Latest / The Sean O'Connell Show / Sammy Mora on Utah Spring FB, Open practice on Saturday, Reaction to details about Whitt's departure + more
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- 0:17Speaker 1: Our three of the Shan O'Connell Show.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Sammy Mora joins us to help fill the gaps on springball.
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- 0:33Speaker 1: Sammy Mora, Welcome back to the show. How are you.
- 0:36Speaker 4: I'm doing great, OC. How's It's been a long time
- 0:38Speaker 4: since we've had one of these little chats.
- 0:40Speaker 3: I know, I've been gone for a couple of weeks
- 0:42Speaker 3: and it's very weird to be jumping back in now
- 0:44Speaker 3: while spring football and March Madness are in full swing.
- 0:47Speaker 1: But here we are.
- 0:50Speaker 3: So let's start with spring football, and I want to
- 0:53Speaker 3: start with the actual football. Part of it is some
- 0:56Speaker 3: increased access, some different approach from from Morgan Scalley, at
- 1:01Speaker 3: least in certain instances here. And I know that talking
- 1:06Speaker 3: with people who got to attend the open practice and
- 1:08Speaker 3: got to do the chalk talk and things like that,
- 1:11Speaker 3: you know it's described as a breath of fresh air
- 1:13Speaker 3: and something we've been asking for. I campaigned aggressively for
- 1:17Speaker 3: it when Morgan got the job, when he laughed at me.
- 1:19Speaker 3: But it's good to know that at least for now,
- 1:22Speaker 3: the doors are a little bit more open on observing practice.
- 1:25Speaker 3: So tell me your thoughts on getting that increased access.
- 1:30Speaker 4: It's very much like you said, it is a breath
- 1:32Speaker 4: of fresh air. I think that you know it's good
- 1:36Speaker 4: because it makes us like we hear things from our
- 1:40Speaker 4: sources and stuff like that, but to see things with
- 1:42Speaker 4: your own eyes is a lot different than hearing it
- 1:44Speaker 4: from somebody who heard it from somebody who saw something
- 1:47Speaker 4: that second third hand information. Sometimes you can get a
- 1:51Speaker 4: little a little nutty, a little murky, and stuff like that.
- 1:53Speaker 4: So seeing these like players with our own eyes and
- 1:56Speaker 4: making assessments of our own I think is very beneficial
- 1:59Speaker 4: because honestly, it makes us sound, but it gives us
- 2:02Speaker 4: a better idea. Like we're supposed to be insiders for
- 2:04Speaker 4: a reason, and so seeing those things gives ours gives
- 2:08Speaker 4: our takes a little bit more of validity, I would say.
- 2:12Speaker 3: So from what you saw at open practice, you know
- 2:17Speaker 3: it's you can always revise as these things progress. But
- 2:22Speaker 3: who jumped out at you most and did you see
- 2:25Speaker 3: anyone with you know, flashes that surprised you.
- 2:29Speaker 4: On the defensive side. Carson Kafusi. He looks so much bigger.
- 2:35Speaker 4: He looks a little bit. He looks more refined than
- 2:38Speaker 4: last year. And I know last year was freshman year
- 2:40Speaker 4: there was acclamation periods and everything like that. But Carson
- 2:45Speaker 4: was really, really, really strong. Yet on Saturday, he he
- 2:49Speaker 4: seems to have bulked up a little bit more. I
- 2:53Speaker 4: know people use the phrase man's strength. He seems to
- 2:56Speaker 4: have kind of, you know, found that over the off season.
- 2:59Speaker 4: I'm really excited to watch him and what he does.
- 3:01Speaker 4: He looked just and I understand it was there in shells,
- 3:05Speaker 4: they're in helmets. There, there's no full pads. They're going
- 3:08Speaker 4: up against each other and stuff. They're going up against,
- 3:10Speaker 4: you know, an offensive line that also is still in
- 3:12Speaker 4: shells and pads and you're doing thud work. But he
- 3:15Speaker 4: really caught my eye really really early in the whole
- 3:18Speaker 4: practice on Saturday. And then offensively, it's kind of hard
- 3:22Speaker 4: because there was a couple that stood out. I'm not
- 3:24Speaker 4: gonna go with the usual suspects, of you know, Devin Way,
- 3:28Speaker 4: Sean Bird, those guys. I think, you know, Braden Pagan
- 3:32Speaker 4: looked really good. Kyrie Schulz looked good, Steve chaviz Soto looked,
- 3:37Speaker 4: you know, looked the part. He passed the eye test
- 3:39Speaker 4: as well. So I like what I saw from a
- 3:41Speaker 4: lot of the newer guys on the offense. And you know,
- 3:44Speaker 4: that defensive tackle room looks to be, you know, improved
- 3:47Speaker 4: from my vantage point. There's a lot more size, and
- 3:49Speaker 4: there's a lot more bursts, and there's a lot more
- 3:51Speaker 4: versatility than there was last year.
