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3 Guys Before The Game - Hold The Mayo (Episode 515) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hoppy Holidays. Everybody, here we go. It is time for episode number
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  five hundred and fifteen of three Guys Before the Game, titled by Hoppy.
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  Hoppy's titled today hold the Mayo. It's good work on your part. I'm
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  a man of cliche and simple slogan. Sometimes they rally, sometimes they work.
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  So episode five point fifteen, we are going to talk Mayo. We're
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  going to get into West Virginia North Carolina a little bit of a preview hard
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  game to handicap, our game to handicap because somebody in so many outs as
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  far as personnel goes, I mean, the way things are going right now,
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  Kerchieble may be starting for North Carolina at tight end I have Yeah,
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  they are down two, they're down, they're down four actual tight ends,
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  four tight ends, four tight ends, do injury and departures. They're going
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  to start a true freshman good so you might be up next. Three Guys
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  Before the Game. We're also going to talk a little bit of Mountaineer basketball.
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  We're gonna look back to the heartbreaker against the Radfords and look ahead to
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  the Toledo mud Heads coming in on the not the mud Hits. So he
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  So here we are. It's the early morning recording for three guys before
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  the game. It's the twenty second day of December, and thanks so much
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  for being with us. As all of us kind of get into a deceleration
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  mode with the holiday approaching. I love this. I love this time here.
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  Things just kind of go chill. I do not really, But what
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  do you mean not really? I think they crank up? Yeah? Were
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  you bowl boys over there? For those who don't know the boys over here?
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  They are the hosts of how many games total? Bull Season Radio?
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  I understand what it is. There's so many we don't I don't know.
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  You may keep count, I don't know. I literally it might be twelve,
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  it might be three hundred and ten. I don't know. So bull
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  Shop show up start, what do we go off? So there's a network
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  called Bulls. There's a network called bull Season Radio and we've got an affiliation
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  with them, and the games are produced out of Morgantown and Hoppy and Brad
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  are the hosts for pregame halftime. You guys really don't do any postgame do
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  no, okay or pil Sometimes you'll fill between games. They go in the
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  studio and these games go all over the country. So you have how many
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  games tomorrow? There are seven games? We have three? Right? So
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  this Bullseason Radio second largest distributor of National Bowl games behind only ESPN. Oh
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  great, great on all over the country. Chicago, San Francisco, Washington,
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  Tupelow, Mississippi, but bangor Maine. You know what, Tony,
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  we we really enjoyed Morgantown because we just we got those four games on just
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  doing games, watching games, and you know what you get is you get
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  you sometimes you just get great performances. You get great games like that last
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  night, That's Syracuse game. It was a terrible game. Who was that
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  dude thirty six for USFT? Like he was running around out there like a
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  like a really good high school player. That no one can stop. Yeah,
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  well that probably wasn't one of the ideal games that he's talking about.
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  You get, like, say, an individual individual performances, is what I'm
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  saying. You do you get some kids that just have like the game out
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  of their mind, and we'll part and we're gonna you know, heck,
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  we could see that on who knows. We could see that next Wednesday when
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  West Virginia takes the field and DJ Oliver goes for a for a buck twenty
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  three with two tds, Right, people go like, where did DJ are
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  one of the things I want to see? I'm watching that? Yeah,
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  J, that is not the That is not Connor Harrell who hasn't played all
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  year, that all of a sudden, Well, Connor Harrell runs for AD
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  already. We've had it, that doesn't. We had a history with these
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  guys when they popped a new quarterback on us, the Oscar Davenport situation.
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  It can't happen twice, can it? Well you don't know. I hope
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  you knows. I mean, they need to just be done. Just North
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  Carolina, just move on. It wasn't Car. It was it wasn't McFarland
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  brown as the coach in North Carolina. Charl Torbush was the coach back then.
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  Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I had it too. I had a
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  Carl there too. Might have been that, remember, Earl Torbush. I
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  remember a lot about that game. That definitely was not a fumble on Zarawa.
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  No terrible call. I don't think that're gonna change it now, though,
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  A terrible call. That's a true Mountaineer. Well, I mean,
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  you get, you get, you take, you get, you take Phil
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  Braxton. That was not a catch at Rutgers to give don Neelon to pave
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  the way for Donelan to get that win. It wasn't a catch. So
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  you win some, you lose some. That Miami ninety six games that stands
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  out to Syracuse fight for Syracuse Fight ninety two. That's not any good.
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  By the way, Later in the program, I'm just telling you this.
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  I'm just telling you this. Later in the program, I'm gonna show you
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  guys a Mountaineer football clip that you had never seen before, impossible, that
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  you have never seen before. And when I saw it, I went,
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  what in the heck? That's all I'll say. That's coming up during Textual
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  Healing brought to us by episode eight hundred dot com. Okay, yeah,
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  well wait, yeah, we're reread to have because we got lost. Siks
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  got a lot of shout outs. I was out and about a bunch this
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  week something a lot of it. Were you delivering stuff? You delivered some
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  stuff popcorn specifically, where to Adam here in Morgantown. The bought some popcorn
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  from us episode eight hundred dot com. So you and Dave just went on
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  the land. Dave said, it's loaded up. We'll just take it over
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  there. Took a big bag of popcorn right to him, right the front
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  door. All right, let's jump in here man. First off, delivery.
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  That's awesome popcorn. Who's there? You and Dave? Yeah and Dave
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  Adam came out, had a great chat. Who's there, Lion Shark,
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  open the door, Land Shark? Are you guys? Here was a delivery,
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  personal delivery. We had fun. We'll show that picture later. Okay.
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  First we're going to do basketball. Yeah, okay, Radford, Radford,
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  I mean you just want to woof ouch the ouch. The first thing
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  is that, wow, it's great to see the team for the first time
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  this season. You didn't see the team for the first time. I mean
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  you didn't see the team for the first Well you didn't, okay, because
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  Jesse Edwards is not there. I get that, But how unusual? What
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  so there's that like, wow, you gotta you gotta like see who's on
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  the team. Now that's number one, number two. It was great to
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  see Raykwon Battle who was the best player on the court. Raykwon Battle was
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  the best player on the court. I mean coming off not playing in a
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  game and then coming off being sick and goes off of what twenty nine or
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  thirty points? Yeah, and just was was dominant. I mean struggle from
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  three point but what but still you I mean the Eastern well you had thirty
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  central twenty nine easter but there he goes. Okay, you're making a good
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  point. You don't you don't know what you have. I mean, you
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  know you have a great talent in him, and it's great to see him
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  playing, but you still don't know what you have exactly sure, And you
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  couldn't you couldn't finish. And then second of all, after after no offense
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  to Toledo, but boy, you were getting ready for a stretch here.
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  It's going to be brutal in this team like we've been saying, like Brad's
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  been saying for a couple weeks. Now, they've got to figure out what
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  they are as a team because clearly you don't really know yet who's supposed to
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  have the ball at this time and make this play. You don't know yet
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  and it's impossible to know yet. Well, I think that's where that that's
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  where they are. That's the challenge that you have is that you kind of
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  knew who you were, for better or worse. With Jesse Edwards, you
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  run the offense for him. You're throwing it down in then kicking back out,
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  and then you add the reinforcements and kerk Crease that comes in, and
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  then it's a whole different offense because as I've said, it's not just a
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  new guy putting in, it's a ball dominant guy that you just put in.
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  All right, So you do that for one game, maybe you're offer
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  well, and now you got to go to a whole another off and here
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  comes Ray kwon Battle. He's also on the back court now, but there's
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  no Jesse Edwards to run it through. So you're trying to figure out who
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  you are and it comes down to you. I know, we giggle and
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  laugh all the time about you got to make shots. I mean that's basketball,
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  right, you got to make shots. How about this number that jumped
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  out to me? I realized they were both losses. But how games can
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  look different from from game to game or week to week. West Virginia scored
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  thirty seven points from spot up jumpers against UMass. Shots were falling right from
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  three from inside three. Western You're scoring thirty seven points on spot up jumpers.
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  Had five points against Radford on spot up jumpers. Just couldn't get shots
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  to go down? Was it that as much as Radford does well guarding because
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  they were one of the best in the country and limiting teams in three points
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  shooting, they are, but you still got I mean you got to make
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  sure to make shots. Yeah, make shots with you. It's crazy.
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  Here's the other part. The pick and roll we had talked was going to
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  be a part of this offense with Cresa and battle back into a fair con
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  a little bit well, but increasing and battle We're going to use that significantly.
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  West rings scored fourteen pick and roll points against UMass. Would just crease
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  in there scored five against Radford because what'd you change? You have the pick
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  and roll ball handler, but you took out your main pick and roll man.
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  So that's just two small examples of how the offense has changed just between
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  the last couple of games on what you're trying to do. So it's going
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  to take some time to figure out how to run that offense and get it
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  going. I'll get some more numbers here in just a minute, but transitions
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  a part of that, right Josh talked all summer sat in here on this
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  show, talked about wanting to run and get up a little bit more then
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  could run because of the personnel that you had early on and just the sheer
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  number of people can't be up and down. You're starting to see that come
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  back into play a little bit. This team, I thought did a nice
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  job at times, especially against Radford, of getting out in transition, and
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  it doesn't have to be just warp speed run up and down the floor,
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  but get out and try and create some one on one opportunities, some easier
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  basket. So I think you're and continue to see that as they move on.
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  That's where their coaching is going to go on. Right now, this
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  staff is going to get together here and has probably since the game ended against
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  Radmord and say, okay, knowing what we know now and what this is,
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  what is our best attack to increase the level of efficiency? Is it
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  going up and down the floor. My lean is that it is. My
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  lean is that it is right. Rayquon Battle can create his own shot,
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  no affair con can create his own shot. Kerkkarisa can deliver the ball.
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  The rebounding thing is a whole separate entity. Which that's a challenge. That
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  is, that's going to be a challenge physically. Can it be done?
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  Yes, physically they have the ability to go get the ball. The mindset
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  is not there, plain and simple, the mindset is not there. They
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  continually get caught flat footed. They're not aggressively attacking. They're not getting fifty
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  to fifty balls. And that it therein lies the difference. And until that
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  changes, I mean Radford comes in here and Dlinkshew on the glass by ten,
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  right, eight or ten? So what's that going to be? What's
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  that going to be going forward? Well, you're also not going to be
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  going forward. That's going to be a double digit rebounding deficit night in and
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  night. Well, that's why the offense becomes even more paramount. I mean
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  We've seen teams. Listen, we've seen teams in West Virginia's history have those
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  same deficiencies. The John Beeline teams. They didn't rebound well, they didn't
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  play a lot of defense at times. What they do super efficient offensively and
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  made shots. You can't not make shots and not get on the glass.
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  You've got to find your way through that. We've seen Bob Huggins teams be
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  great on the glass and wonderful a defense couldn't throw in the ocean. So
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  there's different ways to win. You don't have to do everything every game,
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  but you better make up for those deficiencies. Yeah, with some elite offense
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  if you're West Virginia. Now, I think a couple of encouraging things there.
