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Only g Man Brandon C. Gurney of the Daily Herald,
g Man, how you live it?
Speaker 4: I'm doing very well.
Speaker 5: I forgot how much I enjoy covering the postseason basketball tournaments.
Was there all day Monday, gonna be there all day Tomorrow, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 4: It's fantastic. It's probably my favorite sporting events at cover.
It's great.
Speaker 2: What did you learn about Utah basketball?
Speaker 4: Well, or BAYU basketball.
Speaker 2: And BYU basketball.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I'm saying, like Utah Preparatory High
school basketball, what did you learn about some of the players,
the coaches, what do you learn about hoops in the
state of Utah.
Speaker 4: Well, so I covered two games.
Speaker 5: I covered Pleasant Grove and was Hatch, which was a
fantastic game. Not really anyone notable on either of those
two teams, just two solid teams. The next game I
covered was interesting. He had spring Build. Do you know
who Springboe has as Mike Hall and Travis Hansen sons
playing Wow?
Speaker 4: Playing there? Pretty good? Yeah, they're not bad, they're good team.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, they went up against Olympus, who has a dude
that this I forget the kids day, but I can't
forget it. First time I seen him play. He's just amazing.
But what was interesting about that game? Because I worked
for the PROLA Daily Herald, I'm focused on Springville, right,
that's the team I know. I don't know much about Olympics,
and I'm seeing a big guy, who strong, well built
guy guarding the perimeter like a you know, he reminded
me my move talent Shumway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like free injury talent Shumway.
Speaker 5: Ye, Scarty of the Primer. I'm like man that guy's
pretty good. He's he's really bawling out. He's locking these
guys down. And then I look at the roster.
Speaker 4: Well let's Adam Bywater. Wow. I was impressed.
Speaker 5: Usually, when you see these football players play basketball, you
stick them inside, they bang around whatever. You know, it's
not my sport. I'm doing the football thing. I'm helping
out here on basketball. That's not what I saw with
Adam Bywater. He's a skilled player. Yeah, And you know
as well as I do.
Speaker 4: I've said a lot.
Speaker 5: A lot of what I take from these football players,
I take from how they play basketball.
Speaker 4: And what I saw Madam Bywater was tremendous.
Speaker 5: And just so everyone knows the talent Shomway comp talent
Shomway prior to his Achilles.
Speaker 4: Tear, I believe he towards Achilles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, guys, he was gonna be one of the most
phenomenal over.
Speaker 4: I just know he yet tremendous injury.
Speaker 5: Problems right right, compounded whatever, and he was still able
to play pretty well at the quach.
Speaker 2: Of levels wide receiver for one.
Speaker 4: But I'm telling you, this dude would have been a star.
Speaker 5: He would have been a hollowed name of BYU without
those injury issues.
Speaker 4: Kind of reminded me of at him Bywater just the
sheer athleticism.
Speaker 2: Adam sixteen, by the way.
Speaker 5: Tallon was a skilled basketball player, and what I saw
from Adam he's skilled, he he could play. What I'm
telling you is he's an athlete. And I'm gonna make
this pronouncement. I've covered a lot of recruits, I've covered
a lot of four star guys. I believe Adam Bywater
is the most underrated four.
Speaker 4: Star recruit and B Way football history. I really do. Wow.
Speaker 5: I think when people think of Adam by oh, yeah,
they were offered him because of the brother didn't really have
a lot of stuff. Yeah, you didn't hear a lot
of and he like kim undering the season. But to me,
that's what's impressive about him. A lot of these guys
they get to have four stars because they do the
camp circuit and their eyes on and all that, and
it's like a four stars and then then they kind
of play and you forget about whatever Adam got promoted
during the season.
Speaker 4: He didn't get promoted on the camp circuit. What does
that tell you? He's bawling for the two four seven.
Speaker 5: Network to Bawl, a guy from Utah committed to BYU.
Not out there, not someone they're gonna promote. You know,
he's a legacy guy, brother and all that. To promote
him to four stars. I'd like to ask Brandon Huffman
about it because because I think he'd have a really
good story to tell. But to me, that's very, very impressive.