- 3:53Speaker 3: It's tough when we're talking about you know, like when
- 3:56Speaker 3: you see a receiver or running back make a play,
- 4:00Speaker 3: you can kind of extrapolate that and say, all right,
- 4:02Speaker 3: well that he jumped this high and he ran this fast,
- 4:06Speaker 3: and I think that's gonna work on Saturdays the same
- 4:08Speaker 3: way it's working here in practice when you're going against
- 4:11Speaker 3: your own team. It's a lot harder when it comes
- 4:13Speaker 3: to that defensive tackle room and when it comes to
- 4:16Speaker 3: an offensive line, because your measuring stick is only as
- 4:21Speaker 3: good as the people.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Across from you.
- 4:23Speaker 3: And in both the offensive linees case, and to a
- 4:26Speaker 3: slightly lesser extent, but still true with the defensive line
- 4:29Speaker 3: at the University of Utah. Right now, those are question
- 4:32Speaker 3: marks that we're not really going to have great answers
- 4:35Speaker 3: to until they're playing live reps against real competition. But
- 4:40Speaker 3: you're a season die at this point, and you've seen
- 4:43Speaker 3: guys as they get bigger, stronger, faster, more explosive. So
- 4:47Speaker 3: you already told me about the defensive line. What about
- 4:49Speaker 3: the offensive line, because that is the unit that has
- 4:52Speaker 3: to answer I think the largest number of questions, the
- 4:56Speaker 3: most significant questions, because last year you didn't have any
- 4:59Speaker 3: about the offensive line. As long as those guys stayed healthy,
- 5:02Speaker 3: we knew they were going to be excellent, and they were.
- 5:04Speaker 3: They were the best offensive line in the Big twelve
- 5:06Speaker 3: and one of the best offensive lines in the country
- 5:08Speaker 3: and got jobbed on the Joe More Award, being finalists
- 5:11Speaker 3: and things like that. But uh, now you've got to
- 5:14Speaker 3: fill those collective shoes. Ten big old pairs of cleats
- 5:18Speaker 3: have to be filled along that offensive line.
- 5:20Speaker 1: So what does that look like in the early goings
- 5:23Speaker 1: from your eyes?
- 5:24Speaker 4: See? Actually, me and Dan Thronson also viewed Zone dot Com.
- 5:28Speaker 4: We split up practice, so I spent most of my
- 5:30Speaker 4: time watching the defensive tackles, and he spent most of
- 5:32Speaker 4: his time watching the offensive line. But from our little
- 5:35Speaker 4: bit of our our little debrief after the practice, you know,
- 5:40Speaker 4: Keith Olson, Keith Olsen and solotoa MOI are are your
- 5:43Speaker 4: two guys at guard from like you know, we kind
- 5:46Speaker 4: of expected that with their experience, what they bring to
- 5:49Speaker 4: the table, stuff like that. And then I think, you know,
- 5:51Speaker 4: I think you're gonna it's gonna be interesting to see
- 5:54Speaker 4: how those guys on the at the tackle and at
- 5:55Speaker 4: center go. You know, you have Zaroway Williams, you have
- 5:59Speaker 4: kel Vino about your Cedric Jefferson, all battling for tackle,
- 6:02Speaker 4: and then you know Isaiah Kema Alex Harrison, both who
- 6:06Speaker 4: we expected to play center, might be battling it out
- 6:09Speaker 4: there too. So it's gonna be interesting to see how
- 6:10Speaker 4: this disc goes. And like you said, it's kind of
- 6:13Speaker 4: hard to have a measuring stick on the offensive line
- 6:15Speaker 4: when you are, you know, lining up against defensive tackles
- 6:18Speaker 4: that you know you can't hit, you can't you get,
- 6:21Speaker 4: can't go full speed. When you're in shells and helmets,
- 6:24Speaker 4: you're not hitting each other, You're not getting the push
- 6:26Speaker 4: that sometimes you want to see and stuff, just because
- 6:28Speaker 4: of the intensity that are trying to go with and stuff.
