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Welcome in former BYU Quarterback. We got Steve Clements on
the line. Steve, how you living, brother, Oh great man?
Speaker 3: How are you ben doing?
Speaker 1: Awesome man? Springball? You know, this is a great time
of the year for me. I like looking at the future.
I like looking at development. I want to see who
put in the work in the off season and the
way from January through through February and getting into March.
I got March mad news year. That's around the corner.
So all is well, Camp Killiney twenty twenty six, about
to kick off. What do you remember about springball? What
do you recall about what the the the the storylines
were when you were in springball.
Speaker 3: Well, for me, my first year, you know, I had
to sit out a here and so fall I couldn't participate.
So my first spring was you know, six six or
seven months after I had transferred to the y and
so I mean it was a below the belt check time,
we'll call it for me. So I had to impress
and try it, not just to make the team. But
I came in Walsh was a freshman. I came in
as my first year after my red shirt year and
at UT having me sit out in that year, so
essentially sitting out two years. This was my first opportunity
to play basically in between the lines since I had
started high school a couple of years before that, so
it had been a while since, you know, I got
to throw against real competition. Even though the spring practice
like it was, it was, it was check time for me.
So my first year obviously was quite nervous and then
after that, Wallston established himself as a starter. So spring
was just fine tuning things obviously for the coaching staff.
And where you're going with this is there to answer
some questions. And we got some questions to answer on
both sides of all and not just the starters, but
your depth chart. You get that handled, you get that
squared away. But then on the defensive side, k Pop
and his first experience in the defense, coordinated defense. Now,
I don't think there's gonna be a problem because he's
got Colonnie and coach Anderson to lean on. But that's
what spring is. I mean, there's two seasons and sports.
For me, it's spring football and fall football. And this
is the first season, uh where we get a look
at filling in the gaps, securing the holes that we
might have transfers. How are they going to come in?
You know, as a kid from Oregon, you get to
pan it out with injuries and you know, he looks
the part well, he is he to part, you know,
and those type of kids that you have the questions
with the freshman and coming in getting to know the
system and how quick are they going to be able
to uh, you know, get the system and feel comfortable
playing in a system for the first time since high
school is completely different. College is a different animal. So
I'm excited.
Speaker 1: It is a great time to be to Cougar b
YU coming off at twelve eleven and two and then
a twelve and two season, a lot of positive momentum
heading into spring. One of the things I asked k
Pop in my interview with him recently, I'm like, hey,
how do you how do you keep this team humble?
We have seen in the past when b YU has
two consecutive great seasons, Uh that they there's a little
bit of a drop off, right they there's a little
bit of a pride cycle. How can you you stay
the course, stay humble, stay hungry. What are your thoughts
on that? How do you keep a team focused on
the task at hand and working daily to be great
rather than relying on the pass to determine their their
their their mindset.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you always, I think is the coaching staff.
You got to rely on your your older players, your
more experienced players to you know, get that across to
your team. So Clanne is going to rely on your
Bruce Mitchell's and your Isaiah Laskers and even Bear even
though he's now just only a sophomore. You're l J. Martin's,
you know, Evan Johnson's, those guys that have been in
the system and have gone through, yeah, two successful seasons,
but they understand there's you know, we got to replace
a Tanner Wall, We've got to replace a p K
and Roberts. So I think there's enough gaps and holds
the field to keep the guys really focused on. Okay,
the past of the past, it's what have you done
for me lately. We've got some questions we need to
answer in the spring and a little bit of fall
camp to get to where we want to be the
last two years. So with that being said, you know
it's going to be based on the leadership, and I
think we're fine in that category. I don't have any
issues with us thinking we're content or we're just like
last year or the year before. Now. The trains just
to continue to roll, so instead of I think we've
gotten to a point and b AU Football where enough
of the rebuilding. We just reload now. And because the
expectations last two years will continue to be the same expectations,
and good on us so and good on Klawonne for
being I mean, he's got the third most wins, dude
since twenty twenty in college football. Yep, and so like that.
That's that's that's a lot. It's a lot of pressure.
But so what like good, bring the pressure on. That's
that's what we're going to be used to now. And
so I feel good about this year and continuing to
feel good about BYU football as a whole. Bull short
term and long term.