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  You've seen now in those two games with two different teams, in essence
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  Creasees first game back Battles came back. You saw some elite offensive performances from
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  two different guys. Increase the ability to create and pass and hit threes.
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  And then Battle. You know, here, here's the thing about him,
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  guys, he went for twenty nine and we just threw that out there like
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  battle at twenty nine quiet twenty and then we go on to the next thing.
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  It was a very quiet twenty and I normally a dude scores twenty ninth
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  Collegeum, you're walking out, you see that guy scored thirty him, You
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  see that, which kind of yeah, battle at twenty nine the other night,
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  and he was then we're going to go on to other stuff. And
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  he would be probably the first say I didn't play well, should add forty
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  wells He missed all those threes I mean yeah, and a free throw late
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  there he could add yeah, I mean he and he was cramping, so
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  you know that was an issue after the cramp those you know this thing,
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  we get those cramps, man, right there, just right under the surface.
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  You can feel him coming. Sure that limited him some. He went
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  for twenty nine. So you've got some offensive talent. And then I thought
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  this was really interesting too. And I'm jumping around. I'll give you some
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  Radford numbers here in just a second. The other thing that I liked about.
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  Okay, so you got those two. So you've seen two really great
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  individual offensive performances. That's encouraging moving forward. And at the end of the
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  game, when West Virginia needed a basket, had to have a basket coming
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  out of a timeout, and you've got crease on the floor and you've got
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  Battle on the floor. What Josh go to, which I thought was a
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  great call, cleared the side, gave it to no affair cons and clear
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  it out. Let him go mm hmm right by and right to the hoop
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  for a layup. So there's a third guy that's coming. In terms of
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  individual offense, if you can start to get them to mesh, continue to
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  make some shots. There's some offensive there's some offensive prowess potentially lying underneath the
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  surface here that hopefully comes forth. Yeah, and there's just now because of
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  what has happened, the addition of no affair con raykwon Battle, the subtraction
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  of Jesse Edwards, has led to even more redefinition of roles for the guys
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  that were already playing. So the Quinn Sleazynski's of the world, the Jojo
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  Harris's of the world, the Kobe Johnson's of the world, now they're almost
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  you can almost sense it that they're going like, Okay, what do you
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  want me to do here? And specifically Sleazynski, right, he did not
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  have a great game by any stretch, and didn't shoot the ball well and
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  so you know that right now, like, Okay, how am I getting
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  incorporated into this? You would think with the distribution capabilities of both Farakhn and
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  Caresa, that he could find a very nice role of just spotting up and
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  letting that thing fly. The days of him having to attack the basket are
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  probably gone. Yes, you also saw him the other night on a couple
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  possessions which I think you can continue to use. Back to that pick and
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  roll. He turned into the pick and roll man and can potentially his size
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  can be some matchup problems. I know that's harder when you get in the
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  big twelve because there's bigger, longer guys, but you can catch him in
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  some weird mismatches and get him inside to post a little bit. So yeah,
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  I think that's exactly the point. You just have to find what the
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  roles are for those guys, specifically him. He had been so ball dominant,
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  usage heavy that you've just got to find where his his fit is.
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  Yeah, exactly. One more last thing that speaks I think to the offensive
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  prowess of battle. But what you have coming down these late game situations final
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  four to thirty against Radford, final four minutes and thirty seconds against Radford,
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  there were twelve total offensive shot opportunities including free throws. Okay, Battle took
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  ten of them. So it shows you how how valuable he's going to be.
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  Fair Kahn had that one that we talked about, the ISO coming out
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  of the time out. The other one was the dump pass from Kurtis sudden.
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  Look that with thirty seconds to go, that probably seals the win if
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  you can handle that and finish. So how dominant Battle was down the stretch
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  was Battle, But at the end, I mean he played a lot for
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  a guy who hadn't played. I mean, was Battle trying to do too
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  much or was he the logical guy to have the ball at the end.
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  No, he's a guy. I mean at twenty nine, he's your guy.
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  Yeah, he's your guy. What impressed me about him is exactly what
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  we thought. He can get a shot whenever he wants it. Mm hm
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  that's what he said. Yeah, he can get a shot whenever he wants.
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  No, you want him to have it hot because he's a baller.
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  Now, we always talk about guys that want the ball, like give me
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  the ball, I got this? Do you die for those guys? He's
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  a guy they just have to figure out how to how to mesh hit hit.
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  Can you hit the stinger real quick? Is it up? Excuse me?
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  Can I give you an early number stinger? You just want? You
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  just want the short one? Yeah, just the sort. We're not totally
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  in. I got heavily production, heavily themed. Here, hang one second,
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  me see if I can go ahead looking through some numbers on this Ratford
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  game. Hoppy, Yes, Ray Kwan as we as we discussed before he
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  took the floor, he was he's really He took some threes the other night,
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  didn't get a bunch to go. He can obviously hit the three,
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  but man, if you were watching, he hit some unbelievably difficult shots.
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  He hit two on the baseline Fadeaway's one over two guys that were very nbaesque.
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  He's deadly from inside, meaning inside fifteen feet. The other night seven
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  of nine from the floor. Wow. Yeah, so keep an eye on
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  him inside fifteen feet, get to the rim, back up to fifteen feet.
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  He was fifty five percent from the floor from Montana state fifteen feet and
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  in, but was really elite there the other night. Did I use this
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  with you? I used it on the air during the game to show you
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  the world that we're living in in college basketball. The night of the West
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  Virginia Radford game that same night, one year to the one year to that
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  date, one year ago, her Caresa hit six three pointers playing for Arizona,
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  had eighteen points, and a guy on the other team had seventeen points.
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  The other guy was Raykwon Battle. It was Arizona Montana State and Carrisa
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  gets eighteen, Battle gets seventeen, and a year later they walk on the
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  floor together on the same day playing at West Virginia University. It's pretty crazy.
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  Now, you tell me how things are working in college basketball. Crazy.
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  So it's it's just amazing serendipitus. Yeah. By the way, super
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  shout out to Darris Nichols. He's doing a wonderful job coaching that team.
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  They're running good stuff. He doesn't doesn't have a ton of size. Pierce
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  is really is only true big guy and he's doing a really nice job.
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  That was a huge, huge win for him, huge win that gives them
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  ten as they get ready, I mean, you wouldn't think you would think
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  that they will contend in the Big South. By the way, sow coach
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  Richmond there too, Mark Richmond, Yeah, he was there. A lot
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  of a lot of celebrities in the Sands. Chris richardson coach at Wheeling,
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  was there as well. Mark and Mark's at noted Mark Richmonds at Notre Dame
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  College of course. Yeah, big listener of the show, Thanks Mark.
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  Yeah. I love talking to those coaches. I go, okay, how
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  you guys doing so far? They give you the record and they they they'll
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  always give you like why the record is with the record we lost two and
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  over time? Yeah were this But yeah, you know that those guys can
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  coach. Yeah, they can coach because it's hard. Yeah, if you
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  dig into Hopey, you want to watch some good coaching. That's I said
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  all the time, especially about that not in his conference that we talked about.
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  Those dudes they no ball. Yeah. James Herring and on the staff
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  with Darris is one of his assistants. He started here as a student manager.
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  Lone was Little Sweat, So there were guys like all Little he was
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  because he hung around with Big Sweat, who was Kevin Noreen. So,
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  but those guys are doing well real quick. A couple more Radford numbers before
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  we move on to Toledo let's recap what we talked about Radford. See what
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  parts of that came true. On the scouting report, you guys talked about
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  the rebounding of Radford. That is what they do their top one hundred offensive
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  rebounding. They did double up West Virginia on the offensive glass twelve to six.
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  Got eleven second chance points, which were seventeen percent of their points,
• 21:34
  So that was a big area. They had shot the three really well,
• 21:38
  coming in thirty second Nationally they were hitting about a forty percent clip. They
• 21:42
  did not shoot it well, just twenty four percent from three. So that
• 21:45
  was one of those things where you felt if you're West Virginia you limit a
• 21:48
  good three point shooting team to sixteen percent below their average, you feel like
• 21:53
  you've got a chance to win it, which you had a chance to win
• 21:56
  it, just couldn't close it. We said they were very good from the
• 21:59
  corner three remember watch out for the corner three. Three of four from the
• 22:03
  left corner was Radford. We said they struggled from the top of the key
• 22:07
  on shooting threes. That's okay, if they want to shoot from there,
• 22:10
  they've struggled. They did again one of eight from the top of the key
• 22:14
  said watch out for the pick and roll ball handler. They were pretty good
• 22:17
  twelve points off the pick and roll said they're spot up shooters. Good watch
• 22:21
  them. They did not have a great game from there, but it wasn't
• 22:23
  one of their worst fifth most points from spot ups was Radford had their second
• 22:29
  best game with post ups. And I thought, you know, this is
• 22:33
  where you start to look at coaching and coaching matchups. I thought Josh again
• 22:36
  did a great job on the ISO for Farakhn late in that game, to
• 22:40
  get a bucket when you need it. I thought Daris did a good job
• 22:42
  of exploiting the size matchup he had with guards with Cresa and with Farakhn,
• 22:48
  taking them both in the post, and they got some buckets out of that.
• 22:49
  That was a nice move by them. Yeah, you know, it's
• 22:56
  amazing that they're a good rebounding team because they got one guy with size.
• 22:57
  I got six to seven guys that just go up and get it. There's
• 23:02
  those two little guards both are under six feet Harris and by the way,
• 23:04
  Truth Harris loved that name, Truth Harris, great name. Uh and Giles
• 23:10
  both under six feet tall. They got watermelons. Man, those dudes are
• 23:14
  just like sharpshooters, as far as they got moxie, they're tough, they
• 23:18
  don't care, just like, come here, give it to me. Got
• 23:21
  it. Giles last year was the freshman of the year in that conference.
• 23:26
  Good players. Some people have wondered, asked, a matter of fact,
• 23:29
  one of the people on this set asked, why wasn't that a travel or
• 23:33
  double dribble on that shot that eventually was the game winner. I went back
• 23:36
  and looked at it because no one had said anything, because he never while
• 23:40
  he was drilling, He never stopped dribbling it. He never like pulled up
• 23:44
  and stopped his dribbles away from them. Yeah, he lost the ball it
• 23:48
  was, and he picked it up and didn't make another move other than to
• 23:49
  shoot it exactly. I got a lot of questions I signed sports something like
• 23:52
  that, and it surprised me quite frankly. I didn't. I didn't think
• 23:55
  there was much question he once he lost control of it, it was rolling
• 23:59
  right right because I just watched it the one time Ye picked it up and
• 24:02
  then just took the shot. He didn't step and dribble again. Yeah,
• 24:03
  he never stopped and then picked it up, So it was just like,
• 24:07
  oh, I lost the ball. I gotta go pick it up. Shut
• 24:10
  the ball. If he if he had started to dribble again, yeah,
• 24:14
  if he would have picked it up and then started to dribble again. But
• 24:17
  he didn't. He picked it up and shot it. Picked up shot.
