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Speaker 3: We're gonna talk to some BYU basketball here momentarily, but guys, uh,
I wanted to reiterate some of the news coming out
of BYU regarding the coaching staff. Shout out to Kalani
and crew on the new hires. BYU initially hired to
Mario Warren to coach the corners right coach the cornersbacks,
and he was listed as a passing game coordinator.
Speaker 2: Well, they've made the move.
Speaker 3: They've pushed de Mario over to the safety's room and
he's still the passing game coordinator. They brought in Lewis
Walker cornerbacks coach. Okay, this is what Kolani had to
say about Lewis Walker. I've known Lewis for a long time,
ever since he was a player for me at Utah,
so Kilani coach to them at Utah. He has a
strong He's got strong expertise teaching cornerbacks and defensive backs
and has also been a coordinator overseeing the entire defense
for two years in North Dakota State. He knows the
small details matter and truly cares about the development of players.
He coaches. He is from Utah, so he knows our
state well. I'm excited to welcome Lewis to BYU. He's
a native of Salt Lake City. Walker comes to BA
after working the past eleven seasons in the NCAA Football
Championship Subdivision, including multiple stops at Monmouth University and FCS
Powerhouse North Dakota State. He served as a defensive coordinator
at Monmouth in New Jersey the past two years, where
the Hawks improved from a six and six season in
twenty twenty four to earn a nine to three record
in twenty twenty five as members of the Coastal Athletic Association.
Lewis officially comes to BAU from North Dakota State, where
he had rejoined the Bison staff on December thirty first,
after having previously coached cornerbacks in Fargo for two seasons.
From twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three, Walker helped
the Bison achieve an overall record of twenty three and
seven and challenged for the national title ball seasons. In
twenty twenty two, the team he advanced to the FCS
National Championship Game before finishing as the national runner up.
Speaker 2: With an overall record of twelve and three.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, the Bison achieved an eleven to
four record while advancing to the FCS National semi Finals.
Before going to North Dakota State, Walker served five seasons
as defensive back coach during his first stint at Monmouth
from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. Monmouth made three
FCS playoff appearances during Walker's time coaching defensive backs and
contributed to two Big Big.
Speaker 2: South Conference titles.
Speaker 3: He coached three FCS All Americans while overseeing the defensive,
secondary and return specialists for the Hawks.
Speaker 2: During each of his five seasons.
Speaker 3: The players he mentored went on to earn at least
two All Big Big South honors for their play, including
at least one first team selection every year. So Walker
began his coach career as a secondary coach and especial
teams coordinator at Copper Hills High School here in West
Jordan in twenty fourteen before going to Columbia University in
New York City for the twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen
seasons as a defensive quality control, defensive back and return coach.
So shout out to Lewis Walker as a player. Walker
was a defensive back at the University of Why from
two thousand and eight to twenty ten before transferring to
complete the final two years of his college career at
Utah in eleven twenty twelve. He prepped in Salt Lake
City at Judge Memorial High School, where he was a
team captain and the team's most inspirational player. I'm excited
for the opportunity to join this bou program, Walker said,
I'm really looking forward to being a lot to being
with a lot of familiar people at this elite level
and a chance to learn and grow from a great
administration and staff here.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to get in.
Speaker 3: And develop our cornerbacks and build relationships with all of them.
Speaker 2: Love this hire.
Speaker 3: Really impressed by his resume and the sequencing and crescendoing.
Speaker 2: And leveling up as he went.
Speaker 3: Loved that he's got connectivity and roots here in Utah
with family, And you know what really stands out to
me is at Judge obviously a team captain, but both
the most inspirational. This guy is a positive light for
good and I think he's going to embody the spirit
of what BYU is trying to bring to the Kilane
culture and embrace that and acquire more talent to come
in to represent the culture and the school that is
very discipleship driven right now, So very excited about this.
Shout out to the new Cornerbacks coach Lewis Walker for Byu.
