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All right, let's start off with some news coming out
as far as scheduling gets concerned. The kickoff time BYU
versus TCU Saturday November fifteenth in Provo, Utah, eight fifteen
pm Mountain Time. It's gonna be on the Mothership ESPN.
This will be an intriguing one, no doubt about it.
TCU is a good football team. This is a good
football team, talented. They're not too far off from playing
in a national title game.
Speaker 1: They have plenty of talent.
Speaker 3: We're very well aware of the talent that comes through
TCU and the Gary Patterson era. They're six and two
overall right now, three and two in conference play. They
have one two straight. They beat the Baylor Bears forty
two to thirty six, and then West Virginia. They I
say it was a close one twenty three seventeen.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: They're coming off of bye week as well. They take
on Iowa stayed. They're at home this weekend.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see what happens there and keep
an eye on TCU. They did lose to Kansas State
and they beat Colorado. That's their last four games thirty
five twenty one versus Colorado, and then they lost to
Kansas State twenty eight forty one. Still a tough, formidable
foe that you're gonna be taking on in provo.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the slot?
Speaker 3: Not a surprise here, It'll be a cold one in provo,
I imagine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not surprised to me.
Speaker 5: Look, I went Afford and I said this last week
on the show, been when you were with the kids
and joined the great time and disnally and by the way,
love the family picture of how you guys allressed up,
Love that you celebrate the spirit folloween.
Speaker 3: Hey, look, my wife is a is a celebrator.
Speaker 1: Of all the holidays.
Speaker 2: Brook is great.
Speaker 3: She decorates the house as she does. She will force
me to dress up on Halloween and and she definitely
she goes all in on on on Christmas. We got
back from from our Halloween. Uh you know, extravaganza Disney
at the Mouse. It was horrible, was horrible though it
was good and bad the ugly. It was beautiful too though,
great pictures, great memories with the kiddos.
Speaker 2: I saw the videos. You're getting into it with Kai Kai.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, the vicarious nature of parenting and seeing the world
through their eyes or kind of like you know, just
just watching them take in new sites, new sound, new experiences.
There is joy in that, no doubt about it. Joy
and rejoicing if you will. But now I did not
want to go to the mouse. I'll be honest. Anyway,
my wife is fantastic, she's great, she's graantually wonderful.
Speaker 1: But on the way.
Speaker 3: Home, she's like, hey, do you could you help me
bring down the Christmas when we get home?
Speaker 1: And my babe, I know we're getting home.
Speaker 3: Uh, we're putting the kids in the shower and the bath,
we're cleaning up the house, we're unpacking. I'm taking a
shower and then we're going to bed, and like we're
starting the week. That's it where I'm not bringing Christmas. Oh,
that's funny down. So that's how my wife is. So
shout out to Brook. She's amazing, she's wonderful. But I
do not always abide by her her passion for the decor. Anyway,
I don't know why why do we go off on
that tangent.
Speaker 2: No, I just want to give you, give you love.
Speaker 5: And that's say, hey, shout out to the defending picture.
I open up the ken ORMs apologist, back to what's important. No, Ben,
I'm not surprised. I said it last week while you
were going I said that this was gonna be an
eight to fifteen slot for b YU. I looked at
all the other games. I thought Arizona State maybe was
the other one. But Sam Livitt's out for the year, right, yep, No, yeah,
this is this is right on par BAU was always
gonna be putting that night game ban on the eastern
time slot and on the West coast because it fits
people watch.
Speaker 2: It's the only ranked opponent.
Speaker 5: They do it to Utah as well, so nobody should
be surprised to he But again, Vampire Kook's been Vampire kougs.
Speaker 2: You gotta enjoy you gotta love it.
Speaker 5: That means our pregame show, Ben will be you know,
kicking off at four, so gott to enjoy that. Just
give the people, you know, opportunity of next Saturday, not
this Saturday, so gotta love that.
Speaker 2: And then Ben, is this a trap game though?
