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yet by chance. Okay, they just tried calling me on
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can get back out with them.
Speaker 1: With their uh okay, here, let.
Speaker 4: Me let me let me text you over another number here, Andrew,
and we'll get them on the line. Here momentarily having
a little technical difficulties here as they're trying to call
my cell phone. I can't get them on the line
right now. I just sent you the number that they're
trying to get a hold of me on though. Eight
oh one eight two sixty four sixty six seven seven
is the number that they just trying to call from.
That's eight one two six four sixty six seven seven
to get them on the line.
Speaker 1: But we all know what everyone's wondering, Okay.
Speaker 4: The FBI has found thirty people guilty of illegally gambling
sports betting, getting involved in high level stakes poker play
where you're using X ray machines and video cameras, all
in the name of the hustle when getting as much
money in your pocket as possible, because it's never enough,
never enough. How much money has Jauncey Billups made as
a player? Okay, as a player and also as a coach.
They keep on trying to call me, Andrew, they keep
on trying to call me here. So anyway, Chauncey Billups
made a lot of money in the NBA as a
coach and a player.
Speaker 1: It wasn't enough. He wanted more, he needed more.
Speaker 4: So the federal gambling case that it's there at NBA
stars and mobsters. Apparently it goes deep. It's everywhere. You
wonder how deep this goes? How many star players are involved?
Is the NBA the only league that this is happening within?
Speaker 1: You wonder? I hope it's only the NBA.
Speaker 4: But the NBA has been on a downward trajectory for
the last twenty years.
Speaker 1: It just has been.
Speaker 4: The hottest show in the NBA is Charles Barkley and
Shaquille O'Neill making fun of players in the NBA. Kenny
Smith is involved, right the TNT guys. That's the biggest
show in the NBA, in my opinion, in the most
entertaining show in the NBA. So this goes deep and
runs deep and ultimately the number check this out, okay. Thursday,
Billups needed to do something very few professional athletes enjoy.
Speaker 1: Lose on purpose.
Speaker 4: That's the only way the criminal enterprise could keep raking
in cash. It ultimately netted more than seven million dollars
over six years. Prosecutor State Billups, Miami heat guard terros Here,
and dozens of others were charged Thursday as part of
a two sweeping investigation, one into legal sports gambling and
the other into poker rigging schemes allegedly backed by the mafia.
The extraordinary feneral takedown led to the arrest of more
than the thirty people, still some of them unnamed, across
eleven states on charges including wire fraud, money laundering, extortion.
Speaker 1: Robbery, and of course, illegal gambling.
Speaker 4: FBI Director Cash Bettel said at a news conference the
fraud is mind boggling, okay, referring to the alleged wrongdoing
as a criminal enterprise that envelops both the NBA and
Locosa Nostra the Mafioso group. He said the schemes involve
tens of millions of dollars in ill gotten gains. The
web of alleged criminal activity was laid out in two
federal indictments that read like plot summaries from a Martin
Scorcsi Scorsese film epics. Crime epics officials say key roles
were played in one case by members of the notorious Bonano, Gambino, Jonovesa,
and Lucezi crime families, as well as defendants with nicknames
like the wrestler Juice, Big Bruce and Pooky. All right,
Eddie Luck getting Preston and Garrett Handy on the line,
Eddie Luck.
Speaker 1: No, Okay, all right.
Speaker 4: We'll continue to effort in our sports court. Okay, got it?
Check this one out. Golf legend Jack Nicholas wins fifty
million verdict in defamation lawsuit against former business partners. Yes,
Jack Nicholas won fifty million.
Speaker 1: Did he need it? No? But he won it.
Speaker 4: A six person injury in Palm Beach County found Monday
that the Nicholas companies had damaged the eighteen time Major
champions reputation and exposed him to ridicule. Hatred, mistrust, distrust
or contempt. Nicholas Company's owner and executive chairman Howard Milstein,
and executive Andrew O'Brien were also named individually as defendants,
but George did not find them personally liable. Eugene Sterns,
an attorney for Nicholas, said Nicholas has spent his life
helping others and earning a reputation as not just a
great athlete, but a great human being. He deserved better
than what he got and were pleased that the jury
addressed this particular circumstance, these particular circumstances that were so annoying.
All right, let's get out to the online welcome in
Preston and Garrett Hatty. Sorry about the technical difficulties, guys,
we apologize, no problem.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're good man.
