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You're a big three right and I know as a
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fourth that is unheralded. He's in my ward, Talent Shumway.
He was a baller and injury kind of derailed his,
uh his football career from reaching its highest ties. But
he was still a very He was a wide receiver
one for DYU. I mean, this guy's really really good
football player. Anyway, talent was underrated as a basketball player
as well. Shout out to talent Shumway. Elder Shumway brother
Shumway in the Creek Side War. But you know, I'm
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Speaker 4: Groom's open for questions. Start out right over here.
Speaker 5: Darnell Dixon, Pro Daily Herald for all the players. With
the kind of challenges you guys have faced the season,
with injuries and things like that. What things do you
think you guys have done in order to still arrive
in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 6: I think we just persevered.
Speaker 7: A lot of teams deal with injuries, a lot of teams,
there were a lot of things, but you know, we
had about four seasoned injuries. We still persevere, still show
that we're resilient. We still made it this far.
Speaker 4: Others of me, Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 8: Just like a Jason len slaught through, but I don't
I might work. Yeah, once you shoot down to protect
seat see family works.
Speaker 9: Uh, I was just saying, uh, alright, this one be
just like a wa AJ was saying, Uh, we just
didn't give up on each other and uh we just
stayed together. I think it brought us a lot closer
and uh we just rolling at the right time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just a big off.
Speaker 10: What they said is th sticking together, sticking to the
game plan, and just going together as a family.
Speaker 11: What you when'd you just the athletic AJ? I know
you and Robert are not that far apart in age,
but I was just curious playing with someone who has
been in college uh longer than you. What have you
learned from him this year?
Speaker 6: Especially him coming from the Big twelve.
Speaker 7: He kind of told me what I was gonna be
like entering you know, the Bag twelve Gauntlet and what
it kind of is you just kind of give me
tips on the physicality, on the pace of the game.
But I think that's why I've been, you know, so
successful in the league, cause I had guys like her
another bet on my team to give me some knowledge.
Speaker 4: In the back.
Speaker 12: Robbie McCombs think or stuff of Canard?
Speaker 13: How much do you think your role has changed since
Ritchie's gonna obviously had some really good games in the
Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 12: How much do you think since Richie's gone out.
Speaker 4: Do you think your role has evolved?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, we're Richie obviously getting injured. Other guys
had to step up and go to myself. You know,
Richie was one of our vocal leaders, so I'm kind
of a quiet guy, so I had to start being
more vocal and obviously picking up some of the things
you do.
Speaker 4: Pad a raise hand in the back.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 14: J Drew from the Desert News in Salt Lake City
questions for all three of you, guys, did you watch
Texas play last night and what were your impressions of
uh the Longhorns.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we uh uh watched him play last night. Uh
we actually watched him uh while we had our team dinner.
But uh, they they're a really fast placed team. But
they got that big guy. Uh he's really dominant down low.
Uh so they just looked at uh get guys involving
and at the end number twelve.
Speaker 6: It's some big shots. I mean, yeah, we know, like
you said, we all watched it impressed. I was impressed.
Speaker 7: They played super fastest SEC team, so you know, the
the places of the game might be a little faster tomorrow,
but super impressive individual performances by guys, but it should
be a goin.
Speaker 10: You're like all the guys are saying they're very impressive. Obviously,
girl Separ's team play fast, play, fast paced, and like
coached it, everything's gonna be a harder shot, harder pass.
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 4: In the back Jackson Payne does it right.
Speaker 14: News in Salt Lake City, How did the Big Twelfth
Tournament maybe help your confidence going into the NCAA tournament
to have, you know, one hundred point game against Kansas State,
great defensive game against West Virginia and.
Speaker 4: Then go to head, go toe to toe with Houston.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it just it just gave us some extra motivation
playing those extra two games and kind of, you know,
gave us a kind of not a it's not a
live practice, but I guess some live bodies what we
could do on the offensive side, which was putting up
the most part inspiring the team of the Benchal tournament
at one O five and sold that we can hang
with bigger teams like he's a even though we didn't
come up with the win, but we were not connect
with them and coach said that we had our best
defensive performance against West Virginia, so you know it helped
us a lot.
