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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Guests, Dave bar two of you have be Matrix. What's
happened to Dave?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, brother Ben's going good? Here man going good?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Week zero? Do we even need to call it a week?
At this point? It's just like preseason. Let's just call
it preseason because it's.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Like, but it counts. We can't call it preseason because
it counts.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh, I know you can't take that lost away from
K State Part two.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
No, no, no, no, they.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Got that lost.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, let's talk about that. To start it off.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I've said, like, prior to this game, like. I did
not like it. I did not like the fact that
you had two Big twelve teams facing off against each
other in Ireland, two ranked teams, your marquee brands right now,
and in Ireland on a neutral field that counts against
them in Big twelve play. I just didn't like it
(02:09):
because I don't like Big twelve cannibalism. I feel like
what led the Pac twelve astray and to their demise.
They had a lot of cannibalism in the Pac twelve
over the last decade plus. So I didn't like it.
I didn't like it whatsoever. It was a great game
from an entertainment standpoint. Do you think it was a
net positive, net negative or net neutral? What happen here
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with these two teams?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, you know me, I'm always wearing the pessimistic tinfoil hat, right. No,
I don't think you got both team's best shot in
week zero, And I do agree with you from the
standpoint of could this be a better game in a month,
month and a half, maybe when they got a few
(02:51):
more wins underneath their belts. Yeah, and no, But you
know something, it is the game had to be played
at some point. Somebody had to win or lose, right,
And so I think the net positive might be that
A the Big Twelve got a lot of exposure. Nobody
else was watching, right, it was all big pub logo,
and you've got the perception that these were two ranked teams.
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Now at the end of the season, if they're both
six and six, you look back on and go, eh,
that was a pretty med game. But it was exciting
at the time, and I think people look forward rather
than back usually, especially when it comes down to losses.
But you know, cannibalism. Look, everybody's about to play nine
conference games. You're not going to avoid that. It was
(03:35):
worse than the pack world because you had your teams.
You only had twelve teams playing nine conference games. At
least with the Big twelve you got nine conference games.
It's spread out a little bit more. The SEC is
spread out more, the Big ten is spread out more,
and certainly you still have the a SEC at eight.
I just wish everybody would go back to eight now
that the SEC is committee to nine. I think that
would be funny as heck.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No doubt about it. From the weeks games. What stood
out to you? What did you learn about these college
football teams? That you can share with us.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, Stanford really sucks, dude. I mean, stay by h
to twelve, right, I mean, come on, we all knew
they were in trouble. I mean, they fire their coach
in what after springball? They got a makeshift staff.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
They basically aren't paying any money in nil even though
it's the richest university in a country. You know, football,
sports and so forth. This isn't that much of a
priority all the travel. I just think the Stanford is
going to hit super, super duper rock bottom this year.
So yeah, Week two, you all better take advantage and
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not look past that football game. Not that I think
Stanford is going to be any good this year outside
of that everything else. I mean, we expected a close
game in Ireland. All the games in Ireland, no matter
who's been playing, seemed to be three point one possession
ball games in the in the fourth quarter, and UNLV
is as stinky as we thought it would be with
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the massive coaching and player turnover there as well. I
don't think there's anything else that I can take away
from the from that weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
In those few games, well, Stanford just become more and
more irrelevant over the next few years. Because of their
ACC affiliation, having to travel so much, it's just not
a sustainable model for them.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
No, I mean, you know, you want to pick a
team to finish dead last and the ACC going forward,
how is it not Stanford right now? I mean seriously, Look,
I mean even before nil, even before the ACC, Stanford,
if they were eleven zero or zero to eleven, if
you look at the stands in a home game, you
could hardly tell the difference what their record was. There's
never been a lot of support at Stanford. It's just
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not a priority. It is a research development science university,
and sports has always been second fiddle and it still is.
I don't see any commitment for revenue sharing, paying big
bucks to bring in the players. So I think not
only Stanford having to fly all over the country, I
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think they struggle with the tendance to begin with, it's
going to be worse. I think the quality of play
is going to drop. I have no problem saying Stanford
is going to be a bottom five program for the
foreseeable future. In the Power forward.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What's crazy is you take a little bit of like
this opposite inverse example of Vanderbilt, who has been a
bottom dweller of college football P. Four P five them
in the SEC for decades, and they somewhat are on
the rise of becoming more relevant with their investments in
NIL and saying, hey, we're not only just an academic institution,
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we're investing in athletics with this newfound NIL opportunity. To
Stanford's over here like not knowing what to do with themselves.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Well, i mean, look at look at Stanford. Just what
a decade ago We're talking a playoff team, offense and
defensive line that was NFL caliber on both sides of
the wall. They were bringing everybody in. Well, Vanderbilt has
not quite the same but pretty high level of academics.
To me, what Stanford used to be able to do,
Vanderbilt is now paying for it, right, and so Vanderbilt
(07:18):
is can take that Stanford model and search for the
high academic, high elite athlete combination all over the country.
They're willing to pay for it. Stanford isn't. Vanderbilt to
me is a great example of what Stanford should be,
or even better, because nobody else is on the West
Coast like Stanford, you know, maybe USC in terms of
a degree and what's offered or going there. So yeah,
(07:41):
I think, you know, you just you choose your path,
and I believe Stanford is choosing to not follow the Joneses.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Crazy times when you're looking at BYU's first six games
and in knowing a little bit more about these opponents,
I know, weeks zero, but also the metrics that that
that guide us in the preseason. What do you think
they always record is in the first six games? And why.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Well, how many times I've been on the show saying
I think the Big twelve of the coaching league and
how good I think Kilani and his staff is A
few times?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Right, yep, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think from a talent standpoint, it's it's this level.
It's probably the most level playing field in the entire
in all of college for any conference powerful you know,
Power four or G six. But you know, first game,
you got talent, you got coaching. You're at home. You
win that same thing. In game three, Game four, you
got a better coaching staff. You got better talent, or
game three got better talent, better coaching staff. You're on
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the road of East Carolina, you're three and zero by
U Colorado, Week four, I think you got a better
coaching staff I think you've got more player continuity than Colorado.
Colorado lost a lot, but I do like Dion and
the staff. I think this is an interesting game because
I get the feeling the Big twelve. Nobody can be
dominant in the Big twelve year over year. I think
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it's just going to be a constant cycle of the
top three teams with very little continuity. And I think
this game is really important because last year you had
BYU Colorado Arizona State where you're really your top three
right there.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
At the end.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I think this is kind of a really good litmus
test for who can sustain what happened last year. You're
at home against West Virginia, that's a win, and then
you go on the road against Arizona with one. Arizona
has one of the worst talent coaching profiles in all
of college football, so I expect them to win that
football game there. So we're talking five and one, five
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and a half in point five. You know, even if
we give Colorado game four, I still believe you're going
to be favored in five out of six and have
a better talent profile and a better coaching profile on
the field in just about every single one of those
football games.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Is it fair to say that the West Virginia game
is a more dangerous game than the Colorado the U game,
the Stanford ECU games.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, I would say that because it is a beautiful
boy senior moment right there, trap game, right because b
YU is going to be super up to Colorado.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Who doesn't want to beat Prime, who doesn't want to
go beat the Buffalo's. Everybody wants to beat the Buffalo's
in Boulder. And then you come back and you've got
West Virginia who was poor last year, and you have
them at home. That is really easy to overlook. That
is a letdown spot.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think rich Rod's familiar with them Koogs too, having
been at U of A for for a brief time.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, but he had
been there in a little while.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But you know, so the West Virginia had a really
bad defense last year. They bring in Zach Alley, who's
kind of a rising star in the system. You've got
a good offense uh in rich Rodd, and you actually
finally have a good play caller. West Britain is talent's
pretty good too. Now, if this game was in West Virginia,
I would one undred percent say massive trap game. You
might lose that thing if you don't focus on it.
(11:09):
But I still say win or lose at Colorado. I
think there's gonna be an element of a letdown. So
in your shows on Week five leading up to that,
please make sure it emphasize gotta focus on West Virginia
because I think that is a bigger trap than at
Arizona the week before Utah and the Holy War.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
As you're looking towards these Week one games in college football,
where is your your eyes being castrated at a lot of
marquee games? Obviously it is the the official kickoff to
the college football season, many believe. But which games are
the most important to you? And why?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Man?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You know, for me, if I had to go number one,
I had to watch one game to watch the outcome,
to watch the talent, to watch the coaching, to see
what direction it went. I'm going Clemson LSU because you're
talking about two Top thirteen recruiters an elite Top seven
recruiter in LSU. But I believe LSU's coaching staff is
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one of the weakest in the SEC. I don't think
they have a good offensive coordinator. I don't think they
have a good defensive coordinator, but talent wise, there better
than Clemson. Clemson is a rare Top fifteen team that
not only has an elite offensive coordinator but a returning quarterback.
