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BLA Cougar football team and discuss maybe some ideas about
acquiring some senior analysts to help the offense become even
more explosive than they were this season, because it seems like, look,
when you're going up against the elite, all the weaknesses
are exposed, and it seemed like the defense fared better
than the offense, and even the special teams. I don't know,
the special teams also looked a little bit shaky versus
text teching those two games. But your your weaknesses are
exposed right, and they're exploited, and so the defense looks
solid and up the stuff special teams was better in
the second game, but even that was a little bit
off because Will's not kicking his field goals straight and
but the offense was not good. But they didn't have
to take into account Bart Blackmer getting injured and getting
a high ankle sprain on the first drive. I don't know, man,
it's hard to kind of take it all in. But
all I know is at the end of the season
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Let's welcome in former BYU wide receiver, the owner and
operator of Utah Protective Films Utoprotected Films dot com. We
got Jared Blitzell on the line. Jared, how the heck
are you, buddy?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Ben, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: How was the Big twelve Championship game for you?
Speaker 2: Outside of the game, Yeah, the experience was amazing. What
a stadium, great stadium, great atmosphere. Texas Tech fans were great.
I will say that that they should have sent some
text messages across the other side of the stadium to
let the Texas Tech fans know that the.
Speaker 1: Bars were empty on our side.
Speaker 2: There were no lines, and I feel bad for the
bartenders on on on the BYU side because there were
not a lot of tips going over there.
Speaker 1: But that probably the only time you ever see that
in a stadium. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: But you know, overall, it was a fun time. I
enjoyed going out. I enjoyed the experience. You know, that
front seven for Texas Tech is unreal, unreal lots of
critique going on for a rod play calling. I don't
have it. Man, when you when you watch that game
in person and you see the deep, the nose tackle
getting through the line with almost not being touched by
the by by by the center or by the guard,
and they were through by the time there had the
ball in his hand.
Speaker 1: The guy was in his face. So how do you
play call for that? Right?
Speaker 2: How do you set your offense up when you have
one second to make a decision. He can't throw the
ball further than five yards because you don't have the time.
Speaker 1: You know, your running plays barely work.
Speaker 2: So as much as everybody wants to discredit a rod
and and say that he called a bad game, you
know what that is an amazing Texas Tech team. I
give him pops. I hope they go out and win
the National championship.
Speaker 1: And they're very well good. They're a very very good team.
Speaker 2: Yes, So so there's there's a there's a lot to
kind of pick apart with that. I will say that,
and I hope people understand the offensive coordinator, Aaron Roddick
doesn't just go out and call plays every week.
Speaker 1: That's not all he does. And but that's where the critique.
Speaker 2: Is right on on on, Oh he didn't call this
play or he didn't call that, and you know what,
a lot of times we don't know the play call
when the picks were thrown, and we don't know the
play call when a fumble was made, or you know
what I'm saying. So there's so much more that goes
into But guess what we would not be where we
are at today with Bear. Bear is an exceptional athlete,
but guess who's in his helmet talking to him every
day every play?
Speaker 1: It's a Rod. You know, just who the quarterback coaches?
That's a Rod. Right, So there's so much.
Speaker 2: More that goes into just than just play calls for
Aaron Drink and I think he's doing a great job.
I think him is onto something and maybe bringing in
an analyst that can help with some a little bit
more of that, you know, Festi's busy with the receivers, right,
So maybe an analyst that can kind of meet in
the middle of that where can help with with receivers, routes,
things like that that Festi is involved in as well,
but maybe a little bit more expertise in offense. So
a Rod's up and seeing it from the top, but
he's got someone on the field a little bit more,
a little bit outside of what Fessi does, but kind
of an inn a middleman, I guess you'd call it.
So I think that that is definitely something that can
be looked at. I think that getting we just looks
like we've got some elite receivers coming in as freshmen
and a lot of development's gonna go there. We're a
great team. I think we have a lot of potential
continuing to move forward. But yeah, the experience was great.
