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Dan Sorensen on Utezone moving to On3, Utah FB's roster construction and latest recruiting + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Am, Welcome back to the Sean O'Connell Show. Some breaking
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  Speaker 1: news from the NFL as Rich Eisen was hinting towards
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  Speaker 1: and alluding to but didn't actually report on, and I
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  Speaker 1: started the show doing the same thing. We know what
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  Speaker 1: the breaking news is as we're about to get the
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  Speaker 1: Dan soas s Dan Sorenson of Ute Zone, the Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Rams have acquired Miles Garrett in exchange for Jared Verse,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twenty seven first round pick and other considerations.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Moley, the best pass rusher currently in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: has been acquired by the LA Rams. They are going
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  Speaker 1: all in on trying to win another Super Bowl while
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  Speaker 1: they still have Matt Stafford. Wow, we'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: more a little bit later. Dan Sorenson had some breaking
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  Speaker 1: news of his own regarding you Zone, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: with him about that and other things. Dan, Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the show.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing well, How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right, man. You know, it's a fun
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  Speaker 1: day when something like that drops into your lap while
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  Speaker 1: you're doing sports talk radio.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Look, this can be the the doldrums of summer, right,
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  Speaker 2: So getting news that's interesting and exciting, especially if you're
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  Speaker 2: a Rams fan, you can't ask for more than that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your news though. Yout Zone is moving
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  Speaker 1: to ON three. How did this come about? The how
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  Speaker 1: and the why? Walk me through it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, so you know, those of us that have
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  Speaker 2: known us, for those people that have known us for
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  Speaker 2: a while, you know, they know that our specialty is
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  Speaker 2: recruiting and talking about some of those insider things that
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  Speaker 2: happened from a roster management perspective. And there was an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity that arose for us to align with ON three
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  Speaker 2: and join them as a network. And it was a
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  Speaker 2: really easy call. Look that they're one of the fastest
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  Speaker 2: growing sports outlets that there is, the things that they're
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  Speaker 2: doing to cover things like nil or the new world
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  Speaker 2: and landscape of college football, the transfer portal, both on
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  Speaker 2: the basketball on the football side. We've watched them grow
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  Speaker 2: over the years and been really impressed with the engine
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  Speaker 2: that they've built, and then when they started to get
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  Speaker 2: some of the heavy hitter national analyst guys like Brandon
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  Speaker 2: Huffman and Greg Biggins and Alan True, it became a
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  Speaker 2: really easy decision. So we made the move over, and
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  Speaker 2: we're really excited about it. We feel like this is
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity for us to help us grow the site
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  Speaker 2: in the community. I mean, we are the largest online
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  Speaker 2: community for University of Utah fans, and we've the most active, certainly,
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  Speaker 2: and we've been that way for almost twenty years, and
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  Speaker 2: so this is a partner that we think can take
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  Speaker 2: us well into the future. And we're really excited about it,
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  Speaker 2: and people that want to jump in they can join
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  Speaker 2: us over the next forty eight hours. We got seventy
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  Speaker 2: five percent off of an annual subscription, so thirty bucks
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  Speaker 2: will basically get you a year's worth of access. And
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  Speaker 2: we're doing all kinds of things in terms of reporting
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  Speaker 2: and things on recruiting, visitor weekends and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So people that are interested, we'd love to have you
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  Speaker 2: come join the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Love it. Hopefully this is exactly Hopefully this ends up
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  Speaker 1: being exactly what you and everyone else out there at
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  Speaker 1: you Zone wanted to be. But now let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: this University of Utah football team. I was just ranting
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  Speaker 1: and raving about how you know, last season was one
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  Speaker 1: of the best turnarounds we've seen in Utah football history,
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  Speaker 1: and it kind of got lost in the postseason shuffle
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  Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, right the changeover the coach staff, the
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  Speaker 1: recruiting fallout that happened because of that, and I know
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  Speaker 1: you guys have been on top of all of that.