Let's talk some BU basketball, let's transition and welcome in
the six foot a two and twenty five pounder of
out of Brasil, and of course Bishop Gorman, let's welcome in.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Tavnari, what's up? JT for three?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great, man, I'm I'm a little bummed out
because of the law and you know, back to back
losses for Buyu and so kind of a kind of
a dreary day here for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a tough loss, no doubt.
Speaker 3: They made it respectable though, right and they they got
it within four points.
Speaker 2: And this is a this is a tail as old
as time, JT.
Speaker 3: They get down twenty, they come roaring back and they
make it respectful and sometimes they win, but more often
they lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately, you know a lot of happened on that game,
and you know Buyu is still missing. It's marquee win
of the season, right against twenty five you know, twenty
fIF franc Wisconsin at the time that they did it,
and you know the day one by thirty at the
Delta Center, you know, and then maybe Clemson. Right, But
again those so far have been the best wins that
BUYU has had and you know they didn't have it.
And again, right, they have lost now four games. They've
lost to number three, you can, they've lost to number
fifteen Texas, tack to number one, number one Arizona, and
number nineteen Kansas, and so they're now losing to a
bunch of booty boos, you know from Booboo State University College. Right,
and so, but nonetheless, for the investments and you know,
the attention and the height that this team is getting,
you would hope that at least one of those.
Speaker 5: Games BILU would have won it.
Speaker 1: Now you can make the argument that only one of
them was at home, and that all three of those games,
with the exception of Texas tack, so three out of
those four games it came down to arguably the last shot.
You can make that comment, right, And it's just happens
to be one of those situations where you know, it
just need to be better, and they're just not doing
that right now, and they're not getting the job done.
I'm not saying anything controversial. I'm not causing and stirring
up any any drama. The fact of the matter is
b YU needs to figure out a way to win
these games because Ben, out of the next twelve games
that they have in February in March, four of them
are again stop fifteen teams, and b YU better win
at least two of them otherwise, you know, going into
Martin Man March Madness with al a marquee win, you know,
they're definitely not going to be a four seed. I
really don't think they're gonna I mean, unless they go
indefeeder from now to the end of the season, I
think that they're you know, the best that they can
be is maybe a four seed. They're pending at three.
But you know, like there's a lot of stake here
because if you get in the tournament, seeding matters like
five twelve matchup, and then on that five and five
twelve men up the next next time you're playing against
you know, a four seed, and so you know there's
a lot on the line for this team in these
next six weeks and uh, you know, Saturday's game to
me was a you know, a a microcosm of the
fact that BUYU just hasn't been able to finish and
to get a marquee win. And I'm not gonna even say,
I'm not going to criticize Kevin Young. I'm not going
to criticize players, or at least not heavily.
Speaker 5: But they just need to get one of these.
Speaker 1: Games, man, because if not that, it's it's going to
get interesting about about seating.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. It's gonna be Uh.
Speaker 3: That's that's the issue right now, right it's the seating issue.
It's not that BYU is not an an NCAA tournament team.
We know they are, right, it's uh, it's proper seeding
in the best path uh to uh to get into
a Sweet sixteen Elite eight and beyond that at do
you feel like BLA is going to figure this out?
Last year, JT, when we were having you on now
late late January, early February, we were asking questions about
the identity of the team. You know, we were asking
about the bench, we were asking about three point shooting,
and they figured it out. But what mag stepped up
in a big way three and d Trevinell was hitting
guys like Dawson Baker, came off the bench, jaeg Or
started to really come into his own as a as
a scorer and distributor.
Speaker 2: Are they going to figure this out? Do you think?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you know, the flowers that be
certainly get paid well enough that you would hope that
they figure it out, right, And I just don't know.
Right at this point, I will say, Kevin Young has
a lot of experience, you know, but it now has
been back to back games that I will say, you know, like,
am I gonna start Am I gonna start criticizing Aj?
Absolutely not.
Speaker 5: But there's also to be said that the.
Speaker 1: Last two games AJ hasn't shot the ball particularly well
and has forced a lot of shots.
Speaker 5: And so is that a negative thing?