So if Clemson survives this, we all know the ATC
schedule and Clemson's ability, they should be able to run
(12:30):
through that thing pretty good. Talent wise, is the toughest
game they're gonna face. So I'm curious on the offensive
side to see if Clemson can be dominant, and I'm
curious to see if LSU has the coaching to stick
with Clemson. We might see the loser of this game
the same as Ohio State Texas. I think there's more
at risk for the loser of that game than I
(12:51):
think people realize.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Dave bar two CFB Matrix here on ESPN the Fan
getting a breakdown of Week zero games as well as
Week one games. To uh to to be watching. Now
we can just sit on our couches all day from
sun up to sundown and beyond into midnight and watch
college football. It's just the greatest time of the year.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
One it is. It is awesome. It is awesome. I
literally can't. But even when I'm not in front of
the TV because I'm outside a lot. Man, if I
had to pay a dollar every time I hit refresh
on ESPN's yes scoreboard, I'd be out of money in
like seven hours.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yes, indeed, your your your college football playoff bracket right now.
I know it's it's way too early to do it,
but we have to do it. Where do you stand
right now in your college football playoff bracket?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I don't know about bracket. I can give you my
national championship contenders though.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The time, give that to me.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Okay, I threw out Ohio State. They're not a national
championship contender to men throughout LSU.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
They're not a national.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Contender because of the coaching staffs. Texas is there, what
they did last year, the the everything they have returning
in that staff. Alabama, and actually in our group here,
consensus is Alabama wins it all. Georgia's there, Oregon Notre Dame,
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and there was one other it wasn't Penn State. Penn
State was not on the list. If Penn State wins it,
it'll probably be the biggest championship anomenally this century. And
I can't think of the other one off the top
of my head. But that's that's the cool of teams
that have performed equally player personnel, scoring, efficiency, coaching staff,
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similar to the last twenty five national champions. That's my group.
Everybody else outside of that is somebody. If they win it,
it will be a real shot to the system.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
In my opinion, we've been discussing true freshman quarterbacks in
college football leading their teams to bowl games, leading their
teams to conference championships, leading their teams to top twenty
five finishes. There's not many true freshman quarterbacks that can
do it. Bear Bachmeyer's making history is the first ever
true freshman to start game one for the BYU Cougars BYA.
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Fans are optimistic that he can get BYU to an
equivalent status a double digit win season just like last year.
Where do you where do you kind of look at
true freshman data points when you're valuing true freshmen leading
P four institutions? I mean, how often are we seeing
them get to nine, ten, eleven, twelve win.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Seasons with the talent level goal have versus the schedule
you're facing rare? That would be incredible, absolutely incredible. If
he's that good and the staff is that good. To
have the same performance and continuity year over year, that
would flat out be amazing to me.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
But who knows.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I mean, it's why we play the games. But I
think that's one of the reasons too, though. I don't
think Texas is going to win this thing. You got
to unproven quarterback, You've got a head coach that always
loses a big game, so you know, I don't think
Texas is really that big of a contender with a
freshman quarterback as well. So I love the enthusiasm, you
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know that. I think you're one of the best fan
faces in the entire country. But hoping for ten and
expecting ten, I think there's a pretty big gap in
terms of emotional liability.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
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Speaker 4 (16:57):
Actually, the biggest thing right now is we're trying to
become recruiting scouting certified with the nc double A. We
have We've spent the last three years in the NFL
and college football on advanced player analytics talent identification between
twelve and fifteen year old. That's that's been the number
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one request of the general managers in college football for
the last couple of years. Now it's early player identifications.
We have the system. We've been able to do it.
I can test any boy, any girl, basically any age.
We work with MIT, we work at John Hopkins, Michigan State,
Purdue Kinesiology, and we got the formula down. Now we
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just have to get NCAA approval and we'll be able
to roll it out nationwide to help not only kids
get found in remote areas, but staff like by you
find those kids without leaving the buildings.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Crazy man. Now, it's that early, that early evaluation period,
having as much of like what the specific coaching is
looking for from highway skill set, uh, tangibles, et cetera.
And then you know, validating it through film work is
an imperative. Uh. You know, Dave, always a pleasure talking
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college football with you. Any other like games that you're
intrigued by. I know you mentioned the one that you
had to watch, but uh, any other games that are
going to be featured? Do you think that maybe a
secondary and tertiary game that you're most intrigued by.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well, I'm always interested steel, like in the Big Twelve. Again,
the Big Twelve's fascinating because I think it's really hard
to pick a winner. I mean, how many people had
BYU Arizona State, Colorado at the top last year at
this time? Nobody, right, I mean nobody? And so to
me is, how does it's not be how BYU looked
in in game one? We know what we know what
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by you can do. To me, it's kind of like
the uh, the other teams that are supposed to be there, Utah,
Texas Tech. Right, these are we saw what Kansas State
was supposed to be and they didn't really live up
to it. And so you finish how do you start
a lot in college football? So two teams that I'm
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looking at, I don't know who UTA or Texas Tech
bases It may not be Week one, but in September.
I'm looking at teams that everybody expects to do well,
that didn't do well last year and what direction they're going.
You can tell a lot by a team by the
end of September.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
One last thing, Kansas and I know Fresno State is
not like this, like phenomenal team, but they've had their
their heyday in the modern era that it was a
good coach and others have done a good job if Tedford,
et cetera. Kansas destroyed for US now thirty one to seven.
I mean it wasn't even close from the get go.
They were up big at halftime and then finish it off.
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They tapered off a little bit towards the end. But
Jalen Daniels ninety percent completion percentage, three touchdowns. Are we
going to talk a lot about quarterbacks in the twelve
this year?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I feel like there's a lot of talent in the
quarterback room this year.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
There's a lot of talent in the quarterback room. There's
a lot of talent it head coaches. I mean, think
about it, man. I mean, you got kilani, you got
winning Ham, you got Prime, you got Lance Leipol. Lance
Leipool has the best road coach effect in the Big
Twelve over the last three years. You got climbing right.
You know, people expect a lot out of Texas Tech,
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but Joey hasn't proven it yet, so I think that
one might be the biggest one in terms of pressure.
But yeah, there is a lot of good quarterback play
which drives football. There is a lot of good coaching.
To me, the Big Twelve is the most exciting because
we don't know which way it's gonna go. All the
other conferences, we know the best recruiters are gonna win.
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We know that in the Big Twelve year after year.
Really good coaching, hard to predict. That's my favorite kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Love the breakdown. Best way to support you. What you do,
how you do it, Dave bar two.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Just follow me on Twitter, gheit me on Twitter. Anybody
can dm me you got a question, comment, whatever. At
CFC Matrix, always open to talk college football with anybody listening.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Great stuff is always stay bar two. Ladies and gentlemen, Thanks.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
So much, Dave, Thanks buddy, appreciate you.
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Bear Bachmeyer, the six foot two to two hundred and
twenty two hundred and twenty five pound quarterback out of
uh out of California. Okay, the transfer from Stanford. I
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mentioned a number of things that make me optimistic about
bear Bachmeier's potential as a starting quarterback. I think he's
got a good chance, not a great one, not an
elite one to lead this BA football team. I say
good chance because of his supporting casting, because he's a
true freshman. Right, I went into detail. Follow me on
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X on why I believe bear Bachmeer is a good
chance of being successful in twenty twenty five four star recruit,
nationally recognized with offers from elite programs including Alabama, Georgia, Michigan,
Notre Dame, Oregon, Texas A and M, Stanford, U, EYU,
and many others. He's got that dual threat ability. He's big,
he's Strongi's fast. Comes from a football family that high
football IQ goes a long way. He gained early college
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experience at Stanford before well before Rymy of BAYU and springball,
giving him a little bit of familiarity with the personnel
and based schemes of Stanford. At BOT twelve for Week two,
he has been described as brilliant per Aaron Roderick, his
offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach, and his high school coach joined
US George Wilson. He said he's got a photographic memory,
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and I think that's actually his quarterback coach may have
said that the first six games are winnable. BA will
be favored most like an East matchup. Three of the
first six games are home at Leavell Edwards Stadium Week
three by allows for early adjustment, correction and recovery. It
avoids immediate matchups against the toughest Big twelve defenses. He's
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got a great supporting cast l J. MARTINCIONI Moa, Chase Roberts,
Parker Kingston, Jojo Phillips, Cody Hagen, tight end Carson Ryan
Tenured offensive lined with multiple returning starters. Projected top twenty
five defense should keep games manageable for young QB. Projected
Top twenty five Special teams unit provides field position, advantage
of scoring opportunities for your quarterback. Don't always have to
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rely on him. That's an important thing. I made that
commentary last week. I'm like, I don't need bear Bachmeer
just to go out and win games for US. I
just need you to manage it. Control the football. Let
your power players, those that are most tenured, make plays
for you. Kialane's culture and consistency, though, allows for a
more stable and much more stability and less volatility within
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the team in regards to their roles identity when you
do go through some adversity offense. Cornarion Ryck has a
solid recent track record of developing young quarterbacks Jared Hall,
Zach Wilson. Continuity of offensive staff and scheme that is important.
