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basketball as well as Jimmer for Dead as he's getting
his jersey hung in.
Speaker 1: The rafters, and I wonder, yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 2: I've chatted with Jimmer about this before was Jimmer for
that capable of playing and making it impact in both
football and basketball at by if you would have been
a dual sport athlete, you wonder, Robb, We know a
lot of guys could have probably played too, Smot. We
saw Jared Hall do it baseball football. I think Taysom
probably could have done baseball football. We've seen Corbyn and
Bronson do the football basketball deal. You wonder if Jimmer
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Will come in former BYU head coach, the greatest head
coach in BAU basketball history.
Speaker 1: We got Dave Rose, the goat on the line. Dave,
how you living.
Speaker 3: Good? How are you doing today? I'm doing fine.
Speaker 1: I'm doing awesome. Brother.
Speaker 2: Love talking ball with you here. What do you think
you saw Jimmer play in high school. He was a
ball He was all state wide receiver. I don't know
if he ever did any running back. I think he
was just the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Skill guy.
Speaker 2: Do you think he could have played an impactful role
on the football field as well at b YU, Well, I.
Speaker 3: Sure wouldn't put it past him, just simply because of
how hard the kid worked. I mean, he he he
was so committed and so dedicated. But I mean he
was so goal oriented. I mean this kid when he
when he decided that, you know, this was what he
wanted to work on, I mean, it just it just
became a reality. And so I wouldn't put it past
him that he could, you know, put a football uniform
on in college. And I don't think it would be
the most physical position on the field, Okay, but I
think it would be a pretty skilled position, which he was.
He was that for sure.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: I actually think Jimmer is more physical than some people realize,
especially like senior Jim Er. I felt like I felt
Jim or his senior year, like I thought, we saw
a little bit of what I deem. And hopefully this
is not disrespectful. I've said it before, but it's kind of.
I think Chubby Jimmer is the best Jimmer because he
was so physical, his broad shoulders, you know I'm talking
about he could get anywhere on the on the court.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, like Chris Paul is like a
thick dude, right.
Speaker 2: Like you look at some of these point guards in
the NBA, they're not as like they're not like the
Russell Westbrook like you know, weaving through and utilizing you know,
Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1: These thick point guards.
Speaker 2: That last a long time in the NBA as distributors,
and they can just get anywhere on the court using
those broad shoulders in big bodies.
Speaker 1: Jimmer, Chubby Jimmer was the best Jummer in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well he was. He was really physical in college
kind of kind of a different way. He took a
lot of blows. Yeah, and and and he and he
still was didn't they didn't have a way to guard him,
so most people tried to rough him up and uh,
and he could handle that because of how he I mean,
he's the size that he played at.
Speaker 1: What do you what did he way his senior year?
Do you know?
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know, but but he was a
he was a guy that no one messed around with
in practice because if if if they if they you know, collided,
usually the other guy got the worst of it, you know.
And uh so I do. I do think that if
he would have decided, you know, to be a football player,
he he could have carried a lot more weight. I
don't know if you've seen pictures of him when he
was a young kid, you know, in his early teens,
and you know what, he was a chunk, you know,
and so you know, if he was staying in that
football path, you know, maybe he would have looked like
a linebacker. You know, who knows.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's quick, obviously that first step. I'm sure
he he made a lot of guys mission in the
open field as a wide receiver, but he.
Speaker 1: Was, uh you know, we got to check. I told
him I.
Speaker 2: Need to see the mixtape of the high school film,
the all state wide receiver film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some day I need that in my life.
Speaker 3: Hey, it was it was really impressive. I mean the
fact I watched a lot of our players over the
years play high school football. Luke Worthington as the guy
I watched went up in Wisconsin and watching and play
they It was interesting to me to watch each one
of them with their style and then how it how
it defined on the itself on the basketball court. You know,
Luke was such a physical guy and a guy who
took blows and delivered blows. And you know, Jimmers was
one of those guys who tried to stay away from
the contact and but but be really skilled, you know.
And uh he was fast, and he was had good size.
He could get himself open and he he didn't miss
anything throw and thrown near him. You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you got to see a couple of
these guys that could play football and basketball, the Calfusi,
the Kafusi crew, you know, and and uh, you know,
there's not that many of those guys that that can
truly play ball two sports at the same time at
a fairly high level.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's it's truly unique.