Speaker 4: We're talking gambling. We're talking crime, mob bosses. We're talking
Jack Nicholas getting fifty million dollars in his pocket. It's crazy.
Sports court is underwey. So let's get into this now.
How often have we seen gambling shenanigans in sports? I
mean we're seeing this many times, right, and I don't
know how often the FBI gets involved, but I want
to say that Tim Donaghy.
Speaker 1: Issue in two thousand and seven was a big one.
Speaker 4: The FBI got involved once again, the FBI having to
get involved in twenty twenty five, this one seems big.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, and I'll jump in on this just because
this really involves the Terry Rosier indictment. I mean, there's
really kind of two big indictments that came out today, right,
one's the poker game and the other one is the
sports betting. And to answer your question, Ben, I mean,
it really is. It's just a lot more widespread because
it's so easy now to place a sports bet, right,
I mean with all the different apps and services and
the ways that we can transfer money now, it's just
all over the place and ubiquitous. And this is something
that people really feared about was going to be an issue.
But you know, the other case, you know they didn't
mention is the John tay Porter case, another NBA player
I think he was with the Raptors, and in fact
he's mentioned in this indictment against Terry Rozier. But but basically,
what this what this really is, Bennets, It's a it's
an insider trading case. And so Terry Rozier has inside
information as an active NBA player, right, he knows which
players are hurt or injured or sick or not going
to play. Might know a team, you know, what the
lineup is going to be for a they're his team
or an opposing team. And so he is able to
provide that information to his his buddies or co conspirators.
Is the indictment reads, and it allows them to place
easy game winning bets. And and a lot of these
bets are you know, or prop bets different because you
can now make all kinds of easily just make all
kinds of bets. And so he's he's in some big,
big trouble. I mean, he was on the bench last
night at the end of the bench, didn't play in Orlando,
and this morning arrested. So the NBA has placed him
on leave. And so we'll be following this case pretty closely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you begin to wonder, you know, how
often this is gonna happen, how long this has been happening,
even going further in the past, how deep does it go,
How many big names will come out here, and are
they protecting any of those big names?
Speaker 5: Well, there's a few other names. You know, several people
named in the indictment. I mean the other one is
this former player Damon Jones, you know, not not a
current NBA player, But yeah, I don't think it's far
fetched to say that there may be other NBA players
and that this will be an ongoing issue that law
enforcement and the FBI are going to have to watch closely,
and maybe the league's gonna need to, you know, somehow
implement some new new rules regarding this. But because it's
just it's just so easy to play sports bet.
Speaker 4: It's easy, and and then who's the blame for all this?
Like I even noticed on ESPN. Look, this is our
this is our namesake, right, we are part of the
ESPN family. They're pulling ESPN bet advertising off of some
of the the imaging on live television.
Speaker 1: Because of the this.
Speaker 4: Has become intertwined sports betting and the access to betting
and having it interwoven with the entertainment component of it.
Monetizing this, uh, taking the advertising dollars of these sports
betting apps and URLs and platforms. It's it's kind of
the the fault of the sports world.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, I mean, yeah, I mean to allow this
to happen. You know, well, you can say it's a
fall of sports world or it's the fault of sports
betting technology. I mean, it's again with the apps and
you know, whether it's Draft Kings or FanDuel or on
and on, you know, and it's just it's just easy,
easy to do this. In my mind, that's really the
issue is just the technology that's emerged. You don't have
to be in Las Vegas and a casino or call
a bookie sports bookie in place a bet. You can
just grab your phone and do it. And so it's
pretty easy.
Speaker 4: Crazy times, guys, Let's move on to the golf course.
Jack Nicholas won that fifty million dollar verdict and a
defamation lawsuit fout in Florida, gainst his former business partners.
Speaker 1: Give us an update on this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do want after I talked about I do
want to talk about the Chauncey Billips one because I
think that one is really fiery. We didn't dress on that.
Two indictments team bent down today from the FBI. Maybe
I'll just hit on that one really quick. You know,
you heard two indictments, but they're entirely two different cases,
and you know, and so this one from Chauncey billups
I mean rig shuffling machines, X ray technic technology tables,
crypt fraud, LaCOSA nostra, you know, the coach of the
Portland Trailblazers, Chauncey Billupsh. He was indicted and arrested today
and the and the claim is that he has part
a organized poker scheme, a fraud scheme, poker gambling scheme
which is run by as they list the families, the
you know VC family, the Gambino family, the Bonano family.
