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Get to get into this player profile segment. Get to

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know one of the newest members of this bau Cougar

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football team, a part of the twenty twenty six class.

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With so many greats that have come through Brigham Young

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University over the years, you always look towards the future.

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Who they bringing in who could be that next star,

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whether you look back on the past and you maybe

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love Curtis Brown or Harvey Unga or Jamal Williams or

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Tyler Augier most recently l J.

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Speaker 1: Mart Who can be that next LJ. Martin?

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Speaker 2: And so we're gonna get to know a guy that

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could very well be that in this segment. He's on

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the line right now. He's recruited by a number of schools.

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He ended up choosing BYU. We got the five foot

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eleven hundred ninety pounder out of Lehigh High School, Devon Eka,

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part of the BYU Cougar football family.

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Speaker 1: Devon, How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? Awesome?

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Speaker 2: Man, appreciate you joining us, letting us get to know

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you a little bit better. The recruitment's done, You're signed, sealed, delivered.

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You're recruited by a number of schools San Diego State,

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San Jose State, sack Sate, Idaho State, Utah State, in

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Northern Arizona, UNLV. You chose the Kougs. Why was being

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a BYU Cougar the priority for you?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, once they offered me, I knew the place you know,

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like I've always wanted to go there since freshman sophomore year.

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They've been recruiting me for a while. So once I

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got the offer, I knew that's the place I wanted

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to go to.

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Speaker 1: And your your primary recruiters? Who were they? Who are

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they individuals that were reaching out to you from the

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Cougar coaching staff?

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Speaker 3: Coach Anderson he was talking to me the most, and

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I was talking to coach I'm got a little bit,

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So yeah, those two are the most.

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Speaker 2: Who what did the coach Anderson the coach Una say

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about your skill set? Why is it that they liked

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what they saw on tape what they've seen in person

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on the football field.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh. They just they think I got explosiveness that

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I can really add to the team, you know, because

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we've had a lot of you know, stronger backs and

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stuff like that. So they think my speed could really

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help it add to the offense.

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Speaker 2: Well, I see it on the film obviously, great vision,

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good physicality, great breakaway speed as well.

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Speaker 1: Really good football player.

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Speaker 2: You went to Lehigh High School, you won a lot

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of football games there. You come from a great program

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and it continues to produce high level football players. You've

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got great teammates. What was it like kind of growing

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up in that that Lehigh area and playing for Lehigh?

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Speaker 3: It's been good. I've always had great players around me,

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so practice, every practice felt like a game day. So

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it was good to prepare with them. Had dogs all

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around you, you know, since my freshman year, I had

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people like Bobby and every year we just had dogs,

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commits and all that. So you've always got some good

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players around you, so it's good to build around them.

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Speaker 2: Growing up, you grew up in Utah right where you're

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born in Utah where we were born.

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Speaker 3: And raised in Utah?

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, okay, so born and race here in Utah.

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Speaker 2: Did you grow up a BYU fan, a Utah fan,

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a Utah State fan?

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Speaker 1: What was the upbringing like?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, when I was younger, I was more of a

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Utah fan. But over the years, is going especially going

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to be actually get in there? It changes you, it's

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so you became a BYU fan along the way.

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And uh, when you watch your your own film, right,

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what do you like about the way that you play?

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Speaker 1: How would you describe yourself as a running back?

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Speaker 3: I feel like I just play hard, you know, I don't.

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I don't give up no matter you know, we're up

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a lot, down the lot. I just try to play

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my hardest at all times. So I don't. Yeah, I've

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never been a quitning type. So that's all I like

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about my play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I describe you as a consistent running back too. I

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mean it's hard as a running back to stay healthy,

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stay strong, and produce year over year. I think you

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accumulated three thousand, two hundred seventy six total rushing yards

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over your high school career, including one thousand and thirty

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eight as a senior one thousand and thirty six as

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a sophomore. So I mean having that consistency of productivity.

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Speaker 1: What do you attribute that to?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, just every day I practice, we just try to

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do the right thing, you know, coda, class, lift, eat,

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do the same thing every day and when you do

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the right thing, you know, you get the result. So

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we just try to say consistent every day and yeah,

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don't do too much, but don't do too little.

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Speaker 2: Just Yeah, you're a multi sport athlete as well. What

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other sports did you play growing up?

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Speaker 3: Growing up? I played basketball and baseball, so played those

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Big Three. But when I got to high school, football

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was just my main thing. I played some baseball too,

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but yeah, football is my.

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Speaker 2: Main sport really, so football transition to majority football.

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Speaker 1: But you also played baseball. What position do you play

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in baseball?

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Speaker 3: I played center field?

