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get to know Reggie frishnet wide receiver b YU transfer
from snow and Weeber State now looking to ball out
for Brigham as a redshirt sophomore. I got to know
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solid no performance. I think last season he struggled with injuries.
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I caught up with Reggie Frishnet, the six foot four,
two hundred and seven pounder out of Mantai, Utah. Reggie
Frishneck BYU Wide Receiver.
Speaker 3: Reggie.
Speaker 1: How is springball?
Speaker 3: Day two? It's great. You know a lot of competing,
especially right now, a lot of rotation. But it's lot
of fun and can't wait for the next thirteen practices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty crazy. The spring balls already here, Reggie.
Take us through your your pathway to be Yu. I
know you came out of like the Mantai e From
area in high school. What position to play in high school?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Mantai high school, a little three A school.
I actually rotated between like tight end and like a
big outside receiver because I was like the biggest guy
on my team, even like some of the linemen were't
as tall as me. So played. I blocked a lot
in high school, but I also caught deep passes. That's
kind of what I was known for down there.
Speaker 1: What was your height weight in high school?
Speaker 3: Ooh height weight high I was probably maybe a little
shorter now I probably six three in high school, but
I was like one hundred and eighty pounds, so I
was skinny. Now I'm like ten to eight, So found
a few pounds since then. But it's been good.
Speaker 1: You ended up at Snow Junior College out of high school?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, Snow how.
Speaker 1: Did you get there? How did that process occur?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's kind of funny. Actually I was I
was planning to kind of just give football up because
I didn't really have any offers. I had a few
D two offers, and I was like, I don't want
to go all the way across the country to play
the Smarty two school. So I was planning to kind
of just give football up. And then in the middle
of February, almost like right before signing day, Snow knocked
on my door and they're like, we'd love for you
to come play for us, play tight end there. And
then yeah, I ended up signing like two days later
after they knocked on my door. So it was it
was great.
Speaker 1: Which coaches from Snow recruited.
Speaker 3: So it was Neil Powell, he former YU player, and
then Zach Erickson text me and the tight end coach,
uh Laney. First, I don't coach Lane. I don't know. Yeah,
that's what we called it.
Speaker 1: So you played one year there, one semester, one semester.
You were just there for one semester. Yeah, and he
played wide receivers I think recruited is a tight end. Yeah,
and then you ended up playing wide huh.
Speaker 3: So we had like summer workouts where we just go
like to the field and do like small stuff, and
I get there, they see my height. They're like, okay,
he's tall, he has a bigger frame. And then they're like, hey,
we're just gonna have you run. So I ran and
they're like, okay, actually you're a receiver. So gets the Fall.
Speaker 1: Camp in like forty times or they just said you run.
Speaker 3: No, they just we were like running routes and I
was with the tight ends. They're like, this guy can
actually run, So they moved me to receiver. And then
from there, I just.
Speaker 1: Did you ever do track and field?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: I did it?
Speaker 3: I played baseball.
Speaker 1: Okay, you played baseball? What position you played?
Speaker 3: Based? Centerfield? Centerfield? Okay, so you can I can run?
Speaker 1: You can run?
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: And then Fall Camp came last in the depth chart.
You know, they didn't know anything about me, a small
town kid, and just worked my way up and then
ended up starting the whole season, played every game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and then I was looking at your statute.
I mean it was it a you pretty close to
like a thousand yards receiving at snow and then like
sixteen receiving touchdowns something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was fifteen receiving touchdowns and like
eight fifty yards about.
Speaker 1: So pretty gosh day in good season. Yeah, and like
what type of routes were you running? Were you just
a linear threat? Were you you know, you know, intermediate threat?
Where were we at?
Speaker 3: Definitely a linear threat. I would run a lot of posts,
take posts, kind of just throw the ball up, a
lot of goes. And then the team started catching up
on it. So by the middle of the season, I
just started running like some comebacks and like stutters and
then to goes, you know. But definitely I would say
I'm more of a deep threat.