Speaker 15: Greg gru Bell with the BAU Sports Network for AJ
your recollections of the games you've played in this building,
on this floor at that high level.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I played here twice last year and the
year before that for Hoop Summit to NIKEE Hoop Summit.
First year on the World team, we lost, but you
know if you see that that that USA team was
kind of tough to win that game. But last year
we ended up winning some one on one here, try
to be three on one here. By in the weekend, Nick.
Speaker 16: Nixt Train with The Oregonian talking about the AJ talking
about the NIKET Hoop Summit, did you have any highlights,
you know from your time here in Portland while you
were playing here at the hoops.
Speaker 6: Smith definitely some highlights. I think I was a.
Speaker 7: I think I was a leading scorer for both games
when I was on the World and the USA team
I was just winning.
Speaker 6: Last year was a good one. I think.
Speaker 7: I think Arkansas plays in Portland, so I was with
Darius A. Cuff on that team, and I mean it
was just fun to be able to play an nbfour
when you're in high school.
Speaker 16: Hey, go ahead, Nick, Nick chang with Orgoni again. Aj,
was there any were there any spots in the city,
in the city that you were able to to visit
that you really liked in Portland?
Speaker 6: Nah, I'm been in a hotel that the whole time.
Speaker 1: What did that?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 6: We went to Nikes. Yeah, we had to practice there.
Speaker 4: Lindsay over you to Lyndchay channel please Lindsay channel.
Speaker 11: The athletic guys earlier Texas was in here and uh,
players and coaches were talking about NIL and just this
world we live in and how BYU is you know,
in the mix for a lot of top recruits because
you have the money to pay players. What I wondered is,
as players continue to be recruited in the NIL era,
how much do you think a paycheck matters versus can
you develop me.
Speaker 17: And get me to the NBA.
Speaker 6: It depends on the situation of the player.
Speaker 7: In my opinion, a guy like me, You know, I
came from a great background, great parents, We always have
money going up. So for me, my altmann goes to
the NBA. So I picked BYU because they had the
resources to develop me. Of some most NBA ready to
get to the NBA. But there's a lot of people
I'm in this situations where you know, parents might not
be as you know, money or you know, some stuff
like that, so other people might, you know, choose the money.
But if you're talking for me personally, I choose YU
because of development process and it wasn't really for the money.
Speaker 1: All right, A you're buying or selling that, you buy
in or selling the rhetoric.
Speaker 15: Personally, I'm gonna I'm gonna buy that. And because here's
the thing, in my opinion, the people who are saying
that BYU is only getting athletes because they're throwing bags
at them are not quite thinking the whole thing through.
The reality is, yes BYU has money, and yes we
pay pretty well. I don't have the exact figures, but
I'm pretty sure that BYU plays well. But the reality
is that the other big programs out there also pay really,
really well. And so it's not that money isn't a factor,
but it's just not the deciding factor because by BYU's
putting themselves on the same level as big time programs.
But then they need a coaching staff, they need a
program to sell to to out recruit them to get
the Aja.
Speaker 6: De Bonsas or the Bruce branches.
Speaker 15: Because so, in my opinion, BYU's money does play a
but the only fact, the only thing it does is
it puts them on the same level monetarily as the
other big programs. It's then up to the coaching staff,
the culture, the facilities, the program.
Speaker 1: That's what's been the deciding factors for me. I don't
know if he can say it, you know, more declaratively,
more adamantly, more clearly right like than what he did
just there. I think one of the most powerful things
that he mentioned is like, look, I come from good money,
like I came from money. I think that, like going
back to what we were talking about before, like, look,
we never wanted for money. Money was never a sticky
point for us. I didn't come from poverty, right Like.
