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3 Guys Before The Game - Stillwater Showdown (Episode 524) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hello there, Hello there, Hello there, Welcome in, Welcome in,
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  and thanks so much for spending some time with us. We're ready to go
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  again with three guys before the game, episode number five hundred and twenty four,
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  the title Still Water Showdown. I did not run this by the Senator
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  before we started. You all right with it? Huh? That's fine,
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  just fine, that's fine, I mean it did right. It's not noon,
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  but it's at two o'clock Eastern. But like the old West days,
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  showdowns always at noon, always, always showdowns that reached high noon usually said
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  high noon, didn't they? Right? High noon? High noon's a free
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  It doesn't get used enough probably anymore. Have you used high noon recently?
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  But I like it a lot. I'm gonna start doing that high noon.
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  When do you want to get together for lunch? High noon? So it's
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  two o'clock in the east, but but it will be noon for our friends
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  in the big twelve in the Mountain time zone, right, so it will
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  be a high noon shootout for those in that small space there in that mountain.
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  Very underused. Mountain time zone used to use it more years ago.
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  They don't you refer to it as much? Right? Under referred to underreferred
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  to the now they just go east and west, you know, sixty minutes
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  to follow in its entire central if you're the Big twelve, I mean they
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  just everything's underused. Anyway. It's West Virginia and Oklahoma State two pm Eastern
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  start time as the Mountaineers try to get back and on the winning side.
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  So something's going to happen, right, West Virginia is either going to get
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  as road win or Oklahoma State is going to get its first league win one
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  way or the other something. That's why fitting for a high noon showdown exactly
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  right. Loser leaves town. Yeah, I don't know if Oklahoma State's the
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  extensions like Conleys, CPA group. Everyone else is getting nervous and jittery.
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  They go like, this is what we do right? You know? I
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  attended some speeches yesterday for WVU football players. Yeah, for a class,
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  Yeah, for the Chambers Business Elite. These are the kids that are going
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  to go to Europe this summer as part of that unbelievable program. So I
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  listened in on fourteen speeches and I think it was Austin Brinkman, and I
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  hate if I'm wrong, but they were talking about pressure and he said this,
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  did I give you the line? Now? He said, how do
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  you handle the pressure? And he said, pressure is a privilege. How
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  about framing it up that way? Pressure is a privilege. Train your mind
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  that way. Pressure is a privilege. Like most people run away away from
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  the ball, right down down, down, two down to you need a
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  three and they run and the coach diagrams the plane says, Brad, we're
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  going to throw it to you. And it's a different Brad and because I
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  know you would shoot it, but a different bread. There's a lot that
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  don't want that ball. They just want to They want to set the ghost
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  screen over on the far side or the pretend screen over there to try to
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  get They don't want that ball because the pressure's on. But he said pressure
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  is a privilege. Bring it. How were overall? How were the young
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  men mind blowing? Really? You know, and you as you know,
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  I may be a little tough critic in that kind of a scenario. Very
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  tough, yeah, very tough, very tough critic. And I thought they
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  were phenomenal. Incredibly impressed by those guys. They were fantastic. So you
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  get up, you present, say this is who I am, this is
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  what I study, this is what I do, and this is my long
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  range goal. And that's it. About thirty fortys and then there were Jim
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  Hoyer, the great military guy here West Virginia, and Julian Miller form him
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  outain near footballer John Antonic, author curator myself, and the signal caller Jed
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  Drenning. And then it became a press conference and we would hit him with
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  questions anything like a zeke didn't matter, didn't have to be sports, just
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  life, everything, and then they get to ask you one question when that's
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  done, and then you critique them. You had a bunch of playmakers there
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  too. It wasn't just guys on the roster. Sean Martin was there,
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  Garrett Green was there. Well, Garrett was just watching Garrett. He didn't
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  deliver, he did he was there last year. Yeah, he was just
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  there. Nico did a great job, Shawn Martin. Nico late later you
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  said, was now he counts in the playmaker category, not just a good
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  holder. Had a massive play there. Exactly, right, exactly, playmaker
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  Michael Hayes who had a great year, Austin Brinkman. Defense of guys at
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  Tarres Simmons. We had Avery Willcox and I don't have the list in front
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  of me right now, but just a bunch of really Sean was do it
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  really good? CJ. Cole the receiver, Terrell Williams. Just a bunch
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  of good guys. Yeah good, anyway, that was good. So my
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  point to all that is pressure is a privilege. There's your there's your lesson
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  for the day. All right, let's jump in here. The World Champion
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  mountaineers did not do well. How's how's it saying, is that fair to
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  say? Yeah, fair assessment. Did not deal well, didn't go well
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  at all at UCF. We all know the outcome. We saw it happen.
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  We'll get into that, and we also look ahead to the matchup here,
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  the one and only matchup. This is not a return, just one
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  and done with os U. All right, what's your takeaway from UCF?
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  Well, as we often say that as you get deeper into the season,
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  the numbers should become more reliable. Can we attack this from a number standpoint,
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  because I think it speaks to what didn't go well for WVU. You
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  ready, this doesn't have to be a you don't need the jingle here.
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  Although I'm going to give you a bunch of numbers, you don't need it,
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  all right ready? Yeah. So one of the things we talked about
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  on Thursday's Shiss Thursday Show is something we did last Monday show. We did
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  it early. It was okay. We said, watch the free throw line.
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  That was going to help determine the game. And the reason was UCF
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  was number two in the league in free throw rate. West Virginia was number
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  one free throw at the amount of times you get to the free throw line.
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  Well, what happened in that game. West Virginia comes out minus fifteen
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  points at the line. It tied West Virginia's lowest free throw rate of the
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  season. And I'll get back to why that happened here in a second,
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  but that was a major difference. To me. We could stop right there,
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  that's ballgame. You're minus fifteenth line and we've seen it the other way
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  at times for West Virginia that has lived at the line over the last five
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  or six years. But that was one that was totally in favor of the
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  Knights and it did West Virginia in From the very beginning. One of the
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  other parts of the scouting report, we said, you're likely going to have
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  trouble getting to the rim on this team and their length, and man,
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  their length was impressive. Multiple seven footers on that team, probably going to
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  struggle to get to the rim, and they're going to force you to take
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  some threes. Well, that's exactly what happened. West Virginia's three point attempt
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  rate came out at forty eight percent, so forty eight percent of the shots
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  West Virginia took from the field were threes. Now, they had a nice
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  day. They made some eleven, third most all season thirty nine percent.
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  So most nights you'll take that. But the absence of being able to get
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  any other shots, including at the basket. That's part of why you were
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  minus fifteen points at the free throw line. You didn't have the ability to
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  get in there. UCF did They took it right at you? All right.
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  Here's another one that I found interesting. We talked about guarded shots.
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  We've been talking about that every episode. We said, UCF gives up a
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  lot of on guarded shots. In fact, fourth in the league in most
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  on guarded jump shots given up up, but opponents were just eleventh in scoring
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  percentage against those. Remember, I hypothesized that there was some regression to the
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  mean coming there, that those numbers should align more evenly than fourth fourth most
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  open shots against eleventh. Success teams were going to start hitting open shots against
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  them. He just wondered when that would happen. Let's look at the numbers
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  and see how that turned out. West Virginia had six unguarded jump shots.
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  That's the most they've had in Big twelve play so far. So it's not
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  a ton by itself, but it is the most they've had in Big twelve
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  play. Fifteen points off those six on guarded jumpers, second most on the
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  season, and a whopping two point five points per possession because the max would
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  have been eighteen. Yeah, and they got fifteen out of those, So
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  that's really effective. So that part worked. You got those looks and you
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  knocked them down. Here's the other part. They did a nice job on
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  those sixteen guarded jumpers they got. They got eighteen points on those shots,
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  most on the season in terms of overall points. So the making of shots,
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  and I'll come back to this in a minute, the making of shots
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  was there. You just didn't do enough stuff. On the other hand,
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  free throws, let's talk offensive rebounding. We said UCF is very good on
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  the offensive glass. They got West Virginia in that category as well, plus
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  five and offensive rebounds plus six points. When it came to second chance points
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  points off turnovers, West Virginia struggled in this area minus twelve. So almost
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  every category you go down, it just did not turn out well for West
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  Virginia. And basically UCF succeeded in getting the Mountaineers to play how they wanted
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  to play, physical, tough. UCF getting to the basket, West Virginia
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  having to settle for threes. It was the style that UCF want and West
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  Virginia was really never in that game, correct. And you come out of
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  that and a couple of lessons. One is that they're not going to give
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  you the benefit of the doubt in contact and if you complain, If you
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  complain, it's going to come back to bite you, and it did for
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  West Virginia. So the frustration built. And then obviously and ultimately, with
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  just over ten minutes to go, Raykwon Battle gets the double T and he's
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  off. They're not going to change that once you go. So if you
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  beg for files and I was just reading something this morning, an NBA coach
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  basically was saying the same thing that if you squawk and if you complain,
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  they're not going to change and only by human nature, our officials just gonna
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  remember it. Yeah, and they're either not going to give you a call
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  or they're going to punish you for squawking. And it might not be in
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  that half, it might be a half later, or it might be the
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  next time they see you. You set that stage, they're gonna come get
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  you. Well, Central Florida took advantage of that. I thought they were
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  just ye what I say, Central Florida, Central Florida really took advantage of
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  that. They were the way more physical they as they asked to be called.
