Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - BIG 12 SQUAD - Do Kansas Jayhawks have the hardest schedule in the conference?

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

Can the Utah Utes make a splash in the Big 12 this season? With a challenging schedule and quarterback Devin Dampier's potential, the stakes are high for the Utes. Dive into the latest Big 12 football schedules, where the BYU Cougars face a grueling stretch, sparking debate among fans and experts alike. Spencer McLaughlin and Jake Hatch lead a lively discussion on the impact of these schedules, while Cody Stovall shares insights from his interview with Oklahoma State's new quarterback, Hoss Haney. The conversation also touches on the Arizona State Sun Devils' late-season challenges and the role of NIL deals in shaping college sports.Join the conversation and explore the unpredictable landscape of Big 12 football. Listen now for insider perspectives and expert analysis!

Two plastic surgeries and some hair dilator and I am Drake Toll. This is the Lockdown Big 12 Squad and some people don't like their schedules. I'm going to decide in the next 10 seconds if I will let them cry about it. Let's do it, shall we? You're talking ball with the Big 12 Squad, sponsored by Game Time. From Oklahoma State to Utah, from Kansas State to BYU, from Houston to Texas Tech, it's the local experts of the Locked On Podcast Network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview

of the upcoming Big 12 weekend. Buckle up, it's the Big 12 Squad, and we have a seat for you. Know her feelings and thin skin aloud. Squad up, you're part of the Big 12 Squad. Happy Thursday, everybody, and welcome in to the Big 12 Squad. I am not actually Drake Toll, but I am the enhanced version of him. Spencer McLaughlin, your host of the Big 12 Squad. Today we've got Parker Ainsworth of Locked On Cougs, JT Wistersell of Locked On Utes, Chris Lovell of Locked On Texas Tech, Jake Hatch, Locked On BYU, Richie Bradshaw of Locked On Something Down in Arizona.

I'm just kidding. They're the Sun Devils, of course. Nick Maravitz, Locked On Cyclones, Cody Stovall of Locked On Oklahoma State. And now that you have watched the open and heard me mention Richie and Nick's name, that's probably about all you're going to see for Arizona State and Iowa State in terms of contribution on this show, which is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app if you're cool,

which I presume all of you are since you're watching this show. Create an account. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. So Richie and Nick admitted to me before we started recording that they love their schedules, which means they are just going to verbally slobber all over Brett Yormark, and that's not what we're about. So I want a complainer in here. Jake Hatch, locked on BYU Cougars.

Are you guys just getting screwed by the schedule here? Like, knife in the side, you know, Miranda Tate style in the Dark Knight Rises and twist it. Wow. I like that. Spencer is hymns. I know. This is good.

No, I'm far too young to be the target audience of him. Now, the point to be made, Spencer, BYU has a 70-day stretch in the middle of the season where they play two, count them, two home games surrounded by five road games. BYU got hard done by Brett Yormark and Co. 70-day stretch. 70-day stretch. And, by the way,

that stretches all the fall of Brett, your mark in the big 12 conference, right? It has nothing to do with BYU willingly traveling to East Carolina to play a football game. Well, that's another story for another day. Drake's I'm advocating for them to buy it.

Sorry. What color is my hair? My neck has far more girth to it. It's not skinny like a young tree sprouting out of the ground. There's meat on the bones up here. We would never say words like that if Drake was here. What are you talking about? I usually only say them if Drake were here.

For some reason, I feel like Cody Stovall is ready to jump in. Cowboys schedule. Good, bad, not so good. You got to come and play my ducks next year. Are you looking forward to that? I am. And I will definitely be in Eugene, Oregon for that. Do I?

No, but I, you know what? Crazy things happen in the early portion of the season, right? Because nobody really knows how the roster is going to shake out more often than not overall I tell you I don't mind the schedule that we have I feel like it's kind of middle of the road I will say however one thing that is frustrating is we're trying to build some semblance of rivalries in this conference right for marketability and tv viewership last year we didn't get to play Texas Tech but we did get to play Utah this year we don't play Utah nor do we play BYU, but we do get Texas Tech. It just doesn't make any sense.

