Speaker 1: All right, let's get it.
Speaker 2: Drives high Friday afternoon, eleven minutes past the hour of
Speaker 2: two o'clock.
Speaker 1: It's been a nice day. It's been kind of a
Speaker 1: cool day.
Speaker 2: Not as warm as we've had for the past couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. As fall is on its way. We're looking
Speaker 2: at about eighty eight degrees, clear, little rain earlier today.
Speaker 2: You got some nice weather over the weekend. It cools
Speaker 2: down next week in preparation for game day. It's gonna
Speaker 2: feel like fall next week, including some rain potentially start
Speaker 2: the week. But as it is every single day, it's
Speaker 2: good to have.
Speaker 1: You along for the rides. Spence check. It's behind the mic.
Speaker 2: That's Porter Larsen beyond the glass producing the program today.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you. Congratulations, you made it. It's weekend time.
Speaker 2: You did the things. You got up when you didn't
Speaker 2: feel like you wanted to, went to work, dealt with
Speaker 2: the kids. I don't know, whatever your life entails, keep
Speaker 2: doing the things and you've earned your weekend and started
Speaker 2: out the right way with us. Hopefully I have some
Speaker 2: fun plans over the weekend, maybe heading out and doing
Speaker 2: a little call. Maybe you're heading out and doing a
Speaker 2: little hiking, walking the dog, whatever you're into. Appreciate you
Speaker 2: making us a part of your Friday here on your
Speaker 2: Home of the Uts ESPN seven hundred.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Utes, we are eight.
Speaker 2: Days away, eight days away from game day for the
Speaker 2: University of Utah at the Rose Bowl, taking on the
Speaker 2: UCLA Bruins at nine o'clock Mountain time next Saturday. The
Speaker 2: TV coverage for that game will be Fox, the radio
Speaker 2: coverage for the game of Courses right here on your
Speaker 2: Home of the Utes, pregame coverage with our guy Porter,
Speaker 2: and then game day coverage Scott Mitchell, Bill Reilly, Stevenson
Speaker 2: Sylvester and the likes.
Speaker 1: So our broadcast team will have you taken care of.
Speaker 2: From eight days on this Friday, we are almost there.
Speaker 2: We're one day away from the start of college football.
Speaker 2: Farmageddon in Dublin takes place tomorrow morning at ten am.
Speaker 2: It's Iowa State and Case State, a Big Twelve matchup
Speaker 2: between two of the top twenty five teams out of
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve conference. We'll get you ready for that
Speaker 2: game and talk a little week to zero z row
Speaker 2: on the program today and we're gonna check in live
Speaker 2: in Dublin.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll play some bagpipes. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It feels irish to me. We're gonna check in live
Speaker 2: with Chris Camroadnie. He's gonna be our first guest from
Speaker 2: the Athletic Covers College football good friend of the show.
Speaker 2: C K will be our very first guest today. Then
Speaker 2: we're gonna bring in the defensive coordinator from the University
Speaker 2: of Utahs. Sets your clocks for three o'clock. Set your alarms.
Speaker 2: I guess I should say would be weird if you
Speaker 2: set your clock for three o'clock, because then you would
Speaker 2: be screwed up all day. But set your alarm for
Speaker 2: three o'clock to listen to the head coach in waiting
Speaker 2: and the defensive coordinator, Morgan Scalley. Today we will do
Speaker 2: a little golf as the Tour Championship continues at East Lake.
Speaker 2: They had to push up tea times today as a
Speaker 2: result of some inclement weather in Atlanta this afternoon, and
Speaker 2: Tommy Fleetwood had himself a day as did Russell Henley
Speaker 2: continues to play well. We'll give you an update on
Speaker 2: the leader board there and we'll talk a little talk
Speaker 2: a little tour championship and some local golf with Paul
Speaker 2: Pugmyer today and then our guy Trevor Riley, one of
Speaker 2: the best to ever do it at the University of Utah,
Speaker 2: will join us live in studio for an entire hour
Speaker 2: starting at four o'clock. Then we'll launch it into the five
Speaker 2: o'clock hour of the program. We'll say goodnight at six
Speaker 2: and bid you a good weekend right here on ESPN
Speaker 2: seven hundred. So a lot of football, top of my awareness.
Speaker 2: Some uncharacteristic NFL trades this time of the year, you
Speaker 2: don't see a ton of them. But the Commanders and
Speaker 2: the Niners made a deal today. Brian Robinson is headed
Speaker 2: to the San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers, really good young running back.
Speaker 2: Niners send a twenty twenty sixth, sixth round pick. Robinson
Speaker 2: did not play in the preseason game on Monday against Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and it looked like the Commanders may have tried to
Speaker 2: release him if they weren't able to trade him. Commanders
Speaker 2: are going to save about three point three mil in
Speaker 2: salary cap space, and the Niners obviously need depth at
Speaker 2: running back because Christian McCaffrey, albeit potentially the most talented
Speaker 2: running back in the league, is just not found a
Speaker 2: way to stay healthy all year long. He's made it
Speaker 2: through camp without an issue, but Robinson will certainly provide
Speaker 2: some depth in that running back room should the Niners
Speaker 2: need it. So SAMEDIFL News SAMNFL News on the show today.
Speaker 2: As far as trades go, College football, Top of Mind Awareness.
Speaker 2: Kind of a quiet couple of days for news here locally,
Speaker 2: as we're just kind of getting ready for the games
Speaker 2: as BYU will welcome in Portland State the start of
Speaker 2: the young Bear Bachmeyer era under center for the Cougars
Speaker 2: and Bronco Mendenhall will start his journey in Logan as
Speaker 2: they welcome in utep So a lot to do on
Speaker 2: the show. RSL with a randomly busy final day of
Speaker 2: the transfer window. Don Mark Zuke is on his way
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati. Dom was one of the players that was
Speaker 2: brought in to try to fill in for the sizable
Speaker 2: hole left behind by the seal of Andres Gomez in
Speaker 2: the trade of Chico Orongo, Matt Crooks, Anderson Julio. RSL
Speaker 2: Electingo essentially jettison the majority of their attack last year,
Speaker 2: which is really blown up right in their face. It
Speaker 2: was just a dumb thing to do and they have
Speaker 2: not found a way to replicate the production. I think
Speaker 2: their second in the last second to last and the
Speaker 2: Western goals scored. So Don mark Zuk, who had some
Speaker 2: moments for ourselves on his way to Cincinnati. DeAndre Jedlin
Speaker 2: hopefully we'll make his debut against Minnesota coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 2: DeAndre was a guest on the show yesterday for you
Speaker 2: areself fans and may have missed that. It was fun
Speaker 2: to get to know the newest member of Rayel saw Lake,
Speaker 2: so Rwan Cruz, victor O Latunji in addition to DeAndre
Speaker 2: Jedlin brought in to join Diego Gonsalvius and Diego Luna
Speaker 2: and hopefully over the final eight games of the season
Speaker 2: they can find some sort of semblance of a consistent
Speaker 2: attack because it's been pathetic and anemic.
Speaker 1: There's no other way to say that.
Speaker 2: So kind of a random busy twenty four to forty
Speaker 2: eight hours for Rayl saw Lake, in addition to all
Speaker 2: the stuff we have going on with college football in
Speaker 2: the NFL as well. Eight days away from local game day,
Speaker 2: one day away from Week zero, less than two weeks
Speaker 2: away from the NFL Week one, getting Golling, no news
Speaker 2: on the Micah Parsons situation that seems to be the
Speaker 2: one NFL storyline that everybody kind of hones in on.
Speaker 2: So we've got Chris Camaraddi live in Dublin, Ireland. We
Speaker 2: have Morgan Scally to talk some Utah football, Paul pugmart
Speaker 2: and talk some local golf, and Trevor Riley also to
Speaker 2: talk some college football on the program today. Me Spence check,
Speaker 2: it's all of you, the great listeners. Happy Friday to
Speaker 2: you and that guy Porter Larson. One day away from
Speaker 2: week zero, eight days away from game day.
Speaker 1: We made it, man, we made it. Football season is here.
Speaker 1: Dare we say a football Friday on the show? Sure?
Speaker 2: I mean we will talk a little golf, but yes,
Speaker 2: that's fair to say.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for it. Obviously.
Speaker 3: Football season brings a different feel. The leaves start to change,
Speaker 3: the air starts to change. You mentioned possible rain, Spence,
Speaker 3: definite rain.
Speaker 2: Next day, So calm down, Al Roker. Why do you
Speaker 2: feel like to follow up on my weather report all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think at this point I have to.
Speaker 3: It's I don't know that it's a bit really, it's
Speaker 3: just I like to confirm or add context to our
Speaker 3: weather reports.
Speaker 2: Are you privy to weather information the rest of us
Speaker 2: are not? Because the forecast has like forty to fifty percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, tell me how many times I've been wrong?
Speaker 2: Well, I have to admit I've not tracked your predictions
Speaker 2: in real time.
Speaker 1: So have you ever been wrong about the weather?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, never? So you're guaranteeing rain next week?
Speaker 3: I guarantee you rain Sunday, Monday, Sunday.
Speaker 2: No, not Sunday. I've got a tea time. Are you
Speaker 2: saying I'm going to be rained off the course on Sunday?
Speaker 3: If it's a late tea time, you might get the
Speaker 3: ten forty five. You might get blown off a little bit,
Speaker 3: but you.
Speaker 1: Know you'll be okay. What about ten forty five? I
Speaker 1: think you'll be fine. Okay, might get a little windy,
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough.
Speaker 2: So there he is, the al roker of the radio station,
Speaker 2: Porter Larson, with your weather report on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: All right, our first guest will be Chris Comrodnie live
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Speaker 3: I have as much confidence in that as I do
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Speaker 2: So it will rain next week and Dak will throw
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Speaker 2: is here coming up tomorrow Farmageddon ten A. College football
Speaker 2: is officially back in Dublin, Ireland. Iowa State and k State,
Speaker 2: two teams out of the Big Twelve that of course,
Speaker 2: will be paying very close attention to to the top
Speaker 2: twenty five teams in the Big twelve, two of the
Speaker 2: tier one teams in the Big Twelve that most people
Speaker 2: believe will be competing for Big Twelve championships, So we'll
Speaker 2: be keeping an eye on that. And obviously we are
Speaker 2: eight days away from game day for the Utes at
Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl taking on Ucla. Utah remains a six
Speaker 2: point five point favor. That line has remained pretty steady.
Speaker 2: For those of you that are interested in such things.
Speaker 2: We will bring in Morgan Scalley today and Ucla. It's
Speaker 2: just kind of an interesting dynamic. It's more or less
Speaker 2: a new coaching staff, Deshaun Foster has only been there
Speaker 2: a year, and then it's a new offensive coordinator, it's
Speaker 2: a new quarterback. If you read around some of the
Speaker 2: preseason predictions or come with some of the preseason rankings,
Speaker 2: UCLA is not thought to be a very competitive football
Speaker 2: team this year. I like the nature of this opener,
Speaker 2: as we've discussed, you know, Devin Dampier on the road
Speaker 2: at one of college football's most hollowed grounds against a
Speaker 2: P four opponent, even though UCLA is not thought to
Speaker 2: be a Big Ten contender this year. I do think
Speaker 2: it's the type of opener that you want when it
Speaker 2: comes to getting to know this new offense, getting to
Speaker 2: know this new offensive coordinator, and then just kind of
Speaker 2: understanding rotationally what the players are going to look like.
Speaker 2: You know, how will the carries be distributed in the
Speaker 2: running back room where it appears they do have two
Speaker 2: running backs they like a lot the seven wide receivers
Speaker 2: maybe eight wide receivers that travel, first of all, who
Speaker 2: are they that's number one? Who's going to be traveling?
Speaker 2: How will the reps be split? And then to see
Speaker 2: Devin kind of established early on maybe some of his
Speaker 2: favorite targets will be interesting. I continue to be very
Speaker 2: curious slash skeptical about the balance on that side of
Speaker 2: the football. You know, what sort of percentage will we
Speaker 2: see as far as run versus pass?
Speaker 1: How balance will they be? How dangerous will they be?
Speaker 2: This was a football team that was an average offense
Speaker 2: a year ago away from competing for a Big twelve championship.
Speaker 1: And look, it is fall camp.
Speaker 2: It's the end of week three here in fall camp,
Speaker 2: and it's the best time of year in a strange
Speaker 2: way if you're a fan, because everybody has hope, certainly
Speaker 2: in the landscape of a college football season where whether
Speaker 2: it's Vegas preseason, media prognosticators, experts, nobody seems to know
Speaker 2: how this thing is going to go. It feels as
Speaker 2: wide open as it's ever been. And to me, that
Speaker 2: makes it exciting. And I'm not just talking about the
Speaker 2: Big Twelve that seems to be wide open every single year.
Speaker 2: If last year taught us anything, both BYU and Arizona
Speaker 2: State were picked near the bottom of the conference and
Speaker 2: both of them finished near the top, with Arizona State
Speaker 2: winning the thing. You know, Utah Oklahoma State picked to
Speaker 2: finish you know, at one, two or three, depending on
Speaker 2: who you read, and both those teams finished near the bottom.
Speaker 2: So the wide open nature of the Big Twelve appears
Speaker 2: to be permeating throughout all of college football. Texas is
Speaker 2: the number one team in the country and they're an
Speaker 2: underdog in their Week one tilt, which makes it fun
Speaker 2: to me in my opinion, and it makes it fun
Speaker 2: to try to understand how many dynamics of this thing
Speaker 2: are completely fluid and confusing and unknown, and then we
Speaker 2: see how it will play out. Obviously, Texas is in
Speaker 2: Columbus for Week one against Ohio State, a massive top
Speaker 2: three tilt at Ohio Stadium, and a bunch of really
Speaker 2: good games right out of the gates. In Week one,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll see Bama down at dope Campbell Stadium,
Speaker 2: Florida State coming off just an atrocious season, but they're
Speaker 2: thought to really have been able to turn around in
Speaker 2: the transfer portal. A massive game down in Clemson features
Speaker 2: LSU and Clemson to top ten teams, and we'll be
Speaker 2: able to get a look at some of the Big
Speaker 2: twelve opponents that Utah has on their schedule and that
Speaker 2: the BYU has on their schedule as well. Week one
Speaker 2: will wrap up at hard Rock Stadium in Miami with
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and the Hurricanes, another matchup featuring two top
Speaker 2: ten teams.
Speaker 1: So college football.
Speaker 2: Will give you a reward right out of the gates,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of wet in the appetite before conference
Speaker 2: play in Ship Round two is in the books at
Speaker 2: East Lake in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: They had to move up tea times today in.
Speaker 2: Order to kind of make up for the inclement weather
Speaker 2: that they're experiencing.
Speaker 1: Potentially this afternoon.
Speaker 2: The weather forecast in Atlanta, maybe Porter can help us
Speaker 2: out with that does not look good over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Scotty Scheffler struggled today compared to the field. He did
Speaker 2: shoot one under, which we would all love, but his
Speaker 2: sixty nine drops in four spots. Scotty is at eight
Speaker 2: under par. He's five off the pace. Tommy Fleewood had
Speaker 2: a great day to day seven under par. The best
Speaker 2: round went to Cameron Young, who was eight under sixty two.
Speaker 2: That's the second best round so far, only second to
Speaker 2: Russell Henley sixty one in round one.
Speaker 1: Russell shoots sixty six today.
Speaker 2: He's also at thirteen under, So it's Tommy Fleewood, Russell
Speaker 2: Henley thirteen under, Cam Young eleven under.
Speaker 1: Bob McIntyre.
Speaker 2: Patrick can't lay at ten under than their Scottie Scheffler
Speaker 2: alone tied for sixth at eight under par. A grip
Speaker 2: of really good golfers, including Roy McElroy and Justin Thomas
Speaker 2: at under. So it should be a fun weekend for
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Speaker 1: Not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I was hoping for some bagpipes or something, but I'll
Speaker 2: allow the Cranberry's. They are from Ireland and they are
Speaker 2: one of my favorite bands from my youth, from high school,
Speaker 2: I think in the nineties, so I'll allow it. Was
Speaker 2: this you or was this our guy Christopher an Irish band? Yep,
Speaker 2: really good song, really good radio bump A guest request.
Speaker 1: Love it and as you mentioned on the theme, the
Speaker 1: Irish ran gotta love it, Gotta love it all right.
Speaker 2: We go to Dublin, Ireland, where we find our guy,
Speaker 2: Chris Comraddie from the Athletic on a Friday.
Speaker 1: Ck. How are we doing?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: Set the scene? What's it like over there?
Speaker 4: Well, it's nighttime.
Speaker 7: I'm in my hotel room and I'm watching Irish rugby
Speaker 7: on my Telly.
Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice. What's what's the weather like over there?
Speaker 2: What's what's the weather like this time of year?
Speaker 7: It's well, it's been fantastic the last two days. Like
Speaker 7: I hit the jackpot. It's been sixty five to seventy.
Speaker 7: I haven't needed a coat, sorts and a T shirt.
Speaker 7: I've walked probably over thirty miles in the last two days,
Speaker 7: just taking in the sights and hitting all.
Speaker 4: The necessary places.
Speaker 6: It's it's a.
Speaker 4: Treat man like.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't want to be here when it's cold and
Speaker 7: windy and pissing rain, but I am going to take
Speaker 7: advantage of what I have in front of me, and
Speaker 7: what I have in front of me is sunny, Dublin.
Speaker 1: Gotta love it's.
Speaker 2: Over the course of the past forty eight hours, have
Speaker 2: you seen the sights? Have you done the tourist thing?
Speaker 2: What's because I know you had some boxes you wanted
Speaker 2: checked over there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I've done a little bit of both, you know.
Speaker 7: Obviously part of my assignment here is trying to get
Speaker 7: the flavor of Americana, basically invading Ireland for forty eight hours,
Speaker 7: not only do we have this college football game, but
Speaker 7: WWE SmackDown is also in town, so I went to
Speaker 7: the Three Arena to check out the folks who are
Speaker 7: getting ready to go, who are getting ready to go
Speaker 7: to SmackDown tonight.
Speaker 4: It's been a trip man, to say the least.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I got to go see Trinity College, which
Speaker 7: was amazing.
Speaker 4: Got to see lots of cool churches.
Speaker 7: And one fascinating thing about Ireland is they make you
Speaker 7: pay for everything, and I'm too cheap to pony up
Speaker 7: twenty to thirty euros to walk into a church.
Speaker 4: I can see it from the outside. It's old.
Speaker 7: I've seen lots of churches in Europe, but I'm just
Speaker 7: at the point in my life where i don't necessarily
Speaker 7: have to fork over the money, and it hasn't slowed
Speaker 7: me down in that sense. I've been able to just
Speaker 7: kind of take some sites in and move on to
Speaker 7: the next. But it's a really cool city, really beautiful architecture.
Speaker 7: They've blended the old and the.
Speaker 4: New very very well.
Speaker 7: And my hotel is, you know, within walking distance of
Speaker 7: Aviva Stadium where the game is tomorrow, so I have
Speaker 7: no complaints, which is rare.
Speaker 2: That is very rare k State is a three point
Speaker 2: favorite over Iowa State tomorrow, so two Big twelve teams
Speaker 2: both in the top twenty five. Will you be covering
Speaker 2: the game with a certain angle in mind?
Speaker 1: Or are you just trying? Are you just trying to
Speaker 1: kind of see what you know?
Speaker 2: The reaction is to the folks over there to college football,
Speaker 2: how will you what sort of prism will you be
Speaker 2: watching that game through tomorrow?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm going to only react and write in the
Speaker 7: prism that can captivate somebody like you, who's my target audience.
Speaker 7: So it will be breakdown of you know, very key
Speaker 7: moments of the game, personnel shifts, motions, all the types
Speaker 7: of things.
