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Stevenson Sylvester on Utah FB, 90 days till the season opener vs Idaho, Optimism level under Morgan Scalley + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: to one a half m. Final hour on a Friday
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Speaker 1: for The Shan O'Connell Show. Bill Riley sitting in today
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Speaker 1: and Chicago to ma O. Next Friday, the open up
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Speaker 1: World Cup action down it's so far against Paraguay. Ninety
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Speaker 1: days from today, the University of Utah will open the
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Speaker 1: football season at home at Rice ecl Stadium against the
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Speaker 1: Idaho Vandals.
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Speaker 2: I will be there, as will.
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Speaker 1: Our next guest is part of my broadcast, our broadcast
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Speaker 1: team this year again former Utah great and of course
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Speaker 1: I broadcast partner Stevenson Sylvester with us here sly, what's good?
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Speaker 3: What's going on? Bill? How are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm great? Can you believe we're ninety days to kick off?
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Speaker 3: Man? You told me one hundred days the other day.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. I'm like, where does the time go?
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Speaker 3: I just remember the season just ended the other day. Man.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, man, with all the news and drama that's
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Speaker 3: going on, roads about time we get some football start.
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Speaker 1: I know, I can't wait. And I think I told
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Speaker 1: you it was one hundred days ten days ago. So
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Speaker 1: here we are. Ten days from now, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: tell you it's eighty days, and then ten days after
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Speaker 1: that'll be seventy days, and I'll give you updates every
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Speaker 1: ten days until we get right up on it.
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Speaker 2: So all right.
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Speaker 1: We have had the off season, We've had the regime change,
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Speaker 1: we have had off season conditioning, we have had spring football,
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Speaker 1: we have had the transfer portal come and go. So
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Speaker 1: what we see now is pretty much what Utah football
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Speaker 1: is going to be with everything that's transpired sly over
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Speaker 1: the last six months. What's your read on this Utah
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Speaker 1: football program and where we sit ninety days out.
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Speaker 3: I love it because you thought has had some promotion
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Speaker 3: going on as far as narratives and stuff like that,
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Speaker 3: but I feel like that's all local, that's all internal stuff.
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Speaker 3: As far as like national stuff, Utah has been kind
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Speaker 3: of like under the radar and just handling business, which
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Speaker 3: is what it should be, right and we should just
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Speaker 3: be headling business. Getting better, getting all the new people
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Speaker 3: ingratiated into the program, and make sure they know what's
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Speaker 3: going on, and focus on football, because winning games, at
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Speaker 3: the end of the day is the only thing that's
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Speaker 3: going to really drive the needle and change people's thoughts
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Speaker 3: or making both the way you want to write. You know,
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Speaker 3: when people say you are in charge of what you're doing,
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Speaker 3: and so one thing that we've I've always been told
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Speaker 3: when I played, is like, you can only control the
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Speaker 3: next down, meaning you can only control the next game.
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Speaker 3: You can't control the tenth eleventh game on the schedule
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Speaker 3: right now at June. What you can control is getting
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Speaker 3: ready for that next opportunity. So I think that's what
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Speaker 3: you're talking to doing. So I really really love that.
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Speaker 3: So that's all encompassing and all the things you said
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Speaker 3: of what's transpired here this offseason, from the coaching staff
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Speaker 3: to the spring football to the new incomers coming in,
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Speaker 3: I think they've been on the grind and just pressing
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Speaker 3: forward for that next opportunity. Man. So really really love that.
