Speaker 1: Of you Tom dot com.
Speaker 2: This is Cougar Sports on ko v O probo k
U d d H D two one O three nine
at ninety eight three ESPN No Fan, It's time to
celebrate the greatest team sport known to man, where modern
day gladiators collide for.
Speaker 1: All the glory on the Gridi.
Speaker 3: Let's talk some college football on Cougar Sports with Ben Credit.
Speaker 4: Welcome back your sports one of three nine to ninety
eight point three ESPN fan. I bet we're broadcasting from
the Bambiwelf Studios.
Speaker 1: Fadawel dot com.
Speaker 4: Please get on that pre Q and A no obligation
to invest Q and A with our tax more wealth Advisors, no.
Speaker 1: Obligation to invest.
Speaker 4: Obviously, you can obtain a few jams financially that can
help you age your sports in your quest for financial.
Speaker 1: Stability and sustainability.
Speaker 4: Contact Blane Anderson and his screw today. Let's get into
a little colle football segment. Camp Koalani kick it off tomorrow.
Which Campcalani storylines are you most intrigued by?
Speaker 1: And why is it?
Speaker 4: The QB two battle Tracy Boorgay versus naqwatchin Enik Watson,
what will the defense look like with Kevin Ping at
the Helm and new defensive back coaches. RB two versus
Jovest Mode versus Preston, Rex versus Devon, Ekka versus Logan pain.
What is going What is going on in the wide
seat room? Who's wide receiver one? You got some new
offensive line transfers in Olonku cohesion, LBU still in effect,
kdu Luave Jake Clifton transfer an end, get eyes on them,
chime in on it.
Speaker 1: Want to hear from you.
Speaker 4: This segment's going to be brought to you by Odeon
Men's Wear Odeon menswear dot com. Look your best, feel
your best, get out there and do your best. If
you're a missionary, you've been called to serve guys, you
get a free gift with your missionary call at any
Odeon Men's Wear location, but go in and get your suits.
You can get fully outfitted for your missions and thrust
in your sickle with your mic and lay it up
in store. Many blessings for yourself and others as you
get out there and serve, and you want to look
good while you're doing it right with a sports performance
suit from Odeon Men's Wear. The Tempo shirts are fantastic.
You want to load up on those. And then also
you know they got luggage there, they got shoes, they
got bags, they got everything that you need.
Speaker 1: So check it out Odeo menswear dot com.
Speaker 4: Let's get out to the hotline and we'll coomem in
CEO of Audio Men's where we got break day on
the line, Bright and.
Speaker 5: How you live in doing awesome?
Speaker 1: How you guys doing doing good?
Speaker 4: Man, appreciate you joining us for a little college football segment, Braiden,
what storylines are you looking at?
Speaker 1: What are your favorites? I listened off all these. Where
are your eyes gazing? What are you most intrigued by?
Speaker 5: I think wide receiver position is the one that I'm
most intrigued by, just because of some of the changes
with the party case in situation. I think that was
already an intriguing spot just because of the lack of
proven commodity there. Like I think I mentioned this last week.
I think there's a ton of talent in the room.
It's this question of whether they're going to be who's
going to step up and actually make plays. So I'm
really intrigued by that that spot and it'll be an
interesting thing. I think that's one of the one of
the positions where we're actually going to get I mean,
we never get a ton of details out of springball,
but one of the positions that we will get something
out of springball, just because they'll be playing all of
the guys to the team who rises at the top
where I feel like most of the other positions that
are mostly polidified, we're gonna be kind of more depth
battles where I really think that receiver position is wide open.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Kyler Casper situation, Okay, I want to get
eyes on him.
Speaker 1: What's up with Cody Hagen? Can he take a leap forward? Tanakua?
Speaker 4: Some young bucks that have looked promising but haven't got
a whole lot of playing time. Is is Jojo Phillips
willing and ready capable to be that wide receiver one
in the absence of Parker Kingston.
Speaker 1: I think there's some good, good, you know, storylines there.
Speaker 4: Out of the newcomers, freshmen, transfer portal players, who would
you like to get eyes on first and foremost so,
do you want to size up and see if there's
good as advertised or could be good and impactful for
the Kogs in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: That's a good question. I think if we're talking like
incoming freshmen, I think it's guys like the Pula brothers.
I think would be fun fun to see. I think
Budget Glaster too. I really think he's going to have
a spot to kind of fill in that Parker Kingston
role a little bit. I don't know if that'll be
this year or in the future. But and then from
transfer guys, I actually I'm really intrigued by Kate Lave.
I think he's got a super highth feeling and I
think we know what he's kind of capable of, but
I think it'll be interesting to see what he what
he looks like in the system. And then also Clifton,
Dick Clifton, I think is one that I'm I'm excited
about to see kind of He's obviously post mission, so
we'll see how if his body is ready. I can't
remember when he got home, but I think he's another
intriguing spot because he started for two years for Kansas
State before he left on his mission.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, we got a little report from
k POP on a couple of days ago regarding Jake Clifton,
one of the guys that has really stood out to
him in the strength the indition room, I mean include
Jake Clifton, pretty much fresh off of mission, the transfer
Kansas State. He's been pushing way, looking athletic, more impressed
with him that he had probably initially predicted. So is
that a surprise, you know, Jake cliff and the Kansas
State transfer coming in and turning heads already.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that doesn't actually sprive me, just not that I
don't think he's capable, because I think, I mean, he's
played really, really well already in college football in the
Big Twelve. It was just I figured, you know, right
off a mission, he's not gonna be ready. But if he's,
if his body's ready, that's really exciting to kind of
see what we can do. I think we have so
many linebackers, so many linebackers in that room that'll that'll
be pushing for time. So I'm intrigued to see how
they utilize him. I think, as we talked about last week,
I think we've run more three three down linemen and
kind of brought linebackers off the edge or run some
of that. So I think we're gonna see that even
a little more this year, just because of how much
talent we have there, partly because k pop comes from
that that on front back backing, but honestly it was
running were running the same a ton of times with
Jay Hill too.
