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Bill Riley on the Otro Capital deal becoming official, Reaction to Sorsby going to NFL, USMNT vs Australia in World Cup + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 3: Bill Riley, Welcome back to the show.
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  Speaker 4: How are you don I'm good. I wishing I was
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  Speaker 4: in Stiattle at lumen Field today, but doing okay, seventy
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  Speaker 4: six days to kick off, Excited about Football USA today
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  Speaker 4: against Australia and ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: How do you react to the news we just got.
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  Speaker 2: Mauricio Poschattino confirmed with Jenny Taft that Christian Polistic will
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  Speaker 2: not play against Australia today.
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  Speaker 4: Not surprised at all. He didn't train with the team
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  Speaker 4: all week long, so when you're not training with the
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  Speaker 4: team and you're doing work on the side, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: have any thought that he would play today when I
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  Speaker 4: saw the last two days, he didn't train with the team,
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  Speaker 4: so if this was an elimination game, I think you'd
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  Speaker 4: see him probably try to play. But because it's the
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  Speaker 4: second game in group stage and because they have three
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  Speaker 4: points in their back pocket, I think it's probably the
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  Speaker 4: wise move. And as key as he is and he
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  Speaker 4: might be the most important and influential player for the team,
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  Speaker 4: they do have options. My expectation just to guess, just
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  Speaker 4: a guess. Eighteen years and calling some US men's national
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  Speaker 4: team games over the years, I know a little bit
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  Speaker 4: about the beautiful game. I'm gonna guess Tim Wia probably
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  Speaker 4: gets to start with his World Cup experience, probably goes
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  Speaker 4: sixty or so minutes, and then I think we probably
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  Speaker 4: see Geo Reina slot in as the second half substitution,
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  Speaker 4: depending on how the game's going, if they need a goal,
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  Speaker 4: if they're up a couple of goals, maybe they go
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  Speaker 4: more defensive in the midfield. But not really surprised. I
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  Speaker 4: bet we probably see him against Turkey a next next Friday,
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  Speaker 4: But not real surprised by the names.
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  Speaker 2: Riccardo Pepe getting the starts, according to the pops.
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  Speaker 4: Really in place of Plissic.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't I've.
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  Speaker 2: Been on air, so I have not been able to
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  Speaker 2: listen to the SoundBite itself. But in his conversation with
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  Speaker 2: Jenny Teff, this is the Fox Sports report. Okay, he's
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  Speaker 2: out and Riccardo Peppy to get the start, so interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, interesting, indeed going with an additional forward. Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 4: we'll see what Poacha decides to do with this. With
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  Speaker 4: this lineup today, it's going to be a physical game. Australia,
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  Speaker 4: as you know, tend to be very physical in all
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  Speaker 4: they do, whether it's basketball, Australian rules football, rugby, whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is. The soccer rus are going to make it
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's another reason why they didn't want to.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't want to risk polistic today too, even if
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  Speaker 4: he's close to being back. Australia plays a very physical
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  Speaker 4: brand of soccer and I think they've probably want to
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  Speaker 4: lessen the chances that he's out and aggravates it even longer.
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  Speaker 4: So I would expect a low scoring, physical game today
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  Speaker 4: in Seattle, and what about ninety minutes from now.
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  Speaker 2: I know you do love the beautiful game, and you've
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  Speaker 2: called it for such a long time, and you know
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  Speaker 2: you're always going to enjoy watching this World Cup, but
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  Speaker 2: seeing your home country host it, seeing your hometown, your
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  Speaker 2: original hometown be one.
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  Speaker 3: Of the host sites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like all the accessory stories and things that are
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  Speaker 2: coming out in the news and on social media and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: With all of that stuff, I imagine for me this.
