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the five foot eleven, six foot ill. He's six foot
his roster. I've measured him in in shoes. He's definitely
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six foot, one hundred and eighty five pounds out of Millville, Utah,
Mountain Crest High School.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The two ten Utah.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Gatorade Player of the Year dual threat quarterback Alex Carressa.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Alex. How the heck are you, buddy?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Hey Ben, I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on
the show.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
How was it balling up in Cash Valley? How was
it being the hero of the Valley?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I mean, I don't remember as a lifetime ago, but
I mean I love going up in Cash Valley and
the small town football field feel is something like nothing else.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So I loved going up there.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It was a good time, great times up there.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And you ended up, you know, following the path of
a big brother j Cress and my teammate in playing
at BYU and playing quarterback, you know, scout team quarterback,
getting reps and then playing some wide receiver as well,
getting some significant pt there.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Let's discuss kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Your journey to BYU and what happened and what was
it two thousand, I want to say, was it tw
twenty eleven when you came to BYU?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I came my first year, red shirted in eleven and
then played a bunch of different spots in twelve at YU.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So but yeah, I signed in that twenty eleven class.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What was the twenty eleven season like for you? Red shirt?
What were you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I just ran the scout team. But that that team
was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
So that defense was incredible, you know, with Kyle van
Noy and Daniel Sorenson and Ogletree and Spencer Hadley and
those were legit. So grew a ton of a football
players just getting to go against those guys.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Day in and day out.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
But you know, a lot of these kids are are
more prepped going into college these days. For me, it was,
you know, I like looking at guys like Bear this
year and playing as a true freshman. For me, I
was not ready for that as as a freshman. So
it's cool to see just how things have progressed. But
that year was a huge learning curve for me and
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just figuring it out and growing as a football player
and a young man. And yeah, I had a ton
of fun that year just going up against those guys.
Arguably one of, if not the best defenses in b
A history. So was it was a fun year get
beat up by those guys.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did that you tell you though?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Did that you're confirmed to you that you were a quarterback,
that you were a quarterback that could play at that level.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I never considered myself anything else. In the recruiting process
at high school, I received a you know a number
of offers and none of them were as athletes. So
I felt like I had put enough on tape and
had the numbers to show that I was a quarterback.
And then going and doing that and playing against that
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level of competition was a lot of fun at the
confirmation to to myself, it was it was a great
confidence booster and like, yeah, I can I can do
this aspect at least the physical portion at that point
and perform at a high level.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So yeah, yeah, I had heard feedback actually that you
were you were cooking that defense on occasion. So I
was like, hey, is is Robert ever going to give
Alex a shot at this at this quarterback job?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And they ended up moving over to wide receiver athlete.
I don't know if punt returner was also a order
that And then you ended up I think serving a
mission and then after the mission went down to Snow
Junior College.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Uh. And uh balling out.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There becoming I think an All American junior college player.
When you were coming out of Snow College.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And I think did you play.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
With Jonah Turnaman down there once you throw connecting with
Jonah B WHATU wide receiver?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Jonah was my guy. I love Jonah so yep he was.
He was one of our receivers down there at Snow
one of.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
The fastest wide receivers to come through Brigham, no doubt
about it. Underrated wide receiver in my opinion. Uh, why
weren't we able to get him the ball more? By
the way, on those deep shots, what was up with?
What was up with that? How would you diagnose that?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I wasn't around the program as much at that point
to understand all of that. I didn't have a problem
getting Jonah the football, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I love throwing the ball to that guy. But so
I couldn't speculate as to that. But he's a special talent.
That dude can fly.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
And uh, you know, there's there's probably a number of reasons,
a lot of talented guys on the team, and fitting
stuff within scheme and game plan and the offense is
not always the easiest thing to get everybody the football.
But yeah, he's a talented individual, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You end up get recruited. You chose Portland State? Why
why was Portland State the place for you after Snow?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Well I got a few offers out of Snow as
an athlete, and at that point the year I had
at UAU previously, I had played a number of different positions,
so it was a lot of fun. I played on
all four special teams. I had multiple snaps as a
wildcat quarterback, as a running back, as a receiver. I
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played safety the back half of the year as well,
so just played kind of all over the place. Yeah,
I did punt returns in and so it was a
ton of fun to just play football. Going into that year,
you had Riley Nelson and Lark and Casom had just
got back, and we were kind of just battling out
for the third string spot. I was planning on leaving
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on a mission the following year and talking with coaches
or like, hey, we have two seniors here, like you
can battle it out for the third spot if you
want to, but ultimately, like you're not. There's there's a
very low likelihood you're going to play this year. You've
already red shirted, you're athletic enough to be on the field.
