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Ben Crittle. Brett always bringing the hammer by my side
as well Vic Cram on the data aggregation. A lot
of people wonder what had been take off to look, guys,
we always talk about breaking news and things that happened.
Just to let you guys know, Uh, Kalanie Sataki, we
got ping. Ben is taken off to head to a
press conference that we just were informed of. That's right,
Uh Kalinie Sataki, we know got the extension. So Ben
has actually headed down to BYU right now, I think
that that press conference is going to be happening. He'll
be a tenant in person, but you can catch it
that it's gonna be. The conference is going to be
live and available on BYU Cougar's YouTube. So go to
YouTube and then type in bou Cougars and you go
to their YouTube page as well. They won't be Ben
won't be getting a one on one interview. I think
with Klania, we'll see if we are able to get
in tomorrow. I know that normally he makes his rounds
for signing day, but we'll see if that sound or
if that will be available to you guys. We'll discuss
that later if that's the possibility. But don't know, don't know.
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But guys. BYU Athletic Director excuse me. Brian Santiago has
announced at the university and head coach Kline Sataki have
agreed to a long term contract extension that will keep
Sataki at the helm of BYU at the football program.
Kline says this on the matter. Excuse me. Brian says
this on the matter. We are excited to announce the
long term agreement to extend Kalini Sataki as BYU. BYU's
head football coach Santiago said, he's a proven leader and
we are grateful that he is once again chosen BYU.
His legacy of building a championship program the BYU A
will continue. He is one of the best people in
the business. We are excited to continue to ride the
way of a positive momentum with them. Sataki, guys, has
led the Cougars to back to back seasons of eleven
wins for the first time since two thousand and six,
two thousand and seven, that's when been played. It's crazy
BYUS twenty two and three record eight. Think about this
point eight eight zero one percentage. Eighty eight one percentage, guys,
that's not easy to do, especially in a Power four conference.
He's done that over the last two seasons. Ranks number
four in college foot in number four overall in college football,
with only Ohio State, Oregon, and Indiana having a better
win percentage. Let that sink in these other programs, other programs,
Ohio State organ not even an SEC program. It's Kilani
up there. Only Ohio State, Oregon, and Indiana have a
better win percentage, Not Alabama, not Georgia. Man, that's all Kilani.
Back to back seasons of eleven wins first time since
two six and two thousand and seven. That's tough. That's tough.
Under Sataki, Bauh has been eighty three and seventy seven
since twenty sixteen, with a zero point six five to
four to one percentage and with eighty three of his
victories ranking number seventeen. Naturally, during his tenure, the Cougars
have won double digit games under Kilane's leadership in for
the past six seasons. Look, that's not easy to do,
to be consistently competing at a high level, to get
into the Big twelve, to be competitive and independence. I
still call him the Pac twelve Soule Champions. That might
make Utah fans Matt don't care, but that's just the
way it is. Like they did that. Remember he beat
the lights of Jackson Dart. Know that was baby Dart
when he was at USC, but still won that game.
So Kline's got a lot of good wins to the resume.
This raises promotion I always called raiss promotion. Is it's
well well earned, well earned. The nil that's coming with
it well earned as well. Gotta be competitive. This is
Kalanie's market rate. Look for the old money in the
old heads and people, Oh why can't Bo you just
keep things the same. The people that are against this, look,
maybe you're retired. Maybe things are different in the eighties
and in the nineties, but we're not in those times.
I always tell my mom. She gets mad at me.
I'm like, you're a boomer, and people might feel like
that's taking a shot. But the times have changed. You're
in a power for conference, TV deals, television money. BA
Athletics raises its own money and donors are helping out.
And again, you can't tell people what they can do
with their money. I always have to remind people that.
And why would you be upset that someone wants to
have this man at the helm and wants to keep
him in place, and that they're helping out. Again, Look,
this is Christmas, come early to b WHATU fans someone's
helping like, don't be upset about their rejoicing these times.
For the longest people complained, oh, BYU can't be competitive.
Oh they're doing it the b yua and things are
working out now, guess what, it's the b yu A.
Not only is it the b yu A, it's working
out fantastic. You got the defensive coordinator that you want,
You got the OC, you got the quarterback that you like.
You got a future four star, five star quarterback wherever
you look at the composite rankings coming in. We'll see
if he signs tomorrow early tomorrow's signing day. The signing
class tomorrow is gonna be really impressive to people. One
of Kilani's best, the top thirty maybe you know, top
twenty five, top twenty class. You gotta give him credit.
It's one of the best classes in BYU history. It's
up there. It's a top three class, top five class.
All that's happened under the leadership of Kilane. Like Brian
Santiago said, he's been a proven leader, proven leader, and
again we are grateful he once again has chosen to
be He could have not. Kline could have said, no,
I'm gonna go to Penn State, even though you guys
are gonna give me all of this. I think that
what a lot of people forget. Just because a person
signs the deal, they could leave if they wanted to,
like they could Lane Kiffin left, Oh, miss Felis you
probably because of resources. He could have left if he
wanted to, but he chose not to. That has to
be taken into account. Kilonie wants to be here when
he had every reason to go not to Big ten.