And when I saw this guy playing on the hardwood,
lateral movement quicks smarts, Yeah, this guy's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: This guy is going to be really twenty four to
seven recruited by Boise State, Utiers on a state channels
Ay State, Sandy Goes UNLV, Utah State, Princeton Harvard. Smart
Kid finished senior year with thee hundred and twenty one tackles,
six interceptions, five receiving touchdowns, a sack, a field goal block,
and a pun block. Named Navy All American ball Man
of the Year, given to high school football player who
epitomizes a high standard of excellence in community service and
athletic distinction. A first team All State selection Region five
Defensive MVP Team MVP also earned first team All Conference
stand out at under Armor Next Camp. According to twenty
four seven Sports analysts. Brother former BA You linebacker been.
Speaker 5: By it and it all makes for of the most underrated,
overlooked for star recruit and bwave football history. Yeah, I
mean BA Force are oh wow for store, Oh my gosh,
you want to know everything about him all that, And
I think two things are in play. One B Way
is just getting more four star recruits, right, so they're
not as singular, and then they're not they don't cast
as much attention, right because you're getting three four guys.
I believe this last recruiting class that was five, Is
that right. I think that's in play. And the other
reason is just what I said prior, Oh he's the brother,
he's a legacy kid. They just offered him, not really
a big recruiting battle all that kind of play. I mean,
Olympus is okay, they're not a great football program, so
you overlook that.
Speaker 4: It's just like, oh, yeah, he's gonna be b Ways anyway.
Speaker 5: So you don't want to give him his due diligence
because there's there's not the impression that you had to
fight hard for him, you know what I'm saying. And
I don't really know his recruiting process.
Speaker 2: I have to believe that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, by where he was pretty much a shoe in
they It was probably one of those situations where b
where you would have to really really screw up not
to get.
Speaker 4: Out of bywater.
Speaker 5: Right, But none of that matters with the pure athleticism
what the kid is, None of that should come into play.
Speaker 4: It's all what you can do on that field to play.
Speaker 5: I've never seen him play football, but I have seen
him play basketball, and I was impressed.
Speaker 4: I was very, very impressed.
Speaker 5: Seriously, remind me kind of talent some way a little bit,
just how you handle himself on the hard wood.
Speaker 4: How he was able to.
Speaker 2: Contribute talents in my ward?
Speaker 4: Is it really yeah? Oh nice?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going he's gonna be an orthopedic surgeon.
Speaker 4: Good for real?
Speaker 2: Yeah, staying with the in laws right now?
Speaker 5: Well, well how about that for irony, a guy that
had just multiple compound injuries.
Speaker 4: He's gonna go and fix thols. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: A former by you great Parker does calling me Parker?
You're live on radio? What are you doing? Yeah, you're
you're calling right in the middle of Parker. Do former
b YU great offensive live? This might be the first
time in the middle of the show. Parker, Uh, you
know how you feeling about camp Calline twenty twenty six,
spring Balls right around the corner, brother.
Speaker 3: Loving.
Speaker 6: I'm excited, right, always excited.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Okay, I'm gonna call you back, bro at
the break. I love you. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 4: But what in the world that happens?
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just need to get on the show. We'll
get Parker off soon. Wow, we'll get him on soon.
But I really like this take on Adam Bywater. This
is fantastic and I think it is. And by the way,
I think it's Gavin low the guy that oh my god,
I dropped a fort and Gavin is committed to I
want to say he's committed to you see Irvine.
Speaker 4: I think it's yea cal State Fullerton is something like Vine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's one of those guys. He's undersize and he's
not he's he's.
Speaker 2: Max Is he Jesse Wade? That's no, he's Jesse Wade
was putting up. I mean he's the same high weight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Jesse was just an assassin from three right,
he was all perimeter. This Gavin Lowe is a slasher.
He takes it to the opposing defense. I don't know
if that's a good comp Sorry, you know what's a
good compll Hall? Okay, Dollon Hall, That's what I saw
in this kid.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But Dallan All Dallan is big, Down's like six.
Speaker 5: I know, he's a little a bit more undersized. I
love Jesse Wade by the way. I mean, I'm not
saying that. I thought if he didn't get hurt, that
dude could. He had one of the.
Speaker 4: Purest shots I've ever seen from from the prep lup.
Speaker 1: I think Jesse Wade's more can Gavin Low's five foot
eleven six and seventy pounds, and that's why.
Speaker 4: He's going to nurse you see her vines just because
he's he's short.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he as a play style like Dallon Hall, but
build of Jesse Wade.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I think that's hacker. Yeah, there you go. Yeah,
I like it.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm do you know who else ball's on
that hardwoods that I love it when Lineman do oh yeah?
Speaker 4: And Junimwala yeah yeah, he gets out there.
Speaker 2: He Juny Mowalla.
