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3 Guys Before The Game - Searching For Mr Right (Episode 539) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hey, everybody, it's time four three guys before the game. Welcome in
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  everybody, Episode number five hundred and thirty nine. The crew is all assembled.
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  We're ready to go. Title of the show, searching for mister Wright.
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  Our I g H T not like w R I g H correct proper
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  right? All right, So you're saying Jay Wright is not going to be
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  the next coach. No, he's not going to be the next coach.
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  Okay, he's going to stay on the TV side of things. He got
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  out. Yeah, he's done. He'd done with this. He's done with
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  his tom foolery. I got no time for that. Three guys before the
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  game, also going to jump in a Year's been a year. What are
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  you saying? Wow, I mean a lot of these guys get back in.
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  Yeah they do. Not speaking of the West Virginia job right now.
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  I'm just saying a lot of these guys get back in over time. They
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  Yeah, hard to stay away, Yeah apparently. Yeah, people come and
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  twenty five years. Why know the gate my go marts. Go for good
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  outside. Trees are budding, flowers are blooming. They came out. Did
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  you know one day you wake up and there are no blooms, and the
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  next day you wake up and everything is blooming. I mean, it happened
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  in eighteen hours. It's amazing, it truly is. There's a I have
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  an artificial not an artificial faux para tree. I have a pear tree in
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  my front yard. And when I left for Charleston on Friday, it was
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  just sitting there right, just departures. Yeah, came back Saturday night in
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  full bloom. Happened that fast. Tis the season, man, And it's
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  too bad. Like on some of those some of those trees, well it's
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  what do you call because it doesn't produce pears, it's a ornamental. Yeah,
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  got I got a magnolia. I got a magnolia, right, now that's
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  just a full blossom. It's the prettiest thing. Do you have a magnolia?
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  Yeah, I do, He said ornamental faster than he would have said
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  mountaineers. If you'd ask ornamental, it is. Joan is so into the
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  bushes and oh my gosh, but it's a little bit north for magnolia.
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  If you have a magnolia, well that's not done. Funny you say that.
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  Hop here we go. I'm gonna have to restart a second episode.
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  The magnolia right now is in absolute full blown. It's absolutely gorgeous, and
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  a flower lady that we know said, fortunately, hopefully this year you will
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  be able to enjoy it in its full vibrance, because oftentimes what happens is
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  they pop and then we get a free oh yeah, and you tell you
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  and you lose that luster. So so far, so good for Magnolia's in
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  West Virginia. This year. You had a flower source. Of course,
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  he did the season for sources. He just gave talk to the flower.
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  Matter of fact, I got a ten I got a ten o'clock tomorrow morning
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  at a nursery. I really do. On the show, they would just
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  dragged me around. What do you think of the what do you think of
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  the ask them what they have said? Western get a defensive coach and offensive.
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  So you plus you're with the new Kredia state, you'll be certain that
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  you'll have lines of magnolia. Well, no, there's one that old and
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  old oaks. Oh there's one that's already there is there. Oh it's gorgeous.
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  I bet you it's fifty feet tall. Really, Oh yeah, it's
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  gorgeous. That's awesome. I was going to say, those problem with these
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  beautiful buds that come out as they don't last, They turn the leaves,
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  the buds go away. Well, what's an ornamental cherry? Got a got
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  an ornamental cherry out front? Time ornamental? That should have been a title
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  of the episode. Change it good folk. By the way, we're all
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  back from Charleston. We had a great week and anyway, spread some fox
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  Coca cola. Remember that guy Jerry. We used to we used to run
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  this show Brad on w A j R. On Saturday mornings. It was
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  the it was the plant guy named Jerry and like everyone would call right,
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  he was like the Dave Ramsey of Plants. Yes, Dave, I got
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  it, or Jerry I got this, Mary Shanter. Every answer was throw
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  some urine on there and uh, a little bit of Coca cola. I
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  dot com. All right, let's jump in. So we're into an interesting
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  or different time of the year here on three guys. Basketball is over for
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  the men, the women getting ready to play and they have an extremely intriguing
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  matchup in the NCAA tournament. We'll have some stats for you today, just
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  kind of an appetizer, just a little appetizer. Then when we come back
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  Thursday, we'll blow the whole thing up and break it down. And obviously
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  the coaching search is officially underway. We're starting to see some movement and a
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  lot of people have asked about I had a guy in Kroger yesterday frozen food
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  section. You were in holding courting crew, no doing my own thing,
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  just looking for just looking for sweep frozen sweet potatoes without seasoning. And a
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  guy and his wife were in there and he'd reached in, he took something.