Speaker 1: For snow. I was okay and uh one semester and
then you're out. Offers start coming. We were offers you
how did you get to week?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So we were offered. And then I went on
a visit there, and I love the I love the
receiver coach there, Skyler Ridley. He was really great and
he like talked to me like family, you know, and
I felt the love for.
Speaker 1: Him over vau Cougar Now.
Speaker 3: Skylar, Skyler. We love Skyler. And then I went on
a visit up there. Actually they started winter workouts that Monday.
When I visit that monday, kind of saw them work
out a little bit, and then I committed like two
days later and was up there that following Thursday and
then played spring ball.
Speaker 1: There was great, So you play spring ball and then
you're in the portal. Yeah, was there just a realization
that you were you were not to say that you
you could play at a higher level. That was the
realization at that time.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I went through springball, and like I would say,
the second weekend, I was kind of like I was,
I was a starting guy there, and I just thought
to myself, I talked to my dad and like I
just had a feeling that like I could I could
be more, you know, like I could play at a
bigger school. So I just took a chance and I
hit the portal after spring ball and.
Speaker 1: You had some film though, you had some tape from.
Speaker 3: Spring, some tape from spring. And then I think my
snow film helped a little bit because when the spring
portal now they don't have the spring portal. When they
was open, you know, I saw the players leave. I
saw Holy his name left from here wide receiver, yeah,
wide receiver, Mary, Sorry, Yeah, I saw he left, and
I was like, you know what, maybe b yu. So
I hit the portal and then next thing I know,
Festie's calling me, and then I get here.
Speaker 1: So here in the summer, I mean obviously, so really
interesting sequencing here out of high school. Don't even know
if you're gonna play. Yeah, last second snow comes long,
you're going to snow. You work up your starter almost
one thousand yard, fifteen touchdowns. Okay, after that, it's it's weaver.
I'm better than than this, not just not knock, not
we but I can play at a higher level. Keelan
Transfers are like, well, there's opportunity out there now you're
at BYU. That that's a crazy sequence. And what what
year are you?
Speaker 3: Then, like, what's your So I read shirted last year
here at Uyu, So I'm a red shirt sophomore. This
next fall, I of your redshirt sophomore.
Speaker 1: So three years, three years left. Okay, So when you
were getting evaluated by FESSI and when he offered you
what what was it? What what skill set do you
bring that that merit's a scholarship and opportunity to play
a bigger role, not only last year I mean you
were playing, but an even bigger role this year.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a big kid, like we were talking
about I'm big, I'm fast, and I'm physical, you know,
the deep routes. I'm physical with press coverage and so
I get behind people really well just using my size
and my speed. And then I'm also really I'm a
fast I would say that's one of the big things
you need to have in football, especially play at the
high level. So I was unable to pick up playbooks
really fast and learn learn what coaches want, and so
like learned footwork like here. I learned a ton from Festi,
just his coaching and like how to run routes, which
I think hopefully led to Festi liking me and offering
me a.
Speaker 1: Scholarship because you did. You you didn't participate in spring ball,
but you kind of had a little bit of an
offseason here at BYU is like the strength and conditioning
staff and stuff like that, so they saw you run
and then once fall camp came around. What happened last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so fall camp came around. It was like the
first week and I was getting I was running like
an over route, and I got my jersey pulled and
my whole I like my whole hamstring was like messed up.
I like pulled it really bad, and so I was
out for it was a very long time, like through
the first two and a half games, and I got
back when we were playing ECU, and I was still
like on the fringe of playing, so they didn't play me,
and then we get to the point where it's like
red shirt. So I ended up red shirting that year,
but I ended up playing in six games. I played
from Texas Tech all the way into UCF, and then
I sat the UCF game because that's when they were
debating if they read shooted me, which they did, and
I played Big Church Championship and Bowl game. So yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Was that experience like for you? I know, a little
bit of adversity. You probably had never had an injury
before and so that's your first What was that process
like for you? And obviously you got to play some which, yeah,
you got some targets, you got some catches, you were
out there blocking, et cetera. Give me that that that
process and how that went for you.
