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Speaker 4: Why don't we fired up the ESPN the Fans starting
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and the rest of the star set of cast joining
us for this Wednesday, January twenty first edition of Cougar
Sports up in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 3: He is a former BYU rugby player.
Speaker 4: But he is our bucket getter heat arguably is the
best basketball player amongst the ESPN the Fan crew.
Speaker 3: Let's welcome in Ronald the three man weaver.
Speaker 1: What's up? Running? What's up?
Speaker 5: I'm a I'm a team guy, Ben.
Speaker 6: I want to have the best possible team.
Speaker 5: That's what I want. So I want the ESPN the
Fan team with.
Speaker 3: The girthy Gernlujah.
Speaker 1: I want the girty Gern. I want the mond goose Bin.
Speaker 6: I want everybody that you can think of, Brent Hammer,
who's in the post game. I want a team who's
our shooter. I want to have the best basketball teams.
It's not about one individual players, about the team itself.
And that's why BAU football was the way it was.
It wasn't one player, those the whole collective units. So
we have the best basketball team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone doing their one eleventh here at esbing a fan,
everyone doing lifting where they stand. Let's also welcome into
the show. Brett always bring in the hammer. Hammertime show was.
Speaker 3: Up, Bro. Yeah, I need to get back in shape.
I haven't played basketball probably rout the year.
Speaker 7: So I can't say that I could run through Ronnie today.
But you know, give me, give me a couple of
weeks to get in game shape.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, what are you in shape for right now?
Speaker 7: Just hitting the gym, just hitting the gym, just just
pushing weight, which I it doesn't really you say get
in shape, but I feel like even if you you
could go to the gym every day, that does not
get you in shape for basketball, that does not get
you in.
Speaker 1: Shape for like the spurts and the sprints and the cardio.
Speaker 3: So just going to the gym is not enough to
get you.
Speaker 4: Playing half court though, still being the fan team, they
we don't play half court, we don't play full court.
Speaker 3: I fill more than my box.
Speaker 1: Half. What are we doing?
Speaker 7: How am I supposed to score in the fast break action?
You let me take care of it. I got you,
I got.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I ain't about that life. I'm like a Dwarf
on Lord of the Rings dangerous over short distances, but
long distances no, no way, no no, no long distances
for me, and in full court is long distance by
my by my account, by my measurements.
Speaker 3: Brand I was bringing the hammer. Great to have you here.
Speaker 4: Let's also welcome into the show one of my favorite guests,
maybe my favorite guests, my favorite co host ever.
Speaker 3: He's been with us many, many years. Now, let's welcome
in the g Man, Brandon Tigerney.
Speaker 1: Two weeks in a row. That's just like your walkout music.
Speaker 5: Sorry, man, I had to do it again.
Speaker 1: Is that just gonna be a thing now?
Speaker 3: I hope?
Speaker 8: So, I mean not why not the why not? The
awesome intro that the Mets Reliever had. I'd like that,
but no, I get bon Jovi, stop it, stop it.
Can I request my own walk up music? I'm gonna
do that. I'm gonna get with wrong.
Speaker 3: It could get vetoed by the producer. Those problem.
Speaker 1: Well, you can basically do whatever he wants.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm out on the basketball team.
Speaker 3: G Man, you were the Golden Girl.
Speaker 1: Was back in the day.
Speaker 8: It started at the Union seventeenth or Union seventeen, I was, man,
do you know the height of my basketball glory is
I made the second to last cut for the JB.
Speaker 4: Basketball team, second to last cut j V and then
I was basketball team.
Speaker 1: Okay, then I was you and Michael Jordan, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right there, bro with MJ he got cut too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's probably the similarities and right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well technically he was cut from the varsity team
that had to play JV.
Speaker 3: His set or was his freshman year.
Speaker 4: It was his fresh freshman year. He was like his
freshman year, Gott cut from Varsio.
Speaker 1: Woe is me, MJ woe is me?
Speaker 3: You had played JV ball, you had to play on
the freshman team. It's funny.
Speaker 4: I remember being a youth a ute uh and uh,
like six years old, going on Saturday with my brothers
to like a like a steak like multi stake basketball tournament.
Speaker 3: It was so big, it was so big, like it
was competitive.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 4: They went they got after Bro like it was legit.
And then now you have all the liabilities and all
the fights and all the suing.
Speaker 7: You guys, all the people that sued the Church of
Jesus Christ latterday Saints at these tournaments, because of these
basketball tournaments.
Speaker 3: You you ruined it for the rest of us.
Speaker 4: You ruined it all in the quest for filthy lucre
because oh you got you got undercut on a fast
break and broke your spine.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sorry, off, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: You broke your femur, you know, and and they had
a multi legamentous disruption in your knee and you could
never play a sport it again because you know, you
got undercut at the multi Steak basketball tournament.
Speaker 3: Growing up, woe is me.
Speaker 4: You ruined it for the rest of us, so none
of us, none of the rest of us could have
fun on the weekends. Like remember the softball the saw,
like the soft roftball, slow pitch, that was big, that
was big amongst the Mormons, Like we were very good
at this.
Speaker 3: Basketball was next level. Oh yeah, what's that Ronnie multiple time?
Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Hey, you know, but you know, now you wonder why
all the kids are just sitting in doors all day
playing video games.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't have these.
Speaker 8: That's literally all I did growing up. Let's play basket
that's all I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't, we don't have Yeah, there you go.
We don't have basketball, we don't have softball anymore.
Speaker 3: And we don't have boy Scouts anymore.
Speaker 4: People ruin things for different reasons, obviously lifestyle.
Speaker 1: I'm very angry.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: They told me if I got my Eagle Scout that
when I graduated, I could have any CEO Fortune five
hundred job that I wanted as long as I.
Speaker 1: Put it on my resume. That's all I heard growing up.
If you don't get your Eagle Skoy, you will be
respected in life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I do think there's something to the Eagle
Scout award. It's just about where you're competing in a
particular industry.
Speaker 7: Like I like to tell people. Look, I like to
tell people all the time, like this is the truth
of the matter.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And this happens in across many different industries, many different
professional pathways. In Utah, Okay, every single market, every single
profession is saturated with high quality, really hard working, well educated,
prim trim proper professionals, and so like, you compare yourself
to those individors, Like, man, I'm just average. Go into
another geography, I tell people, Go into a different state,
go compete in the same field somewhere else, and you'll
be surprised that you actually you may be the best there.
