Wedding with a Zoob Assistant AD
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Chasqui
ParticipantOn July 11th Nephi Sewell and his wife renewed their vows. (I will attach the link at the end) They got married right before he joined the saints but never had a chance to have a reception until now. My wife and I were seated at a table with an assistant AD for TDS. We started talking a little bit about everything going on between our two schools. Because I didn’t tell him I would be talking about it, I’m not going to say his name. Take everything here with a grain of salt, I have absolutely no idea how much of it is true or if he is just blowing smoke.
1. Jake Retzlaff – this was the day Jake officially left BYU. In his words “it’s about time! We have been waiting over a month for him to leave” apparently there is no love lost from BYU. Jake went to Sitake about 2 weeks before the lawsuit came out asking for help on how to deal with the honor code fallout. Kala I apparently said you knew what you signed up for when you came to BYU.
2. New starting QB – they really want it to be that Bear kid. They said if he can get a handle on the playbook, the job is his. I told him good luck. Freshman QB’s aren’t as fun as they sound and he said Bear is “different”
3. Jay Hill – I asked if he was worried about auras poaching Jay Hill once Kyle retires. He said BYU isnt giving it much of a concern. Jay did well but once he had his heart attack, the defense was run by Kalani, even when he came back to “full strength” if when Kyle retires and Utah comes calling BYU won’t be losing much sleep of that.
4. Kevin Young – he is their #1 priority in all sports. When he was with Phoenix, he was deciding between taking the Brooklyn Nets job or BYU and chose BYU. Their plan is to keep him as one of the highest paid coaches to keep him from going back to the NBA. He said their culture is what made Kevin choose college over pro’s.
5. Mark Harlan – I joked that he should be our AD (I’m not a big fan of Mark’s but this was definitely a joke on my end to stroke egos and keep him talking) and he said yeah, since the rivalry game last year a lot of Marks rapport with the conference has been diminished.
6. Rivalry Game – I asked if there is a push to get the rivalry game back to the last week of the year. He says there have been talks but nothing serious yet. There are mixed feelings at both Utah and BYU about doing it. He didn’t say why but he said both schools have people who want it and people who don’t.
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RedUte14
ParticipantKeeping Kevin young highly paid but chose you because of culture?
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chinngiskhaan
ParticipantThat is what all of the highly paid coaches and players at TSPP say. They don’t want to admit that wealthy church members are spending a lot of money on paying 18 year olds to play basketball instead of spending the money to help people that actually need it. It looks bad if the uber wealthy church openly talks about paying kids millions of dollars to put a ball in a hoop when there is so much suffering happening world wide. NOW BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING, know that I am a very active member of the church, and know that I realize the funding is not actually coming from the church but from individual members. BUT the church isn’t stupid, they know it looks bad to the casual observer.
Also, in fairness, I think most players and coaches at any school would probably say the same thing. For some reason, people have an aversion to admitting that they did one thing instead of something else for the simple reason that they got paid more to do that thing than the other thing.
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Chasqui
ParticipantPersonally I don’t think the church needs to admit it. People have a right to spend their money on whatever they want. I just spent a gross amount of money on my 3 year old yesterday at Disneyland. Not proud of it
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CityCreekUte
ParticipantSpending their money on whatever they want is not the same as denying they are doing it.
It’s not the spending it’s the lying about it.
And unlike going to an overpriced Disneyland they can even be proud of it. Most places are now. They are using it as a selling point (which I’m sure internally they are too) and at best the people who can’t spend as much can kinda cry about it and/or suggest that the only reason they win is they pay more which should be met with more of a “duh” then shame. But BYU seems to feel shame about it. On the other hand the longest standing example of of paying to win in sports is the Yankee and I don’t think their feelings are hurt much by the crying when they have +2x more World Series than anyone else.
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Chasqui
ParticipantI was a little surprised because they aren’t known to be the high paying school. Especially when compared to the NBA. Who knows what he actually is getting but I do think basketball is their 1A focus and football is 1B.
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Central Coast Ute
ParticipantThe school itself isn’t. The boosters are.
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Brettski
ParticipantThanks for posting. I have in laws from the Folsom CA area (All Y Fans) and they went to some musical group performance for kids and teens and snuck a video of Ryder Lyons in an open leather vest singing “Lock them doors and turn the lights down low”. It’s ultra cheesy and they were told not to take video but did anyway haha.
Not on topic but I don’t care.
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Chasqui
ParticipantI would LOVE to see that video!
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ALUF
ParticipantSounds super likeable..
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Central Coast Ute
ParticipantNone of this sounds crazy. Retzlaff became a PR nightmare and he wasn’t a guy that was going to win you any games. His job was to not lose the game. I believe the part about Harlan and everything else. Including Jay Hill.
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UteThunder
ParticipantAll interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t buy it regarding Sitake running their defense. I’m sure he helped after the heart attack, but there’s no way he ran it.
I can’t imagine wanting a true freshman to earn the starting QB job over two transfers with a good amount of game experience. They really might be in for a rough year.
As for Harlan, I’m sure his rapport with BYU has diminished but I doubt anyone else in the conference has given it a second thought since it happened.
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Holladay Ute
ParticipantPretty much sounds like exactly what a biased and unrealistic BYU fan who doesn’t like Utah would say.
Total respect for Kalani if that’s how he handled the Retzlaff situation.
I laughed out loud when I read what the guy said about Bachmeier Under Troy Taylor, Stanford was 3-9 last year (and they were 3-9 the year before too). They were literally one of the few teams in the country that was statistically worse than Utah on the offensive side of the ball last year. Their starting QB (who was a senior) had stats that were basically as bad as Isaac Wilson’s. They tried three different QBs throughout the year, including one who was a freshman. During spring camp, Bachmeier was splitting first-team reps w/ Elijah Brown (who was their third string freshman QB last year). I am not intimidated by this at all. True, he was a low four-star recruit out of high school and he did have an impressive offer list (which included us). Why would he choose Stanford over all those other offers? I’m sure his family connection contributed, but most likely b/c he had the opportunity to play right away. Why would he leave Stanford where he could be the starter in order to join BYU (another program that had a mediocre offense last year) where he’d be a backup? If I were an honest BYU fan, I would be feeling the same way I felt when Cam Rising went down and Isaac Wilson stepped in: very, very concerned. Utah fired Aaron Roderick and replaced him w/ none other than Troy Taylor haha. Both have been mediocre coaches at the D1 level. I think Bachmeier will struggle a lot in his first season, and I think our defense will eat him alive in Provo.
I call total BS on the Jay Hill comments. Especially considering how Kalani handled their completely atrocious defense the year before Jay Hill joined…
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Chasqui
ParticipantHolladayUte, I completely agree with you. bear doesn’t scare me at all even with us playing them week 8. Hillstead feels like a much better option. What I hope is that they start hillstead, struggle with him for a weeks and then decide to move to Bear a week or two before us. Can you imagine our defense against him? Even at LES. Gonna be reminiscent of 54-10!
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