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  Speaker 2: One has been even more enjoyable than than a typical
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  Speaker 2: World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm old enough to remember us hosting in
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  Speaker 4: nineteen ninety four, but it was just different. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the United States wasn't playing a huge though they had
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  Speaker 4: a great run, a surprising run there. The game in
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  Speaker 4: this country wasn't where it is today. But to see
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  Speaker 4: what this game, I mean, we're such a sporting country
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  Speaker 4: and we can do big events so very well. To
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  Speaker 4: see these crowds, to see these events, whether it's in
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  Speaker 4: Kansas City or Seattle, or Los Angeles or Atlanta or
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  Speaker 4: Miami or Houston or Dallas, everywhere you go, it's been
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  Speaker 4: met with just unbelievable enthusiasm by all that have been
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  Speaker 4: around it. I've been talking to friends of mine that
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  Speaker 4: have in Kansas City and family that are there, and
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  Speaker 4: it's just, you know, Kansas City's got not just the
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  Speaker 4: games themselves, but England, Argentina, the Netherlands, and Algeria are
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  Speaker 4: all base camping in Kansas City as well, so there's
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  Speaker 4: hundreds of thousands of people that are there just to
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  Speaker 4: see their favorite national teams practice and train. I just
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  Speaker 4: think it's been phenomenal. I thought last Friday night, the
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  Speaker 4: atmosphere it's so far for the US men's national team
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  Speaker 4: is so great. And the other thing is too It's
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  Speaker 4: I've called enough of these games over the years and
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  Speaker 4: seen them a lot of times. In these build ups
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  Speaker 4: and these friendlies and these qualifiers, the United States will
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  Speaker 4: play you know, Mexico, or they'll play Panama or somebody,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a half and half crowd, if not more
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  Speaker 4: the other way. These crowds are decidedly American. I would
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  Speaker 4: expect the atmosphere up in Seattle today to be even
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  Speaker 4: better than it was last Friday. Down to Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: I just I think it's been fantastic, and I just
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  Speaker 4: think the United States so far, again, we're only a
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  Speaker 4: week into this thing, but I think it's been It's
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  Speaker 4: carried off well. Same thing in Canada up in Vancouver
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  Speaker 4: and in Toronto and down in Guadalajara, in Mexico City.
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  Speaker 4: I just think so far the games have been really
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  Speaker 4: good and for the most part, and the atmosphere has
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  Speaker 4: been off the charts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so far, so good for the World Cup tournament.
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  Speaker 2: And of course we'll be paying close attention the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the way, and hopefully US men's national team can
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  Speaker 2: do what Mexico did last night and they can punch
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  Speaker 2: their ticket after two games, they can punch their ticket
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  Speaker 2: out of the group stage. How likely do you think
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  Speaker 2: that is it would take three points. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: very I think it's likely. I mean, and again Polisic
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  Speaker 2: not being in this is a big deal, but they're
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  Speaker 2: better than Australia. This is the most deep and talented
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  Speaker 2: roster the United States ever had. I think it's very
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  Speaker 2: Even if they say, let's say they drew today and
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  Speaker 2: they drew one to one or two two with with
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  Speaker 2: Australia today, I still think it's likely they're going to
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  Speaker 2: get out of the stage and maybe even still win
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  Speaker 2: the group with a draw today. So I like the
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  Speaker 2: United States chances. I said all along, I thought that
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  Speaker 2: they would get to the quarterfinals. Depending on the health
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  Speaker 2: and how they decide to play. There's a chance they
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  Speaker 2: could get beyond that. But I certainly think my expectation
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  Speaker 2: was win the group and win at least one knockout
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  Speaker 2: round game, and I still think they're on part.
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  Speaker 3: To do that.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Riley is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell
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  Speaker 2: Show Conversation, brought to you weekly by Handy and Handy
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  Speaker 2: Handy Law Utah dot com. All right, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: the University of Utah. We talked about it, we wondered
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  Speaker 2: about it, we speculated it on it. The Otro Capital deal,
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  Speaker 2: the first of its kind private equity partnership between Utah
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  Speaker 2: Athletics and private equity for Motro Capital to create Crimson
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  Speaker 2: Brand partners and a new era of Utah Athletics is official.
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  Speaker 2: It is signed, it is sealed. I guess we now
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  Speaker 2: get to see what the delivery looks. It's like you
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned, we're seventy six days away from kickoff. Is
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  Speaker 2: there anything in your mind? Are we going to notice
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  Speaker 2: anything different about this capital and fusion, this cash infusion
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty six football season.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I think still a lot of it.
