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Speaker 3: Hey, life is good. It's a great week.
Speaker 4: It's a great week. It's a great day to be
a cougar.
Speaker 2: I want to start off with some of the look
I'm an individual. This particular topic is one that's very
I'm very passionate about. I think the nil transfer portal
era has brought more parody to college football. I think
there was a bit of a college football cabal and
ola goppoly, if you will, that was operating under the
guys of amateurism for so long, and they had bag
men paying for players when other conferences would be reprimanded
in death penalty, I ESMU and others whenever they would
infringe on the rules. It's these rules are for you,
not for us type of deal. Nick Saban actually chimed
in on the pay for play era.
Speaker 4: There's good, there's bad, there's ugly, there's beautiful with all
of this.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, Nick Saban hits home on a particular topic.
He states that the recent firing of these head coaches
James Franklin, Billy n. Pierre, go down the list, I
think Sam Pittman, My Gundy, to Sean Foster, Brent Pry, etc.
He says this is just a product of the pay
for play era. Do you agree or disagree with Nick
Saban's comments here, Well.
Speaker 5: Well, I agree and I actually have pretty good information.
That's exactly why James strengths let go. They're one of
their top donors. Happens to be in my industry mostly.
Speaker 3: Baths one day bath company. We'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 5: And they were a large contributor and we're not happy
and basically said the change has happened or we're pulling
our funds.
Speaker 2: So essentially there, so they have they have more equity
stake now because they're paying the payroll through nil.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's super unfortunate that that's what it's come to,
but it's the reality.
Speaker 3: And then you know, you get these big.
Speaker 5: Owners think that they have more power than they do,
and then schools are worried about losing that money, you know,
when they're expecting you know, thirty forty fifty million from
these guys, and then you know it's like, well we're
gonna pull it.
Speaker 3: What does the company do without thirty million dollars? It
changes things and we can call it like it is.
Speaker 5: But these these organizations are businesses now, and so they've
got to run it accordingly.
Speaker 2: But I mean he was just in the colleg football
playoff last year, James. The James Franklin situation is to
me the most ludicrous. Most of these other schools were
losing and losing at a high level, right They just
they didn't look like they were going to be able
to come up for air and survive the next week.
Whereas James Franklin, I mean, he was still competitive. He
was just in the colleg football playoff. That seemed a
little bit of a knee jerk reaction to me.
Speaker 3: I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, at one time in the country, they
were ranked at number maybe three.
Speaker 2: They were at the top top program in the country
to start the season.
Speaker 5: It's seen it, yeah, I mean, and they did have
a three game skid, so you can't take that. It's
kind of you can't have no consequences for losing three
state three three games straight.
Speaker 2: So there's a top ten coach of college football over
the last decade and you fire them. They just went
to DOUBLET versus Oregon and organ is a pretty good squad.
Speaker 4: I mean, they were right there knocking on the door
for that game.
Speaker 5: It's interesting, you know, you think if things just went
their way on that one game, what would have happened.
Probably nothing. So it's amazing how that won one turn
of events. Literally but lucky. He's in a great deal man.
He's making all that money. Didn't at home doing nothing
and making money.
Speaker 2: Pay for play has its ugly side, there's no doubt.
And donors have more equity than ever. I don't know
what's worse, private equity getting more involved in these college
football organizations or individual donors having a bigger say because
there many of them are actually fans. They're not necessarily
looking at the bottom line. They're looking at the wins.
They don't care about the budget. They care about wins
and wins alone, whereas private equity is looking at profitability.
Give me your thoughts on that.
Speaker 5: Well, I agree one hundred percent, and I can give
you some real world experiences in my industry.
Speaker 3: So my industry.
Speaker 5: Private equity is coming in probably more in the construction
world than anything else right now.
Speaker 3: Because they can see the potential. And I mean, I'm
not gonna lie.
Speaker 5: I get probably a call a week, maybe two a
week from private equity trying to come and buy us.
The problem is is as soon as you do that.
Now you're answering to the man, and you can't treat
your customers like you want to be treat them. You
can't treat your employees like you want to treat them.
It's now it's just a big corporation. And unfortunately, the
same thing happens in football. Whether it's where it's business
like my exterior company or a football team, the private
every community gets involved, it's a completely different level.