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Speaker 3: I love the talent that's come in right from the
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Speaker 3: springball practices that I was able to see and go
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Speaker 3: by and see the way that they incorporated the new
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Speaker 3: system with the given and how those guys are bringing
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Speaker 3: it in and what they've been able to be like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: this is what we did last year, let's keep it
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Speaker 3: the same. I love that that just means everybody's working
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Speaker 3: together and like this works, let's not change it. And
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Speaker 3: so I think our offense is going to be one
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Speaker 3: of the most dynamic offenses in all of college football
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Speaker 3: this year. Absolutely love the way we're set up from
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Speaker 3: the schedule standfo point, from the offensive positioning standpoint, to
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Speaker 3: be able to score a lot of points no matter
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Speaker 3: who's that core, who's that running back. We had talent
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Speaker 3: all across the board man, and just really utilizing the
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Speaker 3: personnel is what I'm so excited to see is upcoming
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Speaker 3: fall and how we do that. Man. So there's been
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Speaker 3: a lot of things. Love what Scotty's doing. Then if
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Speaker 3: there's ever a regime change and you have opinions about
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Speaker 3: a Reziine change and you you kind of wanted to
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Speaker 3: go a certain way, I think that the way that
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Speaker 3: Morgan has gone about this in the University of Utah
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Speaker 3: has gone about this with Morgan has been stellar. I
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Speaker 3: love the coaching editions that were made is very focused
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Speaker 3: and it's very what this program needs right now and
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Speaker 3: get back on track and to make sure that it
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Speaker 3: is a good transition from the last coach Winningham coaching
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Speaker 3: staff man. So love what's going on. I'm very excited
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Speaker 3: to see what they're able to do here come fall.
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Speaker 1: So somebody asked me this early in the show today
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Speaker 1: on the text line, and I'll ask you the same question.
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Speaker 1: They said, what's going to be different about Utah football
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Speaker 1: this fall? I'd be curious to know what to see.
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Speaker 1: What you think would different about Utah football this ball?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it would be a plan of attack.
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Speaker 3: If anything different, it's a plan of attack. One thing
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Speaker 3: that I do know just from my closeness to the
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Speaker 3: program is how similar coach written Scalley are in a
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Speaker 3: lot of different ways, right, But I think the plan
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Speaker 3: of it what will be different is how they go about,
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Speaker 3: you know, attacking the opponent from right out of the
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Speaker 3: gate to kind of what's There's a lot of coaches
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Speaker 3: who are going to be like, Okay, I want to
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Speaker 3: have a filling out process, right. It's kind of what
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Speaker 3: I feel about Lebron James, right, He's like he takes
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Speaker 3: that first game of the playoffs, and like, let's fill
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Speaker 3: out how are they planning, how are they trying to
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Speaker 3: attack me? And then you know, kind of in a
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Speaker 3: boxing match too, what is this guy's game plan this
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Speaker 3: whole match and how he plans to fight me? Right
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Speaker 3: and and so now I can retell it. So I'm
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Speaker 3: gathering information as we go. As far as I don't
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Speaker 3: think that's scallet game plan. I think Scalley's game plan
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Speaker 3: is like, look, I'm gonna hit you with it hers
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Speaker 3: because I know what you're going to try to do
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Speaker 3: about the rips, and I'm just gonna do it better
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Speaker 3: and faster and right out the jump. So I think
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Speaker 3: that you taught football is going to be so aggressive
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Speaker 3: at the start of the gate of the games, is
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Speaker 3: what I'm anticipating. We don't really know because we haven't
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Speaker 3: seen the game yet, right, but this is what I
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Speaker 3: think is going to be different as a plan of
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Speaker 3: attack per game going in. And I think that Mortga
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Speaker 3: style is going to be on a mission to how
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Speaker 3: dominant this program to be against any opponent no matter
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Speaker 3: how we are. I'm not really worried about the next
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Speaker 3: opponent that's coming on and what they're thinking, and that's
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Speaker 3: what I take away from coach Whitinghan's program. I think
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Speaker 3: he was very adamating about like what we do this
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Speaker 3: week is setting up next week and what they're researching
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Speaker 3: and looking at that as far as scaling is like, look,
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Speaker 3: we are a dangerous, dangerous team. It doesn't matter what
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Speaker 3: we do, whether we run the ball this week, where
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Speaker 3: we passed the ball this week, whatever we do, you
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Speaker 3: better be ready for it, because we can come out whatever.
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Speaker 3: I think the plan of attack going into games is
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Speaker 3: what's going to be the biggest difference. And I think
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Speaker 3: you're going to see a lot more points forward from Utah,
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Speaker 3: which is something that you know, we've been asking for
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Speaker 3: for years. We've had a couple of years. In twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty one, for you know, we were up around that
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Speaker 3: thirty eight forty five points a game and we absolutely
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Speaker 3: loved that. And I think that's the type of offense,
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Speaker 3: the type of team that we're going to be this year.
