Speaker 1: Welcome Mack this so March.
Speaker 2: He's right around the corner and the Cougar's are into
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Speaker 3: It's time to talk to some college basketball.
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Speaker 1: With Ben Cripples, Welcome back to Cougar Sports here.
Speaker 5: On one, O, three nine and ninety eight three ESP
and the fan, Ronald the three man Weaver here, Brett
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the Data Aggregation had Brandon see Gurney in the first hour.
A lot of people like, ron why are you holding
the show down today? First of all, I just want
to say Happy Veterans Day. I know I haven't said
that may be enough today on the program, but I
want to make sure I continue to emphasize that. Shout
out to Ronald Weaver Jinir my father who is a veteran,
fought and served this country well. So just want to
make sure I say that. But look, I wanted to
get Ben today off. A lot of people are gonna
say he's a grown man. You shouldn't have no look. Look,
to me, birthdays are a very especial and important thing.
Everybody celebrates my birthday, but I think you should have
it off and I just felt like, hey, Ben does
enough for this show. He works really hard. He should
spend time with his family, with his lovely wife. He
has two kiddos. I said, look, I'm gonna make sure
you have the day off. I said, I got it.
Don't you worry about it. So love that Ben is
being able to take the day off and I'm holding
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Speaker 2: How we doing, brother, Happy Veterans Day to Ron. You've
Ron Weaver Jr. I appreciate his service and America holds
a special place in my heart. So salude to to
the remix who I don't know. I don't know if
it's as good as the remix of the remix, but
you know, none of the last sounds like a great
man to me.
Speaker 5: Definitely was a great man. Appreciate all the services I
know he's serving on the other side. So look, you
can only continue to, you know, just praise those that
are serving and that half served and what they do
because we are our privileged to be able to have
people to go fight so we can have these freedoms
when you know that you've been very gracious of that
as well. Look, you might not like it, but I'm
giving Ben the day off. I know I maybe shouldn't
have made that executive decision, but I am Ben does
a lot for this show, and I wanted him to
be able to maybe enjoy a nice dinner with the
wifey and everybody.
Speaker 1: So happy birthday to Ben as well.
Speaker 3: Ay man at that, man, I'm grateful. I'm grateful for
Ben and.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 3: Austin. Also Austin Colley's birthday today.
Speaker 5: Oh Austin, I didn't know been in Austin college. Both
your birthday. Okay, happy birth Happy birthday. Had been in
Austin College. They were teammates, so I know they must
be celebrating. I might have to text Austin happy birthday.
Speaker 3: That's so.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: So how about that? Who would have thought? Yep, well JT.
Let's get right into it. Okay, d Yu downed Holy Crosses.
We thought they would they cover the thirty and a
half points spread. Also was announced that they Piggins is
out for the year. That's unfortunately, delve into that more.
But look, they beat them up ninety eight to fifty three.
Fans were booing because they wanted them to score one
hundred points. Kevin Young wasn't gonna be disrespectful when they're
up that much with the last shot with ten seconds.
Speaker 1: But just your takeaways from the game, what did you like?
What did you dislike?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it was a blowout. I mean,
what I liked is there was quite a bit of
highlight dunks, you know what I mean, And to me,
it just felt like.
Speaker 2: It felt like more of an exhibition in the two
exhibition games that U Yu had, And so I think
as you're look into that and you you try to
understand where this team goes from here. There are a
couple of things that I was pleased from the numbers,
and I think I shared them after the game. But
one one of the things that I was really pleased
with was keeping the number of turnovers down and so
looking at the box score and looking at the turnovers
the Buyu had Bi only had six turnovers, and so
to me, that was the best part of the game.
You know, I think that one of the things that
was a little bit odd they gave up nine offensive rebounds,
and so that, you know, that's something that I really
liked was keeping the turnovers. Now, something I didn't like
was the turn the offensive rebounds. And the other thing
that just came to me is when you look at
b Yu was at thirty nine from sixty three from
the field on twenty assists, which means that half of
their buckets came from from assisting right now, obviously with
transition and getting steals and so on. But I will
say this, a very well balanced basketball team is able
to score field goals out of seventy five percent of
of assists.
Speaker 3: And if BYU gets to debt right, I think BYU
is going to be really successful.
Speaker 2: Which actually it brings me to something that I actually
want to check last year. I want to see the
number of Kevin Young's first year because I think it's important.