Speaker 4: That we usually we talk about.
Speaker 7: We are experts at no, I'm definitely making a very
Speaker 7: bad joke. No, to me. The fascinating part of this
Speaker 7: whole thing, Spence, is how this has become not only
Speaker 7: a routine on an annual basis for college football, but
Speaker 7: it's going to continue and by all accounts, it's been
Speaker 7: very successful. I think this is the best matchup that
Speaker 7: they've had since starting this classic a few years ago.
Speaker 7: It's a top twenty five matchup they haven't had that,
Speaker 7: you know, last year they had Georgia Tech and Florida
Speaker 7: State that didn't travel very well between the two teams.
Speaker 7: It's estimated to be upwards of twenty five thousand fans
Speaker 7: who are in Dublin between Iowa State and Kansas State.
Speaker 7: And I was at the Kansas State PEP rally today
Speaker 7: and it was insane, like there are so many people
Speaker 7: here from both Kansas State and Iowa State. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean the prison will be like be paying obviously
Speaker 7: be paying it tension to a Top twenty five game.
Speaker 7: It's one of the oldest rivalries in college sports. I
Speaker 7: think it's one hundred and ninth or one hundred and
Speaker 7: tenth straight time that they've played played each other, which
Speaker 7: is like, I think, one of the oldest running rivalries
Speaker 7: in college football. And just you know, the scenes and
Speaker 7: you know, I'm all about the scenes and the vibes,
Speaker 7: and you know, it is unique here to say the least.
Speaker 7: You know, I stopped by an Irish high school football
Speaker 7: game tonight because they play those here and you can
Speaker 7: buy beer and espresso at the games. A little different
Speaker 7: than covering high school football and draper on a Friday night,
Speaker 7: but yeah, just kind of the dichotomy of what football
Speaker 7: represents in the States versus the potential growth overseas is
Speaker 7: kind of what I'm looking at at the moment.
Speaker 2: Do you know the origin story how this kind of
Speaker 2: came about? It is a little bit of a random
Speaker 2: location for a college football game, and you know, the
Speaker 2: nfl CK for a number of years has discussed the
Speaker 2: potential of wanting to capture the European audience. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if there's anything here as far as drawing
Speaker 2: a parallel part of it kind of feels similar to
Speaker 2: the way folks who believe soccer will catch on over
Speaker 2: here at some point. And soccer certainly has its footprint,
Speaker 2: but it will never capture the hearts and imaginations of
Speaker 2: as many Americans as football has. And I don't think
Speaker 2: there's any way that football will ever capture Europeans the
Speaker 2: way that soccer has or football over there. But are
Speaker 2: you familiar with the backstory how this game kind of
Speaker 2: came to be in the spot that you find yourself
Speaker 2: in today.
Speaker 7: Well, if we want to go really far back in time,
Speaker 7: the kind of the bedrock of this, the start of
Speaker 7: this is when the NFL had its first international game
Speaker 7: in London, in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 4: That was a big swing by the league.
Speaker 7: A lot of people didn't think it was a good idea,
Speaker 7: A lot of people didn't think it would work. And
Speaker 7: you know, I think if we're talking about kind of
Speaker 7: the one off, meaning like what or twice or even
Speaker 7: three times a year from an NFL perspective, it works
Speaker 7: and it has worked there. They've played games in Germany,
Speaker 7: They've played games in London, They're playing games for a
Speaker 7: second straight year in Brazil starting the season. So the
Speaker 7: appetite internationally for a minimal amount of football games is there.
Speaker 7: From the the air LINGUS College Football Classic as it
Speaker 7: is known here, Spence Is organizers with air lingas the airline,
Speaker 7: and and folks just approached people in the US and said, like,
Speaker 7: this is a this is an untapped market. It is
Speaker 7: a It is a pretty enticing destination vacation spot for
Speaker 7: a lot of Americans because of obviously we are we
Speaker 7: have such a deep Irish you know, culture embedded with
Speaker 7: you know, with so many I mean, I'm sure you
Speaker 7: have Irish an ancestry. I have Irish ancestry. Pretty much
Speaker 7: everybody in a most people in America have Irish ancestry,
Speaker 7: so it's a very popular tourist spot. So they just
Speaker 7: sold it, say like, come on over. And obviously when
Speaker 7: Notre Dame was here, that was kind of the you know,
Speaker 7: the bell of the ball. And frankly, I think they
Speaker 7: should try to make Notre Dame like part of you know,
Speaker 7: this rotation more often than not, because it just makes sense.
Speaker 7: But you know, they approached Kansas State I think it
Speaker 7: was sixteen months ago and talked to Chris climb and
Speaker 7: the head coach, and Jean Taylor, the athletic director, and
Speaker 7: said like, would you be interested in giving up not
Speaker 7: only a home game, a conference home game, but a
Speaker 7: conference home game against your probably your biggest rival outside
Speaker 7: of Kansas and sold them on it, and by all
Speaker 7: accounts so far, it's it's been it's been a hit
Speaker 7: among the fans that decided to come. And I mean,
Speaker 7: anytime you can sell out a European stadium for any sport,
Speaker 7: it's going to be cool. I think tomorrow will be
Speaker 7: especially unique just because the setup of field. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's they're playing to be the stadium which is where
Speaker 7: you know, Ireland national teams for soccer and rugby play,
Speaker 7: so it's a beautiful stadium. It's just up the road
Speaker 7: and I think it's going to remind me of like
Speaker 7: when I was covering the Olympics, like in Brazil. Just
Speaker 7: I think the vibes there, the setup of stadiums internationally
Speaker 7: are a little different, so I'm fascinated to see how
Speaker 7: it plays out.
Speaker 2: Did you pack the sticks? Are you going to play
Speaker 2: Royal Port Rush? I mean, Ireland isn't far from the
Speaker 2: home of golf, which is Scotland, And as you know,
Speaker 2: when the game expanded, it expanded into the UK, including Ireland.
Speaker 2: Is did did you have a chance to pack your
Speaker 2: your golf clubs and your Antonio Daniel's jersey and your
Speaker 2: your farming glove to maybe play some of those courses
Speaker 2: over there.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know if you know this, Spence, but
Speaker 7: there's a big body of water between Ireland and the
Speaker 7: British Isle, which contains three different countries. So if I
Speaker 7: wanted to catch a train, I couldn't. I'd have to
Speaker 7: catch a flo to head over to Scotland. Albeit to
Speaker 7: say I did not pack the sticks, I just I'm
Speaker 7: not a big fan of these, you know, open courses.
Speaker 4: I'm more of a I'm more of a tree.
Speaker 7: I feel like I need to be boxed in otherwise
Speaker 7: my depth of vision is too wide. I feel like
Speaker 7: my typical slice m slice a little harder if I
Speaker 7: don't have trees blocking my way. I'm just more of
Speaker 7: kind of an old school you know, Utah golfer as you.
Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, no, no, I know plenty of good courses
Speaker 2: in Ireland, but maybe your next strip over there, you
Speaker 2: cannot pack the sticks.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's let's move over here.
Speaker 2: So for years and years and years, I certainly have
Speaker 2: complained about it, and I know other people have too,
Speaker 2: and plenty of people that write for your outlet believe
Speaker 2: that scheduling uniformity should be mandate mandated in college football
Speaker 2: in the SEC for years has had this odd dynamic
Speaker 2: where like Week ten Bama schedules like Troy or something,
Speaker 2: and it's like a glorified buy Well, following the announcement
Speaker 2: that the CFP Committee is going to use these new
Speaker 2: scheduling advanced metrics to decide who's going to gain access
Speaker 2: to the CFP, the SEC has announced that they are
Speaker 2: going to go with a nine game conference schedule starting
Speaker 2: next season. Brett McMurphy is reporting now the ACC is
Speaker 2: discussing the same The ACC is now the only P
Speaker 2: four conference that doesn't go with nine long overdue. In
Speaker 2: my opinion, and I've said this before, I'll say it again,
Speaker 2: I believe we're heading in a direction with college football
Speaker 2: where most of the cakewalk games that are scheduled, if
Speaker 2: not all of them, are going to go away because
Speaker 2: TV partners want the best matchups every week. It's certainly
Speaker 2: the one thing that college does not have that the
Speaker 2: NFL does. The NFL every week, even though there are
Speaker 2: teams in pro football that are down year to year,
Speaker 2: you're still playing a NFL team. You're not playing like
Speaker 2: a USFL team. You're playing a team that's supposed to
Speaker 2: be on your level. So what do you make of
Speaker 2: the SEC's announcement And do you think at some point
Speaker 2: we will have some sort of scheduling uniformity in the sport.
Speaker 7: Art Yes, I think, because if the SEC did it,
Speaker 7: everyone else basically has to follow suit. It is a
Speaker 7: fascinating kind of turn of events because I think for
Speaker 7: the longest time, the SEC was fairly adamant that they
Speaker 7: did not want to go to nine games for obvious reasons.
Speaker 7: Just because you're talking about the strongest conference in the country.
Speaker 4: You don't want.
Speaker 7: Your big guys to have a chance to be, you know,
Speaker 7: suffer a late season upset and maybe tumble out of
Speaker 7: a playoff spot that you covet so highly.
Speaker 4: But listen, there's been lots.
Speaker 7: Of random college football news in the last you know,
Speaker 7: seventy two hours since I've gone. Apparently the Big Ten
Speaker 7: is proposing like a twenty eight team playoff. Now I
Speaker 7: my head, you know, man, I'm just trying to be
Speaker 7: here in the homeland, just just trying to really sink
Speaker 7: my toes into the sand.
Speaker 4: But college football fails to out moving.
Speaker 7: But which is not I'm not too happy about to say.
Speaker 2: At least Well, and I talked about this yesterday. You know,
Speaker 2: Brian Rolap front of the show. He is now the commissioner. Well,
Speaker 2: no excuse me. He's the first CEO in history of
Speaker 2: the PGA Tour. He spent twenty two years next to
Speaker 2: Roder Goodell at the NFL. Most people believed, and maybe
Speaker 2: this will still be the case whenever Goodell has done
Speaker 2: most people thought Rolap would be the next commissioner.
Speaker 1: B Yu guy, family friend.
Speaker 2: So I've been able to get to know him a
Speaker 2: little bit and interview him a couple different times. He
Speaker 2: is a very impressive leader, and he addressed the media
Speaker 2: prior to the Tour championship at East Lake and he
Speaker 2: used the word innovation and you know, being innovative like
Speaker 2: four or five different times discussing his vision to capitalize
Speaker 2: on this moment golf has found itself in with all
Speaker 2: this attention worldwide, and to juxtapose that with the lack
Speaker 2: of foresight, the lack of leadership of college football, college
Speaker 2: football just seems to change for change as opposed to innovate.
Speaker 1: To improve the product.
Speaker 2: And I guess the reality, Chris is that you know
Speaker 2: the powers of being college football even though no one's
Speaker 2: really in charge, which I still believe is the biggest
Speaker 2: issue on a number of different levels, because all these
Speaker 2: conferences can kind of.
Speaker 1: Just go rogue. But they know they've got the consumer.
Speaker 2: They know that college football fans week in and week
Speaker 2: out are going to tune in and consume the product.
Speaker 1: They know they've got us.
Speaker 2: And if you add on the layer that over the
Speaker 2: past four or five years, the widespread acceptance of sports
Speaker 2: betting has even upped the interest level because there's so
Speaker 2: many degenerates to take out second mortgages on their home
Speaker 2: to place a bet on you know, Pharma Geddon or
Speaker 2: whatever it is. They know they've got everybody, and so
Speaker 2: therefore I don't feel like they really feel urgency to
Speaker 2: actually fix the issues that plague the sport. The twenty
Speaker 2: eight team expanded CFP is like the dumbest thing that
Speaker 2: I've heard even thrown out there in years, and they've
Speaker 2: thrown out a number of dumb things. It eliminates conference championships,
Speaker 2: and it diludes Chris the most in my opinion, appealing
Speaker 2: thing about the sport, which is the prescient, urgent nature
Speaker 2: of every single game. To me, you have to maintain
Speaker 2: that or else you do away with what makes this
Speaker 2: sport great.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: Oh, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Speaker 7: I've said on the show often the last couple of
Speaker 7: years that it makes no sense for the powers that
Speaker 7: be to relinquish any sort of power they currently have
Speaker 7: because what you said exactly, the consumer has shown their
Speaker 7: willingness to adopt and roll with the punches no matter what. Listen, man,
Speaker 7: I'm always going to point to that example of that.
Speaker 7: You know, that massive super League that got proposed in
Speaker 7: Europe a couple of years ago, and whose fans, like
Speaker 7: boycotted the games. It wasn't the little guys, it was
Speaker 7: the Manchester United fans. It was the super the fans
Speaker 7: of the super clubs that would have benefited from this.
Speaker 7: They were the ones that were up in arms. Fandom
Speaker 7: doesn't really work like that in the States. So I
Speaker 7: think so long as the folks who are at the
Speaker 7: top will continue to stay at the top, I don't
Speaker 7: think that they will have a problem with it no
Speaker 7: matter what, so long as they have a chance to
Speaker 7: compete for a national title, which has also been part
Speaker 7: of the news cycle too, because apparently Auburn decided they've
Speaker 7: won seven championships or something too this week. Like listen, man,
Speaker 7: I understand that this is a long offseason, but this
Speaker 7: week has really really shown us that we just to
Speaker 7: get to some games because people are kind of acting out.
Speaker 1: You know, the other, well, not just the other.
Speaker 2: One of the other reasons why college football needs a
Speaker 2: governing body with a commissioner is to put in place
Speaker 2: a comprehensive media policy that every team needs to follow.
Speaker 2: So I continue to compare college football to the NFL
Speaker 2: on a number of different levels, because I do believe
Speaker 2: we are headed towards a model that looks like that.
Speaker 2: In the NFL, fans can attend practices, media can attend
Speaker 2: every practice. There are player and coach availability after every
Speaker 2: single practice. The NFL understands that the media is a
Speaker 2: conduit to sell the teams and sell the leagues to
Speaker 2: the consumer. If you juxtapose it to college football, they
Speaker 2: all act like a bunch of scared children, and they're
Speaker 2: just terrified at all times, and they want to control
Speaker 2: everything they possibly can, and they come across as just
Speaker 2: constantly being worried that some bad story is going to
Speaker 2: derail everything. I mean, you know, Deshaun Foster is the
Speaker 2: latest UCLA head coach and Utah's playing Week one. He's
Speaker 2: cut off access to players and coaches interviews after practice
Speaker 2: because he's afraid that these practices, or achieve me, that
Speaker 2: these interviews are going to be leaked to his opponents
Speaker 2: and somehow give them an advantage when they play head
Speaker 2: to head. Why is it that in college they can't
Speaker 2: just understand what the pros understand, and that is media
Speaker 2: helps sell your program to your consumer, as opposed to
Speaker 2: having you know, just this this constant state of fear,
Speaker 2: this constant state of being afraid that one interview here
Speaker 2: or one video there is going to blow the whole
Speaker 2: thing up. If there's a governing body in place, with
Speaker 2: a commissioner and an entire staff, they put a media
Speaker 2: policy in place that everybody has to handle until they
Speaker 2: do that, program by program or conference by conference, can
Speaker 2: continues to try to exude this monicum of control when
Speaker 2: ultimately I think it blows up in their face.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, listen, man, you're speaking my language. You're
Speaker 7: playing at Irish flute across the pond. I'm loving it. Well,
Speaker 7: there's so many different layers to this conversation. One I
Speaker 7: think college football coaches would say, because they call them
Speaker 7: kids kids in quotation marks, they don't know what they'll
Speaker 7: say if they're prepared to say what they say say.
Speaker 7: But I don't know what the difference is from a
Speaker 7: twenty one year old graduating from college and becoming a
Speaker 7: twenty one year old pro And you know, that's that's
Speaker 7: part of the conversation as well, like the same they
Speaker 7: stayed pretty much the same age. But the other part
Speaker 7: of this and it's just you know, can't be understated enough.
Speaker 7: Is that like when you become an NFL player, you
Speaker 7: become part of the players union, a union, and negotiating
Speaker 7: this type of stuff into union contracts, into these cbas
Speaker 7: all this stuff is top of mind for both sides
Speaker 7: because they know what they're getting into. And the media
Speaker 7: part of this is a huge component of it. But
Speaker 7: from the NFL's perspective, they know it makes sense for
Speaker 7: them and the players, albeit they don't They don't probably
Speaker 7: love having people in their locker room all the time,
Speaker 7: but it's.
Speaker 4: Just part of the job.
Speaker 7: I agree like that we've talked about, there's like this
Speaker 7: sense of state secrets that are, you know, at top
Speaker 7: of mind every single week come season time. And I
Speaker 7: know with the advent of the Big twelve injury report
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 4: As you know, a new wrinkle in this whole thing.
Speaker 4: It was funny.
Speaker 7: I was at Chris Cleman's press conference yesterday and one
Speaker 7: of their beat writers asked him about his thoughts on
Speaker 7: the new Big twelve injury report, and he kind of
Speaker 7: just laughed and he was like, I know who's out,
Speaker 7: But he basically said, like Matt Campbell's not going to
Speaker 7: go read my injury report to try to get like
Speaker 7: some behind the scenes view of you know who may
Speaker 7: or may not really tilt the fortunes of the game.
Speaker 7: I think it's a good step, but again, everybody is
Speaker 7: going to be able to utilize it one way or
Speaker 7: the other. I'm going to keep referencing things that have
Speaker 7: happened this week, even though my brain is mud. But
Speaker 7: Pelly Kyle's not going to release it too deep now
Speaker 7: because of the injury report thing too, which.
Speaker 4: You know, hey whatever, you know, you got to do
Speaker 4: your thing.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean it, I think it dilutes the excitement,
Speaker 7: and I think you just have a huge opportunity to
Speaker 7: go out there and basically take control of how you
Speaker 7: can have your sport and how your team can be
Speaker 7: viewed kind of the way the NFL does. I'm not
Speaker 7: saying like there will be a college football fantasy once, like,
Speaker 7: but maybe there will be. I mean, like there who
Speaker 7: nobody ever really saw like the changes of college football
Speaker 7: coming in the last five years and as swiftly as
Speaker 7: they have. But let's just say that there, it isn't
Speaker 7: as hard as they make it out to be.
Speaker 4: And and if.
Speaker 7: Everybody just cooled their jets and you know, I don't know,
Speaker 7: set masan a little bit, take a breather.
Speaker 4: Everybody could realize.
Speaker 7: That that you know, it is a game, and you'll
Speaker 7: be fine no matter what.
Speaker 2: The paranoia is. It's pathetic. It's like laughable. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: a cold plunge potentially, maybe a cold plunge maybe.
Speaker 4: Oh whim howks breathing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, three full rounds, thirty five breaths each,
Speaker 2: then you retain and then you release. I do it
Speaker 2: every morning, all right, Chris? You reference the news cycles
Speaker 2: since you joined the show. There's been a couple of
Speaker 2: announcements locally that I wanted to get your reaction to.
Speaker 2: Let's start down South where young Bear Bachmeyer will be
Speaker 2: the first true freshman to start for BYU in their opener,
Speaker 2: the seventh true freshman to get time under center for
Speaker 2: the first to start under center. He did not land
Speaker 2: in Provo until mid July. He was at Stanford for
Speaker 2: spring ball. And you know, I was asked the other
Speaker 2: day like, is this an indictment on the room, And
Speaker 2: I said, no, I think it's a compliment to the kid.
Speaker 2: And if you listen to a rod he kind of
Speaker 2: tipped his hand early on. He was very effusive with
Speaker 2: his praise for Bear, But what do you make of
Speaker 2: this announcement that a true freshman will be starting for
Speaker 2: BYU this year under.
