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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to celebrate the freeest team sport known to man,
where modern day gladiators collide for all the glory on
the grid. Ie, Let's talk some college football on Cougar
Sports with Ben Kripple.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back Cougar Sports one of three nine ninety eight
point three.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, been the Fano.
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
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(01:33):
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(02:03):
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Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now that are you buddy doing awesome? How are you
guys doing doing fantastic?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Appreciate you joining me to talk a little college football.
Did you see the comments from Nick Saban recently? We
just went on a.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Diet tribe about it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Nick Saban essentially is I think he's getting off his
rock or here's complaining.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
There's a lot of excuses.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
He's talking about how the Big ten now is a
recruiting advantage over.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
The SEC do the NIL?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And Sean Walker thinks he's essentially admitting on the back
end of this particular quote to having knowledge of payment
for play prior to NIL being a part of the
bylaws of the NCAA. What do you make of the
retired Nick Saban?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I actually didn't see the comment yet, so I have
to go look that up. But I do think just
that point in general, I personally, and it's probably because
I'm biased you've been, but I think NIL and the
transferport have been great, huge resources and good things for
byus specifically, and so I love it and I think
(03:11):
on a whole. Like, the thing I love about it
the most is it does it puts us all on
an equal playing field, because, in my opinion, especially with
BYU being a school that's going to keep the rules,
as soon as we get back to regulation where the
rules are more strict and we have to abide by
certain rules, we will start up fighting by those rules.
But the Bamas of the world are going to go
(03:33):
back to being the ones doing it under the table,
and so they have that advantage for so long, and
now they don't have that advantage because now it's above
the table and BYU can do it also. And that's
my take on it is that it's made the parody
in college football so much better, and I think that's
a great thing.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Has nil ruined college football for you, for your friends,
your family members?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Has it ruined it for you only the Utah State friends?
I have My step brother in law's diehard you thought
State Van, And I honestly kind of feel bad for
the g fives of the world that I'm really glad
that we got out of it. Like, and I say
that and it probably sounds like like a charity case,
but like it really is a situation where it's really
(04:14):
hard to keep talent at that level. But at the
same time, the high school recruits they are able to
get now is actually better than what it was before
because they're schools taking left high school commitments. So I
think we're gonna it kind of turns into it to facto.
It's not a farm system, but they're gonna get a
lot of young talent, and then that young talent ends
up transferring away, which isn't isn't great.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So well, it hasn't ruined it for me, and I
don't think it's ruined anything for BYU fans, at least
not to this point. Have you seen a little transition
within our fan base. Remember back in like twenty and
twenty when Nil and then eventually transfer Portal and this
free agent world, and you know, they kind of were
(04:56):
like a little bit, like very pessimistic about it. They
felt like it would ruin the sport, ruin their teams.
They were very much on the negative side of things.
And we are law abiding people. We are a bye
law of biding. But we took a lot of pride
in doing it the right way under NCAA by laws,
even though we saw them castigate and reprimand us for
(05:19):
the nick Emory situation and the only child situation, amongst others.
But have you seen a little bit of a turn
of the tide amongst our fan base as it relates
to our opinions of nil and transferportal.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yes, And I think it all has to do it's
whether we think it's going to be an advantage or disadvantage.
I think up on the Hill, I don't think they're
loving it because it's a disadvantage for them in the state,
in the market. But I think for us, all of
a sudden, the fans are like, wait, this is the
greatest thing ever because it's working for us. So I
think that was what it was. I think they believed
that we were not going to go out and spend
money because it's Uau and we're frugal and all those
(05:52):
different things. And so I think it has much more
to do with what situation you're in. If you're the
Bam of the world, it's getting the parody hurt you
hate it into the Bau of the world. That's all
of a sudden now getting talent you could never get before,
where you weren't getting before, especially in basketball of Aja
and things like that, like it's the greatest thing. So
I really just think it depends on who you cheer for.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Brandon Day, how do you feeling about this BAU Stanford
matchup right now? The spread twenty and a half BA.