Speaker 4: But he plays with all due respect for Judy.
Speaker 2: You kind of know he's a right and he's another
four star defensive lineman.
Speaker 4: But was he a three stars before star from more Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you what I like about Judy Mowala
is he has a very very thick lower base and
a very large upper half. That does that make sense?
His legs are are are a little and that's gonna
give him a really really good bass. He's built like
you're pro. What you want a deepets and tackle and
I know he's played mostly defensive band. I I believe
he's going to be moved inside eventually, but I think
he can be variable. I think he's gonna be tremendous.
I think he's gonna be really really good.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: Speaking of guys, I remember when uh, what's his name,
Connor pay was playing.
Speaker 4: For Long Peak.
Speaker 5: Connor don't look like a ball player. I remember he
was liking the line. I'm like, okay, that he's that
guy that just mix it up. I remember he takes
the ball and he just gets up and dunks it effortlessly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: What these guys are half, they are really really high
level athletes and b way, he's getting a lot of them.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 5: I was very very impressive with Adam by Water so
much so I believe he is the most overlooked, underrated
for Star Group and be Way football history.
Speaker 2: I like it. That's a great take, I really do.
Speaker 4: He's got to be really good to make that an Uh, sure,
I I will.
Speaker 2: Could you tweet it out so I can retweet you please?
Speaker 5: Well, I want to give it context, so I'm bad
at tweeting from my phone, so I will do this
when I get home.
Speaker 4: How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think that's fair.
Speaker 4: There you go, Maybe that's fair.
Speaker 1: Now we started off this segment trying to get into
a cougar byte, but we have derailed. Sorry, so we're
gonna have to move the cougar byte to another segment.
Speaker 4: Looks like I got excited talking about Adam. I liked it.
Speaker 2: I liked it a lot. And how good is uh?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 2: H Hanson and Hall?
Speaker 5: They're they're good players. Not obvious college players, but really.
Speaker 2: Good, really good high school players.
Speaker 5: May Sin's a bit undersized. I think that's his issue,
but he's he's very good. We're gonna see, uh, what's
this first in Hall?
Speaker 4: Swift Hall. That's his name, Swift Hall. He's a junior.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you get so we're gonna.
Speaker 4: See him come back. He's not as big as.
Speaker 5: Mike though, sure, but he they're they're very very good
high school players. I don't I'm not convinced that there
are college players just based on what I'm see.
Speaker 4: Maybe low level and all that, but but as far
as b way you no, no, it's it's not not
gonna be the one.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: I I just I mean, maybe walk onto all that,
but but not quite the level. Then it's just like, yeah,
you gotta get that. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I got you, I feel you, dog. Okay, let's go
to break. We'll come back.
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Speaker 7: This is Ronald the three and now we were bringing
you the Cougar Sports Press Release number nineteen. DAU wraps
up a brief two game stretch at home tonight Tuesday,
February twenty four, as the Cougar's host a ucup nights
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and Mike Monaco and Miles Simon providing the commentary. Tonight
marks the fifth all time meeting between.
Speaker 6: The two programs.
Speaker 7: The YU owns a four h advantage in the all
time series, including an victory and UCF's only prior visit
the program. Knights head coach Johnny Dawkins is zero to
six against the Cougars during his tenure.
Speaker 6: At Stamford and UCM.
Speaker 7: After facing three times during their inaugural Big twelve seasons,
each matchup falling on the thirteenth, the teams met just
once in twenty twenty four to twenty five. That contest,
it in the eighty one seventy five victory for YU
at the addition of Financial Arena in Orlando. The Cougars
trailed by two at the break before using a forty
three to thirty five second half time edge to full away,
earning their second row.
Speaker 4: Winning that bill.
Speaker 6: The top king Richie Saunders led Byu with twenty two points,
shooting eight to fourteen from the floor in six to
nine through three point range.
Speaker 7: What Mack added nineteen points five assists, connecting on five
of six threes from b as Eyu finished fourteen to
thirty two from yon yard.
Speaker 6: Aj De bons is chasing a little bit of history.
Speaker 7: He's total of six hundred and seventy nine points the season,
matching Chintz Fisher for the twelve highest single season score mark.
Speaker 6: In program history.
Speaker 7: Fisher reached that in thirty seven games during the twenty
twenty five to sixteen campaign.
Speaker 6: If De Bonsa scores twenty seven points tonight.
Speaker 7: He would surpasses seven hundred point mark, becoming just a
sixth player in BYU his ste.