Speaker 1: Is that a bad thing? Is that are knock on him? Well,
it depends on how you look at it, because he's
the number one player you know, in the country that's
not in the NBA or the euro League.
Speaker 5: And you know, you can definitely say the same.
Speaker 1: About Darreon Peterson, right, I mean, Darren Peterson didn't play
well in the second half. You also got pulled out,
you know, like there's a lot of going on about
his agent and the associated flag director.
Speaker 5: You know, one thing.
Speaker 1: That I command AJ is he is always available no
matter what.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: But in the first half Darren Peterson very much looked
like the first speaking a draft and AJ didn't. And
so but again none of that matters because at the
end of the Dame Richie Saunders was the player on
the floor that night, and so them. You know, there's
a lot of things to consider here. You know, like
the roster was formed with Nate Dickens and and and
Dawson Baker and Brody Koslowski in mind, and all three
of those guys are done for the season. You know,
I'm surprised that Ahilo hasn't been more effective, that Alexei
hasn't been more effective. You know, certainly expected a little
bit more overall from from Canard, you know, but again
he found his shooting groove against Arizona. You know, development
of Hadem is coming along, and then the addition of Abdullah,
and so I think there's a lot of things to
consider here, Ben, you know, but I think you know
what if I I will say this before I toss
it back to you, Ben, as a fan and as
someone who is very in touch with Cougar Nation as
much as you are, Ben, I don't think that you
would bat an eyelash at me saying that BYU fans
overall are going huh for as much of a hype
as this team has not seeing you know, BYU coming
through on these four losses. It's you know, you're not
quitting on the team, but at the same time you're like, huh,
I thought he would be getting it done. And I
don't think that's a crazy thing to say.
Speaker 5: Ben.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you always you know, life's all about expectations, right,
and the expectation is at the end of the year, right,
that's when we get to, you know, see what the
final grade is. But in the lead up to it,
you do want to see signs of the ceiling, is
what I like to call it. So what's the sign
of the ceiling? Well, I don't know. This is this
a This looks more like maybe a Sweet sixteen team
than it does an Elite eight and Final four team,
which would be.
Speaker 2: What by you did last year.
Speaker 3: So a lot of BUA Fansas say, wow, well you
paid a lot for this raw, sure you know you've
invested a lot in this roster and you didn't really
get the R o I in return.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the issue, the invitation and the
return on investment.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm I one hundred percent agree with you. I
think that you know the way that you that you
eloquently put the business in perspective. What's the roy Because
they already be into the sweet sixteen right now, back
to back sweet sixteings. We can also knock on that
because it's never been done in.
Speaker 5: The Uyu history. I get that.
Speaker 1: However, you know, perception is reality, and the perception is
that this team has the put ahead, all of the
tools to get to the final four. But it's just
it's you know, it's not firing in all cylinders right now.
Speaker 5: And I think there's a lot of reasons why.
Speaker 1: Right The problem is not all fans and not all
media talking heads and not all commit any members are
gonna look at it and go, you know what, I
feel bad for Byu because they had three season ending
injuries and they lost to this team and that team
and that team. They're not gonna do that, Ben, because
you and I know much better than that. Like you know,
they're gonna look at that and go, oh geez, these
guys could never be the top fifteen team, And look
at the roster that they had with AJ and this
and that and Kevin Young get an NBA staff, and
so all of this would be solved and will be
solved with a marquee win right against Houston against Iowa,
stayed at Arizona against Texas stack. If they can get
all four of them, it's a different story. The problem is,
based on everything we're seeing right now, it just doesn't
seem like they are going to be able to pull through,
just based on again, on a simple size of everything
that we're seeing. There are reasons for that. You and
I can reason the reasons for that. But at the
end of the day, right if if some butts were
candy and nuts, it would be Christmas every day.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Tavonari, Jonathan, this uh the bench right now is
a concern. Only three points off the bench. Hadeen Boo
was the the sole three point shot I was looking
at last year, right and the MWA mag and Trevinell
and Trey Stewart, and you know you had you had
a lot of great role players that would lift where
they stood. We're not seeing the lifting in certain areas.