I thought that was pretty powerful. He had never said
that before. Yeah, and so money wasn't his number one
priority because it wasn't like, you know, the money's gonna come,
he's gonna make you know, he's gonna make thirteen fourteen
million next year as a rookie if if he goes,
if he goes, yeah, yeah, if he goes, goes right.
Speaker 12: Anyway.
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's the people that want to
believe what he said are gonna believe it. Those that
don't want to believe what he said, they're not gonna
believe it. And that's just the way it is. I
don't think anyone's you know, until there's like some sort
of you know, you know, some sort of transparency as
to what he actually was making at b YU and
you compare the offer sheets to others. As you mentioned,
BA has to be competitive, they were competitive, and a
Ace uh, I believe Ace has gone on record multiple
times he said, look like you know, b YU was competitive,
but they weren't the biggest offer. He went on I
think Stephen A. Smith and said that as much he's like,
b YU wasn't the biggest offer. So they were competitive though,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, like b's paying him, Like, let's be real, they're
paying m pretty.
Speaker 1: Well, their donors, their donors are paying them. Yeah. Yeah.
And and now with the rev share that that will
trickle down to the athletes as well. Yeah.
Speaker 15: So I think we're to the point on this issue
where it's like, like you said earlier, earlier, you're either
gonna believe him or you're not. And I don't know
that there's really any swaying of opinions at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not gonna sway someone one way or the
other until there's like some investigatory journalists that gets some
validated numbers of offers and what BYU offered. And but
even then it's like, okay, yeah they paid them, they
paid them, all right, But he's still declaring like I
wanted to go to an NBA program and I felt
that k Why and his staff gave me that best
opportunity to develop. So you either believe him or you
don't on that. All right, let's get back to the
agent the bonds of Rob Right the third and Canard
Davis Junior commentary from yesterday.
Speaker 6: Five seconds. It wasn't really for the money.
Speaker 1: Get this queued up again. We'll give us a moment
here as we read right here rewarded this question for
affiliations just about an hour away before tip off. Let's
get to it.
Speaker 13: Okay, you said repeatedly that Kevin Durant your favorite player
of all time, and you just broke his.
Speaker 6: NC sorry, his big twelve tournament scoring record.
Speaker 13: You're definitely one of the top prospects for the NBA,
whether you enter this year or in another in another year.
But who are some of your other favorite players whom
you've kind of modeled your game after and studied closely.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so definitely all time Chase McGrady, But recently I've
been into a lot of Kawhi Leonard, a lot of
Shay Joe Alexander, a lot of Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 6: I would say it's the film watching the most.
Speaker 11: Wendy Shelly athletic. AJ to follow up on what you
said about that you felt like the way you had
the resources to develop you. How do you think you're
a better player now than when you first came in? Like,
how are you more regardless.
Speaker 6: Of when you go NBA?
Speaker 4: Ready?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So in high school I definitely had a lot
of bad habits. Obviously it probably didn't look like that
my senior year, but you know, I was a lot bigger,
a lot stronger than guys, just a lot more athletic,
So I was able to get away with a lot
of you know, mistakes. Uh, But when I came to college,
I was kind of getting beat up a little bit.
Thank god it wasn't on camera for the most part.
But I was getting beat up a little bit. But
you know, can White is kind of you know, came
on me in a fair room along with other guys.
But we have Wiz who's a buck strength coach. We
have Danielle who's a great nutrition there. So I'm trying
to get my body right stuff like that. But I'm
just way more prepared. I'm just way more you know,
quick minded and a little stronger, just a little better.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 7: Some of my bad habits, uh just like off the dome,
just taking the offensive possessions off, Like I'll just sit there,
just walk a little bit.
Speaker 11: Uh s.
Speaker 7: On the ball, I wasn't my strong suit. I think
I kind of improved that this year on ball defense.
Speaker 4: Get back, uh Rob. A couple of questions. Name and
affiliation please uh J Drew dees Rett, Salt Lake City.