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Speaker 3: And our defink is going to be more putting their
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Speaker 3: ears back and getting out to the quarterback because the
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Speaker 3: opponent is going to be so behind the ball. So
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Speaker 3: I think the plan of attack going in the game
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Speaker 3: is going to be the biggest.
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Speaker 1: Difference Utah great and my broadcast partner Steven sent Sylvester
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Speaker 1: with us here on the Sean O'Connell Show today. All right,
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Speaker 1: let me throw a couple of questions at you that
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Speaker 1: I've posed on my podcast the last week or two.
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Speaker 1: There Utah football question specific to this team this year,
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Speaker 1: and I just get your reaction to these questions, and
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Speaker 1: I've asked listeners. So question number one, will Utah have
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Speaker 1: a one thousand yard wide receiver this year? They've gone
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Speaker 1: thirteen years without a one thousand yard receivers. Dres Anderson
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Speaker 1: was the last dizzy. Dres was the last one to
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Speaker 1: have a one thousand yard receiving year. Do you think
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Speaker 1: Utah has a one thousand yard wide receiver this year?
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Speaker 3: Yes, uh, and I'm looking forward to it. I think
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Speaker 3: we have a thousand yard receiver and another, uh, six
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Speaker 3: hundred yard receiver to compliment. I think Brandon Pegan is
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Speaker 3: gonna be one thousand yard receiver. I'm telling you watching
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Speaker 3: this guy in person, absolutely love his talent. He's so versatile,
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Speaker 3: so strong, and the biggest thing, he's confident. When you
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Speaker 3: have a confident receiver and a confident quarterback, Yeah, Devin Dampier,
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Speaker 3: He's been in this program, been in this this conference
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Speaker 3: and understands things and he's very confident. And mcgiddon's offense
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Speaker 3: is very similar to the offense that Utah State ran
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Speaker 3: last year. And I think that relationship is marrying up
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Speaker 3: really well between the given and and nwdam Pier and
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Speaker 3: even our back to bird Frankland. I think that we
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Speaker 3: just have the talent to make that happen. And when
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Speaker 3: you got a number one guy like Bradon Pegan, I'm
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Speaker 3: telling you I say that because of what I've seen
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Speaker 3: in practice and I'm anticipating what it will translate over to.
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Speaker 3: You know, getting Davin damp Pier out of the pocket
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Speaker 3: will eliminate anything like oh can we block syd Like
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Speaker 3: Devin dam Pier is dangerous with his legs, so you
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Speaker 3: can't double guys on the back end because Devine will
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Speaker 3: kill you with legs. So you're gonna have to play
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Speaker 3: Utah extremely honest. And when you do, that's when guys
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Speaker 3: win those one on one battles that Brandon Pagan's win
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Speaker 3: that one on one battles. You get Daniel Bray in
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Speaker 3: the slots and extremely dangerous the way Brittain Tubby was
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Speaker 3: back in the day. And we have these talent across
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Speaker 3: the board from from Tyree Scholz and the emergence of
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Speaker 3: Creed Widmore like, You're gonna see these guys take shape.
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Speaker 3: And I do think that Brandon Pagan wins ninety percent
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Speaker 3: of his one on one battles just because of his
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Speaker 3: stature of athletic ability and confidence. Man. So I believe
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Speaker 3: Brandon Pagan will be a thousand yard receiver this year
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Speaker 3: in this offense.
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Speaker 1: Okay, will they have a double digit sack guy this year?