Speaker 2: What did you make of Like, did you believe that
that Bronson and Corby could make the impact that they
did while they were playing basketball?
Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Know Corbyn started off in hoop and then went to
football and Bronson I think was football then to basketball.
But give me your perspective on those dual sport athletes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we we had. We had a really interesting time
in both of their the way they fit uh in
in our our on our rosters. And I don't think
either one of them came to be why you thinking
that you know that you're promise that this is going
to happen, and then this will happen, and then this
will happen. They they just made it happen. And and uh,
you know, Corbyn's situation kind of developed because the position
that they wanted him to play in the position that
he was asked to play wasn't you know, on the
same page. And so he came to play basketball, and
we really needed a big kid with that could move
and and not necessarily an offensive guy, but a guy
who could just really help us physically down low. And
and then Bronson was was later. It was after the
year we had a couple of a couple of injuries
and then he came in and helped us and and
he was so good that that year that he he
played the next year we kind of held the spot
for him. So I think I think that Bolton were
a little bit different, but it is amazing. You've got
to be pretty dedicated and uh, you know, a pretty
significant athlete as far as your uh, your skill level
is concerned. That they were both really fun to coach
and really really great competitors. You know, Corvenstein was uh
you know, we we those were the teams. He still
has the distinction of being the only b y U
player uh to play in Spokane and not get beat.
And uh so that the years that he was on
our team was in that run when we won three
in a row up there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I want to say Kelly olinek never wants
to see a CAFUSI ever again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Kelly's done pretty good
for himself, hadn't he?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, he has no doubt. We wish him well. Uh.
Speaker 2: Talking with Dave Rose here on your Utah ESPN Radio
Network Greatest Coach and b with you basketball history, when
did you know going back to Jimmer, when did you know,
like You're like, Jim Er is going to be special.
He's going to be like he's going to have a singular,
iconic type of career at b YU. At what point
did you did it kind of clicking You're like this
kid's going to be special.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I knew he was going to be
a good player for us. And you know, I didn't
know when that would be every kid, you know, back
in the day when you recruited your kids that you
thought that he could keep them around for a year,
then maybe they'd go on a mission, then maybe come
back to their juice sophomore year and help you, and then
their junior senior year that'd be real players for you.
And that's kind of how had gone for a while.
And and then then it just broke the mold. I mean,
you get you know, guys like Tyler Hawes that played
their freshman year and Kyle collins Worth placed his freshman year,
and they turned out to be really good players. But
they really helped us early in their careers, I mean
when they first got there. And uh and Jimmers was
you know, he really helped us his freshman year, but
he never started a game. Uh. You know, Ben Murdoch
was our was our point guard. And in today's world,
I think if a coach did that to a kid
like Jimmy, you'd probably lose them. You never see him
again after his freshman year. And we were lucky enough
that Jimmer came back and then his sophomore year, he
just proved everybody on our staff that he was the
point guard of the future. And he started the first game,
and I think he started every game except for one
maybe he wasn't able to play, Uh, maybe a game
in Texas El Paso or something like that. But he
we were lucky to have for three straight years of
our starting point guard, and those records were all pretty good. Man.
Speaker 1: It was great watching him, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: And Uh definitely Uh one of the most unique players
in bau basketball history. And bas Uh has another most
unique basketball player right now with a J. D.
Speaker 1: Bontsa. Uh, He's gonna be one and done.
Speaker 2: He may be the first overall pick in the NBA draft,
the best draft bi Boas produced all time, with Sean
Bradley at number two. I believe that in the ninety
three NBA draft after he returned home from his mission,
Uh and Uh obviously Yegor went in the top ten.
Jimmer was a top ten pick as well. And Uh,
Byu has AJ. Now what what do you what do
you seeing?
Speaker 1: AJ?
Speaker 2: I mean, how special is it what we're watching at
Byu and what AJ is capable of being and doing well?
Speaker 3: I mean just when you consider his age, he's so
young man, and he's just so dominant. Uh, And you know,
I think that uh, you know, the top the top
this part is we have those young young players, is
they're experiencing all this for the first time, and so
somebody else has really happened to to be the you know,
the maybe emotional or intellectual, spiritual leader of this group,
you know, because Aj has experienced so many things. But
the physical leader of this group obviously is is AJ's
ability to get to the rim and to score points.
