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The John Pennington Show – Monroe Win, Wide Receivers Malik Baker and Amari Airy, Coach Nate Baker, and Glenville State Preview · The John Pennington Show

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  Speaker 1: It's time for the John Pennington Show live from the
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  Speaker 1: pitch at Shawnee.
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  Speaker 2: Your weekly look inside the West.
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  Speaker 3: Virginia State Yellow Jackets.
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  Speaker 1: Join us all season long at the pitch to break
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  Speaker 1: down Yellow Jacket football like nobody else does with West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia State Head Coach John Pennington. Now, live from the
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  Speaker 1: pitch at Shawnee with Coach Pennington, here's Daniel Woods.
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  Speaker 4: The John Pennington Show is back for another week here
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  Speaker 4: live at the Pitch Sports Bar and Grill. West Virginia
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  Speaker 4: State University football is back for another week coming up
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  Speaker 4: on Saturday. And we're here to break down the action
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  Speaker 4: with you alongside... The head coach of the Yellow Jackets,
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  Speaker 4: John Pennington. We've got a jam-packed show coming for you tonight. Normally,
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  Speaker 4: we would have one or two special guests. Tonight, we
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  Speaker 4: will have three, and it will be a very, very
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  Speaker 4: fun night tonight for sure. Tight ends coach Nate Baker
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  Speaker 4: going to stop by. A couple of wide receivers as
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  Speaker 4: well with Amari Airy and Malik Baker coming as well
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  Speaker 4: to join the program tonight. But before we get to
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  Speaker 4: any of that, we've got a win to talk about,
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  Speaker 4: and that is Saturday's 48-14 victory over Monroe, and for
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  Speaker 4: that I will bring in the head coach, the man
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  Speaker 4: whose name is on the show, John Pennington of those
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  Speaker 4: West Virginia State Yellow Jackets, and coach, back-to-back wins, back-to-back
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  Speaker 4: coaches shows where we get to talk about wins.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's always better after a win. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 5: our guys made a lot of plays Saturday. They played
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  Speaker 5: hard all year, and they continue to play hard all
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  Speaker 5: three phases.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we got a lot to clean up.
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  Speaker 5: I was telling you before the show that We still
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  Speaker 5: made a lot of mistakes, but it's a lot more
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  Speaker 5: fun to correct those mistakes after a win. We did
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  Speaker 5: some really good things on offense in the first half.
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  Speaker 6: We were dominant. The defense had probably their best overall performance.
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  Speaker 6: I thought that Monroe team was really athletic. I thought
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  Speaker 6: they were talented.
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  Speaker 5: Going into it, we were pretty nervous going into it
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  Speaker 5: as a coaching staff because we knew what they were
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  Speaker 5: capable of and then had some big plays on special
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  Speaker 5: teams I think that helped a lot and And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, anytime defense holds a team to seven points,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to, you know, our offense is going to score.
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  Speaker 6: We know that.
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  Speaker 5: So it was a fun win. We got some younger
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  Speaker 5: guys in the game. But, you know, we still got
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  Speaker 5: a lot that we want to clean up. And it's
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  Speaker 5: a lot more fun to do that, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: when you come off a victory.
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  Speaker 4: I know with you being the special teams coordinator, it
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  Speaker 4: is always good to see some special teams plays. And
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  Speaker 4: you blocked a field goal and two punts. So, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: things were working in that regard. And that's just a
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  Speaker 4: heck of a way to set the tone, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I love that sound.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that double thud on those three kicks. Corlin
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  Speaker 5: Witcher did a great job putting a scheme together. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we thought we were going to block one. And they
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  Speaker 5: executed it. You know, DJ and Keyshawn. We kind of
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  Speaker 5: put their tight end in a bind, and Keyshawn ended
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  Speaker 5: up getting the block. But those guys did well. We
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  Speaker 5: come after every punt. We don't do punt returns.
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  Speaker 6: I never have. I don't really believe in it. I'd
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  Speaker 6: rather just get some pressure on the punter.
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  Speaker 5: And get a good returner back there to get some yards.
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  Speaker 5: We got a lot of faith in Malik Baker back
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  Speaker 5: there to not only, you know, get return yards, but
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  Speaker 5: we know he's going to catch anything in his vicinity.
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  Speaker 5: So we come after it, you know, try to get
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  Speaker 5: them to stay in protection so we can get some returns.
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  Speaker 5: But when you got, you know, Samaj Demps, Bobby Groves,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Shaka Griffin, we got guys like that, that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, every week they're kind of hungry to learn
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  Speaker 5: how we're going to try to come after each punt.
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  Speaker 6: And they executed at a high level.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, we, I think, I think Jordan Robertson
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  Speaker 5: probably could have blocked one too. You know, we, we
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  Speaker 5: had a couple of guys that probably could have blocked him.
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  Speaker 6: And then Tony Richardson got all the love.
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  Speaker 2: He scooped and scored.
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  Speaker 5: But Tony does a great job on that unit, too.
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  Speaker 5: So that was fun, you know, to see them have
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  Speaker 5: some success. And that double thud, you know, happened, you know, what,
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  Speaker 5: three times Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: So I enjoyed it. I know so did Corlin. And
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  Speaker 6: Ben McAllister does our shark unit. So he does a fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Job with that group. I was going to bring up
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Groves. We were talking about him a little bit
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  Speaker 4: before the show. Obviously, unique background for him. Freshman receiver,
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  Speaker 4: originally from England, played high school ball in the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: But you watch that guy on the practice field, you
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  Speaker 4: watch him on special teams, that guy will just run
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  Speaker 4: through your face. If you told him... like run through
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  Speaker 4: this brick wall there's a football on the other side
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  Speaker 4: he would do it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean he pretty much tries to do that we
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  Speaker 5: have to stop him we got to slow him down
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  Speaker 5: like bobby calm down a little bit you know um
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  Speaker 5: but you know that's what we i mean he's all
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  Speaker 5: yellow jacket i mean that's the kind of guys we
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  Speaker 5: want out there you know we'd rather tell you whoa
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  Speaker 5: than go uh and bobby's that kind of kid and
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  Speaker 5: uh you know he wasn't he was not the guy
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  Speaker 5: that we designed the punt block for yeah they just
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  Speaker 5: happened to But still, in practice, like, I'm the guy
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  Speaker 5: that they block punts on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So, like, at least, you know, hopefully they try and
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  Speaker 6: avoid the head coach so they get used to it.
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  Speaker 6: And Bobby almost took me out a couple times.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And he's not like, Bobby, you're not really supposed.
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  Speaker 2: To block the punt.
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  Speaker 6: Just don't hit the plant leg.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just don't hit the plant leg.
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  Speaker 5: And nobody, you know, no one came out to him,
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  Speaker 5: and he just goes hard all the time.
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  Speaker 6: And, you know, he came off the edge and got
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  Speaker 6: the block. So, you know, hats off to him.
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  Speaker 3: And he does a.
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  Speaker 5: Great job on all special teams. You know, he blocks
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  Speaker 5: his tail off. He comes after punts, whatever we ask
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  Speaker 5: him to do.
