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August 8, 2025 • 13 mins
Ben Criddle talks BYU sports every weekday from 2 to 6 pm.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stats. Let's talk about stats.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Ben Credal and his team of former players in eight
signers give you the latest stats, data and analytics that
are trending in the world of Cougar Sports.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Stats. Welcome back Cougar Sports. One of three nine ninety
point three ESPN the Fan. I've been critinal broadcasting from
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(00:34):
for your money. Let's build wealth together at Banterwealth, Banterwealth
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by my side. We're going to talk about stats in
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We've discussed a number of stats today. We'll Delvin do
some football maybe some basketball stats in the segment. I
thought this was a really interesting football stat of the day.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Check this out.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Many of those outside of the football program think they
BYU has a bunch of twenty six, twenty seven, twenty
eight year olds. This is false. Okay, this is not true. Okay.
The average age of a BYU football player is twenty
one and a half years of age. It's not bad,
that's not like, it's not overly old, okay. And I

(01:17):
don't think that's significantly above the college football average. And
by the way, we are seeing some older guys come
into the football, you know, college football realm of things
due to a number of issues, number of things, you know,
and it's not just missionary service for the church's Christ
letter Saints. But average age of BYU football players is

(01:40):
twenty one and a half. Love that, okay, twenty one
and a half. Let's welcome in our tax bart wealth advisor.
Let's hop on the Blaine trade, baby banderwealth. Let's build
wealth together. Blaine Anderson is in the studio, Blaine. How
the heck are you, buddy?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
It's Friday, it's Friday afternoon. Looking forward to the weekend.
Than happy to be here.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Twenty one and a half? Was that an that surprised
you all? Did you think it'd be older?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
I did, I did. I thought it'd be a little
bit higher.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, we twenty one and a half seems to be
can't be much different than many college programs throughout the country.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I mean, I mean how many, I mean how many
freshmen are on any roster. Now, like you look at
the COVID year, you look at the transfer portal Revschaer
nil uh, the Diego PAVIA exemption players are wanting to
stick around college football a lot longer too. And like
I imagine you're gonna see this number on average go up

(02:35):
around the country. You're gonna get older, get older and older.
There's gonna be there's there's a story. Uh, we may
have to play this Ron Weaver. Do you remember this story?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
No, I don't. You're gonna have to tell me.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm trying to remember. Did you not see that the
instagram the guy that they yes, yes, must Bingham sent that.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. Pull it up, all right,
I'll pull it up.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
You're gonna see some of this action. People like this
is crazy, actually changing their names to get eligibility. Well, yes,
there was a man by the name of Ron Weaver.
Not Ron's dad.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Okay, he was junior by the way, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
That, like changed his he had already played college football
changed his name to somebody else, took an identity, and
ended up playing. I believe that in formerly a Big eight,
you know, Big twelve now SEC school. I think it
was Texas, A and M. So we're gonna find that
that sound for you. But so, twenty one and a
half years is the average age for BYU football right now,

(03:40):
players by state. Check this out. Number one state right
that produces BYU talent is uh the state of Utah.
Sixty players on the roster from the state of Utah.
Which state do you think is number two? Blame at
producing or creating? I guess you know the composition of

(04:02):
our our b YU football roster. You know Arizona, Texas, California.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Definitely those that you said.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Cal's at fourteen, that's number two, Okay, Arizona's at nine,
Hawaii's at eight, Texas is at six and so and
then we have two Colorado ands three Georgia, one Louisiana,
one Michigan to Missouri, two Virginia, three Washington, one Wisconsin,
and then two Australia. We have two Australians on our team.

(04:35):
You bet you didn't know that international international? We are?
We are international, all right? I want to play this
sound bite for you guys.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Do you have it?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I'm ready, all right, let's get into it. You're gonna
you're gonna want to hear this cougnation.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
This is crazy, Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Big fan and at The player he had been calling
Ron mckelvy all season long was actually Ron Weaver. The
thirty year old in Pontard been playing for the Longhorns
all season under the assumed name. His hometown newspaper reported
the fake.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
A former Division two player in California, Weaver used an
acquaintance's social Security number and identity to extend his college
playing days.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
In nineteen ninety five, the Texas Longhorns had a defensive
back named Ron McKelvey, or at least that's what everyone thought.
His actual name was Ron Weaver, and he was thirty
years old and nearly a decade passes eligibility here. He
played college football Sacramento State in the mid eighties, and
he used up all of his elgibility by nineteen eighty nine,
but he wasn't ready to stop playing, so Weaver took
the identity of a former junior college teammate named Ron mckelvy.
Then he enrolled at Texas using fake documents and joined

(05:35):
the football team as a walk on. He played the
entire nineteen ninety five season going unnoticed. Then just one
day before the Sugar Bowl, a reporter uncovered the truth.
The university was shocked, the NCAA launched an investigation, and
Weaver disappeared before the ball game was even played. But
despite the fraud, he was never charged with the crime.
It's one of the wildest cases of identity theft in
college sports history, and somehow he almost got away with it.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's insane, bro, he didn't believe that. I just have
to close. Who's the creator that dropped that? Because that
was Dan Patrick. I think that was the initial sound
by that reported Untold Sports.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
It looks like that's the Untold Sports.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
So let's follow that today. Really, you know, ron Weaver,
his namesake, getting drunk through the mud for coming back, you.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
Know, guys, just let's just clarify. I got to put
my name out of the guys. Is not me no relationship,
I'm no relation. I'm twenty eight years old. I'm Ronald
the three rammever, which comes from Ronald Lee we we
the third. That's the full government Popsle's junior. Grandpa's senior.
So it ain't me anyway.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, I just had to clarify, all right.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
So that's our status of the day, brought to you
by Bantererwealth Bantererwealth dot com. Blaine, I want to get
into a few things with you. You know, these are
football stats. Let's get into some financial status here real quick.
So what does the communication between you and your clients
look like? What? How does this occur?