Take his defensive coordinator probably could jip a handful of
members on the staff. I shouldn't even say, Jip, that's
has a negative connotation to it. Take the staff he's
built with him, take the recruits he has. The portal
would have been hard. Like I'm not trying to be
rude and speculate, but if Jay Hill would have gone
and Klonnie would have been at Penn State, these are
ifs now and it's not gonna happen, not even if
it's just not gonna happen. Follow Tasa Tuala would have
gone as well, playing for Jay Hill. I know he
said it was a coin flip, but like, come on,
when you say, oh, Jay Hill wanted me, Like when
you're saying that to me in an interview, like you
gonna lose him? Would you lose news? He thought up
al Would Keanu play in for a Big ten school
if he were to come back? Would Isaiah Glasker come
back and go? Like you have to think about all
of that. This effects the nature and landscape. LJ. Martin, Right,
look what Saquon Barkley did at Penn State. Would l J.
Martin come back for that last year, get paid a
good pretty penny and then go to Penn State if
that had been the case, Like, this effects the future
of BAU football and the and sets the tone for
the rest of the football program in the athletic department.
This was pivotal. This was imperative that this happened. It
was imperative that you get this deal done and that
you keep Colonie Sataki in in Prova because it could
have been a travesty of everything that you work for
and this guy being the face the modern day you know,
Lovella as we say, but the Polynesian Lovell as he
calls himself. Man, you just you can't buy you can't
buy that stock anywhere else. That's all have to say.
Finish up on the last couple of things with the article,
Colonie said, I am humble and full of gratitude for
the outpouring of love from Bae's fan base and the
trust and support provided to our football program by the
university leadership. Sataki said, I'm thankful to President Shane Reese,
Vice President Keith Vorking, and our athletic Director Bron Santiago
and his leadership team for the confidence they continue to
place in me to lead our program and to take
care of our players, coaches, and staff. Think about that,
that's the already he cares in players, which is most important,
coaches and staff, the rest of the staff. That's what
Kalanie cares about. And he got it done. So shout
out to you, Kilanie. You got everybody taken care of.
That's what a good leader does. A good leader doesn't
just say hey, help me out. There's this video or
meme or picture that I see. The boss just yells
at people in the chair. In the chair and people
are pulling like the wagon or whatever with the rope.
A leader is pulling in front and is directing and
is talking and doing the gritty work too, and Klanie
is one that does it. In my opinion, this is
good for the stability and future of BAU football. I'm
excited about our future. His words, this is good for
the stability. They needed this stability and you needed it.
I know people don't like talking about it, but you
had to have this in place. With basketball doing what
it's doing. Football needed to have the same type of
you know resources, if not more they do. They drive
the ship. You have to have it. BAU football is that.
I will always joke and poke and say yeah, but
is it really football? We know what it is. We
know the face that runs the place. All jokes aside.
You have me saying it on record. There it is,
so there's no need to talk about it anymore. Kalani's
gonna have allocation, is gonna be able to pay players,
be competitive. Look, Crew Jones committed to Oklahoma. He's in
your backyard. Can't lose out on him. I've been I've
been so open about that. Can't lose on players like that.
But maybe the NIL is able to keep guys like
that here now because Jo has a good defense as well. Yeah,
it's Oklahoma, but like what was with the package? You
never know? You never know. Since joining the Big twelve
and twenty twenty three, Kline has tied for the best
record in the conference in both twenty twenty four and
twenty twenty five. In this year, earning a place in
the Big Twelve Conference championship after an AID and one
league record this season, phenomenal job. No, they wanted to
be undefeated, but it doesn't matter because everything rites on Saturday.
You win and you're in. That's exactly what it's going
to come down to. Can be why you get it done.
But I think how Kalani has championed this program to
culturally be founded on love and learning, being humble and hungry.
Excuse me, this culture is founded upon love and learning,
being humble and hungry. Because of that, Kalanie Shataki is
about to go down as I think the greatest coach
in BYU history win it's all said and done, He's
got to win a lot more. He's got to do
a lot but because he built this program on that.
In the article, it says that in this press release
he has championing this program to coachually be founded on
love and learning, being humble and hungry. That will carry
him to being the best BYU football coach of all
time and one of the greatest to ever do it.
I believe that is I believe this is the man
that can lead BYU to a national championship. I truly
do believe that you got him locked in for a lucrative,
long term deal. This is the day. It needs to
be celebrated in BYU's history. And look the momentum first,
Kevin Young, Mark pub leives. What's gonna happen? Hey, you
get to an NCAA tournament. Kevin Young comes sweet sixteen.
Boe has a great season last year momentum. You get
aj debonsa number one JUCO, number one year old, number
one high school and now football as well. You got
Keanu Tonavas, one of the best editions in the state
of Utah that was in a portal down to your school.