Do you want to do you want to try to
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play somewhere else? And I just wanted to play football
at that point, so yeah, I like to to go
that route. Unfortunately, I ended up ended up breaking my
neck and had a spine surgery at the end of
that season.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
It happened in fall camp.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I didn't I didn't know, I just because I only
play quarterback, So I thought that's what stingers were. I
was like, these stingers sucked, Like this is brutal, Like
how there are people dealing with this and come to
find out it is something more significant. And had an
emergency surgery towards the end of the season and luckily
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everything was was fine. But when I came back to
you kind of wanted me to resume my athlete role,
to taste him. It was just coming off of his
one healthy year where he was extremely productive and he
was obviously just taste him, and so I was like, I,
given my physical you know where I was at physically,
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I didn't want to go do all of that again.
So I wanted to go back and play quarterback. I
felt like I had an opportunity to go so I
could play quarterback again at snow so elected to go
that route. We had a great year. I was fortunate
enough to be named Player of the Year that year,
and then it was a ju call American, which was
a lot of fun being on that team. A lot
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of talented guys that are still playing on Sundays to
this day on that team, so that was a ton
of fun. But the only offer I had to play
quarterback was to Portland, so I ended up running with it,
and loved my time at Portland State, and it's gonna
be fun to see them in provo.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You're gonna be running out the Portland State flag from
the visitors' locker room or are you going to be
running out the b y U alumni flag?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Which one is it? Alex?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Come on, well, neither school is contact and you're asked me.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
To do that, to do either, so I'm gonna I'm
not gonna be doing either.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Bruce Barnum recruited you there. Are you still the head coach?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
How would you describe the Portland State program as a whole?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Love?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Loved it, loved my time there.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Coach Barnum was the head coach of My offensive coordinator
is Steve Cooper the offensive coordinator at UCF now, so
he was at Portland at that time. But so I
loved I felt like it kind of embodied who I was,
you know, a kind of an overlooked program with a
chip on their shoulder. And when I got there, we
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there was a ton of talent there. So people don't
realize how much talent there is at the FCS level.
I would say it's probably changed now. Just with ni
L a little bit, but at the time, I guess
just the biggest difference between FCS and D one is just,
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first off, the depth. There's not as much depth as
you get at a D one school. And then second
is just the trenches. It's hard to find those big
hogs that so you're you're dealing with a lot of
you know, undersize, really talented players at least on the
line positions, but a lot of times they're just outmanned
by sheer strength and ability. But as far as skill positions,
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like I remember getting to Portland State and they're the
secondary and the receivers and just being like, holy cow,
like these guys are as good as anybody I've played with.
And so yeah, it was it was a lot of
fun to have feel like you have weapons and to
have a really talented defense. But it was good football,
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and uh yeah, I enjoyed. I feel like I was
I fit in great over there and had a good
couple of years.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
What what would you say were the highlights of your
career there at Portland State.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, so that first year we had the best season
in program history. We went from a I think it
was a three and nine season the year before, I
wasn't there, but then we went to a nine and
three season.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We went to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
We ended up losing in the second round, but we
beat a Washington State team that almost won the Pac
twelve championship that year. We beat them at home week one,
and then we went on and played another D one
school in North Texas and we beat them like seventy
to six, And uh, those are those games are funny
because obviously the school pays you.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
They pay you.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They pay us think like a million dollars to go
over there on their homecoming and we laid it on
them seventy to six.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I think they fired their coach at halftime, but it
was it was funny.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
But yeah, those are that those are probably some of
the highlights that I have where that first year and
getting my first you know, real D one college football
experience as a star, getting quarterback and filling like the
hard work paid off and uh, just kind of getting
that that. I guess the word would be confirmation on
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you know, you work hard to it's often to get
put in a situation and to see that reward was awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Alex Kressa may have been in the portal after that
twenty fifteen season.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, right, you'd have been a portal after that.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It was it was right now. I mean who knows,
who knows what happened, But yeah, it's a different it's
a different day and age of college football right now.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But after two thousand, we like Taysum was coming off
of a Liz Frank they had Tanner Meghan that had
just led him to nine and four, So, b what,
you probably would have been in the cards, but maybe
maybe they would have tried to bring you in.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Hey, you can come compete versus.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
An injured, hobbled Taysum Tanner coming off what nine and
four in twenty and fifteen, You know, you would have
been in the portal. You probably would have been picked
up by a great school. You still, you stayed, stuck
it out. You had a great career at Portland State.