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  If it's in her game notes, please refer to us as UCF and
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  not Golden Knights Nights. I mean, be respectful, I said nights earlier.
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  I mean you were in fact in Central Florida, were you not?
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  We were located there near Orlando. Yeah, okay, UCF, Yeah,
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  Central Florida. University of Central Florida is what it stands for, right or
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  do I have that wrong? They would go UCF late like that. Yeah,
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  it does stand for University of Central Florida. Correct. Thank you.
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  West Virginia is five of fourteen at the rim. You know, you went
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  from the game before, the best success you'd had at pick and roll with
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  the pick and Roll man against Kansas to not getting any points out of that.
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  And I thought you saw that Pat in particular got some shots that were
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  close to the basket, but she had to alter them. Those Central Florida
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  UCF guys did enough to alter a shot from him from a Fara coon getting
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  in there, and it doesn't take a whole lot, Right, you're trying
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  to shoot over a seven foot guy with his arm up, it's going to
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  change your perspective in your view a little bit. In West Virginia just couldn't
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  get any of those close shots to fall, so that in free throw were
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  really the big difference of the game. West Virginia was ten of thirty on
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  two point attempts. That's one to three. That's thirty three percent. Yeah,
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  from three for the game, they finished thirty nine percent, So they
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  shot better from three than they did from two. But to your point,
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  how many times if you go back and watch that tape did Pat Sumnik specifically,
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  but others have to alter their shot because of just the huge size.
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  Right, you got Diallo, who's a legitimate seven foot dude, and then
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  you had a six ten and you had a six to eleven, and they
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  just altered West Virginia. That's what they do. That's what we talked about
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  on Monday. You're gonna have to make threes, which West Virginia did,
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  but nothing came with that. That's what they want. They want you to
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  either stand out there and shoot threes and they'll take their chances or invite you
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  to come all the way into the lane and they're just gonna alter shots.
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  If you look on the season at their defensive shot chart, the percentage of
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  field goal attempts against them, the three point area is the red, and
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  red means there's a lot of them, and the blue means there's not.
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  At the rim it's blue, and around there in the mid range is blue.
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  They said, come come on in with it if you want to come
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  in. Otherwise, stand out there and shoot threes and see if you can
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  beat us. They return. If I'm correct, February twenty here in Morgantown.
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  You going to that one, I'll be there. You going to that
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  one? Okay, that's cool. So that wasn't even spreads on stats.
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  That was like pregame warm up for spreads on sets appetizer. Yeah, so
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  we'll get into more of that. We got more. We got more coming
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  into because I know the Jesse Edwards question will come up and we'll talk about
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  that in detail. But first, but first, but first, so I
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  check the numbers. We'll just go right to the numbers comes in here.
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  Let's just jump into the analytics. Now, we jump into the preview of
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  the Conleys CPA group, providing value you beyond the numbers there. You provide
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  to you complete public accounting services and consultation. Been in business here in the
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  state of West Virginia since nineteen eighty five. That's a pretty long time.
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  What year eighty five? Song? When you're coming up on forty years?
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  Freaked myself out earlier today comes sal Away from Styx. I was playing.
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  Did the math on that one? That's forty seven years old? Come sail
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  Away? It's almost fifty years old? Forty seven years old? And how
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  many? I went? Da forty seven years? Again, as we often
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  do, do the math on that stuff. When you would have been ten,
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  If someone would have said, hey, why don't you listen to a
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  song from me ten years in nineteen twenty two, you probably want to listen
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  to it. Good Lord, where what's going on? And this might be
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  me just trying to make myself not feel old. But like I think a
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  lot of younger kids they do still listen to those kind of songs, like
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  I think they respect comes l A. You don't think I don't know about
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  that? Well, not your girls, But I mean, like you remember
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  when we used to have Taylor here, kid that used to work over on
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  there. Now that long time was that before I started? No, he
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  was here, but he listens to that music. He listens to seventies music,
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  and he's I'm not sure that's your barometer. I'll due respect, of
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  course, all right, maybe I'm off on that. Maybe our listeners can
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  let us know, you guys, let us know if you think like that
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  what they considered to be the classic rock of the seventies, like Journey,
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  Foreigner Sticks, my boy's up in Canada, Gatty Lee, super Tramp,
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  Austin just yelled through, gave a super tramp. I don't know if he
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  went super Tramperor Ann Murray. All right, what have we got on the
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  stool? Water? Here we go. I think this is really fascinating because,
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  solely because of what you said the other day, which of these teams
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  shows up West Virginia looking for its first road win of the season or Oklahoma
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  State saying are you kidding me? We haven't won a game in the league.
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  Here, we got a chance to win one at home. I would
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  bet in my younger days I might have said, well, maybe Oklahoma State's
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  ready to lay down here and man, maybe they won't want to play.
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  I've gone the other way. I think Oklahoma I think you get a top
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  shelf Oklahoma State effort here, effort wise. I don't know what the results
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  will be. I think they come out ready to play. They think this
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  is their chance to get a win. Yeah, I agree or disagree.
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  I don't disagree with you, because again, they were up dude, like
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  fifteen sixteen seventeen points on JESCCU. They led a majority of that game and
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  look good doing it. Yeah, they did all of this. So I
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  think they look at it and go like, hey, guess what that's TCU
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  West Virginia. We can get these guys. Let's bring it. Here's here's
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  the question, though, what do you get from Oklahoma State. Let's talk
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  about what they've been so far this season. They have decent defensive numbers overall,
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  but not in the Big Twelve. They have struggled there in the Big
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  twelve. Defensively, they turn it over a lot, bottom sixty team nationally.
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  They don't get many steals, bottom eight team nationally, so stop right
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  there. That should bode well for West Virginia teams that don't get a lot
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  of steels. You should be able to run your stuff against them. So
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  if that holds, West Virginia should have some success Offensively. They don't hit
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  the offensive glass very well two hundredth overall nationally out of three sixty two,
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  but they keep you off at thirty six in defensive rebounding, So once again,
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  offensive rebounding becomes a key. This is a team West Virginia should be
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  able to get a few against. We'll address the Jesse Edwards thing coming up,
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  but if you have him for a few minutes, can he get you
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  a couple? Can Pat Sumnik get some is Josiah Harris has he earned some
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  more minutes based on what he did against UCF. He's been a good offensive
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  rebounder. Watch the offensive glass. Can you get in there against this team
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  and don't give him up? On the other end, they do not get
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  to the free throw line much cowboys, and they don't shoot it well when
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  they get there. They're a bottom fifty team nationally in free throw percentage.
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  But they don't put you on the line very often either. Now that makes
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  some sense, right Generally, if you're not a great defensive team, you're
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  probably not going to get called for a lot of fouls either. Now in
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  Big Twelve play, they've been better getting there themselves. So watch the free
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  throw line again. They haven't been going to the rim very much. Cowboys
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  are well below the national average, just twenty four percent of their shots coming
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  at the rim. Right, okay, also bolds well for West Virginia.
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  But watch this. We know West Virginia has struggled at times against teams that
• 22:37
  don't normally go to the rim. That looks at West Virginia's defense and says,
• 22:41
  we're going. I think we can get to the rim on you.
• 22:42
  So that'll determine Watch this game early. If Oklahoma State's spreading and driving hard
• 22:48
  at the rim, that tells you they think they can get there against wester
• 22:51
  NIE's defense. If they're not and doing what they normally do, that bodes
• 22:55
  well for WVU. So watch that part of the game. I think you'll
• 22:57
  get an early indication on that this is and I've started saying it this way
• 23:03
  a bunch this year. This is a make shots game for Oklahoma State.
• 23:07
  Here's why I say that. Spot up jumpers are by far the most frequent
• 23:11
  offensive set for them, and it's the thing they do best, so spot
• 23:15
  up from a jump shot, knock it down. So if they don't do
• 23:18
  that, you got a real chance to get on top of them. They
• 23:21
  have elite shooters when they're left on guarded, which is about fifty percent of
• 23:26
  the time. West Virginia has struggled at times in leaving shooters open. Don't
• 23:30
  do that on Saturday. If you do and the numbers hold, they're going
• 23:33
  to make you pay for that. They're very good when they're left unattended,
• 23:37
  and you because they do not have a philosophy or a great desire to score
• 23:44
  in the paint. That may allow West Virginia's defenders to play more honestly instead
• 23:49
  of trying to come in and help. Agreed, agreed, and then again.
• 23:55
  And I know if he plays, it's probably not going to be thirty
• 23:57
  five minutes, but jesseards mere presence in the paint will deter hopefully some of
• 24:03
  that driving to the basket. But this is just a make misshot game for
• 24:07
  Oklahoma State. That's what they do. West Virginy's got to at least guard
• 24:10
  them and make them hit some difficult shots. They've only had two times all
• 24:14
  season have the Cowboys when they've had pick and roll success. The game against
• 24:18
  TCU was one of them. They got fourteen points out of their ball handler
• 24:22
  in the pick and roll. So let's see if they want to put West
• 24:23
  Virginia in that situation. They did it against Baylor two. Otherwise they have
• 24:27
  not had success at the pick and roll. Let's flip over to defense for
• 24:30
  a second. For the Cowboys, teams have had success with straight on threes
• 24:37
  from the top of the key. Teams are shooting about thirty nine percent from
• 24:40
  that particular spot, So watch that on Saturday, top of the key from
• 24:44
  three, West Virginia should be able to get some shots from that. Here's
• 24:47
  a key. They leave you open almost fifty percent of the time on catching
• 24:52
  shoots. Excuse me, they leave you open nearly fifty percent of the time
• 24:56
  on catch and shoots. And teams are shooting forty three percent from three when
• 25:00
  they're left open. So this is almost the reverse of UCF. You wonder
• 25:06
  why they haven't won close games or they haven't won a big twelve game yet,
• 25:08
  I would point right to that teams are making open shots against them.