Speaker 5: Because TCU, like, you know, they got some good wins
on the schedule, beat a good Baylor team, beat wes Viginia,
who knocked off Houston, by the way, yet give them
credit SMU who beat Miami, Like, is this a trap game.
Speaker 2: Been because Texas Tech.
Speaker 5: You're not overlooking Texas Tech, but TCU at home and
the reason why I bring it up right before Cincinnati
been another tough opponent.
Speaker 2: Could this be a trap game for the Koogs? Three
and two? Is TCU in conference? Like you mentioned six
and two?
Speaker 3: Overall, I mean, I think every single game is a
trap game. Like a cat there, if you believe that
you have arrived, you're about to get a big fat
piece of pumpkin humble pie, like nasty pumpkin pie. You
have to eat that man, nasty pumpkin pie. Not the
good stuff from Costco, that big old pie. No, it's
the nasty stuff that you get maybe from I don't know,
maybe wal Marters.
Speaker 1: I know, no, no fench to Walmart anyway.
Speaker 3: But like you haven't arrived ever seen one of these
games is a trap game to me? And I know
the technicality of like the verbis like, look, tc is
a good team and they're winning, So I don't think
it's a trap game. I think everything is a trap
game right now. I think everything is a trap. I
think there's a there's an old there's an old saying
from a great movie. I believe it's uh, it's Princess Bride.
Have you ever watched Princess Bride?
Speaker 1: I have? Yeah. I always think both of them are poisonous.
Speaker 3: I always think everything could be a trap, which is
why I'm still alive. It's Prince Humperdink shout out to
Prince Humperty. Anyway, movie, everything's a trap game right now.
You gotta stay humble, stay hungry. So that's the kickoff time.
Let me give you a few other things here, obviously,
if you haven't been paying attention. BYU moves up to
number eight in the latest national polls right, number eight
eight in the Associated Press Top twenty five and AVCA
Coaches poll that was on Sunday, moving up two spots
in both national rankings following the Cougar second bye week
of the college football season. So BYU is one of
only four FBS teams still undefeated heading into Week eleven
of the college football season. Number one Ohio State is
eight no. Number two Indiana's nine to zero and the
Big Ten of the Big Ten, and number three Texas
A and M is eight to no of the SEC.
Speaker 1: So this alone, right kind of tells.
Speaker 3: You how the Big twelve is viewed from a ranking standpoint,
the undefeated Big twelve team is ranked eight, eight, eight
eighty eight. I just wanted to say say eight, because
it's a great number.
Speaker 2: Eight is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's a it's a it's a Brian Reagans,
He's say eight.
Speaker 2: Steve Martin nine nine nine nine nine.
Speaker 3: So all these other teams, and look, they got good resumes.
I'm not saying they have bad resumes by any means,
but you know, b always at eight. That's how the
Big twelve is viewed, and that's the pr battle that
you're always going to be in. The teams ahead of
BYU and the A people Ole, miss Oregon, Georgia, Alabama.
Those are the one loss teams that are in front
of BYU right now. And you can debate it all
you want, but that is a branding issue.
Speaker 1: Some will say, what's the strength of schedule.
Speaker 3: You're not playing anybody, You're in the Big twelve, it's
just a lower conference. Whatever, it's a branding issue because
as Dave Portnoy's states, even though he doesn't not ever
bet on A on a BAYU team, which he won't
bet on a BA team, but he says, look like BA,
you would be competitive in the Big ten. B A,
you be competitive in the SEC, et cetera, et cetera.
But the ratings, the people, the pollsters, they do not
like the Big twelve, and they don't like Brigham right now,
Guy Holiday, former Utah coach, former BYU coach.
Speaker 1: Okay, much of.
Speaker 3: Much of the conversation regarding conference affiliation conference, Uh, you
know what's the word I'm looking for?
Speaker 1: Popularity? You know, the whole PR game.
Speaker 3: We tend to want to pit the ACC and the
Big Twelve head to head. Who's the third most powerful
the best conference?
Speaker 1: Coach?