Other than the Holy War and Farmageddon, which, correct me if I'm wrong, that's not being played next year, I believe. We're losing out on the potential of building up rivalries, and that, I think, is an injustice for everybody in the conference. Farmageddon will be ending the conference now i will be in rivalries well then it will be ending soon but they'll play it in ireland technically it will get played just not on rivalry week yeah okay also cody's absolutely right there is nothing i enjoy more than beating oklahoma state at football and also cody was absolutely correct when he said we

don't know how teams are through the first few games of the season because Cody's team started 3-0 and never managed to win a conference game. Hey, well, hold on. Why are you acting like Utah had some phenomenal season? We won technically three conference games. We technically won three. I'm counting the Baylor game. By the way, JT, I'm not going to let you just gloss over the fact that you just said a win over Oklahoma State means more to you than a win over BYU.

What kind of fake Utah fan are you over there, buddy? Spencer, get up, Spencer. Can someone roll the tape back, please, whoever is running this? Did I say more than anything? That's on me. Did I say more than anything? That's fair. That's fair.

Honestly, I can't remember. Parker asking about Pop-Tart right now. Well, no, I don't remember the exact wording but the thought the thought went into my head because i was like wait a minute how could oklahoma state be a more important win the byu that's ridiculous chris bring some sensibility to this conversation please and it's this point in the show where drake would typically like just move people off the screen and like if he didn't like what they were saying it's like you know you go to time out yeah there you go i like it i haven't been trusted with that authority because i am interim host of this show drake has determined there's something more important than the big 12 squad

i don't know what that could possibly be golf is what it is i was golfing earlier today, and yes, I balled out. Thank you for asking. But Richie, Arizona State, is that schedule set up for the Sun Devils to run it back as the Big 12 champs? I personally think so. I know a lot of people think that it's very much backloaded, which I would agree that arguably your two most difficult games of going to Boulder and certainly going to aims

are going to be in november the potential for cold weather games which arizona state is not completely adjusted to they have played in boulder in november once that was over 10 years ago those soft sun devils i was just all of a sudden laughing. Richie's just having like a sensible conversation, and Hatch is just completely thrown off. Richie looks like he's got a five-layer ringer or something somewhere. Hey, what's your toughest home game, Richie? Definitely not Texas Tech, if you're wanting me to say that.

Probably NAU. Look at that non-answer. Why would you not say that? I mean, I got a piece of that fork behind last year, whatever you guys do. What's wrong with that? Chris, it's like this. I heard Kalen Balazs is going out of retirement.

Oh, Kalen Balazs jokes. Come on, man. That was like seven or eight years ago. Guys, have we become – hold on. I think for a moment there we became the literal meme from Twitter about men just hang out and name random old sports names. Oh, yeah. Greg Ward.

That is what bringing Kalen Balazs' name into this conversation was. That's the rest of the show. Next we should bring up Rafe LaFrance. Talk, talk, baby. Darren Thomas. Stephon Marbury. I love the Darren Thomas one. We could do this for hours.

We were born for this. This is true. This is why we are all paid to sit behind these microphones. Kalen Clay for Jake. Mario Bennett. Rafer Alston. Randy Orton. Rafer Alston.

Now we're talking. This never happened on this show. Now we're cooking with gas once Rafer Alston. Randy Orton. Rafer Alston. Now we're talking. This never happened on this show. Now we're cooking with gas once Rafer Alston is in there. Parker Ainsworth, by the way, is Connor Wigman going to have an opportunity to metaphorically cook with gas? I love this schedule as I look at it, actually. I know we're going to start with people like Debbie Downers, but we lucked out on no Iowa State, no Kansas State.

You play Tech at home early in the season. You get no Utah, no BYU. You get Colorado week three. It's really a really great schedule. I guess one of your road games is at Rice. We're riding the Conner-Wegland train. We're great. Basketball school, Chris.

Not on Saturday. Chris Lovell is the loudest guy here. Is he not? We need to talk about what happened with Texas Tech basketball later in the show. We have to. We get Tech at home. We don't have to go to Lubbock. I think it's set up really great.