You say, have the lea favored at home? Stanford lost
to Hawaii on the road. Okay, not a good look
week zero. They have had a bye week to prepare
for BYU obviously, and they do have talent the five
year average recruiting ranking, I mean, they're a top forty
(06:34):
five recruiting team recruiting ranking team, right, they have the personnel.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
They have lost some players due to transfer.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Portal e set, but they're more often than not they're
retaining their talent, you know, year in and year out.
Stanford is an interesting study, right, But then Hawaii they're
one opponent that they lost just lost to you of
a the Wildcats of the Big twelve by almost forty
points recently. Will you take all those data points together,
(07:02):
what do you make of this matchup?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, and I loved what Brady said on your air
waves a couple of it a couple of days ago.
But I think I worry. I don't really worry that
the players are overlooking them. I hope they they're not,
because it seems like from the coaches all their interviews
this week, they're not overlooking them because I do think
they have the talent to come and beat us. I
don't think they have it put together. I do think
we should beat them by you know, I think that
(07:25):
the spreads are pretty fair spread, truthfully, But I think
that if we came in not being serious and just thought,
you know what, we just rolled, you know, an FCS
team and these guys are the worst of the P five,
so that I'm worried that that would be the case.
But I don't see that coming from this coaching staff
right now, So I'm not too worried. But I do
think that this team has much more talent, and I'm
really excited to see us play against the team that
(07:49):
we're not just completely outmanning, we're actually just out playing them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, it's you want this to be a fairly dominant victory.
There's not a whole lot of respect for Stanford right now.
They're coming off of multiple three and nine seasons. They're
in a rebuild mode. You know, back in two thousand
and what twenty two, Shaw essentially retired after losing to BYU.
(08:17):
Like I do feel like there's a little bit of
a paying of the piper, you know, if we were
to take the historic, you know, elements between BYU, the
relationship between BYU and Stanford, I can't imagine that anyone
within the administration of Stanford when BYU was winning football
games and was being courted, possibly as a PAC eight,
PAC ten, Pac twelve inclusion, I guess a candidate. There
(08:43):
wasn't anyone at Stanford that was like, yeah, let's go
bring in BYU, right, let's bring them in.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They were stiff armor Brigham from the beginning, and they
beat byun No.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Three and oh four. You know, they beat them. They
were beating them on the gridiron.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
They're beating them in recruiting whenever they're going ahead to
with LDS recruits and uh. And then they were very
exclusionary with their their picks. And they picked up Brigham's
little brother up in Salt Lake to add to their
team in the PAC twelve, and Hubris and the papas nature,
the the so called erudites of Stafford col The PAC twelve,
(09:20):
et cetera, led to their prominent and prideful destruction, and
now's the time for b Yu to have his glory
and win on the gridiron and put a little nail
in the coffin of an Ever Uh, I would say this, Uh,
there's there's a irrelevancy that is brewing in the Bay
(09:43):
Area and Stanford is going to be irrelevant very very soon.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Nail in the coffin time.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, and I agree with that. I think they are
definitely trending down. I don't think that. I mean, obviously,
we got Baron Tiger out of the portal because of
the same situation that all of other players left for
was the fact that you know, there was some stuff
going on and they had to fire their coach. And
I I don't think, like I really do believe that
we should go and dominate this game. But I am
(10:11):
excited just because it is going to be better talent.
And I think the thing that Brady said and the
coaches harped on this week and all their interviews was
that they are good. I mean they're running back. I
think it's Ford as his last name, that's he looks
like a pretty dang good running back like he I
think they have some talent across the board. It's just
going to be up to, you know, whether they can
put it together, and I don't think they can. And
(10:32):
I think we're gonna come out and like my score
prediction is probably I think what I put on my
pick them was thirty five to six. So I don't
think I take a touchdown. I think they've got a
couple of field goals and then I think we're gonna
get to see the the you know, bear going out
and throwing a couple of touchdown passes and then running
the ball like crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So bradon day here on ESPN the Fan, Brydon, Uh,
what did you find out? What did you learn about
this Boe football team to the port of the state game?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know from that sixty nine to zero victory versus
the arguably the worst team in college football FCS level.
You know, maybe they may be the worst NA nai
A team, they may be the worst junior college team
in college but but they may be the worst team
period in any above high school level football team.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah. I and before the game, I got I got
sick on last Friday, and so on Saturday I came
to the game, but I wasn't feeling super super great,
and I wasn't. I'm usually a pretty excited, pumped up person.