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  Speaker 4: Is it kind of unfolds. It's going to be interesting
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  Speaker 4: to see how it plays out here. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: work up here and I'm going to be kind of
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  Speaker 4: part of that, a little bit part of that world too,
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  Speaker 4: working with it. So I'm really curious to see how
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  Speaker 4: it rolls out. I know that they've got big plans
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  Speaker 4: long term, but I'm really curious myself to see what
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  Speaker 4: the short term impact will be at Rice Cycle Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if the average fan is going to
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  Speaker 4: notice anything different in the short term. But again, it's
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  Speaker 4: also new Sean that I'm very kind of, like everybody else,
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  Speaker 4: kind of in the planning stages, seeing how this thing
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  Speaker 4: rolls out. So we'll we'll see. I know everybody up
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  Speaker 4: here is very exciting for it. It's been talked about
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  Speaker 4: for you know, six seven, eight months now, so I
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  Speaker 4: know everybody up here is very excited to see how
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  Speaker 4: this thing begins to develop in the short term. But
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  Speaker 4: as far as football, I'm kind of like everybody else,
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of in the waiting stage two to see
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  Speaker 4: how things play out.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest no brainer questioned for me, which has not
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  Speaker 2: been the biggest no brainer answer to this point for me,
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  Speaker 2: and that could just be a me problem, but is
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  Speaker 2: whether or not this capital infusion this cash infusion is
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  Speaker 2: ever going to find its way directly to players and
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  Speaker 2: to NIL funds, And you know, Mark Carland joined Spence.
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  Speaker 2: That conversation is available on the ESPN seven hundred app,
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  Speaker 2: but on ESPN seven hundred sports dot Com, and Spence
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  Speaker 2: asked the question, and Mark did a good job of
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  Speaker 2: answering it without really I think, being fully committal or
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  Speaker 2: fully clear on whether or not that was an easy
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  Speaker 2: mechanism for outrocapital of that money to come into the
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  Speaker 2: hands of student athletes directly. Do you have a sense
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  Speaker 2: on whether or not this either directly comes straight through
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  Speaker 2: Crimson brand partners to student athletes I legitimate NIL deals
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  Speaker 2: or maybe the thought is that it can free up
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  Speaker 2: booster money that would traditionally go towards the programs directly,
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  Speaker 2: and now it's now that money from them, from the
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  Speaker 2: Huntspins and whoever else could be funneled to student athletes instead,
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  Speaker 2: because that's where Utah's got a They've done a good job,
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  Speaker 2: but that's where they could obviously improve, like everybody can.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know if that this new signed, sealed, delivered
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  Speaker 2: deal makes that more possible.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that for sure, Sean. I know the
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  Speaker 4: Crimson Brand Partners will be you know, working hand in
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  Speaker 4: hand with you know, sports and athletes and working to
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  Speaker 4: enhance nil and things like that. But I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what the what the flow of money looks like from
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  Speaker 4: you know, the new deal through Crimson Brand Partners, through Athletics,
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  Speaker 4: any of that stuff. I don't know what those mechanisms are.
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  Speaker 4: That's those discussions are being had in meetings above my
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  Speaker 4: pay grade. But I do know the Crimson Brand Partners
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  Speaker 4: one of its core core missions is creating more revenue
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  Speaker 4: that will flow directly into Utah Athletics to help elevate
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  Speaker 4: and support sports marketing, you know, fan experience, all of
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  Speaker 4: that stuff across the board. So but as far as
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  Speaker 4: where that money is coming from and where it will
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  Speaker 4: go directly that that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Have you had a.
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  Speaker 2: Chance to talk with the new director of Athletic performance,
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  Speaker 2: the strength and conditioning coach Steve Saunders, who replaced Greg
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  Speaker 2: Argus in kind of a surprising move, sort of a
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  Speaker 2: last minute change after springball.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever a chance to have any conversations with him?
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  Speaker 4: I have not. It's interesting you say that. I've been
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  Speaker 4: actually this week starting a podcast series with a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the new coaching staff and on you know, kind
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  Speaker 4: of performance staff people around Utah football. These podcasts will
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  Speaker 4: kind of drop on both the video and audio platform
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  Speaker 4: in July. But I have not had a chance to
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  Speaker 4: talk to him yet. I've heard good things. I know
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  Speaker 4: that our mutual good friend Eric Weddle is a big
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  Speaker 4: fan of his, But I haven't had a chance to
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  Speaker 4: talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: Many of you, no, I haven't, And that's why I
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  Speaker 2: was asking you. I And part of the reason I
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  Speaker 2: ask is because this is kind of a quiet time
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  Speaker 2: from a fan perspective for Utah football. And obviously you
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  Speaker 2: dismiss players for a month in the summer and let
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  Speaker 2: them go back and you know, see their families and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. But the summertime is like a very
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  Speaker 2: very incredibly crucial time for speed development for guys like
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got Kelvin Obat on the roster this year,
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  Speaker 2: who before it's said and done, he's probably gonna gain
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  Speaker 2: thirty pounds of muscle in a Utah strength program.
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  Speaker 3: How much of that is coming on this offseason? Is
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  Speaker 3: his body adjusting to it? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these are really really crucial months for Morgan
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  Speaker 2: Scali and his staff but there's also rules about how
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  Speaker 2: much they can be in contact with the team.