You do have to play Baylor at the end of the year. I failed you. I would like to see what Nick has to say about Parker's schedule. If I'm going to talk about anybody's schedule, it's going to be Cincinnati. How do they have so many home games? I know we don't have a voice in here for them, but they just seem to be home the entire year. Kansas, Oklahoma State, Utah, and TCU, four games,

but they're spread out evenly. How'd they do that? They only play four home games. We have seven games, so I can. How'd they do that? They only play four home games. We have seven games, so I can't say anything. Four away. Oh, they only play four away games. Oh, that's pretty good. The good news, too, is they still schedule the loss for BYU in Ames.

They're playing Utah and going straight to Ames. So congratulations on that scheduled W for the Cyclones. Great schedule. The way that the Bison split it up almost into four even chunks we only play on the road two games in a row twice once uh where is it at here Cincinnati to Colorado and then Oklahoma State leading into the Big 12 championship game that'll be the only other back-to-back away so Iowa State is completely primed to bring it home this year yeah Utah's schedule is um I don't love it for you JT it's not it's not great i think you know maybe brett

yormark thought that mark harlan was being too high and mighty with his past current and future resistance to actually being in the big 12 and said you know what you just went five and seven let us let us give you an absolute dog fight of a schedule week in and week out as best we can. We're going to get to more Utah next because some places or people are looking at the Utes and saying Big 12 champions in 2025, and there are at least one, two, oh, I can count six people in this chat, at least, at least, that are going to say that's preposterous and that's coming up next. First, this episode brought to you by PrizePix.

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PrizePix. Run your game. I thought I was doing the live read there. I had it all. You do that after. Have you ever been a part of one of these shows? Come on, Spencer. Post-production.

Post-production. Yeah, fine. I have all the time in the world. I don't have a girlfriend. All right, 3, 2, 1. No. That's true. Now Richie's being a jerk.

Keep it in. Keep it in. That was good. Yeah, keep that one in. Well, Spencer, everybody here knows I can't spell the word preposterous, but what I can say is anybody that's claiming Utah is going to win the Big 12 is higher than the drafts. It makes absolutely no sense.

Did they not watch the previous football season? And I'm saying that as an Oklahoma State fan. I would say the same about us. If somebody came out and said, Oklahoma State is going to win the Big 12, I'd be like, listen, you're high on some jt level of supply that you should probably get rid of that's just how i look at it right now now i'll shut up and let everybody else go let it be known cody is out here just lightly accusing jt wistersell of having a walter white alter ego just red eyes one time he had a a red eye. That one was fun.

Yeah. All right. Look, my life made it without a joke. Cause Drake's not here. So I appreciate that. Now Spencer, say,

Oh no, I'd save that for the 19 minute mark, but Hey, JT, I will, I will give you the floor. I'll give you the floor. I'll instruct the other host to,

to pause for 60 seconds. While JT defends the, Hey hatch pipe down. Well, JT has the opportunity to defend this notion that a new OC and Devin Dampier quarterback will lead Utah to the promised land. Well, first of all, can we just talk about how crazy what Cody just said is when he's like, it's absolutely ridiculous if anyone thinks Utah's going to win this conference. What did we just see Arizona State do, Cody? Go from worst to first. Fair, fair, fair.

What happened in 60 seconds of silence? I'm sorry. I was guaranteed 60 seconds of silence. You all was most responsible. I know, I know. Anyways, going into this. First of all, can I just say, I'm misrecording with you guys these last couple weeks because you guys have had an opportunity to say a lot of things about Utah. And I've had an opportunity to jump in.

Let me say one thing. And yes, I'm excited to talk about you, Jake. Let's let people in behind the curtain, by the way. Jake has the ability to move the people this episode. So Jake purposely, when he thought Spencer was going to go in on me, moved me center stage so y'all at home could see better. I noticed that, my friend. I noticed that birthday boy down there.

Anyways, let's talk about this Big 12 conference. Everyone's like arizona state iowa state next year there's just one problem with that theory if you look over the course of the big 12 outside of texas and oklahoma no one since colorado since 2004 and 2005 have we seen a time's up i'm sorry that you used it on saying how much you missed being here with us, but that was your own fault. You can finish the thought now, but I had to throw that in there. That was a good stat, the fact that, isn't that crazy? In this conference, and we call it the ultimate one of parody,

no one outside of Texas and Oklahoma has made back-to-back conference championship appearances since 2004 and 2005. So we're all acting like it's going to be BYU, Iowa State, Arizona State, not even mentioning the fact that we saw Iowa State, Arizona State, not even mentioning the fact that we saw Iowa State get blown out in the championship game. Arizona State's been good for one year and they lost their heartbeat in Camp Scataboo. And Jake, I like BYU. They deserve to be the favorites right now. I'm going to give you guys that much, but let's not act like BYU. No, on paper, on paper. Run that back. Get him off the screen. You got the power.