Speaker 2: No more customer centric approach. It's all the profitability approach.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 5: And so for us, it's all about our customers, you know,
to take care of the customers share in Utah. But
for college football, their customers are us as fans as well.
And so whether you're working on your home or you're
watching football, you're still a consumer of one thing or another.
And as soon as you're being dictated by the powers
that be, it's not the same and you can't give
the same experience anymore.
Speaker 2: Tim the rivalry game, the Holy War, it's a great
day to be a Cougar. B Yu has a three
game winning streak. Kyle Whittingham may retire at the end
of this year, most likely, I would say, and b
why you still undefeated in college football. They're a borderline
top ten team. All is well in Cougar Country. Bear
Bachmeier is doing something that only five freshmen have ever
I believe in college football, go seven and oh as
a true freshman quarterback.
Speaker 4: Look at this list.
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts Alabama twenty sixteen, Jake from Georgia twenty seventeen,
Trevor Lawrence clems In twenty eighteen, Hank Bachmeier at Boise
State twenty nineteen, and then Bear Bachmeyer BYU twenty twenty five.
Only these five quarterbacks have started off in their true
freshman year seven and oh. What does it mean for
BYU in its future?
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's amazing and I'll be the first
to admit I was wrong. I thought that he would
make way more mistakes than he has. I mean, what's
he have on your three picks?
Speaker 3: Is that right? And that's incredible?
Speaker 5: His completion percentage is unbelievable, his lack of picks.
Speaker 3: It just shows how intelligent he is now.
Speaker 5: I think also give crowd up to the offensive staff
the way that they've eased him in. It's a huge
thing if you can have a freshman do that now
and get some more experience, and literally every week he's
getting better and better and better, and they're opening up
to the playbook more and more.
Speaker 3: It's scary good.
Speaker 2: My other stat of the day here is that in
reference to Kyle Whittingham, when BYU and Utah are in
the same conference, Kyle Whittingham has a win loss record
versus the Cougars at three and five, only three wins,
five lawsuits. So you had six games in the Mountain
West from five to twenty ten, and then the two
most recent in the Big twelve. What does that tell
you when he's got a losing record when BYU is
sitting on the same resource level, Well, it shows you.
Speaker 5: Exactly what once you have the similar money, it's amazing
what BYU can do. And again go back to the
whole money. Money is everything. You know, BYU is a
huge disadvantage for all those years. Well now it's equal,
and look what's happening. You know, I actually looked up
a stet the other day because trying to decither, Oh
you tell one nine straight, Okay, yeah, we'll take the
last ten years. If you take ten years, the games
are split three and three. And that's pretty interesting. That's
pretty balanced between the two in the last ten years.
Speaker 3: Then obviously By's had the edge recently. So really you've
got to give the last ten years, you've got to
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top twenty five team. They they're probably pretty pitched off
after losing to ASU on the road. You get them
on November eighth, and then TCU at home. Then you
head to Cincinnati on the road. That's a tough one.
UCF at home. What do you think BYU's record will
be in the next four games Iowash State, Texas Tech, TCU,
Cincinnati or sorry, five games and UCF.
Speaker 5: Well, I'd love to say we're gonna win a well,
but I just don't know that's possible. I think we'll
end up with three and one. I think will get
Iowa State this week. I think Colony has made it
very clear that we're not having a letdown after Utah.
Speaker 3: I mean, you said that's some times in the press conference.
Speaker 5: After I think what we'll take care of business this
week and then the buy and then that Texas Tech
game that's going to be big. The winner of that
game will be in the Big twelve Championship. I don't
think there's any question about that. And then the other ones.
You just something We're gonna fall somewhere. I just don't
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to the hotline. Welcome in former BYU Athletic director. We
got Rondo Felberg on the line. Rondo, how are you living.
Speaker 6: Great?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: Obviously after last weekend? How could I not be great? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, look, three in a row that hasn't happened
since the early nineties. It's a bit of a monumental
turning of the tide, if you will. In this rivalry game.
You were there in attendance, You saw it. What are
you seeing from your perch? Why is it that BYU
is finally capable of getting it on a winning streak
now in the modern era.
Speaker 6: Well, the short answer is, I don't know. It seems
to me to be more about Utah's weaknesses than BYU strings.
Having said that, BYU is solid across the board. You
look at that team, there are no weaknesses. They're not
unbelievably great anywhere, but they are strong everywhere. And so
you've got a BYU team that really doesn't have any weaknesses,
and so any team that is coming to the game
with weaknesses, if bay you can find them, they'll exploit them.
