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the Desert News. We got Jay Drew on the line. Jay,
how you live it?
Speaker 3: I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's a great day to talk some BYU football and
BYU basketball. Jay, where's your where's your bandwidth been allocated?
Over the last couple of weeks?
Speaker 3: I would say mostly the words basketball. I am working
on a football story right now, but a couple actually,
But yeah, basketball's taking up a lot of my time,
and and not to lubb it on Saturday morning for
the that game, so that'll even keep me more involved
with YU basketball. But then looking forward to next week
when YU has a kind of a mid week by
They don't play until Saturday against Utah, so that'll be
a little bit more time to get back into football
a little bit. So that's kind of where I am
right now.
Speaker 2: Basketball be a your ranks tenth in ESPN's latest men's
basketball Power rankings. The ap pole hasn't been so friendly
to BUYU. What gives J Drew?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the media voters, guys and gals that
vote on that probably looking at the game against Utah
where BYU was a double digit favorite and only one
by five, I think that might have nicked them a
little bit. And I think, let me, let's face it,
up until that point, a couple other teams kind of
elite frogged them. I think it was Nebraska and Villanova
if I'm not mistaken. So yeah, there's just so many
elite teams this year. There's so many teams with zero
or one law that it's just hard to break into
that top ten. There's it's just this is as many
good teams as I can remember in a long time
in college basketball.
Speaker 2: Great players, great teams. This by basketball team the best
in BYU basketball history. Do you think are you willing
to go.
Speaker 3: On record on that, I would say it's the most talented.
I don't think it's the most accomplished yet. So when
you say you know best, I you know, until they
get to the lead eight like that Danny h Steve Trumbull,
Fred Roberts team did and I was it nineteen eighty
eighty one, I think I'm not ready to go that far.
In fact, I'm not even sure. We were talking about
this last night Darnell and me. If this team is
better than last year's team, obviously with Rob and AJ,
they're probably more talented. But man, last year you had
Foos who was a really good low post scorer, Dallen
Hall was a valuable guy off the bench, Dawson Baker
was healthy, and obviously you had Yegor, who you know
is really turning ahead to the NBA right now. So
I think it's more talented this year than last. But
until this group does what last year's group did, which
was get to the sweet sixteen, I'm I'm gonna have
to say the jury is out on that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is missing do you think from this roster?
If you could put your finger on it, what's missing?
Is it a particular style, particular you know, you know,
type of player, What do you make of it?
Speaker 3: I think they're missing a sniper, a guy off the
bench that can come in like Trevin Nill did last year,
hit a bunch of threes in a row. I you know,
they were obviously counting on Tyler marss and to do that.
And then obviously with Dawson Baker and Nate Pickens getting
hurt and suffering season ending injuries, that's hurt him a lot.
But I would just say, I just don't know if
the Big three is sustainable moving forward of scoring. You know,
all ast what is it, seventy percent of their points.
They just need some other scoring from somewhere off the bench.
Just one of those guys that can just instant offense.
Type of guy. Maybe you substitute a little defense. I'm
not saying that Dawson Baker was not a great defender,
because he was adequate, but a guy that can just
come in like he did and give you some points
and or like Trevin Nell did. And I just don't
see that right now. Maybekennard Davis can pick up offensively
a little bit. He obviously averaged eighteen points a game
at Southern Illinois last year, So we're kind of still
waiting for that. And granted, you know, he's not gonna
get the ball, he's not going to be priority one
when he got three superstars on your team. But but yeah,
that's where I think they need just they need something
off the bench. They need I would I haven't looked
it up, but I bet they're one of the ten
least productive benches in the country or somewhere in that
range of maybe ten percent in that range of teams,
So that that's where they really need some help with.
Speaker 2: Yes, me, is there anyone that is on the roster
currently that you could that you think could step into
that role and become that bench bucket getter for by U?
Speaker 3: You know, I mentioned that Tyler Marrass had a good
career up in Idaho. I know the costitch is it
alexis Uh. He showed a few signs early in the
season preseasons on conference. I don't think we've seen him
on the court for quite a while. Uh So no,
I you know, I mean, I totally frank with you,
I don't I just don't see it. I just they're
just gonna have to ride or die with with uh.
They got one of the best starting fives in college basketball.