Speaker 3: Guy Holiday said this earlier today. Okay, so I was
challenged out here about the ACC versus the Big twelve
quality with BYU being undefeated, Texas Tech and Utah both
are talented. At this point, I will admit I'm wrong
the Big twelve is superior to the ACC. So more
and more coming around to the prominence of the Big twelve.
So a couple other things. World of BAU sports. Enough football, right,
no football here? How about some women's SoC soccer?
Speaker 5: Currently two to two right now, been ninety minutes regulation
just ended.
Speaker 1: Okay, nice versus.
Speaker 5: TCU, the number one seed in the tournament, they are
the number eighteen. BYU had the one er lead at halftime,
TCU tied it up.
Speaker 2: BYU went up two one. Tc found the equalizer.
Speaker 5: Tessen TCU been Who's a formidable opponent, and that is
dominated the Big Twelve Conference in soccer. So I mean, look,
Ellie Wahlberg Rashi who has joined our show, friend of
the program. She's got both goals, is already surprised by
it knows the leader of a team. It's her team,
so we'll see if she's able to leading the victory
in PKS love it.
Speaker 3: Historically speaking, BLI your TCU have faced thirteen times on
the pitch. Cougars are holding a nine to three and
one series advantage. However, the Cougars have not beaten the
horn Frogs since twenty and ten, so it's been a
minute since Shorty. The Big Twelve Conference bo's record against
TCU is two to one. The teams last played each
other in the semi final match at the twenty twenty
four Big Twelve Tournament, when the horn Frogs beat the
Cougars two to one. Hopefully they flipped the script tonight.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Other news it oats from over the weekend women's volleyball
Shout out to this women's volleyball team. Three hitters finished
in double figures as number seventeen. BAU women's volleyball swept
Kansas State at the smith Field House.
Speaker 1: So they got the dubs, they swept them.
Speaker 3: BAU travels to two sin Arizona to face the Wildcats
on Wednesday, No Ever fit at six pm Mountain Time.
Streaming will be on ESPN Plus, but solely Davis led
the Cougars with twelve kills, hitting two fifty, while Claire
Little which Little Chambers taliate eleven kills and hit two
ninety three. Sophia Callahan contributed to ten kills on a
six forty three hitting percentage in boy's fifth match this
season where three or more Cougars had double digit kills.
Shout out to this by women's volleyball team. Okay, any
other news notes that we wanted to get to in
the world of BYU Sports. Anything you wanted to chime
in on Ronald the three man Weaver.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, besides obviously mentioned in basketball, I think
that's the biggest you know, other sport being going along
right now. A lot of the media people I check
you know Instagram and stories. People are down in Vegas
been covering that game, Darniel Dixon in front of the program,
Sean Walker, those that join us. So this game is
a big time game. I think this game tonight is
going to determine a lot of national narrative of what
BYU is. And look, I just want to preface I
don't want to be the e or. I hope I
said it right that time. Ben By, you could could lose.
I like, I like your and e your and Igor,
but it's not and it's diegor Jueman.
Speaker 2: Just for everybody to know.
Speaker 5: Again anyway, if by you were to lose this game,
I don't want fans to be like the sky is falling.
Remember last year been lost to Providence. Oh he's not
a lottery pick. Oh all of these things. It's not
gonna go. Well, look, one game is not going to
define the season. But they should win. But if they don't.
Look the college or basketball, I think at times it
might be harder than college football, depending on the opponent,
because look, things just sometimes roll the teams. Well, if
you miss shots, you know in basketball and they don't fall,
you lose the game. Like sometimes defensive line stops you,
but you can still throw the ball.
Speaker 2: Like, if you don't hit threes, you don't win.
Speaker 5: You can't make fifty layups, so when the game been,
it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2: So we'll just see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing is everybody's gonna
be tuned in at seven thirty to watch this BAU
basketball team.
Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing that's standing out to me.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the runners of BYU.