Speaker 7: Center, great name, great jersey number. I mean, that's some
Speaker 7: like Doug Footie stuff right there. I don't think I
Speaker 7: can ever think of a college quarter back having a
Speaker 7: number above nineteen and eons. So good on Bear, Listen.
Speaker 7: BYU's quarterback situation changed dramatically because of the school that
Speaker 7: they're at, and that.
Speaker 4: Is the reality, bottom line.
Speaker 7: I'm going to continue to beat this drum that like
Speaker 7: losing Jake Retzlov.
Speaker 4: Is a loss.
Speaker 7: From a leadership perspective because he was so beloved in
Speaker 7: the locker room and had so much respect from the
Speaker 7: coaching staff. But Jake wasn't exactly like lighting up like
Speaker 7: every single team that they played last year. So now
Speaker 7: your fortunes do change potentially with a true freshman quarterback
Speaker 7: step beingin. But he was a very highly sought after recruit,
Speaker 7: and who knows, maybe if all of that stuff with
Speaker 7: Troy Taylor doesn't go down at Stanford, maybe Bear decides
Speaker 7: to stay there. You know, Like I think, if there
Speaker 7: turns out to be a great quarterback, that's very beneficial
Speaker 7: for BYU. I'm it's really too hard to say, like
Speaker 7: if whether or not it's an indictment on the quarterback room,
Speaker 7: because like, we still haven't seen anybody step out there
Speaker 7: and play yet. So if Bear goes out there and struggles,
Speaker 7: then you know, if you're a BYU fan, you can
Speaker 7: hypothetically say, like, why wasn't there somebody more prepared? But
Speaker 7: if he goes out there and he handles his own
Speaker 7: and he looks ready for the moment, then people won't
Speaker 7: even remember that that was even a topic of conversation.
Speaker 2: We've known for a while who QB one is for
Speaker 2: the utes, we now know who QB two is. And
Speaker 2: I suppose if there is a silver lining to Cameron
Speaker 2: Rising's and ability to stay healthy a year ago, it's
Speaker 2: that Utah as a backup quarterback and Isaac Wilson, with
Speaker 2: Big twelve experience, seven starts, nine games played.
Speaker 1: Bert Ficklin will be the third stringer.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Coach Beck said it's two way to b whatever that means.
Speaker 2: But Isaac is the backup. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 4: The phrasing to me is just it's just hilarious. It
Speaker 4: makes sense that Isaac is the backup quarterback.
Speaker 7: He has clout built with that, with that locker room
Speaker 7: with Kyle. I know, it's a brand new coach, offensive
Speaker 7: coaching staff pretty much. But obviously Devin Dampier transferred in
Speaker 7: with alongside Jason Beck, so that's his guy. You know,
Speaker 7: Isaac we talked about this. I remember we were at
Speaker 7: the Smiths on Nights South when when when it was
Speaker 7: going to be Isaac's turn to start, and so many
Speaker 7: people were so epscited, and I said, just kind.
Speaker 4: Of pump the brakes a little bit, let's see how
Speaker 4: he does.
Speaker 7: And there were definitely some growing pains, and you know,
Speaker 7: I don't think you can put much of any of
Speaker 7: that really on an eighteen year old true freshman. Like
Speaker 7: Utah failed collectively last year as a team, especially offensively,
Speaker 7: it wasn't all on Isaac. So so if you're Isaac,
Speaker 7: you know he decided to go into the portal. He
Speaker 7: probably got a lay of the land and figured, you know,
Speaker 7: it makes sense for me to come back. Assuming Devin
Speaker 7: Dampier has a good year this year, he could potentially
Speaker 7: test the NFL draft waters and then Isaac would be
Speaker 7: the presumed starter going into twenty twenty six. So We've
Speaker 7: been talking about QB two at Utah for I think
Speaker 7: way too long, regardless of who the starter is. So
Speaker 7: let's see if Devin Dampier can stay healthy so people
Speaker 7: can stop worrying about who quarterback two is.
Speaker 1: What do you think success looks like for Utah Week one?
Speaker 1: At Ucla? They're a six point five point favorite.
Speaker 6: Ooh.
Speaker 7: Success at Ucla is obviously a win. I wish I
Speaker 7: could even venture a guess offensively, but I have no idea.
Speaker 7: I guess I'll say Devin Dampier and his jolly room
Speaker 7: of running backs rush for over two hundred yards and
Speaker 7: Utah's defense holds Nico in check and they leave an
Speaker 7: old stomping ground that they haven't seen in a few years.
Speaker 4: Happy. But it's the first game of the year.
Speaker 7: You never know how everybody's going to come out, especially
Speaker 7: this Utah offense, which we've talked about. It's way too
Speaker 7: early to crown them, like we haven't even seen them
Speaker 7: playing a game yet, and who knows, maybe Ucla is
Speaker 7: revitalized after a very down year and with you know,
Speaker 7: landing Nico, maybe their offense is ready to take a
Speaker 7: step forward as well.
Speaker 1: So you ever considered getting a neck tattoo.
Speaker 4: Actually I have. Yeah, I think you could.
Speaker 1: Pull that off.
Speaker 2: I think you're one h's not the middle?
Speaker 1: Are you right or left handed?
Speaker 7: I'm right handed, so i'd probably go left side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so left side if you're right handed.
Speaker 2: I was thinking what media members could pull this off,
Speaker 2: and really it's only you and I.
Speaker 4: You're right. Well, the reason supporter.
Speaker 1: No porter could pull it off, especially with the.
Speaker 4: Long hair and the cowboy hat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cowboy hat, long haired necktat reporter. But like there's
Speaker 2: no way fault could you know, Like there are certain
Speaker 2: people that just couldn't pull it off. The reason I
Speaker 2: bring it up is DeAndre Yedlin, guest on the program yesterday,
Speaker 2: knew right back for RSL. Thirty two years old, so
Speaker 2: certainly not in his prime, but really fun interview. Seems
Speaker 2: like a really good guy and definitely a very interesting
Speaker 2: soccer pedigree. This is a spot that they've been rotating,
Speaker 2: like players from Fruit Heights in for a long time
Speaker 2: and body Hudalgo is not his way to Montreal, so
Speaker 2: they've needed to fill the spot quite frankly since they
Speaker 2: jettison Aaron Herrera. But you're the expert here, what do
Speaker 2: you make of DeAndre Jedlin here in Utah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, big big move for them. I mean, like the
Speaker 7: days of Andrew Brody and Body Adalgo are over. They've
Speaker 7: they've tried to patch that spot up as quickly as
Speaker 7: the air or like they've as badly as possible, but
Speaker 7: they haven't been able to. And now I think Nold
Speaker 7: has been pretty pretty well served in that role as
Speaker 7: a kind of an emergency right back, but his natural
Speaker 7: position is playing in the double pivot. And I think
Speaker 7: now your your depth start is you know, DeAndre yedvand
Speaker 7: one Noel Kallistan two. I think ourselves needed a adult
Speaker 7: in the room, so to speak, and I don't think
Speaker 7: they have an approven MLS adult that's willing to stand
Speaker 7: up and just maybe take a locker room by the
Speaker 7: scruff and tell them what's what now? They now they
Speaker 7: have landed Rapa Cabral who's been a great leader. You know,
Speaker 7: Johnny Russell is an MLS veteran, But you know, I
Speaker 7: think DeAndre Yedlin is the type of player who has
Speaker 7: both the you know, the domestic league pedigree, that the
Speaker 7: national team pedigree and just kind of the type of
Speaker 7: personality that that this that the team needs right now,
Speaker 7: and uh, you know, woke up to see that they
Speaker 7: loaned Don mark Zuk as well, which yikes, man. I mean,
Speaker 7: you have to give Kurt and his staff credit because
Speaker 7: they realize that the moves they made were not good
Speaker 7: and they they had to do something and they didn't
Speaker 7: sit on their hands the way they did last offseason. So,
Speaker 7: you know, I think so many fans thought that mark
Speaker 7: Zuk was going to be kind of the second iteration
Speaker 7: of Andre Skomez, a highly touted young international winger to
Speaker 7: come in and potentially develop and be the next star
Speaker 7: sold That did not turn out to be the case. Like,
Speaker 7: dude did not have great body language this year. You
Speaker 7: could tell that he was probably not too happy being
Speaker 7: passed over ad minutes by Xavier Gozo and Johnny Russell,
Speaker 7: who they signed off the street. But he's going to
Speaker 7: a team that's very good, so if he gets a
Speaker 7: chance to play there, maybe he'll look a lot better
Speaker 7: than he did at RSL. But he's playing on a
Speaker 7: team that probably can win the Supporter Shield and MLS Cup.
Speaker 7: So when you go to a team that's full of
Speaker 7: really good players, you often can look good too.
Speaker 2: I actually think Tom Mark Zuk has a chance to
Speaker 2: really look good in that system. You know, there have
Speaker 2: been a lot of moments that he's shown his skill,
Speaker 2: but it just hasn't been consistent enough. And if we're honest,
Speaker 2: you know, as we look back on their decision to
Speaker 2: jettison the majority of their attack, it has blown up
Speaker 2: right in their face. Now to your point, they've realized
Speaker 2: it looks like the Millers are willing to spend a
Speaker 2: little cash. So we've got Ruwan Cruz, who we've seen
Speaker 2: a couple of different times. You know, Latuni Kid has
Speaker 2: had a couple of appearances, and I'm told they think
Speaker 2: DeAndre will play tomorrow. But there are only eight matches left,
Speaker 2: and you know, three brand new pieces that will be
Speaker 2: part I think of the first choice eleven need to
Speaker 2: be integrated quickly. Is this enough time for them to
Speaker 2: get across the line, make the playoffs and maybe even
Speaker 2: do something?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: I think that the schedule is too tough. You have Minnesota,
Speaker 7: who's second in the West. I think on Saturday he
Speaker 7: faced LAFC twice. I think you've got a trip to Seattle.
Speaker 7: They just haven't shown it, man, Like I you know
Speaker 7: things could change, and maybe they cultivate some momentum against
Speaker 7: Minnesota on Saturday, But I think you're you're asking too
Speaker 7: much of a team to try to rectify the mistakes
Speaker 7: of earlier parts of the season on the fly, and
Speaker 7: that's just too hard to do with new players. But
Speaker 7: you know, MLS is crazy. I know they're they're still
Speaker 7: within striking distance of that night spot and I don't
Speaker 7: think they'll go into a free fall. But until they
Speaker 7: figure out a way to score goals like there, I
Speaker 7: just don't think they have a chance.
Speaker 2: Have you tried an Irish stew lamb or beef, some
Speaker 2: boiled bacon, cabbage?
Speaker 1: Have you tried a full Irish breakfast?
Speaker 2: Have you tried any of the lovely dishes that you
Speaker 2: can sample over there in Dublin?
Speaker 4: I have not.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: I have to look out for my guts first and foremost.
Speaker 7: And you know, well, you well you and you know
Speaker 7: you're in a new country. You don't know wh where's
Speaker 7: a you know where the next potential stop might be.
Speaker 7: You know, public rescue. You got to learn, you got
Speaker 7: to learn the lay of the land. So it's all
Speaker 7: y'all just got a map things out. Spence like I
Speaker 7: have to think. I have to think two or three
Speaker 7: hours ahead, so I play it safe.
Speaker 4: When I'm on the road. Let's just say.
Speaker 1: That, what about a pint or two over and no pints?
Speaker 7: No pints one or two. I'm also just I'm an
Speaker 7: old man, dude, you know this, Like I'm older than you.
Speaker 1: I'm older are not close to.
Speaker 4: But but you know what I mean. I okay.
Speaker 7: So like the fact that it's ten o'clock here and
Speaker 7: I'm on the radio with you goes to show how
Speaker 7: much I have, you know, a supporter of the Drive
Speaker 7: Monday through Friday two to six. But like this is
Speaker 7: my bedtime, and yeah, I could be out having a
Speaker 7: pint a Guinness and it would probably send me mentally
Speaker 7: physically into a space where I don't feel all that
Speaker 7: well in the moment.
Speaker 4: Or tomorrow and I got to work tomorrow.
Speaker 7: You know, I have to prove to the athletic that
Speaker 7: there was a good reason why they sent me across
Speaker 7: the pond. And maybe maybe we'll see if tomorrow's an
Speaker 7: especially good day, maybe after the game we'll strike a
Speaker 7: pint somewhere. But it is wild here, man, Like everybody
Speaker 7: is slamming beers, like olds, youngs hipsters like and they're
Speaker 7: just getting after it and they it doesn't even seem
Speaker 7: to face them.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, man, good for you. I wish I
Speaker 4: could be that person, but I'm not.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 2: The other thing is, and they start early. I remember
Speaker 2: I had a connecting flight to London. I was in
Speaker 2: Amsterdam at like seven thirty am, and there were there
Speaker 2: were guys in the pub getting getting loose at like
Speaker 2: seven thirty am with beers. They start early and they go.
Speaker 7: All day, and everybody here just looks like, you know,
Speaker 7: I mean, everybody here has been fantastically nice, but you know,
Speaker 7: just kind of stereotype like maybe maybe you know, it
Speaker 7: looked like they could always be in like a boxing
Speaker 7: position too. They got the haircut, you know, the Connor
Speaker 7: mcgregord going on. So just I just, you know, don't
Speaker 7: want to step on anyone's toes or bump anyone's backpack.
Speaker 4: Just minding my p's and q's.
Speaker 2: What about what's on the when you're flying there, it's
Speaker 2: a long flight, flying home.
Speaker 1: What shows are we watching? What's taking up the time?
Speaker 7: Oh man, just lots of random movies. I watched Ferris
Speaker 7: Bueller for the billionth time. On as one of my
Speaker 7: five five films. On the way over, don't know what,
Speaker 7: don't know what the movie selection will be like on
Speaker 7: the way back. I'm hoping that I'll be tired enough
Speaker 7: that I might be able to sleep. But that's a
Speaker 7: fool's errand because anybody who can sleep on flights is
Speaker 7: an alien, and that includes you or any one of
Speaker 7: your listeners.
Speaker 4: I apologize.
Speaker 7: Actually I envy you because that is a superpower that
Speaker 7: I wish I had.
Speaker 2: I cannot sleep on flights unless I'm heavily medicated. But
Speaker 2: then I land and I'm like, you have zombie for
Speaker 2: two days. So anyway, Christopher, we will set you loose.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Dublin. Enjoy week zero, thank you for the time
Speaker 2: and save travels.
Speaker 7: Was zombie an ode to our friends the Cranberry's. Is
Speaker 7: that what we did there?
Speaker 1: Not intentionally but a good callback. Ck.
Speaker 2: You've learned a lot of good lessons on this program,
Speaker 2: young man.
Speaker 1: Be well and travel safe.
Speaker 4: Okay, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Chris com Roddy from the Athletic. He's live in Dublin
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Speaker 2: At IFA Friday edition of the Drive Rolling Along. Always
Speaker 2: fun to welcome in a good friend of the program.
Speaker 2: Defensive coordinator for you, said coach and waiting Morgan Scaley,
Speaker 2: excuse me, Morgan, Happy Friday, buddy.
Speaker 1: How we doing man Spence?
Speaker 8: You sick or what?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, just you know when you do this
Speaker 2: for four hours a day every day on Friday, the
Speaker 2: boy starts to go, yeah, you know the drill.
Speaker 6: I'm sure I was gonna say, you sound like me
Speaker 6: after a Tuesday practice.
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 2: At any point, do you lose your voice after barking
Speaker 2: the instructions to the team.
Speaker 6: Usually it comes in fall camp and then the voice
Speaker 6: is ready, the voice box is ready for the rest
Speaker 6: of the season.
Speaker 2: Well, you would think after doing this for twenty years.
Speaker 2: My voice would be used to it, but I guess
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 1: Buddy.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I know you don't have a ton of time,
Speaker 2: so let's get into it. First of all, thank you sincerely,
Speaker 2: eight days out from game day, I'll just give you
Speaker 2: nation a message.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: How are things going up there?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: Fired up, excited for healthy for the most part, love
Speaker 6: how fall camp has gone progressed the competitive nature of
Speaker 6: offense versus defense. I think we're ready to hit another
Speaker 6: color jersey besides our own. So you know, going into it,
Speaker 6: we had our question marks on defense. You know, the
Speaker 6: detackle spot was a question mark. Corner spot depth there
Speaker 6: was a question mark, and I think we've done a
Speaker 6: pretty good job of slidifying who's gonna help us and
Speaker 6: feel pretty good about the depth we have there.
Speaker 2: So let's start there. How is that d tackle spot coming?
Speaker 2: Obviously a big loss for Keanu, he's down at b YU.
Speaker 2: So how is that a defensive line shaping up?
Speaker 1: Morgan good?
Speaker 6: We needed a couple of things to happen. We need
Speaker 6: Dallas Bakalahi to progress, take on a leadership role, kind
Speaker 6: of own that position group Aliki Vi Mahi, the two
Speaker 6: vets that have returned. We needed jonahle A to put
Speaker 6: on some pounds. This is a guy that we've tried
Speaker 6: to to groom and develop and he's finally there. I'm
Speaker 6: really excited about him and his athleticism now that he
Speaker 6: has the strength and the weight on uh and then
Speaker 6: the freshman are kind of man a pleasant surprise to
Speaker 6: have these guys step up. Popu Cepalona, Carson Kafusi, Semi Talga,
Speaker 6: you got Dylan Battle and Sioni Motawaka. All those guys
Speaker 6: you know could be ready for us to play year one.
Speaker 6: Now only you know a couple probably will will need
Speaker 6: to use. But you know, how this deal goes, anything
Speaker 6: can happen. Injuries are part of the game, and you've
Speaker 6: got to have some depth, yeap.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, we've all learned that lesson the hard way over
Speaker 2: the past couple of seasons, no doubt, and look, everybody
Speaker 2: says football is a contact sport.
Speaker 1: No it's not.
Speaker 2: It's a violent sport and no team stays healthy all
Speaker 2: year long. I suppose you know we all say the
Speaker 2: same thing. We don't worry about your defense with you
Speaker 2: and coach, with your track record, and the standard is
Speaker 2: the standard. But as far as that second cornerback spot,
Speaker 2: you know, cam Calhoun's a Crimson tide. How's that coming along?
Speaker 2: What's that room looking like?
Speaker 1: Very good?
Speaker 6: Had some good transfers come in, a couple that joined
Speaker 6: us early for spring, and then a couple that we've
Speaker 6: we've added late in the mix. Scooby Davis is a
Speaker 6: lot like Jonahlaa was, although Scooby probably got more time
Speaker 6: than Jonah in terms of the development needed to put
Speaker 6: have him put on more weight, become stronger, be more durable,
Speaker 6: and he's going to be a starter for us. So
Speaker 6: excited for him. Smith Snowden has only gotten better, has
Speaker 6: added the outside element of his game, playing outside corner
Speaker 6: as well as having played inside corner for us. And
Speaker 6: then you take a look at Donovan Saunders who transfer
Speaker 6: from A and m Blake Cotton. These are names that
Speaker 6: are going to help us tremendously. Jeremiah Caldwell so a
Speaker 6: couple others that still need some development. But I feel
Speaker 6: much better really going into this season than I did
Speaker 6: last season about the corner position.
Speaker 2: So since we have already talked about the depth outside
Speaker 2: of the front line, guys, and you've discussed some of
Speaker 2: the names. I mean, do you feel confident that? And look,
Speaker 2: I'm knocking on wood because none of us want injuries.
Speaker 1: But it's just part of the.
Speaker 2: Deal man, As you know, do you feel like you
Speaker 2: can weather that storm should it come your way on
Speaker 2: your side of the football?