I will never say anything nice about the Wildcats. Do you know what other team I liked last year on paper? The Utah Utes. And they completely underwhelmed and disappointed. All these teams were given this preseason love too. Texas Tech. They haven't even appeared in the Big 12 championship game ever. I know they spent a lot on their roster, but it's never actually materialized to anything.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. We're going to keep it moving. JT, take a muscle relaxer, man. Xanax, something just like, get some antibiotic in your system. Chris Lowe's him. All right. He'll, he'll be third. Hatch, you were mentioned first in, in that emotional tirade. So I will give you the first opportunity to respond, and then Nick will be next. Oh, Jake puts himself up there. Perfect. Absolutely.

Come on. I got the power, baby. Let's go. No, here's the deal. What's JT under you? They are absolutely primed to make some noise this year with all the pieces they bring back. I will say this, JT.

BYU two years ago brought in 60 new players via the transfer portal and various means yielded a five and seven record Utah's bringing over 30 new additions this year and you think they're gonna make a run of the big 12 title game I think it's two years away at least BYU's ready for you October 18th we'll see you in Provo. Marivet you've got a you've got a new background down there do you have a new perspective on adding consistent input to the show uh actually sort of in a way uh i'm just curious to kind of hear because we don't have mountaineer paul everyone moment of silence his internet's broken yeah still it's like weeks now by a half second level i was gonna do it it's always the fingers crossed on the internet i'll try to be with you guys and then we get the fingers crossed. It's just a layout, man.

That's a softball pitch. Speaking of softballs, it looks like their schedule is pretty easy too. I mean, who do they play? Arizona State will probably stink this year. Texas Tech maybe will be good. BYU could potentially make noise. I don't – other than that – I avoid Houston, so I get what you're talking about.

I love playing Iowa State. Iowa State, they're fun to play. History tells us one of those top three teams is going to completely underwhelm this season that's what the big 12 history tells us like if you want to pick someone who's not favored i'd take west virginia right now obviously i would say it's going to revisit but west virginia i kind of like nick what was the shot at arizona state what to deserve that? I'm still salty, okay? I watched in person Cam Scadaboo run over an entire Cyclone team. I don't know who after that game. That's gone now. That one hurt.

I'll never forget it. I'm going to hurt you. Richie, are you going to go after him, or are you going to be Paul Blart after hitting the hot sauce in the guy's eye? You're just going to sit there. Richie, you have looked constipated this entire show, and you've only said like five words. What is happening right now? It's a light.

It makes you look like a cherry. I don't know. Not a cherry. Cherry tomato. Let's be specific about such things. All right, let me throw this one out there. And I'm going to get a five-second response from each of you, which means you have the opportunity to say yes or no

as to whether it is crazy. JT, that's five seconds. I deserve that. My bad. Yeah, indeed. Houston making a run to the Big 12 championship game. Yes or no, crazy. Go, Nick.

Are we talking basketball or football? This is football. Yeah, absolutely not. Go ahead, Richard. Yeah, no. No. Cody? Nope.

JT? No, but I'm not ruling anything out. Jake? It's the wrong Cougars. Uh-huh. Parker? Nope. That was good.

Uh-huh. And Chris Lovell? Willie Fritz, good. No chance, though. Okay. Okay. uh-huh that was good uh-huh and and chris level willie fritz good no chance though okay okay so uh we've got all no's except for the host of uh locked on houston cougars rocking the uh the swaggy looking hat i i dig that parker uh let me let me ask you something if i'd asked that question a year ago at this time about a State, how many of you would have been saying yes? Fair. No, exactly.

