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Speaker 1: Jared Bledsoe, former BOE Wide rechiever, talks on ball today.
Speaker 3: Jared, how you living?
Speaker 4: What's up? Man? I'm doing well? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing awesome man. Now it's a great day to
be at Cougar. All these well in Cougar Country. I
know the basketball season fell short of expectations, but uh,
I think there's a lot of positivity out there brewing
in Cougar football and Cougar Nation. We got Alumni Week
as well, Jared.
Speaker 3: This week we're celebrating the alums.
Speaker 1: Are you going to be at Alumni Day and you're
are you going to be participating in the Alumni Game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'll be there on Friday and then yeah,
I'm I'm participating, So you're cross no injuries and uh,
and just just have a good time. I wish the
weather was gonna be better.
Speaker 3: Look, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: All the time been it's been beautiful all March, and
then all of a sudden it's gonna be forty six
degrees on on Friday.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little nippy, little nippy, no doubt
about it. So you know you may have to wear
your tights and long sleeves in this game.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna wear the short day? Like?
Speaker 1: So everybody knows like Jared wears flip flops. So are
you gonna wear any socks with your your low cut cleats? Uh,
you're gonna wear shorts? What are you gonna be wearing?
Speaker 4: That's a great question. I think I'm gonna see how
I feel being in the cold again and if I'm ready,
But yeah, no, I I I will make sure that
I'm warm. But that way as much's it more important
for me to be warm than to care how good
I look. I'm never I'm excited to get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who are you excited to? Kind of you know,
reconnect with from the alums. I know you're you're you're
well connected with the current team as well, is the
coaching staff, et cetera. But who you look into maybe
interact with once again. From the rosters that are going
to be showing up, these former Cougars that are showing up.
Speaker 4: Well, I'd like to catch the passes again from Brandon Doughlan.
You know, yeah, I love Brandon and so that'll be
fun where I think we're on the same the same
team as well, So there's I think it's gonna be
a lot of fun. I hope that that we have
a good turnout, and you know, I'm really anxious to
just kind of see how how this YU team sizes
up come this fall. You know, I can't I can't
wait to see what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot of optimism. Right.
Speaker 1: Seventy percent of their production returns, which is is pretty insane.
Their top twenty in returning production in college football, and
so expectations are right.
Speaker 3: Barrelok's phenomenal right now, he looks really really good.
Speaker 1: The defense is stacked from a talent standpoint at every
single position.
Speaker 4: You want to you know, I had I had one
of the uh I won't I won't use his name,
but but one of one of the very thought after
players that that uh J Hale wanted and and Michigan
would have wanted from Bay to transfer. And I had
him in the shop the other day. We were talking
and I and I just asked him, you know, what
what it is you know about b YU that kept
everybody here And and one of the pieces of the
puzzle that that I hadn't really thought about is his
mindset was it looks better when I'm looking to go
to the NFL, it looks better for me that I
stayed in one place. And if the scouts are starting
to see that, and they're paying better attention to those
guys that are focused and where they're at and they're
not transferring every year, so you know, I thought that
that was very interesting. And then just the culture of
itself and and the feeling that these guys get that
no matter who the coaches are, it's the players that
are playing, and they're gonna they're gonna get out there
and and prove that that everybody staying for a reason.
And I think it's fun to see some of the
coaching staff and you know, I'm not going to say
it's a relaxed vibe, but it's definitely not as tense
as it has been in the past. Now for an
Aaron Rodgers has not had to be been in this
position of having to return quarterback again and knowing what
he has and moving forward. So I think that it's
been fun to just see that. I think that everybody
knows what we have. It's just a matter of being
able to game plan properly, make the right adjustments during
the game in order to make sure that we stay
on top and just stay on the gas. But I
think that this team is very well positioned to do
really well next year.
