9-10-26 - Hour 3 - Utah Valley Basketball Schedule Release, Locked On Cougars' Jake Hatch, What You Missed

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1:00Listening to Bryson Bienucci on 103.9 and 983 ESPN, the fan. Download the Bryson Bienucci podcast wherever you get your podcast today. 910 back at it on Bryson Bienucci. Our number three, our friend Jake Hatch is going to join us. The host of the Lockdown Cooters podcast amongst other things. Launching his new show. So we'll talk to him about that plus the upcoming matchups across the state of Utah. This weekend in college football that comes away in about 10 minutes or so. Jordan Bienucci, we're going to announce the winner of our Weezer contest. Two tickets to go and see Weezer next Tuesday over at the Maverick Center. You missed out on your chance to win today. Join us tomorrow. 7 to 10 AM, same time, same place, same frequencies for your chance to be able to win that final pair of Weezer tickets to go and

2:02see him at the Maverick Center next Tuesday. Our winner today, text her 6377. Congratulations. We shot you a text message. Send us back your information and we will get you those tickets to go and see Weezer at the Maverick Center. All right, Jordan Bienucci, some breaking news this morning. Breaking news. As my telegram. Yeah, what do they call that? The newswire. The newswire. Yeah, what actually is that? It's the Morse code? Yeah, okay. That's the one. Sure. That's the one. The telegraph. Telegraph. There we go. There we go. All right, I've got some breaking news in terms of scheduling. As you well know, we are the radial home of the Utah Valley University Wolverines, Jordan Bienucci, a basketball schedule has been put into my hands to drop right here. Wow, it's very show. Okay. The season for the Utah Valley Wolverine starts off right here on

3:05ESPN, the fan on Monday, November the 2nd as they take on Western Colorado. It's a big game. Okay. Non-division one upon it. They will play at Weber State at Nevada. Okay, two good games there. Then they're headed to the US Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam, not bad, Jordan. They'll take on East Carolina and game number one. A couple of good teams in that field, by the way. That's from November 20th through the 23rd home game on the 28th of November against San Jose State. They bring in a Mountain West Conference team for the first time in a long time. That's big time right there. Who's the way? Sorry, who's the Mountain West Conference team? San Jose State at home. November the 28th. Yeah, I like that. That's a good get for Utah Valley. Mountain West Conference squad. That is. Is that the big West coming into play? What you talk about? Oh, you mean the Ben being in the conference? Yeah, do you think being in the big West helps with that at all? I think so. I think a little bit. Yeah. That's a I like that. Oh, I like going to Reno. I'd like to get on that trip.

4:10Yeah, you could you could sit next to me. Jordan being itchy. I appreciate that. I'll find some space. I'll put you in the suitcase. So at Nevada November the 14th, but get this big West play starts December 3rd and 5th at Long Beach state, home again Sacramento state, then they take a break again. Go back to non conference play. They'll be at Pacific at Boise State. They're going to fit a non division one game in there. And then it's back to conference playing again on December the 31st at home against Cal State Bakersfield. Thank goodness. That's a home game against Cal State Bakersfield. Because being in Bakersfield, California on December the 31st is just not something that I would love to be doing. Oh, come on. All our Bakersfield people give us your tourism draws. There you go. That's not bad. That's not bad. That's not bad. A little switch up here. Just December 21st will be the non division one game. Not the 22nd. There's a little bit of a shift in the one that I received. So there you go. So that I mean, that's a solid non conference

5:17slate, Jordan. It is. Here's my only gripe. And I brought this up and you know what? Our friends up in cash valley also said this too. Jason Walker tweeted this out. We've got in the conversation going over and over again. No Utah state on that schedule. Yeah, that's ridiculous. No Utah because they don't want to lose which this upcoming season, they're paying $90,000 what the reported number is to get Weber state inside their building at the Huntsman Center. Jordan being huge. They very well could lose that came against Weber state. Yeah, Utah very well could be why you different conversation happening behind the scenes that I know of between you view and be why you so I would not expect that to come into play anytime soon as as long as Brian Santiago is the athletic director and those two coaching staff. I wouldn't think that there's going to be a agreement anytime soon between you view and be why Utah state absolutely should be playing you view every single year. Here's the reason why you could do it at a neutral site like the Delta Center if they would have done it a season ago. Jordan, that's a quad two game for Utah

