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you live in.

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Speaker 3: Hey, life is good. It's a great week.

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Speaker 4: It's a great week. It's a great day to be

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a cougar.

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Speaker 2: I want to start off with some of the look

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I'm an individual. This particular topic is one that's very

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I'm very passionate about. I think the nil transfer portal

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era has brought more parody to college football. I think

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there was a bit of a college football cabal and

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ola goppoly, if you will, that was operating under the

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guys of amateurism for so long, and they had bag

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men paying for players when other conferences would be reprimanded

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in death penalty, I ESMU and others whenever they would

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infringe on the rules. It's these rules are for you,

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not for us type of deal. Nick Saban actually chimed

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in on the pay for play era.

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Speaker 4: There's good, there's bad, there's ugly, there's beautiful with all

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of this.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, Nick Saban hits home on a particular topic.

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He states that the recent firing of these head coaches

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James Franklin, Billy n. Pierre, go down the list, I

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think Sam Pittman, My Gundy, to Sean Foster, Brent Pry, etc.

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He says this is just a product of the pay

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for play era. Do you agree or disagree with Nick

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Saban's comments here, Well.

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Speaker 5: Well, I agree and I actually have pretty good information.

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That's exactly why James strengths let go. They're one of

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their top donors. Happens to be in my industry mostly.

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Speaker 3: Baths one day bath company. We'll just leave it at that.

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Speaker 5: And they were a large contributor and we're not happy

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and basically said the change has happened or we're pulling

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our funds.

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Speaker 2: So essentially there, so they have they have more equity

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stake now because they're paying the payroll through nil.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's super unfortunate that that's what it's come to,

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but it's the reality.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, you get these big.

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Speaker 5: Owners think that they have more power than they do,

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and then schools are worried about losing that money, you know,

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when they're expecting you know, thirty forty fifty million from

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these guys, and then you know it's like, well we're

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gonna pull it.

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Speaker 3: What does the company do without thirty million dollars? It

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changes things and we can call it like it is.

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Speaker 5: But these these organizations are businesses now, and so they've

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got to run it accordingly.

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Speaker 2: But I mean he was just in the colleg football

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playoff last year, James. The James Franklin situation is to

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me the most ludicrous. Most of these other schools were

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losing and losing at a high level, right They just

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they didn't look like they were going to be able

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to come up for air and survive the next week.

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Whereas James Franklin, I mean, he was still competitive. He

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was just in the colleg football playoff. That seemed a

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little bit of a knee jerk reaction to me.

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Speaker 3: I agree one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, at one time in the country, they

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were ranked at number maybe three.

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Speaker 2: They were at the top top program in the country

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to start the season.

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Speaker 5: It's seen it, yeah, I mean, and they did have

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a three game skid, so you can't take that. It's

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kind of you can't have no consequences for losing three

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state three three games straight.

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Speaker 2: So there's a top ten coach of college football over

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the last decade and you fire them. They just went

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to DOUBLET versus Oregon and organ is a pretty good squad.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they were right there knocking on the door

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for that game.

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Speaker 5: It's interesting, you know, you think if things just went

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their way on that one game, what would have happened.

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Probably nothing. So it's amazing how that won one turn

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of events. Literally but lucky. He's in a great deal man.

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He's making all that money. Didn't at home doing nothing

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and making money.

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Speaker 2: Pay for play has its ugly side, there's no doubt.

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And donors have more equity than ever. I don't know

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what's worse, private equity getting more involved in these college

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football organizations or individual donors having a bigger say because

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there many of them are actually fans. They're not necessarily

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looking at the bottom line. They're looking at the wins.

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They don't care about the budget. They care about wins

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and wins alone, whereas private equity is looking at profitability.

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Give me your thoughts on that.

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Speaker 5: Well, I agree one hundred percent, and I can give

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you some real world experiences in my industry.

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Speaker 3: So my industry.

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Speaker 5: Private equity is coming in probably more in the construction

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world than anything else right now.

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Speaker 3: Because they can see the potential. And I mean, I'm

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not gonna lie.

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Speaker 5: I get probably a call a week, maybe two a

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week from private equity trying to come and buy us.

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The problem is is as soon as you do that.

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Now you're answering to the man, and you can't treat

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your customers like you want to be treat them. You

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can't treat your employees like you want to treat them.

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It's now it's just a big corporation. And unfortunately, the

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same thing happens in football. Whether it's where it's business

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like my exterior company or a football team, the private

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every community gets involved, it's a completely different level.

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Speaker 2: No more customer centric approach. It's all the profitability approach.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 5: And so for us, it's all about our customers, you know,

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to take care of the customers share in Utah. But

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for college football, their customers are us as fans as well.

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And so whether you're working on your home or you're

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watching football, you're still a consumer of one thing or another.

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And as soon as you're being dictated by the powers

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that be, it's not the same and you can't give

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the same experience anymore.

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Speaker 2: Tim the rivalry game, the Holy War, it's a great

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day to be a Cougar. B Yu has a three

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game winning streak. Kyle Whittingham may retire at the end

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of this year, most likely, I would say, and b

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why you still undefeated in college football. They're a borderline

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top ten team. All is well in Cougar Country. Bear

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Bachmeier is doing something that only five freshmen have ever

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I believe in college football, go seven and oh as

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a true freshman quarterback.