And they did that against Utah. They've done that every game.
They've got a great coaching staff and they do a
wonderful job of finding the weaknesses in the opposing team
and exploiting them. Sometimes that reveals itself just by looking
at the films that are provided to them of the
preceding games. Sometimes it happens right there on the field.
And we watched that the other night. We saw BYU
had just its game plan on the fly, and oh
my goodness, it was so fun to watch them pound
all Jane Martin and Bear Backmeier and and all of
a sudden, the wide receivers, well not just wide receivers,
because our Carson ryan Is plays like a wide receiver,
but they those guys became decoys. And every time you thought,
oh my goodness, they're just decoys, I'm gonna ignore them, boom,
next thing you know, they've caught a pass and away
they go. So it was it was just really fun
for me to watch.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you right now this this BYU football
teams doing some monumental things one of the things that
I've been studying here Kyle Whittingham when he has to
play in the same conferences BYU the Mountain West Conference
area as the head coach from two thousand and five
to twenty ten, and then most recently the last two
seasons in the Big Twelve, he's actually only three and
five three wins, five losses in the rivalry. So I
wonder if conference affiliation and equal resources have something to
do with it.
Speaker 6: What say you, that's a possibility?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think.
Speaker 6: I think BYU had a real step up of when
they came into the Big Twelve. I think it was
more about BYU entering the Big Twelve from independence than
they being in the same conference as Utah. I don't
think they had to be in the same conference. They
just had to have access to the resources that come
from being in a our conference.
Speaker 4: It sure helps, doesn't it. Rondo?
Speaker 2: What does the future from your perspective look like for
BYU athletics now that they do have equal resources, now
they are on an even playing field with not only Utah,
but the likes of college football.
Speaker 6: Well, I think Brian Santiago is a great choice as
an athletic director. Brian is the guy that we need
right now. Brian is smart, he's experienced, and Bryan can
be tough when he needs to be tough. Nobody's going
to push Brian around, and he's the right guy in
the right place at the right time. And so I'm
delighted that we have Brian there now. I'm also delighted
that we've got mister smooth as glass Chad Lewis standing
right behind him with the big smile on space.
Speaker 2: It does help. They have the right people booing you up.
You're only as good as the people you hire and
the people that are taking on some of the admin load.
They're in the athletic department, and you know that better
than anybody. You got to hire the right people around
you in order to find success. And right now, BYU's
positioned competitively to make waves not only in the football world,
but the basketball world. I don't know which one you're
more excited about. If you're a fan of the basketball
team or the football team. What about you, where's your
level of excitement compared to these two.
Speaker 6: This is going to sound a little bit corny, but
it depends on the season of the year. Right now,
I'm more excited about football two months from now, I'll
have a different answer.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm right there with you. UNC's coming to town,
which is pretty crazy. You talk about the high profile
football games that BYU finally has under the lights of
lavel Fox, big noon kickoff game day wanting to come
to town as well. Well, some of the premier basketball
blue bloods are coming to Provo now as well.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well, I mean it was interesting that sort
of the behind the scenes negotiating that went on. Basically,
North Carolina said that would be suicide to come to
the Marriage Center. We're not going there, and so the
compromise was the Delta Center. Now, the Delta Center is
about as close to home court advantage as BYU could have,
but they're willing to play us there, but they would
not play us in the Marriage Center.
Speaker 2: And I think, b why you's paying them a hefty
sum of five hundred thousand dollars or so just to
come to the Delta Center.
Speaker 6: Well, that is another thing that is a nice luxury
to have. It's nice to have boosters and supporters who
are willing to put their money where their mouths are
and and and provide that kind of of arsenal uh
for Kevin Young and colony Sataki to do what they
need to do.
Speaker 4: Did we have did we have the donor base?
Speaker 2: So like, let's go back in time to the nineties, okay,
early two thousands, and you know there we were under
different UH rule by the n C double A. It
was an arbitrary rule, this oligopoly, this this college athletics
cabal that that that would essentially cut the legs out
from everyone.
Speaker 6: UH.
Speaker 2: That that went against the blue bloods. They were the
ones that that that essentially had the power. Now we're
in a free market, capitalistic n I L Transfer portal
world in which you know, everyone can pay what they
are willing to pay for players, for coaches, for their
organizational design?