Speaker 6: So I want to switch a little bit here to
special teams. Do you think there's an opportunity for perhaps
Ken and Poola to be the returner in wake of
Parker leaving or do you think that's going to go
to Tiger Bochmeyer.
Speaker 5: That's a good question. I haven't really thought too much
about That's why I bet Tiger gets obviously a good
shot there, but I think Kennon Bullet could be a
good spot there. I don't remember did Legend return kick
some puns at at Lehigh too? I think you would
be kind of a similar mold of that super shifty
quick gay. But yeah, I think a question I have
honestly thought about it too deeply.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 4: It is always these intriguing storylines coming out of spring ball,
and you know, b Way's coming off of double digit.
Speaker 1: Victories back to back seasons.
Speaker 4: When that's happened in the past twenty twenty twenty twenty one,
there's been a little bit of dip the following year.
Speaker 1: You can also look at even.
Speaker 4: You can make it on get two thousand and six,
two thousand and seven, there's a little bit of a
dip in two thousand and eight, and that you know,
you wonder do you expect to dip this year? Do
you expect uh, you know, I guess status quo of
another double digit win season. Where where's your expectation going
into this uh twenty twenty sixth year?
Speaker 5: I would say my thought process is just that we're
going to be there's something to fight for again. We
see that we were didn't quite measure up last year.
So I think that gives the guys enough juice to
kind of push forward this year because I feel like
what makes that happens it you know, two years up
and then a little bit of a diffic usually, you know,
the pride cycles we'd always like to talk about. But
I hope that you know, not quite getting still having
that better take in your mouth that hey, we got
to the conference championship and we still got smoked in
the comfort championship. We still have areas to improve to
really accomplish the goals we want to. I hope that
gives the team the drive in the off season to
really still stay where we're at and kind of keep improving.
And obviously my blue Gog will tickets that we're going
to do that. But I do think it's it's a
little worrisome to see kind of what happens if we
come back down back down to earth. So we'll see my.
Speaker 4: Guy Brandon Day, CEO of vote On Men's where I
discussed the to the missionaries, I directed my messaging towards
the missionaries. You guys give a free gift with every
missionary call. Why should our missionaries here along the wallside
front outfit themselves prior to the mission field at Odeon Menswear.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we specialized. I mean, we started out as
a missionary company, so obviously we expanded out because we
really feel like the product that we were serving, the
service we were there doing there was something that everybody could
take advantage of. But we we get missionaries, We've got
it for a long time, and we feel like our
product is extremely durable and will hold up for all
the missions, but it also is extremely comfortable, so you
will feel comfortable and confident in all the things you
do on your mission. So, like we've talked about the elevatesuit,
the Tempo shirt, and those are two products that will
do extremely well for you on your mission. We have
a ton of missionaries that love those products. And also
our staff is trained to understand missions, understand what type
of materials are great for different climates, you know, all
those different things, what type of shoes were taken kind
of on where you're going. Like, we're really trained and
well we have a expertise and what you should be
doing for your mission. And so you don't take too
much stuff that you don't actually need, but you're taking
everything that you do need.
Speaker 4: Love that you guys can always utilize the Cridal fifteen
coupon code the Crital fifteen discount when you go into
Odeon menswear as well. Moving back over to the football
field here with Camp Killaaney twenty twenty six kicking off tomorrow,
it's it's you mentioned the wide receiver room. Who are
the most likely wide receivers to benefit from Parker Kingston
not being on the field in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: I think I think it's Honestly, I'm intrigued to see who,
but I think they all have a shot because I
really think it opened up the doors. Yes, he played
that more you know, inside receiver type of role. But
I think there's all of the guys get trained. I
think Betti tries to train him on all different spots.
So I think there's a bunch of guys that could
move in or out depending on where they need to be,
And so I really think it gives everybody an opportunity.
I think Reggie Firstek is one of the ones that
I think is going to take it iantage of it.
I think he he got injured, I feel like early
on in the season last year, so he didn't play
for a little bit, and then he came back and
he got reps at the end of the season and
then right at the very beginning of the season. So
I think he's a guy that Betty trust. I've heard,
you know, I hear reports out of camp. I think
from you and from other sources that that he's one of,
if not the fastest receiver on the team, especially now
a pek gone, and he's I mean, I don't know
how tall, the six four, somewhere in that range.
Speaker 7: I think he's a.
Speaker 5: He's a really big guy with a ton of speed.
But I'm really intrigued to see what he does when
when he when he was out on the field last year,
the couple of catches, he got a lot of the
routs he ran. I got out there and before I
could see his number, he looked a lot like Chase.
He played a lot like Chase. He ran like Chase.
He had a lot of those. And I'm not saying
he's gonna live to Chase Roberts expectations this year, but
I really think he's a guy that's going to take
advantage of the moment and that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Would love to see it.
Speaker 4: Who's your favorite to become RB two in that running
back room?
Speaker 5: I'm a lover. I'll always put for Soon. I think
he's he's underrated in the fan base, and so I
think there's a lot of good guess you know, behind him.
I think Demonica can can push for some time, but
I think Soon and Moa went healthy. Obviously, he hasn't
shown that he can stay healthy, but I think that's
kind of fluky. He missed three games in twenty four
and then in twenty five with you know, compartment syndrome.
I just feel like that's so fluky. It's hard to
really blame that on him. Having injury issues, because if
that doesn't happen, if it's a home game and the
you know, pressure on the plane or whatever happens doesn't happen,
that's a two games he's out, maybe one game he's
he's out, and he's playing again. So I think he's
going to show that he can stay healthy, and I
think he's going to show that he's definitely RB two.
Speaker 4: I was chatting with Kelly pepinga one of the storylines
that I'm intrigued by to see what this defense looks like.
Caught up with him, I said, scheme wise, how would
you describe the defense three four four three three three five?