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  I reached in, I got something, and I was ready. I
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  mean I did. I was ready to go, and he gave me the
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  I got to ask you, is it buyington? I said, excuse me?
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  I said no, These are all right. So people want to know
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  people are in so we'll talk about that. We also have the textual healing
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  segment. And if you're watching the podcast, and if Austin takes a shot,
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  you'll see we've been inundated by over here unbelievable gift receees. Popcorn.
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  Didn't know they made it, didn't either, never seen it. Jim from
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  Preston County, tremendous. We love you, Jim. Jim sent us five
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  bags and one's already gone. It's good. And if I hack and cough,
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  you never should go on the air ever after eating popcorn. Never,
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  but I did because I have absolutely no self control with you. And so
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  we killed a bag and meanwhile I might cough and hack. All right,
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  let's jump in. First off, let's do the women's basketball side of things.
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  Very rarely do the bracketologist hit. They hit this one. They had
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  West Virginia potentially seen Iowa in the second round a week or so ago.
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  Charlie Krem is the Joe Linardi of women's basketball, and it could happen.
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  But what's interesting is that West Virginia's first opponent. Although they do not strike
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  fear into your heart by their brand name Princeton, they've got a rep man.
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  The last two years they've lined up and beat NC State and Kentucky.
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  Their head coach is a Gino Arima disciple, Carla Burubi. She played for
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  Gino, won a national, won a World's championship. While she was there,
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  they won thirty five and oh, I think she's in the kinnetic you
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  know her? No her, I was there, Excuse me, I was
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  there. I have one of those national championship rings that Carla Herby also has.
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  Her well, So she goes to Toughs to start her coaching career,
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  and I think it's the first time on the podcast in five hundred and thirty
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  nine episodes that we've said toughs, but we're saying it. So she wins
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  stupid there like eighty percent of her games. You got, ah, well,
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  toughs, toughs, toughs. Whatever. Did you see a record at
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  Princeton She's one hundred and sixteen in five years. So West Virginia has going
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  to have their hands full. But okay, fine, And then if you
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  win that one, you would play the presumable winner of the other side,
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  which would be a team by the name of Iowa. And they have a
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  player on that team named Caitlyn Clark. Not sure if you're familiar with her
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  or not, And so you could have just this storybook matchup in what would
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  be Caitlyn Clark's last ever game on that floor at Carver Hawkeye Arena. Joe
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  Bacado says, already ticket's unavailable. Is he going? Yes? Is he
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  really? Bocado's going? Good for Joe bro talked to a buddy of mine
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  last night in Iowa City and said, yeah, if you're not one of
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  their higher level season ticket holders, you had no shot to get that.
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  Those were out immediately got to go to secondary market. Yeah. Carla was
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  on that Yukon team with some great players. Rebecca Lobo was the headliner on
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  that team. Gen Rizzotti, who also went on to a successful coaching career.
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  Carlas said about three words season, very quiet, very underrated player.
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  She was outstanding, but was probably about the fourth or fifth most talked about
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  player. But she was a great, great player. You didn't try to
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  play her one on one like you did Lobo. No, because after Lobo
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  whit my ass, I said, I'm out true story? How really true?
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  Oh yeah you said it, Lobo? She backed you down? You
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  know I was only I mean, I was only three years removed from,
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  of course, my offer from Tom Davis. There come walk on the Hawkeye
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  program. So I show up a Connecticut thinking, wait, I got missed
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  on Rebecca got come on, let's go. She backed you, backed me
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  straight down? Back you down? Just back me straight down? Did she
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  back you down like that? That? Like that young fella from NC State?
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  Yeah, that was great theater this weekend. You see the big from
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  NC State. No, oh, they're up in They're up the road,
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  aren't they. They're in Pittsburgh. I think I think they're in Pittsburgh.