But you know, I thought Ron that the game was
I think the game was fine. Nobody got hurt, thankfully,
it was a blowout. It should be another blowout today
because boy, they have a big tonight and I'm looking
more of the same against holy Cross and maybe you know,
as you as always with Vegas, maybe.
Speaker 3: A little bit more, a little bit less, but more
of this what we saw on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a lot.
Speaker 5: And look, Richie got back to doing Richie things. Let's
touch on Richie a little bit. I mean, he scored
ten points I think in the first one I think
eight eight minutes, maybe twelve. I know in the first
half he scored twelve, but he was he didn't look
like he was sick and you now have the flu,
and he was an attack mode JT getting downhill, not
settling for any three.
Speaker 1: He would not be denied. That's what I saw. Saw
Richie get back to doing Taylor Todd king things.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the good thing about it is when you look
at the game, you know, and the way that Richie
played ended up with twenty one minutes, he was third,
you know, third on third on the team in minutes played,
which is great.
Speaker 3: Twenty points, you know, shot normal from.
Speaker 2: A three point line, thity percent, which is what we
expect from him, seventy percent from the field, which.
Speaker 3: Is phenomenal with only one turnover.
Speaker 2: And so I think that today's another big, a big
tune up game for Richie to get ready for Yukon.
And you know, but but as you see, Ron, it
was interesting enough because you know him AJ and Robert
right the third they had fifty two.
Speaker 3: Did I get there? Right?
Speaker 2: Let's see for thirty five fifty two, yeahy fifty two
out of the ninety eight points on a blowout win,
which goes to show that you know, I think that's
like fifty three percent of the points, fifty five percent,
which goes back to everything I've been talking about. Those
three guys are going to score, you know, fifty to sixty,
you know, to seventy percent of the team's points night
in and night out, and so the focus on them
is going to continue to grow. And that's where I
don't necessarily say, hey, you know, the guys on the bench,
you need to step up. To me, the guys on
the bench you need to knock down threes. Now, if
you want to say that step up, it's fine. But
to me, that's the thing that's missing right now. Bi,
you this year shooting in abysmo twenty eight percent from
the three point line. If you want to round it
up and be generous, that's twenty nine percent. That's not
very good. That's crazy bad. And so b Yu needs
to be at least at the thirty six thirty seven percent.
And I will say this, I dare to say that
if they are in the thirty six thirty seven percent
for the year as a team, you know they're gonna
win a lot of basketball games. They're not gonna miss it,
they're not gonna lose a ton.
Speaker 3: But you have to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: Mohilo needs to step up Baker needs to step up,
Tyler needs to step up, and then potentially Canard uh
Kadem and Dominique needs.
Speaker 3: To step up from three. Now, Dominique had a good,
nice around game. I know Canard had some step back shots.
That's great. But again, you know, I'm.
Speaker 2: Talking about the stat the sex catching too type emotion.
Those are the emotions that need to happen, and it's
not happening right now. And so well, hopefully by you
can use TONI as a tune up to adjust exactly that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is why you play these games, JT. So
they're tune ups to get right. Because you mentioned Yukon
and I. Kevin Young has asked a question in the
post game by a media member of are there concerns
of the offensive rebounds?
Speaker 1: Now, obviously it.
Speaker 5: Didn't affect them per the media member because of the
type of ponent Holy Crosses.
Speaker 1: But if you give up offensive rebounds JT.
Speaker 5: On Saturday, and I'm not trying to look too far ahead,
but you do that on Saturday the fifteenth against Yukon
the number, you know, a top five team in the country,
you're not gonna win that basketball game.
Speaker 1: That's something they do very well. That when you look
at the film.
Speaker 3: A and I agree with you that that becomes a
crucial game.
Speaker 2: I mean probably early year, the top game of the
season so far, and the high pews definitely worked. But
I mean that that may end it up, you know, obviously,
because we're not going to have another ranking come out,
But that's another top ten matchup for BYU. BYU wins
that game, wrong, I have a hard time believing that
next year they're not going to be you know, next
next week, they're gonna be in the top five.
Speaker 3: Think about that.
Speaker 2: A b y U basketball team can be in the
trajectory to be ranked number one in the nation.
Speaker 3: That's unheard of.
Speaker 2: And so it's a big, big, big tall order to
go to go to the East Coast, not far away
from Connecticut. It's gonna be a local game for them,
a home game of all sorts. I'm excited for it,
and I think it's gonna be a great challenge and
you know, eager to see what AJ and the boys
are made up of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm interested to see as well.
