Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, Welcome back Cougar Sports oneal three nine ninety
eight point three ESPN the Fan. We're broadcasting just south
of Level Edward Stadium at the Swig.
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Speaker 2: We've had some great guests.
Speaker 1: We'll continue to break down this BYU Utah Robbery Game,
the Holy War, and my brother, former BYU defensive back
Matthew Krittle just gave me his score prediction, by the way,
twenty eight twenty four BYU.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: But I feel like, you know, since we're so blue
goggled here, since we're all day, every day b why
we'd get a former Utah football player on our show
real quick to counter and shout out to Zach. It's
out at to Brady, my uh my nephew also showing up.
And I also have a former b YU great in
front of me as well, a Loti for ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls. Uh, we're hey, what's up, buddy, Good
to see you guys. Uh, well we'll we'll uh, we'll
welcome into the show. Former Utah fullback and one of
my favorite people to interact with. We got Scott Cottis
on the line. Scottie, how you living?
Speaker 2: How you doing? My boy?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 1: Man? I'm doing awesome appreciation you being here. You got
some rectech. Uh, pulled pork cow.
Speaker 2: Was the meal? Did fantastic?
Speaker 3: Y'all know how to cook down here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know how to do it here in provo.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You've been a part of this rivalry.
Speaker 1: You've you've seen the back and forth right you were
you know, you were a part of a different era
of this rivalry, and it's been pretty dominant towards.
Speaker 2: The Utes in the modern era.
Speaker 1: So you've had bragging rights on us for a long time.
But I've got the last two under my belt. Brother,
I'm two and zero now. In the last few games,
we're trying to get to three and zero and setting
Kyle out on a three game losing streak before retirement.
How do you see this game playing out tonight?
Speaker 3: You know, I see it being a defensive battle. I
think both defenses are set up to stop one another
to make it a very tight night game. Personally, I
think it's gonna come down to turnovers, and I think
it may even come down to injury. To believe it
or not, I think both sides have some have some
thinness in their skill positions, and if one of those,
one or two of those guys go down, it could
change the game dramatically.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you look at it from a.
Speaker 1: History historical standpoint, nineteen seventy two to nineteen ninety, BYU dominates.
Speaker 2: From nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: To twenty ten, it's fifty fifty right down the middle.
From twenty ten to present day, it's mostly Utah, with
two wins, most recently in BYU's favor. What makes you
believe that Kyle Whitningham's gonna finally get a win in
order to sail off into the sunset of retirement before
you know tonight.
Speaker 3: Look, I've been around the program a lot of years,
and I can just tell you the adjustments that are
made by some of these longtime coaches, Morgan Scalley, Kyle
Whittingham under his tutelage. I think it's hard to go
against that kind of history, that kind of coaching legacy.
You know, some adjustments are gonna be made. You know,
they're gonna dial up some things for for Bachmeyer that
maybe he hasn't seen. Uh, they're gonna, they're gonna they're
gonna cloud the coverages. They're gonna giving Dipper looks. So
it's hard to It's hard to beat a good team twice.
Speaker 1: And Utah is a very good team. I'm gonna throw
something out at you. Utah is a good tea Bay
is a good team. Both of these teams symmetrically look
very similar. You know, from a statistics standpoint, they're very congruent.
Even Kyle Winningham and his press in his press conference
earlier this week, stated that these teams are very similar
in style and form and faction fashion.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is this.
Speaker 1: I've always said that in the modern era, the reason
why UTA's has been better than BYU is because they've
had more resources. They got the PAC twelve money, they
don't have an honor code, and they their academic standards
are slightly lower than Brigham's.
Speaker 2: There was no.
Speaker 1: Reason why Utah should lose to BYU in the modern era.
Now since BYU has now been in the Big twelve.
Now they're in the third year. Now, they have the
resources now, and there's always been this talent gap that
you talk about. The talent gap isn't there anymore, and
the resource gap isn't there anymore.
Speaker 2: That's why we're seeing the turn of the rivalry one
hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I think b YU in the last several years has
come on strong. I think since inclusion the in in
the Big twelve changed that dramatically.
Speaker 2: And the recruiting. Obviously b YU was always good at recruiting,
but being a maybe being a.
Speaker 3: Part of the Big twelve certainly changes that trajectory that
UND four affiliation health. So you're right, the talent gap
is much smaller. I think it comes down to x's
and o's now and who can execute.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, that's interesting because I was like one of
the most intriguing battles from a coordinating standpoint, and who
you pick and Jason Beck the new OC former BAYU
quarterback versus j Hill the former Utah defensive back, or
or are you looking at uh, you know you have
Morgan Scaley versus Aaron Roderick. There Morgan Scaley, former Utah
defensive back DC, Aaron Roddick Ay wide receiver OC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, it's it's really between these two coordinators. I
can't I can't think of a of a better X's
and o's matchup. And I would love to be in
the press box next to those guys and their diagram
and stuff and picking apart each other's schemes. It would
be fantastic.
Speaker 2: Well, I give you your score prediction.
Speaker 1: I need a Utah fan and former football player to
give me the contrarian view here.
Speaker 3: Just because it's going to be a defensive battle, I'm
gonna put it at twenty four to twenty one. Utah
walks away on a field goal just to make up
for last year.
Speaker 2: Brother, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: That would be That would be a tremendous There as
tall dary games in which this has been determined by
a field goal.
Speaker 2: I look at the Kenna Shiro missed kick.
Speaker 1: I look at web Burton coming off the edge in
twenty ten and blocking the field goal at Rice cycles
Will Farron hitting a field goal. How about twenty twelve,
by you're missing three consecutive field goals, they could have
tied it, and.
Speaker 3: Who could forget the year I was part of the
Utah program in nineteen ninety two. When you're Gonson kick
the field goal here on this field and we actually
tore down your goal post.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, get that?
Speaker 1: Wowio, but yeah, just insane. Shout out to Scott Cotti's
former by former Utah full back. Excuse me, he should
have been a BYU cougar.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the Hanniman family showing up as well.
Love the Hanniman family, the legacy family of the Hanniman's here, oh,
and the Nelson family here as well. Shout out to Dave,
Big Dave. All right, we're gonna take a brief time out.
Appreciate you, Scottie, Thank you, sir. Don't go anywhere, Cougarnation.
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