6:17state at the Delta Center. There's no reason why those two teams should not be playing year in and year out. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. People will say and here's where it gets funny. People will say, especially on the Utah state side, well, it's not worth playing the game. There's no reason why we should play the game. It's the exact same conversation that's happening about BYU and Utah state at the moment. Guess who's on the schedule this year? They're playing each other BYU and Utah state. And from the BYU fans that talk to the Utah state fans, they say there's no reason BYU should play this game. Then Utah state and their fans turn around and do the exact same thing to you view. Yeah, I mean, I guess there's no reason to play it if you hate college basketball. Hypocratical much. I'm calling out all of you. Because last year your head coach sat at the podium and said, we'd love to play you VU in BYU every year. Yeah, BS, put your money where your mouth is, buddy. Now he's gone, obviously. Got a new guy in there. Maybe the new guy next season

7:21and seasons beyond will play that game because it will be consistently with UVU in the big West, a quad two game moving forward and UVU gets closer and closer to a top 100 net team every single year. And I'll remind you, if you think that there's a difference between, if you don't think there's a difference between SU, Utah tech and UVU and Weber state, go look at the net rankings. You're in and you're out for the past five years. Yeah, look at who's getting scheduled. There is a chasm. There is a chasm between UVU, we even Weber state SU and Utah tech when it comes to the net rankings. You're in and you're out. And that's where I'll leave you in this segment right here. Go and look at the net rankings over the last five years and see how big of a gap there is between Utah Valley and the other schools across state. There's a reason you've used in the big West and those other schools went up to the big sky. Just look at the overall basketball quality out of those conferences. I might be a little biased, but also got some numbers to back us up

8:24on that claim as well. That's a little schedule news right here. We will take a break. Jcatch joins us coming up next on Bryce and Bianucci. You can be a... Some great college football on tap for you this upcoming weekend. We're here to talk about it back on Bryce and Bianucci. 103-9 and 98-3 ESPN, the fan. We're going to jump out to the SIG-Free and Jensen Collin line. We're our good friend. Jcatch joins us right here on Bryce and Bianucci. BY you taking on Arizona, Utah taking on Arkansas. A lot of great football comes to the state of Utah this upcoming weekend. A jake glad to have you on the program. How are we doing, my man? Doing fantastic. Thanks for having me, boys. How are you? We are awesome this morning.

9:30Just having a great time talking about a lot of different topics here today. One of the biggest ones, of course, is this BYU football teams. They get ready for a big 12 conference battle. 130 PM kickoff on Fox on Saturday. Just give us your overall thoughts right now. We head into this game, the storylines between BYU and Arizona with BYU being a touchdown favorite here. Well, the crazy thing is this is going to set the tone in so many different ways for both of these programs. You think about it from the BYU perspective. We're all expecting BYU to make run at the big 12 title game once again this year. They've said that very openly they want to make the college football playoff. Well, you can ill afford to lose your second game of the year, the Arizona if you want to accomplish that in many respects. But then on the Arizona side of things, they're trying to kind of rewrite the whole narrative about their program because they won 10 games a year ago, but it wasn't like a season that you're like, oh, wow, it's going to be thought of for years and years to come. But they were able to come to Provo and get revenge for

10:3341 to 19 loss in 2024 at LES and also the double the overtime loss last year in Tucson. That would change. I think a lot of Arizona fans opinions of what Brent Brennan and the Wildcats are building. So it's it's a game that's got a lot of story line. It's got a lot of intrigue and it's awesome to have a game of this magnitude so early in the season. No doubt about it. There's also a lot of question marks heading into it specifically in terms of what these two teams are actually going to look like against a formidable fob BYU playing Utah Tech didn't really learn a lot about this team in terms of what depth they have and they sustain a couple injuries, including an injury in the running back room as well. What are your thoughts about losing Cione Mella and where BYU's out with that run game? Well, that's the thing is Cione Mow was expected to be the Robin to LJ Martin's Batman and that that's tough to lose him yet again. Because remember last year he takes a hit late in that East Carolina game. He doesn't really think anything of and all of a sudden his