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  Speaker 4: Another week with Joe Daly at the controls. Back-to-back wins
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  Speaker 4: for him now as the starter. Going back to the
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  Speaker 4: game against Wheeling. So, again, how do you feel about
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  Speaker 4: the progress that he's made week over week?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you can see the game starting to slow down
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  Speaker 5: a little bit for him. You know, it takes, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Joe's a great player, but it takes reps. uh, when
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  Speaker 5: you're back there at quarterback, I mean, there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: going on. There's a lot going on with the defense
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  Speaker 5: and setting your own guys up. So you can see
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  Speaker 5: that he's, you know, he knows where to go with
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  Speaker 5: the ball pre-snap, uh, or he's, he's seeing it well
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  Speaker 5: pre-snap so he can, you know, read, you know, one
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  Speaker 5: guy instead of looking at three or four guys and
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  Speaker 5: he's getting the ball out of his hands and we
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  Speaker 5: got playmakers out there. Uh, and that's all he's got
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  Speaker 5: to do. You know, he's got to get the ball
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  Speaker 5: out there, get it in their hands and let them
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  Speaker 5: do the rest. And, uh, you know, when he gets
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  Speaker 5: out of the pocket, you know, he can run, uh, he's,
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  Speaker 5: He's going to look downfield first, and he had a
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  Speaker 5: couple big-time scramble plays.
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  Speaker 6: And that makes you feel great as a coach.
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  Speaker 5: You don't always have to call it perfect because you
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  Speaker 5: know Joe might just get out of there and run
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  Speaker 5: for a first down.
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  Speaker 6: You know, throw it up to, you know, A1 or Malik,
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  Speaker 6: you know.
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  Speaker 2: For a big play.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're going to talk to Malik Baker and Amari
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  Speaker 4: Erie here in a couple of minutes. But for Malik,
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  Speaker 4: coming off of a performance Saturday where he ties the
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  Speaker 4: single game record for receiving touchdowns at State with four.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just what can you say about what he
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  Speaker 4: went out there and did Saturday?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't realize it until they told me about it
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  Speaker 5: in the second half. He does a great job in practice,
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  Speaker 5: week in, week out. It doesn't matter what the game
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  Speaker 5: plan is.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to go hard.
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  Speaker 5: He's blocking a little bit better. He's changing the narrative
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. He's had a couple big-time blocks. I
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  Speaker 5: think the football gods are good to you when you
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  Speaker 5: do those kind of things. That's the most touchdowns receiving
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  Speaker 5: since I've been at West Virginia State. A couple times
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  Speaker 5: he just flat-out dominated a defensive back on a jump ball,
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  Speaker 5: and then he caught a couple glances down there in
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  Speaker 5: the red zone. But a great route runner, great hands,
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  Speaker 5: strong finishes, tough catches, and it's just a matter of time.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes the game plan ends up working your way, and
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  Speaker 5: sometimes it doesn't, but he's always.
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  Speaker 6: He's always ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: And then I always like asking this question.
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  Speaker 2: You come off of a win.
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  Speaker 4: You've got a couple of days behind you now as
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  Speaker 4: you're getting ready for Glenville State on Saturday. What has
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  Speaker 4: the week of practice looked like now getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: go back into conference play?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it was intense. You know, yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we got after it.
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  Speaker 5: We got a lot more competition, a couple scraps on
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  Speaker 5: the field, got the energy going. We had a pup
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  Speaker 5: scrimmage to let the young guys get after it.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit.
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  Speaker 5: We started today with a a goal line period with
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  Speaker 5: all the young guys and let them, you know, have
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  Speaker 5: a little, you know, see if we could punch it
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  Speaker 5: in three yards.
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  Speaker 2: So that was fun.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, our guys love being around each other.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's like, you know, they're definitely are a family.
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  Speaker 5: They're brothers. And that's fun to watch. And I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, as a coaching staff, After a win or
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  Speaker 5: after two wins, you know, we're probably on them extremely
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  Speaker 5: hard right now because we want to make sure that
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  Speaker 5: no matter what happened on Saturday, that we're preparing a
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  Speaker 5: certain way.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter what happened, what the outcome was. We've
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  Speaker 6: got to prepare.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we've got to pay the price every single day,
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  Speaker 5: every single rep, every single practice if we want to
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  Speaker 5: feel good on Saturday. They've responded well. I mean, the
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  Speaker 5: energy was cranked up Tuesday. I heard a couple guys say,
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  Speaker 5: this is what you wanted, you know, talking to me.
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  Speaker 2: And it is.
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  Speaker 6: And it's been fun. It's been, you know, it's been physical.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't run as many plays, but we've been, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a lot more intense in those plays.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we've got Malik and A1 coming up here
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  Speaker 4: in a minute. So what do the people at home
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  Speaker 4: need to know about these guys before I start talking
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  Speaker 4: to them?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I mean, they're great leaders. Uh, they're great leaders.
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  Speaker 6: They, they, you know, receivers, I was a receiver, you know, and,
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  Speaker 6: and we get a, we get a rap that we're,
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  Speaker 6: you know, prima Donna, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 5: These two guys are, you know, they always have a
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  Speaker 5: great attitude. Uh, they play the game the right way. They're,
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  Speaker 5: they're always locked in on the game plan. I mean, there,
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  Speaker 5: there are two guys that you love coaching and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 5: they're going to do everything right during the week to,
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  Speaker 5: to prepare, you know, for game day. Plus they're great playmakers, uh,
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  Speaker 5: out on the field so you know they can win
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  Speaker 5: one-on-one matchups. But outstanding young men, outstanding leaders. It's been
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  Speaker 5: especially fun for me to watch, you know, Amari, you know,
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  Speaker 5: grow from a freshman and now, you know, in his
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  Speaker 5: fourth year, you know, leading guys.
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  Speaker 6: And, you know, those guys, they speak up in meetings,
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  Speaker 6: and when they talk, guys listen. And so I'm grateful
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  Speaker 6: that they, you know, that they've stepped up.
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  Speaker 5: And will say their piece in meetings to try to
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  Speaker 5: get guys to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 6: And so they're a lot of fun to coach.
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  Speaker 2: That conversation's coming up next.
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  Speaker 4: We're here until 8 talking West Virginia State football, and
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  Speaker 4: we are talking West Virginia State football with a couple
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: of wide receivers. We've got Malik Baker and Amari Airy
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: here with us. Guys, first of all, thank you for
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: coming out and joining the show tonight.
• 15:17
  Speaker 17: Thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: So let's talk a little bit first about Saturday, and
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: I want to start with you, Malik. Obviously, you got
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: four touchdown passes that tied the program record at West
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Virginia State. First of all, what's it like catching a
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: touchdown pass from Devin Cox?
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 15:36
  Speaker 17: We repped that and worked that weeks and weeks and weeks, man.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: I was happy that it worked.
• 15:40
  Speaker 17: I was happy that we got to do it. I
• 15:42
  Speaker 17: was happy that Dev got.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: To throw it. What was working for you on Saturday? Obviously,
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: you've developed that chemistry with Joe and Devin, but what
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: was working for you that you had that kind of day?
• 15:56
  Speaker 17: I just went out there and tried to have fun.
