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Speaker 1: This is Cougar Sports with Ben Grittle on ESP and

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it's time for Keeping Up with the Cougars, brought to

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you by Dental prosum Utah dot com.

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Speaker 2: I don't like you, in fact, I hate I hate

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everything about I hate the program, I hate their fans,

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I hate everything. So it felt really good to send

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those guys home. They didn't deserve it. It was our

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time and it was our time to win.

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Speaker 3: We deserved it.

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Speaker 2: We played as hard as we could tonight, and it

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felt really good again to send them.

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Speaker 3: Home, to get them out of here. So you know,

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game always remember.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think I think their whole I think

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the whole university and their fans, and then the organization

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is classless.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 2: You know, they throw they threw beer on my family

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and stuff last year and did a whole bunch of

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nasty things, and I don't respect them, and you know

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they deserve it.

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Speaker 3: They deserve it.

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Speaker 4: There you go, let's get into it.

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Speaker 5: A little Keeping up at the Cougar seven brought to

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American Fork. All right, let's welcome in the winningest quarterback

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and b WHATU football history and arguably the most competitive

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my teammate. We got Max Hall on the line right now, Maximus,

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how the heck are you, buddy?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Good to be on guys.

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Speaker 6: I always tell people this is my most famous week

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of the year right here.

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Speaker 3: Everybody wants to talk to me. I love that.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'd like to talk to you throughout the year.

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Speaker 5: That's uh, you know, but I do know that I

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do enjoy talking ball with my brother, you know, on

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rivalry week. So Max, always a pleasure, always a blessing

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getting you on our airwaves.

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Speaker 4: It's a special week, man.

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Speaker 5: What makes this rivalry so special versus maybe some of

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the other rivalry games, Because look.

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Speaker 4: You grew up in Arizona. I group in Arizona, we saw.

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Speaker 5: The U of AASHU rivalry, right, and that was a

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that was a great rivalry obviously, but the BAU Utah

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one just is built a little bit different.

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Speaker 6: It is, and I think the obvious things are you know,

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there's no professional.

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Speaker 3: Team in Utah.

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Speaker 6: You know, Uh, there's obviously the religious factor to it,

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and so many families are split families in the state.

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It's just it's become just part of the culture I

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think of the state of Utah and and really outside

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of it too, But in the state is I think where.

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Speaker 3: The rivalry really gets as heated as it does.

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Speaker 6: And so I grew up in the Asuu of a

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rivalry which is a heated rivalry.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know, Man, the.

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Speaker 6: BYU Utah thing just it gets it gets taken to

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the next level.

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Speaker 3: And obviously I've been a part of that. I've been

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a cause of that.

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Speaker 6: But I think right now, going into this year, what's

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so special about it is how well both teams are doing.

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They're playing at a high level. Both teams have great quarterbacks,

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great quarterback play. That's what you want to see. I

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think it's going to be an exciting, electric, big time

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football game. I think the atmosphere is going to be great,

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and so I just think it's a It's a good

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time for to be a cougar and of you to

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be honest with you, and so I think hopefully going

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into this week, we can talk trash, we can get

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into it, but at the end of the day realize

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it's the football game, and and there's things in life

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that are bigger, but but this game is at the

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top of the list as far as he gets as

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college football rivalry.

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Speaker 4: It's so special, man, It's a great game.

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Speaker 5: I didn't realize the the seriousness of it until I

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arrived and played in it myself.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that was a good thing or

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a bad thing.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't necessarily emotionally attached to this particular game until

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I played in it, and then it became even more

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valuable for me. And so I'm looking at like Bear,

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for instance, who hasn't played in this game and didn't

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grow up a BYU fan and wasn't familiar with the

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BYU Utah game. And I'm like, is that a good

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thing or a bad thing for a quarterback to head

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into this game with no real knowledge of the volatility,

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the the the components, the the history all of it,

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uh the emotion that is involved in this game.

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Speaker 3: I think he could be beneficial to where he doesn't.

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He doesn't build the game to what too up and

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put too much pressure on himself, you.

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Speaker 6: Know what I'm saying and that you say you want

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to treat it like any other game, prepare like any

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other game, But that's not the case.

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Speaker 3: It's different.

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Speaker 6: You got to prepare for the noise, You got to

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prepare for the animosity. You got to prepare for the

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for the change of possessions, the sudden changes, the turnovers,

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the things. How are you going to handle your emotions?

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Like everything is just raised a little bit in these games,

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and you and the team that usually can manage that

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the best is the.