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  Oh my gosh. You gotta see this dude yet to see this dude like
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  he beeps when he backs up. It is a big big man that there's
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  a tendency to, for obvious reasons, to say, oh, you know,
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  win this game, youf way I win. This's gonna be you got
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  This is an eight nine against a NCAA team. You gotta, Brad,
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  you got a little business to attend to here. First, this is this
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  is no easy game. As you just outlined me, you're right that the
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  headliner there is Caitlin Clark and a potential matchup in front of sixteen thousand in
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  Carver Hawkey Arena there. But Princeton is no joke. They have got it
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  going. And a couple things you look for in these matchups is what what
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  do they do that may cause you problems. One of those is going to
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  be potential offensive rebounding. Princeton elite on the offensive glass, top two percentile
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  nationally an offensive rebounding percentage. So West Virginia doesn't offensive rebound well, but
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  it's going to need to defensive rebound extremely well here to keep Princeton off the
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  glass. And that's if they miss. They're a very good shooting team to
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  top ten percent in effective field goal percentage, so they're very good there.
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  So this this don't overlook this first game here for West Virginia. Yeah,
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  they keep people about fifty how many points per game? Fifty six fifty five
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  points per game. I hope people don't to Yeah, because if you go
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  on a if you're go on to points per forty minutes or per one hundred
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  posessions hunters. Yeah, so they're over a point per possession. Strength of
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  schedule, don't have that one. I'd be interested to know twenty five and
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  four, thirteen and one overall. Yeah, Wait, that doesn't that strike
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  you as one of the teams you don't want to play? Yes and no,
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  Yes and no. You got to play someone one. Yeah. Two.
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  Best thing that could happen for West Virginia is that they beat NC State
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  in Kentucky the last two years. So this isn't one of those teams that's
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  gonna come in trojan Horse like for Inston. They're a joke. Mark Kellogg
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  and his staff are going to be on going. Hey, guess what beat
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  an ACC and an SEC team in each of the last two years. How
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  you guys gonna do? They don't. Their strength is they lined up and
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  played you. They took a loss to ucla very good women's program, lost
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  by three. Pounded Oklahoma wozy early in the season, lined up beat Oklahoma
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  fourteen, played Indiana, who's a top ten team, lost by nine in
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  that one ooh beat Seaton Hall lined up, beat Villain over. They beat
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  Villain over, beat villanover lined up, said to Rutgers, well, come
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  on over, he gonna beat you too, lined up beat them eleven.
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  So they played, they played people. They played non conference, I mean
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  carly nf rah, you'll line up. Yeah, and then they got in
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  the Ivy League obviously and went thirteen to one. So you looked at a
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  line on this game yet, havn't it hmm interesting? Have some of that
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  for Thursday. You'll do your full breakdown. Do a full breakdown to have
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  an appetize. Yeah, just take a look at him, but don't overlook
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  Princeton is the point. Just to get to absolutely the Iowahawkeyes waiting in their
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  home building. Absolutely all right, good good. Saw an interview with JJ
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  Quinnerley after I think Joe bro had that and she says, knees coming along,
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  feeling better. I'll be good to go. Good packed building last night,
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  you were there, Yeah, they did. They did a watch watch
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  party last night over at the new club up top Clark Family Club. I
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  had a great time. It packed. Yeah, foods, some cupcakes there.
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  Kerchival nice coach spoke to the crowd. Do you embarrass yourself food wise?
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  No, because I'd embarrassed myself at dinner daughter's birthday. Dinner went out
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  and already was stuffed. Didn't know there'd be food at the building, so
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  it was already out of commission by the time I got there. Good news
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  for my fine looking fell white vest on, so I couldn't really get anything
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  with a white vest on. Careful a white vest? Yeah? Nice?
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  Peter Malar, what stream vest? Oh, not like a vest vest,
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  but like a vest. I had a picture to you, a white vest.
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  You want to see it? So you want me explain what it looks
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  like? I get it now. Well I'm gonna show you because Austin has
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  a picture. That's two nice listeners there, Carol and Bucky were wonderful,
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  so they came up. Spoke to them. There's Carolyn Bucky right there.
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  See white vest I had I had envisioned you like a sweater vest. Yeah,
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  like an old guy vest. I don't want to have an old guy
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  vests on. Had a nice out. Yeah, you went good, very
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  nice, nice crown. Good jump met Lannie as well. Flew Hardy he
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  was there. He said hello to you Lannie and Paul are the best.