It's not the best with you know, especially when Keba
is going good and out of foul trouble. But there's
just a big drop off now and uh, you know,
obviously all Matt has come in and been a good
valuable back up to Cada, really valuable because Cada gets
some tout trouble a lot. But he's not a type
of guy that's going to fill up the you know,
the basket with points for you. So yeah, frankly, I
don't you know, I don't want to be a negative nelly.
I don't want to be an e or. I want
to be positive, as we've gone over in the past.
But I don't know what about you guys, who do
you see maybe is on that bench that could do that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I keep on leaning into Mihilo bucket Viitch.
I'm like, bro, like, you're better than this. Bro, Step up, bro,
get it get it straight. Like you have the skill set,
you have the ability to do so much defensively offensively,
got to be that stretch five. Obviously you can block shots.
You've seen that pretty consistently over the last couple of games.
He's got good length, He's never seen a shot he
doesn't like. He's just got to get that stroke back.
And also, you know, have a head on a swivel,
be a distributor when given the opportunity. When if he
does start hitting, you know, defenses will collapse. I'm at
my Hilo bucket, Viitch. I've been saying this from the beginning.
We need Mahilo to be my highlight bucket, Viitch. If
he's not, I agree with you, we're going to struggle
in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And to be fair, he did have a huge
bucket last night in that second half, a huge three
pointer that really got him going, like Kevin said, when
they were struggling a little bit to score. So I
agree with you, Ben, I think it's in him. If
you look at you know, his playover in Europe and
the Surbbian leagues, and that he could do that. He's
definitely got that ability. I had. I wrote a story
about him last week and had a good conversation with him,
and I think it's just with him. It's just a
confidence thing. I think he can he knows he can
do it. But I think he gets in there and
he gets a little bit worried about what happens if
I missed? Am I going to get pulled? And that's
just every college basketball player goes through that. It's just
something you have to work through. But I definitely think
he has the potential to be honest with you, When
I was just talking about guys, I kind of forgot
about him a little bit because I picture him more
of the as an inside player, although he does step
out and shoot threes quite often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how devastating do you think now that we know
what we know? How devastating was that Dawson Baker injury?
Hate that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's big. I hope it's not the
difference between you know, last year Sweet sixteen and their
their stated goal of Final four or beyond, but it
very melt very well might be. I mean, that could
be the difference. He's you know, Dawson was the what
do they call him? The bucket maker Dawson.
Speaker 2: Dawson the bucket the bucket Baker, the bucket getter Baker,
That's what I called. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just sad because that was a huge injury,
and uh it's probably the repercussions are going to be
felt for for quite some time.
Speaker 2: J Drew desrat News here on your Utah being Ready
Network discussing b WAU men's basketball and uh uh b
y U athletics and by you is trending in an
awesome direction right now in both football and basketball, and uh,
you know, I feel like football, their retention efforts were
pretty pivotal.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Everyone was fearful what Jay Hill and Gennaro with their departures.
You did retain Gary Anderson, but you lost two key
cogs and in the wheel that really made b Why
you go over the last two seasons? Uh? What how
would you evaluate the retention efforts of this coaching staff
and the culture that Kloone's built.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the retention rate it's been fabulous.
I mean, uh, you know, there are a few guys
that have left that maybe could have helped them. Max Alford, Uh,
somebody on X excuse me of being a Max Alford lover,
but I just think he you know, I thought it
was a valuable contributor when he got in there and
helped him out a lot until he got hurt. So, uh,
of course he's going to Michigan to be reunited with
his uncle, who's the running backs coach. There Tony Alford,
but I would give I would give him an A
A minus maybe B plus uh range for roster attention.
It's in fact, I got a good mone a. I mean,
I can't think of one, especially in the day and
age where everybody's losing guys. I mean we're talking about everybody.
Uh even Texas Tech. To only lose what they've lost
eleven so far and no starters, it's been pretty it's
been pretty great, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. Uh. Which one are you most optimistic
about here in the next few years? Is it basketball?
Is it football? Which one has the better trajectory right
now in sustainability? Do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I definitely think it's football. You know, you got beaar Bachnier,
you got some really good up and coming players. Thoughts Walla,
it's basketball, you know, it's the one and done. H.
You know, obviously Aj is probably not going to be
back here next year. Uh, he's a generational talent. I
just don't see by you getting a guy like that
every year. So Rob Wright, who knows what he's going
to do, but he's obviously a great talent, and they'll
they'll lose Richie. I don't really see anybody in the
pipeline coming up at least on the roster is now
constituted that can replace any of those big three guys.
So so yeah, I would have to lean towards football.