Speaker 6: Oh? Brother, I didn't even want to talk about it,
Speaker 6: but yeah, that's again you. Big part of springball is development,
Speaker 6: big part of fall camp is solidifying who's going to
Speaker 6: be a part of that travel group. Another guy didn't
Speaker 6: mention is Jackson Benny, who came on and had an
Speaker 6: unbelievable off season. He was big contributed on special needs.
Speaker 6: But this is a guy that you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of yout fans are going to be fired up about
Speaker 6: because he's going to be making plays. So add him
Speaker 6: to the to the mix. His versatility can play safety,
Speaker 6: he can play nickel, rabbit, Evans can play nickel, he
Speaker 6: can play strong safety, tail can go down and play corners.
Speaker 6: So really that's what you're looking for. Or when guys
Speaker 6: go down, because it'll happen. Do you have the versatility
Speaker 6: to put the best eleven on the field or are
Speaker 6: you short changing, you know by putting a guy that
Speaker 6: may not be in as ready. He just knows the
Speaker 6: position better. But we'd rather go with our best eleven.
Speaker 2: U c l a an interesting opener at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2: It's a new quarterback, it's a new coordinator as well
Speaker 2: as Tino, sincere's the offensive coordinator. I don't know how
Speaker 2: much I would imagine we're about to launch.
Speaker 1: In a very specific game prep.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure you've been, you know, operating fall camp
Speaker 2: with one eye on the Bruins. I've been asking all
Speaker 2: of the guests this, Morgan, I'll ask you, what does
Speaker 2: success look like.
Speaker 1: For you game one?
Speaker 2: When you're on that plane flying home from from the
Speaker 2: Rose Bowl. What will success feel like to you?
Speaker 6: Just being playing to our culture, you know, running to
Speaker 6: the football, playing with good fundamental technique, playing situationally smart football.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously there's going to be mistakes that are made.
Speaker 6: A lot of the big plays that we make on
Speaker 6: the defensive side the ball really have to do with
Speaker 6: relentless effort guys running to the football and playing with
Speaker 6: some physicality. So you know, that's kind of been our
Speaker 6: calling card. And if we play to our culture, to me,
Speaker 6: I can deal with the other stuff. But we have to,
Speaker 6: you know, play physical, smart football.
Speaker 2: Tell me what you've learned about the Bruins. What makes
Speaker 2: them dangerous? You know, they're they're in the midst of
Speaker 2: I'll just call it a pivot. With a new coaching
Speaker 2: staff a couple of years ago, and like I said,
Speaker 2: a new offensive coordinator, really good talented quarterback, a big
Speaker 2: news out of the Tennessee transfer situation.
Speaker 1: What do you know about UCLA as of now?
Speaker 6: Well, obviously I did not. I mean I knew of
Speaker 6: the quarterback. I didn't know much about his game. So
Speaker 6: after you know, watching a ton of film on him,
Speaker 6: very impressed, very impressed, not only with his ability to
Speaker 6: spin it, but when he runs the ball, he's not
Speaker 6: he's not soft, and he's not a guy that looks
Speaker 6: to go down. He's tough. He's tough minded. So they
Speaker 6: got a good one in Nikoso. The receiving core that
Speaker 6: they have there includes Mikey Matthews, who we know as
Speaker 6: a slot receiver coming from US to cal and now
Speaker 6: UCLA has and they've got a couple of other wide
Speaker 6: receiving threats that are really good. You know, the O
Speaker 6: line is going to be, in my opinion, their work
Speaker 6: in progress. You know, you take a look at our
Speaker 6: d line, it's our work in progress. That's offensive line
Speaker 6: is going to be their work in progress. But the
Speaker 6: quarterback and skill players, including the running back transfer from
Speaker 6: Caw who's a dynamic kid as well, that's going to
Speaker 6: be the strength of their offense.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, this last week, when Devin Dampier said, Hey,
Speaker 2: sometimes I have eight seconds in the pocket, my first
Speaker 2: thought was, well, that's not going to make Morgan happy. Obviously,
Speaker 2: you guys were an average offense away a year ago
Speaker 2: from competing for the Big twelve championship. Tell me from
Speaker 2: your advantage point, this new revamped offense under Jason Beck
Speaker 2: with Devin under center, how's it looking to you?
Speaker 1: Morgan?
Speaker 6: I'm excited to watch him, excited to watch him work.
Speaker 6: The offensive line obviously, is the huge strength the skilled
Speaker 6: players that we've brought in Devin's leadership. You know, let's
Speaker 6: be honest, he's got eight seconds because we can't touch
Speaker 6: the quarterback. It's not like we can sit there and
Speaker 6: get after him and practice. But no, he is so competitive.
Speaker 6: That's what I love about him, is that competitive drive.
Speaker 6: And he's not over confident, he's not cocky. He comes
Speaker 6: to work every single day, and he earns that right
Speaker 6: to be confident. So add to that the schematic elements
Speaker 6: that I love, the shifts and motions, the formation into
Speaker 6: the boundary, the Q run game, all the different things
Speaker 6: that Jason's doing. Really excited to watch these guys work.
Speaker 1: All right before I set you loose.
Speaker 2: You know, ultimately the past couple of years, as a
Speaker 2: result of lack of health, has not been what we're
Speaker 2: used to. Because you and Coach Wade and you know
Speaker 2: the coaches up there, you've set a standard that I
Speaker 2: know you guys take seriously. What gives you the most confidence.
Speaker 2: You do not have the target on your back that
Speaker 2: you did a year ago. As far as everyone expecting
Speaker 2: you to win the thing, I think most people believe
Speaker 2: you're going to be good. I certainly do what gives
Speaker 2: you the most confidence that this year will look different
Speaker 2: than you're one of the big twelve.
Speaker 6: Moran, Well, I don't. I go to work looking to
Speaker 6: win one game, brother, And I'm dan like, I'm dead
Speaker 6: serious with this. I think you do yourself such a
Speaker 6: disservice going looking beyond I Obviously you want to know
Speaker 6: that you're going to be competitive and know that you've
Speaker 6: got the right pieces to be competitive. I feel like
Speaker 6: that's the case here with both offense and defense. I
Speaker 6: feel like we've got the right personnel. We just got
Speaker 6: to do a great job of, you know, playing smart football,
Speaker 6: and it is going to require some luck, man. I
Speaker 6: mean the years that we won the championships, our guy
Speaker 6: stayed healthy for the most part. And you look at
Speaker 6: the two thousand and four Fiesta Boll team that I played,
Speaker 6: starting eleven at the beginning of the season. We're starting
Speaker 6: eleven the end of the season on the defensive side
Speaker 6: of the ball and primarily on the offensive side of
Speaker 6: the ball as well, so the Sugar Bowl year. So
Speaker 6: it does take a little bit of luck. But you
Speaker 6: also have to be smart the way you practice and
Speaker 6: compete against each other, and we've definitely done that this
Speaker 6: fall camp and heading into the season. So just excited
Speaker 6: for game one, dude, and not looking beyond that.
Speaker 1: Well played.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at my inbox and do I need to
Speaker 2: resend you my cell phone? I mean, one invite to
Speaker 2: play some golf during the off season. I don't think
Speaker 2: is too much to ask for somebody I've known for
Speaker 2: like twenty five years. Do you do you do you
Speaker 2: need me to resend you myself.
Speaker 6: Morgandy, listen, trust me, you're not the only one that
Speaker 6: has not been playing golf. I've been able to play
Speaker 6: primarily with one guy, and that's Shereefshaw, and you know,
Speaker 6: a couple of rounds here or there, but ultimately, my
Speaker 6: summer was with my family. I got a daughter that
Speaker 6: graduated and we went on some vacations. But we need
Speaker 6: we do need to get together, brother, we do need
Speaker 6: to get together. You take care of that voice box, okay,
Speaker 6: and during the off season we'll make sure something happens.
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks for the time, man, best of luck a
Speaker 2: week one and all year long.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, brother, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Morgan Scalley, defensive coordinator for the University of Utah. We
Speaker 2: are eight days away from kick The Utes will be
Speaker 2: at the Rose Bowl to take on UCLA. They remain
Speaker 2: an eight or excuse me, a six point five point
Speaker 2: favorite in Vegas. Don't forget that game. We'll kick off
Speaker 2: at nine o'clock Mountain time. Television coverage is on Fox,
Speaker 2: and of course the radio coverage is right here on
Speaker 2: your home of the Utes, ESPN seven hundred.
Speaker 1: We are one day away from.
Speaker 2: College football We'll get back to some college football in the.
Speaker 1: Five o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: Chris Tom Roadnie is live in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Farmageddon
Speaker 2: case State. Iowas Day tomorrow, less than two weeks away
Speaker 2: from the NFL. But the Tour Championship is going on
Speaker 2: in east Lake. They had to I guess I should
Speaker 2: say at East Lake in Atlanta. They had to push
Speaker 2: up tea times today for some inclement weather. This afternoon
Speaker 2: home of Bobby Jones, O ex guest joins us on
Speaker 2: a weekly basis to talk about the world of golf.
Speaker 2: My buddy Paul Pugmyer on a Friday afternoon. Paul, Happy Friday, sir,
Speaker 2: how are.
Speaker 6: You doing great, Spence, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good. I have to start with a confession.
Speaker 2: You're going to be mad at me. Are you ready?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Last weekends I went to visit my brother and his
Speaker 2: wife and their six children, a lovely family. Had a
Speaker 2: great time in Indianapolis, and as I landed, he said, Hey,
Speaker 2: I've got a surprise for you.
Speaker 1: I said, what's that?
Speaker 2: He said, Well, Live Golf is here and Scott O'Neill,
Speaker 2: who's the CEO, and the commissioner of Live Golf back
Speaker 2: in the day, worked in Madison Square Garden. He is
Speaker 2: a BYU guy, a member of the Olds Church. My
Speaker 2: family knows him very well, and so Scott was able
Speaker 2: to get us some passes to go to the Live
Speaker 2: Golf event in Indianapolis, which I did and I even
Speaker 2: had a decent time.
Speaker 1: Paul, do you forgive me?
Speaker 6: Oh, no forgiveness needed. I went to a Live event
Speaker 6: when they were in Las Vegas last year and they
Speaker 6: treated me really well and it was a good time
Speaker 6: and really instruct us. I still don't think it's a
Speaker 6: championship model, but it's a good time and you do
Speaker 6: get to see some really amazing golfers. I mean, some
Speaker 6: of the world's best are live. I'm glad you got
Speaker 6: to do it. And let me just say here, isn't
Speaker 6: it cool that both Scott O'Neil with Live and Brian
Speaker 6: Rolap with the PJ Tour, a couple of by you
Speaker 6: guys running those two tours. That's really cool.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the other thing, Paul, they know each other
Speaker 2: and like they have a lot of mutual friends. So look,
Speaker 2: I know it's going to take a minor miracle at
Speaker 2: this point with Live being established the way that it
Speaker 2: is to bridge some sort of gap. But at least
Speaker 2: you know Jay Monahan and you know the powers that
Speaker 2: be a Live Greg Norman. They didn't even want to
Speaker 2: be in the same room. Brian and Scott are friendly.
Speaker 2: They know each other. I don't know if that means
Speaker 2: that there's a deal on the horizon, but at least
Speaker 2: we have two guys in charge of these tours that
Speaker 2: are familiar with each other's That can't be a bad thing.
Speaker 6: It's got to be a good thing. I completely agree
Speaker 6: with you. I think Monahan made a mistake and not
Speaker 6: taking the call back when all this was first happening,
Speaker 6: but you know he doesn't consult with me. But I
Speaker 6: agree with you completely. It's got to be nothing but
Speaker 6: good that rol App and O'Neill can sit down and
Speaker 6: have an adult conversation.
Speaker 1: While we're in this space.
Speaker 2: We had the first opportunity to hear from Brian Rolap,
Speaker 2: the new CEO of the PGA Tour, prior to the
Speaker 2: start of the Tour Championship. I mean, he's given some
Speaker 2: other interviews, like we had Rex Haggard on yesterday and
Speaker 2: Rex was able to catch up with him right after
Speaker 2: he kind of took the job. He's only been on
Speaker 2: the job three weeks. But this is a dynamic, sharp,
Speaker 2: bright guy who is the mastermind behind the bevy of
Speaker 2: revenue streams created by the NFL with their live television deals,
Speaker 2: streaming and otherwise. And he said, among other things, quote,
Speaker 2: the goal is not incremental change. The goal is significant change.
Speaker 2: And I do think that makes certain people nervous who
Speaker 2: love the history and the degree of the PGA Tour
Speaker 2: and things that make the tour special as opposed to
Speaker 2: things that maybe might be changed. It might make some
Speaker 2: people uncomfortable, but the fact of the matter is Paul
Speaker 2: Golf has a moment right now that it has to
Speaker 2: capitalize on a moment that it may have never had
Speaker 2: quite frankly in the history of the sport. With all
Speaker 2: the interest worldwide, I mean, you know, we've already talked
Speaker 2: about my complaints of six hour rounds and inabilities to
Speaker 2: get tea time sore locally, but look, ultimately, this type
Speaker 2: of attention can only be good for the sport. What
Speaker 2: did you make after listening to what Brian Rollop had
Speaker 2: to say to the media contingent at East Lake.
Speaker 6: A couple things jumped down at me, and all the
Speaker 6: points you make are really good points and really good observations.
Speaker 6: The thing that jumped to me the hardest is that
Speaker 6: this is a man who is comfortable and confident saying
Speaker 6: I don't know. And that's a rare quality in a
Speaker 6: leader and in a person that people are looking to.
Speaker 6: And there's a whole bunch of cameras in his face,
Speaker 6: but he was willing to say on different topics, I
Speaker 6: don't know. This is not my area of expertise, I'm
Speaker 6: learning about it, or other people are going to take
Speaker 6: that particular point and run with it. I was impressed
Speaker 6: with that, and one of the effects that that has
Speaker 6: is Bill there are several First of all, it makes
Speaker 6: you trust them more when he says I do know,
Speaker 6: and when he says I do know, it makes you
Speaker 6: really want to stop and listen because you're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 6: this is what this guy is expert on. I'm going
Speaker 6: to listen to what he has to say. I was
Speaker 6: very impressed with his presentation as a leader, as an executive.
Speaker 6: I was very impressed with the way he handled the
Speaker 6: questions that were being thrown at him, and I was
Speaker 6: impressed with the content he says, we're going to be
Speaker 6: making big change. Yeah, you're right. Now is the moment.
Speaker 6: It might be an Arnold Palmer moment or a Tiger
Speaker 6: Woods moment, but it's a moment, and this is a
Speaker 6: chance to really build things right for the future. And
Speaker 6: I think this is a guy who is willing to
Speaker 6: make hard decisions and make things right for the future.
Speaker 6: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: He's also announced the formation of a championship committee led
Speaker 2: by somebody named Eldrick. Tiger Woods will serve as the
Speaker 2: chairman of the future com committee. The other names some
Speaker 2: caught me off guard. I mean Patrick Cantley, Adam Scott,
Speaker 2: Camillo Vijagas, and then Maverick McNeely and Keith Mitchell. I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to be disrespectful. I was just kind of
Speaker 2: surprised that those were the names on the list. They're
Speaker 2: going to bring in the former energy chairman from Valero,
Speaker 2: Joe Gordon, John Henry, who's the principal owner of the
Speaker 2: Fenway Sports Group, and then theo Epstein, who is the
Speaker 2: man behind the resurgence of both the Red Sox and
Speaker 2: the Cubs. So I wonder what you make of that
Speaker 2: that list of names. The Competition Committee that will be
Speaker 2: kind of in charge of in acting some of this change.
Speaker 6: I want to start with the book INDs of the
Speaker 6: list you just gave of tiger Woods and the Epstein,
Speaker 6: and then I'm going to come back to Maverick McNeely.
Speaker 6: I think these are the three most important voices in
Speaker 6: the room. Tiger Woods because he is tiger Woods and
Speaker 6: no one else's tiger Woods. It's all self evidence. Nobody
Speaker 6: will command attention to the degree of tiger Woods, which
Speaker 6: means that when he has something to say, the entire
Speaker 6: ecosystem of golf will stop and listen to what he
Speaker 6: has to say. That's vital theo Epstein for the reasons
Speaker 6: you just summarized, this is a man who has twice,
Speaker 6: not just once. Either the Red Sox or the Cubs
Speaker 6: would have been a career defining achievement, but he did
Speaker 6: it twice, and he redefined cultures and changed the arc
Speaker 6: of entire organizations in a successful way. This is a
Speaker 6: guy who has an undeniable top level experience of taking
Speaker 6: things and turning them around and making them better. And
Speaker 6: now there's just flat a winning culture both in and
Speaker 6: on the North Shore. And so then let's go to
Speaker 6: Maverick McNeely. McNeely, of course, is the son of Scott McNeely,
Speaker 6: who is Son Microsystems, and he was raised in that environment,
Speaker 6: raised in that house. He is a graduate of Stanford.
Speaker 6: But Maverick is developing his own reputation, not based on
Speaker 6: his father, on his own ability to analyze data. And
Speaker 6: I think that that really really will matter because you've
Speaker 6: got somebody who is really good at analyzing data, but
Speaker 6: he also is walking inside the ropes every day, including
Speaker 6: this week. He made the field of the Tour Championship,
Speaker 6: and I think Maverick McNeely will be a really important
Speaker 6: voice going forward.
Speaker 2: Oh, good context. I didn't know that. I had no idea,
Speaker 2: So that makes a lot more sense because it felt
Speaker 2: a little bit random without understanding that context. All right, Paul,
Speaker 2: before we get to the Tour Championship, before we get
Speaker 2: to the local golf scene, a couple of other topics.
Speaker 2: I wanted to kick the tires with you about since
Speaker 2: you and I last spoke. You know, Scotty Scheffler won
Speaker 2: a tournament because Scotti Schefer wins tournaments, and look in
Speaker 2: the tournament exactly exactly, and you know, as I said,
Speaker 2: Rex joined me yesterday, and I know that we get well,
Speaker 2: I should say, I know I get pushed back when
Speaker 2: I do the Scotty is Tiger thing, But it does
Speaker 2: kind of feel like there's just this thing going on
Speaker 2: with him that we haven't seen maybe since Tiger. And
Speaker 2: then every time I say that, I see a stat
Speaker 2: pop up that just cracks me up. So Scotty became
Speaker 2: the first player since Tiger to have back to back
Speaker 2: five win seasons on the tour and the only golfers
Speaker 2: in the past forty years to do that. The problem is,
Speaker 2: Tiger did it in ninety nine and two thousand, two
Speaker 2: thousand and two thousand and one, two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, two thousand and two, two thousand
Speaker 2: and three, two thousand and six, two thousand and five,
Speaker 2: two thousand and six, two thousand and six, two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven. Our guy did it six times over the
Speaker 2: course of an.
Speaker 1: Eight year span.
Speaker 2: So like every time I'm like, hey, you feel it
Speaker 2: kind of feels like Scotty's doing the Tiger thing. You
Speaker 2: see something and you realize that Scotty's got to do
Speaker 2: it for another five six years before it is applicable.
Speaker 2: But are we inching closer and closer too. I guess
Speaker 2: what I'll say, feels like a historic run from the
Speaker 2: best player in the world.
Speaker 6: Right now we are and look, we're in the third
Speaker 6: year of Scotty putting up Tiger numbers. In the first
Speaker 6: year you do it, you go, okay, Jordan Rory, others
Speaker 6: have done that. Justin Thomas has done that. They've done
Speaker 6: it for one year. Second year, you go, okay, wow,
Speaker 6: that's two years. But the third year that he's doing it,
Speaker 6: which is where Scotti Schefleier is, now, you have to
Speaker 6: really start paying attention and really start saying, wow, now
Speaker 6: we are talking about the kinds of things that Tiger
Speaker 6: Woods did. Now the next point is exactly the one
Speaker 6: you just made. Tiger did it for a long time,
Speaker 6: basically a decade, and it is almost unimaginable when you start,
Speaker 6: I mean every time, really the arc of Tiger's accomplishments,
Speaker 6: it's just breathtaking that Scotty is doing that now, and
Speaker 6: there actually are some statistical accomplishments that Scotty is beyond Tiger.
