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3 Guys Before The Game - Open Week Musings (Episode 578) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hi there, welcome in. It's time for three guys before
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  Speaker 1: the game. Yes, we know that there is not a
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  Speaker 1: football contest this week, and it is an off week,
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  Speaker 1: a bye week, an open date, not playing week. We
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  Speaker 1: get it, but you know what we have? I said,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what we have? Well, we've got open
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  Speaker 1: week musings. If you don't like the title, head over
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  Speaker 1: to the complaint department over there. It was a fine title.
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  Speaker 1: I mean took a lot of grief before we started recording.
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  Speaker 1: When I said, hey, guys, what's the title? And Brad
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  Speaker 1: always says, I'm not naming it because you always say
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  Speaker 1: what it is and then you don't listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: I said, fine, just name whatever you want to listen to.
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  Speaker 2: Happy either, I know that was happy.
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  Speaker 3: We had to come up with this week's yeah, because
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  Speaker 3: he passed normally he comes up with the ultra creative
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  Speaker 3: Kansas Preview.
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  Speaker 1: Review.
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  Speaker 3: He passed today during the head and open week time,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you under control.
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  Speaker 1: call it what it is, Kansas State Preview. Call what
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he had a couple of numbers Canadian. Of
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  Speaker 1: And we do have numbers. Despite the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: world champion mountaineers are not going to play this week,
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  Speaker 1: we have numbers, giving us an opportunity to do a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive on the numbers. And as a radio DJ,
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  Speaker 1: it's time for me to post up on the Open
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  Speaker 1: what's up? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Interesting time for the Open week. It's just you get
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  Speaker 2: rolling here. It's certainly better to be two and two
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  Speaker 2: than one and three, and you feel like you got
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  Speaker 2: a little breathing room. West Virginia certainly needs it because
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  Speaker 2: of those injuries and you got this really tough stretch
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  Speaker 2: coming up. And also for Mountaineer fans, a good weekend
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  Speaker 2: to watch conference play. Everybody's in conference play this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Now you get into that part of the season. You
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  Speaker 2: got Oklahoma, Kansas State, Oklomba State, and Kansas State playing
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  Speaker 2: Iowa State, Houston, Cincinnati, Texas Tech, TCU Kansas. So a
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  Speaker 2: fun weekend for mountain Your fans to watch other teams
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  Speaker 2: that you can see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Oak State Kansas State game for Game
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  Speaker 1: of the Day noon on Saturday. So now this is
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  Speaker 1: your big guy. I mean you you watch as much
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  Speaker 1: as you possibly can, but you're in here during game days,
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  Speaker 1: so that kind of limits you. But this will be
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  Speaker 1: the first weekend in West Virginia football history. Think about this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on a roll. I'm making this up as I
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  Speaker 1: go that Mountaineer Nation can watch a sixteen team Big
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  Speaker 1: twelve conference play literally from noon until your head hits
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  Speaker 1: the coffee table after midnight because you'll have games all
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  Speaker 1: day long. So I think fans also need a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a breather, right, They've gone through two weather
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  Speaker 1: delays right in the first four games, and this is
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  Speaker 1: a good Okay, let's watch the rest of the league,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be able to see k State and Oklahoma State,
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  Speaker 1: two of West Virginia's next three opponents coming up, with
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  Speaker 1: Iowa State sandwiched in between.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, with the weather forecast is good, West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia's not playing this Saturday. Another why they're doing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, it'.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to be raining now, maybe it's just going to
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  Speaker 2: be raining, not a thunderstorm.
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  Speaker 1: But how about that tornado county is County. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: got the wv Metronews dot com. I saw that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was on our website. Why is that happening? West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia is not a tornado place, not normally. No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean people will attribute to climate change, but there
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  Speaker 2: have been more tornadoes in West Virginia so far this
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  Speaker 2: year twenty than anytime in recent recent history.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, you're from Iowa. How many tornadoes have you literally seen?
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  Speaker 1: You have twenty a day.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that I've seen laid eyes on a bunch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really, No warnings constantly in the hallway with the
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  Speaker 3: book over your head constantly.
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  Speaker 1: In elementary school, I was scared of the Living.
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  Speaker 3: Hell tornado drills. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. That I've
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  Speaker 3: seen a ton though, really all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, agenda for today really a couple of things, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good texts, a lot of good texts asking
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  Speaker 1: good questions. Plus got a text I have not shared
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  Speaker 1: with these guys yet, but I got a text that
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  Speaker 1: may maybe a top fiver.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't go over this in show print just a way. Connection,
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay.
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  Speaker 3: Always as an always.
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  Speaker 1: Well combination of connection and impact.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the bar is pretty high on that a connection.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just tell you something. This one goes far
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  Speaker 1: beyond Hey, sorry, guy, you hand the Mountaineer hat. This
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  Speaker 1: one goes a little bit deeper than that. Look forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. So I got that. Also coming up on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: we normally record on Sunday. We won't have a game
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, but on Sunday we will release a
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  Speaker 1: late summer series episode of Three Guys Before the Game
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  Speaker 1: with Mountaineer basketballer Tucker Devrees very well could be preseason
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  Speaker 1: All Conference honoree. He'll be raised up there in the balloting,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we'll spend some time with Tucker, his new life,
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  Speaker 1: his new world. A lot of things have happened to
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  Speaker 1: him since last March, when he was playing for the
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  Speaker 1: Drake Bulldogs, so we'll have we'll have time with him.
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  Speaker 2: That would be I think people will like that one.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good one because you haven't heard a lot
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  Speaker 3: from Tucker, haven't heard a lot from Darren since say've
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  Speaker 3: taken over. Kind of been a whirlwind for that whole program.
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  Speaker 3: So this will be a fun one.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good one. We already taped it. We already
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  Speaker 1: taped it, and uh, we'll drop it on Sunday. You'll
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  Speaker 1: like it, and okay, that's about it. You got numbers too,
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  Speaker 1: Do you mind we can jump around lower the temperature?
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  Speaker 1: Is it hot?
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  Speaker 2: Me? Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Kurtszival always comes in here and raises the temperature in
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  Speaker 3: this room, not just by his attitude but by the
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  Speaker 3: he actually comes in and raises the hits the button.
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  Speaker 2: Well are you did you just get up and go
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  Speaker 2: adjust the thermostat?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you just did?
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  Speaker 2: It's a podcast? Was it back at seventy three? I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really I almost never touched the thermostat. Almost never.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I lived at a college apartment for two
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  Speaker 2: years and never saw a thermostet. I like, you don't
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  Speaker 2: know that one existed? I I don't know. So there
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  Speaker 2: wasn't heat, nor was there ac. No, there was no
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  Speaker 2: ac obviously, but there was. I mean I always was
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  Speaker 2: warm enough. But I don't know where the thermostat was.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was in the I think it was
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  Speaker 2: in the apartment below.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta going now, who's that fan? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I usually don't touch the thermostet.
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  Speaker 1: Wi or liar pants on fire. All right, let's jump
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  Speaker 1: and tell you if I did jump in. What do
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  Speaker 1: we need to know Mountaineer football as we get into
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  Speaker 1: this bye week?
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing? Numbers?
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  Speaker 1: Sure, I want to do it now.
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  Speaker 2: Play music.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do the music. Okay, let's do it right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're just not playing around.
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  Speaker 2: We're just gonna jump right in.
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  Speaker 1: Go. By the way, Mike Gundy's brother got in touch
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  Speaker 1: with me, Cale Cal reached out. Really yeah, kind of
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  Speaker 1: surprised me reason I've never had any conversation with him
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  Speaker 1: before doing the talk show out there in Sports Animal
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  Speaker 1: out in Oklahoma. Okay, And obviously they're getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: their preview for next week. How about this guy looking
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  Speaker 1: to have true coordinator? Right, that's a true coordinator looking
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  Speaker 1: ahead doing probably watching tape already. And I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: out there the show next week.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing because usually when you wind up, guess it's
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  Speaker 2: about twelve hours ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve hours we've done them during the open of sports Line.
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  Speaker 1: True story, we've had the open on the phone with somebody, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: about five minutes from now, you jump on with Okay,
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  Speaker 1: cool talk to you then see Yeah, yeah, hoppy on
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  Speaker 1: time is their time? I understand. So when cal Gundy
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  Speaker 1: reached out to the thing, like he just said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: like to get you on our show, and I'm going like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you were at Oklahoma, dude, like you do know,
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  Speaker 1: like we're not in the league anymore. Right, We're good
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  Speaker 1: with that, right, But I realized that they're previewing Oklahoma State,
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  Speaker 1: so talk about his brother's team. He's back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little more involved with Oklahoma State.