And he said, the best way to describe it is
Kilanie Mendenhall. It's a combination of Kilanie Mendenhall. That sounds
pretty good, right, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, I like it. I think having both of those
those aspects is something that will will benefit from. And
I think, honestly, like I said, we were running a
lot of that three three down linemen last year that
has that same you know those I do think our
talent is that that that's our talent pool with linebackers
and so utilize more linebackers when you can't. And some
of them, like Jack Kelly was coming off the edge
of on Newcy towards the end of the year, was
coming off the edge of Hime. Sometimes he was playing
an actual edge and on the line, but sometimes when
he was playing back, he's still coming off the edge
in those spots. So I'm really intrigued to see on
the defense. I'm sure they're not going to get away
from it too far, just because, like Kelly said, if
it's not broke, don't try and fix it. Let's keep rolling.
But there'll be some fun twists.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Bradon Day, odeon Men's Where, odeon menswear dot Com, here
on your Utah, ESPN Radio Network, and uh Capital lash
things before we let you go. One of the things
I've also discussed is I think we got to evaluate
if you if you have a concern right, what is
the concern and why right where? Where do you have
concerns with this BA football team and why.
Speaker 5: I'm nervous of depth at corner. Yeah, I don't know.
I think the first couple of guys, I'm very confident
with Trey, with Evan, you know, some of the guys
that are maybe a little less proven. I feel like, Okay,
maybe they'll step up, but I'm definitely nervous that behind
you know, guys three and four, there's nothing and I'm
really not super confident entry and four even So that's
the pot that I'm nervous about. The receivers one that
I'm nervous that they're gonna if they're gonna step up
or not. Like I know, I said that was going
on most of the treat by. I think talent levels
through the roof in that room, but nobody's shown that
they can. They're they're gonna go out and take it
and do it. So I'm trigued with that one and
nervous about that one.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 5: The tackles again Depths is a little worries from there.
I think there's more depth than we think there is
than just kind of on the on the surface of it.
But I think that's one. But I really Corners is
the one that I'm like really nervous about. Everything else.
I feel like, hey, I trust it's gonna work out,
But Corners one that I'm a little dirty about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what where I kind of was a little
bit anxious. I mean, there's some confidence.
Speaker 4: I mean that we've got a good some good players
who got a good coach there. I think coach Lewis
Clark's gonna be a good one. I've heard some good
things about him. So, but you know, my eyes are
definitely on that cornerback room, Noah's hands or butts about it.
Speaker 1: I have heard something to get excited about.
Speaker 4: I've heard Danny Sorenson in that safety room has been
been around the program already.
Speaker 1: Hear that? What do you what do you make of that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did he?
Speaker 5: I can't remember if he If he's done in the
NFL show.
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty much done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Danny Sorenson is no longer playing national in the
National Football League.
Speaker 1: I think he's officially retired.
Speaker 5: And is there anything is this him in an actual
analystroal or is he's just kind of been around the
program helping out a little bit.
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be more involved than just
kind of like around the program. I think he's going
to be more involved in that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's great. I think that he's obviously
played in the league forever and ever, and I think yes,
he brings a ton of knowledge to that room and
will help help out, so that I had not heard that,
So that's really interesting, really exciting for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that'll be beneficial for that safety room.
I mean, if you're if you're Tommy Raider, folat out
any one of those safeties, I mean you got to
be pretty juiced about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he was, he was a stud oft
uau obviously played years in the league and did well
and found his way to kind of be on the
field a lot. And so I think that's that's awesome
news to hear about that and have I'm sure those
guys will you know, have playing under a guy who
played in the NFL for that long. It's got to
be exciting. So I think it helps recruiting too if
he's going to be a really either official or unofficial
part of the program, but very close to the program.
Speaker 4: Brain Day CEO Odion mens Are Braiden remind our listeners
once again, uh why they should come on into Odeon
Menswear to get outfitted with the best men's where we
got great church attire and missionary attire.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we, like we talked about a couple of times
already that we make problem that is extremely comfortable that
still looks incredible and it is durable for your needs.
One of the things, I'm just going to throw this
out there. I actually haven't put this out out to
the to the message yet, but we had a little
there's a little hiccup in our supply chain and our
vendor pushed us off another month. So we're a month
behind on some of our inventory. It's taling to be
coming in until I was supposed to come in the
beginning of April. It's going to be beginning of May now,
So I'm not trying to be like that guy that's
trying to alert, you know, throw everybody out out there.
But we are going to be get pretty low in
inventory in April. So if you need a suit for
a wedding, for prom for a mission, and you're wanting
that all of a suit because you've heard about it,
you're going to want to come in as soon as possible, truthfully,
just because we're going to start getting low on a
lot of sizes and out so try and act now.
I'm trying to give the our Cougar fans the inside
access on that to trying to make sure they're getting
their needs covered before that happens.
Speaker 4: So boom Baby, Odeon Men's Where Odeon Menswear dot Com
utilize the Crudal fifteen coupon code. Talk to Brighton Day
when you head into any one of his location.
Speaker 1: He's everywhere.
Speaker 4: He's at all the locations at all times. He is
omnipotent and omnipresent. When it comes to Odeon men'squear.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Now you're typically over at the orm location, right, I.
Speaker 5: Kind of bounce throup between all three of them. Might
just sell this stuff from home. Yeah, I'm kind of anywhere, neverwhere.
But if your listeners want to want to meet up,
I try and make it when I can, so they
can reach out to me on on Twitter. They can
try and reach out to me via the ms you
couldn't put if they want to rethink. If you guys
know Critinal personally, he can always connect you with me.
So love love to be there and and meet Cougar
fats whatever.
Speaker 4: Again, Love it man, Appreciate you. Thanks so much for
hopping on brother.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, go goodies.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's my guy Brandon Day.