Have you been able to keep track of Portland State
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at all your your alma mater, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I mean I follow them. I'll stick the scores and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Obviously they're not playing on big time television or anything
like that, but I'll usually keep up with them in
that way. I still have a lot of friends that
from my team. Obviously your your teammates are friends for
a long time, and so we'll keep up on it.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And then they haven't had a ton.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Of success, but yeah, we'll usually try to watch it
at least the rivalry game at the end of the year.
And well, I'll talk with coach Barnum at least once
a year and keep up with him. So love those
guys and really grateful for that program.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So well, you mentioned some of the differentiation in personnel
between Portland State and by U.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Boa is a heavy favorite in this game.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
What do you expect though, from Portland State coming into
Bau's home once again and trying to get it up.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Yeah, So, I mean it's as far as Portland State goes,
They've they've competed really well against Division I schools in
the past where it's usually pretty competitive, and they were
rarely able to just get over the hump. That first
year in twenty fifteen was the first year you able to.
But the year after I graduated, they came up to
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Brigham and gave Bau all they could handle, and I
think they ended up losing. I want to say it
was like just by a touchdown and it was a
low scoring game. But they so as far as what
we can expect from them, they play really just tough football.
And you know, they haven't won a ton of games
in the past, but most teams leave pretty beat up
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and so they play really physical to play with the
chip on their shoulder. They have a game tomorrow, so
they play this week zero against top ten FCS team,
so you know they they're going to be be a
little bit more fresh than them. But as far as
what fans can expect to see, they're going to see
at least them being extremely physical and if nothing else,
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you know, they might be out manned talent wise, or
depth wise or a few different ways, but they will
be They will play an extremely physical football game.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That's that's guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I was looking at their roster.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
They have a lot of bounce backs, plenty of guys
that that initially started out at like certain schools San
Jose State, Idaho, Boise State, Dixie State, Utah State. You
know there there's a number of of of individuals on
this team that were offered higher level scholarships that are
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now playing at Portland State.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That seems like there's some good talent there.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, they get some high level dudes in every year.
They do a really good job of managing the bounce backs.
You know, it's like I said, it's different now with
this with the portal and nil and everything. So I
don't know exactly how all that he's into it, but
they have no shortage of D one guys or or
people who receive D one offers out of or out
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of high school, so they'll have they'll for sure have
some talented kids, and you know, there'll be some kids
there that can all of hold their own and if not,
you know they might there's always a kid or too
that'll even expose some of these D one schools because
a lot of people just assume because you played an
FCS school that you're the worst player.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
That's not always the case.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
There's a lot of overlook talent, and there's a lot
of kids who play football in high school. You can't
get every single one of them on film and get
every one of them to a D one school. So
they'll have some talent. We'll see how how they can
weather the storm of the kudes, but it'll be it'll
be fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Who's Bruce Barnum. How would you describe their head coach?
He seems like he's been there forever.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yeah, so his first year, my year, my first year
there was his first year as the interim head coach,
and then he signed a long term contract right after that.
But Coach Barnum is the man. He's a players coach,
so he was offensive coordinator before and but he is
somebody that the troops really rallied behind. He's he is
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a one of my favorite head coaches.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I've ever had.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And he's a dude that is really relatable with the
players and they will run through a wall for him.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
So, you know, there's certain types of football coaches.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Sometimes you get the hard ass or you get the
the guy who's just the big exes in this guy
and Coach Barnum is great with the x's and o's,
but he is a dude that you will also go
hang out with in his office. And that was that
was a really big change of pace for me in
the college football scene. I haven't played for Bronco and
then my juco coach. It was a very big change
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of pace to be like, Okay, I can go feel
comfortable in this in this uh and I was never
really comfortable in Bronco's office.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I don't know how many people.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Yeah, so it was a little have that. He's just
one of the homies. And I love playing for coach
Bardam and the opportunity he gave me. So he's the man.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
With players coaches, it does speak to I've seen it
time and time again with players. Coaches do tend to
get some talented individuals at the skill positions corners and
wide receivers, sometimes running backs, and every once in a
while you'll pick up a really good quarterback too.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Would you say that that's that that's kind of an
accurate depiction.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
You saw guys in those skill rooms kind of gravitate
towards Bruce Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Absolutely so when I was When I was there, we had.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
A lot of injuries on the offensive side of the football,
skill position wise, but defensively.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Both corners played in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
One was a bounce back from Oregon who started in
the National Championship the year before.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Both safety of safety I.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Got trash by the way, hold, I want to talk
about those corners right that they they both played against
Buyu in twenty seventeen, and I said, look, I think
both of these guys, even prior to them lay and
afterwards when I was watching the film, like, both these
guys look like NFL corners.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
To me, and I had so many BYU vans raking.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Me over the cole saying like, oh you're you don't
know ball ya ya da YadA. I'm like, no, man,
I'm serious, like and I looked them up recently because
I was like, I wonder if I was right.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They both played in the National Football.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
League YEP, so they had a little corner pipeline for
a second there. The year I was there, his name
was Xavier Coleman and Aaron Sibley, and both of them
were phenomenal. And then the year afterwards, there was a
guy named Chris c Sa who was a starter on
the Oregon National championship team. And then and then Donovan
Alumba who was he was He was unreal too. So
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those guys were fun to extremely fun to watch and
not so much fun to play, fun to play practice,
but it was it was, it was competitive. And then
our safety's name is Patrick Amasward who had a long
career with the Ravens and he was FCS player the
you're I want to say he had twelve plus interceptions
that year.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
He was an unbelievable talent too.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
So our secondary was extremely talented and that was like
one of the main things when I first went into Portland.