• 15:57
  Speaker 17: That was all I tried to do.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: And then, Amari, I'll bring you into the conversation because
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: you've had big days like that. You've had And you
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: had a nice performance on Saturday, too. So having this
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: guy opposite you, what is that like just to know
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: that no secondary can focus on one of you guys
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: when you go out there?
• 16:17
  Speaker 18: It's the best feeling in the world, honestly. I just
• 16:22
  Speaker 18: love going out there with the league. It gives me
• 16:25
  Speaker 18: stress off my shoulders. I know they can't kill on
• 16:29
  Speaker 18: any of us. We've got Devin Cox coming out the backfield.
• 16:32
  Speaker 18: We've got Joe Daly at quarterback position.
• 16:35
  Speaker 17: Our offense is really explosive.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: So obviously you got you've been here for four years
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Malik comes in last year but like I could tell
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: immediately last year like the chemistry that you guys had
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: working uh whether it was on the sideline on the
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: on the field together so like where did that come
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: from that like so fast over the last two years
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: it's just been like you guys like wide receiver 1A
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: wide receiver 1B basically.
• 17:00
  Speaker 18: We just we we work when when nobody else is
• 17:03
  Speaker 18: working We know we're the best receiver group in the conference,
• 17:08
  Speaker 18: so we just try to get everybody under us to
• 17:11
  Speaker 18: get along with us, and we just get after it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 17: And we get each other better.
• 17:19
  Speaker 19: Whenever we feel like somebody else can do something better,
• 17:22
  Speaker 19: there's no animosity or nothing like that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 17: We listen to each other, and we get better from
• 17:28
  Speaker 17: one another.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: So what's it been like watching Joe Daly this season?
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Because he was out there early with Brian, then had
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Caleb in there, and now it's been Joe the last
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: couple of weeks again. And like Coach was saying earlier,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: it's like you see it every week. That guy takes
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: steps forward. So what's it been like being the one
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: catching passes from him this year?
• 17:48
  Speaker 19: It's nice to see his confidence grow, and it's nice
• 17:51
  Speaker 19: to see him really get out of his shell and actually, like,
• 17:54
  Speaker 19: be Joe Daly, you know?
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 17: And he's a great player, and I'm happy to see
• 17:57
  Speaker 17: what's the future for Joe Daly.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Most definitely.
• 18:00
  Speaker 17: Same thing. I think it's big, like, on the confidence thing.
• 18:04
  Speaker 18: He's really grown a lot of confidence, and you can see,
• 18:06
  Speaker 18: like you said, every week he's getting better and better.
• 18:09
  Speaker 17: I can't wait to see what he does Saturday.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: So let's talk background for you guys a little bit. Mario,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: I'll start with you because you come to West Virginia
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: State out of high school, if I'm correct.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: So tell me a little bit about your recruiting process,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: how you got in touch with West Virginia State, and
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: how you ended up here. Junior year, I got offered.
• 18:29
  Speaker 18: Coach Lee came to my school, offered me, and he
• 18:32
  Speaker 18: recruited me hard my senior year, junior year. Came up
• 18:35
  Speaker 18: here on official visit, and I committed instantly on my
• 18:38
  Speaker 18: official visit.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: And I've been here ever since. Malik, for you, if
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I'm right, it's UT Martin, Charlotte, JUCO, and then here.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: So what was the recruiting process like for you first
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: out of high school to end up where you did
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: and then the moves that you made after that?
• 18:58
  Speaker 17: For me, I was COVID. So it wasn't a lot
• 19:01
  Speaker 17: of offers going around.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I went to UT Martin.
• 19:04
  Speaker 19: And then my head coach from St. Francis got the
• 19:06
  Speaker 19: job at Charlotte. And he offered me to come to Charlotte.
• 19:08
  Speaker 19: Went to Charlotte.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Things didn't really work out.
• 19:10
  Speaker 17: I didn't see me growing as a player. And ended
• 19:15
  Speaker 17: up going JUCO.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Had a great year.
• 19:17
  Speaker 17: And ended up being.
• 19:18
  Speaker 19: Offered by Coach Wood and Coach Cav. And I just
• 19:21
  Speaker 19: felt the love from the first day, the first call.
• 19:24
  Speaker 19: And then especially getting on a call with Coach Penn,
• 19:27
  Speaker 19: it just felt like this was going to be all
• 19:29
  Speaker 19: I was like.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So you played for Biff Poggi at St. Francis.
• 19:33
  Speaker 16: Yes, sir.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: What was that like? There's nobody like that guy.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Nobody.
• 19:38
  Speaker 19: It was an experience for sure. And I love Biff.
• 19:40
  Speaker 19: I have no bad words for Biff. But, you know,
• 19:43
  Speaker 19: Charlotte just didn't, things didn't go that way.
• 19:46
  Speaker 17: But it was– it's definitely experience. It's definitely some fun
• 19:49
  Speaker 17: playing for Biff.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I feel that. I feel that for sure. What was
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: it like just playing at St. Francis?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, with that much talent around you on a team?
• 19:58
  Speaker 19: You definitely didn't worry about nobody else doing their job.
• 20:02
  Speaker 19: You know, we had– In my class alone, I think
• 20:04
  Speaker 19: we had four or five draft picks this past year.
• 20:08
  Speaker 19: So it was definitely an experience, but it was a
• 20:10
  Speaker 19: lot of fun. You know, we were a family, and
• 20:12
  Speaker 19: I still talk to a lot of those guys to
• 20:14
  Speaker 19: this day.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: And then, Amari, you were talking about this wide receiver
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: room and just, like, watching this group develop has been
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: a lot of fun because, like, you've got you guys
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: that are the vets. And, like, I was talking to
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Coach Cav last week, talking about that group, and it's
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: like you've got you guys, but then, like, Malik Leggett
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: is coming along. Tony Richardson's making plays, like, all down
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: that line. We were just talking about Bobby Groves earlier.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Like I said, that guy would run through your face. But, like,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: what's it like watching those young guys, like, develop under
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: you over the last couple years?
• 20:45
  Speaker 18: It's a feeling to see you got young guys really
• 20:48
  Speaker 18: wanting to learn and get better every day, like, Sometimes
• 20:52
  Speaker 18: as an older guy, you just want to lead by example.
• 20:55
  Speaker 18: But with these guys, you've got to really tell them
• 20:57
  Speaker 18: how to get better because they want to be just
• 20:59
  Speaker 18: as good as we are. And they ask questions. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 18: they ask a lot of questions. That's what I love
• 21:04
  Speaker 18: about it. They want to get better. It's no like,
• 21:06
  Speaker 18: come on, bro, we need you to do this. It's
• 21:08
  Speaker 18: like they come to us and ask some questions. So
• 21:10
  Speaker 18: that's the love about it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: How valuable is that for you to have been a
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: guy that developed in this program to then turn around
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to those guys and say, you do this, you're going
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: to get where I am? That's a good question.
• 21:23
  Speaker 18: You just got to, I look at it like you
• 21:29
  Speaker 18: just got to keep your head down and when the
• 21:32
  Speaker 18: opportunity comes, you got to take advantage of it. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 18: like our young guys, they are taking advantage of their opportunity.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: So they're just earning trust.
