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receiver Jared bledsoew on the line detection college football with me.
Speaker 3: Jared, how that are you, buddy?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well man.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Hey, I appreciate you hopping on man number
one college football playoff college Football Championship game. Many people
said that college football was broken, that it was this
nil transporportal era is ruining the sport. I just saw
the losingest college football program in history win a national championship.
To me, that's a sign that all is well in
college football.
Speaker 4: Zion, Yeah, I would agree with that. I think that
we're in a really good spot right now for college
But I I still think that the nil and the
transfer port on things need to be regulated in a
little bit more consistent year to year, you know. And
but I think there needs to be some changes to
the playoff system. And I think that they're going to
make some really good changes. I you know, when you
watch some of these games, all the playoff games tend
to be almost sellouts, you know, but then you watch
most of the Boll games and the billiames tend to
not be you know, there's not that some of those
games where you know, it was players, families and friends
and that was about it, you know. And so it
would be fun to see a bigger playoff where there's
a lot more home games involved, you know, there's incentives
for fan bases to come and show up, and and
I think that'd be a lot of fun if we
had a few more weeks of potentially home games moving forward.
But yeah, I think it's great. It's great that you
can take a program like Indiana and do what you
did in such a short period of time. But the
best part about that story to me is not that
they weren't winning just a few years ago. It's just
the fact that how they did it this year and
the players they have on their roster right now, the
three stars, the two stars to no stars, and all
these guys that time together and just battle it out
and become the best team in the country when you
know it's everyone's fighting for the five star the four
star and expecting these guys to come in and change
their program, and they're willing to pay millions of dollars
before they take a single snap, catch a single pass,
you know. So it's fun to see the competitive nature
out there. That's not one bot.
Speaker 3: Yep, no doubt about it. It was. It was a magical.
Speaker 2: Season for the the fighting Kurt Signetti's the huge Hoosiers
of the Indiana.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Pretty remarkable to watch it all play out before our eyes.
A story book ending, a Disney type of ending.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I hate to give credit to the mouse, but that
should be a Hollywood film, right.
Speaker 4: Oh, just with Mendoz's mom and her situation and and
just growing up a mile from the stadium, I mean,
you can't paint a better picture of that, and then
and then winning the NAST championship in your backyard, you know.
I mean, it doesn't doesn't get cooler than that for
that family and for that team, So very cool.
Speaker 2: There's losers in every battle and every single competition. Miami lost.
And with that, a good friend of ours, Keeln Marrion. Uh,
he had a great season, fantastic gear for the Hurricanes,
but just came short. I don't know if you were
to text him, communicate with him, but what a great
season it was, and uh, you know, and and unfortunately,
uh they just fell short versus the storybook ending Hoosiers.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, and I hope he's done enough. You know.
I remember a couple of years ago in a conversation
that he and I had here at at the shop
and just discussing how how to become the guy and
get noticed and make people believe in him if they
aren't believing, force him to believe, you know. And he
did that, you know, he made people believe in him.
And then he and then when people put their money
in for him, he backed at a you know, so
super proud of what he's been able to do. I
hope he gets some shots at the next level, you know,
and that kind of that slot position guy. I think
he's a really can be a real valuable receiver. But
it's tough, man, and it sounds tough, you know, it's
a tough it's a factory. And these guys, you know,
they I hope they all take advantage of the opportunity
to play college football, you know, and maximize their time.
Speaker 2: Last year, we we lost twenty I think twenty six
guys to the portal. The ones that hurt the most
obviously Keelan, Josh Singh, Harrison Taggart hurt. I want to say,
I'm trying to think of what other guys kind of
kind of hurt, But those are like the tother crew
Wakely to maybe Purdue.
Speaker 3: That one kind of hurt a little bit.
Speaker 2: We saw Michael Harper go to the grizz and Cody
EPs go to Western Kentucky, Miles Davis to Utah State.
We could have used Miles Davis' this last season, I'll
be honest like that, like looking back at it like that,
that one kind of hurt the Miles Day. It's because
Miles Miles had a decent season for Utah State. So
we're kind of rehashing it here. Let me look at
his stats real quick for Utah State. I thought he
had a pretty gosh dang good season all things considered. Yeah,
one hundred and thirty one carries, seven hundred and thirty
one yards, eight touchdowns, five point six yards per carry,
and then he had twenty eight receptions two hundred one
yards seven point two yards per reception and three touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm looking back at this.
Speaker 2: Obviously Keelan hurt like and maybe he hurt the most,
but but maybe a close second was Miles Davis here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if you could have predicted and been
able to see what the opportunities would have been for
him at the YU moving forward, I mean, real, real
tough position to be in, knowing that he's got all
those guys in front of him. You know, he might
might have had some other guys coming back as well,
and so you know, he made a good decision for
himself at the time with the information that he had
for sure. But yeah, I think he was you know,
he was a he's a really really fast athlete, and
then he put on some weight and got bigger and stronger.
I don't know how much that affected his speed, but
he's just a real quick guy. So I always thought
he was going to be a star here.
Speaker 2: At b YU man and and so this year not
as impactful as you're looking at those players that have
entered the portal.
Speaker 3: We've discussed this with you.