Speaker 4: Did BYU in the nineties?
Speaker 2: And if let's go back in the past, and if
we had the free market system that we have right
now that could allocate as much funds as we wanted to,
did we have the donor base to execute back in
the nineties like we are in present day with the
resources that we have, If we didn't have the rules
and regulations of the past.
Speaker 6: We had the donor base and we had willing donors. Yeah,
we just wouldn't cheat. Yep. The difference between US then
and US now is just a BYU will not cheat.
Back then, everybody else was cheating. And that's really what's happened.
The change in college athletics has been that the coaches
who were similar to by you and the administrators finally
just strew up their hands and said, we're not going
to do it anymore. And so they just said, Okay,
everybody can do what these other guys have been doing
for the last several decades and not acknowledging it. And
so when what the other guys used to do, which
was cheat, became fair game, all of a sudden, you
saw the depth of the BYU donor base. I cannot
tell you how many times I met with willing, unbelievably
supportive BYU boosters and supporters who wanted to help out,
and we're more than willing to write the checks, but
we would have to have them literally write a check
to bring them young university. And look at the magnificent
facilities all across campus that we had because it couldn't
be channeled back then straight to the athletic department like
it can now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's interesting.
Speaker 2: In and of itself because it had to go to
the school first philanthropies and then trickle down to the
athletic department.
Speaker 4: When did that change?
Speaker 2: When did when could you finally donate directly to the
athletic department and the athletic department get to was able
to maybe just eat what it killed. As far as
the donor corporate sponsorship avenues that they have in the
present day.
Speaker 6: Well you may recall there was a swimmer at Arizona
State University by the name of Grant House who sued
Arizona State and the NCAA claiming that that they were
using the athletes name, image and likeness and not allowing
the athlete to benefit from it, and that that was
an unfair restraint on trade and it compromised their courte
constitutional rights. That went all the way to the Supreme Court.
But that was what changed as the as the trial
court first, then the appeals court next ruled in favor
of House, and it was headed to the Supreme Court.
That's when the NCAA finally shrugged their shoulders and said
we get it, and so they lifted all of those
those restrictions and barriers, and so it would have come anyway,
I think at some point. But what precipitated it was
the House case.
Speaker 2: But more so than anything of what I was trying
to get at, And I didn't properly formulate the question
when did it occur within BYU as an institution for
donors to be able to directly contribute funds to the
Athletic Department rather than the just the institution.
Speaker 6: It happened. It happened as soon as the NCAA lifted
the lid. And I don't have that date on my mind,
but as soon as the NCAA said all right, we
get it, BYU was right there. We were ready, and
we had donors that were ready, and Tom Holmo and
Brian Santiago and all of those other guys in the
Athletic Department had made sure that those relationships were intact
and that those potential donors were ready. And I can
tell you that there's no better group of donors on
the planet than our donors. I loved, loved, loved that
part of my job when I was Athletic Director was
going out and meeting with donors and meeting with the
people who were just they basically said, you just tell
us what and when and it was a fun thing.
Speaker 4: Rondo Felberg, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Former BYU Athletic director pontificating on the past and what
could have been had the athletic department operated under the
same rules.
Speaker 4: We were just waiting for the flood gates to be open.
Speaker 2: We were just waiting for the approval to do it
in a fair way where all of the institutions could
compete at the same level. I love it, Rondo, real quick,
what do you think the record will be in the
next five games for the BWAU Cougar? Do you think
they end up undefeated in the regular season and.
Speaker 4: Head to the Big Twelve championship game.
Speaker 6: Well, if I have a weakness as a former athletic administrator,
I was a fan long before I was an administrator,
and so.
Speaker 8: It's very hard for me to to sort of calm
my emotions down and use just my head and my
analytic ability.
Speaker 6: But my heart says, BYU is going undefeated and BYU
is going to do what they need to do. I mean,
there is nothing better in the whole world for the
grander mission of BYU Athletics than for our football and
basketball teams, which are most visible sports to be successful.
When those young men and young women with their smiling
faces and their badges on their chests knock on doors,
there is nothing better in the world for them than
the people on the other side of the door to
have been watching BYU Sports on TV and say, come
on in. I don't really know that much about what
you want to talk about. I want to talk about
this bear Bachmeier kid. Can we take a few minutes
to talk about him? Well, of course, our missionaries become
instant pretend experts on all things bear Bachmeier and all
things to do with Kevin Young and Kevin's programming, and
that gets him in the doors and then everything else
always from there.
