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Let's welcome in my guy, Ronald, the three man where
Boar was up Run eight.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the nice words. Don't know if I'm the
point God. I'll leave it to be Chris Paul as
I determined him to be. But I'm gonna be.
Speaker 2: Well, I said, the point God of ESPN, the fan
a Cougar Sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that I know. But still I don't know
if I could be the the PG of that. You know, Ben,
I'm a little lazy. I don't like the pass sometimes.
You know, I'm the black hole of espe of the fast. Yeah,
I can't be. I could be either the good about
I guess it just depends. I can say this bo
needs a point God, they need someone to facilitate next year.
I'll say that. But to your point of times two
times fast. My wife Ben if anything, if she's watching
the video and if it's on normal speed, she's like,
can you please speed this up? She's like, I don't
want to take forever, so she watches it in one
point five or two then so there you go. Now
you know someone that doesn't okay, So but yeah, I
go one point two five.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while I may fort with one
point five. I'd never go above that though, because I
can't understand anything that's going on. But one point two
five one point five is where I go. Let's welcome
in to the show, Brett always bring the hammer hammertime show. Well,
how the heck are you, buddy? My wife is the exact
same way, and I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, thank you, Brett, thank you.
Speaker 4: So I'll wake up in the morning and she's getting
ready and we're getting ready, and she'll be listening to
a podcast at two times speed, and I'm like, there's
just no way there's but maybe, but now Ap said wife,
He says his wife does it, and then or Ron
says his wife doesn't.
Speaker 2: I'm like, maybe it's just a woman thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe gotta I know that I suck at listening
at one time speed.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I listen to suck at listening at all. So
maybe it's husband. Maybe it's just a man thing.
Speaker 4: Just words coming into my ears don't make a whole
lot of sense. I don't know, but yeah, maybe it's
a woman thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe they do have Women do have a larger corpus colossum.
This is the the the attachment between your right and
left brain hemispheres. Do you guys know this? We have
a very narrow uh corpus colossum, which means we can
only think about one thing at a time. We can't multitask, right,
we can't listen very well, you know, all of us, right,
Like someone's like asking us a question like well you know,
like your your your nephew's, your nieces, my son or
daughter like the sheaddad, dead dad. I'm like, huh are
you not listening to your child? My wife screams at me.
I'm like, I just I was in deep contemplation. I
can't multitask. I'm sorry, I'm not sorry. So I do
think there's something maybe genetically we're just a little bit slow. Ap.
Andrew Peterson, also in the house, was up, AP.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this, I don't double speed podcasts. Like
I'll listen to podcasts normal speed, normal speed, and podcast
radio's normal speed.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to doing.
Speaker 3: An online course, I have double speed those videos. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh y yeah, that's what I thought, absolutely,
And like I can like watching it double speed and
listening then I can understand it, but when it's just
verbal it's a little harder.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I think if I'm double speeding, and it's not
because I can suddenly listen at double speed, It's because
I want it to be over fast.
Speaker 2: Well, it's listening to it at all.
Speaker 3: I can do pretty well like retaining the information. But
I'm just not gonna take an hour out of my
life to listen to this slide show. I'm getting that
thing down to thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: You get it done, get it done, a shap, get
it get through it all, guys. Maybe I'll put it
out it's a random poll of the day. Where do
you what do you at? What speed? Do you listen
to your like podcast? Is it one point twenty five,
one point five, one point seven five or is it
times too?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: What does my voice sound like? Double speed?
Speaker 2: I kind of want to note I have no idea
what might sound. I may I'll try it out. I'll
try it out, but it probably sounds like a chipmunk, like.
Speaker 1: You want to hear. My wife said, said been the
other day. This is how she takes shots. She's like,
you sound the same in one point speed? Is you
doing twos and you doing one point five? She's like,
she said, you talk so and the yunk and swerver
certain mission. Remember we've we've had the discussion for those
who listen to the show. She says, you talk so
damn fast. It's probably the same for everybody. She's like,
you were just ultimately two point five speed all the time.
And I just had to sit there in the kitchen
cutting up pears and grapes for Jersey and be like,
I have no comeback, you know, I just have to
have to accept this. And that was because of this
conversation Drewsey was asking me to pick her up, Ben,
and it was just not registering in my brain. I
was just so slow to like, you, do you see
your daughter needs food? I'm like, yes, I I'm a
bad dad.
Speaker 2: I get it. Hey, No, you do talk fast. That's true.
But that's why we have you on the radio, man,
because you talk fast. Face for radio, and we all
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Kugarnation is this, how many amongst you, how many in
within Kugarnation have been impacted by the season ticket selection
process the last two years? Please tell me your stories below. Okay,
if Matthew green Hall hit me up and said, will
any BA sports media members cover what's going on with
the handling of season tickets. It's big time football and
BYU is responding to the market, But it also feels
like they're abandoning long time fans in essence because this
is a monetization deal. Combined with with I would say,
like primarily with the seat selection process, you gotta invest.
You gotta be a corporate sponsor, you gotta be a
Cougar club member, you gotta in order to get priority seating,
you gotta be spending upwards of really like priority seating
twenty five to maybe fifty K a year in investments, investments,
to the Athletic department. You're in the five to ten
k you're gonna get Okay, you're gonna be up in
the upper bowl upper Bowl area. It's gonna be tough
South North End zone maybe, but in order to get
like priority seating, you're probably in that twenty five to
fifty K range annually. That's pretty crazy to get really
good seats. Uncle Pooh, who's been a huge BYU fan
for them as long as I can remember. Uh, he's
a tailgator too. I thought it was insitaying that that
Uncle Pool, out of everybody that I know, is past
up on tickets this year. I'm I'm floored. It's crazy,
he said me. I've been impacted. I tailgate and I
come home Legacy two and away selection isn't great. So
he's a Legacy too, so he has access. He got
to bid on these he bottom last year, but kind
of sold them probably per game. He found that going
home and watching it from the comfort of his home
was actually a good experience too. It was a nice
experience Brett. We always try to invite Brett to the
tailgate and like the pregame, like, hey, I got a
ticket here and he's like, no, I'm sitting here. He's
got like fifteen screens around him and he's just sitting
there with his diet coke, And what do you eat?