Speaker 6: Never once before this year has anybody, including Tiger Woods,
Speaker 6: ever gone into the Tour Championship in the top twenty
Speaker 6: of the top five strokes gained categories, strokes gained off
Speaker 6: the tee, strokes gained around the green, strokes gained approach,
Speaker 6: strokes gamed putty. Scotty Scheffler is in the top twenty
Speaker 6: of all of those strokes gained categories. It is astonishing.
Speaker 6: He is absolutely in a group of one right now
Speaker 6: in terms of where he is playing, and Tiger lived
Speaker 6: in a group of one. That's the ultimate comparison. Now,
Speaker 6: can Scotty Scheffler do it for the next decade? Can't
Speaker 6: wait to see.
Speaker 2: That's the question before we get to the Tour Championship.
Speaker 2: This is one of these golf you know, like historical
Speaker 2: elements that I'm going to need you to kind of
Speaker 2: educate me on. And it's going to be a simple
Speaker 2: question with not very simple answer. What does Bobby Jones
Speaker 2: mean to the game of golf.
Speaker 6: So much? It's so deep. Every player who has ever
Speaker 6: mattered since Bobby Jones will say that they were inspired
Speaker 6: by and they want to be like Bobby Jones. Bobby
Speaker 6: Jones ushered in in many ways the modern game. Bobby
Speaker 6: Jones was a dominant superstar in a way that the
Speaker 6: sport has never seen. He did the Jim Brown thing.
Speaker 6: He walked away at the top of his game at
Speaker 6: a young age. He was twenty nine when he left.
Speaker 6: He didn't play top level competitive golf in his thirties
Speaker 6: or beyond, and yet he's still a master record that's
Speaker 6: one of the greatest ever. But on top of all
Speaker 6: of that, Jones was an artist with a golf club.
Speaker 6: There was a beauty to his game. Even with bad film,
Speaker 6: and it's black and white film, it's not you know,
Speaker 6: even with bad film from the air, you can just
Speaker 6: see there was an artistry to.
Speaker 1: His game.
Speaker 6: That is very, very rare. I'm trying to think right
Speaker 6: now if there's anybody around right now who has that
Speaker 6: level of artistry, and certainly Tiger on certain shots, Adam
Speaker 6: Scott in terms of the beauty of his swing, but no,
Speaker 6: Bobby Jones was an artist like none other, and he's
Speaker 6: he is just special in every way. Probably the most
Speaker 6: significant way is how he was the inspiration and the
Speaker 6: model for so many top players who have followed.
Speaker 2: Wild to me is just learning about because for our listeners,
Speaker 2: we're talking about this because East Lake is like the
Speaker 2: home of Bobby Jones, where he learned to play golf.
Speaker 2: But he graduated high school at sixteen and went to
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech major mechanical engineering. You know, he decided that
Speaker 2: engineering was boring and went to Harvard to study English lit.
Speaker 2: Like then he went to law school at Emory, passed
Speaker 2: the bar after three semesters. Like we know, Bobby, And
Speaker 2: by the way, did he only compete as a as
Speaker 2: an amateur? Am I also understanding that correctly? Oh yes see,
Speaker 2: Like this is like under the radar, at least for
Speaker 2: average sports fans. One of the most fascinating people in
Speaker 2: the history of sport that I've ever like learned about.
Speaker 1: It's pretty wild.
Speaker 6: No, I agree completely. I got on a Bobby Jones'
Speaker 6: biography binge a few years ago and read four of
Speaker 6: them in a row, and yeah, I know it's obsessive,
Speaker 6: but it was very, very interesting. And you are so
Speaker 6: right to talk about his educational pursuits. He he felt
Speaker 6: like he never could get enough education, like he never
Speaker 6: could know enough. But he he got the engineering degree,
Speaker 6: a master's being English, and a jd. Who do we
Speaker 6: know who does that? And this is while he was
Speaker 6: competing at the top level in the world in the
Speaker 6: sport unreal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's pretty wild to learn about. Uh, just
Speaker 2: Bobby as a person, what he meant to the game.
Speaker 2: I mean he found it Augusta, Like what's going on here?
Speaker 2: It's pretty wild, you know what his imprint has left
Speaker 2: on the game of golf. All right, as far as
Speaker 2: East Lake the track, as far as East Lake the
Speaker 2: course tell us about it.
Speaker 6: It's an old school parkland course built around a naturally
Speaker 6: occurring lake that at the time was east of East
Speaker 6: of a Lanton. Now, of course the metro area and
Speaker 6: then and the metropolitan boundaries of our excuse the municipal
Speaker 6: boundaries have subsumed that. But you can see downtown Atlanta
Speaker 6: in the background from certain TV shots that they show.
Speaker 6: It is a hilly course. It's long, it's up to
Speaker 6: seventy five hundred yards. Now. They always had a lot
Speaker 6: of land there on the property because they got it
Speaker 6: when it was down in the country, and so they've
Speaker 6: had room to expand and grow with the modern game.
Speaker 6: It is a course that is demanding. But this week
Speaker 6: they are tearing it apart because of the rain. What's
Speaker 6: happening is because of the rain, the ball will plug
Speaker 6: in the fairway and so they're playing lift clean in place,
Speaker 6: and so you give these guys a clean ball in
Speaker 6: their hand that they can put down on the grass
Speaker 6: just the way they want to, and you have them
Speaker 6: hitting it into soft, spongy greens and it's like throwing
Speaker 6: a dart at a dartboard, And that is exactly what's happening.
Speaker 6: They are throwing darts and they are going low. And
Speaker 6: there's a whole bunch of low scores happening right now.
Speaker 1: There is.
Speaker 2: And they had to push the tea times up today
Speaker 2: for inclement weather this afternoon.
Speaker 1: And are we in for inclement weather all weekend?
Speaker 2: I mean, are they going to have to get creative
Speaker 2: on how to finish this tournament.
Speaker 6: They're hoping that they'll get through to Sunday, but maybe
Speaker 6: maybe now they have the advantage that they don't have
Speaker 6: a big field to try to get around the course.
Speaker 6: We're not trying to get one hundred and fifty people
Speaker 6: or even seventy five around the course. We're trying to
Speaker 6: get thirty. And they playing twosomes. If you need to
Speaker 6: even put thirty into threesomes and get it get around
Speaker 6: the course even quicker. But I think they'll be able
Speaker 6: to do it because of the small field. But yeah,
Speaker 6: they've they've got weather issues there this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, so when it comes to the low scores that
Speaker 2: we've seen, you know, ultimately Tommy Fleetwood is still looking
Speaker 2: for his first win on the Peur And look, at
Speaker 2: some points, it's kind of like Cam Young earlier this year.
Speaker 2: At some point you just feel like it's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: because obviously Tommy is that good. He just is, and
Speaker 2: he's one overseas, he's one everywhere outside of winning here.
Speaker 2: But there is something that's happened to him when he's
Speaker 2: had opportunities over and over and over where he's allowed
Speaker 2: it to kind of slip through his fingers. Our guy
Speaker 2: goes seven under today and he's thirteen under, tied with
Speaker 2: Russell Henley.
Speaker 1: For the lead. Are you feeling like maybe this is
Speaker 1: Tommy's chance?
Speaker 6: I don't know why it wouldn't be, except that there
Speaker 6: seems to be some kind of gremlin sitting on his
Speaker 6: shoulder right Who knows what it is that gets in
Speaker 6: his head the last three holes on Sunday afternoon as
Speaker 6: many times as it has happened, but it has happened,
Speaker 6: and I have no explanation for it. But if he's
Speaker 6: in the mix coming down, coming down the back nine
Speaker 6: on Sunday afternoon. I'm going to be cheering for him
Speaker 6: because I want to see him get over the top.
Speaker 6: And you know, Fleetwood has such a good attitude about
Speaker 6: all this. He said, wouldn't it be great? Wouldn't it
Speaker 6: be funny if after all this, the one I do
Speaker 6: break through on is the Tour Championship. He goes, that'd
Speaker 6: be great, wouldn't it? And I agree with him, that'd
Speaker 6: be great. I like that you mentioned Cameron Young. We've
Speaker 6: got to talk about Cam Young today and what he
Speaker 6: did on the backside. Keeping in mind he's hitting into
Speaker 6: soft greens with the ball in hand down in the fairway.
Speaker 6: So the trick to Eastlake this week is hit the fairway.
Speaker 6: The rough is long at four and a half inches,
Speaker 6: it's thick and heavy with water. But if you're in
Speaker 6: the fairway you can go at this course well. Anyway,
Speaker 6: Cam Young hits all the fairways this on the backside
Speaker 6: today he shoots twenty nine with an average proximity of
Speaker 6: just a little over six feet and he has nine
Speaker 6: one puts ug real nice, I know.
Speaker 2: So we should give a little love to Russell Henley,
Speaker 2: who's certainly not the longest player on tour, but once
Speaker 2: he gets within about one hundred and sixty hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy cards, I've just been wildly impressed at his ability
Speaker 2: to find greens and find greens in the right place
Speaker 2: and give him a chance to certainly two putt if not,
Speaker 2: you know, make birdies. And he goes four under today
Speaker 2: after carding a sixty one yesterday, and he's got thirteen
Speaker 2: under with Tommy. This has been the best season of
Speaker 2: Russell's career. Do you think he can lift this cup?
Speaker 2: What do you make of the first couple of rounds
Speaker 2: for Russell Henley?
Speaker 6: He totally couldn't lift this cup. Look, he is one
Speaker 6: of the six who qualified for the Ryder Cup on points,
Speaker 6: and that's not an accident. Henley's been a top flight
Speaker 6: quality player for a long time. He's kind of an understated,
Speaker 6: softly spoken kind of guy, and so he flies a
Speaker 6: little under the radar. His game is not spectacular, which
Speaker 6: is to say, he hits it on the fairway, he
Speaker 6: hits it on the green and any two pets and
Speaker 6: walks to the next hole. He doesn't give shots back.
Speaker 6: He's got a very simple repeatable swing. I love his swing,
Speaker 6: but he's just not a flashy guy and he but
Speaker 6: he is absolutely a player who has every tool to
Speaker 6: lift the FedEx Cup. Absolutely he does.
Speaker 2: Hey, before we move off this tournament, I've got a
Speaker 2: couple other quick ones for you as we approach the weekend.
Speaker 2: You're always good to tell us you know, based off
Speaker 2: of where the leaders are at and who behind them
Speaker 2: has a chance to win it. I mean, look, if
Speaker 2: you're willing to expand your mind to six shots, there's
Speaker 2: Justin Thomas and Rory McElroy and Sam Burns at seven under.
Speaker 2: If you're willing to only adjust your mind to five shots,
Speaker 2: there's a golfer named Scotty Scheffler who's five strokes back
Speaker 2: now heading into the weekend. But Tommy and Russell are
Speaker 2: thirteen under. So how many golfers left you think have
Speaker 2: a chance to compete over the weekend.
Speaker 6: You're right to mention Scotty. Scotty did not have his
Speaker 6: game today and he shot sixty nine. Shane Lowry shot
Speaker 6: sixty three. He is the big group at minus seven.
Speaker 6: Somebody out of that group is going to make a move.
Speaker 6: Be Justin Thomas, might be Sam Burns, Rory McElroy's in
Speaker 6: that group, Scottie Scheffler at minus eight, he's six back.
Speaker 6: The one that really gets my attention is T four
Speaker 6: at minus ten, and that's Robert McIntyre. He is explosive
Speaker 6: and dangerous and by the way, you're probably hearing it here.
Speaker 6: First MacIntyre will win a Masters. He will win at Augusta,
Speaker 6: and so he has a mechanical advantage. Augusta is set
Speaker 6: up to favor a left handed golfer, and he is
Speaker 6: a powerful left handed golfer with an ability to get
Speaker 6: streaky and to make a lot of puts. I am
Speaker 6: just one hundred percent confidence that Robert McIntyre will win
Speaker 6: a Master's and I would be unsurprised to see him
Speaker 6: make a run on this tournament this week as well.
Speaker 2: All right, Paul, moving off the championship, we are inching
Speaker 2: closer and closer to decision day for Captain Keegan Bradley.
Speaker 2: You know this is this is a hot topic, man.
Speaker 2: I asked Rex yesterday and ESPN today with their Golf
Speaker 2: Riders has a round table debating whether or not he
Speaker 2: should pick himself, and it feels like there's more momentum
Speaker 2: for support should Hegan do that as opposed to the
Speaker 2: other side of things, which is I know that you've
Speaker 2: been there, and I think a lot of people agree
Speaker 2: with you. But Scotty, JJ Spahn, Xander Rison, Russell, Henley
Speaker 2: Harris English are the six players who have automatically qualified.
Speaker 2: When we hear the announcements, Give me your best guess
Speaker 2: on what the six names will be.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, what a great thing. Let me first say
Speaker 6: that on Utah Golf Radio tomorrow morning, we will have
Speaker 6: the two thousand and four Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton
Speaker 6: on our show Nice and we're going to put We're
Speaker 6: going to pose this question to mister Sutton and see
Speaker 6: what he has to say about it. I'm very, very
Speaker 6: eager to hear his thoughts from somebody who has actually
Speaker 6: sat in the captain's chair and knows what it means
Speaker 6: and knows what it takes. And he's played on four
Speaker 6: other Ryder Cups as well. He knows what it is
Speaker 6: to be a player. So, uh, which which ones make
Speaker 6: the make the cut? I think that first of all,
Speaker 6: that Keithan Bradley should not pick himself. I think that
Speaker 6: being a team captain is a big, big thing and
Speaker 6: you want people who are who are focused on on
Speaker 6: exactly being a captain, and people focused on exactly being
Speaker 6: a player. I think you've got to look at the
Speaker 6: players in points who are right as starting at seven
Speaker 6: and beyond. Right there, seven is Justin Thomas, followed by
Speaker 6: Colin Morty Kaala and Ben Griffin and Maverick McNeely. I
Speaker 6: think those next four must go, and then after that
Speaker 6: is when it gets interesting. And the ones that I
Speaker 6: think should are the ones that should go are also
Speaker 6: playing really well at Eastlake right now, and that's Cameron
Speaker 6: Young and Patrick Cantley. It was the sixth I would pick.
Speaker 2: It's such a risk because if Keegan picks himself and
Speaker 2: it blows up, he will be under so much scrutiny,
Speaker 2: you know. Now if it works, he'll be applauded as
Speaker 2: a hero. It's just a massive risk. But look, before
Speaker 2: I set you loose a question about the fall schedule,
Speaker 2: namely the Bank of Utah Championship down at Black Desert
Speaker 2: Resort coming up in October. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: good golfers that did not make the top fifty, a
Speaker 2: lot of good golfers that need fall points, including our
Speaker 2: local player Tony Fenaw what Generally speaking, maybe you're hearing
Speaker 2: some things about the field that you think we'll see
Speaker 2: down to Black Desert this fall.
Speaker 6: Well, I've been texting with Tony's management and as of
Speaker 6: yesterday afternoon, they had not made a decision. Tony had
Speaker 6: not made a decision about any of his Fall Series schedule,
Speaker 6: where he'll play and where he won't, So we just
Speaker 6: don't know yet what ton he will choose to do.
Speaker 6: Tony is solidly within the top one hundred. What he
Speaker 6: could do in getting points in the Fall Series. He
Speaker 6: can't get into the top fifty that ship is sailed,
Speaker 6: but he can get into fifty to sixty and there
Speaker 6: are some advantages there. So are those enough of an
Speaker 6: advantage to where he'll want to play him or does
Speaker 6: he want to take a break. I don't know. I
Speaker 6: don't think he knows yet. So we don't know that
Speaker 6: about Tony. What we do know is that Patrick Fishburn
Speaker 6: from Ogden, from Fairview High School, from Brigham Youa University.
Speaker 6: Patrick sits at ninety five on the FedEx points right now,
Speaker 6: and he needs the Fall Series to solidify and assure
Speaker 6: his position within the top one hundred to get his
Speaker 6: fully exempt card. He will be playing. I think it's
Speaker 6: a given that he will play at the Bank of
Speaker 6: Utah Championship at Black Desert, and we're going to get
Speaker 6: a chance to see him on Utah soil and a
Speaker 6: PGA tour A that is, Patrick will be on Utah
Speaker 6: Golf Radio tomorrow morning as well. I'm going to pose
Speaker 6: him that question.
Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome before I said you loose, I know you've
Speaker 2: already kind of teased, but let's get a rundown of
Speaker 2: what's on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Sure, obviously Hal Sutton and Patrick Fishburne. As I've already said,
Speaker 6: We're also going to be talking with the sixth time
Speaker 6: Utah Section PGA Women's Player of the Year, Hailey Sturgeon,
Speaker 6: who is responsible for taking getting the Utah Women's Open
Speaker 6: to go to the Country Club of Salt Lake. We're
Speaker 6: going to get the backstory on that from Haley, and
Speaker 6: we're going to do a recap on Kihyakina winning the
Speaker 6: Utah Open at Riverside, the youngest player ever to win
Speaker 6: the Utah Open, beating a fifty year old record to
Speaker 6: become the youngest to win that tournament. We're going to
Speaker 6: do a recap on that.
Speaker 2: Paul, Thank you sir for the time. Enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 2: We'll get you back.
Speaker 4: On soon looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2: east Lake around two in the books. They had to
Speaker 2: push up the tea times today for some inclement weather
Speaker 2: this afternoon. Tommy Fleewood and Russell Henley are your leaders
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse at thirteen hunderd Parr.
Speaker 1: Cameron Young is at eleven under Bob McIntyre.
Speaker 2: Patrick Cantlay at ten under Scottie Scheffler lurking at eight under.
Speaker 2: About to get weird on a Friday. Let's get weird
Speaker 2: on a Friday. I like getting weird on a Friday.
Speaker 2: Trevor Riley is live in studio for the next hour
Speaker 2: or so to talk some football. And I don't know
Speaker 2: where he collects his mail, how he is operating as
Speaker 2: an adult in society, whatever else comes our way.
Speaker 1: Holdout, Trevor, how are you you know, Spence? We've all
Speaker 1: had some public stories go crazy, right you think? So
Speaker 1: we had a couple of meet a few, Okay, I've
Speaker 1: had a few. And so that's how life goes, right
Speaker 1: it does. It's rock and roll like the song right, yeah, indeed? Well,
Speaker 1: and you know you've lived in the public cry. I
Speaker 1: now for quite some time as of I and when
Speaker 1: you're in the public eye and things get a little loose,
Speaker 1: folks for some reason are very interested in it, and
Speaker 1: then you just kind of do the best to move on, right.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those things that comes with the territory. Yes, indeed,
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Speaker 1: Jackson State Baby twenty twenty two. And then I saw
Speaker 1: an article. I know the algorithm's listening because in my
Speaker 1: feet it popped up their HBCU top ten. We got
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Williams and Jonas Wertillian. I coached them at Jackson State.
Speaker 1: Just a shout out to my HBCU guys, you know,
Speaker 1: thinking about you, and now that I'm with the Islanders,
Speaker 1: it's kind of the same type of level of play
Speaker 1: where it's last shot you, we would say. But we
Speaker 1: got a game tomorrow, so I'm kind of excited about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: So this is your national championship undefeated ring from Jackson.
Speaker 1: Well, we lost the final game. Okay, so we didn't
Speaker 1: put that on the ring, that we were undefeated in
Speaker 1: conference play. But then they have this exhibition game called
Speaker 1: the Celebration Bowl, and we just kind of partied the
Speaker 1: whole week I think in Atlanta. Well that doesn't count.