• 25:14
  Teams in this league leave you open a lot, right, that happens.
• 25:15
  But teams against Oklahoma State happen to be making those shots. West Virginia needs
• 25:21
  to make sure there's not regression in that area and that they miss a bunch.
• 25:25
  So if they're going to get half their looks as open shots, you
• 25:27
  got to make Oklahoma State pay for that. That may be something that we
• 25:30
  haven't seen from West Virginia's opponents this year. Most of their shots are guarded,
• 25:36
  and in West Virginia's wins they have made the contested shots. They should
• 25:38
  get some open looks on Saturday. Yeah, there's pretty good numbers. I'm
• 25:44
  not done, but wait, there's more. Just said to take a breath.
• 25:47
  We're not done. Wait a second. That case, let me just
• 25:48
  give you a little bit of this. Just just give you a little bit,
• 25:53
  right, that's kind of a reset. Okay, go ahead, I
• 25:56
  can go. So I've got two here, including one that's kind of a
• 26:00
  special late January bonus that we've uncovered. So here's one to watch this as
• 26:04
  well. Big twelve teams have been getting to the rim against Oklahoma State,
• 26:08
  so normally we talk about that from a defensive perspective. The five highest point
• 26:14
  totals on the season at the rim against Oklahoma State have come in their six
• 26:19
  Big Twelve games, So basically every Big twelve opponent is driving right at them
• 26:23
  and going at the rim. How do you spell Noah ferri Kon Exactly.
• 26:26
  He's got to have a game and it's two parts. This is back to
• 26:30
  put them in the pick and roll and say go ahead, best of luck,
• 26:33
  stay in front of Ferikhon and if you want to jump over and hedge
• 26:37
  on him. Now, Pat Sumnick maybe in line for some more points,
• 26:41
  maybe a Jesse Edwards basket or two. If he's in maybe Quinn Sleazynski becomes
• 26:45
  the role man he's been effective at times. Is that going to be a
• 26:48
  key set this Saturday? I would say yeah. I would say yeah,
• 26:52
  attack them at the rim. When you're watching the game Saturday, you think
• 26:56
  you could put like a halftime update up on successive pick and roll. I
• 27:00
  don't know if you do any endgame Occasionally occasionally at halftime I'll put out thoughts
• 27:06
  on what we've seen? What platform are you using? That would be Twitter
• 27:11
  x X, yeah, what what's you're what's you're Brad Howe zero seven e
• 27:15
  at the end of how E no El's h O w E right, yeah
• 27:21
  zero seven yeah? Is it like James Bond. Well, just Brad,
• 27:25
  how was taken? Was I wasn't an early adopter. No, you weren't.
• 27:30
  No, you weren't used to shame people from what I understand about being
• 27:33
  on Twitter, Well, not people, just you. That's right, you're
• 27:36
  right. That was a win for you, which I had those conversations that's
• 27:40
  taped. That was a win. What are you doing on that stupid thing?
• 27:45
  Yeah? People care what you ate for dinner. Well, that's all
• 27:47
  you were doing at the time. It's turned into a thing. So a
• 27:51
  fera con going to the rim might be a key stack to I like that
• 27:56
  battle too, and I know he oftentimes pulls, but I'd like to see
• 28:00
  battle put it on the floor and get in there as well. See if
• 28:03
  he can get all the way to the rim. He wants to flush a
• 28:03
  couple, flush a couple. Yeah, so challenge them at the rim,
• 28:07
  I think, is what I'm saying here. Whether that comes in the form
• 28:10
  of a pick and roll, when that comes in the form of an isolation
• 28:12
  clear out, whether that comes in the form of a two man game,
• 28:15
  isolate and go. In this one, how Ray Kwon plays will be extremely
• 28:21
  interesting, I think for all mountaineer fans. I'm very interested to see how
• 28:23
  he responds after obviously an out of character performance by him and he feels badly
• 28:30
  about it, So how does he respond? And I really do think you
• 28:33
  could make a really super strong case despite what the numbers show is this game
• 28:38
  is about to me about ninety percent above the years as anything else, Like
• 28:45
  which team is just absolutely at wits end with not winning for West Virginia not
• 28:51
  winning on the road, and for Oklahoma State just not winning in the league
• 28:55
  yet, this is a mental game. This is just an absolute blue collar
• 29:00
  punch fest. Who's going to come out of here? Given what their crowd
• 29:03
  looked like against TCU, I think you should be able to walk in in
• 29:07
  what probably will not be the most hostile environment you face this year. It'll
• 29:11
  be the least. Yeah, I can't imagine there's gonna be a ton of
• 29:12
  fans in there for this one, So take advantage of that. Those are
• 29:15
  the road games you don't get very often in this league. Take advantage there
• 29:18
  will be more people in Gallagher Eye. But on Friday night, then there
• 29:22
  will be Saturday Friday night they've got wrestling and there'll be you know, it
• 29:27
  might be a lot more maybe like four or five times. Yeah, as
• 29:30
  many people. All Right, last thing, is this the bonus specials A
• 29:33
  little bonus. Okay, I got this in depth yet, but I thought
• 29:37
  this one jumped out kind of let me down a rabbitle ready mm hmm.
• 29:44
  Along with watching the pick and roll, the isolation, the getting to the
• 29:48
  rim shots from the top of the key for three, watch this. Here's
• 29:51
  a spot. Here's a specific spot on the floor to keep an eye on.
• 29:55
  That'd be the right baseline when West Virginia has the ball. Watch the
• 29:59
  right baseline. Okay, teams are shooting fifty percent from the right baseline mid
• 30:06
  range against Oklahoma outside the lane, but in front of the three. Okay,
• 30:11
  outside the lane, outside the right block up to the three point line,
• 30:15
  shooting fifty percent. Fifty decent sample size. Now is why I'm bringing
• 30:18
  up now. Fifty percent from that spot and forty two percent on right corner
• 30:25
  threes that right side, that right corridor, if you will, has been
• 30:30
  very effective against Oklahoma State. But here's the bad news. Oh jeez,
• 30:37
  for West Virginia, those are the two worst zones by shooting percentage on the
• 30:41
  entire floor. I thought, I thought, I thought, I found a
• 30:45
  key was getting ready to text over to Josh, I got something here for
• 30:48
  I think it's key to the game. West Virginia has not performed well from
• 30:52
  that side. Speaking of Raekwon Battle Ray Kwan on the left side, you
• 30:57
  normally see him go to the left more often on these shots. He's eight
• 31:00
  of fourteen from that zone, corridor, mid range and corner three from the
• 31:06
  left eight to fourteen, but just zero of six from the right, so
• 31:10
  he's been better from the left seth Wilson has hit a few threes from the
• 31:14
  right corner right, so maybe he can get cranked up. Farakhon likes the
• 31:18
  right baseline mid range. We talked about Noah, keep an eye on Farakon.
• 31:21
  He likes that area. It's his second favorite spot on the floor in
• 31:25
  terms of shots taken, percentage of shots taken. But he hasn't got many
• 31:30
  to fall from that area. So again, farri CON's a guy to watch.
• 31:33
  He likes to get to that mid range too. On the right baseline,
• 31:37
  he just hasn't got him going yet. Is this a game where you
• 31:38
  can get those to fall? Does that mean anything? Is that causation correlation?
• 31:42
  To give a little kurtchible since he's not here today, right, But
• 31:45
  watch that right baseline corridor out to three point land. See if West Virginia
• 31:51
  can exploit it. We'll keep our eyes on that. If they were to
• 31:52
  do a shot chart back when you played, where would your hotspot a bend
• 31:56
  position? Uh? Top of the key? Three? Straight on or wings?
• 32:01
  Wing? Your wing top of the key? Gay? Yeah about corners.
• 32:06
  I didn't get in the corner monch because that's the point guard, so
• 32:07
  I'd stayed up top more. I think we should have run some more offensive
• 32:12
  sets for me to get me open for more shots. But it's neither here
• 32:15
  nor there. No, there's no question, no question about that, none
• 32:19
  whatsoever. So I check the numbers. I'll just go right to the numbers.