Every once in a while guy will show up, Tyler
Morass or Alexei Kostik, maybe Mahi Low, maybe Hideem Uh,
but there's a certain level of inconsistency there that just
uh has to be accounted for. Who who can step
up in the next four weeks.
Speaker 2: Do you think?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what my expectation is.
Speaker 5: My expectation was.
Speaker 1: That my high Low being an experience, being an experienced
overseas player, that Alec Alexei Coastitch, you know, being an
experienced overseas player, that they.
Speaker 5: Would be able to come through. That just hasn't been the.
Speaker 1: Case, right, And so it's difficult, at least for me.
It is very difficult to be okay with this, especially
because these guys are actually getting paid money right now,
and so you know, like it's it. I expected more,
and so to me, I'll continue to say Cornard Davis
needs to be consistent.
Speaker 5: Shooting the ball.
Speaker 1: I would also say that Keba and Abdullah needs to
be consistent on the block. Hopefully Hadem is able to
come along and and have a couple of games that
he he you know, he makes a difference, and then
you know, Alexei Amhilo needs to step up, right, and
so they absolutely you need.
Speaker 5: To do this.
Speaker 1: And so that's you know, that's my.
Speaker 5: That's just my two cents and all of this.
Speaker 3: Jonathan, as far as you know these first halfs are concerned,
what is ailing the way you in the first half?
Would you say, if you were to diagnose and treat
the first half issues, what would they be and why?
Speaker 5: I'll probably say it's lack of urgency.
Speaker 1: It's you know, just not playing with a sense of urgency,
I think, and I think everybody is at faull of that, right.
I have a hard time believing that someone as respected
and knowledgeable and then at the level of Kevin Young
would not have his players ready. Nonetheless, that's what we're
seeing right now. We're seeing we're seeing the fact that
the guys are just they seem like, you know, they
just don't have a sense of urgency. And so I
can't imagine that the coaches aren't getting them ready to go.
And so I would definitely put this on the players,
and uh, you know, it's just it's just an unfortunate thing.
And but again that's the that's the reality that we're
experiencing right.
Speaker 2: Now, Jonathan.
Speaker 3: As far as this, uh, the coaching staff is concerned.
Speaker 2: Uh k y is uh?
Speaker 3: You know, I think offensively we're putting up enough points
to win. Are we giving up too many points? What's
going on defensively? And how can we maybe remedy some
of our defensive woes?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: You know, It's an interesting thing because I think defensively
the game plan is working because you know, overall, you
your scout teams and you know, and then you know,
Kevin Young makes adjustments. I you know, something that I've
been joking around on by UCV is can we get
the halftime adjustments that happen before the game starts, you know,
because it feels like b IU is very much a
second half team. And you know, is it And I
don't know the answer to this.
Speaker 1: Is it because the game plan is not working? Is
it because the guys, you know, the players don't have
a sense of urgency. I really can't pinpoint at this
at this time that I just know that he continues
to happen, you know, and it's definitely a frustrating thing.
Speaker 5: It makes for.
Speaker 1: Great basketball and great you know, and great fun for
the fans because you've seen some great rallies, right, but again,
it's not sustainable. You know, they played Texas Tech type
for about eight nine minutes, you know, about about thirty minutes,
you know, and and then everything collapsed. They played Arizona
well for five minutes at home because the rest of
the game wasn't very good. You know, are they gonna
be able to do that at Arizona? You know? How
are they gonna play Houston at home? He is a
team that everybody thought it was gonna be the number
one team in the country and they're not, right and
so and then Texas Tech at b YU, how is
that going to work?
Speaker 5: And so?