Speaker 1: What do you eat?
Speaker 2: What do you eat? What do you eat?
Speaker 4: Beat ups usually or wings on. Honestly, it depends. Sometimes
sometimes it's.
Speaker 2: You know, pulling Brett. You know that's what they do now.
They just sit in a dark room with football on.
Speaker 4: And just like I can't watch I can't watch games
from the stadium anymore, can't do it. And I realize
I sound like the a hole saying this, but I'm
just gonna say it because this is my life experience.
Speaker 2: You're actually the black hole on the ESPO fan Spencer
Winds and.
Speaker 4: I had this debate one time when I was working
at BOUTV because I told him I was like, after
doing Sideline, I can no longer go sit up in
the seats, like sitting courtside at games, walking amongst all
the coaches and the players and everything. I'm like, why
would I ever go sit in a seat where I'm
like it more than twenty feet away from the action.
And I was sidelined. I was sidelined for Latle Belle
Edwards once, so like, yeah, I have a hard time
now just watching games from the stands. However, being the
a hole and saying that I hope I can win
a little bit of affection back with our fans. I
understand what they're I understand their frustration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So you're here, the pompous prick. Yes.
Oh no, I'm too good to go watch it from
row thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have to get an a lot of sideline
reporter before Brett will go back.
Speaker 2: And he's like, I will be your sideline reporter. That's
the only way. That's where I draw the line. I
will not be a reporter from the booth, hells to
the bells, not accept that luxury suite. Nope. All right, well, okay,
let me show you my seats that I ended up
buying this year, okay, and you can tell me if
you would take one of these seats, okay, because you
know you would be you'd be in these seats, okay.
You know you can make a decision on how you feel.
I'll pull them up here on my phone and you
can tell me. But this is a bad situation, There's
no doubt about it. For individuals that have been purchasing tickets.
They've been in these seats for fifteen twenty years. These
are like, I mean, sometimes longer. The memories have been made,
names are engraving. Yeah, I mean they probably they've probably
put their names into the concrete below. They may have
done the thing the bench. Yeah. Oh yeah, this is uh,
this is a it's dire. Straight. People are pissed. They're
not happy, and they're making it known on social media.
They're saying, look, look, I understand this is big time football,
but you are kicking the Royal loyal, strong and true
fans right in the Gontz. You're not giving them any recourse.
You're not giving them an opportunity, right, You're not giving
them a standing room only situation. You're not giving them
any opportunity. Here and I'll read through some of these things, right,
Sam Dean says, I up my Googar club membership and
still couldn't keep my seats. They weren't the best top
row of the lower bowl, but I really like them.
I mean top roll a little. That's where I got.
That's a pretty good site. That's where I got. So
I got. Let me see here, So I'm in section
one thirty five. I think it's like, right, start finding
it during games. Well, I don't sit there, but these
are just my tickets, right, I think it was thirty
five b top row, thirty five top row right there,
I take that right, So, like, I mean, they're pretty penny, man,
they're pretty expensive. These are mucho de naro And I'm
it's a business expense because these are business tickets for
my other business, my orthorpros of Utah. Right, but still
it gets really competitive out there. I also have a
friend whose family has had twelve seats, says Sam Dean
together for twenty five plus years. In order to get
twelve seats together, they had to up their Cougar club
to ten k. So now they are just they just
are not going anymore. That's crazy. So they're not going
to do it. Yeah, Shiloh Lloyds has not enough characters.
I say, give it to me, come on, give it
to me. Jesse says, we have had tickets as a
family for over fifty years. We went from having twelve
in the same spot for so long to getting it
cut to eight unless we paid ten thousand dollars a
year to keep twelve. And we are we are in
a different spot. Now, this means we can't have our
family together at games. Okay, so impact it bleeding. I mean, look,
first four problems, right, first four problems. But I get it.
These are complaints where I asked for them. We're bringing
it in bleeding BYU Blue. I usually can find seats
in the chair sections. This year, all but single chair
options were left when my selection time was open, so
I had to get my tickets on the bench section.
I feel very lucky to be able to get tickets
and feel for those that did not. BYU hashtag BYU
Stadium Expansion. David Lundberg been season ticket holder for two
plus decades. I've had a good run with great memories.
With the reseating arrangements, the rock got put into our seats.
I'll admit I don't do donate much to the Cougar clubs,
so that pushed me away down the renewal list. I'll
use the money to go to a road game. You go, Okay,
that's actually, that's that's fair, that's good coping. That's a
great coping mechanism. I'll use the money one thousand, fifteen
hundred two grand to go to a road game instead.
I'll watch it from home for the home games, and
I'll go on the road and have an enriching experience.
I like that.
Speaker 3: The bonus, one of the bonuses of being in the
Big twelve is the road games are closer. Yeah, generally speaking,
you're not going to like the Carolinas anymore, sure like,
I mean you did last year for an out of
conference game. But generally speaking, you've got the Arizona's, you've
got Colorado, you'll go to Texas. Yeah, it's a lot
closer than the cross country trip that you had to
UMass of all places.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yep. It looks Yeah, it's a little bit easier.
But these are truck stop conference locations. So that's what
they say, you know, that's what it is, what they say.
You know, it's not there's not all. They don't have
major metropolitan international airports flying. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you got Tempe that's right next to the
feet Nickson there.