11:35leg starts swung up. He's got compartment syndrome and that by the way that that could have I keep it lost his leg could have lost his life. So credit to BYU and their their trainers and doctors of miniaturists taking care of the sad part of the works all the way back guys get some self-health. He goes through training camp on the CAV and we're in the first quarter of the first game against Utah Tech. He and he said in his statement last night he gets rolled up on and now he's got a torn MCL a torn PCL and cartilage damage in that knee. That's just just how like brutal luck that that's Cione Mow is lot in life and it's it's unfortunate for a young man like that. The question now is okay LJ Martin you don't want to tax him too much because obviously we saw him get injured last year and that affected him the rest of season even though I thought he played really well with that injured shoulder he dealt with. The question now is our Preston Rex, Devon Eka, Journey Tongue. These other running backs we saw play against Utah Tech. Are they all capable as a collective of stepping up and being what people expected the coaches

12:38expected Cione Mow had to be because I think we all know that LJ Martin is going to be awesome because he's raining offensive player of the year in the big 12 conference but you do have to have somebody or somebody's plural to step up and spell him from time to time. Jake, moving over to the defensive end. How does this BYU defense defend against Noah Fafita because they're a little thin at DB. How do you see this playing out? Well I think you have to get pressure with four rushers. If they bring your defensive line got to step up and that's a big question mark that even has lingered all the time to J Hill was BYU's defensive coordinator and outs the civil-fim question that Kelly Popingan now faces as he takes that spot as BYU's DC is can you get pressure with a four and three man front and if they can do that where you're able to drop seven or eight men into coverage that is going to be able to help you shore up your defense against the likes of a Noah Fafita. I've got no problem saying that in terms of being just a pure thrower Noah Fafita is probably the best in the big 12 conference. If he were four inches

13:42taller we're talking about a guy who'd be on everybody's draft board as a first round pick but he's not that tall so that obviously pushes him down draft boards does not mean that he is not capable of picking you apart and he had Arizona right there in that game of season to go against BYU and he's been very open about wanting to get a win over BYU because he's going to all time as a starter in Tucson against the Cougars so the thing is if you're going to beat him you've got to make it so it's near impossible hit for him to find gaps to throw the ball to because he is so good at identifying what coverages are and where to get the ball to and get out of his hands that unless BYU can get pressure on him with yeah three or four man rush it feels like it could be a really really long day he is Jay catch he's the host of the Lockdown Cougars podcast amongst a lot of other things that this man does he joins us here on the sick freedom jensen call in line Jake we were talking about traveling fan bases across the big 12 what are your top traveling fan bases because we were debating who which ones come to the state of

14:44Utah with the most fans why they come here in the first place to come and see their team it seems provo and salt like city are the two top destinations people want to travel to and just see what's going on here what are the top traveling fan bases in the big 12 conference and where does Arizona rank in terms of their fans coming to provo this weekend so I would say and the one that I think of immediately if Kansas state for example now they've only made the one trip to provo but I remember there was a lot of purple in terms of like just relative to the numbers of traveling fan bases coming to LES when Kansas state came here and played that game two years ago by recall correctly and that was a fan base that was really impressed by I have been impressed by Texas tech fans they seem to travel well I do think the Arizona state and Arizona fans because of the proxivity the provo is in the fact that you can fly from Phoenix Sky Harbor or Tucson into Salt Lake City or Provo and it's a nonstop and it's a short hop like I think they have pretty decent representation the biggest thing with Arizona is and I think you guys both acknowledge this they're more traditionally

15:46basketball school so they're more apt I think in some ways to travel for basketball than they are for football but the way that Arizona football is performing right now I think you're going to see a decent amount of Arizona fans making the trek up to provo because they want to see what Brent Brennan and Noah Fafita have in store so I think it's just about if your team's good enough your fan base will travel and with Arizona being such close proximity to Utah and provo obviously I think that they would make that trip more readily than most say if they were trying to go to like UCF in Orlando or Morgan town in West Virginia what do you think is going to be a more competitive football game this upcoming weekend you think it'll be BBYU in Arizona or do you think it'll be Utah in Arkansas now the line's a little a little bit different there's a double digit line up in Salt Lake City for Utah as they take on a bad Arkansas football team but you think there's a chance that that one could get a little bit weird up on the hill I think so here's the thing with Arkansas is Ryan Silverfield is a very good coach this just happens to be his second game charge of the Arkansas