But we all aggregate and conglomerate here in the Mountain West,
in Utah, Arizona, and in California like Orange County, and
that's it, that's where we all live.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: G Man?
Speaker 1: No, you were not wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, like you know, there's plenty of practitioners
that take pay cuts to come to Utah.
Speaker 3: My dad took right, yeah, and he's one of the
best in his industry. Right, he's very good, very good.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Uh, it's a die tribe. We're going off kilter
right off the bat. We appreciate you guys all tuning in,
chiming in wherever you're tuning in and chiming in from.
Appreciate you guys all being a part of the show today.
As I mentioned little ESPN, the fans starting lineup, we're
gonna welcome in, uh a number of star study guests.
We got Riley and Nelson joining us at four oh five,
Darnold Dixon at four thirty, Steve Cleveland at five or five,
and then John Kurtz at five thirty. So lots of
topics to broach tremendous amount of guests.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get it all.
Speaker 7: Dialed in UH and talk some Cougar football and the
Big twelve conference football schedule release.
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Utah dot Com. Guys, the schedule rise and shout. The
schedule is out. How we feeling about the schedule ladies
and gentlemen, boys and girls. Geem Man, you want to
time in on this first.
Speaker 8: I have some mixed emotions about it, but overall, I
think it's a very very good schedule, one of the
better schedules I think b way You's ever had. That
Notre Dame at home on October seventeenth is just glaring.
Speaker 1: It clares right at you. It's like, really, this is happening.
Speaker 8: B WAYU is hosting Notre Dame in mid October at
label Edwards Stadium.
Speaker 1: My goodness, thank you USC, Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: Cal, thank you Cal. That's right, Cal and USC.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame has a cake schedule.
Speaker 8: They're gonna be in the top ten, they're gonna be undefeated,
and it's going.
Speaker 1: To be a big, big, big game.
Speaker 8: If the way you can do it's part which is
gonna be interesting. The Arizona game second week of the year,
that's interesting to me.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 1: I think Arizona is a good team. I think there's
a sleep twelve.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, they lose their quarterback. That's gonna hurt. But other
than that, Arizona is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Colorad State everyone's oh, Colorad State's attracted. No, it's not
Colorrale State was two and ten last year.
Speaker 8: They're not good. Oh but they have Matt Mitchell and
he developed bear Bomber. Yeah, that could help.
Speaker 1: Him a little bit.
Speaker 8: But come on, stop it, Colorile State. Nah, that's your
warm up for conference at CCU. I don't like the
bye week as early as it is. That's the one criticism,
and everyone's gonna say that.
Speaker 1: I'm with them having a bye game third week of
the year. No, I don't. I don't like the fourth
week of the year. To be specific, after the third game.
Speaker 8: I like having Iowa stayed as a warm up leading
up to the note game.
Speaker 1: Iowa State. It's a mess.
Speaker 8: I cannot imagine them being any type of formidable fight.
Speaker 4: They did pick up Micah Harper former BYU defens.
Speaker 1: For Micah Harper.
Speaker 8: You see, up could be the classic trap game because
of Sandwich in between Notre Dame and Arizona State, which
is probably gonna be a really good team again.
Speaker 1: Uh this coming year at Utah, I don't like it.
Speaker 8: I'll say this to it should be played the weekend
of Thanksgiving last in the year.
Speaker 1: Every year. I'm never gonna get off that.
Speaker 8: Baylor, Kansas, Cincinnati, Yeah, BA should be able to finish
strong October.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be all about October for this schedule. It's man,
it just looks good.
Speaker 8: That home schedule Arizona, Arizona State too natural rivalries, Yep,
right there, Notre Dame. Are you kidding me? Baylor? Who
knows about Baylor? If they're gonna be good, I don't know.
I think they'll be pretty good this year.
Speaker 1: Every year, I think Baylor's gonna be good, and every
year they're not. Yeah. I'm the same way with TCU.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's valid.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So and TCU lost, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Played well in their bowl game against USC though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, looks really good. Sandy Dice is a good coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is a good coach. They did look really good.
So yeah, I like it. Thumbs up except for the
early Byer week. I think it's a fantastic schedule.
Speaker 3: So obviously.
Speaker 4: Big twelve reveal their twenty twenty six football schedule for
all sixteen team sixteen league members, noting that select Saturday
games may be adjusted to select Fat Friday games other
special days Black Friday. With game announcements in the coming weeks,
kickoff times and network selections by Big twelve television partners ESPN, Fox,
and T and T Sports will be announced later in
the year. So I think the best thing about this
is you have seven home games. Seven home games, that's
the perfect number per the Hebrews, including welcoming as you mentioned,
Notre Dame the Quitting Irish to Pro October seventeenth for
the midseason non conference matchup at Level Edwards Stadium. The
home schedule kicks off the season with the opener against
in state foe Utah Tech, followed by our early season
Big Twelve matchup hosting Arizona September twelve. Other featured home
games include dates and Iowa State October tenth and Arizona
State October thirty first, Bagular November fourteenth, and Cincinnati November
twenty eighth in the regular season finale.
Speaker 3: The Cougars will play five.
Speaker 4: Away contest in twenty twenty six face in Colorado State
September nineteen, TCU October third, uc F October twenty fourth,
Utah November seventh, in Kansas November twenty first, on the road.
The twenty twenty sixth season is based on a thirteen
week calendar, with a one open week during the twelve
game schedule. BoA's bye week takes place at the end
of September, with no games scheduled on September twenty six.
You would like that bye week maybe in the middle
of the season. You get it early that maybe hurts
you a bit. I remember you had two bye weeks
this last year. And look the strengthening ditioning staff, the
medical staff. They've done a tremendous job of keeping these
guys healthy. BA football has been one of the healthiest
programs over the last two years.
Speaker 3: You've had.
Speaker 4: You've had a few season ending injuries, but you have
good depth and playmaking ability and very few raw, very
few key rosti attricians that have impacted your win lost record.
Speaker 8: I'd like the season to start it on August thirtieth.
I think that's another thing.
Speaker 3: It needs to start actually, like they probably mid August.