Speaker 2: Love it, Rondo, We appreciate you, Love you, and thanks
so much for spending some time with us in this segment.
Speaker 4: Let us know if you need anything from us.
Speaker 2: We look forward to chatting with you in the press
box once again later on this year. There you have it.
That's Rondo Felberg. Shout out to him former BYU Athletic director.
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bear Bachmeyer taking over college football.
Speaker 4: Not yet, but he's on the verge.
Speaker 2: Of doing something extremely special as a true freshman. Okay,
he's one of five true freshmen I think in the
modern era to go seven to zero as a starter
pretty impressive. Know if sands or much about that. And
ESPN is taking notice, obviously us locally, but nationally Bristol
is taking notice. And Trevor Scales of ESPN Sports Center
reached out to BYU and got bear Bachmeyer on the line.
Let's get to know bear Bachmeyer from kind of a
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Speaker 7: So let's welcome in BYU QB one bear back Mara.
What a win it was over the US third straight
as a program.
Speaker 4: But I know this was your first experience with that
rivalry at BYU.
Speaker 7: I imagine no short as a hype going into the game.
How was it for you?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was definitely intensified. It was crazy and just
exhilarating atmosphere. I mean, there's a lot of words to
describe what it was, but I mean it was a
it was a great team win.
Speaker 7: Gotta be gotta be a good feeling on the back end.
But I read it you as a quarterback rocking the
number forty seven because it quote brings you back to
a primitive nature that is neither a standard number nor
a mentality for the position. I don't imagine too many
coaches are looking for their quarterback to play more like
a fullback. So how has that approach gone over with
various coaches that you've played for.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's a unique number and my dad picked
it for me when I when I first started playing football,
And I mean the coaches, the coaches love it. I
mean it's uh, you know again it brings brings back
that primitive nature and and uh if if they need
a yard or two or you know certain long you
need to get first down, you know, they you know,
always count on count on me.
Speaker 7: Where did that primitive nature come from? That just desire
for contact when it comes to the sport.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just the way I was raised.
Speaker 9: I I uh, my dad was an officer in the
in the in the Marine Corps, and my my mom
was was crazy raising five kids, and so I got
I got three older stiblings.
Speaker 3: We always rough.
Speaker 9: House inside the house, and then my younger brother too,
just uh bullying him a little. And so just just
just how it was raised and just how I grew up. Uh,
definitely definitely instilled the competitive nature and the toughness in me.
Speaker 7: In me, oh so you had no choice whatsoever.
Speaker 4: It was that was a matter of survival.
Speaker 7: To be able to get out of the Bacher household,
you have to be able to just hold you on
a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I still remember playing front yard Basta, and uh, you know,
somebody would always have a bloody nose or a chip tooth,
and and Mom would always be screaming so just great
times at the end the back of my house.
Speaker 7: Love it man tempo established out the gate. Speaking of
your household, your brother Tiger also transferred it from Stanford
to play with you. Uh what did that mean to
have him suited up with and even catch a couple
of passes from you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it means. It means so much.
Speaker 9: And and just to support and love that we have
for each other, it's it's it's second to none. And
I'm just I'm so happy that he's here with me,
and uh, you know, we live together and we do
everything together. So I just I love him so much
and and yeah, just very joyful.
Speaker 7: Where does that closeness come from between y'all two and
just the family at large?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think just the way we're raising
what would our parents instilled in us. We we all
stayed in the same room, so you know, just four
boys in one croom and playing w WE demos and
and uh you know russ houses just and just just
the tight knit that we have.
Speaker 4: I mean, we all love each other just very much.
Speaker 9: And and uh, you know, if the first call I
make whenever's is is my brothers and also sister as well.
Speaker 7: So yeah, so I'm gonna get a little corporate centers
you going here?
Speaker 3: Ww.
Speaker 7: You mentioned that what wrestler were you typically playing with
and your siblings usually.
Speaker 3: Squaring off with.
Speaker 9: I was always Rave Mysterio for sure, doing the six
to one nine and we would, uh, we had this
plastic w W champion belt and we would hang it
on the fan, the top fan, and we'd get like
a little ladder, and so you know, we'd all rough
house or whatever, and whoever you know obviously gets the
uh the ladder on the on the fan. When's when's
the match? So it was fun, it was.