16:48razor back so it just feels like it's almost too soon for them to be the fully formed version of what he thinks he can make Arkansas into I think you're going to make it tough on Utah they there will be moments in that game where they're going to bring you call it SEC swagger speed whatever you want to call it they'll bring that to the table I just don't know that if they have the horses to hang with Utah for an entire game let's say this game we're being played a year from now guys we're Silverfield had a chance to recruit his own guys kind of get his philosophy and his whole vision for razor back football install it I think it'd be a far more competitive game then but I just think with it being a second game in charge I'd be hard pressed to think that they're going to mount a serious challenge to Utah so I think it's absolutely going to be Arizona and BYU who's the more competitive game in terms of just the rest of the big 12 through week one at this moment in time how do you feel like the entire conference did as a whole in some of the biggest non-conference matchups and then of course looking forward to this weekend where the big 12 can really gain some ground

17:49against the ACC and the pack and the rest of these big time conferences well it's good point week one tough look honestly just think about it like Oklahoma state we talked a lot off season a lot people talked all off season about Oklahoma state being a a dark horse to win the big 12 and I know that one game doesn't make a season but to go to Tulsa and lose by double digits that was a bad look for the Oklahoma state cowboys in the big 12 by extension there were some other tough ones I've Houston like I know Houston beat Oregon state but you guys probably saw the crowd shots like where are Houston fans and what what happened here like so it was a tough week one I think just a perception wise for the big 12 but you just reference what I was going to say week two with the amount of games you got BYU Arizona you've got an SEC team coming to Salt Lake City you've got ASU going to Kyle Field to take on Texas A&M and there's even some undercard games you think about the likes of let's say Texas Tech going to Oregon state you have UCF and tit playing there are a number of games out there this week that can flip that narrative on its head in just a week's time

18:53but it's going to require teams winning games and I also have a local on the state well you want to bounce back from a embarrassing loss to Tulsa how about you upset Oregon that that would do a lot I think for the big 12 so there are a number of opportunities for the conference this week to make people say oh maybe the big 12 is a little better than we thought because I thought week one was a bit of a fault start so to kind of connect to the college athletic scene across the state of Utah to the professional scene across the state of Utah this is something I put out on X yesterday and it kind of blew up a little bit in a conversation talking about bringing Major League Baseball to the state of Utah in your opinion because we had a full debate about it yesterday on the show a lot of textures a lot of people wanted to chime in on the conversation talking about if Major League Baseball does come to the state of Utah will it pull away corporate sponsorship dollars from some of the teams and colleges across the state because we saw Lance Anderson down at Utah Tech already talking about how they don't have enough resources even to feed his team and find a place to practice

19:53that's not a good situation what are your thoughts on bringing Major League Baseball to Utah and how that'll affect the dollars being split amongst even BYU in Utah. Let me just say this right out front I want a Major League Baseball team in Salt Lake City I have no problem saying that I want to have MLB in Utah I want to have another pro sport here that's I'll say that right at the outset of about what of about to say but you mailed it with the thought and the the explanation of oh hey that's going to dilute the sponsorship dollars that are out there and the funny thing about this is with an MLB team going to Salt Lake City if you're Utah you should be concerned that yeah you already have the Utah Jazz you have the Utah mammoth and potentially whatever the MLB team that comes to Salt Lake City if it happens then pulling money away from your immediate like circle of influential boosters donors whatever you want to call them right there in Salt Lake City because they're going to some of them are going to be more prone to say hey I want to invest in pro sports I want to put my money there versus putting it in college the advantage BYU has in some small way

20:58and it's not going to be a huge advantage is the fact that they're still 40 miles south they're in provo they're in different county there are other companies down here in Utah county that can obviously invest in BYU sports that may not be as prone to investing in Salt Lake City and those sports teams sports teams up there so it's going to be an interesting world but you're dead on it's going to take money away because guess what there's a finite amount of sponsorship money out there and you already have two pro teams here it's speaking of the Jazz and the mammoth you had an MLB team and a dilute those funds even further look I'm all on board for a major league baseball team to come to the state of Utah as well and everybody didn't know that but just just there's trade-offs right there are good things about bringing them there's some things that are going to be a little bit tougher it's more competition in the market it's more things that you can go out and do we are also talking about what people like to do here in the state of Utah it's sports man and if you have another like there are different seasons sure but there's also only so much amount of marketing money that companies have and if they're spending five hundred thousand dollars on