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  group, all right, So just a reminder in case you haven't noticed yet,
• 33:00
  Kerswill isn't here. By the way, if you would keep your phone
• 33:04
  on with you Saturday while you're calling the game, because if there's a right
• 33:07
  baseline hit I'm texting you, it stays on. I flip it over though,
• 33:10
  so I don't get things going on. You can't be. I don't
• 33:13
  look at it, but I will once in a while I will turn it
• 33:15
  just to see if you hit me with any wisdom bombs during the course of
• 33:20
  the game. When Hoppy comes back up from Charleston, he'll be stopping at
• 33:25
  Gomart today, does it every time stops at the flat Woods one. That's
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  the one coming up on seventy nine, same location for him, but the
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  can fuel up and a whole lot more getting ready for you know, won't
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  The fish aren't biting. You can just bite into your slim gym and off
• 34:00
  you go. It's a good day. Go for Gomart, go for good
• 34:05
  times, and get that rewards card asap. A couple of notes. It's
• 34:12
  Thursday, the twenty fifth of January as we record. That means there's only
• 34:15
  two days left to the availability of our popcorn for Valentines. As you know,
• 34:22
  we had a special limited run. You knew that right, Yes,
• 34:27
  okay, that stops Saturday. If you want it for Valentine's Day, your
• 34:31
  order needs to be in at episode eight hundred dot com for Valentine's Day Velvet
• 34:37
  Delight. It is fantastic. I guarantee you you will like it. If
• 34:42
  you don't like it, then your taste buds don't work. But I will
• 34:46
  say this once this is done, this was a limited run. It's not
• 34:51
  going to come up like I'm not going to be here in April or May,
• 34:54
  June, July. It goes away for you. They put it in
• 34:57
  their locking it does. This is a limited run. This is truly a
• 35:00
  limited run of this flavor. It's not coming back. However, Mountaineer Munch
• 35:05
  that got gobbled up Christmas is still available on the website of the episode eight
• 35:08
  hundred dot com. But the Valentines Strawberry vanilla, little baby marshmallows, little
• 35:14
  white chocolate drizzle, White Shong drizzle. That's so how long Saturday. I
• 35:19
  wasn't really listening to you. Now I am because I want to get some
• 35:21
  more twenty seventh of January this Saturday. And as long as you do that,
• 35:24
  you have it in your hands before Valentines Day. They're both really good.
• 35:30
  I might have had this. This is a major upset at what I'm
• 35:32
  about to say. Hm, because I'm such a chocolate peanut butter guy all
• 35:36
  right, might have liked this Valentine's flavor better now I love I'm a big
• 35:39
  strawberry guy. Mm hmm this. I thought this was outstanding. No,
• 35:45
  I'm really really happy, really really happy with the taste of everything that we've
• 35:50
  done so far. Really is time for textual healing. Bring me your pain,
• 36:06
  Bring me your pain, and we will heal it for you. That's
• 36:09
  just who we are. When you get that feeling, you get textual healing.
• 36:17
  Three oh four four o four forty eighty three three oh four four oh
• 36:21
  four forty eighty three start off with this one church will be here Monday,
• 36:30
  they'll be back. I think so well, he's in a wild week in
• 36:35
  that legislature. See some of the stuff coming through there. Yeah, yellow
• 36:42
  texture says some of those folks might need some healing. Yeah. Here here,
• 36:45
  here's all the people down in Charleston. We all need some feeling.
• 36:53
  You need a healing. Right here we go. Uh. This is titled
• 36:58
  It's rather This is a relatively lengthy, but our Committee of the Whole said
• 37:04
  that it's good enough to read because it's pretty good. My Don's entitled My
• 37:08
  don neeln Story, and it begins with Mark Plantz played football for West Virginia
• 37:15
  when Don Neelan was coach. My daughter married Mark's brother. Most West Virginia
• 37:21
  fans love Don I'm one of those. On a normal day back in two
• 37:23
  thousand and eight, my phone rings call from Plants saying, would you be
• 37:29
  willing to drive Coach Neland from Morgantown to Charleston with a return back to Morgantown.
• 37:34
  I said, is this a joke? He said no. Mark explains
• 37:37
  he's running for office in Charleston, requested Coach Nelan support him at a meeting.
• 37:40
  Coach doesn't like to drive at night. Mark needs someone to bring him
• 37:44
  down to Charleston. After recovering from the shock, I told Mark I'd be
• 37:46
  honored. I contacted the coach made the arrangements. We had a wonderful conversation
• 37:52
  for the two and a half hour trip down to Charleston. Coach responded to
• 37:54
  all of my questions, shared many wonderful memories of his coaching at West Virginia,
• 38:00
  and at the meeting of Mark's friends in Charleston, he made personal,
• 38:04
  encouraging comments of Mark's character. Coach made a priority to speak to all who
• 38:08
  were present, and after handling that task, we had it back to Morgantown
• 38:12
  and I continued to hear more of Coach's stories. I told him how honored
• 38:15
  I was to be the designated driver. This is all before Uber. That
• 38:19
  would have never happened if there were Uber. We parted, and I don't
• 38:22
  believe I slept very much that night. What a memory. Fast forward It
• 38:27
  says an unspecified period of time, my phone rings. Someone's calling to request
• 38:32
  me to drive Neeland to Beckley for an FCA banquet. Had to be a
• 38:37
  joke, No, it was for real. I was amazed. I quickly
• 38:42
  agreed, made arrangements to take him to Beckley. Coach gave me more interesting
• 38:46
  stories. I was concerned I'd ask the same questions first trip. If I
• 38:51
  did, he'd overlooked my enthusiasm. Seemed to enjoy sharing the story after story.
• 38:55
  So even though I admired Coach from a distance before that first trip,
• 39:00
  I found out during those trips what a genuine person he really is. I
• 39:02
  sometimes wonder if those trips are only a dream, but they really happen to
• 39:07
  a faithful West Virginia fan. And that is a story that was shared by
• 39:20
  Donald Sadderfield, who lives in Canton, Georgia, and his dad is getting
• 39:27
  ready to celebrate birthday number eighty on February the fourth. Awesome in that fantastic
• 39:35
  early birthday. So happy, happy, happy early birthday to you. What
• 39:39
  a wonderful milestone turning eighty. And we certainly appreciate it and love those kneeling
• 39:46
  stories. But to be quite honest with you, I'm not surprised because that's
• 39:50
  that's who Donnie n is. I mean, that's just that's kind of who
• 39:52
  the dude is. Congratulations to you, Texter, good morning, gentlemen.
• 39:58
  Just wanted to share a picture of my creations from the weekend. My husband,
• 40:04
  a p one listener, reminded me of Tony's bread making tutorial. So
• 40:08
  while the snow was flying in Tucker County of with the weekend, my kitchen
• 40:12
  was warm and toasty. One loaf, just as the master instructed. My
• 40:15
  husband even stood by adding in these little noises as Tony did, in hopes
• 40:21
  of a similar product. The second and my favorite, a nut oat concoction.
• 40:27
  I threw that together from my pantry. Anyway, thanks a bunch Tony,
• 40:31
  we were able to delicious to enjoy some delicious breads while watching a memorable
• 40:36
  victory over Kansas PS. Any other basketball coach would have been teed up running
• 40:40
  on the floor like that hashtag not a Bill selffan go Mountaineer signed by Angie
• 40:46
  from Parsons and she shared those picks of her bread. How's it look good?
• 40:51
  Things was fantastic? She nailed it, she hit it. Yeah,
• 40:53
  I'd love to do that. I'd like to teach a class. I think
• 40:55
  we get like a three guys class. I'll make bread for him. And
• 41:00
  I sent her look what I made last week. Angie puts on those pictures,
• 41:06
  so I tried to represent and make this bread that they make in Florence,
• 41:10
  Italy called I'm gonna say it wrong, chickata skitch Schada skit schata,
• 41:19
  which is kind of a cousin of akacha. Yes, gotcha anyway, And
• 41:25
  then I made for kacha that's for KATCHA picture there. I was all right
• 41:30
  with it. I didn't get the rise I needed on the on the flat
• 41:34
  bread, but the sandwiches were really good, really good. Made a pistachio
• 41:37
  pistachio, made a pistachio pretzel pistachio spread with those, Yeah, ran out
• 41:46
  early, didn't make any didn't make it in here bread. I didn't feel
• 41:52
  good enough with the bread to share it. Question Texter is asking for an
• 41:57
  explanation. We looked like a Final four team again Kansas and we get our
• 42:00
  ass handed to us against UCF. Was it a matchup problem, lack of
• 42:06
  effort, lack of preparation, quick turnaround with a road trip or are we
• 42:08
  just not that good? Senator? Oh, it's a lot of things,
• 42:15
  you know. I do think we make the mistake offense. Why I bring
• 42:17
  it up so much? You just can't assume one performance picked up and moved
• 42:22
  to the next week, good or bad. Just because it was bad one
• 42:24
  week doesn't mean the next one's going to be bad. And yeah, it's
• 42:27
  matchups a lot. That's why part of why we do these numbers isn't just
• 42:30
  to have a discussion here about numbers. It's because that's that's what you have
• 42:35
  to look at. Matchups are different. If you listen to the preview episode
• 42:37
  of uc if you heard this was going to be a tough matchup for West
• 42:40
  Virginia by what they wanted you to do, we recap that in the beginning,
• 42:45
  so that was part of it as well. Now, I do think
• 42:46
  to your point, the mental part of Saturday Massive. There's some matchup things,
• 42:52
  but part of this is going to be a mental approach. Are you
• 42:54
  ready to play? Are you tired of it? You want to go on
• 42:55
  the road and get a win, Let's see that. Hey, three guys,
• 43:01
  this is from after the UCF meltdown. I'm just curious what you guys
• 43:07
  think or have to say about players just disappearing on the court. From time
• 43:10
  to time, there will be times a certain player played really well and just
• 43:15
  disappears, And tonight felt like everyone disappeared except for Jojo. Curious about what
• 43:20
  you guys have to say thanks Cooper from Morgantown, Will Consistency is the key
• 43:28
  to success, and I think I understand what you're saying. And to me,
• 43:35
  that UCF game was just the inability of the team to mentally adjust to
• 43:38
  the way that it was being called just took them out. The other part
• 43:43
  of that confidence is so massive in life one, but in sports two,
• 43:50
  and for shooters, I'm not sure there's anything more important than confidence. If
• 43:54
  you hit your first couple of shots, it can change your whole mindset.