- 6:31Speaker 4: But I'm I'm I don't have as many concerns about
- 6:35Speaker 4: the offensive line than I did then I did, like
- 6:38Speaker 4: you know, three four weeks ago. I think that there's
- 6:40Speaker 4: gonna be a flight learning curve because you know, it's
- 6:42Speaker 4: five brand new guys out there on that offensive line.
- 6:45Speaker 4: But I think at the other at the at the
- 6:47Speaker 4: same time, I think that they're gonna be good. They're
- 6:49Speaker 4: gonna get the job done. I don't think we're gonna
- 6:52Speaker 4: see the same it's like intense, Well we're as the
- 6:56Speaker 4: intensity on the offensive line. Jordan Gross is watching him coach,
- 7:00Speaker 4: and from what I've heard, he is he is he's
- 7:03Speaker 4: hitting it out of the park. He's you know, he's
- 7:05Speaker 4: spending a lot of time showing by example, doing things
- 7:08Speaker 4: that you know, help these guys learn these things. But
- 7:11Speaker 4: I think the offensive line is gonna be fine. I
- 7:13Speaker 4: don't think they're going to be top five in the
- 7:14Speaker 4: nation like they were last year, but I think they're
- 7:16Speaker 4: gonna be They're going to get the job done.
- 7:20Speaker 3: The one of the big questions is, you know, how
- 7:25Speaker 3: how do you utilize both Devin and Byrd without having
- 7:29Speaker 3: it be like a traditional quarterback battle.
- 7:31Speaker 1: He got both guys to stay.
- 7:33Speaker 3: You know, there's nil resources being spent on both, and
- 7:36Speaker 3: I'm glad that we have both guys still on the roster.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Uh any indication on what it looks like so far.
- 7:44Speaker 4: I mean we saw both of them at practice and stuff,
- 7:48Speaker 4: and so it's gonna be interesting to see. You know,
- 7:50Speaker 4: there's uh trying to figure out how to phrase this
- 7:53Speaker 4: in the right way, but both guys, you know, there's
- 7:57Speaker 4: gonna be I think there's gonna I think we're gonna
- 7:59Speaker 4: see some things that we saw last year. I thin
- 8:01Speaker 4: we're gonna see usage of both, you know, QBR games,
- 8:03Speaker 4: stuff like that. But you know, it's it's a massive
- 8:06Speaker 4: thing that you keep both. And I think that it's
- 8:09Speaker 4: it's not been talked about enough. Is how good it
- 8:13Speaker 4: feels to have Utah have a good starting quarterback and
- 8:17Speaker 4: a good backup quarterback because I feel like it's been
- 8:20Speaker 4: years since Utah has had that. And it also, I said,
- 8:23Speaker 4: this is a rum on board, a couple of lops,
- 8:25Speaker 4: but if it was really nice to head into the
- 8:27Speaker 4: spring football and there's not some sort of quarterback one
- 8:30Speaker 4: or QB two battle going on that we have to
- 8:32Speaker 4: keep intention watch on, like we know who's one, we
- 8:35Speaker 4: know who's two, we know it both bring to the table.
- 8:38Speaker 4: So it's gonna be it's gonna be fun to see
- 8:40Speaker 4: how it evolves, because I know Nick given does a
- 8:43Speaker 4: really big He has a big focus on putting his
- 8:46Speaker 4: players in the best position to succeed and using them
- 8:49Speaker 4: in ways that they are good. It's very similar to
- 8:51Speaker 4: what Jason Beck did last year. You're gonna see a
- 8:54Speaker 4: lot of like continuity in that aspect of using this
- 8:58Speaker 4: offense and using the weapons in the way that they
- 9:00Speaker 4: thrived the most.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Sammy Moore and my guests here on the Sean O'Connor show,
- 9:04Speaker 3: Managing editor over at Ute Zone, any hangover, any effect,
- 9:11Speaker 3: anything that you'd notice with this this new news on
- 9:16Speaker 3: the Kyle Whittingham exit as far as it, you know,
- 9:19Speaker 3: affecting the coaching staff the team, most particularly Morgan Scally
- 9:23Speaker 3: obviously because he's the only one you know, kind of
- 9:26Speaker 3: directly involved in that conversation.
- 9:27Speaker 1: With the new emails.