I was like, this is better than any secondary I've
had a Yeah, I was like this is talented. Yes,
since I was like, wow, this is like high level.
These guys can play now. The difference is there's not
a ton of depth. When you know, at b YU
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or any other D one school, if your first guy
goes down, you have another three star, four star type
kid that has multiple D one offers. When you're at
Portland State, do you have some random kid from Camby,
Oregon And you're like, Okay, this.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Is a really big drop off. And so.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah, that's that's a huge difference to where they can
stay healthy and they'll be able to But I mean,
guys get tired and have to go out, and so
there's always hey, you got to rotate kids, and so
there's typically a few links.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
But yeah, there's a lot of talent over there for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Final thing, Alex appreciate you hopping on to discuss a
little BYU Portland State and then just get caught.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Up with you and your world.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Bear Bachmer going to be at the starter, true freshman quarterback,
man high level quarterback. Obviously, we're recruited by just about everybody.
He's got a great supporting cast around him, wide receiver,
tight end, running back room.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The offensive line is very talented.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
The defense should be top twenty five, the special teams
unit expected to be top twenty five. What's your ceiling
and floor for BYU football being led by a true
freshman quarterback with a power for schedule?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Yeah, well, I mean all those things you mentioned. He
has kind of the perfect scenario that you want as
a true freshman where you get to lean on all
of these tools that you have guys returning and have
experience and are capable of making plays. And that's the
biggest thing as a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
I can't tell you how much many times where you
go to make a throw that's a difficult catch and
the guy doesn't make the play, And if he does
make the play, then that roles. When completion turns to
two to two, turns to you know where you're you're
moving the chains, then it turns into a touchdown, and
a single drive can change your entire season, as your
entire career realistically, as a freshman, So for him to
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be able to lean on those guys as well as
have a top defense to where you don't have to
go be a superhero. You can still play within the system.
You can make your mistakes and the defense will bail
you out a lot. Is it is a great situation
to be in. So I'd say, you know, I'm not
gonna I think that the ceiling one of those guys
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is like, who's to say to put a ceiling on anything.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I think, sure the.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Capability is there to where if you have a guy
that's it's not realistic, it's not unrealistic to be battling
for a Big twelve championship. That's that's extremely realistic and
to be that's what I would say the ceiling is
is to be battling for a Big twelve championship and
a spot in the playoff. And in the other hand,
the floor is for a true freshman. You know, I
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guess statistically they're typically around a five hundred season if
they do on average, So I would say that's probably
the floor if a lot of things go wrong, But
I don't really see that happening. I think the coups
are going to be competing for you know a right
to play in a Big twelve championship game. And I
think that we're set up nicely with Bear stepping into
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a FCS game first, you know, traditionally not as good Stanford,
and there's going to be a lot of time to
kind of grow and make some mistakes and find his
feet before stepping into Big.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Twelve conference play.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
So I'm excited about everything I've talked to the players about,
and people that I know has all been very good
about Bear.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Alex, you need a new suit.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Probably my wife will probably tell you, hey.
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Uh here in about what just a few days away,
a little over a week away, yes, sir, all right, Alex,
thanks so much, man, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Thanks man, all right, thank you. There you have it.