• 43:59
  Quite frankly, if you're hot in warm ups, it can change your whole
• 44:01
  mindset. And also the reverse is true. If you're in a gym and
• 44:05
  for some reason you just happen to be missing, it's not uncommon to let
• 44:09
  that sneak into your I don't like shooting here. I'm not shooting very well
• 44:14
  here. But the reverse is true. Jojo Harris hits a couple of shots.
• 44:16
  What's he say, is my night? Give me the ball? He's
• 44:20
  hunting shots now rather than getting it and hesitating. That sometimes happens when you've
• 44:24
  been cold or not getting enough reps. So confidence you can't see it,
• 44:29
  you can't touch it. But that's a massive part for shooters. Professor Vinnie,
• 44:35
  Realistically, what should the expectations be for the West Virginia basketball team for
• 44:38
  the remainder of the schedule? You want me to do that? Go ahead,
• 44:45
  Let's get better. That's all. That's a realistic expectation. Try to
• 44:49
  get better every single time you go out, and when it's done with you,
• 44:52
  look and see where you are and compete. You'll compete each night.
• 44:55
  Yeah, that's it. Just get better and compete what this team looks like.
• 45:00
  Finally when they get the full roster healthy, and it's still probably gonna
• 45:02
  be a couple of weeks before Jesse Edwards gets back and is fully healthy.
• 45:07
  Now he might play Saturday, but until he gets like fully fully fully probably
• 45:12
  not two weeks. Uh, hey, three guys sometimes two guys, Brad
• 45:17
  are their stats about bully ball? The deal with West Virginia. They're soft
• 45:22
  and when a team gets physical we do not respond well. It appeared the
• 45:25
  officials were not going to stop the hand bumping of UCF, so they just
• 45:30
  shoved us all over. Do you believe this is a factor? Just wondering
• 45:36
  there's probably not an analytic for physicality, is no I don't have one of
• 45:38
  those. You do have to respond how it's being called now West Virginia against
• 45:45
  Drexel and against Kansas. Those are physical basketball games that West Virginia was able
• 45:50
  to win in Ohio State. In Ohio State was a super physical game.
• 45:53
  You're right that you almost won. So there's been times when West Virginia has
• 45:58
  been able to fight and bully back Saturday or Tuesday night. When did they
• 46:01
  play Tuesday? Tuesday night was not one of those. Texter ran into a
• 46:07
  former seldom mentioned Mountaineer football player. Up and wheeling guy and comes up next
• 46:12
  to my locker. I turn around, tall guy, smile on his face.
• 46:15
  We chat it up. Says he played football for West Virginia and the
• 46:19
  Steelers. I asked for his name, he responds, j D. Woods.
• 46:22
  Talk like I wouldn't know who he was, but of course I did.
• 46:23
  Nice person as you'll meet, literally personifies a positive attitude. He told
• 46:29
  me to message him on Facebook and we get lunch sometime. I definitely didn't
• 46:34
  have meet j D. Woods on my Tuesday bingo card signed by Steven.
• 46:37
  JD had a nice career at West Virginia. He played in thirty eight games
• 46:40
  called eighty six balls nine hundred and nine yards and receiving five touchdowns. Long
• 46:45
  fifty. I looked him up, certainly remember him. It is long.
• 46:52
  Hey, three guys, have you learned why CHRISA and a Cook Cook have
• 46:57
  the wrong last names on their jerseys? I got half of it. Chrisa
• 47:06
  because he's a big fan of Steve Kerr, has Kerr in honor of Steve
• 47:12
  Kerr, which made a lot of sense when he was at Arizona. Yeah,
• 47:15
  and that's his first name. So as for a Cook, I don't
• 47:17
  know. That'll be another project in mind before the season, so text he
• 47:22
  I'll keep this short picture this three guys, Pizza Kerchievel and Pizza Effort that
• 47:30
  signed by Bob and Kalodin. We already did that when we were right down
• 47:35
  there in Ronziffort. They were making those pizza. Isn't there was Kerchavel there.
• 47:38
  But to do pizza like we're doing the popcorn and the coffee and things
• 47:42
  like that, you can't. It's just because the last thing we're gonna do
• 47:45
  is make frozen pizza and send that. We want those solid staples that don't
• 47:52
  that can transport right. Popcorn, coffee, sure, easy to transport.
• 48:00
  Yeah here in some word. I haven't had out this confirmed yet, and
• 48:06
  normally we do not do anything on this program unless it's one hundred percent confirmed.
• 48:09
  As you probably know if you're a regular, we get everything confirmed.
• 48:17
  Our coffee that might be available and not too distant future at the Kroger ooh,
• 48:23
  efforting rusty by the way, I've been drinking it throughout the show.
• 48:27
  Got somewhere drinking. Yeah, every day I drink. I start every morning
• 48:30
  with it available at episode eight hundred. Dot com Game Day Grind text or
• 48:37
  three guys, I was able to sit in the Kansas section during the game
• 48:40
  behind their bench. During that time, I was able to try out some
• 48:44
  of our home game Thanks for having us slogans to the assistant athletic director of
• 48:49
  Kansas and others. Oh boy, that's great. So I'm here to confirm
• 48:54
  for the wintertime use thanks for coming. Be careful out there is a perfect
• 48:59
  fit football season. It's a good fit. Adding watch out for the deer.
• 49:06
  Three guys, here we go. Growing up and Wheeling, we always
• 49:10
  said as growing up and Wheeling, we always said, Ohia and the city
• 49:17
  that's across the river b E L L A. I r e. We
• 49:22
  pronounced that Blair a hia. He said, run together, run it all
• 49:29
  together is if it's all one word. Where are you from? Blair Ohiah?
• 49:36
  That was in response to the last episode. People Tony Hoppy asked where
• 49:42
  and they and this person grew up in Wheeling and he said, that's what
• 49:45
  the people in Wheeling say. They said, where are you from? From
• 49:46
  Ohio? And then across the right, across the river Blair, Where are
• 49:52
  you from? Blair? Blair Hiah it is. We'll just leave it at
• 49:57
  that. There is quite a difference in speech from the top of the state
• 50:04
  to the bottom of the stairs, isn't there, Yes, I mean that's
• 50:06
  only three and a half. Well, it's not three and a half,
• 50:07
  it's four and a half five hours from the top to the bottom. If
• 50:10
  you're at the tip of the Northern Panhandle down to the border of Virginia,
• 50:14
  there is quite a difference. You got that heavy Pittsburgh ease a high Blair,
• 50:20
  that Blair right, that whole Yen's thing it just completed. I say,
• 50:24
  Jane Lou has always been the stopping point for that. You cross over
• 50:29
  in Jane Lou, the dialect changes and you get more of a southern You
• 50:34
  think that's the spot right there. It used to be a big cell phone
• 50:37
  switchover spot too used to be. I haven't driven them. You got a
• 50:42
  better chance of winning the lottery than getting a phone call. But when you
• 50:45
  go by Jane Lou exit, I call that the the Bermuda Triangle of where
• 50:50
  A lot of times I'd be driving to CHARLESA on the phone and I'd say,
• 50:52
  hold on, I'll call you back. About to drop signal here,
• 50:55
  Jane Lou, Jane Lou, who knew Texter? And I'm going to read
• 51:04
  this the way that it's written, three guys. While driving across Indiana and
• 51:08
  Ohia today, I was thinking about Mountaineer basketball coaching situation. This may look
• 51:15
  foolish after UCF, but I think coach Eiler deserves at least two more years
• 51:20
  for a couple of reasons. They've done a tremendous job given the hand they
• 51:22
  were dealt, and they have a team that plays hard in every game except
• 51:27
  Houston. They don't quit. Any new coach that comes in will not only
• 51:30
  have to replace those players who lost their eligibility expiration graduation, but also that
• 51:37
  might never that might enter the portal because they feel the coaches were not treated
• 51:40
  fairly and that new coach will be starting recruiting late. I don't care if
• 51:45
  it's coach k or whoever. They're not coming out of retirement and next year
• 51:51
  would be slim pickings. If they can do it after two or three,
• 51:53
  then yes they should be gone, but they should be given a legitimate chance.
• 51:59
  Signed by FRANKN. Clayburg. He's a truck driver. That's why he
• 52:02
  was going through Indiana and Ohio. I'll talk to a coach this week and
• 52:08
  they said, because of the transfer portal, nowadays, athletic directors will now
• 52:15
  fire coaches quicker than they used to because in the past one of the fears
• 52:19
  they had was that it would take too many years to rebuild a program.