• 24:18
  But it was I guess it just looked like, yeah, I mean conceived.
• 24:22
  Look, well it's not. It's not typically how you drop up your
• 24:25
  last second shot. You go down there, lose the ball, throw up
• 24:29
  a desperation shot and it goes in and we'll walk out here. Sometimes you
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  the u n C preview. Stay with basketball. Yeah, but what I
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  want? Yeah, I go, Well, you do that again? I
• 25:48
  talked over it. Well, yeah, is this the official spreads on that
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  segment. No, this is like a this is like an appetizer. Oh
• 26:00
  complict. I'm gonna do the mayo. When we do the mayo, I'm
• 26:03
  gonna go with the full thing. Okay. Toledo preview best win over number
• 26:07
  one sixteen Northern Iowa. And these are all Ken Palm rankings. They played
• 26:11
  Detroit Mercy, who's three thirty five in the Ken Palm rankings, but every
• 26:15
  other opponent is one eighty eight or better. So their record isn't. They're
• 26:21
  not undefeated coming in here, but they've that's a pretty good challenging schedule.
• 26:25
  Early on Vermont lined up beat them twenty six at home at Toledo in their
• 26:32
  last game out, so on Fortnite hopey. Yes, they got drilled at
• 26:34
  home in their last game, so that means might have a little bounce back
• 26:40
  spot for Toledo. I can't imagine get a team that's not ready to go,
• 26:44
  so you're gonna have show up and be ready to play for West Virginia,
• 26:45
  field goal defense for them is one of the worst in the country.
• 26:48
  Excuse me, one of the worst in the country. Their field goal percentage
• 26:52
  defense three point fifty out of three sixty two. Gosh, what's what are
• 26:56
  team shooting against? Score? If you're West Virginia, come score? What
• 27:00
  are team shooting like? Forty nine percent? I don't have it all right,
• 27:04
  that's fine, whatever, I'll come back. I'll look it up over
• 27:07
  under on rake ones twenty four. That's a high line, twenty two high
• 27:15
  line. They don't put opponents on the free throw line very often, So
• 27:19
  how about that thirty fourth nationally and defensive free throw rate. So teams are
• 27:23
  hitting shots, but not scoring points at the free throw line off them.
• 27:26
  They Toledo shoots free throws and three as well, twenty third in the country
• 27:32
  and free throw percentage forty ninth in three point percentage very good from the top
• 27:37
  of the key hoppy, okay, top of the key forty two percent from
• 27:40
  three at the top of the key. Guard they're good on both wings thirty
• 27:44
  eight to thirty nine percent, So watch them up on the top the wings
• 27:47
  and the top of the key. They like to get to the rim as
• 27:49
  well. Thirty five percent of their shots will come at the rim. Dante
• 27:53
  Maddox and Raheem Moss will both try and get to the hoop. Especially Moss.
• 27:57
  He's one of the nation's leaders in rim attempts. So put that in
• 28:02
  your notes. Tony Raheem Ross one of the nation's leaders in rim attempts.
• 28:06
  He'll put it on the deck, try and get to the basket. How
• 28:07
  many blocks for a cook? Tyler Cochrane gets to the rim as well,
• 28:11
  need three, at least need three from a cook. That's what my last
• 28:15
  note was. Would have been great to have Jesse Edwards back there in this
• 28:18
  game. For a team that takes guards into the lane, and tries to
• 28:21
  get to the rim. So yeah, Cook's gonna have to be back there
• 28:23
  to kind of clean it up. So one of those. Don't put them
• 28:26
  on the line, give them, give them free points. Go score.
• 28:29
  You should be able to make some shots in this game. Generally, you
• 28:33
  make shots. What happens hot? Oh, if you make shots, Yeah,
• 28:36
  what happens? You win? Make shots? You win. You would
• 28:40
  think that West Virginia should be in a foul mood after what happened against Radford.
• 28:45
  You should come out and just go like, okay, don't care.
• 28:48
  If this is our getaway day for Christmas break, we're gonna come out here.
• 28:51
  We're gonna ball, and you got it. And Redford was actually one
• 28:52
  of those two that got away. You gotta get You gotta get some wins
• 28:56
  here. Okay, it's gonna get tough. So this is an opportunity to
• 28:59
  get a win. And one got away from the other night. You got
• 29:00
  to get this one. Twenty games left, twenty games left after this?
• 29:07
  No, wait, am I right or wrong? Got eighteen? No?
• 29:10
  You know, well you have eight nineteen technically and then and then you go
• 29:12
  to the tournament, so a minimum you got time here, two more non
• 29:17
  conference to Toledo in a difficult Ohio State and then boom, then you're off
• 29:21
  and running. Here comes Houston, number one in Ken Palm's ratings. You
• 29:23
  call the Ohio State game, Yeah, I'll be there. You're gonna go,
• 29:26
  yeah, Cleveland, Yeah, I think Gansey will be around. I
• 29:30
  would think mad Gansey. Ask someone last night that knows I have not texted
• 29:33
  Mike, but I will. I asked, I says Gansey there, if
• 29:36
  you talk to him. Person said, yes, he'll be in attendant.
• 29:37
  Yeah, because the Calves play at home Friday night, he will really will
• 29:41
  be there Saturday. You're going to the Ohio State game. Yeah, I
• 29:44
  mean he's a big fan, he goes. I mean they're Hey. If
• 29:47
  it wasn't it wasn't for all these games out past the Mississippi, he'd be
• 29:51
  going to these games. Big fan, big fan. Yeah. So I
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  Dave does home with Dave. Well, yeah, Dave does a nice
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  job. Uh sometimes he makes payments to people and uh they actually they actually
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  remember that they cast the check. Anyways, that was bad on my part.
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  That was mistake. I don't even want to get into that. I
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  just box here, you should call con they'll come in. Mister kirtchwill you
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  already brought that check to the service where you will cast checks for me?
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  Do you can you catch this twice? The stuff looked like a check.
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  Yeah, mmmm, look just like a check. Kerchiev will come in.
• 31:53
  Kertieill comes to me. He goes, hey, man, your boy,
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  your boy screwed up. I said, what do you got? So it's
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  up? He goes, he gave me that he gave he gave me this,
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  but it's not a check. I brought this to the bank and they
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  said that's not a check. I looked at it and I went, well,
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  dude, it's got a perforated edge. Here, you rip the check
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  off. The check's gone. The check's gone. He goes, you were
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  busy. He had a lot going on, he said, I said,
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  did you throw that part of it in the garbage? He goes, I,
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  I, I don't know. So my boy Dave, who's just salted
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  the earth, wonderful guy like he doesn't want to make Hopy feel bad.
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  So he goes, well, Hoppy, I'll check that out for you.
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  So he goes to the bank. He says, hey, can we get
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  this check reissue? Apparently this guy thrown away. So the fine folks at
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  the bank, they look at it and they called They called Dave back up,
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  and Dave, I'm really sorry. We look called that in and that
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  check has already been cash. A lot of things on your mind, Dorfus
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  minorphous, stressed about there's anxiety with the travel coming. It's oh jeez,
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  sorry, I totally understand. All right, what are we doing? U
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  n C tell us about mountaineers, mountaineers and tar heels. Can I just
• 33:02
  say, I don't know? Does that work for this second? Everyone says
• 33:06
  that I don't know, Hoppy, I don't know. Well you don't,
• 33:07
  but you but there are things you do know. I mean, you don't
• 33:09
  know. What do you know? Drake May's out, Tes Walker's out,
• 33:14
  Corey gainor their center is outright played nine hundred and twelve snaps Cedric gay Gray,
• 33:19
  one of their best linebackers. He's out. We know they're out.
• 33:22
  We know guys are out. You know, Zach Fraser's out for West Virginia.
• 33:25
  Right, So that's that's a big question here. Let's start with that
• 33:29
  for a second, because I don't feel we've given that the appropriate What does
• 33:34
  that mean? And you can't answer that right now. But that's a massive
• 33:37
  that's massive. I mean we're over Here's Drake May's out for them. That's
• 33:40
  massive. Tes Walker's out for them. Huge. Their center's out, that's
• 33:45
  huge. We're I feel like we're undervaluing the Fraser is out. I assume
• 33:51
  we're gonna plug Brandon Yates in as the backer center. Who's who did a
• 33:53
  great job in that last drive at Baylor. You're getting a really experienced player
• 33:58
  in its center. That's what you feel at about. And I know we're
• 34:00
  all that it's just been Brandon Yates over there. That's a hard ask,
• 34:04
  that's an experience Brandon Yates as a player, but not as a center,
• 34:07
  because Zach Fraser is the greatest center in the history of West Virginia football.
• 34:13
  And we've had great centers, yes, Dan Moses, Mike Compton, but
• 34:16
  I mean, but Zach Frasier, based on his length of work, he's
• 34:22
  right there. He's like, right, yes, y, you could make
• 34:27
  a very strong case he's the greatest center in school history. Well, and
• 34:30
  just also just having him, not just the individual performance, but just having
• 34:34
  him there and having him on the field, I mean, iding the defense,
• 34:37
  getting you and right stuff. I mean, that's that's a big one.
• 34:40
  Let me just say this to Dan and Mike. Listen, dude,
• 34:45
  let's just arguably, can I just get because those guys were great. I
• 34:49
  mean, Moses, Mike Compton went Super Bowl. I mean, like twenty
• 34:53
  seven years in the league, among the greatest. Zach is right there,
• 34:57
  and you can I mean, you could have a coach, they'll have to
• 34:59
  bring break it down. But among the greatest, he's there with Moses and
• 35:02
  Compton. So for me, it's a couple parts. It's one. I
• 35:05
  think, let's just acknowledge what that may look like. So I'm anxious to
• 35:10
  watch that. I think this is the part for me. This game is
• 35:14
  a two parter. It's a potential cap of this season, and hopefully,
• 35:19
  if you're West Virginia, you get that win, you cap what was a
• 35:21
  really good year, and you start to move on with some excitement for next
• 35:23
  year. But there also is an element to this of, hey, what's
• 35:28
  it going to look like next year? With an offense that returns most of
• 35:30
  its pieces, but it does lose some critical offensive line pieces. But there's
• 35:36
  some younger guys coming up that they feel are really talented. Guys, and
• 35:39
  I think you're going to see some of those in this game. So I'm
• 35:42
  anxious to watch that specific part of that. What's this look like with some
• 35:45
  new offensive line guys? Are there this you know, North Carolina, it'd
• 35:49
  be interesting. It's going to be fascinating to see. And you're right about
• 35:52
  I mean, we focus on West Virginia. Where's West Virginia without Frasier,
• 35:57
  without CJ. Donaldson. But this North Carolina team is a heck of a
• 36:00
  story because they started out they won their first six and were ranked in the
• 36:05
  top ten in the country. Then they only won what two of their last
• 36:09
  six and one of those was over Campbell and the other was a two point
• 36:13
  win in double overtime over over Duke. So and there's tossma. Should gene
• 36:16
  Chiswick be fired the defensive coordinator Tony this team North Carolina take out Campbell.
