Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Big 12 SQUAD - How Ryder Lyons Committing to BYU Impacts Kansas Jayhawks

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

BYU Cougars Football lands 5-star QB sensation Ryder Lyons. Is this the game-changer that propels BYU to Big 12 dominance?Dive into the seismic impact of Lyons' commitment on BYU's football program and the Big 12 landscape. Hosts break down the significance of this rare 5-star recruit for the Cougars, exploring how it stacks up against rival Utah's recruiting efforts. The conversation tackles BYU's unique approach to managing players' mission commitments and its effect on team dynamics.Jake Hatch from Locked on Cougars offers insider perspectives on BYU's recruiting strategy and mission program management.Will Ryder Lyons' arrival reshape BYU's offensive playbook? Can the Cougars leverage this momentum to climb the Big 12 ranks? Tune in for expert analysis on BYU's path to gridiron glory.

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welcome to the Big 12 Squad. BYU landed a five-star quarterback here to talk about it all the way from Wichita, Kansas. Welcome the voice of Lockdown, Oklahoma state. His name is Cody Stovall alongside him. He's the consummate professional from Lubbock, Texas. Yes, it's flat. It's Chris level. Oh, wait a second. Too high to fly. Cameron Stewart from Lockdown Baylor and say hello to the man himself. It's Parker Ainsworth whose wifi is once again not very good. The first five-star quarterback to commit to the Big 12 in recent memory that I can maybe ever

remember and if you're a listener to Locked On Big 12 you certainly believe that. Huge guys. Again, I can't remember the last time a five-star quarterback committed to our conference. It happened a little over a year ago. There he is. There he is! Parker Ainsworth! Also Cougar though, I get the confusion also Cougar so you know. Yes I love the tin can. Why is your chest beating? Is that like a pacemaker or what's happening? He looks like a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. What is that? This is actually supposed to be a microphone. I don't know if it's even actually working very well. Can you hear me? It doesn't work. It doesn't work very good. Oh wait, are you serious about that?

You know, that's the way it goes. That is interesting to say the least. You, Parker Ainsworth, landed a five-star quarterback first, but it seems like that news was trumped by the guy Ryder Lyons going on the Pat McAvee show saying he's going to BYU in the entire Big 12, giving it so much pomp and circumstance on Tuesday. Do you feel a little left out here, big guy Ryder Lyons going on the Pat McAbee show saying he's going to be why you and the entire big 12 giving it so much pomp and circumstance on Tuesday. Do you feel a little left out here big guy?

I will say so I talked to Jake last week and a non pod thing was like hey so it sounds like I'm gonna get this I was like yeah we are and I got that heads up or whatever and expected to be a fairly similar kind of rollout as the locked on Cougs rollout for Keyshine Anderson was. I don't know what Drake's got going on there. Or Nick. I don't know what Nick has going on either. But I will say it was a lot bigger deal to the national media that BYU got one than Houston getting one for whatever reason. Maybe it's because we know that there's a five-star quarterback every couple of years

in the city of Houston. I don't know This this feels like when the Cubs made the World Series that time and ESPN ran the graphic that was like the last time The World Series was in Chicago. It was like World War two. It just ended It was actually 2005 when the White Sox played in it. This is this is how Parker must feel right now Very much. Well, and and those five white socks houston is all thing there but yeah no um it was a little weird to say the least keisha hinderson was just at oe 11 like last week right so like that happened but whatever snubs were mvp right he was going to be the mvp and it was he was alpha dog two or three days he was on three anyway yeah he didn't

get mvp because the other guys roger belson wanted one in Texas and we know how well and part of it too is like BYU's got BYU's got such a national presence in general and I think part of it too is they won 11 games last year I think that that that comes with the territory too well speaking of BYU he is all the way from West Virginia that's right but the City Commissioner of Provo Utah has invited him out to visit Provo it is is Mountaineer Paul. Welcome to the show. He will be in Utah here very soon exploring the great city of Provo. And speaking of speaking of BYU, he is locked on Cougars every single day. He's a big Ryder Lyons fan. Jake Hatch, welcome to the program. Five star quarterback and he is maybe the weed, the little, the little caveat part of people keep getting hung up on. He's not playing for a year. He is very sweet going on mission as a part of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And it sounds like oddly enough,

