BYU Quarterback Suspended, Transfers Amid Controversy

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00:00So, basically, the timeline was this.

00:03Now, he was the starting quarterback, of course, last year.

00:05They went 11-2.

00:06BYU had a very good year, and Retzlaff was the starting quarterback for them.

00:10So, in May is when a woman accused, sued Retzlaff,

00:15accusing him of sexually assaulting her at his home in November of 2023.

00:21So, then in June, Retzlaff met with BYU school officials who informed him

00:26he would likely receive a seven-game suspension after admitting to premarital sex,

00:30a violation of the honor code.

00:31Now, all the charges, all the stuff with the lawsuit, that's all been dropped.

00:35And then on June 29th, he announced that he's leaving

00:37and that he's going to go in the transfer portal,

00:39and he's not going to stick around for their suspension.

00:42So, this week was the first time BYU, okay, you want to go first?

00:45So, let me just ask you this question.

00:47So, you're telling me that he admitted that he had sex with her,

00:54but she accused him of rape, and then all those charges were dropped like it didn't happen.

01:01So, that she was, like, at some level, lying.

01:04It didn't happen.

01:05So, if it happened, then she wouldn't have dropped her lawsuit,

01:09and it went away like a bad weather system.

01:12He didn't do it.

01:13But then he admitted that he had sex with her.

01:18So, they still, you know, bottom line, booted him.

01:21They told him, you're going to be suspended for the whole season.

01:24Seven games is the whole season, as far as I'm concerned.

01:27You missed seven games.

01:28What are you going to do?

01:29Put him back in the lineup for the last five?

01:32I don't blame him for transferring with their religious wacko rules at BYU.

01:39Well, here's the first time we got to hear from BYU head coach Kalani Satake

01:43about this entire situation.

01:45He's afraid to talk about it, isn't he?

01:47I think that that's what I would qualify this as.

01:51He's afraid to talk about it.

01:52Yeah, our university is, you know, we're sponsored and affiliated with

01:56the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

01:59So, there's a level of expectation, a standard that we ask our student-athletes

02:05and our students all together to live by.

02:08Every school has their standards.

02:11We have ours to our expectations.

02:13We have an academic expectation as well.

02:15So, if young people don't fit the academic criteria, then they don't get in school.

02:21So, these are just part of the things that you have to be committed to,

02:24and we expect our students to live according to what they signed up for.

02:31Okay, well, I'm just going to be fair here and say I didn't hear what he said.

02:39But I'll say this, they're going to stink.

02:44Okay, you lose this kid over that, you deserve what you're going to get.

02:50So, they got two hack-ass, like, freshmen, I heard, or sophomores.

02:55They're both real young.

02:56The two kids that they have left standing, they don't have a quarterback.

03:00That's the bottom line.

03:01And they had a winner.

03:02They had a great quarterback, and they won 11 games.

03:05And this guy is going to have, you know what, he's going to have a migraine season.

03:10So, all of their religion and all of their, and fair enough, I get it.

03:15Far be it from me to judge one's religious beliefs.

03:20Fair enough.

03:20I get it.

03:22You go to a religious school, you got to follow the rules.

03:25I know a lot of people that go to religious schools.

03:28You can't have girls in the dorm.

03:30You can't have guys in the dorm.

03:32You can't do this.

03:33You can't drink.

03:34You can't smoke.

03:35You can't do it.

03:36Oh, my God.

03:37I can't imagine.

03:40My sister went to a religious school.

03:42I just thought, look what happened to her.

03:44I just don't have any, I don't have any time for it.

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