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  That was Bucky and Carroll. They were so think about this though, real
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  quick. Then we'll jump into the men's side of the Big Twelve Conference in
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  the NCAA Tournament and the nit thanks but no thanks. Think of where West
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  Virginia women's basketball has gone in the course of one year. So basically about
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  fifty three weeks ago, no, fifty one weeks ago, fifty weeks ago,
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  West Virginia loses in the opening round of the NCUABLEA Tournament, basically a
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  week a year ago this week, and Don Plitzewhite takes off. What if
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  I would have told you, don't worry about it. A year later,
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  West Virginia will be back in the NCUBLEA Tournament and the momentum within the program
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  will be at probably record high. I mean, the Joe and the movement
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  on this team right now, there's a lot of loving going on. You
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  could not have said that with any confidence. If you said it, it
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  would have been, oh, Okay, you're dreaming. Maybe you want that
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  to happen, but there's no evidence that that will happen. Right, you're
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  right, And people were upset. People were angry of how that all happened.
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  So the first thing that was really positive as soon as Mark got here
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  is that none of the ladies left. All six that could have come back
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  came back. That was his first like boom. And then he went out,
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  put a few more pieces together, had the off season to put his
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  system in. They bought in and off. It really was a near perfect
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  combination of the players that were already here sticking and being very very good and
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  buying in early. And then that new staff with Mark going out and adding
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  a couple of obviously critical pieces. That's about it. Good a melting of
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  those two groups as I've seen. How about I know we focused entirely on
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  WVU, but also how about the story of Kim Caldwell going from Glenville to
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  marsh Rad's story and getting coach of the Year in a stun belt conference,
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  winning the sun Bells Conference tournament the only way they're going to get in NC
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  DOUBLEA bread and then going to the n C DOUBLEA and they play first round
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  game Friday in Blacksburg against the Hokies. That's a heck of a story,
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  heck of a second all time tournament bit I think for Marshall is all it
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  is. Yeah, first time since like ninety seven, I mean in a
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  while. I mean that that's a coaching job right there again and again kept
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  players. Kim's terrific. I've known her for a long time, obviously covered
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  her extensively at Glenville. She's been on our show a bunch and talked to
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  her a bunch. She's really good. Yeah, really good. I know
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  that's Captain obvious. I just told your hobbies obvious observations there. But to
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  do what she did, it's one thing to get it going at Glenville like
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  that and be able to keep it going, which is really hard to do,
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  to be able to translate that up to Marshall in year one. That's
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  an incredible job by both those coaches in this state in year one to have
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  the success they had. Absolutely true, Absolutely true, which also gives you
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  some hope for next season on the men's side, that the standard old school
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  rebuilds are now a different deal. And we'll talk about that coming up.
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  Obviously, we'll talk about that for months to come, and we'll talk about
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  that all the way to the start of next season. Some interesting stuff happened
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  in selection Sunday, and it wasn't so much as the NC DOUBLEA Tournament as
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  it was the NIT A mass flipping off from Power five coaches to the NC
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  DOUBLEA, which now oversees the NIT. They took away the automatic bid to
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  non Power five conferences. Power six and basketball took that away so real quick.
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  So if you were a number one seed in you, if you won
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  the regular season in your conference and then did not win your conference tournament and
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  make the ENC A Tournament, you received an auto berth to the n T
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  precorrectly the given, it's a given, you're in. Don't worry about it.
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  You're in. We got you. They took that away because they wanted
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  to get more of these Power six schools in. Well that's a good plan
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  until the power six schools say, no, we're not interested in playing Saint
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  John's Oklahoma Ole, miss Ole, Miss Pitt, Pitt Indiana too, right,
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  Yeah, Indiana. Rick Rick Patino did say though with all due respect,
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  I mean he did say that he has great respect, but yeah,
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  but sco So it really it really upset the Apple car. Yeah, it
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  really upset the app I check out Indiana. They might not they might be
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  playing. It really upset the plan because television wanted those teams in there.