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  Speaker 3: Where the strength and conditioning coach.
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  Speaker 2: He effectively becomes your head coach in this time of year.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I want to talk to him, and
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to see if you did.
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  Speaker 4: No, I haven't had a chance. Ye, it's funny you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned Kelvin Obot. I did have a nice long conversation
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  Speaker 4: with Jordan Gross and I asked him. I said, Jordan,
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  Speaker 4: what's something Utah fans would want to know about Kelvin Obot?
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  Speaker 4: Because you know him, you've coached him, you've known him
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  Speaker 4: for three years. He's kind of like one of your own.
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  Speaker 4: He's followed you here from Fruitland, Idaho. And he said,
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  Speaker 4: he is the most studious lineman of his age I've
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  Speaker 4: ever been around. He is an absolute positive sponge. He
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  Speaker 4: cannot get enough. He's always asking me for more information,
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  Speaker 4: more feedback on line play and technique and what he
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  Speaker 4: should be doing. So I thought that was really interesting
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  Speaker 4: to me. It's funny at these programs, especially like Utah,
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  Speaker 4: the physical side of it always seems to take care
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  Speaker 4: of itself. These programs have such good strength and conditioning
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  Speaker 4: and performance coaches, these days. I'm always one that is
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  Speaker 4: concerned with if you want to become truly elite, you've
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  Speaker 4: got to put in the work yourself. And to me,
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  Speaker 4: that work is the classroom work in the study. And
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  Speaker 4: to hear Jordans say that got me kind of excited
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  Speaker 4: about Kevin Obot.
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  Speaker 2: One of the more interesting off the field sagas in
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  Speaker 2: recent memory in college football came to a close earlier
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  Speaker 2: this week. Brendan Soorsby and Texas Tech put down their
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  Speaker 2: swords and said, all right, fine, I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: go into the supplemental draft. We're not going to continue
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  Speaker 2: this billable hours nightmare of lawyers countersuing each other.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, they waved.
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  Speaker 2: Brendan Soorsby and Texas Tech, by extension, ended up having
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  Speaker 2: to wave the white flag here after really kind of
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  Speaker 2: an embarrassing period in my opinion, of digging their heels
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  Speaker 2: in and making these false flag arguments and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to get your perspective on the Brendan Soresby,
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  Speaker 2: you know, resolution of him not playing for Texas Tech
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 4: I had in my mind, because you're a Game of
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  Speaker 4: Thrones guy, I had in my mind that visual of
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  Speaker 4: john snow standing by himself as the army came charging
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  Speaker 4: toward him before his sister who I don't know why
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  Speaker 4: she waited Sansa to the last minute to wave the
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  Speaker 4: other army in from the flank, except the other army
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  Speaker 4: wasn't coming for Johnson to support Brendan Soresby. In Texas Tech,
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  Speaker 4: they were kind of standing there waving their swords against
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  Speaker 4: the army charging on. It was it was to use
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  Speaker 4: your terms. I thought it was a rather unseemly argument
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  Speaker 4: in fight by Texas Tech. They would not have supported
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  Speaker 4: this had it been a quarterback at Arkansas or Oklahoma State,
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  Speaker 4: they wouldn't have done that. They dug their heels in
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  Speaker 4: because at the end of the day they brought him
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  Speaker 4: on board and they were paying him five million dollars
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  Speaker 4: or four million dollars or whatever whatever it turned out
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  Speaker 4: to be. They should have dug in and said we're
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  Speaker 4: going to support Brendan Soresby. Because Brendan Soresby says he's
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  Speaker 4: got a gambling problem and a mental health issue that
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  Speaker 4: he's got to deal with, but he's bet on not
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  Speaker 4: only his own team and his own sport, but others
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  Speaker 4: as well, and we're going to stand by him and
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  Speaker 4: let him get some help. We've got good quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 4: the program. Heck, will Hammond is a very good quarterback
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  Speaker 4: who's one of ours who should be back very soon.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't approach it the right way. Everybody could see it,
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  Speaker 4: and I think the Big Twelve did the right thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they stood up and they said, we're not
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  Speaker 4: going to be dictated to by an individual school. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to do what's right. Fifteen of our sixteen members
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  Speaker 4: are against this, and the rest of college football is
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  Speaker 4: standing against this as well, and I think I think
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  Speaker 4: Texas Tech saw the writing on the wall and they said,
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  Speaker 4: this is not going to be something that reflects well
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  Speaker 4: on us now in the future, and we've got to
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  Speaker 4: probably make make a move. And Brendan Soorsby, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to have a chance to play football at
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  Speaker 4: the next level. Maybe he's not going to get paid
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  Speaker 4: great sums of money this year, but if he's good
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  Speaker 4: enough to play, and he could spend the year getting
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  Speaker 4: himself ready for a draft or ready for a supplemental draft,
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  Speaker 4: and also working on himself as well, I think it's
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  Speaker 4: the right situation. It got ugly for a minute, but
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  Speaker 4: I think the resolution at the end was probably the
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  Speaker 4: right one. Would you agree?