Kalani Satake is being pretty understanding of that. Yes, he is. The thing about this is BYU fully is aware of the mission program. They've got more than two dozen guys out in the mission field right now, Drake. So this is par for the course and it's actually pretty admirable. The guy of his caliber is willing to set aside playing football for a period of time. But when he enrolls at BYU, it's go time, baby. Jake, can he or can he not have Tik Tok during his mission? Depending on where he's.

And can he play quarterback for BYU this year? Because they need him. They do need him. Yes, they may very well need him, Chris, but they cannot get him this year. But the world needs him more right now. There are Mormons on TikTok who are serving missions. That could be a thing. Well, I did you guys a favor.

Door to door, man. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I apologize. LDS on second reference. that could be a thing. Mormons? Well, I did you guys a favor. It's better to door to door, man. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I apologize, Jake. LDS on second reference, thank you. Actually, we need to talk about that. There's a change in that. We'll talk about that. No, no!

Why bury the lead? Why are we burying the lead? That's for another show. Is it JCLT? No, no, I want to know this. What is the new thing, Jake? So first reference, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and as I have been told by somebody who should know, its second reference is the Church of Jesus Christ.

Oh, OK. Well, speaking of that, yes, Parker? And on third reference, it's just the church. There we go. Yeah. I was going to ask, are they not all churches of Jesus Christ? Yes. No, not every church is of Jesus Christ.

Not in Houston, Parker. Synagogue is synagogue, what do I know? Yeah, there you go, that's good. He is the most frustrated man in the entire state of North Carolina. That's exactly where he lives and His hairline is receding. JT Wastetoe, five star quarterback. Just committed to BYU. Our friend from Locks on Youth. How's your week going? My hairline always goes back and you always get redder somehow, Drake. Great to see you.

Thank you. Good to see you. JT and I will actually see it grows back. What? No, it keeps, he keeps going back. No, I said it's receding. It's receding. I mean, it keeps the kids keeps no ice. It's received. I mean, come on, guys. Yeah. JT and I will actually be sharing a hotel room in Dallas Tech in Frisco.

illusion big 12 and use let's go. Couple of guys hanging out here in a couple of weeks. JT you I heard it was actually you and your sources from youth fanatic or whatever the hell you guys use over there that BYU gave writer lions forty eight million dollars to play for the Cougars. Only that much though? Come on. Taking a pay cut from Rob Wright man. Ask him where the money came from. Ask him where the money came from. Look we will find that out in the documents in court gentlemen. We will find this out. the documents in court gentlemen. We will find this out.

The truth will be revealed. This is a man. I mean, I'd love to come in here and poopoo BYU, but this is a massive win. I mean, it's a massive win, right? I mean, you land your first five stars since 2006. I believe I saw Jake. So this is a massive win for the Cougars. They have honestly, if you were, if you were to compare Utah and BYU right now, the top,

the three highest rated recruits like combined on both teams would both be going to BYU. So yeah, BYU, this is a huge win for BYU. But I'll also say this, I don't feel like recruiting has ever mattered, mattered less in the current world of college football with the transfer portal and being able to add instant impact, guys. So that's where I do feel like that you can still get ahead of BYU. But this is a massive win for the Cougars. I could say both.

There's there's the backhanded compliment on the front with the front side. Yeah. I see. I see your rider lines and I show you Devon. Exactly. That's a great point. Like is it guaranteed that rider lines is going to be better than Devon napier? I remember tape Martell like five stars have busted before. I am not trying. I'm not trying. Yes. I'm not trying. Rider lines could be more likely he will be. Did you just say BYU players are busting?

Whoa. Whoa. Oh wow. 18. Again, a different show. Whenever. Speaking of that, actually the same show. Coming up, let's continue on the conversation of a five star kid coming to BYU.