Speaker 18: Rob.
Speaker 14: I can't help but think about that tooth that you
almost lost. How's your mouth feeling? Have you recovered from that?
Speaker 12: Right now?
Speaker 9: I got a wire on my tooth right now, so
I think I'm gonna have it for like another month
or two. I guess I got wait to see what
the dennist says. But it was really painful in Kansas
City in the Big twelve tournament, and it's kind of
died down a little bit, but here and there it's
still super just feels a little crazy.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And I wanted to ask you, having played with
Baylor last year in the tournament, is there anything to
this kind of getting your feet wet, getting the rust off,
getting the jitters out of the way, which Texas was
able to do yesterday.
Speaker 12: Is there anything to that giving them an advantage now?
Speaker 9: I don't think so, because I think in March every
team's hungry and just wants to win. So I think
it just ultimately comes down to who wants it more
in these type of tournaments.
Speaker 4: We have time for one last question and scene none.
Thank you very much for your time. Appreciated. Miss luck
tomorrow big.
Speaker 1: All right, there's your Cougar Bytes for the day as
we prep get ready for the BYU Texas match at
BYU going to the NCAA Tournament, looking to survive and advance.
This is a good men's basketball team, maybe even a
great men's basketball team. Bi He makes his thirty third
appearance in the NCAA Tournament and it's a sixth seed
taking on the eleven seed five to twenty five pm
tip off Mountain Time, and BYU is seventeen and thirty
five all time in the NCAA Tournament, including a five
and four record as the sixth seed. They're making their
third straight appearance at the Big Dance, which is Bul's
longest street since making the tournament six straight seasons under
the Goat Dave Rose. From two thousand and seven to
twenty twelve, the Big Twelve had a conference record tying
eight team selected the NCAA Tournament, matching the number from
twenty twenty four March. The fourth consecutive season the Big
Twelve has had at least seven selections to the Big Dance.
So hopefully they continue to show up, show out. They've
already done such with the TCU win. Loved that and
I can't wait to see what BYU can do in
this field of opportunity, Baby, This Tournament of Opportunity. Twenty
twenty six also marks the first time in Big twelve history,
all eight quarterfinals in the Big Twelve Tournament made the
NCAA Tournament field. It is the only occurrence of the
feed from any league since nineteen ninety seven. You believe
in in this Big twelve basketball roster in the NCAA tournament,
how far do you think these teams go? Do they
all survive that first round? Ap?
Speaker 6: How far is this team going? I think no?
Speaker 1: No, sorry? In the Big twelve, the Big twelve teams,
the eight teams, do they all survive the first round?
I don't know.
Speaker 15: Like I feel pretty good about most of them. The
one that I was really questioning, honestly was TCU, and
they did make it. They look at all their matchups
here really quickly.
Speaker 1: No, no, you you know so? Yeah, I was also
concerned about that TCU matchup. I was not bought in.
I was not all in on that matchup. Whatsoever? Texas
Tech has taken on Akron Arizona versus Went Along Island, right,
Iowa State versus Tennessee State. Yeah, so, uh that's just
a few UCF versus UCLA. That's a that's a coin
toss for me, that one.
Speaker 15: I in my six to seven brackets, I had half
of them picking UCF, half of them picking UCLA.
Speaker 1: Kansas cal Baptist and uh so I'm definitely I'm definitely
leaning the uh the the Kansas way there.
Speaker 15: So cal Baptist has one. He they do have a
three point shooter that can get hot. He was at
one point time in the season beating AJ for leading score.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, leading score.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's really he's a bucket. He's super fast, super nimble. Yeah,
he's very explosive. I know you're talking about. Yeah, he's
he's a baller, no doubt about it. Yeah, all right,
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School is gonna be balling for Brigham. He's mentoring and
coaching up the young bucks in that cornerback room. And
Ronald the three Man Weaver was able to catch up
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Speaker 12: Evan Johnson simeev let's just start with practice. How they
go today?