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Speaker 3: No, I think they're gonna be able to spread the love. Uh,
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Speaker 3: They're gonna have posts. Like I told you, Bill, I
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Speaker 3: think let's post call is is my guy. I really
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Speaker 3: love the work that he's been able to do, and
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Speaker 3: more of the maturity and his character and the type
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Speaker 3: of person that he is. He loves his craft. He's
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Speaker 3: been dedicating his cars, and that's what I saw that
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Speaker 3: Spring is working on the little things, the hand moves,
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Speaker 3: the endurance as he put on a little bit of
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Speaker 3: weight and strength and all of those things, and that's
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Speaker 3: exactly what we need. But I think that he'll be
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Speaker 3: a disruptor in the backfield to where if he's a
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Speaker 3: John Henry Daily, to where Johann David got majority of
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Speaker 3: his sacks early in the season against you know, some
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Speaker 3: of our non conference opponents. Maybe we get a double digits,
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Speaker 3: but I can see his disruption along with Carsonkafussi in
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Speaker 3: the middle on the same side, is going to be
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Speaker 3: absolutely dangerous for the opponent. Carsonkfusi as a true freshman,
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Speaker 3: was just wrecking shot and he's just so skilled and
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Speaker 3: that's just in the blood lining man. We just know that.
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Speaker 3: But just those guys will demand attention and other guys
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Speaker 3: will open up, but they'll get that opportunity. So I
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Speaker 3: think what we're having a step of double digit sad guys.
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Speaker 3: I think that we're going to have high sack between
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Speaker 3: three to four guys. I think we'll have three to
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Speaker 3: four guys over six seven sacks this year and I
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Speaker 3: can't wait for that. I think it will be absolutely awesome.
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Speaker 3: With the rotation on defensive line, Cash Dimon getting in there,
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Speaker 3: are transfer ethan Day. He made a lot of noise
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Speaker 3: in spring. In spring is well confident, ye did? He
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Speaker 3: did a great job of understanding the defense coming in
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Speaker 3: and being affected then so excited to see what he's
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Speaker 3: able to do with the full off season going into
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Speaker 3: training camp. As we head into.
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Speaker 2: Idaho, I agree with you.
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Speaker 1: I think that you we'll probably see three, maybe four
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Speaker 1: guys that had between about five and eight sacks, I
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Speaker 1: think between Day and Dylan and Holtzklaw. And you know,
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Speaker 1: the guy we kind of forget a little bit about
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Speaker 1: is Paul Fitzgerald, who was hurt most of last year.
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Speaker 1: But Paul was a pretty effective player in his first
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Speaker 1: Cup all of years up at Utah State. And I
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Speaker 1: think a healthy Paul Fitzgerald could be in that mix too.
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Speaker 1: And and you know this, sack numbers are great. What's
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Speaker 1: really important to pressures and if these guys can get,
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Speaker 1: you know, in that neighborhood of five to seven to
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Speaker 1: eight sack seats, but also really do a good job
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Speaker 1: pressuring that, that'll be huge.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, And you could take away those those opportunities
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Speaker 3: because you know when you have those long play long balls,
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Speaker 3: and the biggest thing is is those Oh gosh, why
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Speaker 3: am I last of the name right now? Those those
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Speaker 3: max plays. It plays over twenty yards. Sorry I'm forgetting
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Speaker 3: the name he used to call it. But yeah, chunk plays.
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Speaker 3: You eliminate chunk plays by pressures. Right, pressures he makes
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Speaker 3: dumb decisions, turnover to come off with dumb decisions, and
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Speaker 3: you force him to throw the ball short, which means
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Speaker 3: everybody can rally and they don't get much out and
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Speaker 3: you get three and outs. Right, So pressures, this, as
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Speaker 3: you said, is going to be extremely effective, which is
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Speaker 3: why I love Carsonkafusi's presence right poopoos up alone as well.
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Speaker 3: I did a great job last year. You know, we
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Speaker 3: had a lot of fun always saying Poopol's affected today.
