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former BA wide receiver and the owner operative UTAH Protected Films.
Speaker 1: Jared, how are you good?
Speaker 4: How are you doing? Ben?
Speaker 1: Thank you good man.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you hopping on to talk a little world the
BYU Sports. I know you've probably you got the basketball
game last night, and I mean, look by U basketball.
They got to figure out what's going on in the
first half, but there were plenty of silver linings.
Speaker 1: What did you learn about this team last night? Though?
Speaker 4: Well, I think there were a lot of opportunities to
win the game.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll tell you what when that do you
remember that when the Arizona player stole the inbound pass
and laid it back in.
Speaker 4: I remember I was. I was with my brother and
I looked at it. I said, you know that, watch
if this is a close game, that's kind of plain impact.
And it did. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're down three versus down one, and
there's a whole nother, whole nother ball game.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think that they're a really good team.
Speaker 2: I think that Devonsa missed a number of shots that
I think that he he makes for those shots, three
of those shots, and and the and the game is
completely different. So but yeah, I thought they had open shots,
just just missed a few here and there. And but yeah,
it's exciting to see why you compete at this level.
Speaker 3: What are you more optimistic about the trajectory of b
AU basketball or the trajectory of b A football.
Speaker 5: More optimistic about, Well, I would say optimistic would be
basketball because you know that you know who's backing basketball
right and there's a pretty good funnel of money available
and a willingness.
Speaker 2: To put it in because it's almost like a you know,
as as a basketball is like almost like a G League. Well,
I mean, look, you've got guys coming back from the
league right to play in it. So, uh, you know,
there there's there's a there's a want and a need
to get some of the best guys in their vicinity
in the beginning.
Speaker 4: That's what I think, you know, So it's a smart
it's smart move by the Jazz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you wonder you know, you wonder if I have
a theory.
Speaker 3: I have a conspiracy theory somehow, some way that Utah
Jazz are gonna be able to pick a J. D.
Bonsa and he's going to be in Utah for the
years to come.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that would be the genius of it,
right if if you were to like drop up a plan,
if you're sitting in the office and with your crew
trying to drop how could we do this and make
them want to play in Salt Lake City versus anywhere
else in the country. You know, Yeah, it'd be a
perfect scenario. So we'll see if it really happens, or
maybe they get him down the line, you know, because
he wants to play there, and I think that has
something that that they they could.
Speaker 1: Go after, no doubt about it.
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some football here for a moment. It's been a great
offseason for Kolani and his staff, minus losing j Hill
and Jennar, Right, impactful? How impactful do you think the
loss of Jay Hill and Jennar is going to be
in the next two years?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: I don't know how impactful it's going to be this
next year, but I feel like two years or three
years down the road, maybe you'll see some of the
fruits of that.
Speaker 1: What do you think.
Speaker 2: Potentially, you know, I think that the fact that everybody
still stayed after coaching changes were made and the opportunities
were there to leave says a lot about the program
the players, and I think it's their belief that hey,
even even though we lost, those guys were still staying.
They must trust the system right and trust the coaches
that are there to continue their careers as well and
to stay at BYU.
Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see though, you know, I'm
obviously optimistic that I think that having these guys that
have been in the same, similar program and maybe they'll
throw some wrinkles into these defensive schemes.
Speaker 4: That may even be better than what we were we
had with with j Hill, you know. So we'll have
to see. It's gonna be fun to see where everything goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm intrigued, no doubt about it. What was
the the best acquisition do you think via the portal?
And the best retention story?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: In your opinion this offseason?
Speaker 4: Well, the best retention, I don't know that there's a
single story for me.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's more the fact that you
had guys that were that could have gone to the
NFL and chose not to and.
Speaker 4: And every single one of them did it. You know,
that's crazy, right, So it's almost like they're in the back.
Speaker 2: Room huddled up, going we're gonna we're gonna go after this,
and we're who's all in and we want everybody, you know,
and they and they got everybody, you know, So there's
I think there's something brewing within the team, within the
coaching staff to really make a statement this year. And
so so I don't know if there's a single person,
you know, but but as a as a whole, I
feel like we're really in the right direction.
Speaker 3: This b YU foot ball team returns a lot of
key playmakers.
Speaker 1: We were just reading up on LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin's, you know, returning, and there's talk from Pro Football
Sports Network about how if l J continues to progress
with the rate he's been progressing. He stepped up in
a big way this past offseason, got bigger, faster, stronger,
that he could become a Heisman Trophy candidate. That's what
they're saying about the Big twelve player Offensive Player of
the Year. Agreer disagree with that assessment.
