Speaker 1: Time to celebrate the freeest team sport known to man,
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Brown to talk some college football with us. Timmy, how
you live in.
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
give that. Itg to b Yu.
Speaker 4: Things for looking up for By you, no doubt about it.
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pertains to BYU Football right now. BYU's heading on the
road to Iowash State, maybe a trap game. They then
have a bye week, they head out to Lubbock, so
back to back, essentially road games. Texas Tech still a
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
know where, but it's exciting. Look, who knew what was
going to happen with BYU and Utah and we take
care of business, so we're on the right track.
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