Speaker 1: But none of that matters then because you know, at
Oklahoma State that was a game that they dropped last year,
you know. And and if this BOYU team loses three games,
three games in a row, I think there's going to
be a lot of problems, right, because a lot of
money is going into this. You know. I recall a
conversation I had with Tom Holmo where he was like,
JT As you know better than I do. Sports are
based on results, right. You talked about our return on investment,
and right, now you know, like the team just needs
to respond. Is all lost? Absolutely not, but they're still
missing a marquee win and that's a big right now,
that's a big black mark on Biu's resume for the
NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Tabanawar Ladies and gentlemen, hopefully they can get some
marquee wins. What do you I think the always favored
in nine of the last ten games of the regular season,
do you think they went out? Do you think they're
what nine to one, ten and zero? When you look
at the schedule, what do you see?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you know, like, let's just go down.
I'll look at it.
Speaker 1: I'll pull up here on my app and yeah, I'll.
Speaker 2: Start it off.
Speaker 3: So at Oklahoma State, you can pull it up while
I'm talking about it. You're you welcome Houston into the
marriage Center. You're at Baylor, then you welcome Colorado. You're
at u of A, you welcome Iowa State, you welcome
you UCF, You're at West Virginia, You're at Cincinnati, and
then you welcome Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Those are your last games.
Speaker 7: Well, so I gotta tell you, Ben, the last ten games, buy.
Speaker 5: You better go nine and one?
Speaker 7: Yeah, and if and if they go nine and one,
they're going to be fourteen and four, and.
Speaker 8: And I think that it will be.
Speaker 5: They probably ended.
Speaker 7: Up at the fifth spot, right, which is not ideal
because you don't get a double by and so.
Speaker 8: You know, but like again, I mean look at the
top five.
Speaker 7: Teams, right, I mean, right now, BUYU is you know,
just one game half a game behind UCF. But you know,
big twelve is tough man Arizona, Houston. You know the
thing is Houston is seven and one, and you see
some of.
Speaker 1: These other schedules, you know, is Arizona.
Speaker 8: Gonna keep this up? Because if Arizona keep this up.
Speaker 7: Good grief that that literally is going to be the
number one overall overall seed, right.
Speaker 8: And so they are very much a national title contender.
Speaker 7: They're a national champion contender easily.
Speaker 5: And so you know, the game.
Speaker 7: Against Kansas really was, you know, a turnaround point in
the season, especially after you know, having the chance slip
through the fingers against Arizona. And so I get losing
at Texas Tech, I get losing on the road on
a neutral side to Yukon, but dropping the game, you know,
dropping the game at home against Arizona and then losing
at Kansas.
Speaker 8: You know, Kansas is not the same Kansas that.
Speaker 5: It has been.
Speaker 7: You know, obviously they they picked up as off late.
But those are the two games that Uyu had to have,
you know, because now the the the.
Speaker 8: Mountain they have to climb is massive. And again you know,
they are a full game behind Kansas and Texas Tech.
You know, but again they.
Speaker 5: May have the type breaker.
Speaker 7: With with Iowa State. They may get the type breaker
against Texas Tech, you know, And so there is uh,
there is a path.
Speaker 8: For b I used to finish in the top four.
Speaker 7: But again Buyu is gonna have to go nine and
one in the last stand with four games, you know,
forty of their games being against top fifteen teams in
the country.
Speaker 8: That is a tall task, man. And you know, as
much as I.
Speaker 7: Have blue goggles for basketball, you know, having to go
having to go you know, nine and one against you know,
and in almost half of those games are against top
twenty five, you know, top fifteen teams. That is a
lot then, and if they pull it off, I think
you I was gonna have a very different conversation, you know,
But I just don't think we're there yet. And I
will say this, Ben.
Speaker 1: You know something that you that.
Speaker 7: Me and and b Ham and and uh and raw
and we kind of ganged up on you, is that
you know, the a J A sensation would topple Gimmermania.
Speaker 8: That hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2: It hasn't happened.
Speaker 7: A lot has to happen for that to for that
to come to fruition.
Speaker 5: But we're just not there yet.
Speaker 7: And you know, I think we all said, you know,
if they do this, if they do this, but you know,
as off today as it stands, on this groundhog Day,
it has not come to fruition. And uh, you know
a lot has to happen for that for that to
be the case.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's interesting. I did get a lot of
flak for it right when I was leaning into the
gym Ermania and I say that it's gonna be tough
to replicate and there's a lot that has to happen,
and uh, and I hope it, like I hope it
becomes like absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2: We all want that.