Speaker 1: Then you were undefeated. Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. It
Speaker 1: was a fun consolation, but we did lose that game.
Speaker 1: But I just I've been thinking about it, man, I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about my time back then and missed those guys.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for those two guys, particularly to hopefully make
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 2: Last time you were here, well I should actually let
Speaker 2: me rewind you were not here when I walked out
Speaker 2: of the studio during a break and Dylan came up
Speaker 2: to me and said and said, hey, does Trevor want
Speaker 2: is his super Bowl ring?
Speaker 1: Did you get your Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: I got it back and it's a second place ring.
Speaker 1: Oh it's okay. You know it's for the kids. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of diamonds in that thing. Yeah, there's a few.
Speaker 1: It was in my son's closet for you know, seven years,
Speaker 1: and they moved and so he's like, hey, dad, how
Speaker 1: about this? And I was like, oh, yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 1: I'm recruiting now. I could use that for sure. Little
Speaker 1: douchey here there, But it works. They turned it around,
Speaker 1: hey man, last chance. It's a weird thing. But we're
Speaker 1: passing around town. I thinks it's with Dave Fogergn right
Speaker 1: now in Highland. Okay, it's been with him for a week.
Speaker 1: But I don't have a lot of stuff. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of mobile right now, so I'm just I like to
Speaker 1: bury treasure and then go back and find it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, as long as you're keeping the things that
Speaker 2: are legitimately valuable close by. I mean that ring, even
Speaker 2: though it's the second place ring, with all those diamonds,
Speaker 2: you could probably catch a little cash for it if
Speaker 2: you needed to.
Speaker 1: Well, I quit going to Wendover, so it should be
Speaker 1: good for a while. I'm banned from Wendover. You're banned
Speaker 1: from Wendover. Yeah. I went there with my son and
Speaker 1: my business partner, and I had broken it. I lost
Speaker 1: fifteen hands in a row. This was a number of
Speaker 1: years ago. I slammed a table. I think I broke it,
Speaker 1: and then I walked. I walked through the double doors
Speaker 1: and I went and had food there. Are we stopping
Speaker 1: on the way driving to San Francisco. And they said, Sir,
Speaker 1: I thought it was getting a upgrade. They'll give me
Speaker 1: a room because I know I'd spent some money there.
Speaker 1: They said, you need to finish your meal and immediately
Speaker 1: leave the premises because you broke the table.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, and they said, let me show
Speaker 1: you this. Oh I'm so sorry, and they said's okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you donated a good amount to us that night,
Speaker 1: but you need You're not allowed in town anymore. In town, no,
Speaker 1: I'm banned from the city. Well, I mean the gambling
Speaker 1: establishments I'm banned from. But I still can go there
Speaker 1: and play golf a good course there, Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Were you playing blackjack? Was playing blackjack? You ever lost
Speaker 1: twelve in a row? Yeah, it happened.
Speaker 2: I've had some long nights at a blackjack table. I've
Speaker 2: had some good nights at a blackjack table, but more
Speaker 2: often than not, I it's it's the old saying. You
Speaker 2: got to know when to hold them, no one, you
Speaker 2: gotta know way man if you walk away.
Speaker 1: So what I do now?
Speaker 2: Like we were in Vegas for Big twelve media days
Speaker 2: last year, and I very much enjoy throwing cards, like
Speaker 2: too much, so I've got to be careful with it.
Speaker 2: So I sat, I sit down. You know, I find
Speaker 2: like a ten dollars minimum table. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: get weird, And over the course of a couple hours,
Speaker 2: I went up like two hundred and fifty bucks, right nice.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I got to work the next day,
Speaker 2: so I'm just looking at the clock. I'm like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm gonna play one fifty dollars hand and
Speaker 2: see what happens, and then I'm walking away. I lost
Speaker 2: the hand, but I walked away with two hundred bucks
Speaker 2: and I played for like three hours, which I view
Speaker 2: as a big win.
Speaker 1: I would say tremendous amount of self control. I would
Speaker 1: have played back in the old days another twelve hours,
Speaker 1: getting on a heater. That's gat problem. And if you lose,
Speaker 1: it's almost more. Gambling is bad. I don't gamble anymore,
Speaker 1: neither do I. I've retired from that. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: whole time in my life, it was just not good,
Speaker 1: as they say. But they were nice to me. The
Speaker 1: people there were very nice to me. They could have
Speaker 1: arrested me probably, sure, Yeah, nice. So anyways, they don't
Speaker 1: gamble kids, not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, to stay away from it.
Speaker 1: Actually, this is a funny story.
Speaker 2: We were going through Mesquite on our way to California,
Speaker 2: and I was with my girlfriend at the time and
Speaker 2: her family, and I was I think eighteen years old
Speaker 2: and back east.
Speaker 1: There was a spot.
Speaker 2: Close to my hometown where you can go get fake
Speaker 2: id's in order to you know, buy whatever you need
Speaker 2: to go where you need to. And I was never, like,
Speaker 2: you know, intent on using my fake ID. And this
Speaker 2: was far before the movie super Bad came out with
Speaker 2: the mcleve fake ID. But my fake ID said I
Speaker 2: was born in Hawaii, said I was forty seven years old,
Speaker 2: and my name was John starksh the Knicks shooting guard
Speaker 2: at the time. That was my that was my hero,
Speaker 2: and I had it in my wallet more of more
Speaker 2: as like a joke. But we're in Mesquite and I'm
Speaker 2: with my girlfriend's two brothers, older brother, younger other and
Speaker 2: we're walking around the hotel. Everyone's sleeping and Brad, the
Speaker 2: older brother, was like, hey, let's just go pull some slots,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, sure, I'd never done it before. I had
Speaker 2: a couple bucks in my pocket, so we're pulling like
Speaker 2: quarter slots and I hit one for like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: thirty dollars, right, and it's a really cool thing.
Speaker 1: And the quarter starts spilling out.
Speaker 2: This is way back in the day when you actually
Speaker 2: had quarters as opposed to how.
Speaker 1: They do it now digitally. This is like one arm
Speaker 1: bandit your pell pull in the slot armand I'm like, sweet,
Speaker 1: I just made thirty bucks.
Speaker 2: And so as the quarters come spilling out, the security
Speaker 2: guard comes walking over. Because I obviously looked young, He's like, hey,
Speaker 2: do you have any ID? And, like a moron, I
Speaker 2: pulled out my fake ID from Hawaii that says my
Speaker 2: name is John Starks and I'm forty seven years old
Speaker 2: and he looks at me. He's like, you have got
Speaker 2: to be kidding me. They arrested me. They took me
Speaker 2: to jail. My girlfriend's father had to bail me out
Speaker 2: to the tune of five hundred bucks. Wow, the first
Speaker 2: time I saw a jail cell.
Speaker 1: It's not the spot Mesquite. That was nice. I like Misquite.
Speaker 2: And this was in nineteen ninety six, right, So.
Speaker 1: It's a dirt town, dude. It took you to jail
Speaker 1: in a dirt town.
Speaker 6: They did.
Speaker 2: They threw me in a cell with three other guys
Speaker 2: and up. You know, I'm eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: Terrified.
Speaker 2: I'm like, is this shashank Am? I going to die tonight?
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, when it comes to gambling, it's
Speaker 2: like everything else. What you cannot moderate, you must eliminate.
Speaker 2: That's true, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the weirdest place I ever got arrest,
Speaker 1: I've been arrested twice. Once I had some tickets. I
Speaker 1: was actually going to propose. My first wife got pulled
Speaker 1: over with big le A Tomo vaugh We both went
Speaker 1: to jail. Okay, we got bailed out by a great guy,
Speaker 1: a former player of ours, a teammate of ours, Colt Sampson. Okay,
Speaker 1: he bails us out. Interesting story, but that was cool.
Speaker 1: Coach Wit didn't like that phone call. Hey, we're going
Speaker 1: to be late to the but I was on my mission.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm in Sweden and I'm driving. We're late getting home.
Speaker 1: It's two lane road back and I'm just I'm driving
Speaker 1: like I'm on the I fifteen. Dude, I'm passing people
Speaker 1: yellow and I'm so we get pulled over and the
Speaker 1: policeman and I kind of played dom oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm the dumb American. He's like, you just wait, come
Speaker 1: here and there. This is in Sweden. It's two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, Taylor killing can he can he can vouch
Speaker 1: for this story? He was there, He pressed his play.
Speaker 1: He's like, watch this. He hadn't. He took him forty
Speaker 1: minutes to catch me because it was a two lane road,
Speaker 1: so he was trying to catch me the whole way.
Speaker 1: He says, you're going to jail. He took me to jail, wow,
Speaker 1: on my mission in Sweden. In Sweden, and I just
Speaker 1: started praying and it was nice. He said, you can
Speaker 1: sit in the front seat, but we're gonna take you
Speaker 1: to jail, right ah. And so anyways, these elders just
Speaker 1: begged with the guy please let him out, and they
Speaker 1: let me out. But I was there for five hours
Speaker 1: and holding cell and she leftial Sweden. What is jail
Speaker 1: like in Sweden? Oh? They gave me some cookies.
Speaker 4: It was nice.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like, did you ever watch that
Speaker 2: show Locked Up for Broad There was online, I've seen it, so,
Speaker 2: I mean they tell horror stories of like what it's
Speaker 2: like being like in like a Mexican prison or you know,
Speaker 2: somewhere in South America or like Russia or something like.
Speaker 2: When you're traveling, you bet obey the law of the land,
Speaker 2: because an international jail sale doesn't really sound like the spot.
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna get arrested internationally, maybe Sweden is
Speaker 2: probably the place to do it.
Speaker 1: And I could use a few months in a Swedish
Speaker 1: gel every once in a while. It was so nice.
Speaker 1: There were nice people, the leads are awesome. But don't gamble, kids.
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you, gambling not good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean there's a reason why they build a new
Speaker 2: casino every week in the desert because we're all losing
Speaker 2: our money when we try to gamble, whether it's on
Speaker 2: sports or at tables entertainment purposes only. All right, Big
Speaker 2: day tomorrow, Yeah, Big day tomorrow, Trev.
Speaker 1: What should our listeners know? I think we've got a
Speaker 1: good we gotta we've got a good product to go watch.
Speaker 1: All right, Snow College has got one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: kids on their on their team. They're gonna have some
Speaker 1: nationally recruited kids. We're gonna have a few kids that
Speaker 1: you want to take a look at. And I think
Speaker 1: the product's gonna be good. We got some speed, all right.
Speaker 1: We got two corners who look like NFL guys, six'
Speaker 1: three about two hundred, pounds can run a little. Bit
Speaker 1: we got two. Lone we got our two tackles are
Speaker 1: over six six and three. Twenty got a few quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that can sling the. Ball But i'm excited mostly for that.
Speaker 1: Product we're gonna junior college football In Salt Lake. City
Speaker 1: that's never really. HAPPENED i don't think it's happened in recent. History,
Speaker 1: recently it's been a long time if it has. Happened
Speaker 1: so that's the, thing and there's no other game in.
Speaker 1: TIME i think we're kind of kicking off college football
Speaker 1: here in the state Of. Utah you are you?
Speaker 2: Are, now let's rewind a little bit for our listeners
Speaker 2: that still may not be. Familiar you are the general.
Speaker 2: Manager it's. Official you're THE gm of The Utah. Islanders,
Speaker 2: yeah what are The Utah? Islanders what's your our listeners?
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Yep in a, nutshell we have an academic partnership With
Speaker 1: Solti Community. College now that alone helps us become legitimate
Speaker 1: and at the junior college level because we are an
Speaker 1: official school. Now but we also have opportunities for trade.
Speaker 1: School we have guys that are going To utah or
Speaker 1: B why you are playing with us because we're still
Speaker 1: a club. Team with all that being, said we are
Speaker 1: servicing the local community. Here about ninety five percent of
Speaker 1: our roster is.
Speaker 6: Local.
Speaker 1: Okay so that's another thing is you're gonna come see
Speaker 1: some of the great players from high school in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years and where they've, been where they're.
Speaker 1: At if you have, time we'd love to have you,
Speaker 1: tomorrow seven o'clock Right Zions May. Stadium you can buy
Speaker 1: tickets AT Uta islanders dot com or AT Uta. ISLANDERS
Speaker 1: i think it's gonna be. Fun this is, it. Right
Speaker 1: we haven't really. Recruited we had eighteen guys on the
Speaker 1: roster about seven eight weeks. Ago how many guys do
Speaker 1: you have? Now we have over. Fifty you have over fifty. Players,
Speaker 1: yes and our offensive line we got some, size all,
Speaker 1: right we're gonna Have we're gonna average about three hundred.
Speaker 1: Pounds Ok, yeah we got some size in the d.
Speaker 1: Line we got some. Corners so it's gonna look like
Speaker 1: we're gonna look good getting off this bus right now we.
Speaker 1: Play we're gonna, see we're hoping for the best obviously effort,
Speaker 1: wise but we're excited AND i think that we're motivated
Speaker 1: to play.
Speaker 2: Hard tell me about some of these players and kind
Speaker 2: of some of their, stories because one of the cool
Speaker 2: things THAT i think you guys have going for you
Speaker 2: is there are just so many talented athletes that don't
Speaker 2: have the same opportunities that certain players. Do if you're
Speaker 2: born in a different socioeconomic, situation or if you're plugged
Speaker 2: into a pipeline when you're, twelve, thirteen, fourteen then you're
Speaker 2: gonna play for the high school and then coach Waiting
Speaker 2: klonnie will be able to see.
Speaker 1: YOU i told you the story anecdotally.
Speaker 2: Before the Black top playgrounds In New York city are
Speaker 2: full of the most insanely talented basketball players you will ever.
Speaker 2: See but they were raised in impoverished. Communities they come from.
Speaker 2: Ghettos they didn't have opportunities to PLAY aau or high school.
Speaker 2: Basketball some of the greatest basketball players in the history
Speaker 2: of the sport nobody knows about because they weren't plugged
Speaker 2: it in the pipeline the way other people. Were so
Speaker 2: this platform that you, have you're giving opportunities to really
Speaker 2: great athletes that don't have the same opportunities that maybe
Speaker 2: some of their peers. Do so tell us about some
Speaker 2: of these, stories how you have come to meet some
Speaker 2: of these, players and the opportunities you can provide people
Speaker 2: looking for something.
Speaker 1: Similar i'll just talk about my. RIDE i like to
Speaker 1: ride home with some of the players every once in a. While,
Speaker 1: hey take, me give me ride. Home i'll feeds you
Speaker 1: a we'll. Talk so two nights, AGO i got to
Speaker 1: ride home from our. Safety he's From Carbon, Okay Carbon, utah,
Speaker 1: right coal, minor been in the. Mine. Right he's also
Speaker 1: lost a. CHILD i, mean this is a guy who's
Speaker 1: overcome and drives an hour and twenty minutes a day
Speaker 1: from pace into. Practice. Wow and so you talk about.
Speaker 1: GRIT i mean that's. Inspiring we got A chilean, Kid,
Speaker 1: okay was That Texas Tech it didn't work. Out then
Speaker 1: he was at The Ogden, jets and then he was
Speaker 1: with Another he's been out in this, country traveling around
Speaker 1: him by, himself trying to find a team to play.
Speaker 1: For we got a guy who played college, basketball has
Speaker 1: never played. Football but then we also HAVE i got
Speaker 1: a guy who played At Iowa Western Ia central last.
Speaker 1: Year oh. Cool we have some guys now that aren't
Speaker 1: just these, stories but we have kids that have overcome a.
Speaker 1: Lot and you, said the west side of town is
Speaker 1: full of these. Guys you, know we don't have the blacktops,
Speaker 1: here but we got the west side of. TOWN i
Speaker 1: call it, right and you know What i'm talking, about
Speaker 1: everybody out, there the west side of, town west side of,
Speaker 1: fifteen and interesting things go on there and sometimes kids
Speaker 1: fall through the. Cracks but we also have kids who
Speaker 1: are going TO. Byu. Right we have kids that are
Speaker 1: From Saint george and from great famis just great all around.
Speaker 1: STRUCTURE i would say we have kids in all The appropria.
Speaker 1: Kids was with the kid last. Night he's twenty six years.
Speaker 1: Old he works for the. Prison he's AN, emt great guy.
Speaker 1: Man he was a receiver in junior. College now he's
Speaker 1: six five two four he's playing D n for. Us
Speaker 1: we're a little longest yard, there, Right we're trying to
Speaker 1: dabble in all. Places, yeah i'd say this first, season right,
Speaker 1: especially we're gonna have a lot more of these. Stories
Speaker 1: but our goal is to be a, legitimate big time.
Speaker 1: Program and you got to start Somewhere, okay we're. Late
Speaker 1: we were late to, start BUT i think we've put
Speaker 1: together a pretty good roster and our goal is to
Speaker 1: win every. Game but our goal mainly is to help
Speaker 1: these kids go to the next. Level we're not competing
Speaker 1: for a. Championship we're competing for these kids to get
Speaker 1: picked up.
Speaker 2: Well and the old saying like the best time to
Speaker 2: start was ten years, ago the second best time to
Speaker 2: start is.
Speaker 1: Today you can only start where you.
Speaker 2: Start how are people getting like how are you getting
Speaker 2: the word? Out like when when you hear from, players
Speaker 2: like how are they hearing about this?
Speaker 1: Opportunity it's been just a all over the, place right
Speaker 1: from even talking to someone on the, tracks right and
Speaker 1: then they talk to somebody or seeing someone at church
Speaker 1: or the. RADIO i, mean this has been a great
Speaker 1: platform for. US i think that people find out that we're,
Speaker 1: serious right because you know these things they come and,
Speaker 1: go sometimes spend so many. Times you've seen minor league football, before,
Speaker 1: sure yeah a. LOT i was on a team and
Speaker 1: it was here and it was. Gone, right we were
Speaker 1: sitting in a meeting And Dennis erickson's. Talking then all
Speaker 1: of a, SUDDEN i, said, coach the league's been folded.
Speaker 1: Right that happened here a few years. Ago so now
Speaker 1: that we're with the college, THOUGH i just want to
Speaker 1: reiterate that to. Everybody we are a legitimate Academic we
Speaker 1: have an legitimate academic partnership with all the community. College
Speaker 1: so we're not backyard. Boogie. Okay a lot of the
Speaker 1: stories you're going to hear. Them they they're, interesting, right
Speaker 1: the fact that we have kids that are willing to
Speaker 1: go as far From South, america you, know to come
Speaker 1: here to play. Football we always have a saying around,
Speaker 1: us if you provide an opportunity for people to, play they'll.
Speaker 1: Come they say that if you build, it they will.
Speaker 1: Come all cliche, there but in all, reality this is
Speaker 1: what we've.
Speaker 8: Done.
Speaker 1: Right Chris helen and his Wife jess screen protect that's
Speaker 1: a our main. Sponsor they've left kept us sing alive
Speaker 1: over the. Years it was a semi pro, team and
Speaker 1: Then chris had this. Vision, yo let's get with. Solid
Speaker 1: why Is Sali Community college not have a football? PROGRAM
Speaker 1: i mean that's a Question i'm Sure spence you've asked,
Speaker 1: before like why they have a great basketball their baseball
Speaker 1: programs nastually ranked this. Show why are we not playing
Speaker 1: football very. Fair so we're filling the. Void and after this,
Speaker 1: season especially when it's when our season, ends, man we're
Speaker 1: gonna start, recruiting, Okay AND i think that we're going
Speaker 1: to have a good shot to, really really really build
Speaker 1: a program when we start being able to really recruit.