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Speaker 4: Look at this list.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts Alabama twenty sixteen, Jake from Georgia twenty seventeen,

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Trevor Lawrence clems In twenty eighteen, Hank Bachmeier at Boise

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State twenty nineteen, and then Bear Bachmeyer BYU twenty twenty five.

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Only these five quarterbacks have started off in their true

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freshman year seven and oh. What does it mean for

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BYU in its future?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's amazing and I'll be the first

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to admit I was wrong. I thought that he would

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make way more mistakes than he has. I mean, what's

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he have on your three picks?

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Speaker 3: Is that right? And that's incredible?

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Speaker 5: His completion percentage is unbelievable, his lack of picks.

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Speaker 3: It just shows how intelligent he is now.

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Speaker 5: I think also give crowd up to the offensive staff

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the way that they've eased him in. It's a huge

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thing if you can have a freshman do that now

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and get some more experience, and literally every week he's

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getting better and better and better, and they're opening up

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to the playbook more and more.

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Speaker 3: It's scary good.

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Speaker 2: My other stat of the day here is that in

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reference to Kyle Whittingham, when BYU and Utah are in

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the same conference, Kyle Whittingham has a win loss record

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versus the Cougars at three and five, only three wins,

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five lawsuits. So you had six games in the Mountain

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West from five to twenty ten, and then the two

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most recent in the Big twelve. What does that tell

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you when he's got a losing record when BYU is

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sitting on the same resource level, Well, it shows you.

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Speaker 5: Exactly what once you have the similar money, it's amazing

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what BYU can do. And again go back to the

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whole money. Money is everything. You know, BYU is a

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huge disadvantage for all those years. Well now it's equal,

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and look what's happening. You know, I actually looked up

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a stet the other day because trying to decither, Oh

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you tell one nine straight, Okay, yeah, we'll take the

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last ten years. If you take ten years, the games

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are split three and three. And that's pretty interesting. That's

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pretty balanced between the two in the last ten years.

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Speaker 3: Then obviously By's had the edge recently. So really you've

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give that. Itg to b Yu.

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Speaker 4: Things for looking up for By you, no doubt about it.

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Sixteriors Utah dot Com. Last question for you as it

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pertains to BYU Football right now. BYU's heading on the

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road to Iowash State, maybe a trap game. They then

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have a bye week, they head out to Lubbock, so

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back to back, essentially road games. Texas Tech still a

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top twenty five team. They they're probably pretty pitched off

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after losing to ASU on the road. You get them

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head to Cincinnati on the road. That's a tough one.

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UCF at home. What do you think BYU's record will

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be in the next four games Iowash State, Texas Tech, TCU,

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Speaker 5: Well, I'd love to say we're gonna win a well,

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but I just don't know that's possible. I think we'll

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end up with three and one. I think will get

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Iowa State this week. I think Colony has made it

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very clear that we're not having a letdown after Utah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you said that's some times in the press conference.

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Speaker 5: After I think what we'll take care of business this

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week and then the buy and then that Texas Tech

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You just something We're gonna fall somewhere. I just don't

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know where, but it's exciting. Look, who knew what was

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going to happen with BYU and Utah and we take

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care of business, so we're on the right track.

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to the hotline. Welcome in former BYU Athletic director. We

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got Rondo Felberg on the line. Rondo, how are you living.

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Speaker 6: Great?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: Obviously after last weekend? How could I not be great? Right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, three in a row that hasn't happened

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since the early nineties. It's a bit of a monumental

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turning of the tide, if you will. In this rivalry game.

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You were there in attendance, You saw it. What are

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you seeing from your perch? Why is it that BYU

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is finally capable of getting it on a winning streak

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now in the modern era.

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Speaker 6: Well, the short answer is, I don't know. It seems

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to me to be more about Utah's weaknesses than BYU strings.

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look at that team, there are no weaknesses. They're not

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unbelievably great anywhere, but they are strong everywhere. And so

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you've got a BYU team that really doesn't have any weaknesses,

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and so any team that is coming to the game

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with weaknesses, if bay you can find them, they'll exploit them.

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And they did that against Utah. They've done that every game.

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They've got a great coaching staff and they do a

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wonderful job of finding the weaknesses in the opposing team

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and exploiting them. Sometimes that reveals itself just by looking

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at the films that are provided to them of the

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preceding games. Sometimes it happens right there on the field.

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And we watched that the other night. We saw BYU

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had just its game plan on the fly, and oh

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my goodness, it was so fun to watch them pound

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all Jane Martin and Bear Backmeier and and all of

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a sudden, the wide receivers, well not just wide receivers,

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because our Carson ryan Is plays like a wide receiver,

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but they those guys became decoys. And every time you thought,

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oh my goodness, they're just decoys, I'm gonna ignore them, boom,

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next thing you know, they've caught a pass and away

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they go. So it was it was just really fun

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for me to watch.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you right now this this BYU football

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teams doing some monumental things one of the things that

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I've been studying here Kyle Whittingham when he has to

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play in the same conferences BYU the Mountain West Conference

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area as the head coach from two thousand and five

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to twenty ten, and then most recently the last two

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seasons in the Big Twelve, he's actually only three and

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five three wins, five losses in the rivalry. So I

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wonder if conference affiliation and equal resources have something to

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do with it.