- 9:29Speaker 3: That we got and we've we've now had better insight
- 9:32Speaker 3: on exactly what is being still paid out to Kyle
- 9:35Speaker 3: Whittingham and the way that that that exit went to
- 9:40Speaker 3: It's funny because we we all talked about it, and
- 9:42Speaker 3: we all had our sources on it, and this we
- 9:45Speaker 3: just finally we got to read the emails and get
- 9:47Speaker 3: a much clearer picture on exactly what it looked like.
- 9:50Speaker 3: But we were able to tell whether it affected anyone
- 9:53Speaker 3: that's still in the program at all.
- 9:56Speaker 4: I mean, when that came out on Friday, we saw
- 9:58Speaker 4: Morgan Saturday morning for practice, and it was business as usual.
- 10:01Speaker 4: You know, he was jumping around with guys, he was
- 10:04Speaker 4: participating in stretches, he was joking around with them, he
- 10:06Speaker 4: was getting them amped and stuff. He was very active
- 10:09Speaker 4: in practice. So honestly, I have no clue if there's
- 10:12Speaker 4: any hangover from that, but I do think, like, I
- 10:16Speaker 4: think I'm at the point now where I'm like, I'm
- 10:18Speaker 4: glad the emails are out and stuff, but also at
- 10:20Speaker 4: the same time, what's in the passes in the past,
- 10:22Speaker 4: and I'm ready to just kind of like, you know,
- 10:23Speaker 4: look to the future and see what the what the
- 10:26Speaker 4: Morgan Scalley era looks like. So but yeah, from Saturday,
- 10:30Speaker 4: there didn't seem to be any issue with you know,
- 10:33Speaker 4: a hangover or anything about those emails with Morgan, Well, I.
- 10:36Speaker 3: Do think that's the only stance that any of us
- 10:38Speaker 3: can really take on it now, right, except besides just
- 10:40Speaker 3: being bothered continually about the way it all went down.
- 10:44Speaker 3: You just have to choose to pick it up and
- 10:46Speaker 3: move it on at some point. And clearly the Whittingham
- 10:48Speaker 3: side of that equation has done so. And I think
- 10:51Speaker 3: you Tall Football, with Morgan at the Helm, has done
- 10:53Speaker 3: a good job of it, like internally in the actual
- 10:55Speaker 3: locker room and things like that. So I'm glad to
- 10:58Speaker 3: hear you say that there's no noticeable effect at all
- 11:01Speaker 3: when when we talk about, you know, the prognostication of
- 11:05Speaker 3: the roster as a whole, right, we we knew what
- 11:09Speaker 3: the strengths were heading into last year. We knew what
- 11:11Speaker 3: the questions were with some you know, a new offense
- 11:14Speaker 3: coming in and a bunch of new offensive personnel coming in.
- 11:19Speaker 3: I saw some highlights of Larry Simmons continuing what we
- 11:22Speaker 3: saw from him at the end of last year, and
- 11:25Speaker 3: the chemistry building with Evan dan Peer and things like that,
- 11:27Speaker 3: And it's a question every single year what the passing
- 11:31Speaker 3: game is going to look like. Morgan Scalley has promised
- 11:34Speaker 3: us that it's going to be you know, a more
- 11:36Speaker 3: wide open approach in that front at least, but you
- 11:38Speaker 3: have to have the personnel for it. So give me
- 11:42Speaker 3: your thoughts on those guys, in particular the past catching threats.
- 11:46Speaker 4: I said this again, over said I said this, I
- 11:50Speaker 4: think last week. I think, I honestly think this is
- 11:53Speaker 4: probably the best wide receiver room you TA has had
- 11:55Speaker 4: on paper in the last ten years. And I know
- 11:58Speaker 4: that's kind of a low bar to half considering what
- 12:01Speaker 4: the passing game looked like in previous years under previous
- 12:05Speaker 4: offensive coordinators and previous head coaches. But I honestly, if
- 12:09Speaker 4: if what we saw versus in the Vegas Bowl is
- 12:11Speaker 4: what Morgan wants this offense to look like, then Utah
- 12:15Speaker 4: is going to be in a really good position.
- 12:17Speaker 2: You know.
- 12:17Speaker 4: Braden Pagan, big guy. I think he you know, he
- 12:20Speaker 4: matches like sidelight. I think he's very comfortable to JJ Buchanan.