And he's a really good defensive defensive player. And I
think the fact that you've got him, you know, and
uh the other two, well you got the point guard
and then.
Speaker 1: And then Richie Saunders, that.
Speaker 3: Is the key that I mean. He's a fourth year
guy and the guy who's kind of been through all
the all the steps of a of a traditional you know,
b y U star and UH is really carrying a
a leadership role on that team as well as a
real scoring though too. And defensively he's gotten better. He's
a really good rebounded for a size and his position.
I mean, I really like to make up those three
guys and as the one thing coming out of the
of the Arizona Arizona game the other night. The loss
was really obviously disappointing to everybody, but to have some
other guys show up and really help and contribute late
in that game to really help, you know, b why
you down the stretch and as they as they continue
to play on and we just need a few more
guys to to make some baskets for him, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The bench scoring right, bench productivity. I put out a
poll today on social media. I asked who's the fourth
leading scorer on this BYU basketball team? So if I
asked you that question, Dave, Now, I'm not trying to
get trick you here.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just a question. I'm not trying to
make it look bad, right.
Speaker 2: Because you're not pulling all these data points like I
didn't know.
Speaker 1: I had no idea.
Speaker 2: I guessed it right, luckily because I knew it was
a trick question the person who asked me.
Speaker 1: But you got capa keda.
Speaker 2: You have Cannard Davis, Junior, Dawson Baker and Mihilo Boskovic.
Who's the who's the fourth leading score on this bo
basketball team?
Speaker 3: Well, it's a it's a it's a pure guess from me. Okay,
but I say, Dawson Baker, it is, It's.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly, No, it's Dawson, dude.
Speaker 3: No way. Is it really that he had some big
games early in the year and we really really missed
those points.
Speaker 1: He played in six games, Dave, only six games?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a big blow to us.
You know, everybody was came out of that, you know,
feeling good, and we won that tournament and everything was good.
But the fact when we found out his season was over,
that that was a big blow. And I know it
obviously is a big blow to the coach staff and
there you know, these new guys that have jumped in
there in their role. It seems to be a game
by game situation thing. And at home you can get
away with you know a lot of guys who are
still trying to figure it out. But on the road
it really shortens your rotation and you really you really
need to have more guys or you get tired. And
you see what happened at Texas Tech. I mean, the
damage was all done in the last ten minutes. And
to me, it has to do with a lot to
do with fatigue and the fact that you know and
not that they're playing too many minutes or so many minutes.
But playing on the road is a different animal than
playing on the road, I mean then playing at home.
And we've got some really tough road games ahead of
us here and obviously when coming up this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bench scoring, bench productivity, you wonder where it's
going to come for that's been a question on our minds,
and so let me ask you this. You know, there's
a component of practice. You've seen so many hours of practice,
you feel like you know your team, You feel like
you know your team, and you have your rotation. But
in answers the game scenario, and a guy like Alexi
Coastick all of a sudden comes in off the bench,
hits two threes and actually plays with a good defense.
Speaker 1: But up to that.
Speaker 2: Point you kind of had him on the outskirts. It's like,
how do you figure out when's the time for a
guy like Alexi Coasti to see more minutes when practice?
Maybe not, maybe it's not the key indicator of how
he's going to play in the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that sometimes when you just look
at it, you think well, if he can do it
in this game, he can do it in that game.
And sometimes with those younger guys and the newer guys
trying to get experienced, it really is matchups. And if
he's the guard line is maybe a little bit big,
a little bit slower, uh than that lends itself to
this guy maybe being able to play a few more
minutes compared if it's a small, quick, really athletic group
but not a great scoring group, then you can get
away with maybe more of a defensive guy. And so
I think that's what you know, coaches trying to figure out, Well,
he's got to figure out he knows what he wants
to do and what he wants to do. But that's
what the fans are trying to figure out. Why some
guys are playing this game and then in that game,
and this guy hit two three his last game, why
doesn't he play the same amount this time? And and
and matchups? I think, really, really, and you're talking about
uh when you talk about you know, college coaches, they're
they're they're they're kind of match up guys. But NBA
guys are match up guys. You know, times ten, it's
all it's all about matchups and how you know you
guys fit in certain situations and uh, you know, so,
I think you're seeing a lot of that. But you know,
our depth on the bench, especially defensively and physicality and
files is a lot deeper than our you know, our
depth on the perimeter. And I think that we get
more minutes out of our perimeter guys at home than
we get out them out of them on the road,
and that needs to kind of switch, you know, it
just needs to equal out a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I think, well, what's should as to you about this
BAU basketball team in these three games?