Speaker 1: Let's start quarterback two battle here for a moment. That's
one of the intriguing storylines I'm gonna be taking a long,
hard look at throughout spring. We know Bear Bachmeier is
he's the better throwing freaking Tim Tebow. That's what you
told us once upon a time, and it has come
to fruish my friend. So hey, we could have a
little bit of a Heisman Trophy candidacy if all things
go well this year, right if we don't, if we
want to really get Utah fans angry at us, we'll
talk about that and get some quotes from you. But
who's your favorite to win it right now? QB two
Trayson Borge or Goldie Enick Watson out of American Leadership academy.
Speaker 3: Only because I haven't seen Enick play or practice, and
I've seen Trason. Not only have I seen Trason, but
or as an affectionate call Bobby Bouche, I've seen him,
and he's been in the system. He knows the system,
he knows the offense. He's gonna be a senior. I
know he has the back of the locker room. So
just by default, I would say Trac right now today, yep,
But again that spring things happen, right the depth chart
is being tried to be formed, maybe there's a splash,
maybe Enoch comes out and just like starts killing it right,
and so yeah, he's gonna be in the mix. But
we yes, obviously we have QB one, but QB two
is a very famous on a famous name on campus.
When you have somebody like Bear, everybody goes, okay, what
if dot dot dot and right now today, just based
on experience and knowing the system and knowing the program
and having the locker room behind him, I'd have to
go with Trason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, you know, I think Enix got plenty
of talent, plenty of dual threat capability as well. He
did get home from the mission I want to say
back in October, so he's uh, you know, he may
be more competitive than I think some are believing, but
Trason definitely has the tenure, uh, and definitely the experience.
RB two. Who's your favorite to be? RB two? Shioni,
Mala Joe Vesa de MOONI Is it Devon Eka or
Logan Pain or Preston Rex? Who you gotten? Why?
Speaker 3: I think? I think right now today it's probably sionis
number two, but right on his heels is Eka as Devon. Uh,
he's a true freshman, but he's the early enroll lye.
I know he's been on campus. I know he's bulked
up to about almost two hundred pounds now. When he
got to school he was at one point eighty two.
And I know there's been discussions about how to get
him inserted, not just in the lineup, but getting in touches.
So he's already making an impact in the weight room
before springball even starts today with the coaching staff. And
you know, I have it'smate knowledge about him because I
coached him the last couple of years at LEI. And
not only he's a great kid, but he's he's gonna
be the RB room is set like we're good, Like
we're more than good with LJA, which you're top returning
running back in the entire nation, not just in the
Big twelve Conference. But I'd throw his name in the
hat Heisen Trophy candidate, And yeah, eventually number forty seven
is gonna come up to really.
Speaker 1: So you know, look, what type of hyper are we
going to be given Bear Blachmeyer heading into twenty twenty six?
What expectations should we have for Bear in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3: Well, I think he's gonna throw for another one thousand
yards more than he did last year, which he's up
and around four thousand, meaning this year he rushed for
what five hundred or so? I think he rushed for
about seven hundred and what I mean, his QBR rating
is the same as ars Mannings, his passer rating is
the same as ars Mannings. Well, he's the odds on
favorite right now, and yes, Manning and he's got the hype,
and yes, he's a very good player. But I mean,
if you take, if you're stat guy, you look at
those stats and you're like, hmm, there's not much difference
between the odds on favorite and our guy in provo
So why the heck not? Why just because it's b yu,
I mean that would be are Yeah, of course I'm
a homeom, Yes i am. But I've also seen and
know that position also as well. And uh yeah, heck yeah,
why why not? Right?
Speaker 1: The hype is real from Steve Clebs regunning up there
Bachmeier and uh, look to me, I think the biggest
storyline though in fault camp, excuse me, in spring ball
is taking a long hard look at this defense. You
seem pretty confident that k Pok can step in field
the shoes of Jay Hill is a is a play caller,
and uh, what do you but what do you make
about the secondary? You know, Gennaro's gone. Jay Hill was
coaching the safety safeties to Mario Warren coaching up the
safeties and then Lewis Clark coaching up the corners. Do
you think there's any drop off there? You're optimistic about
the secondary as well.