Speaker 4: And that was a college football segment brought to you
by Odeon Men'swear. Odeon Menswear dot Com Get outfitted uh
with the best attire men's attire, church attire and missionary
attire at Odion Menswear. Odion Menswear dot com also want
to give you an opportunity, guys, to earn a couple
of tickets to go watch Stained Baby, one of the
defining bands of the post grunge era and the group
behind the Head. It's been a while. They're coming to
Utah First Community Credit Union Amphitheater October seventh.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: Listen to ESPN the Fan every morning at eight forty
five am and for your chance to win a pair
of tickets. More details at espnfan dot com. Let's take
a time out, we'll be back with Plane Anderson of
Banterwealth coming up next. This is Cougar Sports one of
three nine ninety point three ESPN the Fan.
Speaker 2: This he's a one oh three nine at ninety eight
three ESPN Sports Center updates.
Speaker 8: The Cardiac Cougars are back. They've struck again, this time
with women basketball. Early in the third quarter against Arizona
State last night, byu is down fifteen points in a
crucial game between two NCAA Tournament bubble team, but that
deficit didn't last behind twenty four points from Delaney Gibbs,
sixteen from Olivia Hamlin, a double double from Lada rocl
and a strong Native American fans support for Sidney Benali,
the Coubes clawed their way back for a sixty six
to sixty one victory. Be sure to keep an eye
out on Friday for where BYU lands and the latest bracketologies.
They currently sit as eighth team out. Next up for
BYU is Senior Night on Saturday against another Bubble team
in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Six ring.
Speaker 8: BYU men's volleyball took a late night loss yesterday against
number three Hawaii three sets to once. Was the first
time this year the Cougars didn't have a sweep or
a five set match. These two teams square off again
tomorrow on the Diamond. BYU Baseball continued their California road
trip and while in Long Beach this week, they took
a loss in a ten to seven game against Long
Beach State. Air back at it again to day and
are currently underway in the game against the Cougars of
Washington State and the Pool. The men's swiming dive team
held strong, sitting in fifth place in the Big twelve
Championships this week. Behind a fourth place finish in the
five hundred meter freestyle by Tanner Nelson, the women's team
dropped one spot to eight, and both teams will compete
until the event end on Saturday. As far as the
rest of the events today, though BYU softball has a
doubleheader against cal State Fullerton and Cal Berkeley that is
already underway as the Coups looked for their fourth.
Speaker 1: And fifth wins of the season.
Speaker 3: Women's tennis is in Orlando.
Speaker 8: To compete against UCS and Chase Roberts and Jack Kelly
will start the NFL Combine today.
Speaker 9: Good luck to the both of them.
Speaker 8: I'm Cameron Clark and this has been your ESPN the
Fan Cougar Sports Center update brought to you by Royal
Army Brand dot Com. With Royal Army Brand.
Speaker 5: You CA.
Speaker 4: Seven eight ninet eight, let your money work for you
rather than you always working for your money.
Speaker 1: At Banterwealth dot com.
Speaker 2: You were listening to ESPN Thefan, your home of Utah
Valley Athletics Stats.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about stats.
Speaker 2: Ben Cretinal and his team of former players and insiders
give you the latest stats, data and analytics that are
trending in the world.
Speaker 3: Of Cougar Sports stats.
Speaker 4: Welcome back Cougar Sports one of three nine ninet eight
point three ESPN the Fan. I've been prinal broadcasting from
our Bandwealth Studios Banterwealth dot Com. If you don't have
a financial vision, if you don't feel like you've got
a stable financial future, once you get on a free
Q and a no obligation to invest Q and A
with our wealth management tax smart Wealth Advantage tach Smart
Wealth Advisors at Banterwealthbatterwealth dot Com.
Speaker 1: Get on that free Q and a no obligation to
invest today.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about some stats here before Welcome
in our guest here on your Utah ESPN Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Couple things here.
Speaker 4: Matt Norlander on BYU's potential for a loss in March.
This is what he had to say, Matt Norlander, CBS Sports.
It would be a dang shame if ag Debansa effectively
is a top three Player of the Year candidate by
the end of the season and his team doesn't even
win an NC doublea tournament game. That's what people are
talking about. BYU not winning an NC double a tournament
game led by one of the best players, if not
the best player in college basketball. He goes on, because
now we need to be open to the possibility that's
going to happen. Because the possibility that BYU has an
eight or a.
Speaker 1: Seven seed next to its name.
Speaker 4: As opposed to a five or six feels very on
the table.
Speaker 1: That's your stat of today.
Speaker 4: You could be a seven or eight seed if BAU
plays like they did versus UCF. They could also be
a five or six seed if they figure out how
to like they did versus Iowa State.
Speaker 1: There's no censor butts about it.
Speaker 4: Aj Debots is a top three player in college basketball.
It would be a travesty. It would be devastating. It
would be a judo chop in the throat, a bowling
ball to the kneecap.
Speaker 1: It would be a roundhouse kick to the face.
Speaker 4: Maybe even a blow to the nether regions to not
have Aj deep in the turning and Matt Orlander's talking
about it, and I hate it.
Speaker 1: I abhorred.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about stats with a guy that makes me
happy because he makes me money. Let's welcome in Van
der Welsberry, own NFLPA sort of five financial planner.
Speaker 1: We got Blaine Anderson on the line Blaine's train. How
are you.
Speaker 9: I'm doing good and enjoying this afternoon, but not hearing
that that stat that is a rough one to take.
Speaker 3: I hope not.
Speaker 1: I know these aren't optimistic number.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess it depends on, like we gotta jeckle
in hyde situation.
Speaker 1: You have a peaking, you have a top end bottom end.
Speaker 4: You have an experienced late in the season where you
see the best BYU basketball has played arguably versus Iowas State,
and then you have their worst outing ever this season
versus UCF. How does that happen? What were your reactions
watching these two games? The contrast of emotions, the happiness,
the anger, the bitterer, the sweet.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was reading the scriptures. There must
be opposition in all things, is what I recall, and
I'm like, holy cow, I'm feeling that right now in
my mind, my body, and my soul.
