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of the media bunch that covers the YU basketball and
football teams. We got Jay Drew of the Deseret News
on the LIEJ How you living?
Speaker 3: I'm great? Love it, Ben love the golf references.
Speaker 2: You know what Ben? Hey? Uh drive for show, putt
for dough? What do you do best? You putt or
drive for show better.
Speaker 3: I'd have to say i'd putt better. Back in the
old days, I could drive the ball fairly well, but uh,
not so much anymore. But my putting has been pretty decent.
That's one kind of scale or talent that doesn't require
as much physical exertion. I guess so I'm still pretty
good cutter.
Speaker 1: Are you a better driver or a better wedger? You know,
from like one hundred in.
Speaker 3: You know, the wedge play has always kind of been
a weakness of mine. I'd probably say driver never been
really good, never really had a great short game aside
from putting, Probably because I don't practice enough. When I
get on the golf course, I want to play. I
don't want to go to the driving range in practice.
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latest on Canard Davis Junior?
Speaker 2: What's the status?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the status is that yesterday? All right? Well, I
guess it was late Tuesday night after the police report
was released to the pub. But Tuesday morning, Tuesday night,
the Troble City Attorney's office prosecutor charged Cannard Davis with
one count of misdemeanor d UI with possession of marijuana.
It's the Class B misdemeanor.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 3: They recommended a fine of something like one ninety dollars.
A few hours later, UH Canard, through his attorney Danny
Frasier of South Jordan, entered at no guilty, not guilty plea,
asked for a jury trial, an expedient jury trial, and
so that's where it is right now. They also, in
their pleading UH asked for a bunch of evidence to
be turned over that the Provo police allegedly collected at
the scene. Obviously, you can you know, most people can
figure out what that is, results of the drug test
of the year in test I should say things like that.
So that's the last I heard as far as what's happened.
So now we pretty much wait and see. Maybe there
might be a a plea bargain hammered out, But as
far as the legal part of the whole thing, that's
where it stands right now.
Speaker 1: Danny Fraser lawyer, is that former b YU football player
Danny Fraser.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly is. He had a son that played
cornerback for the Cougars. I can't remember his name. He
graduates from Alta High. It was back to bround two
thousand and eight, two thousand and nine when I first
got on the beat Money your listeners or maybe Ronnie
might remember his name Fraser.
Speaker 1: Wait James Yeah, yeah, linebacker and Alta I remember Jamison Yeah,
good football player.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Danny's his father. Danny has also represented various BYU
athletes over the years. He represented Michael Lloyd one time,
the basketball player. I think he might have been involved
in the chas U situation. I'm not positive on Matt,
but he's Uh, this is nothing new to Danny. I
think he's probably made a few phone calls when this
hit the news, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's
doing it pro bono. I haven't been able to speak
to him, but yeah, that's Danny Frasier.
Speaker 1: Well, good representation obviously here. As uh we moved forward
with this. Uh A lot of people were were surprised,
uh that that a not guilty plea was put forth
by Cannard Davis Junior any inside as to uh, you know,
I mean, look like if if you're in possession, I
mean the the Meron Medcalf situation, or his report came
out that he had possession of marijuana and and so
pleading not guilty to to D wise interesting to be like,
how do you kind of correlate that and reconcile it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Myran Metcalf got the same police report that
we all did at the exact same time. He was
able to come out with it first because he probably
doesn't have to go through as many editors as since
we do it the desert at noon. But but yeah,
I don't want listeners to think I wasn't on top
of that whole thing, you know, and it was sitting
there and got beat by ESPN. But you know that's
neither here nor there. That's more of an ego thing
with media. But but yeah, the police report does say
that there was I think the word was consumption evidence
by consumption, which would tend to believe, you know, he
had some in his system. There was also property seized
in the police report, and that marijuana is included in that.
So apparently there was I'm not sure exactly what you
would call it, and not use marijuana or whatever, doesn't
say what form it was, you know, Obviously, marijuana nowadays
comes in many different forms, so that, yeah, that's basically
where it was. There was the police report was redacted,
which means that some names were erased out, were blacked
out where you can't read them. Other information was withheld
from the police report. The police, the pro Policity Police
Records Division, which is in charge of the reports now
and of Grandma requests, basically issued a letter along with
the police report saying that this was only a partial report.