22:03major league baseball that's a big chunk of what their budget is as well so that's also part of the conversation and and the other thing is I think you acknowledged it we are I think we're closing in four million residents in the state of Utah we're talking about like they're going to be competing with markets let's say look okay for LA for example in the greater Los Angeles area guys is it ten twenty million people in that like we're talking LA County if you add a orange county in there like Southern California that dwarfs the entire population of this state so you just want to talk like just sheer numbers sheer amount of companies and you mentioned just the finite number of dollars yeah there is a smaller pool of resources and if you add another major protein to the market yeah guess what there are more dollars being spread across more entities meaning there's less to go around yeah and it's funny that a lot of people are referencing the studies that are currently being done to decide whether or not it's feasible for major league baseball to be supported here it absolutely is but those studies what those studies aren't telling you is that where

23:06are they getting that money from oh they're going to poach it from the current schools that are already here and the current teams that are already here that's why it's feasible to support a major league baseball team there needs to be a study done whether or not it's feasible to support six fbs division or six division one teams three of which are fcs and multiple other professional teams as well so yeah there's a lot of that conversation apparently Matt Brown's going to put out a whole report on it waiting for the extra points newsletter to drop and more on that conversation but I do want to shift over while we're still talking about professional sports you do a lot of rail salt pre-half and post let's talk a little bit about real salt like before we let you go because it does seem like it's been a disappointing second half of the season post world cup where we at currently with real salt lake and the feeling of the fan base right now because there was some booing at the stadium that happened recently as well walk us through this situation and where we're out with real salt lake when you've gone double digit matches that actually winning a match nobody's going

24:09to be happy they're ten straight guys ten ten women there's been obviously some draws in there there was a two-two draw the other night against L.A.F.C which L.A.F.C. is a pretty good team but you the fact that they have not won a match getting all the way back to May and let's acknowledge there was a seven week gap in there where the world cup was going on so they didn't play but when you haven't won since the spring yeah nobody's still in good about a heart cell right now to be very blunt about it and that would include I think the guys in the locker room the coaching staff administrators owners even but the fan base in particular I think they still a little jilted in a way because they look at it from the prison of hey they were flying so high early on this season they looked like a team that could challenge for the top of the Western conference and they were among the top teams in the West but ever since that slide started in late May and especially since they came back from the world cup they have been unable to find a way to win a match and I know that the sale of Xavier Gozo was one that a lot of people like well I like to hold on to him but when you have the amount of money that was going to become an RSL's wafer guy that that prodigious of a talent

25:12you were not going to be able to keep him around the crystal palace that know we move on him right now and you're like okay well we'll take the money I'm hopeful that we will see what like Jason Christ and these other RSL executives what they've been talking about like you have some patience with what they've done roster building wise in season that it will pay off for Pablo Masquerunny and company Pablo the guy that he preaches a hey stick to the plan like we use the build dollar chick thing we're going to the next game like the mindset's got to be focused on the here and now and I think if they keep that mindset intact they're going to be okay but until they win their next match guys I don't think anybody's going to be feeling good about our cell. How important is it that that MLS schedule and the calendar is going to change to fit the rest of football across the world specifically because it seems like in the last couple of years the way that our cell has lost big time players it's just right in the middle of the season it kills the rojo it really hurt how important is it for major league soccer going forward that they're going to

26:13match the calendar to the rest of the world soccer. Well that's that that's probably the number one thing is making sure that you're able to have a star play let's see like the next Xavier Gozo for example the next guy who's a big homegrown talent from us Ray al-Salt Lake coming out of their academy or whatever it is. The fact you'll have them for a full season before you ultimately if you decide to move him on to another league having him for that full season. I think like how good they I probably in theory would have been having him for the full MLS season now well guess what if you flip to the they had the they call the FIFA calendar with the rest of the world soccer yeah you'll be able to play through the entire season and then in the summer months yeah when they've had to sell these players and it's obviously disrupted the middle of the season well guess what everybody else is in the off season so then you can both move players out bring players in go through your preseason training and then hit the ground running hopefully and have an idea okay this is what the squad is going to look like by and large for the entirety of the season and you're not having to say yeah in the middle of the season hey thanks for being here but you're out and it's going to affect