You're going to the Big Toe Our Championship. Kialanie got
an extension last time, gotta raise this year. Gonna be
a high paid coach in college Hall. Gonna be up
there rightfully. So we're gonna see now what Kalani is
able to do. Ryder Lions top recruit What else do
you gotta say? Top twenty five recruiting class. Excited to
see what Kalanie, j. Hill, Aaron Roddicck and the rest
of the staff is able to do. And it's not
just that it's likes to TJ. Woods. Gott to give
Harvey Unger credit. El Is gonna get drafted in the
NFL Draft. Gotta give Justin and a credit. Isaiah Glasker
and Jack Kelly also going to get drafted. So a
bunch of guys k Pop, Kelly, pipink. I don't want
to miss out and leave anybody. But there's so many
people that are on the staff that make this pozzle
in Klania the helm. This is great. This is great.
Glad that this man will stay in Provo and we'll
see what he does for the future. Guys. That's our show.
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want to know why do you do Cougar bytes around
with Bear Bachmeiner. That's because it's a bite. It's a
long It is literally bred a bite this man. I
think the longest answer I've seen him give is twenty
five to thirty seconds. I always say, you want to
know something, don't ask Bear. It's not a shot. Don't
ask the quarterback. He's gonna be straight to the point.
Now he might be doing a typical freshman pr train, short,
to the point. But I also believe this is who
Bear is. Yeah, now, demember back in the day, ALJ
used to be kind of to not say too much.
Speaker 3: And now as he's grown and grown as a football
player but also grown like in the media, training and
all that stuff, and now LJ gave his great answers.
He's so well spoken, he's so element and again not
that Bear's not. I just don't think his brain works
that way. He's not thinking like how can I communicate.
Speaker 1: To the media.
Speaker 3: He is literally just going to answer the question that
you asked, whether it's yes, no, whatever it is. He's
not focused on giving you a great answer. He's literally
just focused on answering your question.
Speaker 1: That is it, That is it? That is all. How
to do, how to do tipic, kip of the cap,
That's what bart Bachmeyer is, That's what he does. So
I just want to always make that clear. That's why
kugerybody's straight to the point. But look, I think he
is gonna get better in the media, kind of like
Jared Hall, same thing kind of happened. So look, give
them time, give them time and all will work out.
But gonna get into this Bear bachmeer Son. He addressed
everything in the post game in regards to Bo He's
forty one to twenty one win over UCF. Look, it
was a scary performance in that first quarter, and you
can't really say, oh, they had him in the first half.
They had him in the first quarter. But man, not
the start that you want to see. We said it
yesterday in a couple of segments. We'll say it again today.
If you start that slow against Texas Tech, boy, oh me,
oh my, oh me, oh my, it's not gonna look
good for you. Those that are NBA basketball fans will understand.
And that right there. Anyway, let's get into the questions.
This is where the questions that myself and other media
members asked Baron bacameyer in the post game. Let's start
with number one Bear. Last year, b, what you came
up short getting to the title game? What does it
mean to get to the title game this year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it means a lot, and and especially on on
Senior Day, and and yeah, I mean we've worked.
Speaker 4: So hard and and just to see the hard work
pay off.
Speaker 2: But but you know, we know, we know, we gotta
big task head and we gotta we gotta go attack.
Speaker 1: They do have a big task in hand. Texas Tech
is the real deal. Look, I'm just gonna be honest,
and I'll keep saying this, Brad, Texas Tech is just
not the best team in the Big Twelve. They might
be the best team in the country. I think they're
the best team in the country. Dude. I think they're
gonna take out your Georgia Bulldog. I really think they are.
Speaker 3: I still can't believe the Georgia Bulldogs are even gonna
make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think they'll lose this week to Alabama. Really yeah,
because being declared if about that, that just makes things worse.
Speaker 3: Look, if you know anything about the University of Georgia,
it's that Alabama could roll out second graders on that team.
As they got the crimson tied on their jerseys. They
will be Georgia because they got immensely but coo to
that point, I think if George matches up to Texas Tech,
they will lose BYU is gonna have to have the
game of their life to beat Texas Tech. Because to
your point, you saw you already tried that once you
saw what happened when you started slow against Texas Tech
a few weeks and remember that, yeah, exactly, So you
gotta find a new way to do this. And look,
if you know, as an offense, hey, this it just
might be another slow start for us because we got
to figure out how we can get the ball to
the edges, how we can avoid this Texas Tech front
seven until we can find a way to tire them
out and beat them.
Speaker 1: If you know that's gonna be the case, the.
Speaker 3: Boy's defense has got to hang on for a quarter,
maybe a quarter and a half until the buoy offingson.
Speaker 1: Figure it out. Now.
Speaker 3: We've also heard the question post to a Rod before, Hey,
how do you get your team to start faster and
not have these slow starts? And a Rod doesn't think
that the team starts slow now unequivvaled definitively in this
game and the Texas Tech game, you started slow offensively.
So maybe you find a new way because you've already
played Texas Tech once. Maybe you feel like you got
some guys healthy by not playing everybody last week.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, awesome.
