Speaker 1: You're from players, coaches, and experts on all the latest
happenings with the Cougars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, buddy, welcome back for sports one O three nine
ninety eight point three SPN the Fan. I've been for
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Getting you ready for this by UTCU matchup. Currently BYU
men's basketball taking on the Yukon Huskies at tdm aver
Trade Arena. And look, I think, what's our score right now?
Ronald than three man Weaver?
Speaker 3: What have we got?
Speaker 4: Yukon just hit a three.
Speaker 2: Nineteen twelve, Cavian called the time out trendisity defense as
not well, too much one on in basketball at to
watch it right now in AJ go one on one
Richie and not moving to basketball really well, I don't
like that update. But hey, hopefully BYU basketball well finds
a way to win on the East Coast, AJ shines
and the Big three AJ Ritchie and Rob Right bring
home a big dub a top ten victory for the
BYU men's basketball team. We are getting prep getting ready
for this BYU TCU matchup. TCU six and three overall
this season, BOU eight and one. Very excited to see
if this BYU men's basket BYU men's football team can
bounce back from a loss on the road versus a
very good, very talented, well coach Texas Tech team who
just demolished UCF today. By will thinking it will be
taken on UCF at the end of the season at
Level Edwards Stadium here in a couple of weeks. One
of the reasons why you should show up and be
a part of the twelfth man right, rise and shout,
disrupt the communication between Hoover and his offensive line. The
other reason why you should show up is because a
former BYU great, one of the greatest to have ever
donned the blue and white. Okay, one of the tight
end is gonna be on his guitar, melting faces with
a guitar solo playing the national anthem of our beautiful country.
Johnny Harlen's gonna be out in front of everybody, and
I feel, you know, very excited about this. We've been
working on this for a long time behind the scenes. Johnny,
Welcome to the show. Thanks for hopping on, and I'm
grateful that we finally get to see you melt faces
on your guitar at Lavelle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a long time coming.
Speaker 1: We talked about it a lot, and I don't know,
I kinda has been at least a decade.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I mean you've been mentioning it.
Speaker 1: John Beck's been saying it, and it's happening tonight.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 2: I mean, you did the tryout though. You had to
try out. This is not like you were on on
scholarship where they just gave it to you then said Johnny,
you're gonna play. You had to go to the walk
on tryouts for this.
Speaker 1: I went down there and I, yeah, there was a
there's like one hundred people in line.
Speaker 4: Most of them were singing. I was the only one
with the instrument.
Speaker 1: There was one guy I think it was maybe it
was like a trumpet, and but yeah, I tried out.
Speaker 4: They loved it, and I thought at that time that.
Speaker 1: They were like I was just like a random guy.
But I found out like a couple weeks ago, They're like, no,
we know, we recognized you, and.
Speaker 4: But they still liked it.
Speaker 1: And I was kind of glad too, because like that's
a lot of people to play in front of.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, hey, I don't want to just you know.
Speaker 1: Get the special privilege in there and like mess it up,
like I better play it well.
Speaker 4: So I'm very excited about it. It's really cool.
Speaker 1: Also it's Veterans Day Week, yeah, so I feel that's
pretty special too. A quick quick thing I've been thinking
about this week in relation to that. We played TCU
in two thousand and six. Yes, we did, and I'll
tell you why.
Speaker 4: I know this date.
Speaker 1: It was September twenty eighth, and that was a huge
victory for our team.
Speaker 2: We ranked I think there were seventeenth in the country. Yeah,
time went into TCU and AMG Carter Stadium, it got
the dome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we we kind of thumped him pretty good.
I mean it wasn't like a huge blowout.
Speaker 3: But like we we already won seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a great victory.
Speaker 3: And now, like.
Speaker 1: I don't know, a few years ago, I'm listening to
a Navy Seal podcast, the Great Jocko Willink Jaco podcast
Love that, and he's talking about some of his guys
and so, you know, I was just reading about a
couple of them and the date stood out. It was
September twenty ninth, two thousand and six. That and so
that this was in the morning, but it was in Iraq, right,
So it's like it's probably happening the same time as
our game, right, and you know we as I was
just saying, and so blessed and honor that in America
we have this chance we get to go play football.
And you know, I I I was like thinking, I'm
sure I was feeling pretty great about.