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  Speaker 1: Now with his brother. Yeah, he's doing some things as
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  Speaker 1: well as he should be. Yeah. Interesting, Oklahoma lost their
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  Speaker 1: last Saturday at home Tennessee. Yeah to Tennessee. They don't
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  Speaker 3: They do, they're not often dogs at home. They were
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  Speaker 1: All right, new world? Let me see, yeah, let me
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  Speaker 1: do this. Let me do this, Let me do this,
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  Speaker 3: Just so these are just a bunch of musings, as
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  Speaker 3: the title would suggest, So let's just run through. We
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  Speaker 3: can we can debate, discuss you don't have to you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to wait here, hop just jump in comments
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  Speaker 3: each as each category comes up. The first one this
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  Speaker 3: is always you guys. Hear me say this a lot
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  Speaker 3: in this summer. One of the things I really like
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  Speaker 3: about preseason is just the the you don't know factor,
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  Speaker 3: but the optimism that surrounds and there's just different guys.
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  Speaker 3: And t J Jackson was one of those guys that
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  Speaker 3: we said maybe a million times. You know, I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you what, now, t J Jackson can come in and
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  Speaker 3: if TJ Jackson transler, if t J Jackson can be
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  Speaker 3: really good, that help. We said that how many times, right,
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  Speaker 3: because you just don't know, you want to see well
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  Speaker 3: TJ jack Since translated early through the first third of
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  Speaker 3: the season. In fact, guys, he leads the country, leads
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  Speaker 3: the country in pressures among Power four players quarterback pressures.
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  Speaker 3: So TJ Jackson early, that's pretty strong, really good, really
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  Speaker 3: good start for him. And we've talked a lot about that.
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  Speaker 3: The defensive line. There's listen, We've spent hours on the
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  Speaker 3: defense and they certainly need to still keep improving, but
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  Speaker 3: that defensive line shown an ability to get some pressure Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: Tyron Bradley. We've seen Sean Martin at times. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: Molba start to emerge a little bit Asani Redwoodenham and
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  Speaker 3: Russell are playing. So that defensive line starting to come
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  Speaker 3: into its own a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: A great, Yeah, I agree. It's two years in a row.
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  Speaker 1: They've been solid. Two years in a row, they've been solid. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So there's Jackson leading the country and pressures among Power
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  Speaker 3: four players. We've talked about this before, but it bears
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  Speaker 3: repeating because I don't think you heard it the last
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  Speaker 3: time we discussed it. Fourth down success for this offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Team, Yeah, they're having success. In fact, they've gone for
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  Speaker 1: it on fourth down more than any team in the country,
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  Speaker 1: well like.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve times or something.
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  Speaker 3: Not only that, they lead the nation in fourth down conversions.
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  Speaker 3: More to the point they're converting in those, they also
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  Speaker 3: have the best conversion percentage for any team with ten
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  Speaker 3: or more attempts. They're ten to twelve on the season.
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  Speaker 3: So fourth down is Neil likes to call him end
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  Speaker 3: of possession downs, which is a good new term. It's
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  Speaker 3: not just about how you are on third down, because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times you go four on fourth. So
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  Speaker 3: very successful attempting a bunch of them converting a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of them so far early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Significant, I mean that is kind of surprising, isn't
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  Speaker 1: that you're leading the nation and going forward on fourth
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  Speaker 1: down one he explained it. I don't know if it was.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was his press conference this week where
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times he's setting up fourth down on
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  Speaker 1: third down. Sure, so he's just like, in the mindset,
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  Speaker 1: we're going for it twice here, so if I just
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  Speaker 1: get this, we're going to do this.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of times that shows up. Guys, if
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  Speaker 3: it's a third and five or a third and six,
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  Speaker 3: which is normally an obvious passing down, and you see
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia run it, that's usually an indication that the
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  Speaker 3: thought process going into third down is we've got two
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  Speaker 3: downs to get this, we're gonna we're gonna run two plays.
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  Speaker 2: And if you know you're going for it on fourth down,
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  Speaker 2: it open up the playbook on third down, right, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it just it just makes things a lot simpler. I
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  Speaker 2: think it keeps your playbook more wide open. If you
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  Speaker 2: know you've got two downs to get it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's stay on offense for just a second. Because one
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  Speaker 3: of the other talking points during the offseason was about
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  Speaker 3: this rushing offense for WVU that was so good last year,
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  Speaker 3: leading Power five in rush yards, and we said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: there's almost no way this line can perform at last
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  Speaker 3: year's level. When you lose a generational talent like Zach Fraser,
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  Speaker 3: and you lose another guy in Doug Nester that had
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  Speaker 3: played a lot of college football and himself is on
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  Speaker 3: an NFL roster, those are hard replacements to make, especially
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  Speaker 3: now you see Zach Fraser walk into Pittsburgh and look
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  Speaker 3: exactly like he did last year. He's dominating at that
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  Speaker 3: league like he did here. So there was no doubt
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  Speaker 3: it was going to come back. The question just say, is,
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  Speaker 3: all right, what would it look like? Doesn't have to
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  Speaker 3: be number one in the country because you think the
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  Speaker 3: passing offense is going to come up and get in
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  Speaker 3: close some of that gap, So what is the rush
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: offense going to look like? So far fiftieth overall nationally,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: still averaging a pretty good number one hundred and eighty
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: yards per game, but it's not the dominant rush offense
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: that we saw at the end of last year, where
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: they ended up averaging two hundred and thirty yards per game,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: so they're a little bit off of that last season.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: The fifth most rush attempts nationally this season forty fifth. Now,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: again small sample size here, so keep that in mind.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: We're just a third of the way through the season,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: but that is what we thought would happen. This rushing
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: offense still trying to find its footing and get going.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: It's also one of the things if you want to
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: try and pull positives out of this first third of
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: the season and project forward, is you've seen West Virginia
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: for the last two games really do some good things offensively,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: but doesn't feel like they've totally got it clicking yet.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: You saw Garrett really look like Garrett last time for
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: the first time. Jeheim White hasn't got on track yet, right.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: You still feel like there's a lot of yards in
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Jeheim White coming. So if you're looking at this rush
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: offense as this line continues to you hope that there's
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: still some runway and some upside for this rush offense.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Moving over to the passing offense, what do they look
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: like compared to last year? Last season ninety first in
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: yards per game passing. They were eight point one yards
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: per attempt, which was up almost two yards per attempt
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: from the year before, and that was a big talking
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: point going into last season, is would West Virginia be
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: able to push the ball down the field. Clearly they did.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: That was one of the best things about that offense
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: last year. Was one of the strongest parts at Garrett
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Green's game where the downfield passing numbers, which we've talked
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: a lot about this season. Seventieth in passing yards per game,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: so up from last season, averaging seven point nine yards
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: per attempt, almost exactly the same where it was last year.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: A lot of that was aided by this last game. Right,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: West Raginia did a great job getting the ball down
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: the field in this last game. Here's what the biggest
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: difference is Westrinian throwing it for a few more yards
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: per game. To make up for that difference. The running
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: games come back a little bit because teams are saying,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: what hop You're not going to just lie if you
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: can throw it, throw it. So those have kind of
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: done what we thought they would do number wise. But
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: here's the difference. West Virginia already with five interceptions this year.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: There's only four Power Four teams that have more, and
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: you just beat one of those teams.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: So West Rnanian has had too.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Many interceptions early, and that's not.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Just on Garrett Green. By the way, we've.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Talked about that interceptions are not always just responsibility the quarterback.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Right we saw last week he got hit once as
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: he was throwing it. So there are different factors. But
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: for a team that's been an issue, they've got to
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: get that under control last year, just seven all of
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: last season. You're already at five. So that's a part
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: that has to get cleaned up. Speaking of interceptions, go
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: to the defense for a second. West Virginia's one hundred
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: and eighth this season in interceptions gained last year fifty fifth.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: They averaged almost one per game last year. Remember that
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: was a talking point and in the last season is
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: that group needed to create some turnovers. So far this season,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: West Virginia is not. Now they did against Kansas, it's
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: part of what led you to getting a win. You
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: neutralize that turnover margin. That's something here over the next
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: two thirds of the season. Can West Virginia get better
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: at protecting it and get better at taking it away?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Because when you have a defense that is not going
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: to stop on every down, what do you have to
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: do you got to get off field some way, so
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: either stop third downs or create some turnovers. West Virginia
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: is not doing the ladder of those right now.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's obviously. It goes without saying that. We
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: will be interested to see what that defensive backfield develops
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: into over the next several weeks. Is what it is?