Speaker 1: Right, you're down? What were they down?
Speaker 2: Like twenty two versus Yukon, They stormed back, They made
it into a one position ball game. Clemson they were
down twenty something points, they storm back, they find a
way to win. Uf A they're down nineteen, they storm
back at the Marriage Center and they have the last possession.
What does that tell you about this BOE basketball team?
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think it's kind of, you know,
a cliche. And then you know, all the announcers talk
about their streaking team, they're you know, not as good
in the first half as they are in the second half.
I tend to just look at at it like this,
this is a really good team throughout the entire game,
but it's it's it's really really good in the second half.
It's a great second half team. I think that that
they're they're lit. They play a little bit cautious in
the first half, and I'm and I don't know if
that's the right word, but to me, just as a
fan trying to look at it, is that they are
really concerned about getting themselves in foul trouble or not
getting themselves in foul trouble in the first half, those
three guys, And it may be I have a little
bit to do with that, but their physicality. I think
the way they play in the second half is what
lends them to be such a more dynamic second half team.
Is because they realize the game is a lot shorter
and they they you know, their minutes. You know, they
don't have to play thirty five minutes. You only got
to play whatever portion of those twenty minutes in the
second half they're going to play, and I think they
play with a lot more freedom with their intensity level,
if that makes any sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pet, we've been trying to diagnose you know, why
is it? Why is it that this Boa basketball team
is the seventieth best first half team and they are
literally the best team in college basketball in the second
half of games. You partitioned it their efficiency, their productivity,
their defense, their offense.
Speaker 1: They are number one in the nation in the second half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that has a lot to do with
with coach and his ability to to kind of rest
those guys. I mean, to me, that part of the
game is really fun for me to watch. I was
there at court courtsight at the Clemson game, and you know,
at halftime, every BYU fan that you know I talked
to or talk to me, you know, they they thought
the game was over and we had no chance, and
you know, you just you just refer them to the
Yukon game. Now. I believe that every b y U
family watches this team believes, no matter what the score
is at halftime, that we're still in it and we
still got a chance. But you're talking about real three
really special guys as far as being able to score
the ball at the collegiate level. I mean, these three guys,
they're all prepared at a different point. You know, Rischie
with his experience and Robert Wright with his ability to
hand the ball, get to the basket, you know, shoot
three point shots, get to the free throw line of
an age is just a generational talent, you know. And
so I I really, uh, you know, I just love
watching the team. I think it's fun, and I think
coach has done a terrific job managing that group. And
it gets tough now. I mean, you played the second
half of your league schedule and then you go to
the league tournament and then the NCAA tournament. It's been
kind of, you know, really fun and enjoyable at this point.
But it's going to get pretty stressful here going down
the stretch, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been around so much basketball.
Speaker 2: There's a certain element of talent, there's a certain element
of tenure.
Speaker 1: They get old, get old, stay old. Mantra. You've gone
to Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: You had the potential probably to go to an Elite
eight or maybe in the final four of some of
the talent that you had at b YU. I've always
said you need at least two NBA players in order
to get to their to the Sweet sixteen. If you've
got three NBA players, you're you're Elite eight or even better. Uh,
you got three NBA players right now, what's the ceiling
do you think of this boy basketball team?
Speaker 3: Well, I think that I mean you said it before.
I think I think what we're going to really determine
how far they go will be the their chemistry and
how they just how they continue to jail together or
if they've hit their best, you know, the best time
as a group, you know, in chemistry. Because because physically
Ballent wise is going to be good enough to get
him through a lot of games, most games, but when
you get into in a real you know, elite to
the top, you know fifteen, top twenty group in college basketball,
I mean, it takes way more than just you know,
your physical ability and it's going to be a group
that's together and it's you know, playing for the same
thing and tugging on the rope all the different things
that you want to you know, everybody has their own
way of you know, quantifying it, but basically it's, you know,
you've got to have great talent and great chemistry and
obviously you know they've they've got to have a really
good experience.