Speaker 4: Myself after that game. A great game. I had a
good game, our team won.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's important, I think to consider, like
at that same time, these guys are over there, you know,
liberty and justice putting their lives on the line. And
you know one of the guys that they talked about
in the podcast is that morning, you know, they're in
a fight and grenade bounces off his chest and he
has a decision to make. You know, he could have
gotten to safety, they say, right, and he popped on
the grenade and saved his two teammates who could not
have gotten to safety. He died from those rooms shortly after,
Navy seal Michael Monsur.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like when I'm playing the national land
them tonight, it's like I've been really trying to think
about a lot. Like it's not about me, it's not
about like, hey, I'm gonna just like show off. It's like,
this is a moment for the United States of America
Veterans Day Week, and pay great honor to these people
that are just man much. They're the bravest, they're the
best of us to go out there and do things
and put their lives online, give their lives like that.
And so I just am incredibly honored to go do it.
Speaker 3: Can't wait for it, And I love that.
Speaker 2: You know, your mindset is one of of pondering on
our nation and those that serve our nation in order
to provide stability and protections in peace in our lands.
Speaker 3: Right, And like we just feel great. Look, this is entertainment, right,
this is this is college football. We love it.
Speaker 2: It's our escape from maybe the real world. There are
those out there that are on the front lines. Yeah,
that's who we're celebrating this week obviously with Veterans Day Week,
and that's where you're gonna be celebrating tonight.
Speaker 3: As you uh as you.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, show us in part we get to
partake of your talents, man, which you've been developing for
a very long time on the guitar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's uh that like again, yeah, that's
my mindset in going into to perform tonight. It's like, uh,
you know, it's not about me, but I do want
to do a great job with it and have people
be excited about it. I mean it is, uh there's
this very unique American rock and roll spirit and uh
I'm happy that I get to to bring that in
and I want to do a.
Speaker 4: Really great job.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a lot of fun and
uh yeah, exciting night.
Speaker 3: Man, excited man.
Speaker 2: Johnny Harlean's gonna be uh playing the national anthem on
his on his guitar.
Speaker 3: Which type of guitar do you have?
Speaker 2: By the way, it's a what are you gonna be uh,
you know, melting our faces with tonight?
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna be playing my less Paul.
Speaker 1: It's a Zach Wild custom, but then I also customized
it more for myself. I painted it a little bit.
This is like during the pandemic. I'm just at home.
I'm like, let's make this even cooler if possible. And
uh so you're he be busting that out.
Speaker 3: Do you have a picture of it? By chance you
can share with me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I can put it out there so everyone
can take a look at your guitar and give me
the details on it too. I can put that out
there so where you're prepped for this BYU TCU matchup. Obviously,
Johnny's gonna be playing the national anthem on his guitar.
And I know you keep tabs on this BAYU Cougar
football team.
Speaker 3: What do you make of this team? What do you
like about it?
Speaker 2: What stood out to you as you've been watching this
Cougar football team led by Kalani Sataki head coach. And
you know, now Bear Bachmeier true freshman quarterback. It's been
a while since a true freshman quarterback has been winning
at this rate. Uh with this much efficiency. It has
been pretty fun to watch, and his supporting cast deserves
a lot of that credit.
Speaker 4: They've been a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: You know, they're winning games, but it's a citing football
again too, there's a lot of playmakers. You're watching the
game and a good you know, handful of times you're
gonna be up out of your seat. Something exciting is
going on, something's going somebody's going a little bit beyond their.
Speaker 4: Job description.
Speaker 1: And making a great play, making the ones that are tough,
and you know, it's it's so many different people too,
throughout this season, and in clutch moments when it's when
it's been needed other than last week.
Speaker 4: But besides that, it's it's been great.
Speaker 2: It's it's hard to win football games. You know that,
it's hard to win. You know what I would say,
what I've been talking about this week is BYU in
the modern era, and let's say from ninety six, we
had the eighty four season, eighty five, you know, the
early eighties and late seventies, right, we got to watch
that as fans.
Speaker 3: You know, we were young. I was born in eighty two.
I think you were eighty two or.