Speaker 4: Well, I think that he has the potential to be
in that mix. We'll have to see if the offense enables.
Speaker 2: And you know, I feel like a lot of those
guys that are in those conversations, especially as a running back,
your offense is almost cheat around you at all times.
Speaker 4: Right, So it'd be interesting to see what the offensive key.
But it may be.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to be the number one threat
on offense sides bear blackware.
Speaker 4: You know, and then it will kind of trickle down
to some receivers. But you know, he's going to be
a focal point, and so I think he has the
potential to do it. He would have to have just
like you had this past year.
Speaker 2: He had a super amazing breakout season, you know, and
he'll need to have another one on top of this
one in order to be in that talk for a
Heisman Trophy. But he definitely catapulted himself into a great
position by being the Big twelve Player of the year, right,
And so I'm.
Speaker 4: Excited to see. It's always exciting getting all these guys back.
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys have been in the system a
long time, right, so it's you've got an unbelievable amount
of potential moving forwards. I'm excited about it, and I
don't think the Utah youths are as excited as we are.
Speaker 3: We'll see, Yeah, your projection on I think we may
have discussed this last week, but do you think that
Utah it takes a.
Speaker 1: Step forward with Morgan Scalley takes a step back? Or
is maybe neutral, you know, and I what is neutral?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: As you know it's eight nine wins in a season.
Speaker 2: Probably, I think for them right now, it's it's like
if they make it to make a bowl game next year, right,
I think that's a step forward. I think if they
if they are end up under at five games are
below and they don't make a bowl game, I think
that's a step back.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: So I think that as long as you make a
bowl game, Maxture, I think you're making a step forward.
You know, we Colonne with through that, right and we
had to deal with the same things, but I mean
that was more into the Big twelve. But I mean,
I think it's going to be they're gonna have to
shock the world and have an eight win season. In
my opinion, I think that they're going to be rebuilding.
They're going to be finding out who they are a
little bit more under scaley. But it'll take two years
in my opinion, and they'll have the potential for like
a an eleven and one type season.
Speaker 4: I don't think it will take long.
Speaker 3: Not too long to get into the rebuild mode, the
retooling mode for the University of years.
Speaker 2: Because they still recruit really well Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: They still signed a really good class of athletes, So
it's uh, and so that's why I.
Speaker 4: Could be wrong. You know, they could come out and
have a ten win season, but I think they lost
enough and and I lost enough in the coaching set
and are having to make changes.
Speaker 2: Not that they are losing as the ability and the
skill set of their coaches or players, but it's still
they're all new. You've got a lot of new faces
and a lot of new things that they need to learn.
So I think it might take a year or two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people are you mentioned It's like, hey,
if they can get to a bowl game, that's a
successful season for the US in twenty twenty six. You
look at that that schedule with so many players that
they've lost, maybe along the offensive defensive line, they lost
their OC.
Speaker 1: They've they've lost a lot.
Speaker 3: They've acquired some, no doubt, but some are predicting no
bowl game for the Utes in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean you could see it, right. I mean,
if you're a Utah fan, all they're saying is as
long as we beat BYU, it's a successful season. Right.
Speaker 1: Oh, how the turn tables? Right? There was a time
during independence. There was a time during independence.
Speaker 3: When you had no you knew where you were going
bowling right there was it was it was natty or
you were going to this kind of middle tier bowl
game and so BYU super Bowl was the Utah game
and they were they went nine straight with L's that
was that was Those were dire times independence, wandering the
wilderness right as a former player, you know what, you
know what when when we were going through independence, like
how did you feel about it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Like what were your where? Where did you where were
your your thoughts right as it pertains? You know, we
have some that were like Jason Buck he said, let's
go back to the Mountain West.
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: We need to be in a conference, and others said, look,
independence is the way the segue into power fordom, power
five dum.
Speaker 1: We've got to wait our turn and hope for the best.
Speaker 4: Well that I mean, it ended up being a segue, right.
Speaker 2: I think that I don't know if that was the
initial plan or or how that how that was set,
but it ended up being a pretty good segue for us.
Speaker 4: I'm happy for being in a conference. Personally, I think
that the independence was you know, you're you have ultimate,
you have you have more than one goal.
Speaker 2: When you have a conference, you have a conference championship
as a goal.
Speaker 7: Everyone has a national championship as a goal, right, And
so you come in and when you were independent, you
lost one game and was like, I know, we're not
going to get in the mix anymore, you know.