Speaker 3: No, it's definitely hard. I, like you said, I was
never really injured before, so having a really bad hamstring
was just hard, especially since this somewhere I've always wanted
to be. I wanted to end up and I wanted
to prove myself. Coming from a small town, so not
being able to practice or play for the first bit,
it was hard on me and my mental health. But
I came back and I worked really hard, which ended
me up back in their rotation, which is like which
top five. So I'm happy. I'm happy with how last
season went. I think I grew as a person and
as a player overall.
Speaker 1: So I'm good friends with Braiden Brown. Were you ever
to meet with him during that process?
Speaker 3: A little bit?
Speaker 1: Kind of keep your mind right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I talked to him. I was I'm kind of
a shy kid, so, like I say in my bubble
a little bit, so I don't really like creasing out
to people. But yeah, I talked to him. Braiden's great.
I actually had a meeting with him a few weeks ago.
Just see how the season's going. He's a great guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love braid Yeah. So now what do what do
you bring to this wide receiver room in order to
be able to compete, to stay in the rotation and
obtain a bigger role in the offense.
Speaker 3: I think I'm very consistent. Like we were talking, I
work hard, I'm consistent and I will know the playbook.
I'm also like very fast and get behind people. So
I think any deep very fast threat. I mean, how
fast do you think you are? I mean, like you know,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: We do?
Speaker 3: We do like Gates. I would say in like top
two three on the team with like Schmid and Trey
right there, so I I would say pretty fast, yeah,
but yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I say Gates, what is that?
Speaker 3: Gates are like we like lasers, like a ten yard
split type forties forties Yeah.
Speaker 1: So mph wise? How how what's your top end speed
that you've been clocked at miles powerwise?
Speaker 3: Today? I think we I think we did like max speed,
which was with a helmet and stuff, and I hit
like twenty one nine maybe twenty two, so I don't
know for sure.
Speaker 1: Twenty two without paths, yeah, which.
Speaker 3: Is very fast. Yeah. So that and then I feel
like I have reliable hands, you know, put me on
the field and I'll make plays.
Speaker 1: So how are you blocking? Because I know you can't
get on the field unless festecs you're blocking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a good blocker, that's I mean, I grew
I was in Mantai tight end, so big blocker. You know,
I'm not scared to be physical and hit our crack
blocks and get get dirty with the linebackers. So yeah,
get after a little bit.
Speaker 1: What was it like being a part of a like
a championship squad, Lasher, I mean, you get to the
Big TOL championship. I know you had success at Snow.
I'm sure you guys had success there at Mantai, got
some good talent there. But what was it like being
at the P four level Big twelve and watching your
team be successful like that?
Speaker 3: It was crazy being around like players, great players, So
like where I learned the most, Like last year being
around Chase and Jojo and how they operate and how
mature they are on the field. I think like just
made me grow as a person a lot. And then
just like especially the fans here at Uyu and the
crowd that we get. It's unlike anything I've ever seen,
so I loved it. It was a great time.
Speaker 1: What would you say you like to do off the field?
Obviously football is a big component right now, but what
are you doing off the field? What do you spend
your free time?
Speaker 3: I love the mountains, mountains right by my house, so
go in to the mountains, camp fish that stuff, and
then I love being with my family. My family is
what keeps me centered. I love them so much. So
let's spend time with my family and my sister. Go
play sports with my sister, teach her some stuff. And
then also I love playing board games my house. We
have a big house with five other players. So we
have like board game nights. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, who comes over to the border game nights?
Speaker 3: A game play at my house. We have Ethan Thomas
and Key and need Ty Smith, Krek Clark, and Joe Douglas.
And then we also have like Bear and Tiger over
a lot. And then we just played Catan Secret Hitler,
like clue and stuff. So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Love. But you mentioned your sister is she is there?
There's another fresh net here at nd y U right.