The claim is that Chauncey billups He would get people
to these high stakes poker games and with him there
it seemed like some legitacy, but they were running a
scam where you know, they had technology tables that could
read people's charge cards, they had illegal shuffling machines which
would deal out the cards in an illegal way. And
so now he's been charged with They said it has
been going on for several years. Tens and tens of
millions dollars of people who have been built out of
this money. If they couldn't pay the money, guess who
was behind it. The mafia was doing some things that
was reported to get this money. Now, Chauncey Billups has
been charged with wirefraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. So
I think this one's a crazy deal. You know how
this happened. So he's and now he's been in dieted.
So anything on that, I want to jump to the
Jack Nicholas story because we kind of would lead into that.
But this is something we've talked about for a long time.
And so the background on this is Jack Nicholas, the
Golden Bear, arguably the greatest golfer of all time. After
his career, he really branded himself. He got into the
golf course designed business where he was designing golf courses
all around the world. It was very prestigious to have
a Nicholas design course. He had the Nicholas Company, he
had a pail company, all kinds of things. Well, back
in two thousand and seven, he's sold his rights to
the Nicholas Company to another partner for a lot of
money at that time, about one hundred and fifty million
that time. Well, time goes on and he's on the board,
and when he finally gets out of the board, he
wants to start designing golf courses again. Well, they sued him,
claiming that he was Torsa's interference, that it was a
breach of contract, it was a breach of his non
compete clause. Well, that thing went through litigation and the
court ultimately decided that he had met his own compete.
It it ran, and so he could go compete. Well, what
happened during that litigation, which is part of what we're
talking about today, is his former business partners. When they
sued him in the lawsuit, they said, you know, basically
Jack Nicholas was going to enter into a deal with
Live Golf, and Live Golf had kind of a and
still dozen in some ways with the Saudis that has
kind of a different representation. But they said that Jack
was suffering from dementia, had mental health issues, and that
he was going to do deal with Live And Jack
came out and said, hey, wait a minute, I'm promoting
the PGA. If the PGA's against this, I would never
do that. And in their complaint, Nicholas Companies basically said
we had to say Jack from himself. Well, what did
Jack do? He said, I don't appreciate that. So he
sued the Nicholas Companies and his former partner Howard Milstein
for defamation. The elements of defamation are that if someone
publishes or says verbalizes a statement that is in fact
fault and that statement causes damages, then there's potential defamation. Well,
this thing made it to trial. It actually made it
a trial, not things. A lot of things make it
to trial. A lot of times there's settlement, negotiations or
mediation or something happens before it hit trial. Well, the
jury actually agreed with Jack Nicholas, his attorney and his
closing statement, and he said, Hey, these guys they tried
to stain Jack and they wanted in the minds of
the public. They wanted Jack Nicholas. It's just a crazy
old guy who sold out to the audience. Well, the
jury came back and said that they had subjected him
to ridicule, hate, tred, mistrust, distrust, and contempt an award
in fifty million dollars. You know how they came up
that was basically what they think. It damaged his reputation
and then he had to go through that was defamation.
So big win for Jack Nicholas.
Speaker 1: Big win.
Speaker 4: Indeed, let's move on to another goat on the basketball court, though,
and then I think this is a NASCAR situation though
trial looms. Nascar Jordan feud may reshape US motor sports.
Speaker 1: What's going on here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So what this, what this has to do with
is is really how NASCAR is run, and it's it's
run on a charter system, and so any team competing
in NASCAR has to have a charter. You you negotiate
over and purchase this charter and it entitles you to
race your team. And Michael Jordan's team and another one
called front Row, they were due to sign their charters
I think it was last year and they didn't apparently
like the terms. Well that's what that's what NASCAR is saying,
and so they held out and wouldn't sign, and some
legal wrangling went on after that, and the lawsuits filed
by Michael Jordan's a team against NASCAR. He's got a
very heavy hitter sports lawyer Jeffrey Kessler, who's been involved
in a lot of cases we've talked about on Sports
Court and alleging that NASCAR is essentially a monopoly, that
they are anti competitive, and that they you know, if
you want to participate in high end, high level stock
car motorsports, NASCAR is the only game in town. I mean,
like a lot of our leagues, right, I mean, there's
just one professional league, more or less. And so this
lawsuit has gone on and there's been you know, different
all kinds of motions filed. There's a motion for summary judgment,
you know, trying to get the case knocked out. And
then the last couple of days that both sides were
in mediation the court, the judge ordered mediation, basically told
both sides, hey, you guys need to get together and
see if you can settle the case. Mediations failed, and
so now it looks like it's headed for trial in December.