Speaker 4: What were your feelings like watching those two respective games.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a roller coaster. It has been a
roller coaster. I'm in Arizona right now at a due
diligence conference. I turned the game on the other night
against UCF, and I'm a loyal fan, and I gotta
admit I found myself turning the channel. I turned the
TV off a couple of times. I mean, that UCF
game was rough. I don't ever want to see that again.
Speaker 4: I don't want to feel that way. I don't like
to feel that way when I'm down thirty.
Speaker 9: I kept thinking we were going to have a little
bit of a comeback. But as you know, and we did.
Speaker 1: We came back.
Speaker 4: We made it close thirteen point loss, but it felt
like it was a thirty point loss. You know what
I mean, Like you came out of that thinking even
though for BA was only a thirteen point loss, it
felt still like a thirty point loss.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it really did. And you know, I do I
believe in aj I think he is a top three pick,
and so yes, the chances, especially with the tournament, that's
what makes it great. There is a chance that we
could have an early elimination, but I do think he's
the type player that at least get us out of
that first round. I yes, my hot my hopes have
been diminished a little bit with Richie not.
Speaker 7: Being around, but hey, I know the chance exists, but I.
Speaker 9: Still see us getting past that first round. I think
Richie's or AJ's enough of a player that that we'll
get past that first round. I'm still holding on to
hope that we can get into that sweet sixteen round.
Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, let's get into some other stats here, Blaine,
as we get into this, let's talk about stats segment.
You're an NFLPA certified financial planner. Real quick, what went
into that? What went into being a registered NFLPA registered advisor?
How long did it take? What are they you know,
what do you got to go through? It seems like
it's a pretty in depth process. Give us a little
detail on it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's something that came to me by way of
recommendation and referral through an NFL agent, an agent that's
been around the block a long time, formerly represented one
of my childhood heroes, Barry Sanders, Jerome Bettis a couple
of players back in the day. But he had recommended
that I apply and go to the application process. It's thorough.
They have a third party that comes and does a
stept review of you your background. You of course can't
have any violations.
Speaker 3: I like that they have an.
Speaker 9: Eight year threshold that you must be certified. You of
course need to be a certified financial planner, you need
to have increased bonding and Arizonal missions insurance. I mean,
just a lot of things that speak to a higher
standard even within our industry. And so I'm in my
seventeenth year, the eight year requirements, the CFP. All of
those things are certifications and standards that we've adhered to
for a long time as a fiduciary firm.
Speaker 7: But it's a way to bring together.
Speaker 9: Some of those outside interests and those passions that I
have for sport with also what I do best and
what we do as a firm, and that's supervised assets
and investment accounts and help people reach their financial goals
and really use their money. That's a big part of.
Speaker 5: What we do.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 4: Let's get into a couple other things here as it
relates to your firm. Take a moment to maybe explain
how Banter Wealth Management is an independent firm firm that
maybe operates under a fiduciary standard. What's the difference between
an independent firm and one that isn't and why does
the produciary standard really matter in this business?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Well, really that's an important question, and honestly, most people
don't realize there's a difference. When we say banded or
is an independent wealth management firm, What we really mean
is we're not owned by a big bank, or an
insurance company or a Wall Street brokerage firm. We're not
tied to proprietary products, internal sales quotas, or a limited
shelf of investments. I like to say independence because it
does give us flexibility. If you learn anything about our firm,
and our custom income notes or the strategies that we
can analyze and objectively choose from are much more broad,
and so it helps us to fit that client situation
their objectives. We're certainly not pushed by a parent company,
and so it does allow us some him and and
I would even say some thinking outside the box. And
really a lot of our clients are those people that
are looking for to to do something different than what
everyone else does. And of course we've got our tried
and trude strategies, but there are times when some customization
and some creative thinking really are necessary and applicable, and
that's one of our key strengths here at band Erwealth Management.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give you a football stat now, you know,
to just rock your world. The NFL Combine is occurring
Blaine Train and we got two guys, Chase Roberts and
Jack Kelly.
Speaker 1: Wish them all.
Speaker 4: I think they'll test out well. Not so long ago
in the during Poka Nakua's advent into the NFL, he
wasn't invited. Pooka Nakua was not invited to the combine.
Crazy huh, Just crazy fact of the day, right, remember that.
Speaker 9: I don't know if it's just I do. I don't
know if it's just a story, but I heard that
our Jared Hall had something to do with Puoka getting
an invite. I don't know if that's true, but I
remember hearing that, and certainly he's proved a lot of
those people that he belonged there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: So I was reading through kind of the NFL dot
COM's evals of Chase and Jack and I was like, okay,
I take all of these with the grains salt, because
Pooka was way off. Now, these experts they can't get
it always right. They can't always get it. You can't
bat a thousand, and I'm sure you don't bat a
thousand in your industry. I can't bat a thousand in
my industry, it's very hard to do it. But pre
draft analysis of Puka Nakoua, hear this out, Okay, he
was a stat of the Day, Football stat of the Day,
NFL statu of the day. His draft projection per the
experts was around sixth or seventh round, maybe undrafted free agent,
and this was their overview. Niklus an athletic wide out
lacking the twitch or speed to attack NFL man coverage
at a successful rate. However, the ball skills and competitive
nature he brings to the field give him a fighting
chance to make a roster He might need to be
used as a possession receiver operating from the slot, which
he has by the way that he was right there
where his ball winning in size can work in his favor.
He's sneaky talented with the ball in his hands. Jets
sweep work in the pros could be an option. He
has a shot to be picked on Day three. There
are maked elements in the way he plays the game,
so you know, like a little bit of love there right.
His strengths routes offer leverage and crisp angles on the move.