Speaker 3: Are you related? Yeah, she's my cousins, second cousin.
Speaker 1: Second cousin. Okay, and give us the exact pronunciation of
the last name, so everyone in Cougar Nation goes how
to pronounce it.
Speaker 3: It's fresh next fresh neck. Yes, there you go, we.
Speaker 1: Got it dialed in. Are you gonna be playing special
teams as well. This year are goin to try to
get on.
Speaker 3: Special I would love to be on special teams. Last
year I was on ko R and punt return, so
I'm hoping to get back on those and then, honestly,
I would I'd love to play all special teams. Kickoff
Kickoff would be the best one for me, honestly. So
we'll just see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: See that long stride exactly?
Speaker 4: Can you?
Speaker 1: You can tackle too? Right now?
Speaker 3: I can tackle. I played defense. I played corner in
high school. Big corner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was bumping around to you.
Speaker 3: I was pressing the whole time, and I would just
sit there and I would just shock and jam them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's something about your family that you love? Like
what stands out at you? Like if people come over
to the fresh Neck family reunion, what are they going
to see?
Speaker 3: We're just really close knit. Like my parents are more
like my friends other than parents. Like they're still great,
great parents, you know, but like they're more like my friends.
I just talked to him, like they're my friends and
we're just really close.
Speaker 1: Were they athletes as well?
Speaker 3: They were my dad? Actually he would just know like me,
And then he got recruited for receiver, switched to tight end,
and then he played at Washington State, and then he
actually went to the NFL for a preseason compact factor's
leg and just gave it up. And then in high school,
my mom did gymnastics since she ran track.
Speaker 1: So good good lineage, yes, very good lineage.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks Reggie, appreciate you that letting us
get to.
Speaker 3: Know you today. Thank you guys.
Speaker 5: That was Reggie Freshneck in a little Player profile segment
getting to know him. Will he be wide receiver one
and we will find out Reggie gonna be competing with
the likes of Joe Siah Phillips obviously heard of him,
learning from Chase Roberts.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see from Reggie.
Speaker 5: Got a little bit dinged up, but think we can
see big things from the big body, A lot of
big body receivers in this wide receiver room.
Speaker 3: We'll get to know Reggie.
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Speaker 6: A ninety to sixty eight loss of Cincinnati last night
now leaves the BYU men's basketball team with three straight losses,
all of which come to unranked opponents. The team struggled,
turning the ball over a total of seventeen times, with
nine of those turnovers coming from A. J.
Speaker 3: De Bonsa and Rob Right the Third.
Speaker 6: AJ led the team and scoring once again, grabbing twenty
three points with Rob Wright the Third's twenty one and
Alexei Coastagins fourteen points as the.
Speaker 3: Only Cougar is in double digits.
Speaker 6: The Cougar scored only four points off turnovers, while the
Bearcats grabbed the whopping twenty one. Next up for BYU
is Senior night against tenth Drank Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: On Saturday night.
Speaker 6: Sticking with the men's team, the number six recruit in
the twenty twenty six class signed with BYU yesterday. Bruce Branch,
the third was originally the number one rank recruit in
the twenty twenty seven class before reclassifying, announces commitment on
ESPN's NBA today and gives Kevin Youngs three straight years
signing a five star recruit. And the only other event yesterday,
the BYU women's golf team wrapped up their play and
the Lady Luck Invitational in Las Vegas, finishing in twelfth overall.
Speaker 3: Top couger on the leaderboard. M J.
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Speaker 3: Now shifting over to women's.
Speaker 6: Basketball, de Lanning Gibb was named one of the Anne
Meyers Drysdale National Players of the Week last week with
her performance over Arizona State in Colorado. Also yesterday, Gibb
was named First Team All Big Twelve, and Olivia Hamlin
was named of the All Freshman Team team and landed
a spot on the All Big Twelve Honorable Mention Team.