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Is it? It is? What it is? Or is it
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: going to get better? I mean late in the Kansas game,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Anthony Wilson came over, got a pass breakup on Kansas. Yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that was like, heck, I haven't seen that before. Yeah, seriously,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I was like, if guy comes in, reaches in there,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: bat's ball away, Like whoa, Okay, Yeah, that's why it's
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: supposed to look. But you're right, you're not going to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: get picks when you don't have a defensive player close
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to a receiver. Ain't gonna happen.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And some of that's the responsibilities to the linebackers too.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Is Neil's talked a lot about not just the defensive backfield,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: that whole team coverage has to get better, and that's
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: showing up in yards per attempt. Last season, West Virginia
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: was eightieth in opponent yards per attempt at seven point
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: four yards per attempt. Okay, this season, West Virginia is
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: last among Power four teams. Opponents are averaging nine point
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: two yards per attempt. That's a big number. So obviously,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: and what you knows this, they've got to cut that
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: number down. To put that in context. Georgia Tech offense
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: is averaging nine point two yards per attempt. They're twentieth
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: nationally in that category. So basically West Virginia is getting
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: a top twenty passing offense in that category every week
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: it goes out. That's a hard model to sustain.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, jumping back over on the other side of the ball.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry one more thing. Last week it was just
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: seven point four yards per attempt for Jalen Dana jumped
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: up and that included some big third down conversions that
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: boosted that up. So, as Neil talked about this week,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: they made a concerted effort to take away the passing
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: game last week and it was much much improved in
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: that particular area.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Jaheim White, I'll be really interested to see what the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: rest of his season becomes, because he has had one
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: good game against Albany and to this point. CJ. Donaldson's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: become the guy. And you don't want to say the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: double S word, but sophomore slump. CJ. Donaldson went through
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: a sophomore slump. He had self admits I had a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: sophomore slump. I think this is a really good off
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: week for Jaheem because he's got to kind of look
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: around and go like, Okay, what do I need to
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: do to get back to where I was at the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: end of last season and live up to Well I'm
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: sure his expectations are, but that he has not gotten
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: into the flow and has not gotten frothed up yet.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: He hasn't and they need him to.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: That's part of the thing when you outside look in
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: at this team, that that's the magic of it. It's
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: that three headed monster running the football. And they've got
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: to have hop all three of those guys available and
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: operating at peak efficiency. So he's Jehem's the one you
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: hope you can get rolling here over the last two
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: thirds of this season.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And you don't know, I mean, you don't know what
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: it is, right, I mean, why is that?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Why is that a combination of a bunch of things?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I think combination of a bunch of things. I mean,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: there wouldn't be a There wouldn't be a term called
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: sophomore slump if they didn't exist. For whatever reason, Guys
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that come through, or for that matter, if it's a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: female sport, girls that come through. Like if you do
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: something unexpected as a freshman, it also impacts all the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: stimulus you get around you. People pat you on the back.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: You think you figured it out, you think, Okay, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: got this done, I could do this. That's what happens.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: There's sophomore year oftentimes, and then they have to go
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: through this low point as a sophomore and then they
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: build back up and go, Okay, I got it, I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: understand now, and then they come back and they normally
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: have a good junior senior year. We've seen those here
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and that's I think he's on the he's on the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: fringe of having that, and it'll be interesting to see
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: if he can do a mid season turnaround it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Also, you're you're a known commodity. Sure, so do you
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: think the other teams know about jam White? Do they
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: come in and game plan a little bit when Jeem
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: White comes in the game. You think all eleven defenders
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: are aware that Jahem White's in the game. Last year,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure that was the case all the time, right,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: there was a surprise element to that, so that factors
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: in as well.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Grades.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Let's look at first first third of the season grades.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Top three offensively.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: You want to guess, yeah, okays, Mileam Malone. Oh do
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: they have two of them? Milon Malone and cj Ooh
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: you're close, Mila Malone, Garrett.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, hmmm what about that?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: How about Nick Malone?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: How about two tackles?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: That's to me, that's the story. Milem's not surprise. You're
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: talking about a fringe first round guy, a potential first
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: round pick, Garrett Green, you knew needed to be good
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: for this team to be good, and listen, last season
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: gave this staff I think a lot of confidence in
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: what Nick Malone could do, being able to step in
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: like he did across multiple positions. But for him to
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: step in and be your second highest graded offensive player
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: after four games is just fantastic. And remember that includes
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: going against NFL guys there on that Penn State group,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: both Mylon and Malone did. I think that's incredibly impressive,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: certainly for all three, but for Nick Malone to be
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: in your top three through one third of the season tremendous.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Yes he is. Nick is benefiting from technology, and by
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: that I mean this. If you didn't have the unbelievable
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: amount of analytics and metrics that exist nowadays, all you
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: would say is, yeah, then the kid Oregontown High kid,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Nick Malony, he's playing pretty good starting, Yeah, he's starting.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: He must be pretty good. Pretty good, But you'd never
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you'd never be able to quantify and say, well, actually
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he's playing a little bit better than than good. He's
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: was he two or three? He's too. He's the second
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: best graded player on offense. So the metrics and the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: technology now kind of is going to focus on it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: It's a good point.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Good for him. Otherwise he'd just be another kid from
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the high school.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Happy for him.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, defensively, you want to take a you want to
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: take a swing defensively here at the top three Trotter Jackson,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Jack Jackson correct, Karaco correct, Anthony Wilson. No, you're just
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: not thinking of it because it's obvious. Martin, No, Trotter's
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: not far off.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: By the way.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: That was a good lath No Brooks, Nope, allright, we
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: named all the starters. Tyron Bradley, Oh yeah, yeah, I
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: mean right, just coming off as unbelievable game. So that again,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: those are three guys, two of them. Hop everybody gnashes
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: their teeth about who you lose in the transfer portal
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you get. But how about that, right Carrico and Jackson.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Karrico is super important to get back. Hopefully this week
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: off allows him to heal up and get back in
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: this lineup because those are those are three very important
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: pieces of this team right there. But pretty good for
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: a top three right there. But Tyron Bradley's another one.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: We talked about him in the offseason, coming off that
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: unbelievable interception he had in the Mayo Bowl as a
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: guy that you looked at and said, all right, what
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: can Tyron Bradley give you this season? He's giving you
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: a lot through a third here's the octopus.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was an octopus arm interception in the Duke's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Mayo Bowl. Reached up and took it, grabbed the bull.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: What if I told you, what if I told you
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: in August that four games into the season that Oli
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Gordon at Oklahoma State would be tenth in rushing among
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Big twelve running backs, Well, you would think, you would say,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and then CJ. Donaldson would be above him. But here's
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the deal. And you'll say three sub fifty yard games.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I'll say it before you said kind of similar to that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I know he was a hibernated bear early last season
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and then he ran for seven and twenty one yards
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and like the last seven.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Games, almost ran himself to the Heisman Trophy. Well, he
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: was so good after the first three games.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So like they fly out a Bridgeport, right, they fly
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: out of Bridgeport. Last time he was here. He ran
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to the airport. He was already there. It was already
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: there when the team got there. What are you doing, Yeah,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I just ran out of the stadium.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: It will it will absolutely floor me.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: If and listen last last season what they completely flipped
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: their blocking scheme and what they were doing zone versus
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: gat blocking. Last year, after their first three games, they
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: totally reinvented themselves and took off started feeding Gordon the
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: ball more. It will stun me and par for the
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: course that West Virginia is getting ready to roll in here.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: If against Kansas State coming up for Oklahoma State this
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: weekend and against West Virginia, they don't find a way
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: to get Ali Gordon going.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: But also that defenses are saying, look, stop, do whatever
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: you gotta do, sell out, stop Ally Gordon make but
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: see if Bowman's good enough to beat you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Correct, But the counterpoint to that would be, you don't
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: think they were doing it by the end of last
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: year through multiple games. I mean they were in Oklahoma
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: State still figured out a way to do it. They're
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: they're going to get back to figure it out here,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: let's do They're gonna work Gordon here.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: West Virginia's defense still has to face six of the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: current top ten running backs in the Big Twelve with
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: remaining games. How about does RJ. Harvey do at UCF? Oh? Oh
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: my god, he's running running for a buck forty nine
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a game.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Not a surprise that he put up fourteen hundred yard
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: rushing last year. So Harvey's not a surprise. One of
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the best returning backs in the country. Now, UCF's going
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: to be an interesting case study because their schedule is
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: going to pick up now. But they are a team
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: that a lot of people, me included thought had the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: potential to be a dark horse in this league. They
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: probably weren't getting enough attention. I mean, they've got dudes
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: offensively and kJ Jefferson coming in from Arkansas as the quarterback,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: if he can manage that team. Well, their question is
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: this defense, and that's what it's been the last couple
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: of years. But offensively, they've got dudes, they've got speed
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: and Harvey is absolutely lights out.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be fun to watch see how that all goes.