So I'm sure we'll have another update for you at
that point.
Speaker 4: Crazy times, guys. Any other news and notes coming out
of the Sports Court today that we want to delve into.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one, we just want to final finalize. It's a
local story. Last year, last week before the rivalry game,
we talked about the gentlemen who'd made threats of shooting
as if they were red and you know, and talked
about bullets in the head. Well, there's been a resolution
to the other crazy or unreasonable fan, the fan who
throw the water bottle last year, who hit the cheerleading
coach to be a cheerleading coach in the head, doctor
unconscious for ten of fifteen seconds. Well, he's been sentenced,
and you know, it's reported that she's had a pretty
rough year. She's you know, had a pretty severe concussion.
She's gone to some problems of it's reported ongoing horrible headache,
business vision problems, fatigue, stress to meet her and her children.
She's had memory issues, that type of things. Don't report
on what happened on a civil issue. But now this
the fan who was charged with third degree felony assault
pleaded to reduce charge of assault charge a class A misdemeanor,
and he spent one day in jail and had to
pay a fine of two thousand dollars. He says, there's
not a single day I haven't regretted what I did.
So sentence team to that case that actually came around
in the actually those penalies.
Speaker 4: So there's a civil judgment and then there's like a
public kind of judgment there.
Speaker 1: Guys like, we're not going to know what the civil.
Speaker 4: The civil I guess judgment is ultimately here in this
particular case.
Speaker 6: Right, probably not. I don't know if anything's happened behind
the scens civily. I mean there's always I mean, I mean,
I'll use the example of the Jake Retlow case. There
were no civil charges or criminal charges ever filed, but
there was a civil lawsuit. It was all brought under
a civil and civil lawsuits are seeking renuneration compensation. You
have to prove liability, meaning someone did something they shouldn't
have done unreasonably through a bottle hit and someone who's
incurred damages in the form of medical expenses, maybe lost
income here, a concussion, pain and suffering. It talked about
all things that you know, medical medical treatment. So I
don't know. I'll bet there might have been a civil
lawsuit or a civil claim made and maybe settled, but
we haven't heard anything about it. I doubt we will.
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the daily, on the weekly. All right, let's get into it, guys. Hello,
we start off with an injury report VIC. We've been
aggregating the injury reports within the Big twelve. Where do
we stand as far as health is concerned with this
BYU football team? And then also let's evaluate Iowa State.
How's b YU looking? First pick?
Speaker 1: Actually, BYU is looking really good.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I've ever seen BYU's football team
in such a good place, uh with their injury reports.
Speaker 1: But we've got Jojo Phillips.
Speaker 7: Of course, in Sion Moa, Marcus McKenzie all out. We
have Raider de Mooney and Tommy Process is doubtful.
Speaker 1: And that's it.
Speaker 7: I mean, as you look through the Big twelve, a
lot of these teams have a whole list of guys
out and uh. And so that's that's exciting for BYU. Obviously,
Now Iowas.
Speaker 1: State a little different.
Speaker 7: They've they've got wide receiver Daniel Jackson, wide receiver Mike
Michael Parks, River Peppers running back Jayden Jackson, running back
Eddie Lemos, dB linebacker Rick Rennick, and wide.
Speaker 1: Receiver ty Clairborne.
Speaker 7: So they have three of the wide receivers and two
running backs out.
Speaker 5: UH.
Speaker 7: The defensive lineman Brayden Simonson. Now they have a few
doubtful here. Their kicker punter Jace Gilbert also offense.
Speaker 4: And that's a big one because they're very much concerned
they they're they're having to delve into their third and
four string kickers.
Speaker 1: Well, they're face.
Speaker 8: Kicker Kyle Kahn Conrarty is questionable and then their other kicker,
Chase Smith is probable. So they got all kinds of
injuries in the kicking room right now.
Speaker 1: That's pretty crazy to see that.
Speaker 7: And then we have Dylan malone wide receiver is doubtful. Boy,
that's four four wide receivers, but that room's gotta be struggling.