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  They wanted more brand names in that tournament, and those teams that we're not
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  going to play don't care about it. The excuse that they're using is the
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  portal is now open as of as I record this on Monday, as of
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  right now, and so they're saying, no, we got to we've got
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  to re we've got to retool a roster, we got to keep the guys
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  that we want to keep. We got to go get guys now we're not
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  interested in playing. So that turns what they thought were going to be some
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  really interesting television matchups they don't happen now, so they might have to look
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  at that again. Inn I Indiana did they accept know they turned down the
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  invitation? Wow, Indiana, let's see here, Indiana will decline an invitation
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  to play in the n I t Maybe that was earlier. Let me double
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  chick and double chick anyway, so that's where we are. Okay, you
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  got some numbers on Senator, you got some numbers on the teams that did
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  make it from the Big twelve. So this is what I wanted to do.
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  I uh, this is kind of like commission work. I commissioned the
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  Senator and asked him, what is the commonality that the teams from the Big
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  twelve conference have that earned them a spot in the nc double Tournament? Metrics
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  like, what do you have to have as some just base ingredients in order
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  to make it in to the NCAA tournament? And that leads us to the
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  numbers. Oh yeah, oh, just go right to the numbers. There
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  comes a heater. Let's jump into the analytics worship of the show time for
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  group, ohst that posted the heck out of that battle posted hit it unintentional
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  post. All right, what do we got before again into some numbers,
• 23:40
  let's talk about this. You touched on the turnarounds, We talked about it.
• 23:42
  In regards to women's basketball, look no further than the Iowa State Cyclones.
• 23:47
  Guys, the twenty twenty one season, just a couple of years ago,
• 23:52
  Iowa State went two and twenty two overall and zero and eighteen in league
• 23:56
  play. And now and now twenty seven and seven, thirteen and five.
• 24:03
  Wait, so they can say that whole thing again. So that was TJ's
• 24:07
  first year. I always say, no, I think it was Prone's last
• 24:10
  year. Wasn't it is that? Okay? Was it that that was his
• 24:11
  last year? Because yeah, he because TJ has won nineteen or more than
• 24:17
  three straight years now Okay, it's just yeah, two and twenty two,
• 24:21
  the twenty twenty one, twenty twenty twenty twenty one season two, Yeah,
• 24:26
  that was pro go. Two and twenty two didn't win a conference game.
• 24:30
  Now they slide into a number two and some thought had a case for the
• 24:32
  number one seed. Right. So to your point of being able to turn
• 24:36
  this thing way more quickly than you've ever had before. Not only not only
• 24:41
  hoppy twenty seven and seven, thirteen and five a dominating win in the Big
• 24:45
  Twelve Tournament to beat Houston. Houston scored eighteen points in the second half.
• 24:49
  Yeah, tep I was taking kicked him in the teeth by thirty Houston.
• 24:53
  Houston did that numerous times to other teams. Yes, this season, I
• 25:00
  mean that was they displaced people. For Iowa State to do that, that
• 25:04
  was an absolute wow, absolutely wow man. And it once again shows you
• 25:14
  the home court advantage that Iowa State has. Did you see those pictures,
• 25:18
  oh and video over and power and power and light District that Yeah, that
• 25:22
  but I was just talking to the arena, I mean it was it was
• 25:23
  Hilton South. Yeah. But if you saw the you see the power of
• 25:26
  white I did it just like it was like the Beatles were playing. It
• 25:30
  was shoulder to shoulder. You couldn't move. It's also interesting, We'll get
• 25:33
  back to this because I do want to dive into those big twelve teams that
• 25:34
  got in. We'll get back to this because it also speaks to this coaching
• 25:37
  search thing as well, where you know there's the win the press conference,
• 25:42
  or you don't win the press conference, but you got a really good cook,
• 25:45
  like you just need to chill out and wait. Because t j Otzelberger,
• 25:48
  all due respect to him, was not setting the world on fire at
• 25:51
  UNLV. Now he had Iowa State ties hoppy, he'd been there, very
• 25:53
  good recruiter, was very well respected within the department and the fan base,
• 25:59
  so they loved him. But he was not killing it at UNLV, and
• 26:03
  he's able to walk in. Now you have a great success where Southcote State
• 26:06
  sounds kind of one want. Went to UNLV and was just was okay,
• 26:11
  but wasn't setting the world on fire. Wouldn't have been a hot commodity at
• 26:15
  multiple schools around the country, but a great fit for Iowa State and has
• 26:18
  obviously done a tremendous job of getting the right kind of players to buy into
• 26:22
  what he wants them to do and having really a magical season this season.