• 52:23
  But now because of the portal, they think they'll be more Maybe we can
• 52:28
  just fill it up in the portal. People to Paul with the first in
• 52:30
  season coaching change came up this week. So if you have the money and
• 52:34
  you say, hey, we're going to be able to get enough players off
• 52:36
  the portal, do it. Three guys. Robin Atlanta here, proud owner
• 52:43
  of the planet's last known can of Kertschievelle Oh my, I've been waiting for
• 52:50
  just the right time to consume it. This particular can has had a full
• 52:55
  life. You see. This can was presented to me by another one of
• 52:59
  your loyal listeners. You know her as MJ and Savannah I usually call her
• 53:04
  mom. After her last visit to West Virginia for the Okie State Game in
• 53:07
  October, she was my mule and smuggled a couple of four packs across state
• 53:13
  lines, which she presented to me when I visited at Thanksgiving. After ten
• 53:17
  months or so, I'm finally able to see what all this fuss was about.
• 53:20
  That's a damn good beer. Anyway. In my haste to leave,
• 53:24
  I left a couple of cans behind, but we were soon reunited when we
• 53:29
  all made our way to Charlotte for the Duke's Mayo Bowl. This can was
• 53:31
  with me for a thrilling Baylor victory over Thanksgiving weekend, the Bowl victory,
• 53:36
  and now a very nice hoops went over Ku. I thought perhaps this beer
• 53:39
  deserved better, but I think I'll just crush it today, a random Monday,
• 53:44
  and if wv's sports takes a turn for the worst, blame it on
• 53:45
  the Kercheveil curse. Yeah, well, good glad he got some tough to
• 53:52
  get Texter three guys or the Kings of Merch Doctor Dave here in Bethesda,
• 53:59
  Maryland. Any possibility of getting the Turtles back on the schedule and hoops and
• 54:04
  or football, keep up the good times, keep good times coming. Well,
• 54:07
  used to work there. What do you think I'd like that to be
• 54:09
  back in. I'd like to play them in basketball. You wouldn't. I
• 54:17
  would like that game. I have no problem playing them. I mean it
• 54:23
  helps your power rating. Play an ACC team. You don't need help in
• 54:29
  your power rate. You didn't even catch I said ACC team. Yeah,
• 54:35
  you don't need So you want to play PET and then you're gonna see some
• 54:38
  power fives in your Thanksgiving tournaments. You could probably do it. Yeah you
• 54:44
  could there, there's plenty of there's plenty of space there. I like it.
• 54:45
  Probably. I like that as a non con Yeah, Texter or football
• 54:52
  related. Gary Williams, he's the one to put the kaibosh on it.
• 54:55
  He an't been there. Well, you probably go ahead and reach out.
• 55:02
  Well, I know he hasn't been there. I'm just saying that's why the
• 55:06
  thing ended. He didn't want anything to do with it. Hey, three
• 55:10
  guys, A football related question. With many schools putting messages on the back
• 55:15
  of their helmets, any chance that the word efforting could be the Mountaineer's message.
• 55:22
  I would say this to that, not as it's not as crazy as
• 55:25
  you think, not as crazy a thing, and as you well know this
• 55:30
  being you mean, you've sold tens of millions of dollars in that department.
• 55:35
  Right. If you give them enough money and you say we want the word
• 55:39
  efforting on the back of the helmet, the word efforting would be back on
• 55:42
  the helmet. What do you think that number would be? That'd be a
• 55:45
  big number. I understand. What do you think the number is? I
• 55:47
  don't know. Well, you do have an idea, I don't. It's
• 55:52
  more than fifty dollars. It's less than ten million dollars. It's less than
• 55:54
  five million dollars. It's probably if you came to and said, I'm gonna
• 56:00
  give you seven to fifty get it, seven hundred and fifty thousand. Yeah,
• 56:06
  if I were them, I'd take that in a heartbeat. Would that
• 56:12
  be the as you say on the side of the helmet or the back of
• 56:14
  the helmet? A back piece with the path If he offered seven fitty.
• 56:15
  I'll be saying, here's the contract. So you did have a number in
• 56:20
  your head, I said, you didn't know. Hello, fellas, it's
• 56:23
  been a while since I texted. I wanted to tell you about my funny
• 56:27
  Christmas gift exchange. I exchange gifts with three of my friends, one of
• 56:30
  whom Grant is also a loyal three Guys listener. Earlier this year, I
• 56:35
  had no idea of getting him. I had an idea of getting him an
• 56:37
  efforting T shirt off of your sight as I thought he wouldn't think about getting
• 56:43
  a gift from there for someone else. So we're exchanging gifts. He opens
• 56:45
  mind, told me how great it was in all the fun while having a
• 56:49
  funny smirk on his face, which I didn't really pay attention to. I
• 56:52
  opened my gift from him and he had a smirk. I opened it up,
• 56:57
  I realized the reason. He also went to episode and bought me the
• 57:00
  same exact efforting T shirt. Definitely a Three Guys Christmas. Thanks again for
• 57:06
  all you guys do for us fans. Since there won't be an episode eight
• 57:08
  hundred, here's number seven ninety nine sign not hoppy how or hugs in high
• 57:15
  Point. Thank you, Thank you, Texter. I don't give two craps
• 57:22
  about the executive associate Athletic director at Oklahoma or the statements made by said person.
• 57:28
  If Oklahoma thinks they can get out of a generational curse by sending out
• 57:31
  a mid level employee to make a statement, they're sadly mistaken. Tony slightly
• 57:37
  misread my initial text. The only way for this curse to be undone is
• 57:40
  through an animal sacrifice at the fifty yard line on Friday the thirteenth. Good
• 57:45
  luck sooners. The curse is still in place. Signed by JD from the
• 57:49
  Southern coal fields. That's pretty harsh. I will say the one point of
• 57:54
  clarification. I think if you have executive and associate, you're more than mid
• 57:59
  level. I think that's a you put both together, relatively new development in
• 58:06
  the field. But you put but you got a couple on there, executive
• 58:08
  associate, executive seniors, so now you're even more high level. I think
• 58:12
  there can called an executive senior associated. I think so. I think there's
• 58:15
  a lot of doubt those are great. So here I want to go something.
• 58:17
  You see you pointing out executive associate. Here's my favorite part of that
• 58:22
  whole sentence, the first sentence, I don't give two craps, Like,
• 58:27
  how did two craps become like a standard in that well? I think JD
• 58:31
  was just trying to I don't give a crap is more traditional phrase. I
• 58:35
  think he wanted to emphasize he definitely didn't give one, he didn't give two.
• 58:44
  But just my interpretation, you ever noticed that people never go to three
• 58:46
  or four? That would be like haven't yet they may? I mean j
• 58:50
  D may. He just took it to two level two like a level one.
• 58:54
  NC douable a violation. He took it to a level too. You
• 58:58
  wanted to make sure the point got through scope, Senator and over under a
• 59:04
  half on Hoppy, this is Brian and Williamstown. I wanted to say a
• 59:07
  great job by the men against Kansas. Just wow. Listening to Tony talk
• 59:10
  about Gomart and all the goodies you can buy. Have you, any of
• 59:14
  you guys ever been to the Gomart in Marietta, Ohia. They got a
• 59:16
  deli counter full of daily made fried goods, sides and all the fixings.
• 59:22
  They've also got their own homemade pepperoni roles. They're working on becoming the next
• 59:27
  next sheets or BUCkies apparently, Thanks Jentz. Look forward to the rest of
• 59:30
  the season and seeing how far the men can take a run. Texter,
• 59:36
  there's Jim from Charleston. Just listen to your last podcast where you discussed the
• 59:39
  pronunciation of boy. Here we go Lucato. My Sunday school class has viewed
• 59:45
  videos from the author Max Lucato, emphasis on the K. But here in
• 59:51
  Charleston there's a Lucado drive and the locals pronounce it luck ad. Oh my
• 59:58
  gosh, that's totally different. What are they saying, Charleston? This guy
• 1:00:00
  says luck a do lucka do. That's what he said. What was the
• 1:00:04
  first version? Loucato spelled the same yep, just one a in that yeah,
• 1:00:10
  one oh m hm, not together either, nope, huh. And
• 1:00:16
  then he goes on to say, regarding Ohio, I had a coworker who
• 1:00:20
  pronounced Ohio like a yo yo hi ya yo yo yoyo. Whatever. Anyway,
• 1:00:24
  I enjoy both the sports part of your show and when you guys run
• 1:00:28
  off the rails as we just did. Texter. Longtime first time Matt in
• 1:00:35
  Maidsville formerly now I live in cross Lanes. This past weekend I had the
• 1:00:38
  pleasure of attending a swim meet over at the WUVU Aquatics Center. Wow,
• 1:00:44
  what a beautiful facility. Got there early enough to watch the Mountaineers wrap up
• 1:00:47
  their swim practice. Truly impressive. Well, we had tickets to the basketball
• 1:00:52
  game. With the weather, the meat start was delayed, meaning the events
• 1:00:55
  my daughter was swimming and got pushed back. So I had to make the
• 1:00:59
  choice. We used to sell our tickets. As I placed the tickets for
• 1:01:04
  sale, I told my wife, you watch, We're going to pull off
• 1:01:06
  an upset. Well, the meet finally ended, so we decided to head
• 1:01:12
  to my childhood favorite restaurant, the Old Pea King House the other night.