- 12:25Speaker 4: But at the same time, Pagan has a lot more
- 12:27Speaker 4: experience that comes with him that that Buchanan didn't have.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Kyrie Schulz. Fact, he's a fast dude, like he can
- 12:35Speaker 4: he can hit that second gear and take it down
- 12:39Speaker 4: down to the house. Larry Simmons as you said, you know, Larry,
- 12:42Speaker 4: Larry looked a little bit bigger when we were at
- 12:44Speaker 4: practice on Saturday. He looked like he was a little
- 12:46Speaker 4: bit more muscular and stuff, which I think will help him.
- 12:50Speaker 4: Ricky Johnson, the Mississippi State transfer, he had a couple
- 12:55Speaker 4: of good plays and stuff, so I'm excited to see
- 12:57Speaker 4: how he factors into it. Creed what a more, you know,
- 13:00Speaker 4: really started picking up speed at the last half of
- 13:03Speaker 4: last season. I expect some good things from him, you know.
- 13:05Speaker 4: And one that no one really talks about Nate Johnson.
- 13:08Speaker 4: You know, he's listed still as an athlete on the
- 13:10Speaker 4: wide on the roster, but when they posted it on socials,
- 13:13Speaker 4: he was listened with the wide receivers. So how can
- 13:15Speaker 4: Nate kind of be utilized in a lot of different
- 13:17Speaker 4: ways considering you know, he has that elite speed, So
- 13:21Speaker 4: can you line him up in the backfield? Can you
- 13:22Speaker 4: line him up out wide? What are they going to
- 13:24Speaker 4: do with him in that capacity? Tight end is kind
- 13:27Speaker 4: of the area where I have, you know, a little
- 13:30Speaker 4: bit more of a question as we hadn't as we
- 13:32Speaker 4: continue this spring. You know, Hunter Andrews obviously is back
- 13:35Speaker 4: from his injury that knocked him out last season. How
- 13:38Speaker 4: does he factor in twist this? Is he used more
- 13:40Speaker 4: as an actual tight end like a flets tight end,
- 13:42Speaker 4: or is he used more as like, you know, like
- 13:44Speaker 4: an h back full back type thing, or what did
- 13:47Speaker 4: they do with him? I think Noah Ben Yeah, no
- 13:50Speaker 4: of Benny almost said Jackson Benny for half a second.
- 13:52Speaker 4: I think Noah Benny. You know, he's probably going to
- 13:54Speaker 4: be your tight end one when you get to the
- 13:56Speaker 4: start of fall ball. But how can he take the
- 13:59Speaker 4: next up in his game? You know, he's been here before,
- 14:02Speaker 4: he knows what UTA needs culture wise. Can he acclimate
- 14:04Speaker 4: to this offense quickly to get into that position to play?
- 14:08Speaker 4: And you know, I'm also trying to see how Bear Fisher,
- 14:10Speaker 4: you touch true freshman tight end from Aaronzona, how he
- 14:13Speaker 4: factors into it. You know, if he can get onto
- 14:15Speaker 4: that field sooner, that adds an extra pass catching playmaker
- 14:20Speaker 4: for Devin. And I think that Bear has the potential
- 14:22Speaker 4: to be, you know, a really, really really high end
- 14:25Speaker 4: tight end by the time his career is done.
- 14:28Speaker 3: Sammy, I would be remiss if I didn't ask you
- 14:30Speaker 3: about the Red Rocks. Another conference championship back to back
- 14:35Speaker 3: now in the Big twelve and look at the national level,
- 14:39Speaker 3: they they have been a constant as contenders, but haven't
- 14:44Speaker 3: won a championship in recent years. So when you look
- 14:47Speaker 3: at the Big twelve champs as they move on to
- 14:51Speaker 3: regionals and then hopefully, you know, the finals beyond, what
- 14:54Speaker 3: does that prognosis look like in your mind?
- 14:57Speaker 4: Well, if you would have asked me like Saturday, after
- 15:00Speaker 4: the Big Twelve, I would have said, I'm kind of
- 15:02Speaker 4: stressed about regionals just because of you know, projected who
- 15:06Speaker 4: would beware and what would be going on. But with
- 15:08Speaker 4: the regional announcements that came out today, I'm actually feeling
- 15:11Speaker 4: a little bit more confident about Utah's chances of making
- 15:13Speaker 4: it to nationals. So it'll be in Utahs meet. It
- 15:17Speaker 4: will be Utah, Alabama, Oregon State, and Denver and you know,
- 15:23Speaker 4: beat Denver twice already this season. You know what they're about.
