Transcript:

"There are things in sports that would make the founders roll in their grave. Like James Naismith the Cannuck who stapled a peach basket to the wall and invented the baskeball. James guess what...they're shooting 50 three pointers a game. What's a three pointer? Well they're just hucking it up from 30 feet away 50 times a game. Naismith is rolling. Abner doubleday. Pitchers take 7 days off between outings. Yeah I know Lefty Grove used to pitch back to back double headers. Yeah yeah. No the pitchers pitch 5 innings then go get chryotherapy, massage work, and accupuncture. Doubleday is rolling.

Something hit today in college football that would definitely have Walter Camp and Knute Rockne rolling in their graves which is, Oklahoma State players are going to have a QR code on their helmet this season. This means fans can scan the players helmet and pay them on gamedays from their phones. Soon it's gonna be you want us to get this first down? Scan us 10Gs. You want a goaline stand that's gonna cost ya 25. Walter camp and the boys are glad they're dead. That's your shower thought."

Coach Mike Esplin Coaches Show

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Snow Canyon hosts Manti this Friday on ESPN 97.7

Top Performers from Week One

It was a tough week one for Region 9 overall but here's the top performers statistically.

Stats are from MaxPreps.

We'll put one of these out every week.

Watch out for The Region Rush coming on Thursday!

Sliver Lining for Each Region 9 Team after tough week one

Transcript:

"September 3rd 2022, Atlanta Georgia. First week of the season. Oregon Ducks vs Georgia Bulldogs. Chick Fil A kickoff game on ABC in primetime! Labor Day Weekend. Two top ranked teams. Bo Nix vs Stetson Bennett. Dan Lanning vs Kirby Smart. Georgia wins 49-3. That Monday...Oregon football is over. Dan Lanning was a bad hire. Oregon stinks. Next week Oregon wins 70-14. They go on an 8 game winning streak and end up with a 10 win season and win the holiday bowl.
Region 9 went 0-7 in week one. Silver linings playbook. Pine View's new QB Levi Shaw threw 6 touchdowns, Snow Canyon defense held Stansbury to nothing on for 46 minutes of game, Hurricane played 20 points better than last year in week one, Desert Hills lost a 50/50 battle to a good out of state program, Cedar scored 18 more points this year on Richfield than last year, Dixie will be Dixie, Crimson Cliffs' new group will learn a ton from Friday. We're on to Cincinnati!"
Wayne Alofipo Coaches Show - August 14, 2024

Coach Wayne breaks down Crimson Cliffs' week one matchup with the Morgan Trojans.

He also tells about each unit of this year's team that is replacing 19 starters from last season.

Listen to the full interview here:

BYU's Run Game is Out of Excuses

Transcript:

In DC every administration surrounds the president with a chubby outer layer of people for protection. These are people who can eventually be scapegoated when something goes wrong. Expendables. Something big goes wrong...It wasn't the big guys fault it was actually some idiot advisor. Press release: We fired him. Took his key fob.

College football has these...they're called position coaches. BYU's scapegoat last year was offensive line coach Darrell Funk. BYU was 120th in the country last year. The problem was the O-Line coach. Now they have TJ Woods who everybody is excited about. He's been all over the country including at the holy grail of offensive line play Madison, Wisconsin. He has a bonafide power 4 running back talent in LJ Martin, he has consider me Miles Davis and big rumblin stumblin Ropati...he has a stellar leader in Connor Pay, talent in Weylin Lapuaho, and Caleb Etienne, and he has a conference that's indifferent about stopping the run.  Even the good teams. Kansas State was 85 in the country last year at stopping the run in conference play,  Oklahoma State was 100th, Kansas was 102nd. If Funk was the problem. Prove it. That's your shower thought we'll be right back!

Region Nine Game Week

Transcript:

Stansbury at Snow Canyon...Joe Mack, Biceps Reynolds, heck biceps Ence...Stansbury scored 34 points per game last year, finished 7-5, beat SC first game of the year by a couple scores. Return coleman dearden at QB who threw for 21 touchdowns last year. They have a new veteran head coach in Lee Leslie who's spent 41 seasons in coaching, this is first with the Stallions. let's go Warriors!

Springville at Dixie...Wyatt Truman second year in the Flyers' system, usually when magic starts to happen. Ran Sawyer? Run Sawyer at running back, Aisa Lopati leads a young defense. How good is Springville gonna be? They graduated a handful of DI players, but are picked right behind Timpview in Region 7. Your playing Wisconsin. double tight ends. two backs. They've always got a Ron Dayne comin at ya. Let's go Flyers...

Desert Hills at Faith Lutheran...who the heck knows. Desert Hills is bigger than the Serbian Basketball team. Simon Fauiletolo and Tytan Mason are like Emmitt Smith and Nate Newton. Cyrus Polu can do anything he wants. Faith Lutheran went 9-4 last year. And they're mascot is a crusader. That's all I got. Go Thunder...

Mountain Crest at Hurricane. Coach Cowan left the dynasty of Duchesne, the Corner Canyon of 2A football, to come and turn around a once mighty program. It starts with Mountain Crest who won this game 35-0 last year. I think it'll go better this year. Watch out for newcomer Brody Jacobs! Go Tigers!

Crimson Cliffs at Morgan...Do you ever worry about Ohio State graduating a bunch of seniors? That's what Crimson is becoming in 4A. Mckay wright, Malakai Alofipo, McCord Christiansen, and 19 rookies are going to Morgan. I bet a handful of those 19 rookies will be all-staters by the end of the year. Morgan is picked first in the 3A north rankings. What elese is new. Go Mustangs

Pine View at Manti! The Panthers have a new QB1 in Levi Shaw who will be throwing to one of the most dangerous weapons in the state. How will the run game go this year for Pine View. They've gotten better year over year going into Coach Boyer's third season at the helm. Manti went to the state title last year in 3A. They're the favorites in 3A south this year. Go Panthers.

Cedar City at Richfield! Cedar new coach Tye Hiatt takes over for the Reds and has his work cut out for him early taking on Richfield the defending 3A champs. Everett Kelling and Krew Giles have a heck of a connection brewing up in Iron County. Go Reds! We'll see ya Friday Night!

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