• 1:01:16
  Oh it did you? We arrived. The game was early in the second
• 1:01:20
  half. We're eating dinner. We had the game on our phone when the
• 1:01:22
  waitress invited us to come over to the bar watch it with her. Since
• 1:01:27
  we were the only customers, the rest of the staff joined us. It
• 1:01:30
  was truly a special Mountaineer moment. My family, the staff, a few
• 1:01:35
  more customers walked in. Instead of sitting down, we all crowded around the
• 1:01:38
  bar. Here's a picture right there. Oh yeah, yeah, the phone
• 1:01:42
  was ringing the staff would take an order over the cheers of all of us
• 1:01:45
  watching. The Mountaineers shocked the nation. It was an elite dining experience.
• 1:01:51
  A huge shout out to Kurt, who's always treated my family like his own.
• 1:01:54
  He's the owner there. Yes, I'm including a picture of my daughter
• 1:01:58
  at the swim meet in one of her locked in on the game at the
• 1:02:00
  peaking House. Thanks for all you do. It's a beautiful facility. I
• 1:02:05
  have a nephew that swims over there. It's probably at that same swim meet
• 1:02:07
  Mason at the peaking House. No, they don't swim at the peaking House
• 1:02:10
  at the Aquatic sud. Oh. Yeah, that's a nice facility, A
• 1:02:14
  nice facility, Texter. I've been efforting to get my daughter a wv's swim
• 1:02:19
  cap. They're harder to find than the Kerchive ail. If you all have
• 1:02:22
  a line where I could buy one, it'd be appreciated. Just goes to
• 1:02:25
  show you. If they don't sell those there at that swimming that'd be a
• 1:02:29
  nice little, uh revenue opportunity. Why wouldn't they Probably not, Staffy,
• 1:02:32
  send a note to Wren get some baiting caps in there. Make a note,
• 1:02:40
  Texter says, looks like raykwon battle, just had a Stevenson hold my
• 1:02:44
  blank moment. Can't help the team in the locker room. I hope he
• 1:02:47
  doesn't have the same head case problems. Ericad he needs to learn from it.
• 1:02:52
  Flush it, go drop fifty on the Cowboys. Well, if there's
• 1:02:57
  a Stevenson comparison, I'll take the bounce back coming from one. Then you
• 1:03:00
  talk about dude that said, okay, oh is that right? Okay?
• 1:03:04
  That got it? Understood, got it. I'll handle it from here.
• 1:03:07
  Eric learned. You know Stevenson did that? Eric learn you don't complain about
• 1:03:09
  calls. He didn't complain about calls. He just went't start filling it.
• 1:03:13
  Well, I understand. I remember what I'm just saying. He learned,
• 1:03:15
  don't complain. The next guy runs me to yell in the background, text
• 1:03:23
  her, I'm not gonna do that. My voice hurts. You want to
• 1:03:27
  save your voice? Yeah, my voice hurts. Hey too, guys and
• 1:03:30
  maybe Hoppy. I wanted to get your takes on what you thought was more
• 1:03:34
  surprising the Mountaineers beating Kansas or Hoppy successfully sliding down that fire pole. Mm,
• 1:03:44
  Kurtivlls got me. Kurtivll's gutsy. He's gutsy. He done back away,
• 1:03:49
  not afraid, and and still as we said, advanced age, still
• 1:03:52
  in tremendous shape. Why do you always have to say advanced age. That's
• 1:03:55
  not fair, that's unfair. Moves well, walks at a brisk pace.
• 1:04:01
  Still pict your health. I'm looking man, Texter ps. Thanks for signing
• 1:04:13
  my hat Saturday. By the way, shout out to the camera guy for
• 1:04:15
  the picture I heard. He's a high dollar photographer. On the side signed
• 1:04:19
  by Devin and goshen Road. Thank you Devin. We good to see you.
• 1:04:23
  Wren took his Wren made the picture very nice. A Wren wasn't asked,
• 1:04:27
  saw you struggling with the selfie? Wasn't wasn't going well? Ren stepped
• 1:04:31
  in said I'll give it to me. I'll take that for you. He
• 1:04:33
  did do this great. Yeah, it is a high priced camera man.
• 1:04:36
  So thanks Deevian, Mike and Parkersburg Scope Spreads and Hoppy to the third.
• 1:04:42
  While I wasn't seriously expecting to win Tuesday, I definitely was expecting a much
• 1:04:45
  better performance than that clown show we had in Orlando. Not that the guys
• 1:04:49
  didn't play hard, but the game plan, or at least its execution was
• 1:04:54
  definitely subpar. West Virginia looked seriously lost the whole game, especially in the
• 1:05:00
  first half, both sides of the ball, giving up multiple second, third,
• 1:05:03
  and sometimes fourth chance points on the boards, turning it over left and
• 1:05:08
  right. Very disappointing. The officiating certainly questionable. UCF was basically able to
• 1:05:14
  hack and bulldoze West Virginia without a foul, but that definitely wasn't the reason.
• 1:05:18
  My biggest question is Josh said before the game in your interview that Edwards
• 1:05:23
  was available in an emergency. Well, what exactly constitutes an emergency? West
• 1:05:30
  Virginia at the time seven and eleven, two and three in the Big twelve,
• 1:05:33
  down by fifteen points in the first half, unable to block out,
• 1:05:38
  unable to get any effect of playing the paint. I mean, he's apparently
• 1:05:42
  been cleared to play by team doctors. He's been practicing since last Friday,
• 1:05:45
  dressed. Why is Josh holding him back for a big run the CBI.
• 1:05:50
  Sorry for the rant. As always, I love the podcast and all you
• 1:05:53
  guys do. So what would be an em urgency? The emergency the other
• 1:06:01
  night was if Pat Sumnik and a cook a cook filed out that would have
• 1:06:06
  been the emergency. He's simply's not ready. I mean I watched him practice.
• 1:06:11
  His wrist isn't there yet. He's not using his wrist to its full
• 1:06:15
  function and would be in a situation where he could re injure himself. It's
• 1:06:18
  not healthy enough yet. And when he does get out there, obviously you
• 1:06:23
  have another four or five days for movement and things like that. He won't
• 1:06:28
  play a ton and he won't be one hundred percent. But he just wasn't
• 1:06:31
  ready, wasn't ready, And I think that's the thought that they'd rather have
• 1:06:38
  him for multiple games rather than putting him out there against UCF and one of
• 1:06:42
  them's dudes giving him a chop and then he's gone for the year. I
• 1:06:47
  got no problem with that. Whatsoever wasn't ready wasn't going to do any better
• 1:06:50
  than what they had out there. Texter Scope stats sometimes hoppy, my neph.
• 1:07:00
  You came up with the rule of seventy ten or more years ago.
• 1:07:04
  This is more appropriate since a lot of games never make it to eighty points.
• 1:07:09
  This not only applies to WVU, but all of D one college basketball.
• 1:07:14
  A great majority of the time, first team to seventy points wins.
• 1:07:16
  Check it out, does not apply to overtime games. Thanks for the many
• 1:07:20
  hours of great content signed by Jim in Manonga. So I looked that up.
• 1:07:27
  Wasn't familiar with it, and there in fact has been academic study on
• 1:07:33
  that. And actually the number is seventy one. It's called the rule of
• 1:07:40
  seventy one. First team in Division I basketball to reach seventy one points as
• 1:07:45
  at least a ninety point nine percent ninety one percent chance of being the eventual
• 1:07:50
  winner, and that could fluctuate as high as ninety five percent. So that's
• 1:07:57
  done. You look it up, rule of seventy one. And I did
• 1:08:00
  big academic research paper on You know, you like numbers, You should take
• 1:08:03
  a look at it. Why are you looking at me like that? You
• 1:08:09
  ever heard of it? No? So the uh, the ola shucks up
• 1:08:15
  there in northern Pennana, they think it's eighty. Mom goes to the bathroom
• 1:08:17
  when one team gets eighty. She could probably back it down to seventy one.
• 1:08:21
  Well, if your numbers are in fact accurate, then eighty is definitely,
• 1:08:26
  oh yeah, gonna be hiring that. Donna would know that, of
• 1:08:29
  course, Steve from Vegas if ren Baker is tasked with finding a new coach
• 1:08:33
  at the end of the season. I assume he'll want to hire someone that's
• 1:08:38
  been successful and brings an exciting brand to the table. Oh snap, he
• 1:08:44
  already made the hire. His name is Mark Kellogg. Do you know if
• 1:08:46
  a Power five school has ever transitioned to a women's coach to the men's before
• 1:08:53
  I realized there's a different talent, skill set, but I believe that Kellogg's
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  style of aggressive, hard nose pressing defense, coupled with his offensive, spacing
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  involved moment, it's a kind of exciting brand that would be successful aka shock
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  a smart style, and would fill up the coliseum just about every game.
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  Thanks for all you do help making him out in her transplant feel like he's
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  back home. I don't know of any examples of that happening to you.
