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Speaker 1: Jared, how are you good?

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Speaker 4: How are you doing? Ben?

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Speaker 1: Thank you good man.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you hopping on to talk a little world the

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BYU Sports. I know you've probably you got the basketball

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game last night, and I mean, look by U basketball.

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They got to figure out what's going on in the

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first half, but there were plenty of silver linings.

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Speaker 1: What did you learn about this team last night? Though?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think there were a lot of opportunities to

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win the game.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'll tell you what when that do you

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remember that when the Arizona player stole the inbound pass

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and laid it back in.

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Speaker 4: I remember I was. I was with my brother and

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I looked at it. I said, you know that, watch

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if this is a close game, that's kind of plain impact.

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And it did. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're down three versus down one, and

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there's a whole nother, whole nother ball game.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I think that they're a really good team.

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Speaker 2: I think that Devonsa missed a number of shots that

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I think that he he makes for those shots, three

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of those shots, and and the and the game is

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completely different. So but yeah, I thought they had open shots,

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just just missed a few here and there. And but yeah,

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it's exciting to see why you compete at this level.

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Speaker 3: What are you more optimistic about the trajectory of b

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AU basketball or the trajectory of b A football.

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Speaker 5: More optimistic about, Well, I would say optimistic would be

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basketball because you know that you know who's backing basketball

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right and there's a pretty good funnel of money available

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and a willingness.

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Speaker 2: To put it in because it's almost like a you know,

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as as a basketball is like almost like a G League. Well,

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I mean, look, you've got guys coming back from the

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league right to play in it. So, uh, you know,

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there there's there's a there's a want and a need

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to get some of the best guys in their vicinity

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in the beginning.

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Speaker 4: That's what I think, you know, So it's a smart

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it's smart move by the Jazz.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you wonder you know, you wonder if I have

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a theory.

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Speaker 3: I have a conspiracy theory somehow, some way that Utah

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Jazz are gonna be able to pick a J. D.

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Bonsa and he's going to be in Utah for the

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years to come.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean that would be the genius of it,

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right if if you were to like drop up a plan,

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if you're sitting in the office and with your crew

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trying to drop how could we do this and make

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them want to play in Salt Lake City versus anywhere

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else in the country. You know, Yeah, it'd be a

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perfect scenario. So we'll see if it really happens, or

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maybe they get him down the line, you know, because

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he wants to play there, and I think that has

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something that that they they could.

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Speaker 1: Go after, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about paint protective films. Paint protection film and

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it's finers. Contact my guy Jared Bledsoe today. Let's talk

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some football here for a moment. It's been a great

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offseason for Kolani and his staff, minus losing j Hill

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and Jennar, Right, impactful? How impactful do you think the

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loss of Jay Hill and Jennar is going to be

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in the next two years?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: I don't know how impactful it's going to be this

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next year, but I feel like two years or three

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years down the road, maybe you'll see some of the

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fruits of that.

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Speaker 1: What do you think.

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Speaker 2: Potentially, you know, I think that the fact that everybody

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still stayed after coaching changes were made and the opportunities

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were there to leave says a lot about the program

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the players, and I think it's their belief that hey,

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even even though we lost, those guys were still staying.

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They must trust the system right and trust the coaches

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that are there to continue their careers as well and

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to stay at BYU.

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Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see though, you know, I'm

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obviously optimistic that I think that having these guys that

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have been in the same, similar program and maybe they'll

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throw some wrinkles into these defensive schemes.

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Speaker 4: That may even be better than what we were we

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had with with j Hill, you know. So we'll have

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to see. It's gonna be fun to see where everything goes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm intrigued, no doubt about it. What was

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the the best acquisition do you think via the portal?

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And the best retention story?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 1: In your opinion this offseason?

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Speaker 4: Well, the best retention, I don't know that there's a

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single story for me.

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Speaker 2: I think I think it's more the fact that you

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had guys that were that could have gone to the

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NFL and chose not to and.

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Speaker 4: And every single one of them did it. You know,

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that's crazy, right, So it's almost like they're in the back.

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Speaker 2: Room huddled up, going we're gonna we're gonna go after this,

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and we're who's all in and we want everybody, you know,

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and they and they got everybody, you know, So there's

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I think there's something brewing within the team, within the

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coaching staff to really make a statement this year. And

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so so I don't know if there's a single person,

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you know, but but as a as a whole, I

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feel like we're really in the right direction.

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Speaker 3: This b YU foot ball team returns a lot of

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key playmakers.

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Speaker 1: We were just reading up on LJ.