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Speaker 3: Team that wins.

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Speaker 6: And I always say, obviously the team that can make

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plays in French time to win. But I just think

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you can't treat it like that. And this game is special.

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But I think Bear's going to be fine. Okay, I

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haven't played in the game yet, but hey, we're playing

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really good football right now.

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Speaker 3: I got a good defense behind you, I got a

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really good running back. Things are good.

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Speaker 6: I just need to stay consistent, play my game, and

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I think BYU is the better team and will win.

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Speaker 4: How important is it?

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Speaker 5: The twelve is the twelfth man in this game, it's

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at home versus your rival. The twelfth man, the roar

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of the Cougars, the Royal Army how important is for

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the fans to be involved the entirety of the game.

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Speaker 6: I think it's huge, and it's just like seeing how

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much different it is even than you know when I

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when we played back in the day. I just think

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with the student section and everything, the production that BYU

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puts on for these games is just phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 6: It's so much fun to be at. And as a player,

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I think you feed off that energy. You feed off

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the crowd for good or bad, and so.

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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna need that.

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Speaker 6: I think they're gonna need the crowd to stay in it,

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be loud on defense because in a game like that,

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they can.

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Speaker 3: Affect the other team.

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Speaker 6: And I think we're gonna, you know, any chance that

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we can have them do that would be great.

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Speaker 3: So it's going to be a great atmosphere.

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Speaker 5: Man, Max all here on ESPN the Fan, Your your

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favorite rivalry moment and.

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Speaker 6: Why, Well, I don't think that's a That's an easy

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one for me. I think I think obviously the moment

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is the is the overtime win. You know, my senior

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year and uh you know we my sophomore year throwing

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that fourth and eighteen pass and then going down and

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scoring was phenomenal too.

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Speaker 3: But it's just funny.

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Speaker 6: I've been on both ends of the rivalry because Mice

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junior year going up to Utah, I had all those

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turnovers and we lost and that was embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: And I had to live with that for a year.

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Speaker 6: And that's why there was so much emotion built up

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for me going into that game my senior year because

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of all the trash talking and everything I had to

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hear from the year before with how bad I played

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with the turnovers and so winning that game just it

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was just you worked so hard, you want it so much,

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and for it to happen was just like, man, the

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feeling is unbelievable, and I think all those emotions just

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pore out of you at that point.

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Speaker 3: So it was.

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Speaker 6: It was a pretty special moment. I mean, you think

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of when you're growing up as a kid, do you

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think of you know, when you're in the backyard you're

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making up plays, you think of, Hey, you're in overtime,

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you got to throw this pass to win the game

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for a touchdown. And it happens and Ben, that was

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my last play well Edward Stadium right there, That's how

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we went out.

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Speaker 3: So it's a special moment.

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Speaker 4: Dude, dude, just so immortalized.

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Speaker 5: Man so fantastic, and you know it took a while

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to like after all the momentum, all the all that

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that win and the movement of Utah going to the

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Pac twelve. It also flip man BYU was the big

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dog right for so long and then Utah dominated from

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twenty ten to two thousand and twenty one, nine straight wins.

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The you know, Jaron Hall and that BA Cougar football

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team at home was able to finally break it. And

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now Pop, he's on a two game winning streak. How

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do you think they get to three games? These two

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teams match up very similarly. They look similar statistically, their

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rankings are similar across offensive and defensive stats. What's gonna

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be the difference at home for the Cougars on Saturday?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it's gonna be Bet.

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be Bear if he can stay consistent and

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he can keep doing playing the.

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Speaker 3: Way he's playing.

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Speaker 6: I think A Rodd's doing a phenomenal job with play

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calling and putting him in good situations to make plays

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and letting him use his athleticism when he needs to,

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and not putting too much on him. You know, let's

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use the guys around him as much as we can.

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And then obviously it's going to be consistency giving the

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ball to the running back and consistency in the running game.

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But if Bear can show his maturity that he showed

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this first half of the season, and he can keep

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the game slow, he can see it and he can

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execute it and try not to do too much to

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where he's turning the ball over or putting his team

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in bad situations.

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Speaker 3: I truly believe.

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Speaker 6: I think across the board by use a better team

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and they should get to win. On top of that,

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we're man the atmosphere. I just think everything's in favor

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of the Kogs.

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Speaker 5: It's it's a great day for Cougar football right by

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using the big twelve year three their top twenty five

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back to back seasons in which they've a six and zero.

