time. We
were teammates. We were we were teammates back in nineteen
ninety eight, along with pretty much the whole staff, you know. Yeah,
And it's one of those things that we have mentioned
yesterday that you've got a group of coaches that almost
all of them come from the same the same university.
And not only that, I mean to even give Jay
Hill since Jay and I played at Rix together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's pretty close, even though he went to
the to the school upon the Hill.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but you know, it's it's it's really special to
see and we were able to play with with with
Levell and coach Edwards.
Speaker 1: He brought that.
Speaker 10: Just vibe to the to the team where you know,
although he was just cruising around his golf cart most
of the time when but we were kind of at
the end of his his tenure at b YU, But
just being in the office with Levell was was amazing
to have a meeting with level and and and what's
crazy is years later my dad ran into Lavell and uh,
you know, I'm not I'm not the superstar that some
of these other guys.
Speaker 1: Are like even like you and I'm not.
Speaker 11: But yeah, you know, Levell remembered me, you know, and
and and remembered where I came from. And you know,
it's just all the players that have been through there,
Klane has that embodies that exact same thing.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 10: And you enjoyed going in the office with Level. I
know the players enjoy going to spending time with Kilon. Yes,
when he got emotional, you know, I was just listening
to that as I drove over here, and you know,
it kind of brought out the same thing in me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I grew up as a as a
b YU fan.
Speaker 10: This very similar to Kilani and that we just loved
and always wanted to play at b YU and be
a part of that. And and uh and the fan base.
It's really cool, the greatest thing. You know, people pull
it over it, stopping it. Come on, we want to
keep you in. And you know, there's not a lot
of areas that are going to get that. And and
and had he gone, there would still be a lot
of grateful people. It wouldn't be like the old miss
get the hell out of here, you know, with a
watch around it more it's just a whole different deal.
And I'm just super super excited for the team. I'm
super excited for Coloni and his staff and and uh,
what a great day to be a Cougar and and
uh and let's go win, man. I I just can't
wait for this week. And and I think there's a
there's a there's a feeling in the air where these
guys are ready to play and uh, Texas Check better
watch a we.
Speaker 1: Might just go in and wreck them.
Speaker 3: I love it, man, I love it. Yeah, it it's
that you know, there's a chance.
Speaker 2: I think I think the coaching staff is actually going
into this fairly optimistic. Yeah, you know what I mean,
Like they believe that they can beat Texas Tech on
a neutral field.
Speaker 10: We're all athletes, right when we played, right, Yeah, and
you your expectation when you go on the field is
you're gonna beat.
Speaker 1: The next guy.
Speaker 10: These guys beat us before, they beat our team before,
in these players, so they have in their heads that
it's time to go out and face these guys and
show them that we are just as good. And not
only that, just everything going on with the college football
playoffs and last night and and let's throw all these
teams up there, but let's not throw BYU even in
the mix, because had they done that, it would have
been embarrassing for the whole group there to be like, well,
by you does beat all these guys in every category,
but we're not gonna talk about it. So they just
they just keep you off the screen. So let's go
prove to them who we are and what we can do,
and let'slet's get it. Let's get a home game in
the playoffs here in Provo.
Speaker 1: So I think the.
Speaker 10: Players are gonna be ready, coaches are gonna be ready.
I think that there's gonna be some surprises in our offense,
that some wrinkles that that we've been waiting for all year.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I'm the head over to practice
right now and just kind of get a glimpse of
let's go.
Speaker 10: Yeah, bro, But I and I just wanted to say,
I really appreciate Ben what you're doing here. And and
you know, as a conger nation, we do a really
good job of showing out. We did it in Texas. Yep,
we did it and sold out crowd. By the way,
it's gonna be great between the Red Raiders and the cougars.
They're selling it out, but.
Speaker 1: Let's continue to shout out here.
Speaker 10: You know, we got to drive going here where we
definitely need itams On Ben and I were talking about
what what items we could bring in, anything that that
you think people could need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even if stuff like you're giving away like right now,
you like maybe you're like I'm gonna give it to
a thrift shop or I'm gonna give it to d
I that's all great, but hey, let's let's do for
the road home.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: If you got u lightly you use clothing or something
like that, Yeah, you have like sometimes you go into
the food storage and you're like, we have so much
food storage, like you know, like let's let's let's donate that.