Speaker 8: They throw primarily at this point in the season, two
of their top three pass catchers or top three targets
are tight ends, which is really interesting because for BYU,
they haven't even given up over one hundred and fifty
yards of total passing its two tight ends in the
entirety of the season. Buo he does really well covering
the tight ends, and that's where Iowa State wants to
go with the football.
Speaker 1: Right now when they're throwing it. Now.
Speaker 7: The big one for Iowa State right now as doubtful
as a defensive lineman, Dominique Orange, big Citrus is what
they call him, Big Citrus, and he is huge for
Iowa State and protecting against the running attack, and so
that that's gonna be that's gonna be big for Iowa State.
Speaker 8: That guy is a one man game wrecker, especially because
if you know anything about this Iowa State defense, they
r on a lot of three down linemen and sometimes
what they'll do is there their one interior guy will
sit there spy and they'll just rush out on the outside.
Sometimes they'll only send two and essentially just drop nine.
And I'll be curious to see if they'll try that
again this week because Caden Salter took advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Brendan Soorsby took advantage of that.
Speaker 8: I know they're doing it because they really have some
serious coverage issues on the back end. We know they've
lost a couple of their best defensive backs. But the
problem then becomes your backup guys are not good enough,
and no matter how many guys you drop, if you
cannot get to the quarterback. And Cayden Salters showed you this, Okay, cool,
I'll find a zone somewhere and that's what they did.
So if Dominica Orange doesn't play, I mean it may
be however they want it by. You can have it
on the run game or in the pass game. Because
the run game is already struggling. According to PFF, it's
top five in terms of worst run game defense in
all of college football, and bou has the fourth best
pat run.
Speaker 1: Blocking grade in all of college football.
Speaker 8: If Dominque Orange doesn't play, that could spell serious disaster
for this Iowa.
Speaker 1: State football team.
Speaker 7: Now, they have some good news this week. They have
running back Carson Hanson coming back and now he has
a baller, shot caller and a huge part of their offense.
And then their kicker, Chase Smith will be back. So
they've got some concerns, but they also have a bit
of their offense with Chase or Carson Hanson excuse me,
coming back, which will help their run game.
Speaker 4: My question to you guys is who are we attributing
the health, the nourishing and strengthening.
Speaker 1: Of the BYU football body too? Right now? Boy, where
do you start? Well?
Speaker 4: Okay, so how many season ending injuries do we got?
We got shape Bryn Strothers the season ending injury, right
Who else is that?
Speaker 1: Is that the only season ending injury right now? Yeah?
Because Joe's coming back? Right? Jonathan Gabay is back now,
he told me could be a season ending injury.
Speaker 8: Well, he said he might be back. Okay, that's on Tuesday.
Said he could be back, so it's not definitively season ending. Okay, Yeah,
that surprised me, but he did say yeah, he could
be back. Well, you don't have many season ending injuries
right now? For b YU usually doesn't it kind of
feel like you have at least two. Like I feel
like I'm racking my brain just because typically it feels
like you have more than this.
Speaker 4: So B what he's in really good standing all things considered.
Right now, this is what I'm talking about. I've talked
about this many times those that have been tuning into
the show for the last decade. If you're going to
invest in any one thing within your athletic department, it's
the health and strength and nourishment of the lifeblood of
your program, which is the players. Right, So if you
keep them healthy, look at all these special seasons that
went awrye due to an injury, non contact or contact.
The biggest example of this is Taysom Hill. Even if
you just keep him healthy, if you keep him elastic,
if you.
Speaker 1: Keep him you know, just in a state of.
Speaker 4: Health, mitigating risk and keeping him explosive and healthy, like
you win more football games. Yep, you win a lot
more football games with Taysom the thorder back in the
house and you can go across like Travis Tuielomoh, there
was another one that got injured in two thousand, I
want to say twenty fifteen, Big injury early on in
that season that limited your productivity. So injuries always play
a big role, so you got to keep him healthy.
So shout out to the training staff Bret Mortensen and
the career obviously Colby Clausen who oversees the strength and
conditioning and medical staff, Ryan Phillis, Skyler Maine. They're doing
great work over there, so really important here, all right,
what other news or notes we got coming out of Brigham? Gentlemen,
do we want to get into some PFF here? Do
you want to do a little PFF? What is PFF stating?
Brett Hammer about this BYU Iowas State game.
Speaker 1: We have bad news for the people.
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Football Show, which means doesn't.