On my little brother was like, what the heck's going
on with your onny nex Sid. I'm like, we're not
gonna learn anything, and truthfully, I don't. I still don't
feel like we learned very much. Like I think it
was good to see Barb be composed. I thought he
(11:43):
threw some throws that were really great. I thought I
threw some throws that he wish he'd have back. I
thought we saw that the running backs are going to dominate,
but I think they were going to dominate no matter
who ran. I mean, all of our running back came in,
even our you know down to Cole Colhagen came in
and ran all over him too. Like, I just don't
think we learned really any thing, And so I'm really
excited for this week to actually feel like we at
(12:03):
least get to learn something. I still don't think it's
gonna be this huge test that we're gonna learn how
battle test that this team is or how they can
handle stuff. But at least we'll learn that they can
play against bigger physical talent.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So yeah, yeah, I think coming away from that Portland
State game, there was a few lessons learned, but uh,
you know, a few maybe nuggets of truth about this
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Speaker 3 (13:52):
Couple last things before we let you go for so long.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
This Stanford football team Lance Anderson Shaw Harbaugh right, they
they stole it from us are precious Latter day Saint
BYU football prospects. I got a list of them, so many.
I know you're a recruiting guy. You like to you
know you like to look at that, like I see
guys like Dallas Lloyd and Brandon Fanaika Simmi, Fojoco, Dalton Schultz, Shoney,
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Speaker 3 (14:27):
Shoot Taysom Hill was almost tooking from us. LJ was well.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't know if we recruited al Jaanda High School,
but we got him.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We finally got him.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Sean Barton, Great Clark, Mark Harris, John Manson, Christian Palau.
I think Scotty Edwards is on the team right now,
bot right, you know what I mean? So like you
look at that, you're like, wait a tick, Like man,
they taking somebody. We gotta get them back. We're two
and we're one and two all time against the Stanford Cardinals.
I think this game means more than just another na
(15:00):
P four non conference win. I think this win, if
done in a declarative fashion, sets b WHYU up to
win in recruiting versus Stanford for the next decade. I
think it sets by you up to push Stanford further
into irrelevancy as a team that's in.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The ACC on the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Like can you imagine like going in and talking to
a recruds like this nice little program, good education, that's great,
they're the ACC And look check this film out. The
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(15:45):
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I mean that means more. It means more than just
a win at a conference.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Well, and I think two things with that. One I think,
like take is that it's already happened. I think that
the recruiting has already taken over. Like yes, LJ was
planning on going, nobody never signed there. He ended up
signing with us before. I think you get Nucy who
flipped Nucy Tamil Peo that flipped obviously, the Bachmeer boys
who we didn't recruit, I mean we tried out of
(16:16):
high school, but they went there and then the coaching
situation flipped them. So I don't know that we could
say that was a win, that was just a casualty
of coaching situation. But I think we really are moving
in that direction and it's already happening, but I do
think a declared of win tomorrow could really really really
set that up. And so that's basically kind of where
I feel like we're already moved that way. And that education, Like, honestly, yes,
(16:40):
their education is incredible, but if you really look at it,
like for what these guys are going to be majoring in,
where are they going to get more connections to people
who are passionate about football that will allow them to
come into work in their positions and help help them grow.
It really is at byu Like the degree that most
of them are going into they can get have a
better success out of UAU because of the connections they
(17:03):
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we've got coming in Nil. It's because we have BAU
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entrepreneurial fields.
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It's time to celebrate the freeest team sport known to man,
where modern day gladiators collide for all the glory on
the grid. Ie, Let's talk some college football on Cougar
Sports with Ben Kripple.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back Cougar Sports one of three nine ninety eight
point three.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, been the Fano.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Make Brital broadcasting from our Banterwell Studios.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Banterwealth dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Get on a free Q and A no obligation to
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
It is time to talk a little college football.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Gonna welcome in one of my favorite CEOs along the
Wassat's front.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
He's the CEO of Odon.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Men's Where, Odo Men'swar dot com, Braden Day Cougar sports insider,
and an amazing uh man that distributes the best I
think missionary retire in the business, business attire in the business,
and of course uh your church attire in the business.