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Speaker 6: What say you, that's a possibility?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think.

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Speaker 6: I think BYU had a real step up of when

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they came into the Big Twelve. I think it was

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more about BYU entering the Big Twelve from independence than

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they being in the same conference as Utah. I don't

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think they had to be in the same conference. They

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just had to have access to the resources that come

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from being in a our conference.

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Speaker 4: It sure helps, doesn't it. Rondo?

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Speaker 2: What does the future from your perspective look like for

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BYU athletics now that they do have equal resources, now

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they are on an even playing field with not only Utah,

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but the likes of college football.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think Brian Santiago is a great choice as

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an athletic director. Brian is the guy that we need

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right now. Brian is smart, he's experienced, and Bryan can

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be tough when he needs to be tough. Nobody's going

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to push Brian around, and he's the right guy in

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the right place at the right time. And so I'm

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delighted that we have Brian there now. I'm also delighted

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that we've got mister smooth as glass Chad Lewis standing

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right behind him with the big smile on space.

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Speaker 2: It does help. They have the right people booing you up.

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You're only as good as the people you hire and

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the people that are taking on some of the admin load.

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They're in the athletic department, and you know that better

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than anybody. You got to hire the right people around

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you in order to find success. And right now, BYU's

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positioned competitively to make waves not only in the football world,

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but the basketball world. I don't know which one you're

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more excited about. If you're a fan of the basketball

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team or the football team. What about you, where's your

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level of excitement compared to these two.

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Speaker 6: This is going to sound a little bit corny, but

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it depends on the season of the year. Right now,

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I'm more excited about football two months from now, I'll

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have a different answer.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm right there with you. UNC's coming to town,

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which is pretty crazy. You talk about the high profile

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football games that BYU finally has under the lights of

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lavel Fox, big noon kickoff game day wanting to come

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to town as well. Well, some of the premier basketball

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blue bloods are coming to Provo now as well.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well, I mean it was interesting that sort

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of the behind the scenes negotiating that went on. Basically,

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North Carolina said that would be suicide to come to

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the Marriage Center. We're not going there, and so the

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compromise was the Delta Center. Now, the Delta Center is

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about as close to home court advantage as BYU could have,

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but they're willing to play us there, but they would

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not play us in the Marriage Center.

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Speaker 2: And I think, b why you's paying them a hefty

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sum of five hundred thousand dollars or so just to

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come to the Delta Center.

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Speaker 6: Well, that is another thing that is a nice luxury

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to have. It's nice to have boosters and supporters who

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are willing to put their money where their mouths are

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and and and provide that kind of of arsenal uh

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for Kevin Young and colony Sataki to do what they

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need to do.

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Speaker 4: Did we have did we have the donor base?

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Speaker 2: So like, let's go back in time to the nineties, okay,

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early two thousands, and you know there we were under

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different UH rule by the n C double A. It

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was an arbitrary rule, this oligopoly, this this college athletics

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cabal that that that would essentially cut the legs out

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from everyone.

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Speaker 6: UH.

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Speaker 2: That that went against the blue bloods. They were the

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ones that that that essentially had the power. Now we're

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in a free market, capitalistic n I L Transfer portal

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world in which you know, everyone can pay what they

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are willing to pay for players, for coaches, for their

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organizational design?

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Speaker 4: Did BYU in the nineties?

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Speaker 2: And if let's go back in the past, and if

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we had the free market system that we have right

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now that could allocate as much funds as we wanted to,

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did we have the donor base to execute back in

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the nineties like we are in present day with the

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resources that we have, If we didn't have the rules

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and regulations of the past.

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Speaker 6: We had the donor base and we had willing donors. Yeah,

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we just wouldn't cheat. Yep. The difference between US then

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and US now is just a BYU will not cheat.

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Back then, everybody else was cheating. And that's really what's happened.

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The change in college athletics has been that the coaches

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who were similar to by you and the administrators finally

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just strew up their hands and said, we're not going

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to do it anymore. And so they just said, Okay,

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everybody can do what these other guys have been doing

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for the last several decades and not acknowledging it. And

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so when what the other guys used to do, which

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was cheat, became fair game, all of a sudden, you

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saw the depth of the BYU donor base. I cannot

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tell you how many times I met with willing, unbelievably

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supportive BYU boosters and supporters who wanted to help out,

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and we're more than willing to write the checks, but

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we would have to have them literally write a check

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to bring them young university. And look at the magnificent

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facilities all across campus that we had because it couldn't

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be channeled back then straight to the athletic department like

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it can now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's interesting.

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Speaker 2: In and of itself because it had to go to

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the school first philanthropies and then trickle down to the

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athletic department.

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Speaker 4: When did that change?

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Speaker 2: When did when could you finally donate directly to the

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athletic department and the athletic department get to was able

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to maybe just eat what it killed. As far as

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the donor corporate sponsorship avenues that they have in the

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present day.

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Speaker 6: Well you may recall there was a swimmer at Arizona

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State University by the name of Grant House who sued

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Arizona State and the NCAA claiming that that they were

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using the athletes name, image and likeness and not allowing

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the athlete to benefit from it, and that that was

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an unfair restraint on trade and it compromised their courte

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constitutional rights. That went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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But that was what changed as the as the trial

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court first, then the appeals court next ruled in favor

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of House, and it was headed to the Supreme Court.