I had a lot of and Dallas, you know, I
would have loved to have another outcome, but it's another
one of those games like look look at what Utah
when Utah played Texas Tech at home, right, they kept
with them all the way through the third quarter. We
were a touchdown away, we were six points down three
minutes left in the third quarter, and then we unployed
the same thing with Utah. With Texas Tech, they had
them right there, and then that fourth quarter was just
they annihilated it. Something about that that they yeah, they
wear you down, They're strong, their physical I saw, I'll
be honest, I saw more guys hobbling off the field
in this game than I have all season. And that
was on both sides. Both teams were hitting hard. It
was a very very physical game. But I'm proud of
the Big twelve. I think we're going in the right direction.
And yeah, it was a super fun game to watch.
Speaker 3: How far away is by you look?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: B YU is a great team, sometimes a very good team,
but more often than not, there have been a great
team this season. How far away are they are they
from becoming an elite team? I asked that question that
John asked that free question to Brady because we know
tex Tech is a is an elite team. They they
very well could be the national champion this year, and
I would, I would, I'd put money on it. Like
George is really good, Uh, Indiana is really good. Ohio
State's very good. But like tex Tech is right there
with those guys, Texas.
Speaker 2: Tech on their game, they they might be unstoppable. They're
very good teams. So where are we at? I think
we're two running backs and two receivers on offensive way
in my opinion for being an elite team where we
have an LJ. Martin and a healthy who's played. You know,
I felt for Santam you think about sitting out almost
the entire season and they getting thrown into the fire
against I was hoping he was gonna be on fire.
But man, going against Texas Tech and in that scenario, yeah,
he just got thrown into it. So a couple solid
running backs. So two more running backs and two more
elite receivers, and I think we have a whole different
offense defense. We're there, we are, I would say, people
for in the Great era. Yeah, and and let's see
who comes back. Let's see who decides to, you know,
throw their name in the ring for the pros and
and uh, but I hope we get a number of
them back and and let's let's see where that goes.
I think we're in a lot of in a good
position moving forward. And uh, the recruiting class is phenomenal,
and I think we're gonna see some young kids as
we see with like Sotwala coming up as a sophomore
making huge impacts. I think we're going to start to
see that more and more as we have these four
star plus recruits coming in where they can contribute right away,
as opposed to what we've kind of had in the past,
where where it's it takes a couple of years to
get guys to where they're they're ready to contribute. So
I think we're gonna have a lot more of that
coming in and and who knows, we may pick up
a few guys in the transfer portal and and yeah,
I look forward to it. Look forward to the bowl game. Uh,
I'm glad that we made the right decision. I don't
even think there was a decision to make.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Can I take a minute and address how I feel
about this, this opting out of bowl games?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm saying so. Notre Dame opts out of
the bowl game because they feel disillusioned with the Costball
Playoff Committee, that they were unfairly treated, that the ACC
attacked them, undermine them. ESPN is the media rights distributor
for ACC content, so they feel like they were back ended. Also,
ESPN owns this CFP it's production it's games, so they
feel like they got screwed here and that they're being
forced to or influenced to join a conference or else.
This will happen in the future again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well.
Speaker 2: All of that doesn't bother me as much as the
seniors on these teams. Right then, I ty and I'm
gonna take ken State, and I'm gonna say Iowa State
as well is doing the exact same thing to their
seniors that Notre Dame's just getting all the notoriety of
it because of who they are and where they were
at in this.
Speaker 1: I look back. I was really irritated the other day.
Speaker 2: I think I sent you a text, you know, and
I've really started thinking about you know, most of your
games are sitting. They think back to your senior year.
You know we played and every game is just another game. Well,
finally we got to the point where I knew the
Liberty Bowl.
Speaker 1: Was my last game, right and I knew it.
Speaker 2: I finally took a minute and I went, you know what,
I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna stand on the
field before the game. I'm gonna absorb everything that I'm
experiencing right now. I'm gonna remember what I was like
as a little kid, saying, man, I want to play
for you. By you, I'm gonna absorb it all in.