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your show when that ad plays? There's no way there's no way. There is a way. Yeah, that's exactly what we're doing. What do you think members of the Church of Jesus Christ? I'm sorry, members of the Church of Jesus can't get hard? No, I'm just I'm just saying. They can't get hard they use Rugee it Don't they make babies like uh, like it's going out of style, right? Thank you Okay parker were you around for the Coors Light era on this on this

channel? Oh my god. The era's over. No, I was not. He brought this up before. Well, he brought this up. We did Coors Light ads on BYU's Unlocked on Cougars. So, you know, nothing that amazing. I'm gonna cover the labels of things. I want

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slow pitch that was coming by. We got what was the other new genetics? We had the manscaped. I got some underwear one time. Didn't fit. Bird dogs? Bird dogs? Bird dogs. I'm currently wearing them. I love my bird dogs. Still wear the bird dogs.

Mine didn't fit when I did the ruchiette. Hey, there you go. What was the, we did the alcohol one for a while, Jake. How did you feel about that one? That was fun. Come on now. Are you kidding me? What was that called?

I used them. They've tasted really good too. Anything's in the bird dog. You're not talking about athletic brewing, are you?, but we did athletic brewing for quite a while now. So instead of listing up everyone who no longer sponsors the show, I don't need to know, but I heard Cain was asking when do we get our brew? When does that happen? I was asking. It's in the chat, I don't want to put it on the disk, it's in the chat on the side. When do we get to try it?

Cain asked, Cain asked. In as little as 15 minutes you said? I don't want to put it on the disc. It's in the shadow side. When do we get to try it? Well, apparently, K-Mast. K-Mast. In as little as 15 minutes, you say? Yeah. By the way, 36 hours? Like, yeah, dog. I kind of want to know what's going on here.

I can't just say. That is nuts. Can I warn up Rhino 69? That's what I want to know. My local grannies has rhino 69. Does me well. Mick Maravette's face reacting to that was really something about a golf club, an electric razor and a mannequin hand. Speaking of we we's, by the way, I made two hot piss meters for the five-star quarterbacks considering that when Rich Rod got hired at West Virginia, the question was, and you got to think about how West Virginians talk now, can he still coach at 62?

I think about it. The person in question, which was interviewed said, I'll tell you this, bub, he gets up in the morning and he still pisses hot. So it called on and with my group, I now for every recruit we get, make a hot piss meter from warm to hot to boiling to nuclear. So MP depending on how good they are. So JT will know this guy, Guy Holliday, who was a wide receivers coach of both BYU and Utah when he showed up in Provo for the first first tour of duty here in the state of Utah as assistant coach, MP hit the very first game that he ever coached at BYU. He tweeted out on game day, get your piss hot.

That was the tweet he sent out. And you should have seen the reaction from BYU fans. He still pisses hot. He does. Nobody pisses hotter than Rich Rodriguez, god dang it. So it's even made it's- Justin Blackman might have an argument there. What's great is like-

Oh my god. I think man. Friendly fire, man. No, that just burns. the the the the the the the the the

the the the the the the the the the the

the the the the the it's a scale from zero to 50. Give him about 20 minutes. Is it like Steve Sarkeesian's or what? No, it was Tom Herman's hydration chart. You're a bad person. It had different colors to it. I think that was the last one.

You're just a bad person. Yes, it was. You didn't drink enough water. Or bad teammate or one of the... I just, I remember when I reached out to Mountaineer Paul and was like, here's this guy. He would be a great fit for Lockton, West Virginia. And then a few short weeks later he's hired and Zach Blackerby calls me one

day and goes, so what's with this guy? You just trust the process. He calls me still weekly. And he's like, I don't, I don't even know. Like he's got a piss meter but they it works so well. He's a piss meter. MP that's why you're here is because the piss meter baby. Trust me he called me and was like a really really question and he was like what's hot piss? It's better than a burned couch meter Oh yeah. Way better than a burn couch. Yeah. Sparked. And I wonder why they won't credential me.