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  Speaker 2: I do agree, And also the funny thing for me
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  Speaker 2: is right And I know it's always like perspective, and
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  Speaker 2: his overall numbers are good, and his talent is obviously there.
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  Speaker 2: But if you just took the snapshot of Brendan soorsby
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  Speaker 2: at Rice Cycle Stadium last year, you would not even
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  Speaker 2: believe that this national news story, this fight was all
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  Speaker 2: over that guy, because I mean, he's vulnerable as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He's someone that if if you've got.
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  Speaker 2: The right film study ahead of time, and you got
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  Speaker 2: the right defensive pressure, you could make him look really,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: really bad. It's not I don't think he was going
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: to be the savior of Texas Tech anyway, But I
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: think the right thing happened at the end.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Well, I do too, And I think the numbers were
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Sean Krame, I think he's OH for November the last
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: two years. I think he's for a eight or something
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: like that close to it the last two years in November,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: he did not play well. Utah gave the game, game
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: plan or blueprint to everybody else. And if you read
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: maybe Bruce was Bruce Feldman's article in the athletic He
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: talked to some big twelve coaches and I'm not so sure.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: One of them may not have been on the Utah staff.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: They were all anonymous. But he did not play well
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: against press man and defenses that really got after him
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: in Utah did that. He had a couple of big
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: big one big run of one big pass down the field.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I think the Cyrus Allen. But he was eleven for
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: thirty three to two picks. He didn't play well, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I think he's got some tools to be a good quarterback,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: but I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure that
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: he's going to be a top end draft pick. I
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: think if he goes in the supplemental draft, it might
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: be a fourth or fifth round pick. Some of that
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: might have to do with the off field stuff, but
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: some of it might have to do with the football
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: stuff as well.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Should Cincinnati be getting phone calls right now? Also, because
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: you know Soresby his agent, this watchdog organization, I can't
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: remember which one that one of the apps that flags
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: irregular activity allegedly told Cincinnati before the twenty twenty five season,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: and Soworsby's agent said they knew for two years and
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: they kind of did the Homer Simpson fading into the
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: bushes thing for most of this conversation. But should Cincinnati
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: get a little second look from the Big Twelve and
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the rest of college football?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they. I mean, if you're doing the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: right thing, you probably should. Everybody might just want this
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: thing to go away. But if I'm somebody else that's
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: not a big fan of Cincinnati, maybe I raise that
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: question said and say, how much did you guys really
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: know about what was going on with this young man
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: when you brought him in in for the last couple
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: of years. You know, I think everybody, now that we've
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: got this resolution he's not going to play college football anymore,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people would probably probably at
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Cincinnati too, would probably like it just to go away.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Well, the University of Utah be among the many schools
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: that are calling Parker Kingston and his representation in these
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: next few days.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think so. I mean, I don't. I don't.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: According to what I read, charges might be refiled again.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: According to the story that I read, I'm not sure
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: that anybody really wants to touch that right now now
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: unless there was an absolute resolution on it. But if
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: something could come back to surface. Again, I'm not sure
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: if you're a program, if you would want to, you
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: would want to bring that in and then have it,
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: you know, and then he had him to still have
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: to deal with a legal situation. So I don't know that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: I haven't talked to Scaley or anybody about that. It
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: would seem unlikely to me, though. What about I mean
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: is do you think he's fielding a lot of phone
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: calls from schools?