• 29:18
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• 29:20
  Speaker 1: those musings. That's what we would call some musings, number
• 29:23
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• 29:40
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  Speaker 2: What are you bartering. What are you giving her bread?
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• 32:13
  Speaker 1: got a pail, we got getting ready for winter. We
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: got our our window insulation units plastic that we put
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: on there. It's just amazing. Time to tidy up the windows.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Stop those cold drafts. Go to episode eight hundred dot
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: com and get your window insulation. Boy, the things we do,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the things we do for you folks, just trying to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: take care every angle. Let me give you an update
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: on the beer. Connection three oh four has exploded thanks
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to the folks at Parkersburg Brewing. Currently have three production
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: runs that are in fermentation. First, we'll be ready at
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the end of this week. The other two we'll be
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: ready next week. Connection three oh four is heading to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the Eastern Panhandle. Martin's Distributor will be distributing in the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Eastern Panhandle over the next few weeks. Also heading to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Spriggs Distribution early next week. You'll start to see the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: beer available in the next week in Charleston and at Huntington.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: These three batches will help us expand across the state.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Then we will refill. Obviously, the epicenter of Connection through
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: four remains the food court, and they've got all kinds
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: of stuff. All the ingredients are for future batches making
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: their way into the Parkersburg Brewery. I mean, these are
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: exotics that we're bringing in on this beer. And then
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: we're going to create a map of all the locations
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and have it available on episode eight hundred to tell
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you where and where the beer's available.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: What about the Gomart?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're well stocked at the go marts. Okay, yeah,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: well they were. I mean we had some. It sold
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: out a couple places this past week. He just gave
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you what about the gomart, It was more than one.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see it getting over the Eastern penhintoy.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw people. The last the last product that
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: we had really struggled, literally, Homeless Day would take six
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to's of self distribute, self distributed, Yeah, you know, your self.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Published, Yeah, distributor.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: So I think it is popping.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: So thank you to everybody that has tried it has
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: purchased it. So now it will be available statewide asap.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Hey, even if you don't like beer, just buy it
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: for the can. It's a piece of art. It's gorgeous can.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: It is great. Off to a good start, Texter Tony.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Whatever info Hoppy has regarding the Mothman is in corerecked.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to drive a wedge between you two,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: but Hoppy's saying that your information does not add up
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and his does is all based on myth. Brad the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: moth Man would like to hear your take. Sign j
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in GBC, is it be Greenberg County? I talk to
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the moth Man.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want to talk to the moth about all
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: due respect to the moth Man. Have a very healthy
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: respect for the Mothman and the legend of the Mothman.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Jason Watson from Pulaski, Virginia's at Pulaski. People jump on
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you on that eye. Is it the Pulaski? Right?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm not sure it's right outside of Blacksburg.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Tony, love the show. My pop's got me
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: listening to you guys back in August. I look forward
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to every episode. You guys make my mouth water every time
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you talk about the food court. In your opinion is
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: your what is your favorite rivalry for West Virginia is
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: at Pitt Tech or Marshall. I know these are that
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: we're past the rivalry week, but I'm just curious. Favorite
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: rivalry easy, right, Yeah, it's it's Pitt I mean at Virginia.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: But there's something about going to Blacksburg, going to Lane
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Stadium that is different than all the other rivalries. Okay,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I mean Pitt is the rivalry because one hundred and
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: seven hundred and eight years whatever it's been, but that
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: that game at Blacksburg brad or having them come here.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Really great games against Tech. I mean, Pitt and Tech
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: are our way up there. Those are both awesome.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Tell you what, Gobbler's got a big weekend. Now the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Gobblers have already lost to the Vanderbilts. They lost to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the fighting Chianos. Now they got to go to Miami.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: That's a Friday night game, I believe. Is that a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Friday I think it is. Guys, I want to shoot
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: you this photo of p One, Jason and myself golfing
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: at Las Aungdeas Golf Club in Mace, Arizona. Thanks to
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Jason for hosting me and thanks to you guys. We've
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: become friends because of good efforting by Tony to connect
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: us last spring. Grateful for the podcast and for the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: winner of the Jayhawks signed by Matt and Tulsa.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: That's what we do, just bringing people together.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Hey, tell you what, man, we're in Jason Golf's more
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: than Scotti Shefflin. He's got a great gig. We are
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: doing it wrong.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Remember he's the guy, He's the one I had breakfast
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: with there in Lubbock. He's moved around a bunch of times,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and they stepped in that hole. Damn near killed.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Himself on a golf course.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad we brought those two mountaineers who are
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: living out there together. So Election three, that's awesome. How
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: about this one? Hello from Tanzania and the Serengetti. We
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: listened to the Kansas game in Rwanda. What a comeback.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: There's our folks. They are Charlie from Champion, also known
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: as Joe.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Now I have I have been to Rwanda? Kilgolly, have
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: you been?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Well? That is that where they are?
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Well? The Serengetti is not in Rwanda.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: But never mind, man, they don't they get tired. Martha
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and Charlie go, they go. I mean, it's a it's
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a chore for us to think about. Hey you want
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: to go down Charleston.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Really running around the Serengetti.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: See off week goes a buckwheat Festival, Texter.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: We made the drive up to Pittsburgh on Sunday with
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: family to watch the Steelers and it was amazing to
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: hear how happy the fans are with Zach Fraser should be.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: He's been a great ambassador for the state and university.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: It's great to see him flourish. Here's a picture of
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: him standing alone and hustling to the opposite end of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the field in between the third and the fourth quarters.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Goes to show he hasn't changed and he's still busting
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: his ass in the NFL. And some pictures of the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: tailgate for there you go look the whole mind. Well,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that's pretty, very nice and colorful, very.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Nice to go from college the picture right there, to
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: the National Football League and start and be performing at
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: the level he's performing that that's in the one half
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: of one at that position. Correct, at that position, that's
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the one half of one percent.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Just lines up and does it. Did it as a
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: freshman at Fairmont Senior, did it as a freshman here,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: doing it as a rookie in the NFL. He I mean,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: it's just it doesn't matter the jersey he's put on.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: He just handled it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: He does a lot of things that if it wasn't
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: on a football field, you get arrested for. What do
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: you mean, beats people up? He just mauls people and
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: beats him up, throws him on the ground and jumps
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: on top of him. You can't do that on the street,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: get in trouble. That's his job. Now, Hey, three guys,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: My wife and I were at North Myrtle this past
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: week and a gentleman approaches at a restaurant wanted to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: ask me about my truck because he's considering to buy
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: and one like it. It came up in conversation that
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: he lived and we lived in West Virginia. Of course
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: he did. He asked how far from mate wom because
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: he had once married a woman from there. Always a
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: West Virginia con action. Interesting way to phrase it. How
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: about this sign, boys, George from Mingo County. This is
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: how to start a rainy Thursday. There it is the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: South's best Biscuit, is what it says. Tudor's Biscuit World, folks,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the home of the South's best biscuit. What a fantastic
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: honor that is?
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: What's it doing on a chain link fence?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Just advertise wherever you can get, advertise where you can
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: get that? Well, why hoppy trying to get top of
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: mind awareness? You put it on a fence. Who else
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: would think there was a biscuit poster out of fence?