• 36:22
  They gave up an average of thirty eight points in the last five FBS games,
• 36:30
  so you would think you would think, and again with their linebacker out,
• 36:34
  they're leading tackler out, you would think this is a game that West
• 36:37
  Virginia with Garrey Green, that they can score some points here. So I
• 36:40
  think West Virginia has a distinct devian I know what you're saying, Brave,
• 36:43
  but I think West Virginia has a distinct advantage here. If you're ever going,
• 36:46
  if you're ever gonna get a team like this, you get them now,
• 36:50
  because I think they're going to be struggling. And the freshman quarterback,
• 36:54
  who yeah, I know he can run a abibities a freshman quarterback. He's
• 36:57
  passed the ball six times, completed four. He hasn't played. He hasn't
• 37:00
  played, so bred, what do you do if you have a young quarterback
• 37:01
  hasn't played. What do you think they're gonna want to run it with?
• 37:04
  Omarion Hampton? He's really good. Second best running grade in the ACC.
• 37:08
  Had fourteen hundred plus yards rushing. How about this for a number on Hampton?
• 37:13
  He had one thousand and twenty three yards after contact. Amazing. He
• 37:16
  had a thousand yard season after somebody hit him. Olli Gordon, that's pretty
• 37:22
  good man? Is Olli Gordon the next best in the ACC? So he
• 37:24
  had one thy twenty three yards after contact? The next best in the ACC
• 37:29
  was six eighty three, not quite double. What was next? So he's
• 37:32
  going to be a dude. In Mistake six twenty. I talked to Neil
• 37:37
  and that's what he said. I said, what do we got and he
• 37:38
  said, my biggest concern we got to stop the running back. He said,
• 37:43
  we've got to slow him down. He said he is a dude.
• 37:45
  Well, then load up, try to stop him or slow him down.
• 37:47
  I think in the North Carolina State game he had none carries for twenty eight
• 37:51
  yards. A lineup call Tony Gibson, Tony, what'd you do? There?
• 37:55
  Potentially may have been a little conversation between Jeff cass Steele and and Tony
• 38:00
  Gibbs. So this in scheme. This to me, isn't scheme. I'm
• 38:02
  pretty comfortable Western and draw up a scheme to stop running back is in scheme.
• 38:06
  Someone better stick their nose in there and want to tackle a guy.
• 38:07
  You Got's what this comes down to. You've got to want to tackle.
• 38:10
  If West Virne defense shows up missing a couple of guys injuries. Still,
• 38:15
  if it shows up there and doesn't want to stick its face in the fan
• 38:17
  on this guy and Hampton wants to run, you're gonna have a problem.
• 38:22
  You got two North Carolina linebackers. North Carolina right Lee Coba and Ben Cutter
• 38:25
  coming back home home turf ball out over under total tackles Lee Kba, Ben
• 38:31
  Cutter give them to me, twenty three, twenty four, twenty two.
• 38:39
  I'm going nineteen and a half. That'd be it. Those would be big
• 38:43
  numbers they got. If they got nearly ten apiece, those would be big
• 38:45
  numbers. Need to have it. Wes Virnine's three and four on the season
• 38:49
  when allowing more than one hundred and thirty five yard rushing, which is not
• 38:52
  a big number. So you're gonna have to get in front of the guy
• 38:54
  and somebody's gonna want to tackle him. What do we always say? The
• 38:58
  tackling is the offense is the defensive rebounding of football. Right, There's a
• 39:01
  lot of want to in tackling. And we see bowl games, Hoppy,
• 39:06
  we watched all of them. There are some guys that make decisions not tackling
• 39:08
  bowl games. West Virginia's got to make a decisions say screw this, we're
• 39:12
  playing and we're gonna tackle. Not only that, when your business decisions,
• 39:15
  what what suffers after a layoff? Tony? What suffers tackling? Hoppy?
• 39:22
  That's what they've been working on. I mean, they've they have a plan
• 39:25
  as to how they can tackle. Well that was that's what they're trying to
• 39:30
  do. I mean, they get it, they understand it. But you're
• 39:31
  right. These Bowl games are decided by I mean it's cliche, but who
• 39:36
  wants to play more? You got to hope and I think that West Virginia
• 39:39
  wants to play more in this game, and it would make sense, especially
• 39:45
  in again, the defense for West Virginia. You don't know what you're getting.
• 39:47
  We saw them be very good in the beginning of the season. We
• 39:50
  saw them struggle late when those injuries started to catch up. So that's the
• 39:53
  part of the West Virginia team. I'm not sure what you're getting. The
• 39:57
  offensive side, I think you feel pretty good. You've got a lot of
• 40:00
  pieces there, and you know what they have to do. You know what
• 40:01
  Carolina has to do, Hoppy, they gotta try to slow down westgain.
• 40:05
  You got to try and stop Jahim White and Garrett Green round on the ball.
• 40:07
  Too. So look, you may you know amar and Hampton. Let's
• 40:12
  say he gets one thirty, Okay, just don't give him one thirty five.
• 40:15
  Let's say he gets one thirty and you really have trouble stopping it.
• 40:17
  Maybe he gets more than one thirty you have trouble stopping him. Okay,
• 40:21
  score thirty eight. I know, I know that's cavalier, but I mean
• 40:23
  they're giving up thirty eight. You have a potent offense. Score thirty eight
• 40:27
  points. It is cavalier because you can't just assume you can pick up and
• 40:30
  move your offense that hasn't played in four weeks and drop it down there without
• 40:34
  one of the greatest centers of all time and just have it put up thirty
• 40:36
  eight. But I think that's what you're gonna to do. Score. That's
• 40:37
  their deficiency. Their defense is struggled. They're coming off that game where they
• 40:42
  gave up five hundred yards to North Carolina State, who went up and down
• 40:45
  on them. That's what you've got to do. You've got to make them
• 40:47
  early decide that they don't want to be there and play. So Carolina program's
• 40:51
  lost ten of thirteen Bowl games. Like, get on them early and let
• 40:54
  them say, okay, you know what, we're not interested now. But
• 40:57
  what you know you've mentioned all those guys Drake Man, Cedric Gray, Corey
• 41:01
  Gainer, tes Walker, all their tight ends are out, two defensive backs
• 41:06
  are out. So what about what about the hard The parton you can't quantify
• 41:12
  is what do those guys also what did they mean to the team in terms
• 41:15
  of leadership and rallying guys and making decisions. I mean that's a factor too.
• 41:20
  So they have a deficit there, not just in talent, but in
• 41:22
  what those guys brought to that team. Yeah, these games, again,
• 41:28
  this is a mentality game. You have to go out there. As Brad
• 41:31
  just said, and I think he said it, well, you have to
• 41:35
  initiate early in the game to let them know that this is going to be
• 41:40
  just a very physical encounter and we're not going away, and you have to
• 41:45
  mentally beat them down, not necessarily physically, but mentally making Did you see
• 41:50
  again last night that South Florida game. Those dudes were just bouncing all over
• 41:55
  the field. They're running into the end zone, they're doing flip flops,
• 41:59
  they're going crazy, all of the energy that belonged to them. And it
• 42:01
  was clear right from the beginning of that game, we're here to play,
• 42:04
  man, We're gonna just keep punching you in the face. That's the kind
• 42:07
  of mentality you have to have to win games. I've got You've got to
• 42:09
  go take it. You can't just lollygag in there and say, oh,
• 42:13
  we're here, because here's the flip side. And again, we do a
• 42:15
  lot of these games and we watch them, and I'll give you two examples.
• 42:19
  Western Kentucky goes in without its quarterback, without three of its starting offensive
• 42:23
  linemen. Every starting offensive lineman for Western Kentucky was playing in a new spot
• 42:28
  in that game. Their second string quarterbacks, a true freshman. He goes
• 42:30
  in and it was not good early for him. So right, so Old
• 42:34
  Dominion up twenty eight nothing haha, giggling, laughing, Hi, I elbowing
• 42:37
  each other on the sidelines. Look at this. We're gonna celebrate, celebrate,
• 42:39
  celebrate. Western Kentucky said, Oh, is that right? Was that
• 42:42
  right? We're gonna put third string quarterback in. You know what we're gonna
• 42:44
  do. We're gonna come back on you beat your ass. And then Old
• 42:46
  Dominion we God, what happened? What happened? Ohio? You one of
• 42:50
  the first games of bowl season, Curtis Rourke says, no, you know
• 42:52
  what, I'm out not playing for Ohio. I'm going to Indiana. Already
• 42:54
  signed with Indiana, already gone, going, joining Kurt signetti, Ohio,
• 42:58
  you's got no chance an all time quarterback at Hio you they got no chance.
• 43:01
  I don't know why, Ohio you even traveled to the bowl game.
• 43:04
  They were missing everybody, and suddenly Ricky Hunt, Ricky Hunt seven touches all
• 43:08
  year, Ricky Hunt said, oh, you know what I get to play
• 43:10
  today? Oh I want to play. I'm here to play. Give me
• 43:14
  the ball scored five touchdowns. Ohio, you wins? So who knows again,
• 43:19
  would I rather have Drake May out than in Absolutely? I would Who
• 43:22
  knows what this backup says. He might say, great, I'm glad Drake
• 43:24
  May's gone too. I get to play. So you've got to show up
• 43:29
  for this game. This isn't a you just show up as a Mountaineer fan
• 43:31
  and assume you've got to win because they're missing pieces. Hopefully in the recap
• 43:36
  we say, yeah, you know what, North Carolina was missing pieces.
• 43:37
  They weren't very good. Hopefully that happens. I'm not ready to concede that,
• 43:43
  right. The macro is, though you like the game, you like
• 43:46
  the game because a it's in Charlotte, okay, and West Virginia fans will
• 43:52
  go to Charlotte be North Carolina and Mac Brown. I mean that's those are
• 43:55
  names. Okay, those are names, those are those are programs that you
• 43:59
  know. Oh, and you got a chance to win your ninth game.
• 44:01
  I just think there's a lot of It's a great opportunity. Yeah, it's
• 44:06
  a great opportunity. There's no question there is. All right, let me
• 44:07
  give you a couple numbers here and then we'll move on to the text.
• 44:10
  Let's look at our season long key, I'm gonna go down more Kerchibal one
• 44:15
  more time. When our season long right, percentage of passing downs for West
• 44:19
  Virginia's opponents. If West Virginia can keep them in passing downs thirty percent of
• 44:24
  the time or more, mark it down, it's a win seven to oh
• 44:28
  this season. When doing that. What comes with that is what we just
• 44:30
  discussed. You've got to slow the rundown. If Hampton's going bananas and they're
• 44:36
  in second and short and third and manageable, you're gonna be in some trouble.
• 44:39
  Keep them and force them to pass, especially with the backup court.