Speaker 2: At eighty eighty two, eighty two as well, and so
we didn't get to partake of that, and then you
had kind of like this this you know that the
late eighties, early nineties with Ti Demur, we got to
experience that a little bit, and then you had like
ninety six and then two thousand and one, and then
it came our era, right like from ninety six on, like,
we haven't been able to get over the hump into
that elite status right a BCS Bowl, a College Football
Playoff berth whereas other teams have Boise State has, TCU has,
Utah has, right UCF has like that. Our resume is
a program deserved to be in a power conference. We
were forced into independence and had to wander the desert
for over a decade, feeding off of and praying for
manna from.
Speaker 3: Heaven, and we finally got the invite in hour here.
Speaker 2: And we're in year three, and I'm wondering if this
is the year in which BYU gets over the hump. Right,
you gotta win tonight to do that, you gotta beat
Sincy on the road, you gotta beat uc up at home,
and then you have to be competitive versus Texas Tech,
most likely in the Big twelve Championship game in order
to get an at large bid to get into the
College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: What makes you believe that BYU, now in this.
Speaker 2: Era, can get over the hump and do something that
we weren't able to do in our era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean their destiny is in their hands still, right,
Like they take care of business. And I don't know,
I mean each game, uh, you know, going into the
Utah game maybe too, it's like you look at it
and you know, Bear Bachmeyer freshman, and he's played unbelievably well, right.
Speaker 4: And but you know, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I say, like I'm more and more comfortably and like,
all right, he's gonna make This guy is making plays,
He's consistent, he's not making these you know, bonehead plays
and ruining things. So yeah, my confidence just keeps growing
in him as he keeps keeps playing, making plays and
being the guy we need to. What would give me
a lot of confidence is bouncing back tonight.
Speaker 4: They could not get anything going last week.
Speaker 1: Gotta have some guys stepping up making plays, like you know,
a couple of drops here and there, and it's like,
you know, how many can you have of those? If
you're really trying to get up over that hump? Like
you said, it would be so awesome to see because yeah,
like you know, there's been several teams that had it
right there, right, and in like two thousand and six,
our team that was a possibility dropped a couple games
early on. I think, you know, barely right, and I
think we hadn't quite found our identity at that point either.
But by the way, like after really after that TCU
game I mentioned earlier, it's like we've got things rolling.
Speaker 4: It's like, and the way we were playing was definitely
at that level, like we could have played with anybody.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no doubt, and we should have been. We
should have been.
Speaker 2: We get all the hump, you know, one one play here,
one play there. That's all it took. And the ball
has to bounce your way. Sometimes you make those.
Speaker 4: Plays, you know, when teams lose.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I always see fans, it seems
like they are so hesitant, like they want to tell
nobody wants to criticize the players, which is fine, but
like they always want to kind of say like it's okay,
it's still a successful season, and there's these conversations about
was it a success or was it not. It's like, look,
I have no problem somebody saying, man, it's a freaking
shame that we lost those two games early on. It's like,
of course, we would have loved to go to that
next level. It's like, I have no problem. You know,
we're not fragile. We can handle Yeah, we're not.
Speaker 4: We can handle it.
Speaker 3: We remember everything, you know, but where we lived with.
Speaker 1: Our Yeah yeah we get We get it from the coaches,
you know. So it's like this fan cretis that we
can handle it and we're gonna be all right.
Speaker 2: What makes you believe that, Ba, you can come out
victorious tonight?
Speaker 3: Give me a little bit of a score prediction. How
do you see this game playing out by three and
a half point favorite.
Speaker 2: They're coming off a loss, twenty two point loss versus
Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: It's a late night kick.
Speaker 2: The Vampire Cougars will be out and about, I imagine,
and playing good ball on.
Speaker 3: Their home field. It should be a sold out crowd.
Speaker 2: I hope all the seats are filled and that they
show up, show out and rise and shouting, are loud
and proud.
Speaker 1: What gives me confidence is just you know what I've
seen so far this year, They've always been able to
come up with plays.
Speaker 4: Of course, besides last week.
Speaker 1: We'll throw that in there one more time, but like
when the pressure has been on, they've come up with plays,
and so hopefully they find that identity again tonight.
Speaker 4: There's no reason why they couldn't do that.
Speaker 1: They got to bounce back if they're going to keep
their destiny in their hands and have that type of
season where they're getting into that playoff. And yeah, I
mean just the way who these guys are. They step
up in them moment, they're making plays, So I have
confidence in them. I know nothing about TCU, so you know,
I'm gonna take my analysis.