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Speaker 3: Martin's, you know, returning, and there's talk from Pro Football

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Sports Network about how if l J continues to progress

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with the rate he's been progressing. He stepped up in

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a big way this past offseason, got bigger, faster, stronger,

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that he could become a Heisman Trophy candidate. That's what

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they're saying about the Big twelve player Offensive Player of

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the Year. Agreer disagree with that assessment.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think that he has the potential to be

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in that mix. We'll have to see if the offense enables.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I feel like a lot of those

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guys that are in those conversations, especially as a running back,

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your offense is almost cheat around you at all times.

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Speaker 4: Right, So it'd be interesting to see what the offensive key.

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But it may be.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to be the number one threat

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on offense sides bear blackware.

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Speaker 4: You know, and then it will kind of trickle down

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to some receivers. But you know, he's going to be

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a focal point, and so I think he has the

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potential to do it. He would have to have just

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like you had this past year.

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Speaker 2: He had a super amazing breakout season, you know, and

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he'll need to have another one on top of this

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one in order to be in that talk for a

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Heisman Trophy. But he definitely catapulted himself into a great

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position by being the Big twelve Player of the year, right,

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Speaker 4: Excited to see. It's always exciting getting all these guys back.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you guys have been in the system a

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long time, right, so it's you've got an unbelievable amount

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of potential moving forwards. I'm excited about it, and I

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don't think the Utah youths are as excited as we are.

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Speaker 3: We'll see, Yeah, your projection on I think we may

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have discussed this last week, but do you think that

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Utah it takes a.

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Speaker 1: Step forward with Morgan Scalley takes a step back? Or

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is maybe neutral, you know, and I what is neutral?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: As you know it's eight nine wins in a season.

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Speaker 2: Probably, I think for them right now, it's it's like

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if they make it to make a bowl game next year, right,

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I think that's a step forward. I think if they

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if they are end up under at five games are

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below and they don't make a bowl game, I think

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that's a step back.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: So I think that as long as you make a

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bowl game, Maxture, I think you're making a step forward.

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You know, we Colonne with through that, right and we

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had to deal with the same things, but I mean

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that was more into the Big twelve. But I mean,

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I think it's going to be they're gonna have to

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shock the world and have an eight win season. In

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my opinion, I think that they're going to be rebuilding.

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They're going to be finding out who they are a

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little bit more under scaley. But it'll take two years

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in my opinion, and they'll have the potential for like

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a an eleven and one type season.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it will take long.

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Speaker 3: Not too long to get into the rebuild mode, the

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retooling mode for the University of years.

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Speaker 2: Because they still recruit really well Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: They still signed a really good class of athletes, So

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it's uh, and so that's why I.

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Speaker 4: Could be wrong. You know, they could come out and

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have a ten win season, but I think they lost

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enough and and I lost enough in the coaching set

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and are having to make changes.

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Speaker 2: Not that they are losing as the ability and the

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skill set of their coaches or players, but it's still

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they're all new. You've got a lot of new faces

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and a lot of new things that they need to learn.

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So I think it might take a year or two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people are you mentioned It's like, hey,

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if they can get to a bowl game, that's a

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successful season for the US in twenty twenty six. You

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look at that that schedule with so many players that

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they've lost, maybe along the offensive defensive line, they lost

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their OC.

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Speaker 1: They've they've lost a lot.

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Speaker 3: They've acquired some, no doubt, but some are predicting no

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bowl game for the Utes in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean you could see it, right. I mean,

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if you're a Utah fan, all they're saying is as

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long as we beat BYU, it's a successful season. Right.

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Speaker 1: Oh, how the turn tables? Right? There was a time

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during independence. There was a time during independence.

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Speaker 3: When you had no you knew where you were going

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bowling right there was it was it was natty or

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you were going to this kind of middle tier bowl

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game and so BYU super Bowl was the Utah game

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and they were they went nine straight with L's that

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was that was Those were dire times independence, wandering the

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wilderness right as a former player, you know what, you

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know what when when we were going through independence, like

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how did you feel about it?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Like what were your where? Where did you where were

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your your thoughts right as it pertains? You know, we

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have some that were like Jason Buck he said, let's

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go back to the Mountain West.

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Speaker 1: What are we doing?

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Speaker 3: We need to be in a conference, and others said, look,

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independence is the way the segue into power fordom, power

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five dum.

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Speaker 1: We've got to wait our turn and hope for the best.

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Speaker 4: Well that I mean, it ended up being a segue, right.

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Speaker 2: I think that I don't know if that was the

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initial plan or or how that how that was set,

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but it ended up being a pretty good segue for us.

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Speaker 4: I'm happy for being in a conference. Personally, I think

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that the independence was you know, you're you have ultimate,

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you have you have more than one goal.

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Speaker 2: When you have a conference, you have a conference championship

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as a goal.

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Speaker 7: Everyone has a national championship as a goal, right, And

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so you come in and when you were independent, you

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lost one game and was like, I know, we're not

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going to get in the mix anymore, you know.