It's uh, you know, football, it seems like a really
solid foundation. They're developmental. They got not only bringing in
valuable transfer portal guys, kind of more plug in guys,
but the basis of this program is and the culture
of this program is still getting guys developing them. A
guy like Parker Kingston just gets better every year. Satuala,
It's got a lot better you go just down the list.
So I think football, I would say, has a better
trajectory right now because of the nature of the beast.
I mean basketball. All throughout college basketball, it's like the
Kentucky and the Dukes and by you kind of joining
those is using one and done players and that's kind
of hard to sustain from year to year to maintain
a high level of excellences. As football, I think you
can do once you get that foundations set like BYU have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. It feels like bou basketball is more
I don't even know if this is a word like mercenario,
like it's all, but it's based on more like acquisition
via the portal and maybe recruiting. I mean, AG is
a refreshman and football seemingly is more retention base. It's
more developmental based in a get old, stale manner. It
seems like a little bit different. I'm not to say
that there wasn't retention. There was with Richie and and
Dawson and Mihailo and others, but it does seem like
there's a little bit more mercenarial type of activity in basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. I often wonder, you know, Mark Polpe's
been a little heat down there at Kentucky in his
second year, and I always wonder if what if Richie
had and he was close to going to Kentucky, What
if Richie had gone to Kentucky, what would the trajectory
of these two programs are where they are right now?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think I just think that was a whoever convinced Richie
to stay, and I guess it was Kevin Young. I'm
not positive that was huge. That's absolutely huge and really
changed two programs pretty pretty pretty immensely.
Speaker 2: You wonder like the type of impact that Richie would
have had the last two years at Kentucky. Does it
get Kentucky last year to an elite eight because the
top Kings going off, does does that Kentucky team that
has struggled a little bit this year have a leader
to look towards, to be a stabilizing force, a creator,
a facilitator, a culture guy, a glue guy with playmaking
ability to get them into uh, you know, to keep them,
you know, in that elite status of college basketball. So
really point at commentary and obviously we know what he's
done for BYU over the last two seasons. He's been
a massive boon. I think you're right, man, that's like
a keystone. It would have been a keystone for either
one of the programs, and luckily BYU retained the top king.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, it's I mean you kind of look
at Colin Chandler and the height that he got out
of high school and coming and by you got him
and then he went on the mission and obviously he
went followed Pope to Kentucky. But the Richie Saunder story
is pretty amazing. I mean, you know, when he signed
with BYU out of watchach Anatomy and then obviously went
on a mission. But I'll bet very very few BYU
fans could have realized just how good this kid could get.
I know I did, and I watched him as freshman
year even at BYU, and you know that's a role
player for life. So the Richie Saunders story, it is
going to be a good movie someday, and obviously it'll
be sponsored by Tater.
Speaker 2: Talks, no doubt about it, Jay Drew, Ladies and gentlemen, Jay, Jesus,
what are you going to be writing about? You're surely
what's going to be dropping on the Desert News website.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mentioned I'm going to Lovevick, So I'll be
writing about that game. But then next week earlier, I'm
writing this thing kind kind of like a history of
historical perspective of that week where Kyle Whittingham signed with
Michigan and all that transpired. I'm kind of calling it
the week that shook the college football landscape in Utah
with all the repercussions. I mean, it touched every program
in the state. We were stayed so in Utah, Utah State,
just one man's decision and all that kind of weaving
that tale of and following those shock waves, trying to
trying to write about that and called a couple of
old buddies Kurk Kragthorpe from the old Salt Lake Tribute
columnists and Mike Sorenson and tapping into Dick Harmon's kind
of knowledge and trying to weave kind of kind of
like almost like a written history, oral history of a
week that will really reverberate for years and years in
Utah College football.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. J Drew. Ladies and gentlemen, Jay,
we appreciate you, We salute you man. Thanks for hopping
on for Cougar Beat.
Speaker 3: My pleasure. Thanks for having me on having.
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by set we didn't get into a few days ago
when Kelly Pipinka was announced as the defensive coordinator for BYU.
We had Brian Keel the Keel Zone, former BAYU linebacker,
former Boa You're great discuss what he what he knew,
what he knows about k Pop, his relationship with K Pop,
and why he believes K Pop was the right guy
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was like, I was kind of thinking, like I was pondering, like, hey,
you know, K Pop had a great interview with bay Sportstation.