Speaker 3: But up to this point and it's not like and
we had this discussion too, it's like a J I
think has met are the expectation right, It's not like
he's not met the expectation for the For the most part,
I think he has. It's just, uh, I don't think
the supporting cast is there for him. The bench isn't
there for him. I agree the brig three is awesome.
We we just need a little bit more from the
supporting cast. So Jonathan Tabinari always appreciator, our conversations, always
learned something, man, Thanks for hopping on to talk some
ball with us today.
Speaker 7: I appreciate her Man always in forever go Koob's and Plus, however,
you pronounced.
Speaker 8: That the.
Speaker 7: Groundhog's name predicted six of winter, and uh, I'm I'm
waiting for winter to come to Utah.
Speaker 5: So there was sixty seven today in a beautiful.
Speaker 7: Gorgeous day, and so winning Kansas would have made it
that much sweeter. But you know again, baggers can't be choosers.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, Yes, indeed, hopefully we get some snow, he
gets some voice here.
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Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
Speaker 3: We discussed it earlier today, but new coaching hires, it's
officially official.
Speaker 2: So the offensive coaching staff us what it is.
Speaker 3: I think the only position that we haven't heard about
officially is like, who's going to be the quarterbacks coach?
Who's going to be like that analyst on the offensive
side of the ball as well as coach.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 3: It may have been an internal hire already and they
just didn't really announce it because sometimes you don't announce
internal hires are internal analysts. I don't think Gary Anderson's
senior analyst role merits a press release.
Speaker 2: I don't think they do that.
Speaker 3: But because he's an independent contractor and not an official
W two employee of the university. So at any rate,
the offensive staff whos intact. You retain it, and they've
been year over year really good. Espnsp Plus puts him
at a top twenty five offensive unit this past season,
and so.
Speaker 2: That votes well for Brigham going into the future.
Speaker 3: Because they retained most of their talent minus the NFL
guys Chase Roberts. You know, Isaiah Jada moving on to
greener pastures. We wish them well as well as Waylan Lapawahu.
But you got a lot of returning talent and that's
which makes it exiety on the defenside of the ball though,
we were still waiting on a few of the news
and notes. So they hired Lewis Walker to be a
cornerbacks coach. He's a local from Utah, played at the
University of Hawaii. Played at the University of Utah. Has
been coaching at the fcsfcs D one Double eight sub
champions Shup Bowl Championship level and most recently at Monmouth
and at North Dakota State. He's been a defensive coordinator
as well. So Lewis Walker cornerbacks coach. He's been acquired
Chad k who was coach.
Speaker 2: Chad k was co.
Speaker 3: Helping at least as at a senior analyst and helping
coach the defense the last two seasons, has been moved
to outside linebackers coach and edge coach. Congratulations with him
over eighteen nineteen years of experience. Justin Ena will be
your special teams coordinator. He was coaching the linebackers this
last season, so you got your coaching staff. Kalani is
your head coach. He's got defensive coordinating experience. Kelly Papinga
is your defensive coordinator and really excited to see what
he can do. No his hands for us about that.
Tomoro Warren was hired as your safeties coach and your
passing game coordinator. Obviously you've got your quarterbacks coach. You
have Cioni Puha, who's the assistant head coach and defensive
line coach.
Speaker 2: What do you make of it?
Speaker 3: Ronald three man Weave, You're looking at that defensive coaching staff,
You're looking at the offense coaching staff.
Speaker 2: What do you make of it? Do you like it?
Do you give it an A plus, A minus, B plus?
Where you at?
Speaker 9: I give it a minus? And I did this earlier
in the show and we had that discussed this, but
to give some love to see on the pool in
charge of the entire defensive line. He was just in
charge of tackles before. Now he's got the whole defensive line.
I'm really excited to see how he gets after that.
