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Wide receiver. What's up, Jared ben thanks for having me
living the dream man. Always good to come off a win.
You know, I hate talking to you when we've lost.
I'm like, ah, now we got to diagnose.
Speaker 2: We get that one loss?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I got an attitude of gratitude, no doubt
about it. Uh BYU had their best performance of the season.
It came at home versus a a very well respected
six and three TCU team that was hovering right outside
I thought the top twenty five. Had they beaten Ioway stayed,
I think they would have been in the top twenty five.
Their average scoring loss margin was six and a half
points prior to this game, and be what, you dropped
forty four on them or forty plus points on them,
And it was awesome. It was awesome to watch. Give
me your reaction to watching this game, Yeah, I know,
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: I felt like we came out and established momentum right
from the beginning and there It's not that often that
you were able to watch a game where the momentum
felt one side of the entire game. There really wasn't
a moment in the game where I felt like TCU
had some momentum going their way.
Speaker 3: So just a messed up punt, I was like, oh crap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and that was already way well beyond they
couldn't get back into the game. Yeah yeah, but yeah,
I felt like it was just we had the momentum
going and there wasn't a whole lot that TCU could do.
To stop that. And that's what I say every week.
And the momentum in these games is everything. And if
you whoever holds more momentum throughout the game typically comes
out on top.
Speaker 2: And and uh, you know, you.
Speaker 5: Have big plays and games and you've got to capitalize
on those big plays. And I feel like we did
a really good job of that for the entirety of
the game.
Speaker 4: Who do you give your game balls to? Who were
you most impressed by? From a personnel standpoint? Any when
you want to highlight there individual? You know, I thought
he had an excellent game.
Speaker 5: Uh in field goals, I thought I thought that was
a I think he needed a game like that, you know,
where he just hit everything, you know, and everything was
was was on target for him. Bear Bachmeyer, what a
great game, you know.
Speaker 2: L J.
Speaker 5: Martin had a great game. The safety room in general
had a great game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I felt like they all did a did a
really good job. And then, uh, our tight end Carson
did you see his touchdown?
Speaker 2: Did you see his dance?
Speaker 3: He did?
Speaker 5: His John behind him doing the same thing was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But it.
Speaker 5: Was fun to see him get out and get some
pass passes and open up a new aspect of what
we've always known he's had, but we've used him so
much more in the Running Game. It was good to
see him get some pass it and that's going to
open up and I feel like there's gonna be a
lot more play with him, especially if we make it
against Texas Tech again. I think there's gonna be where
you know that that D line is so good, but
if you can get a quick release kind of a
pop pass type deal to Carson, I think that there's
there are ways, and I feel like Aaron Roddson's got
some stuff drawn up already if we get to face
him again. But yeah, I think he'll be a bigger
have a much bigger role for the next few games
that we have.
Speaker 4: Jared b Yu is in the driver's seat. They're the
master of their own destiny right now. They can they
if a number of things you know happen, b YU
can clinch their birth in the Big Twelve Championship. Uh,
do you feel like b yu is going to meet
the expectation heading on the road versus Cincinnati, get to
win versus Cincy and uh and UH finally get over
the hump, get into the Big Twelve championship game and
hopefully Finger Scross get into the college football playoffs?
Speaker 5: Is this the year it feels like it is? Yeah,
definitely more than it did even last year. Yeah, I
I kind of wish Cincinnati would have won that last game,
just just going into it, just for a for a
better game.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Their Newton kickoff is going to be there again.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be hungry, it's gonna be a it's gonna
be a battle. It's gonna be a much more difficult
game than the Case State, I'm sorry, than the TC
game was this past week.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be more ready to play.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, looking at at what's ahead of us,
The best part about it is it's it's all in
our hands. You know, the team has everything in front
of them. If you win, you go to that championship game.
And I think if we get there, we play Texas
Tech a whole lot better uh than than the score
showed the last game. And uh will will the will
they give us a playoff berth even if we lose
the Texas Tech and that's competitive. Probably not, I mean, unfortunately,
even though your your your losses are to a team
that might win the national championship, you know, versus you know,
I get real frustrated when you look at some of
those it you know, and Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: They played well this last week.
Speaker 5: They you know, but the losses just don't make sense
to me to keep these guys up ahead of BYU
who lost to a potential national champion. All these other
losses that's a lot of these teams had are to
not very good schools. So uh, it's exciting to see
the opportunity is ahead of us and and that there's
no we win we're in there's no uh uh, well,
this team has to do this and and Utah has
to beat this and you know, it's it's simply win
this game, beat UCF.
Speaker 2: It's an automatic.
Speaker 1: But but to add you can clinch though if you
get a victory. I don't know if you saw, yes
disgusted you beat Cincinnati and Arizona State, by the way,
we talked about this earlier in the show, but Sam
Levitt Ponchos doesn't look like he's coming back like that
was kind of crazy. So, but if Arizona State loses
to Colorado this weekend, and if Houston also loses uh
to TCU, who you just played Bo.