Speaker 2: Well and this is a good time of year to
Speaker 2: talk about this BECAUSE i would imagine there are people
Speaker 2: listening to the show that maybe you're a, parent or
Speaker 2: you're an, uncle or you have a neighborhood kid who
Speaker 2: you feel like is a really talented. Player maybe he
Speaker 2: doesn't love, class maybe he's not making, grades maybe you,
Speaker 2: know he's gone sideways a little, bit and we won't
Speaker 2: have an opportunity to instantly go To utah go TO.
Speaker 2: Buyu and with a solid community college, partnership you have
Speaker 2: the ability to offer them a chance to yota class
Speaker 2: and get some credits and get the grades. Up and
Speaker 2: if they do that and then join your program and
Speaker 2: actually learn how to play football at a high, level
Speaker 2: the opportunities that they could receive as a result of
Speaker 2: that path seem to be pretty endless if you keep
Speaker 2: going in the right.
Speaker 1: Direction here's a quick story a, Right so The chilean
Speaker 1: guy is Named. Desusa all, right great, kid great. Story
Speaker 1: he has been doing this thing by himself right just
Speaker 1: he's twenty two years, old just traveling around trying to
Speaker 1: figure it. OUT a local guy here Named Tom, bower
Speaker 1: he adopts. Him i'm your grandpa right. Here here's the.
Speaker 1: Story he's, Like i'm gonna help. You So tom introduced
Speaker 1: me to these guys Black Ridge. Fleet, right they put
Speaker 1: together service trucks and all kinds of special, trucks you,
Speaker 1: know men those cranes on the back of pickup trucks
Speaker 1: and the Nap heed. TRAILERS i, mean they work with
Speaker 1: the garths and, amazing, huge huge. Facilities it's where they
Speaker 1: used to Print Deseret news way out west right when
Speaker 1: the print industry went Down spence they filled. It they're
Speaker 1: doing trucks. Now. Anyways to get to the, point we
Speaker 1: were in there today talking to these, guys and they're
Speaker 1: full of, technicians. Right they need guys that have known the. Trades,
Speaker 1: yep we're offering that right now at our. Place you
Speaker 1: can do a trade and still play. Football that's not
Speaker 1: something that anyone else is really. DOING i think we're
Speaker 1: the only one THAT i. Know we've gotten a few
Speaker 1: calls from other teams that are interested in our. Model
Speaker 1: but the model is such that we can actually help
Speaker 1: these kids in the community right. Here they can go
Speaker 1: to school, here play football, here and then we can
Speaker 1: put them immediately into a. Job yeah it's and, say
Speaker 1: well that's basic for every. College, yeah but now we're
Speaker 1: this is legitimate for. Us, now this is a real.
Speaker 1: Thing we had to talk today about. It, hey we
Speaker 1: want to have a, partnership but we're linking this. Together
Speaker 1: we need to send some of our technicians that we
Speaker 1: are going to grit we want to send them to you,
Speaker 1: Guys and so it's already kind of. Starting the momentum is. Starting,
Speaker 1: MAN i, Know i'm so happy WHEN i saw we
Speaker 1: have about fifty kids that are going to. School so
Speaker 1: that's a big deal for. Us it's a huge. Deal
Speaker 1: we got fifty kids in. School everybody very happy about.
Speaker 1: That so before we.
Speaker 2: Catch a, break we'll do some mutes coming, up tell
Speaker 2: us all the info we need to know for. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: what the scene's going to be, like your the atmosphere
Speaker 2: is going to be, like we're everything we need to.
Speaker 1: Know, okay LIVE, dj all, right it's gonna be you
Speaker 1: know football. Game it's gonna be junior college and it's
Speaker 1: gonna BE i Think Snow college is nationally. Ranked we're
Speaker 1: this is our first. Game it reminds me Of Jackson
Speaker 1: stay a little, bit right when we came into, town
Speaker 1: or When dion came into. Town we played AN nai
Speaker 1: school from From florida And Edwards waters was the name
Speaker 1: of it IN espn came out for it and it
Speaker 1: was one of those games where we just had to
Speaker 1: get a game that we wanted to get on the.
Speaker 1: Field and this is kind of one of those things
Speaker 1: where we're just. Excited this is our first game as
Speaker 1: an official college football. Team SO i would say you
Speaker 1: could expect a lot of excitement right first. Games there's
Speaker 1: always crazy stuff that happens and we're hoping to minimize.
Speaker 1: That but they see the biggest improvements between the first
Speaker 1: and sane, Games so both of, us this would be
Speaker 1: a first. Game and THEN i would, say you're gonna
Speaker 1: see great, effort all, Right you're gonna see some great
Speaker 1: effort from kids or local and it's gonna be a fun.
Speaker 2: Time so tickets can be found At Utai islanders dot.
Speaker 1: Com you low was five, Dollars baby come on, out
Speaker 1: bring the, family roll on out if you're thirsty for some.
Speaker 1: Football starts at three. Pm is that?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah we Got Brian blecken AT dc. Nice we've Got
Speaker 1: Senny bonnuku d line. Coach how About Steve savoy? Receivers
Speaker 1: there you, Go john new offensive line love. It, Okay
Speaker 1: so we got a bunch of Former utes and other
Speaker 1: guys in the. Community we'd love to see you. Guys
Speaker 1: please come, on come on. Out starts at three o'clock.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow Utah islanders dot com is where you go for.
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Speaker 6: Up.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a great facility the, women, okay and the
Speaker 1: indoors used by everybody in the. Community but come on.
Speaker 1: Out we're the first football secondary FOOTBALL i call it
Speaker 1: In utah this. SEASON i think, yes, indeed, yes. Indeed
Speaker 1: so food, trucks, right so you can feed the kid
Speaker 1: outs food trucks and we got good ball and a LIVE.
Speaker 1: Dj AND i think it's going to be. Exciting it'll be.
Speaker 1: Fun there you.
Speaker 2: GO i like, It so head on out and support
Speaker 2: this new. Endeavor all, right Trev you have been able
Speaker 2: to spend some time up at practice for the utes
Speaker 2: and talk to some players and, coaches AND i don't
Speaker 2: want to speak for, you but you feel pretty confident
Speaker 2: that this year is going to go well For utah.
Speaker 1: Football, yeah is that fair to? SAY i. DO i
Speaker 1: think that nil has been. WEIRD i Think utah has
Speaker 1: kind of figured out what they're how they're going to
Speaker 1: handle it right, now, Okay AND i feel like the
Speaker 1: kids are, motivated they're gonna chip on their shoulder that
Speaker 1: last year was not, acceptable and even the year before
Speaker 1: it was kind of a, letdown, Right so this is
Speaker 1: kind of THE i JUST i think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good. SEASON i think the luck is coming our.
Speaker 1: Way we're going to stay, healthy, right the breaks are
Speaker 1: going to go, away because sometimes that doesn't. Happen sometimes
Speaker 1: you get a double wam where you know the ball
Speaker 1: isn't bounce you away and you get. HURT i feel
Speaker 1: like this is our, year AND i think we got
Speaker 1: a good. Quarterback he's, poised you. Know that's the WORD
Speaker 1: i like to use with. Him he's. Poised and obviously
Speaker 1: we Got Morgan. Scalley, okay we got Coach. Witt Morgan,
Speaker 1: scalley we Got Jason. BECK i like our three headed monster.
Speaker 1: THERE i think those three guys are as good as
Speaker 1: anyone in that. CONFERENCE i really believe.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, No i'm with. You we Had morgan on
Speaker 2: last last. Hour it's good to catch up with him
Speaker 2: for a little. Bit do you Think morgan is chomping
Speaker 2: at the bit to take? OVER i didn't want to
Speaker 2: ask him. That and, look, Obviously Coach wit is Coach,
Speaker 2: wit and he has earned the right to tell us
Speaker 2: when he's. Done BUT i have to imagine at some,
Speaker 2: point if you've been told like you're next for a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 1: Years at some point you want to be. Next so
Speaker 1: after we win all our games this year and we
Speaker 1: go to the playoff and have a great, season right
Speaker 1: when we have a reunion of this team in ten,
Speaker 1: years we need to sit those two guys down and let's,
Speaker 1: say let's have a real. Conversations what was really going
Speaker 1: through your head right before we've? Won Coach, Skelly, yeah
Speaker 1: AND i think we can all feel in a read
Speaker 1: between the lines there you probably wants to be the head.
Speaker 1: Coach BUT i think he. Understands you, know this happened.
Speaker 1: Before Remember John, peace of, course coach Brought John pace
Speaker 1: back After klane left for one, season AND i always
Speaker 1: reference that he did it and it worked out. Right
Speaker 1: morgan ended up taking a lot of that work and
Speaker 1: doing most of the. Work in my, opinion Probably john's.
Speaker 1: OLD i Think john was in his late sixties at that.
Speaker 1: Point but, anyways it's not the same exact. Thing but,
Speaker 1: Again morgan's gonna have his. Time at the same, TIME
Speaker 1: i wouldn't be surprised if somebody tries to poach. Him
Speaker 1: another team tried to make him an. Offer, dude if
Speaker 1: you're running a top ten defense every every, year you're
Speaker 1: gonna eventually someone's gonna offer you enough money where you're
Speaker 1: gonna think about. It at least at LEAST i.
Speaker 2: Would, YEAH i mean it's inter. Like there have been
Speaker 2: rumors that LIKE sc wanted him as their. Decoordinator there
Speaker 2: have been rumors that some smaller schools when he was
Speaker 2: a little bit, younger wanted him to take over as
Speaker 2: a head. Coach and, look there is preston for. This
Speaker 2: there have been other quote head coach isn't. Waiting they
Speaker 2: just got sick of waiting and wanted to be a head,
Speaker 2: coach and so it took opportunities.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere do you Remember Texas Mac brown and, yeah man
Speaker 1: Must chant that's. Right, yeah there you Go. FLORIDA i
Speaker 1: think he took that. Gig that's anyways It i'm hoping
Speaker 1: that it works BECAUSE i love both those. GUYS i
Speaker 1: Think Kyle morgan basically raised me WHEN i was twenty.
Speaker 1: One they made me into, it not as a crazy
Speaker 1: person AS i could have. Been they smoothed me. Out
Speaker 1: but not enough talk About kyle. TOO i Think kyle
Speaker 1: his game in game decision making right is as good
Speaker 1: as anyone. There, ever there's ever been in the, game he,
Speaker 1: said a few, fumbles but not. Really the only ONE
Speaker 1: i can think of is That washington game right years.
Speaker 1: Ago someone will remind me about this with the exact
Speaker 1: situation but time out and then they scored on some. Players,
Speaker 1: yeah that's about the only. Time and even THAT i
Speaker 1: would have done the same. Thing this guy is a
Speaker 1: master of in game decision. Making and then you Got,
Speaker 1: morgan who's a genius on, defense and SO i think
Speaker 1: he's probably waiting to see. YOU i want TO i
Speaker 1: want to see IF i can do this on the whole,
Speaker 1: team because he's kind of mastered calling. Defense, dude he's
Speaker 1: really really really, good like really Good. Morgan oh He's oh,
Speaker 1: YEAH i mean second to. None SO i think there's
Speaker 1: somebody you asked me how that's. GONE i think some
Speaker 1: of those feelings ARE i they'd be in my, head
Speaker 1: LIKE i, WONDER i THINK i can do this for
Speaker 1: the whole. Team but at the same, time he Got,
Speaker 1: kyle who's still coaching his rear. Off, sure and so
Speaker 1: it's this weird. THING i don't, know, MAN i Think
Speaker 1: kyle probably wants to stay as long as he wants to, stay,
Speaker 1: Right he's not like sticking it to. Anybody he's just,
Speaker 1: LIKE i want to keep coaching AND i have it in,
Speaker 1: Me And morgan's, like, WELL i Guess i'm. Here but,
Speaker 1: again how much money would it? Take all, right let's
Speaker 1: put you in that, Shoes. Spence if someone Says i'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you seven million dollars a, year it can
Speaker 1: be the head.
Speaker 2: COACH i don't, WELL i don't know the specifics Of
Speaker 2: morgan's contract when he takes, over but that's close to
Speaker 2: What kyle, makes, Right SO i think it would have
Speaker 2: to be a lot more than, That okay For. MORGAN
Speaker 2: i think it would have to be more than a couple.
Speaker 2: MIL i think it would have to, be you, know
Speaker 2: closer to like nine or ten.
Speaker 1: Mil so let's say they come out have a top
Speaker 1: defense this, year we make the, playoff, right we make a,
Speaker 1: run someone's gonna come, knock AND i would.
Speaker 2: BET i think it would have to be a big.
Speaker 2: JOB i think it would have to be A big
Speaker 2: ten or AN sec. SCHOOL i don't think he would
Speaker 2: jump to Another big twelve. SCHOOL i think it would
Speaker 2: have to be you, know like a like a big
Speaker 2: college football brand that has a very safe landing. Spot
Speaker 2: regardless of what the future of college football looks. Like because,
Speaker 2: look if we're honest, HERE i believe that Both utah
Speaker 2: AND byu are in a safe, spot both currently and
Speaker 2: in the. Future BUT i know that the list of
Speaker 2: schools ahead of them are so if it's one of
Speaker 2: the top twenty blue blood programs in the country that
Speaker 2: has a landing spot and the big ten of THE
Speaker 2: sec that has done their calculation On Morgan, scalley they
Speaker 2: decide they want a jettison a head, coach and they
Speaker 2: say we're going to give you a six, year sixty
Speaker 2: five million dollar. Offer then if You're, morgan you have
Speaker 2: to look at.
Speaker 1: That it's just one of those things that we were
Speaker 1: talking what, If but the weirder things have, happened of,
Speaker 1: Course and we're talking About texas. Again that guy Left. Texas,
Speaker 1: dude you're coaching waiting To. Texas, yeah that's a BIG i,
Speaker 1: Mean utah is a good, gig don't get, sure sure, Sure,
Speaker 1: Yeah exus is an unlimited. Coffers, dude they got. FUNDS i,
Speaker 1: mean they got so much money on what to do
Speaker 1: with it relative to the. Sport SO i just Think
Speaker 1: i'm waiting to SEE i Think i'm waiting to, see
Speaker 1: BUT i believe this team this year is going to
Speaker 1: have a fantastic. Season.
Speaker 2: YEAH i, mean like you, KNOW i do believe That
Speaker 2: morgan is the Ultimate utah. Man you, know he never
Speaker 2: even considered going anywhere, else even though he was an
Speaker 2: insanely awesome high school running. Back they probably could have played.
Speaker 2: Anywhere he wanted to play At. Utah he's wanted to
Speaker 2: coach At. Utah and my true belief is the dream
Speaker 2: job For Morgan scalley is to be the head coach
Speaker 2: Of utah. FOOTBALL i do wonder if do you Think
Speaker 2: morgan knows When kyle is? Done do you think there's
Speaker 2: a plan in place that none of us really know.
Speaker 1: THAT i don't think, so you don't think. SO i
Speaker 1: don't even know Of. Kyle and some days you want to,
Speaker 1: coach some days you. DON'T i kind of retired from,
Speaker 1: coaching AND i was very not even close to these
Speaker 1: guys as the, resume BUT i had done it for
Speaker 1: a few years AND i JUST i didn't want to
Speaker 1: do it. Anymore, yeah and even Now i'm not really coaching,
Speaker 1: Now i'm general. Managing but sometimes it happens that, way
Speaker 1: at least in my own. LIFE i only speak for.
Speaker 1: MYSELF i woke a couple of MORNING i don't want
Speaker 1: to coach, anymore and that may come, back But kyle
Speaker 1: may have that one. Day could, be it could be
Speaker 1: at the end of the. Season it could. Be he's
Speaker 1: not that. Old, no we'll.
Speaker 2: See and the other thing about, that like he's not
Speaker 2: that old and he's young for a sixty five year,
Speaker 2: Old like he keeps himself in good. Shape he does
Speaker 2: not look like he's aging at. All and every TIME
Speaker 2: i see him or top to, him he has that
Speaker 2: same energy that he did when you were.
Speaker 1: Playing he's, sharp, Man he's still sharp as, attack, right
Speaker 1: AND i think he's evolving with this nil and he's
Speaker 1: got an unbelievable. Staff so it's just there's a lot of,
Speaker 1: drama all, right this is this is there's storylines, here,
Speaker 1: okay and what's going to? Happen? Right And god forbid
Speaker 1: we lose a few right, now and that's when things
Speaker 1: get all crazy around you, know people start talking smack
Speaker 1: and all this, stuff and people start having. Opinions So
Speaker 1: i'm rooting For i'm rooting for a. Playoff Bit, okay,
Speaker 1: well how many is is?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 1: Twelve teams this, year twelve. Teams i'm rooting for a,
Speaker 1: playoff But i'm telling you we need to manifest this The.
Speaker 1: Utah we need to be in that playoff this, year,
Speaker 1: Baby i'm telling you that'd be.
Speaker 2: Great and you know the other thing, is in the
Speaker 2: history of the, sport there have been coaches that have
Speaker 2: aged out of the job that just don't want to go.
Speaker 2: Away but that's just Not. Kyle it's just not who he.
Speaker 2: Is you don't get the feeling like The, obviously the
Speaker 2: Ten state stuff With sandusky was, awful But paterno had
Speaker 2: aged out of the job far before he got forced.
Speaker 1: Out let me tell you, what, Dude joe pa was
Speaker 1: in the, box, right didn't even have a headset On
Speaker 1: god bless the.
Speaker 6: Guy.
Speaker 1: Right, sure but there's rumors he had a drinking. Problem
Speaker 1: those are. RUMORS i can't substantiate. That these are just
Speaker 1: locker room. Talk but that's just so there's guys like,
Speaker 1: That And i'm crapping On joe a little bit only
Speaker 1: because that's not. Good. Right you can't be drinking on
Speaker 1: the job if that's a real, thing and you can't
Speaker 1: be you can't be not coaching if you it's a real,
Speaker 1: thing and so nobody wants to see. THAT i don't
Speaker 1: Think kyle's anywhere close to. That, No, no not that
Speaker 1: we're close to.
Speaker 2: THAT i, mean, really that's my, Point, like if he
Speaker 2: wanted to do this for another, three four or five,
Speaker 2: years he's fully capable of doing.
Speaker 1: IT i don't think anybody argues. That just about In
Speaker 1: swedish they, say, orca does he really have the, effort
Speaker 1: does he want to put the effort into does he
Speaker 1: want to spend the? Time? Yeah and he seems sharp
Speaker 1: as attack to. Me so it's just a lot of.
Speaker 1: Storylines what if THE, oc what if we have a
Speaker 1: top ten? Offense, okay then THE oc is going to
Speaker 1: get looked at it and it's just out and it's
Speaker 1: a natural. Progression and SO i could see a thing,
Speaker 1: where you, know both, coaches both coordinators could leave at
Speaker 1: the end of the. Season, yeah not because of the,
Speaker 1: animosity but if we have that good of a seizing,
Speaker 1: everybody that's what, happens. Dude people get people get.
Speaker 2: Promoted Ohio state has a new, staff, RIGHT i, mean
Speaker 2: you win, championships your your coordinators are going to be.
Speaker 2: Poached detroit didn't even win The Super. Bowl they're replacing
Speaker 2: both their. Coordinators philly's had to replace coordinators every. Year of,
Speaker 2: course it happens when you have a great. Seat and
Speaker 2: do you think there's anything about the outcome of the
Speaker 2: season that would Motivate kyle one way or the. Other
Speaker 2: let's say you're right and they go to THE, cfp
Speaker 2: they win The Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: Championship it's a double digit win.
Speaker 2: Team let's say they win eleven, games they go to
Speaker 2: THE cfp even win a. Game do you think that's
Speaker 2: a situation Where kyle Goes, OKAY i can leave this
Speaker 2: place in a very good spot For morgan to now
Speaker 2: take the baton and.