You can hear John Beck week in a week out
discuss how he had like three different offense coordinators and
SAMs and it was just hard. It was hard. He
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had youth combined with new offensive coordinators and there's just volatility, Okay,
volatility and chaos. He's got a QB friendly system with
play action, rhythm, pros and design mobility. And I'd say
from a program standpoint, Levell Edward Stadium provides a significant
home field advantage even when you do welcome in some
of these power For Big twelve teams, you got a
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new strike the conditioning staff and a program that has
helped keep the team healthier later in the season. The
last two years, a lah, the depth, the depth conversation.
We got more depth than we than we've ever had.
You got veteran leadership and culture on the roster that
creates a supportive environment for a freshman quarterback. So he
was asked the question, bar Bachmeyer, who is he introduce
(26:43):
yourself to Cougarnation. This is what bear Bachmeyer had to
say in a Cougar.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Byte as it work.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah, I like the like the thing. I'm I'm pretty
outgoing guy, and I like playing the guitar. So I
just I like having fun, and you know, I like
the thing. I'm a good football player. You Yeah, I
like playing the guitar and just just having fun, fun
with the guys. So I think, Yeah, I didn't think
that's it.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That's that.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
What's your go to tune on the guitar?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Wagon Wheel?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
I like playing that one.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
He's got this he's not even a he's not even
a cowboy, but he's got this a shucks, you know,
very calm, unsuspecting demeanor. Do you know the last quarterback
to have, the last starting quarterback to have this aw
shucks like humble kind demeanor. That was probably listening to
(27:37):
country songs and playing the guitar. I think it was
ty freaking Detmer baby, the a shucks attitude, like oh,
you know, like he doesn't have a draw, but like
he's got this a shucks demeanor to him. The last
guy to be this guy became a fan favorite for
generations to come. A Heisman Trophy. I'm not saying he's
a Heisman Trophy Warner, but I'm saying, you know, the
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shucks likability is something of note about his personality. You
I've had I had Max Hall on the show a
couple of weeks ago, and we started to go into
the details about personalities that have led BYU in the past.
Jim McMahon, right, I mean unique, Gifford Nielsen, he's a
seventy right now, what type of personality you think he had?
(28:21):
He's kind loving, you know, probably very supportive, uplifting. Jim
was probably cursing you out, telling Level to get off
the field because he's going forward on fourth down versus
SMU and the Miracle Bowl. Get off the field.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You know, I'm going for it on fourth down.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Max was unique. John was unique. Okay, Like all of
these guys have different personalities. It's not just one cookie
cutter type of personality that can lead you to glin victory.
I thought it was interesting with Bear Bockmeer introducing himself.
Let's welcome into the show, representative of RG six Siers.
RGS six Siers, you toa dot god. We got Tim
Brown on the line. Timmy, how you living? Hey?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
We's good baby. It's football week one. This week couldn't
be better?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, indeed, what do you make of the oshucks demeanor, personality,
the unsuspecting personality of bear Bachmei's like I like playing guitar,
I like playing Settlers of Katan. I just like hanging
out with the guys, you know, wagon wheels, my jam.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I mean, come on now, who's this guy?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And ad? What do you make of it? Well?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
I think it could be one of two things, right.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
One is the oh boy, we don't have a leader here,
which I don't think is the case.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I mean the other option, which I think is what
it is. This is a chill leader. He's gonna lead
by example.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
He doesn't talk Matt, he just gets his crop done
and co beats on the field.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
And personally, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I feel like his personality is a kind of a cool,
low key unique one you remember, like the last as
shucks quarterback had to have been tied Depmer. I'm trying
to think of all the different like Kevin Frederick was
in an aw shucks guy, Matt Barry was in an
oshucks guy. Say Steve Sharkisan not an all shucks guy.
(30:03):
John Wallash not an all shucks guy. I mean Tie
den Er Baby, I feel I feel a little bit
of oshucks and this Bear Blackmeier personality.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
You know, as I sitting back, kind of maybe the
best analogy I can think it was maybe Doman Maybe.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I don't know, yah, Doman had a little Doman.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
But I don't think Doman was even quite like that either.
And when Dolman went, I mean it was a similar
situation if you remember the domin Ingham and Peterson era,
and like those three were all battling it out and
all three of them started at one point in time
that year.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So I don't know.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Maybe that's a somewhat of an analogy, but I don't know.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I love it either way.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, Well, where do you stand right now? B YU football?
If you go game by game, what's your win loss
prediction for the regular season? How you feel about them? Kops.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Well, I've been saying all year that that seven eight
win mark, and I still think. I think eight wins
is kind of the target.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
I think we get to nine, we're going to be
in the competition for winning the conference, which you know
gets us.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Potentially in the playoffs. So I think that's our goal.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
But I think at the seven, worst case eight kind
of right where we need to.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
But I'm gonna be also starting the week off we
zero last week. I was wrong.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I thought Kansas State was going to just take it,
and they didn't look great yesterday.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
So I don't know, I don't know if I know
anything about this conference.
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No, that week.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
You know they got like a whole state this week,
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Speaker 4 (34:20):
So we got this week.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Love it and oh my guy, ap says, Look, Taysom
Hill had a little bit of an ashucks attitude. Yes
he did. Initially he was aw shucks till the the
the media asked him stupid questions and he'd always been like, look,
you know, look that's a home. Yeah, that was his
go to he said, look, and he then he'd give
a salty remark, so I agree with ap he was
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he was as shucks initially. It was hard to stay
as shucks when you're getting pinged with so many questions.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
That's the home run. I mean, look at that Texas game.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Right before that game take out, when they came into
to the stadium, we had a lightning delay weight on
and then he just blew up. I think that was
kind of the uh, yeah, we'll just see how we.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Do and then he just blew up. So I say,
really good analogy.
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Thanks al, and have an amazing day there go.
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That was a little cougar bike brought to you by
our JSIX series and construction Bear Bochmeyer Bear Bachmeyer. When
I was pontificating Brent Hamber about all the reasons why
I think Bear has a good chance to be successful
this season, which one stood out to you?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Which ones stand out to you the most? That you
can get.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Behind and be like I believe I'm all in be
what you can win a lot of football games. This
year we get with Bear Blockmeyer at the Helm.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
I love his balance of being super hyper intelligent, because
sometimes when people are that smart, like they're not I
don't know, sometimes you can be just so hyper focused
that you're a little high strung. It seems to be
in this weird balance, and weird in the best way,
but this weird balance of He's a really smart, very
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focused kid, like smarter than your average football player by
a wide margin.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
But then you speak to him and he's like, I'm.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Just a kid who likes to play the guitar and
I'm not high strung.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
I feel like though, that balance allows you to go
into a game understand the game plan, but when something
doesn't go your way, this guy isn't following, Oh my gosh,
it's def Con one.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
What am I gonna do?
Speaker 5 (36:31):
It's okay, you know what. We rant it all in.
Speaker 10 (36:34):
We live on our foundation and we know what we
can do, and then we go forward that way.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
He has such a great balance personality wise.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
This is a man that is uh has a found
fantastic foundation, foundational culture within the walls of his home.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
He's a you can tell like he's just he's he's
a stoic as.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
A nineteen year old. How many of us would like
to be stoics at nineteen? Yeah? All of us. Yeah. Look,
we got on an emotional tyrates.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Shoot, I'm forty two and I get on emotional ty rates.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
You kidding me? You know what I mean? So the
Stowe's sism in that foundational culture from which he came
in the Bachmeier home is unique.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Just going about his work, doing.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
His thing, and uh, you know, he's got a unique
personality that I think Cougar Nation can get beyond, especially
just winning football games.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
We'll go to break, guys, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
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football is not looking ahead.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
They're looking towards the Portland State vikings.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
But Benkrittle and ESPN, the fan and US are the
Cougar sports insiders here. Are we looking at Stanford? Are
we looking forward to Stanford? Are we looking past Portland State?
Speaker 5 (39:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (39:05):
I think given how they played against Hawaii, I might
be looking at ECU right now.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I'm just like going to ECU. Well, I wanted to go.
I wanted to go. Sorry, say that again.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I'm looking at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Ben looking at Colorado, I mean not prime. So yeah,
and I don't hate that here, but I don't want
to put the car before the horse. I do think,
you know, there is talent there if you look at
the year over year P four recruiting rankings and even
just college football rankings for Stanford, like they have recruited
good enough talent to beat anybody. I just think that
(39:38):
they have a new coaching staff, new culture. I mean,
they have an interim coach. They have you know, Andrew
luck Is like the GM. He made the decision to
fire Troy Taylor right before the kickoff of I guess
spring ball is you know, it just led to transfers
and other things. So I'm gonna give you seven reasons, Okay,
(39:58):
why I think Stanford for ball is gradually becoming irrelevant
in college football. Number one admissions and nil disadvantage. They
have not aggressively pursued the path of acquisition of talent,
right so they're gonna have to do it the traditional way.