Speaker 8: Then you're four to two buys if you're starting August
August thirtieth, like you did this this past year. But
whatever that it is what it is. That's probably when
Utah Tech could play. I don't know, but I love
opening against Utah Tech. That's what big programs do. Criddle,
that's what big program Yeah, yeah, you take on the Patsy.
With all due respect to Utah Tech. That's kind of
what you are. You wade into it, you know. Then
then Arizona that's gonna be real. That's gonna be a
good game, that's gonna be very competitive.
Speaker 4: I believe Brett always bringing the hammer. Thoughts, takeaways, comments
on this schedule.
Speaker 7: I feel one hundred times better about this year's schedule
than I did about last year's schedule.
Speaker 1: It's it's not even close to me.
Speaker 7: I absolutely because again number number one, you don't have
to see Texas Tech this year sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be a different team this year. How good
are they gonna be?
Speaker 7: We don't know, because again, if you think you know
what the Big twelve is gonna be, I don't believe
a single thing you have to say after that, because
you just can't guess what's gonna happen in this conference.
But I am glad you don't have to see Texas Tech.
I'm really excited about Arizona State coming to Provo because
I think because VOI didn't see them last year, I
think we forgot about what happened in that meeting in
the state of Arizona.
Speaker 1: I think there's players on this team who.
Speaker 7: Have get back with the Sun Devils that they want,
and I think there's a ton of fans who want
get back for the Arizona State Sun Devil.
Speaker 1: So I think that one is gonna be a lot
of fun.
Speaker 7: I think because they don't have Sam Levitt Orncampskataboo, that
helps a lot because we don't know what this.
Speaker 3: Team is gonna be.
Speaker 1: Not to their stud receiver.
Speaker 7: Yep, you don't have Jordan Tyson, so at Kenny Dillingham
still a good coach, but like they lost, probably those
are probably three of the top players in the Big
Twelve over the last three years. So I'm really excited
about the Arizona State game. I think that's gonna be
a lot of fun. The other big takeaway is, and
we knew this already, but BYU basically has the power
to really shake up Notre Dame season because they have,
as you mentioned, g Man a cakewalk of a schedule
in college football this year. If they come to Provo
and after all of this, oh well, we'd rather play
in Vegas in the Shamrock Series than play in Provo
because we're too big for that. We were also too
big to play in the Pop Tarts Bowl. If they
come to Provo and do anything other than own the Cougars,
I think nationally people will say, you really talked a
big game for not necessarily bringing it. That was your
opportunity for your marquee win of the season, and now
you don't have anything to show for it, So that
I think is a big deal. But looking at the
rest of this you really don't have like a pure
three game gauntlet. I think I think you're probably your
toughest spot is gonna be Arizona State Utah, but you
don't have what you have last year, which was Texas
Tech Iowa State. That stretch was I think a lot
tougher than anything deal you has on this schedule this season.
So I feel really good other than as you mentioned,
you have nine straight games in conference that's gonna be
really tough.
Speaker 1: And you get your bye really early.
Speaker 7: Outside of that, though, like there's not any world beaters
on this team, and if you're gonna see Texas Tech,
it's not going to be until that conference championship, so
you won't have the issue this last year, which was
you clearly.
Speaker 1: Couldn't beat one team and then when you play them again.
Speaker 7: They beat the breaks off you, You're likely not gonna
have that issue again because I think we all agree
Texas Tech is running it back. I think the OU
is running it back. I think that helps their playoff
chances greatly.
Speaker 8: I like the November finish, the way you should be
able to win four straight. Yeah, very interested to see
what Utah is this year. Write all Utah is always good.
I don't know if that's true. You don't undergo the
changes Utah has with personnel and coaching and just write
it all it's it's Utah. They're gonna be tough. I
don't know it's gonna be really really, I'm not saying
they're not going to be tough, right, I'm just saying
I have no idea what Utah is anymore. It's going
to be That's gonna be a very very interesting game.
We'll know a lot about Utah leaking after the game, obviously,
But anyway, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love the schedule.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hate the nine games straight. I think it's
gonna be intriguing to be a study. Here is the
health of this Cougar football team that we've experienced over
the last two years. No Key starters really going down
that impacted the win lost column?
Speaker 3: Is that the exception of the rule, right, Right? I
am definitely afraid.
Speaker 4: Of nine games nine game power for consecutive games. Now, granted,
the haters are gonna say the Big Twelve is not
a power conference. You know, these teams were added, These
were the the added teams to the conference, right, not
true power for even TCU.
Speaker 3: They got adopted.
Speaker 4: Later on in their lives, in their football programs, life,
you know what I mean, Like they're gonna say things
like that, But still I'm I'm very much intrigued to
see if the health the continuity of this of this
Cougar football team, you know, towards the end of the year,
in that in that in that lead up to a
conference championship game November late October?
Speaker 3: Is that the exception of the rule? Right? Because L J.
Martin is still RB one, Bear Bachmeyer is QB one.
Speaker 7: But you're still concerned about what QB two, RB two,
RB three, You're you're you really haven't had to tap
into the depth.
Speaker 4: Need I remind you? Okay, let me just give you
a just a tangible example. Tyson Williams, when healthy to
me was one of the best running backs in the
modern era.
Speaker 1: He was very, very very good.
Speaker 4: Tyson Williams was the third string running back at South
Carolina that VA you got at that time. Right, So
we don't have Tyson Williams as RB two right now
RB three and and l J. Martin is a different
type of running back to that of Tyson Williams, right,
but he's definitely an RB one.
Speaker 3: What do we have behind him?
Speaker 4: It would be nice to have that third string running
back in the SEC. I still feel in my loins, okay,
in my plums, like we gotta go out and find
a running RB two, Like.
Speaker 3: I feel it, there's some good ones left in the portal.
There's plenty of great players now.