Speaker 6: To do so in a single season.
Speaker 7: The freshman has already set the program first to your
score on record, the Clipse and Danny Agis mark and
BYU's game in number four Arizona.
Speaker 6: Twenty four and thirty five points.
Speaker 7: A seven hundred points season would also pays Devonsa amongst
just twenty freshmen nationwide this century to reach that milestone
and make him the first non duke player from a
Power five conference to achieve that. As Oklahoma's Tree Young
scored eight hundred and seventy six points into twenty seventeen
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Speaker 4: Are you good then? Thanks for having me?
Speaker 2: Hey living the dream. Appreciate you being here. What's been
keeping you busy recently? Give us a little updates, man,
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Burke, we've been busy.
Speaker 8: Yeah. In fact, we just had a uh by you
great and super Bowl not winner. The player Kyrie Stunger
came in. Oh, Kyle came in, So we've got uh
he's he's dialing in his mom's she's got a Volkswagen
Beetle that she loves and said she just wants to
change it to the special Blue. So we got that thing.
And I first thing I told him was like, look, man,
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put one hundred dollars bet down that you would carry
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and that would have paid me. I think it was
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Speaker 4: That was it.
Speaker 2: So maybe next year would have been freaking all.
Speaker 4: Oh I would have been jumping for joy. That'd been hilarious. Yeah,
but the likelihood.
Speaker 8: Slim, but yeah, that's why that's why the money was good, right.
Speaker 2: Would be awesome? Yeah, Well, house kyris doing by the way, he.
Speaker 8: Seems you're doing well. Man, I mean gosh, he just
he's humble. He's such a good guy and and uh
he just feels blessed. Asked him what that experience was like,
you know, to be able to play. He's you know,
it's unreal. Yeah, you never thought you'd be there and
then you're there, and just just an exciting time. And
I mean he looks good and healthy, and yeah, I'm excited.
We got a couple of other Chanto tonne of bosses
coming in tomorrow morning with his his wife's car. We're
gonna tint that up for him, and it's exciting. I'm
looking forward to the spring ball and just seeing what
we've got with this team that's coming back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. I love it. Man.
Speaker 1: We've been discussing some of the storylines heading into Camp
klanate g Man, let's welcome you back into the conbo.
What is some of the key storylines for you Camp
Kalani twenty twenty six Springball.
Speaker 4: I'm interested in the backup quarterback.
Speaker 5: I think that's a sneaky thing that might not be
on the forefront of a lot of people's minds, but
I think it's a big, big issue. What I'd like
to see is Trayson Boorga just be the guy, just
separate himself. Is like, no, I've been here a lot.
I'm a legitimate because I don't think he was taken
as a serious quarterback. Well, I mean, I mean you'll
remember we were arguing the three guys, right, Oh, it's
not gonna be Bears too inexperienced, but Tracy might have
a chance.
Speaker 4: And it's like, no, no, not Trason.
Speaker 5: Uh even when Bears legs falling off in the big Now,
you're not going Tracy. You're not going the other guy
trade to transfer to Uta Stage's name. I'm forgetting ka Hillstead.
I want to see Tracon become a guy. I want
him to he's that and just say yep, that's it,
this is what I'm doing. That would be really really
positive in my opinion, because the prospect of b where
you playing those ninth straight weeks to end the season.
Speaker 4: Without a bye, that's daunting, man.
Speaker 5: That there's gonna be a truition and you really really
hope it's not going to be to Bear Barmeyer because
that could be potentially devastating if you do not have
a second string guy that can I mean, he's never
gonna match what Bear can do, but you know, be
productive enough that there's not gonna be that severe bit
drop off.
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite Jared to win the QB two spots
at Traycon or is it Enick Watson the ball.
Speaker 4: Well, it's gonna be a good battle.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean I would agree that Trayson is
definitely in the in the leading spot just because he
knows the offense, you know, and and I agree the
way we play Bear, I mean, he he is going
to take his shots, you know. I mean that these
d Limen and these backers and save everyone's going to
take their shot when they get a chance to hit Bear.
So our backup needs to be ready and at least
be able to come in and sustain and drive, you know,
if he has to go into the tent for a
little protocol and then get back out on the field,
you know it just it would be really really nice
to have somebody that can step in and complete a
couple of passes, you know, just be a threat in
that situation to where we don't feel like we're losing
the play that we need. So yeah, having the knowledge
of the system I think is going to be huge.