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the five foot eleven, six foot ill. He's six foot
his roster. I've measured him in in shoes. He's definitely
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six foot, one hundred and eighty five pounds out of Millville, Utah,
Mountain Crest High School.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The two ten Utah.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Gatorade Player of the Year dual threat quarterback Alex Carressa.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Alex. How the heck are you, buddy?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Hey Ben, I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on
the show.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
How was it balling up in Cash Valley? How was
it being the hero of the Valley?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I mean, I don't remember as a lifetime ago, but
I mean I love going up in Cash Valley and
the small town football field feel is something like nothing else.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So I loved going up there.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It was a good time, great times up there.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And you ended up, you know, following the path of
a big brother j Cress and my teammate in playing
at BYU and playing quarterback, you know, scout team quarterback,
getting reps and then playing some wide receiver as well,
getting some significant pt there.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Let's discuss kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Your journey to BYU and what happened and what was
it two thousand, I want to say, was it tw
twenty eleven when you came to BYU?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I came my first year, red shirted in eleven and
then played a bunch of different spots in twelve at YU.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So but yeah, I signed in that twenty eleven class.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What was the twenty eleven season like for you? Red shirt?
What were you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I just ran the scout team. But that that team
was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
So that defense was incredible, you know, with Kyle van
Noy and Daniel Sorenson and Ogletree and Spencer Hadley and
those were legit. So grew a ton of a football
players just getting to go against those guys.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Day in and day out.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
But you know, a lot of these kids are are
more prepped going into college these days. For me, it was,
you know, I like looking at guys like Bear this
year and playing as a true freshman. For me, I
was not ready for that as as a freshman. So
it's cool to see just how things have progressed. But
that year was a huge learning curve for me and
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just figuring it out and growing as a football player
and a young man. And yeah, I had a ton
of fun that year just going up against those guys.
Arguably one of, if not the best defenses in b
A history. So was it was a fun year get
beat up by those guys.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did that you tell you though?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Did that you're confirmed to you that you were a quarterback,
that you were a quarterback that could play at that level.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I never considered myself anything else. In the recruiting process
at high school, I received a you know a number
of offers and none of them were as athletes. So
I felt like I had put enough on tape and
had the numbers to show that I was a quarterback.
And then going and doing that and playing against that
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level of competition was a lot of fun at the
confirmation to to myself, it was it was a great
confidence booster and like, yeah, I can I can do
this aspect at least the physical portion at that point
and perform at a high level.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So yeah, yeah, I had heard feedback actually that you
were you were cooking that defense on occasion. So I
was like, hey, is is Robert ever going to give
Alex a shot at this at this quarterback job?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And they ended up moving over to wide receiver athlete.
I don't know if punt returner was also a order
that And then you ended up I think serving a
mission and then after the mission went down to Snow
Junior College.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Uh. And uh balling out.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There becoming I think an All American junior college player.
When you were coming out of Snow College.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And I think did you play.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
With Jonah Turnaman down there once you throw connecting with
Jonah B WHATU wide receiver?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Jonah was my guy. I love Jonah so yep he was.
He was one of our receivers down there at Snow
one of.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
The fastest wide receivers to come through Brigham, no doubt
about it. Underrated wide receiver in my opinion. Uh, why
weren't we able to get him the ball more? By
the way, on those deep shots, what was up with?
What was up with that? How would you diagnose that?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I wasn't around the program as much at that point
to understand all of that. I didn't have a problem
getting Jonah the football, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I love throwing the ball to that guy. But so
I couldn't speculate as to that. But he's a special talent.
That dude can fly.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
And uh, you know, there's there's probably a number of reasons,
a lot of talented guys on the team, and fitting
stuff within scheme and game plan and the offense is
not always the easiest thing to get everybody the football.
But yeah, he's a talented individual, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You end up get recruited. You chose Portland State? Why
why was Portland State the place for you after Snow?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Well I got a few offers out of Snow as
an athlete, and at that point the year I had
at UAU previously, I had played a number of different positions,
so it was a lot of fun. I played on
all four special teams. I had multiple snaps as a
wildcat quarterback, as a running back, as a receiver. I
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played safety the back half of the year as well,
so just played kind of all over the place. Yeah,
I did punt returns in and so it was a
ton of fun to just play football. Going into that year,
you had Riley Nelson and Lark and Casom had just
got back, and we were kind of just battling out
for the third string spot. I was planning on leaving
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on a mission the following year and talking with coaches
or like, hey, we have two seniors here, like you
can battle it out for the third spot if you
want to, but ultimately, like you're not. There's there's a
very low likelihood you're going to play this year. You've
already red shirted, you're athletic enough to be on the field.