Speaker 3: We are a long distance cross country team, track and
field and cross country team after all. Jane Hendigrin hedi
Grin excuse me, was named the US Track and Field
and Cross Country Coaches Association Women's Athlete of the Week
on Monday earlier today for the second time the season
after her performance at last week's Big Twelve Championships. Behind
her individual title, the freshman led the team to its
third straight Big twelve championship. Headi Grin clocked eight and
eighteen twenty nine sixty, the fastest six thousand meter time
in Big twelve Championship history by more than thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: That's insane.
Speaker 3: The Promo Utah native also finished more than forty four
seconds ahead of the runner up. The national Girls Gatorade
Player of the Year is the first BA women's athlete
to receive the award.
Speaker 1: Try twice.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Jane and the crew that she trains
with down there in Provo, Utah. That's the world of
BYU Sports.
Speaker 5: Oh we got one more thing, bor right, what else
we got already mentioned?
Speaker 2: Richie and aj Oh no, here go ahead, Richie and guys,
just so you know, by us.
Speaker 5: Richie Sonders and aj De Bonsa were name the Jersey
Mike's Nasmith Trophy Men's College Player of the Year watch
list this morning. The Cougars are one of twelve schools
in NCAA Division One men's basketball to have multiple players
on the fifty player list. Saunders, as we know, as
a returning senior, and he earned first team All Big
twelve Accolaes last season. The six to five guard averaged
a team high sixty and a half points while becoming
the fifth player in program history to shoot at least
fifty percent from the field, forty percent from three point range,
and eighty percent from the free throw line. Richie, Trevinelle
to give it to us, Can you give us the
fifty forty ninety we need?
Speaker 6: To see it.
Speaker 5: And then, of course you can't forget about aj De Bonsa.
He showed strong cases in the Cougars exhibition games, including
a thirty point performance in the first BYU game.
Speaker 2: Of the season.
Speaker 5: Didn't count, but he was in the BA uniform going,
let's think about this. Been ten of nineteen from the field,
two or four from beyond the arc, and a perfect
eight of eight from the charity sir.
Speaker 2: Right, wait, I'm not done. Seven rebounds, three assists, three steals. Look,
Cougar Nation, this is what you wanted.
Speaker 5: You wanted a guy like this, and then he follows
it up against a ranked UNC team eighteen points, eight boards,
three steals, three blocks. I mean, I don't know else
what you want from a kid like this, but they
got it right Ben. Both of these guys should be
on this list.
Speaker 3: Love the breakdown and as I started with BYU football,
I'm gonna end it with a little BYU football.
Speaker 1: We were talking rankings.
Speaker 3: One of the reason why Bay you moved up right
was because teams ahead of them lost, and you know,
and Big twelve teams also took some l's. This weekend,
Cincinnati took its first league loss to Utah and It
wasn't even a close game. It wasn't even really a
competitive one. I didn't see Noah, Utah's playing really good
football right now. You could very well see a holy
war in Vera. Well could you in Arlington? And you
wonder So I'm a I'm a money guy, right, but
brett Or Mark's a money guy and an entertainment guy.
Speaker 1: What do you think brett Or Mark would want? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, what does brett Or Mark want a BYU? You
know saw does he want to BYU Texas Tech rematches?
You want, what's the best thing for the Big twelve?
It's to get two teams into the CFP. So what's
the best way for two teams to get into the
CFP right now?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: BYU needs to beat Texas Tech either this week or
in the championship game. Absolutely the only way that two
teams get into the College Football Playoff because you know
fo fortunately, you know Utah lost to BYU at home
and lost to Texas Tech at their home. That's the
only way you get two teams in. Because why, Texas
Tech's a good football team. Texas Tech has spent a
lot of money on PR and NIO facts yeah, I
think that that's the case Tech. So it would be
great for BYU and Utah to to go to the
go to Arlington and playing the Big twelve championship game
and have the Holy War there and and sell an
eighty thousand seat stadium out like like, I don't know
if BYU and Texas Tech is going to sell out
Jerry's World.
Speaker 1: I don't think it will.
Speaker 3: I think we'll probably fifty to sixty thousand. That's a
really good showing for a conference title game. But we
got to do what's best for the conference.
Speaker 5: Here, what's best for business. Ben got to do what's best.