Speaker 5: And you're right, Look, BAU basketball beats you goon, that's
gonna be a top top win. It's gonna be a
top ten touching the top five. Win, you're gonna be
in the top five, There's no doubt about it. So
I'm looking forward to see in that game. In this game.
Look what I need to see tonight in this game,
and I think you would agree with me, is we
haven't seen the three pointers fall. Look if you're not
gonna hit him tonight in your own building, JT. You
know this better than anybody because you were you were
just wet from the three point line. If you can't
do it's not against Delaware, what makes me, I don't
know what's going to make me think that you do
it Saturday against Yukon and TD Guard and when it's
going to be a home game for them most likely.
Speaker 2: And I agree with you, which is why the one
thing that I'm waiting to see is that. Look, I'm
looking at BIU stats for last year. I finally found it.
Just a complementary we're talking about last year field goes by.
You made an average of about twenty nine field goes
a game. We have an average of about eight assists
a game. You know obviously that that's about you know,
thirty percent of the baskets. I don't know I don't know.
I you know that I think that there's room for
improvement on that, you know what I mean. I think
that it needs to be a little bit. Sorry, I apologize,
I read it. I'm run about seventeen assists. So that's
about just about the percent that I was talking about
this year. Uiu is not there whatsoever, and so what's
going to make the difference for this team is exactly
that it's knocking down wide open threes.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about the threes that Richie comes off.
Speaker 2: A screen, or that they run a play and somebody
just you know, rubber right dribbles into an open shot.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the trees that they swing the ball.
Speaker 2: Around or Age kicks in and then he penetrates and
then he is able to and he's able to open
up the floor. Those are the shots that that I'm
talking about. And Buyu has the madal this year. Look
twenty eight percent from the three point line, it's not
very good. I may be able to shoot twenty eight
percent from the three point line today shooting left hand today,
and so like this, this is one of those things
that this mission, and especially as they go for the
game against Yukon it becomes a massive talk point, and
so it's one that Buyu definitely needs to you know.
Speaker 3: And I'm hoping to see Alexey step up. I'm hoping
to Mahilo Banker, Tyler, all of these guys knockdown shots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all these guys in knockdown shots. You need to
see it.
Speaker 5: I think Tyler Maruss is the most interesting one. I
think that's the biggest thing. I'm looking at Tyler, like, man,
I really haven't seen him showcase and maybe the way
I thought he would be showcased. But look that that's
why it's a long season. That's why anybody can work
their way into the rotation. But I think Tyler is
a big crucial point because he can play some defense JT.
I was watching him on Saturday and I'm like, oh, man,
he can move his feet, but he can also shoot it.
But I think Tyler and Alexi are gonna have to,
you know, step up big time, especially come Saturday, because
I think they need to be a key part of
the offense. So you talk about length and spreading the floor.
Kevin Youngster right now, he's gonna keep the rotation open
jut for everybody. But they're gonna dwindle it down, and
I think Alexi and Tyler can be a part of
that eight to nine man rotation.
Speaker 3: I totally agree. Listen.
Speaker 2: I'm having conversations with Tyler, you know, on ways that
we can that we can make sure that his shot
is going down and aligning on a few things. Look,
this is one of the things that I feel like,
you know, Tyler is going to be able to be
successful and you know, but there's some things that need
to adjust.
Speaker 3: I'm also having the same type of conversations.
Speaker 2: With Baker, with Mahilo. Those guys need to step up now.
The only thing is the first one of them to
step up is going to be able to get minutes
right away, and so you know, hoping for hoping for
that to come sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: Ye, hopefully sooner rather than later. We'll see you mentioned it.
Speaker 5: Let's get a little bit more into this game tonight
against against Delaware. What do you want to see from
this team outside of three pointers tonight? I know you
mentioned turnovers earlier, So.
Speaker 2: The three keys for me today maybe even four? Are
you know, are they going to be able to keep
the turnovers below ten?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 2: I think that's crucial, especially after seeing the Holy Cross game.
I dare even to say, and they keep it under five,
that's number one. Number two they can they keep offensive
rebounds maybe under five.
Speaker 3: Now why is that is nine a bad number?
Speaker 2: Well, nine is not a terrible number, But the problem
is if you're giving up nine offensive rebounds to Holy Frost,
how many are you going to give it up to
Yukon on Saturday? And so that's the way that you
ought to look at these things. And so if you
know one thing has to compensate on the other, you
have to be able to look at the numbers to
make decisions. And so that's the number two. Number three
is the assist, the assists ratio to field goals. And
the reason why that is important is because again, like
I shared, if you are making wide open threes, like
you know, these guys need to knock it down, then
at that point you know that the team is being successful.