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I know that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: There were some that were interested, and it was even
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: some SEC schools. And I think there's two reasons for that,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Because I think in the SEC they only care about
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: like the letter of the law, and they're not worried
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: about any of.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: The pr stuff associated with it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: So if he was all the way exonerated, all the
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: way cleared, then it would make sense for them. But
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: because there is that sort of hanging question mark, I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: think it changes the dynamics significantly. And I said on
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the show yesterday that like, let anyone else call him
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Utah Camp, it just doesn't make any sense too close
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: to home. The rivalry obviously plays a huge part in
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: how people are going to feel about this, and the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: fact that you know, Morgan Scalley's the first year coach,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: only adds to that. So I think that for for many, many,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: many off the field reasons, but even on the field reasons,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: you don't even entertain that idea as the university.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Well, Utah's got a really here's the other thing though,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Utah's got a really good wide receiver room this year.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the on the field reasons.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: It's like, if you're desk, the deepest receiver room they've
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: had in years. If ever, I talked to Chad Bumpus
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: this week as well. He he he is just glowing
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: about this wide receiver room, and so is Kevin mcgiven.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: So I will I would tell you there's there's a
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: litany of reasons why I wouldn't. But if I was Utah,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I don't think that you really need to. You've got
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: a lot of really good weapons to that you've got
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: to look at that you know you've got, you've already
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: got in your program that have been working there. So
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I I think if you're a Utah football fan, you've
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: got to be excited about what you've got coming this year.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: With guys like Braden Pagan and Kyrie Scholz, and Ricky
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Johnson and Creed Whittemore. You know, Larry Simmons is back,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Dadrian Zipperer. Not to mention, you know, the tight ends.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Not to mention some other weapons that you can use there.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: I know talking to the offensive staff that they're really
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: really excited about all the pieces that they've got to
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: play with this year. So yeah, it'll be interesting to
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: see what happens with that. But I would I would
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: say Utah is probably pretty happy with where they're at
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Well roughly an hour away from first kick. What does
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the Bill Riley plan for US men's national team versus Australia.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: To be as red, white and blue as I possibly
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: can from about one o'clock to three o'clock and hopefully
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: see a win at lumen Field today. Hey, by the way,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you what did you make of
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: UFC two point fifty at the White House?
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, as the PFL guy, I obviously wanted
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I watched that because I love the fights, but I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: also wanted there to be like something to make fun of,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: something to be like, oh, this is stupid all they
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: completely wasted money on this, This is a terrible look
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: and look there's a lot of ways you can turn
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: this into a political discussion, not doing so if you're
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: just talking about the sports viewer experience, the fight fan
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: experience watching that, and you're an American, a red blooded
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: American like you and I are, I mean, they knocked
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: it out of the park. It was painfully awesome for someone.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: That real fight was unbelievable. I know you're a Justin
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Gaetchee guy, right, you enjoy watching him fight?
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Who doesn't. I mean, he's he's your favorite fighter's favorite fighter.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: He is just he's built for this.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: He is the.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Modern American gladiator. And that performance that I think he
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: should retire off that performance. I know there's a lot
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of conversation about him wanting a couple more fights, but
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: it's not going to get any better than that that
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: you walk out of the office his.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Age, And I'm be honest, coming in, I thought that
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: the guy that he was fight what's his name starts
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: with a te touch. I thought Toporia was gonna beat him.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I just did.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: He looked quicker early and Gaechee just was just peppering
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: him and he just the eyes and the nose and
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: oh my, I mean that was an unbelievable final fight.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: It really was, It really was. It was incredible. It's
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: a Fight of the Year candidate.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It is the definitive performance of Justin Gaigie's career on
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the biggest stage he's ever been on. He's been an
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: interim champ previously, but he's never been the undisputed lightweight champ.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: That is the weight class, that's the deepest weight class
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: in the UFC, and he won it at thirty seven
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: years of age. I mean, come on, does it truly
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: doesn't get better than that. His mom his dad are
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: in VIP seats on the White House lawn and talking
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: with the President and the First Lady after the fight
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: is over. Like, it doesn't go up from there in
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: pretty much any sport, but especially in MMA.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I was I'm petty Bill, you know this
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: about me.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I was like tuning in, kind of hoping that they
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: UFC would stub their toe in some way on that broadcast.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: But from the national anthem and fly over all the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: way to the final moments of the final fight, it
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: was pretty stellar.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: He should take a cue from the guy I'm talking
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: to right now, do the mic drop and walk off
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: the stage.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's no reason not to. There really isn't.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Like what's he waiting for.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: He's waiting for another young killer to come up and
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: steal that belt off him, walk away while you've got
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: it hung over your shoulder.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: But you know he's wired differently than the rest of us.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to tell him what to do,
• 26:42
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• 26:57
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• 26:59
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• 27:02
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• 27:05
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• 27:11
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• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Bill appreciate your time today, enjoy US men's national team action.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: And we'll chat again soon.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Thanks an touch you soon.
• 27:55
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