Do you want to do you want to try to
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play somewhere else? And I just wanted to play football
at that point, so yeah, I like to to go
that route. Unfortunately, I ended up ended up breaking my
neck and had a spine surgery at the end of
that season.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
It happened in fall camp.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I didn't I didn't know, I just because I only
play quarterback, So I thought that's what stingers were. I
was like, these stingers sucked, Like this is brutal, Like
how there are people dealing with this and come to
find out it is something more significant. And had an
emergency surgery towards the end of the season and luckily
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everything was was fine. But when I came back to
you kind of wanted me to resume my athlete role,
to taste him. It was just coming off of his
one healthy year where he was extremely productive and he
was obviously just taste him, and so I was like, I,
given my physical you know where I was at physically,
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I didn't want to go do all of that again.
So I wanted to go back and play quarterback. I
felt like I had an opportunity to go so I
could play quarterback again at snow so elected to go
that route. We had a great year. I was fortunate
enough to be named Player of the Year that year,
and then it was a ju call American, which was
a lot of fun being on that team. A lot
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of talented guys that are still playing on Sundays to
this day on that team, so that was a ton
of fun. But the only offer I had to play
quarterback was to Portland, so I ended up running with it,
and loved my time at Portland State, and it's gonna
be fun to see them in provo.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You're gonna be running out the Portland State flag from
the visitors' locker room or are you going to be
running out the b y U alumni flag?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Which one is it? Alex?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Come on, well, neither school is contact and you're asked me.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
To do that, to do either, so I'm gonna I'm
not gonna be doing either.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Bruce Barnum recruited you there. Are you still the head coach?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
How would you describe the Portland State program as a whole?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Love?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Loved it, loved my time there.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Coach Barnum was the head coach of My offensive coordinator
is Steve Cooper the offensive coordinator at UCF now, so
he was at Portland at that time. But so I
loved I felt like it kind of embodied who I was,
you know, a kind of an overlooked program with a
chip on their shoulder. And when I got there, we
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there was a ton of talent there. So people don't
realize how much talent there is at the FCS level.
I would say it's probably changed now. Just with ni
L a little bit, but at the time, I guess
just the biggest difference between FCS and D one is just,
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first off, the depth. There's not as much depth as
you get at a D one school. And then second
is just the trenches. It's hard to find those big
hogs that so you're you're dealing with a lot of
you know, undersize, really talented players at least on the
line positions, but a lot of times they're just outmanned
by sheer strength and ability. But as far as skill positions,
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like I remember getting to Portland State and they're the
secondary and the receivers and just being like, holy cow,
like these guys are as good as anybody I've played with.
And so yeah, it was it was a lot of
fun to have feel like you have weapons and to
have a really talented defense. But it was good football,
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and uh yeah, I enjoyed. I feel like I was
I fit in great over there and had a good
couple of years.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
What what would you say were the highlights of your
career there at Portland State.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, so that first year we had the best season
in program history. We went from a I think it
was a three and nine season the year before, I
wasn't there, but then we went to a nine and
three season.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We went to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
We ended up losing in the second round, but we
beat a Washington State team that almost won the Pac
twelve championship that year. We beat them at home week one,
and then we went on and played another D one
school in North Texas and we beat them like seventy
to six, And uh, those are those games are funny
because obviously the school pays you.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
They pay you.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They pay us think like a million dollars to go
over there on their homecoming and we laid it on
them seventy to six.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I think they fired their coach at halftime, but it
was it was funny.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
But yeah, those are that those are probably some of
the highlights that I have where that first year and
getting my first you know, real D one college football
experience as a star, getting quarterback and filling like the
hard work paid off and uh, just kind of getting
that that. I guess the word would be confirmation on
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you know, you work hard to it's often to get
put in a situation and to see that reward was awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Alex Kressa may have been in the portal after that
twenty fifteen season.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, right, you'd have been a portal after that.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It was it was right now. I mean who knows,
who knows what happened, But yeah, it's a different it's
a different day and age of college football right now.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
But after two thousand, we like Taysum was coming off
of a Liz Frank they had Tanner Meghan that had
just led him to nine and four, So, b what,
you probably would have been in the cards, but maybe
maybe they would have tried to bring you in.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Hey, you can come compete versus.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
An injured, hobbled Taysum Tanner coming off what nine and
four in twenty and fifteen, You know, you would have
been in the portal. You probably would have been picked
up by a great school. You still, you stayed, stuck
it out. You had a great career at Portland State.
Have you been able to keep track of Portland State
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at all your your alma mater, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I mean I follow them. I'll stick the scores and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Obviously they're not playing on big time television or anything
like that, but I'll usually keep up with them in
that way. I still have a lot of friends that
from my team. Obviously your your teammates are friends for
a long time, and so we'll keep up on it.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And then they haven't had a ton.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Of success, but yeah, we'll usually try to watch it
at least the rivalry game at the end of the year.