Yeah, agreed. The real question is would Richie have even said yes? No. No, he wouldn't have. I said seven and five being optimistic. He's our least biased host. Richie's like the least biased host. It's actually hilarious. I had me and Richie did a crossover not too long ago,

and I reminded him when he started on these shows, he was like, Nick, he said like five words and he literally was like, I'm just happy to be here. Hopefully we win a few conference games. And then as the season progressed, he got a little bit more braggadocious by the end of the season. There was no stopping Richie. And I was so happy to see it.

I might tell you what, he was so excited. His face still hasn't come back to a normal tone. There's no stopping Cody using words that he has zero percent chance of being able to spell correctly. He can't read, he's in Oklahoma. That's why

I just used the percentage logos. Gosh, that is a big statement from a guy that went to Arizona State. I was actually an English major in college. Really? Actually an English major in college. Really? Actually an English major. No, that's what Arizona's diplomas look like.

Is Bobby Hurley as crazy as he seems, by the way? I don't want to talk about that. If you want to see Mike Lash, you can check out Locked on Sun Devils. No, you messed up the time of it. You released it early, and then I saw it all on Twitter. You phoned me. Am I right? I watched this whole thing. Kind of like you released it early and then i i saw it all on twitter like you you you felt the uh right am i right like i i watched this whole kind of like you said you formulate a sentence there level

fumbling more than you want to read this right now chris level just sounded like high type wait do we have to wait i need to know and if it was just a subconscious move it, that's okay. But what were you doing with your hands? Oh, no. I didn't realize that today's episode was scheduled for tomorrow. Changing that now, episode premieres. Time to move on, question mark.

So I guess you don't like the guy. Sheesh. I mean, so harsh. I was just asking a question. I don't like Bobby. sheesh i mean like so harsh i was just asking a question oh i don't like i mean to be fair he did ask a question he could have said no it's not time to move on this is better that's why you tune into the show isn't it that's right that's right this is a better thing with bobby hurley going going back to the buffalo days i was a young kid going to akron buffalo basketball games the mac watching him lose his mind on the sideline. Why?

That was a good knowledge pull right there. My dad worked there. I lived in Akron. No one where Hurley worked before he was at Arizona State. I appreciate the knowledge pull right there. Thank you. We've become far too sensible and non- insulting, so in the final segment, let's get things back on track.

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I'll just have to find a therapist to talk to about it. But it has been a long-running joke amongst the YouTube comments that I look like Sid from Toy Story. I told that to a guest on a podcast once. He started laughing and goes, well, I can't unsee that now. I don't know why it's not your profile picture on Twitter at this point. I'm shocked. We all work for our lord and savior, Zach Blackerby, at the Lockdown Network.

He was submitting a media application for me. This is 100% true. And he said, hey, I'm submitting the application, and I didn't have a headshot of you, so I just sent this. And he sends me a picture of Sid in that skull and crossbones black T-shirt in the buzz cut. Oh. So anyway, that's where that would

work you have a punisher t-shirt you can put on real quick for us just i don't i don't i don't but i'm gonna be looking into that for for halloween and to answer your logical next question i will not tell you what i have done with woody and buzz as long as it's not the same thing as burritos, we should be fine. Nice, man. Hey, that's that ripple power. That's going way back.

Yeah, that's going way back. All right. Here's the next. Hold on. Drake had told me how to run this show. I didn't really listen to him for the most part. Oh, here we go. No, we already kind of talked about that.

It's riveting. You're not doing great, buddy. You were doing better. I was. Yeah, I was. I was not prepared for this third segment like I should have been. Richie, I'm told that Arizona State signed a big recruit. Does that actually matter?

What's that supposed to mean? I'm just wondering if it matters. Grayson Rickton, and baby let's go yeah wes welker kyler murray couldn't hold this guy's jockstrap apparently according to everything that i've seen about this guy oh so my my grandmother good to know you're up to date on this kid he is the next cam scataboo that's all i know oh no hey didn't y'all get that running back from army yes they did kanye yuto yeah yeah i'll be speaking to them very very soon by the way that that dude is legit that's a beast jay spencer you want this show to go off the rails can i

finish my rant from earlier i had a couple more notes yeah dog go for it i'm not listening to that there's no like there's no better boogeyman than Utah. Look, Parker. I've got a pretty football-focused question for y'all. Since last week, I know I took the conversation a little bit too much off the rails. I want to know. There you go. Cue in the inner Drake. By the way, JT, that's how much your rants are respected here on this show. Parker heard the idea of you talking and said i am leaving oh yeah i

was wondering where he went i was well i was about to talk about winning conference championships in football which his school will never know anything about so that's okay all right big 12 squad wasn't able to make it today so i apologize for that but still want to send in a video i I'm dying. Boom, boom, boom. Jake is just never going to let Utah talk. Jake has the biggest smile on his face right now once he watches this episode. He will be so happy. We're missing one. We're missing one.