• 44:44
  What's the average like sixty yards of carry something like that. Yes, but
• 44:46
  here I'll give you some numbers. These don't mean anything. This is the
• 44:52
  least important these numbers have ever been because they're all Drake May numbers. But
• 44:55
  passing downs are defined as second and eight or more or third and fourth down
• 45:00
  and five or more to go. Okay, second and eight or more,
• 45:05
  third and five, fourth and five or more. Carolina was thirty seventh nationally
• 45:08
  in passing attempts on second and eight, but they just had a fifty five
• 45:14
  percent completion percentage, which is below Drake May season. So they threw it
• 45:16
  a lot. They were in second and eight a lot and had to throw
• 45:20
  it. That's good. Carolina was eighty eighth nationally in passing attempts on third
• 45:24
  and five or more, so they were a little better in those situations.
• 45:28
  They were twenty seventh nationally in passing attempts on fourth down and five or more,
• 45:32
  just a twenty nine percent completion rate. So again I'll give you those
• 45:37
  don't mean a Hillobeans because it's a whole different Carolina team. Carolina's offensive line
• 45:42
  allowed the fourth fewest pressures in the ACC The spot where they did allow them
• 45:49
  was on the left guard side of things, so that their left guard allowed
• 45:52
  their most pressures. That matches up with West Virginia's right side. Keep an
• 45:55
  eye on Sean Martin here. He was seventh in the Big twelve pressures from
• 46:00
  the right side. This is normally where I'd say Trey Lathan right earlier in
• 46:04
  the season, So someone else is going to have to pick up and find
• 46:07
  a way to get some pressure. Lee Coba was next. You mentioned Coba
• 46:10
  earlier. He was next in right side pressures. Here's another one to keep
• 46:15
  an eye on because we didn't talk about him enough, but we do will
• 46:17
  in the season finale wrap up. You talk about impact transfers that came in,
• 46:22
  and Beanie Bishop will get all the headlines there and should for what he
• 46:25
  did. But Tomola Duraje AA, he had a really nice year. Guys.
• 46:30
  He's somebody moving forward that if you start to make your early list,
• 46:34
  if you want an early list next year when I ask you for breakout players,
• 46:37
  he wouldn't be a bad one to put on there. He's really good.
• 46:39
  He had two sacks from the right side, so he's a guy keep
• 46:43
  an eye on over on that right side getting some pressure as well. Two
• 46:45
  sacks. I know it doesn't sound like a big number. He had limited
• 46:47
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• 46:52
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  holiday season to go out and did the did This is going to be dangerous,
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  So Austin, Austin's our producer. Austin, if you have that picture
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  So I don't see it. So that's fine. I'm gonna lever the
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  He has the sure you sure? Yeah, me when I went out
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  and delivered popcorn, yeah to Adam, right, yeah, you were at
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  the delivery. Yeah. Okay, Well, maybe Austin could put that picture
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  you send it to him? No? I mean I'll do it now,
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  What do you mean obviously we're in a production eating a half hour from
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  just leave it. Well, we're running a new offense too. We're going
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  Try to cap out Austin, Austin's producer for the first time. We put
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  Like when Tavon Austin went to the backfield. How well, well,
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  no, this isn't working as well as that did. Now I'm talking about
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  we're Oklahoma. Okay, hey In Austin. Austin's looking like Mark stoops.
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  The hell am I supposed to do? Now? What are these guys doing?
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  They're throwing me a curver while we're while we're waiting here, can I
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  give some other shot? Guys? I saw a picture there was out and
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  about was over for my shift Hoppy at Daniels earlier this week, and I
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  was folding a quarter zip, nice quarter zip there right on the corner corner
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  of end cap and putting that together. A nice young woman, Crystal from
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  here in Morgantown stops and she says the direct quote, oh my god,
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  you do work here. I told you you saw me folding that. She
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  goes, I did, now Crystal. Now, Crystal wasn't just happy to
• 51:40
  say hello. Crystal challenged me a little bit, and so, I mean,
• 51:45
  if you work here, can you dress a mannequin? You say all
• 51:46
  the time you can dress a mannequin. I'm gonna tell you something, Crystal,
• 51:50
  come on with me. Walked right to the front of store, pulled
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  a vest off the rack, put a nice gold West Virginia Best Peter Malar
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  vest Tony that nice old gold. Put that right on the mannequin, zipped
• 51:59
  it up. Said there you go. See, thanks to Crystal, you're
• 52:01
  one of those guys. If you, if you, if you get challenges
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  to watch that, because you're gonna go, you're gonna go. Well done
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  on your foot. We did a Mannicuin. Matt, also in attorney down
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  in Fairmont, was over at Daniels. So we said, hello, you
• 52:14
  saw him there too, Yeah, I saw him there as well. He's
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  taking up some pain. Daniel's more. Phil, Are you Phil's there?
• 52:21
  No, I'll tell you something. Phil is there? Phil. I've never
• 52:22
  been there that Phil wasn't there. Phil's always there. I mean it feels
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  like rock O' muriel. Remember when you used to ask Roca, You said,
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  what's this key to successful restaurant. You up, be there, got
• 52:32
  to be there, be there. That's well, that's probably. That's like
• 52:36
  any business, gotta be there. I guess you're right. Thanks to Crystal
• 52:38
  and Mad for saying hello while I was having my shift. Very nice.
• 52:43
  Okay, here, here's a deal, Hoppy, We're gonna have another production
• 52:45
  meeting on set here. Okay, I know you need to leave at some
• 52:52
  point, so you can. You can leave whenever you want, whenever you
• 52:53
  feel uncomfortable. I can just get up and walk out. Yeah, you
• 52:58
  got it. I know I know what's coming. What. I know that
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  you're going to start getting nervous because you got to go do your show and
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  you got to go do your preparation, and so I know that you're going
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  to get tense. So Brad, I just figured this out. Just Brad
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  and I will just go continue to do it. Whenever you want to leave,
• 53:15
  you can leave. But we'd love to have you this for as long
• 53:16
  as you can stay. Hey, can you come on my show at ten?
• 53:19
  No, I'm busy, not available. Thanks for asking, though,
• 53:23
  All right, go ahead and go. When Austin has a bigger delivery picture,
• 53:28
  he got some bigger things doing the trading post, dropping on the station
• 53:31
  in Grafton. Can't make it. Hey, three guys, I was wondering,
• 53:37
  has there ever been a new West Virginia coach that's taken walk ons and
• 53:40
  has gotten so much production as Neil has. Seems like since he's been here
• 53:45
  he develops walk ons and the D one players more than others. His preferred
• 53:50
  walk on program, specifically with West Virginia kids has been elite. I mean,
• 53:53
  that has been a that's been It takes time to do, but I
• 53:57
  think they have done. Neil and the staff have done a wonderful job of
• 54:00
  getting those kids, especially a lot of those West Virginia guys, bringing them
• 54:04
  in as walk ons, elevating up in the scholarship and therefore elevating into guys
• 54:09
  that produce. And this year was the prime example. That's as much West
• 54:14
  Virginia homegrown talent producing at a high level maybe at any point in the modern
• 54:17
  area here for football. They've done great job with that program, agreed,
• 54:21
  And you have to have that if you're gonna have any chance. Texter,
• 54:25
  What do Jerry West, Rod Thorne and myself have in common? Jerry and
• 54:30
  Rod wore number forty four and that's my birthday. He just turns forty four.
• 54:37
  Got an early birthday this week, ray Kwon Noah cleared to play hoops.
• 54:42
  I do have one birthday wish for today, Scopes. If you can
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  This is Don Crikey along with Bob Trumpy. Our sideline reporter is p
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  One Jenning's let's go down on the sideline. He's standing by with Nebraska head
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  coach Tom Osborne and he's also joined by their starting center Dean Steinkouhler. There
• 55:12
  you go, Texter. This leon are utilized now. But this team is
• 55:17
  just like John Beeline's early teams. Soft, no rebounding, no defense,
• 55:21
  live and die by the three. Yeah some of that. Let's see what
• 55:29
  Let's see what it looks like in a month. Their perimeter defense can take
• 55:31
  a step up here. I think we'll have to see how where it goes.
• 55:35
  Battle can guard chriase. I thought did a nice sobbing. It's Radford.
• 55:37
  He dug in play a little defense the other night. Your interior defense
• 55:40
  is gonna be the challenge out with their Jesse Edwards Texter, Hey, three
• 55:44
  guys can we red shirt the entire basketball team, including the coach and staff
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  asking for a plant Texter gentlemen and mister Hankey Cole not Josh hereon klodin again.
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  I wanted to take a second to give a shout out to episode eight
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  December five to be delivered to each of them so that I was sure I
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  could meet the three guys December tenth deadline. Noah's efforting T shirt arrived today
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  picture delivering this. There's Adam. Now, that's Adam there and he ordered
• 56:57
  the Mountaineer Munch, multiple bag of it. Yeah, and getting rave reviews
• 57:01
  on that. Shut up knocked on the door. You know where Adam works.
• 57:06
  I don't think he'd mind me saying we're post office. Of course,
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  we're a huge sorting facility. We're a huge and he's not in one of
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  the branches, the elite branches, but he's in the sorting facility. So
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  he's got to do an elite job before he can even get to the elite
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  customer service. Guys. Yeah, Adam is up there. Had a great
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  time up there near the Go Mart in fact, right next to the Go
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  Mart. Yeah, that's what I thought. Ted from Colorado, I'm impressed
• 57:28
  with josh Isilider. I think he deserves another year. He has not used
• 57:31
  all the personnel problems as an excuse. I'd give him on the other year
• 57:35
  to see if he can recruit texter. Okay, put Josh iloid. He
• 57:39
  could What Ilord could do is just after this season, if he doesn't stay
• 57:44
  a West Virginia's just he could hire himself out, as do you have chaos?
• 57:50
  Christis management my man, Josh. He's moved from a guy that had
• 57:53
  had never been in this position. Obviously too, he can go right to
• 57:58
  consultant status. Yeah, crisis may like he just walks in and says,
• 58:00
  what's your problem? What is it? Throw it at me because I've already
• 58:04
  done that. I've already told I've seen it. You get a call you
• 58:07
  want to fight, d'An say, done that. Our jim burned down team
• 58:09
  left universe has I can figure Andre got it. I'll take you through I'll
• 58:14
  get you through it. I'll get you through it. Okay, Hey,
• 58:16
  coach, got a cholera epidemic. Six of my guys are out, two
• 58:20
  of them caught on a train in Siberia. What do you do, Yeah,
• 58:22
  no problem. Here's what you do when I face that. My first
• 58:25
  year's head coach was on board for three months, faced everything you could possibly
• 58:29
  face everything. Okay, So this is what I told you guys about earlier
• 58:32
  Mountaineer football tape that you've probably never seen. Hoppy, you may have been
• 58:37
  there for this, but this is Steve and Eleanor sent this to us,
• 58:42
  guys. I came across this video by the way, Austin, see if
• 58:45
  you can run audio on this, because I want to pot this up so
• 58:47
  we can hear the audio too. Came across the video on my TikTok feed,
• 58:51
  which made a reference to West Virginia's nineteen seventy one game against Pitt.