Speaker 3: However, the point remains, you cannot do what you did
against UCF or what you did against Texas Tech the
first time the second time around, because you will lose.
You get is very rare in life that you get
to do over and if if you're gonna get this opportunity,
you best not waste it.
Speaker 1: Best not wasted. Look, and what needs to happen is this.
I know there are a lot of media people out there
and people saying, oh, well, you know Arizona State b
Tech Tech how though, how oh and they went quick
to the edges, you know, and you speed and got
the bottom in the hands of it. Yeah, but do
you know what happened before that in the first quarter,
in the first half again, what happened you guys can't
pull it out because you weren't paying attention. Like, look,
just don't listen to what all of eve, including myself,
the media people say sometimes don't just take that whether
they have played before, whether they've been working this business
a long time. You have to watch the game. Sam
Levitt hit on two chunk yardage plays fifty to fifty balls.
One I would say it was they're even lucky. What
did that do to the defensive coordinator? Yep on the
road he got nervous and the offense coordinated with the
backup quarterback, who's very who's well him. It's a great quarterback.
By the way, they'll be just fine when Baron Morton
is gone. That forced him to be like, okay, wait
then your quick out routes getting the ball to Jordan
Tyson run the ball that had Texas Tech scampered. If
BYU doesn't do that, if you don't hit a deep
shot to like that Chase ball to Chase, if you
can't push the ball vertically and give fair time to throw,
if Parker can't run those over the middles, if you
can't make checks to Texas Tech chase you, if you
cannot spread them out and actually make them play man
to man, it's not gonna work well for you. It
won't work. And that's the only reason to work well
for Arizona State. I just have to be declared of
and say that because a lot of people are like, oh,
look what Arizona stated. Yeah, but they basically played backyard football.
Let me BYU this for you guys.
Speaker 3: They basically had Zach back Wilson throwing to Tedoroa McMillan.
That's essentially what happened literally, and Sam Levitt was able
to run around for long enough and as soon as
you break three to four seconds, any defense is breaking down.
Speaker 1: You're not hanging on for that long.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and so Texas Tech's defense, while structurally it was great,
when it came to finding time being special playing backyard
football with Arizona State, it's very hard to do that.
And again once you did it a couple times, and
Baron Morton, we know, took some shots in that game.
Speaker 1: And and so if your bou doesn't have.
Speaker 3: The ability to play backyard football the way that Arizona
State did, and so you're gonna have to find a
new way different than that and certainly different when you
did the first time around.
Speaker 1: Look, if you win, you're in, and if you don't,
you still might not be going to the college football playoffs.
So what do you have to lose? Let it rip,
Let bear rip it. Bring everything out of your playbook,
so everything who cares? Who cares? Because guess what the
next game you're going to play in is the ball
game probably going to be your last one because you're
not going to the college football playoffs. Can advance, So
let everything and I expect ay Rod to do. So
let's get back to this sound Bear is the third
time you guys have fallen, as we said to a
fourteen nothing whole. What is it about your ability to
rally back? You had thirty one un answered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, you've been there a couple times and you
don't want to be there. But har or Coachtocky harps
on the lodge, just culture at BYU and just trussing
the guy next to you to get their job done,
and just comes down to execution.
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. None of this culture
stuff and all of that rallying back. Look, every team
is bought in and they think they could come back,
So I'm not trying to take a shot of By's culture,
but like, no, it's it's executing. They didn't execute in
the first quarter. The defense put the offense in a
bad situation pressure, there was no momentum. They played great,
complimentary football. They have to so the defense, offensive, special
teams has to play it well less it's the way
it goes. UCS defense came out a little bit. BOE's
offensive line was playing a little bit sluggish. I would say,
weren't maybe finishing blocks away this shit. It weren't being
as violent. And UCF got home and they had a
couple of three and outs, and then the UCFS offense
said we will not be denied because they had to
get for eligible. And then he turned it on in
the second quarter. Dare I say that some seniors are
making senior mistakes? And look, that was it. So I
promise you that's not gonna happen this next game. They're
not gonna They can't afford to start slow defensively, and
it's never this is the issue. The issue has been
and I agree with Kalani with us, but they have
not played collectively their best ball because you've had issues
where the defense has started slow or the offense has
started slow. You've never had both of those come together
where they've been able to make it work. And I
think that's the biggest issue is you have not seen
the offense start fast or the defense hold out. Excuse me,
against a very good football team. Now TCU good football
team where it's at, and they were having some struggles
at the end. Iowa State good football team. That's the
only games you could really say that bou had formidable
opponents where they executed. The UCF not good coming back.
West Virginia not a good football team. Right, So the
issue is you're starting to slow against bad football teams
sometimes and even the good ones that you should be
putting away. You're really didn't a non conference and you
did against Iowa State against TCU. But I'm telling you,
if you go three and out to start your first
two drives on Saturday, it's olver mafo mess around and
find out.