Speaker 3: No, there's not gonna be a drop off when you
when your head coaches was considered one of the best,
if not the best, defensive coordinators in the nation when
he was calling it at at the U and then
Oregon State, Like, I don't understand why they would be
a drop off because if that's your foundation, if coach
Kline Sataki is your foundation, and then you have a
guy with coach Anderson with the experience that he had,
and those two dudes with Kate Bob Young enthusiastic learning
under Jay the last couple of years. I'm not worried
about that, and so they The thing about it is
because they have so much experience, it's now to the
point to where whatever you have in the pantry is
they can form a defense around what's the talent that
you have. And I think we're going to be actually
you for talented, maybe even a little bit more so
this year than last year with the returners that we
have coming back. Yeah, we've got a couple holes a field,
but schematics will allow us even if we have a
weakness to cover up that weakness defensively. It's hard to
cover up a weakness offensively. But again, that's what you
have spring football for too. In Paul Camp to see
place here versus this defense and this coverage. Can we
go more man? Do we have to go more zone?
I'm not worried about whether it's coaching or schematics or
the talent level that we'll have on Devens side.
Speaker 1: Of the level, Steve, there's going to be a number
of newcomers on the roster, transfer portal players, true freshmen
coming in return missionaries. Is there a newcomer that you're
most intrigued by that you're excited to get eyes on,
size up and see how they move on the football
field for spring ball?
Speaker 3: Well, I think the kid from Oregon. Yeah, yeah, yes,
thank you, because of the it's not a dire need,
but kind of his receiver. I mean, if I say, well,
Bear's gonna throw for four thousand yards, well freaking he
better be throwing it to some some cats out there
right that can do it. And so there's that, at
least on the offensive side of the ball. I think
Kyler has a lot of frusture, poor kid coming in
from Oregon and and that kind of being having some
injuries in the last couple of years and so but
in that spot, dude, like we need some dudes. But
outside of him, Legend Glaster I think has the potential
there I go off again, and to be a top receiver,
a top five receiver in BYU history. I really do.
I love that he's going to be one to where
I'm gonna be watching quite close is how he transitions
from high school to the college ranks. In that position,
I think he makes an impact early on kickoff return
in special teams, and once he gets the knowledge of
the offense and the playbook down, he finds himself rotating
in at receiver and I think by the end of
the year, you know, allowing if he's healthy, he's going
to be in the starting rotation and you'll see a
lot of Legend for the next three or four years.
Speaker 1: Legend Glasgow. He did test out, I've been told in
the offseason on the offense side of the ball. You know,
it's one of the fastest guys on the football field,
which I thought that was pretty crazy, coming as a
true freshman being one of the fastest guys on the team.
Speaker 3: Well, but pound for pound he might be the strongest
on the team too. Was seventy but he is. He
is stronger than you think. And he tested out almost
I can't remember what he squatted, but it was it's like,
wait a minute, you're doing almost three times your body
weight and squads like it's insane. Because you look at him,
You're like, oh, that dude's not great. Oh no, no, no,
he's uh well, we call it country strong. There's another
word in front of the strong that we use that
I can't stay on the air, but we'll say he's
a country strong dude.
Speaker 1: I love it. Man Steve Klevit's former v ER quarterback
talking some camp Koalani twenty twenty six. Spring ball kicks
off today, ladies and gener we're gonna be down there
covering it, getting eyes on this team, interviewing players and coaches.
Steve Klements discussing what he's excited to see, who he's
watching for. And you know there's other wide receivers, a
lot of these guys. I was talking with Hammer time yesterday.