Head on over to Odon Men's Where Odo Menswear dot com.
But want to give a big Cougar war, I'm gonna
be heading down during the bye week to rubies In
(00:59):
and Bryce National Park. I'm a huge fan of rubies
In and I think Bryce Canyon. I know you've probably
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and the Arches and all those places are great.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
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from international places because of how unique Bryce Canyon is.
The hoodoos, these red rock formations jutting forward from the
(01:33):
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Speaker 3 (01:41):
You can mention myself.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
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(02:03):
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Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now that are you buddy doing awesome? How are you
guys doing doing fantastic?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Appreciate you joining me to talk a little college football.
Did you see the comments from Nick Saban recently? We
just went on a.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Diet tribe about it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Nick Saban essentially is I think he's getting off his
rock or here's complaining.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
There's a lot of excuses.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
He's talking about how the Big ten now is a
recruiting advantage over.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
The SEC do the NIL?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And Sean Walker thinks he's essentially admitting on the back
end of this particular quote to having knowledge of payment
for play prior to NIL being a part of the
bylaws of the NCAA. What do you make of the
retired Nick Saban?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I actually didn't see the comment yet, so I have
to go look that up. But I do think just
that point in general, I personally, and it's probably because
I'm biased you've been, but I think NIL and the
transferport have been great, huge resources and good things for
byus specifically, and so I love it and I think
(03:11):
on a whole. Like, the thing I love about it
the most is it does it puts us all on
an equal playing field, because, in my opinion, especially with
BYU being a school that's going to keep the rules,
as soon as we get back to regulation where the
rules are more strict and we have to abide by
certain rules, we will start up fighting by those rules.
But the Bamas of the world are going to go
(03:33):
back to being the ones doing it under the table,
and so they have that advantage for so long, and
now they don't have that advantage because now it's above
the table and BYU can do it also. And that's
my take on it is that it's made the parody
in college football so much better, and I think that's
a great thing.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Has nil ruined college football for you, for your friends,
your family members?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Has it ruined it for you only the Utah State friends?
I have My step brother in law's diehard you thought
State Van, And I honestly kind of feel bad for
the g fives of the world that I'm really glad
that we got out of it. Like, and I say
that and it probably sounds like like a charity case,
but like it really is a situation where it's really
(04:14):
hard to keep talent at that level. But at the
same time, the high school recruits they are able to
get now is actually better than what it was before
because they're schools taking left high school commitments. So I
think we're gonna it kind of turns into it to facto.
It's not a farm system, but they're gonna get a
lot of young talent, and then that young talent ends
up transferring away, which isn't isn't great.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So well, it hasn't ruined it for me, and I
don't think it's ruined anything for BYU fans, at least
not to this point. Have you seen a little transition
within our fan base. Remember back in like twenty and
twenty when Nil and then eventually transfer Portal and this
free agent world, and you know, they kind of were
(04:56):
like a little bit, like very pessimistic about it. They
felt like it would ruin the sport, ruin their teams.
They were very much on the negative side of things.
And we are law abiding people. We are a bye
law of biding. But we took a lot of pride
in doing it the right way under NCAA by laws,
even though we saw them castigate and reprimand us for
(05:19):
the nick Emory situation and the only child situation, amongst others.
But have you seen a little bit of a turn
of the tide amongst our fan base as it relates
to our opinions of nil and transferportal.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yes, And I think it all has to do it's
whether we think it's going to be an advantage or disadvantage.
I think up on the Hill, I don't think they're
loving it because it's a disadvantage for them in the state,
in the market. But I think for us, all of
a sudden, the fans are like, wait, this is the
greatest thing ever because it's working for us. So I
think that was what it was. I think they believed
that we were not going to go out and spend
money because it's Uau and we're frugal and all those
(05:52):
different things. And so I think it has much more
to do with what situation you're in. If you're the
Bam of the world, it's getting the parody hurt you
hate it into the Bau of the world. That's all
of a sudden now getting talent you could never get before,
where you weren't getting before, especially in basketball of Aja
and things like that, like it's the greatest thing. So
I really just think it depends on who you cheer for.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Brandon Day, how do you feeling about this BAU Stanford
matchup right now? The spread twenty and a half BA.