Speaker 4: I mean it was.
Speaker 3: It was awesome growing up.
Speaker 7: That's any tables get brought out, like anybody going through tables?
Speaker 9: Yeah, my actually Tiger because we were also playing the
liver room too, on the couches and whatever, and I
remember Tiger jumping from one couch to another and he
he his mouth split open, and so yeah, we would
have tables, couches, well, whatever object we could find just
to make it more enticing.
Speaker 4: That's remarkable, man.
Speaker 7: It built up a clear bit of athleticism for y'all
too clearly. Speaking of Tiger again, when y'all do connect
four touchdown pass. What's the coordinated effort in the end
zone if you have one choreographed.
Speaker 9: Out, man, I think I don't know, we'll probably just
do a big hug or something. I mean, but yeah,
I'm I'm, I'm so we're still waiting on that. But
when when it happens, yask, it's gonna be awesome for sure.
Speaker 7: Looking forward to it. Now, let's rewind a little bit
to your first start against the with the Cougars, I
should say dominant win over Portland State wants you to
listen to what their coach had to say about you, well,
watching it.
Speaker 10: During free game, you know, because I was hoping his
hype wasn't right or his weight wasn't right, you know,
and then looked at his ass in his leg.
Speaker 7: He looks like you got damn saying tar so Centaur.
Speaker 4: How we feeling about that description? Yeah, it's uh that
that joke is still going on. I thought it would
have died, but yeah, I guess, I guess. Uh, you know,
you look at.
Speaker 3: My lower body.
Speaker 9: I you know, I like to think I'm or people
just say like I'm I'm a big dude, I guess,
And so I guess that kind of correlates together, and yeah,
it's a funny joke that that's going on.
Speaker 4: Hey, you're well built.
Speaker 7: We'll take it as a compliment and wish you the
best of luck going forward as y'all take on Iowa
State this weekend.
Speaker 4: Brother, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Taking the time.
Speaker 4: All Right, there you go.
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know there's one man here amongst us that loves talking.
Wwewwf off the top rope? Did that bring back some
memories of like your childhood then or even adulthood?
Speaker 4: Brett jumping off the top rope? And you know, would
you you know what I mean?
Speaker 11: Like, I think anyone who had brothers can relate to that,
Like the part.
Speaker 4: Where he talks about bullying his little brother.
Speaker 11: I never had that experience because I didn't have any
little brothers, but I was I'm the top my family,
So playing basketball was a lot of fun for me
because I could just shove my brothers down to the
ground and put the ball in the basket. Like, anyone
who grew up with brothers knows exactly what it was
like to grow up in the barre Bakmeyer household and
jumping off beds and doing stupid things you know that
you shouldn't and things that you definitely know that if
your mom found out she was upset about. So you
made sure that even if somebody got hurt, you just
told him to sweep the tooth under the bed. Mom
didn't find out about it, because if she did, she
got you got in trouble.
Speaker 4: I pushed my brother off.
Speaker 11: A chair one time when we were growing up because
we were fighting, and remember he smashed and lost the tooth,
and I swept it under the fridge, thinking my mom
wouldn't find out until she realized that my brother was
missing a tooth.
Speaker 4: I don't know how I thought I was gonna get
away with that one.
Speaker 11: But anyone who listened to that interview, like whether or
not you grew up loving wrestling or not, like you
identified with that interview, and you.
Speaker 4: Know what it was like growing up in the bar
Bachmeyer household.
Speaker 11: And I think that competitive nature. And look, he said this,
but when you hear him talk about it, you know
that part of the reason that he's so successful, part
of the reason that none of the noise, none of
the rivalry, none of the Internet, none of that affects
Bear because he already grew up in one of the
most competitive places in the entire planet, which is growing
up with older brothers where it is a kill or
be killed type of world when you're competing with your
older brothers. And so when you can compete like that,
then there's nothing that an opponent on the other side
of the football field can do because you've already competed
against the tough in your own family.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't know listening to that, it's exactly like
Brett said, growing up with brothers is a very dangerous
thing to do, uh huh, and like it's almost some
days it's a fight for survival. And so I just
want to thank Hank Bachmeier for beating up his little
brother and getting it the toughness that he has, because
Bayu fans are rejoicing over.