Speaker 2: Dave Rose. Ladies and gentlemen talking to bau basketball. Final
thing for me, Dave, appreciate your time. Thanks for talking
some ball with us today on this Cougar Sports show.
Uh how does uh? How does uh?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: B what you bounce back after that that loss versus
you of a h They they they're taking on Kansas
in uh in fog Allen, Darren Peterson, one of the
best scorers in college basketball.
Speaker 1: Going to be head to head with A J. D. Bonts.
Speaker 2: How do your bets back off to after a loss
like that on your home court?
Speaker 3: Well, I, you know, I hope that it's it's a
you know, a really kind of a runaway game, kind
of like the way that we got them at our
place last year. But I don't think that that's what
we're looking into. I think it's gonna be a really hot,
hard fought game. You got to the best young players
you know in collegiate basketball that are playing against each other.
And I mean I saw I think today that it's
a one thousandth game in uh hug Allen the field House,
and so I think that you're going to have a
real real battle and if the visitor can come out
with a win on Saturday night, they're capable of winning
any game anywhere, anytime, so hopefully we can get that done.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us, Thanks for talking some
gym or some ball, some football and basketball. You you
probably could have been a pretty good tight end, right,
which one would it have been? No?
Speaker 3: My high school coach my senior year tried hard to
get me to come play football, and I was living
in Texas, so obviously I was waiting to him on
the on the basketball floor and h I tried to
make a deal with him, if you know that, come play,
if if I could still play your workout with the
basketball team during football season. He said no, no, so
he didn't deal with we did I did play baseball.
I convinced the baseball coach, so I played. And I
actually played baseball and basketball at Dixie College when I
was in junior college. So they u but the football
was not going to share anybody with anybody.
Speaker 2: But wouldn't it been great if you would have You
would have done two things. I would have put you
as a specialist. You block field goals right just running
up and jumping in the middle. It's your vertical and
your length and your height. And you would be a
goal line receiver tighten just split off, you know, we'd
throw the fade route, maybe a slant every now and again. Uh,
a little little fade stop to the back shoulder.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: You would just be a specialist. They got specialists everywhere.
Why not be a specialist. If that was case, you
would have done it right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's how the that's how the the the
youth used Kta Blona. I know it's your senior and
Ed the Broncos even drafted him to do it, you know, yes,
so uh yeah, it's it's a real thing nowadays. If
all you have to do is hike five times in
the game, and you can be the long snapper.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: And what what was your?
Speaker 4: What was your?
Speaker 1: Because you pitched, didn't you?
Speaker 3: I was a pitcher in junior college, and uh I
didn't pitch a lot in high school. I Uh, I
don't know. I just I played baseball for fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Basketball was what I always really wanted to do, and
I loved it and and baseball was kind of a
and I think that if I would have played baseball
like serious, I probably wouldn't have been as relaxed and
probably wouldn't have been as good. But uh, I do
think that, uh, you know, playing two sports is is
pretty healthy for guys, and guys can really get caught up.
It's just so hard nowadays, you know, because everybody's so
skilled and there's so much time put into your physical
strength training and your you know, your diet and everything,
and for every sport it's just a little bit different,
and so uh you know, guys are are. I think
that's why they're so much better. I think we're watching
a product on the floor that is so much better
as far as five athletes on one team against five
really as a lot of guys on another team that
are really skilled. And uh that's why these these games
are so exciting, so so uh you know, just fun
to watch.
Speaker 1: Dave Rose, Ladies and gentlemen. Dave, thanks so much for
joining us. Brother. We'll catch up at the end soon.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks, guys, we'll see you there you go.
Speaker 2: There's Dave Rose, the goat of head coaching at BYU
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recent matchup, the Cougar has handed the twenty three Colgirls
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February fifteenth to twenty twenty five, and the contest last year,
the Lady gave one for fourteen points, seven rebounds and
six assists and three steals in the contest. Former Bay
You guarded Mario White.
Speaker 1: He scored nine.
Speaker 4: Points to go along with four assists and four rebounds
and two steals in the win. A Mario transfer to
the Cowgirls this offseason will take on her former ten tonight.
With the win this evening, by You would match his
most wins in the season since going twenty sixty four
and reaching the NCAA Tournament in twenty twenty one to
twenty two.
Speaker 1: A win would also move coach Lee C.
