Big 12 Sound Roundup: Kalani & Whitt Chop It Up After Week 1

Big 12 sound round up check one two the best bites cheap shots and excuses from Saturday's postgame news [Music] conferences all right everybody welcome back it is first and 12 season number two and it's a good one because Utah and B are you back in the same conference for the first time and oh I don't know uh what was the actual year I I had even thought about this this week Mitch of all this talk we've been going back and forth when was the last time these two teams were in the same conference in the same season 2010 Mountain West oh man it's been a long time it's good to have them all back again in our sound Roundup of course we're going to uh feature heavily teams uh here in the state because they both played this weekend and while neither of them had their first uh conference games yet and they haven't played each other obviously they both had FCS opponents uh Kyle Whittingham of course uh first fired things up talking about his quarterback cam rising and uh Cam man he looked good and he fired things off and and Whit of course loves having his uh leader back it was good to see him moving quick and and being able to cut and you know do his thing but a little too much contact tonight try to reinforce that more if we possibly can but he's so competitive and that's just his nature little little more contact than we would have liked how about that I think it's the cam of old I mean he at least tonight he was he was sharp 67% was a 10 of 15 10 of 14 so 70% completion percentage somewhere in there close to it bunch of touchdowns five five touchdown passes didn't miss many throws there's a couple he missed but not many yeah sliding is a good idea step out of bounds if the you know if it's in the vicinity just try to avoid those direct shot you don't want to take those shots and we'll watch the film and there was probably two or three times where he could have done a little better job of getting out of Harm's Way Mitch obviously coach loves having cam Rising back and and uh I mean that's you have a five touchdown pass performance in the first half you don't even have to play in the second half that's exactly how you wanted this thing to play out if you're if you're uh cam rising and Coach Whit having your your big leader back and he he gets maybe even better he gets out healthy and he's you know he's fine he's ready to go for week two because that that's what you wanted you wanted to see cam Rising back out there making plays and looking like his old self you know cam rising's not the you know prototypical NFL measurables guy but he's just he's a dang good college quarterback and he's a guy that's won at a high level for Utah and the impact his presence for that Utah team it is just noticeable I mean that there were not many stretches last year at any point with the Utah offense and all the quarterbacks they had to trot out where it was that explosive and some of those faces that you saw the skill positions were similar but uh they just it just changes their fortunes having cam Rising he's critical to them and you know if he went out that that changes the complete outlook on that team uh but you know with him in you can dream big and they're they're thinking playoff and thinking Arlington for the Big 12 title but uh that was a strong showing from cam Rising after such a long layoff from coming back from a devastating injury Mitch you and I shared a text a couple of nights ago when we found out that Jay Hill had uh had the heart procedure that he did that there was a heart attack for a defensive coordinator the night or you know the the you know 36 hours before kickoff of their first game of the season and Jay Hill who is also one of the healthiest dudes you'll like run into you think to yourself man this guy's got it all together but of course uh you know it's not a perfect straight line for somebody's Health but of course Kanani after the win talking a lot about his friend Jay Hill and and just how happy he was that he was back and uh and feeling as good as he did and and of course it was it was also the cherry on top to have the the W for the first week of his team in uh you know taking on Southern Illinois but this is Kanani in his first statement after the win and and uh talking about Jay Hill of course glad we got the win it was good to play football again and uh just excited to see these guys get on field after um you know after the the off season and uh some of the adversity this this team's gone through I'm really proud of the way they played this game and um it wasn't perfect and it wasn't even our best but there were some moments that we had some really good things going and I think the uh the leadership The Experience showed up and just really proud of the team and the way we played in all three phases I thought it was really good I took care of the football uh there's some scary moments I I mean other than I think if we're evaluating it I I just don't know um how the how they do things in the review when they when the replay stuff but that's that's for the rest I I I'm biased when they're when I thought that was a fumble you know so I'm always getting and we were trying to get a timeout when there we thought it could have been re reviewed just didn't work out so I probably need to get in a better position to get get timeouts I mean I ran out of breath for no reason because they didn't give it to me until after the play was done so but love the way the guys played um excited about what we can do as a team and look forward to the next matchup against SMU in Dallas um just want to give a lot of uh praise and and appreciation to all the fans that were here uh they're amazing and they' brought a lot of energy um you know and we need them and so just hope hope they know that we appreciate them and love them and then uh Jay's doing great he was in the box and and uh was on the headset and you know we're we're going back and forth and different calls and things like that but uh he's in great spirits and um and I'm glad that he's he's healing up and we'll be ready to have him join us uh on Monday you can tell in that commentary from Kanani that you know Jay Hill means a lot to him and that relationship between those two is is very strong and I'm sure that was probably a whirlwind when he got that called colani did on Thursday night from Jay Hill's wife Sarah Hill and I mean the whole Hill Family they've gone through a ton Sarah the wife who battled cancer I mean they have just experienced a lot I'm sure that was a whirlwind for Kanani and you know we didn't talk about that much but I mean colani took on the defensive coordinator duties and he did a good job and you know everyone knows in this state from his time at Utah how good of a defensive coordinator Kanani can be I mean when Utah was building up in the Pack 12 colani was right there by wit and uh it was a great showing from colani and he's evolved in into his role and I think it was a you know it was a big night for Kanani to kind of ease uh cool off the the people that say fire colani crowd because man that could have ratcheted up if you had a bad showing against an FCS team he cooled off those people a little bit with that win too which is a little bit of an underrated storyline as well not a 20 to6 Portland State 2017 start which is a good news for him and the pressure's on you know I mean this is big boy football now and Kanani knows it he's this is not something that's lost on him so there you go your first sound round Round Up of the season of course heavily featuring The Local teams here we'll take another break here we'll come back to hour number two we've got so much more to talk about with this big 12 so many showings across the conference lots of stuff to still chop up here and we'll of course get to a game breakdown of Utah versus Southern Utah so many things to go so stay right here with us mcharper Alex Ki it's all brought to you by Macy's happy shopping we'll be back 975 the KSL 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