Speaker 2: You could go to the Temple. That's a good one.
Speaker 4: You aren't most college towns like a truck stop anyway,
Like Athens is almost two hours outside of Georgia, Like
Oxford is almost impossible to get to state college.
Speaker 2: Isn't any easier, Like, yeah, it's such a dumb take.
Speaker 4: Good college town is not near Like think about the
college towns that are in a metro city, like Temple,
like places.
Speaker 2: That colleges that suck. Frankly, if you want a good
college town, you don't want to be taking offense temple
those temple at you know, you know, lums do not
take offense to that. But Brett does live at one
four seven West Sandfield. I don't know if it is either,
but you know, these are these are trying times for Kugarnation.
B Yu koalisays we've had them the past two years.
We didn't make the cut this year. Such a bummer
was down to pay even with the higher seat price
by alumni. DFW says zero. We don't go to home game.
Our kids have rock passes. So there's some that like
aren't impacted by it. There's a lot of boy fans
that that are out of the state right that are
that are not participating in this. My biggest thing is
like I don't want the fans that have that are
willing to show up rain or snow, one pm or
nine pm kickoff to be ousted like those are the
fans that you need that actually rise and shout. Yeah,
the one like to me, there's a meritocracy and they
need to qualify it of you know, maybe it's consistency.
We talk about all these point of cruel systems that
are digitized now, like on our apps, right with food
and with anything for that matter, any product or service.
It seems like there's like some sort of loyalty rewards program.
To me, if like you're showing up consistently no matter
what the game is, you're not reselling them. And I
don't know how to track this. I'm just ideating here,
do you know what I mean? Selling a whole other
issue that we haven't really dived into. Yeah, there's a
resale market too, some guys are buying it. And then
these big time games, Notre Dames on there. You're gonna
go sell those, right, You're gonna sell those. You can
make a lot of it.
Speaker 3: Those are expensive right now, Yeah, very very expensive.
Speaker 2: They're like four fifty six is the cheapest dice. Yeah,
and and that's probably maybe what Uncle Poot did. He
was able to make more money off of it and
then and than anything. So you know, but like you
want to build up like, look, I love the decibel
Like this was like a decade ago. I'm like, we
need to have like a decibel measuring device for our
fan base. And like, if we get to a certain
amount of decibels in the game consistently, you know, three
or four times in games, then everyone needs a chicken
sandwich or a pizza. Like the cheapest way is do
you know that cougartail? Do you know what I mean?
Or a cougartail right, like something right where like you
there's an incentive we're we are we are Homo sapiens,
but we are basic mammals in many ways, and we
are incentive and accountability based. Those are the two things
that change up. You're like, oh you cougartail? Yeah, yeah,
go cook? You know what I mean? Like a pizza, yes, pizza, repizza.
We got to get up to that, you know, ninety
eight decibels. I don't know. I haven't looked up decibel
measurements in a long time anyway, but you know what
I mean, Like that, we need to do that. And
I like there has to be something of like loyalty
points outside of like cougar club points that like gives
the little man you know, the young graduate that just
got out of college that wants to be a BYU,
you know, a season ticket O a chance to earn
his way or her way into Cougar Club points. Does
that make sense? No, like some sort of gift and
kind type of deal, like what if? Like what like
ap let's say your recent graduate. You're like, dude, I
want tickets. I'm working. You know, say you're working forty
hours a week. I know you got a child on
the way, et cetera. But you're like, hey, I got
an extra twenty hours that I'd be willing to allocate
to the boy's athletic department. Whatever special. They'll do whatever
it takes, right the recruiting right, you want me to
look at film, you want me to have signed an
n D a non disclosure agreement, and I'll these lips
are shut, and I'll work. I'll work. I'll work for
Cougar Club points. You know what I mean. I'm pitching it.
I'm ideating. I'm an idea guy. Right. All I'm saying
is like, you could gift in contact. You gotta find
a way to be you can be an usher usher. Sorry,
that's from my era. Who is that usher? Who I mean.
It's not like uh Usher is gonna be banned the
day by this part of the Beatles. Oh yeah, I's
he was backshitt yeah bye bye bye, Yes exactly. But
you know what I mean, Like I just want to
give them an opportunity away, a path to earn clear
Cougar Club points somehow, some way. Maybe it's helping set
up at like the fan fests, you know what I mean,
Like whatever it is, find a way a market, a
loyalty program where these individuals that may not have the
funds to a crew Cougar Club points. Yeah, they don't
have one hundred Jesus to spend. They're not fifty Jesus spend.
They have twenty five. They don't have ten grand to spend.
But you know what, they may have some time. They
may have a skill set, they may have you know,
they they may be able to do that for you.
Speaker 3: You know, I one hundred percent agree because look, when
I was younger, like my first ever game, I sat
at the very top most of the games I've been
to by before being a student, I was at the
very top of the stadium. I went to that Oregon
State game, that first black guy I went to a
couple of Utah get I spent. I would save up
money because I was not a rich kid. My parents
were like, you're if you're going to Bay game went peaked.
Speaker 2: I had some very I have the kids in he
has all met filthy. How do I know this because
my brother Matthew went to Loan. I had some very
rich neighbors.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get like my family had some help.
Like like growing up, my family had life. I have
some friends and so I had to I would save
up money to get to top of the row, like
top level of the stadium tickets and those are some
of the best memories I have as a BA fan.