• 26:26
  So just a point of caution as we continue to discuss this coaching search thing
• 26:30
  here. How did he do it? Guard? Yeah, their defense was
• 26:34
  non negotiable. It's non negotiable defense if you don't And he said this,
• 26:41
  and I read a story about him this weekend. Nice I think was the
• 26:45
  athletic if you have, if you get the athletic, get that. It's
• 26:48
  just basically, when we bring people into our program, they have to have
• 26:53
  that intangible gene that we have to make a determination on. Will they guard?
• 27:00
  Will they be selfless? They don't go out there and try to find
• 27:06
  the fancy dude right that that's out there. He's got a five stars next
• 27:11
  to his name. He scores all these points. Will you fit into what
• 27:14
  we want to do? Because collectively, if we get all five to go,
• 27:17
  I mean they're not I mean there's not a bunch of NBA guys running
• 27:19
  around on that team, and you know, sometimes you luck out. Taman
• 27:23
  Lipsey his mom and dad work at Iowa State. He's born and raised in
• 27:29
  Ames and he's a great player. That program has had an incredible run of
• 27:32
  feeders from Ames High. That is not a Frederick Heiberg. You don't have
• 27:37
  tell me about fred Hoiberg lined up played him in Ames against Heiberg. Thank
• 27:40
  you, laughing at you. He took the ball and just held it at
• 27:42
  Brad's forehead like help. So we were lined up real quick side. Note
• 27:45
  we were playing my senior year, his sophomore year. He was. He
• 27:48
  was really good, obviously, So that clock is winding down in the first
• 27:52
  half. I'm guarding him. I'm standing back, and they're gonna save for
• 27:56
  the last shot in front of our bench. I can still see like it
• 27:59
  happened yesterday. He's out front, I'm matched up, I'm about top of
• 28:02
  the I'm right about the three point line. He's a little bit further out.
• 28:04
  And he takes the ball. And you didn't see this a lot in
• 28:07
  Iiowa high school basketball. He takes the ball and he just has it out,
• 28:10
  like down to his side, like he's one hand with you have two
• 28:14
  hands. No, he one hand had palmed it, just held it out,
• 28:15
  And I can vividly remember so many years ago, is that that's forty
• 28:18
  seven years ago. I can remember. I'm down on my defensive stance and
• 28:22
  I'm looking at him, going, uh, this sn't good because he's like
• 28:26
  twelve years old. I mean he's sophomore, and I like, how old
• 28:29
  are you? What are you doing? He's out there just palm it immediately
• 28:32
  right around me. Got no help. My team went down, got no
• 28:34
  help. Thought I had helped behind me. He was really good, did
• 28:38
  what he wanted to do. But they Harrison Barnes that didn't go to Iowa
• 28:41
  Stable went to North Carolina. He's from Ames High. They've had multiple guy
• 28:45
  It's amazing with that school, at that high school produces. Anyway, I
• 28:48
  digress. They also passed the ball very well. To your point about being
• 28:52
  selfless, so they pass and they guard. That's all that. Yeah,
• 28:56
  pretty good. Yeah that's so anyway, point being, I would stay with
• 29:00
  the really quick turnaround with a guy that wasn't the hottest name in the coaching
• 29:04
  market at the time but ended up being a really good fit. But the
• 29:07
  guy that they wanted. But the guy that they wanted that was like,
• 29:11
  we have to have TJ back. I've remembered that he was at un for
• 29:15
  what a year? One or two wasn't long, No, like one or
• 29:18
  two. Onemember Chris Beard was at UNLV for like three days. Yeah I
• 29:23
  remember that. Yeah yeah, anyway, yeah, did pull cars s Beard.
• 29:27
  So this was interesting. When we talked about this this morning, I
• 29:32
  thought I'd come in here with about six or seven bullet points that say here
• 29:36
  it is, here's your formula. You know what I found when I actually
• 29:38
  got in there, Well, what's up? This year was a weird year.
• 29:41
  There wasn't a script. The biggest script playing a Power five conference.
• 29:48
  That was the biggest script. Lit'sten to these numbers. So all Big twelve
• 29:52
  teams during the NCAA tournament won twenty plus games. Check all won at least
• 29:56
  nine conference games. So this was not one of those years like last year
• 30:00
  when West Virginia got in with a sub five hundred record, and we've seen
• 30:04
  that before from the Big twelve. Good point, this was not one of
• 30:07
  those years. They all won at least nine conference games, all were top
• 30:10
  thirty three in the Ken Palm rankings. But here's what got me by stopped.