Speaker 4: I think the issue that a Rod is going to
have and TJ and Kevin, if you bring in a guy,
do you feel like they fit into the scheme? Remember
Aiden Robbins good pick up? When did he finally find
his groove? It's like Emperor's new groove right that Oklahoma game,
that Oklahoma game finally five, he was lining up, lining
up off sides. He wasn't catching the football, He's running
the wrong hole. Now is that a coaching issue or
is that a player issue. It's gonna be chicken or
the egg, and you're just gonna go back and forth,
back and forth. Why didn't Kielan Marion play a whole
lot his first season at BUYU offense? Not lining up
in the right spot? You know who's gonna hold your
hand at you in the right position? Do you need
to simplify? Coaches and players have to have this dynamic
of like, you know, okay, how much hot handholding are
we gonna do? Keeenland obviously found his role at Miami
was productive. Do you need to simplify? Some people are
gonna criticize the coach for not simplifying, and others are
gonna criticize the player for not being able to get
up to speed. So those elements do contribute, I think
to either going out and getting a guy or not
getting a guy right. Even Adan Robinson Wright, we thought
we're great, fin smart, hardworking over a thousand yard rusher
at UNLV, A former P four guy from Louisville, was
recruited by BAU the first go coming out of high
school and like obviously a perfect fit. Even he struggled
to adapt and integrate and assimilate.
Speaker 1: The big thing.
Speaker 8: And I don't know if it's always been a thing.
Maybe it has been. Is pass pro. The running backs
got to be on it. With pass pro. It's it's
almost as important as actually running the football, maybe as important.
Speaker 1: That's a big, big thing.
Speaker 8: And and if you watch closely, if you see a
running back miss on a blitz or anything, they're likely done.
Speaker 1: Coaches have little patience.
Speaker 3: Yeah first, the second is poor pass pro.
Speaker 8: Poor pass pro. And it's something a lot of fans
don't really hone in on. But it's a big, big
thing in this day and agent. It's a very big
thing in a routs offense. He requires it. A lot
of people. The tight ends, they wondered, why what's his name?
A few years back? Up played every dawn. It's because
he was a phenomenal blocker. Who am I talking about?
Speaker 3: Isaac Rex? No running or sorry? Tight end?
Speaker 4: Tight end tight end y two years ago? Two years ago,
Isaac Rex anyway? Oh Matamata, Yeah exactly. He knew the
offense and he was a good blocker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a fantastic block yep. So that's gonna
be a big, big thing.
Speaker 3: Jake retch Left targeted him on a fade and under
threw him.
Speaker 1: Yes he did. Why did you have to bring that up?
Speaker 7: I'm just saying, just like, you know, obviously there was
trust between. It's not good goal line fade.
Speaker 4: No one likes the goal line fade, especially when it's
thrown to Matamatase. No one blames Matamatas. They say, hey, Jake,
ret slap shouldn't targeted. It's always the call was a
Rod's fault, not and it was Jake's fault.
Speaker 8: It seems like you did a total of eleven shows
talking about this.
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I did I think I had, Like, yeah,
we had to bring on all the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: You have to educate people.
Speaker 3: Well, I just said, you know, I mean all the quarterbacks,
you know, you know it's it was that one.
Speaker 7: And like, why on third and short do we go
into shotgun?
Speaker 3: Ben? Why are we in pistol or shot I'm like,
all right.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm gonna be on that train. You know why?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Because to me, Bear Bachmeyer is the prototypical quarterback, sneak guy.
You could ever imagine that lower body, get him under center,
boom go Buffalo bills, go, tush push whatever. That is
a guaranteed first down. Are you kidding every timeush push.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna be that guy this year. Yeah,
I don't want to see the shotgun on third shot.
Speaker 3: No more shotgun.
Speaker 1: I want to see advanced. But are you kidding me?
Give me a better quarterback? Sneak quarterback? The Bear bach Meyer.
Speaker 3: It doesn't exist, doesn't exist, doesn't exist?
Speaker 1: Possible? Maybe you should run that off first down.
Speaker 4: Oh, just let's do four straight quarterback snakes with bear back.
There you go, I mean the Eagles have gotten close. Yeah,
who's squats.
Speaker 3: More Bear Blackmeier? Jalen Hurts. That's what I want to know.
It's a good question. I bet you they both squat over.
Speaker 1: That's probably Jingalin Hurts right now. But I think bears.
Speaker 3: I bet you.
Speaker 7: It's gonna make sure that people think, yeah, yeah, the
bear tar he can he can squat some weight, there's
no doubt.
Speaker 4: Well, let's concl this twenty twenty six football schedule. It
looks like it's gonna bode well for Brigham like you
could potentially, you know, with your strength of schedule, okay,
and how it lines up, you could go un defeat it.
What up sent with the retention that you have with
the acquisitions that you have if if the if the
roster is just as good as what it was last year,
which I think is how we have most of us
feel right.
Speaker 3: You do lose some key contributors.
Speaker 4: Jack Kelly's a really good football player, Chase Roberts a
really good FOOTBA player, as Aa Jada and Wayln Lapuach
who I mean, there's a lot of good football players
that are leaving Brigham Young University. But but this roster
could very well be as good as it was last year.
I do think people forget that you did have some
one score wins, field goal wins, ot wins, and and
even the year prior. Remember, the ball has been bouncing
Brigham's way over the last two seasons, creating turnovers on
defense and special teams, creating scores on turnovers and special teams.
You want to give credit to the team, the coaching staff,
but once again my question is, Okay, it's the health
and these the the the oblong shake ball, the pig skin.
It bounces in certain ways, sometimes in favor of bau
and and doesn't other times. In twenty twenty three, it
did not bounce By's way. Every fumble that was coughed
up was recovered by the opponent.
Speaker 3: You know, we're.
Speaker 4: Dropping I in T's, dropping touchdown passes, missing field goals
a critical times, and those one score games just didn't
go be Way's way. The last two seasons, it's been
the opposite. Is it the exception or the rule? Is
that nine game that nine game back end schedule after
the bye week? Are we gonna be healthy? Are we
gonna be stronger? We're gonna have to delve into the
depth of Brigham. That to me is the study here,
because that you know, on that you know, on that
pace you do, you see some good football teams. Notre
Dame is going to be a good football team. They're
gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 4: Don't get it to his game. Luckily it's at home.
But that's a good freaking football team.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: UCF is going to be improved. Scott Frost is gonna
figure it out eventually. Dude, I'm telling you that's at UCF.
We love the mouse. We're gonna be distracted. It's warmer weather,
you know, it's beautiful. We're going out to Orlando, you know,
just having a gay old time. Okay, not so fast,
could be a trap game, Scott Frost felt like he
competed against Brigham pretty well in provo.
Speaker 3: You know, he was like, hey, we just.