Speaker 1: And w they you know, Bret or Mike loses.
Speaker 3: It was best for anyway since his first loss right Houston,
Second League lost.
Speaker 1: So they're out unless there's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be some sort of four way tie because BYU
loses to Texas Tech and then they lose to Cincinnati
on the road. Can you imagine, Oh, oh, it'd be crazy,
he'd be insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, BA does death. They're falling back.
Speaker 5: But I think I was doing some math beak because
of common opponents. I think for BYU to get in,
you know, obviously they have to go three on one
in the last four games. But if they lost to
Texas Tech, beat TCU but excuse me lost, If they
lost the Texas Tech beat Cincinnati BTCU but lost to UCF,
I still think they get in. But that's gonna limit
your opportunity to get into the CFP so b YU.
The only team you can afford to really is none,
but really is Texas Tech, because the national media does
not think you're good. And if you lose to anybody
but Texas Tech, they don't like. Texas Tech is a
ten a half point favorite. You play them close and
they went on like a walk off field, go on
your copetitive and then you go to the title game
and lose again or because if you beat them, you're in.
But if you lose them again, they might give you
that opportunity if it's only the Texas Tech. But I
think the biggest thing is just when win, take care
of business, because if you lose to them in the
title game. Being we saw this last year with who SMU.
SMU lost to who. They had two losses, they got
it to the playoffs. They lost to BYU in the
non conference, then they lost to Clemson in the title game,
and they weren't affected by it, So it's very clear
if you go to the title game, they're not going
to punish you, and if they're standing on business with that.
But I think the best brand is Texas Tech. The
next one is BYU. Brett or Mark wants just to
get two teams in. So if that second team is BYU, Ben,
he'll take it. If it wasn't up to him, he
would take a Utah or a Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I think he would take them before BYU.
Speaker 3: What's crazy is a lot of these ESPN insider Bonny
Garag Schlabach who prognosticate bowl games and CFPS. Look, this
is not an exact science, I get it, but they
have to know by matching up in the bracket an
eight seed b YU in a nine seed Texas Tech,
that they would be playing in the freaking first round
of the College Football Playoff. And in essence, they're not
only going to play this week, they'd play in the
College are the in the Big twelve championship game. So
it would have to go, like I said, it had
to be like, Okay, well, BYU wins this week and
then Texas Tech still gets to the You know, it
actually has to happen this way where Texas Tech. If
you want two teams with the Big Twelve, Texas Tech
has to beat b YU this week. They have to
be and then b YU beats them in the in
the Big twelve Championship and they and then for for Bona,
Gura and Schlaba.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 3: Then then BAU and Texas Tech would play each other
again into college football.
Speaker 1: That'd be horrible. They would not do that.
Speaker 2: That would be horrible.
Speaker 3: I couldn't go for that, and I don't think the
Pit Committee would do it either. Anyway, that's our college
football segment. Uh, it's hard. It's hard to to to
to get it all right, it really is.
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it now. Kalani Shatake, head coach of BYU Cougar, the
b A Cougar football team, the number eight team in
the country, getting prepped, getting ready for the Texas Tech
matchup in Lubbock.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it. Let's see what he had to
say about this match.
Speaker 4: Changes the morning.
Speaker 7: Kickoff, Yeah, a little bit, but not nothing too crazy.
We're still practiced in the afternoon and and you know,
just a matter of how you approach every day starting
from last week when you get up and things like that.
Speaker 4: So we've been through this before.
Speaker 7: I think we played Baylor last year at the same time,
played Oklahoma the year before that at the same time.
Speaker 4: So we're really get spalled. This isn't it's bad.
Speaker 7: When all gets comes down to it, it's football, and
our guys like to play.
Speaker 2: Next question from Mitch Harper.
Speaker 8: Blanny, you noted that LJ and Jack as of today
are not out. I wanted to ask you about two
guys that have been out for the last handful of weeks,
Jojo and SIONI MOA, what's the outlook for them this
week and the weeks ahead? Are are they out this
week or what's their availability?
Speaker 4: You believe forecast this week?