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That's when the NCAA finally shrugged their shoulders and said

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we get it, and so they lifted all of those

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those restrictions and barriers, and so it would have come anyway,

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I think at some point. But what precipitated it was

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the House case.

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Speaker 2: But more so than anything of what I was trying

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to get at, And I didn't properly formulate the question

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when did it occur within BYU as an institution for

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donors to be able to directly contribute funds to the

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Athletic Department rather than the just the institution.

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Speaker 6: It happened. It happened as soon as the NCAA lifted

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the lid. And I don't have that date on my mind,

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but as soon as the NCAA said all right, we

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get it, BYU was right there. We were ready, and

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we had donors that were ready, and Tom Holmo and

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Brian Santiago and all of those other guys in the

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Athletic Department had made sure that those relationships were intact

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and that those potential donors were ready. And I can

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tell you that there's no better group of donors on

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the planet than our donors. I loved, loved, loved that

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part of my job when I was Athletic Director was

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going out and meeting with donors and meeting with the

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people who were just they basically said, you just tell

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us what and when and it was a fun thing.

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Speaker 4: Rondo Felberg, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: Former BYU Athletic director pontificating on the past and what

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could have been had the athletic department operated under the

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same rules.

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Speaker 4: We were just waiting for the flood gates to be open.

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Speaker 2: We were just waiting for the approval to do it

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in a fair way where all of the institutions could

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compete at the same level. I love it, Rondo, real quick,

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what do you think the record will be in the

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next five games for the BWAU Cougar? Do you think

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they end up undefeated in the regular season and.

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Speaker 4: Head to the Big Twelve championship game.

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Speaker 6: Well, if I have a weakness as a former athletic administrator,

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I was a fan long before I was an administrator,

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and so.

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Speaker 8: It's very hard for me to to sort of calm

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my emotions down and use just my head and my

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analytic ability.

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Speaker 6: But my heart says, BYU is going undefeated and BYU

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is going to do what they need to do. I mean,

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there is nothing better in the whole world for the

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grander mission of BYU Athletics than for our football and

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basketball teams, which are most visible sports to be successful.

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When those young men and young women with their smiling

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faces and their badges on their chests knock on doors,

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there is nothing better in the world for them than

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the people on the other side of the door to

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have been watching BYU Sports on TV and say, come

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on in. I don't really know that much about what

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you want to talk about. I want to talk about

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this bear Bachmeier kid. Can we take a few minutes

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to talk about him? Well, of course, our missionaries become

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instant pretend experts on all things bear Bachmeier and all

518
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things to do with Kevin Young and Kevin's programming, and

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that gets him in the doors and then everything else

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always from there.

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Speaker 2: Love it, Rondo, We appreciate you, Love you, and thanks

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so much for spending some time with us in this segment.

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Speaker 4: Let us know if you need anything from us.

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Speaker 2: We look forward to chatting with you in the press

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box once again later on this year. There you have it.

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bear Bachmeyer taking over college football.

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Speaker 4: Not yet, but he's on the verge.

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Speaker 2: Of doing something extremely special as a true freshman. Okay,

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he's one of five true freshmen I think in the

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modern era to go seven to zero as a starter

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pretty impressive. Know if sands or much about that. And

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ESPN is taking notice, obviously us locally, but nationally Bristol

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is taking notice. And Trevor Scales of ESPN Sports Center

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reached out to BYU and got bear Bachmeyer on the line.

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Let's get to know bear Bachmeyer from kind of a

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third party perspective. We've heard a lot of sound from Bear.

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Let's get to know them through the eyes the voice

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of ESPN. Now let's tune in.

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Speaker 7: So let's welcome in BYU QB one bear back Mara.

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What a win it was over the US third straight

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as a program.

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Speaker 4: But I know this was your first experience with that

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rivalry at BYU.

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Speaker 7: I imagine no short as a hype going into the game.

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How was it for you?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I was definitely intensified. It was crazy and just

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exhilarating atmosphere. I mean, there's a lot of words to

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describe what it was, but I mean it was a

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it was a great team win.

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Speaker 7: Gotta be gotta be a good feeling on the back end.

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But I read it you as a quarterback rocking the

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number forty seven because it quote brings you back to

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a primitive nature that is neither a standard number nor

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a mentality for the position. I don't imagine too many

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coaches are looking for their quarterback to play more like

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a fullback. So how has that approach gone over with

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various coaches that you've played for.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's a unique number and my dad picked

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it for me when I when I first started playing football,

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And I mean the coaches, the coaches love it. I

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mean it's uh, you know again it brings brings back

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that primitive nature and and uh if if they need

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a yard or two or you know certain long you

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need to get first down, you know, they you know,

596
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always count on count on me.

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Speaker 7: Where did that primitive nature come from? That just desire

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for contact when it comes to the sport.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just the way I was raised.

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Speaker 9: I I uh, my dad was an officer in the

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in the in the Marine Corps, and my my mom

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was was crazy raising five kids, and so I got

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I got three older stiblings.

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Speaker 3: We always rough.