Is I stood in that twenty seven degrees There was
a raining against Boise s date in twenty nineteen or
two and four hosting a top twenty like that was
incredible and with ticket price like BYU. My point is
BYU can't afford to lose those fans, Yes, because those
are the backbone of a ROCKUS stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I agree with you. So like the resale
market to me, like it's really a like I think
there needs to be a message that goes out and
they may be doing this where and I think I
have seen this, you know, game day or even like
the day before, these reminders like hey, if you're not
if you're not planning on going to the game, put
them like put them out to like cougarnation to sell
them or something, you know what I mean. Like and
if you don't know, there has to be like a
resell market. Maybe back to BYU and B what you
need to use their pulpit to like get it out
there to like fans that are willing to go and
attend at a decreased price or something like that. It
doesn't make it. There's gotta be something. There has to
be a pivot there and then those fans are like, yeah,
I want to go to that game. It's one game, boom.
I can spend a few hundred bucks on four tickets,
right and then they show up. But then I don't
have the like the consistent view or whatever. But there's
got to be something there.
Speaker 4: I just feel like sports as a whole is becoming
less about the fan and more about the corporate sponsor.
And I understand we gotta pay bills and everything. I
I before that, but like, I don't even think this
is just.
Speaker 2: A BYU issue. I know that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: But like, I think this is a movement we're kind
of seeing across all sports because sports are becoming like
the popular thing, and so people are like, oh, I
have money, I can do this. I'm gonna buy out
the guy who maybe has been going for forever. Now
I'm just gonna go because this is a to me.
It's not necessarily and guy loves I just.
Speaker 2: Want to, so I'm going to.
Speaker 4: I almost wish they had like rent control on tickets,
you guys, know, like rent control, like you can.
Speaker 2: A socialist, Yeah, so you can't. You want communism too.
I do that rent control going to New York right now.
Speaker 3: I have, but it.
Speaker 4: Just it does suck right for these fans who want it,
they've had it, and it's like, hey, I know you
had those tickets last year, but other people willing to
spend more money. So we're gonna kick you out of
those and you're gonna have to move back, even though
what you paid last year should have been enough. And
the hard part, I think the truth is, I know
Andrew you said, I don't think Bill you can afford
to lose those fans. I think they can and that's
the problem. They shouldn't be able to. This shouldn't be
an issue. Be what you should be committed to those fans.
But like at the end of the day, if BYU
is gonna sacrifice fans who can't pay for fans who
will pay, irrespective of how long the fans have been
with them, because the more popular BYU gets, the more
corporate sponsors are gonna want to get their packs of
seats and their's and their their spots whatever.
Speaker 2: I hope it. I hope they find a way to
combat this.
Speaker 4: But the problem is, like more money is what BYU
is going to take over the guy who's been there
for X amount of years.
Speaker 2: Well real quick and then ap you take it. UH.
Private equity getting into sport is also going to be
very interesting, right you have like that Francis Fenway Sports Group,
a pairent company for Boston Red Sox Okay, deeply integrated
private equity into its ownership structure and business strategy. It
feels expansion and valuation, growth, profitability, and they don't want
to win like it's actually more profitable sometimes not to
invest from a roster standpoint, and you just want to
stay semi competitive. Sometimes you want to take, sometimes you
want to lose. I mean the Jazz, I mean the
Jazz are taken right now. I mean they're They're extremely profitable.
Why my Ryan Smith is in that is in that ownership. Now,
do they want to win a championship eventually, sure, but
they are so dang profitable and you can you can
continue to raise those ticket sales. Concessions are going through
the roof, parking is going like, there are so many
ways to create money on that. I mean we had
we we we bought some nosebleeds at the Jazz game
in their losing season, right, I mean I was still
out two hundred between parking tickets and concessions and a
losing season for four tickets, Like right, that's crazy, right?
Food can se? I mean I can't. You can't sneak
food in what was the last time the Cowboys won
a playoff game.
Speaker 4: That's the most valuable franchise in the United States in
North America. Yeah, so, like you don't have to win
to be relevant and be valuable.
Speaker 3: Yeah So, like my point with they can't afford to
lose those fans though it's twofold, is that one, Like
those are the loud fans.
Speaker 2: Those are, Yeah, those are, but that doesn't affect lot
of line.
Speaker 3: Well, so here's my other point is though, I think
in the future it does because if.
Speaker 2: You want the twelfth Man, if you want a rock crowd,
you want someone to you want those those those false
starts like you did versus ASU, those people will well.
Speaker 3: Also, it's like those people grow up and become donors
of a colors, like if they are successful, that's like
it's it's a very long term point is that those
like I think I remember seeing something about some BAU
donors love donating to the BAU because BA supported their
family right in the past. And I think you lose
out on that kind of relationship if you don't look
out for the little man.
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I think of spring, when I think of summer. As
we get into the getting into the dog days of summer,
we get into the off season, that song definitely definitely
comes to mind. And I don't know, I don't think
you would consider that country. But I've played Florida Georgia
line last week, Rascal Flats post Malone. I kind of
switched my music around this time, when the weather gets
a little bit nicer.
Speaker 2: Outside, I would one thousand consider Rascal Flats country music.
That's country music I grew up on.
Speaker 4: I've always had this question though, because obviously I love
country music. Country music, I feel like has become popular
in like general popular culture over the last few years,
which like I'm not super happy about because I'd like
to gatekeep country Morgan wall and I think made like
white girls love country. But I had always wondered this
question before country music became popular. If you're going on
a boat and you don't like country music, what in
the world are you listening to? Or does everyone magically
just become country music fans as soon.
Speaker 2: As they go voting.
Speaker 1: That's a good question.
Speaker 2: You're listening to on the boat, it is not country music.
Speaker 1: It's a great question. You're not wrong.
Speaker 2: You don't listen to Jason Derulo on a boat.
Speaker 4: You're not listening to Billy ey list When you're on
a boat, you're listening to Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you? Are you listening to guys? Maybe like
if you're not contry going a CDC? Yeah, maybe rock
music that does music.
Speaker 4: But I also feel like the people who probably don't
because I'm I'm thinking of like your stereotypical white girl
and your frat bro, like because like.