Speaker 2: We've got thirteen right now, Shay Bryant, Strawther, Poki Junga,
Max Alferd, Tavian Beasley, Cioni can Gato, Sonny Twala, Tucker
kellerher Icanassio Tupo, le Mason Waller, the third, McKay, Hillstead,
Marcus mackenzie, Jay Griffin, and Don McKenzie. Out of those guys,
who do you think is going to be the most
impactful leaving BYU.
Speaker 4: That's a good question, man, I mean most of those guys.
I think Tavian Biz would be your most productive player
in that group right for the last season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he played a lot.
Speaker 4: I mean other than that, I mean it's it's hard
to say. It's hard to say who's going to be
the if there's even a que and Marian in that
group that's going to go to that next team and
just you know, or Josh seeing or somebody you know,
or if you're going to deal with you know, issues
like Crew Wakeley's had to face, you know. So grasses
are always greener. I think that opportunity comes sometimes to
those who stick it out and fight through it instead
of chasing the opportunity. I think that that's kind of
what football has become a little bit, is chasing the
opportunity versus becoming getting the opportunity and becoming that guy.
You know. So, I don't know, I think we've got
a lot to figure out what MCAA and and but
I would love to see something that showed these where
these kids had some kind of commitment to the colleges
that they signed with to where there's a consequence for
leaving per se. You know, not maybe not like we
had where you had to sit out a year, but
maybe if it's their second or third transfer PERHA, some
consequence like that, you know, that may force some of
these guys to tough it out and go earn your spots.
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Speaker 2: Heck yeah, when last time we chatted with you, we
discussed wide receivers and if we had a wide receiver one,
can Parker Kingston become wide receiver one? I mean he
was flirtatious with almost almost a thousand yards receiving this year.
He was just a hair under it, maybe by about
eighty yards or so. Well, looked really good in the
return game.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: One of the things is like with Keelan leaving, it
allowed Parker to kind of step up and have a
great season as a punt returner, as a wide receiver.
I wonder if he can be that guy, if he
can be that dude, that wide receiver one.
Speaker 4: I think he definitely can. He has the ability to
do it. I mean, what he had a great year
where I don't think dance vacation was quite what he did.
I think he really proved to a lot of us
that he was He's a lot more than just a
speedy athlete. They can return a punt you know, so
very smart in the game. I mean, he was a
quarterback in high school, right, so he understands the defense
a little bit more, understands kind of where to sit down,
where the holes are because he was thrown to those right.
So it's a great great to see him there. I
think he can be that guy. Yeah, it's going to
be an exciting room and an exciting group to see
how the receivers all come out and battle this spring.
I'm excited for screen ball, man. You know it's I
keep saying it. It's the most competitive, most fun football
I think I've ever played in my life, because you've
got everybody either wants to prove they should be there
and in that number one spot, or they're trying to
take out that number one guy. So it's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2: Do you think a rod in the offense you're going
to acquire any more portal talent? Do you think they
they'll get an RB two? Do you think they'll I
mean there's only nine guys. They went on and got
three offensive linemen, they got two tight ends, they got
one wide wide receiver, and so a lot of these
guys are offensive unit players. Do you think they add
any more.
Speaker 5: On the offensive side, I'm sure that they have some
other guys who they have their eyes on, and and
I think at this point it gets real strategic with
who you bring in and how you you know, the
guys that aren't signed now.
Speaker 4: There there, you know, I wonder, you know, maybe add
some players that have been through this. But when does
the panic sit in? Right? When does when do you go, Dude,
I've better get on a team now or I'm not
going to go into spring and I'm not going to
be on the team. Right, So, I feel like there's
going to be some panic that sits in with with players.
There has to be at some point. There's just too
many of them in the portal. And but yeah, I
wonder if that's when the strategy is to come in
and grab a few of the guys at a much
better deal at that point, right, because there's money involved now, right,
So it was trying to find the most strategic way
to get the best deal for the best player at
the best time. And and it's such a new market
that every every detail is important and to figure out
when those times are and how to how to kind
of run that cycle.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you look at the Troy Taylor firing and
how end opportune it was for Stanford, like not the
best timing, and b YU benefited from that.
Speaker 3: Greatly, right like.
Speaker 2: The black Myers came to b YU. He was fired
in March. I think towards the end of spring ball,
right after springball. It's like, oh my gosh, like by passed.
Speaker 4: They thought they should have done it and they didn't
do it, and then they were not doing it and
they had to just get it done. So but yeah,
that there's yeah, you never know, yeah, you know, I
mean that's when we lost Q. It was after springball,
you know. So, uh, there are there are there's going
to be more movements and uh, but I don't they
limited now though that it has to be at this
point you can't go in the portal unless it's a
coaching change. Am I Am I wrong on that?
Speaker 3: Or is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Now it's closed, But like technically, I mean they could
they could probably submit a waiver and threatened to sue,
and I mean sure they could totally do that and
maybe they get a waiver for whatever reason. But I'm
sure the NCAA will try to fight it a little
bit or at least delay the decision, et cetera.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, well, yeah, it'll be interesting to see what
what kind of regulation they get put in there. And
and but yeah, I think I think that the buy
is in a good spot. It'll be fun to see
these receivers compete. I think we have a lot of
talent in the room still, and then we've got some
new freshman talent coming in and a couple of times,
so let's see what they can do. I'm excited for
him to compete.
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Speaker 2: Man's well, Jared, We appreciate you man, Thanks for hopping
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Speaker 3: We always appreciate our time.
Speaker 4: Man. Yeah, have a great day. Thanks. Ben. Here you go.
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