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: What did it do? It just made you think of
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: tutors sent in by all means, despite the fact that
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the world champions aren't playing this week, and we strongly
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: encourage you at some point this week and get out
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: to a Tutor's. Take advantage of that Mountaineer biscuit that
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: has been voted as the South's best biscuit. And if
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: you're really entrepreneurial, don't ever forget that they are expanding
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: their franchises right now over seventy locations across our area.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Why not think about this? You go in day one,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: You got brand equity in that Tutor's biscuit, and you
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: can start your day the homemade way. Franchises are available
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: the Tutor's Biscuit World. Would it surprise you that I'd
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: eat one right now? No?
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: No, because I'll offer to help you because of your
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: bad food management. By the way, you think this is
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: a good business, I'm gonna sell biscuits in West Virginia.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Pretty good business. That's good business.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Find a need and fill it. Yeah, text, or due
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: to the success I decided to enroll at West Virginia.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, okay, stops screwed up. Okay, here
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: we go. This is the text I say, is a
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: top five text of all time, this one right now
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: you're about to read which one?
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Inspired by?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Yes? Okay? Go so last week or last show? Sunday
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: we read a text from Matt from Morgantown who was
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: commenting on the re union of the Elitate basketball team
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: and how he took what he learned from that group
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: became a coach just like all it all it changed
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: his life. Okay, then I got this text. In two
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: thousand and five, I was fresh out of high school
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: and I was coaching freshman basketball in my hometown. Part
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Way through the college hoop season, the Mountaineers caught my interest.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I studied their system and I installed it with my
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: freshman team, running the five out spread in the one
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: to three to one, mimicking the great Coach Bline. We
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: went on to win seventeen straight games, which landed me
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: a varsity coaching job a couple of towns over Due
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: to this success, I decided to enroll at WVU for
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: graduate school, where I had a transformative experience. Sticking with
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: the two thousand and five teams spacing principles and the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: staple one three to one defense, I went on to
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: become the winningest high school basketball coach at the school
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I took over with the most conference titles. I also
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: obtained a master's degree from West Virginia University. Fast forward,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I have created my own leadership development consulting business where
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I work with captains, coaches, and athletic directors in the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: state of Massachusetts. Moreover, I was just hired by WVU
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: as an adjunct faculty member to teach sport leadership. It
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: gets better. I now have three kids and they're die
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: hard Mountaineer fans. I am making the trip to campus
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: nineteen October for k State and bringing my eight year
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: old and four year old for the very first time
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: to West Virginia. My eight year old told me if
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: she could travel anywhere in the world, it would either
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: be Paris or West Virginia too.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Often incase exactly, my.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Son said, Disney World or Morgantown.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Same thing.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: We are fired up to try Tutors Biscuit World when
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: we get to campus, and I might dull and some connection.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Three oh four long winded text comes back to the
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: impact that the two thousand and five basketball team had
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and the direction my life took because of it. Signed
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Gordy from Massachusetts is credible.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Those that is, those seminal moments, something happens in somebody's
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: life and the arc begins to bend and takes you
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: in a certain direction.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of things though. Right there, that's a
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: direct result. People often talk about what athletics does for
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: a university direct Now it's one person, I realized, But
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: how about that the direct result of that basketball team
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: gets him here, changed the course of his life.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Incredible.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I shared that with I shared Matt from Morgantown, and
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: I shared that one with John. Did you because I
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: think as a coach, those are the ones that those
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: are great victories, right, those are like huge, great text.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Cordy Texter. I have a theory maybe Garrett's accuracy is
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: low ish because he doesn't throw a lot of short balls.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Why doesn't he throw short passes because he doesn't need to.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: He scrambles often gay more yards than a short checkdown,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: so most of his passes end up being longer, which
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: are inherently lower percentage. Just a theory. I'm curious if
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: met Brad's numbers would back this up. John and La
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: it was something there, Right, You're going to research that
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: because I've got this this is This is a very
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: emotional text. Okay. As I sit here reading this, struggling
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: to determine if kickoff was at five pm Eastern, four
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: pm Central, four pm Eastern, three pm Central, I developed
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: tears in my eyes. As I reached the bottom of
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the graphic. I called friends, family, and I went to
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the highest mountain at my hunting camp and screamed, we
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: finally did it. All times are eastern on the Big
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: twelve TV times for the week. God bless America. We
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: did it.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: They've been on a nice roll. That's been every week
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: this season. I think they haven't gone backwards last year
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: there was some slippage. Yeah, I think I think they
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: have crossed that rubicum.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: By the way, when they came out with the four
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: o'clock for Oklahoma State, I thought we better check that.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: That's a weird time has had three? Is that four?
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: That was weird? That's stupid text? Or just finished listening
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: to the Three Guys. Tony's last comment made me laugh.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Many probably didn't get it, but the fighting schianos, how
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: many times has he been at Rutgers? Rutgers erse excellent
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: reference to Rutgers made me laugh out loud.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Bud and Lexington when I was traveling with the Mountaineers.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: For some reason, I have more memories of going to
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Rutgers than anyplace else. And I don't know why.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: We had good meals.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, I had good meals.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: We had good meals, remember, And they had a good
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: booth too, nice booth.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Nice booth.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice booth.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: No parking problems.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I received several texts on the following topic. I didn't
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: use some of them because they became repetitive. But on
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the last episode, I screwed up with Fred Munster and
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of people you called him Fred Munster. Yeah,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: got a lot of people called me out. So anyway,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: how about this guy, Hey, Tony, how could you call
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: herman Munster? Fred? The man was a legend. It's like
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: calling Mohammad Ali Abdullah Ali, or Bart Starr Bert Star
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: or Willie May's Billy Mays. Get it together, man.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Well, you got confused because it's Fred Gwynn.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Fred Gwinn. Then your mom know Fred Gwinn neighbors.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, wait what excuse me? What truth?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: His mom was unbelievable?
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: What do you got on Fred Gwinn? It's really wild
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: in that text. I could go deeper on on that text.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Who they lumped together? Uh?
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Live by Fred Gwenn? Who did my mother growing up
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: live by Fred Gwinn would.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Drive could drive by the house, and mister Gwinn would
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: be in the front yard waving to the to the
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: young young ladies, young kids.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: He's from Iowa. Huh, yes, that was in New York.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: And oh, ok, here's in New York. But wait, here's more. Well, yeah,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: you've heard this one. Who'd your mom used to have
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Sunday dinner with?
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: Uh gentleman by the nit? Well, there's there's a couple people.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: But who hosted.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: One of her very good friends growing up was Jill Cosell,
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: daughter of Howard And who is Howard Cosell famously friends
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: with back in the day, a young Cassius Clay. Okay,
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: and would have Sunday dinners at the house.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: So who all was there?
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Ali Cells, then Cassius Clay and my mom randomly walking in?
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've told me that's a great that's a great thing.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: You gotta tell that one like every that's too good.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: You got to just keep going.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: It isn't unbelievable. I don't do.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: That's Monday dinner, past the gravy pleats.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Joe Cashus, could I get some rolls.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Oscar bonnavena text her. I waited.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, at that time, how many rooms is Howard
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: cusse Hellen where he's not the most famous person in
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: the room. There wasn't many, especially in his own house.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Plus it must have been I mean he must. He
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: must have been young because he was still cash his.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Clay, Archie Moore, Floyd Patterson, Sonny, listen, that is great.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: You beg your mom don't have a picture right, not right?
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Texter. I waited until the text line slowed down,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: but I wanted to follow up with TC on the
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: mowing information. Remember I said mowing grass is a great job. Yes, yes,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: So this guy comes in he says, I agree with
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you that it is a great job, aside from the
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: occasional rain and bad customers. Now I say this with
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: a prep with a preface. Joan did mention the artificial
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: turf in the back of the new crib. So if
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: you ever get a hankering to cut, I've got you
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: and find look and fill a customer list ready to go.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: He always said you would like to sit back and
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: cut some grass on occasion. Lol. I did not put
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: artificial turf in my backyard.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Are you mowing room?
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Yes? I will, yeah, absolutely, Okay, Yeah, I did not
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: go artificial turf. However, with this recent drought, I.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish you did. You had your turf? Did
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: your turf stand up?