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  Speaker 1: But in your mind, is this team, especially from a
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  Speaker 1: recruiting standpoint, both out of the transfer portal and on
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  Speaker 1: the high school front, are they prepared to heading into
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  Speaker 1: this twenty twenty six campaign, capitalize on the turnaround that
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  Speaker 1: last year represented and continue to improve and to build
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  Speaker 1: upon that drastic turnaround for me a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really think that they are, and I do
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of reasons. Number one is, look, it's
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  Speaker 2: frankly last year and the year prior are the best example.
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  Speaker 2: But college football, especially the quarterback position matters probably more
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  Speaker 2: than any other position. And when you have strong and
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  Speaker 2: competent quarterback play, you're going to be positioned to win
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  Speaker 2: a lot more games. And that sounds like a note
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  Speaker 2: bringer thing, but it really mattered. And so even with
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  Speaker 2: Devin Dampier playing most of the season hurt last year
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  Speaker 2: and then berg Thicklin emerging as a threat and somebody
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  Speaker 2: that was a capable backup, that was the real catalyst
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  Speaker 2: that drove Utah to win double digit games last year.
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  Speaker 2: So the fact that yeah, they went out, they lost
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  Speaker 2: a few guys in the transfer portal, Yes they picked
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  Speaker 2: up others, but I think the biggest story is who
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  Speaker 2: they hung on too, and the fact that both Dampier,
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  Speaker 2: who had options, berg Thicklin had options, they were able
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  Speaker 2: to hang on to both of those guys, and they've
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  Speaker 2: got as strong a quarterback room as they've had in
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  Speaker 2: a long long time. Now. I'm not saying any of
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  Speaker 2: those guys are going to be better than Cam Rising
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  Speaker 2: at his peak was or Tyler Huntley at his peak,
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  Speaker 2: but the room in general is deeper, and with the
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  Speaker 2: type of offense Utah is looking to play, there's a
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  Speaker 2: real opportunity for those guys to make a splash and
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  Speaker 2: put up some numbers. And if that happens, this football
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  Speaker 2: team's going to win a lot of games. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys on defense that they needed to replace,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that they did a fairly good job
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  Speaker 2: of that via the transfer portal, especially at the cornerback
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  Speaker 2: position and the defensive tackle position. But the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they've got those two quarterbacks, they've got guys that I
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  Speaker 2: think are going to be able to put up numbers
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  Speaker 2: and points on the board this fall. I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's going to go a long way to helping Morgan
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  Speaker 2: Scalley come out of the gate and win a lot
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  Speaker 2: of games. If the offense plays well and the defense
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  Speaker 2: plays up to part even for what they did last year,
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  Speaker 2: I think the floor is double digit wins with this
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  Speaker 2: Utah team. The national media won't agree with me because
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  Speaker 2: of what was lost, but when you watch it and
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  Speaker 2: you see what they've got, there is absolutely potential for that.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Sorenson, our guests here on the Sean O'Connell show
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  Speaker 1: talk at All Things. Ute Zone is now switching over
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  Speaker 1: to on three. They've got membership specials right now to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the changeover. Take advantage of that, get great coverage
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  Speaker 1: on your favorite athletic program up here at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Utah. All Right, so again I'm skewing some of
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  Speaker 1: these questions towards the newcomers because you had to rebuild
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  Speaker 1: this roster with some attrition, some graduation. Obviously, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line was a huge part of what they were able
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  Speaker 1: to do last year. And you and I talked during
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  Speaker 1: spring ball about, you know, Kelvin Obot and what he represents,
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  Speaker 1: the body he's got, and how quickly he can grow
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  Speaker 1: into this. It sounds like he might start at guard
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe bump out when he's more ready to
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  Speaker 1: play tackle. Is that what you're getting as well from
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff and your insiders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely what I'm getting. And we saw it
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  Speaker 2: a lot in the spring, and they talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: The coaches talked about it towards the end of the spring.