Ben of now he's going to be able to, you know,
maybe be in the room with some of those linebacker
edge Rusher's the New Sea. Thal Mapels to Celia Connas,
I'm excited. I really would love to see what he's
capable of. I remember, and this is going back to
last year. You can find this interview on the podcast.
Him and I were only supposed to go about, you know,
five to eight minutes been of what we're giving, no
more than ten, and they ended up being like a
seventeen to eighteen minute interview and people loved it, and
I was not surprised. Moreover, and this is going back
to a previous promotion, why he was promoted to be
the associate head coach. Like when you fee when you
look at Kalani's culture and who resembles it, you look
at Pool You're like, yeah, he fits that same that
same narrative, loves his UH players right as a guy
that's all about love and learned too. So I'm really
excited to see him coach up the defensive line. He's
probably one of the big reasons why, you know, Keanu
Tonavasa came back. Keana could have left Ben and once
at the NFL, he could have he walked on senior Day, remember,
so I missed over that one. But that's what I
look at and says, oh, I really like that one
of not just defensive tackles. Now, Ben, he's got the
defensive end, so this entire defensive line will be under
his saying his watch. That's something I'm definitely gonna be
looking out in spring ball for sure.
Speaker 3: Let's go offensive staff, defensive staff intact, and a few
key editions have been acquired. Big cougaroar to the new
family members. I think it bodes well for Brigham in
the future as coach Kataki rinding out his staff. Big
news coming out of Provo in my opinion. Let's get
into a few of the Olympic sports, shall we? A
couple of things here as it pertains to.
Speaker 2: The track and field.
Speaker 3: Logan Hubbler time tied all American Ben Barton for the
number three all time BAU record in the sixty meter
hurdles that the Utah State and Ruy's Speed and Power
Invitational on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Big kugaror to Logan Hubler.
Speaker 3: Speedster, the senior from Santan Valley, Arizona, across the line
at seven point eight two seven seconds eight point eighty
two to take first overall, setting the mark in his
first appearance in the event. Since returning from injury, Hubbler
improved his personal best previously set during the twenty twenty
five season. We got some athletes and other sports ry.
We got some speeches. We've been known as a long
distance school, across country school, but we got some speedsters
as well on the track and field. Let's talk some
BYU Golf BYU takes home fifth place at the Collegiate
Invitational at GCC Maria jose MJ. Barragan, second top ten
finish of the season helped the Cougar's climb six spots
on the lead pater board. We are super proud of
the girls were responding so well after a discouraging day,
said head coach Carrie Roberts. We put a strong emphasis
on self belief, the things we could control, and then
too and then the can do attitude, the three most
important mental skill stop by doctor Craig Manning.
Speaker 2: Shotster Craig Manning making an.
Speaker 3: Impact across the athletic department, so bigger grard to the
women's golf team, especially Barragan.
Speaker 2: Shout out to her.
Speaker 3: Some women's swim and dive and men's and women's swim
and dive Brooklyn Gokritz and Marty lob both placed in
the top three in the Saturday's competition hosted by Air
Force and on the men's side, Marty Lop led by
in the platform event with a second place finish. He
put up a three h seven point one zero and
the prelims and improved a three sixty two point seven
zero in the finals. His final score marks the fourth
best performance on the platform in BAU history. Ashton Sparts
followed and fourth. Elijah Bay also competed, taking sixteenth. Shout
out to all of the student athletes on the swim
and dives side of things. A couple other things here
highly impactful twenty twenty five football season amongst BYU's best ever.
Over the weekend, there was a final recap on the
football season. Right In won twelve games, earned a berth
in the Big twelve Conference championship game, and closed with
a thrilling victory in the Pop Tarts Bowl, and man
one of the best seasons in BYU football history in
my opinion, finished eleventh in the AP Top twenty five,
featuring those twelve victories, boing strength of record in twenty
twenty five. According to the ES men's college football Power
Index finished at number eight nationally and tops in the
Big Twelve. It was built by ten p four wins
and seven victories over teams with winning record, including five
against nine win teams that's tremendous and four on the road.