We were talking with Ronnie and they're all looking at
the wide receiver room. You mentioned Kyler Casper, you mentioned
legend Glasger, and there's Cody Hagen and obviously Jojo Phillips
is a guy that could be a wide receiver one type,
Reggie Friscannect. There's some big bodies on this roster and
it kind of reminds me of the era of like
Cody Hoffman, Rossoppo, Mitch Matthews, Tarren Howk. There was a
lot of big, strong, not necessarily the fastest wide receivers,
but could always body up wide receivers and linebackers. Excuse me,
they can always body up cornerback safeties and linebackers with
that great catching radius. I wonder if we're gonna see
a bit of that, especially with how well Bear Bachmeier
throws the intermediate pass game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna We're gonna have to. That's I mean,
that's what we have. I think, you know, because Higgins
can run, obviously, Lesing can run. Jaron Pool is another
one that's a big body kid. I'm not sure if
his speed. Because you're gonna have to be able to
stretch down the field. Now do you have to be
four four four or five to do that? No, but
you have to have a threat in which to do
that to have a successful passing game, where I think
in Texas Tech we did not do. We threw the
ball over twenty five yards. I believe one time got
a p I against Chase. So no, you don't have
to be super speedy to stretch vertically the defense and
allow those you know, dbs to at least force to
backpedal a little bit quicker than they want. To but
you've got to have a dude down there to stretch
the field, and that opens up the intermediate in the
short game and getting into lj out of the backfield,
and you know the Lions kid or Sally Apoga I
think that I pronounce his name, Yeah, yeah, Sali Page.
You know, they're in the middle, and so I think
eventually we're gonna have plenty of weapons. Spring allows Jojo
and Cody Hagen to master and really refine their crafts,
and then you know the cast for kid and get
the timing down with forty seven. But yeah, you're gonna
see that same type of body type and big body
or they can go up against the safeties and maybe
the outside backers and do some damage. Where Parker really
kills this is you know, that short slot quick Wes
Welker type kid that I'm not sure. I don't know
if Haigen's that way or not. I don't know if
we have somebody like that on the riser. Maybe that's Tiger,
that could be Tiger. You really need somebody like that
as a change up to if you're gonna have these
big body receivers on the outside and a tight end
as well, you got to have some dude that can
create some separation, whether it's horizontally and or vertically, and
so that'll be a big question mark certainly.
Speaker 1: Do you think Bear's gonna show an increase in arm
strength and velocity of the football this season? Do you
think he? You know, how much progress can you make
in arm strength? You know these are grown men now,
I mean he's a young quarterback, but like, how much
increase in velocity and arm can a quarterback game in
an off season?
Speaker 3: In your opinion, I think you can make some. I
think you can make strides to you know, putting a
couple of yards on your arm strength or having it
come out with a little bit more velocity and a
little bit more pop. But for him, I think the
most important thing is going to be just pinpoint accuracy.
Instead of you know, aiming medium and missing medium, it's
aiming small and missing small. And so I think I
think his accuracy becomes way more important in year two
and and you're timing with new guys. I mean, he
didn't get much timing with Hagen, probably more so with
Jojo than the others because he played a little bit
more than Cody did. But he has hardly any established
timing with these other guys. I mean we were so
good back in the day. I mean we had guys
Eric Dredge. They couldn't run out of their own shadow,
but they knew how to run routes, and they were
precision routes and there were attention to detail because we were
coached that and all our routes with their are running
back or excuse me, our receivers, the quarterbacks was all timing.
So ty Damer had he didn't have very good armstring,
but he understood defenses, he understood his own personnel and
the timing. Yeah, he might have to let go of
the ball a little bit earlier than somebody like John
Walsh or you know those guys that could just you know,
Aaron Rodgers or somebody like that. They can just throw
it through a brick wall with no problem. Understanding that
your own talent and then your timing with your receivers.
That's where you get the most out of spring football
with these guys. So there's a lot of work to
be done, but it's gonna be more I think on
the accuracy side and the timing side with these young
dudes or inexperience having bear not thrown to these guys.
That's gonna be the biggest thing, and it's not gonna
be so much the two hours in spring football. It's
the two hours before and the two hours after and
the work on the weekends that's gonna get them to
another level.
Speaker 1: My guys. Steve Klemitz, Ladies and gentlemen previewing the Camp
Kilani twenty twenty six, Spring Ball. Steve, always a pleasure,
always a blessing talking ball with you. Thanks for hopping
off for another keeping up with the cougar segment. Let
us know if you need anything from us, brother, we'll
see down in provo here shortly.
Speaker 3: You bet forty seven for heisman, Let's.
Speaker 1: Go the fair Bachmeyer for a Heisman. Let's go all right.
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