And well, I'll talk with coach Barnum at least once
a year and keep up with him. So love those
guys and really grateful for that program.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So well, you mentioned some of the differentiation in personnel
between Portland State and by U.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Boa is a heavy favorite in this game.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
What do you expect though, from Portland State coming into
Bau's home once again and trying to get it up.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Yeah, So, I mean it's as far as Portland State goes,
They've they've competed really well against Division I schools in
the past where it's usually pretty competitive, and they were
rarely able to just get over the hump. That first
year in twenty fifteen was the first year you able to.
But the year after I graduated, they came up to
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Brigham and gave Bau all they could handle, and I
think they ended up losing. I want to say it
was like just by a touchdown and it was a
low scoring game. But they so as far as what
we can expect from them, they play really just tough football.
And you know, they haven't won a ton of games
in the past, but most teams leave pretty beat up
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and so they play really physical to play with the
chip on their shoulder. They have a game tomorrow, so
they play this week zero against top ten FCS team,
so you know they they're going to be be a
little bit more fresh than them. But as far as
what fans can expect to see, they're going to see
at least them being extremely physical and if nothing else,
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you know, they might be out manned talent wise, or
depth wise or a few different ways, but they will
be They will play an extremely physical football game.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That's that's guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I was looking at their roster.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
They have a lot of bounce backs, plenty of guys
that that initially started out at like certain schools San
Jose State, Idaho, Boise State, Dixie State, Utah State. You
know there there's a number of of of individuals on
this team that were offered higher level scholarships that are
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now playing at Portland State.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That seems like there's some good talent there.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, they get some high level dudes in every year.
They do a really good job of managing the bounce backs.
You know, it's like I said, it's different now with
this with the portal and nil and everything. So I
don't know exactly how all that he's into it, but
they have no shortage of D one guys or or
people who receive D one offers out of or out
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of high school, so they'll have they'll for sure have
some talented kids, and you know, there'll be some kids
there that can all of hold their own and if not,
you know they might there's always a kid or too
that'll even expose some of these D one schools because
a lot of people just assume because you played an
FCS school that you're the worst player.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
That's not always the case.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
There's a lot of overlook talent, and there's a lot
of kids who play football in high school. You can't
get every single one of them on film and get
every one of them to a D one school. So
they'll have some talent. We'll see how how they can
weather the storm of the kudes, but it'll be it'll
be fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Who's Bruce Barnum. How would you describe their head coach?
He seems like he's been there forever.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Yeah, so his first year, my year, my first year
there was his first year as the interim head coach,
and then he signed a long term contract right after that.
But Coach Barnum is the man. He's a players coach,
so he was offensive coordinator before and but he is
somebody that the troops really rallied behind. He's he is
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a one of my favorite head coaches.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I've ever had.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And he's a dude that is really relatable with the
players and they will run through a wall for him.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
So, you know, there's certain types of football coaches.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Sometimes you get the hard ass or you get the
the guy who's just the big exes in this guy
and Coach Barnum is great with the x's and o's,
but he is a dude that you will also go
hang out with in his office. And that was that
was a really big change of pace for me in
the college football scene. I haven't played for Bronco and
then my juco coach. It was a very big change
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of pace to be like, Okay, I can go feel
comfortable in this in this uh and I was never
really comfortable in Bronco's office.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I don't know how many people.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Yeah, so it was a little have that. He's just
one of the homies. And I love playing for coach
Bardam and the opportunity he gave me. So he's the man.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
With players coaches, it does speak to I've seen it
time and time again with players. Coaches do tend to
get some talented individuals at the skill positions corners and
wide receivers, sometimes running backs, and every once in a
while you'll pick up a really good quarterback too.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Would you say that that's that that's kind of an
accurate depiction.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
You saw guys in those skill rooms kind of gravitate
towards Bruce Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Absolutely so when I was When I was there, we had.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
A lot of injuries on the offensive side of the football,
skill position wise, but defensively.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Both corners played in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
One was a bounce back from Oregon who started in
the National Championship the year before.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Both safety of safety I.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Got trash by the way, hold, I want to talk
about those corners right that they they both played against
Buyu in twenty seventeen, and I said, look, I think
both of these guys, even prior to them lay and
afterwards when I was watching the film, like, both these
guys look like NFL corners.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
To me, and I had so many BYU vans raking.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Me over the cole saying like, oh you're you don't
know ball ya ya da YadA. I'm like, no, man,
I'm serious, like and I looked them up recently because
I was like, I wonder if I was right.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They both played in the National Football.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
League YEP, so they had a little corner pipeline for
a second there. The year I was there, his name
was Xavier Coleman and Aaron Sibley, and both of them
were phenomenal. And then the year afterwards, there was a
guy named Chris c Sa who was a starter on
the Oregon National championship team. And then and then Donovan
Alumba who was he was He was unreal too. So
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those guys were fun to extremely fun to watch and
not so much fun to play, fun to play practice,
but it was it was, it was competitive. And then
our safety's name is Patrick Amasward who had a long
career with the Ravens and he was FCS player the
you're I want to say he had twelve plus interceptions
that year.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
He was an unbelievable talent too.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
So our secondary was extremely talented and that was like
one of the main things when I first went into Portland.