They're gonna have to recruit you, develop you. They're not
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gonna be as maybe competitive as even Vanderbilt is right now,
because Vanderbilt as a mirror image and even BYU. BYU
is an academic institution that prides itself on academics, but
they also want to be great at sport. And I
don't think the culture up with the sanfrad Cardinal, the
institutional culture, the alumni culture. No one cares about investing,
(40:44):
Very few care about investing in sport. You have very,
very minute, small amount of people that are even showing
up to the games. And when they show up, they're
there to watch the halftime show that typically just degradates
degrades the opposing team. You've seen it time and time
again with BYU. Whenever they show up. There's like this
(41:05):
religious bigotry anyway. Admissions and as this advantage, Stanford strict
academic admission standards significantly shrink their recruiting pool with name
image of lifeness exploding. Stanford lags behind in my opinion
because they traditionally avoid the pay for play setup and
don't lean into the collective driven recruiting tactics like the
SEC Big twelve and Big ten powers. So they're gonna
(41:28):
be on the outside kind of looking in, I think
in that regard, and maybe that's not a surprise to anybody,
but I think we've seen even within the PAC twelve,
you knows, as others have focused Oregon in Washington, right,
even like ASU and U of A, USC and UCLA
obviously are are are are holistically minded and they care
(41:51):
about sport. But Stanford is an academic institution and they raised.
They get most of their funds through subsidies governments for
data and research. It's like somewhere upwards of over one
hundred million, which is just it's just as much as
a potent athletic department would create. So conference re alignment fallout,
(42:16):
that's number two. Stanford went from being in a power
conference PAC twelve with regional foes, now they're the ACC's
West coast outpost. That is horrible, horrible travel burden hurting
players any fans that remain. They're becoming irrelevant, not prioritize.
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They've lost historic regional rivalries that gave their program cultural weight.
The recruiting pipeline erosion. California's recruiting pipeline is not as
good as it once was. I'm telling you right now,
it's not as good. There's a reason why USC has
not been competitive in college football post Matt Lion at
(42:57):
Reggie Bush. They have not been able to recruit as
well as you think because I think whenever someone offered.
Whenever someone gets a USC offer, it actually elevates their status,
not because they've earned it. It elevates their status because
they got the USC offer. And there was an article
a few years back talking about the inflationary state like
(43:19):
coaches calling two for seven, and Ryle was saying, hey,
you got to elevate his recruiting ranking.
Speaker 10 (43:24):
Oh doorry We still see that with other schools today.
You still see it, and you see it on the back.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
And two when the EUYU gets around, right, So elite
prospects from California are also funneling into Oregon, Texas SEC
schools right because there's bigger nil backings. There's only so.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Many spots too for USC and Ucla, but.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
They have not. They're like, look what happened to UCLA
and USC and the Big Ten this last year? Right?
Not good? Not competitive. There's an identity crisis. Staffords Heyday
from two thousand nine to twenty seventeen under Harbaugh and
Shaw was smash mouth pro style identity. Modern college football
has shifted to temple spread in portal driven, roster building areas,
(44:04):
where Stanford has been stubborn or slow to adapt, so
they don't really have an identity anymore. And Troy Taylor
was trying to bring a spread offense. Remember what he did.
To go back to what Troy Taylor did at East
is it Eastern Oregon? I want to say, no, No,
Eastern Washington. He was at East Washington and they put
up a ridiculous amount of points. I think Troy Taylor
(44:26):
was was he Cooper Cup's head coach, If I'm not mistaken,
they were slinging it. Troy Taylor ended up at Utah
and under Kyle Whittingham just was neutered, and then he
ended up I think sax State and then at Stanford. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. I mean, he was, I mean,
most offensive coordinators that go up on the hill, get newtered.
They just do. I mean, am I wrong? They change right?
(44:53):
Number five transfer portal reality. Stanford has unique academic restrictions
that make it nearly impossible to accept undergrad transfers. You
can't even bring in undergrad traffic. You can only bring
in grad transfers. That's it.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
So this cripples their ability to reload.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Okay, fan and donor engagement gap, we already know about that.
That's number six. They don't have any rabbit fans they have.
Their market share on TV is so bad. Rue. No
one's watching Stanford unless they're playing a formidable foe. Okay,
college football At number seven, college football is consolidating around
super brands, and in Stanford, although they have a brand,
(45:35):
it's it's like I said, it's it's becoming weaker and weaker.
Media rights nil continue to dominate. Right scholar athletes. Student
athlete is no longer as much of a priority to
some schools. They could do it if they had a
robust donor base that really rallied around the student athletes.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Because their alumni base is powerful.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Its education is supreme, Like you're gonna get jobs after
you're done playing football. You're gonna get a great education.
Look at Nucy Talmoy Pail. He went to Stanford, fired,
fired coach, and that he's now at BYU and he's
loving it, loving it. Gets the best of all the worlds. Okay.
In short, academics and il disadvantage, conference isolation, outdated identity week,
(46:20):
fan investments slow fade into irrelevance. That's Stanford football in
the years to come.
Speaker 10 (46:27):
I have one that is kind of summed up with
a bunch of the ones that you said.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
I was in the room.
Speaker 10 (46:32):
I was in the postgame presser when David Shaw stepped
down as the head coach.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Of Stanford in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 10 (46:40):
It was Greg Rebell's intern and I was there recording
that press conference, take it for postgame, and I thought
it was so odd because there wasn't a lot of
talk of him retiring and he was a darling at Stanford.
They loved him there, and at first we thought, Okay,
maybe he's leaving State because he wants to spend more
(47:01):
time with his kids. That was the rumor initially, and
then not even two years later, he's taken a job
with the Denver Broncos and he's now working for the
Detroit Lions. And then you have what you mentioned, You
have Andrew Luck firing the head coach back in March.
In addition to everything you said, there also just seemed
(47:24):
to be some behind the scenes culture issues, and those
behind the scenes issues leak out to everyone else, and
you lose a coach like David Shaw, and you cause
Andrew Luck to have to be in an uncomfortable position
where you bring him in and he's supposed to be
ushering in this new era of Stanford football.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
Then he has to fire the coach because of some incidents.
Speaker 10 (47:46):
And I think, in addition to everything you just said,
there's just a bad culture behind the scenes at Stanford
that makes it so players don't want to be there
and that you can't compete so that players even would
want to be there. There's just there's just such a
culture issue with Stanford.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah, it's it's unfortunate. Uh, you know turnover, no doubt
that they're they're essentially in rebuild mode. That's where they're
at right now with a new coach, an NFL coach.
They're trying to do it differently, and Andrew Lux trying
to bring in like NFL pedigree. This seems like if
you go back and look at what like Josh coach Walsh,
(48:26):
Bill Walsh did. Remember he was an NFL legend for
the San Francisco forty nine ers. Okay, essentially he's going
into retirement and Stanford brings him in his alma mater,
his team, his squad, NFL pedigree, and they have a
good first year, but it wasn't sustainable. It's hard. You know,
(48:46):
I don't even know how Harball did it.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
I don't know how Sean did it for as long
as he did it.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Uh, They're they're in decay right now, and I hope
Yu finds a way to dominate him because they you know,
Stanford lost to Hawaii. It was kind of an embarrassing loss,
first loss ever in Honolulu in five games. They were
four and er up to that point, and I don't
even I don't even know how competitive.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Those games were prior to this year.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
So the Stanford cardinal this week, I think they have
their home opener versus Boston College, if I'm not mistaken,
is that where they're going? Wait, No, that's their home opener.
Who are they playing this week? So yeah, I think
(49:34):
their home opener is is is Boston College, but this week.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
So they have a buy right now correct, so they have.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
A buye that kind of boots well form. I forgot
that they had that buy right before b y U.
Speaker 10 (49:50):
I shouldn't everyone, because there's some teams who play week
zero who don't get a vibe.
Speaker 5 (49:54):
But to me, if you play a week before everyone else,
you should get.
Speaker 10 (49:56):
Week one off because I believe Iowa State in Kansasitate
are both playing.
Speaker 5 (50:00):
This week, which is against what we're talking about.
Speaker 10 (50:04):
But it's weird to me that if you play week zero,
you play before everyone else and then you have to
play week one with everyone else.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
That's the one like golden ticket that they have coming
into Provo is that they got a bye week before
BYU and they get some film on BYU versus Portland stake.
Keep it Blase a Rod, Keep it blase blase uh,
don't do anything crazy. Save it for the Stanford Cardinal.
I don't know if you'll need it, but save it
(50:33):
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happened to Dave?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, brother Ben's going good? Here man going good?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Week zero? Do we even need to call it a week?