Speaker 4: For him coming in.
Speaker 8: And you know, but as we've seen, freshmen can step
up and step in and learn that as well.
Speaker 2: Most likely its tration.
Speaker 1: But what's interesting to me is that there are only
three quarterbacks on the roster. What that means is that
Enick Watson is going to get reps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's going to get a you know, a boatload
of reps.
Speaker 1: And so he's going to have an opportunity to kind
of showcase and and get assimilarity.
Speaker 2: And remember it, Enick Watson got back during.
Speaker 1: The season, Like he got back in the middle of
season from his mission. I I can't remember what data was,
but I started to see him around Provo. I want
to say, is like October November.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so his mission league should be he should be.
Speaker 1: He looked good, like I've sized him up like he's
one of my Arizona boys, so very much in two
of my.
Speaker 2: As boys, and so uh.
Speaker 1: I like him a lot, Like I've seen him throw
up close and personal, you know, as I've kind of
interacted with with certain individuals within the coaching staff and
around the program. Man, he's kind of diamond in the rough,
like because he played it in Coconino County Flag Staff,
Arizona running like a run heavy offense. His junior no
one knew anything about him and he came to be
He's camp I mean, and he had to be his
camp and like they liked him a lot, and they're like,
oh man, this is a this isdam in the rough.
Speaker 2: And then he goes to Ala.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh so Enick in that one season at Ala,
and we could get maybe Max Hall on this show
to talk about Enick Watson and how he could possibly
compete for this QB two spot. But he Enick is
sixty three, like two hundred and five pounds. He's a
big body, big armed dude. That that final season he
played in eleven games, uh two eighty one yards through
the air.
Speaker 2: Sixty three percent completion percentage.
Speaker 1: And then he also he put up twenty nine touchdowns
three it so the TD to I T ratio is fantastic.
Speaker 2: And then he ran for an.
Speaker 1: Additional three hundred fifty six yards and eight touchdowns.
Speaker 2: So he's a dual threat kid too.
Speaker 8: Well, I think Tracon's gonna have to come out and
be significantly better.
Speaker 4: I mean kind of how a rod works, right, he
likes he likes his young.
Speaker 8: If he's got more time with somebody, he tends to
go that ride a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Kind of the same thing with Jake Webtzow.
Speaker 8: I feel like he knew he had the two year
well he thought he had two years uh when he
moved him in.
Speaker 4: But uh, you know, I think that that's gonna be.
Speaker 8: Yeah, if Tracing can come out and really prove that
he's the guy uh to be the QB two, and
he'll definitely get it. But yeah, I think that if
it's anywhere close, I think just from the the way
that a Rod kind of functions, he'll he'll stick with
the younger guy before he goes with its Tracing a.
Speaker 4: Senior this year.
Speaker 1: See, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Pretty sure he's going into a senior year. He's a
reightter senior.
Speaker 4: Okay, yep.
Speaker 5: You know when you talk about digging up reps, my
first inclination was like, oh, okay, Bear's.
Speaker 4: Not gonna play. No, you play Bear a lot.
Speaker 5: Given those reps, get that continuity with those receivers, that's
going to be very.
Speaker 2: I mean everyone's getting reps.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean that's a ton of because typically you have five guys,
five quarterbacks in spring ball, sometimes six, and they all
get to get in there, like, they all get to
get in some reps and they're taking these fractional reps
that take away from your development of your two and
three guy.
Speaker 8: But I think going into it as knowing who your
one is is different going into spring and knowing that
we there's no competition for who's starting, right, So if
we can dial into the receivers and the quarterbacks and
get them gelling with Bear and you're starting receivers, I
think it's is super important this spring to get that
just that bond together where these guys know where they're
going at all times.
Speaker 4: So I would I would agree that.
Speaker 8: I think I think Bear is going to get a
lot more reps even than the two and three, just
because we already know. I think the last couple of
years it's always been a competition in spring ball.
Speaker 4: Who is it going to be?
Speaker 8: You know, we haven't had that set number one guy
for a few years. So I think it's going to
change the little bit of how spring ball rolls out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatether uh topic? Storylines do you foresee unfolding?
Speaker 4: Well, we're talking about the quarterbacks and reps.
Speaker 2: Men.
Speaker 5: You think about receivers, it's by far the most fascinating
position on the entire team wide receivers, especially in the
wake of the unfortunate dismissal of Parker Kingston.
Speaker 4: Now you need to two spots to feel yeah, oh yeah,
and it's but there's a lot of options. There's a
lot of cable.