Speaker 7: JoJo's been practicing with us. He practiced with us last week,
and he's going to be practicing with us this week
and then we'll evalue. He didn't see it was the
right thing to do for him for us to play
him on Saturday, But he's been practicing, has been slower.
But you know, can't I can't really say anything until
we see what happens the next couple of days. But
I think I think Jojo we feel really good about
and probably not.
Speaker 1: So there's the injury report.
Speaker 3: Uh still Raider has not been addressed on the injury report.
Tommy Parassas should be back, and to be determined is
he's gonna play nickel or he's going to be playing
free safety. I know he's been slotted as a nickel
for most of the season if you look at the
depth chart, but uh, Jojo back not back, and Jack
Kelly at l J will be practicing this week. Your thoughts,
your comments to your follow up Ronald the three Man
re Weaver, Yeah, we you know, we.
Speaker 5: We thought that Jojo would be back by Texas Tech.
Will see if that comes to fruition. I think there's
a good chance, Ben, And look, going on the road,
you're a ten and a half point underdog. I think
you need as many weapons for Bear as possible. I
said this multiple times. I think they're gonna be cued
in on Parker and Chase. It's be a great opportunity
for Jojo and Cody Hagen to make some big time
plays in this game.
Speaker 2: You're gonna need everybody.
Speaker 5: Bear should have as many targets to throw to as possible. Ben,
So that's good news regarding Jojo that he's been practicing shone.
Speaker 2: I just don't know.
Speaker 5: You know, that's the one that has been unfortunate because
right now maybe you feel a little bit more confident.
Maybe Bo you beats, I will stay by more if
she is in the game and is able to you know,
this is where I think, and this might be you know,
again a little bit more offseason discussion. How many running
backs are they gonna get in the portal? Are they
gonna go after this offseason? Because yeah, I see, yeah,
but I just don't know, Ben, Like you've had.
Speaker 1: A lot, I don't know. I mean, look, I will
say this much.
Speaker 3: Under Harvey Unga, Aaron Rodrick, they've always found a way
to like develop these running backs and turn them into
something pretty gosh naying good. Like when when they when
they had to delvi into the depth, it's like, well
we didn't know about Sonny mall right, Like maybe Jovesa
de Mooney is going to be that guy.
Speaker 1: Maybe Preston Rex is going to be that guy.
Speaker 3: Under Klaney, I mean he converted Matt Hadley from safety
to running back. And Matt was a tremendous football player,
average like five point three yards per carry that year,
So that's a good running back, just fantastic.
Speaker 1: Was super patient, so very he had great vision.
Speaker 3: Matt Hadley was a man. He was an evasive, very
quick and decisive running back that could fight through arm
tackles too. That that that contact that you get in
the in the in the trenches, right, But he great patients,
great vision. Love me some Matt Hadley, P Rex. If
you're listening the Rex family's listening, watch Matt Hadley film
from was It two twenty nineteen. Really good content, they're
really good highlights. Anyway, let's get back to Killani. Is
that the last one from Kilani? Or we've got one more? Okay,
one more Kilani. Then we'll make a transition with Taylor Wall.
Speaker 2: Do you have any other questions? Next question from Jakatch, Yeah,
just real quick, Kilani.
Speaker 9: In terms of Big twelve race, Jay asked the question
about the College World playofferings. Do you guys pay attention
to where you guys sit in the race and what
the different outcomes could be pending wins and losses.
Speaker 4: No, I don't teach that.
Speaker 7: I teach trying to get better fundamentally, and I know
that it's out there and everything and everybody talks about it.
Me personally, I don't care about that. My job is
to get these guys to play at their best every week.
I think we did enough to be eight to o
right now, but I still feel like there's a lot
of room that can improve that. And then my that's
my job is to make sure that we play at
our best and can play at full sixty minutes to Saturday.
Speaker 2: All right, And then last question from Mitch Harper.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Kilania, you know, a lot of the success gets
given to sometimes the skill guys on the offense, but
the offensive line has been at the center of it all.