Nice job of gaining vertical stack on cornerbacks. When he does,
got your beat basketball background on display when making contested catches,
gains late catch space with physicality and hand fighting battered
defenses as a jet sweep option, and then tough and
slippery with the ball. And he says, do you like
read those strengths, You're like yes, yes, yes, and we're
seeing those on display in the NFL as he becomes
one of the best, if not the best, wide receiver
in the NFL. Weakness is what he said, will struggle
to elude NFL press coverage. She hasn't granted, they haven't
line up in the slot, which means he's not on
the line of scrimmage. So he gets that yard of
cushion to be able to be able to get upfield,
be physical, hand fight and win and then stack routes.
Lacks instant acceleration to separate upright route running makes him
easy to redirect. That's been wrong. He's off on that one.
Does not have a long speed to keep corners from squatting.
He's bludgeoned the corners that squat and then occasional little
issues with focus on downfield targets. But anyway, his draft
prospect grade was a five point eight which is an
average backup or special team or it's hard to bat
a thousand.
Speaker 1: But he was way off on this eval.
Speaker 4: I know you had a good relationship with Pooka while
he was at YU, helping him with a few things,
so I thought i'd get your thoughts on this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I did, And I remember Pooka well.
Speaker 9: I remember meeting him when he first came over to BYU,
and especially with that draft stock and his prospects. I
remember them saying that maybe his speed was something. And
I saw him run the forty there at the Combine,
not at the Combine, but the b YU at the
pro day. Yeah, and you know he he is probably
middle of the road. But it's all those non teachables
that Puck is great at. I mean, he those strengths
do seem to be pretty spot on, and I'm sure
that when he sat down in those interviews he probably
wild them with his knowledge of the game, his IQ,
his personality, some of those intangibles. But I did I
got to know Puka.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 9: It's cool to see what he's doing now. And like
you said, no one's going to a bout a thousand.
Speaker 7: Puka is definitely one of those that has overcome a
lot of.
Speaker 9: The odds and I love seeing all that he's doing
now and representing us as Cougars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's doing great things in the NFL. Was at
the game versus Juicy app. We need to retire the
black jerseys, right? Are we done with him?
Speaker 1: The curse of the black jerseys.
Speaker 4: We we get smoked on the football field and we
get demolished on the basketball court. Let's just do away
with a black black plague. It is the black pot.
We got to get rid of it. Right, Are you
down with that? We've done with the blackouts going forward totally?
Speaker 9: I noticed that too in that UCF game. Yeah, I've
had enough of them.
Speaker 7: I'm with you guys for sure.
Speaker 4: Let's retire them today, Blaine, another important question most people
don't realize.
Speaker 1: There's a difference.
Speaker 4: When we say Bander is a wealth independent wealth management firm,
what it really means is it's not owned by maybe
what like a big bank. You mentioned some of those things.
I want to ask you this though, too. I know
Banders beginning maybe a partnership with some of the CPAs
something I know you guys are pretty excited about. What
does the collaboration allow you to do for the clients,
especially during tax season and the build up to tax season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, our clients that have outside CPA professionals,
we love communication with their assisting professionals. It's always been
a strength that communication. That collaboration does so much more
and adds value to the overall client relationship and achieving
their goals. So we continue to maintain many relationships with
existing professionals for our clients, but we've also opened up
an accounting arm that is with We have three CPAs
on staff. They do tax filings, they do tax strategy,
they're very experienced in the field, and it's a way
for us to just further that collaboration for a client. Yes,
having a wealth manager, having someone that's focused on growing
your accounts and advancing your accounts is important. I would
say just as important is the collaboration in keeping what
you earn. Especially for our high income, high net worth clients,
they taxes and saving on taxes or having a tax
strategy is one of the top priorities, and so we
have a band or accounting group. It consists of three CPAs.
They implement tax strategy, they file tax returns, and they
work in collaboration with the CFPS here on staff at
band Or Wealth Management, So we bring together an integrated
service of tax planning and wealth management to bring together
a better result and outcome for clients.
Speaker 4: Love that, man, I got one more statu of the
day for you that I want to get into. Jonathan
Wasserman of Bleacher Report has Darren Peterson as the number
one overall pick in his latest NBA mock draft. Now,
there's been some jocking for position here, as AJ has
gone off very productively over the last six seven games
for the Koogs. But this is what Jonathan Washerman had
to say about Darren Peterson. Believers remain adamant that an
injury is holding Darren Peterson back from unleashing more explosive
slashing to the rim. His shot selection so far has
included higher difficulty pull ups and followays, which may be
a result of the hamstring and cramping issues, as well
as his particular uses playing more off the ball and
less in ball screen situation. Still, he's shooting fifty four
point three percent on two point jumpers and forty point
five percent on three Scouts remain enamored with his movement
and ability to get to spots along with his special
shot making skill from three levels. There will likely be
some around the league turned off by him tapping out
of games and missing a big one against Arizona with
the flu, but the majority isn't concerned about attitude.
Speaker 1: Or work ethic.
Speaker 4: I know we're biased here, but AJ seems to have
that dog in him, and Darren should continue to be
labeled DNP until proven otherwise.
Speaker 1: I know how you would.
Speaker 4: You're gonna go with a guy that's available, your best abilities,
your availability.
Speaker 9: Right, absolutely, and let me even give you a market
take on it.
Speaker 7: From an investment standpoint, there's one thing the.
Speaker 9: Market's dislike more than anything else, and that's uncertainty.
Speaker 7: And so to me with Darren Peterson or I.
Speaker 9: Understand, he's got flashes of greatness and he may have
that in him, but even just that uncertainty about his health,
his injuries, and his being prone to injuries things.
Speaker 4: Like like tapping himself out in the middle of the game.
Speaker 1: We don't even know why that's right.
Speaker 9: It's just that level of uncertainty that make me take
a step back and I take AJ. Even if you
want to say AJ is an eight out of ten
and Darren can have flashes or moments of a nine
out of ten. I'd take Aj with his eight out
of ten and consistency over the flashes at a nine
all day.
Speaker 3: We can build around that.