We need to reach out to the BAU s I
d we need to get to Mario and k Pop
on to discuss the future. Maybe you're trying to get
Gary Anderson on to discuss the future of the BAU
defense under the tutelage, the mentorship of the leadership and
vision of those three individual alongside Justin Ena Chad K.
I think coach Chad K is also going to be
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check this out. Kpop joined the BWAU Sports Nation this
past week and delved into a few elements like this
one was interesting. He states, I feel like I've been
prepared for this moment for a long time. Let's listen
in as Kpop discusses his emotions on being named the
new defensive coordinator of brigham On University.
Speaker 4: Which when I say, BYU defensive coordinator, Kelly popinga, what
kind of emotions settle into your mind? I just feel
extremely honored, blessed. I feel like I've been prepared for
this moment for a long time, going back to my
playing days with Bronco and my coaching days with Bronco
and just his defensive mind. And then I got a
credit you know, Coach Howell and Coach Tidwell and coach Kafusi,
those guys that I was around for a long time,
and then just my time to Virginia and then getting
here with Klannie. Yeah, I've just learned a lot from him,
a lot from Jay Jay was you know, great mentoring
this deal and coach Anderson as well, Gary Anderson. So
I just feel like there's been a lot of people
put in my path along the way that have really
prepared me for this moment, and so they'll be. Yeah,
the defense will be I think, you know, maybe a
little taste of Bronco in there, a little taste of
what we've done last year. I mean just I've just
learned so much. But the base of the defense will
be what it's been, and I'd be an idiot to
change much of what we were doing. But there'll be
a little thing here and there. But I'm just excited
and honored for just the opportunity and grateful coach when I.
Speaker 2: Say excited for the opportunity, grateful that opportunity. The base
of the defense ain't get a change munch. There'll be
some new oance Wo's some subtleties, but k Pop taking
the bull by the horns, and we're gonna see where
he takes us here. A couple of things here. One
of the things that BYU fans and former players have
been impressed by is the retention of the coaching staff
as well as the players. You lost two great coaches
in Genaro and Jay Hill, but the players had stayed
in provo. Why is that? Kelly Papinga discussed this a
couple of days ago on how they were able to
retain so many of the key players that were on
the roster. Let's see what he had to say.
Speaker 4: One of those days where it was constant talked to
the players, letting them know. And at the time, I
hadn't been offered the job, but I was, you know,
Klannie and I had been talking of that whole day
and just kind of feeling the way I knew I
was staying.
Speaker 5: I wasn't going anywhere, and so, you know.
Speaker 4: As just a defensive coach, I wanted to keep us
all together as much as I could.
Speaker 5: And so, you know, calling fole it out.
Speaker 4: Immediately and Schmid immediately, and all these different players in
Glasgow immediately, all these guys that were key pieces that
we knew had a chance to potentially go to the
NFL or come back or whatever it may be.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that was a lot of work.
Speaker 4: And that was like three days of phone calls I was.
Speaker 2: I was on the phone.
Speaker 4: Basically Thursday, Friday, Saturday for twelve hours each of those days.
And between Wow talking to players talking to coaches, and
I wasn't by myself all of our other defensive coaches
that we're still here. We're doing the same exact thing,
trying to just keep this intact and letting everybody see
the vision that it is. And ultimately, I just think
the players love Klawonnie. I mean that's that was the
main stay, right. They knew that Klanie was going to
be here, and a lot of those guys, I mean
you could say all of them came to play for Kawane.
So I just think and Coachill would say the same thing.
Coachill is a very humble guy, and he sees things,
he knows how things work. Is that no person or
player is bigger than the program. And so this thing
is going to continue to move forward. And the thing
that's great about it is, I think the players run
this deal right. Obviously, us coaches got to put them
in the right positions and and make sure that we're
making the right adjustments and doing the right things. But
when you have great players in great leadership, I think
everything else else takes takes care of itself. And it
was just one of those days.
Speaker 2: Where they they go K Pop discussing a number of
different things there. Ultimately the retention was it was multifaceted,
but it also ultimately fell. And the person who deserves
the most credit is Kalani Sutaki, the figurehead, the head
coach for the BUA Cougar football team. The culture that
he's built is singular in nature and really can't be
replicated anywhere else. In my opinion, it's that unique, it's
that special. One of the first moves that K Pop
made was hiring Damaro Warren. Why was Jamario Warren the
right guy for the job. There was one guy he
said he wanted to go out and get. He got
his guy and tomorrow Warren, this is what he had
to say last week.