I'm curious to going into a matchup where Texas Tech's
got a lot of guys that can generate havoc with
Bailey and all the others. Just your thoughts on how
the offensive line has performed to this point of the
season where you want to see continued growth from that
position group.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought they've done a great job.
Speaker 7: And the leadership that we see from the big boys,
I mean, you know, usually the leaders that when they
speak them, when they speak up, the guys that are
the biggest are the ones that usually have listening years,
you know. So I've been really pleased with all our guys,
our big boys, and the leadership that we have both
at D line that at O line, and so it
all starts with them. Their every rep with them is
live in practice when you have pads on. So we
have tons of respect and love for our O line
and D line. Offensively on the O line, been really
excited about how much they've been able to improve every week,
and a lot of that has to do with the
leadership that we have from that group. And I mean,
they're they're all amazing, and we can rotate some guys too,
And we feel like we're really deep there. But this
is a different beast, you know. We we've we've been
able to see some really good d lines along the
way this year. This this will be the best one.
So it'll be a great matchup. But I'm excited for
our guys. I'm excited for their opportunities to play at
the biggest stage against the best.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go.
Speaker 3: That's Kalani Satake discussing the BYU Texas Tech matchup kickoff
times games. All right, are you all concerned about day games?
I know this was a Look, we're we are very
superstitious people.
Speaker 2: We are.
Speaker 1: We are a bit stitious, as they say. And that's okay.
Speaker 3: Look, Cougar, if you're tuning in right, which you are,
if something is going awry in the first half, you move,
you move that spot. You're watching it from home, you're
eating something, you're drinking something like you gotta change something,
Go change your underwear, go change something, right, you gotta
figure out a way to flip the script a little bit. So,
and that's okay. But are they that superstitious about day
games or night games? Obviously Klani's not gonna pay any
sort of heed to this. He does not care. He's
just gonna focus on getting out there early and getting prepped,
getting proper rests, getting hydrated, taking nutrients, taking your sodium, potassium, calcium,
magnesium pills, and making sure you don't making sure you
don't cramp up, getting the sports scientists involved, doing cold
and hot therapy, all the things, right, Like, whatever do
the scientists have to do to get these kids prepped.
That's what he's gonna do. Monitoring their heart rate, monitoring
their mental emotional well being. Bredon Brown does a great
job with that. So are you insured about it? No,
I'm not concerned.
Speaker 5: I will say this, the last time BI played in
the day game like this, we do remember it was
the Baylor game, you know, dating back to last season
with Jake Retz laugh and they got off to a
great start. Ben and I could see that also happening
in this game where Bau just shocks everybody takes the
breath out of the stadium. I will say this, though,
if you do what you did last year against Baylor
against this Texas Tech team, I don't think the result
will be in the favor of the Cougars. Texas Tech
has ALLOC had a lot of resources, right, and it's
not that we're talking about the money. These players are good,
Like you know, they got somebody that leads the nation
in sacks with what eleven and a half or maybe twelve.
I have to go back and look like this is
a good defensive line. This is the best defensive line
they're gonna face all season. So I'm excited to see
what a Rod and TJ. Woods, Harvey, Unga, Festi, Sataki,
all of them come up with to scheme against Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a battle.
Speaker 5: I think of the coordinators, not necessarily, I think Joey
mcguarre and Kalone Sataki. I think this game is a
coordinator battle. But I mean, no, I'm not really superstitious.
Bui's proven they can winning any time zone. But the
last time they did play in eleven o'clock slot, it uh,
it got funky and kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: Crew Wakely actually sealed the game at the end of that.
If you remember, Crew.
Speaker 3: Is actually in the transfer portal. For those who don't know,
Crew Wakely's in the transfer portal. Yeah, yep. And look
if I'm crewe go to Utah. No No no, no, no, no,
I just wanted to call some the problem. Sorry, Ben,
not not the university. I'd go to Utah State. Oh,
Utah State, Okay, I go to youth back the where.
Speaker 2: He came from.
Speaker 1: Because look like.