Speaker 3: Aj is going to get even.
Speaker 2: More open looks because of going one on one, because
he's creating shots for others, because Richie and Robert are
growing the attention and being able to stay south. And
so those to me are the keys that they absolutely
need to look at to be able to be successful.
And you know, those are the metrics that I'm going
to be judging them by today, you know, after after
the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you bring up a good point that let's transition.
Now you bring up the keys of the game. I
want to bring up something and this went out over
the media saw this earlier and I believe this is accurate.
But b YU Basketball, if I'm if I'm wrong, your
t pick. They picked up a commitment from Abdullah. I
hope you say this right, but do Ahmed uh this
is a huge pick up for the Cougar. This is
the guy that played in the for the G League
Nicks now committed.
Speaker 4: To b YU.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I you know, I think it's one of those things
that the way the game is has changed.
Speaker 3: I will personally say this, I think that you know,
to be able to play in the G League and.
Speaker 2: Then go and play at at the n c A
A level, If that's not a proof that the system
is entirely broken, I don't know what is with that
being said.
Speaker 3: Something that Kevin Young said.
Speaker 2: I both heartily agree he compares it to the way
he compares it to the way that that it is
in Europe and I don't totally disagree, and so shout
out to b YU for playing within the rules because
they are not doing anything that is contrary to what
is allowed to day.
Speaker 3: Now. I personally don't think that it should be allowed. Nonetheless,
the rules allow.
Speaker 2: For this to happen, okay, And so I think you
know the experience that that that type of a player
is going to bring, I mean, think about it.
Speaker 3: You know they're going had.
Speaker 2: To head against NBA level talent on a on a
nightly basis, and so to be able to then come
and play at the collegiate level after.
Speaker 3: That, it's incredible. And one of the things that I
will say is I agree with Kevin Young. Either you
allow this to happen or you don't allow it to happen.
Speaker 2: But because it is happening, BYU is allowed to recruit
such a player, which will be a massive addition for
the Cruvers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is gonna be a massive edition.
Speaker 5: I know everybody has some feelings of hey, this guy
was already playing NBA basketball in the G League, and
I'm with you. Look, it's not up to me whether
it should or shouldn't be allowed, but I agree with
your opinion. You gotta gotta make it a loud or
you're not because they're not breaking any rules. If there's
no rule of stipulations put in place and they're allowed
to do it, you can't blame Kevin Young. You can't
blame BYU four this. It is not their fault. They're
doing everything right. So it's up to those empowered changes.
But I like this pick up for BYU, this skill set. Look,
I think their traditional days JT of finding the Tim Duncans.
I Look, I really compare it to like Nicola Jokic
in the NBA, because you see a guy like that
who can stretch a floor, who can pass. You don't
really see the typical Tim Duncan banging the post, turnaround
big like that or dark Nowinski. You don't see those
guys anymore. You see the six ten, six eleven seven
footers that can shoot, or the protect the basket that
are rim runners, and that's fitting Kevin Young's style. I
don't think you're gonna find maybe the type of the
Sinny Trays anymore one in college basketball, or that Kevin
Young is going to recruit.
Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong in that.
Speaker 3: I agree with you. The basketball the way of the world.
Speaker 2: Has changed, you know, and move back from you know,
Europe the way it was that you probably should look elsewhere,
you know, outside of the US after high school to go.
Speaker 3: Develop for a year or two.
Speaker 2: Right I'm thinking about the Brendan Jennings. I'm thinking about
other players in full transparency around My own son, who
was thirteen, has gotten offers to go to Europe to
start practicing at you know, the some of the.
Speaker 3: Bigger names in the euro League and dere academy.
Speaker 2: But as my wife and I look at this and
then we go, what is the best faster success for him,
you know, for college basketball, for life? America now is
the best fact because of nil? Is it just because
of getting paid to you know, in getting money to
do this? Absolutely not. But where there is money, there's investment,
there is infrastructure, and that's what we're seeing right now.
And so to your part, to your point, the Dirk
Noovikis and Tony Parkers of the world, the manage novelize,
I've drafted and sash those days are long gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, long gone. You're not gonna find them at all,
not gonna find them at all. JT.