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  Speaker 2: But it's when you look at what that offensive line
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  Speaker 2: is going to look like. Zarawe Williams looks like he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be the starter at left tackle. Frankly, the
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  Speaker 2: right tackle position might be the most interesting. And I
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  Speaker 2: know that you asked me Obot, but the most interesting
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  Speaker 2: battle this fall between Isaiah Garcia and Cedric Jefferson. Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: being the transfer that came in from Montana State. But
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  Speaker 2: Garcia had a great spring, and even post spring, I've
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  Speaker 2: been hearing a lot of things about how he's grown
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  Speaker 2: and he's getting ready, and you know, he was a
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  Speaker 2: four star kid coming out of high school and and
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  Speaker 2: he's had a lot of injuries since he's been up
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  Speaker 2: on the hill. But he's a guy that's going to
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to really make us splash this fall
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  Speaker 2: and potentially unseat the transfer that everybody expected to start.
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  Speaker 2: So with those with those guys battling it out at tackle,
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  Speaker 2: it makes sense that that Obot would be pushed inside
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  Speaker 2: the guard. He's right now, he's battling Solota Mooi as
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  Speaker 2: at left guard, and I think that that's what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see heading into fall camp, and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be really interesting to see, you know, which of
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  Speaker 2: those guys comes out ahead. Moi is, of course a senior.
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  Speaker 2: He's played a lot of football, probably more snaps for
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  Speaker 2: the youths than anybody else on that offensive line. The
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  Speaker 2: fact that Obot's even in the conversation says all you
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  Speaker 2: need to know about a true freshman that has all
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  Speaker 2: of the potential in the world. So the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to try to get him on the field,
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  Speaker 2: whether he starts or not, He's going to be that
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  Speaker 2: first guy off the bench, kind of like what we
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  Speaker 2: saw with Keith Olsen last year, and they can probably
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  Speaker 2: plug him into basically four of the five spots if
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  Speaker 2: somebody goes down or if they need to shuffle things around.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that whether he starts or not, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see a lot of Kelvin Obot this fall
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to get it as many reps as possible.
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  Speaker 2: But he's absolutely going to be in the game in
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  Speaker 2: terms of trying to win that starting spot and you know,
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  Speaker 2: be one of the few and the rare that can
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  Speaker 2: be a potential true freshman starter on the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: for the Utes.
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  Speaker 1: Recruiting is the business that never sleeps. You know this
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  Speaker 1: a lot better than I. How is this next class
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  Speaker 1: shaping up for Morgan Scalley?
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  Speaker 2: His first?
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  Speaker 1: For me, his first real class, because you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be all of this frenzy and insanity
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  Speaker 1: around the coaching changeover. How is his next class shaping up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's starting to shape up fairly nicely. They don't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot in terms of commitments yet, so they've
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  Speaker 2: basically got three guys that are committed. Jonah Miley who's
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  Speaker 2: a local running back, a kid that he's a number
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  Speaker 2: twelve player in the state of Utah this year. It's
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  Speaker 2: a really loaded class. Once we got him in the stage.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to interrupt you. Dan shout out by
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  Speaker 1: the way to Jonah Miley. His his dad, Marcus Miley,
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  Speaker 1: was my teammate at Weaber State University, got a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl ring with the Saints, and is just an absolute
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  Speaker 1: monster of a football player that if the transfer portal
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  Speaker 1: existed back then, would not have finished his career at
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  Speaker 1: Weber State. So this is a this is a legacy
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  Speaker 1: type player that again, his dad would have been at
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  Speaker 1: a Utah or at a BYU or somewhere like that
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  Speaker 1: if transfers were so free and accessible back then. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: mean to interrupt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, And that's awesome. And look and it makes
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  Speaker 2: sense when you look at Jonah, you know, he's a
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  Speaker 2: chip off the old block. He's outstanding athlete, very strong
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  Speaker 2: running back. He's got a great physique, an amazing mentality
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  Speaker 2: and attitude. He's a He's a kid that you fans
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  Speaker 2: I think are going to love. But so Miley's committed
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  Speaker 2: at running back. Tiki Peoples is a defensive tackle out
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  Speaker 2: of Arizona six four two sixty five. He's committed. Jack
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  Speaker 2: Henderson is an edge rusher out of Idaho, the number
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  Speaker 2: one player in the state of Idaho this year, so
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  Speaker 2: Kelvin Obot was that last year. The Utch are doing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great work in the state of Idaho.