Speaker 4: Got out paced late in the game, but he felt
pretty gods dang good about though didn't play well. Arizona State, Utah,
that's gonna be Utah. That b YU games they're Super
Bowl at rice Ecles that's their super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Utah may be fighting for Bowl eligibility.
Speaker 4: And b why you could be that Hinge game to
getting to Bowl eligibility Okay.
Speaker 3: Baylor, mm hmm, I don't know.
Speaker 7: No one knows about Kansas, Cincinnati lost their their quarterback.
Speaker 3: B Why these games.
Speaker 4: Are gonna all be winnable? Okay, but it will be
why you be healthy enough?
Speaker 3: Who's QB two? Who's RB two? To be determined?
Speaker 7: Is there anyone on this schedule who put as much
fear into you preseason last year of Iowa State and
Texas Tech that's on the schedule this year?
Speaker 3: Not named Notre Dame because I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I mean MATC like Matt Campbell leaving if he's there,
Like I I fear that Iowa State game. I totally
do uh T. She was intriguing to me because even
without Hoover. That's a really good football team with really
good talent, even though be what you dominated at home,
you're you're away like I've I've been to Forre Worth.
Speaker 3: That's a good stadium, that's a that's anyway.
Speaker 4: You fear rivalry games, which is Arizona State Utah. You
fear the trap game with the UCF, and you fear
that the Fighting Irish because they are looking to lee.
Speaker 3: I think that the mantra.
Speaker 7: That that uh that that that they're they're encompassing right
now and embracing is like leave no doubt. Yeah, so
like they're they're they're looking to like margin, a victory, dominance,
sense of urgency.
Speaker 3: They lost some key.
Speaker 4: Players, no doubt, to the NFL, but they have a
lot of retention yeah at Notre Dame, and.
Speaker 1: Their recruiting classes good this year as well.
Speaker 3: They're good. Dude, The Fighting Irish are gonna be good.
Speaker 7: But like that's the only team on this on this
schedule that you look at and you go, oh, yeah,
playoff team. Other than that, I don't look at anybody
else here and I go playoff team unless somebody surprises you.
Speaker 1: And honestly, the only one who would surprise me.
Speaker 7: Who I think could be a playoff team is Arizona,
because I think again, I think they're your sleeper team
in the Big twelve. But looking at the schedule like there,
I don't think there's any world beaters, not that every
game is gonna be a cake walk, and in terms
of just front facing world beaters, the only one I
see is Notre Dame.
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Real quick, guys, we were discussing Utah Utah football. Their
schedule we've already discoesed by us. They start off with Idaho,
the Idahoans at home. They take on the Arkansas Razorbacks
at home. Week two. They do have a bye week
on September twelfth. SAT's early, Yeah, it's early. I think, Well,
September third, it's well, actually it's not necessary bye week.
It's it's a Thursday game the week prior, so they
get an additional couple of days of prep leading up
to that Arkansas game. And then they take on Utah
State at rich As rich Echo Stadium, three consecutive home games.
Then they head out to Iowa State. They got a
bye week October third, they welcome Kansas. After that they
head out to Colorado. I'm wondering how good Colorado is
going to be this year. October seventeenth, they have Houston
at home, they have Cincinnati away, they have BYU at home,
they have U of A on the road, TCU on
the road, and then West Virginia at home. I think
West Virginia is gonna be a better team. I think
rich Rod is a great coach. I have like I
think Sonny Dyke's in Rich rod like, and I think
Brent Brennan that I know, three four games slate for them.
I think that's gonna kick the crap out of the utes.
That one's gonna be tough. All four well coached, good
cultured teams. And uh, there's a rebuild, yes at West Virginia,
but don't get a twist Rich Rods like, give me
four years and we're gonna be back to where we were.
Speaker 1: Those are two games before are tough. Houston's gonna be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh my gosh, yeah, Houston.
Speaker 1: And then at Cincinnati that's not that's no picnic right there.
Speaker 3: That's Houston's gonna be really good. Dude.
Speaker 4: Willie Fritz maybe one of the most underrated head coaches
in college football. And because he's the old he's got
that old man feel to him, you know, and not
get a whole lot of lot. He kind of like
climbing when he went to Kansas State and Matt Campbell
when he went to Iowa State.
Speaker 3: He kind of has that vibe to him. He's a
good coach.
Speaker 8: If you're in Utah, you have to get those first
three conference games Iowa State, Kansas Buffalo you gotta go three.
You know that has to happen if you're Utah. I'm
telling you what game is gonna be tough for Utah.
And this is my sneaky upset. I don't know what
you test could beat Utah.
Speaker 1: Wow. I believe that interest.
Speaker 8: I believe that you just gonna be breaking in a
new system offensively, totally revamped offensive line. Brocklemntan all is
good coach. Yeah, you justa it was a good team
last year. I'm telling you that that that that could
be something.
Speaker 4: We're going back to. Jimmy Hendricks just jamming out to
Jimmy Hendricks in the middle of segment.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: Ah boom baby is I.
Speaker 5: Just the vibes right now of Utah, just like being
had the demise. You know, it just it brings, it brings.
It's good in my loins right now.
Speaker 3: Ben Okay, all right, all right, love it?
Speaker 10: Love it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you you touched. It was a good football team
last year.
Speaker 1: They were they're okay, Yeah, they're ball.
Speaker 7: Eligible six and seven with a Bowl Bowl loss, right,
too shabby.
Speaker 1: You have some competitive games, McKay. Hillstead is gonna be
slinging it. McKay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's Uh, he's doing the the remix up there
in Aggie Country. The utter Tuggers of the North are
gonna be better this year.
Speaker 1: I hope he does well. I like McKay.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, totally rooting on Michay hill Stead.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a Utah State fan.
Speaker 3: And to your point, look, Utah State lost by one
to Boise State.
Speaker 4: Okay, that was at home. They lost in double overtime
to UNLV twenty nine twenty six.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: Their either losses were to New Mexico thirty three fourteen.
They lost to Hawaii at Hawaii forty four to twenty six.
HAWHYI was a good team this last year.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: They lost to Vanderbilt fifty five to thirty five on
the road, and then they lost to Texas AM forty four.
Speaker 3: To twenty two. This is gonna be a this may
UTUS State maybe an eight win team.
Speaker 1: This next season. They're gonna be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: You're you fan, watch out for UTU State.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you a lot of a lot of fans
are feeling like this Utah team is bordering on Bowl
eligible ability.