We don't wonder at all. That's for another show as well right there. Oh, I got it. Yeah. Yeah. I often leave this show so jealous of what MP can do. The dude, he's a minus. You should see him on Ruge yet. like the dude you should see him on Ruge yet he becomes oh I could say so much Super Paul, that's Super Paul Mountaineer Paul's career to me is what BYU is to JD like he just comes on this show and just fluffs it up like oh my goodness

pure jealousy, I love Mountaineer Paul's career hey, fluffs it up, Ruge it Ruge it, fluffs it up give MP 15 minutes and you don't know what's gonna happen. If nothing else comes out of this show, it should be a healthy supply of rugia. And it lasts 36 hours. 36 hours. Can we get to a minute on that read though? That seems unhealthy.

At 37 hours, like are you just dancing like a dog? that's a good thing. I'm not roughly $37 in 12 minutes. I gave it a little leeway. But does it affect the timer if you're soaking? Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. I think that's what drives a wall reaction. How come Jake doesn't have? It's like a poultry situation.

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Well, I left because of the way the conversation went actually, but Is the combination of those ads because Drake was spending all this money on Rugeant So he got the sponsorship, the Monarch, like what's the, how do we get those in the same day? Drake, I better not see, Drake, I better not see any Rugeant in the hotel room. I'm gonna have questions for you if I see any Rugeant in the hotel room, man. 36 hours! You could have taken it before you got there, JT! Yeah! Now what, huh? If I take it like 34 hours before I see you, man. 36 hours, you could take a break, got there, JT. Yeah, now what, huh? If I take it like 34 hours before I see you,

I got two hours of strong action, by the way. I'm still fired. It's the fact that Chris Level has to wear a suit and walk into the athletic offices at Texas Tech every day. I love that. Are you wearing a suit like right now in this weather, Chris? No. What is this weather? Why is it so hot right now? It is so hot right now outside. Do right now in this weather Chris? No

Do you live in Lubbock are you Texas I got friends in Texas it's hot in North Carolina It's hot everywhere. I think it's like 82 degrees outside right now Okay, the time we're recording this at night. I was talking about during the day We record this at 6 45 a.m. On Thursday Jay cash not offended I did yeah, I was worried He thought Jake was a quitter If you're like wow that seemed kind of crass nah man, this is just how they do it up in Morgantown the the That was such a good little blip in the pan. It's a couple of four weeks of just go for an hour. We get to the 30 minute mark and it was Mountaineer Paul robbing someone in Ohio. Yeah.

To be fair, if Mountaineer Paul had a root- Trauma dumping about my dad. Yeah, which might I say again, like Zach Blackerby will call me weekly and be like, I listened to the squad show. Is that all real? I was like, yeah. Zach, like that's what it,

Zach will say- Yeah, but it's not exaggerated at say, in the best way possible, he's like, wow, well, that's what our company does. We are, we take a dude like Mountaineer Paul, who just got it all wrong for a couple of years, and now he is the biggest voice in West Virginia. Thirteen years. Yeah. Give or take. Give or take. Give or take. Give or take.

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It's just stupid. Like 90% of Texas fans are these red blooded Americans just want to hear some good old nasty talk about Texas football. And I don't, where do you go for that? Like where do you go for that for Texas A&M? I don't, I don't know. They don't have a Mountaineer Paul for a fan base that's made up of a lot of Mount Near Paul's, but they they get overlooked by the guys in suits. Yes, Chris. What? Yes, Chris. Just a lot.

I don't know. Sipping your lips for coffee on Medium does nothing. Medium does a lot. I'm asking for a guy from Grosbeck to give me something about the University of Texas. Right, OK, yeah. And it spins. Man. Yeah, Chris?