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Speaker 9: House inside the house, and then my younger brother too,

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just uh bullying him a little. And so just just

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just how it was raised and just how I grew up. Uh,

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definitely definitely instilled the competitive nature and the toughness in me.

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Speaker 7: In me, oh so you had no choice whatsoever.

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Speaker 4: It was that was a matter of survival.

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Speaker 7: To be able to get out of the Bacher household,

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you have to be able to just hold you on

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a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: I still remember playing front yard Basta, and uh, you know,

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somebody would always have a bloody nose or a chip tooth,

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and and Mom would always be screaming so just great

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times at the end the back of my house.

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Speaker 7: Love it man tempo established out the gate. Speaking of

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your household, your brother Tiger also transferred it from Stanford

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to play with you. Uh what did that mean to

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have him suited up with and even catch a couple

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of passes from you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it means. It means so much.

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Speaker 9: And and just to support and love that we have

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for each other, it's it's it's second to none. And

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I'm just I'm so happy that he's here with me,

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and uh, you know, we live together and we do

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everything together. So I just I love him so much

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and and yeah, just very joyful.

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Speaker 7: Where does that closeness come from between y'all two and

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just the family at large?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think just the way we're raising

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what would our parents instilled in us. We we all

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stayed in the same room, so you know, just four

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boys in one croom and playing w WE demos and

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and uh you know russ houses just and just just

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the tight knit that we have.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we all love each other just very much.

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Speaker 9: And and uh, you know, if the first call I

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make whenever's is is my brothers and also sister as well.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, so I'm gonna get a little corporate centers

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you going here?

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Speaker 3: Ww.

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Speaker 7: You mentioned that what wrestler were you typically playing with

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and your siblings usually.

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Speaker 3: Squaring off with.

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Speaker 9: I was always Rave Mysterio for sure, doing the six

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to one nine and we would, uh, we had this

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plastic w W champion belt and we would hang it

651
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on the fan, the top fan, and we'd get like

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a little ladder, and so you know, we'd all rough

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house or whatever, and whoever you know obviously gets the

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uh the ladder on the on the fan. When's when's

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the match? So it was fun, it was.

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Speaker 4: I mean it was.

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Speaker 3: It was awesome growing up.

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Speaker 7: That's any tables get brought out, like anybody going through tables?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, my actually Tiger because we were also playing the

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liver room too, on the couches and whatever, and I

661
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remember Tiger jumping from one couch to another and he

662
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he his mouth split open, and so yeah, we would

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have tables, couches, well, whatever object we could find just

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to make it more enticing.

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Speaker 4: That's remarkable, man.

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Speaker 7: It built up a clear bit of athleticism for y'all

667
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too clearly. Speaking of Tiger again, when y'all do connect

668
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four touchdown pass. What's the coordinated effort in the end

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zone if you have one choreographed.

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Speaker 9: Out, man, I think I don't know, we'll probably just

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do a big hug or something. I mean, but yeah,

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I'm I'm, I'm so we're still waiting on that. But

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when when it happens, yask, it's gonna be awesome for sure.

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Speaker 7: Looking forward to it. Now, let's rewind a little bit

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to your first start against the with the Cougars, I

676
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:42,000
should say dominant win over Portland State wants you to

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listen to what their coach had to say about you, well,

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watching it.

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Speaker 10: During free game, you know, because I was hoping his

680
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,480
hype wasn't right or his weight wasn't right, you know,

681
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and then looked at his ass in his leg.

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Speaker 7: He looks like you got damn saying tar so Centaur.

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Speaker 4: How we feeling about that description? Yeah, it's uh that

684
00:37:06,519 --> 00:37:08,480
that joke is still going on. I thought it would

685
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have died, but yeah, I guess, I guess. Uh, you know,

686
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you look at.

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Speaker 3: My lower body.

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Speaker 9: I you know, I like to think I'm or people

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just say like I'm I'm a big dude, I guess,

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And so I guess that kind of correlates together, and yeah,

691
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it's a funny joke that that's going on.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you're well built.

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Speaker 7: We'll take it as a compliment and wish you the

694
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best of luck going forward as y'all take on Iowa

695
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State this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Brother, appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Taking the time.

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Speaker 4: All Right, there you go.

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718
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Canyon National Park. Guys, let's react to the commentary. I

719
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,079
know there's one man here amongst us that loves talking.

720
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,599
Wwewwf off the top rope? Did that bring back some

721
00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:44,119
memories of like your childhood then or even adulthood?

722
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 4: Brett jumping off the top rope? And you know, would

723
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:47,880
you you know what I mean?

724
00:38:48,039 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 11: Like, I think anyone who had brothers can relate to that,

725
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,519
Like the part.

726
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,559
Speaker 4: Where he talks about bullying his little brother.

727
00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 11: I never had that experience because I didn't have any

728
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,840
little brothers, but I was I'm the top my family,

729
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,800
So playing basketball was a lot of fun for me

730
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,559
because I could just shove my brothers down to the

731
00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:08,519
ground and put the ball in the basket. Like, anyone

732
00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:11,800
who grew up with brothers knows exactly what it was

733
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,519
like to grow up in the barre Bakmeyer household and

734
00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:17,719
jumping off beds and doing stupid things you know that

735
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,199
you shouldn't and things that you definitely know that if

736
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:22,880
your mom found out she was upset about. So you

737
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,440
made sure that even if somebody got hurt, you just

738
00:39:25,519 --> 00:39:28,519
told him to sweep the tooth under the bed. Mom

739
00:39:28,559 --> 00:39:30,519
didn't find out about it, because if she did, she

740
00:39:30,599 --> 00:39:31,679
got you got in trouble.