Speaker 4: Camardin too a tie with Embra White for third most
wins by a first a coach in program history with sixteen.
Staying on the topic of women's basketball. After an eighteen
six to six performance and Bou's win over Texas, dat
Blaney Gibles named to the G twelve starty five the
conference announced Monday afternoon. After missing eight non conference games
due to injury, Gibbus found her rhythm, leading byu and
scoring at twenty two points per game while shooting fifty
three point.
Speaker 1: Eight percent from the field.
Speaker 4: Last week, she went six or nine from three point
range and average four assists, three point five rebounds, two
point five stills and a half of blocking the two
games against an eighty the top twenty five opponent. For more,
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Which colleges have produced the most Super Bowl quarterbacks in
NFL history? Pretty cool to see this. Gold The Golden
State apparently knows how to produce golden talent. They're big,
they're strong, they have more population.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. But check this out.
Speaker 2: Cal Cal the University of Cow has generated more Super
Bowl starting quarterbacks than any other college. Four different Cow
signal callers have started in the Big Game, most recently
Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty six Super Bowl Super Bowl introduces two
new schools to the list. Each team's quarterback will become
the first Super Bowl starter from his respective school the
Seattle Seahawks, Sam Donald adds a notch to the USC belt,
and the New England Patriots have Drake May bringing the
North Carolina Raise up to glory. So I was surprised
to hear that Sam sam Donald's the first USC quarterback
to be in the Big Dance, to be in the
Big Game.
Speaker 1: Pretty crazy to see that.
Speaker 2: Cal has Aaron Rodgers, Jared Goff, Craig Morton, and Joe Capp.
Going to the new school and old school there they
got four total number three, okay, or I guess there's
three of them that are ranked second. Notre Dame has
Joe Montana, Joe Thaisman and Daryl Lamonica, so that's old
school right there. Alabama has Bart Starr, j o' namath
and Kenny ken Stabler old school again. Purdue has Drew Brees,
you got somewhat of a new schooler, Len Dawson and
Bob Greasy.
Speaker 1: So that's that's three h ranked. I guess there it's
number two, but there's three of those, and.
Speaker 2: Then coming in behind those you have BYU with two
starting quarterbacks Steve Young and Jim McMahon. Okay, how about
that not too shabby? QBU still alive and well, hopefully
we get another one there.
Speaker 1: Hopefully. Hey, it could have been Zach Wilson.
Speaker 2: Had he stayed with Denver, if he would have beat
out Stidham, if somehow you know, uh, Peyton would have
traded or or you know, got what he wanted for
Stidham in the off season, because there were teams that
were knocking on the door. Uh, could have been Zach
Wilson starting as Bonix went down with an ankle fracture
in the playoffs. What could have been could have been
Zach Wilson, first round, second overall pick to the New
York Jets. You'll hope that Zach's trajectory is similar to
that of Sam Darnold, a journeyman that didn't get ruined
by the Jets organization because they have ruined so many.
In college, quarterbacks go to die up at the University
of Utah. In the NFL, quarterbacks go to die in
New York for the Jets. And we saw that firsthand.
Goodness gracious others, Washington State has Drew Bledsoe and Mark Rippon,
Boston College Matt Ryan, Matt Hasselback, Stanford has John Elway
and Jim Plunkett, Delaware. How about Delaware Joe Flacco and
Rich Gannon shout out.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Delaware, Lsu Joe.
Speaker 2: Burrow and David Woodley, Ucla, Troy Aikman, Billy Kilmer, Georgia,
Matthew Stafford and Frank Tarkenton and Maryland, Boomer Sison and
Neil O'Donnell.
Speaker 1: And then you have a plethora of teams with one one.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl producing quarterback, Sam Darnold, Drake May, Steve McNair,
Rex Grossman, Jalen Hurts, Doug Williams, Peyton Manning, Tony Easson,
Kurt Warner. Do you know where Kurt Warner went to college?
Northern Iowa? Northern Iowa, Brock Perty, Iowa State, Kerry Collins,
Penn State, Brad Johnson, Florida State, Terry Bradshaw, louise In
a Tech, Trent Hill for Fresno State, Johnny Uniteds Louisville,
Colin Kaepernick, Nevada, Nick Foles, Arizona, Jimmy Garoppolo Eastern Illinois,
Chris Chandler, Washington, Eli Manning, Ole, Miss Cam Newton, Auburn,
Dan Marino, Pittsburgh, Russell Wilson, Wisconsin, Brett farv Southern miss
Ken Anderson August August, Stana, Illinois.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Donovan McNabb Syracuse, Earl Morale, Michigan's, Texas Tech, Pat Mahomes,
Phil Simms, Moorhead State, Roger Staubach Navy, and Jeff Hostetler
Flash for the past.