Speaker 5: Cable guy has a lot of intriguing options that you
really want to see step to the forefront. And I'm
telling you my eyes did not deceive me about Cody
Hagen two years ago when I first saw him practice
at b WAYU.
Speaker 4: He's a guy, he he No, this guy's got it.
Speaker 5: I expected him to emerge all throughout last year where
it's like, okay, this is and it never really happened.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of reason might just be lack
of reps with with with bear Bachmeyer, where they just
weren't able to be on that same I don't know,
but I still believe he can be a big time
talent for b WAYU.
Speaker 4: I am not off Cody Haigen at all.
Speaker 5: I think it could be a huge development this spring,
because that's what you want to hear. You're not gonna
be able to value everyone's gonna you don't know when spring,
you never know.
Speaker 4: Talk to me.
Speaker 5: Come midway through fall practices, receivers, we're gonna get an
inkling of who's stepping up. Well, we're gonna know who
guys are and I think a fasting guy is a
first Connect. The way coaches talked about him, we didn't
have to ask about him. They volunteered him. Who coaches
volunteer without being prompted? Those are the guys.
Speaker 4: That you that means something.
Speaker 5: Then he had that soft tissue injury, wasn't able to
do anything and all that. I still think he's got stuff.
So Cody Hagen and uh and first Connect those are
my two guys, right, But there's a lot of other options,
a lot of other guys, So it's gonna be a
fastening battle. The kid from Oregon A Rod's done he
will or more specifically professi's to talk to. He's done
pretty well with his receiver transfers. He hasn't missed much. Yeah,
and I have to believe Caspers has some potential. I
mean you look at his row stats. That's exciting. That's
really really exciting. So yeah, that's gonna be a fascinating competition.
And and just because we'll be able to realize a
lot more compared to other positions, that's definitely gonna be
a position.
Speaker 8: And he mixed in Jojo, you know Jojo. Yeah, we
forget about Joe healthy Jojo. I mean, he is a
big body. When he was healthy and we had the
deep ball to him, and he was able to use
his body to position himself to make plays huge upside,
you know, and he's coming in bigger and story I
saw him.
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, you guys are all getting big, you know.
Speaker 8: And and these receivers that've when I played, I was like,
I think I stretched to make six foot. These guys
are all six three, six four, sixty six. They're just
you know, and I did Cody Higg and I all
the beginning of last year. When you watch him play
as a receives, quick twitch muscles are just second to none.
And I think he has that ability to fill in
a lot of uh you know what we're gonna miss
with Parker Kingston on that playing that inside, those quick screens,
the things that that you just need.
Speaker 4: That three step, full speed guy and and.
Speaker 8: He's got to be Then you've got these these six
foot four and six foot six, six foot five Jojo
on the outside. I mean what Regie sixty three, right,
six three, sixty five and sixty six as receivers Reggie
six five, yeah, then Jojo sixty five and then and
then sixty six for him.
Speaker 5: I'm really glad you brought Jojo Phillis because because I'm
gonna make this statement, I believe this is accurate. If
he maxes out his ability and becomes a guy, I
think he has more upside than any receiver.
Speaker 4: On the roster. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, with his his jumping ability, his speed, his size,
his upsides, it's higher than.
Speaker 4: Anyone on the roster. I really do believe that with Jojo.
And what I like about Joe is the pop pars ball.
He had a good game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was locked in, and it's all being locked
in with Jojo. I mean he just need weird plays
and games where he's not catching the ball right where.
Speaker 4: He just his mind doesn't seem to put.
Speaker 8: He came back his game, his first game back was
Texas Tech, right, I mean, come on, that atmosphere was
crazy out of itself and he had a drop opportunity,
caught some passes.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I feel.
Speaker 8: Like it took imagine coming back off an injury to
play against that defense, right and then but yeah, once
he got in the pop talks pots, it just seems
to start rolling. So he stays healthy, has a great spring.
We have weapons, you know, we really do. And it's
just gonna be a matter of if these guys can
all work together and and become there's gonna be a
great team. There's just so much upside the defense obviously
we have it, uh, and if these offensive guys can
work together, I think that, yeah, we're gonna We're gonna
see a really fun group of guys that believe in theseus.
Speaker 5: What I like about the receiver competition is there's no
guy that's locked down a spot. There's not one person
on the entire rustles like, yeah he'll start, No, he's
the one. He's It is wide open. It's gonna be fun,
and they have a lot to sore through in spring.