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  Speaker 2: But Jack Henderson's committed, and so they've got a good start,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a lot of work to do, of course,
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  Speaker 2: beginning last weekend with it was the first big official
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  Speaker 2: visit weekend for the uten for Morgan Scalley. They had
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  Speaker 2: eleven kids on campus and then for the next three weekends,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see double digit kids on campus every
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  Speaker 2: single weekends they try to fill out this class. But
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the work that's going to be done
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  Speaker 2: for this twenty twenty seven class is going to happen
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  Speaker 2: in the next three weeks. So we're going to see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of commitments across the board, not just at
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  Speaker 2: Utah but other places, and it's going to be interesting
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  Speaker 2: to watch the dominoes fall. But they've got a good
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  Speaker 2: start in the sense that they've got three guys that
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  Speaker 2: they really want that we're very high on their boards,
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  Speaker 2: and they've got a chance to go in and really
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  Speaker 2: fill out that roster and bring in some high caliber kids.
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  Speaker 2: Every single kid that they're bringing in on official visits
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  Speaker 2: has multiple P four offers. A lot of them have
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  Speaker 2: multiple P two offers. They've got a lot of talent,
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  Speaker 2: and it's you know, you really have to respect Joe Gerazzio,
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  Speaker 2: the new GM and the whole recruiting staff. Mason Yeller
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  Speaker 2: Cooe is the director of scouting that whole recruiting class
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  Speaker 2: or staff. They've done a great job at scouting and
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  Speaker 2: identifying guys that are going to be programmed fits from
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  Speaker 2: a scheme perspective and from a culture perspective, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting to watch things play out
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  Speaker 2: as they start to land commitments. I don't think we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see a rush on those commitments for another
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  Speaker 2: week to week and a half or so, but we're
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  Speaker 2: going to start seeing the dominoes fall relatively soon.
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  Speaker 1: How much is the behind the scenes kind of craziness
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  Speaker 1: with this private equity deal. A part of recruiting conversations
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  Speaker 1: are families, and you know, high school coaches are the
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  Speaker 1: people that this team is recruiting asking about aware of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with the private equity deal and Utah Football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in terms of the deal in and of itself,
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  Speaker 2: not so much the conversations when it comes to recruiting.
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  Speaker 2: They look like, well, there are a couple of factors
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  Speaker 2: that play into that. So number one is it is
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  Speaker 2: being talked about in the sense that, look, there is
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  Speaker 2: going to be assets to help us as we're raising
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  Speaker 2: more NIL, giving more opportunities for you to make more
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  Speaker 2: money as you're playing at the University of Utah will
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  Speaker 2: have this professional arm these people that are doing business
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  Speaker 2: development deals and that are working those things out and
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  Speaker 2: to give you a greater earning opportunity if you're a ute.
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  Speaker 2: And so that is something that's directly relatable to them
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  Speaker 2: and their situation. And what that looks like is they're
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  Speaker 2: weighing out all of the other factors that come into
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  Speaker 2: two playing for a school, from scheme fit to whether
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  Speaker 2: they like the coaches, to whether they fit in to
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  Speaker 2: where the school is, to how much they'll make in NIL.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the factor there. So the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: talk and say, they've got this apparatus that's being formed
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  Speaker 2: that is absolutely committed to helping them to maximize their
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  Speaker 2: earning potential with whatever they can make beyond the revenue
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  Speaker 2: sharing that they get from the school. That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing they're looking at is less about some
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  Speaker 2: of the solid the news around it, but more the
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  Speaker 2: implication where when you look at this and this this
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  Speaker 2: private equity deal, well, why would a partner come in
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  Speaker 2: and invest this money into Utah athletics unless they saw
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  Speaker 2: a path to get paid back And the most logical
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  Speaker 2: path to get paid back is is a potential inclusion
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  Speaker 2: in any sort of pee to expansion. So I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that they're that kids are getting promised that that's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen, but people that are paying close attention,
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  Speaker 2: they know that it's a potential thing. If, if, and
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  Speaker 2: when that happens, you know, this is a partner that's
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  Speaker 2: going to try to help make that kind of thing happen.