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Speaker 3: But I think that those guys are had had experience
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Speaker 3: last year. They'll get to come in and really tear
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Speaker 3: things up this year and take shape. Man, the biggest
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Speaker 3: jump that I think people need to make in their
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Speaker 3: careers from the freshmen and sophomore year. So you got
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Speaker 3: Carson Kafusi and poopols Up alone. I'm going from freshmen
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Speaker 3: to sophomores and with a significant experience last year. So man,
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Speaker 3: excited about this defense is like no other. I think
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be absolutely awesome. But I think there's gonna
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Speaker 3: be a lot of pressures that are gonna cause turnovers
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Speaker 3: and a lot of three and outs, but you know
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Speaker 3: early in that year. Last year, we didn't create enough
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Speaker 3: turnovers early, and so I'm hoping we get to the
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Speaker 3: turnover back from the force fumbles to the interceptions those
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Speaker 3: some early in the season, so when they come late
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Speaker 3: in the season when we really need them against by
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Speaker 3: U and Arizona and these games like that, we know
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Speaker 3: how to do it. We're comptle were doing it, and
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Speaker 3: so whenever we need to play, we can get a
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Speaker 3: play out of these guys.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: I've looked at the schedule, and it's easy to do
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Speaker 1: this in the offseason, but I think the schedule early
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Speaker 1: for Utah is really is really positive. You've got the
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Speaker 1: three non conference games all at home against three teams
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Speaker 1: that you should beat. I know Arkansas is an SEC team,
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Speaker 1: but they're in rebuild mode after firing their staff mid season.
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Speaker 2: I just I look at that, and then Iowa State
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Speaker 2: new staff.
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Speaker 1: Ninety percent of their roster left Kansas rebuilding at Colorado.
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Speaker 2: Houston's in there.
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Speaker 1: Tough, but I really see a world slide where Utah
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Speaker 1: could be eight and oh heading into the BYU game,
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Speaker 1: And that November stretch, to me is kind of where
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Speaker 1: the season is decided, you know, kind of your fate
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Speaker 1: of the season with BYU, Arizona and TCU that stretch
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Speaker 1: of games, two of the three games being on the road.
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Speaker 1: Do you do you agree? Do you disagree? How do
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Speaker 1: you think the schedule sets up for Utah?
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Speaker 3: Schedule strets up beautifully. I mean, look, or two of
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Speaker 3: our three hardest games are at home, you know, from
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Speaker 3: BYU at home, Houston is going to be at home,
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Speaker 3: and Arizona's going to be away. We have what seven
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Speaker 3: home games this year. I think our schedules sets us
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Speaker 3: up to be extremely, extremely beneficial, which is crazy. I'm
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Speaker 3: looking at all the schedules throughout the throughout the conference
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Speaker 3: of who's going to be you know, a top two point.
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Speaker 3: I think there's only going to be six real threat
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Speaker 3: teams this year from Arizona, BYU, Houston, Teva State, Texas Tech,
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Speaker 3: and Utah. And we have the hardest of those six,
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Speaker 3: which I don't think our schedule is that hard, but
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Speaker 3: you know, it all depends on where the games fall,
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Speaker 3: where is it going to be at home, all these
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Speaker 3: different factors from you know, how long we've been from
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Speaker 3: the bye week, all those things come in and our
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Speaker 3: schedule is great. Texas Tech has the easiest case schedule
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Speaker 3: honestly for me, which is whatever you got to play
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Speaker 3: the teams on your schedule. Hopefully there's a surprise team
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Speaker 3: that on paper doesn't look good right now, but it
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Speaker 3: turns out to be better and challenges Test just take
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Speaker 3: down the road. But right now, they're only hard game
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Speaker 3: is going to be with Arizona at home, so but
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Speaker 3: Utah is going to be in that conversation, bu has
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Speaker 3: a couple of hard games. Noted game's not gonna really matter,
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Speaker 3: but they got Arizona at home and then at the
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Speaker 3: at Utah. So this year is gonna come down to
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Speaker 3: the wire again, just like last year. Is going to
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Speaker 3: be the last week of the season, and somebody's gonna
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Speaker 3: have to make do with with with what happened. Then.
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Speaker 3: As far as who's going to be in that championship game,
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be a very tight race from a lot
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Speaker 3: of different teams. But I think Utah is set up
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Speaker 3: perfectly Again. The focus right now in June is not November.