Speaker 5: I don't know if we'll be at a catch up
with you later in the week, but obviously predicting that
b A, you will get a dub tonight game going
to be on a CBS Sports Nation for those that
are looking to tune into it.
Speaker 1: Tip off tonight in in just a few hours.
Speaker 3: JT.
Speaker 1: It's seven pm Mountain time.
Speaker 5: Bou, I believe we'll cover this thirty and thirty five
and a half point spread and prove to three and
oh two to oh at home the number seven Cougars
and then taking on Yukon.
Speaker 1: Let's preview Yukon a little bit. Uh, how do you
see that.
Speaker 5: Matchup playing out on Saturday? Offensive rebounds are going to
be crucial in that game?
Speaker 2: Well, I you know, looking at the game, I mean
it's everything. You're going to be crucial in the game.
I think that's one of the games that you look
at it and what you do, you say, whatever VIEWI
you does, We're going to use it as a mazarine stick,
not for now, but for when they face Houston in conference.
And so because going against the top five team in
the country, you're only going to give them a good
measuring stick. And then when you get to play Houston
in conference, you know on the new year, then you'll
be able to say, Okay, this is where we were
back then and this is where we are now.
Speaker 3: And so is the result important? Absolutely, it's crucial.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: You want to win, you want to be able to
move up, but more important than that is to see
where you are. You don't want to peak in November.
You want to peak in March, much like they did
last year. And so I think it's a crucial game
in the terms of let's see where we are so
that we can use it as a base to see
how much we can improve as time, as you know,
as the season goes on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I go back to that winning run.
Speaker 5: We had done the show multiple times throughout the month
in February and March. In my goodness, I mean to
win nine in a row. The way they were doing it,
they're literally putting belt to booty. I know the games
maybe that the scoreboard didn't say that, but the way
they just were in sink. Kevin Young had all the adjustments.
And I need you to shed some light on this
because I've said this multiple times. They're gonna keep reiterator
in the entire season because he did it last year.
He's gonna do it again. He is the best coach
in college basketball coming out of timeouts with drawing up
place he is like, do you attribute that all to
the NBA experience? Because man, this man is like an
offensive girl. When I look at Andy Reid's of the NFL,
when I look at the Kellen Moores of the NFL
and football, he's that in the NBA.
Speaker 1: He is the offensive gurus of the NBA.
Speaker 5: And now in college basketball there's not an offensive player
that after like he cannot draw up.
Speaker 2: He gets all of it, right, Yeah, and that from experience,
because executing out of timeout in the NBA it is
absolutely crucial, and the college game didn't slow downs for everything, right,
And so to me, the way to look at is,
you know, Kevin Young is, you know, kind of like
a high school kid playing against you know, seventh graders.
You know, there are some things that I think he's
working on, and he'll be the first to admit in
terms of his subbing.
Speaker 3: Pattern, the rhythm of the game.
Speaker 2: But again, right, I mean, you know, the game slows
down to him reminds me a lot of that X
Men movie where you see Quicksilver, the guy that is
super fast and he's like wear, ranging stuff and picking
people up, and the time just you know, slows down,
freezes almost to him. And so it's I'm interested to
see how he continues to perfect those and how quickly
he's able to adapt to some of the parts of
the game that he himself would even say, you know,
this is something I need to work on, I need
to improve on.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Look, it's it's amazing when you're able to get
NBA experience in your locker room, get alone in the
coaching staff, and now you have both and you're seeing
the correlated I mean, the commitments.
Speaker 1: A big deal.
Speaker 5: So look, b AU basketball is already trending in the
right direction. And uh they get to the Elite eight,
they get into the Final four, they will have arrived JT.
So you got to enjoy the wonderful season. Uh, I
gotta ask. I know I'm taking a lot of your time.
You might have to get ready to prepare for something.
So you're going to be on the pre game tonight
on b.
Speaker 4: A A TV.
Speaker 2: Absolutely catch us at the pre game in the players
club starting at six pm on b YU TV and
ESPN Plus. And uh, well look forward to look for
to chatting and getting ready for this big matchup today.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you got a few minutes until it starts,
so I need to let you go.
Speaker 5: But before I do, JT, what's the best way outside
of b AU TV that we can support you?
Speaker 1: What you're doing, how you do it.
Speaker 2: Let's celebrate Veterans Day, guys, Let's celebrate this country.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of differences. Ron you are a you
are you are an African American. I am an immigrant
of minority descent.