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Fantastic? Really put so much water on it. Mub came
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: over to the house and said, yeah, we think you
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: got a lake. Seriously they did, And I like, no,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: they did? They really? Yeah, absolutely, I think we got
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: a leak your your we got we noticed this instead.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I like, na, there's no leak. We're running about six hoses, buddy,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: we're going.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Got your water billing six thousand dollars.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Well four thousand less but a little bit more. Really yeah,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: oh my god. It's price you pay for water, Hoppey.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: I talked to Jeff Jenkins about it. Jeff Jenkins says,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: and Morgantown water is cheap. You come down to Charleston
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: that it costs you.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: A lot more, but then you're not Arizona Jackets water.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: This came from utility board meeting Texter Hi fellas. I'm
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: one of the eighty five thousand or so fans that
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: made their way back into the stadium for the the
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: end of the Kansas game. It was awesome to see
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the team have a moment like that pay off for
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: all the blood, sweat and tears they've invested. While I'm
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: not as old as scopes and the opseecutioner stats, I'm
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: not sure about it. As I have aged, game outcomes
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: have less influence on my emotional well being. Don't misunderstand
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: games and outcomes very important. After all, That's why I
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: drive ten hours each way to attend. That's why coaches
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and now some players get paid very handsomely, et cetera.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure my mom shout out to MJ
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: and Savannah, wife and kids still love me after a loss,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: and I still get to go to work each day
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: no matter whether the Mountaineers win or lose. Perspective is undefeated,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Robin Atlanta.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Healthy for that good.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: Shout out to MJ and Savannah and j just love her.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Met her ye at a game last year.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Texter. Hey, three guys, Tyler from Mineral County. You guys,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: ever hear of a guy by the name of Andy
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: codah Licke asking for a friend.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm glad you got that in. We had
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: not mentioned him. We're half hour in head and.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Texter, Hi, three guys. I want to give a
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: shout out to a couple of Pitt fans. I flew
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: in from Portland for the game. After the non hold
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: then blocks punt for a TD, I lost my composure.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I turned the crowd behind me and flashed the WVU
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: hand sign, accompanied by the verbal translation. Two Pit fans
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: gave it right back with the same translation. After about
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: a minute, I turned around again and I apologized. These
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: two guys took it entirely in stride, gave me fist
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: bumps and told me not to worry about it. We
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: exchange pleasantries throughout the game. Signed by a Humboldt in
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest Seane also healthy pat from Ohia County.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I was very close to sending an in game text
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: last Saturday, but I refrained because of the reasons you
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: three guys always discuss. My comment would have been, are
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: we sure that we always have eleven players out there
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: on defense? It really seemed like we were outnumbered at times.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I was also excited to get to shake hands with
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Kevin Pittsnaugle during the weather delay. KP was out there, Texter. Hey,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: three guys. I've got a couple of observations for the
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: fans and certain journalists that want Neil Brown fired West Virginia.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Number one, West Virginia is not a dream job for
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Power four coaches. We would get a coach who was
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: fired from Power four group of five to six or
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: seven school an FCS coach all looking to make a name. Two.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: The last time a coach was fired from West Virginia
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: there was a huge exodus of players. Coach Brown has
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: certainly reduced the negative effects of the portal since he's
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: been there. I don't know if Coach Brown should stay
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: in his position past the end of his contract, but
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I don't do not know, but I do know that
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call that, the climb will start
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the hill. Again, Signed by Frank Well.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I think firing these conversations or these Jack Wieners that
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: start talking about firing, put on your reality cap. Neil
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Brown's not going anywhere. I mean, W's athletic department budget
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: right now is trying to figure out how to pay
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: players next July twenty million dollars. There's that's the only
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: concern right now of doing your business. And right now
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: it's two and two, So just chill acts and let
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the season play. Hey, this guy wants me to yell Hello.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Three guys writing to support the anti kotal Niki mentioned
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: index in the West Virginia connections. Did you know Coda
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Nicki played and coach is the offensive coordinator at Wisconsin
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: River Falls where Owen Schmid played. Yeah, we already talked about.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: That was the gi doc uh Texter. I stopped in
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: at Gomart and I checked in for some connection three
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: oh four. Well that's where it was anyway, I can't
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: keep it on the shelf, so there it is just
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: a barren space where connection three to oh four head lived.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Coming soon. Thank you for checking it out. Now it's
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: gone be back soin. Don't forget folks Gomart. You know
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: it's Lee.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: I heard Tucker County is at peak Leaves Hobby.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what was supported today by Chelsea Ruby.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, grand weekend. Then to go do some leaf looking
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: and if you do, you're gonna need food, You're gonna
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: need fuel. Make go March your place to go. If
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: you got the little ones with you, You're gonna have
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: to get some candies. C A N D I E. S.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to get some candies. Nice reces Rec's
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: mallow cups, M and M. Hershey's playing Hershey's with almonds. Baby,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: hurry on those recent peanut butter cups.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: The dealers are gonna run out, yeah, into the thing
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: that weset yet reset the start of them on.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Same with the Eminem's.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Charleston shoes underrated, very good, used to like they still
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: make those. Oh yeah you can get them. Yeah, check
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: out go Mart. They got it for you. Get the
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: rewards card, Milky Way, Texter, Grant and Parkersburg. Is there
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: a breakdown of inside versus outside runs for CJ. Donaldson
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: and Jahem White. It feels like CJ is getting a
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: lot of stretch. White getting a lot of inside appears
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: to counter contradict their respective strengths. However, is it quite
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: possible those runs just stick out to me and are
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: not supported by numbers? How about stats?
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: What do you have to see?
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: J thirteen total carries around the left end or right end,
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: sixteen total carries through the A gaps.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, almost fit bout.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: If you look through West Virginia's distribution of gaps that
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: it's running through, it really is. It's pretty balanced. You
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: know what's interesting though, the most first downs rushing for
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: West Virginia have come around the right end and very
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: successful there, Rick Malone seven point one yards per attempt
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: around the right end.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Is that because the job Malone's doing or because they're
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: stacking up on ten rushing first ep expecting to run
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: on my limb side.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: Well, your other eight first downs coming around the left edge,
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: averaging six point one yards per carry. So your two
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: most successful rushing areas are where following behind your two
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: blockers that are having really good season.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: So far, Dustin and st Albans right say nine yards.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Per carry right up the a gap on the right side.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Quarterback draw Texter, I know we're discussing a lot of football,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: as we should, but is there any word when the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: full basketball schedule will be released? I love the show?
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Dustin saying, oh, but yeah, Dustin, I've got information on
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: that today. They're going to release it March eighteenth. Yeah.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: I thought they were just going to go ahead and
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: like play the first couple games then release the next
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: few games.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: And they'll come after.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: That, they do a postgame reveal. Hey, here's who we're
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: playing next.
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: Listen, there's a one hundred and twelve teams in this
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: league to that matrix. Can you imagine doing the scheduling
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: matrix in this league?
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Well, so here's what's going on from a base distance. Obviously,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: it's a computerized system that shoots out the schedule. There
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: have been multiple back and forth with the schedules. Schools
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: look at and go, you gotta be freaking kid me.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: They ask for changes everyone, and so it goes back
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: and forth. But you're right, man, what the heck is?
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: It's it's October almost and the schedule's not out. Now
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: you know who you're playing home away, but you don't
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: know when. What do you think, dude? Soon? Right? Days? Yeah?
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: A couple of days? Yeah?
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Is the non conference out?
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, that's all done. Yeah, it's all done.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Doesn't the season start like a we already played two games?
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: October eighteen is the October eighteen is the exhibition? Yeah?
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Incredible?
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Hopy you riled some people up. Okay, guys, I have
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: a messaged in a while, but this has pushed me
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: over the edge. You guys, are pushing to duck Alabama. Yes,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Neil's also clearly scared of them. You have repeatedly stated
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: that beating Penn State is not reasonable for WVU. These
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: are the games I want to see. I want to
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: play Bama. Will they beat us? Maybe? If we don't
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: think we belong on that field with the big boys?
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Oh how far have we fallen? Maybe I'm stuck in
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: the past. But Rich feared nobody. I love Hoppy I
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: have for years, but his vision for Mountaineer football has
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: me fume. Seven win seasons we should celebrate that making
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: a bowl? Who cares? Everyone goes to a bowl. If
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: the pinnacle of what we should hope for with a
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer football team is mediocrity, then I have a lot
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: of stuff to reconsider. I know this is poorly worded
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: and not likely to be read on the show, but
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I'm too annoyed to care. I love you guys, and
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: this isn't about coach Brown either. If the wv fan
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: base urines for seven wins, mediocrity and Mayo Bowls, then
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say. For the first
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: time in my life, maybe I need to reconsider Chris
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: and Hurricane I laughed in between her because all of
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: a sudden, I started to sound like Andy Rooney. I
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: know this is poorly worded and not likely to be right,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: but anyway, all right, Hoppy, what do you got?