Speaker 3: Except I'm using a different word, yes, because again, if
you mess around with Texas SEC, I know it's beating
a drug. I know we're beating the same drum. I
know we're beating a dead horse, all that stuff. But
I truly believe Texas Tech might be the best team
in the college football playoffs. I think they could probably
be any of those teams up there at the top.
They may go ahead and go to the national championship game.
You come to the King, you best not miss, and
you cannot afford the slow start. Now, what I will
say is I do feel like that last home game
of the season sometimes BOU was just a little sluggish.
You remember last year against Houston, you knew BOU was
gonna win the whole time, but you felt like they
should have played better against Houston than they did. That
kind of let them hang around for a little bit,
even though you never thought BOI was gonna lose that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think that that could be part of it.
Speaker 3: And then what happened the first game they played after
that Houston game, which I know was a few weeks
later than this one's going to be. But remember when
everyone talked all that mess about oh, BYU is not
good enough to compete with Colorado, and.
Speaker 1: BYU threw their best punch.
Speaker 3: Now you're not going to get to do against a
Texas Tech what you did to Colorado last year. They're
also not going to give you propaganda exactly. And if
they talked, they know they're good enough where you go
to get quiet Texas Tech. They're not that dumb. This
is a smart football team. However, the point remains the same.
You got to bring your best punch to that game.
And again, you cannot start slow on offense and you
cannot start slow on defense. I'm trying to remember. So
it was UCF Iowa State, which was the other game
that they were down fourteen to, oh Colorado Colorado. Yep, Yeah,
you're right, yep. And I mean, what's incredible about I
guess not really the UCF one because you were at home.
But the other two if you think about it, like
we didn't know how bad Colorado was at the time,
and because they were competitive and it was really bears
first true road environment in a P four game early September.
Even the East Carolina game, that game now looks really
good as well, because I believe East Carolina is eight
and four right now.
Speaker 1: To be honestly, you could argue maybe played better in
the Carolina game if he did the color game. You
can make that argument, but the point being you're not
getting it would be really concerning if their fourteen point
deficits had all come at home, two of them came
on the road, and they that I don't think it
was fourteen points.
Speaker 3: But they did have to play behind in that Arizona
game as well, that was on the road. So this
is a BYU team that can play from behind. Fortunately,
there's gonna be less Texas Tech fans. It's not gonna
be absent of the Red Raiders, because again it's it's
a few hours down the road. But it is a
little bit of a boost to know that you're capable
if you have to play from behind.
Speaker 1: But you just you can't do it for too long
because they're the white sex Tech will capitalize one humdercent.
They're definitely gonna capitalize if you do it, you could.
They don't have a ben don't break. They have a
don't break at all, So you're gonna have to really
expose them. We'll see what happens. Number three Bear, the
first quarter was different than the rest of the game.
Did they show you something different that you weren't prepared for? No,
not really.
Speaker 2: I mean we just, uh, you know, we just weren't
weren't playing our best and uh yeah at that point,
I think we had like three plays and uh, pretty
long duration in that first quarter. So it's just kind
of slow for for U, for us. But yeah, we
just kind of we had we knew we had to
bounce back, and I thought we responded well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they responded well, and yeah, there was nothing that
they didn't We've heard the Heavan Johnson's sound. Nope, couldn't
tell you. That just happens when you start slow. Sometimes
you pay for it. But you got to bounce back.
Number four Bear. I big was Parker Kingston on Saturday,
and I haven't chasing a lineup.
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean pivotal role in our offense and then
to see him step up. Yeah, Parker's Parker is a dude,
pivot a role in the offense.
Speaker 1: Dare I say new wide receiver number one chases out
come on. I'm not gonna do that. I'm doll it back.
But Parker eight oh four, hey, brother, one hundred and
ninety six more yards and PK's gonna have a thousand
yard season that I want him to have. I'm excited.
I hope it's able to get done. Man, you think
about Parker kingson me and wide receiver number one next
year being the guy that's a target. Look, you're gonna
lose Chase. You got La Mason Waller. Still you got Tainakua.
I don't have to go get a guy or two.
I mean, look, and I think you would agree with this.
I've seen this from Darius Lassiter. I don't know if
we'll see this from Baby Keeling because he's at Miami.
Once is done, Darius put out a tweet. I want
to see Tray Spivey in a BYU uniform. Remember BYU
was going after Hi when he was in the portal.
It was Arizona BYU and I can't remember the other
two schools. Those are like top four, top five, and
he went to he committed to Arizona.
Speaker 3: To me, the interesting question is where do you think
Byu needs to be more focused than the Bordal list
offseason AI receiver or running back?
Speaker 1: Okay, with that's not to discuss. We know where it's at,
but I think it's a close. I know what the
right answer is. Get close. Sure you're not wrong when
you look on paper and when you really delve into it,
both are definitely critical.
Speaker 3: Because running backs you really only need one or two
wide receivers.
Speaker 1: You need a lot of the plethora of wide receivers.