I'm gonna remember it because guess what Tomorrow, I'll never
put a helmet and shoulder pats on. I'll never get
a run out of the tunnel with my teammates, I
won't get a hang out with my coaches. All of
that experience. Guess what I remember today? This is this
is almost thirty years ago. I remember standing on the
field we were playing Tulane and the Liberty Bowl in Memphis,
and looking around and actually for the first time in
all the play letting it taken it in and just
realizing that I did some things that I set out
to do as a little kid, and I was where
I wanted to play, maybe not accomplishing everything I wanted
to accomplish, but I was there, you know. And dude,
these seniors they didn't have They're not going to get
that they had the opportunity to have a last game knowing, hey,
we've made our six games, we're going to a bowl.
That's our Iowa State who had eight, and the Kansas
State who had six, and the Notre Dame guys so
they didn't put their mindset into this is my last time.
Bowl games are great not only for the game itself,
but you get to go spend We spent nine days
in Memphis hanging out with our teammates. I've got memories
that last a lifetime, you know that of just the
experience being there. It's that last hurrah with your team.
You get cool gifts that you know, ours aren't as
good as they get nowadays, but I still have them,
you know. And so all that experience all balled up
into one and you know, what's your last one. But
the guys who voted to not play, the senior captains
who are going to the NFL, they know they got
more football left. But there's so many guys on those
teams that don't have it. I feel for them because
guess what they're gonna remember in thirty years that they
didn't get that experience, that they didn't get that last game,
you know, And I feel for them, man, And I was.
Speaker 1: Thinking about it today.
Speaker 2: Check this out the seniors today, when was their last
football season in high schools? They probably didn't even play
a season, so they already had to experience this in
twenty twenty because there were graduates of twenty twenty one.
That season was gone, and now they get this.
Speaker 3: Come on, well, that's the thing. Like Streman met with
the Notre Dame captain captain, and they just they're all
NFL guys, so they're like, no, we don't want to
play in this game. And I'm like, and so then
the rest of the team has to go along with it.
Speaker 1: They don't have a choice.
Speaker 3: They didn't have a choice.
Speaker 1: They don't have a choice.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't have any parent, I mean, and
it is so frustrating just to sit back and watch
that happen. And that's to all three of those teams,
all three of those teams that that are bull eedgible
and turn down a ball. They're doing their seniors of disservice.
And I think if I was looking at a transfer,
I might not want to go there because I don't
think that that's a decision that is benefiting.
Speaker 1: The player that's on the field. And you know, it's football.
Speaker 2: When it's done, it's done, Like you don't get these
experiences again, so that one last experience means everything, and
and those memories last forever. And I would just emotionally disappointed,
you know, watching these coaches and and and those decisions
makes who are NFL guys you know who in their mind,
it's like, well, maybe they'd opt out anyways because they
don't want to get hurt. Fine, opt out, but let
the other guys play. Let everybody have that last game.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I even saw a guy on ESPN talking about you know,
it's not just the football players, the band, the cheerleaders,
all these people that the seniors, all the seniors that
had their last opportunity, you know, even equipment guys you
know that are helping out.
Speaker 1: There might be seniors and they're done after this year.
Speaker 2: There's just so many people that benefit from the experience
of going to a bowl game and it's a lot
of fun and and I think they all made a mistake.
And I hope that that these players make it through
it without too much emotional trauma in the future, because
they're going to remember it and that's unfortunately, one of
their last memories of playing college football is not playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, I mean, look, this is a
childlike decision, you know what I mean. It's not like
al Well, Alabama got screwed last year. They got screwed, like,
you know, like from a resume, you could make that argument.
Speaker 1: They didn't.
Speaker 3: They didn't take their ball and go home. They played
the bowl game. Van's gonna play their bowl game this year.
Everyone else is, for the most part, player in Lantina's
some big twelve teams, anyone that like lost head coaches
and has lost players. And they they had already moved
on from the offseason. They were five and seven. They
weren't gonna be both other and they moved on. Yeah,
they moved on already. They'd already moved on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but those guys also knew this might be my
last game because if we don't win another game, we
don't have a shot at the bowl game. So they
had that opportunity to take in that what might be
my final football game. All the other teams that were
either expecting, and they especially Notre Dame, they knew they
were either going to play in a bowl game or
a playoffs. So they knew they had another game until
they didn't.