• 21:38
  Speaker 18: And as soon as they get that, the real trust
• 21:42
  Speaker 18: is going to be good.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: And then when you look at this team as a whole,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: you talked about it, like the weapons that you guys
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: have on offense. It's kind of crazy. So when you
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: think about it, I'll ask either one of you this.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: What is it like to just go out there on
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the field and say, there's no way that they can
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: focus on me or double team me.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: And then if they do, somebody else is going to
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: get theirs.
• 22:07
  Speaker 19: It's a nice feeling because you know that you have
• 22:13
  Speaker 19: other people around. who can make those plays, and you
• 22:16
  Speaker 19: have that trust and that any play.
• 22:19
  Speaker 17: Call, you can be like, yeah, this could go. You
• 22:22
  Speaker 17: can score off this. So it feels good to know that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 18: To piggyback off that, I always say if they key
• 22:29
  Speaker 18: on me or say if they key on Lee, they're
• 22:31
  Speaker 18: going to have a big day. And if he reads
• 22:33
  Speaker 18: something like, I say, flow state, when he reads flow state,
• 22:36
  Speaker 18: it's over with. When he reads flow state, when Lee
• 22:38
  Speaker 18: reads flow state.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: It's over with. When I read flow state, it's over with.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Nobody can stop us or us.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: It's lovely.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: All right, don't look over there.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Don't think about the fact that your head coach is
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: sitting about 20 feet away from us right now.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: What's it like playing for Coach Penn?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 22:53
  Speaker 19: He built this family, and I feel like this is
• 22:57
  Speaker 19: the biggest family outside of my family I've ever had
• 23:02
  Speaker 19: in a locker room. And as you see, a lot
• 23:05
  Speaker 19: of people came and saw us. But I have no complaints.
• 23:10
  Speaker 18: Coach Penn, that's my guy. Not even as a coach,
• 23:15
  Speaker 18: he's a great person. He builds great men and leaders,
• 23:21
  Speaker 18: and I know me.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: I'll pick Coach Penn a lot.
• 23:24
  Speaker 18: Got you.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. I don't want to put anybody on blast
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: right now, but I interviewed Caleb Jackson on this show
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: last year, and we were talking about Coach, and he
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: said there was a chance that Coach Penn might still
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: be the best route runner on this team.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Nah, I give that to Leak.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I give that one to Leak.
• 23:45
  Speaker 17: I plead the fifth.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, I give that one to Leak.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I plead the fifth.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I give that one to Leak.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: But all seriousness, how many times has he showed you
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: the catch against Pitt?
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: I think he's only shown it once.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:57
  Speaker 17: Because I didn't know it. I haven't seen it since
• 23:59
  Speaker 17: I've been here.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, you've probably seen it a
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: few times.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I've seen it. A few times, about, like, four or
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: five times.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: I got you.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: It's a good catch. I got you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It is. It's impressive. It's good stuff.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: All right, all the player interviews that I do on
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: this show, I wrap up with, like, I call it
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: the two-minute drill. It's just, like, rapid-fire questions, like, about you,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: and it's, like, easy stuff to answer. So we'll just
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: do that real quick, let you guys get out of
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: here and get the coaches back in here. So whoever
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: wants to go first, first question is always, if you
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: have a pregame tradition, what is it?
• 24:31
  Speaker 19: I watch highlights of league guys like JSN, Emeka, Buka.
• 24:36
  Speaker 19: Somebody who complements my game so I can see some
• 24:39
  Speaker 19: different things.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Music.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Music.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Speaking of music, who's the best guy on the team
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: to give the aux court to?
• 24:47
  Speaker 17: Mike Fontaine.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I say me.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Who's the worst guy on the team to give the
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: aux to?
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: Ooh.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Malik Leguette. Yeah, Sticks. Sticks.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Sticks.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: For those of you listening at home, Malik is sitting
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: about 10 feet away from us right now. Let's talk
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: about more pregame.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Best pregame meal.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, Shoney's.
• 25:12
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I've grown to like Shoney's. I can't lie.
• 25:16
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: NFL player that you think you play the most like.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Jamar Chase.
• 25:21
  Speaker 17: Jamar St.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Brown.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Best player that you played against in high school.
• 25:26
  Speaker 17: I would say we played Eric Berry's son at De
• 25:32
  Speaker 17: La Salle in California.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 25:34
  Speaker 17: So he's at Michigan now. He's pretty good.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Zachariah Branch.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: All right. These are my questions. I usually have a
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: list of these, and I wasn't ready tonight. That's on me.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: That's on me.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: If you played a position other than receiver, what would
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: it be? Quarterback.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Ah, safety.
• 25:56
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: If Coach Penn comes in the locker room Saturday, says
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Joe Daly missed the bus, you've got to play quarterback today.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: How many yards are you throwing for against Glenville on Saturday?
• 26:08
  Speaker 17: Man, we're going crazy. 300.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Four touchdowns, 300.
• 26:12
  Speaker 17: We're going crazy. Four touchdowns, 300.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: All right, I like finishing with that one, so we'll
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: leave it there. Malik Baker, Amari Airy, guys, thanks for
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: coming out.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Thank you for having us.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: There they are.
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  Speaker 15: This is Sergeant Travis Bales with the Charleston Police Department.
• 29:15
  Speaker 15: Halloween is all about fun, but let's keep it safe.
• 29:18
  Speaker 15: While trick-or-treating this year, never go alone. Carry a light
• 29:21
  Speaker 15: or wear reflective clothing and never enter a stranger's home.
• 29:25
  Speaker 15: If you're out driving, put yourself in a way. No
• 29:27
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• 29:29
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• 29:31
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• 29:33
  Speaker 15: something suspicious, don't wait. Report it to law enforcement immediately.
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: Let's work together to keep Halloween safe this year for everyone.
• 29:40
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• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Right now, I'm hanging out with Mike Pushkin.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: He's running for House of Delegates. How you doing today, Mike?
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Doing great, Woody.
• 29:48
  Speaker 16: Just want to remind folks, Election Day is right around
• 29:51
  Speaker 16: the corner on November 3rd, and early voting has already
• 29:54
  Speaker 16: started down at the courthouse or at many satellite locations
• 29:57
  Speaker 16: all around Kanawha County. Now, if you or anybody you
• 30:00
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• 30:03
  Speaker 16: County Democrats at 681-205-2626.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: 681-205-2626.
• 30:08
  Speaker 16: Now, are those rides free, Mike?
• 30:13
  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 16: We just want people to get out and vote. Look,
• 30:15
  Speaker 16: the democracy works best when your voice is heard.