Speaker 4: Of the toughness of Bear.
Speaker 12: And I hope, I hope that we are recruiting Buck
as hard as possible, because if you notice it, only
they only get tougher like the younger they go because
they had to deal with more, like Bear was probably
beating up on Buck along.
Speaker 4: With the other two.
Speaker 12: So I hope we're getting you know, I hope we're
recruiting Buck really hard right now. But and I just
want to say something about that celebration he said, like
Bear and Tiger need to come up with something better
than like do the w WE SmackDown celebration. That would
go hard. They've already been practicing. Let's go, let's get it.
I mean, you know, one of the things that.
Speaker 2: I'll say about Bear and the Bachmeier family is, and
I've said this before, but there's great alignment with who
they are and who BYU is.
Speaker 4: They just did and they just they just fit and.
Speaker 2: I don't foresee I mean, obviously Bears gonna be a
hot commodity for anyone that thinks they can buy the
Bachmeyer family. But I think BA is gonna take care
of him. I think the by is gonna take care
of him. I don't think they'll be the highest bidder,
you know, because like I'm sure there's gonna be plenty
of agents reaching out to Bear's agent and trying to
get as much money in his pocket as possible to
go to the SEC or the Big Ten, the big
players that are in need of a quarterback this offseason.
But I think BYU will be able to keep them here.
I think they bought into him early, and I'm sure
that they gave him a competitive nil deal to come
from Stanford when he entered the portal. But I think
BYU's doing it the right way with the right people.
And you listen to Bear discuss his relationship with a Rod.
We've listened to a Rod. We're just listening now to
Bear Bachmeyer in this interview. What stood out to you
guys listening to Bear or elaborate on his relationship with
a Rod and how special it is.
Speaker 11: I think it just goes to show how much of
a fan a Rod is of Bear and how much
synergy those two guys have.
Speaker 4: They just seem like.
Speaker 11: They're constantly on the same level, and Bear's constantly doing
what a Rod wants him to do.
Speaker 4: We've talked about a number of times on.
Speaker 11: The show, how if you're successful in an A Rod offense,
it's because you do with the play and the plan is.
And we love Jake Retzloft, but one of Jake Retzlov's
incredible gifts was the ability to go off script.
Speaker 4: And I don't know.
Speaker 11: That that necessarily was anything that anyone held against him.
Speaker 4: It just didn't work the same as things do for Bear.
Speaker 11: And so you see this relationship grow on the field
because a Rod has a play and he has a
plan and Bear is constantly executing it.
Speaker 4: Every now and then he certainly goes off script. I
can't find a.
Speaker 11: Read, but I found it so interesting that probably the
longest answer to any question Bar Bachmeyer has been given
in his time doing media at BOU was when he
was asked about his relationship with Aaron Roderick. And I'm
sure there's so many stories, so many conversations, so many
things that we don't see that if we did, we
would understand. But I think just from purely the duration
of that answer alone, compared to everything else that he said,
you understand this is a relationship between Bear Bachmeier and
Aaron Roderick, his offensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: That's not transactional.
Speaker 11: It is a human relationship by two people who respect
each other very much and two people who thoroughly enjoy
working together because they're constantly on the same page.
Speaker 4: Well, I think that like.
Speaker 12: When Bear says it's the way he was raised, I
think he really means it, like he stays on script
because that's the kind of family that he had. Like
think about his dad was in the military, and the
military you do not go off scripts like you don't
go off scripts.
Speaker 4: Let's be clear there.
Speaker 12: So he's raised by someone who's and his mom too,
who's taught him to keep the rules, you know, stay
on script. And obviously he has the ability to go
off for and be creative and do things and things
break down. But the first thing he's gonna do is
rely on the system that he is in. And I
think nothing makes a rod happier than seeing a quarterback
finally follow the system that he's in.
Speaker 2: More and more people are becoming privy to BYU and
bear Bachmeyer in twenty twenty five, and we have some
numbers to prove it.
Speaker 4: The Fox UH.
Speaker 2: Six pm kickoff for the Holy War, it attracted two
million eyeballs. I think that's a solid number all things considered.
I think it's a pretty good number all things considered.