Speaker 3: So let's let's pivot back to this as it pretends
to be yu okay, because we can we can crap
on Notre Dame all day and in how how ridiculous.
This whole scenario is. But this is what Hemma says.
Speaker 1: Mhm.
Speaker 3: Moally says, Uh, why the b BYU's offense seems to
get constipated in big games? Look there it's a good
the best defense in Comgon football.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like best defensive golf football losing Laflow. We see another
matchup text Sex is a legit top three team, so
it exposes everything. This is a safe space. Does a
rod have a solid foundation s n OC but still
like a few key tools to round out the full
skill set. If so, the solution might simply be adding
an advisor, the senior analyst, someone like Eric Kerr. He says, uh,
Derek Corner Ketna could make a massive impact with little
He gives options like I don't necessarily think these are
all good options. But June Jones he mentions, uh. He
talks about Eric Drage love Eric Drage uh as a
former b y U. Great is it time for Killane
to bring someone who is ready now a fully developed O.
See is there such a thing what?
Speaker 1: I just don't get it. I don't get it. We
just it. What's the national media saying.
Speaker 2: About Aaron Roderick, what a Royals Award as a as
a semi finalist, Yeah, or a finalist for this award.
Speaker 1: That tells you what people see from the outside, that
it's the same.
Speaker 3: Thing how they felt about Robert and I. It's the
same like fans and former players. Look they have opinions, right,
and look the bar keeps on rising. Yeah, right, as
you have success, So you're you're you're damned by your success.
You're you're undermined by your own success. Sure, and so
you know twenty one those were both great offenses, put
up a lot of points, a lot of points.
Speaker 2: I just don't think people understand and realize what Aaron
was able to do with what he had going into
this season.
Speaker 3: Lost your quarterback.
Speaker 2: People were talking, be lucky if we get six winths,
hopefully we're Bowl eligible. He's not just the offensive quarter
he is the quarterbacks coach. He is the voice in
the ear of Bear Bachmeyer. He single handedly, with his offense,
created a team that won games this year. Texas Tech
hands down the best defense I've ever I've ever seen
in person in a college football game. Blown away, blown
by what they were able to do. Now could could
we maybe have made some other calls? Sure, maybe we
could have. Maybe that would have changed the trajectory. I'll
tell you what. Our first drive was amazing, you know,
there there was and yeah, that Bear. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: We were sitting right in front of where Bart was
at when they I'll.
Speaker 2: Tell you what a great play call was A Rod
saw him his quarterback limping, and so what did he do?
Called and and and and Bear stood off to the
side and couldn't put any weight on that ankle at all.
We watched him hobble off, but the TV didn't show
it quite as much. I mean he was straight into
the tent, right right to the silent. He's hurt, you know, Yeah,
apparently in a boot right now. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: So there there's a lot more that goes into.
Speaker 3: It's probably a great one to grade two, but probably
probably greade two, which.
Speaker 2: Which hurt hurt more than a break. You know, there's
a lot of pain in that. And and so there's
a lot more that goes into it. When you don't
have time to throw the ball, your quarterback who was
mobile is not mobile.
Speaker 1: The whole game plan had to change, right.
Speaker 2: And every ball we had to do was quick because
you had two seconds before the defensive line was in
the backfield.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean or quicker. And it was crazy crazy
to see how quick those that those three.
Speaker 2: Pound d linemans are, you know, I mean they're worth
all seven million, I guess.
Speaker 3: Crazy man, Yeah, I mean look at ESPNSP plus. It's
an efficiency metric. B Yu's offense is ranked twenty third
in the country and that's going against Texas Tech twice, right, right,
so you're really bad games for are still at You're
at twenty three? Now do I think that to a
certain degree the offense. So if you pull up Texas
Tech their schedule and you look at let's just look
at points against Texas Tech, they were giving up eleven
points per game leading up into this BYU championship game.
So in both games BYU did underachieved versus the point
total that had been given up versus others. But that
being said, you know, I mean Kansas State dropped twenty
on them, Arizona State got twenty six on them, but
that was at Arizona State. Both of these games were
at home, right or Texas Tech is in an away setting.