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  And Mike Carrey went from man's basketball to women's basketball, yes, but I've
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  never heard of a guy going from women to men. Yeah. I don't
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  know, and I've asked about that in the past, because your boy used
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  to get really pissed off Gino right when people would say, when are you
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  going to go coach men? And he would get upset by that. Yeah
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  he did, all right, he did, and he said, what are
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  you talking about? This is what I do. So, yeah, it's
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  the same game, but it's not the same game. And yeah, that's
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  why it doesn't happen. I'm not saying it, Cam, I'm just saying
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  that different world. Man Mark doing just fine on his side of things.
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  He gotta get this, he gotta get the Cyclones this weekend. Yeah,
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  fun one coming up saturdaygainst ioa state little revenge game. You going over?
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  I think that. I think we might be in attendance for that one.
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  Yes, have our own game Saturday, assuming that gets done in a timely
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  fashion. I think we can. I think we can slide over and do
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  both. Gentlemen, I almost always agree with Tony's take on the Mountaineers,
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  but I wholeheartedly disagree that Oklahoma playing Country Roads after last week's game was over
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  the line, or as he said, Harry high school. Part of what
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  makes college sports what we all love is poking fun at one another, as
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  seeing with our fans pride and singing Sweet Caroline and giving a horns down.
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  How is what OU did any different? I took what the Sooners marketing team
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  did as a sign of respect. If they took time to pick on us,
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  it means they respect us. You don't usually troll the school. You
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  don't feel as beneath you. Signed by Dana in Houston. I don't think
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  that was really from Dana in Houston, though possibility that's a big city,
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  could be more than one. Chris in South Carolina. Just watch the World
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  champs get bullied in Orlando. West Virginia needs to be more aggressive, less
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  finesse, especially going to the rim. But twenty five free throws to ten.
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  I saw a ridiculous chest bump, dry hump as Slazinski drove across the
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  lane. I saw a shoulder thrown into Fera Khan's chin on a pick and
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  roll that was reviewed for flagrant, not even called a fowl. Then Farrakhn
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  gets a layup blocked by a guy with a forearm across his back, who
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  then lands on Noah, and play goes on. When those two ESPN plus
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  announcers say on multiple occasions that might have been a foul, I know it's
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  just not me. Signed by Christian South Carolina, the ESPN announcer, the
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  play by play announcer on that game, Pete, he loves you, loves
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  who you me. I went over and talked to him because he had introduced
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  himself season or two ago. He says, guys, He said, man,
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  I love three guys. I said, excuse me, He said,
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  is this for real? Is this confirmed? I forgot to tell you this.
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  He goes, I love it. I said, what are you talking?
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  He goes, That's how I will do my preparation. I listened.
• 1:12:41
  He goes, Brad gives me. Brad with those numbers. He goes,
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  I've never heard those numbers before, and I gained the truth. Now this
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  is the guy on ESPN. Pete, great guy, awesome, great guy.
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  Yeah, so he locks in on three guys. Good thanks Pete,
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  appreciate you. Good dude, awesome morning news anchor. And Waco. Oh
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  is that right? Great guy, good dude, excellent. Didn't know that.
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  Maybe we'll see him in an upcoming game if he has anymore. Yeah,
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  he could get us again. Texter loved the podcast and so glad to
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  have that West Virginia connection. I'm appreciative for the opportunity to opine vent and
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  connect. Elated over the Kansas win, Infuriated over the officials at UCF,
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  not for what they called, but for what they didn't. It was the
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  bullies against the discipline team and the refs let it happen. Lucky there weren't
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  more injuries. And I'm reflecting on a Kansas win, I was thinking of
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  how lucky West Virginia is to have Josh Eiland as the overseer of these young
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  men. He's so much more than a coach. It's obvious how much compassion
• 1:13:46
  he has for them individually as players. It's reflected by their camaraderie with each
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  other and their efforting on the floor. How he does not compromise the well
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  being of an athlete at the expense of winning or losing a game. He
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  shares his responsibility for a loss, is very generous with his praise for the
• 1:14:03
  team. He's smart, gracious, humble, great role models. So and
• 1:14:06
  as one of your commercial ventures, how about a T shirt with something like
• 1:14:11
  the Elert effect and blazoned across the front. I do love the podcast,
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  I do love the coach. Thank you Son by MJ in Savannah. MJ
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  made an appearance earlier, right we had a reference to mj'san of the show.
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  H I think we should do a World Champs T shirt, Right,
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  I can see that. Just put two words on the front world Champions and
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  three guys on the sleeve World Champions, merchandise team listening, no effort.
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  So I just think because that's a conversation starter, right, Is that what
• 1:14:45
  T shirts are supposed to be? Yes, you just put World Champions on
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  there, and if you know, you know, it's part of the deal
• 1:14:51
  with this podcast. Right, So that's one of those T shirts. Yeah,
• 1:14:55
  if you know, you know, I've told how the World Champion thing
• 1:14:59
  came around, right, Dale Miller, he used to throw it in there.
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  He just throw it in there, like Saint Louis Baseball Cardinals, man
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  birds on the bat, World Champion Cardinals. Then one day he hit me
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  with World Champion Mountaineers, and I went like, well, I love that.
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  I'm stealing it. Uh, Texter. Maybe because it was not West
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  maybe because West Virginia is not very physical, but I don't remember college basketball
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  quite this physical, especially on the perimeter. Texter. I was on YouTube's
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  the other day watching some of the MSN replay of the nineteen eighty seven West
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  Virginia Boston college football game. Tom Meees was doing the play by play with
• 1:15:47
  Tony doing the color. I was wondering what memories Tony has working with Tom.
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  Tom was a wonderful guy. He was a fantastic guy, unbelievably hard
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  working. He used to do the two am Sports Center on Friday nights into
• 1:16:05
  Saturday morning, would finish Sports Center, would drive from Bristol to the Hartford
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  Airport. It'd be Hardford Airport R Yeah, yes, Hartford Airport, Bradley
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  Bradley International, Bradley International, back when you had airplanes that would fly direct.
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  And he would go Hartford to Pittsburgh, rent a car and drive down
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  here. And I think about that, so you get like the seven thirty
• 1:16:29
  eight o'clock flight out of Hartford, he'd be down here about nine to thirty.
• 1:16:31
  Game go like at noon and he'd do the air game that grin.
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  He was a great guy. Best memory I have of him. And we
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  did games for a couple of years. Eighty seven Syracuse West Virginia game up
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  there. It was we got it was one of those Syracuse snows that literally
• 1:16:48
  does not stop for twenty four plus hours. And we sat and it was
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  a night game, and we sat at the marry out there a carrier circle
• 1:16:57
  in a room and we just watched football all day long and just had a
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  ton of fun. Just had a ton of fun. Just a really good
• 1:17:05
  dude. And for those that don't know, he was one of the original
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  anchors of Sports Center with Chris Berman and Bob Lee and Lou Palmer. Those
• 1:17:17
  were the guys. And there's a West Virginia connection to Tom Me's getting that
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  job. Mike Parsons was on the staff at Florida State in the sid world,
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  and Me's was an anchor in Tallahassee. And Parsons always on the cutting
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  edge of new stuff. That said, Hey, Tom, I read this
• 1:17:39
  thing. There's some kind of a all twenty four hour thing twenty four Can
• 1:17:43
  you believe this a twenty four hour cable sports network that's going to start in
• 1:17:47
  Connecticut. You should send him a tape. That's how I got it is
• 1:17:51
  that I didn't know. That's absolutely true. That's why the relationship between Mike
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  and Tom, That's why Tom was doing the West Virginia stuff. It's all
• 1:18:00
  about networking. That's a name of a certain age. You will know Tommy's
• 1:18:02
  name immediately. Yeah, Scope spreads hoppy on remote location. A couple of
• 1:18:09
  observations Texter who came to Adelphia in the second half of that game. Last
• 1:18:14
  week, I believe you sat near me during the Kansas gaming and we all
• 1:18:16
  broke into an off key rendition of country roads. We stopped after management put
• 1:18:21
  on John Denver to make us stop singing as three guys drive. Well,
• 1:18:27
  it was only a matter of time before you people that started naming their private
• 1:18:31
  roads after you guys. That's right, right, last time we showed a
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  three guys drive. Yeah, actual road. You guys all have reached dal
• 1:18:41
  Earnhardt Drive status, so congratulations. Finally, I was at the state's capitol
• 1:18:45
  yesterday for GIS mapping day at the Legislature and look who I ran into,
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  Oh Hoppy, and there's Look at that beard that Jenny's and he's got a
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  winter beard that I mean will make a we'll make a lumberjack nervous. Thanks
• 1:19:00
  Hoppy for rehashing the UCF game with me for a few minutes. Signed by
• 1:19:04
  p One Jennings, a professional mapper that's he does, makes maps. He
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  got a picture there with Hoppy. Yeah, yeah, real good. All
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  right, that's all the damage we can do for this episode. So next
• 1:19:18
  week, by the time we come back, we will have for you the
• 1:19:26
  recap of the Oklahoma State game and getting ready for the first of two encounters
• 1:19:30
  was Cincinnata. That's not easy either. Oh no, that's not easy.
• 1:19:34
  It's not gonna be easy. So a lot of stuff will happen. Obviously,
• 1:19:38
  the Jesse Edwards availability coming into finally getting them out of the floor.
• 1:19:45
  Be interesting to see that, right, see him compete on Saturday. Right,
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  and keep a special eye on the top of the key threes and the
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  right baseline corridor. Let's see if any success comes in those areas. M
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