Speaker 2: You clinches if they beat Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: The point I bring it up is if you lose
the Cincinnati, which I don't think they will, then it's
a five way time. And now you're talking about the
School of North potentially getting in. And Stuart Mendel was
the one that said that. Just an interesting thing with Levitt.
Speaker 5: So would you if you were, if you were the coach,
would you play him for the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the season.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought he was out for surgery.
Speaker 3: Ok yeah, yeah him announced That's okay, I'd be surprised.
Speaker 2: I'm say, why would you before the season? No? No, no, no, no
no no.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I think he had season ending. I think
it was ankle surgery.
Speaker 2: He'd been doing with the foot into ankle.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, he's uh uh, he's gonna go get
that that bag.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get that and he can. Yeah and he can.
There's gonna be some schools that are offer him a.
Speaker 3: Great so so Big ten or SEC.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you then and I'll stop talking, so Big
can get back to it, SEC or Big ten school.
Speaker 2: I would I would assume it's open. Whoever gives the
biggest bag, Okay.
Speaker 5: The best opportunity to win and and uh and set
himself up going into his NFL career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so what year is Trinidad Chamblers. It's a good question.
Let me check on does he if he's a senior,
he's going oh miss, oh right, following.
Speaker 2: Right after Jackson Dart. Yeah, that's not that's.
Speaker 4: A oh yeah man, I mean he's a senior. Trinidad's
to place the bet on that does? Does that keep
a Lane Kiffin at Old Miss?
Speaker 2: You know you said that.
Speaker 4: I don't think Lane wants to go away. I mean
he's sad, he's he's super happy there. And in the
new I L world, robust a very wealthy donor base.
I mean, they've been cited in the modern era for cheating, right,
and so the other SEC schools who cheat better than
ole Miss were ticked off at them, and then ole
Miss got caught. Come on, better than that. We don't
get caught. But like they've been waiting to, Like you
look at these teams that that have elevated their status
in the modern era Transfer Portal n I L no
guardrails college football capitalism model s m U b Yu
all elevated. Right, SMU had gotten the death penalty in
the eighties, b yu always doing what's right, you know,
and not you know, circumventing people.
Speaker 3: Oh what about the Volkswagen and Nick.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, just a bunch of imbeciles that have
no idea what's going on.
Speaker 3: At these other schools.
Speaker 4: I remember after the LS game in twenty seventeen, they're
starting running back posted. Like three weeks later, he got
like a range Rover that he gave to his mom.
I'm like, how in the hell does he have enough
fun out by a range rubber for his mom? And
then he subsequently took it off. I'm like, you numb schools,
Like like I'm not even talking about the kid, I'm
talking about like anyone that thinks that everybody else is
not cheating, that Nick Saban's donor base was not cheating
for him, you know, and now everyone's leveling up. Ole
Miss is one of those right that was was was
reprimanded for, you know, you know, cheating right in the
former standard type of way. And now they're they're willing
to go out and get guys.
Speaker 3: They're gonna go, they're gonna pay Sam. I almost guarantee
he's going to Miss.
Speaker 2: If you're the bastely.
Speaker 4: If you're a quarterback, you you love Ole Miss, you
love Lane Kiffin, you love what they're doing of their defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're doing great things, especially Iflane's gonna
be there.
Speaker 1: So he's like he's a redshirt sophomore, so he would
be a red shirt junior, still have two morios eligibility.
He's a six two quarterback two five, so he's bigger
than Trinidad. So like, you get everything that you need.
He look, he's a four star star. Literally, he's a
four star transfer Jared and being he was the number
one player in Oregon and he was a gatorad Organ player.
Speaker 3: Like, look is k.
Speaker 4: Michigan State played a little bit when they issue balled out.
Speaker 3: Now he's going to go probably get.
Speaker 5: Pay once you transfer. Once it gets addicted to transfer again.
Speaker 1: And can I give you the I looked up to study. No, yeah,
they say, I looked it up. I went back. I
looked to look at Darius and look at Keeling, look
at everybody, and it's been on point. College athletes now
transfer two times an average of like one point eight,
so about two times now in their college career.
Speaker 2: Look at everybody.
Speaker 1: Sam Levitt now because he's not going to come back Darius.
Speaker 2: To start the transferring process.
Speaker 5: Then your mind is continually what's better, what's next where
instead of you know where. I think Kilani has done
a really good job at maintaining and keeping his players, uh,
you know, because a lot of those look like an
Evan Johnson or something you know, who could have left
and gone somewhere else, and he has stayed here his
whole career.
Speaker 2: Like it's not common anymore, but you have.