Speaker 1: Yes, you mentioned Aaron Roderick, and does it even to
the state like, does Aaron get enough credit for what
happened last year offensively with Bear coming in becoming the
starter and leading b YU along with the defense, good
special team's unit as well to a top twenty five
season in twelve wins.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately for the common fan, I think it takes two
or three years of success for an offensive coordinator before
they'll actually start giving him credit. I mean, it's one
hundred percent he's not getting what he deserves within the
fan base within national media. Yeah, he's getting what he's being.
He's being seen as who he is and I think
BYU fans, and we need to get on board and
make sure that we're back in an incredible offensive coordinator
who is in the ear of our outstanding quarterback and
who's making the decisions on what we do next and
how we game plan and and how we beat the
other team and how we take our personnel and maximize
them to beat the one on ones that that we
face on the other side of the ball. So he's
done really well. I think he'll continue to do well.
He's recruited well. I mean, who's coming after Bear? You know,
we've got the one of the top recruits in the nation.
He was on his mission out writer and it'll be
great to see him come in as well and maybe
fill the shoes right after Bear. But he's doing something
right and I would love for him to get the
credit from from the fans, the WYU fans that I
think he deserves better. And then I think he's getting nationally,
but I think it'll take this year really showing what
he can do for the fans to buy in all
the way.
Speaker 1: So Aaron was asked a question about you know, wide
receiver room and what we have there, because there's you know,
question marks right Chase.
Speaker 3: Is going on, Parker's no longer part of the program.
Speaker 1: He got some new faces, unproven players, et cetera, and
he said, we will have enough weapons, and he went
on to discuss you know, guys like Tainakua, Reggie Frishnet,
and he didn't want to forget you know. He also
I think he talked about Jojo Phillips definitely taking a
step forward as well. When we when we talk about
having enough weapons, is it just enough to have enough
weapons or is this just an average room, an above
average room, or do we have some true playmakers in
this room?
Speaker 4: Depeeld Well, I think, I definitely think there's playmakers in
the room. But in order for those guys to make plays,
so much has to go into the you know, from
the game plan, to the right play calling and to
everybody doing doing their job on those plays in order
for that player to make those plays. And I think
we're going to have that. I do believe that the
receiver room is they have proving to do. We have
to see them play in a game situation, not just
discreens practice, make an amazing catch that in a game situation,
and and they're going to prove themselves. And like I've
said the whole time, I think there's going to be
two or three that really stand out and become those guys.
And but it'll be I'm anxious to see who those are,
but it's gonna take game testing in order for me
to buy in that one of them is that guy,
or two or three of them.
Speaker 1: Kyler Casper is a guy that you've got, you've become
familiar with. Aaron Roderick like gushed over Kyler Casper in
this interview, Well, what is the potential for this young man?
Great size, comes from great stock. His dad was an
NFL wide receiver. He got recruited organ If you're a
wide receiver and getting recruited organ and you didn't like transition,
like they didn't like push him to like tight end,
that means he's a wide receiver right Like he's still
and he was trending to be a I think pivotal
piece within that wide receiver room before his injury delaying
his his season last year.
Speaker 3: What can we expect from Kyler Casper?
Speaker 4: Well, I have high expectations for him. I think that
he knows how to use his size, and he's you know,
sometimes you get these big, real tall receivers in and
they're just not as a durable might not be the
right word, but but you know what I mean, Like
in and out of breaks, they're not quick, they're you know,
they have a long stride, but maybe they don't use
that stride well, or they have this body that all
they need to do is use it for leverage or
to give themselves a chance on a ball and use
their height properly. But the one thing that I think
that he does is that he knows how to utilize
what he has and I think that's I've seen that
in spring ball and so that's going to be fun
to see. And just being able to stretch the field.
He's a deep call. He's a deep ball guy, you know,
and he's an he's an easy corner of the end
zone guy to out jump, you know, some of these
shorter dvs. So I think that he but but once again,
it also brings it back to he's he's unproven game
time at b YU. You know, obviously he played well
growing up in order to get an opportunity at Oregon
so the potential and the talent is there, and and
it's all going to have to do with these receivers
and the quarterbacks coming together and really being able to
bond and get their timing down properly. And I think that,
you know, this guy's the limit for him if he
if he comes out and does what I think he
can do.