For instance, I had requested the body cam footage from
from the police officers who were at the scene, and
there were no fewer than six at the scene of
this two car accident, so that, uh, that wasn't released either,
nor was the the accident report. Here the prole police
are saying there was a two car accident, but in
the information that they released Tuesday morning, there's no there's
no other drivers name listed, there's no other information on
who got the ticket for causing the crash, that sort
of thing. And my guess is that's part of the
evidence that is being sought after by by Cannard Davis's
legal team at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you wonder if you was even it was he
had fault in the accident. From other reports that I received,
he wasn't.
Speaker 3: That's what I've heard as well. There's not, like I said,
there's nothing in the police report that indicates he received
a citation for anything besides the duy and marijuana possession,
which is on one citation. I should add, it's not
two different charges. There's only one misdemeanor be charge that
was that he was charged with when the official you know,
charging documents came out. So so, yeah, I've heard the
same thing you have been that that there were other
people at the scene that you know, another person ran
a red light allegedly instruct Canard Davis while he was
on his way to the airport, ironically to go to
Boston with the bya basketball team. So there's a lot
of stuff lying out there, but I'm not going to
report anything, at least in the pages of the Desert
News until it's actually in a court document or a
police report.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What was the official statement from Kevin Young, I believe
yesterday when he got in front of the media.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kevin was asked about it right up the taught
by Darnelle, but he was more at the general question
about his philosophy regarding discipline, and he did a good
job answering that and basically just told the guys, hey,
if you make a mistake, own up to it, and
you know, and do the right thing. Later I asked him,
you know, if he was allowed to speak on the
Davis situation, and he basically said, I know exactly what happened.
I know all the little details. But he said, the
school has asked me to let them be the public
voice or the comment on it. And so he said
that's where it stands right now, is he won't be
making comment on the details. But he did throw in
the fact that, hey, if the school opens it up
to me, I'd be more unwilling to talk about it.
So it sounds like, you know, Kevin, Kevin knows some stuff.
I guess you would say, Ben, that's out there and
maybe some of the stuff that we just discussed. And
he sounded fairly I don't know if defiant is the word.
It's the videos out there. You can probably people can
probably look it up if they want to, kind of
look at his whatever his body language, but he sounded
to me almost like a disgusted tone. If that's fair
or accurate. Over this thing. So yeah, that's that's kind
of what he said yesterday.
Speaker 1: So like his body leg which his reaction was one
you mentioned like defiance, But it sounds like he knows
all the details and probably has a little bit more
grace he said. You said he he was kind of,
you know, disgusted by maybe. I don't know, there's a
lot to take in there with what you just said.
Like I'll have to go back and watch the video
obviously and listen to it, but I guess it's no
wonder that Cannard Davis Junior pleaded not guilty to this situation.
Speaker 2: There could be more details coming out here shortly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why I even when it right after
it happened. I've cautioned people to not rush the judgment,
so wait till all the facts and details come out.
A lot of people when they see the letters d U,
I automatically think it was drunk driving, And yeah, it
wasn't as far as they you know, there's no no
no mention of alcohol in the in the citation, it's marijuana,
so obviously that can be ingested in many different forms.
So yeah, I just think it's best that everybody just
kind of wait until these details slowly trickle out and
then go from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot to take in, no doubt about it.
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what do you think Cana Davis Junior is going to
be back? Any any postulation, any, any prognostication in that regard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have any. I did ask Kevin that
or I said something like safe to assume that he
won't play Friday. That probably wasn't the best choice of word,
you know, if you wanted a better answer, So my
bad on that, but that's the way I phrased it.
And he said safe, yes, or something like that. In
other words, yeah, yeah, he probably won't be playing Friday.
But he said there's a lot of stuff to be
still be sorted out, which we just discussed so yeah,
who knows. I just I don't know. I just I mean,
obviously BYU is a different university, a different institution than
almost any other university in the country, with the honor
code and that sort of thing. So yeah, it would
just be pure speculation on my part to guess when
he's coming back or if he's coming back. I should
also add.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what impact is there? So we have a couple
of we have attrition here. We have Night Pickets, who's
out for the season due to injury. Kepaketa has been concussed.