Speaker 3: Five six wins.
Speaker 8: I think it would see a tremendous work done by
Morgan Scalley. If if U does Bowl.
Speaker 7: Eligible next year, I mean even that that non con
is not outside of Idaho like Arkansas, that could be
a loss.
Speaker 1: Utah State, you think could be a loss. Like there's
not really any easy games on the schedule for Utah.
I think I think Iowa State's a complete mess. Maybe
I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 1: No, you're right.
Speaker 4: They lost a lot to Penn Say, all their best
players went to Penn State with Matt Campbell.
Speaker 3: They're in a rebuild. You don't necessarily expect them to.
Speaker 1: But I don't understand how ut does not in a rebuild.
You look at the players that are missing.
Speaker 3: Technically they are. Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I anyway, we talked about Utah because I think
fans care about Utah that they really want to know
how b Way matches up stecks up against Utah. And
I think it's going to be a fascinating year for
the University.
Speaker 4: Of what's the What give me a pitch optimistically on
why Utah doesn't have a rebuild year?
Speaker 1: What what is it?
Speaker 4: What if the internally talking about up on the hill
right now in Salt Lake City about how like they've
lost their entire offensive line. They did retain their quarterback, right,
but they lost their OC, lost their they.
Speaker 1: Lost their tight end. They lost their two bookends.
Speaker 3: Who were really, really good, John Henry and Logan.
Speaker 8: Do you see what happened in that defense? Once John
Henry daily tour his achilles, they couldn't stop anything. Nothing porous. Yeah,
tal Johnson's gone. He's pretty good. Yeah, smith Snowden's gone, gone,
cal Calhoun gone, Lander, Barton gone. I think they have
a really good linebacker returning. I know that I'm forgetting
the guy's name, but man if Morgan Scaley can make
that team Bowl eligible and you fans aren't gonna want
to accept it, but that will be tremendous work done
by him, tremendous work.
Speaker 1: And I think he's a good coach.
Speaker 8: I think he has the ability to maximize the most
out of that personnel.
Speaker 1: But that personnel is not very impressive as of right now.
It's just not So it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 4: The Holy Words on November seventh this year, it's at
rice Eco Stadium. That's gonna be Utah Super Bowl. I
think that's gonna be a hymns game for them to
get Bowl eligible. A huge absolutely agree with Mark Carlin.
Will do everything possible to win that game, even if
it means running onto the field.
Speaker 1: You could get Could you imagine if he did that again?
I hope he does.
Speaker 4: All I'm saying is like, remember UTEP in nineteen eighty three,
g Man, Oh yeah, the story of UTEP.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why was it was nineteen eighty five?
Speaker 3: Was I you sure it was eighty five?
Speaker 1: Was eighty five? I am positive that it was nineteen
eighty five?
Speaker 7: He checked, no doubt in my mind, it is a
nineteen eighty five, nineteen eighty five, sure, yeah it was.
Speaker 3: It was nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: Five, Come on, stop it.
Speaker 4: BA football's worst upset nineteen eighty five lost to UTEP.
Speaker 3: What was the controversy in that game?
Speaker 1: Headsets? Heads set, head sets.
Speaker 4: Headsets, communication disruption, intel, crossing the wires, crossing the streams.
UTEP had the play call every single play they were
listening in on the headsets. I'm not a conspiracy theorist,
actually I have since twenty twenty, but I would make
sure I would make sure that those headsets are not
being hacked, right, hacked by Harlan. I mean, I'm telling you, bro,
because if you lose that game and you're not bull eligible,
Harlan's gone, man, and a lot of angry tweets could
be happening.
Speaker 8: Harlan's got to make a good move like he is
due for. We got Alex Jansen, which I think was
a really good move. But football wise, that dude needs
a win.
Speaker 3: He needs to figure out how to win win.
Speaker 4: Ever since his contract extension, things have gone down hill
for him. Someone needs to take aways his Twitter, right,
that's number one.
Speaker 3: Just stay off happened. Yeah, yeah, he's got to think so.
I just gotta stop stay off social media.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope he doesn't. It's so entertaining. I
want him to tweet. I want him to tweet often. Yeah,
I was.
Speaker 4: I was at a an orthopedic office earlier today with
some B y U fans that worked there, and they said, extend.
Speaker 3: Harlan for as long as it takes.
Speaker 4: Extend Harlan, give him another decade, you know, the golden
era of Harlan up.
Speaker 1: On the hill.
Speaker 3: Sign him to a lifetime deal. Oh man, that's what
they want, that's what they need.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I still can't believe how what's your favorite moment,
did I ask you is your favorite?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8: You came in and as a reporter him taking to
the podium like he did. Yeah, from a reporter's perspective that.
Speaker 1: That was so bizarre there that there's like, oh, I
I was on the field and and someone like told
us I was with you, we're t bringy poping. I remember,
did youder what Mark Carlin just did? And I'm like,
what did what? They stole it from us?
Speaker 8: Then I was just so angry that we didn't divide.
You should have gotten the b what you suppressed, and
I should have got in Utahs. But whatever, I wasn't
really thinking like a reporter.
Speaker 1: It's been. It's okay. You know why I've been. We
made up for it this last year. We got it right.
Speaker 5: You went to the You went to the b Yu one.
I went to the Utah one.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: If you asked him the nail in the coffin and
asked the.
Speaker 6: Nail in the coffin, it went viral. Everybody knows me
at Utah, whether they love or hate me.
Speaker 5: They know my face. They know my face in that room,
in a room brother, what we did.
Speaker 4: Yes, I will tell everybody like it's okay because Kyle's gone,
and uh, I was like, doesn't matter. Look, everyone knows
who I am at the at the you like, no one. Look,
everyone knows I'm a former player.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I do a radio show on ESPN The Fan. It's
all BAU sports related and you know, very pro BYU. Obviously,
so when you listen to our show, you know that
there's going to be some bias there. Obviously. I couldn't
go into that press conference and ask like any hard
hitting questions.
Speaker 3: That you know, there's just no way.
Speaker 4: And like, I want to be respectful too, of like Kyle, like,
you know, it's not my job to be. I'm not
the hard hitting journalist, right, Jim, I'm not the Capital
J Journals.