Speaker 6: We're good.
Speaker 17: I feel like we had a lot of good learning moments.
Speaker 18: A lot of opportunities to get better get the ball,
and so it's been fun to go out there and compete.
I mean, I've seen a lot of good things from
the defense, a lot of good things from the offense,
so I feel it's a lot of battery going back
and forth.
Speaker 17: So it's been fun.
Speaker 12: We were just talking to coach for Pinky. He says
that you guys have to disguise a little bit more
now with Bear because he sees things way differently. How
has it been seen his progress in year two?
Speaker 18: Yeah, it's super cool to see because you know, even
when we're off the field, I like talk to Bear
a lot in my hard time, but you know, he
likes to really battle against us, test us. Like we
had one day where I knew he's thrown, but he's
still throwing and that's like, all right, cool. So now
I know he's willing to compete against me and willing
to take those chances. And that's what you want to
see in your quarterback because that's gonna.
Speaker 17: Make your team thrive.
Speaker 12: Where have you seen the biggest growth from here from
year one year two? It could be on the field
maturity wise, you know, you know, system wise, where have
you seen Big Brouh.
Speaker 17: I mean he's kind of grown on everything. You know,
he's just a player, so he was already a player.
Speaker 18: I've just seen him mature and just really trust himself
when he's throwing the ball and stuff like that.
Speaker 12: Kelly said that you've gotten bigger, faster, stronger. What are
you wearing at now? Did you put on any muscle
sounds like everybody in the off season, you know, was
able to up their maxes.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 17: I put on a little weight, nothing crazy, but yeah,
I just been lifting.
Speaker 18: You know, the strength staff has done a great job
getting us fast, getting us strong, and so just continue
to do that, continue to put a low weight on
and then just go from there.
Speaker 12: This is your you know, last season, last spring ball.
What the goals that you want to accomplish?
Speaker 18: Not really any goals. I'm kind of just attacking everything
one by one, day by day. You know, I come
out with a goal every day to really just one
thing on my technique rather than you know, coming out
and saying I'm gonna get X amount of picks the
spring or x amount of the just come out here
day by day and making sure that I'm working on
something and getting better and something in my crack.
Speaker 17: So that's how I've been Know.
Speaker 12: How many picks I've got in the spring ball?
Speaker 17: They got three?
Speaker 11: Three?
Speaker 12: Noway some light? Are you leading the team or is
it someone else?
Speaker 17: I don't know.
Speaker 12: I feel that talk about you know, coming back to
b what you was there any doubt when the coaching
change happened? You know, how did you evaluate that process?
Speaker 17: Now there's no doubt either where I wanted to be
and I do that too, so no doubt.
Speaker 12: What was it like when you took your time off?
You know, all the fans on social media? Ev Schmith
come back? What was that like?
Speaker 18: You know, it's cool to see just to know that
you're wanted out of place. I mean that's a one
of a kind feeling. And I feel like I really
felt the love from Cougernation, and that's why I chose
to come back and stay here, just because the love
of the community has, the team has, and the people
around me.
Speaker 12: I know he'll never highlight himself even if I ask him,
But what is it like to see what's get that promotion?
Speaker 17: I mean it's super cool.
Speaker 18: I mean I see you first hand just how much
Wessy works and the whole team season, you know, and
so when when you see someone earn that spot, it's
super cool. And it's super cool to see my brother
get that opportunity just for him to be out here
and just to work with.
Speaker 17: Us, and i mean nobody works harder in the West.
So I'm super happy home.
Speaker 12: I want you to give me, you know, personal insight obviously,
and this is paying attention to the game, the atmosphere.
You're always coming out last one of the last jogging
and then you and your brother, he's always waiting for
you before like any of the festivities happen. You guys
have a moment together. Take me through that.
Speaker 18: I mean we've been doing this, Sentiers, my coach of
high school. You know, it's just telling me to do
this sac say prayer, and you know.