But the good thing is you have exciting options, you
have potential, and you have Bear Backmeyer there that's gonna
be gain continuity with them and all that. And my
advice to all these guys, and I've covered enough Bway football,
be that guy that goes to become Bear's best friend. Hey,
you want to go to the IPF. Throw it around
a bit, right, you want to be that guy. I
would strongly encourage any receiver that wants to be a
guy do that.
Speaker 8: Work off the field mentioned you know what I mean,
there's as much as we have these guys that maybe
are considered unproven, but they're upside is just tremendous. And yeah,
so and it's gonna and then and then you're throwing
LJ in the backfield and and everybody's staying healthy. There's
just so many weapons and and that defenses are gonna
have a hard time scheming against BYU if we stay healthy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of parts, a lot of potential
with this Bway football team.
Speaker 1: Uh, there is how do you guys, let me ask
you this question. If you're the coaching staff at BYU,
you've gone eleven and two, twelve and two. We have
seen in the past when b what you has this
type of success. Let's talk about twenty twenty, twenty twenty one.
There's a dip, there's a complacency, there's a and it
could be internally as much as you know it is coaching.
It's just like there's you go eleven and one, COVID,
you go ten.
Speaker 2: And two, and then you lose the bowl game.
Speaker 1: It kind of felt like that complacency leaked over into
the eight and five season. You gotta win versus SMU,
but it was like it's just a whole home season.
Then you followed up with a five and seven, but
then kind of claw back and you almost beat a
top ten or top twenty five teams in Oklahoma, Oklahoma State.
You can see a little bit of the pride cycle.
How do you stay humble, stay hungry after these two
consecutive seasons.
Speaker 5: The season you didn't bring up was two thousand and
seven to two thousand and eight, the post ban crital era,
right was.
Speaker 2: Maybe the best era outside the eighties.
Speaker 5: Two thousand and eight was supposed to be the year
quest for perfection. Oh yeah, they had guys returning, and
that team was just wound so tight.
Speaker 4: I could spend a.
Speaker 5: Whole segment into what went wrong with that team, and
I think Bronco was I mean, that might be the
only criticism all the labor. He handled that season wrong.
He had those players wound so tight. I don't think
that's gonna happen, but you hope it's not similar to that,
because BA should have been a lot better in two
thousand and eight than they were, and I kind of
wonder if that's gonna happen again. I mean, you had
Max Hall returning for a senior season, Bear Bachmeer returning,
Austin Collies back and all that, and it just never
materialized like it should have. And so when I'm thinking
about this next season, you just don't want to repeat
of two thousand and eight.
Speaker 8: I think there's a tighter unity of this team when
you start to look at the guys, just everybody who
had the opportunity to either go to the NFL or
or make it chang and just the group together that
stayed and and and I think that there's some statements
that they want to make being that we're the players
on the field. You might change our coaches, but you're
not changing the players. And we're gonna come out and
show you, guys that the players are ready to play.
I have a feeling, you know, that they're gonna do
well with that. But I yeah, you never know, you know,
when when you're coming off something you've had such good seasons.
But I think they're hungry, you know, And there's just
a different feel with this group. And yeah, springball is
gonna tell us a lot. It's really gonna tell us
where they're at. It's gonna show the competitive drive that
they have and I can't wait for it. I love springball.
I tell every tell you every week that's one of
my favorite times of football. It's the most competitive football
I think I've ever played in. And opportunities as these
receivers coming in, It's like, you know, you got Tanta
Coop in there to you.
Speaker 4: All these guys we forgot about. I wanna that are
ready to play, they expect to play, and so they're
gonna be competing.
Speaker 8: They're gonna love each other in their room and then
they're gonna compete against each other super hard every day.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna try to be there a lot. I
think it's gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 2: I'm excited as well.
Speaker 1: Any other storylines were intrigued by guys before we wrap
up this segment.
Speaker 5: They're gonna pop up just how the new guys go in.
Walker Lyons is gonna demand a lot of attention. He's
gonna be fielding a lot of interviews starting out. If
he if he can do uh what Carson Ryan did
last year, that's gonna be tremendous. If he can just
match that that, I mean, he was so good, he
was absolutely perfect for what the way you needed. Yeah,
and the exciting thing is Parker Walker Lions has that potential.
He can be that guy. He can mirror that. He's
actually more experienced coming in than Carson Ryan was. They
it could it could be a boon or continuation in
that regard linebackers. The linebacker alignment's gonna be interesting to
me how Cade fits in, what exactly he does.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be running a three four.