You say, have the lea favored at home? Stanford lost
to Hawaii on the road. Okay, not a good look
week zero. They have had a bye week to prepare
for BYU obviously, and they do have talent the five
year average recruiting ranking, I mean, they're a top forty
(06:34):
five recruiting team recruiting ranking team, right, they have the personnel.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
They have lost some players due to transfer.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Portal e set, but they're more often than not they're
retaining their talent, you know, year in and year out.
Stanford is an interesting study, right, But then Hawaii they're
one opponent that they lost just lost to you of
a the Wildcats of the Big twelve by almost forty
points recently. Will you take all those data points together,
(07:02):
what do you make of this matchup?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, and I loved what Brady said on your air
waves a couple of it a couple of days ago.
But I think I worry. I don't really worry that
the players are overlooking them. I hope they they're not,
because it seems like from the coaches all their interviews
this week, they're not overlooking them because I do think
they have the talent to come and beat us. I
don't think they have it put together. I do think
we should beat them by you know, I think that
(07:25):
the spreads are pretty fair spread, truthfully, But I think
that if we came in not being serious and just thought,
you know what, we just rolled, you know, an FCS
team and these guys are the worst of the P five,
so that I'm worried that that would be the case.
But I don't see that coming from this coaching staff
right now, So I'm not too worried. But I do
think that this team has much more talent, and I'm
really excited to see us play against the team that
(07:49):
we're not just completely outmanning, we're actually just out playing them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, it's you want this to be a fairly dominant victory.
There's not a whole lot of respect for Stanford right now.
They're coming off of multiple three and nine seasons. They're
in a rebuild mode. You know, back in two thousand
and what twenty two, Shaw essentially retired after losing to BYU.
(08:17):
Like I do feel like there's a little bit of
a paying of the piper, you know, if we were
to take the historic, you know, elements between BYU, the
relationship between BYU and Stanford, I can't imagine that anyone
within the administration of Stanford when BYU was winning football
games and was being courted, possibly as a PAC eight,
PAC ten, Pac twelve inclusion, I guess a candidate. There
(08:43):
wasn't anyone at Stanford that was like, yeah, let's go
bring in BYU, right, let's bring them in.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They were stiff armor Brigham from the beginning, and they
beat byun No.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Three and oh four. You know, they beat them. They
were beating them on the gridiron.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
They're beating them in recruiting whenever they're going ahead to
with LDS recruits and uh. And then they were very
exclusionary with their their picks. And they picked up Brigham's
little brother up in Salt Lake to add to their
team in the PAC twelve, and Hubris and the papas nature,
the the so called erudites of Stafford col The PAC twelve,
(09:20):
et cetera, led to their prominent and prideful destruction, and
now's the time for b Yu to have his glory
and win on the gridiron and put a little nail
in the coffin of an Ever Uh, I would say this, Uh,
there's there's a irrelevancy that is brewing in the Bay
(09:43):
Area and Stanford is going to be irrelevant very very soon.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Nail in the coffin time.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, and I agree with that. I think they are
definitely trending down. I don't think that. I mean, obviously,
we got Baron Tiger out of the portal because of
the same situation that all of other players left for
was the fact that you know, there was some stuff
going on and they had to fire their coach. And
I I don't think, like I really do believe that
we should go and dominate this game. But I am
(10:11):
excited just because it is going to be better talent.
And I think the thing that Brady said and the
coaches harped on this week and all their interviews was
that they are good. I mean they're running back. I
think it's Ford as his last name, that's he looks
like a pretty dang good running back like he I
think they have some talent across the board. It's just
going to be up to, you know, whether they can
put it together, and I don't think they can. And
(10:32):
I think we're gonna come out and like my score
prediction is probably I think what I put on my
pick them was thirty five to six. So I don't
think I take a touchdown. I think they've got a
couple of field goals and then I think we're gonna
get to see the the you know, bear going out
and throwing a couple of touchdown passes and then running
the ball like crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So bradon day here on ESPN the Fan, Brydon, Uh,
what did you find out? What did you learn about
this Boe football team to the port of the state game?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know from that sixty nine to zero victory versus
the arguably the worst team in college football FCS level.