Kansas got seventeen on them in Lubbock. Houston got eleven
on them in Houston. Utah scored ten at rice ecles
So their home turf. Oregon State early in the season,
scored fourteen points in Lubbock, most of the point fourteen.
Kent State got fourteen on them in Lubbock, but that
was out of hand. It was sixty two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. So like they
probably scored some of that at the very end of
the game.
Speaker 3: You know when did b what you underachieve versus this
defense slightly yes, probably slightly, Yeah, you know, playing but
when you're playing in Lubbock, like.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's crazy unless you've been there and you can hear
that stadium and you hear the sound of their sound
system and.
Speaker 3: You much of that eleven points, though, came in that
a way setting verses where they gave up twenty six
with Will Hammond. It was a unique game and Sam
Levity the thing is and this is what all this
is what I'll press against you here and I love
I love Bear Bachmeyer. But one of the things that
Sam Levitt did there were two or three plays in
which he scrambles and he's got a cannon of an
arm and he hucked up behind the defense and Bear
just doesn't he can't do that. He can't do that.
That's his If you're talking one weakness, Bear has its
arm strength. And I'm gonna get a bunch of freaking nerds,
like when I say this, I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1: You're talking about We're talking He's not gonna drop a seventy.
Speaker 3: Yard bomb, sixty yard bomber. He can barely on a
on a line like no trajectory whatsoever, Like throw fifty
five yards, you know, and I'll get no ball. I'm like, you, guys,
I'm you actually, I'm just making this shit up like
I'm not. I'm like, he does not have a lead armstrang.
He doesn't have great arm streak. He has borderline he's
got above average arm strength. Yeah, well that's what he has.
I think, And I love him like, I think he's great.
I think he's a true freshman. He's gonna improve in
that arm strength to an agree, But that's the one
thing he doesn't have that Sam Levin and Ashue had
and they were going against a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I think that what what we also need on
in our receiving cord.
Speaker 2: We had some great receivers, but we didn't have the
Darius Lastater this year did the Kelan marrion where you
you had guys that could that would just get separation.
You know, Parker gets open, he finds holes, right, Chase
is a big body, but because so, Chase was so
much better when the defense still had to focus on
another couple of receivers. But when it's just Parker and
Chase who ultimately really were the receiving cord. This year,
we didn't have any other receiver. Jojo was hurt. He
never really came back from that. Cody Hagen, I was
really high on him. I didn't feel like he outperformed
this year like I thought he would. I think he's
got he's he's coming into his own. I think he's
gonna do better next year. But we just we've got
fast players, but you didn't have that game separation where
he's one on one with a corner.
Speaker 1: He's going to bury that corner and get get open.
Speaker 2: And I felt like Darius last Letter and Kilan Marry
had more of that.
Speaker 1: Not to downplay our receivers.
Speaker 2: I love them, and they're great receivers, they're more like
we were when I played what was just all possession
receivers finding holes, running perfect routes and getting open. But
what I think we need is a couple of guys
that can go out there and just put a dB
in their pocket and get open, you know. And that
I think. And obviously they can't be sixty seventy yards downfield.
They got to be quick double moves. But you know,
I wish we could have had a little bit more
time in Texas Tech in the backfield and had those opportunities.
Speaker 1: But that's why throwing these short five.
Speaker 2: You know, these quick screens and things like that, there's
no time to throw anything deep, you know.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe maybe had better too.
Speaker 3: I mean, look that that one that had to come
out early, and Parker wasn't looking and hit his shoulder,
hit his hand. If you'd have been looking, he was
off for the races. He there was plenty of space
nowt there.
Speaker 2: If Bear's ankle wouldn't have been hurt, I could have
seen us running into some rollouts, you know. And and
that's that's the only way you can buy yourself more
time when the rush is there, is to it out
of the pocket and roll out.
Speaker 1: But if he can't run very well.
Speaker 2: It's gonna you know, you're you're, you're, you're kind of
shooting yourself in the shouldn't say that in the foot
ye at the Ale. Yeah, but but I think that
there's a lot to learn from it. I'm excited for
the Georgia Tech game. I think that's gonna be a
fun one. And just like last year, b why you
need to make a statement going into the offseason and
and and I think that there's a lot of potential
moving forward. We've got a lot of guys coming in.