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This has never been done before, even in your era,

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my era, the era of the seventies and eighties. And

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so what is the trajectory of this Cougar football program

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right now under Kolane with the resources both internally and

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then externally with nil what's the potential here that we're

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talking about with BYU football in the years to come.

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Speaker 3: Oh, there's no limit on it. You know.

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Speaker 6: It's kind of funny. I was sitting here with my

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son this morning. I was getting ready to take him.

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He had waits this morning, and we were we were

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watching ESPN and they were talking about the college football

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bracket and they were putting all their teams up on there,

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and I'm sitting there and I'm like, BYU wasn't up there.

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Speaker 3: And I'm sitting in myself, and I really believe. I'm like,

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by should be up there. And I think that is

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the next step for BYU.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think we win If we can win

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a conference championship, number one, and then there's no reason

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why BYU shouldn't be considered one of the top teams

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in the country every single year. With the program they have,

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the coaching staff, we have the momentum that the program

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has right now, continue to have great recruiting.

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Speaker 3: I just think that there's potential for us to.

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Speaker 6: Be, you know, one of those top top twelve teams

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every single year.

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Speaker 5: When you look at is what has made Utah great

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Kyle Whittingham. The culture that he's created. He's a former

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BYU Cougar himself. He's created a culture, a team that

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produces a high level defense, special teams and if physical

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physical offenses that are pretty balanced, but more maybe run heavy.

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Speaker 4: When you look at what Kyle's.

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Speaker 5: Built and what he's been able to accomplish up there,

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like what stands out to you since he took over

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the head coaching job in two thousand and five.

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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I think you know, obviously with my with

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my comments and my moment with Utah and directed towards them,

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you know, it's people never really asked me my feelings

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on it. But there's one thing I do have, and

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that is a ton of respect for Kyle winning him.

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a reason why he's been there that long and had

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the success that he's had at Utah. He knows how

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to build a culture, he knows how to build a program,

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He's got good coaches in there, He's brought in great players,

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and to consistently.

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Speaker 3: Do it year in and year out. That is hard

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to do at any level. That is hard to do.

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Speaker 6: And so I think the guy is gonna I mean,

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obviously he's gonna go down as one of the greatest

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Polish football coaches in history.

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Speaker 3: And I just think it's amazing what he's accomplished.

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Speaker 6: There at his career, and so got a ton of

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respect for Kyle and what he's done. And I know

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he's getting older and I don't know how much longer

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he's planning on being there, But you know, when his

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days are done at Utah, when he decides to step down,

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he's going to deserve a lot of recognition for his

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accompliment accomplishments.

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Speaker 5: If he doesn't get a win at VELL, do you

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think he retires after this year? Do you think he

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comes back?

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Speaker 4: Give it one.

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Speaker 5: He can't go out with a three game losing streak.

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He's got to go out with a win versus b Yu.

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Speaker 6: I mean that everybody's different in that aspect. Man, I mean,

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you should call him, You should call him to ask

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him that question.

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Speaker 3: Because I can't. I can't answer that question for him.

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Speaker 6: But does does does a win for him make it

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easier to step away? I think so absolutely? Does a

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loss kind of put it in the back of your

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head that you know, I can't go out like that

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sort of a thing, then maybe, But he may say, look,

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the body of work that I put in over years,

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you know, whether we lost to b YU or not

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my last year, I don't think matters when you look

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at the body of work. So that's a good question

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for him to answer, though, So let me know what

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he says.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I will in the in the post game, we'll

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be sure to ask him that. Uh, wherever the cookie crumbles, right,

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whichever the ball, whichever direction ball bounces in this game,

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what has stood out to you about this b what

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you football team this year that makes you a believer

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of what they're building under Kalanie, Like, when you're watching

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these games, obviously you're gonna have eyes on quarterback play

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in the offense, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: But let's talk collectively. What do you see? What do

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you like?

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Speaker 6: I just I like the attitude of the team. I

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like the I like the vibe, I like the energy.

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Speaker 3: I like the I think the attitude is the best

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way to put it.

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Speaker 6: You watch them just how they play, how they correspond

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with each other. You watch the coaches on the sideline

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and how they coach the kids, how they respond to

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the coaches.

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Speaker 3: You can just tell that there's an excitement around BYU football.

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Speaker 6: That there's an energy, a super positive environment that Kilani

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has created that makes kids want to work their tails

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off and and be the best that they can as

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players and do it for the team. But it's also

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a very team centered, unselfish environment, and I think he's

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brought in the right players and the right staff that

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buy into that. And when you have buy into something

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like that, you can create something special.