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Speaker 1: Jared Bledze, former b YU wide receiver talking some BYU football,
little Camp Killani by the way, BYU baseball, getting getting
beat up right now, bottom of the fourth. They're down
nine to one to Kansas State. Not looking too hot
right now, giving up a lot of runs. Eleven hits,
nine runs on eleven hits BYU with only one run
one hit.
Speaker 3: And I think it was actually it was a beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was a jack on one four hundred and fifty
two feet I think to the right, want to say,
maybe right center field. Anyway, that's the only run boy
you has and the only only hit that they have
all game right now, so hopefully they can turn it around.
But going back to BYU football, what what do you
think was accomplished in spring ball?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What was what was kind of the quest the goals
during spring balls from your vantage point? And what do
you feel was accomplished offensively, defensively special teams wise?
Speaker 4: I think a big piece of it was the new
coaches having the opportunity to coach their playing, their players
and be fully involved in kind of setting the tone
for what they expect.
Speaker 3: From the players.
Speaker 4: And it's always good to build a bond with your coach,
especially your position coach, and spring ball is a great
time to do it because it's a little bit more
relaxed in your day to day and you know, it's
not every day and so there's just a different focus there.
But I think the opportunity for these new coaches to
get in there and learn learn what they're playing, are doing,
and how they can coach them better and and the
schemes can kind of start getting put together. And I
think that's you know, I think realizing, you know, we
got what we thought we had and now it's time
to figure out how to go game in and game
out and game plan properly and perform to the best
their abilities. And I think they're just going to have
a really good season. I mean, there's there's potential that
this could be one of those magic seasons, but you know,
it takes a lot of hard work to get there.
But I think that they're putting it.
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why he chose Bieley is because he's got to practice recently,
and he talks about like the vibe, the energy, how
coaches coach players, how players communicate with coaches, and he said,
like the energy was just so electric and so positive,
and it was such a vibe. He told himself. Essentially,
he's like, I got to be a part of this.
I gotta be a part of this. And when it
felt right. He's like he's early in the process. Quite honestly,
he didn't have to commit right Now's March thirtieth, March
thirty first, he's committing right now because of you know,
the you know, being down there practice of film, the
vibe right like you've been down there many times and
we don't have to go into detail about all things
that you know at practice, but man, what is that
vibe like? Well, how would you describe the practice vibe
with this this coaching staff, this crew led by Kilane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's high energy, you know, and the
high and it's a contagious energy. And I just believe
that the players know who they are and they know
what they have and and you can feel that as
a group. You know, it's it's not there's not a
lot of question marks going into this year. You know
that a lot of that has been feeled before or
the springball even started. You knew, especially when you have
in this day and age where these it's so easy
to leave, you know, it's so easy. They made it
so hard for us to transfer. There were consequences. There
were you know, you got to shit out a year
if you wanted to go D one. Otherwise you had
to go to Division two NAI and so they make
it so easy to transfer that I think that they're
starting to feel that too, how easy it is to
just come and go. And I feel like that these guys,
knowing that everybody came back, even though maybe some could
have got paid better or they could have went to
the league, I think they just feel it. They just
know who they are and what they have and you're
just got to make it transmit under the field, you know,
and it would be it is set to be what
I think will be a really really fun season for
the team in for the fans love it.
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Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 4: Thanks you ye'll thank you.
Speaker 1: There you go, Jared Bledshell. Let's take a time out,
Cougar Nation. We'll be back. No more Cougar Sports content.
On the flip side, We're gonna welcome in Lee Kamard.
Coming up next college basketball Cougar Sports. BYU women's basketball
heading to the w b I T Championship Game. Uh,
they're the only team in the state of Utah still
playing ball and Lee Kamard doing things that no other
head coach in by women's basketball history have done.
Speaker 3: Most wins in a in the in.
Speaker 1: A rookie season from a BYU women's head coach, and
he continues to win, continues to survive in advance.
Speaker 3: How crazy