At this point? It's just like preseason. Let's just call
it preseason because it's.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Like, but it counts. We can't call it preseason because
it counts.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh, I know you can't take that lost away from
K State Part two.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
No, no, no, no, they.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Got that lost.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, let's talk about that. To start it off.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I've said, like, prior to this game, like. I did
not like it. I did not like the fact that
you had two Big twelve teams facing off against each
other in Ireland, two ranked teams, your marquee brands right now,
and in Ireland on a neutral field that counts against
them in Big twelve play. I just didn't like it
(02:09):
because I don't like Big twelve cannibalism. I feel like
what led the Pac twelve astray and to their demise.
They had a lot of cannibalism in the Pac twelve
over the last decade plus. So I didn't like it.
I didn't like it whatsoever. It was a great game
from an entertainment standpoint. Do you think it was a
net positive, net negative or net neutral? What happen here
(02:29):
with these two teams?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, you know me, I'm always wearing the pessimistic tinfoil hat, right. No,
I don't think you got both team's best shot in
week zero, And I do agree with you from the
standpoint of could this be a better game in a month,
month and a half, maybe when they got a few
(02:51):
more wins underneath their belts. Yeah, and no, But you
know something, it is the game had to be played
at some point. Somebody had to win or lose, right,
And so I think the net positive might be that
A the Big Twelve got a lot of exposure. Nobody
else was watching, right, it was all big pub logo,
and you've got the perception that these were two ranked teams.
(03:14):
Now at the end of the season, if they're both
six and six, you look back on and go, eh,
that was a pretty med game. But it was exciting
at the time, and I think people look forward rather
than back usually, especially when it comes down to losses.
But you know, cannibalism. Look, everybody's about to play nine
conference games. You're not going to avoid that. It was
(03:35):
worse than the pack world because you had your teams.
You only had twelve teams playing nine conference games. At
least with the Big twelve you got nine conference games.
It's spread out a little bit more. The SEC is
spread out more, the Big ten is spread out more,
and certainly you still have the a SEC at eight.
I just wish everybody would go back to eight now
that the SEC is committee to nine. I think that
would be funny as heck.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No doubt about it. From the weeks games. What stood
out to you? What did you learn about these college
football teams? That you can share with us.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, Stanford really sucks, dude. I mean, stay by h
to twelve, right, I mean, come on, we all knew
they were in trouble. I mean, they fire their coach
in what after springball? They got a makeshift staff.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
They basically aren't paying any money in nil even though
it's the richest university in a country. You know, football,
sports and so forth. This isn't that much of a
priority all the travel. I just think the Stanford is
going to hit super, super duper rock bottom this year.
So yeah, Week two, you all better take advantage and
(04:43):
not look past that football game. Not that I think
Stanford is going to be any good this year outside
of that everything else. I mean, we expected a close
game in Ireland. All the games in Ireland, no matter
who's been playing, seemed to be three point one possession
ball games in the in the fourth quarter, and UNLV
is as stinky as we thought it would be with
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the massive coaching and player turnover there as well. I
don't think there's anything else that I can take away
from the from that weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
In those few games, well, Stanford just become more and
more irrelevant over the next few years. Because of their
ACC affiliation, having to travel so much, it's just not
a sustainable model for them.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
No, I mean, you know, you want to pick a
team to finish dead last and the ACC going forward,
how is it not Stanford right now? I mean seriously, Look,
I mean even before nil, even before the ACC, Stanford,
if they were eleven zero or zero to eleven, if
you look at the stands in a home game, you
could hardly tell the difference what their record was. There's
never been a lot of support at Stanford. It's just
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not a priority. It is a research development science university,
and sports has always been second fiddle and it still is.
I don't see any commitment for revenue sharing, paying big
bucks to bring in the players. So I think not
only Stanford having to fly all over the country, I
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think they struggle with the tendance to begin with, it's
going to be worse. I think the quality of play
is going to drop. I have no problem saying Stanford
is going to be a bottom five program for the
foreseeable future. In the Power forward.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
What's crazy is you take a little bit of like
this opposite inverse example of Vanderbilt, who has been a
bottom dweller of college football P. Four P five them
in the SEC for decades, and they somewhat are on
the rise of becoming more relevant with their investments in
NIL and saying, hey, we're not only just an academic institution,
(06:47):
we're investing in athletics with this newfound NIL opportunity. To
Stanford's over here like not knowing what to do with themselves.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Well, i mean, look at look at Stanford. Just what
a decade ago We're talking a playoff team, offense and
defensive line that was NFL caliber on both sides of
the wall. They were bringing everybody in. Well, Vanderbilt has
not quite the same but pretty high level of academics.
To me, what Stanford used to be able to do,
Vanderbilt is now paying for it, right, and so Vanderbilt
(07:18):
is can take that Stanford model and search for the
high academic, high elite athlete combination all over the country.
They're willing to pay for it. Stanford isn't. Vanderbilt to
me is a great example of what Stanford should be,
or even better, because nobody else is on the West
Coast like Stanford, you know, maybe USC in terms of
a degree and what's offered or going there. So yeah,
(07:41):
I think, you know, you just you choose your path,
and I believe Stanford is choosing to not follow the Joneses.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Crazy times when you're looking at BYU's first six games
and in knowing a little bit more about these opponents,
I know, weeks zero, but also the metrics that that
that guide us in the preseason. What do you think
they always record is in the first six games? And why.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Well, how many times I've been on the show saying
I think the Big twelve of the coaching league and
how good I think Kilani and his staff is A
few times?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Right, yep, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think from a talent standpoint, it's it's this level.
It's probably the most level playing field in the entire
in all of college for any conference powerful you know,
Power four or G six. But you know, first game,
you got talent, you got coaching. You're at home. You
win that same thing. In game three, Game four, you
got a better coaching staff. You got better talent, or
game three got better talent, better coaching staff. You're on
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the road of East Carolina, you're three and zero by
U Colorado, Week four, I think you got a better
coaching staff I think you've got more player continuity than Colorado.
Colorado lost a lot, but I do like Dion and
the staff. I think this is an interesting game because
I get the feeling the Big twelve. Nobody can be
dominant in the Big twelve year over year. I think
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it's just going to be a constant cycle of the
top three teams with very little continuity. And I think
this game is really important because last year you had
BYU Colorado Arizona State where you're really your top three
right there.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
At the end.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I think this is kind of a really good litmus
test for who can sustain what happened last year. You're
at home against West Virginia, that's a win, and then
you go on the road against Arizona with one. Arizona
has one of the worst talent coaching profiles in all
of college football, so I expect them to win that
football game there. So we're talking five and one, five
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and a half in point five. You know, even if
we give Colorado game four, I still believe you're going
to be favored in five out of six and have
a better talent profile and a better coaching profile on
the field in just about every single one of those
football games.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Is it fair to say that the West Virginia game
is a more dangerous game than the Colorado the U game,
the Stanford ECU games.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, I would say that because it is a beautiful
boy senior moment right there, trap game, right because b
YU is going to be super up to Colorado.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Who doesn't want to beat Prime, who doesn't want to
go beat the Buffalo's. Everybody wants to beat the Buffalo's
in Boulder. And then you come back and you've got
West Virginia who was poor last year, and you have
them at home. That is really easy to overlook. That
is a letdown spot.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think rich Rod's familiar with them Koogs too, having
been at U of A for for a brief time.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, but he had
been there in a little while.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But you know, so the West Virginia had a really
bad defense last year. They bring in Zach Alley, who's
kind of a rising star in the system. You've got
a good offense uh in rich Rodd, and you actually
finally have a good play caller. West Britain is talent's
pretty good too. Now, if this game was in West Virginia,
I would one undred percent say massive trap game. You
might lose that thing if you don't focus on it.
(11:09):
But I still say win or lose at Colorado. I
think there's gonna be an element of a letdown. So
in your shows on Week five leading up to that,
please make sure it emphasize gotta focus on West Virginia
because I think that is a bigger trap than at
Arizona the week before Utah and the Holy War.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
As you're looking towards these Week one games in college football,
where is your your eyes being castrated at a lot of
marquee games? Obviously it is the the official kickoff to
the college football season, many believe. But which games are
the most important to you? And why?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Man?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You know, for me, if I had to go number one,
I had to watch one game to watch the outcome,
to watch the talent, to watch the coaching, to see
what direction it went. I'm going Clemson LSU because you're
talking about two Top thirteen recruiters an elite Top seven
recruiter in LSU. But I believe LSU's coaching staff is
(12:08):
one of the weakest in the SEC. I don't think
they have a good offensive coordinator. I don't think they
have a good defensive coordinator, but talent wise, there better
than Clemson. Clemson is a rare Top fifteen team that
not only has an elite offensive coordinator but a returning quarterback.