Speaker 2: So, Uh, it's a lot of fun to have a conference,
I think. I think another side of it it's fun
is that you start to pay attention to the teams
in the conference a lot more, right, and you you
start to learn about their programs and about them.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I man, I went to two Texas Tech games this year, right,
and neither of them at b y U. And I
know more about Texas Tech and the fans and Lubbock
and and things like that. And I love that I do,
because we're gonna play them again and again, you know.
So I think it's a lot of fun. I think
we're heading in the right direction with everything that we're
doing with the program, and just super excited and it'll
be a lot of fun to get it get a
conference championship again.
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As we get into the spring ball that's right around
the corner, right, I know, March Madness is right out
there around the corner as well. What are your like
your to do lists in spring ball? What do you
need to know coming out of springball?
Speaker 1: If anything?
Speaker 2: I think I would like to see who are the
depth in our running back room, like where people where
people are kind of falling into place in there, and
who's competing and where that's going to go. And then
the same thing with the receivers. You know, I'm excited
to see the group that.
Speaker 8: Comes out and who competes, you know, who comes out
and just makes a statement and it's like, look, I'm
your guy, you know, and that's yeah.
Speaker 2: I wish I had that confidence back when I played,
you know, but that's the confidence that these guys need
is going into it, is.
Speaker 4: That you need to go prove that you're the guy.
I think Parker is going to prove that he's.
Speaker 2: The one at the number one in the receiver room
and and uh, you know, let's see who can he
can bring with him and who's going to compete and
and be that.
Speaker 4: So I think that's gonna be a lot of fun
to see both those. I'd like to see those depth
charts after.
Speaker 2: Spring just to get an idea where we're at and
who the focus has been on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you wonder if the strategic move right now is to, hey,
let's evalue what we have in the running back room,
right and uh and then if there is a need
you know, kind of you know, by that time, though,
after springball, you know, the the the the amount of
talent that's still in the portal may be thinned out considerably.
Speaker 4: Maybe, Yeah, tough to say.
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be there's a lot of people
gonna be stuck in the portal, but I think they yeah,
you're I think you'll be really picking. You have to
have to go deep in there to find the right
people to fit you know, because at this point, unless
there's some coaching changes that happen somewhere, nobody else can
jump in, right, So, so yeah, it'll be uh, it's
never Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. But I don't
I don't foresee us pulling more people out of the portal.
Speaker 4: I think that does a disservice to the guys that
are there now.
Speaker 2: Right, So, if you wanted running backs, you should go
pull them in the portal now so they can compete
in spring, because if you bring them in, it's kind
of that to to your to your running back room,
to all the guys who have been there competing, and
then you bring somebody in who essentially is being brought
in to have a step ahead of you, Right, So
I think it's important that they go after who they
need now so they can all compete together.
Speaker 3: Is there another player on the roster that they could
move to the running back room?
Speaker 2: Do you like?
Speaker 3: You know, like some of some of the guys that
that saw pt this year, is Preston rexa guys gonna
be a dude?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna elevate his play?
Speaker 4: Is uh?
Speaker 1: Is joevesa moody?
Speaker 3: Moody gonna elevate his play, CHIONI moa gonna elevate his play.
Speaker 1: What about Logan Pain. We heard some buzz about the
former uh, the the the great, uh, the hardest hitting
punt had hit that Pain his son, Logan Pain.
Speaker 2: You know you wonder Yeah, yeah, No, It'll be interesting
to see who who kind of fills into those roles.
Speaker 4: And but that's what spring ball is going to be.
Speaker 2: It's going to be super competitive, and these guys are
gonna got and earn their spots. I think that Preston
Rex has a ton of potential, but he he has
a different skill set. But sometimes it's good, right if
you have three guys that you can rotate three, you
have your bruiser, you have you have Preston who can
get on the outside and has speed on that outside right,
and he's a smart offensive player because he's played almost
every position in football.
Speaker 4: You know, I've known the Rex family for a long
time in San.
Speaker 2: Clementian, and so I hit him up and wanted to
get all the INFI could about pressed it other than
I already knew. And you know the biggest thing was
this kid has played almost every position skill position on
the field.
Speaker 4: He knows football, you know, and I think he needs
some more time.
Speaker 2: But you know, de Mooney, I think did it really
did really well in the ball game, you know, to
prove that that he can play.
Speaker 4: But everybody on that team can play football, right, It's
just we need to get people filled into those spots
that are going to make a difference, not just in
one game, but that can make a difference game after game.
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