• 30:17
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• 30:20
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• 30:22
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• 30:25
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• 30:28
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• 30:33
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• 30:37
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• 30:40
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• 30:44
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• 30:46
  Speaker 20: 304-804-6369.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Let's talk football. The John Pennington Show is on.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: 107.3 The Beat.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: It's the John Pennington Show on 107.3 The Beat here
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: from the Pitch Sports Bar and Grill at the Shawnee
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Sports Complex. We've got a packed house for the show tonight,
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: getting you ready for West Virginia State and Glenville State
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: coming up this Saturday. You can hear the action here
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: on 107.3 The Beat with kickoff at 1 o'clock, pregame coverage.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: at 12.30 with myself and Hollis Lewis bringing you the
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: action from Glenville, West Virginia State. Returns to Mountain East
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Conference play to try to make it three in a row.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: We'll preview that with the head coach here in just
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: a few minutes. And I am rejoined by head coach
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: John Pennington. And I am now joined for the first
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: time by... Wide receivers coach, former tight end, former tight
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: ends coach, Nate Baker.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: First of all, thanks for stopping by.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, no problem.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Happy to have you here.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: So let's talk a little bit first about your journey
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: to West Virginia State and then what you're doing now
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: as the wide receivers coach here. So let's start with
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: your background in football.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: West Virginia native.
• 31:53
  Speaker 19: Yep.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: You play football all the way up?
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Coming up to high school, then college, or what's your
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: football story?
• 32:01
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I started playing football in fifth grade and played
• 32:05
  Speaker 20: all through middle school and high school. I'm from Lewisburg,
• 32:08
  Speaker 20: West Virginia, so I played down at Greenbrier East for
• 32:10
  Speaker 20: my dad.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: He's one of the assistant coaches.
• 32:12
  Speaker 20: He was a long-time assistant coach, and he was a
• 32:14
  Speaker 20: head coach there when I was a little kid.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: So football's always been a part of me.
• 32:18
  Speaker 20: I was getting recruited out of high school, probably could
• 32:22
  Speaker 20: have went anywhere I wanted to in this conference. I
• 32:24
  Speaker 20: just kind of felt the love from Coach Paynton and
• 32:26
  Speaker 20: the coaching staff members that were here when I was
• 32:29
  Speaker 20: getting recruited and you know I kinda thought that they
• 32:32
  Speaker 20: used my position the best that of anybody I thought
• 32:36
  Speaker 20: was recruiting me and that would suit my skill set
• 32:40
  Speaker 20: the best so I committed here in 21 and then
• 32:44
  Speaker 20: played four years here and then started coaching right after that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 20: Got the tight ends job right after my senior season,
• 32:51
  Speaker 20: played my last game at UC, and then on a
• 32:54
  Speaker 20: Saturday and was in the staff meeting on Sunday. So
• 32:57
  Speaker 20: it was a pretty quick turnaround, but I enjoy it.
• 33:00
  Speaker 20: Coached the tight ends all last year, and then in
• 33:02
  Speaker 20: the spring got moved up to coach the wideouts, and
• 33:06
  Speaker 20: that's kind of where I'm at now.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: All right, so let's talk a little bit about your career.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: So we talk about this a lot with Coach, with
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: some of the hybrid guys that you see on this roster,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: and I think you would admit for a tight end,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: you're not the biggest guy in the world. So were
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: you a tight end in high school, first of all?
• 33:27
  Speaker 20: No, I was more of a fullback, receiver, kind of
• 33:30
  Speaker 20: H-back kind of guy. I never really put my hand
• 33:32
  Speaker 20: in the dirt until I got here.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 33:35
  Speaker 20: And then when I was here, I was still more
• 33:37
  Speaker 20: of a fullback kind of guy and then had to
• 33:39
  Speaker 20: put my hand in the dirt out of a little
• 33:41
  Speaker 20: bit of necessity. But I got through it, fought my
• 33:45
  Speaker 20: battles in there in the box, and got after it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Coach, you're talking about a guy that's got to go
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: in there and stick his face in the fan. How
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: early did you identify Nate as somebody that was, like
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: we were talking about with Bobby Groves a little bit earlier,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: this guy's just going to go after it?
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, first of all, in recruiting, we use
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: H-backs a lot.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: So Nate's skill set did fit perfectly with what we
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: wanted to do. He ran the ball. He was a
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: good receiver.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: When he got here, there was some growing pains in
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: the blocking world.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: Like you said, he's not the biggest guy, so he really.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Had to learn.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: The techniques and how to do it all. And, you know,
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: we coached him hard. And, you know, Nate's great.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: He's got great character, extremely mentally tough. And so you
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: knew you could coach him hard and you knew that
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: he was going to take it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: The right way.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: And his dad's a great guy. Shout out to, you know,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Aaron Baker. and he's a football coach, so you knew
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Nate came from a football background. I yelled at him
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: a few times here and there, and he always responded
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: the right way, and he'd always get in there and
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: do everything for you. By the time he got to
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: the end of his career, he was getting pancakes, and
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: he was blocking his tail off. He'd stick his hand
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: in the dirt if you needed him to, and whatever
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: you asked him to do.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: He was going to do it.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I like to hear that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: So let's talk about that transition period.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Then into coaching.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: We had Corlin Witcher on a few weeks ago, and
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: you guys kind of went through that together, right? Where
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: you finished your playing career, like you said, on Saturday,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: staff meeting Monday, you're the tight ends coach.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: So what is that transition like?
• 35:17
  Speaker 20: Well, for me, honestly, like I always kind of thought
• 35:20
  Speaker 20: that this is what I was going to do. So
• 35:22
  Speaker 20: I took it upon myself, like later in my career to,
• 35:25
  Speaker 20: you know, coach young guys up, like let them follow
• 35:28
  Speaker 20: my footsteps, give them a little bit of secrets with
• 35:31
  Speaker 20: blocking and techniques and all that stuff. So I've always
• 35:33
  Speaker 20: kind of been coaching as I was even a player
• 35:36
  Speaker 20: so the transition was easy so just get out there
• 35:39
  Speaker 20: and do what you always do maybe in a little
• 35:41
  Speaker 20: more bigger volume but you know you're still just doing
• 35:45
  Speaker 20: the same thing you're always doing just coaching guys hard
• 35:47
  Speaker 20: and making sure that they're.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Doing all the right things what was the conversation with
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: coach like is I asked Corlin the same thing it's
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: like do you go into the coach's office one day
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: and say I want to get into coaching can you
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: help me with this is it the kind of thing
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: where what was that like.
• 36:02
  Speaker 20: Yeah that's kind of a funny story so where we're
• 36:04
  Speaker 20: actually warming up at.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Glenville my senior year.
• 36:08
  Speaker 20: And I was just talking to Coach Bennington on the
• 36:10
  Speaker 20: sideline and kind of mentioned that that was something I'd
• 36:12
  Speaker 20: be interested in doing. And, you know, I don't want
• 36:14
  Speaker 20: to say it on air, but I might have got
• 36:15
  Speaker 20: hired on the spot.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: He definitely did.
• 36:19
  Speaker 20: So that was pretty cool, just knowing that Coach Bennington
• 36:23
  Speaker 20: trusted me enough to be able to go in and
• 36:24
  Speaker 20: step into a role like that. It meant a lot
• 36:27
  Speaker 20: to me, and I take a lot of pride in that,
• 36:29
  Speaker 20: just being able to come in and from being a
• 36:31
  Speaker 20: player to going straight into coaching and have the coaches
• 36:34
  Speaker 20: respect enough to be able to do that was really honoring.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Had you identified him prior to that as somebody that
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: you said, this is somebody that could make that transition?