So if Clemson survives this, we all know the ATC
schedule and Clemson's ability, they should be able to run
(12:30):
through that thing pretty good. Talent wise, is the toughest
game they're gonna face. So I'm curious on the offensive
side to see if Clemson can be dominant, and I'm
curious to see if LSU has the coaching to stick
with Clemson. We might see the loser of this game
the same as Ohio State Texas. I think there's more
at risk for the loser of that game than I
(12:51):
think people realize.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Dave bar two CFB Matrix here on ESPN the Fan
getting a breakdown of Week zero games as well as
Week one games. To uh to to be watching. Now
we can just sit on our couches all day from
sun up to sundown and beyond into midnight and watch
college football. It's just the greatest time of the year.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
One it is. It is awesome. It is awesome. I
literally can't. But even when I'm not in front of
the TV because I'm outside a lot. Man, if I
had to pay a dollar every time I hit refresh
on ESPN's yes scoreboard, I'd be out of money in
like seven hours.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yes, indeed, your your your college football playoff bracket right now.
I know it's it's way too early to do it,
but we have to do it. Where do you stand
right now in your college football playoff bracket?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I don't know about bracket. I can give you my
national championship contenders though.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The time, give that to me.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Okay, I threw out Ohio State. They're not a national
championship contender to men throughout LSU.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
They're not a national.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Contender because of the coaching staffs. Texas is there, what
they did last year, the the everything they have returning
in that staff. Alabama, and actually in our group here,
consensus is Alabama wins it all. Georgia's there, Oregon Notre Dame,
(14:23):
and there was one other it wasn't Penn State. Penn
State was not on the list. If Penn State wins it,
it'll probably be the biggest championship anomenally this century. And
I can't think of the other one off the top
of my head. But that's that's the cool of teams
that have performed equally player personnel, scoring, efficiency, coaching staff,
(14:49):
similar to the last twenty five national champions. That's my group.
Everybody else outside of that is somebody. If they win it,
it will be a real shot to the system.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
In my opinion, we've been discussing true freshman quarterbacks in
college football leading their teams to bowl games, leading their
teams to conference championships, leading their teams to top twenty
five finishes. There's not many true freshman quarterbacks that can
do it. Bear Bachmeyer's making history is the first ever
true freshman to start game one for the BYU Cougars BYA.
(15:22):
Fans are optimistic that he can get BYU to an
equivalent status a double digit win season just like last year.
Where do you where do you kind of look at
true freshman data points when you're valuing true freshmen leading
P four institutions? I mean, how often are we seeing
them get to nine, ten, eleven, twelve win.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Seasons with the talent level goal have versus the schedule
you're facing rare? That would be incredible, absolutely incredible. If
he's that good and the staff is that good. To
have the same performance and continuity year over year, that
would flat out be amazing to me.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
But who knows.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I mean, it's why we play the games. But I
think that's one of the reasons too, though. I don't
think Texas is going to win this thing. You got
to unproven quarterback, You've got a head coach that always
loses a big game, so you know, I don't think
Texas is really that big of a contender with a
freshman quarterback as well. So I love the enthusiasm, you
(16:24):
know that. I think you're one of the best fan
faces in the entire country. But hoping for ten and
expecting ten, I think there's a pretty big gap in
terms of emotional liability.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
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Speaker 4 (16:57):
Actually, the biggest thing right now is we're trying to
become recruiting scouting certified with the nc double A. We
have We've spent the last three years in the NFL
and college football on advanced player analytics talent identification between
twelve and fifteen year old. That's that's been the number
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one request of the general managers in college football for
the last couple of years. Now it's early player identifications.
We have the system. We've been able to do it.
I can test any boy, any girl, basically any age.
We work with MIT, we work at John Hopkins, Michigan State,
Purdue Kinesiology, and we got the formula down. Now we
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just have to get NCAA approval and we'll be able
to roll it out nationwide to help not only kids
get found in remote areas, but staff like by you
find those kids without leaving the buildings.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Crazy man. Now, it's that early, that early evaluation period,
having as much of like what the specific coaching is
looking for from highway skill set, uh, tangibles, et cetera.
And then you know, validating it through film work is
an imperative. Uh. You know, Dave, always a pleasure talking
(18:12):
college football with you. Any other like games that you're
intrigued by. I know you mentioned the one that you
had to watch, but uh, any other games that are
going to be featured? Do you think that maybe a
secondary and tertiary game that you're most intrigued by.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well, I'm always interested steel, like in the Big Twelve. Again,
the Big Twelve's fascinating because I think it's really hard
to pick a winner. I mean, how many people had
BYU Arizona State, Colorado at the top last year at
this time? Nobody, right, I mean nobody? And so to
me is, how does it's not be how BYU looked
in in game one? We know what we know what
(18:48):
by you can do. To me, it's kind of like
the uh, the other teams that are supposed to be there, Utah,
Texas Tech. Right, these are we saw what Kansas State
was supposed to be and they didn't really live up
to it. And so you finish how do you start
a lot in college football? So two teams that I'm
(19:10):
looking at, I don't know who UTA or Texas Tech
bases It may not be Week one, but in September.
I'm looking at teams that everybody expects to do well,
that didn't do well last year and what direction they're going.
You can tell a lot by a team by the
end of September.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
One last thing, Kansas and I know Fresno State is
not like this, like phenomenal team, but they've had their
their heyday in the modern era that it was a
good coach and others have done a good job if Tedford,
et cetera. Kansas destroyed for US now thirty one to seven.
I mean it wasn't even close from the get go.
They were up big at halftime and then finish it off.
(19:50):
They tapered off a little bit towards the end. But
Jalen Daniels ninety percent completion percentage, three touchdowns. Are we
going to talk a lot about quarterbacks in the twelve
this year?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I feel like there's a lot of talent in the
quarterback room this year.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
There's a lot of talent in the quarterback room. There's
a lot of talent it head coaches. I mean, think
about it, man. I mean, you got kilani, you got
winning Ham, you got Prime, you got Lance Leipol. Lance
Leipool has the best road coach effect in the Big
Twelve over the last three years. You got climbing right.
You know, people expect a lot out of Texas Tech,
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but Joey hasn't proven it yet, so I think that
one might be the biggest one in terms of pressure.
But yeah, there is a lot of good quarterback play
which drives football. There is a lot of good coaching.
To me, the Big Twelve is the most exciting because
we don't know which way it's gonna go. All the
other conferences, we know the best recruiters are gonna win.
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We know that in the Big Twelve year after year.
Really good coaching, hard to predict. That's my favorite kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Love the breakdown. Best way to support you. What you do,
how you do it, Dave bar two.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Just follow me on Twitter, gheit me on Twitter. Anybody
can dm me you got a question, comment, whatever. At
CFC Matrix, always open to talk college football with anybody listening.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Great stuff is always stay bar two. Ladies and gentlemen, Thanks.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
So much, Dave, Thanks buddy, appreciate you.
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Bear Bachmeyer, the six foot two to two hundred and
twenty two hundred and twenty five pound quarterback out of
uh out of California. Okay, the transfer from Stanford. I
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mentioned a number of things that make me optimistic about
bear Bachmeier's potential as a starting quarterback. I think he's
got a good chance, not a great one, not an
elite one to lead this BA football team. I say
good chance because of his supporting casting, because he's a
true freshman. Right, I went into detail. Follow me on
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X on why I believe bear Bachmeer is a good
chance of being successful in twenty twenty five four star recruit,
nationally recognized with offers from elite programs including Alabama, Georgia, Michigan,
Notre Dame, Oregon, Texas A and M, Stanford, U, EYU,
and many others. He's got that dual threat ability. He's big,
he's Strongi's fast. Comes from a football family that high
football IQ goes a long way. He gained early college
(24:13):
experience at Stanford before well before Rymy of BAYU and springball,
giving him a little bit of familiarity with the personnel
and based schemes of Stanford. At BOT twelve for Week two,
he has been described as brilliant per Aaron Roderick, his
offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach, and his high school coach joined
US George Wilson. He said he's got a photographic memory,
(24:34):
and I think that's actually his quarterback coach may have
said that the first six games are winnable. BA will
be favored most like an East matchup. Three of the
first six games are home at Leavell Edwards Stadium Week
three by allows for early adjustment, correction and recovery. It
avoids immediate matchups against the toughest Big twelve defenses. He's
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got a great supporting cast l J. MARTINCIONI Moa, Chase Roberts,
Parker Kingston, Jojo Phillips, Cody Hagen, tight end Carson Ryan
Tenured offensive lined with multiple returning starters. Projected top twenty
five defense should keep games manageable for young QB. Projected
Top twenty five Special teams unit provides field position, advantage
of scoring opportunities for your quarterback. Don't always have to
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rely on him. That's an important thing. I made that
commentary last week. I'm like, I don't need bear Bachmeer
just to go out and win games for US. I
just need you to manage it. Control the football. Let
your power players, those that are most tenured, make plays
for you. Kialane's culture and consistency, though, allows for a
more stable and much more stability and less volatility within
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the team in regards to their roles identity when you
do go through some adversity offense. Cornarion Ryck has a
solid recent track record of developing young quarterbacks Jared Hall,
Zach Wilson. Continuity of offensive staff and scheme that is important.