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Speaker 1: Nice?

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Speaker 2: Nice, I'm looking at your your sophomore batting average. You

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almost batted five hundred and at Lehigh. That's a pretty

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good baseball school.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it is. Yeah, three husband, football, basketball and

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baseball been dominant for years, so it's the great school

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to come from.

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Speaker 1: What made you fall in love with football? Why didn't

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you fall in love with baseball?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Just since I was young, football just

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had a different spot in my heart, Like I've always

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loved baseball stuff. But yeah, football's has always been my thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a great sport. It's the ultimate team game,

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no doubt about it. Devon Eca, three star running back

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at Lehig High School, part of the twenty twenty six

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b YU football class. Devon, you guys had just had

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one of the best classes in BA football history, maybe

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the best recruiting class in BAU football history.

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Speaker 1: Who have you been able to get to know?

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Speaker 2: That's a part of that class that you may be

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shared recruiting trips with, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Legend, you know, he's been my he's my teammate,

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you know, family, he's been. He's gonna be someone that's

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gonna be fun to go down with. Me and him

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just gonna try to, you know, work through this. We're

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going down early too, so it's great to have someone

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to go with and compete with every day. So, yeah, Legend, you.

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Speaker 2: Guys are both gonna be mid year transfers, early enrollees

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for the spring.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, we're going down to General.

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Speaker 1: Love that man.

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Speaker 2: Get to go down there and compete and ball out

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and see you if you can, you know, get into

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that rotation, into that depth chart.

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Speaker 1: Do you think you can make an impact?

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Speaker 2: Do you think you can be a true freshman that

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can see the field the first year?

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Speaker 3: That's for sure. That's the goal. That's what I'm trying

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to do the day I get there. So I'm gonna

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do everything I can to do that. But that's for

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sure the goal.

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Speaker 2: What weaknesses do you need to address in order to

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accelerate your your your production and progress as a running back.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm already I have pretty good speed. But

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it's good to get my speed up, get bigger and

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get stronger in the weight room. But yeah, just let

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b y U get me right and get down there

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and play. Just work.

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Speaker 1: You grew up in the state of Utah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you're a member of the Church

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of Jesus Christ the Latter day Saints, but I'm sure

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you're familiar with it. Give us a little background on

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family and faith and did that play a role in

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committing to BYU?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. I do have family that's big, like

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my grandpa, he's into the church. My family we've been

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going to church since I was young, so that also

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that is a big part of the me committing there

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and being so close to home. So having a place

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with a culture like that and so close, it's just

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it's too good.

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Speaker 1: Love that.

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Speaker 2: Any any plans we you know, I always get this question,

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So that's why I'm asking fans always asking, Hey, any

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plans on mission after the first year or the second year?

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Speaker 1: Any plans there?

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Speaker 3: No, that's not what I was planning on. I'm not

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playing on to going on a mission or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So we're gonna get you midyear and you're you know,

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you may be playing this first year and we may

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get you for four or five years. That's not always

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what happens with the BYU student athletes.

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Speaker 1: At least fifty percent of them go on mission. So

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that's why I ask the question.

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Speaker 2: Devon Ekka here on ESPN The Fan getting to know

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him b YU running back for the twenty twenty six class.

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You mentioned legend glasger guys a baller. What are we

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getting in Legend as a wide receiver and athlete?

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Speaker 3: Uh, he's some one who just works. You know, he's

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not worried about all the outside noise. He's just he's

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gonna get their work. And when you need someone to

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make a play, you could for sure justin to do that.

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So yeah, he think we got a dog coming in

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our receiver Love.

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Speaker 2: That Legend's gonna be a legend hopefully in that wide

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receiver room. And as you watch BYU over the last

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couple of years, when your recruitment started to get started

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to heat up, going eleven and two, eleven and two,

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with an opportunity to win a bowl game versus a

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ranked opponent in Georgia Tech, what if you see that

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you liked about the football program and how they're winning.

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Speaker 3: I like, I'm gonna lik him. You know, they're staying consistent.

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They're not worried about all the outside noise, you know,

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maybe like with stuff like a coach by the league.

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They weren't worried about none of that. They're just worried

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about the next week and getting a after they after

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they win, they're not satisfied. They're always ready for more

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wins than That's a program I want to be a

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part of.

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Speaker 1: Who.

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Speaker 2: Who's your, uh, maybe favorite player you've loved watching over

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the years as a as a UH as a maybe

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a fan football player watching the Boers. Do you have

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any favorite players.

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Speaker 3: I've been LJ honestly watching LJ player is always Finn.

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Speaker 2: Lj's nice man, He's a He's a great football player.

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Speaker 1: Who do you try to model your game after?