I'm excited. I we surpassed everybody. Nobody would have thought
we'd be in the position we were at at the
end of this season. And so for calling for heads
on a platter is ridiculous to me. And you don't
understand football in my opinion, the guys that are doing it.
Speaker 1: And and I'll tell you, well.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. I mean, you get it from
former players too, right, I mean, m my movie is
one of the best running backs in bu football history,
and he's saying.
Speaker 1: Hey, well he's not He's not necessarily but.
Speaker 3: He needs more supports. Even alluded like, well, is a
rod a complete oc I'm like, what is that? Yeah,
he's a Broyls Award finalist and his two worst games
were against the best defense in college football essentially, So uh,
this is what I'll say. Yeah, in an idealistic world,
you want to have a senior analyst right there next
to you that you can piggyback Gary Anderson. Sure, great,
But Gary Anderson and Ja Hill have been working together
for like thirty years, right, yeah, Like so I don't
know if there is an equivalent out there, and if
there was, a Rod probably would have already got him, right.
Does that make sense? Does that? Like is does he exist?
Does the senior analyst that has trust and like they
think alike or they think it away that's complementary to
each other, and they have trust. There's complete trust. Gary
is not trying to position himself to become a takeover,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And that's hard to find because every most everybody is.
Speaker 3: Grandkids and he's getting a little bit of money doing
something he loves and he's get to be in the
Boothy probably works Monday through Wednesday and then he comes
back on Saturday, you know what I mean? Like, are
you gonna be able to find that like who is that?
Is it? Like Gary Kruch, like no one wants to
like answer to it. Well, yeah, I mean if you
want to go bring in Tie, Like if you have
good relationship with him and you're like, hey, bring him in,
you're gonna be our senior analyst.
Speaker 1: I don't know, every guy knows football more than anybody else.
Speaker 3: Ty doesn't have ego, so you have to bring in that.
He's he's not looking to be the next guy. Maybe,
I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think there there definitely can be some tweaks. I
think that will help the offense. Personnel is going to
help as well moving forward. This is our first year
having Kevin Gail Brad involved. I think Kevin brings a
lot dynamic of the offense and and I think maybe
there's more that he can do just outside of the
tight ends as well. You know that I know Kevin
and and and Aaron worked really well together and and uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's we will see, right I I but
I can't.
Speaker 3: I just want someone that you know, it's like him
is bringing it up. We've had many former players, I
mean they'll Jason Buck loved Jason Buck Outland Trophy Winder
one of the greatest you have ever done, the Royal
Blue and White. You know, dislike Croton and dislike Bronco.
I just didn't like what they were doing and and
and he was willing and ready to to criticize and
and say they're not doing it the right way. And
do they look football players? Former footballers, they haven't have egos.
They're competitive and they think they know everything. Yeah, you
know Jernie Gurnie and Ronald and all all my codes
about Yeah, I bet you think you know everything. Ego driven.
You know, there's others that have much more ego than
me in that former player world.
Speaker 1: It's not even close.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm pretty synergistic, you know what I mean.
But you want to give a little bit of credencewiming Like, Okay,
it's an idea. Who's the senior analyst that's going to
that a Rod would approve of and want?
Speaker 2: So what about what about your uh, your weekly co
or not your co host, your your weekly Monday interview?
Speaker 3: John Beck?
Speaker 1: John Beck? Yeah, John, I know John's so busy with everything, John.
Speaker 3: So busy with everything with his kids. There's no way
it can have Yeah, you kid can you imagine, like.
Speaker 1: No, no, because I lose that, I lose time.
Speaker 2: I've thought about it, you know, about about what would
it be like to be in that kind of a scenario,
and then I think, Okay, so I don't get a coach,
my son, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't get to be at this game. Don't you
know what? I'm like, Yeah, stay with my boys.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I don't want anything to do with that.
Speaker 2: I would have gotten coaching twenty five years ago. That's
where i'd be at now.