Speaker 9: That's how I would look at it from an investment.
Speaker 1: Standpoint, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: You got to let the money work for you rather
than you always working for your money.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The rich work hard for the money, but the wealthy
they let the money work for them. I think that's
one of the things that you guys do best there
at Batterwealth.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, Ben, It's always a pleasure hopping on and that's
our goal for clients is to help put their money
to work for them and help them make deposits in
the memory bank because one of the things we like
the signal, so we enjoy working with listeners and appreciate
the time today.
Speaker 4: One last thing, biggest storylines come in out of Camp
Killini twenty twenty six. Is it kicks off tomorrow? Which
storyline are you most intrigued by and why? Quarterback two?
It's Trayson boorg Gay versus Enick Watson. What will the defense?
Number two? What will the defense look like? With klipapinga
at the help in the new defensive back coaches, how
about the RB two conversation c Onemo versus Jobesta, Demoni
versus presion, Rex versus devon, Eka versus logan pain.
Speaker 1: What is the wide receiver room going to look like?
Who's number?
Speaker 4: Who's wide receiver number one? How do you replace Parker Kingston?
You got some offensive line transfer? You got three of them,
new offensive line cohesion? Can they protect Bear Bachmeyer? And
then you have a little bit of this linebacker you
still in effect? Kate Uluave new transfer, Jake Clifton from
Kansas State new transfer. What will the linebackers look like?
Where do you lean and why?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm excited about the new linebacker. I can't wait
to just see him play. I've heard a lot about him.
I'll tell you I've got a lot of confidence and
coach Papinga on the defensive side. One of the question
marks for me and what I hope to see further
develop is what's going to happen in that wide receiver room.
Obviously know there's been some changes there. I'd like to
see who's going to step up, who's going to step in,
and where we can get some support to Bear and
LJ and build out that offense to put points on
the board. So I'd say for me, it's going to
be watching that wide receiver room and how that develops
through camp.
Speaker 4: Love that contact Blaine Anderson and his grow Vanderwelth Banderwelth
dot com, blaint always a pleasure, always a blessing, talking
ball and stats with you things ropping.
Speaker 9: On Hey without a doubt, Thank you, Ben, Hey go
Thanks Blaine.
Speaker 1: Were smart plays me smart wealth dope.
Speaker 10: Miss Bryce Martin's College Football Today every morning on the
College Football Voice of the West ESPN the Band. You
are listening to Cougar Sports with Ben Kretel, and it's
time for a Cougar insider. Now let's get that proprietary
inside scoop on Cougar Sports from Cretele.
Speaker 1: Welcome back Cougar Sports one of Green nine, not even
with three. ESPN the Fan.
Speaker 4: I've been fortal broadcasting from our Vanderwelt Studios, Vanderwelth dot Com.
Get on a freak and a no obligation to invest
Q and A with our tax mar Wealth Advisors, certified
financial planners.
Speaker 1: Nobody does it better than vander Wealth.
Speaker 4: It's time for a little Cougar Insider Report gonna be
brought to you by Big Otires in American Fork. If
you're looking for an honest, STARRD, working, cost transparent mechanic
who's also a big VY fan, you got to contact
my guy, Ryan eldrit Today. He does fantastic work. You
need a tried and true, loyal, strong and true mechanic
because many mechanics, you know, they may take advantage of you.
You may not know what's going on with the rotary
on the girder, you know what I mean, And therefore
they take advantage of you. They're gonna charge you an
arm and a leg for that that product in that service.
So why not bring it on in to Ryan Eldrits.
He's gonna take care of you. If you have products,
VPP service VP discounts, contact Ryan Eldridge today. Little Cougar
Inside Report brought to you by Big O Tires New
top ten most watched college basketball games through February twenty
fifth BYU.
Speaker 1: Coming in at number nine.
Speaker 4: When they played Kansas on ESPN it it was a
solid game, not too shabby not I mean, is the
loss right? But two point one million viewers got to
take a long, hard look at that game and coming
at a number nine, not too shabby. Pretty good work
at the top of the food chain right now. Duke
versus Arkansas that was on CBS six point eight million,
Michigan State versus unc at six point five million on
Fox Sports, Duke versus Michigan ESPN four point three million,
Duke versus un C on ESPN three point five million,
Maryland versus UCLA on Fox Sports two point nine million,
Michigan State versus Michigan two point eight million on Fox Sports.
Uf A versus Houston that was recent two point four
MILLI on ABC. And then Kentucky versus Arkansas ESPN two
point three to nine million, and that's number nine. B
Yu versus Cancer come in and then Wisconsin versus Michigan
at number ten on CBS two million. How does it
feel to know that, you know, Cougar Nation is being
seen around the country in these high profile games in
the Big twelve AP.
Speaker 6: I mean, it feels good when you beat a team
like Iowa State. It feels awful.
Speaker 1: When too many teams are watching you and you lose.
Speaker 6: When you know, screw it up against UCF when you're
down seventy to thirty five and two million people are
watching that.
Speaker 1: That's not good. That's not good, true, true.
Speaker 6: But overall, I think I think overall it's a good thing.
You want people tuning in to watch aj you want.
Speaker 4: The opportunity is what you want. You need the opportunity. Okay,
And I don't know if BYU, at least in football,
I don't know if they've always taken advantage of the eyeballs.
You know, we pulled up some interesting stats. You know,
when Fox comes down, we do better. When ESPN Game
Day comes around, we don't do so well. Ap I
think we talked about that stat last time. I think
we're We've lost every game that ESPN Game.
Speaker 6: Day, every single time ESPN Game Days at BYU. I
don't think we've just lost. We've been absolutely well.
Speaker 4: ESPN Basketball Game Day was out there at Kansas and
we lost that until we lost that too, and we
should have.
Speaker 6: Been annihilated, but we made it close. We were we
were getting destroyed before we made it close.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Another key stat of the day, slash inside of Cordbilo.