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
You know what, what do you guys discuss? What are
these consultative appointments all about.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
One thing that we find within the industry is that
this is something that clients value. They want to have
an open line of communication with their professionals, with their advisors,
and things are happening regularly throughout the year. So a
few things that we emphasize is Number one, anytime you
call our office, you're going to get a live person
and it's going to be a familiar voice, somebody that
you likely know.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
And then if we can't.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Resolve your question or take care of things immediately, you'll
get a response back within twenty four hours, an update
of some sort.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
This is something that we emphasize.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
And then, most importantly, when it comes to our strategic
financial planning sessions or the portfolio updates. Each of our
clients knows which quarter we will meet with them, whether
it's Q three, Q four, So if we have some
things that are building up, but it's nice to know
when your next appointment's going to be so that we
can do some planning, some preparation, and so communication is key.

(07:50):
We emphasize that we want to have an open line
of communication where email friendly, text friendly. But these are
a few things that are important. And then when you
come into the office, we go through the five pillars
of financial planning, estate planning, tax planning, insurance risk mitigation planning,
income planning, and then lastly investment planning. And we want

(08:11):
to knock out things each time we meet to help
put together a comprehensive financial plan. So we're very intentional
and communication is at the top of our priority list.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I love that. I think that's an imperative because when
you get into these traditional firms, and look, they're big firms,
they do great work, but you don't always necessarily get
kind of that personable twenty four to seven almost access
and at least communication. It may be delayed, it may
not be as consultative, it may not be as interpersonal.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Absolutely, and that's been my experience.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
And so even when it comes to the banks, for example,
I like working with the regional banks or the credit unions,
whether it be Zions Bank or Mount in America. And
I want the same thing for my investment firm, where
it's people that know me, that I know and these
are what add to a long lasting relationship.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
And that's what this is.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
This is a journey, and so it's important that we
be familiar with our clients, they be familiar with us.
We take notes after each of our appointments, we update
the files, and I know those things may sound like
small things, but they add up and they make a
big difference.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
You've been a CFP for over sixteen years. I became
familiar with you probably I want to say, five years ago,
as you've you've given back to BYU, the student athletes, etc.
So I've seen you, know, you even grow in the
last five years and how you operate. What have you
learned about you know, band orwealth and you know this
consultative approach that you take with financial planning and investment planning.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah, Well, with these years of experience, has come a
lot of perspective, and I've worked with clients in a
variety of different scenarios. I understand there are multiple family dynamics,
there are different fears, there are different concerns and worries,
and so it's very rare to come into a situation
that I haven't seen before. And that's part of what

(10:04):
we bring to the table as professionals, is that we've
worked with other clients that are maybe a little further
down the path or are the journey that you're on,
and so we can bring to you additional perspective or
experience that we've seen in other client situations. And that's
important not to mention, of course, just years of learning, studying,

(10:25):
trying to familiarize myself with the industry, with the different
options that are available. And then our expectation is to
help clients avoid some of the pitfalls, the land mines,
we know, the blind spots, and that just comes with
time and experience.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
As we all know well very much love what you've
done for our clients, our listeners, as they've reached out
to you and had great experiences and some of the
things I think they ask you correct me if I'm
wrong when we talk tax smart Wealth advisement. Looking these

(11:00):
are credit investors. They're looking for ways in which they
can save on their taxes at the end of the year.
Explain to me what are some of these tax advantage
investments that you can employ for our listeners.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, investments are certainly part of it, and then also
even the investment vehicles. So how we invest and these
are things that certainly might involve an IRA, but even
things like a cash balance plan, those are things that
we do for high income self employed business owners. So
first it's looking at the types of vehicles, trying to

(11:33):
create diversification from a tax standpoint. And then when it
comes to the investments, of course, things like real estate,
oil and gas investments. They help bring together the investment
planning with the tax planning. And so I work as
a certified financial planner. I want to work alongside the
client's certified public accountant. We have an open line of communication.

(11:55):
We bring tax advantaged vehicles to the table. And then
also when it comes to just experience, I'm I'm an
entrepreneur myself. I've worked with the number of high income earners,
high networth earners, and so these are some of the
things that come together and help us apply and implement
tax smart wealth strategies.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
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(12:35):
batterwealth dot com. One last you know stat before we
let you go, Football stat of the day brought to
you by Batterwealth batterwealth dot com. I mentioned, you know,
the the average age right now of the bau Cougar
football team twenty one and a half years. The number

(12:55):
sixty sixty players from the state of Utah. That's where
the mature alor of your talent is coming from. Now
the fun stat of the day. How about this though,
recruiting stat of the day. ESPN just dropped this article today.
Their twenty twenty six class is ranked per ESPN Recruiting
Insiders nineteenth in the country. Wow, so things are on

(13:19):
the rise down there at Brigham For this twenty twenty
sixth class. Can't wait to see what the future is
like for BYU football, But get your financial future set
with Banterwealth Batterwell dot Com. We'll go to break. Always
appreciate our time, Blane.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Always a pleasure, same here.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Thank you very much, Batterwealth, Batterwell dot Com. Don't go anywhere.
This is Gugar Sports. One of three nine ninet eight
point three e
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