Speaker 2: And the beautiful thing about America is that we can come,
we can come together. And so what best way to celebrate,
you know, this great country, this great nation, then to
celebrate our differences, but come together, as you know, one
nation under God.
Speaker 3: And so happy Veteran Day for those who have served.
Speaker 2: Follow me on Twitter at fort three, JT and always
and forever Goku's.
Speaker 5: Hey, like they say, you pledge legions to the fact
one nation under God, baby, and that's the country we
live in. And like JT said, it doesn't matter. I
am an African American, he's an immigrant, and all of
us are brothers and sisters from our Savior at the
end of the day. So let's trut everybody like that.
Let's have a peace in the world. Let's be peacemakers,
and let's continue to go to go work and celebrate
those that have honored this country.
Speaker 2: J T.
Speaker 5: Thanks you Tom today. Brother, We'll catch up with you
next week. Is always take care my friend.
Speaker 3: Bye bye, We'll let you go.
Speaker 5: That was Jonathan Tabinari in a little college basketball segment.
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Happy birthday to Ben Crittle. He's been out for the day.
He'll be back tomorrow. Wanted been to celebrate his birthday. Also,
Happy Veterans date all of our veterans, my dad and
the rest of the veterans out there that have fought
to protect our country that have been out there doing this.
I would say the Lord's work in the Book of Mormon,
it talks about defending your family's bread onto bloodshed, and
I think it you know, it means the military in
that regard.
Speaker 1: It says that.
Speaker 5: But hopefully everybody out there, if you have a person
that's a veteran, show him some love today. You guys
deserve to get all your discount of meals and everything.
That was the funny thing about my dad is he
would wear his veterans hat bread and he would make
multiple stops. And I don't know about anybody else, And
I'll just give you some insight to who my dad was.
Man was in his what early fifties, late forties, and
bro had a Snapchat. Brood post on his Snapchat, like
I wouldn't even hear from him when I would try
to call him and say, Hey, happy Veteran's day, Dad,
love you. No, he wouldn't answer, but I knew I
could follow him on Snapchat. I would go to my
snapchat look to see what stops he would go to.
This man would have stopped at Red Robin, Chili's Boro,
Buffalo Wowings. He'd be stopped number one stop number but
two up next. I'm like, you are a wild individual.
I don't know if I've met anybody that in their
late forties early fifties it has a Snapchat. I could
be wrong, but my pops had a Snapchat like he
was twenty. And I was like, that's that's wild. But yeah,
my pop's had a Snapchat. And what post about is
a free food from the government that you would get
as a veteran.
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let's get into the last couple of sound bites from
Kalani Sataki before we close up the show. What do
you say, Let's get back to it. Kalanied addressed the
meat earlier. Let's finish up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Number four. This is what Calie had to say. What
was Bear's mental makeup?
Speaker 5: After the game, and how do you expect him to
respond this week going into TCU.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's gonna respond the right way. I mean, he's
he knows that it wasn't his best outing. It wasn't
the best for our entire team. But I know one
thing about him. He's willing to work. He has great
work ethic, and he's going to be better next time.
And so we're looking forward to seeing the improvement and
he's committed to.
Speaker 6: Doing that.
Speaker 5: Wasn't his best performance. He's upset about it. He's going
to bounce back. Gurney said this in the first hour
Bred and he said it's not really a hot take,
but he said that Bear's going to remind us who
he is, why he's that dude, and that he's gonna
like TCU up.
Speaker 4: I don't even know that he needs.
Speaker 7: I don't think he's in a position where he's like
in a deficit right now. Like I don't think it's like,
oh my gosh, I can't be Bear let us down.
And if Bear would have played better, then we would
have won the game. Yes, yeah, Like I don't think
that's a valid way of looking at it either. Now,
did Bear have his best performance in the world. By
no means absolutely no. However, I would argue Bear has
won you enough games where other guys should have been
able to help out, and they didn't, and Bear had
to put the team on his back.
Speaker 4: That not maybe that he could take a game off,
but in a.
Speaker 7: Game where he wasn't able to put on the Superman
cape and fly you through Lubbock, somebody else needed to
step up and help him, and he just didn't get
that help. And the point I made earlier in the show,
find me a big twelve quarterback who can win against
Texas Tech not named Sam Levitt. Find me a big
twelve quarterback who's played that well against his Texas Tech defense.