Earlier today, given Hamlin led the BYU women's team the
first round of the Big Twelve Tournament looking for their
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Well underway there is all manner and weeping, of weeping,
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Speaker 4: Very much pleasure beyond with you again, Ben.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, always a blessing, talking ball with you, Darnell.
What was your reaction during the game last night watching
BYU fall to Cincinnati? Never really in the game, not
very competitive, turning the ball over, not playing good defense,
can't buying a can't buy a bucket. Aj Maybe it
may have been his biggest offensive struggle all season long.
What were you thinking watching this thing unfold? Well?
Speaker 4: I got to thinking about how Cincinnati is very much
in the same position BYU was the last year in
the league where they kind of got hot and started
playing well at the end. And I started thinking, you know,
I don't do a Big twelve men's basketball power pool.
I could do for the football just there's so many
games and everything. But if I were to rank BYU
right now in the Big twelve, where would they stand
as at and the way they're playing, I think I'd
rank them above Utah because they'd beat in Utah twice
and the Newts are in last place. But anybody else,
I don't know. If I I drink, I think d
YU might be playing about fifteenth best in the Big
twelve right now, and that is such a fall from
where they were at one point in this season. And
you can certainly blame a lot of it on losing
Richie Fonders six games ago, but BYU have had basically
six games to figure out how to play without him,
and they might, you know, look like they figured something
out when they beat I with Tata home, But every
other game, I mean they didn't. They didn't get blown
out when the Richie was playing for and they've been
blown out twice since, and so there's not a lot
right going on. In fact, I wrote about my lead
today was kind of like, you know, I almost feel
bad writing anything about them because it it feels like
piling on because there's nothing good going on in that
program right now other than there's Branch the latest sign
me who said, yeah, sign me up for this, I'll
go play for those guys. But other than that, I mean,
what do you say that's positive about what they're doing?
There's not much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if there was there any silver linings
to this game.
Speaker 4: Maybe, you know, it's nice to see Alexi Coasters getting
playing time and making shots and kept becoming more comfortable
with more minutes, but you know, they started that Dean
boop and he was awful.
Speaker 1: He was terrible.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're trying lots of different things. They're trying
different starting lineups, and the deams had some decent games
this year where he's been, you know, very energetic and rebounding.
But he did nothing in that game. So it's been
a real struggle and you can see the frustration on
Kevin Young's face as he talks about it. We get
a chance to do a news conference with him once
a week, and you know, we're trying to phrase the
questions as nicely as we can, but you know, what
basically comes down to is why do you suck now?
Because there's still talent on that team. I really feel
like they have the ability to play with most teams
in the conference. They showed they can beat Iowa State
with no Ritchie on the floor. But right now they're
at rock bottom and I don't know how they figured
their way out of it. They've got one game to
end the regular season at home against Texas Tech Senior
Day on Saturday, and then you know, the start of
the Big Twelfth Tournament. This looks like they're playing in
the opening round as in probably a nine seed, and
if they make the NCA Tournament, which their body of
work might get them end probably maybe they might lose
the lost three games of the season, and that would
be a real shame considering where this team started from.
Speaker 1: What if BU has to play Utah on the Big
twelve tournament and they lose to Utah, it ruins by season.
It it completely saves Utah season, Like I can see
it happening, doll d well.
Speaker 4: It would put Utah or BYU fans out of their
misery for one and they would all go well, of course,
of course this is how this season ends. You know,
you can just hear be why your friends talking about
it now? O?
Speaker 1: Man? So I do like the silver lining Alexico. You know,
I made the point like earlier. It was probably like
over a month ago, month and a half ago. I'm like, look,
this team's never gonna be good at defense. Let's not
act like they're ever gonna be good at defense. They
don't have a great defensive scheme, they don't have a
defensive coordinator that I've been impressed by whatsoever. I was
talking to my friend and he said, can someone please
explain to me our defensive scheme. What was it called?
Speaker 4: What do we do? There was a play last night
where to BYU defenders ran to a guy that didn't
have the ball away from the guy who had the ball,
who had a wide open tree and made it. I
just how does that even happen?