Speaker 2: Listening to the rock music.
Speaker 4: But like, what are those people listening to on the
boat other than the possibility of like as soon as
they get a white claw in their hand, like they
automatically become from Tennessee and they just love country music.
Like that's that's the only way I see it. Like
same with people with driving with windows. Now, as soon
as my windows go down, I gotta put country music on,
because what what else are you listening to? I just
I don't know, but now that everyone's become fake country
music fans, I guess it is what it is.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate you playing that.
Speaker 1: Run Yeah no, yeah, I consider myself to be a
real countryman fan. And I I knew that Rascal Flowers
the country music I was just posing that for Bread.
Speaker 3: Just calling me out there. But I am a real
country music fan. But I do love Morgan Wallen.
Speaker 2: I mean I.
Speaker 4: I but I'm saying there's people who didn't like country music.
Speaker 1: This is very true.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like country now.
Speaker 3: It's like what Morgan Wallen's done, Like this is a
hot take. But his last album was very there was
not much real country in there. There was a lot
of there was a lot of more pop mixed than
with country.
Speaker 2: Well that was real country.
Speaker 1: But I think you got to also adjusted the times, right,
I mean, look, and we have this debate amongst my
friends all the time, and I'm in the genre of music.
As we're talking about band of today.
Speaker 2: I actually don't think I agree with this take.
Speaker 1: But Andrews take what I'm about to say, Miami, Okay,
we'll be the song Miami, not yeah. Well, and there
might not be a few songs, but it's like the
conversation about Okay, who's the This is where it gets
a debate of like, right, who's the greatest rapper? Right?
People always have there and I define it two different things.
Like I don't consider Drake anymore to be like a
rapper or what he does, even though it falls in
that genre. I consider Drake to be a great artist.
But like that's the thing, Like the BAA football team
had this like four years ago with Jaron Hall and
like Isaac Rex, and they're like, Kendrick is overrated. I'm like,
how's the guy? How does the guy that Isaac Rex
have the most Grammy's overrated? I don't get that, but like,
I mean, his proof is in the putting. It is
like if a guy, if you have eight championships, how's
the overrated? Anyway, My point of what I'm saying is
that I think there's difference of it. Like I consider
Kendrick to be the greatest rapper right in my opinion,
but I consider Drake to be the greatest like artist
because of what he's done and how he's evolved. I
just I don't think you can just have one so like,
although yes, Morgan Wallen the last album might not have
been that way, I think you do have to like
mix in a few things because I think you can't
just be so like, you know, you can't just be
one narrow track minded. Like as much as I love Kendrick,
I feel like he can only go here, he can't
go here and other people can go elsewhere. And like
I appreciate people like Morgan wall and that do that,
that are able to do that. So yeah, but it's
up for debate for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's a couple of songs on that
album that are not country are still really good. Yeah,
I mean I wouldn't say yeah, I'd say it's more
country than some of the stuff that.
Speaker 1: Yes, definitely definitely more country than that. You know, what
do you guys feel? Dan and Shae Falls, they're like
cop pop country, you know, I think pop.
Speaker 2: A lot of country now is just pop.
Speaker 4: It is, it has shifted. There's a couple of people
like your I mean, even Luke Combs has some stuff.
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, I mean it's all good. I love
all of it.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't understand the country fans are, like,
I don't like pop country.
Speaker 1: But to your point, though, yeah, I like I.
Speaker 3: Like some pure Like give me some George Straight in there,
Like I love George Strait that kind of music, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's definitely a good debate to have. But
to Brett's original point, bringing a back full circle, I
do agree with Brett that definitely if you're on a boat.
I've gone to Lake Powell, I've been on some boats
as of friends, and there is no music other than
country music and maybe a little bit of Taylor Swift
because you know, the white girls play that and that's
what my family play, my in loss play. Other than that,
it is a definitely country I definitely can you definitely
hear that go around the boat for sure. Even at
a barbecue you hear that as well. That's something definitely
that curse. Okay, all right, let's keep going into it. I
didn't give a chance to give my thoughts on this.
You guys are having a great discussion as to question
of today about basically the ticket sales, just a rehash it.
You know how many amongst you and Cougarnation have been
impacted by the season tickets selection for the last two years.
I'll be honest, guys, I won't lie. One of the
reasons that I'm staying in the media business is because
of this is to continue to cover to say objective,
but you're not gonna get tickets now it's been mentioned
the expensive tickets that he's bought. The last game that
I went to, you know, just as a fan in general. Yes,
it was a bou game. This was when Jake Resz
left through the ninety nine yard pick six. My wife
and I were watching that on the fifty yard line
and that was horrific. I can tell you that I
saw it checked out of the play. Yes, he did, guys,
checked out of the play. I know that this could
give me to some trouble because it's different, but I
wasn't covering the game that day. I was there of
my own free will and choice with my family and
tried to throw to Cody Epps and it went the
other way. But to the point of that, I can't
even imagine just the times of how it's changed and
that and that's the thing, right, I could not get
creditial to get into a game. But having done that
is kind of like what Brett says, it's it's hard
now to go and spend money and do that, even
like for jazz games, like I find the connections of
friends that I know that work or these things are
super discounted because after having covered it's just they're so
expensive and I know if I don't make a certain amount,
like and I hate to be this transaction with it,
but this is just a case like money means power.
And because I don't have a dollar sign tattooed, you know,
on the back of my arm and I can and
I haven't built a business or I don't have, you know,
saying that I don't bring anything to the table. So
I know, as a fan, unless I'm gonna be willing
to spend the top dollar to said all the way up.
Is just it's tough these days. Like I could probably
get season tickets to the B's before I could get
season tickets to a BYU game. And maybe I'm exaggerating.
Speaker 2: That, but I just these are expensive.