Because both Avery Johnson and Devin Dampier played as well
as Bear Bachmeyer did and they got to play at home,
they didn't have to play at Lubbock. So yeah, Bear's
gonna bounce back. He's gonna have a big game against TCU.
But I also don't think we need a pile on Bear,
because I don't know that what he did is that
is any different from what any other big twelve quarterback
would do.
Speaker 5: It's sure we don't need to pile on Bear I'm
with you, fans. If you're going to do that, don't
pile on Bear. Look, I mean the kid was eight
to no going into nine games before this. I mean,
what else would you have asked for? Everybody thought the
sky was following when Jake Rtz left left, and then
he becomes a hero and look, BYU fans literally have
this emotion of it's just a knee jerger action. No,
get him out of there. One game I knew it.
It's like all be up a rod gone. It's like, no, no,
you weren't saying that when they lit up West Virginia.
You weren't saying that when they had the comeback against
Iowa State, Like, hey, look, give credit where credits due.
Bear will be just fine. And I do believe, and
I agree with Gurney's take. I think Bear's Bear might
go out there and have a Heisman performance.
Speaker 1: Brett.
Speaker 5: I don't want to give too much of a hot
take and get I don't want to get too hyperbolic,
but I could see b what you being upset and
enough where Brett could not Brett, goodness great is saying
to you. I would love to see you out there too.
Bear could go out there and have maybe four hundred
yards toll offense. He's yet to have a game like that.
He's come close, I think, But look, he might have
four hundred yards of total offense against TCU, and he
might have three or four touchdowns. This might be the
game that Bear just goes out there and just says, look,
book me as the Big twelve freshman player of the year,
but also booked me as the freshman player of the
ear in college football.
Speaker 7: Brett, in the words of bear Bachmeyer in that college
game day piece, he said, I'm that, and I don't
I don't want to say because I don't want to
offend anybody.
Speaker 4: But bear Bachmer said, he said, I'm that. MF so
to say that on the radio. But bear Bachmeyer said,
it's definitely not scripture.
Speaker 1: But yes, he said it with scripture, So it is scripture.
Speaker 5: It's in the Bible of the Book a Moment, the
Polar Gray Price wherever, and the Doctor of Covenants wherever.
Speaker 1: You get your scriptures from number five.
Speaker 4: Of the Book of Bear, the Book of Bear.
Speaker 1: I like that, the Book of Bear the gold Plates.
Speaker 5: According to bear Bachmeyer, hopefully we don't get the Gospel
according to Gospel cording to bear. Hopefully we don't get
in trouble for that number five. Kilowney, What did you
take away from the defensive performance against Texas.
Speaker 8: Tech, Well, I don't think they gave up at all,
you know that That's what I like that they kept
fighting through it. And you know, we we wanted to
go to the very end and try to find ways
to get it. In fact, the last in the end
of the third quarter, we decided to punt the ball
because we felt good about our defense getting out of
the drive and we we wanted to pin them deep
in the in in the reds that we've done it before,
you know, and we decided to punt it, pin them deep,
hopefully get the field position flipped our way where we
can make a punt out of the out of there there,
you know, backed up and be in a position where
we can have a shorter field for our offense. And
then we shank another punt and so that that that
that that sound good, you know. So it's hard when
you're trying to execute things and things like that break
down and and and the sad thing is that Sammy
hasn't done that all year. He hasn't shanked punts at all,
and to have both of them, both of his shanks
show up here in this game.
Speaker 6: Is unfortunate.
Speaker 8: But regardless, the defense kept playing, you know, and those
guys never gave up. And there's no figure pointing here.
And in fact, with all three phases, those guys know
they got to work together. We'll circle the wagons. We'll
we'll we understand what's being said out outside. We never
listened to it before, and if we did, now there's
time to not listen to it. So we'll circle the wagons,
get back to work, and uh, that's the remedy. You
got to get back to work and and and figure
this thing out. And we're still in a good position
though you know, I want to. These guys have worked
really hard. We're in a really good spot where we
can still control our destiny. And the destiny starts with
this week. Learning from the game over the weekend, and
then getting getting it over with and knowing that we
got to go to work, and then seeing seeing ourselves
perform much better this weekend.
Speaker 5: There it is, circle the wagons. It does start this
week TCU, so opportunity to bounce back.
Speaker 1: We'll see what they do.
Speaker 5: Number six Kilani, You've had issues on special teams with
Parker Mutt, punts, missed field goals. What are your thoughts
and everything just starting to build up now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all the all the there's all the things that
we know we can do better. Yeah, so those and
those are fixable though, We'll work on it and getting fixed.