New guy Nick and his Iowa State Cyclones made it to a bowl game. I have to say, five-hour energy. Five-hour energy. old double fist and parker we were talking about utah maybe you know winning the big exactly what parker's doing here's the other thing i'll probably i'm gonna get dragged because i mean i have to say it's

i don't think utah should be the favorite like with what the season they're coming off of they have some new pieces they're actually they shouldn't be the favorite but the fact that we're acting like all of these other schools don't have blemishes and that they should all be the favorite like Cam Cam Stewart last week was laughing like where is Baylor up here Baylor at the 11th ranked defense in the conference they didn't beat a ranked team last year the four best teams they faced all beat them Baylor can't even beat Utah they're 0-2 against Utah in the last two years so for the fact that I am just I think it's crazy that we're wow, how dare this team not win it when we made the same mistake last year. This is the ultimate conference with parity.

Like we mentioned, the fact that two teams haven't made it back, I think almost anyone can win it this year. Utah's got Devin Dampier. No player in the country rushed for more yards per carry than Devin Dampier last year, and he still threw for over 2,000 yards. Only player in the country to throw for over 2,500 yards and rush for over 1,000 yards too. Offensive line mostly back.

Two of those tackles really good. One of the top five best portal backs. A really good defense that was still the second best in the conference. Utah and Kansas are the two bounce back candidates I'm really looking at this season. He's no Baron Morton. You post up on Baylor all of a sudden. What's going on here?

We can rip on Baylor. We haven't done that on show. That was a pretty coherent Utah rant. By the way, Level, that was supposed to be an invitation to jump in because I like Baron Morton. That's it. Yeah, well, and I get that a lot of people kind of have questions about that. He's had shoulder surgery.

Who does what? Who questions Baron Morton? A lot of the Tech fans do. Really? A lot of the Tech fans do. Really? A lot of the Tech fans do, absolutely. Yeah. And I think that's actually the big question mark for Texas Tech this year. He had shoulder surgery.

He's not going to be cleared until May or June or not released, I guess. And I think they solidified themselves everywhere in the portal. But I think he's kind kind of and that's not necessarily fair but that's just how it goes where whereas jt may be pointing to devon dampier is like okay this guy's gonna fix everything you know the quarterback's gonna ultimately decide this stuff and uh i i think that our conversation here about this league and not knowing exactly who the favorite is is the best part about this league and the worst part. Because that's the knock on it, actually, nationally,

is because you don't really know who's going to win it. And I would tell you that if you made me bet my own money, and I couldn't pick my own team, I'd say Kansas State is somebody that everybody, don't sleep on those guys. Never. I would take the team that's won the most recent back-to-back conference champions. I can't believe it.

For the Big 12? Not in this league. You think Kyle Whittingham led Utah is going to let their quarterback be unleashed? Sorry. This would be better. It's not hard to be better than what they had last year. That's all I'm asking for.

That's true. The bar is the floor. The bar is low, Jake. Kyle Whittingham puts governors on his quarterback literally so that's what that's the concern oh oh okay i you're right no he does golf cart governor i just think that utah's offense will be better so therefore they will be more hey really quick since oh yeah what were you saying when you're as bad as you were yeah there's only literally – Exactly. Yeah, you can only go up. You can only go up.

Hey, really quick. I wanted to give someone their flowers on here. Chris, your rant on the ejection in the Texas Tech basketball game was fantastic, my friend. I just wanted to give you your flowers on that because that was insane. That was bad. I appreciate that. Spencer, before we go, I got a little gift for you. Here you go.