You can hear John Beck week in a week out
discuss how he had like three different offense coordinators and
SAMs and it was just hard. It was hard. He
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had youth combined with new offensive coordinators and there's just volatility, Okay,
volatility and chaos. He's got a QB friendly system with
play action, rhythm, pros and design mobility. And I'd say
from a program standpoint, Levell Edward Stadium provides a significant
home field advantage even when you do welcome in some
of these power For Big twelve teams, you got a
(26:21):
new strike the conditioning staff and a program that has
helped keep the team healthier later in the season. The
last two years, a lah, the depth, the depth conversation.
We got more depth than we than we've ever had.
You got veteran leadership and culture on the roster that
creates a supportive environment for a freshman quarterback. So he
was asked the question, bar Bachmeyer, who is he introduce
(26:43):
yourself to Cougarnation. This is what bear Bachmeyer had to
say in a Cougar.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Byte as it work.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah, I like the like the thing. I'm I'm pretty
outgoing guy, and I like playing the guitar. So I
just I like having fun, and you know, I like
the thing. I'm a good football player. You Yeah, I
like playing the guitar and just just having fun, fun
with the guys. So I think, Yeah, I didn't think
that's it.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That's that.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
What's your go to tune on the guitar?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Wagon Wheel?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
I like playing that one.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
He's got this he's not even a he's not even
a cowboy, but he's got this a shucks, you know,
very calm, unsuspecting demeanor. Do you know the last quarterback
to have, the last starting quarterback to have this aw
shucks like humble kind demeanor. That was probably listening to
(27:37):
country songs and playing the guitar. I think it was
ty freaking Detmer baby, the a shucks attitude, like oh,
you know, like he doesn't have a draw, but like
he's got this a shucks demeanor to him. The last
guy to be this guy became a fan favorite for
generations to come. A Heisman Trophy. I'm not saying he's
a Heisman Trophy Warner, but I'm saying, you know, the
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shucks likability is something of note about his personality. You
I've had I had Max Hall on the show a
couple of weeks ago, and we started to go into
the details about personalities that have led BYU in the past.
Jim McMahon, right, I mean unique, Gifford Nielsen, he's a
seventy right now, what type of personality you think he had?
(28:21):
He's kind loving, you know, probably very supportive, uplifting. Jim
was probably cursing you out, telling Level to get off
the field because he's going forward on fourth down versus
SMU and the Miracle Bowl. Get off the field.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You know, I'm going for it on fourth down.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Max was unique. John was unique. Okay, Like all of
these guys have different personalities. It's not just one cookie
cutter type of personality that can lead you to glin victory.
I thought it was interesting with Bear Bockmeer introducing himself.
Let's welcome into the show, representative of RG six Siers.
RGS six Siers, you toa dot god. We got Tim
Brown on the line. Timmy, how you living? Hey?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
We's good baby. It's football week one. This week couldn't
be better?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, indeed, what do you make of the oshucks demeanor, personality,
the unsuspecting personality of bear Bachmei's like I like playing guitar,
I like playing Settlers of Katan. I just like hanging
out with the guys, you know, wagon wheels, my jam.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I mean, come on now, who's this guy?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And ad? What do you make of it? Well?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
I think it could be one of two things, right.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
One is the oh boy, we don't have a leader here,
which I don't think is the case.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I mean the other option, which I think is what
it is. This is a chill leader. He's gonna lead
by example.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
He doesn't talk Matt, he just gets his crop done
and co beats on the field.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
And personally, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I feel like his personality is a kind of a cool,
low key unique one you remember, like the last as
shucks quarterback had to have been tied Depmer. I'm trying
to think of all the different like Kevin Frederick was
in an aw shucks guy, Matt Barry was in an
oshucks guy. Say Steve Sharkisan not an all shucks guy.
(30:03):
John Wallash not an all shucks guy. I mean Tie
den Er Baby, I feel I feel a little bit
of oshucks and this Bear Blackmeier personality.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
You know, as I sitting back, kind of maybe the
best analogy I can think it was maybe Doman Maybe.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I don't know, yah, Doman had a little Doman.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
But I don't think Doman was even quite like that either.
And when Dolman went, I mean it was a similar
situation if you remember the domin Ingham and Peterson era,
and like those three were all battling it out and
all three of them started at one point in time
that year.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So I don't know.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Maybe that's a somewhat of an analogy, but I don't know.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I love it either way.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, Well, where do you stand right now? B YU football?
If you go game by game, what's your win loss
prediction for the regular season? How you feel about them? Kops.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Well, I've been saying all year that that seven eight
win mark, and I still think. I think eight wins
is kind of the target.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
I think we get to nine, we're going to be
in the competition for winning the conference, which you know
gets us.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Potentially in the playoffs. So I think that's our goal.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
But I think at the seven, worst case eight kind
of right where we need to.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
But I'm gonna be also starting the week off we
zero last week. I was wrong.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I thought Kansas State was going to just take it,
and they didn't look great yesterday.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
So I don't know, I don't know if I know
anything about this conference.
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Speaker 6 (33:43):
Well, not like we'd hope we got We got the
we got the l but all Minaiost did. It was
a really good trip. The kids really battled. We we
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Speaker 4 (34:16):
No, that week.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
You know they got like a whole state this week,
which I'll state looked really good against UNOV.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
So we got this week.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Love it and oh my guy, ap says, Look, Taysom
Hill had a little bit of an ashucks attitude. Yes
he did. Initially he was aw shucks till the the
the media asked him stupid questions and he'd always been like, look,
you know, look that's a home. Yeah, that was his
go to he said, look, and he then he'd give
a salty remark, so I agree with ap he was
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he was as shucks initially. It was hard to stay
as shucks when you're getting pinged with so many questions.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
That's the home run. I mean, look at that Texas game.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Right before that game take out, when they came into
to the stadium, we had a lightning delay weight on
and then he just blew up. I think that was
kind of the uh, yeah, we'll just see how we.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Do and then he just blew up. So I say,
really good analogy.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
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uh and just try to, you know, see if you
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Speaker 9 (35:16):
Thanks al, and have an amazing day there go.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
That was a little cougar bike brought to you by
our JSIX series and construction Bear Bochmeyer Bear Bachmeyer. When
I was pontificating Brent Hamber about all the reasons why
I think Bear has a good chance to be successful
this season, which one stood out to you?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Which ones stand out to you the most? That you
can get.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Behind and be like I believe I'm all in be
what you can win a lot of football games. This
year we get with Bear Blockmeyer at the Helm.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
I love his balance of being super hyper intelligent, because
sometimes when people are that smart, like they're not I
don't know, sometimes you can be just so hyper focused
that you're a little high strung. It seems to be
in this weird balance, and weird in the best way,
but this weird balance of He's a really smart, very
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focused kid, like smarter than your average football player by
a wide margin.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
But then you speak to him and he's like, I'm.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Just a kid who likes to play the guitar and
I'm not high strung.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
I feel like though, that balance allows you to go
into a game understand the game plan, but when something
doesn't go your way, this guy isn't following, Oh my gosh,
it's def Con one.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
What am I gonna do?
Speaker 5 (36:31):
It's okay, you know what. We rant it all in.
Speaker 10 (36:34):
We live on our foundation and we know what we
can do, and then we go forward that way.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
He has such a great balance personality wise.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
This is a man that is uh has a found
fantastic foundation, foundational culture within the walls of his home.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
He's a you can tell like he's just he's he's
a stoic as.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
A nineteen year old. How many of us would like
to be stoics at nineteen? Yeah? All of us. Yeah. Look,
we got on an emotional tyrates.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Shoot, I'm forty two and I get on emotional ty rates.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
You kidding me? You know what I mean? So the
Stowe's sism in that foundational culture from which he came
in the Bachmeier home is unique.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Just going about his work, doing.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
His thing, and uh, you know, he's got a unique
personality that I think Cougar Nation can get beyond, especially
just winning football games.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
We'll go to break, guys, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
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football is not looking ahead.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
They're looking towards the Portland State vikings.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
But Benkrittle and ESPN, the fan and US are the
Cougar sports insiders here. Are we looking at Stanford? Are
we looking forward to Stanford? Are we looking past Portland State?
Speaker 5 (39:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (39:05):
I think given how they played against Hawaii, I might
be looking at ECU right now.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I'm just like going to ECU. Well, I wanted to go.
I wanted to go. Sorry, say that again.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I'm looking at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Ben looking at Colorado, I mean not prime. So yeah,
and I don't hate that here, but I don't want
to put the car before the horse. I do think,
you know, there is talent there if you look at
the year over year P four recruiting rankings and even
just college football rankings for Stanford, like they have recruited
good enough talent to beat anybody. I just think that
(39:38):
they have a new coaching staff, new culture. I mean,
they have an interim coach. They have you know, Andrew
luck Is like the GM. He made the decision to
fire Troy Taylor right before the kickoff of I guess
spring ball is you know, it just led to transfers
and other things. So I'm gonna give you seven reasons, Okay,
(39:58):
why I think Stanford for ball is gradually becoming irrelevant
in college football. Number one admissions and nil disadvantage. They
have not aggressively pursued the path of acquisition of talent,
right so they're gonna have to do it the traditional way.