741
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 4: I pushed my brother off.

742
00:39:33,639 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 11: A chair one time when we were growing up because

743
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,920
we were fighting, and remember he smashed and lost the tooth,

744
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,960
and I swept it under the fridge, thinking my mom

745
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,360
wouldn't find out until she realized that my brother was

746
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,000
missing a tooth.

747
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 4: I don't know how I thought I was gonna get

748
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:47,159
away with that one.

749
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,559
Speaker 11: But anyone who listened to that interview, like whether or

750
00:39:49,599 --> 00:39:52,639
not you grew up loving wrestling or not, like you

751
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,800
identified with that interview, and you.

752
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,079
Speaker 4: Know what it was like growing up in the bar

753
00:39:56,159 --> 00:39:57,119
Bachmeyer household.

754
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,639
Speaker 11: And I think that competitive nature. And look, he said this,

755
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,920
but when you hear him talk about it, you know

756
00:40:05,079 --> 00:40:09,000
that part of the reason that he's so successful, part

757
00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:11,719
of the reason that none of the noise, none of

758
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,880
the rivalry, none of the Internet, none of that affects

759
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,599
Bear because he already grew up in one of the

760
00:40:17,639 --> 00:40:21,079
most competitive places in the entire planet, which is growing

761
00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:25,280
up with older brothers where it is a kill or

762
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,719
be killed type of world when you're competing with your

763
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,159
older brothers. And so when you can compete like that,

764
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,880
then there's nothing that an opponent on the other side

765
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,159
of the football field can do because you've already competed

766
00:40:35,159 --> 00:40:36,840
against the tough in your own family.

767
00:40:37,599 --> 00:40:38,039
Speaker 4: I love it.

768
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,559
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't know listening to that, it's exactly like

769
00:40:41,639 --> 00:40:45,599
Brett said, growing up with brothers is a very dangerous

770
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:48,440
thing to do, uh huh, and like it's almost some

771
00:40:48,599 --> 00:40:51,480
days it's a fight for survival. And so I just

772
00:40:51,559 --> 00:40:54,679
want to thank Hank Bachmeier for beating up his little

773
00:40:54,679 --> 00:40:57,360
brother and getting it the toughness that he has, because

774
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,199
Bayu fans are rejoicing over.

775
00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:01,159
Speaker 4: Of the toughness of Bear.

776
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,679
Speaker 12: And I hope, I hope that we are recruiting Buck

777
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,280
as hard as possible, because if you notice it, only

778
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,360
they only get tougher like the younger they go because

779
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,639
they had to deal with more, like Bear was probably

780
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,039
beating up on Buck along.

781
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:17,599
Speaker 4: With the other two.

782
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,599
Speaker 12: So I hope we're getting you know, I hope we're

783
00:41:20,639 --> 00:41:25,760
recruiting Buck really hard right now. But and I just

784
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,280
want to say something about that celebration he said, like

785
00:41:28,599 --> 00:41:30,559
Bear and Tiger need to come up with something better

786
00:41:30,559 --> 00:41:34,159
than like do the w WE SmackDown celebration. That would

787
00:41:34,199 --> 00:41:38,119
go hard. They've already been practicing. Let's go, let's get it.

788
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,599
I mean, you know, one of the things that.

789
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 2: I'll say about Bear and the Bachmeier family is, and

790
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,320
I've said this before, but there's great alignment with who

791
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,159
they are and who BYU is.

792
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 4: They just did and they just they just fit and.

793
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,079
Speaker 2: I don't foresee I mean, obviously Bears gonna be a

794
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:06,519
hot commodity for anyone that thinks they can buy the

795
00:42:06,599 --> 00:42:09,960
Bachmeyer family. But I think BA is gonna take care

796
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,639
of him. I think the by is gonna take care

797
00:42:11,679 --> 00:42:13,519
of him. I don't think they'll be the highest bidder,

798
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:15,920
you know, because like I'm sure there's gonna be plenty

799
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,239
of agents reaching out to Bear's agent and trying to

800
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,239
get as much money in his pocket as possible to

801
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,360
go to the SEC or the Big Ten, the big

802
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,119
players that are in need of a quarterback this offseason.

803
00:42:29,559 --> 00:42:31,880
But I think BYU will be able to keep them here.

804
00:42:32,039 --> 00:42:35,360
I think they bought into him early, and I'm sure

805
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,960
that they gave him a competitive nil deal to come

806
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,840
from Stanford when he entered the portal. But I think

807
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,000
BYU's doing it the right way with the right people.

808
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:51,320
And you listen to Bear discuss his relationship with a Rod.

809
00:42:51,559 --> 00:42:53,480
We've listened to a Rod. We're just listening now to

810
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,079
Bear Bachmeyer in this interview. What stood out to you

811
00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:02,440
guys listening to Bear or elaborate on his relationship with

812
00:43:02,599 --> 00:43:04,119
a Rod and how special it is.