Speaker 1: They are, but like I think that's a difference though,
like with that but you know, but but that's my point,
Like that's where I'm comparing it to when four or
five years ago as a BYU when I just started this,
you know, they were expensive, but they weren't like what
they are now, like you really have it's the name
of the game is paid to play, And it's just crazy.
I know that there's been a lot of fans impacted
by it. I've had people tell me I just stay
on the couch like I'm not gonna you guys know
that I as a part time side house. I'll work
an Adobe on the side. And there are a bunch
of bau fans that said, yeah, they wanted me to
pay an extra fifteen to twenty thousand dollars to sit
five rolls up. No, I'll move back, And I just
think that's crazy. Those are the times that we're in.
But that's a lot of money fifteen to twenty thousand
dollars just to move forward to just keep your original
seats and not be moved five rolls back. Man. I
just hope I'll work hard enough that one day, you know,
I can get back to my university in whatever way
I want to. But that's I think that's crazy that
we're in those times to pay you have to pay
that much just to keep your original seats and not
get split up.
Speaker 4: I may get in trouble for this idea, but I
like this idea, so I don't really care.
Speaker 1: Hit me with the idea.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
Speaker 4: If someone's good, If I'm donating money to a school,
I don't know, I don't I'm sure there's no legal
precedent for this, But I feel like if I'm giving
money to a school, especially that much money, I should
earn the right of getting to know how much we're
we're paying.
Speaker 1: Ooh, I like that idea. That that's crazy, that's a
great idea.
Speaker 4: I'm investing. I want to know where my money is
going is because here's the deal. If I'm like, Okay,
let's say I pay Let's just say I was a
rich Downer and I paid two million dollars as a donation. Well,
I want to know if you paid so and so
X amount of dollars, and I want to know if
you paid this basketball player X amount of dollars, because
let's say you gave ex basketball player five hundred thousand
and then that basketball player way underperforms And I'm like, Okay, well,
I think we overpaid for this guy. And that's my
money that went there. And obviously I got some perks
in return, I got seats and whatever. But I think maybe,
I'm sure there's no legal precedent for that, But I'm like,
maybe that's how you start the CBA negotiations with college athletics,
is like, well, people are donating to these schools, they
shouldn't know what their money is going to and who
their money is going to.
Speaker 3: That's I mean, it's not it's a fiery take, but
I don't know if I just like I don't, I
don't disagree.
Speaker 4: To be honest, I'm sure it will never happen, But
like I, I want to know what people are making.
I want to know if people are getting overpaid, if
they underperform or overperform, all that good stuff, which again
I think we never will because of collective bargaining and
all that. But when we were having this conversation, I
was like, if.
Speaker 2: I was paying that much money, I would want to
know where it was going.
Speaker 1: You bring up a good point.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm willing to pay extra money for one time
events such as the one that we're going to transition
to get you guys's thoughts on the Sweet sixteen of
your brackets and those things. But I would pay, you know,
some good money to see a marchin Madnis game, or
a Final four game or Elite eight or something that
feels local. You know, I would pay to see that.
But it's it's definitely tough to pay for that. But
I like Brett's idea. We've had this discussion before about
if you're gonna pay pay to have the headset, but
you have to sign NDA's to not say anything what's revealed.
I like Brett's idea of that. That's a very good idea.
I would like to definitely do that. If I'm gonna
pay twenty thousand dollars or if I'm gonna pay not
not twenty, that's not enough. If you're gonna pay six figures,
then yeah, what's what's what's Kevin Young making? What's these
other players making? And I might get people mad, people
might not like that, but I mean, hey, the name
of the game is paid to play. There has to
be some return on investment or compensation, not just courts
that seats. This might give me in trouble, but I
and look, I was a student at the time when
this happened. I'm no longer that, but I remember I
was taking a class from a certain information director down
there at BYU and talked about the seats of Ryan
Smith and the media you know used to sit you
know there at the scorers table of course, or whatever
the conversation was. It was somewhere on the lines of
that and that now those seats are gonna take priority
because they pay more, and that's the name of the game,
and that's what I'm getting at. So I do feel
sad for these fans who maybe they work hard enough
and they're not able to afford the you know, the
fifty sixty thousand dollars, whatever the tickets are. They can
only afford this and that's the best that they can do.
And it does suck that people are getting booted out
because I do feel, like Brett says, you know, and
Ben has said, the little man, you want those people
to be able to win. And I am bringing this
up and I do. And I can say this because
I'm at BU games. When I go to non conference games,
Brett and Andrew, and I see that the Laura Bowl
behind BYU's bench is not all the way fold up.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: That does frustrate me where I'm like, Okay, you're gonna
come during conference when the games matter. Then I'm gonna
echo a Ben's point says, like, can you give those
tickets away to people an award if those seats aren't there?
And I don't know what the reasons are and I
haven't asked the people. Maybe I should I might have
to this, but like, how how do people or how
do how do those that want to come to games
get those tickets? What can we do? Or like you
guys were saying in the last segment, can people volunteer?
Like do people need to cut the grass at the
Marriott Center? Like what needs to happen? Because I do
believe if you incentivize people, if hey, do X y Z,
people would show up. I know I would. I know
definitely what if I was, you know, being as poor
as I am and not having to be able to
afford that, that's something that would I would definitely take on.
But I don't know. I don't know what the right
answers are, but I know people getting pushed out is
definitely seeing that is frustrating for people.
Speaker 3: I think there should be there's a way to track
if a ticket's used.
Speaker 2: If your ticket, yeah, you scan it and it goes
in the system.
Speaker 3: Well right right, Like like they can keep track of
this if your ticket isn't used. I think you should
be dinged on your priority list the next season.
Speaker 1: Ooh ooh, you're getting fired with it with people in
the money they.