• 58:57
  Pretty hilarious. So let's see if we can run this thing with audio.
• 59:00
  Crap, no audio anyway. This guy's on Cameron. He says, you
• 59:05
  guys are not going to believe how West Virginia University took the field in advance
• 59:08
  of its nineteen seventy one game against the Pitt Panthers. He says, I've
• 59:13
  seen nothing like this. Watch this. West Virginia comes onto the field,
• 59:15
  old Mountaineer field. Watch what they do. Oh jeez, they absolutely that's
• 59:21
  not Pitt. That they're hitting each other a massive They just started beating a
• 59:27
  living snot out of feature at the tone. A tone. They just going
• 59:30
  to be physical today. How guys are getting flipped over? We'll get forty
• 59:34
  watch forty forty's in there fighting every single guy on this team. One guy
• 59:37
  literally gets flipped upside down, goes head over here. Fans enjoy it.
• 59:40
  Yeah, and by the way, West Virginia. By the way, West
• 59:44
  Virginia won the game. I would guess, yeah, No, I did
• 59:47
  not. I've never seen that. I was not. Is that? Is
• 59:50
  that amazing? That wow? Texter, Forrest and Morgantown. Regardless of where
• 59:54
  Josh Isilod ends up, what questions could potential interview is ask that he could
• 1:00:00
  trip them up or not be prepared for it. Coach you ever had a
• 1:00:02
  weird coaching transition, lose a significant amount of players to the portal, midsummer
• 1:00:07
  federal lawsuit, mid season injury. Josh could probably handle those while in the
• 1:00:10
  middle of a team meeting while also doing the daily wordle Hope, Jesse Hills
• 1:00:15
  quickly, Mountaineer Nations sending good thoughts. Keep up the good work, guys,
• 1:00:20
  Texter, Hey, three guys. Is the Duke's Mayo Bowl approaches,
• 1:00:22
  our sons are taking their eighty nine year old grandmother to Charlotte Well. Her
• 1:00:27
  late husband and the boys. Grandfather played on the West Virginia team in the
• 1:00:30
  fifty four Sugar Bowl against Georgia Tech. I'm sending a couple of pictures of
• 1:00:34
  his watch from the game and the roster. His name was Ray Surbaugh.
• 1:00:38
  So there you are. That's the Sugar Bowl watch that was given to the
• 1:00:42
  Mountaineers, signed by Ann and Webster County. Isn't that some great stuff right
• 1:00:45
  there? And then the roster picture as well, And so thank you very
• 1:00:50
  much, Ann. And I hope that grandma has a wonderful, wonderful day.
• 1:00:55
  That's awesome. I hope I'm eighty nine going to a bowl game.
• 1:01:00
  I'll be looking on calling the bowl game. Hello, three guys. I
• 1:01:05
  want to clear something up from a text I sent in early November. In
• 1:01:07
  my previous text, I referenced some Big Creek High School McDowell County connections to
• 1:01:13
  West Virginia, including father George Neediff, and that caused some confusion. As
• 1:01:17
  Hoppy mentioned he thought Neediff was from Wood County. That is accurate. Father
• 1:01:21
  Neediff was teaching and coaching at Big Creek before returning to West Virginia. So
• 1:01:25
  that was the rationale for mentioning that particular connection. I wanted to look clear
• 1:01:30
  that up. Lastly, looking for the game in Charlotte. Let's go out
• 1:01:32
  here as Joe and Valentines Virginia Texters. This person wrote Texter as his son
• 1:01:39
  of Texter Josh from Audre State Park on the way to visit family in Beauford,
• 1:01:45
  South Carolina. There has been mentioned of Christmas travel. I assume many
• 1:01:49
  people are passing through Charlotte around this time. Great city, But I have
• 1:01:52
  one qualm. Did the NCAA design the express lane system? Coming in Lake
• 1:01:58
  Norman? They had a great opportunity to eliminate traffic and they fumbled it.
• 1:02:04
  I'll be down there. That's where I get off. I get off,
• 1:02:06
  get off La Norman. Yeah, Texter. Do you have any updates on
• 1:02:09
  Josiah Trotter? How is he progressing through injury? I was hopeful for a
• 1:02:14
  Bowl game appearance from him. Also excited about West Virginia's linebacker room. All
• 1:02:19
  systems seem to be go with Josiah. Delighted that he's coming back this coming
• 1:02:23
  season. Real quick on that he's right, that running or that linebacker room
• 1:02:30
  has some potential. Ben Cutter, now that's played a lot, Trey Lathan
• 1:02:32
  when he returns, Trotter and then Ben Karrico a linebacker that was picked up
• 1:02:37
  this week in the transfer portal, which I think is about his perfect I
• 1:02:40
  don't know how Ben's going to turn out to be player wise, that's about
• 1:02:44
  as perfect on paper as you can get for the new age West Virginia.
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  He get a guy that's close ironton Ohio, right four star, top four
• 1:02:52
  player coming out of Ohio when he came out, that's right in the wheelhouse
• 1:02:54
  of what you'd love to get. Chooses to go to Ohio State, doesn't
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  play as much as he wants available in the portals and bounce back. Neil
• 1:03:00
  goes and grabs I'd tell you the portal. So folks good for West Virginia,
• 1:03:05
  Well, they attacked it. They were organized, they were ready to
• 1:03:07
  do it right. We had Drew Fabianich in here, remember when he came
• 1:03:10
  in. I mean, may have done preparations to know who they would want.
• 1:03:16
  And as soon as it happened, as soon as these kids put their
• 1:03:19
  name in the portal, they attack them. Like Neil says, you got
• 1:03:22
  basically about a week. Once they put their name in the portal, you
• 1:03:25
  say, oh hey, we're interested, come on in for a visit.
• 1:03:28
  On'ka done, done deal. I think that you're at the stage in this
• 1:03:30
  program. You don't need thirty guys, right, you need what six seven?
• 1:03:36
  I mean? You need to plug holes. You want to plug holes,
• 1:03:38
  not just being a complete rebuilt. Right. Congratulations to Hoppy on his
• 1:03:43
  three first round draft picks in the MLS draft. Dan's got the lads in
• 1:03:47
  a good spot. Congratulations Hopy of the soccer coach that you hired has three
• 1:03:52
  first round picks in the MLS for a marvelous year. Derek and Black Blacksville,
• 1:03:58
  Western end of Montega County. For those that might not be familiar,
• 1:04:00
  Hey, three guys, longtime listener, first time text. He flew to
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  Birmingham a few days of work. Stated at a hotel in Hoover. One
• 1:04:08
  evening, having drinks at the hotel bar, bartender asked where I'm front,
• 1:04:11
  told her Morgantown. She said her cousin played basketball at the university. Excuse
• 1:04:15
  me. When we asked who her cousin was, she said, Javon Carter.
• 1:04:18
  Just goes to show always a connection. You guys always talk about that.
• 1:04:23
  Keep up the good work, Derek and Blacksmith. That's funny because we
• 1:04:27
  were at the Central Florida game this year UCF checking in and the lady that
• 1:04:30
  checked us in, same thing. Cousin of Javon Carter. Carter with a
• 1:04:35
  lot of cousins. You guys remember a while back Katie Price. Someone says,
• 1:04:44
  think you guys would like this picture. This is Katie Price getting ready
• 1:04:47
  for an interview on WSAZ television, so battling cancer and she has her efforting
• 1:04:54
  T shirt and we were fortunate enough to send her some stuff and delightful to
• 1:05:02
  see that, and what a beautiful smile. We wish you are the very
• 1:05:05
  very best Texter. Good to see all the positives around Mountaineer football. I've
• 1:05:10
  been a fan of coach Neil since day one. Thankfully he's been given the
• 1:05:13
  time necessary to build a winning program. Watching the new additions has been exciting.
• 1:05:16
  I think Drew Fabianitch was an absolute game changer. I've been looking for
• 1:05:19
  info on the new players or whether or not they have thirty nine and a
• 1:05:23
  half inch arm length. No luck so far. Any idea when he'll be
• 1:05:27
  back on the show. Keep up the good work. Matt and tays Valley
• 1:05:30
  and he says, tays Valley is a mindset, not a location, because
• 1:05:32
  it does not exist. Yeah, we'll try to get him back on.
• 1:05:35
  Three guys, how does Crisa get by by having his first name on his
• 1:05:40
  jersey instead of his last like the rest of the team. Thanks, I
• 1:05:44
  don't know, Texter, Three guys. Clearly a Mountaineer basketball team find out.
• 1:05:48
  Okay, please, Clearly I'm out in your back right now. They're
• 1:05:50
  working on some bigger issues. Clearly a Mountain your baskets when you get time
• 1:05:54
  just to ask him. Here's come up, I get it right. Clearly
• 1:05:57
  the Mountaineer basketball team has cursed. Question. How about again, let's get
• 1:06:02
  rebounding fixed first. Okay, I'm just saying in a casual conversation just to
• 1:06:08
  ask. It's not a big request, all right, Clearly them out here,
• 1:06:13
  it's an issue. It's someone that I know asked and they got snapped
• 1:06:17
  at. Oh really, So I just went like, okay, that's all
• 1:06:20
  right, got snapped head. Yeah that's what I was told. Now I
• 1:06:26
  really want to know. Yeah, me too. Clearly them Mountain there basketball
• 1:06:29
  team is cursed? Could it be the moth Man? Tony and Hoppy are
• 1:06:32
  experts here? How do we appease the beast? And then this turmoil?
• 1:06:35
  Satanic ritual animal sacrifice campaign donation. I'll do anything at this point. I
• 1:06:42
  don't mean to make light of the more serious issues the program is faced.
• 1:06:45
  But if you can't laugh at misfortune, then all you can do is cry.
• 1:06:48
  JD from the Southern coal Fields Mike from Oakdale writes, three guys.
• 1:06:53
  With all the negative energy around our programs recently, the one person or thing
• 1:06:56
  that has brought more juice to the athletics department since maybe our first year in
• 1:07:00
  the Big twelve was Ren Baker. He's one of us. He's everywhere,
• 1:07:01
  He's passionate, He'll do whatever. It takes hard to believe he's only been
• 1:07:04
  here a year, but he's here. He's hoping that he's in Morgantown for
• 1:07:08
  many more. Happy New Year to you all. PS still would like to
• 1:07:12
  send Hoppy some samples of Kleenex. Let me know where to send. He's
• 1:07:15
  never heard of that. By the way, Ren had a nice hire this
• 1:07:17
  week. Yeah. New volleyball coach Jen Green, Washington State eighth trade NCAA
• 1:07:24
  tournaments, Oh Red sweet sixteen last year, Hoppy packed twelve's demise West Virginia's
• 1:07:30
  game, no question. Yeah, he perfect so much. Life is about
• 1:07:33
  timing? What up's timing? What a play that was? H? Hey,
• 1:07:38
  what's going on? There? Is your how's your just? Rarely?