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Speaker 2: So, Uh, it's a lot of fun to have a conference,

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I think. I think another side of it it's fun

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is that you start to pay attention to the teams

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in the conference a lot more, right, and you you

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start to learn about their programs and about them.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I man, I went to two Texas Tech games this year, right,

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and neither of them at b y U. And I

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know more about Texas Tech and the fans and Lubbock

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and and things like that. And I love that I do,

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because we're gonna play them again and again, you know.

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So I think it's a lot of fun. I think

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we're heading in the right direction with everything that we're

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doing with the program, and just super excited and it'll

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be a lot of fun to get it get a

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conference championship again.

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As we get into the spring ball that's right around

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the corner, right, I know, March Madness is right out

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there around the corner as well. What are your like

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your to do lists in spring ball? What do you

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need to know coming out of springball?

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Speaker 1: If anything?

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Speaker 2: I think I would like to see who are the

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depth in our running back room, like where people where

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people are kind of falling into place in there, and

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who's competing and where that's going to go. And then

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the same thing with the receivers. You know, I'm excited

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to see the group that.

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Speaker 8: Comes out and who competes, you know, who comes out

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and just makes a statement and it's like, look, I'm

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your guy, you know, and that's yeah.

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Speaker 2: I wish I had that confidence back when I played,

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you know, but that's the confidence that these guys need

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is going into it, is.

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Speaker 4: That you need to go prove that you're the guy.

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I think Parker is going to prove that he's.

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Speaker 2: The one at the number one in the receiver room

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and and uh, you know, let's see who can he

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can bring with him and who's going to compete and

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and be that.

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Speaker 4: So I think that's gonna be a lot of fun

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to see both those. I'd like to see those depth

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charts after.

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Speaker 2: Spring just to get an idea where we're at and

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who the focus has been on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you wonder if the strategic move right now is to, hey,

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let's evalue what we have in the running back room,

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right and uh and then if there is a need

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you know, kind of you know, by that time, though,

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after springball, you know, the the the the amount of

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talent that's still in the portal may be thinned out considerably.

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Speaker 4: Maybe, Yeah, tough to say.

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Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be there's a lot of people

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gonna be stuck in the portal, but I think they yeah,

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you're I think you'll be really picking. You have to

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have to go deep in there to find the right

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people to fit you know, because at this point, unless

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there's some coaching changes that happen somewhere, nobody else can

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jump in, right, So, so yeah, it'll be uh, it's

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never Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. But I don't

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I don't foresee us pulling more people out of the portal.

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Speaker 4: I think that does a disservice to the guys that

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are there now.

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Speaker 2: Right, So, if you wanted running backs, you should go

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pull them in the portal now so they can compete

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in spring, because if you bring them in, it's kind

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of that to to your to your running back room,

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to all the guys who have been there competing, and

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then you bring somebody in who essentially is being brought

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in to have a step ahead of you, Right, So

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I think it's important that they go after who they

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need now so they can all compete together.

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Speaker 3: Is there another player on the roster that they could

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move to the running back room?

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Speaker 2: Do you like?

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Speaker 3: You know, like some of some of the guys that

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that saw pt this year, is Preston rexa guys gonna

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be a dude?

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna elevate his play?

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Speaker 4: Is uh?

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Speaker 1: Is joevesa moody?

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Speaker 3: Moody gonna elevate his play, CHIONI moa gonna elevate his play.

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Speaker 1: What about Logan Pain. We heard some buzz about the

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former uh, the the the great, uh, the hardest hitting

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punt had hit that Pain his son, Logan Pain.

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Speaker 2: You know you wonder Yeah, yeah, No, It'll be interesting

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to see who who kind of fills into those roles.

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Speaker 4: And but that's what spring ball is going to be.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be super competitive, and these guys are

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gonna got and earn their spots. I think that Preston

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Rex has a ton of potential, but he he has

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a different skill set. But sometimes it's good, right if

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you have three guys that you can rotate three, you

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have your bruiser, you have you have Preston who can

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get on the outside and has speed on that outside right,

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and he's a smart offensive player because he's played almost

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every position in football.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've known the Rex family for a long

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time in San.

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Speaker 2: Clementian, and so I hit him up and wanted to

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get all the INFI could about pressed it other than

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I already knew. And you know the biggest thing was

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this kid has played almost every position skill position on

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the field.

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Speaker 4: He knows football, you know, and I think he needs

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some more time.

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Speaker 2: But you know, de Mooney, I think did it really

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did really well in the ball game, you know, to

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prove that that he can play.

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Speaker 4: But everybody on that team can play football, right, It's

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just we need to get people filled into those spots

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that are going to make a difference, not just in

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one game, but that can make a difference game after game.

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Speaker 3: My guy Jared bloodshall we appreciate you? Has always love

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talking ball with you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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