You know that that just a it's a it's stuff
that we can fix, guys. It's not like a rocket
science or anything. We just got to work more at
it and be more more efficient and trying to find
our guys to be in themselves being a more confident
position than to make those plays.
Speaker 5: He's saying it like, look, why you guys worried? Well,
I mean there was an issue at the beginning of
the season, and is it starting to come full circle?
Is it starting to resurface again? Look, these things happen.
So I don't I don't know, Brett, I I don't.
I don't know what Kilanie like, if there's a mup
punt in the CCU game, they're gonna have some real problems.
Speaker 7: I didn't know that I needed to put an over
under on this segment of how many times used the
word shank.
Speaker 4: I think he said it like four times in the
question before.
Speaker 7: Look, I don't know that the special team's miscues were
characteristic of what they've been the whole season. Like Sam,
I think has been more than serviceable at punting the football,
pinning opposing teams really close to their own end zone.
We know missing kicks is not characteristic of Will Farron,
and I know there's some people who want to say
muffing punts is characteristic of Parker Kingston. And while I
could certainly hear that argument because of what happened in
the first couple games of the season, I don't think
those pup muffs were connected to this one on Saturday.
I think it was just characteristic of the pressure, characteristic
of the situation, characteristic.
Speaker 4: Of being at Texas Tech, and he lost it. But
I don't know that.
Speaker 7: In the moment, it was upsetting and it was frustrating.
But I don't think, oh, Parker Kingston's just a guy
who muffs punts. I think he must a couple at
the beginning of the season. I don't think this one
is just characteristic of who he is. I think it
was just a bad spot. I think a one of
people want to connect it but I don't think it
is connected.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I don't think it's connected. It just
it just happened.
Speaker 5: Look, it was just unfortunate the moments because Parker really
honed in. It just is unfortunate happened in this big
of a moment on that big stage in the morning,
Klinie will get you out of here. On these last
couple of things, you faced Joshuver a few years ago.
Where do you feel like he's evolved since the last
time you guys matched up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's even more deadly now.
Speaker 8: He has more experience and you know, he's he's got uh,
he understands the offense.
Speaker 6: You see him making checks. He's just he's just a veteran.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 8: Back then, we were hoping that maybe him being new
to the scene and uh and inexperience would be in
our in our advantage, and it wasn't. So now he's
a much better quarterback. And you see in the way
he distributes the ball to all the different receivers, the
way that they run the ball, the way that he
reads rpls, And I mean he's a really good coach,
quarterback coach really well. And so this isn't going to
be easy. But you know that didn't go well for
us a couple of years ago, and and you know
we remember that. So we're gonna have to find ways
to be better than we were against him the first
time around.
Speaker 6: And then we get to have him at home, which
is gonna be helpful for us.
Speaker 5: They everly gonna be helpful that the game is at home.
When he played by U, he was a red shirt freshman.
Now he's a red shirt junior.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's got four years of experience at the
collegiate level, no doubt. Number nine Killini.
Speaker 5: Does the TCU offense remind you of anyone you've faced,
or remind you of anyone you've played maybe in the
past as well.
Speaker 6: Well. The thing is they do things differently. Where they can.
Speaker 8: They can run the ball if they want, They can
pass the ball every down that they want to. I
think it's it's not like you're just gonna go out
there and and impose your will on them. They have
different ways to attack you, and they can throw the
ball downfield. They can, they can, he's an accurate thrower
where he can, he can. He can thread the needle
if he needs to. He doesn't need to make big
time throws right away. He can, he can, he's an
accurate he'd throw across the field, things like that. So
I don't I don't think. I think they're a complete
offense where they can do a lot of different things.
We have to be a complete defense and defend it all.
And that's that's Caesar said than done. That's why teams
that are coached by Sunny Dyke's usually have find ways
to score a lot of points and so and when
all the attention goes to the offense, you forget that
their defense is effective too, and they can get after
you too.
Speaker 6: And then you know they they they're they're well coach.
Speaker 8: Team and the coaches I've known them for years and
those guys have amazing reputations. And there's a reason why
those guys played for a national championship a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're definitely a well coached team, no doubt about it.
Joshuver is the leader of that team. And look, you
can throw on this TCU defense, run defense. They can
stop the ball. So we'll see what bo He's able
to do and how bear and then bounce back. We're
gonna find out, guys, that's our show, though we're out
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