Speaker 4: Spend their argument, but like here's the thing is like
Bou doesn't want to ding people who are spending a
lot of.
Speaker 2: Money, exactly right.
Speaker 4: I agree with everything that is being said, but when
you look at it from BYU's perspectives.
Speaker 1: No, you can't punish.
Speaker 4: Exactly if if you have to pick between two jobs,
and you're picking between working for your friend at one
hundred thousand or working from some guy you don't know,
from Adam at a million dollars, Like, I love you, man,
I know we grew up together, but that's.
Speaker 2: A lot of money. I'm not going to turn that
down because we have a relationship.
Speaker 4: And I think that's how sports and not just BYU,
Utah's taking private equity money, Like it's not just BYU,
but by us who we're talking about right now. These
athletic departments and these teams, they want to go where
the money is, and I hate it because I think
it ruined sports. It's the same thing that I'm dealing
with with a sneaker that I'm trying to buy right now,
Like it's the same thing. People just want to buy
things that they can flip and sell to even richer people.
It's all about making the money, and unfortunately, I think
it does sometimes dilute the quality of the product. That
being said, I still love watching football. I hate that
it is this way. And the thing I think that
I hate the most is the point that you brought
up AP is like I remember going to Braves games
with my dad. I mean, I ain't grew up here.
I remember going to Thrashers games with my dad. Like, yeah,
so we don't even have a hockey team in Atlanta anymore.
But but the point being, like, that's a core memory
for me, and it may not be BYU, for our listeners,
for whoever's listening to this, but like you have a
core memory of attending a sporting event with your friends
or your parent or whatever. You have a story like AP,
And unless you have a really rich parent, that's likely
not going to be the case for you. And there's
gonna be a lot of kids who grow up with
a lot of money, and good for them, I'm not
I'm not shaming them, but there's gonna be kids who
they're not as fortunate and their parents can't afford those
tickets and therefore they don't get those memories.
Speaker 2: And again to your point.
Speaker 4: Like, now those you have less fans later on or
I guess maybe less seriously committed fans because they're like, oh, yeah,
I love you, Au. I didn't really go to any
games growing up because we couldn't afford to which is
a crazy thing to say, Like I think even five.
Speaker 2: Years ago that would have been crazy to say.
Speaker 4: But it's like, yeah, we didn't go to games because
we couldn't afford tickets. What do you mean you couldn't
afford tickets? You could get you could get, no, man, Like,
it's just it's just so pushed out and it's so
tough to get tickets that like, unless you want to
go watch Portland State, Like, you're not really gonna be
watching a BYU game as a kid, And that I
think makes me hurt more than anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you bring up a valid point. I don't know
about you guys. If you guys have watched this as
you've you know, an AP will get closes to you
as you get you know, more towards graduation. But Brett,
you might be at answers better even AP. I've seen
friends post, you know, post like obviously alumni people that
like BYU and I over the years since two thousand
twenty two, I've seen them get further and further up
in the stands, like when they post their games, like
we're talking about like basketball games, they're all the way
at the top, like my goodness, compared to four years ago.
I have friends that could say, maybe you know, upper bowl,
but like the first row. Now they're all the way
at the top. And I said, it's just crazy, but
that's where it's come from. But yeah, in the point
of business, Brett's right, Look, a million dollars compared to
one hundred thousand. Even if they're your friend, let's not
act brand new. We know what probably is going to happen.
Look at you exactly. I just don't. I don't want
them to be you.
Speaker 3: Know, I love you, Ron, but I'm taking million, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Look, look, and can't we keep it a buck? Like
Brett would tell me the same thing, Ron, if you
don't take this, you kind of like, and I would
say the same of like, yeah, like you understand, you
understand the reasoning why they do it, you don't have
to agree with it. I always say, both of those
things can be true. We say that on the station.
We've implemented that since twenty twenty four. Two things can
be true you don't have to agree with it, but
you can also say that that's what's gonna happen as well.
It's going to be the business side of it. Both
of those things can be true. But yeah, shout out
the Jared Bletso was tuning into the program of Utah
Protective Films Utah Protective Films dot Co. He said, only reggae,
only reggae music. So, uh, there you guys go, I'll
give you give you. I don't know if you're voting
for voting, Yeah, for voting only reggae barb. Yeah, you
know I can accept that to that's a valid answer
for sure. I didn't even think about reggae. So shout
out to Jared on that no reggae is reggae is
pretty good. Some Bob Marley shows how much regg I
really listened to what you hear?
Speaker 2: I don't enough to speak it's that, But no, Jared.
Speaker 1: He's listening. So texas some some reggae actions so we
could play it tomorrow for bandit. I really liked that
he brought that up.
Speaker 2: With that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's finish up with some sweet sixteen some
March madness basketball talking o b Yu Well, supposed to
be taken on Perdue. That's what I had in my bracket.
You guys remember the little corgy that like goes out
and sess who's gonna win with the little ball thing,
and he like hits with his nose. He's got Texas
beating Perdue in the Sweet sixteen, Nebraska advancing, He's got
Arizona beating in Arkansas. He's got Houston beating Illinois. He's
got I believe Duke is beating Saint John, Saint John,
excuse me, beating Duke, and then it's Alabama taking down
Michigan and then obviously Yukon beating Michigan State. What do
you guys have in your Sweet sixteen? What do you got?
Speaker 4: So you can actually go back and like, uh, they're
called second chance brackets. So I just went back and
made my second chance bracket. If you want to do it,
you'll have to go and do it in the next
couple hours here because they're about to close. But on
Danskin's Tournament Challenge app you can do a second chance
bracket because mine got brusted hard in the first round.
So needless say, I'm not using that anymore.
Speaker 2: You know what I picked Saint John's to beat Dukes Sames.
