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Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, Welcome back Cougar Sports oneal three nine ninety

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eight point three ESPN the Fan. We're broadcasting just south

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of Level Edward Stadium at the Swig.

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Speaker 2: Come on bye, say hello.

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Speaker 1: We got pulled pork sandwiches that rectech is handing out

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to all the Cougar fans and Utah fans here in

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Cougar Country.

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Speaker 2: Royal Army brand is in attendance.

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Speaker 1: We're ESPN the Fan and we're giving you all the

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Cougar sports content your mind, body and soul need.

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Speaker 2: We've had some great guests.

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Speaker 1: We'll continue to break down this BYU Utah Robbery Game,

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the Holy War, and my brother, former BYU defensive back

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Matthew Krittle just gave me his score prediction, by the way,

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twenty eight twenty four BYU.

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Speaker 2: Baby.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like, you know, since we're so blue

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goggled here, since we're all day, every day b why

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we'd get a former Utah football player on our show

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real quick to counter and shout out to Zach. It's

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out at to Brady, my uh my nephew also showing up.

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And I also have a former b YU great in

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front of me as well, a Loti for ladies and gentlemen,

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boys and girls. Uh, we're hey, what's up, buddy, Good

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to see you guys. Uh, well we'll we'll uh, we'll

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welcome into the show. Former Utah fullback and one of

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my favorite people to interact with. We got Scott Cottis

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on the line. Scottie, how you living?

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Speaker 2: How you doing? My boy?

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 1: Man? I'm doing awesome appreciation you being here. You got

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some rectech. Uh, pulled pork cow.

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Speaker 2: Was the meal? Did fantastic?

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Speaker 3: Y'all know how to cook down here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we know how to do it here in provo.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You've been a part of this rivalry.

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Speaker 1: You've you've seen the back and forth right you were

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you know, you were a part of a different era

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of this rivalry, and it's been pretty dominant towards.

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Speaker 2: The Utes in the modern era.

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Speaker 1: So you've had bragging rights on us for a long time.

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But I've got the last two under my belt. Brother,

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I'm two and zero now. In the last few games,

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we're trying to get to three and zero and setting

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Kyle out on a three game losing streak before retirement.

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How do you see this game playing out tonight?

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Speaker 3: You know, I see it being a defensive battle. I

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think both defenses are set up to stop one another

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to make it a very tight night game. Personally, I

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think it's gonna come down to turnovers, and I think

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it may even come down to injury. To believe it

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or not, I think both sides have some have some

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thinness in their skill positions, and if one of those,

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one or two of those guys go down, it could

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change the game dramatically.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you look at it from a.

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Speaker 1: History historical standpoint, nineteen seventy two to nineteen ninety, BYU dominates.

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Speaker 2: From nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 1: To twenty ten, it's fifty fifty right down the middle.

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From twenty ten to present day, it's mostly Utah, with

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two wins, most recently in BYU's favor. What makes you

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believe that Kyle Whitningham's gonna finally get a win in

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order to sail off into the sunset of retirement before

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you know tonight.

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Speaker 3: Look, I've been around the program a lot of years,

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and I can just tell you the adjustments that are

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made by some of these longtime coaches, Morgan Scalley, Kyle

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Whittingham under his tutelage. I think it's hard to go

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against that kind of history, that kind of coaching legacy.

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You know, some adjustments are gonna be made. You know,

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they're gonna dial up some things for for Bachmeyer that

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maybe he hasn't seen. Uh, they're gonna, they're gonna they're

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gonna cloud the coverages. They're gonna giving Dipper looks. So

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it's hard to It's hard to beat a good team twice.

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Speaker 1: And Utah is a very good team. I'm gonna throw

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something out at you. Utah is a good tea Bay

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is a good team. Both of these teams symmetrically look

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very similar. You know, from a statistics standpoint, they're very congruent.

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Even Kyle Winningham and his press in his press conference

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earlier this week, stated that these teams are very similar

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in style and form and faction fashion.

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Speaker 2: What's crazy is this.

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Speaker 1: I've always said that in the modern era, the reason

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why UTA's has been better than BYU is because they've

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had more resources. They got the PAC twelve money, they

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don't have an honor code, and they their academic standards

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are slightly lower than Brigham's.

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Speaker 2: There was no.

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Speaker 1: Reason why Utah should lose to BYU in the modern era.

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Now since BYU has now been in the Big twelve.

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Now they're in the third year. Now, they have the

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resources now, and there's always been this talent gap that

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you talk about. The talent gap isn't there anymore, and

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the resource gap isn't there anymore.

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Speaker 2: That's why we're seeing the turn of the rivalry one

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hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: I think b YU in the last several years has

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come on strong. I think since inclusion the in in

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the Big twelve changed that dramatically.

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Speaker 2: And the recruiting. Obviously b YU was always good at recruiting,

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but being a maybe being a.

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Speaker 3: Part of the Big twelve certainly changes that trajectory that

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UND four affiliation health. So you're right, the talent gap

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is much smaller. I think it comes down to x's

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and o's now and who can execute.

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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, that's interesting because I was like one of

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the most intriguing battles from a coordinating standpoint, and who

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you pick and Jason Beck the new OC former BAYU

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quarterback versus j Hill the former Utah defensive back, or

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or are you looking at uh, you know you have

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Morgan Scaley versus Aaron Roderick. There Morgan Scaley, former Utah

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defensive back DC, Aaron Roddick Ay wide receiver OC.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, it's it's really between these two coordinators. I

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can't I can't think of a of a better X's

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and o's matchup. And I would love to be in

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the press box next to those guys and their diagram

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and stuff and picking apart each other's schemes. It would

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be fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Well, I give you your score prediction.

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Speaker 1: I need a Utah fan and former football player to

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give me the contrarian view here.

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Speaker 3: Just because it's going to be a defensive battle, I'm

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gonna put it at twenty four to twenty one. Utah

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walks away on a field goal just to make up

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for last year.

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Speaker 2: Brother, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: That would be That would be a tremendous There as

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tall dary games in which this has been determined by

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a field goal.

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Speaker 2: I look at the Kenna Shiro missed kick.

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Speaker 1: I look at web Burton coming off the edge in

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twenty ten and blocking the field goal at Rice cycles

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Will Farron hitting a field goal. How about twenty twelve,

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by you're missing three consecutive field goals, they could have

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tied it, and.

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Speaker 3: Who could forget the year I was part of the

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Utah program in nineteen ninety two. When you're Gonson kick

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the field goal here on this field and we actually

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tore down your goal post.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, get that?

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Speaker 1: Wowio, but yeah, just insane. Shout out to Scott Cotti's

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former by former Utah full back. Excuse me, he should

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have been a BYU cougar.

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Speaker 2: Hey.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Hanniman family showing up as well.

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Love the Hanniman family, the legacy family of the Hanniman's here, oh,

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and the Nelson family here as well. Shout out to Dave,

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Big Dave. All right, we're gonna take a brief time out.

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Appreciate you, Scottie, Thank you, sir. Don't go anywhere, Cougarnation.

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