Oh, boy. Oh, it's his – It's uncanny. Is that a picture of Spencer? Tell me tell me no it's not a current picture that's from my childhood are we gonna get copyrighted this is great sorry i don't know but let here here if if somehow we violated a rule there just blame jake hatch locked on BYU Cougars on his birthday someone can find his I'm sure someone can find his address

and we'll make sure the internet police track you down now you're going to dox me I like this he lives in Provo we got that much or near it you know the Salt Lake area is only about a couple hours worth of driving

from one end to the other but like it's it's by me eventually yeah if we knock on it if we knock on enough doors i'm confident that the six of us can pull that off there's only 2.5 million people in this in this area that shouldn't that shouldn't you would piss them off by just knocking door to door and asking if we can have some of their attention for a couple of minutes 90 percent of them have already done that in their life so they don't care that was the joke jake yeah we have better odds of finding jake than houston does of winning conference championship oh what happened to nice richie like the nice version of richie is like is he gone you we're blaming maravitz for that because Nick came out and took a shot at the Sun Devils

and then nice Richie went to go hibernate. So kind and classy. I might be the villain of this podcast, man. I don't know. Well, you know, someone has to be. Before we go, just because I'm curious and really want to ask, Cody, how are you guys going to replace the greatest quarterback in the history of Oklahoma State football, Alan Bowman? I'm actually so glad you asked because I just had Haas Haney,

the new Cowboy quarterback, on the show earlier today. Make sure you guys go check that out. He's bringing his four-star 10-6-3-40 to Stillwater America. I still feel like the quarterback room has a decent amount of talent. But if Haas Haney is any indication on the talent that we've brought in from the transfer portal, that's going to give us an opportunity to replace the doctor, Alan Crawdaddy Bowman. Yeah, let me tell you.

He has 50 seconds. I called one of his high school games. He's a baller, man. Haas? Yeah, he's not the's a baller, man. Hoss? Yeah, he's not the biggest kid, but, man, he can go. If Oklahoma State passes on the opportunity to start a kid whose first name is Hoss, we should cancel the program. What is it, H-A-U-S-S?

Is that right? Oh, even better. It's not just H-O-S-S, H-A-U-S-S. That's incredible. Hey, really? He isn't H-O-S-S. He is a Hoss. That'sS. That's incredible. But, hey, really? He is an H-O-S-S. He is a hoss. BYU wanted to get him out of high school and missed out on the opportunity.

He was my number one target a couple years ago, and it sucked to see him go. But he breaks down why he went to TCU after originally being committed to Duke and all that, and it's pretty cool. He is actually remarkable, and if you're looking for like a face of an nil style of a conversation that dude's it yeah jake i think byu spent all their nil dollars on that number one basketball recruit i want to have a top 50 offense next year but luckily byu has a great track record of winning in the ncaa tournament so that's going to pay off yep absolutely you know the most

without a final four appearance yeah that's a really strong history god that's good that's going to pay off. Yep, absolutely. You know, the most NCAA tournament appearances without a Final Four appearance, yeah, that's a really strong history. God, that's good. That's good. That's the sort of stat that JT wants us to end on. Since we're throwing out old school names,

wasn't Jimmer for debt, BYU? I picked Jimmer in my bracket to win the national championship. Nice. Thanks for nothing. Brandon Davies,

him missing out on that tournament, man. Hey, I thought of this earlier in the week, real fast. Is the equivalent of the Luka AD trade if the Buffs had traded Travis Hunter for Cam Rising in Big 12 terms? In what world was last year's Cam Rising comparable to Anthony Davis, who can still put up 42 and 20?

The old injury prone. Yeah. Old Cam Rising AD? No, no, no, no, no. The old injury prone. Fair. No,'t say Grande old T.R.I.S. A.D. no no no no no the old injury prone fair no no no no alright

Big 12 squad is now done for the week Richie Bracha Cody Stovall Chris Lovell JT Whistler Jill J.Katch

Nick Maravitz and Parker Ainsworth who was here but left because JT wanted to start talking I'm Spencer McLaughlin not Drake Toll

but he'll probably be back next week and if not he'll make me fill in for him and he won't pay me for it. In the meantime, this has been Dose Grande, as they say. Were you going to run the end of the show?

Jake, hit the end button. No, hit the pause button because I got to record.