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Oh? Just I think that West Virginia cannot realistically expect
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: to compete with Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, maybe not
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: even Texas, those schools that just have these gigantic budgets.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: And it's not They've never competed evenly with Penn State ever. Ever,
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: you've never been in this going back maybe to the
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: mid nineteen fifties, but you've never been on the same
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: level as Penn State in football.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: You just haven't.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: So I don't know how you would. I mean, they
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: get one hundred and five thousand fans or whatever, So
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you would expect to do that.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: And this is a tough league. There's a lot of
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: equality in this league. And you're with teams that you're
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: you're similar with Kansas State or Iowa State, or or
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Kansas or Oklahoma State, and it's going to be a
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: coin flip for a lot of these games. And so
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: you know, Rich had a lot of success and they
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: had a lot of talent, not taking anything away from them,
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: but had you had a couple of gimmes on that
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: schedule back in the day, and you don't have any
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: gimmes now except for the U Albany so seven wins,
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: eight wins bowl game. I think that's fine. Listen.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: There's just no benefit to playing those games right now.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: Until college football behaves like college basketball and gives you
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: credit for losing tough games, which college basket bold does,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: then West Virginia does not need to be an outlier
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: in playing a difficult schedule with the two power fives.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with being scared, has nothing
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: to do with if you want your goal to be
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: winning seven games. Those are false arguments there. The fact
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: is you don't get rewarded for playing those games. Go
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: win games. Just win games, and this league is good
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: enough that you're in a shot to play for a
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: national championship. That's the point of this. This isn't about
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: being scared or trying to do anything other than you
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: are not rewarded right now in college football for that
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: part of the equation.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: You're just not I would just add to that, Chris,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying, I would say, I don't
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: think Neil is scared. I think that you just have
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: to have, as these guys have said, smart scheduling. If
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: it was Alabama and then an FBS and an FCS team,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: a group of five team and then a lower level team,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: I don't think Neil's got any problem with that. I
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: think his point was, why are we banging our heads
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: and playing these multiple power fives among the three conference
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: games when no one else is doing it? So if
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: it's just our philosophy is this, let's do what everyone
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: else is doing and don't try to do more than that.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: That's all we're saying. And I think there's new Big twelve.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, we can be extremely competitive in this new
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Big twelve. It's right there for you. It's going to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: be hard like usual. You know, to your point, Hopy,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: you know you're not going to be like Ohio State.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: You're not going to be like Michigan. You're not going
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: to be like Penn State.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Never were.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: It never worked before, nil before, you just never were.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: That's just the world that it is. So you just
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: continue to play. And this program has had success, this
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: program will continue to have success. But we're I was
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: just specifically talking about don't overschedule.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: That's all which you've been overscheduled. Oh god, real quick.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: Two thousand and seven. You controlled your own destiny. You
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: beat a bad pit team and you're playing for a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: natty agreed, agreed, not even debatable, No, right, Yes, you
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: played Western, Michigan, Marshall, Maryland, East Carolina, South Florida, Syracuse,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Mississippi State, Rutgers, Lewisville, Cincinnata, Connecticut, pitt and you were
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: you were in control of getting yourself to a national
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: team and who was the murderer's road there, and that
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: some of those big eat teams were better than people
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: give them credit for. But there was no Alabama there.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: There was no Georgia there, there was no Ohio State there,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: there was no Michigan there. The stadium was packed, it
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: was rolling. You were a national story. You do not
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: have to play the most difficult schedule in the country.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: You just don't.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm wondering this is another rob from old fields.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if we, as West Virginia fans, are trying
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: to make ourselves more relevant than we really are. I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: feel like we're a top twenty five program overall, but
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: after some beverages, I'm starting to think it might just
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: be us that believe that. I mean, historically your top
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: twenty five program in both sports.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: And you finished last season top twenty five in the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: coaches poll, so you're right there.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: This pretty interesting story. Chris from Jackson, Michigan. I grew
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: up in Fairmont in the eight I'm gonna speed read this.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: I graduated. I grew up in Fairmont in the eighties,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: graduated from East Fairmont. Moves have taken me to Ohio
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: and Michigan. I was thankful to discover this podcast a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: few years ago. Gives me a connection. I've lived in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Michigan twenty three years. From time to time, I see
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the Flying WV logo. Recently, in a public waiting room,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: struck up a conversation with a guy who was wearing
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: a UCF hoodie. I asked if he was a fan,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: started talking about their upcoming game with Colorado. I casually
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: mentioned that I grew up in West Virginia and we'd
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: be playing UCF later this year. He talked about last
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: year's UCF West Virginia game. Then he noted I had
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: a cousin who played football. For WVU. I was tempted
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: to say, of course you did. When I kept that
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: one to myself, my curiosity peaked. I inquired who was it?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Turns out it was none other than Pat White. We
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: then went on to talk about the Pat White, Steve
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: Slave and era of West Virginia football, an unexpected conversation
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: that was too good to pass on. Thank you, guys
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: for providing a sense of nostalgia and connection to home
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: for those of us who have been uprooted from almost heaven.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Listening to you all is Listening to you all is
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: to the ears what eating a Colli Cessinos pizza or
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: a Yan's hot dog and a Pepperoni role is to
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: the taste buds. Thanks for your insights into the team
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: we all love. For keeping it entertaining. Let's go out here,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: as Chris from Jackson, Michigan. That was very nice. Yeah,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: that's why we created connection three oh four?
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: That's right, always a connection always.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: Like a Yan's hot dog right now too, now that
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: I could eat too.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Those are good?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: You have two of those? Oh yeah, you have to
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: have milk with those.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Right, chocolate? Probably a beer? Ooh?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Connection three or four? Yeah, gentlemen, did I hear you correctly,
• 1:04:52
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  Speaker 1: that time was not compatible with a religious school, so
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  Speaker 1: I entered the transfer portal. Given West Virginia's reputation for partying,
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  Speaker 1: and I took an official visit to Morgantown. There was
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  Speaker 1: no nil so I got all. All I got was
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  Speaker 1: a red solo cup with my name written on it
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  Speaker 1: with a black sharpie at a tailgate party. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: committed on the spot. I remember one day as a
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  Speaker 1: student anxiously awaiting the newest Playboy Party school rankings, only
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  Speaker 1: to be disappointed that West Virginia didn't make the list.
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  Speaker 1: Then we noticed an asterisk at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: page Playboy declared US professionals, making us ineligible to be ranks.
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  Speaker 1: At that moment, I knew my work was done and
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia was my new home. Do you know when
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  Speaker 1: Dave attended It's a small school, and I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: we crossed paths back in the day. Signed by p
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  Speaker 1: One Scott in Stafford, I sent that to Dave.
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  Speaker 2: What did home miss Dave say?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said religious school question mark, Um, Randy, and State
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  Speaker 1: College is pissed at your hoppy about your comment as
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  Speaker 1: well about Penn State and the whole thing. So basically
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  Speaker 1: it's the same conversation, Randy, we love you, Love you
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  Speaker 1: Andry Grant from DC by the way of Morgantown. Question
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  Speaker 1: for Brad, now that we're four games in data points crystallizing,
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  Speaker 1: would you feel good about having an over six and
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  Speaker 1: a half win total ticket in your back pocket?
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  Speaker 3: It's a good question. I liked the over six and
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  Speaker 3: a half before the season. I thought Pitt needed to
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  Speaker 3: be one of those. So you're gonna have to do
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  Speaker 3: work coming down the stretch here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Two. West Virginia currently sits with the six the
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  Speaker 1: best odds to win the Big twelve at plus two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Would you sprinkle any of your Reces Cup pocket change
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  Speaker 1: on those odds?
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm, you're in the hunt. Would you buy a ticket
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  Speaker 2: at six and a half today?
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  Speaker 1: Good question, Harvey.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like it a little bit lower because the lofts
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  Speaker 3: are pitt. I'd like them to give another one again. Guys,
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  Speaker 3: it just comes down to that you've already You've just
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  Speaker 3: had two literal coin flip games the last two, one
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  Speaker 3: more coming. I've got a couple more coming here. Now
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  Speaker 3: he's looking at it the right way. You would want
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  Speaker 3: to buy ahead of those games. Ideally you would have
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  Speaker 3: liked to get him before the Kansas game. On the future,
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  Speaker 3: but they're gonna be in the mix. Utah looks really good, right,
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  Speaker 3: We joke about that. I mean, that was the preseason
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  Speaker 3: pick for a reason. They look really good.