813
00:43:05,199 --> 00:43:07,119
Speaker 11: I think it just goes to show how much of

814
00:43:07,159 --> 00:43:11,480
a fan a Rod is of Bear and how much

815
00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:14,440
synergy those two guys have.

816
00:43:14,599 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 4: They just seem like.

817
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 11: They're constantly on the same level, and Bear's constantly doing

818
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,079
what a Rod wants him to do.

819
00:43:24,159 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 4: We've talked about a number of times on.

820
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 11: The show, how if you're successful in an A Rod offense,

821
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,920
it's because you do with the play and the plan is.

822
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,960
And we love Jake Retzloft, but one of Jake Retzlov's

823
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,199
incredible gifts was the ability to go off script.

824
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:41,119
Speaker 4: And I don't know.

825
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 11: That that necessarily was anything that anyone held against him.

826
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,599
Speaker 4: It just didn't work the same as things do for Bear.

827
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,079
Speaker 11: And so you see this relationship grow on the field

828
00:43:52,559 --> 00:43:54,480
because a Rod has a play and he has a

829
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,000
plan and Bear is constantly executing it.

830
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 4: Every now and then he certainly goes off script. I

831
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:00,679
can't find a.

832
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,639
Speaker 11: Read, but I found it so interesting that probably the

833
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,480
longest answer to any question Bar Bachmeyer has been given

834
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,960
in his time doing media at BOU was when he

835
00:44:11,039 --> 00:44:15,000
was asked about his relationship with Aaron Roderick. And I'm

836
00:44:15,039 --> 00:44:18,280
sure there's so many stories, so many conversations, so many

837
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,679
things that we don't see that if we did, we

838
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:26,360
would understand. But I think just from purely the duration

839
00:44:26,519 --> 00:44:29,400
of that answer alone, compared to everything else that he said,

840
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,320
you understand this is a relationship between Bear Bachmeier and

841
00:44:33,639 --> 00:44:35,519
Aaron Roderick, his offensive coordinator.

842
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 4: That's not transactional.

843
00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 11: It is a human relationship by two people who respect

844
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,960
each other very much and two people who thoroughly enjoy

845
00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:45,800
working together because they're constantly on the same page.

846
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 4: Well, I think that like.

847
00:44:49,159 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 12: When Bear says it's the way he was raised, I

848
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,559
think he really means it, like he stays on script

849
00:44:54,679 --> 00:44:57,000
because that's the kind of family that he had. Like

850
00:44:57,199 --> 00:44:59,559
think about his dad was in the military, and the

851
00:44:59,599 --> 00:45:02,679
military you do not go off scripts like you don't

852
00:45:02,679 --> 00:45:03,480
go off scripts.

853
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 4: Let's be clear there.

854
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 12: So he's raised by someone who's and his mom too,

855
00:45:09,559 --> 00:45:12,559
who's taught him to keep the rules, you know, stay

856
00:45:12,559 --> 00:45:15,800
on script. And obviously he has the ability to go

857
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,559
off for and be creative and do things and things

858
00:45:17,679 --> 00:45:20,199
break down. But the first thing he's gonna do is

859
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,800
rely on the system that he is in. And I

860
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,679
think nothing makes a rod happier than seeing a quarterback

861
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,639
finally follow the system that he's in.

862
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,559
Speaker 2: More and more people are becoming privy to BYU and

863
00:45:33,599 --> 00:45:37,079
bear Bachmeyer in twenty twenty five, and we have some

864
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:38,960
numbers to prove it.

865
00:45:39,599 --> 00:45:41,199
Speaker 4: The Fox UH.

866
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:46,079
Speaker 2: Six pm kickoff for the Holy War, it attracted two

867
00:45:46,119 --> 00:45:50,000
million eyeballs. I think that's a solid number all things considered.

868
00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:52,039
I think it's a pretty good number all things considered.

869
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,960
Thus far this season, though in twenty twenty five, the

870
00:45:57,039 --> 00:46:01,719
viewership has been strong. The viewership had has been solid

871
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:07,320
for BYU. I think the BYU Arizona game on ESPN two,

872
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,800
it attracted a little under a million viewers, eight hundred

873
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,280
and sixty eight thousand, not too shabby. Remember that was

874
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,639
a rain delay game that ended up, you know, being

875
00:46:18,639 --> 00:46:21,840
postponed what two hours, so it went into the the

876
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:27,519
late evening BYU versus West Virginia on the Mothership one

877
00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:31,239
point four to one million. Not too shabby. That was

878
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,360
a Friday night kickoff as well. The one point four

879
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,960
to one million on the Mothership ESPN BYU Colorado on

880
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:45,119
the Mothership Late night kick BYU U and Colorado got

881
00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:48,960
two point four to six million viewers. Maybe they're best

882
00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:53,960
outing as far as attracting eyeballs. BYU East Carolina on

883
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:58,519
ESPN two. That was a Saturday matchup, seven thirty pm kickoff,

884
00:46:58,639 --> 00:47:02,920
six hundred and twenty three thousand, and then you know,

885
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,719
nothing on the I don't think the BYU Portland State game,

886
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:10,559
but BYU and Stanford, I don't know if I have

887
00:47:10,559 --> 00:47:11,679
a number on that one.