Only the national champion Indiana football team they had ten
of these, and CFP finalists Oregon, who had eight of these,
had more wins over teams.
Speaker 2: With a winning record.
Speaker 3: No other team in the Big Twelve conference had more
than four wins against teams with a winning record, including
Texas Tech, with two of the Red Raiders four coming
against the Cougars. Only Indiana beat more nine win teams
than BAU in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: That is of note, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: The Cougar's ranked number ten and overall efficiency among ESPN
Power Index. Ba's offense and defense ranked number seventeen and fourteen, respectively.
So it was a monumental year. It was tremendous and
hopefully it continues to trend even better in the years
to come. Under Kilanie Sataki, you got your guy. I
think one of the biggest news coming out of twenty
twenty five is you extended Kilani and you retain most
of your staff and your roster, but you got Kilani.
He's going to be the Polynesian level, and that you know,
with NIL support, with infrastructural support as well as P
four money coming in from the TV revenue, you gotta
be optimistic out the future for the more. Shane Reeves
and Keith four Kinkin and I believe Elder Gilbert. I
think they're all they're all on the same page as
far as what role that Boo athletes should and will
play in the future. Other great news is that LJ.
Morten's coming back next season. You're Big twelve offensive Player
of the Year and so a lot of great talent
on the defensive side as well that we'll be returning.
So big guguror to this two thousand and twenty five
team and coaching staff loved what I saw. You can
make an argument it's the top five season and BWAU
football history.
Speaker 2: You really can.
Speaker 3: You can make that argument. And it's at worst, probably
top eight. At best it's top five. I probably put
it at that number five spot, maybe number four, but
maybe we'll have that as another offseason commentary as we
wrap up up the two thy twenty five season. Maybe
as a question of the day. One of these days,
maybe we'll do it this week. We may mess around
and find out what that is. So I also asked
the question for BAU basketball fans, what will BYU basketball's
record be in the last ten regular season games. Now's
the time to find out there's favored in nine of
ten games for Ken Palm to finish the season. And
I think Ken Bom knows a thing or two about
BAU basketball and college basketball. The man of metrics typically
has this thing dialed in. So I asked question ten
and oh, nine to one, eight and seven and three
or worse. You have games at Oklahoma State, you have
games at Baylor, at U of A, at West Virginia,
and at Cincinnati. You have home games Houston, Colorado, Iowa State, UCF,
and Texas Tech. BYU fans coming up here, they think
eight and two about fifty five point two percent of them.
Only six point nine percent of them are picking nine
to one, and then seven and three are worse thirty
seven point nine percent. BAYU fans they think this is
a good team, not a great team right now. They
look at this schedule, they say losses to Houston and
losses to maybe U of A, UH and maybe a
loss to Iowa State or Texas.
Speaker 2: Tech for that matter. Ronald three man Weaver, where do
you stand in that debate?
Speaker 3: What will BOUS records ee basketball records begin the last
ten games of the regular season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's tough when you look at the rest of
the schedule. They got a lot of formidable opponents. They
gotta go down to the McKell Center, which is where
they won that last year. They gotta play at play
I would say it at home, play Houston at home,
Oklahoma Stead on the road this Wednesday. It's a tough schedule.
Been down in stretch. You gotta play Texas Tech one
more time. So look, I mean I think this team
goes seven and three down to stretch. I think there's
definitely two losses, you know, between that Arizona, Houston, Iowa State,
and Texas and they're gonna have to prove They're gonna
have to prove me wrong. I just think it's tough
to win all those games. Now, if they do, I mean,
you're talking about it for sure, locks a three seed,
But I think seven and three, Ben, I think that's
what they do. I still think they could be the
last three seed. But it's gonna be tough. But I'm
gonna go last ten games. They go seven and three,
let's go.
Speaker 2: I would love to see BYU go nine to one,
but I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Richie Saunders, by the way, was named to the Big
twelve Starting five for the week. That's right this time
of the season, you gotta highlight all of the good
coming out of Brigham and double double. Last week you
had over thirty points and ten rebounds. Shout out to
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