I have nothing to offer up. What? What? OK, it's Paul's last name. In the comment section below, guess Paul's last name. It's Italian. I'll give you that. I'll give it to Italian. I just think, I don't think, by the way, I don't think Level is really grasping this

because on his show, he's like, I'm not going to be able to guess Paul's last name. I'm just going to say, I'm going to say. I just think, I don't think by the way, I don't think level is really grasping this because on his show every day, someone gets to see a beautiful Texas living room. That's Casey Cowan's by the way. It is. It's just, it's just beautiful. It's quintessential. It's perfect. Every tech fan can throw that on and feel cozy. So he doesn't, he's not grasping it. That he wears a cowboy hat most of the time. It's really, right. Chris, are you upset that I'm making fun of the highfalutin guys in Austin? Like is this what you are mad that I'm burying your friends? I have nothing to offer up. I don't want to be a part of that. You love that.

It's like you just keep, you just take your things. The line keeps getting tossed out there with different bait. the line. You love that. You never talk about it again. You don't have to listen to it. That's exactly right. Well, can I ask you a random question since we're just sitting here? Parker, did you just get a new mic? Is that why you've been like your chest is below in the entire episode? Full circle. Full circle. Mike is a really strong word for whatever that is. Yeah, I'm recording. You're really throwing that around.

That's good, Richie. What? Richie, what do you think about Rougette? Let's toss it to Lock On Arizona. Yeah, he's doing it. Yeah, he's doing it. Lock On Arizona is locked on. I was saying here.

Richie, what do you think about, what was it? Grosbeck, Texas or Grosbeck? Grosbeck, yeah. Grosbeck, yeah. Grosbeck, yeah. Grosbeck, yeah. Grosbeck, yeah. Grosbeck, yeah. Grosbeck, yeah. the the

the the I think they're the ghosts. If you say you were just making up a like a drink. I like Drake made the decision. Drake made the decision to put him in here. Drake's credit is a guy who won the award for the show before. He does a great job. He picks the most random small towns in Texas are all actually small towns.

He doesn't like the Quero shout out was much appreciated by the family. Next great mascot. Next is that what Cam said? Italy. Are you mad that pat McAfee of all people was the one that outshines you guys? What is it? What's the story? Why? Oh, Parker's not a pat McAfee guy. Park is not a pat McAfee guy at all. I'm not a pat McAfee guy. No. I was just, I was just... They're the goats. I'm not a Pat McAfee guy for a lot of reasons. But yeah, no, not a Pat McAfee guy.

I will say though, he made this big deal about right Alliance committing. I was like, he was the second point 26, five star quarterback in 2012. And... Gotta steal the spotlight. Your moment. I think it's cool that he got to do it on, like, look, I guess we're, I get we're taking shots at every media right now. We've done local Texas, we're doing McAfee now too, but I think it's cool. Even though he's here. Yeah. I think that's cool. It's cool. He got, he got to

do it at that stage. I just think that's cool for Ryder. Like that's gotta be something cool. I was on the Matt Mosley show and I had a crossover with it with level in the morning. And Mosley calls me at like 1230. He's like, Yeah, we're gonna have our friend Chris level. We're gonna have him on the show. You and you called me it was like, Hey, man, you ready to go? I was like, dude, we just talked. What's up with this? And by the way, he said like the follow up to that was like,

maybe you could use some of it on your podcast. I was like, yeah, I can think of some questions for Chris Level. The voice. Richie, you want to get the last word in? Should we let Richie get the last word in? Yeah. I think Richie made a very good point. Richie, as of today or earlier this week, I should say Richie get the last word in? I think Richie made a very good point. Richie!

As of today or earlier this week, I should say Richie is an uncle. Hey! Congrats Richie! Congrats to Richie. Good job Richie! And that's a true story, by the way. That's very true. Man, there's nothing I love more than being an uncle, honestly.

Seriously. I just dropped like $200 yesterday on my knees. That's awesome, Richie. Speech, speech, speech. Richie got a girlfriend recently too. That was very cool. I enjoyed that. You enjoyed that? You enjoyed that? It's good for Richie. Hey look, that what's it called?

Ruge yet Richie. There it is! Ruge yet Richie. This has been it always will be. Locked on! Dose Grande Squad.