Speaker 10: And there's there's some things that a lot of people
don't know with me and and in my past, and
there was a time where in Laguna Beach, I stayed
at the Friendship Shelter. I was there for ninety days
and before that I had been homeless, you know, and
the donations there were amazing and the things that I
was able to get. It was an opportunity to make
a lot of changes in my life. And you don't
see and and a lot of that was I didn't
have much at that point, you know, so the clothing
that was given, I could actually go in there and
pick out a few different things.
Speaker 1: That close.
Speaker 10: We always had what we needed. We had people coming
in and cooking for us and feeding us, and you know,
so I'm super happy to give and be a part
of this. My life has been a little bit of
a whirlwind, and so I would hope that we can
get some more people just how we donate to others
in other cities. Let's let's come in and donate here,
and let's take care of our own here in Utah
and make sure that we.
Speaker 1: We do our part.
Speaker 3: I love that man, and and uh that personal experience.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I always say like this temporal life is is for
the bidder and the suite. It's for the good and
the bad. It's for the beautiful and the ugly. And
the more spectrum you get to experience, the more grateful
you are and the more the happier you are, and
you're more willing to give and have a bit more
of eternal perspective.
Speaker 1: You know what it feels like.
Speaker 3: You know what it feels like, you know what, and
you become you become more christ Like.
Speaker 1: And just like what Ron's story.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and and I appreciate him sharing that all of
that gives us perspective that you don't get the perspective.
Speaker 1: You haven't been there.
Speaker 10: You can see it, you can observe it, but you
can't really feel it and internalize it. And and so
it's important that that those of us that have kind
of gone through some of that stuff have some opportunities
to show those experiences.
Speaker 1: And and it makes me super grateful bef where I'm
at today. And and let's go.
Speaker 3: Crazy man ready for this weekend.
Speaker 2: Let's good they make it wrecked. I feel like they
may get red. Oh my goodness, that's the wise. Uh yeah,
I hope.
Speaker 3: So, I really do.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a tremendous what Vegas
is not in favor of the Kougs only giving. I
think it's like a twelve and a half point dog
right now in Arlington, or it was yesterday, oh, thirteen
and a half, now thirteen and a half now with
like what a thirty three percent chance of victory or
something like that for ESPN analytics.
Speaker 1: Good good, No, that it.
Speaker 10: Even matters, that this doesn't matter nothing matters, it's all
it's all talk. Nothing matters other than a guy, the
teams showing up and playing ball, doing what they've done
since they were little kids. But getting revenge, you know,
revenge in sports is huge.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 10: You want to show up and show out. Yeah, and
when you've got these guys that that have beat us before.
So and I know that the team's gonna be ready,
coaches are going to be ready. I hope around to
getting some sleep. Uh, probably not, you know, but sleep.
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't realize a Rod don't sleep.
You know, he's a non sleeper.
Speaker 10: You know, your mind's racing on on what play you're
gonna call in personnel and different things. You know, you
wake up at three in the morning, there's no chance
going back to sleep because your mind's already racing into
the next day and what you got to get done
and how you want to accomplish things.
Speaker 1: And we have a great staff.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 10: And I'm so proud of Klannie and what he's doing.
I'm proud of Cougar Nation for showing out and just
being who we are and showing the love to Klawanne
as he went through that process, which.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm excited, Yeah, very excited.
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 10: I'm glad to come in and heck, yeah, bro, drop
a few things off, and I hope, I hope we
get a bunch more people in while you're here and
dropping some more things off and supporting the Uh the.
Speaker 2: I got to get you some royal army brand, I said,
I I probably anyway to come in and go drop
ship you a you gotta send me, you gotta send
me your address again.
Speaker 3: I'll drop you some BUA swag.
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 3: Is it medium or large?
Speaker 1: Large? Come on man, large and in charge game? Hey?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't you know I'm I'm sometimes this
medium guy. I'll be honest, like you know, I sometimes,
you know, I like to show off the muscles for
my wife.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. So I just just asking,
you know, you know sometimes you know we like that
form fitting gear.
Speaker 2: All right, get you hooked up with some the best
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