And I think you can easily get a plethora, and
you can have the past game work well enough to
be able to do it, but you can't set up
to pass it off the run right like you can
make and you can make this offense look really good
in the past game, especially with Aronahowie schemes things up
even with other guys, but you can't do it unless
you have a good running back. So I think in
this offense running back, they gonna need to go get
two dudes, if not three. So we'll see. Because I
keep telling you all, y'all came from me, and I
think you you know this with the fans, LJ, he
ain't coming back. He ain't coming back. He ain't coming back.
Unless we didn't think Chase was coming back. We did
for a little while, Yeah, we didn't. But I think
that was different. I think Chase's stock was not as
high as LJS. I think l is a better football
player and Chase. Yeah, I just said it one hundred percent.
I will. I don't have to do the numbers. I
don't know. I guess LJ did have a better ye
this year. Now it depends. There's obvious these negotiations with
Kilani and if we go to Penn State and all
these other things, like the question is how much could
you pay to come back next year?
Speaker 3: Right, Maybe with all these discussions there is a couple
extra bocks you.
Speaker 1: Because he's a seven figure running back that year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Kalani has said Kalani in it was either
Monday media availability or post game I can't remember about
LJ coming back, and he said, look, we're just in
the interest of doing what's best for our players, period.
And so if LJ wants to come back, then LJ
can come back, but like, we're not gonna tell him
to not go to the NFL to come back. Now,
maybe if BYU gets left out of the playoff, maybe
there's a part of LJ that says, you know what,
I got to unfinished business with the CFP.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back because we're gonna make a run at it.
And who knows big Bear in his second year.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he can get better because he's
already been so great this season.
Speaker 1: But all of those things play into that decision. All
of it does, so we will see what happens in
regards to everything in the offseason. Bear LJ. Look, Bear's
gonna be poached. You gotta think if Colnnie goes to
Penn State, what happens to the entire defensive offenses. That's
a nature of college athletics. Coaches take players with him,
they take coaching staff. So your best case scenario is
keep planning here and keep building. I think that's what
ultimately will be the outcome. But we'll see. We'll find
out more as the we goes on. But you need
to get this deal done sooner rather than later. Let's
keep going. Number five, what is Chaseman to you in
your shirt time here bear.
Speaker 2: He's meant a lot and he's given me so much
confidence and trust in our relationship.
Speaker 4: Is just great. And yeah, I can't wait to have
him back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ask that question because Chase was a senior. This
is senior day. What has he done? Look, I make
the jokes about Parker Kingston wide receiver number one. If
Chase had have been playing in this game healthy, he's
still leading. They're probably close, maybe all by eighty yards.
But think about that. If Chase would have played, he's above,
He's probably close to nine hundred yards and that in
two more games. Because you're gonna play in this You're
gonna play in a bowl game that BYU receivers, you
could have two thousand yard receivers. That could be crazy.
Now if they go to the college football playoffs and
with Chase, he's gonna have an opportunity to make that.
You know, we have a couple more games to get that.
But pks an one hundred ninety six away. Yeah, he
can get that in the next game by himself. Definitely.
I think you can get it in the next two
if you split it up. So, look, it's been a
minute and who would have thought that the kid from
Roy who they call it just a gadget guy, just
a speed guy, by the way, who's run for a touchdown,
throwing for a touchdown and caught a touchdown and return
turn retard as well, Like he's got all that in
the bag. But just a gadget guy. Stop it. He's
the Tyreek Hill of college football?
Speaker 3: Is he?
Speaker 1: I don't know if people like me saying this, but
is he the written covey of b Why? And I
know people don't like that guy, but you should have
been a BYU should have been.
Speaker 3: But I do feel like they're very similar in the
fact that both of them played quarterback in high school. Facts,
and both of them were kind of doing everything kind
of guys in college and uh, throw for a touchdown
that I don't know, I have to look it up
close to it, but that's probably the best of your version.
Speaker 1: I like the comparison. I think, yeah, But I also think,
you know, Parker, go back to it, Tyreek Hill college football.
Holy cow, that's too much of a hot take. But no,
look like I mean, I just think I bring that
up of the narrative they call it Tyreek Hill just
a return guy. Just the gadge guy and up until
that injury, Bro, what top you would say, top seven receiver,
top ten receiver. So Covey through for two yep. So yeah,
So he's the Briton Covey. There it is both takes
a right. He's the Britain Covey of e YU and
he's Tyreek Hill of college football. Uh not maybe the
tyreer Kill of college football, but the Tyreek Kill on
this PYU football team. Oh dall it back. I won't
be I won't be too extra, but look, I Parker
is phenomenal and, like Bear just said two questions ago,
pivotal role in our offense. Let's keep going because we
do got to get the break. Is we pontificated enough?
Number six? Bear, knowing you were in the championship game before,
did they have any excuse me, knowing that you were
in the championship game before the game started, did they
have any effect on the start of the game in
the slow start?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I think we're all pretty
mature and growing up, so you know, it didn't affect
affect us.
Speaker 1: Look they're not They're gonna say it was just slow start,
didn't execute but complacency can have you start slow, and
I think this team thought that then being clinched, UCF
would have rolled over a little bit, and then they
had the doll in and they had to bring the intensity.