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Speaker 3: It's about that first game and getting together and that's
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Speaker 3: what utah Ne's doing. And we could we could really
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Speaker 3: worry about all those things, and but it's all about momentum,
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Speaker 3: as you know, going into the next game. You know,
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Speaker 3: we had some trouble at the end of the at
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Speaker 3: the season last year, but we were such a talented
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Speaker 3: team that we fought through that. From that Troch's defensive
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Speaker 3: performance we put up at Baylor to that terrible game
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Speaker 3: we put up at against Kansas State last year, we
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Speaker 3: did not end the season great as a team. Even
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Speaker 3: though we won those games, we did not end the
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Speaker 3: season great. So momentum is going to be huge when
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Speaker 3: we go into that BYU game and we go into
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Speaker 3: that Arizona game, right and so really looking forward to
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Speaker 3: how this team takes shape and takes on their opponents
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Speaker 3: week to week. But right now we are set up
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Speaker 3: to yes, b eight to zero heading into b YU,
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Speaker 3: and you know, we win that game at home, we're
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Speaker 3: now nine to zero going to Arizona and we can
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Speaker 3: possibly head into a really really good year again, another
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Speaker 3: double digit win year for Utah football, which is great
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Speaker 3: for our first year coach.
17:48
Speaker 1: And we'll just going well, if they do that, they'll
17:49
Speaker 1: be in position to make the College Football Playoff. And
17:52
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you if we want to wind
17:53
Speaker 1: things down college Football Playoff. A lot of talk about
17:56
Speaker 1: the format in recent weeks. It's currently twelve, which I
17:59
Speaker 1: don't mind. I think the twelve team thing has been
18:02
Speaker 1: really good the last two years. But the powers would
18:06
Speaker 1: be in the different conferences want to expand this thing.
18:09
Speaker 1: Everybody but the SEC and ESPN want to move it
18:12
Speaker 1: to twenty four teams. I myself would love to see
18:15
Speaker 1: it go to sixteen teams because it's more money, sure,
18:19
Speaker 1: but I don't think after you get beyond sixteen team
18:22
Speaker 1: slide really anybody's in the mix to win the thing.
18:25
Speaker 1: What's your read on the playoff format? Where it's at
18:29
Speaker 1: now and where you'd like to see it go, or
18:31
Speaker 1: maybe you'd like to see it stay at twelve.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the twelve was a huge adjustment for four, right, Right?
18:40
Speaker 3: How many times did we argue that four was done?
18:42
Speaker 3: Even before that just the people determined that there was two? Right?
18:45
Speaker 3: It sucked, But I like the twelve tween playoffs. I
18:50
Speaker 3: do agree it needs to be more. But everything you do,
18:54
Speaker 3: it's just like being in charge of anything. They're not
18:57
Speaker 3: going to make any you're not going to make everybody happy, right.
19:00
Speaker 3: I definitely think that even the NFL there's sometimes there's
19:04
Speaker 3: guys who don't make the playoffs that you feel like
19:07
Speaker 3: was rolling with momentum at the right time, and because
19:10
Speaker 3: of technicality, they didn't end up making the playoffs. And
19:13
Speaker 3: so you're not going to make everybody happy. But I
19:16
Speaker 3: do agree expanding it past sixteen, you're going to kind
19:19
Speaker 3: of get in the no man's last sixteen. Sixteen is great, right,
19:23
Speaker 3: because I think anything past sixteen, there's notable losses that
19:28
Speaker 3: proved that they should not be in. Right last year,
19:31
Speaker 3: Utah we had what BYU in Texas Tech has losses
19:35
Speaker 3: which are great. Both of those teams up and the
19:38
Speaker 3: BYU only had one loss or to one team that
19:42
Speaker 3: was ranked top in the country. Why didn't they have
19:44
Speaker 3: the chance over some of these other schools. There were
19:46
Speaker 3: so many different narratives, and then you had Miami who
19:49
Speaker 3: was scraping at the bid, but they ended up making
19:51
Speaker 3: it all the way to the championships. So I mean,
19:53
Speaker 3: I think when you get to sixteen, you're able to
19:55
Speaker 3: wild it out. So I really like the sixteen team model.