Speaker 17: It's special to me.
Speaker 18: You know, not a lot of people get the opportunity
to come out at D one level and to have
the brother coaching and get those opportunities just to pray
and to praise the Lord, and so in those moments,
I mean, it's super cool, you know, one of them kind.
And I always just say, as God's playing and my
brother's here, and that I'm able to do that stuff.
Speaker 12: What is it like having Javin Williams added to the
cornerback room.
Speaker 18: Yeah, He's had a lot of depth and experience. He's
just a player at ball player. You know, he knows
where the bees are in the right spot, and it's
cool to see him make plays and just learn and
take notes and and all the little things.
Speaker 12: What has been the changes A lot of defense obviously,
you know you had j Hill. What has it been
like learning on the Kelly now?
Speaker 17: I mean, nothing, nothing much different.
Speaker 18: You know, they're both they're both pretty hard on us
and making sure that we're doing things like to our
max speed or to our max potential.
Speaker 17: So I feel like the change hasn't been, you.
Speaker 18: Know, very drastic, and I feel like the defense has
been really open to change and and like I was
talking to my mom the other day about the changes
or something that's gonna happen. So we kind of got
to adapt to it and just do our best to
progressing that in our system.
Speaker 12: But has it been like having uh, you know, the
newcomers long the defensive side Katie joins the team.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean it's super great to have him at
the back of you know, he's one of those guys
who has a lot of experience and has a lot
of film and and speed, and he has all those things.
So you know, when you add him with the debt
we already have, it just really improves our whole defense.
Speaker 12: You see your your former teammates performing proay on Friday, so.
Speaker 17: I cannot wait.
Speaker 18: I'm like, I'm most excited Marie Bomba, Jayden Duneld Okay,
okay too, I'm excited for those.
Speaker 12: Oh you know, what is it about? You know Mori?
It seems like I think it was around the Arizona game.
He just took off after that.
Speaker 18: I mean, Maury just a player, you know, and he's
one of those yes freakabilities, So it's really cool when
you get to see him put those on the show.
And I mean, I feel like whatever team picks up Maury,
they're gonna get a steal. And he's one of those
guys who I trust my life with, you know, when
we're out there on the field.
Speaker 17: So I wish him all her best and I know.
Speaker 12: He's gonna kill it.
Speaker 1: So what is it not?
Speaker 11: What is like?
Speaker 12: H Trey Alexander? Where have you seen Trey making make improvements?
It seems like you guys are cornerback, cornerback two, going
to screen up.
Speaker 18: Yeah, we've made improvements everywhere. I mean Trey has been
bought in just on this technique and doing the little
things right. So it's cool to see him progress. He's
been great in the secondary with me, you know, being
able to trust him. We have a lot more communication
and trust now, so I mean we're just able to
make plays and be on the same page or out there.
Speaker 12: Talk about the leadership role you've grown into the coaching
staff is you know mention you a handful of times.
What's that been like for you?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I definitely been a little awkward, you know, stepping
under the leadership bro.
Speaker 18: I'm a pretty quiet guy if you ask my teammates,
like on the field, but I've definitely been trying to
step in and just lead a little more.
Speaker 17: It's hard for me, but step it out of my
shell and we're making things happen.
Speaker 12: What is it about, you know, just your attitude, Like
you're always positive. Like I remember after the Arizona game,
you're just all smiles. The team is the dabbio, but
you're just embracing like the entire moment of that victory.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, i'd be like I've always been a
happy person, like I think of myself like Eddie, Eddie,
don't get mad.
Speaker 18: I'd be like something you've got to have as a corner,
you know, you got to be able to not be
mad about that last play.
Speaker 17: Take Georgia Tech for example.
Speaker 18: You know, when I got beat, you know, I'm not thinking,
oh man, I'm terrible, like I'm mad. I'm not this
mad that it's just all right, the plays over, what
can I do about it? And then I can do
about it now, So I got to move to the
next play. And I feel like the way I carry
myself in life is the way I carry myself.