Speaker 1: Run WHAT i would do IF i Was, kyle and
Speaker 1: this is if it was. Me i've never spoken To.
Speaker 1: Kyle if you just that situation, Happened i'd leave and
Speaker 1: take another job for more. Money i'd leave in going
Speaker 1: and Say i'm starting. Over this is my real. Retirement,
Speaker 1: now i'spen the next seven years right hanging out In
Speaker 1: South florida or wherever the heck it would be. Right
Speaker 1: or go TO la and take that sc. Job you
Speaker 1: know that's going to open. Up maybe that job's going
Speaker 1: to open. Up if they don't win this.
Speaker 8: Year.
Speaker 1: EVERYBODY i really believe. That, yeah and they Love kyle with.
Speaker 1: Him they've been talking about K dubb for a lot of. Years,
Speaker 1: right his dad was IN la with The rams and The.
Speaker 1: Raiders kyle's from. THERE i wouldn't be surprised if they
Speaker 1: brought back the old, school. Right so there's a lot
Speaker 1: of options when you. Win there's a lot of options
Speaker 1: when you. Win that's WHAT i would, do you said about,
Speaker 1: Me i'd Leave utah and After i'd win all those,
Speaker 1: Games i'd go take another. Gig that's a weird, take
Speaker 1: but that's WHAT i would. Do i'd BE i, go
Speaker 1: let's come, On, Morgan i'll see you in the. Trenches let's.
Speaker 2: Go that is such a wild visual to. Picture coach
Speaker 2: went on one side coaching Against. Morgan, no we want
Speaker 2: to see that. Though that's how much success we want to.
Speaker 2: Have we want to have these twelve one, seasons, guys
Speaker 2: we want to see coaches move. On right where this
Speaker 2: is a program where that has not had a lot
Speaker 2: of coach.
Speaker 1: Attrition who? Leaves the assistants aren't promoting themselves to be
Speaker 1: coordinators because they love living, here they love working for
Speaker 1: coach with they don't Leave Ben Jim hardy's been there
Speaker 1: since twenty. Fourteen, guys dang.
Speaker 2: It, yeah coach a, lot you know for all the conversation,
Speaker 2: like oh he elected to step, Aside, no he didn't.
Speaker 2: Like andy was clearly asked to find something else to
Speaker 2: do with his time after the offense couldn't figure it.
Speaker 2: Out talk to me About at Our Utah FOOTBALL vip,
Speaker 2: event you addressed the group and talked about just the
Speaker 2: sheer size of the old line just out there.
Speaker 1: Big these kids are guys when we get off this, bus,
Speaker 1: right we're gonna look like we're AN nfl. Team we
Speaker 1: look like AN Nfl Pro bowl. Team as far as
Speaker 1: the offensive, line they're, Huge they're well, trained, right they
Speaker 1: don't have. Guts these are. Big Remember Nate, solder, sure,
Speaker 1: okay play we played At. Colorado he was our left
Speaker 1: tackle for The patriots for a number Of Super bowl.
Speaker 1: Runs he had like a six pack at three hundred.
Speaker 1: Pounds he was like six.' eight he used to beat me, in,
Speaker 1: gassers right he was kind. Of embarrassing THAT'S why i
Speaker 1: was a backup Guys Like. Nate solder but we got
Speaker 1: guys who look, like, THAT right i call him. Freak shows,
Speaker 1: you know you find him at, Freak, shows like look at. This,
Speaker 1: guy man he's he's running in the, sixty six he's
Speaker 1: three hundred and. Twenty pounds he's got some ads. Like
Speaker 1: this these guys are done a great. Job, Recruiting, Right,
Speaker 1: Lomu Right Highland? High, School, Right jim i'm still waiting
Speaker 1: For my. Christmas card he played for, My, BROTHER right, i,
Speaker 1: say hey you check this. Kid out then then they
Speaker 1: got comp. At center hey there's another. Five star and
Speaker 1: then the. Other tackle they got This kid fano who,
Speaker 1: you know so he'd better. Be good we're, paying. Him
Speaker 1: right and then so these guys are all. ALL potential
Speaker 1: i call him top one. Hundred guys top one hundred
Speaker 1: to me is that first three rounds right?
Speaker 4: To?
Speaker 1: Me first the third round is really you can you
Speaker 1: know if The team, mike said, they take if, they
Speaker 1: don't you dropped to the second. Or third we got
Speaker 1: three guys in the offensive line and maybe four uh
Speaker 1: one of. Them guards, YOU know i don't talk a
Speaker 1: lot about guards because. They're whatever but we got three
Speaker 1: guys who are maybe top. One hundred we should win
Speaker 1: a lot, Of, games spence if we, stay healthy we
Speaker 1: should mow people. Over Well And michael mokafisi has thirty. Three,
Speaker 1: starts yeah and he's gonna get. A look we don't
Speaker 1: even talk. About.
Speaker 2: HIM like espn ranked their top one hundred players in
Speaker 2: college football. This Week spencer fino came in. At seven
Speaker 2: that's regardless. Of position that's not the seventh best tackle in.
Speaker 2: The country that's the seventh best player in. The country
Speaker 2: and We can he reminds Me of sewol a. Little
Speaker 2: bit oh okay. A pinay he's just a. Freak ATHLETE
Speaker 2: and i coached this His. Brother nephi those guys don't grow, on. Trees,
Speaker 2: man yeah these Are like hellodi people and Talk. About
Speaker 2: morgan morgan used to tell Stories about hello in. High
Speaker 2: School And john pace told me this. Is good this
Speaker 2: is a, rumor story but it's kind of a. Cool
Speaker 2: story his parents approached him about.
Speaker 1: Skipping college is this the thing where we can skip
Speaker 1: college and just go right to the league, for, yes
Speaker 1: yeah and AND and i wasn't around for all, that
Speaker 1: STUFF but i know that these guys when they. Come.
Speaker 1: Around Man garrett bowles is. ANOTHER one i trained, with him.
Speaker 1: ALL right i remember training with Him At dave. Stroshein's
Speaker 1: place he was a. Freak show he Was At snow
Speaker 1: college and this guy was there for. A semester he
Speaker 1: walked in, and say can you get? Me insurance i'm
Speaker 1: going to. The draft after this kind of laughed and we, were, Like,
Speaker 1: what no he's and he was. As Built so utah's
Speaker 1: Had the State. Of utah we we've produced some monster
Speaker 1: guys that CAN and, I, think hellodi, you know it's
Speaker 1: kind of the standard there when you when you think,
Speaker 1: about guys we might have two of those guys on.
Speaker 1: This roster that's wild to think. About it, utah man.
Speaker 2: Tell me, you know you you were mainly a Linebacker,
Speaker 2: for utah but you were did You Play?
Speaker 1: LITTLE deanna I played danna on? Third down? Third downs
Speaker 1: or if we played a ten or eleven personnel TEAM
Speaker 1: and i played. The, End okay but to, your point
Speaker 1: defensive end is a. Fighting position it's just fighting right
Speaker 1: offensive tackle and d d n's you fight each other
Speaker 1: for an. Entire, game yeah if you're It's.
Speaker 7: The.
Speaker 1: Gladiators Okay so i'm kind of a more off the.
Speaker 1: Ball Guy But john, PA's Right And kyle whittingham that
Speaker 1: the Greatness. Of kyle they they made me. Get, tough
Speaker 1: no you're gonna, do, This dude You're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: Go Against zane beatles every. Single day and it was.
Speaker 1: Refiner spire we sharpened. Each other Caleb schlutter, off right
Speaker 1: used to head by him in, the, FACE right i
Speaker 1: had no chance to beat. These guys so you start
Speaker 1: becoming kind of, a, Dog right and so you can
Speaker 1: imagine how our defensive line is. Gonna, look well that's
Speaker 1: whase they're. Training.
Speaker 2: Against, dude, yeah well and THAT'S what i wanted to,
Speaker 2: ask you because on a couple of different occasions, last
Speaker 2: year after the B y u game was one, of
Speaker 2: Them coach witt, himself said we are losing the battles and,
Speaker 2: the trenches which is not something You hear kyle say
Speaker 2: about his. His, line now there were some health issues
Speaker 2: last Year With logan fano and others, going down so
Speaker 2: all of us are on the same page that this
Speaker 2: old line is going to be. Incredibly dominant but what
Speaker 2: about the. Other side what have you what have you
Speaker 2: seen from The front on the, other side.
Speaker 1: There's a guy on there who's about as old as
Speaker 1: could Be, VIA mahey i coached him, all right that
Speaker 1: was a long. TIME ago i think we recruited him in.
Speaker 1: Twenty eighteen he's. In there he's, the center is the
Speaker 1: heart and soul, that defense in my opinion's the guy
Speaker 1: who's been in. The lungs then They, Got, Barton okay
Speaker 1: barton's going to be all over the field. This year
Speaker 1: then they got The other. Fano boy so those three guys,
Speaker 1: in particular, old strong, great athletes and they're training against
Speaker 1: these monsters on the other side. On paper we should light, it,
Speaker 1: Up dude i'm telling we should be lighting these. Dudes.
Speaker 1: Up man you remember, twenty eighteen we were playing cover
Speaker 1: two on first and second Down With John Pennasini lucky.
Speaker 1: Foe two we were. Killing, people man that's the TYPE
Speaker 1: of i see that type. Of personnel we don't even
Speaker 1: have to blitz. That much we'll go we'll light you
Speaker 1: with a four. Man rush and those are the defenses
Speaker 1: are scary you because then what do you? Do do
Speaker 1: we were playing cover two on, first down, second down
Speaker 1: giving up three and three and a half. A down
Speaker 1: we were, killing. People scaly we had those guys, dialed,
Speaker 1: In MAN so I think i'm looking for a repeat
Speaker 1: performance twenty eighteen defense maybe a. Little, better okay, ALL
Speaker 1: right i do like.
Speaker 2: The confidence what about the BALANCE before i set you loose? On, Offense,
Speaker 2: speaking look they've got two running backs they like. A
Speaker 2: lot they've got a quarterback that can run looking like,
Speaker 2: the wind and we saw. LAST year i just continue
Speaker 2: to be a little Skeptical because devin's passing numbers weren't
Speaker 2: great a. Year AGO and i just don't know about these.
Speaker 2: WIDE receivers i just don't know.
Speaker 1: About, them well that's always the Thing. About utah we. Don't,
Speaker 1: Know okay bayle just, showed, up, Dude right i'm, here man,
Speaker 1: Right right and obviously you know he just got traded
Speaker 1: by the way they Did. The, saints yeah but we've
Speaker 1: had a history of pulling receivers out of our. Rear,
Speaker 1: ent okay when the time, is needed we've pulled, him.
Speaker 1: Out right we've had a few of. Those guys there's
Speaker 1: this kid. NUMBER eighteen i don't know, his name but
Speaker 1: he transferred in late or he's a. Recent guy the
Speaker 1: all kid, can. RUN right i saw him. At practice
Speaker 1: he looks. PRETTY good i think we got this. SLOT
Speaker 1: receiver i. Don't, KNOW sorry i don't know. The names
Speaker 1: light skin guy slot received movie is a white guy slot.
Speaker 1: Receiver heat. He's good but the quarterback in, the system
Speaker 1: to me is what really is? Gonna work my only
Speaker 1: question mark is it? Running back and no one's talking
Speaker 1: about the tight. End room fred's got four. Of them
Speaker 1: fred's got four, of, them dude we had four of
Speaker 1: them before We had remember We, had cole We, had
Speaker 1: brandt we had, this Guy Remember, dalton kincage and so.
Speaker 1: You have we had some guys that that could. Do
Speaker 1: it but the running BACK room i still don't. KNOW
Speaker 1: about I think mark's gonna have those guys ready. To
Speaker 1: go we always seem to have a, good Back but spence. Running,
Speaker 1: back right if we can run the ball for five
Speaker 1: yards of carry on first and second down six yards,
Speaker 1: of carry? Watch out do you.
Speaker 2: Think we'll see? Balance though because it part of me
Speaker 2: feels like we're gonna see, a rush. Heavy attack they
Speaker 2: ran for three thousand last Year In. New, mexico YEAH
Speaker 2: so i think the coach would. Like, That right we're gonna,
Speaker 2: have uptempo spread. Run game, but again, this quarterback. He's,
Speaker 2: accurate right last year.
Speaker 1: Was whatever but with this offensive line and this, RUN
Speaker 1: game i think we're GONNA have i. SEE us i
Speaker 1: think you should complete over sixty five percent of his,
Speaker 1: boss right just to, be FRANK and i think you
Speaker 1: should probably have close to twenty. Touchdowns, passing okay those.
Speaker 1: Are marks i'm.
Speaker 2: Looking forward if, That happens it'll be a. SUCCESSFUL year i.
Speaker 2: Think So, all, right buddy great to. See you have
Speaker 2: fun tomorrow and whatever you need to let. Us, know Okay.
Speaker 2: Thanks Vince, all right The Great. Trevor riiley before we
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Speaker 2: it will Be the cowboys And the Eagles.
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Speaker 2: Then bears Chiefs And caleb williams is expected to play For.
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Speaker 2: right around. The corner as, of tomorrow we are one
Speaker 2: week Away from utah FOOTBALL and byu Football And utah state.
Speaker 2: As well but of course week zero gets going tomorrow morning,
Speaker 2: ten am so an early kicktime OUT of Espn In
Speaker 2: dublin island where It'll Be iowa State And. Kansas state
Speaker 2: so football season. Is here you guys made it and
Speaker 2: know a lot of you wait all year long for
Speaker 2: this time of year and fall us right around. The
Speaker 2: corner so fun time for us on, the station fun
Speaker 2: time to talk sports in, this market, All right porter
Speaker 2: one Of, the well you, never know with the weather and,
Speaker 2: the state we could have beautiful weekends all the way Up.
Speaker 2: Through october you, never know but there's a chance that
Speaker 2: our warm weather weekends. Are dwindling as somebody who enjoys
Speaker 2: getting out into the wild and drinking water from pure sources,
Speaker 2: and such what do you have planned for?
Speaker 1: This weekend anything fun that definitely getting taking.
Speaker 3: Advantage of as you mentioned one of one of the,
Speaker 3: last weekends there's a there is a little bit of
Speaker 3: a stormfront, moving in, so okay, all right, Calm, Down
Speaker 3: hey i'll.
Speaker 1: Take advantage if It, Rains sunday i'm gonna be mad.
Speaker 1: At you don't be mad. At me WHO should i be?
Speaker 1: Mad at it'll be in, the, AFTERNOON though i think
Speaker 1: you might be able to get you. Round it where
Speaker 1: do you get your?
Speaker 2: WEATHER information i Just Use, Farmers, farmers yeah like an
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Speaker 2: Probably reliable, It is yeah, it. Is yea, So yeah
Speaker 2: well we'll get.
Speaker 3: Some Moisture but i'll be outside this weekend enjoying what
Speaker 3: will be kind of the last. REAL listen i unplug
Speaker 3: when it comes off, season, time right so the, Sports
Speaker 3: stuff i'll really start dialing into some hoops off Season
Speaker 3: some utah, you know, roster stuff, some opponents big. Twelve
Speaker 3: teams i'll start to watch a bunch of film and
Speaker 3: get ready, for, it because to be, completely honest once
Speaker 3: football season, is over once basketball season, is OVER while
Speaker 3: i do pay attention to some golf and some. Soccer,
Speaker 3: stuff obviously we do the show every day and that
Speaker 3: keeps me somewhat in. THE loop i kind of turn
Speaker 3: off the notifications the sports stuff for a good portion of.
Speaker 3: The Summer so i'm going to take advantage. Of that
Speaker 3: and then, Next, week spence, it's Uh it's utah, football
Speaker 3: season so we'll be we'll be full, steam ahead.
Speaker 2: And you will be Hosting our utah football pregame coverage.
Speaker 2: ONCE again i believe that's official.
Speaker 6: Courl.
Speaker 3: Be uh we'll be live four hours before kickoff each
Speaker 3: and every.
Speaker 1: Game day uh brought You By. Red bull shout out To.
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Speaker 2: And confirm, so yeah, we'll uh we'll be live four
Speaker 2: hours before Kickoff. Every saturday there'll be a mixed match of.
Speaker 2: FORMER utes i am excited To Have zach moss on
Speaker 2: the show through uh through some of. The weeks he'll
Speaker 2: he's obviously doing some, Rehab, stuff, so uh we'll take
Speaker 2: advantage of. His Services, Trevor Riley, robert johnson the, usual
Speaker 2: suspects maybe a stop In. FROM sly I Know, kenna
Speaker 2: scott who we talked to on the show a few,
Speaker 2: days ago is going to be in town for the.
Speaker 3: Rivalry game he's going to join me for. That one so,
Speaker 3: uh yeah looking forward. To, IT uh i think seven
Speaker 3: years now of doing the, pregame show and and that's
Speaker 3: THAT'S what. I like i like breaking down a defense
Speaker 3: and looking at, an opponent and, you know looking forward
Speaker 3: to to what you're gonna see on a, game day
Speaker 3: and and uh, that's uh that's coming.
Speaker 1: Your way what eight days from?
Speaker 2: Right now will you discuss the POTENTIAL of ucla utilizing the?
Speaker 1: Spider Too? Why, banana, yeah, okay good we'll get to
Speaker 1: it if.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 1: Want good uh do you think you could get a
Speaker 1: hit Off A Little League world? Series? Pitcher yes. SO
Speaker 1: DO i don't KNOW why i brought.
Speaker 2: That up Every time i'm WATCHING, On tv, I'M like
Speaker 2: i would rope off.
Speaker 1: These, KIDS yeah, i, mean listen there there's a few.
Speaker 4: Of.
Speaker 1: Them right here's.
Speaker 3: The deal We're Watching Little League world series and this
Speaker 3: is the age where like two or three of the
Speaker 3: kids have hit puberty, right right and they're like. Almost
Speaker 3: men some of, Those kids i'm sure could strike me
Speaker 3: out and sit, me down. No problem but there's a
Speaker 3: few teams that make their way Into The Little League
Speaker 3: world series, and, like okay that that that kid's gotten.
Speaker 3: NOOD alarm i could. TAKE him i could take him to.
Speaker 2: The, YARD yeah, I mean i could give you a
Speaker 2: two for five DOUBLE two rbi night off some of
Speaker 2: these twelve.
Speaker 1: Year ols i'm pretty confident.
Speaker 2: In, that yeah maybe maybe NEED some, Bp, first, yeah right,
Speaker 2: for sure for sure get.
Speaker 1: Dialed IN but I think i get hit.
Speaker 2: Off, THEM yeah i, do too, All, right porter before we,
Speaker 2: say goody what comes? Our way On a monday edition of, The,
Speaker 2: show Ye.
Speaker 3: A monday edition of, the program it is officially. Football
Speaker 3: season we'll have A Recap, Iowa State kansas State. In
Speaker 3: Dublin stevenson sylvester will join. The Program, josh furlong are
Speaker 3: a p voter here in the in, the market will join.
Speaker 3: The Show, bill riley the voice Of, the utes will join.
Speaker 3: The program we'll HAVE some rsl on. The show and
Speaker 3: It's a monday during college, football season so you KNOW
Speaker 3: where i will be up on The Hill kyle whittingham
Speaker 3: his press conference that'll come to you LIVE on espn,
Speaker 3: seven hundred and then of course you'll likely hear it
Speaker 3: back in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: As well there, you go so we will say. Good
Speaker 2: night join us For a monday edition of the show
Speaker 2: special thank you Today to Chris com ronnie Live. In Dublin,
Speaker 2: morgan scaley defensive coordinator FOR. The Us It's paul pugmyer
Speaker 2: for some tour championship talk and an hour long conversation
Speaker 2: with one of the most Interesting guys i've ever met.
Speaker 1: In, my life That Is.
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