Speaker 4: Hey, for that year it was it became clear to
me if I ever was in a position to hire him,
that was going to be my first call. And so
initially when Gennaro was here, there was about a day
there where with Jenna and I thought we're going to
be doing this together. And then you know, an opportunity
came for him to go to Michigan. We're gonna have
him come coach in safety. So it was gonna be
Gennaro at the corners and that was our first call
no matter what. And then when Gennaro decided to make
his decision, then I immediately called the Mario back and said, hey, listen,
I want you to be our pass game coordinator with
Gennaro leaving, and so that was that was easy for
me to do. There was nobody on the list. There
was one guy, and we went after him hard to
make sure that he got here, and he did not
want to leave Boise State, and Boise State fought back,
but ultimately he came met with the administration, you know,
our vice president and president, met with Brian, met with Klawnie,
and he left that day sold like this is that
he saw the vision, He sees the uniqueness of what
b Way you can provide as far as just a
family atmosphere, and I just think he felt like this
was the right place at the right time.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited to get him here. And he's already working.
Speaker 4: He's been on the phones with Portal guys all day
to day working on corners. We need a couple of
corners to replace and build our depth. But I think
what people are going to see is a super hard
work or a great recruiter a guy that's been a
head coach, that's very organized and structured. I sat on
a sat in a meeting with recruit recruit the other
day with him, and Uh, I was like wow. I
mean just just sitting there and listening to him coach
this kid and the techniques and fundamentals and the details
of it.
Speaker 5: I was like, this is We're great. You wanted to
go play again? I was. I was just like, we're
in great hands.
Speaker 4: Our corners are going to be in great spot and
great positions, and our safeties are going to be coached
by this guy too as well. There are past our
past game should be very very good and it's been great,
so just excited to build on that.
Speaker 2: Kind of an interesting note here, when it was looking
as if Kelly Pepinga and Jennar would be Cody C's
and they were going to do that thing together before
Jennar took the job at Michigan, K Pop was going
to go out and get to Mario Warren. It sounds
like it's a safety's coach. I thought that was interesting.
So you wonder if that's still the docket. Is Tomorrio?
I know he's listed as a cornerbacks coach right now.
But you know, obviously he's gonna be coaching up the
safeties too, is there If the right hire is available
for cornerbacks, does Tomorio move over to safeties coach and
passing game coordinator. You can do it either way. You
can keep it at corners and then you can bring
in a safeties coach. But if you've got a guy
on the docket that you really like, that would like
to be at b YU, that can booy up BYU
and recruit at a high level, you may want to
take a look at it. I know certain names have
been floating out and I had a list of guys
that I was intrigued by. One of those guys at
the top of my list is Brian Mitchell, who was
my cornerbacks coach for a season at BYU. Really enjoyed
getting coached up by Brian Mitchell. He's at NC State.
I think I think he's happy at NC State. I
think he's enjoyed his his trajectory as a coach. He's
been a DC as well, and he could leverage and
offer you know, there at ncc State for additional money
if b way he comes knocking. But you have to
wonder is Brian Mitchell, you know, is he an option
to come back to b YU if the cornerback position
job he is open. I also really like the idea
of bringing Gavin Fowler back. I love Tanner Jacobson as well.
Both those guys are currently at Weaver State. Both under
contract right now though, so you're gonna have to pick
them off out of their contract. So not to say,
I mean, any coach right now that's worth their SALID
is under contract. So no matter what, you're gonna have
to go out there and find a guy that fits
the mold. And I do think Gavin would be a
nice pickup, a nice retention piece for that safety's room
because those guys have been coached up for the last
few years. I mean, Gavin's had has over ten years
of experience within that program. That is a robust and
not only as a player, but as a gas like
a student assistant and then I was an analyst and
an assistant safeties coach. He's definitely a guy that I
would evaluate and could be him, could be that guy.
So I don't know, Ronnie, You've been hearing a lot
of things. You've been reviewing. Some of these sound bites
and some of these conversations. What's standing out to you
right now about the situation Bali's defenses with K Pop
and Tomario Warren heading things up along with Gary Anderson,
Justinetta and Chad k.