Speaker 1: Necessarily mean Boll you could be in trouble.
Speaker 8: However, our good friend friend of the program, Max Chadwick,
every game that they have previewed for BYU this season,
Max Chadwick has picked whoever BYU was playing.
Speaker 1: Oh shoot, and this week he has finally come around.
Speaker 4: He has to become a belief and he is picking
BYU to beat Iowa. Say so, this is the first
game all season where Max Chadwick, our good friend, is
not picking against the BYU Cougars. Oh my goodness, I
sent you a few sound bites. I don't know if
we want to play this for kugarnation, but are we
concerned he's picking BYU to beat Iowa State. Max Chadwick
actually chimed in quote he said, you should be.
Speaker 1: You should be, he says when he picked this.
Speaker 4: When I was watching the video, I was like, I
almost think this is like his reverse pick where he's
he's he's not picking BYU, so therefore he's picking them
If that makes sense because he's not picked against them
all season.
Speaker 1: Oh, I kind of think that's what he's doing. That's hilarious. Man.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you covered this, but the Bear
being added to the Manning Award watch list.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, pontificate on the just give me a little
bit more, uh, Manning Award watch List. Shout out to
Bear Bachmeyer finally getting the pub he deserves nationally, not
just as a runner up Freshman Player of the Week
in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 7: Right, Yep, it's presented annually by the All State Sugar Bowl.
The award honors the college football accomplishments of Archie Payton
and Eli Manning, and it is the only quarterback award
that includes the candidate's postseason performances in the balloting process.
Speaker 4: There you go, bear bachmar get some national love. There
you go, Ap, What do you got for me? All right,
let's let's play the Are we concerned that Max Chadwick
is picking BYU to beat Iowa State?
Speaker 9: I've got bad news for BYU fans right now. I'm
picking BYU. So I picked against BUYU in every game
this year, and they are obviously undefeated. Right now I'm
picking BYU. I'm sure a lot of BUYU fans are
being pissed at me in the comm section for going
against them and picking by You're actually picking for them
and picking BYU. But I taking by to win convincingly.
I actually think thirty four to twenty four was my
final score. You're in.
Speaker 1: I really think.
Speaker 3: I think someone in the chat put it really well.
Who said a JKH twenty one point eighty?
Speaker 9: He said, the way Iowa plays on both ends plays
right into BYU's hands.
Speaker 3: I agree with that. I think BYU's run game is.
Speaker 9: Gonna dominate in this game with LJ moarn and that
their offensive line and this one and I think rocke
beecked to those tight ends is not gonna be as
fruitful as it's been.
Speaker 3: For Iowa State all year.
Speaker 1: Either.
Speaker 9: The way BYU plays in the middle of their defense
with their linebackers and their safety's have been outstanding in.
Speaker 3: The middle of their defense this year.
Speaker 9: I think on both ends, BYU has an advantage on
offense and defense. So I think BYU not only is gonna,
you know, outright win as a quote unquote underdog in
this game.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna win by multiple scores.
Speaker 1: In this game.
Speaker 3: I got bou thirty four to twenty four of Iowas.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 4: That's Max Shadwick. PFF given some love to BYU. I'll
be honest, I don't know how I feel about it.
They're like, this is the curse, the PFF curse. They're
picking us now we have to live up to the
PFF expectation. Anyway, Yeah, what do you got for me?
Speaker 1: AP?
Speaker 9: I want to be honest, I am superstitious, and I
feel terrible now that I've felt great all week.
Speaker 1: But now that I've heard that sound, there is a
pit in my gut.
Speaker 8: I feel awful If b YU loses on Saturday. Max
Chadwick's band from the show We.
Speaker 1: Never Have One again play content here again? Ever? Screw
pff oh man, crazy stuff? All right? What else you
got from me? Vic? What other news and notes are
coming out of b YU or the Big Twelve? Let's
see we have the.
Speaker 7: Lady Softball came out. They released their schedule today.
Speaker 4: Shout out to the women, the fighting Gordon Eakins, Yeah,
they got it.
Speaker 1: They got a great schedule. I'm sure we do.
Speaker 4: We do discuss Olympic sports here, but not too much
those football and mostly basketball on this show.
Speaker 7: They're gonna have some good teams come into Provo though.
They're gonna welcome Kansas, Houston, Iowa State, Arizona State obviously,
those are all great programs, good softball, Arizona, Oklahoma State,
Texas Tech, and Utah. Obviously Utah is a great team.