• 1:07:42
  Hey? Why don't you come out over here play best country this league in
• 1:07:45
  the country. Why don't you come out over here and bring that text chain
• 1:07:47
  we got involved in with Wren Baker the other night when we were ripping your
• 1:07:53
  ass? Yeah, what was that all about? That was fun? We're
• 1:07:57
  just taking weird? I just what do you mean it was weird? Why
• 1:07:59
  was that just kept going? Couldn't get out of it? I was it
• 1:08:03
  directed at me because you weren't here? You're a goof Okay, you know
• 1:08:12
  what was funny? I didn't know you were on the chain until I said,
• 1:08:17
  I said, I said, I said, I said, you're right,
• 1:08:21
  my boy gets a lot of vaca. I do, I said,
• 1:08:27
  my boy gets some serious vaca. Then I look later went, oh,
• 1:08:30
  hell hoppies. He didn't know, he responding I do. I got about
• 1:08:38
  three. I got about three people that text me I don't know who they
• 1:08:42
  are, and I don't want to like be rude and tell them that I
• 1:08:45
  don't know who they are, and and so you just kind of give them
• 1:08:47
  like generic stuff and all of a sudden like it grows into this long list.
• 1:08:54
  It's kind of crazy anyway, Hey, three guys, this is tough.
• 1:08:58
  I'm glad you say jerk. Well you would. I would think you
• 1:09:02
  would say to my no, you would never mind. I'll say anything to
• 1:09:05
  your face that i'd say to Yeah, absolutely, I think so. Yeah,
• 1:09:10
  that's the stance I took with you on that. I know. I
• 1:09:12
  tondage about Jera, Mario Whatcher, Muri Williams analysis with men. I'd say
• 1:09:15
  that to you, yeah, right, yes, yes, Hey, three
• 1:09:17
  guys, this is Todd and Missouri again via Preston County. Maybe say less,
• 1:09:23
  fewer bad things about me into my face Todd and Missouri via Preston County.
• 1:09:30
  I wanted so bad for Josh Eilert's experiment to work all the former WV
• 1:09:33
  players as assistance. Maybe it will still come together, let it be so.
• 1:09:38
  All the hype around the three players finally being eligible had us all full
• 1:09:41
  of hope and joy. I think we're on track after having a cookback without
• 1:09:45
  these players, and didn't Kobe Johnson earn the right for significant minutes now he's
• 1:09:48
  not even playing. Is Eilert stern enough? Is this just a bunch of
• 1:09:53
  younger guys trying to be coach and be friends with players, or do we
• 1:09:56
  need a proven coach to run this program and instill some attitude. Darris Nichols
• 1:10:00
  sure comes to mind, as does Coach Spiker. Hey, two things,
• 1:10:03
  Tony. One is that there, and I'm serious about this, that when
• 1:10:08
  the records are kept and I don't know what's gonna happen with Josh, but
• 1:10:12
  when the records are kept and it has if he's only here one year and
• 1:10:15
  it has that, there needs to be an asterisk there, okay, as
• 1:10:17
  the introim, and some things need to be explained in fairness to him because
• 1:10:23
  in the future, if he's not retained brand, in the future, if
• 1:10:26
  you don't, Eve gonna look like, oh they had a bad year,
• 1:10:27
  he got fired. I mean, so there needs to be a thorough more
• 1:10:30
  throw explanation of what this year has been and what he stepped into, all
• 1:10:33
  the nonsense that he's had to go through. Yeah, number one. Number
• 1:10:36
  two, I had a conversation with Coach Spiker the other day. Really yeah,
• 1:10:42
  he invited me up to this. He was sorry, he said it
• 1:10:44
  was classic me requesting tickets to the game and then not showing up to the
• 1:10:48
  game. It was fair fair point. But he did invite me up to
• 1:10:54
  one of their games in Philly. Yeah, I'm sure you'll be right up
• 1:10:56
  there. Get you to Star City, he said. He said, I
• 1:11:01
  can hook you up, and he said, I'll hook it up so you
• 1:11:03
  can see three games in one day's out of the oh in Philly. Yeah,
• 1:11:08
  I said, maybe, just try to make it to one of your
• 1:11:11
  game. He's warming up right now in real time. Oh really, he's
• 1:11:13
  got a game eleven am eleven am tip against Bryant. Oh, they play
• 1:11:16
  an education day for them. No, he's up in Providence. He's doing
• 1:11:19
  it early get away day. Oh, he's up at that Providence Marriott.
• 1:11:23
  We always used to stay on. Well, that's eleven hop eleven. You
• 1:11:26
  can turn it on during your game, during your show. Okay, Tony,
• 1:11:30
  we made it to the other side. I'm firmly on you in your
• 1:11:31
  camp on this. Every day now gets longer. It is reason to celebrate.
• 1:11:35
  I didn't know about the December eighth thing, though. Enjoy the longer
• 1:11:39
  days and might even need sunglasses for that five thirty pm kick next week.
• 1:11:44
  Let's go get that ninth win. As for men's basketball. I don't know.
• 1:11:47
  Yesterday was the shortest yep, and now we're clouting up and get out
• 1:11:51
  there and enjoy it. Hey, three guys, Bowen Somersville. Just wanted
• 1:11:57
  to drop this little gem Today's longer that I saw in a house last week.
• 1:12:01
  I asked this lady, sorry, can I be a weirdo and take
• 1:12:04
  a picture of your pencils? These as clowns I know will love it.
• 1:12:10
  Helpe you and your families have a merry Christmas. There it is. Oh
• 1:12:13
  boy, that's a nice one. Nice and sturdy, well maintained, and
• 1:12:16
  it's got the device that keeps the shavings in it. A lot of them
• 1:12:19
  just goes straight blades. That's an elite one right there in the shavings fall.
• 1:12:23
  Plus it's got the thing you turn you get different sizes on you.
• 1:12:25
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly when the shavings fall. You gotta
• 1:12:27
  have the waste paper basket underneath it, so can stats scopes and Hoppy Brian
• 1:12:32
  from Ripley. I had hernie as surgery yesterday and I came back home very
• 1:12:36
  groggy from the meds and anesthesia, but told my wife to wake me up
• 1:12:41
  at seven so I could watch West Virginia. I loved what I saw from
• 1:12:44
  Ray Kwan Kerr and Noel Noel faa con no, no, no, he's
• 1:12:49
  got a missah he No. You're still on dude, You're still on the
• 1:12:53
  dope because I'm reading what you wrote anyway. Also, Weston n Jerry,
• 1:13:00
  we're just terrific. Last night, I tell you what. Eddie came in
• 1:13:03
  there and he made that hook shot and it was wonderful. If Jesse plays
• 1:13:09
  last night, we win. No way does Radford get that many second chances.
• 1:13:13
  Slazynski looked out, looked out of sorts with all the new personnel.
• 1:13:18
  You are really on dope because if I say, if I read this the
• 1:13:20
  way that you wrote this, Coach Eileen has done a great job at keeping
• 1:13:25
  this team together. I think it will payoff come February March. He's still
• 1:13:28
  stoned. Brian. I hope everything works well and the surgery goes well.
• 1:13:33
  Here's one to chew on. We all know that just like the politics of
• 1:13:39
  anything, politics ruins everything. The Bowl season that used to be a highlight
• 1:13:43
  of my year is turning into meaningless games, not according to me, where
• 1:13:45
  people don't want to play. I have two solutions. Give the players a
• 1:13:48
  piece of the pie from these bowl payouts to set up a format like the
• 1:13:53
  nit Use, the Outback, Citrus, Alamo Holiday, and so on for
• 1:13:57
  a different tournament once the CFP goay ight or twelve. Make it interesting,
• 1:14:00
  have a blessed Merry Christmas. Let's go beat the heels, go nine and
• 1:14:03
  four. Build those hopes for next year. DJ Monroe County. I think
• 1:14:08
  a piece of pie is coming. I think a piece of the pie is
• 1:14:10
  coming. I think you go out there and win. Hey, you're gonna
• 1:14:12
  five grand for winning the game. Well here's one. This is a new
• 1:14:14
  one. Hadn't seen this. Minnesota lining up for the Quick Lane Bowl on
• 1:14:17
  Tuesday. We'll have that one. R. Kyle Wiggs is in on the
• 1:14:19
  call. Minnesota playing in that they get in is five and seventeen. Quarterback
• 1:14:25
  says, no, it done, boys, I'm out played six years over
• 1:14:27
  there at Minnesota. MS says Queback can't play that. He doesn't want to
• 1:14:30
  roll the boat. I got stuff to do. They came back, so
• 1:14:32
  we really need a quarterback. Can you play? He says, yeah,
• 1:14:35
  I'll play. Need thirty k I'm gonna put it towards my wedding. They
• 1:14:40
  said, fine deal. My man's playing getting thirty large, putting it on
• 1:14:44
  a wedding so he can get married, getting his wedding paid for. I'll
• 1:14:46
  quarterback in there in Minnesota. That's what the reports say. Yeah, wow,
• 1:14:51
  so you like weird. There you go. That's a new one.
• 1:14:54
  Oh, that's a new one. My man's not a really money quarterback.
• 1:14:57
  Here's what I need. Oh, PJ. I'm gonna tell you something.
• 1:15:01
  You've been telling me about rowing your boat, rolling you. I got your
• 1:15:04
  damn boat right here. You give me thirty k I'll play in the game.
• 1:15:06
  If not take that boat and goes a marine, try all gonna take
• 1:15:12
  it right down there. All that is unbelievable, incredible. And they just
• 1:15:18
  and they just cover that up in an nil deal. Yeah and then I
• 1:15:21
  and then il do I hang a big banner at his wedding sponsored by gold
• 1:15:26
  Joke Breath. Now the I wear one of those shiny gold chrome hows.
• 1:15:31
  I'm gonna tell you I do. I want to tell you some p juice.
• 1:15:34
  Now I'm gona tell you something, PJLL take your stupid sweater vest.
• 1:15:39
  Don't cost you thirty thirty at large. Tell you what? Tell you what
• 1:15:42
  p J. I'm gonna take the thirty and you can't wear the war can't
• 1:15:45
  wear that stupid vest during the game. Oh my goodness. I mean in
• 1:15:49
  all in all kidding aside, that is where this thing's going. That's what
• 1:15:54
  you're gonna start getting. You want me to play, well, do you
• 1:15:57
  need a quarterback? Do you need a quarterback or not? Right? Because
• 1:15:59
  he was fine, he played his football. You know what what that is
• 1:16:01
  about? What's the value of having the quarterback? I understand, But I
• 1:16:04
  think what that does, because we're in this new territory, that's going to
• 1:16:08
  create if that, if that starts to happen regularly, create an environment where
• 1:16:11
  Brad I want you to We're gonna pay you to be the quarterback for our
• 1:16:14
  team this year and that contract includes playing in all games at United. So
• 1:16:16
  that I mean, Minnesota could have said no, it's right, So they
• 1:16:19
  didn't. I mean, I don't blame the kid for asking that I want
• 1:16:23
  thirty thousand base for his wedding. Good for him, he's got a service.