19:58
Speaker 3: But again, you know, we're and have a team that's
20:01
Speaker 3: on success of seventeen that felt like they should be
20:04
Speaker 3: in at the end of that too, so it'll be
20:07
Speaker 3: here forever any battle. But I do like where we're
20:10
Speaker 3: going with making sure more teams have the ability to
20:14
Speaker 3: get to the championship game and make that happen, and
20:16
Speaker 3: I think going to sixteen we'll be able to do that. Well.
20:19
Speaker 1: The only real reason to go to twenty four is
20:21
Speaker 1: the amount of money it would generate, because you're not
20:24
Speaker 1: twenty four.
20:25
Speaker 3: Teams, which is a lot of people deal.
20:27
Speaker 1: Oh no, And I get I'm not so naive to
20:30
Speaker 1: think that I don't know what the money part of
20:31
Speaker 1: it is because everybody, the best programs, the worst programs,
20:35
Speaker 1: everybody in between. Everybody still needs money. Even the ones
20:38
Speaker 1: that are the best funded still can use Everybody can
20:41
Speaker 1: use more money. But twenty that's the only reason to
20:44
Speaker 1: do it, because when you would add those additional eight
20:47
Speaker 1: more teams from sixteen, I don't think in the real
20:50
Speaker 1: world slide, any of us think that any of those
20:52
Speaker 1: eight teams beyond sixteen would have a legitimate chance to
20:56
Speaker 1: win four or five games and win the championship At sixteen.
20:59
Speaker 1: I still think that there's a chance. Let's just say
21:01
Speaker 1: it was sixteen last year, both Utah and by you
21:03
Speaker 1: would have made a sixteen team field. Texas would have
21:06
Speaker 1: made it, Notre Dame would have made it. I think
21:08
Speaker 1: you could do that teams twenty two, twenty three, twenty
21:11
Speaker 1: four there in. Maybe they win a game, maybe they
21:13
Speaker 1: would win two, but the odds have them winning the
21:16
Speaker 1: overall championship are pretty remote.
21:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you get into the aspect of wanting
21:22
Speaker 3: to include the G five and them having performance the
21:25
Speaker 3: way James Madison played against Oregon, right, and so it's
21:29
Speaker 3: just like, is that totally necessary or should we have
21:32
Speaker 3: included the Texases? Should we have included you know, the
21:35
Speaker 3: Utahs and the Byus And so there's going to be
21:38
Speaker 3: people who aren't going to make it because you have
21:40
Speaker 3: to have those other guys. So again, somebody's going to
21:45
Speaker 3: be left out each and every year. Unfortunately, to do
21:47
Speaker 3: that in all of this, because you expanded a lot
21:51
Speaker 3: more teams had the opportunity, it does make things more exciting. Though.
21:55
Speaker 3: You get teams who aren't trying to throw in the
21:57
Speaker 3: towel around with nine and ten because they're the mix.
22:00
Speaker 3: You get a lot more people who have the ability
22:02
Speaker 3: to get into that playoffs, and so college football will
22:05
Speaker 3: always be interesting, you know, heading into the end of
22:09
Speaker 3: the season and championship weekend and all these other things.
22:12
Speaker 3: And so I think whatever you do, you create more
22:17
Speaker 3: possibilities for us all to watch football, which is what
22:20
Speaker 3: we love, and some of us to watch our favorite teams. Right,
22:23
Speaker 3: we expand that we give our favorite teams more opportunities
22:26
Speaker 3: to play another game. I'd love to see you play
22:28
Speaker 3: another game last year.
22:29
Speaker 2: I'd love to have you and I broadcast another game.
22:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly, man, So yeah, I love it. I
22:37
Speaker 3: think they're moving towards it, to getting it right, and
22:41
Speaker 3: hopefully there's going to be a foundation set somewhere where
22:45
Speaker 3: we can keep that for at least a couple of years.
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Speaker 1: Hey, sly, thanks man, ninety days, talk to you soon.
22:52
Speaker 1: All right, brother, There he is Stevenson Sylvester, part of
22:55
Speaker 1: the broadcast team, one of the Utah greats. And to
22:59
Speaker 1: have him on board here on the program today on
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Speaker 1: a Friday, ninety days have to kick off