Speaker 2: Do you remember about the TCU team though in six
I mean that was an eleven win team. Yeah, that
BYU that we beat on their own at their home stadium.
Speaker 3: And they're like.
Speaker 2: That's what they did from two thousand to twenty twenty five,
Like it seems like seventy percent. I think it is
seventy percent of their Their seasons are double digit win seasons,
ten plus wins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're awesome program.
Speaker 1: You know, when we played them in two thousand and five,
it was the first year that they were in the conference, right,
and we were pounded them pretty good.
Speaker 4: Our offense was rolling.
Speaker 1: I kind of thought, like it you kind of have
the feel of the game over in the third quarter, which.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not saying I was letting up or anything.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what happened they got I think
they had a kick return, they got a couple long plays,
and that's when we ended up losing in overtime. So
the next year, they ended up winning the conference that year, right,
And then the next year when we went down to
two thousand and went down there two thousand and six,
it was kind of like, man, they are they've been
rolling since then? Yeah, right, like they they had they
had not lost. I think they had the longest winning
streak in the country. We went down there and they
had a.
Speaker 4: Great defense, top twenty rank, and but I.
Speaker 1: Remember kind of thinking I got in the elevator with
coach and I one on one just happened.
Speaker 4: Hey, hold that elevator.
Speaker 3: It was like, all right, Brighton Brown, get up here,
Get up here, sir, come on up here.
Speaker 4: And uh yeah, so and.
Speaker 1: He was asking me, he's just you know, the one
on one coach conversation in the in the elevator, and
he's asking me, like, how do you feel about the game,
And I'm just like, hey, we're uh we did a
like we put a ton of points on him. I
know we can go score on him. And and we
did so offense played great defense, stepped up some created
some great turnovers.
Speaker 4: So that was That was one of my favorite games.
Speaker 3: Like I said, yeah, I still remember the over route.
Speaker 2: Still remember the over route, that that high point over
route spin you know, Okay, and I got stumbling to
the almost to the end zone. You should have scored
a touchdown. I can't believe you fell short. I was
ticked off about it.
Speaker 4: Oh that's two thousand and five, that was all. Oh, yeah,
that was here. I was here. That was one of
my favorite plays.
Speaker 2: Mixt at tu same play, Yeah, same play.
Speaker 4: That's the best play there is in the old Yeah.
Speaker 1: I caught one on there and the safety hit me
and I pinballed and the linebacker came and hit me
right in the back ribs and that was painful. But
you know, you pop up. You don't let her know
that they broke your ribs. It was right in that
region where the the training staff was like, well, it's
not quite bone, it's not quite cartilage. It's kind of broken,
but it well, just put.
Speaker 4: A pat on it.
Speaker 3: Just send you back out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that man.
Speaker 2: Well, Johnny can't wait to watch him melt our faces.
Listen to you as you sing or as you play
the national anthem.
Speaker 3: Uh, it would be really cool if you've sung, if
you sang the national health it.
Speaker 4: Would be l for other people. It might be cooler
for me, it would not. Johnny Love It.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you man, thanks for stopping by the tailgate. Get
some hot chocolate, get a hot dog, hang out with
this Watson Scugar basketball team, with your boys and your boys.
Speaker 3: Man, you're getting older, man, they're grown up. How many kiddos?
How many kittos you have?
Speaker 4: Now? We got four? Awesome?
Speaker 1: So we got baby Jesse Isaiah two years old.
Speaker 3: Come love that name.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm a big old Testament guy. I
just love the old names.
Speaker 4: I love him. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, he's coming to
his first game tonight.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: The wonderful and beautiful Tiary Harlene on her way here
right now. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Oh uh, my daughter not coming. She's starring in her
first high school musical situation. Okay, and they got her
performance tonight, so she's gonna have to get good luck.
Speaker 4: To at the Replaykay.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Johnny Love and appreciate you Methics for stopping by.
Appreciate all right. Uh, and you you predicted a big
win for the Coops tonight, did you not huge win?
Speaker 3: Huge win?
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, let's.
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Speaker 3: Let's take a brief time out. We'll come back.
Speaker 2: I think I think one of my favorite okay, shout
out to a former BYU offensive line that I would
love to have on my show, but I cannot have
them on my show.
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