Speaker 1: West Virginia. Jim Kelly went to Miami.
Speaker 2: That's right, Ron Jaworski, Youngstown State, Ben Roethlisberger Miami, Ohio,
and then Tom Brady Michigan.
Speaker 1: There you go. Those are your Super Bowl quarterbacks there
that have received the starts.
Speaker 4: For University of Florida. Got gotta throw you know, Oh yeah, yeah,
that's Rightago Bears out there and yeah the kickoff returning.
After that, it was all Payton Manny.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, I want to get into a little crew
in the Cougars BYU targeting some high level athletes here
in the state of Utah. Body Sparrow twenty twenty seven
athlete could play offense, could play defense for the Coogs.
He's down to ten schools now, he tells Hayes Fawcet
of Rivals and on three, the six foot two hundred
ninety pund athlete from Kaysville. Utah's ranked as the number
two athlete in the twenty twenty seven Rivals three hundred.
Speaker 1: Where will he go?
Speaker 2: Utah's in the mix, Tennessee's in the mix, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas,
Texas A and m LSU ASU, Michigan.
Speaker 1: And of course b why you Body, Body and Brigham
go together?
Speaker 2: Just sounds right? It is right, Body Sparrow. He's a
bucket getter on the hardwood. Two really good football player,
obviously really good basketball player, can play a multitude sports,
multi sport athlete. Body Sparrow. Got to keep an eye on,
you know, as far as he's scouting report is concerned.
Per two four seven. That was Rivals breakdown of him.
And he's uh, he's listed as a wide receiver for Davis.
Uh and uh he like, like I said, he's got
a ton of offers, a ton of offers. But Greg
Biggins said this about him on the short list when
talking about top two way players out of the West.
Has the talent and skills to play safety or wide
receiver in college and is a high major prospect on
both sides of the ball upside, probably highsted safety and
shows instincts ball skills and physicality always around the football
and Captain Jack Captain Captain Body Sparrow lead us to
glory and victory. Be a Cougar captain, my friend, be
a Cougar captain on the high seas of provo. I
mean like this, yes, savvy, rangey and threat to take
it back to the house and he gets his hands
on it, will flash off the hash and shows an
enforce her mentality at the point of contact. Reactionary athlete
who's quick to diagnose and has a high football IQ.
Shows excellent ball skills as a receiver and the speed
and burst to pick up big chunks chunks plays with
through the yardage with the ball in his hands high
seeing the player who should be an impact, should make
an impact early in college and has NFL upside as
well to sports standout football at basketball baller, Uh, he's
Body Sparrow. What is up bys chances well one in ten,
not too shabby. Here's a local product which probably elevates
it a little bit more. B Yu is going head
to head toe to toe with some prolific power football teams,
though some big hitters in the world of college football.
How you feel about body SCA body Sparrow, Ronald the
three and Man Weaver.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Byu will be in the last five.
I think he'll drop the five. I don't think I'll
go more than that. Ben, So I think they'll make
his final five. But it's tough. And when you look
at this list, lug Ben, it's it's tough to beat
these schools out right. You know, Uh, you lost a
guy and uh, you know what is a Crew Jones
in your backyard? It's tough, man, He's it's always tough.
You can be by You can hit on some but
they won't hit on another. I always go if you
can't lose people in your backyard. But you know how
it goes man with recruiting in this day and age
and everything. And but they got a good shot right now.
If you're in the that means you got the same
equal percentage chance as the rest of these schools. He
has a local product offering him and having him close by,
and the seasons that you had the last two years
really do well. It all will come down to this season.
I really believe Kelly Papenka's first season will set the
tone for recruiting for a lot of these guys. Because
they'll be his guys coming in. Then he'll be able
to go out there and get with his staff. So
I like Ba's chances right now. Let's see as again
later it gets later on if they cracked it's up
five men, I get more confident.
Speaker 1: But right now, they got the same chances everybody body.