You know, maybe they may be the worst NA nai
A team, they may be the worst junior college team
in college but but they may be the worst team
period in any above high school level football team.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah. I and before the game, I got I got
sick on last Friday, and so on Saturday I came
to the game, but I wasn't feeling super super great,
and I wasn't. I'm usually a pretty excited, pumped up person.
On my little brother was like, what the heck's going
on with your onny nex Sid. I'm like, we're not
gonna learn anything, and truthfully, I don't. I still don't
feel like we learned very much. Like I think it
was good to see Barb be composed. I thought he
(11:43):
threw some throws that were really great. I thought I
threw some throws that he wish he'd have back. I
thought we saw that the running backs are going to dominate,
but I think they were going to dominate no matter
who ran. I mean, all of our running back came in,
even our you know down to Cole Colhagen came in
and ran all over him too. Like, I just don't
think we learned really any thing, And so I'm really
excited for this week to actually feel like we at
(12:03):
least get to learn something. I still don't think it's
gonna be this huge test that we're gonna learn how
battle test that this team is or how they can
handle stuff. But at least we'll learn that they can
play against bigger physical talent.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So yeah, yeah, I think coming away from that Portland
State game, there was a few lessons learned, but uh,
you know, a few maybe nuggets of truth about this
b YU football team that we were able to acquire,
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Speaker 3 (13:52):
Couple last things before we let you go for so long.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
This Stanford football team Lance Anderson Shaw Harbaugh right, they
they stole it from us are precious Latter day Saint
BYU football prospects. I got a list of them, so many.
I know you're a recruiting guy. You like to you
know you like to look at that, like I see
guys like Dallas Lloyd and Brandon Fanaika Simmi, Fojoco, Dalton Schultz, Shoney,
(14:21):
Himulilan Tanner McKey, the Elaine Veach, Levanni de Mooney, Low
Kalfu See, Gabe Reid.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Shoot Taysom Hill was almost tooking from us. LJ was well.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't know if we recruited al Jaanda High School,
but we got him.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We finally got him.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Sean Barton, Great Clark, Mark Harris, John Manson, Christian Palau.
I think Scotty Edwards is on the team right now,
bot right, you know what I mean? So like you
look at that, you're like, wait a tick, Like man,
they taking somebody. We gotta get them back. We're two
and we're one and two all time against the Stanford Cardinals.
I think this game means more than just another na
(15:00):
P four non conference win. I think this win, if
done in a declarative fashion, sets b WHYU up to
win in recruiting versus Stanford for the next decade. I
think it sets by you up to push Stanford further
into irrelevancy as a team that's in.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The ACC on the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Like can you imagine like going in and talking to
a recruds like this nice little program, good education, that's great,
they're the ACC And look check this film out. The
last two games we dominated them. And look here's brother Neil,
meet brother Neil, n Il Neil. You know he's gonna
(15:45):
make up for any you know, any payments that you're
gonna get, supposedly with that Stanford education.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I mean that means more. It means more than just
a win at a conference.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Well, and I think two things with that. One I think,
like take is that it's already happened. I think that
the recruiting has already taken over. Like yes, LJ was
planning on going, nobody never signed there. He ended up
signing with us before. I think you get Nucy who
flipped Nucy Tamil Peo that flipped obviously, the Bachmeer boys
who we didn't recruit, I mean we tried out of
(16:16):
high school, but they went there and then the coaching
situation flipped them. So I don't know that we could
say that was a win, that was just a casualty
of coaching situation. But I think we really are moving
in that direction and it's already happening, but I do
think a declared of win tomorrow could really really really
set that up. And so that's basically kind of where
I feel like we're already moved that way. And that education, Like, honestly, yes,
(16:40):
their education is incredible, but if you really look at it,
like for what these guys are going to be majoring in,
where are they going to get more connections to people
who are passionate about football that will allow them to
come into work in their positions and help help them grow.
It really is at byu Like the degree that most
of them are going into they can get have a
better success out of UAU because of the connections they
(17:03):
get out of UAU, because of how many passionate BA
fans and look at the I mean, look at what
we've got coming in Nil. It's because we have BAU
grads that are going out and doing amazing in the
entrepreneurial fields.
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So much, brother, Thanks with you tomorrow.
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