Speaker 3: Any P four institution that you go to as a safety, okay,
you're going to be a rotational player because they don't
just have one guy out there like starting for the
predominant reps unless you know, unless, unless you you know,
you've been in the system for a while and you've
come up in that system. More often than not, you're
gonna be splitting reps either a half of those reps,
and I think at Perdue he was getting like maybe
like a third and he's playing special teams and crew.
Speaker 1: Is a great football player. He's a box player.
Speaker 3: He's a strong safety and maybe even like if he
put on a little bit more weight, like two ten,
he'd be like an outside lineback two ten, two fifteen.
Speaker 1: I think he could do that. Like he's strong, he's quick.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's great in coverage though, one on
one covers, and that's why he's gonna be exposed and
in some of these P four conferences. Unless you're gonna
play bas zone. Uh, you can't put him on anyone
but a tight end. I think any slot receivers are
gonna eat him up. Uh, they're just gonna, they're gonna
they're gonna make him not look athletic. And that's a
that's a problem in space. So cruise in the portal
right now. He played four games at Perdue and he
was getting He got paid a pretty penny to be
out there during his time, I imagine, And now he's in
the portal. I don't think boy's gonna pay him up,
and I don't think he is going to pick him up.
But you know, would be a great place for Crew
Wakeley Utah State. Go to Utah State and be the guy,
be the starter, be the dude. And I don't know.
Look from an eligibility standpoint, yeah, he was, Well, he's
a red shirt junior in twenty twenty four, and then
he went to Purdue and he played in four games.
So I don't know what his eligibility status is, quite honestly,
because in twenty twenty four he was a red shirt
junior and he just played four games at Purdue.
Speaker 1: His eligibility may be exhausted, but.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's going to be exhausted. I'm sure he's
going to try to get that waiver.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get a lawyer and try to get that waiver.
Speaker 1: I try to get that waiver too.
Speaker 3: If I was in ben kritle At as a return
missionary red shirt senior at b YU and the nil Era,
I am most definitely trying to find like a I'm
trying to find something to come back and ball out
for Brigham, ball out for anybody. Play some football until
the wheels fall off till I till I need a
cervical fusion or a lumbar fusion.
Speaker 2: Hey, get that money. That's you know.
Speaker 5: I think that's why Richie came back. Hey, you can't
leave all that on the table.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not even just about the money.
Speaker 3: It's about being able to play and make money, do
something right. Very few people get to do things that
they love and get paid a living wage to do it,
to be able to pay the bills, to have a
decent standard of living, to within and even live within
your means. Right, be ju jitst be judicious and and
have sufficient for your needs.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Very few people on this earth get up every single
morning and just like I'm stoked about going to work. Now,
practice that's not that fun, I would say, Like for me,
the lifting and training and eating and games probably trumped
the practice. But at the same time, practice can be fun.
And like I loved some of the competitive environments, the
competitive reps that we would get into, right that that
that was fun. But you don't want to go against
your teammates all the time. It's like two weeks of
fall camp and I'm like, you figure out who the
guys are, who the dudes are? All right, Like once
the higherarchy hierarchy was said of who the guys were,
who the dogs were, It's like, all right, Like we
don't need to sit here and beat the crap out
of each other anymore. But like so then then you're like, okay, practice,
you know, in a competitive and then you just want
to refine your craft right and and there can be uh,
there can be a lot of fun in levity and practice,
but you got to do it with a with a
little bit of vigor and vim, no doubt. We gotta
gotta put forth a great effort.
Speaker 1: But you give me a chance.
Speaker 3: I'm coming back, baby, Give me that true, give me
that medical so crew head to Utah State. That's my
word of advice. We'll go to break. Let's do a
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Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 3: Okay, we gotta get Okay, we gotta get out. We're
gonna take a break. We're gonna get to John Beck
on the flip side, former b Way you great. The
quarterback scientists coming up next, guys, don't miss it. John
Beck's fantastic. We'll talk Big twelve, we'll talk college football,
we'll talk Beart Bachmeyer and more. This is Cougar Sports
on what oh three nine ninety eight point three.
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