Speaker 5: I would to be interested in see the statistics on
how many players from BYU who stay throughout their entirety
of their playing career versus the transferring. But it always
it's just once they start the transfer I feel like
their mind always has that in the back of their head,
well it's not quite working out with this coach, or
maybe I'm not getting the time here, so I maybe
I'll just open it up again, you know. But if
they don't start that process ever, they tend to be
more focused than staying in the program.
Speaker 4: Man, Well, BYU is going to be in a position
now with back to back seasons double digit wins, to
be able to acquire some pretty good talent too, and
they'll be competitive in IL. I'm sure that the biggest
to me, the biggest benefit to this is being able
to retain, recruit develop the Initially Taucilia Kanas and NUC
Tamwaypeyo's right. Both of those guys went to other schools
initially Stamford and Texas respectively.
Speaker 3: Now they're at BYU.
Speaker 4: You hope that you can get him into BYU initially
and that initial product offering because you have P four affiliation,
you have competitive nil and you can say, hey, be
a part of our system stability Kloni's stability, a rod stability.
You hope j Hill sticks around. I think he turned
down offers last year. If a P four institution that
he's really interested in comes knocking, then he could go.
But you do have two guys in the mix in
my opinion that would internally be great candidates to become
your next DC if j Hill were to take off,
And that's Kelly Piping and Gary Anderson and even Gennaro.
Shoot Gennaro, you know he's gotten the passing game coordinator.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe he's been kind of.
Speaker 4: You know, from from Jay's standpoint, giving him that title
kind of ushered into that next spot too.
Speaker 3: So you have options.
Speaker 4: There's what I'm getting at internally, and you can look
external as well, but I think you have some good
options internally.
Speaker 3: So it's a really strong pitch right now.
Speaker 4: For BYU, it's a really strong pitch and you just
don't want to miss out on those. I don't know
how often you want to go get the mercenary, is
what I'm getting at. Like, I think there's a time
and a place for the mercenary. Do I think we
should have been able to retain Keelan Marion and not
get mercenaried by Miami?
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, I think Keilan.
Speaker 2: Was a good fit.
Speaker 4: But I also wonder how internally they feel about like
going out and getting you know, what they may deem
is a mercenary, you know, to pay them if they're
not like the long term fit. They don't want to
get into a bidding war again the following year.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah.
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like once they start that process
with certain players, then other players are going to see
it because the players talk, they know what you know.
So when when when Keelan was getting offered out b
why he wasn't even negotiating on that one?
Speaker 2: I think? And there was, so there's there was more
to that.
Speaker 5: I I talked to Kilan about it, and my first
question was, as he was looking at other schol of
what is b why you offering? And he said, they're
not right now, So it was they. And when I
talked to Aaron Roderick about it too, I think that they.
Speaker 2: Knew he was.
Speaker 5: He was on his way out already and what he
was seeking wasn't something that B why you could do,
and Miami gave him a really good deal.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I was talking to one of the other players moms
and let's keep them, yeah from saying, but when we
were discussing Keelan, and she was letting me know that
that Keilan's this is Keelan's family. This was a huge
deal for his family and where he comes from, and
it was almost a generational change in finances for him
and his family. So there's so much more that goes
into it, from where the kids come from, what their
backgrounds are, what their financial situation is, and standing in
their family and their community.
Speaker 2: So it had a lot more there.
Speaker 5: Now do I think that Kewan made the right decision
if I'm looking at stats and things like he's come
on the last couple of games, and he's done really well,
but he hasn't had the season that I think he
would have had Hattie stayed at by U. I think
he would have had he would have been a team leader,
He would have probably been a captain. He would have
had a lot more opportunity in the program and been
singled out as a number one guy along with I
mean with Chase and Parker.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the reps that you're seeing Parker and
the targets Parker's getting the past game are what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think, you know, and I hope
that that his decision.
Speaker 4: I think Chase would would have more single coverage, more
opportunities with Keelan on the football.
Speaker 3: Everyone would have been better with Keith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a great player, great kid and uh wish
are the best.
Speaker 5: And I hope that that his decision pays off and
it wasn't a one year payout, and you know, I
hope he has a shot next year in the league.
Speaker 2: And but yeah, it's it's uh, there's a lot that
goes into that, but yeah.
Speaker 5: There's Yeah, it's a different era of football, no doubt
by you.
Speaker 4: Only a two and a half point favorite on the
road versus Cincinnati. Is that disrespect especially considering that Cincinnati
has gotten beaten up the last two weeks and b
he's coming off of almost a thirty point victory versus TCU.
Speaker 5: Gosh, I don't know that I buy into some of that,
you know, I think that the reasoning behind it, in
my opinion, is that Cincinnati is a is a good
football team, and having lost two games in a row,
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With that being said, if BYU picks up the momentum
from the beginning, I think they'll be able to put
them in the.
Speaker 2: In the place, just like we did with TCU.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: If we allow Cincinnati to gain momentum at their home
field where they've lost two games and they start getting
that confidence back, we're going to have a fight on
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