Speaker 3: But but that being said, if it's just an analyst, yeah,
what's what's the what's the time commitment? But Saturdays is
a special day, it's football day, it's full time.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a position as an analyst at
that at this level with this kind of money, you know,
and uh, I think it's everything's full time real quick.
Speaker 3: Because I know Ronald's watching the basketball game. Ronald, get
him it, give us an update on how many points
by Basketball is losing by their Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4: Belt to ass I can say that, you can't say
that if you haven't served the mission. I'm the one
that can say that once you serve, you're delegated where
you can say the words, so I can say it.
I've served. Okay, guys, I'm almost thirty, but Clemson ends
the half, been on your white. I was quiet not
to not see you to bring but I'm just in awe.
It's Clemson finishes the half overwhelming Ben twenty one to nothing,
run up big on BYU forty three to second half
twenty two. No, don't do that, No, no, no, I've
watched this game. Look, we can officially have the conversation.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: This is going to be look a precursor for what's
gonna come when they get to the NCAA tournament unless
they figure out the depth issue. But you're seeing now
the injury to Nate Pickens and Dawson Baker take effect.
I'm watching as Alexi coastitch out here, and I'm watching
the bench players.
Speaker 1: It's a struggle.
Speaker 4: It's a struggle AJ and Rob and Rich. You're having
to do way too much and he can't do that.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 4: It's like asking Bear and LJ in the run game
to win you everything and do that. You need more depth, right,
And I don't blame coaches at all. I don't blame anybody.
But when I watch it enough, I know what it is.
And this is letting me know when you play good teams,
you're gonna beat up on teams in conference and Big twelve,
they're gonna win their their handful of games. But when
they get to like the Sweet sixteen of Laite eight,
when they have to play a team, if they're not
able to get it done. What I'm watching right now,
and Clemson is not a bad basketball team, and they
played some high level talent to start off. This I
think will plague them is a depth right now because
right now, if they turn to the bench, Kevin Jung
is looking for answers and can't find it right now.
Speaker 3: Well, look, this is my experience with BYU athletics.
Speaker 1: This is my opinion. All right.
Speaker 3: Whenever like everything seems to be going right, everything's going right,
there's like an injury, there's an honor code violation, there's
you know, there's the college football college basketball cabal.
Speaker 5: Can't have nice things been like it, and so like
that's why you know, you see, you can't be overly
invested in it as a fan because.
Speaker 3: They're gonna break your heart. They're gonna probably most likely
they're gonna break your heart like we've seen it. Like
with basketball, it's like literally like they went out and
got some guys. They got some dudes, Like we're going
to the final four, like we are breaking this record,
and then all of a Suddennate Pickens go down to
the injury Dawson Baker gets his acl just like I remember,
like BYU basketball, even like in the UH, I can't
remember what season it was, but like Kyle Collinsworth like
tweaked his knee or Tyler Hawes rolled his ankle. You know,
I made these seasons that could have been great too,
and they just weren't because of X Y and Z
B YU football. The twenty twenty season, COVID year, we're
kalking on the door, we do the pickup game versus
one yard short, one yard short, we fall short in
that remarkable COVID season. Like, ah, that's one of the
best seasons. BWA football stoer were doing it again this year, Oh,
one of the best seasons be with football history. What
I what I think is like we gotta go out
there and do way more service than we are right now.
I really think that, I really believe that if if
you're gonna if we're gonna be all in on sport
like this, and we we have to be. We gotta
rest assured. We gotta let the man upstairs know. Hey,
we're going all the service.
Speaker 1: We're going to do X, Y and D. We're gonna
do everything that we can.
Speaker 3: Just please please let us give us.
Speaker 1: A good season.
Speaker 3: Please, you know, give us the magical season. Uh please,
you know, we gotta go. We gotta do more service.
We gotta do more fire firesides, we gotta build Zion better. Anyway,
everyone's gonna get mad at me. That's like less active
and stop talking about this that way. I'm just saying, bro,
I'm just saying, uh, there's always something that underminds b
y u h and I just it so happens that
that just happens that way. Anyway, we'll go to break.
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