Speaker 4: I said this before, like the tournament is not about
who deserves it the most.
Speaker 2: It's not about who earns it the most. It's about
who wants it the most.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 4: And I get the vibe from Duke that like they
just think that they deserve it, They think that they
Saint John's feels like they want it more than Duke does.
I don't know that Saint John's is more talented, but
I do think Saint John's wants it more than Duke does.
So I got Saint John's winning that one. I have
Yukon beating Michigan State. I have I'm going back and
forth on this Iowa Nebraska one, but again, like I
think Iowa just wants it.
Speaker 2: So I have Iowa winning that one. I have Houston
beating Illinois.
Speaker 4: Yes, Arkansas Arizona scares me a little bit because I
think Darius Acuff in the I mean Darius A. Cuff
is the best player in the tournament right now. He
is the best player in the today. I put out
a video the other day like there's a world where
he could be the best player in the NBA draft.
Speaker 2: We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 4: I'm still giving it to Arizona because I think Arizona
is the deepest team in America. Like, there's just no
reason the guys coming off the bench for Arizona, there's
no reason they should be bench players. They are the deepest
team in America. That's why I have Arizona is my
national champ. I want to pick Texas because again of
that same factor of like they just seem like they
want it more than anybody else in the tournament.
Speaker 2: I'm not going with Texas.
Speaker 4: I don't think it pans out for them, but I
think they'll put up a hell of a fight against Purdue.
I have Michigan over Bama, and I have Iowa State
over Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Sold some good picks. So what I have.
Speaker 3: I have Saint John's over Duke because Duke's just not
playing well in the tournament right now. Like they they
nearly got ousted by that game against That game against
TCU was way closer than that. That was a game
for most of it, and then and then obviously the game. Yeah,
I mean, I'm gonna take Michigan State over Yukon. Yukon's
been suspect lately. I trust Michigan State in the tournament,
like I I just do. I'm gonna take Nebraska over Iowa.
That game is gonna be a dogfight. That's a dog
that they split the season series. I mean Jordan being
Neucte and I talked about this on the Morning show.
It's gonna be a dogfight. It's not gonna it's gonna
be an ugly watch. I'm gonna take Nebraska just because
I love the story. They're picked fourteenth in the preseason
Big ten A Poll, fourteenth, They're in the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: Love Nebraska.
Speaker 3: I think they want it because this is the first
year they've even won a tournament game in his Is
that true?
Speaker 2: It just did. That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take Illinois over Houston. That's a hot take.
Speaker 2: Probably No, no, it's not hot. No oh no, no
it is hot. Ain't nobody beating in Houston.
Speaker 3: I'm taking I'm taking Illinois over Houston. No way, Arizona
over Arkansas. Purdue is gonna. I think Purdue's gotta kill Texas.
I just I don't see how Texas can hang with him.
I'll take Michigan over Bama, Iowa State over Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Al right, here we go, ready for the hot takes
of them all. So I did take Saint John's over Duke.
I took Yukon over Michigan State. I think Hurley's pod
from last year. I took Saint John's over. Excuse me,
I took Yukon over Saint John's. I think he gets
to get back. I think Hurley gets back to the
final four. I have Nebraska over Iowa. I do like
the story of Iowa. I would like to see Iowa in,
but I think Nebraska is filling some juice right now.
I'm not even though I love my fine Aline, I
love Illinois, I love Keenan Wagler. I don't think that
anybody wants to see Kelvin Samson pick you up ninety
four feet the entire game and guess what they're not.
They don't get tired either, by the way, So I'm
taking Houston over that. Then I took Houston obviously over Nebraska.
Here we go. John caler Pari is a good coach
for a reason. Arizona has been the deepest team all year.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 1: They got BYU, they got Kelvin Samson, But John kyla
Pari has been doing this for a while, one of
the oldest coaches coaching. I think he lets Tommy Lloyd
know there's a lot of noise going on right now,
Tommy Lloyd and you know you and see, oh no,
he's not on the list. And tj Oski Bergy sources
say he doesn't want it after he spoke and said that,
but people claiming they saw him from Burner's accounts in
the hotel. It's too much noise. And John caler Pari
has this man named Darius A. Cuff, who if he
keeps playing like this should be a top three pick.
He might have to bump Peterson or Boozer. That's a
hot take, but that's facts. With the way he's playing,
people make their name of the tournament. Gimme Arkansas over
number one Arizona to ruin them in the sweet sixteen
to go on to the they have a shot, they do.
Speaker 2: I do not hate that pick.
Speaker 1: They got a shot. We'll see if they're able to
do it, but we'll see Zona's. If Arizona beats Arkansas,
then I have to think they're winning the whole thing
because this is the only team I look at this
side that could take them out. I don't think Purdue
could take Arizona. If I'm gonna be honest, I have
Purdue over Texas. I do have Michigan over Alabama. I
think Aid and Holloway not playing, it's gonna catch up
to him. Now. I just think the deeper you get,
you need guys like that to play. He's not the
best player, but he is one of the best, and
I think you need guard play in this in this tournament,
so so heavily give me. So give me Michigan and
then give me Iowa said. I even think without Joshua
Jefferson they can do it. But then I think after
that their run comes to an end. In the Elite eight,
I think Michigan takes it. I got Michigan in Arkansas
and then I got Houston versus Michigan in the final four,
and Brett, do I ever pick against the final boss?
So give me Houston to win the whole thing. That's
my second chance bracket. That's not my original but that's
my second chance one because you have the opportunity to
do that. But just wanted to give that. So what
do you guys got in the Sweet sixteen? Kugarnation. Let
us know, go ahead. You can tweet at me dm me.
You guys always do that anyway, tag me in it.
Who do you got, tell me why? And look, no
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This is why we like marches, just to see it.
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