Speaker 1: Well, if you listen to all the commentary around it,
let's just first start with Gary Anderson, right, because I
was kind of the package deal you could say, you
could say the three amigos, Gary Anderson, Jay Hill, Gennaro right,
and Jay was leaving. Then you know, we get information
Cody c Per, Kelly Pipingka and then Gennaral is like, Okay,
I'm gonna go elsewhere. And then just to give Cougar
fans more information, Eddie Hacker was supposed to be on
the staff at Weber State, but now is the assistant
DB's over there at Michigan. So follow j Hill, who
he played for, Followed Gennaro go For who he played
for his position coach at BYU. So just want to
give the fans that if you're if you are tuned
down and don't know what's going on, but you're able
to keep Gary and Gary said he you know, joined
him another interview and said and he spoke and talked
about that. You know, he wants to be able to
do this when he wants and be the best grandfather,
to be the best analyst he wants.
Speaker 5: And at By used that. So that was one of
the reasons.
Speaker 1: So it started with that you kept him, you retained him,
and then after that you promote from within, you promote
Kelly Pinpincken with that Kelly Pipinka his you know, he.
Speaker 5: Has a network of people.
Speaker 1: He said if he ever became in charge and we
just listened to it, he would go get this guy tomorrow,
warn and listen. He said that Boise State fought hard,
they fought hard, and that coach Warren didn't want to leave.
You know that that's tough to when you have something good,
Ben and you don't want to leave and things are
great for another opportunity, even if it's good.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you like where things are at. You're comfortable. The
hardest part in life, you know, whether that's with the
job he spiritually is.
Speaker 1: To get uncomfortable. It is to leave what you have
that's good for something that's better that you you might
not want to do. You might want to stay put
where you are and b A you came knocking and
Kelly being his first call is that and you heard it.
He's been on the phone with recruits all day. Right
away he's on the job. That just shows you the commitment.
So you gotta like this higher. You gotta like that
he's gonna be coaching. The safety is the secondary. It's
gonna be great. What better way to learn. And I
know that people it might take some time, some adjustment,
but I mean for the fact that General was under
him first and then Jay Hill, I like this guy
a lot.
Speaker 5: I really liked that they did that.
Speaker 1: And the biggest thing that they did and I'm going
to go that route and I have to is they
brought in a guy that's a double minority, like the
cornerbacks coach would be.
Speaker 4: Why you.
Speaker 5: Has to be a double minority. It just has to be.
Speaker 1: It always would need to be, I think, or someone
that was maybe a double minority at one point. That's
trend that's converted over because they understand you have to
have that relationship and connect and it's one of the.
Speaker 5: Toughest positions to recruit.
Speaker 1: And I believe look to me when I see Trey Alexander,
when I see other safeties, let's get to work coach like,
you know, Trey's very hyped and Emma Johnson coming back
and retweeting that. You know, when when guys are happy
and excited for who the new defensive excuse me for
not only the new defensive coordinator, but their positions.
Speaker 2: Coach.
Speaker 5: That just told me a lot. So these are good hires.
Still a couple other positions you know, to work.
Speaker 1: Out, you know, you would love to see, you know,
who else is going to be on this staff, and
those might come a little bit later, but you have
to think. And Ben, I'm making a list right now.
But tomorrow is the last day of the transfer portal,
so you'll have until I think six pm. And the
reason why I say six pm is because business people
go to bed aka the information, coaching staff and directors.
Speaker 5: Will leave the building.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, BOA used to retain this
entire you know team. From what I've looked at secondary wise,
I you lost obviously a few pieces on both sides
of the ball that's known to happen, but no key
starters that we've heard from the couple of interviews from
Jay and from Brian. I think the last guy that
I'm looking you know, forward to coming back and I
haven't seen anything, and maybe you can correct me if
I'm wrong.
Speaker 5: With Tasilia Kama, that's the last guy really looking forward.
Speaker 1: You keep him being and with everything that you brought
in Bo, he's got a really good shot going into
the Big twelve next year to be in the title
game once again, compete, win it and go to the
college football playoffs.
Speaker 5: And it all starts because you know, you got Kelly
Peping at.
Speaker 1: The helm, so great hire with the Mario Warren and
hopefully we'll see what the rest of the hires are
as as we get more towards springball. Crazy to think
that by the time basketball season's over, but not even
by the time basketball seasons over. I apologize when by
us in the NCAA tournament, because they will be. That
is a known fact. They will unless they just completely
just go on a ten game losing streak, which will
not happen. That we will be in springball again. So
we are what just eight weeks away if that, and
it'll be back at it and we'll get to know
who these new additions are. We'll get to talk to
coach Papinga Moore and we'll get to talk to coach Warner,
So I'm excited the countdown is officially begun again.
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