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel bad. I feel bad for Kevin
honestly because I think I don't think he really is
you know that I think he oversees the offense. I mean, look,
Isaiah Thomas, Okay, when Bruce Branched the third speaking of
a positive silver lining and all this, Isaiah Thomas, two
time All Star played for Kevin Young, you know he
quote tweets Bruce Branch's thirst commitment. He says, look like
this is you know, big time little brouh, You're going
to a great coach in the NBA is an offensive game.
No one plays defense. No one can't play defense. Maybe
they're just too good at offense to play any good defense.
That's where ky Why has made his hay, That's what
Kay Why has done in order to get his payday right.
And uh he needs some help defensively or just go
zone and live with the consequences. To put your shooters
out there and go get buckets and see if you
can have a freaking fast pace just back and forth,
high flying, high floor, high flying, high score and chicks
dig the deep ball three point contest. That's kind of
where I'm at right now with this team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's even more to be concerned about,
I think with this program. And one of the reasons
I say that is because Kevin's whole premise with his
program is we can develop you into an NBA talent.
Who on this team is getting better right now? Individually?
Certainly not as a team, But is there somebody on
this team that is getting better that looks like they're
a better players than were the season started. It's really
hard to bring I mean, other than a Lexi coast
that you maybe. Other than that, I don't know if
there's anybody on this team's getting better. And if you
build your program on look at all our NBA you know,
pieces we've got an NBA nutritionist, an NBA wait guy.
When we have all of that, why why do we
Why are we having all these players who aren't improving?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you make a really good point.
We've asked that question too about mid season, Like who
on the roster from last year has gotten better? You
could you could say that, like rich is Richie. Was
Richie better than he was the season prior? Some would say, no,
you know, he's kind of on part. In fact, he
was impacted negatively by having maybe a J and Rob
take at times, the lion's share of the looks and
the lion's share of like the ISO basketball sets. That yes,
led to a lot of scoring. But like he you know,
he's a catch and shoot guy. He runs off screen,
he's he's a he is a He can put it
on the floor and get to the rim at times,
no doubt. But you wonder who was actually improved from
last year to this year that was on the roster
last year.
Speaker 4: Well, there was an improvement for Richie in terms of
his scoring per game. He went not not quite three
points I think, but his shooting percentage was down. Yeah, yeah,
from three especially, I mean yep. Now, and you could
see that adjustment had to be made because you had
two other guys who had to have the ball really
and but they were making it work. I mean, all
three of them were averaging better than eighteen a game,
and that works for you. I have most of most games.
And you know, Richie, I think impressed a lot of people.
That was it at Kansas breath ripped thirty three spot.
It was just really being why he was the only
offense in the second half. And you know, Richie didn't
believe really that he was an NBA player until last
year when Kevin said, I think we can get you
in the NBA. You can play now the first time
Richie Kevina said, well maybe I can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: So, you know, there's one thing, Ben that I want
to I don't know if we we we spend a
ton of time with it. But last week you asked
me if I thought that, and this is concerning Richie,
that somebody, if somebody on the team, one of the
leaders or one of the starters, had to be a
member of the church. And I think I gave you
a lame answer, but the giving it some thought and
I think it goes well beyond whether they're a member
of the church or not. And part of that is,
you know, we're all built on our experiences. That's that's
what we become because we've we spend time doing things
and experiencing things. And a couple of weeks ago when
Jim's jersey was retired to have some of the color
out of they invited the media out onto the forward
about the three point line to shoot pictures and video
and things. And I'd never bet out on that floor
and looked around at eighteen thousand people. Now, certainly none
of those people were there for me, there for Jimmer,
but I still felt a really interesting feeling it was
and Rodnie can probably attested as if he looked around,
I'm sure he did. I felt a real intimacy with
those people and a real love for Jimmer, and through Jimmer,
I kind of felt that as well. So I'd never
had that experience before. Jimmer certainly has, and a lot
of the athletes certainly had. And so when you're talking