They're gonna have to recruit you, develop you. They're not
(40:19):
gonna be as maybe competitive as even Vanderbilt is right now,
because Vanderbilt as a mirror image and even BYU. BYU
is an academic institution that prides itself on academics, but
they also want to be great at sport. And I
don't think the culture up with the sanfrad Cardinal, the
institutional culture, the alumni culture. No one cares about investing,
(40:44):
Very few care about investing in sport. You have very,
very minute, small amount of people that are even showing
up to the games. And when they show up, they're
there to watch the halftime show that typically just degradates
degrades the opposing team. You've seen it time and time
again with BYU. Whenever they show up. There's like this
(41:05):
religious bigotry anyway. Admissions and as this advantage, Stanford strict
academic admission standards significantly shrink their recruiting pool with name
image of lifeness exploding. Stanford lags behind in my opinion
because they traditionally avoid the pay for play setup and
don't lean into the collective driven recruiting tactics like the
SEC Big twelve and Big ten powers. So they're gonna
(41:28):
be on the outside kind of looking in, I think
in that regard, and maybe that's not a surprise to anybody,
but I think we've seen even within the PAC twelve,
you knows, as others have focused Oregon in Washington, right,
even like ASU and U of A, USC and UCLA
obviously are are are are holistically minded and they care
(41:51):
about sport. But Stanford is an academic institution and they raised.
They get most of their funds through subsidies governments for
data and research. It's like somewhere upwards of over one
hundred million, which is just it's just as much as
a potent athletic department would create. So conference re alignment fallout,
(42:16):
that's number two. Stanford went from being in a power
conference PAC twelve with regional foes, now they're the ACC's
West coast outpost. That is horrible, horrible travel burden hurting
players any fans that remain. They're becoming irrelevant, not prioritize.
(42:36):
They've lost historic regional rivalries that gave their program cultural weight.
The recruiting pipeline erosion. California's recruiting pipeline is not as
good as it once was. I'm telling you right now,
it's not as good. There's a reason why USC has
not been competitive in college football post Matt Lion at
(42:57):
Reggie Bush. They have not been able to recruit as
well as you think because I think whenever someone offered.
Whenever someone gets a USC offer, it actually elevates their status,
not because they've earned it. It elevates their status because
they got the USC offer. And there was an article
a few years back talking about the inflationary state like
(43:19):
coaches calling two for seven, and Ryle was saying, hey,
you got to elevate his recruiting ranking.
Speaker 10 (43:24):
Oh doorry We still see that with other schools today.
You still see it, and you see it on the back.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
And two when the EUYU gets around, right, So elite
prospects from California are also funneling into Oregon, Texas SEC
schools right because there's bigger nil backings. There's only so.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Many spots too for USC and Ucla, but.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
They have not. They're like, look what happened to UCLA
and USC and the Big Ten this last year? Right?
Not good? Not competitive. There's an identity crisis. Staffords Heyday
from two thousand nine to twenty seventeen under Harbaugh and
Shaw was smash mouth pro style identity. Modern college football
has shifted to temple spread in portal driven, roster building areas,
(44:04):
where Stanford has been stubborn or slow to adapt, so
they don't really have an identity anymore. And Troy Taylor
was trying to bring a spread offense. Remember what he did.
To go back to what Troy Taylor did at East
is it Eastern Oregon? I want to say, no, No,
Eastern Washington. He was at East Washington and they put
up a ridiculous amount of points. I think Troy Taylor
(44:26):
was was he Cooper Cup's head coach, If I'm not mistaken,
they were slinging it. Troy Taylor ended up at Utah
and under Kyle Whittingham just was neutered, and then he
ended up I think sax State and then at Stanford. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. I mean, he was, I mean,
most offensive coordinators that go up on the hill, get newtered.
They just do. I mean, am I wrong? They change right?
(44:53):
Number five transfer portal reality. Stanford has unique academic restrictions
that make it nearly impossible to accept undergrad transfers. You
can't even bring in undergrad traffic. You can only bring
in grad transfers. That's it.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
So this cripples their ability to reload.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Okay, fan and donor engagement gap, we already know about that.
That's number six. They don't have any rabbit fans they have.
Their market share on TV is so bad. Rue. No
one's watching Stanford unless they're playing a formidable foe. Okay,
college football At number seven, college football is consolidating around
super brands, and in Stanford, although they have a brand,
(45:35):
it's it's like I said, it's it's becoming weaker and weaker.
Media rights nil continue to dominate. Right scholar athletes. Student
athlete is no longer as much of a priority to
some schools. They could do it if they had a
robust donor base that really rallied around the student athletes.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Because their alumni base is powerful.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Its education is supreme, Like you're gonna get jobs after
you're done playing football. You're gonna get a great education.
Look at Nucy Talmoy Pail. He went to Stanford, fired,
fired coach, and that he's now at BYU and he's
loving it, loving it. Gets the best of all the worlds. Okay.
In short, academics and il disadvantage, conference isolation, outdated identity week,
(46:20):
fan investments slow fade into irrelevance. That's Stanford football in
the years to come.
Speaker 10 (46:27):
I have one that is kind of summed up with
a bunch of the ones that you said.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
I was in the room.
Speaker 10 (46:32):
I was in the postgame presser when David Shaw stepped
down as the head coach.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Of Stanford in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 10 (46:40):
It was Greg Rebell's intern and I was there recording
that press conference, take it for postgame, and I thought
it was so odd because there wasn't a lot of
talk of him retiring and he was a darling at Stanford.
They loved him there, and at first we thought, Okay,
maybe he's leaving State because he wants to spend more
(47:01):
time with his kids. That was the rumor initially, and
then not even two years later, he's taken a job
with the Denver Broncos and he's now working for the
Detroit Lions. And then you have what you mentioned, You
have Andrew Luck firing the head coach back in March.
In addition to everything you said, there also just seemed
(47:24):
to be some behind the scenes culture issues, and those
behind the scenes issues leak out to everyone else, and
you lose a coach like David Shaw, and you cause
Andrew Luck to have to be in an uncomfortable position
where you bring him in and he's supposed to be
ushering in this new era of Stanford football.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
Then he has to fire the coach because of some incidents.
Speaker 10 (47:46):
And I think, in addition to everything you just said,
there's just a bad culture behind the scenes at Stanford
that makes it so players don't want to be there
and that you can't compete so that players even would
want to be there. There's just there's just such a
culture issue with Stanford.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah, it's it's unfortunate. Uh, you know turnover, no doubt
that they're they're essentially in rebuild mode. That's where they're
at right now with a new coach, an NFL coach.
They're trying to do it differently, and Andrew Lux trying
to bring in like NFL pedigree. This seems like if
you go back and look at what like Josh coach Walsh,
(48:26):
Bill Walsh did. Remember he was an NFL legend for
the San Francisco forty nine ers. Okay, essentially he's going
into retirement and Stanford brings him in his alma mater,
his team, his squad, NFL pedigree, and they have a
good first year, but it wasn't sustainable. It's hard. You know,
(48:46):
I don't even know how Harball did it.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
I don't know how Sean did it for as long
as he did it.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Uh, They're they're in decay right now, and I hope
Yu finds a way to dominate him because they you know,
Stanford lost to Hawaii. It was kind of an embarrassing loss,
first loss ever in Honolulu in five games. They were
four and er up to that point, and I don't
even I don't even know how competitive.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Those games were prior to this year.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
So the Stanford cardinal this week, I think they have
their home opener versus Boston College, if I'm not mistaken,
is that where they're going? Wait, No, that's their home opener.
Who are they playing this week? So yeah, I think
(49:34):
their home opener is is is Boston College, but this week.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
So they have a buy right now correct, so they have.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
A buye that kind of boots well form. I forgot
that they had that buy right before b y U.
Speaker 10 (49:50):
I shouldn't everyone, because there's some teams who play week
zero who don't get a vibe.
Speaker 5 (49:54):
But to me, if you play a week before everyone else,
you should get.
Speaker 10 (49:56):
Week one off because I believe Iowa State in Kansasitate
are both playing.
Speaker 5 (50:00):
This week, which is against what we're talking about.
Speaker 10 (50:04):
But it's weird to me that if you play week zero,
you play before everyone else and then you have to
play week one with everyone else.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
That's the one like golden ticket that they have coming
into Provo is that they got a bye week before
BYU and they get some film on BYU versus Portland stake.
Keep it Blase a Rod, Keep it blase blase uh,
don't do anything crazy. Save it for the Stanford Cardinal.
I don't know if you'll need it, but save it
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