Speaker 2: Spare Row has been a varsity football player and I
think varsity basketball player since his freshman season.
Speaker 1: By the way, pretty impressive on the basketball court thus far.
Speaker 2: I believe this season fifteen games played, averaging twenty five
minutes per game, thirteen point one points per.
Speaker 1: Game, and so he says, and for sis per game.
So nice work.
Speaker 2: In a one steal shout out to body Sparrow and
football obviously, I think that's his best sport. And let
me correct myself, just sophomore in junior year of varsity letters.
Speaker 1: But he's done well for himself.
Speaker 2: Eighty three receptions, one thousand eighteen yards, fourteen point seven
yards per reception, over one hundred yards per game, and
sixteen touchdowns. Actually he did, actually he did play his
freshman year too.
Speaker 1: My bad. He had.
Speaker 2: He had sixty nine receptions his freshman year, eight hundred
and forty two yards, sophomore sixty one receptions, nine hundred
and ninety four yards, ten and sixteen touchdowns respectively his
freshman and sophomore year. So he's got forty two total
three thou fifty four yards, forty two total touchdowns. Crazy
would be a big time get for Brigham. And you hope, right,
you hope you can get them, Hopefully you can pitch him,
hoping you can sell them on being a BYU Cougar
where repping the y, repping that cougar blue.
Speaker 1: You gotta pull out all stops, Baby, give him an off.
Speaker 2: He can't refuse, right, give him an off or he
can't refuse, ladies and gentlemen, all right. A couple other
news and notes about Senior ball newsing notes. Jason Anderson
is out at the Senior Bowl right now with two
of the former BWAYU Cougars that got the invite, WILF
Farron b Yu Kicker and then Jack Kelly. Do we
have any stat update on any stats update or any
reports on Jack Kelly and.
Speaker 1: Will Fare and how they're faring right now at the
Senior Ball. Do we have anything on that? Vic ram
I did see that Jack have a forced fumble. Oh yeah,
Jack Kelly had had a strip boom, Baby, I like that.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Jack Kelly looking good in that BYU
Royal Blue at Pops the pot, the Royal the Royal
Blue Pops at the Senior ball. Baby, Yeah, Ryan foullis
to sign me up for Bway You linebacker Jack Kelly
instincts beyond his years. He's constantly in the right gap,
has no issue taking away angles chasing. Just a really
really good ballplayer, not extremely flashy, just straps up and
plays ball. So I mean Jerem Jordan actually put this
out in January three teenth about Jack finished with the
most quarterback precious twenty nine off any P four linebacker
and America's second most sax amongst P four linebackers at nine,
and he was playing injured thet last half of the season,
gutted his way through it. Jerem says, I'm stoked to
see where he lands in the NFL. So, the six two,
two hundred and forty five pounder had fifteen sacks in
the last two seasons twenty three and a half TFLs
a thirty plus thirty five plus starts between Weaver State
and b Yu First team, All Big skuy In first team,
All Big twelve. Go get that money, Jack Kelly, go
get that money. And you know what, you know who
we have to thank for Jack Kelly.
Speaker 1: Don't you jail Jah Jay?
Speaker 2: Shout out to Jay. Shout out to Jay. We wish
you well in that Harvard. Thanks for getting us.
Speaker 1: Jack Kelly, he's he's a part of our family too.
Now he's a he's a BYU Cougar for life. Baby.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Big Jack Kelly. Love Jack Kelly. All right, guys,
that's our show.
Speaker 1: We're sticking to it. Any other news and notes that
we want to get into, No, we're good.
Speaker 4: No, there's one more thing I want to say.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: I'll try to go through this as quick as possible.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 4: I sent this to you because I know we do
got to get out here. But I found that this
is funny. The man named Dion Sanders demands respect, Ben,
He really does demand it. This guy has fines up
the wazoo. If you get everybody's getting paid. But check
this out.
Speaker 1: These are his fines.
Speaker 4: One for damage team property three thousand dollars to missing
practice tw twenty five hundred miss What is your public
misconduct two thousand to five thousand, depending on what the
infraction is. Missing film two thousand, missing workouts, fifteen hundred,
missing treatment, fifteen hundred, violating team rules one caid two
day loss of equipment one thousand, late to workout one
thousand and late treatment a thousand. He not playing any games,
ben no.
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