Speaker 6: On the field.
Speaker 12: That's a bar right there. We need to we need
to cut that. Have you gone back to watch that
Georgia Tech clip over and over again yet? And did
you hear Mark Jones's call?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I did.
Speaker 14: I did.
Speaker 17: It was super cool to hear. I don't watch it
that much.
Speaker 18: You know, every once in a while, I'm scoring on
my answer. I told her my mom this as well, like,
I mean it's over now.
Speaker 17: I mean, it's time to move on.
Speaker 18: And so now I'm kind of just looking into the
future and doing what I can to get better and
just improve my craft.
Speaker 12: What is the future? First time there expectations for this
team going into the season. I don't know, just saying
what is the Yeah, you're just like, you know, humble, hungry,
like what you know? What is the future hold for you?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 17: You know is win win winning.
Speaker 12: Well, you did a lot of winning last year, but
she got twelve wins, no doubt about that. You know.
I know it's way too early, But what do you
like about the schedule so far?
Speaker 18: I don't really look at the schedule a lot one
of those I really don't like people ask me who
we playing.
Speaker 12: I don't know who we playing.
Speaker 17: I mean, I'm not really thinking too deep about the schedule,
do you.
Speaker 12: I always ask us about players you have a superstition
of game day at all? Or you just I go
with the vibey taking nap rat of the moon. He
says he's not a nap guy.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I definitely think a nap I gotta have a
year enlightenment.
Speaker 18: Okay, Okay, my drink, my parents, my mom and know
she But I'm always having when you guys about teammates,
I always have one on me.
Speaker 17: That's pretty much.
Speaker 12: My only one just last music in my ears, what's
the what's the I guess the walking song or what
are you guying to?
Speaker 17: I don't know, it's just the whole playlist.
Speaker 12: That's fair. Last thing for me. Freshmen that are coming in,
who's impressed you from the entire defense inside of the ball? Yeah?
Speaker 18: I think Seth She has been one. He's been working
really hard just on his craft outside of you know,
everything we do here. I would say another one is Justice,
Matthias Leech, and Kevin Dough. Those four in our room
has specifically been standing out to me. And then Tommy Process.
I mean, people know Tommy, but people don't see how
much work he puts in, how much filming studies, all
the little things he does that really prove to people
that he's one of those guys. And I feel like
you're definitely going to see that this year as as
he goes out there and makes plays, and I'm excited
to see what those young guys can do.
Speaker 12: Well. Be training with Robb Daniel again in the off season, Yeah, well,
of course I always have to ask. They got to
give a plug for Robbi. He's a goodude front of
the program. Offensive side who's impressed you the most, saying
one of the newcomers for sure.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I think Roger has been one that's really impressed me.
Kylera Casper as well. Yeah, those two have really impressed
me and just been giving us a good competition as a.
Speaker 17: Team and then one on one.
Speaker 12: What is it like Kevin Back he wasn't able to
play last year, coach says elg Just coaching from the sideline.
I think a little bit.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, he's one of those.
Speaker 18: He's one of the ones, you know, so when you
see him out there, I mean, it's great to see
him out there and we know he's going to go
out there and make play. We've seen it in the
Kansas State game, and it's just a matter of time
till he gets his opportunity to go out there and shine.
Speaker 12: I know you don't like to talk about yourself, but
I'm going to ask you, what is it about your
skill set just makes you so great at what you're
able to.
Speaker 1: Do on the field.
Speaker 17: I don't know.
Speaker 18: One of the biggest things I truly believe is that
it's robbed. I mean, I mean, I just I've been
able to really put my trust in him, and I've
been able to see myself just succeed. And so I've
just been put of my trust in him, and he's
really steering me in the right way, whether that's mentally physically,
no matter what we're doing, I feel like I can trust.
Speaker 17: Him and he's just gonna steer me in the right path.
So he's been a big piece of just my whole
mature maturing journey.