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Or was it in that moment that you said, this
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: is a guy that can do it?
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's guys on the team that,
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: you know, like if they wanted to coach and You know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: you'd hire him in a second. And that's exactly that's
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: how Nate was like when he brought it up to me.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, absolutely. Like, we'll take you right away.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: And, you know, like Corlin was like that guys that
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: do all the right things that are mentally tough.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? They know our culture. You
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: know what I mean? So as soon as Nate asked me,
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: he was hired on the spot.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: As soon as he mentioned it, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: We'll definitely have you as soon as you want to start. And,
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: you know, to his credit, he started the day after
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: he got done playing. But Nate does such a good job.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: You know, there's so many little things that he does that.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Take off of my plate or Coach Cavallaro's plate.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Whatever you need done, he's going to do it. He's
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: not going to complain about it. And there's things that
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: he does that, you know, that I don't even have
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: to ask, you know, that just, you know, just take
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: things away that I don't have to do where I
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: can focus on, you know, fixing a bigger problem and,
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: and he's never, you know, I know I can give
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: him any task and it's going to get done, you know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: at extremely high level. It doesn't matter if it's making
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: sure the game balls are ready or, uh, making sure,
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: you know, that the offensive guys are going to study hall,
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: like whatever it is, he's going to do it and
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: he's going to do it to the best of his ability.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I've not had a game day this year setting up
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: in the press box where I've not run into this
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: guy setting up the two way, uh, up there in
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: the press box. But, uh, As far as the off
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: the field stuff goes, I will say I can't go
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: to a high school football game in West Virginia without
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: running into you. So what is it like getting out
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: there and pounding the pavement? Because you've found as a staff,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: and I'm sure you've had a part in it, have
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: found some in-state guys that have really come in and
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: made an impact. Yeah.
• 38:32
  Speaker 20: You know, I try to make it to a lot
• 38:33
  Speaker 20: of events around the state that I can, you know,
• 38:36
  Speaker 20: camps or all-star games, high school games, whatever it may be,
• 38:39
  Speaker 20: just to find guys that I think that fit our culture.
• 38:42
  Speaker 20: It's really good, though, just being a West Virginia kid,
• 38:45
  Speaker 20: like bringing in West Virginia guys to play at the
• 38:48
  Speaker 20: next level. It's not the easiest thing to do to
• 38:51
  Speaker 20: be able to come up from playing in high school
• 38:53
  Speaker 20: to go to college. So just being able to identify
• 38:55
  Speaker 20: those guys is something that I'm very passionate about, especially
• 38:59
  Speaker 20: if they're from the state of West Virginia.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Obviously a west virginia guy yourself what's what's that been
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: like with with nate and with recruiting for this program
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: as a whole watching the the talent in west virginia
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: get to where it is and then you can go
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: out and identify those guys and say we're gonna go
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: get them and you've got benji adkins and titan parsons
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: and guys that i'm not thinking of off the top
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: of my head right now that are playing real snaps
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: and making plays.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Well i mean i rely on nate heavily in in
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: state yeah uh which is really my– I don't have
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: an out-of-state recruiting area per se, but.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: I rely on Nate and Nate's information.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Nate's the one that kind of fills me in on
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: what's going on in the state of West Virginia.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: And Nate knows– he not only knows the talent level
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: that we're looking for, but he knows the character– And
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: in West Virginia, you've got to find guys that want
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: to stay close to home. You've got to find the
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: right guys. A lot of guys want to go away
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: to college. So Nate knows what to look for.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: And the guys that not only that we should be recruiting,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: but the guys that we feel like we've got a
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: good chance to get because they're going.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: To be a good fit here. I don't have to
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: troll Twitter and look for all these things. I can
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: just be like, Nate, this is a good kid, or
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: will he fit in here? And he can give me the.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Rundown of what's going on, especially in the southern part
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: of the state. where we've gotten a lot of great
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: players from there. So, Nate, I rely on Nate for
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: all of that information.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about what you're doing coaching on the
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: field with these wide receivers now. We talked to Malik
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: and A1 a little bit earlier. So let's start with
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: the vets in that room. First of all, first-year coaching receivers,
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: what's it like to have those two that can just
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: step up and be the guys? Yeah, it's been awesome.
• 40:39
  Speaker 20: Just coming from a tight end background, obviously it was
• 40:44
  Speaker 20: an easier transition than I was expecting to just going
• 40:46
  Speaker 20: over to the receiver room. But having those two guys
• 40:49
  Speaker 20: makes it easier than it really should be. I've been
• 40:52
  Speaker 20: blessed just with a great room, like you guys were saying, A1, Baker,
• 40:57
  Speaker 20: Malik Leggett's coming along. And then I got a lot
• 40:59
  Speaker 20: of young guys that are coming along as well. So
• 41:02
  Speaker 20: they're grinders, like they're in there on Sunday nights. getting
• 41:05
  Speaker 20: routes in, throwing with the quarterbacks. Mondays we practice late,
• 41:09
  Speaker 20: and they're in there at 4 o'clock in the evening
• 41:11
  Speaker 20: after their lift's thrown, so they put in a lot
• 41:13
  Speaker 20: of work to be as good as they are, and
• 41:15
  Speaker 20: it's good to see. It makes my job a lot
• 41:17
  Speaker 20: easier when you've got guys that want to work and want.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: To put in the effort to be as good as
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: they are. Let's talk about maybe some of those younger guys, too.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: You mentioned Malik, who had a great day up at Wheeling,
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: and it seems like gets better every single week. Tony
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Richardson made a big special teams play. He's got a
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: couple of touchdowns this year. And then Coach was telling
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: me earlier about some of the real young guys, some
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: of the freshmen in your room. So what do you
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: see from that group that's kind of the future once
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Malik and Amari are done? Yeah, got a lot of
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: young talent.
• 41:48
  Speaker 20: Bobby Groves, Preston Clary, DJ Manor, Amari Patterson. I'm probably
• 41:54
  Speaker 20: missing one, but those guys, they're really good kids.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: They do all the right things.
• 42:00
  Speaker 20: They got two good guys, three good guys to look
• 42:02
  Speaker 20: up to with Leggett as well. Just following in those
• 42:05
  Speaker 20: guys' steps, just doing what they do, it makes it
• 42:08
  Speaker 20: easy for them as well. And I don't really have
• 42:10
  Speaker 20: to do a whole lot of coaching with the young
• 42:12
  Speaker 20: guys as far as what it takes to be a
• 42:14
  Speaker 20: college football player.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: They're already kind of figuring that out, um, just from
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: the older guys.
• 42:18
  Speaker 20: And then, um, when they're out there on the field,
• 42:20
  Speaker 20: they're getting all the bakes and, uh, a one's little nuggets.
• 42:24
  Speaker 20: So that makes it easy on the field for me too. Um,
• 42:27
  Speaker 20: but the young guys are great. They do such a
• 42:30
  Speaker 20: good job, especially down in scout team. JBL Watson is
• 42:32
  Speaker 20: another guy that's down there on scout team, torching the
• 42:35
  Speaker 20: starting defense DB some days, um, not all the time,
• 42:39
  Speaker 20: but they have a great.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Um, what's the word? Uh, They do just great work
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: ethic down there, and they get after it. And what
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: have you seen from this guy developing those wide receivers
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: and those young guys that we were talking about, like,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: are making plays on scout team and really pushing your
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: first-team defense a lot?