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Speaker 3: You've got to have the right guy leading it.

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Speaker 6: You got to have the right guy setting the standard

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and following it. And Colin Sataki again has done a

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great job of that. And you can see the potential

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and the progression of this program. And so, like we

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said before, it's an exciting time to be a Krugar.

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I think that we only go up from here as

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we continue to get better players in and more experience

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in this conference. And so, like I said, I think

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the staff, everything, it's just there's a vibe.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes it's hard to explain it, but there's definitely a

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vibe and an energy that's very positive around the program

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right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's been some players over the last decade during

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the independence there's a few years off, right some players

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didn't get to play this game and experience this game

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on both sides of the ball. I find that that's

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kind of a disservice to the student athlete.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: We talk about all the things that make college football great, yeah,

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high school football football in general grade, it's the rivalry games.

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Speaker 4: That's what makes the best games.

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Speaker 5: I mean, when you think about your favorite moments as

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a college football player, I mean, the rivalry game has

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to be at the top. I mean, are there any

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other games experiences that rival a rivalry game?

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Speaker 6: The only one would be a championship game, you know

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what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: A championship conference game or obviously a playoff game.

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Speaker 6: But other than that, when you have a rivalry like

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the BYU Utah rivalry, it's big no matter what, because

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every year that game means something. No matter what the

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records are, no matter how each team is doing, whatever

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data set for the BYU Utah game, it's a big

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game and people care about that game no matter what.

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Speaker 3: So that's what's so special about it is there will

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never be a dull vibe around that game.

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Speaker 6: There will always be excitement, there will be competitiveness, there

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will be trash talking. It's just the whole thing is fantastic,

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and I just think it's special and these players should

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feel lucky that they get to be a part of

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this tradition and part of this game.

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Speaker 3: So hopefully they just.

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Speaker 6: Go out this weekend and and and feed off that

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energy and and give it everything they got and execute

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come on with a win.

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Speaker 5: Max hal here on ESP and the Fan a little

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keeping up with the Cougars brought to you by Dental

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Pros of Utah in American Fork. Max, give us an

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update on work and family, personal life.

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Speaker 4: Give us an update.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, And I know the Halls are doing great.

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Speaker 3: You know, my my.

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Speaker 6: My son's a freshman and killing it on the freshman

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team as a quarterback down here. And my daughter is

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a big time pickleball player. We get till we're in

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the pickleball scene with her. Kensey still running her Pilate

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studios and so things are doing really good.

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Speaker 3: I have my time with.

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Speaker 6: Ala has come to an end, so I'm no longer

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coaching there and right now I'm on the look. So

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I've I've already talked to a few different places and

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have a few teams set up, but I have a

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few more coming up.

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Speaker 3: That I think are going to be hopefully some good

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opportunities for me. But but I'm open.

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Speaker 6: So if you know of anybody looking for a coach,

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you know, let me know.

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Speaker 3: But I'm interested in talking to anybody right now.

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Speaker 4: Well, hey, I put out of some feelers.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, bro, how would you like Max All as

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a coach or even an analyst? These days, the analysts

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aren't making they're making some good money too, and you

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can coach, right, You can now get hands on. Before

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analysts were just kind of like in the booth advising

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and game prep and somefing like that, and but now

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they can, they can coach.

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Speaker 4: What about coming back to the alma mater and helping out?

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Speaker 3: I would I would love that. If it be what

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he wants me to come back and help, I absolutely

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would jump on that.

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Speaker 6: You know, I actually finished my degree here in December,

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which will allow me to go coach in college. I

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just I never I never knew if I was gonna

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make that jump or not. But if I have an

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opportunity to do it, I would love to come back

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to be you in some capacity, whether it's an analysis

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or whatever. But if they want me, you know, I

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shouldn't sit down and talking to them right now, so

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we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 5: So you did, do you have a like an idealistic situation.

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You mentioned you're getting your degree, which will open up

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opportunities to coach at the collegiate level.

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Speaker 4: Without that, was.

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Speaker 5: It a little bit difficult to get into the college

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coaching world and was that a barrier of entry.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And to be honest with you, I wasn't really

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sure if I wanted to.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't. I wasn't sure.

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Speaker 6: You know, I had young kids growing up, and I

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wanted to spend time with them and coach them and

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and be a dad to them.

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Speaker 3: But as my kids get older and they're.