27:16our overall team play. No doubt about it no doubt about it all right Jake before we let you go a little bit of announcement that you have in terms of your new show that you're putting together what can you tell us about your new show or could we find this and and how often do you do it? Yeah so I've been doing walked on Cougars you both know that's what I were talking to you why you today but I'm going to launch another YouTube channel that's already out there I haven't had a chance to really get it off the ground and it's entirety we're calling it Yacht talk. Yacht was my radio moniker for years and years and years and I think you know what I'm going to keep that radio moniker we're going to have some fun with it. It's going to be kind of a more of a generalized sports approach I want to talk like what we just talked about we talked to RSL we talked major league baseball coming to Salt Lake City I want to talk jazz I want to talk to mammoth so it's going to be kind of a more of a generalized thing and it's going to be fun it's just it's an outlet for me to get a lot of the thoughts and a lot of the things that I would have otherwise gotten off my chest and other formats out there to the world now that I'm working independently on my own. I love it I love it anything

28:18you need from Jordan and I you let us know we're here to help you out as well appreciate your time this morning thanks for jumping on with us. Hey thanks boy we'll talk to you soon all right all right that is Jay catch you can follow him on x sat Jay catch of course go support his new show and it's current locked on Cougars podcast as well always phenomenal always phenomenal Mr. Jay catch yeah we need to have him on regularly now that we can no doubt about it absolutely going to be able to do that one all right we're going to wrap it up here on a Thursday edition of Bryson B. Anucci September the 10th right here on the program big shout out to Jay catch if you missed it maybe came in halfway during that interview you can find the rest of it over on the Bryson B. Anucci podcast wherever you get your podcast so it'll be up as soon as we get done here on the program. All right we'll take a break final thoughts we'll wrap it up your thoughts on the sick freedom gents and text in line at 877 3530 700 as well anything you want to hit us your final

29:20messages can go there we'll take a break and be right back here on Bryson B. Anucci 103 9 and 98 3 ESPN the fan. Legion of boom dark side same results good morning I'm Jay Reynolds NFL season opening last night in Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl rematch they rally from down 10 nothing for a 13 to 10 win Patriots were driving in the final minute at Seattle 16 a field goal would tie it but Drake may on third down. Dispression off balance third on the right and he throws it in his center in the end zone. What was he thinking? All picked up on the right side of the end zone. Seattle has it to the touchback. All right you did the thing you don't do. You did the thing you don't do. 88 5 the sports of Seattle seals the win with their third interception all three coming in the fourth quarter Seattle's 11th straight win overall Seattle losing quarterback Sam Darnell to a hip injury Patriots wide receiver AJ Browningers his right ankle tonight from Australia Niners and LA Rams speaking of LA Dodgers putting show a

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32:26are going to join us to a little BYU Utah preview talk about the rest of the big 12 as well. Right now speaking of the rest of the big 12 let's head up to the hill where Utah gets ready for Arkansas and I want to play a little bit of a clip for you because there's some chatter coming out about this game every time an SEC team comes into town it just seems like there's always chatter some sort of chatter when these SEC teams come in this is Brandon Marcello talking on a whole hogs sports dot com podcast here's what he had to say about what he perceives as a weakness for Utah. If they go to Utah and you get beat by 30 points it means sounds some alarms. I was watching Utah and they've got some weak spots that I wasn't expecting. You can throw the ball down field on them. They're going to be physical up front yes but there's some things you can do offensively against them to take advantage of some matchups. It's the first to us are you talking about Utah this week Brandon

33:28they've lost all of their alignment all they're starting line from last year's team all five starting offensive lineman all four starting defensive lineman when you're playing a team that you know we'll see how physical Arkansas really is but when you're playing a team that the expectation is they're going to be physical this early in the season and you've got that many question marks on the line no different than Arkansas has got some questions marks on its offensive line I'm interested to see how that match up plays out Saturday night. Okay Jordan P. Anucci do you agree with that evaluation and assessment of Utah can you throw the football down the field on them? Do they have a weakness in that specific area? I don't know yet or I don't know what film he's watching because what I saw was the 13 play drive by Idaho where they just pounded around yeah and and even I mean watching that game I don't know what they're seeing what that tells you that you can throw the football downfield on Utah so I just don't know yet I doubt it I mean I mean I'm not saying you just they're gonna their DBs are just shut down ever but but there's nothing I don't