Speaker 5: Get used to guys, best eleven on the field and
guess what that linebacking unit's stacked.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're gonna need four linebackers on the bill.
Just be ready for guys.
Speaker 5: But guess what, it's gonna be awesome. I know everyone,
Oh got the thirty front. That means we're not rushing
the quarterback, we're dropping eight. No, No, it's not gonna
be like that. It's gonna be glorious. It's gonna be tremendous.
One of the best defenses was your two thousand and
six defense. They ran a three four linebacker based It
was fantastic. Kelly Poppingo was part of that defense.
Speaker 8: But I think with our with our dbs, you can
you can trust them on the outside one on one
a little bit more so we might have a lot
more safety play. It's a lot, you know, it's such
a while they're getting in there. Yeah, I think, yeah,
it's it's exciting to see kind of what this and
and just knowing that you've got Pepina coming in and
what what are the wrinkles that he's going to throw
into this defense that. I mean, we all know how
aggressive the dude is and and how exciting he is,
and and I think he's gonna throw some fire in
there that that is gonna make us happy that he's there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited out. We'll ask him a number of questions.
Uh three three five three four four three? Who's some
of the new faces they maybe stood out in the
off season strengthen. I remember Keepop wanted to be a
strength and conditioning coach human performance coach initially, so he's
very much into that, as we see from Brady, his brother,
he's into that. I never noticed you know, like you know,
you know, Keepops, you know, kind of keeping an eye
on like the human performance elements, right, the speed, the quickness,
how much weight you're pushing, but how much force you're generating.
All of that will maybe get updates on that and
some of the new faces as well. From a personnel
standpoint that are showing up.
Speaker 8: I think we're going to be a real physical defense
I really do, real cool and just in your face,
because that's how K pop is.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's you kind of expect to draw.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: I played with Jay Hill and he had that same
kind of energy as a player that he carried onto
the field, and I think I think Kelly has got
that same same exact drive.
Speaker 1: Really happy that K Pop gets this opportunity. I saw
it coming. I thought it would come, but uh it's
if I was. I've been chatting with a number of
fans right and they they they were like, hey, you know,
I think we're gonna miss Jay. I'm like the closest
person that I've seen in like personality, the style of coaching,
being a players coach and an accountability coach.
Speaker 2: The closest person to.
Speaker 1: That anywhere near like BYU defensively like LDS coaches, it's
Kelly Papenka, guys like I look at all the coaches
out there, like another guy that that is maybe similar,
Vic Soto, I think has that ability to be a
players coach and also an accountability guy right like, and
he's coaching. He's most recently coaching at Cal right the linebackers,
so he's got some of that too. And and it
combines a little bit of like, you know, Bronco style
plus Kilani style. So he's now been Kops and mentored
by Bronco. He's seen how Gary and j coach, how
Kilani coaches high energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, high energy, and Kate Pop's very much high energy.
Speaker 1: So like k Pops is close to a J Hill
style of coach that you can get with. You know
that that that that influence of Kilani as well as
Gary might.
Speaker 8: Even have a little higher energy I think than Jay
has at this point in his coaching years.
Speaker 2: So I'd agree with that. I'd agree with that.
Speaker 1: And he's much I would say he's much more engaging
sometimes even with like the fans too, you know, because
he loves Kubar Nat. He's a bay U guy and
so there's an appreciation behind that.
Speaker 2: And not to say Jay didn't.
Speaker 1: Have it, he did, but like he was a Utah guy,
weaver guy, and you know, now he's a Michigan guy,
you know, I mean, he's he's the guy that you want.
Speaker 2: He's the mercenary.
Speaker 1: You know, Kelly's definitely a b YU guy, so he
appreciates and he probably experienced something at Virginia that probably
gives him a little bit.
Speaker 2: More gratitude at you again, Does that make sense? I'm intrigued.
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which is a corona virus coronavirus, are they're cold virus
as the baseline, right, Like we're like, all right, shelter
in place, two masks, you know, go get a vaccine
if we once we got it. I'm like, why are
we talking about all the things that we know like
published data about to fight off replication viral infection of coronavirus.
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I'm like, what about like sailine and salt gargles like
there's like a tremendous amount of like data on sailine,
and salt gurgles about limiting replication.
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your throat and all the epithelial tissue and your naso
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We're not talking zinc.
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any of these things that like are proven to limit
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