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I kind of mentioned it earlier, you know,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: with wide receivers. You know, wide receiver's a tough position
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: because you're used to being a guy, and you know
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: you're always open. You're used to being a guy that's
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: making plays, and, you know, it's– especially in college like
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of good receivers and sometimes even as
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: a coordinator you can call a play to a guy
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: and you know or to try to get a guy
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: involved and it just doesn't always work out that way
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: so uh you've got to be able to to handle
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: the the egos in that room and i think nate's
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: done an excellent job we've got a lot of talent
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: in that room and you know we can't throw the
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: ball they can't all have 10 catches a game they
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: can't have four touchdowns a game it's just not.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: Feasible in reality. He does a great job keeping.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: Those guys locked in and keeping them focused on the
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  Speaker 5: next play. I always tell the coaching staff the sign
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  Speaker 5: of a great coach is how hard your players play.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if you yell at them If you're
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  Speaker 6: You've got to get your guys to play hard.
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  Speaker 5: And he's gotten those guys to block on the perimeter,
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  Speaker 5: which wideouts, you know, I mean, some of them do,
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  Speaker 5: you know, but most of them are ready to catch
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  Speaker 5: a pass.
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  Speaker 17: Right.
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  Speaker 6: You know, so to get them to block, you've got
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  Speaker 6: to be able to.
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  Speaker 5: Coach and get into their mind a little bit and
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  Speaker 5: make them understand why it's so important.
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  Speaker 6: And he's done a great job of that. They've gotten
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  Speaker 6: better every week, especially in that area. And for me,
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  Speaker 6: in his development, that's what I'm on him about. Like, hey,
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: I just want to see these guys play hard. Whatever
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: you're coaching, that tells me that you're a good coach
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: if your guys will play hard for you.
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  Speaker 4: And then when you look at this coaching staff, we
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: talked about it with Coach Cab last week. You've got
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  Speaker 4: A head coach that's a former offensive coordinator. You've got
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: an offensive coordinator. Coach Walsh with the O-line was kind
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: of described as the voice of reason last week. When
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Cav wants to do something, it's usually Coach Walsh that's like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: what if we didn't ask my guys to do this?
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  Speaker 2: But for you to be part of the.
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  Speaker 4: Collaboration on that offensive staff, what's that been like kind
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  Speaker 4: of developing over the last two years? Yeah, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 20: When Coach Walsh came in this spring, it was just
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  Speaker 20: immediate click with us, which was good. And just learning
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  Speaker 20: under Coach Cav and Coach Penn has been awesome. Just
• 45:06
  Speaker 20: the experience that I'm gaining from those two has been great. Obviously,
• 45:10
  Speaker 20: Coach Benson played receiver at a high level, and then
• 45:13
  Speaker 20: Coach Cav played quarterback at a high level. So anything
• 45:15
  Speaker 20: that those guys are telling me how to teach them
• 45:18
  Speaker 20: different or anything that I can do to be better,
• 45:21
  Speaker 20: I'm just always listening and soaking that up.
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  Speaker 4: And then, obviously, I'm a young coach, so.
• 45:26
  Speaker 20: My say is not always accepted, but just having a
• 45:29
  Speaker 20: say and just learning giving suggestions all the time and
• 45:32
  Speaker 20: having that either yes or no has been good like
• 45:35
  Speaker 20: yeah that's a good idea we can do that or
• 45:37
  Speaker 20: no we can't do that because of this that's helping
• 45:39
  Speaker 20: me only helping me grow and helping me get better
• 45:42
  Speaker 20: um and just develop as a young coach i.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the John Pennington Show, only on 107.3
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  Speaker 4: on 107.3, the beat for this Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia State gets.
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  Speaker 4: Glenville State coming up this Saturday in Mountaineers Conference play.
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  Speaker 4: On the road, three games left in the season, three
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: games left in the league, and a whole lot to
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: play for with West Virginia State and the Pioneers coming
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: up on Saturday. And, Coach, let's talk about this Glenville
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: State team.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: First-year head coach, Jake Castile.
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  Speaker 4: That's a name that's going to be familiar to a
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: lot of folks in football across the state of West
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Virginia because of who his father is. That's Jeff Castile.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: It's a last name that I'm sure is quite familiar
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  Speaker 4: to you given your playing background. So first of all,
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  Speaker 4: I know he was on the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 4: but do you have any kind of relationship with Jeff
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  Speaker 4: Castile going back to your days playing at WVU?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Coach Castile was the defensive coordinator when I was playing.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, a guy that I'm pretty close with,
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: you know, you don't, get to talk to those guys
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  Speaker 5: on a regular basis but.
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  Speaker 6: Anytime i'm in morgantown and up at the.
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  Speaker 5: Push car uh facility i would try to track him
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  Speaker 5: down you know he was coach he was helping uh
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: for a couple years i mean he was a great
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: mentor a guy that i really looked up to he
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: was you know from payton city west virginia and uh
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: he was a shepherd for a while and kind of
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: worked his way up you know the west virginia ladder
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  Speaker 5: ended up as a d coordinator at wvu and he
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: was a guy that uh you know i don't know
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: maybe some of the defensive guys didn't like him but
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: i mean everyone loved him i loved him he.
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: Coached hard you know but he had a you knew
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: he cared about you and what you know I always
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: tell recruits that I had I wanted to be a
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: coach because I had I had great coaches.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I just had great people to learn from
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: and that mentored me and that I looked up to
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  Speaker 5: and and he is one you know him and Bill Stewart.
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  Speaker 6: My wide receiver coach Steve Bird those were just three.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: Guys that I was like you know if this is
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: what I end up doing one day like I'd love
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: to be just like them they were Not only were
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: they great coaches, they were great husbands, they were great fathers.
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  Speaker 5: They always had their family around, and it just felt
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  Speaker 5: like there was someone that I could emulate and kind
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: of model the kind of leadership I wanted to have
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  Speaker 5: as an adult.
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  Speaker 4: Given that his dad was one of your coaches, and he's,
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: I would venture to say, one of the youngest head
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: coaches in the country, I would imagine you probably remember
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: Jake Castile running around as like, a middle school, maybe
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: elementary school kid back in the day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I remember Jake running around there as a kid and, uh,
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: you know, showing my age a little bit now coaching against, uh,
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: you know, guys whose dad I played for. So, um,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, I mean, I, I, you know, spoke with
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: Jake this week. I know coach Cavalero, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they played, uh, or they were up there in town together.