But you know that's gonna be some good softball down there.
Speaker 1: Great softball. Baby. You a fast pitch guy or slow
pitch guy? Fast pitch Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Vic.
Speaker 4: Vic's a former baseball player, was a star at Aurum
High once upon a time. He's a five tool player,
played some college ball, So Vic shout out to you, buddy.
Speaking of five fuel players, check this message out from
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Speaker 1: And this is what KBN had.
Speaker 4: Say about BYU and his experience at BYU. A strong
foundation will keep you grounded long after you leave. I
keep thinking about that nineteen year old me who showed
up on BYU campus. If I could sit with that
kid between classes and tell him what's coming, I don't
think he'd believe me.
Speaker 1: Two Super Bowls.
Speaker 4: Question Mark still playing in the NFL at thirty four
years of age, Pro Bowl last year. He couldn't have
known how much the next decade would demand on him,
or how much the habits he built here, film, study, discipline, preparation,
teamwork would shape the rest of his life. None of
it happens without provo. Brigham Young University didn't just give
me a shot. It gave me a blueprint how to work, lead,
how to stay ready for the moment that finally arrives.
That nineteen year old and the thirty four year old
me aren't that different. I'm just the version that didn't stop.
You don't always see the return on your efforts and
belief right away. Sometimes it takes years. Sometimes it takes
getting knocked down, starting over and realizing the foundation you
build forever hold you.
Speaker 1: That's what BYU gave me.
Speaker 4: And while I'll always be grateful to come back, still here,
still playing, still proving.
Speaker 1: Let's go Koogs. Love it, love it.
Speaker 4: Shout out the KBN to go BYU defensive player. All right,
what other news or notes we got, gentlemen.
Speaker 8: BYU women's soccer has their final regular season home game
tonight at Senior Night. They're taking on Kansas. Kansas is
ten and three. BYU is eight and four. They've played
six times previously. The Cougars lead the series all time
for one and one. They played last year, fought to
a tune and two draw at Rock Chalk Park, and
current senior Mackenzie Vance she scored in last year's matchup
versus the Jayhawks. It's her senior night tonight. Maybe she
gets another one and beats Kansas.
Speaker 4: So shout out to BYU women's soccer in their final
regular season home game.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 4: I got one more SoundBite for you with BYU basketball here.
I sent it over TOAP. I. Remember we were talking
about G League prospects and recruiting G League prospects. To
your respect to the university, apparently by us in the
top three for a G League center.
Speaker 1: Did you hear about this? I did not. Oh my gosh.
I'll tell you a little bit about it.
Speaker 4: But a lot of news lately about some NCAA hoops
coaches upset with the G League players joining college hoops teams.
Speaker 1: Remember how we compared the international leagues to the G League.
Speaker 4: This is what kay Y had to say at Big
twelve media days yesterday.
Speaker 10: That makes tons of sense to me because it's the
exact same thing as the European players. I don't think
that like it's literally the exact same thing. Like, now, look,
if you're an NBA guy that's on an NBA contract,
I mean, the G League is no different than the
euro League. It's not the NBA. It's right, it's just not. Now,
if you're on a two way contract and you're an
NBA contract, you're an NBA player. If you're not, what's
the difference of a guy coming from all these European clubs.
Speaker 1: So it's the same thing. So I'm I'm.
Speaker 10: A lot of things that make sense don't actually happen
for me.
Speaker 1: This actually does make sense.
Speaker 10: Now if you want to strip away both sets of it, okay, great,
but that's kind of how.
Speaker 1: I see it. Yeah, that makes tons of sense to me.
Speaker 10: It's the exact same thing as the year.
Speaker 1: We're coming back. Uh yeah.
Speaker 4: So if you if you don't want the international players
to be able to come over and play college basketball, okay, fine, uh,
then don't let G League. But if you're gonna allow
international players, this is the same thing. That's what we
discussed yesterday on our show, and like I Shaide, we
literally went to break. Joe Tipton of On three reported
that G League center Abdullah Achman is down to three schools.
Speaker 1: Twenty year old. Twenty one year old.
Speaker 4: Big Man has played the last two seasons in the
G League and is expected to have at least two
years of college eligibility pending approved from the NCAA, Houston
BYU and Mississippi State.
Speaker 1: All in the mix, by the way for the seven
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