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Show I Morrell: Mam With Label school. DAVE: Are you friendly at school? Kyle: Yea to all the people I know. DAVE: What if some sophomore sopho-more you didn't know said hi in the halls? Kyle: I'd say hi back. Sometimes Some-times the students put the athletes above everyone, It's not that the athletes think they're better it's just that the students put them up on some pedestal. DAVE: I get the feeling you really don't care what others think? Kyle: That's right. If they bad talk me then they're no real friends of mine. DAVE: Has all your publicity public-ity bothered any relationships with teammates? Kyle: When it is just me in the limelight in football they got down a little on me but I was just trying to do my best for the team. DAVE: That sounds good but do you mean it? Kyle: I was playing to the best of my ability, Sure I was hoping for a college offer but I was playing for everyone on the team. DAVE: Before the state finals with West you spoke to the team, did you feel obligated obli-gated to talk? Kyle: It needed to be said. I just told them without them I would be nothing, that they were the ones blocking and catching the ball. DAVE: What about your critics cri-tics that look down on you as a hotdog? Kyle: All I can say is that maybe I do look like it because I'm trying one hundred percent per-cent to win. But off the field I'm as nice as anyone. I'm glad I'm leaving high school though so now they'll have to find someone else to talk about." SAY WHAT you want about Kyle Morrell. The guy is a proven winner. No coach in the state would turn him away with his talents. Those that don't know the individual get caught up with reputations and labels. Kyle is still a young man and maturing every day. It's been said that a teammate team-mate that argues with the officials offi-cials is a fighter while the opponent who argues is a dry-baby. dry-baby. Kyle is a fighter. Even opposing coaches respect re-spect him as a person as well as a player. Give me ten of hire, both on or off the field. J 1 if k ? -J Wt ' ' r - By DAVE WICHAM BOUNTIFUL - The name Kyle Morrell means some- : thing to everyone. This is a name with a label on it. Some call him a showboat or hotdog. Others think of him as con- . ceited or stuckup. But to those that know him it means one of the most misunderstood athletes around. AS AN athlete few can doubt his abilities in any sport he tries. As a student he is no better bet-ter or no worse than anyone else. And as a person he is friendly to those he knows. Yet all through his high school days Kyle has had to live down a reputation that somewhere along the line he picked up. Those who really know Kyle Morrell like him. Those that don't know him don't like him for some of his actions or the label he has on him. KYLE IS always honest about ab-out everything. Few high school athletes would grant this interview but Kyle has been brought up to be honest and he has nothing to fear. So here is how Kyle Morrell answers some of his critics or labels. DAVE: Do you think you're a hotdog or showboat? Kyle: No. Some of the things 1 do people think I am, but I just get excited and want to win. DAVE: What things? Kyle: Oh like patting everyone every-one on the butt for a good job and if I think I'm right about something I'll say something to an official. DAVE: Have you always had a label? Kyle: Yea, even when I was in little league some of the parents pa-rents tried to get me kicked out of the league because I was bigger than most and they thought I was rough. DAVE: Is it adults that label you? Kyle: At first but then in school if a kid doesn't know me than he hears about the label and believes it. DAVE: Do the labels bother you? Kyle: No. DAVE: Do you think you're better than others? Kyle: Some parents put a lot of pressure on their kids to be good and they're not and I think some of the parents get a little jealous when someone else does good. I just try 100 percent whatever I do. DAVE: Did you get any of this pressure from home? Kyle: No, not a bit. If I play bad they tell me, if I play good they tell me that too. You know my folks have never talked me up in front of others. KYLE MORRELL DAVE: Do you feel you'll be taken down a notch there? Kyle: They wouldn't have recruited me if they didn't think I could play in their program. DAVE: Will you go down with the attitude of here I am? Kyle: Just go down there to prove myself on the field. If I can't cut it there then fine but if I can then that's even better. DAVE: Why BYU? Kyle: I like the coaches, especially the one at my position posi-tion on defense. I honestly think it's the best program around plus they say I can play baseball if I can. The main reason though is that it's a winning win-ning program. DAVE: Why is it that some people that just see you get the wrong impression? Kyle: I don't know. I'm just me, the same guy at home or at Kyle: 1 just didn't realize what they were doing. I wasn't smart enough to keep quiet, I just didn't like taking anything from anyone. DAVE: Is that from your upbringing? up-bringing? Kyle: Yes, I guess so, my entire family is like that. DAVE: You've signed to play at BYU and some feel you don't fit the image? Kyle: I guess since it's a Mormon school and I'm not active then I don't fit the image. im-age. But then again some parents pa-rents are really naive about what really goes on in high school and about images. I get excited when I play, so does Jim McMahon, and when he gets mad he tells them. DAVE: Will you change anything at BYU? Kyle: I'll just be Kyle Morrell Mor-rell like I've always been. DAVE: Why sports? Kyle: I always enjoyed them. My older brother would get together some neighborhood neighbor-hood games when I was little and I just stayed with it. I like competing against others. DAVE: Did you feel any extra ex-tra pressure because of your older brother Guy? Kyle: I haven't felt it and it has never bothered me. We are both a lot alike in sports, we are both very emotional when we play. I'm sure some have thought that because Guy was good his little brother would be. DAVE: Did it bother you to read Guy's name in most arti- cles written about you? Kyle: Not at all. I like being his little brother, he must have been good if they keep mentioning men-tioning him. DAVE: You're still young, only 17. Did you mature this year? Kyle: In football my brother told me not to talk back to people peo-ple on the field. They only talked to throw me off my game and that if they could intimidate in-timidate me from the bench then it would throw me off my game. I listened to him. DAVE: Did you talk your junior and sophomore years? |