I was like, this is better than any secondary I've
had a Yeah, I was like this is talented. Yes,
since I was like, wow, this is like high level.
These guys can play now. The difference is there's not
a ton of depth. When you know, at b YU
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or any other D one school, if your first guy
goes down, you have another three star, four star type
kid that has multiple D one offers. When you're at
Portland State, do you have some random kid from Camby,
Oregon And you're like, Okay, this.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Is a really big drop off. And so.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah, that's that's a huge difference to where they can
stay healthy and they'll be able to But I mean,
guys get tired and have to go out, and so
there's always hey, you got to rotate kids, and so
there's typically a few links.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
But yeah, there's a lot of talent over there for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Final thing, Alex appreciate you hopping on to discuss a
little BYU Portland State and then just get caught.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Up with you and your world.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Bear Bachmer going to be at the starter, true freshman quarterback,
man high level quarterback. Obviously, we're recruited by just about everybody.
He's got a great supporting cast around him, wide receiver,
tight end, running back room.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The offensive line is very talented.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
The defense should be top twenty five, the special teams
unit expected to be top twenty five. What's your ceiling
and floor for BYU football being led by a true
freshman quarterback with a power for schedule?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Yeah, well, I mean all those things you mentioned. He
has kind of the perfect scenario that you want as
a true freshman where you get to lean on all
of these tools that you have guys returning and have
experience and are capable of making plays. And that's the
biggest thing as a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
I can't tell you how much many times where you
go to make a throw that's a difficult catch and
the guy doesn't make the play, And if he does
make the play, then that roles. When completion turns to
two to two, turns to you know where you're you're
moving the chains, then it turns into a touchdown, and
a single drive can change your entire season, as your
entire career realistically, as a freshman, So for him to
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be able to lean on those guys as well as
have a top defense to where you don't have to
go be a superhero. You can still play within the system.
You can make your mistakes and the defense will bail
you out a lot. Is it is a great situation
to be in. So I'd say, you know, I'm not
gonna I think that the ceiling one of those guys
(22:41):
is like, who's to say to put a ceiling on anything.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I think, sure the.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Capability is there to where if you have a guy
that's it's not realistic, it's not unrealistic to be battling
for a Big twelve championship. That's that's extremely realistic and
to be that's what I would say the ceiling is
is to be battling for a Big twelve championship and
a spot in the playoff. And in the other hand,
the floor is for a true freshman. You know, I
(23:08):
guess statistically they're typically around a five hundred season if
they do on average, So I would say that's probably
the floor if a lot of things go wrong, But
I don't really see that happening. I think the coups
are going to be competing for you know a right
to play in a Big twelve championship game. And I
think that we're set up nicely with Bear stepping into
(23:31):
a FCS game first, you know, traditionally not as good Stanford,
and there's going to be a lot of time to
kind of grow and make some mistakes and find his
feet before stepping into Big.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Twelve conference play.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
So I'm excited about everything I've talked to the players about,
and people that I know has all been very good
about Bear.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
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Speaker 4 (23:56):
Probably my wife will probably tell you, hey.
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Speaker 2 (24:19):
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Speaker 4 (24:29):
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Speaker 3 (24:32):
Let's go all right, man, Well, it was a great
catching up with your blessing, chatting with you, talking some
ball with you. Appreciate you giving us a little update
on your world. We'll see you down at Lavelle Edwards Stadium.
Uh here in about what just a few days away,
a little over a week away, yes, sir, all right, Alex,
thanks so much, man, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Thanks man, all right, thank you. There you have it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's Alex ressa former b ou uh quarterback, wide receiver
and uh former snow college badger, former Portland State Viking quarterback.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
He's gonna be uh uh.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You know he'll be down there at Lavelle supporting both
teams on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Appreciate him.
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