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  Speaker 2: Schedule wized and they went on the road without their
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  Speaker 2: starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, just stay in the mix till you get
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  Speaker 3: to November.
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  Speaker 2: See what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You want to know, stay around scope spreads and the
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  Speaker 1: tailgate Dean my week question, is there any discussion Big
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  Speaker 1: twelve will go to divisions and eight conference games per year?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: Like the SEC, It would be great for us to
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  Speaker 1: have four non conference games. They would allow for two
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  Speaker 1: regional rivals per year, not Charlie and Charleston. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea I think that. I mean, if you most
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  Speaker 1: conferences are going away from divisions now, yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean I don't know if they're even thinking about that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I think they're you know now that
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  Speaker 1: Gonzaga is off the table, and the Connecticut and things
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  Speaker 1: not happen. Maybe uh, maybe up in Toronto trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a college to come in or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe done, you know, University of Mexico text or this
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  Speaker 1: whole nil mess just cracks me up so much that
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  Speaker 1: it happens to be UNLV. If it was nineteen eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: you bet tark the shark would come up with the
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  Speaker 1: next one hundred K.
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  Speaker 2: Brad and I talked about it on my public affairs
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  Speaker 2: showed me what a story that is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good story because it's it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: story that needs to happen and get out in the
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  Speaker 1: public because it's gonna hopefully start setting some parameters up
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  Speaker 1: in this stuff. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this thing happened so fast that you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: account for these circumstances arising. And so now that's that's
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  Speaker 2: what's happening. Some of these situations are coming up.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's rule number one in the law world,
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  Speaker 1: right verbal verbal agreements really are never they are never
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  Speaker 1: enforced the paper. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: College football recruiting hasn't always operated in the YEA world
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  Speaker 3: of signed contracts.
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  Speaker 2: In the negotiation they were still going old school, right,
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  Speaker 2: like we promise you this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, three guys, I had a blast at the food
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  Speaker 1: court last week and I got to spend a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes with Happy and he was happy to see me,
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  Speaker 1: and I enjoyed his company. Homeless Dave was a wonderful host.
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  Speaker 1: He introduced me to Hudson Clement's family. I can't I
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  Speaker 1: can verify that efforts are underway to get Huddy's dad
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  Speaker 1: to perform as I was there when the conversation was
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  Speaker 1: going on. By the way, your boy was on ESPN two.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the pick enjoyed. I'll see on October the eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: Elite one Jennings and Canals.
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  Speaker 2: Jennings Look at that, by the way, Jennings and his haircutting.
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  Speaker 2: So he saved his beard.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's it.
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  Speaker 2: He shaved his beard but kept his porn stash.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those are interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw Jennings at the tailgate.
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  Speaker 1: He says, you're wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Jennings is always there, always, Thank you. Jennings. He got
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  Speaker 2: caught he had came late, had a traffic issue on
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what's really funny, because you're now being
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  Speaker 1: identified as the anchor of the food court, like the
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  Speaker 1: guy who wouldn't show up a year ago. The guy
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  Speaker 1: would be he would you would just kind of like
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  Speaker 1: meander out.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're like the guy, Well you know what beer
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  Speaker 2: That's good, right, keep.
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  Speaker 1: a food court, I'm not even gonna say, because are
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  Speaker 1: we doing lunch again? And we'll get you next week.
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  Speaker 2: Plus, I'm just like minor celebrity.
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  Speaker 1: I don't pay for anything.
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  Speaker 2: You just wander in.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to get that urine beck. Yeah, you know, hey,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: three guys. Has there ever been an organization that displayed
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: more incompetence than the NCAA has in regards to nil
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  Speaker 1: in the portal? Maybe Enron, Perhaps the death cult group
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  Speaker 1: that thought they were all going to be whisked away
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  Speaker 1: on the hell Bop comet. The South African government that
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  Speaker 1: hired a sign language interpreter for Nelson Mandela's funeral who
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  Speaker 1: didn't actually know how to sign and was just waving
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  Speaker 1: his hands about during the televised ceremony. Seriously, though, how
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  Speaker 1: dysfunctional is the nc double A when they can see
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  Speaker 1: the train coming down the tracks and we still end
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: up with a situation like UNLV is facing with their
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  Speaker 1: former QB. The foolish administrators are gonna kill college football
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  Speaker 1: through their own inability to deal with the reality stirring
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  Speaker 1: them in the face. I love the show. Signed JD.
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  Speaker 1: Southern Coalfields, NCAA is still in business. Got the wrong
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  Speaker 1: people got You have people that don't understand how the
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: real world works. Presidents, they don't get it. They're not
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  Speaker 1: down to the dirt level of the the the organic
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: level of how this stuff really works. They have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: They well they're achazebics hoppy.
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  Speaker 2: Well but see that.
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  Speaker 1: That's just don't shut me down. It is.
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  Speaker 2: It is simple. It's actually I know, brave what you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna say, but it's actually simple because it's it goes
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  Speaker 2: back to the barter days that Tony's talking about. I
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  Speaker 2: mean a service, I provide a s us and you
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  Speaker 2: pay me for that service. I mean that is that's
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  Speaker 2: as old as economics existed in the world. And forget
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: about student athlete. Drop that, forget about that. They're professional
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: athletes and you need to deal with them in a
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  Speaker 2: professional business manner. What service are you going to provide?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: What is the value of that, What is it worth
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  Speaker 2: to me? What is it worth to you? And you
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: do a deal. That's pretty simple. Now, that's you should
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  Speaker 2: start from that point and forget about the whole you know,
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  Speaker 2: the concept of there's there's somebody playing now that I
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: think it's their eighth year, isn't there in Miami?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, here's the thing that you're You're not wrong
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  Speaker 3: by any stretch, but that's the easiest part of the
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  Speaker 3: whole thing. You're You're not going to get any debate
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  Speaker 3: from that. Inside it's again broken record alert. It's the
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  Speaker 3: execution of that. This is a massive organization with a
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  Speaker 3: massive amount of decision makers in there that this will
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  Speaker 3: surprise you don't all agree on how this should be handed.
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  Speaker 3: Add In, every time a decision or a rule tries
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  Speaker 3: to be put in place, the organization is getting sued
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  Speaker 3: in court and losing on top of that. So this
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: is not a defense of the NCAA. This is non
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  Speaker 3: defensive member institutions. They're behind and they've got to get
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: caught up. They all know that it is hard to
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: get caught up and get this thing in place. While
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: games and the process and the day to day continues
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: on down the tracks. It is a really it's a
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  Speaker 3: hard fix. We can come up with great answers sitting
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  Speaker 3: right here, and I'm not I'm not being sarcastic. We
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: can set around and come up with great answers. The
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  Speaker 3: implementation is what is a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: That is a that is a fair point because you're
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  Speaker 2: building the plane while you're flying a front.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, And again, you can't get people on a
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  Speaker 3: campus to agree and consensus, let alone a conference, let
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  Speaker 3: alone a country, let me nation, let alone all of
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  Speaker 3: these different sizes of institution.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's a hard fix here, guys. And it's
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: not just for football. It's not just for men's basketball.
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  Speaker 3: It's all the others. It's a it's a really difficult
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: business model that has outlived what it was intended and
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: designed to do. And it's a it is just a
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  Speaker 3: hard fits simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I talked to someone in the SEC this
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  Speaker 1: week and they told me something interesting that we kind
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  Speaker 1: of don't put into perspective. You know, not everyone in
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: the SEC is walking around with Daddy Warbuck's money. You know,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: there's a there's a level there as well that we
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes think whether they're in the SEC they're fine. I
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: mean the Mississippis, the Mississippi States, the Vanderbilts, and you
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  Speaker 1: know a few of these schools they're.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not Mississippi right now. Yeah take that, Take
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But there are schools in that league that just
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: aren't peeing money, and they're looking at it as well,
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  Speaker 1: saying like, how are we going to do this? They're
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: asking the question like all the other leagues are asking
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  Speaker 1: the question. And to your point, Brad, it'll never be
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  Speaker 1: right because the power brokers are never going to relent
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  Speaker 1: to make it equal. They're always going to want to
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