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Speaker 2: Is there anybody you look at your height, your weight,

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your skill set, your ability, your vision, Any NFL guys

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or college guys you try to mimic?

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Speaker 3: For sure, Jamal Williams. You know I trained with him,

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a by uk. So I would say, Jamal.

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as your coach?

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Speaker 1: He's been coaching you up a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been it's been way, it's it's big, you know.

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He helps me get the little stuff you know people

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don't quite see, and yeah, it's it's hard work. So

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every day he's there to work and no matter the

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time or whatever, they're there ready. So it's good to

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it's good to be behind people who are always there

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to work.

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Speaker 2: So well, lu Khan trained him and has been training

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him for a long time. I know, uh, Master Yoda

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lu Khan, he's uh, he's a great coach too.

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Speaker 1: How has he impacted you? Impacted you as well?

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Speaker 3: He's been impacted me too much. You know. He's just

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he's always there making sure I'm doing the right thing,

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training us to trending us to get to the point

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where we need to be. And he believes in us.

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So it's always going to have someone who believes in

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you that make you want to work harder.

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Speaker 1: So love that perspective.

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Speaker 2: You need great mentors and both those guys are fantastic mentors,

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uh to guys like yourself future running backs U for

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b Yu Ugar football. Outside of football, What do you

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like to do? Where do you spend your time?

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Speaker 3: I like to hang out with my friends, you know,

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play basketball, we fish a little bit, so yeah, that's

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probably my biggest thing to hang out on that at

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the time.

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Speaker 1: Are they mostly on the football team? You hanging out

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with most of your football buddies?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my football buddies, I got some. I got some

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buddies outside of football, but yeah, mostly.

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Speaker 2: The love that Devon Eka here on ESB and the

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fan BYU running back for the twenty twenty six class.

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Getting to know him a little bit better. What do

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you want to study at BYU? Is there anything of

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interest there?

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Speaker 3: I don't quite know a hundred percent I'm gonna do,

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but probably get into like maybe sports medicine some in

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that field. So yeah, I don't pind know though yet.

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Speaker 2: So you like anatomy and physiology and exercise physiology.

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Speaker 1: Is that something maybe that's down your path?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what that's for sure, something something I would

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want to look into.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I like that and so obviously b Y

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is a great academic institution, so you can I'm sure

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you get your generals out of the way, and then

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you can get into a major. They do have a

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couple of different pathways there. When you when you get

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to by you right and you start competing, what do

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you think is going to be the most difficult thing

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to do? Like as you're acclimating to that new college

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football regiment of being at a high level P four university.

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Speaker 3: I think the thing is, you know, there's no days

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off like in high school. You know some days you

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may you know, feel a little lazy, you feel like

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you take days off, I know, b YU And in

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college there's there's no days off if you're trying to

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really go do something, really be great. So you know,

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maybe just flipping that switch and just know you got

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to come and compete every day. So that's probably the

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biggest thing.

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Speaker 2: Love that perspective. I want to go back to your class.

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This is a monumental class that you're a part of.

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Uh did you I'm trying to think of your schedule now,

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and and these other guys actually legend you know him

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very well. But there's a lot of local products that

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are part of this class.

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Speaker 1: Bot Mulitalo at Loan Peak. You have Brock Harris.

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Speaker 2: From Pineview, Adam Bywater at Olympus. You have Jared Pula, Lopetti,

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Mwala at Orum, Jerreed Poulett Loan p Kennon Poole at

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Loan Peak. I believe uh Kawei Akana at Orum, Legend

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at Lehigh, Ridgeline Has Graham Livingston. All these guys, they're dudes,

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great football players. The the instinct talent continues to get better.

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Any of those guys really stand out. See did you

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play against any of them? Or we're on sevens with them?

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Watch film on them?

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Speaker 1: What do you make of it? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean all those guys, there's some there's some real

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life guys. You know Bo. I've played against Bo since

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I was young. He's always been someone you don't want

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to line up against, you know. And yeah, Legend, the

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Pula Twins, you know, we've seen the cats they made. Yeah,

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Ken made. You know. There's some dogs all around, you know,

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Litt Graham, some speed, all them. So it's a great

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classant to be a part of. Just it was great

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to see people from Utah too, all your Utah people

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you've been around and to go play with them, So

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that's a big no.

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Speaker 2: Doubt about it. Like, so, who did it come down

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to for your recruitment? You know, obviously DYU was the

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place that you chose, but did you have like a

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final three, final four?

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Speaker 3: I mean besides BYU like San Diego State, that was

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a bit that was a good one, you n V.