Speaker 3: This is not what I'm here for.
Speaker 4: I'm here for some I'm here for kicks and giggles. Okay,
I'm here for some fun. Anyway, Ronald's the Capitol J
journalist out of our duo. And so I like, Roddy,
you go down there and let's let's ask some key questions,
you know, So I want it to be respectful.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm getting into the copy. I'm typing up.
Speaker 5: The copy all the things that I'm saying asking.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I created the copy. I said, look, this is
this is respectful. This is a good question. It needs
to be asked.
Speaker 4: And so Ronnie went down there and asked that key question.
What was that question, Ronald the three man weaver? That
question was can you remember it?
Speaker 3: Do you still have it? Do you still have it still?
Speaker 1: I want you to just to tell the people.
Speaker 6: When Ben gave it, I was memorizing because I wasn't
gonna have my phone, it was gonna be recording and
Ben's and Ben told me, you can't mess this up.
Like you get one shot to ask this question, and
like everyone's gonna be looking at you. But the question
along the lines was a coach, you dropped three straight
to Utah. You know what does that any motivation to.
Speaker 5: Come back and coach in this rivalry next year?
Speaker 7: Pretty because you know it's three three straight losses, you know,
and like we always we were talking about if he
doesn't win this game, there's no way he was retireable, obviously,
you know it was it.
Speaker 3: Was well, yeah, I mean, look, his choice it was
other question. He did not want.
Speaker 4: I don't think he wanted to retire anyway. Like I
don't think he wanted to tie, so like we were
perception that he really wanted to step away.
Speaker 3: Anyways, this guy's got gass and take.
Speaker 4: So like I said this, he's the all time greatest
head coach in the University of Utah football. Miss he's
Utah football and he wanted to continue to coach. And
he still had gassing the tank to lead this team,
and Mark Harlan and his crew ushered him out, you
know what I mean. So anyways, we thought we had,
you know, suspected that he was after a win versability
that he would ride off.
Speaker 3: Into the sunset.
Speaker 4: He would say, you know what, I'm out, I'm great,
I'm good. Now we know he's still like gas and tape.
But anyways, yeah, that was the question. I said, Hey,
let's do it respectfully, like, hey, three straight loss of
the Bilio, does that influence you it anyway to return
to Utah next year? And he said, no, we won
nine in a row before that. We are still very
much on the plus side of that ledger.
Speaker 3: Both teams were in power conferences, which apparently yeah, and and.
Speaker 4: To that statement, right, we we put together our status
when they're in the same conference BYU has a winning.
Speaker 3: Record versus Utah.
Speaker 4: So when Kyle Dam's coaching a rivalry game and BYU
and Utah are in the same conference, the stats are
not in in your favor unfortunately anyway, So yeah, I
think it's uh they've won three Kyle Whittingham's three and
five against the Cougars when both Bloy and Utah are
part of the same conference Mountain West Conference, a big twelve.
So anyway, our question of the day here revolves around
like Utah is they are they going to have a
rebuild or is this a retool? And most right now
that are I would say either pro BYU or I
would say the the the objective bystanders, they're all leaning
towards a rebuild. The guys that have no skin in
the game that I've chatted with, like this is going
to be a rebuild. They've lost too much. And the
only optimism brewing in Sally Cities like we well, we
retained you know, Dan Peter, we retained our quarterback, and
we and we got our head coach and Wedding and
the culture guy, and and you know we're gonna be
able to now begin to recruit better in the state
of Utah and win the state again.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the case.
Speaker 8: Do you know the guy who might be the single
biggest loss that no one's talking about from Utah is Harding.
Speaker 1: He is a fantastic football coach.
Speaker 8: Those lines that he put out for Utah year in
and year out, that's going to be really, really tough
to replace.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't. I can't think who their offensive
line coach is.
Speaker 8: But man, if you cannot get that group together, and
they're going to have to have a completely different group
with a different.
Speaker 1: System, new coach. Man, if that can't get together, it's
gonna get bad. It's gonna get bad really fast.
Speaker 8: Because if that offensive line is not a cohesive, productive unit,
it all falls apart.
Speaker 7: That's going to be So what has Utah football been
over Their.
Speaker 1: Offensive line has been tremendous.
Speaker 4: As soon as you made the jump to the Pac
twelve line, it was all offensive and defensive line play,
and every once in a while you'd get it maybe
a good quarterback and you know, a great running back
in Zach Moss and you could take it to the
next level. But the baseline foundation was all football in
the trenches. That's that was the culture. Doug Elisai like
the strength and conditioning. It was all offensive and defensive lineup.
That's what he did best. That's why they won football games.
When bay You was losing nine in a row, you
talk to any one of those Bayu coaches and they're
all like, we're just losing the trench battle. That's what
we're losing. I remember the twenty fifteen BA football game.
You go down big early because you pick six to
start the game. And how many pick six is? Do
we need to freaking throw in the Utah Bayu Holy
War game before? We just don't throw the ball in
the first damn play anyway?
Speaker 3: Do you remember that two thousand fifteen? Do you remember
like at right.
Speaker 4: Game it as you make a very heroic comeback in
Vegas and all you have to do is stop Utah
from running ball.
Speaker 3: You know they're going to run the football there, not
going to play action pass.
Speaker 4: They don't have anyone at quarterback or a wider see
that they trust to do that, and I don't know
who they had a tight end at the time. They're
going to run the damn ball and Byu could not
stop them. Travis Tooeylan ends up getting a Liz Frog
injury because he's wearing vapor cleats at three hundred pounds.
Speaker 3: I'm pissed off. I'm angry in the stands.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like run that ball, you know, to
stack the box, let's go Kama Kazi's and you couldn't
stop them, and you lost. You didn't get another chance,
another opportunity to win that game, and and and so
it's trench warfare. So that's where you wonder, it's like,
how much of a drop off with Lewis Powell and Hardy? Yeah,
like your defensive and offensive life. Why is it that
Kyle winning him went out and got those guys.
Speaker 1: That's who's I heard.
Speaker 8: Lewis Powell was really tough to get to Michigan too,
from what I understand.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, he's TiSER here in Yeah, I mean they're
here in the state of Utah. This is where his
family and he's got he's neighbors with with Shoney Pooh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean, Well in Utah County,
I know that. So, yeah, it's gonna it's gonna be.