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  Speaker 5: So coach Cavs really close with them. I mean, he's a,
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: he's a great guy. Um, you know, he's a guy that, uh,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure at the convention we'll, we'll hang out and
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: talk and, uh, you know, help, you know, help him
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  Speaker 5: in any way I can, but uh you know he's
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: got got his first year program they got some new
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: facility stuff they're building up there but they got a
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: good team i think in this conference uh you know
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: anything can happen any given saturday i think we've seen
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: that and that's the one thing i hear from every
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: coach you know that before the game is that like
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: we just we none of us really know what's going
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: to happen right uh week in week out um so
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: he's got a good team and uh you know we're
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: playing at glenville which is always a tough place to
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: play uh you know it's always kind of like the
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: twilight zone up there it's And, you know, there's just
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: always interesting things happen.
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  Speaker 6: And we've got to be ready to play. And I
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: know Jake's team is going to come.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they're going to play hard. They're going to
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: play the echo of the whistle. And he coaches, you know,
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: he's got some old school bloodlines. So we know how
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: they're going to play. And we've got to be ready
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: to match that and execute at a high level. And
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: to talk a little bit about what they bring on
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: the field. It all on offense, at least to me,
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: kind of starts with their quarterback, J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Sherrod, who's a guy that has spent time at a
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: couple of Division I schools, got snaps at a couple
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: of Division I schools. Now he lands at Glenville State
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: for this first year with Jake Castile and with Nate Mullen,
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: the offensive coordinator, who's got WVU ties as well. And,
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's just a guy that goes out and
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: makes plays. He's just one of those guys that you
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: say is going to go out there and make something happen.
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you watch him throw the ball. I mean,
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: he throws the ball, like, he throws the field out.
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's good or better than anyone in the conference.
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: He can rip the ball.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: They do some power read stuff with him, and he's got,
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's probably the second leading rusher, has to be,
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: but he runs the ball well. He doesn't take sacks.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: You know, he gets the ball out of his hands.
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, he can make every single throw, and, you know,
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: we've struggled in the, you know, in past defense. The
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: majority of the season, we've been much better the last
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: two weeks, so You know, we've got a challenge for
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: our defensive backs. You know, can we step up and
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: play well again against a guy that can really throw
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: the ball all over the field? They've got a receiver,
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: number one, that's a great returner. You know, they've targeted him,
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: I think, 51 times in the last four games. So,
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: you know, we know they're going to throw the ball
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: to number one, and we've got to do a great
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: job stopping them.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: And then, again, I don't want to make this the
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: John Pennington nostalgia episode, but we were talking about it.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: One of their better guys on defense is Wes Brown Jr.,
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: who you played with Wes Brown Sr.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: At WVU.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: But to talk about the defense as a whole, they've
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: got size, they've got some.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Speed in the back end.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: It's a group that's certainly not a pushover.
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: No, yeah, they got one of the better pass.
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: Defenses in the conference. We know they're going to probably
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: try to load the box and stop the run. They've
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: They've struggled to stop the run, but we know they're
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: going to probably add an extra hat in there and
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: want us to throw the ball downfield. So we've got
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: to be able to make plays downfield. But yeah, Wes
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: Brown is a guy that I played with. His son's
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: an outstanding player. I know Benin Lowe is a great center.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: So it'll be a fun matchup to watch.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: Benin's been watching him all week and trying to make
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: sure that he's ready for the matchup.
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: He's a guy that does well. They've got a defensive
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: end that's like 6'8.
• 56:19
  Speaker 5: He's definitely the first guy you want off the bus.
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: Their DBs are good. Safeties will come in and tackle.
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: So we've got to do a great job up front.
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: We've had a couple of games the past two that
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: we haven't run the ball quite as effectively as we had.
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: leading up to it, so we've got to get the
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: run game going. If we can establish a run game,
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: then it's going to open some things up for those
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: wideouts downfield.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about your team a little bit.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: Coming off of back-to-back wins, got the big win against
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: Monroe on Saturday. With that being a non-conference game, is
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: there any shift in focus that came with last week
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: and now you refocus to the Mountaineers schedule this week,
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: or is it just we're coming in, whoever lines up
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: against us week in and week out, we're going to
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: go hit them, we're going to go try to beat them?
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: That's exactly it.
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: Our mantra going into that wheeling game was just six seconds.
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: A play is six seconds long. We got to worry
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: about just dominating.
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: The six seconds that we get to go. It doesn't
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: matter what happened before, what happened after. Each play has
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: a life of its own. That's been my personal mentality
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: for everything throughout the week. Whatever is in front of me,
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: I want to try to do a great job and
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: execute and our players, you know, college football is tough.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: You don't get, you know, I think we had a
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: bye week early in the season, but, you know, week
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: in and week out, you've got to be ready to play.
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: You've got to be ready to adjust the scheme. You've
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: got to be ready for new roles and other people getting.
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: Ready to step up.
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: So you don't really have time to pay too much
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: attention to that stuff.
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: You just know we want to play better every week.
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: We have not played our best football. I don't think
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: we're even close.
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, if these guys can play better
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: the effort level that we've.
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: Seen week in and week out and execute at a high.
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: Level that we're going to be able to dominate anyone
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: we play and that's what we're looking to do every
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: single week and these guys have really done a good
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: job of preparing like we've never won a game but
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: when we get.
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: Out there on Saturday we play like no one can
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: beat us.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: And this is the most important question of the show
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: and it will be the last one. Had the receivers
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: up here earlier, asked them about the favorite pregame meal.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: I figured out The travel plans a little bit here
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  Speaker 4: in the mountain east for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Is this a Flatwoods Shoney's trip?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely. Number two of the season. You know, some
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: of our guys love Flatwoods. We love the Flatwoods Shoney's.
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  Speaker 6: Great walk-through area up there with the Flatwoods shopping area.
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  Speaker 6: It's probably one of my favorite parking lot walk-throughs. So
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  Speaker 6: those guys will be ready to go. It's an early,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we've got to leave early. We play day of.
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  Speaker 5: So we got a team meeting at like 6 in
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: the morning, and then we got to go up early.
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  Speaker 5: But those guys love Shoney's and those French toast sticks.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And the people at Shoney's are great.
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  Speaker 5: They're always extremely friendly, usually some Mountaineer fans in there
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  Speaker 5: talking to our guys about our game.
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  Speaker 6: And I think it's just a familiar atmosphere. So we're
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 4: We've got coverage here on 107.3 The Beat coming up
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: this Saturday with West Virginia State and Glenville State kicking 1230,
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  Speaker 4: or excuse me, no, pregame 1230. Kickoff 1 o'clock from
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: Glenville for West Virginia State against the Pioneers. For us
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: here at the Pitch Sports Bar and Grill at the
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Shawnee Sports Complex, we'll be back next week for the
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: John Pennington Show. Once again, hopefully celebrating a third consecutive
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: Yellow Jacket win. We're here every Wednesday night at 7 o'clock.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: For Wing Wednesday, dollar boneless and traditional wings plus dollar
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: off draft beer all the way.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Up until close. That is 9 o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 4: So, for Head Coach John Peddington, Wide Receivers Coach Nate Baker,
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: Wide Receivers Malik Baker and Amari Airy, I am Daniel Woods,
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: as well as Woody Woods at the controls back on
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: Virginia Street in downtown Charleston, saying so long from the
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: Pitch Sports Bar and Grill. This has been the John
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: Peddington Show on 107.3 The Beat.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the John Peddington Show, live from
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: the Pitch at Charleston.