- 15:26Speaker 4: Oregon State ever since Jade Perry graduated, has really kind
- 15:29Speaker 4: of fallen off, So that's gonna be interesting to see.
- 15:32Speaker 4: And then Bama. You know, Bama's been one of those
- 15:35Speaker 4: teams that's been climbing the last couple of years, and
- 15:37Speaker 4: they're good, but they just seem to have these these
- 15:41Speaker 4: nights where they you know, kind of collapse and it's
- 15:45Speaker 4: gonna be interesting to see, specifically with Bama how they
- 15:48Speaker 4: deal with crossing two times zone. Since this regional will
- 15:50Speaker 4: be in Corevalace, does that affect them, what's going on
- 15:54Speaker 4: with them there? And then you know the other session,
- 15:57Speaker 4: you're gonna have Ucla, You're gonna have Minnesota. You know
- 16:00Speaker 4: you just the thing is is you just need to
- 16:02Speaker 4: be top two. You need to be top two in
- 16:03Speaker 4: your first session and you need to be top two
- 16:05Speaker 4: in the regional finals to make it to nationals. And
- 16:07Speaker 4: I like Utah's odds. I think you talk hand beat
- 16:10Speaker 4: Alabama and then you're gonna need to just beat one
- 16:12Speaker 4: of UCLA and Minnesota and Bama again to make it
- 16:16Speaker 4: to regional or to make it to national. I like
- 16:18Speaker 4: their odds. I think this team is picking up speed
- 16:22Speaker 4: when they need to the most. And the thing is
- 16:24Speaker 4: is the team that we saw on January is not
- 16:26Speaker 4: the team that I saw on Saturday. For the most part,
- 16:29Speaker 4: I will qualify that. You know, they're bars.
- 16:31Speaker 2: That was not.
- 16:33Speaker 4: What you wanted to see, especially with Anna Potter Airio
- 16:36Speaker 4: getting hurt and falling off the bars and she ended
- 16:38Speaker 4: up being okay afterwards, but she fell off. That usually
- 16:42Speaker 4: is a high nine to ninth score. That kind of
- 16:44Speaker 4: hurt the youth, so they don't. They barely crack a
- 16:46Speaker 4: forty nine on bars, which is not great. But if
- 16:49Speaker 4: you would have told me they still would have scored
- 16:51Speaker 4: a one ninety seven to six with that low score
- 16:54Speaker 4: on bars, I would have lacked in your face in
- 16:56Speaker 4: January because it just felt like nothing was going right
- 16:59Speaker 4: for that team back then. But now I think they're
- 17:02Speaker 4: picking up speed. I think they're picking They're they're peeking
- 17:04Speaker 4: when you need to. Avery f Is, avery nef She
- 17:07Speaker 4: is just lights out every single day of the week.
- 17:10Speaker 4: Ella Servis has really, really really been one of the
- 17:13Speaker 4: more unsung heroes of this team this year. She's been
- 17:16Speaker 4: just amazing on all four events for Utah. McKenna Smith
- 17:20Speaker 4: Senior Leadership. You love what she brings, especially on floor
- 17:23Speaker 4: and vault, to this team. But I like their odds.
- 17:26Speaker 4: I think that you know they're in a good position.
- 17:28Speaker 4: Being ranked number twelve nationally is not where you're usually
- 17:31Speaker 4: used to seeing Utah, But honestly, I think it's fun
- 17:35Speaker 4: to see this Utah team with a chip on their shoulder.
- 17:37Speaker 4: You know, we haven't seen this very often where they
- 17:39Speaker 4: are outside of the top ten, outside of the top five,
- 17:42Speaker 4: all those types of things. So it's a different type
- 17:45Speaker 4: of Red Rocks team. I think you can sense the
- 17:47Speaker 4: different vibe around the program and in the locker room
- 17:50Speaker 4: and talking with the girls of you know, we know
- 17:53Speaker 4: what we need to do. We just need to do
- 17:55Speaker 4: it consistently and do it our way. And if they
- 17:58Speaker 4: can do that, I think they can make it all
- 18:00Speaker 4: the way to Nationals.
- 18:03Speaker 1: We're gonna keep.
- 18:04Speaker 3: Our fingers crossed for that. Go Red Rocks, Sammy. I'll
- 18:07Speaker 3: see you up at springball soon.
- 18:08Speaker 4: Thank you, Thanks so Sezia, Sammy Mora