Thus far this season, though in twenty twenty five, the
viewership has been strong. The viewership had has been solid
for BYU. I think the BYU Arizona game on ESPN two,
it attracted a little under a million viewers, eight hundred
and sixty eight thousand, not too shabby. Remember that was
a rain delay game that ended up, you know, being
postponed what two hours, so it went into the the
late evening BYU versus West Virginia on the Mothership one
point four to one million. Not too shabby. That was
a Friday night kickoff as well. The one point four
to one million on the Mothership ESPN BYU Colorado on
the Mothership Late night kick BYU U and Colorado got
two point four to six million viewers. Maybe they're best
outing as far as attracting eyeballs. BYU East Carolina on
ESPN two. That was a Saturday matchup, seven thirty pm kickoff,
six hundred and twenty three thousand, and then you know,
nothing on the I don't think the BYU Portland State game,
but BYU and Stanford, I don't know if I have
a number on that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do. One point two one million on ESPN.
So there you go.
Speaker 2: That's one point two to one million with the BAU
Stanford game. And then, uh, like I said, nothing on
the Portland State game. So pretty good viewership. What do
you guys make of the viewership thus far this season?
Pretty solid numbers. These aren't SEC big ten numbers. Uh,
you know the you know in primetime slots. There's a
reason why b YU was ultimately picked up by brett
Or Mark in the Big Twelve, or rather Bob Bowls
being the Big Twelve and then brett Or Mark inherited it.
But they love putting them in these these afternoon, evening,
late night kickoff slots because they're consistent. They're not gonna
blow you away with the numbers, but they're always consistent.
You know, I always know what you're getting with the
b YU game.
Speaker 11: I think those numbers are only going to go up
because you can't truly hate something or be apathetic to
something or someone that you've truly gotten to know. And
I think what we saw this last weekend for BYU,
for the Holy War, for Big newon Kickoff was there
was a lot of national media, whether it was Snapback Sports,
whether it was Fox, whether it was Dave Portway and Barstool,
a lot of people who thought they knew things about BOYU,
they thought they'd eaten enough to know that wasn't for them.
They got to Provo, they experienced the culture here.
Speaker 4: And realized, oh, we didn't know this.
Speaker 11: We hadn't had enough to realize we did or didn't
know anything about Provo. And so the coverage that BYU
got on and off the field from these national social media,
these influencers, the national sports media, I think showed a
lot of showed the media specifically, and showed college football
fans around the country as well. Oh, BYU is a
team that when I want to watch good football, I
know enough about this team, and I know enough about
this culture, and I now have learned a lot about
Kalani Sataki to say, you know what, when that game's
on and my guys aren't playing, that's a team that
I want to watch. I think you could honestly see
the numbers. We know the numbers have been good this season.
I think you could see a world where my guess
is Texas Tech. BYU will probably do a lot of numbers.
Iowa State and BOYU is gonna do numbers. But I
think BYU, it's possible, has not reached their highest watched
game of the season. Given the trajectory that has come
from the Holy Wars, I think you could see a
bigger game at some point the rest of the year.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna agree with him, and it's it's not because
two point what was the number, It was two point
one billion viewers for this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two point one million, And so it's two million,
I think on the dot.
Speaker 4: If I'm not gonna say it, let me so.
Speaker 12: But so that's not why I think that we're gonna
get a better view But we talk about these yesterday,
the social media aspect of this game. You were saying
BYU's never had a better social media weekend than they
did this past this past weekend, and so I think
I think we're gonna see some good viewership this Saturday.
Speaker 4: But the most I think, by far is going to.
Speaker 12: Be that BYU Texas Tech game, Because if BYU can
keep this momentum, if Texas Tech can keep theirs and
this social media stuff is taking off, I think that's
gonna be a very very watched game for BYU. Now,
I don't think BYU was ever gonna break their all
time viewership because in nineteen fifty three they stuck them
on one of like the four channels out there, and
you got sixty million people watch a BYU Utah game.
So I don't think you're ever going to beat that
unless you're in the National Championship game.
Speaker 4: Sure, and even then.
Speaker 12: Even then that's gonna be tough to beat. But I
do think I think that BAU Texas Tech Game is
where you're going to see the climax In terms of viewership.
Speaker 4: I would love to see it surpassed.
Speaker 2: I mean even the the eight million viewers that you
got in the Alamobile can b why you surpassed that
this year.
Speaker 4: I think you'd have to be in a Big twelve
championship game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve or the CFP for that matter, both are possible.
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