Speaker 12: And I'm just, yeah, what is it like learning under
your new cornerbacks coach?
Speaker 17: Yeah, Coach Walker.
Speaker 18: He brings a great I love when people come from
the outside because you know, we get to see things
we may not have seen, changed things up that we
may not have noticed because we're just always under the
same coaching.
Speaker 17: So it's cool to hear what he's got to say.
And he's been able to just teach us things that
we may not have known. And he's great to our own.
Speaker 12: If you could give some insight, what is something new
he's at.
Speaker 18: It so far as its stuck out, just like the
way we're rotating our safeties, like they're talking about the
guy disguises.
Speaker 17: And just some other things.
Speaker 12: And then you know, the final thing for me, I'll
get you out of here on this one. Just you know,
when you look at everything that's been a comp said,
hey shit, Qulane because of your like is it sky
blue like? Yes? Yes, yes. When you see stuff like
that and you see just him won of these awards
and everything, why should people come to bey you.
Speaker 18: I mean, that's just a testimony to our program. And
I feel like Coach Klaney is he's the best at
what he does. You know, he's gonna always be the
perfect mentor I mean, in my eyes, he's a perfect
mentor a perfect coach.
Speaker 17: And so I feel like when you have that leader,
your program is.
Speaker 18: Going to allow you guys to be successful because you know,
you want to follow the people who are in front
of you. So I feel like having him as a
leader is just that's really been part of our success.
Speaker 12: And part of our team's brother day, your cornerback Evan Johnson.
Everyone definitely.
Speaker 1: That Schmev baby Schmevin, Evan Schmevin. Yes, indeed, CB one.
I really liked what he had to say about Louis
Walker's a It's a boon to have someone from the
outside come in and let's just see what you Maybe
we're blinded by, right That's what it is, a little
added value Louise Walker coming in. That was a nice
addition for Killane and his crew and his staff. Considering
you lost some really good coaches Jennarald Guildford and you know,
you know, Jay Hill and Gavin Fawller, you had to
make some big hires, and I think they they made
some really good hires. I think I don't think you
could have gone wrong with really retaining Gavin. That would
have been nice to have. That would have been a
boon for BAU as well. But they also went out
and got Tomorrow Warren, a season tenured defensive back coach SUU.
He's been a head coach as well as a coordinator,
and at at Boise State, he's at that G six level,
pretty high profile program that's won a lot of football games,
high pressure situations. So I think it's a really good
crew and I can't wait to see what this defense
can do and how good Schmith can be. He's going
to be an NFL draft pick, Mark my works. Evan
Johnson is an NFL corner and he may end up
becoming he He may end up becoming one of the
higher draft picks, if not the highest draft pick. You know,
I'm trying to think of who the highest cornerback draft
pick was. It may have been Brian Mitchell.
Speaker 15: It's like it's gonna be when's the last time, b
why you had a corner that was drafted?
Speaker 1: Probably Brian Mitchell. It's been a while, Bryan. I think
it was Brian Mitchell and my former defensive back coach.
I think it would have been like the ninety one
draft NFL Draft. Yeah, I think it was when it
was Pastor Gray drafted. He was a safety.
Speaker 17: Okay, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Right, he's a safety, so he played that kind of
like I think he played mostly strong safety, h did
dow we So, so you're you're telling me, I think
I think he's gonna be highest. I think he's gonna
end up becoming maybe the highest ever draft pick in
b what your football history at the cornerback spot?
Speaker 15: Well, well, also, it's a it's a huge thing we're
talking about. If he's the first one since Brian Miche
that's like thirty five years, that's a heck of a
drought for for Evan Johnson to put to end here.
Speaker 6: Should he get drafted next year?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Yeah, no, doubt, no doubt about it. Anyway
we can get into it. I'd have to pull the
numbers on that and the draft history, but I think
I think Evan can be that guy. He can be
that good. All right, guys, let's take a time out.
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