And sometimes in every game you don't bring every intensity.
I don't know if from playing rugby, oh we're gonna
go out there, they're good, like no, Sometimes people are
way more physical from the point of attack and you
have to execute. They didn't do that.
Speaker 3: You also have to look at it from UCF's perspective,
where first of all, they want to ruin your season period.
Like you just you're in that position where you know
you don't have a ton to play for, so you
want to ruin the season of the team that you're playing,
on their day at their house, all those things.
Speaker 1: On top of that, UCF was playing to go bowling.
Speaker 3: They were playing for win number six so they could
get a bowl game, which they did not get because
of that game. And I again, I don't know if
it's complacency. I don't know if that last game of
the season is just always weird to BYU. I don't
know what it is, but it definitely didn't look good.
Definitely didn't look good. Gotta play better.
Speaker 1: Like you said, Number seven, Beer, what was it like
to watch those seniors do the senior walk and you've
relied on them a lot this season? I believe, Yeah, just.
Speaker 4: To see you see kind of going to a realization
like you know, this is the last year and and.
Speaker 2: But I yeah, it was sad, but you know, also
also joyful just to see them smiling and to get
the win on the on with the game today.
Speaker 4: But we gotta make this season last even longer for.
Speaker 1: Him, gotta make this season last even longer. Seeing him walk,
I'm gonna tease something. He's gonna talk about one guy
that walked. He's not a senior. I'm not gonna say
Bear slipped up, but Bear definitely hinted at something we'll
read between the lines. And a couple of questions, Number
eight Bear, does this team deserve to be in the
College Football Playoffs in European?
Speaker 4: And if so, why, Yeah, I think we deserve to
be in the CFP. I just think we've got a
great team.
Speaker 1: Look, and I editedn't cut those two questions because it's
very short. He thinks they have a good team and
they should be And look, I think it's gonna be crazy.
We've sent us on Twitter. They're gonna be the only
power for a team with one loss left out of
the college football playoffs. That might be the greatest, one
of the greatest seasons in school history. And you're not
going to the CFP. That's wild Brett in the regular season,
not conference champion, Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: You know their losses to where it's either a team
who was top ten at the time or is a
top ten team. Now, yeah, it looks like they're getting
in and they're not even playing for a confge championship.
Speaker 1: But guess what. Guess what Miami.
Speaker 3: First of all, they got more losses than by U
and uh, either of those losses come against top ten teams.
Speaker 1: I don't believe five. So so yeah, make that one
makes sense. Committee can shove it. I'm gonna say, yeah,
I said it. It's okay. I'll get reprimended lated from
been on the bosses. I don't care. But the committee
can take it in chovity to power of manure. That's
what it is. I test Olympic Committee. Oh goodness, that's
exactly what they are. We need to start that nar.
Let's get that on a t sh I know that
can be a royal army rant I test olymp that's
what it is. Number nine. When you see the talent
on this team, did you imagine that you could be
eleven and one bear?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've we've got a great team, We've
got a great culture, and and everybody's bought in and
uh yeah, I mean we we just got guys that
can go and and uh I'm so proud to be
at BYU and and it's just it's been great.
Speaker 1: Look you heard me laughing. I gotta turn my mic off.
That's my fault. That's bat producing. But look I was
laughing because duh, Like they're on the team. Yes, they
think they don't want to the problem. Like, it's a
valid question for you to ask me. It's not a
valid question to ask the quarterback, because what's it gonna say? Honestly?
You know, man, I thought we were only gonna win
six games this season, like the Chris Paul is like,
de christ, do you think we'll be back here for
a game seven? No, No, I think We're gonna lose.
That's why everybody laughing at what I'm on the team. Bro, No,
We're gonna lose. Even if I did think we were
gonna lose, I would never say it when these questions
get asked, like I just think of the Chris Paul No,
what you want to say? I'm on the team man, Yes,
of course, yes we're going back. That's why I might
laughing here, like you again ask that question, like, no,
I do think not to kind of take down this completely.
Speaker 3: I do think there's a valid principle in this question,
because let's be honest, like, let's just be grateful for
where BYU is today. I know, I know we're gonna
have to talk a lot about the CFP rankings, whether
not boy should get in, how they're gonna do against
Sex sec, all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: But let's be real about the fact that you went
eleven and one this season.
Speaker 3: You won more games this year than you did last
year with Jake Retzloff.
Speaker 1: And that's not a shot at Jake.
Speaker 3: That's just saying like, this team continues to improve, the
culture continues to infect all of these young men and
make them play at such a high level.
Speaker 1: Again, this is the team.
Speaker 3: Three fourteen point comebacks this season again, a true freshman. Again,
you didn't know what you had going into the season
until you snapped the ball against Portland State. It is
so incredible to see that BYU is sitting at eleven
and one this year. Given the fact that the Vegas
guys thought BYU was gonna win no more than six games,
there were conversations about whether this team was gonna go bowling.