• 1:16:26
  They needed his service the open market negotiations. In a better option,
• 1:16:30
  they could have said, no, we're not paying on stay school going forward.
• 1:16:32
  Baby. Yeah, if the school said yes, it's saraty. Could
• 1:16:35
  you do forty? But Tony, do you have thirty five? Thirty five?
• 1:16:40
  PJ got thirty five, forty I got forty forty five and the man
• 1:16:43
  now that too, forty five coming in forty five going once? What a
• 1:16:47
  take some money out of fifty thousand dollars for the quarterback on little fifty five,
• 1:16:51
  I've got fifty five. What I'm gonna get you now sixty up to
• 1:16:54
  sixty thousand dollars anybody can pay a quarterback going to play all four quarters.
• 1:16:57
  He'll play all four quarters, will not play just one half. And the
• 1:17:00
  business is sixty five to the man in the blue sixty five. I'm gonna
• 1:17:02
  get you now seventy I've got seventy thousand. I was going to start a
• 1:17:05
  quarterback for the Golden Golphers, and you get MVP. If I got an
• 1:17:09
  MVP, if he gets MVP, it's seventy five seventy five for the MVP.
• 1:17:13
  What even I'm gonna get you now, I've got seventy five once sold,
• 1:17:16
  that's reportedly the story. I'm hoping that's true. That's what that's like.
• 1:17:24
  That thing you told you last week. I thought you someone told me
• 1:17:27
  that, Hey, Tony post Office, post Office Jonas here, I want
• 1:17:33
  to release some breaking news from the post office. Jonas. I Jonas am
• 1:17:39
  entering the transfer portal. I know I'm going to get a lot of offers
• 1:17:43
  from post offices all over the country, but I want the downtown office on
• 1:17:45
  High Street to know that coming back always a possibility. Good. With that
• 1:17:49
  said, they better be offering some nice nil incentives to get me back.
• 1:17:54
  Star City will be calling. It might be hard to pass up Darryl Roger
• 1:17:59
  and me. We'd be the Alabama of college football. Would definitely not be
• 1:18:02
  fair the other post offices around the world. I'll announce back here wherever I
• 1:18:08
  choose. Merry Christmas. Three guys. Now, they're probably heard that the
• 1:18:12
  I think they're going to ask for another increase in stamp prices. I think
• 1:18:14
  that's that's real, and so probably got to say, you guys, those
• 1:18:17
  guys all over Hey, you know what the other night, Yeah, who
• 1:18:23
  was the opponent? No, I was coming back home, eight fifteen,
• 1:18:30
  eight fifteen, I pull in my driveway. Yeah, the post office truck
• 1:18:34
  was delivering the mail eight fifteen at night. Shout out to all of our
• 1:18:41
  postal carriers, Charlie from mid Lothian. This is this is pretty interesting,
• 1:18:46
  Hoppy. I bet you guys weren't planning to have Fred Hetzel on your bingo
• 1:18:49
  card Monday. Wasn't that a travel when the Radford player lost his dribble and
• 1:18:54
  rolled? No, okay, we talked about the but Hoppy. So there
• 1:18:57
  was a gentleman at the game the other night. Yeah, he told me
• 1:19:00
  that Fred Hetzel became a big time realtor in Virginia. That's why he was
• 1:19:08
  there. He was a real estate agent at his house. Yeah, that's
• 1:19:12
  why he was there looking at tran Dark Corner. Yeah, fred Hetzel having
• 1:19:15
  a good couple of weeks on the mentioned Garrett Green. Hey, did you
• 1:19:24
  see the did you see the uniform release for the bull game? So Charles
• 1:19:29
  Wesley Godwin when he was performing at the met Play was playing Country Roads and
• 1:19:35
  onto the stage comes a mountaineer visor mask, wearing the jersey and wearing the
• 1:19:41
  uniform they're gonna wearing the ball game had number fourteen on. Then he pulled
• 1:19:44
  the helmet off. It was Garrett Green. That was neat a lot of
• 1:19:47
  things creative, not things going. Hey, can't be excused beg you get
• 1:19:53
  a little lancey, what's your big stories on your talk programs. It's a
• 1:19:56
  different show. It's the Christmas Show, so I interview, So what do
• 1:20:00
  you need to prepare for? Unlike other shows where we just can do the
• 1:20:05
  planning while we're live on the live on the ear, which we're not live.
• 1:20:09
  Yes, you can be excused. Thanks for hanging in till nine thirty.
• 1:20:12
  Thank you longer than I thought. You'd appreciate that, Longer than I
• 1:20:14
  would have. Oh yeah, you'd be I would. I might not show
• 1:20:17
  up today to do that preparing for the other show. Merry Christmas to you
• 1:20:21
  Christmas saying to you, mister Cratchett, and I tell you what, we're
• 1:20:26
  only working till noon on Christmas Day. That email just did come in.
• 1:20:30
  What's that? We're only working till nude? What what today? Today?
• 1:20:34
  They just can't No, I'm talking about Christmas Day? Oh no today,
• 1:20:38
  They said they just got the Gasparilla ball to do later. Yeah, we
• 1:20:41
  have a Bowl game tonight and we've got sports line who's only working till noon
• 1:20:44
  today. We're here here, we're on the job. Texter Professor Vinnie here.
• 1:20:49
  Looks like UNC will be without some of their top players. I'm sure
• 1:20:53
  you've already discussed, but in the words of Admiral Akbar from Star Wars,
• 1:20:57
  it's a trap. I have an uneasy feeling this might be a tougher game
• 1:21:00
  than some think. Maybe I'm wrong, but always feels like West Virginia struggles
• 1:21:03
  against backup quarterbacks. Or maybe that's the Steelers. Either way, thank you,
• 1:21:08
  happy. I hope that Neil Brown is taking a cautious approach and getting
• 1:21:12
  them prepared to go out and try to win. Thinking of that, how
• 1:21:15
  did the likes of Neil and Rodriguez, Holgerson and Brown differ in Bowl prep
• 1:21:18
  if at all? Well, here's the difference. Rich won a lot of
• 1:21:26
  bowl games. Obviously, West Virginia had a string of misfortune and bowl games
• 1:21:33
  from nineteen eighty four until two thousand. Had a little issue there. Now,
• 1:21:40
  they played for the Natty, I get it, and they played in
• 1:21:42
  some high level bowl games, but didn't have a whole lot of ball success.
• 1:21:46
  And Neil, this would be what this would be? This is three
• 1:21:51
  three, So he could get he's one and one, he's one on one.
• 1:21:54
  Yeah, you can get two beat the army. Hey three, guys,
• 1:21:58
  I know we're not press Virginia. But we have enough tested guys that
• 1:22:01
  we should press on defense and run on offense. Most teams play short benches.
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  We need to wear them down currently opponents, our opponents are going at
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  the pace they want, and we let them. We would play better fast
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  and most teams can't. Your thoughts offensively. I think you're going to pick
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  your spots, try and run a little more frequently. I think you've got
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  the personnel. Yeah. As for the press, I think you can dabble
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  in it. I don't know necessarily if you can live in it, because
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  you haven't lived in it and practiced it since you started. But you might
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  be able to speed things up at times. I don't think that's out of
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  the ordinary. I think you know you got some points there, Dennis and
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  Augusta, Georgia. I have that golf tournament down there, don't they.
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  I think so, Yeah, every other year. I received my shipment of
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  That's a that's a collector's item. Yeah, that'll probably be on the
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  ebays here pretty soon. Last one, greetings gents. I took my kiddos
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  to the West Virginia Niagara women's game yesterday that took place. My sixteen year
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  old is a huge JJ Quinterley fan, and JJ showed out as she always
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  does, led our ladies to a one oh three point fifty two victory.
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  JJ had eighteen points, five assists, four steals. On the season,
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  she's averaging almost twenty a game. We came home and I see a story
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  on ESPN top twenty five players in the women's game. No mention of JJ
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  at all, unless I miss something, How is she not in that conversation?
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  Spreads can back up the stats, but she rivals the top players in
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  the nation. Furthermore, how is this eleven and oh squad not ranked.
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  We'd love to hear your thoughts, insights, love the show, all that
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  you do, wild Bill in Morgantown. So great point. Great point.
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  My guess is to eleven to zero and no ranking. Is that those that
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  rank at this point obviously are undervaluing West Virginia, but at this point probably
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  looking at overall schedule strength. Although West Virginia does have a victory over a
• 1:26:45
  then a nationally ranked team. I don't know what Penn State is now,
• 1:26:48
  if they're still ranked or not, but I wouldn't sweat it to this moment.
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  You got your opportunities that are coming up here. They open up against
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  Kansas, the Big two. Well opener for them is coming up next week
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  before the turn of the year. I don't know if it's at the thirtieth.
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  Maybe the thirtieth is a Saturday, that's not right. So opportunity as
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  far as JJ goes again, Yeah, it's a solid point. You're right,
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  probably should be ranked at this point. You're eleven zero at this point.
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  Put them in the rankings. Opportunity coming. JJ is fantastic, averaging
• 1:27:23
  nineteen and a half right now, she finishes in that range. It's in
• 1:27:26
  the ninety eighth percentile nationally and scoring so assist wise, she's three and a
• 1:27:30
  half per game. That's in the ninetieth percentile assist wise. If she finishes
• 1:27:33
  the year and that so she keeps playing like she is, those accolades will
• 1:27:38
  come post season like they did last year. I was at Niagara game.
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  Niagara wanted to press and go back and forth too, and West Virginia wanted
• 1:27:45
  to press and go back and forth. To you talk about a stat sheet
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  that like makes you go like whoa, I busted that thing down. I
• 1:27:51
  was looking at There are some numbers there that you just go like, holy
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  heck. And they're not bad. Niagro's not bad. It's a double mattin
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  a week for the Yeah in here when I got the eleven, am,
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  we got the two and uh and sent the sent the ladies home. Yeah,
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  they're off to a great start. And they got Kansas. As I
• 1:28:08
  said, so now you're gonna really get into the meet of the schedule.
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  But I mean, you can't ask for anything more at this point. He's
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  latest foundation down. He knows how he wants to play. They know how
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  he wants to play. Now you're gonna go play they've got players, leaders
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  have emerged ready to go. Thanks just to watch them. Yeah, that's
• 1:28:20
  so, that's really really good. All right, let's turn the music on.
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  So next week it's gonna be different. Christmas on Monday, and then
• 1:28:31
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  Day on Thursday. Of course you knew that. And so Friday we're gonna
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  do this again. Friday next week. Yeah, yeah, okay, Now
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• 1:28:50
  town on Friday. When are you going over there? Wins that game Saturday
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  night. Yes, you'll be here Friday. I'll be in Morgantown Friday.
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  I'll be in Cleveland Saturday for the game. So do we record Friday morning?
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