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  Speaker 2: And so the possibility that Utah might be included in
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  Speaker 2: that upper echelon of college football is definitely a conversation
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  Speaker 2: that's happening behind the scenes as these kids are having conversations.
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  Speaker 2: So and once again I'm not saying the utes are
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  Speaker 2: making promises or saying that this is going to happen,
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  Speaker 2: but it is something that's being considered.
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  Speaker 1: The spring meetings in the Big Ten in the SEC
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of like veiled threats in there. Right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't like, if we don't like what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: we might look elsewhere. We might think it's doing something else.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously they're the power players. Did any of the
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  Speaker 1: statements or the conversation coming out of those two spring
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  Speaker 1: meetings lead you to believe that maybe changes could be
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  Speaker 1: coming sooner than we expect in the college football as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned P two expansion potential.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean personally, that's if I tried to read
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  Speaker 2: between the lines, That's exactly the way that I looked
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  Speaker 2: at it. Now, look, that may be wishful or naive
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  Speaker 2: thinking on my part, and I have a vested interest in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the utes being as high profile as possible,
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  Speaker 2: but it really did feel that way. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: know that there was the legislation that was introduced in
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  Speaker 2: Congress last week and when you read through it and
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  Speaker 2: some of the revisions that are in that legislation, and
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  Speaker 2: there's no way that that's going to have a chance
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  Speaker 2: to pass. And because of that, you know, you saw
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  Speaker 2: the sword rattling from the SEC. From certain elements of
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten, and really, I mean, we're seeing some
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  Speaker 2: interesting forces at work. The way that the system has unfolded,
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  Speaker 2: it really is unsustainable, and not just for the G
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  Speaker 2: six programs, which you know, if you're a fan of
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  Speaker 2: one of those programs, I really feel for you. It's
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  Speaker 2: got to be frustrating to watch college football and what
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  Speaker 2: it's evolved into, especially if you love like a Utah
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  Speaker 2: State or a Wyoming or any of those types of programs.
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  Speaker 2: But look, the G fours and even the P twos
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  Speaker 2: are having a hard time with between making sure that
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  Speaker 2: they've got the funds available for what's dictated by the
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  Speaker 2: House Settlement to the arms race that we're seeing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're seeing college football players and college basketball players
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: making SIG significantly better money than NFL and NBA players,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: something is absolutely broken. And I'm not saying that players
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: shouldn't earn as much as they possibly can, but the
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: system isn't sustainable, and frankly, they're risking killing the golden goose,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's not surprising that you're seeing them the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: SEC and the Big ten talk about these things and
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: frankly make the veiled threats and I think that they're
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: going to make good on those threats. I do not
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: see this model lasting long. I do think that there
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: is going to be a breakaway and some schools are
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: going to be included and some are going to be
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: left out. And for football fans in the state of Utah,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: it's the hope is that the utes are one of
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  Speaker 2: those that are included. And this is an area in
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  Speaker 2: or region that deserves to have that type of that
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  Speaker 2: level of football. You see what's happening in the high
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• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and the success that they've had, and and so you
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: would hope that that that they're able to get in
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: with whatever that expansion looks like. But I do think
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: it's coming sooner than later. I don't think it's going
• 19:12
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  Speaker 2: I think with the way that the arms race is,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's too much weight for the system to bear,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: and cooler heads are probably going to prevail. That also
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: may be wishful thinking, but that's the way I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be holding my breath through about the next
• 19:37
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, Thanks so much. Man, have a great
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