Speaker 8: I mean, even as recently as twenty twenty three, twenty
twenty four, b way, he's offensive.
Speaker 1: Line could not handle Utah's front.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Now the B way you can.
Speaker 8: And you give me a defensive linement on Utah that's
returning next year, just anybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't give me a name. It's oh wow,
it's tenuous. It's it's gonna be interesting, you.
Speaker 3: Know, it's interesting.
Speaker 4: So let me add to the fire here, Ronald the
three man, I'm gonna DM you this. Okay, this was
a really cash me a key cut from Kyle Whittingham.
Now this kind of piggybacks off of what the identity
has been for Utah under Kyle Whittingham. Okay, And remember
when when Utah Utah went to the Pac twelve, they
found a way to win in the trenches versus weaker
trench teams.
Speaker 3: Now, they didn't have the skill guys.
Speaker 4: And all that stuff that USC Washington, Oregon had had,
and they would lose to those teams on occasion.
Speaker 1: Right, And.
Speaker 3: But like when they moved to the Big twelve, what happened?
What happened?
Speaker 4: Were they still winning at that rate? Were they still
winning the trench warfare? How many injuries did they have?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: They lost the trench warfare battles. So this was back
in November thirteenth, twenty twenty four. How much does the
perceived lack of physicality at Utah? Remember twenty twenty four
they were getting beat in the line of scrimmage the
first year in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: How much does the.
Speaker 4: Perceived lack of fysicality at Utah have to do with
the new conference affiliation. Utah football has been riddled with
injuries this season. This was Kyle Winningham prior to the
BYU game, was asked about the Utah identity and where
it's gone.
Speaker 10: Okay, where has their identity gone?
Speaker 2: We've been known for our pascality.
Speaker 5: And attention to detail for decades and it seems like
we've lost that in the last month.
Speaker 10: How have you addressed these issues during the bye week?
Speaker 11: I would agree that we're not as physical this year
as we typically have been, and you really gauge that,
at least we gauge it by how you run the
ball and how you defend the run, and we haven't
been as good at that this year.
Speaker 10: Just you know, tough to pinpoint one.
Speaker 11: Exact reason for that, but yeah, we haven't haven't been
our usual selves in that regard and that has been
our identity as well, and so they go hand in hand.
And you know, the ability to run the ball and
play action pass off of that, that's been our formula
for success for a lot of years. And that the
ability on defense to turn teams one dimensional by taking
away the run and forcing them to throw has not
surfaced this year either. So that's certainly been a big
part of our issue this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, so.
Speaker 3: This last year, they they brought it back, they got
it back right a little bit better.
Speaker 4: But the Utah defensive line play and defensive stopping, the
rushing ability that was that was not good.
Speaker 3: I mean, they were getting tore up on the back
end of the year.
Speaker 4: Offensively, they were able to STAPs because the had the
best offensive line in the Big Twelve arguably and one
of the best offensive lines in college football. But defensively
they didn't take away the run. They didn't They were
not good at all. Opponent rushing yards, opponent rushing rushes
pre game they were like ninety six and one hundred
and fourteenth.
Speaker 1: They looked like bau in twenty twenty three, let's be honest.
Speaker 4: Giving up a lot of yardage and so like I'm
telling you, like, I think the Big twelve jump was impactful.
I think the physicality is different than with the petrol
and they had a little bit of an eye opening
experience too.
Speaker 3: I don't think they would.
Speaker 4: Have been I mean, even with Coywodeham, if they would
have maintained retained Coywodeham, I still think they would have
struggled this next season. So what how many wins do
you think they get this next year?
Speaker 3: For four? Okay, g Man's saying four and nine for
the Yutes. What do you what do you think?
Speaker 4: Way too early prediction looking at the schedule, knowing what
the what's returning. Oh yeah, well oh yeah, sorry sorry
I said yeah, four and eight. Sorry I was I
was thinking of the twenty seventeen season, which, by you
played Portland.
Speaker 3: State and went four and nine. Anyways, continue, I think
they're getting to six wins.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be six and six and then whatever
they do with the ball game, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But I think that'll be six and six.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like they're gonna get ball older.
They're gonna find a way with some grit to get
ball old. Well that's kind of how I'm feeling so
six and six Utah, that'll be a good season for
you with an actual.
Speaker 1: DAS season is not something I thought would be five,
five and seven. And that b whaty you lost is
what does it?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, could you image it?
Speaker 4: A b AU lost at Rice Cycles is a determining
factor from them going bullet.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent because I think they'll beat Utah, They'll
lose to Arkansas. I still think they get Utah State.
I think they lose at Iowa State on the road,
and then that BYU, Arizona, TCU West Virginia.
Speaker 5: There's at least two or three losses in there.
Speaker 6: Like I just I think that's tough to have to
play BYU your bie week's hecka early bin and then
you gotta go on the road Arizona tough place to play.
Then you gotta go to TCU, and then you gotta
host West Virginia at the crib.
Speaker 5: Like how motivated are you going to be?
Speaker 1: How motivated?
Speaker 5: Like the guys that left were super motivated. Are these
guys going to be motivated? Is he going to be
able to have them that way?
Speaker 6: Look, I mean talent and expectation of plays a factor
like this could be a very much a BYU season,
Like they might be five and two, then maybe you
starting off and then they might remember what happened to
be you five straight losses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can see them actually starting five and oh
that's what I'm saying, and they lose, yes, all of
their remaining games.
Speaker 5: Like I'm telling you right, I think they'll be five
and too and lose five straight.
Speaker 3: I think they could. They could be there. They could
be there. You don't think so?
Speaker 4: G Man, how what's their record going eating Arkansas? They're
not going to beat not beating Arkansas.
Speaker 8: I said that they would lose Arkansas, said that they
would be ben saying they're gonna be five and h s.
Speaker 4: I mean you did you realize Arkansas was two and
ten last year, the worst they were in college football?
Speaker 3: And you're you're you're giving them you're thinking kJ Jefferson Arkansas.
Speaker 1: All right, I plead ignorance. All yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That way. Look at that SEC bias all right, look
at that SEC bias.
Speaker 1: Seven. Six and six is kind of where I'm at.
I'm gonna boost to five and seven.
Speaker 8: Remember, sorry, I was not prepared to diagnose Utah's schedule.
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