888
00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:17,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do. One point two one million on ESPN.

889
00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:18,239
So there you go.

890
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 2: That's one point two to one million with the BAU

891
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,119
Stanford game. And then, uh, like I said, nothing on

892
00:47:24,119 --> 00:47:26,280
the Portland State game. So pretty good viewership. What do

893
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,639
you guys make of the viewership thus far this season?

894
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,840
Pretty solid numbers. These aren't SEC big ten numbers. Uh,

895
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,719
you know the you know in primetime slots. There's a

896
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,719
reason why b YU was ultimately picked up by brett

897
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,719
Or Mark in the Big Twelve, or rather Bob Bowls

898
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,000
being the Big Twelve and then brett Or Mark inherited it.

899
00:47:45,639 --> 00:47:49,320
But they love putting them in these these afternoon, evening,

900
00:47:49,639 --> 00:47:53,320
late night kickoff slots because they're consistent. They're not gonna

901
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,440
blow you away with the numbers, but they're always consistent.

902
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:56,800
You know, I always know what you're getting with the

903
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:57,519
b YU game.

904
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,320
Speaker 11: I think those numbers are only going to go up

905
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:06,679
because you can't truly hate something or be apathetic to

906
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,880
something or someone that you've truly gotten to know. And

907
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,559
I think what we saw this last weekend for BYU,

908
00:48:13,679 --> 00:48:16,400
for the Holy War, for Big newon Kickoff was there

909
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,559
was a lot of national media, whether it was Snapback Sports,

910
00:48:19,559 --> 00:48:22,079
whether it was Fox, whether it was Dave Portway and Barstool,

911
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,400
a lot of people who thought they knew things about BOYU,

912
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,239
they thought they'd eaten enough to know that wasn't for them.

913
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,599
They got to Provo, they experienced the culture here.

914
00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:35,159
Speaker 4: And realized, oh, we didn't know this.

915
00:48:35,679 --> 00:48:39,079
Speaker 11: We hadn't had enough to realize we did or didn't

916
00:48:39,159 --> 00:48:43,360
know anything about Provo. And so the coverage that BYU

917
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,360
got on and off the field from these national social media,

918
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,920
these influencers, the national sports media, I think showed a

919
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:56,639
lot of showed the media specifically, and showed college football

920
00:48:56,639 --> 00:48:59,800
fans around the country as well. Oh, BYU is a

921
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,280
team that when I want to watch good football, I

922
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,440
know enough about this team, and I know enough about

923
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,159
this culture, and I now have learned a lot about

924
00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:08,800
Kalani Sataki to say, you know what, when that game's

925
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,320
on and my guys aren't playing, that's a team that

926
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,280
I want to watch. I think you could honestly see

927
00:49:14,679 --> 00:49:16,960
the numbers. We know the numbers have been good this season.

928
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,039
I think you could see a world where my guess

929
00:49:21,079 --> 00:49:23,480
is Texas Tech. BYU will probably do a lot of numbers.

930
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,159
Iowa State and BOYU is gonna do numbers. But I

931
00:49:26,199 --> 00:49:30,440
think BYU, it's possible, has not reached their highest watched

932
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:35,159
game of the season. Given the trajectory that has come

933
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,920
from the Holy Wars, I think you could see a

934
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:39,639
bigger game at some point the rest of the year.

935
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 12: I'm gonna agree with him, and it's it's not because

936
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,599
two point what was the number, It was two point

937
00:49:46,039 --> 00:49:48,400
one billion viewers for this game.

938
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, two point one million, And so it's two million,

939
00:49:51,559 --> 00:49:52,280
I think on the dot.

940
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 4: If I'm not gonna say it, let me so.

941
00:49:54,679 --> 00:49:58,119
Speaker 12: But so that's not why I think that we're gonna

942
00:49:58,159 --> 00:50:00,960
get a better view But we talk about these yesterday,

943
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:05,480
the social media aspect of this game. You were saying

944
00:50:05,519 --> 00:50:10,280
BYU's never had a better social media weekend than they

945
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,440
did this past this past weekend, and so I think

946
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,400
I think we're gonna see some good viewership this Saturday.

947
00:50:16,679 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 4: But the most I think, by far is going to.

948
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,599
Speaker 12: Be that BYU Texas Tech game, Because if BYU can

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keep this momentum, if Texas Tech can keep theirs and

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this social media stuff is taking off, I think that's

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gonna be a very very watched game for BYU. Now,

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I don't think BYU was ever gonna break their all

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time viewership because in nineteen fifty three they stuck them

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on one of like the four channels out there, and

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you got sixty million people watch a BYU Utah game.

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So I don't think you're ever going to beat that

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unless you're in the National Championship game.

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Speaker 4: Sure, and even then.

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Speaker 12: Even then that's gonna be tough to beat. But I

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do think I think that BAU Texas Tech Game is

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where you're going to see the climax In terms of viewership.

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Speaker 4: I would love to see it surpassed.

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Speaker 2: I mean even the the eight million viewers that you

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got in the Alamobile can b why you surpassed that

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this year.

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Speaker 4: I think you'd have to be in a Big twelve

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championship game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve or the CFP for that matter, both are possible.

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