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I was talking to him a little bit, but BYU. Once,

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once I was able to get that going, I just

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stayed with that. So that was my main school. I

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was focus on what do you.

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Speaker 1: Like about Harvey Yunga?

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Speaker 2: The way that he recruited you and the relationship that

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you've been able to be with Harvey.

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Speaker 3: I like that he he kept it riding me the

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whole recruitment process. You know, everything he said he met.

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You know, a lot of these other coaches they might

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you know you or just say what you need to hear.

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But coach Harvey was straight up with me the whole process,

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you know, and that's that was probably the biggest thing

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that made everything go smooth smoothly.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, well Harve's a former b YU great as well.

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Speaker 1: Have you have you checked tape on Harvey yet? Your coach?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, he was a dog. He's a dog.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a unique skill set. He can catch

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the ball in the backfield. He's great in the past

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pro he's a he was a complete back, you know,

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high bar. How how can you become a complete back? Well,

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you got to be able to be if you if

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you lean in on you know, master Yoda, my guy

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lu Kahan, obviously Jamal and Harvey.

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Speaker 1: You guys, you got some good mentors there to lean

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on to become a complete back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Not everyone has access to that type of resources, those

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type of people in their lives. So you definitely blessed

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to be in that situation, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna roll at b YU. When do you

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arrive on campus?

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Speaker 3: Uh? January third?

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Speaker 2: Anyway, thirst right around the corner, man, you get have

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you you already scheduled with classes?

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Speaker 1: Right? What? What?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: It's your twelve credits? Thirteen credits? What are you taking?

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Speaker 3: I don't quitely know that off my head right now,

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but yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to see that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey man, it's all right. We still got time.

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You got Christmas breaks? Still, what are you gonna be

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doing for Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Break to get ready, get ready to come down. Coming

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down has been the only thing really on my mind.

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So yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Man. Well, you've been training hard.

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Speaker 2: I've been getting feedback from Luke and Jamal about your training.

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Where do you think you've made the most process progress

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since the end of the football season.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm I'm I'm really conditioned right now.

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You know, before every every workout we get a sprint

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in sprints in you know, conditioning. So that's that's something

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that I feel like I'm good at right now. Like

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my heart, you know, I'm in a good I'm in

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a good place to start to go into you got

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a party.

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Speaker 2: Good cardiovascular health is an imperative, especially as you get

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into springball and you're trying to earn your keep in

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that running back room, no doubt about it. Deavon Ekka

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here on your Utah ESPN Radio Network B while you're

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running back a part of the two thousand twenty six clash.

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Are you currently wearing one nineties? That where you're at

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five five eleven, one ninety? Where's the way.

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Speaker 1: At right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sir, I'm probably like one eighty eight right now. Yeah,

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one ninety. So I'm creeping her right around there.

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Speaker 1: Nice. How's the weight room? Do you like the weight room?

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've done any of your max

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lifts or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: What do you lift? What do you push?

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Speaker 3: Bench? I'm like two five squad, I got like four thirty?

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You know.

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Speaker 1: Nice?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's about where I am in the weight

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room bench a squad. So weight room that's something I

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for sure need to really really fall in love with

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when I get to college. But yeah, I like to

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for sure.

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Speaker 2: You asked Jamal and Luke about the weight room. Man,

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they hit it hard. I believe going into his senior year,

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transform that body. I think he was. He was tote

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in the rock at like two twenty his uh his

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senior year, he was.

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Speaker 1: He was big, he was strong, he was fast.

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Speaker 3: That's sair.

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Speaker 2: So you got to fall in love and put with

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pushing weight, no doubt about that as well.

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Speaker 1: Devon.

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Speaker 2: It's been awesome getting to know you man. Uh, congratulations

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on all your success. Can't wait to watch you and

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cover you and uh and and get to know you

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a little bit better as you you find your path

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there at BYU. But uh, final thing before we let

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you go, what message do you have for kugarnation as

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you becoming a part of the become a part of

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the of the Cougar football family.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait. I'm working my butt offs and I

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can't wait to see y'all down there.

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Speaker 2: Love it Devon Echo, ladies and gentlemen, Dan, thanks for

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joining us today, brother.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Therego Devon Echa, Ladies and gentlemen, by you. Running back

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three star out of Lehigh High School baller chose b

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YU over San Diego State, UNLV, San Diego State, San

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Jose State, UNLV, Utah State and many others, had interest

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from other schools and decided, Hey, I want.

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Speaker 1: To be a b YU Cougar. Love that.

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Speaker 2: I love his film. Honestly, his film was fantastic. Check

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it out, check out the huddle. I think you're going

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to be impressed, guys by the way it's getting into

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the holiday season. Want to remind you, guys out there

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