We don't know when he's going to be back. Can
our Davis Junior don't know what he's going to be back.
What do you make of the roster right now? And
not having those three guys on the roster? How do
that impact? How does that impact BYU's wins and losses
early in the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could have a huge impact. I mean, you
know they're gonna obviously they're already a little fin on
the guard line, especially point guard, back up point guard
without Nate Pickens, so that they've been that way basically
since the season started with Rob Wright having and being
able to play a lot of minutes and being kind
of an iron man and doing well at that. So
so Dawson Baker's kind of moved in and played a
little bit more of that point guard. But now with
Canar Davis out, Dawson Baker got the start the last
two games Tuesday against Delaware and then Saturday against Yukon.
Has done well and now so so they get the
little Finn there at that spot, kind of the two
guard spot, and now h and now with Kevi going
down there really really sin at center. I mean, they're
basically going to have to use a freshman Xavier on
Statton that as I'm assuming he will start. I don't know,
maybe the Heilo Boskovich will start, although he's not really
a true center. They've got him listed as a forward.
He's more of a perimeter player, probably more of a
power forward type player. So they're sin. It's no question
this is a really bad time to be sin too,
because obviously November I wrote about this a little while ago.
November is the by far a harder month than December.
Is all these tough games are lining up in November,
and to not be at full strength is really going
to hamper there when the net rankings come out in
December early December. You know, it's going to hamper those
net rankings unless they somehow pull off these wins. And
but it's going to be an uphill battle schedules that difficult.
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Speaker 1: Jay, As far as BA football is concerned, how optimistic
are you that do by you can go into Nippert
Stadium and come out and hopefully have some style points
to boot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at this point, I you know, I'm thinking just
when baby is probably the biggest sentiment that most BYU
fans at this point, at this juncture, you know, just
basically win the next two games and then kind of
let the the you know, let what is the saying,
let the bricks fall where they may or whatever?
Speaker 1: I can't remember that old click howeverumbles right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and but but yeah, first things first, this is
a tough game. Cincinnati, until until Utah stomp, donhom was
top twenty team and looking really good.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Every every indication is they're getting two key offlimpsive weapons back,
a running back and a receiver back who missed the
Utah game and and the Arizona game. I think one
of them missed the Utah game and both of them
missed the Earth the Arizona loss, So their offense should
be a little bit better with more weapons for Brandon
scores be so or Soresby excuse me.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think it's gonna be a tough game.
I tell people all the time, it's hard to win
college football games on the road, especially power forward opponents.
Everybody's got scholarship guys, everybody's got talent, everybody's got good coaches.
So these these aren't gimmes by any stretch. And obviously
Cincinnati is gonna be pumped up. They got game day coming.
They're going to want to make amends for the lost
two years ago to BYU and to the for the
loss last week to get Arizona. So and they still
have something to play for with. You know, they're not
totally out of the Big Twelve championship game race yet either,
So I expect the Hornets nets Cincinnati and and uh,
you know, the Cougars better come out better than they
did against Texas Tech, or it could be a long
night for them.
Speaker 1: Jay Drew des Red News, Jay, best way to support
you what you do, how you do it for all
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Speaker 3: Yeah, my stuff work can be found at Deseret dot com,
blacks Backs, slash Sports, dot BYU. I also on Twitter
at Drew j Or. Generally I do a retweet of
whatever stories are published, I retweet them so people can
find them through that as well.
Speaker 2: Love it. Anything you're cooking up that's going to be
dropping here.
Speaker 3: Shortly, Yeah, not really. I got a little with preview
of Friday's Wisconsin BYU basketball game, and then I'll be
writing kind of a piece about Cincinnati BYU at Cincinnati
that'll publish Friday afternoon, kind of looking back at the
history of the series and what the stakes are, kind
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Speaker 1: Love it, Ja Drew, follow him on x and read
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Jay, Thanks for having me on A
good night.
Speaker 2: Pleasure, Always a blessing talking with Jay Drew.
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