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Speaker 6: In high school and and getting ready to graduate, you

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know that that that idea changes. And I always thought

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that one day I would probably try to go back

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to college. And I think maybe this is God telling me, Hey,

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it's that time. It's that time to do it. So

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everything's kind of lining up for it happen. Now.

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Speaker 3: I just have to, you know, see if.

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Speaker 6: There's somebody out there that wants my help and would.

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Speaker 3: Like me to come in and be part of the program.

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Speaker 5: Love that, Yeah, is like high school football is is

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special though, right, I mean you've experienced now for a years,

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like you you get it's less. I mean, there's definitely

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a professional aspect now in the modern era, and there's

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a highly competitive aspect as well, but it's still kind

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of that baseline foundational mentorship, coaching, faith, family football. They're

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a little bit more malleable. The clay's more valuable. Even

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the parents still listen, even when you know they may

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not want to listen to coaching from the coach anyway.

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Like there's there's still some altruism there. It would that

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be difficult to leave.

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Speaker 6: Well, absolutely, you know, I've been at that school for

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eleven years and and help build that thing from a

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from a little two AH charter school up to U

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you know, a six A powerhouse and we've been in

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the open the last few years and things have just

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been rolling. And so that's hard to step away from

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high school football.

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Speaker 3: You know, we all say it's the purest form of

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the game.

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Speaker 6: It's where you're playing for your brothers, you're playing for

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your town, you're playing for your community, and the communities.

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Speaker 3: Involved and the parents are involved.

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Speaker 6: It's just a different vibe than moving on to college,

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where now it's just more business like now, especially with

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all the NIL and transfer portal stuff, it's just more

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of a business like the NFL.

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Speaker 3: In high school, you still.

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Speaker 6: Get that brotherhood and that love and that community and

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let's go out and play and fight for each other.

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So that's what I'll I'll miss the most about it,

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But also just being around those kids. Man, you get

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your around these sixteen seventeen year old kids. I'm fourteen, fifteen,

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sixty seventeen, and they're going through life. Man, They're going

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through things. They're going through hardships that sometimes only a

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coach can be there for. And so having the opportunity

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to mentor kids and be there for them and help

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them through not just football but just life.

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Speaker 3: Having them coming to my office all the time and

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hang around and just.

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Speaker 6: Helping them whether they end up going and serving missions

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for the church or going to college or getting jobs.

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Speaker 3: That's what you miss about it the most, is the

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relationships and all that. So that'll be hard.

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Speaker 6: But I also know that my mind and my football

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ability as a coach alongs in college. I think the

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high school game is great, but I think I have

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the mind to be in college and to help compete

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at that level.

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Speaker 3: And I know I can, so I'm also very anxious

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to test.

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Speaker 6: That and to see how well I can do at

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the next level if I have that opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Max Hall, ladies and gentlemen winning as quarterback and BYU

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football history.

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Speaker 4: Are you going to be attending the Holy World this weekend?

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By chance? You're going to be in town.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 6: We've leave tomorrow morning, flying out there tomorrow, be hanging

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around a little bit on Friday, you know, go say

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hi to the players and coaches and stuff, and then

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definitely we'll.

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Speaker 3: Be there on Saturday.

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Speaker 6: I think Dave's having me do something on the show,

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on the pregame shows, so I might do a little

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bit something there and can't wait.

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Speaker 3: Man, it's gonna be so much fun.

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Speaker 4: Love it.

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Speaker 5: Man, We'll see you down there in provo. Give me

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a scorporation. How do you think this game plays out

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under the lights of level? How do you think Dau competes?

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Speaker 3: Ooh, I think we can pee.

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Speaker 6: I think Bau wins by I think we win by

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ten or fourteen points. I have you know, and I

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say those scores is probably high twenties, low thirty somewhere

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in there. But I think we pull it off by

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ten to fourteen points tonight.

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Speaker 5: I love it. Man, would love to see that. Ronnie,

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what do you got?

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Speaker 7: I just want Max to know that we want to

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know already on getting people hired by bou. It might

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take some time to the Lord's timing. But Travis Hansen,

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we punke, we prognosticated. You know, he said, hey, look,

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it needs to happen. So I think Max will eventually

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be by. As they say, bring him home, Bring him home, Max.

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Speaker 3: Bring him home. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Let's go, buddy, Max. Appreciate you. I much love to

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you and your family.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, guys, appreciate it. Man.

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Speaker 4: All right, buddy, there you go. That's Max Hall, Ladies

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and gentlemen.

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