And I know there's a lot of blue guygle people
who said I knew this the whole time, and I'm like, look,
I'm grateful that you believed that, but you didn't know that.
Speaker 1: And now can sit here and say we knew it, and.
Speaker 3: This team proved a lot of people wrong, be included,
and I'm so happy to be wrong. I'm so happy
to this VYU team. I mean, run this year. Remember
year one in the Big Twelve, Remember how bad that
was watching just get the boat raced by some of
these teams. Yeah, if you're sitting there going.
Speaker 1: Man, how long is it gonna take BOU to really
compete in this conference?
Speaker 3: Well apparently not that long because the year after that
they were on a tie reger to get into the
Big Twelve Championship, And this year they're playing in the
Big Twelve Championship against the team.
Speaker 1: Who is likely to go to a national championship. Yep.
Speaker 3: So all of those things they just make you sit
back and say, look, there's a lot of things left
on this season, and we won't overlook any of those,
but let's also be grateful for what we have right
here with this team and what that says about the
future of this team.
Speaker 1: Pay Kalani is money, That's all I gotta say. He's
earned it in the entire staff. Ass All right, here's
my tease for the question Earl that I was talking
about number ten. What does it like to have L J.
Martin is your backfield buddy? Uh?
Speaker 4: Bear, Yeah, it's been it's been awesome. Obviously a veteran.
Speaker 2: I saw him walking out there, uh at the end,
and I was, you know, I want him to come back,
but uh yeah, I mean he's just he's just another
eyes in the backfield and and just having him and
and yeah sometimes he uh he'll alert me on on
some pressures and so it's just it's just been great,
great having him.
Speaker 1: I want him to come back, and then switches it
thinks about it, look a a I know people are like,
oh no, he's walking he says. He wants to come back.
Did you hear the palls? Did you hear the switch up?
You heard it? Brett? Yeah, Bear, he stopped himself. He
stopped himself. But look, yeah, I'm telling you LJA coming back,
Like when when this happens, I'm going to take a
victory lap because everybody on Twitter thinks so like, well,
I knew there was a chance he could now no,
say the witch feel say sayt be speak of mine
And if you're wrong, you're wrong. Look I was wrong.
I say eight and four. No they're eleven to one. Yeah,
it's okay to be wrong. You can't get everything right.
But LJ is not coming back. I be's shocked and
if he does, his draft stock must not be well.
But moving on number twelve, got to finish up, get
out of here. How was his shoulder? You look like
you were slinging around? Bear? Yeah shoulders good asked that
question because he had tape on the shoulder. I saw
it through its pad. Yeah, and when I mean as
Patty Show just wanted to make sure because look, he
got dinged up. He was really in pain. But he
threw for a lot, you know against you see if
you did well, his arm looked fantastic, So, uh, let's
finish up with his last two number thirteen Bear. There
was a kid that said he was your twin. What
is it like to have kids who look up to
you in that regard?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did. He did look like me, so.
Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, so I was a pretty pretty reasonable poster.
So yeah, but I did see it. Yeah it was cool,
and uh man, yeah, it means a lot. And it's
kind of just in the back head, like you're playing
for some of the bigger than just yourself. Is the
way you put the wire up because I did see
I was he's a two minute and uh yeah, I wasn't.
Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna do anything. But uh, I don't know,
I just did it whatever.
Speaker 1: He wasn't, but he then he was. And that's why
that's not why he put the why up, because he
saw it on the screen. He looked up and he
acknowledged it, meaning that he saw.
Speaker 3: It, which is wild because you you always wonder if
the players actually look up at the Jumbles phone definitely
and all of the in arena stuff that's going on,
and especially in that situation for him to put the
wy up like that, I was like, oh, he's really
looking at this.
Speaker 1: And I hadn't seen a player do that before. It
was really cool. What a cute kid.
Speaker 3: Those kids who come to the games though, by the way,
like those are the moments that make the game.
Speaker 1: Those are what makes sports great. Uh.
Speaker 3: And so shout out to him for bringing that Austin poster,
and shout out to Bear for not getting too caught
up in the moment that he realizes what this is
all about. And it's just about like working hard, going
out there, but also inspiring and uplifting others.
Speaker 1: It is, and that's what leads us to this this
last question. You talk about playing for some them Bigger Bear,
is that a part of being at BYU and European?
What is your experience meant to you so far?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean because Coin is always harping on on
you know, we're not We're not you're not just playing
for yourself. I mean that that's the mission statement at
b YU is a service to others and you know,
family and and just just serving others. And when we
do True Blue on True Blue Heroes on on Wednesday
and etctera, et cetera, that's just what BYU is and
that's the culture and again I'm so proud to be here.
Speaker 1: That is what the culture is. Two Blue Heroes on Wednesday,
exactly what Bear said. Look, people love this kid rightfully
so and that's exactly that that blew up on Twitter.
Why because that's exactly what it is. Is like the
Yegor thing, that's exactly what people want to see. It's
not just about on the field, that's off the field
as well. But speaking of being off the field and off,
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