34:29know I don't know what he's referring to maybe a wide open tight end or two that dropped a football against Idaho yeah I mean that's taken that's a lot of you're drawing pretty concrete conclusions from not a whole lot of you know tape well the thing that I thought was fascinating was that I thought maybe the defensive line needed a little bit more depth and I talked about that in the beginning of the show and we talked about it on Tuesday with JT was so locked on you he said he thought that starting defensive tackles played well but when they rotated in some depth there was a couple of issues there and but in their evaluation and assessment it sounded like they thought the fronts were gonna be very physical and that they're gonna be dominating there but somewhere else is a different weakness I don't know we'll see Utah 12 and a half point favorite up on the hill against Arkansas under the lights at Reisackle Stadium remember the last time an SEC team came in in Florida remember the the Instagram story that got posted before the game small ass stadium yeah small ass stadium Lila Stadium a lot of conversation about this Lila Stadium up the road

35:34once again from Arkansas and its fan base we'll see well are are they knocking the stadium already or you just yeah it sounds like there's some conversation about the fan base and how loud it's actually going to be or not it'll be loud but but I don't think how many of these guys have played power for football in the SEC on the Sarkins all roster how many are returning because that's the thing is the I think the altitude and maybe a late game is a bigger home field advantage if these guys have played in the SEC the noise is not going to be an issue or you know I mean it shouldn't say that it's not going to be something they haven't heard before because Utah's loud but it's not Florida it's not it's not I don't know who else in the SEC brutal to go into LSU obviously I mean they're just bigger stadiums are louder so I don't see that as being a huge issue yeah well I just think that it's funny that these SEC teams come in and they're like oh well just gonna roll another week

36:39another non-conference win I've been just an assumption that come that they come in and it's a small stadium we're not gonna have any issues gonna come in and just beat the brakes off this team and move on are but Arkansas is not saying that well okay I haven't I'm sure the team's not saying it but some of the talking heads are some of them are saying they're gonna blow out Utah coming in and they're not gonna have any problem with the crowd they're not gonna have any issue getting a snap off they're not there's no good there's not gonna be any any problem with traveling west of the Mississippi even though they only do it like twice a year and yeah it seems like there's a lot of talk behind the scenes right now well if they have trouble with the crowd that's a problem for Arkansas because they have to go to Texas A&M they have to go to Auburn and then Texas I don't know how loud actually Texas really is but those are you know what I mean like Utah's going to be loud

37:40Texas A&M will be louder there are 50,000 more fans in that stadium so Arkansas shouldn't struggle with the crowd noise yeah that I if I were an Arkansas fan and they struggle with the crowd noise I'd be concerned tell you what you're gonna hear in that crowd all afternoon long we I won't get annoying at all woo pig sui that's what you're gonna hear fantastic fantastic I'm not gonna lie it's pretty impressive that they coordinate their woo pig sui so well I'll tell you what's impressive is they travel so well for having been garbage for so long when when that ball goes to get kicked off all you're gonna hear is good lord every first down Jordan oh my gosh I can't I don't think I'll be able to handle it when I'm gonna ask you this when's the last time

38:43Arkansas one more than one eight or more games you know the last time Arkansas one eight or more games yeah was it when BYU beat him at home a couple of years ago I don't know what year was that 20 was it 22 or 23 no they have they went 7 and 6 and 22 they went 4 and 8 and 23 they went 9 and 4 night they've been no the Arkansas have been bad 9 and 4 in 21 the last time before that that they got to nine wins was 2011 and it's just this is not a good this has not been a great football team by any means Utah it's got to take care of business not Walmart would pump some more money into that Arkansas football roster well you know what's funny is Walmart is a publicly traded company so they can't really just be pumping in this is what I was reading up on this from Arkansas people so the owners of Walmart the Walton family don't necessarily want to put in that money that's

39:43the coming out of their own pocket that Walmart that is the question is because they uh they said they could do it but uh it hasn't really said listen we could do that or we could buy into Denver Bronco yeah or we could buy the Denver Broncos and we could own an entire Arkansas hey sports fans Dennis Robbins talking with you for me at betus.com my only sports book in casino same game parlays Osboos live in game betting plus a 200 percent welcome bonus for sports book and casino join me today at betus.com tell them Dennis Robbins sent you kitchen and bathroom professionals know what goes behind the tile matters that's why trade pros trust fiber cement party backer board to keep tile firmly in place resist cracking and help block moisture chosen over 40 million kitchens and bathrooms party backer board what the best build on shop now at participating home depot lows and floor into core stores for more information visit jameshardy.com slash hardy backer hey sports fans Dennis Robbins talking with you for me at betus.com

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