You moved up to twenty three in ESPN's College basketball
Power rankings even though they lost to UCF.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 4: Three days after bo He's biggest win of the season,
a ten point victory over Iowa State, the Cougar suffered
a surprising thirteen point loss at home to UCF in
a game they trailed by as many as.
Speaker 1: Thirty six points.
Speaker 4: Just look at that number of like, that's insane that
they were down thirty six in the second half. From
a body of work resume perspective, Bealie still has the
profile of sixth seed or.
Speaker 1: A top twenty five team. Okay, that makes you feel better, right?
Speaker 4: The Cougars are top twenty five and six of seven
team sheet metrics, with twelve wins over Quadrant one and
Quadrant two opponents. The marquee went over Iowa State adds
serious haft to a group of wins that already included Villanova, Wisconsin, Miami,
and Clemson. But they're three and six in their past
nine games and one and two one and two record
without Richie snders, including a home loss to UCF, leaves
them at risk of tumbling further. Next seven days, you
got West Virginia and then at West Virginia and at Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the resume right now.
Speaker 6: Ap Well, it's good, it's not great. The unfortunate thing
is we were led to believe this team was going to
be elite, which is why I think.
Speaker 4: The fool you Spaceball fans out there, fool you.
Speaker 1: You don't know that. Do you know Spaceballs? Have anyone
ever seen space Ball?
Speaker 4: I think you're an old e but goody, Ronnie, have
you ever seen Spaceballs?
Speaker 1: Spaceballs? Nope?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: All right, it's on your to do list. It's on
you've watched seen, You've seen Star Wars? Well, yeah, okay,
you all right, then watch Spaceballs, watch Spaceball? Yeah yeah, yeah,
watch Spaceballs in your free time. It's a homework assignment
to all. Have you guys, fooled you anyway? And you
can text me fool you when you when you see
the anyway, keep going.
Speaker 6: But in terms of lately it the performance against UCF
to me, is a result of it felt like after
Iowa State, by you thought they had arrived and UCF said, no,
you haven't, and they said that message pretty clearly. I'm
not sure by Us really got an opportunity to get
themselves out of a five to six range. I think
that opportunity's gone unless you somehow win the Big Twelve.
I don't see that happening in this world. Yeah, but
it's good, it's not it's not great.
Speaker 4: If you're a sixth seed? How do you feel what seed?
Right now? All things considered, you got a couple of
games remaining in the in Big twelve play, you have
the Big twelve tournament around the corner.
Speaker 1: What seeding would you be happy with? For the Kokes?
Speaker 6: For me, it depends on who you get matched up with.
If you get matched up with a mid major, I
actually feel worse than if you get matched up with
and a power for team that maybe shouldn't be in
there but is because of their confidence. Like I think,
I think that's a better matchup for BYU. If they
get lined up against an SEC or a Big twelve
or ACC or sorry Big ten ACC team that's an
eleven seed, I am not.
Speaker 11: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think those teams can really advance in the tournament.
I think BYU does well better against that than say
it I. If b YU somehow matches up against Saint Mary's,
it just might be game over because I still have
nightmares from those matchups, like I do. I don't want
to see a Saint.
Speaker 1: Mary's, I don't you don't want Saint Mary.
Speaker 6: I don't want Saint Mary's. You know, Miami of Ohio
could be fun because they're still undefeated. Actually, but they're
sitting at the eleven seed line.
Speaker 9: Uh huh, so.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Do you want Miami of Ohio undefeated coming in? I
don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, look like, uh, I just think b YU
has stay. It's kind of like the uh John Wooden approach.
Get your house in order, focus on yourself, don't focus
on the opponent. But uh, you know, if it's a
sixth seed, Ronnie, are you happy with that? Are you
okay with a sixth seed? If that's what BYU earns
into the tournament?
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's exactly with Duran. After you get your butt
spanked and embarrassed at home in the Mara and you
had fans doing that's the best you can get a look,
I mean, the only thing is if you had a miracle,
and we do believe in miracles, but this is not
the miracle on ice bean. It's not gonna be any
gold medals one. I don't think for this BAU basketball team.
I could be wrong. Be happy to but they're not
winning the Big twelve Basketball tournament with it. The way
they play defense, six seed is best. I'm happy with that. Look,
people don't agree with me, but send them to Portland
if they don't go to San Diego. I know that
the Gonzaga game would be a home game, but look,
I think you can get Gonzaga with some stuff. I
think there's magic in the tournament. You know, march Is,
there's all types of stuff. So I would like to
see bo in the sixth seed knock off the number
three seed Gonzaga Bulldogs and then go to the Sweet
sixteen and let that be it, and fans would say
that successful season.
Speaker 3: You beat your old wcc FO.
Speaker 1: You prove that.
Speaker 11: Okay, look everything went wrong this year with injuries, but
you beat Gonzaga, who you couldn't overcome ben if aj overcame,
you know them, in the round of thirty two. To
get to the sweet sixteen. You sent Mark few, you
pack them up ins in a home I think fans
would be happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be perfectly fine.
Speaker 4: Look, they're twenty and eight right now, six and six
and quad one, six and two in quad twos, and
they have a few remaining games that could bolster their
resume at West Virginia at Cincinnati and then Texas Tech
at home. Hopefully you can win a few games in
the Big twelve tournament, and if you can get to
the semis, I think that helps. That would be a
boon for Brigham. And if so, then I think you're
you're right there at a sixth seed and you can
get maybe a nice poll in seeding and maybe have
a path to greener pastures in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 6: And I think the plus side if you get a
sixth seed is you won't end up playing the first
four teams that have already played in already warm I
think that that's I think that's a plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 4: That's a little inside of a report brought to you by
our good friends at big Otires in an American fork. If
you're looking for an honest, started working costs transparent mechanic
who's also a big BYU fan, contacted my guy Ryan
Eldred today.
Speaker 1: You know he's going to take care of you VP problem.