about a basketball program like BYU, Richie grew up wearing
BYU jerseys and knowing all the players' names and running
around that church gym and going I'm Tyler Hawes. Tell
ones that would looked at me play. And he had
that love for the program and that intimate relationship with
those fans, not just the ones in the arena, but
the hundreds of thousands of BOPLEU fans, the ones that
show up when they go play in Texas and California
and New York wherever they go. Nobody on this team
has that. I mean they say basically, most of them
put the uniform on for the first time four months ago,
and they probably never gave BYU a second thought up
until the time they were recruited by them, when they
were eighteen or twenty or whatever age. They were so
as opposed to, you know, whether or not they're remember
the church. None of these players have the experience of
feeling like this is my school and I really want
to play and win. For for a lot of them,
this is the place where they go to school and
play ball, and in some regards, this is where they
pick up their check. And I don't want to despair
as the players are wrong say they're all just there
for the money. But their experiences are different. This is
what I'm getting around to this whole idea is the
experiences that they've had are way different than Richie. And
if you ask Richie a question like what did you
think about the fan support of the Rocks tonight? And
if you ask a j the same question, you probably
get this sick similar response. But it can't possibly be
the same for both of those guys, the feelings and
the experience that they've had with that. So I think
that's definitely part of this end the season swoon, is
that these guys don't know where to reach out and
don't know how to handle this whole situation or believe
in themselves or believe in the program or whatever, and
that's part whatever part motivates them. They don't know where
to go with that Riachie did. And so that's a
long way around at the question you asked last week,
and that shows I've got a lot of time on
my hands because I sat around and thought about it.
But that to me is where this program is at
right now, and where a lot of programs around the
country are at where they're bringing in I mean, I
do previews for every team BYU plays, do a little
scattering porting, and most of the teams would bringing in
twelve thirteen new guys. If you do that every year,
what are you building. You're building one team each year.
You're not building a program, not not for longevity or anything.
So you know, my concerns out in il and about
the transfer port on what's going to create, But in
terms of how it relates to b YU and their
experience there. I think that plays a really big part
in what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's Uh you wonder if k Why
is learning through this process and you know his staff
who's learning through this process a little bit? Now they
are bringing in some guys, some guys, some dudes right
of some some some guys that I think grew up
maybe being b A fans. But how long do they
last at Bay? We've seen this before, Jake Walleen, It,
Tanner Toolson, Dallan Hall, like, they all came to be
a there elsewhere right now, one's at Virginia, Wane's at TCU,
ones at Clemson. Now could they help be YU win
this season?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: Have they been stars for their respective teams, not necessarily,
but they've all seen significant playing time and even a
starting role, and they're good basketball players. And the idea
is you get the most out of the that that
b YU try it and true you know, legacy type
of kid and once they get to their senior year,
they can do something special. Right, So you wonder, you know,
what's what's the GM thinking, what's justin young thinking, what's
Ky thinking? Is that the bigger issue? Is it the
player personnel issue or is it the scheme issue that
you're saying defensively? Is it the accountability that that isn't
really there? It seems right. Is that a coaching issue
more than it is a player issue?
Speaker 4: Well, I hate it to be namby tamby about it,
but it's it is a combination of all of that.
And and you know, there's a disconnect between what the
coaches want the players to do and what they're doing
on the floor. So you'd say, well, that's technical, that
that's scheme wise, and everything like that. And then you
look at the guys that by you brought in this year.
Certainly AJ and Robert great, you know in terms of
how you know, they've had some great moments and they
they've probably lived up to the hype. I would imagine
most people would say that, but there are certainly a
lot of guys on the roster that haven't. I mean,
they spent a lot of time recruiting, and they spent
a lot of time talking about these guys and trying
to get him to fill roles. And that changed when
they had all the injuries. So some guys that were
expected to play certain roles. We're having to play different roles.
I think they imagine Cannard Davis excuse me, as a
Mowatt Meg kind of guy, and he's not. He's not
a defender, and he certainly is not shooting as well
as what shot last year once he got his speed
we got into the lineup. You know, time Rouss has
been a disappointment, I think, and what he can do
out there. You know, I think Mihailo Boskovich hasn't gotten
a whole lot better. He's still kind of everywhere all
over the place on offense and foul too much on defense.
So I just I just feel like the coaching staff
is definitely playing a role in this too, because you've
got to evaluate talent. You got to bring him in
and figure out how they fit, and that hasn't worked out. Again,
the injuries have made mess of that. But I think
there's a lot of guys on this roster that should
be very comfortable at the end of the season that
they're going to be back here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, how many of these guys are on the
roster next year? Do you think double D.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know. I mean, I would imagine,
you know, you take a look at the nucleus of
hopefully bringing back rob but you don't know, he could
get offered a bunch, or feel like he needs to
go somewhere, or his body language hasn't been great for
a few weeks far as I'm concerned. And then you
got Bruce Branch coming in, and you got kJ Perry
who's already with the team, and I think there's some
some strength to be there with Boops. I think Mike
probably will be back. You know, you wonder about somebody
like Koslowski who has never even really played for me,
maybe played in a couple of games in two years.
Maybe he wants a change in venue and hopefully he
can get healthy. I would imagine, you know, if you're
talking about fifteen roster spots, I would say there'll be
at least five or six new players, maybe more.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. I know you're a bystander,
you're an independent Capital Jay journalist, But put yourself into
the shoes of every Cougar fan. Were you more ticked
off last night because of one the poor ass passing
or number two the brokeass defense.
Speaker 4: You know, for me, it would have been the fact
that check this out. So I crunched a few numbers
because I was curious, basically BYU will down double digits
for more than twenty seven minutes of that game. So
the minutes at least twenty seven, maybe a little bit
more than that, they were down double digits, and then
they were down nine for a while, so I would
say probably ten minutes of that forty minute game they
were competitive. That's the most disturbing thing to me, because
every night's going to be different. You're going to miss
some shots, you're going to make some mistakes on defense,
but your ability to respond the adversity is really important,
and they didn't do that last night at all. Adversity
hit him and they just died. And then they played.
They played most of the game down double digits, and
that's really discouraging as a player that you can't break
into I mean, they were down I think from about
the eleven minute market the first half, they were down
double digits the rest of the first half. Open the
second half, they cut it to seven with a couple
of baskets, and then I think down to eight. At
one point it was forty eight to forty or something,
and then for the last about I don't know that's
of the game. They're down doublenched again as many as
twenty six. So if you want to point at the offense,
it wasn't great. The defense was lacking. But the overall
feeling is you got to be competitive in those games
and they weren't, just like they were competitive at home
against UCF. Yeah, you know, I'm thirty thirty six with
three minutes to go or three minutes played in the
second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be honest, darn. I think I was most disappointed.
I was most ticked off in the poor ass passing,
like I hate, like I hate when you have you know,
two players essentially on I don't know, the extended elbow,
extended wing and there's like a lazy like a lazy pass,
just a lazy pass that is easily stolen taken in
transition you get an easy layup Like I'm like that
is like the biggest faux pots in Like AJ did it,
Rob did it, everybody did it, Like everyone's involved in
the poor ass passing anyway, that that probably got my
goat the most. But dart out, uh real quick before
I let you go camp Killani discussions Where have you
where you've been gazing? Where have you been looking at
the first three practices or so of Camp Kilani, twenty
twenty six. What stood out to you about springball?
Speaker 4: I think I think one of the things was hearing
Aaron Rodgers talk about how he doesn't want to talk
about his younger player because he's afraid that they're gonna
get recruited out from under him. The paranoida is real already, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is. Indeed it is, hey man that hey,
even even with the portal window not open, I mean, shoot,
we've we've seen crazier things in this modern era nil
transfer portal world. Maybe someone hires the Laurie and says,
you know what I'm transferring, I can go get money elsewhere.
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