• 30:15
  You just said two big things. Okay, One, So looking ahead
• 30:18
  to next year, you're from West Virginia's perspective, what are you going to
• 30:22
  have to do? You're going to have to win nine West Virginia making it
• 30:26
  in a year ago at seven and eleven in the league and getting the seventh
• 30:30
  win on the last Saturday the regular season. That was an aberration. West
• 30:34
  Virginia's computer number last year might be the biggest gap between a computer ranking and
• 30:41
  your record of all time. I went back and looked at the final rank
• 30:44
  in West Ring's like nineteenth in the Ken Palm ranking, and went seven and
• 30:48
  eleven had a not good conference record, nineteen in the computer ranking. What
• 30:52
  they have in the nine seed in the nca tournament was at eight nine game
• 30:56
  right the West Virginia was in. I believe I'm right about that. I
• 30:57
  think so. So that was an amazing gap right there. So, but
• 31:02
  those are your three win twenty win, win at least half of your games,
• 31:04
  and be top thirty three in the Ken Pond. But if you do
• 31:07
  the first two out of this league, chances are you're going to be in
• 31:08
  that number. Here's what surprised me this one did not four of those teams
• 31:15
  that are in have a defensive rank of thirty four or better. I'm sorry,
• 31:21
  let me refresh. Four are in with a defensive rank of forty five
• 31:26
  or worse. I thought all those the West Virginia or the Big twelve.
• 31:30
  Defensive numbers did not stay as elevated as they were early in the season.
• 31:34
  Those kind of normalize a little bit. So four NCAA Tournament teams with a
• 31:38
  defensive rank or forty five or lower. That's surprised me. How low.
• 31:42
  I'll go back and get those in a minute, because I thought those would
• 31:45
  all come in like top fifty minimum, right if they did not, Here's
• 31:48
  what I was trying to say. A second ago, four teams were out
• 31:53
  of the NCAA Tournament from the Big twelve with a defensive rank of thirty four
• 31:57
  or better. Really elite defensive teams did not get in. Who were they?
• 32:02
  Fifteen, seventeen and number twenty two, kse State So Oklahoma and Kansas
• 32:07
  State you seef and you seef? Yeah, personal aside real quick, you
• 32:15
  see f fifteenth, Cincinnati seventeenth, Wow, Kansas State twenty two, Oklahoma
• 32:22
  thirty four all out of the tournament. So what were their offensive numbers?
• 32:24
  Then? They had to be sub not good? Oklahoma not bad forty eighth,
• 32:30
  Kansas State not good one thirty eight, Cincinnati seventy seven, and U
• 32:35
  se F one forty nine so we talk about you've got to be very good
• 32:37
  defensively, and you do in this league. If you're not good defensively,
• 32:40
  you got no shot. But you also have to have some more balance.
• 32:44
  You've got to be able to score at times too. You can't be this
• 32:46
  is a league where you can't be like this lopsided either way. You've got
• 32:51
  to be more level where you can win in multiple styles of play. Oklahoma's
• 32:55
  strength of schedule did that hurt them? Eight and ten in the league?
• 33:01
  Right? Overall strength of schedule their non conference was three twenty three. Yeah,
• 33:08
  not good enough, but hold on, they did play North Carolina,
• 33:10
  right, because here's what jumped out to me. Non conference strength to schedule
• 33:15
  must not matter anymore. Excuse me, it must not matter. That was
• 33:19
  me. That was a thing forever. Non conference strength to schedule, non
• 33:22
  conference strength to schedule. Play play play play people, play people, play
• 33:24
  people, play people, Hopey play people. Five Big twelve teams that made
• 33:30
  the tournament have like a bottom one twenty five non conference strength to schedule.
• 33:35
  Listen to some of these. Iowa State three point fifty one out of like
• 33:39
  what three sixty three, TCU three point fifty seven, about as bad as
• 33:45
  you can be in the non conference strength of schedule in TCU lined up played
• 33:47
  No. One TCU BYU three twenty seven. Those are some non conference schedules
• 33:55
  for teams that are in the tournament, including a two seed in Iowa State.
• 34:00
  What led to the criticism that the Big Twelve is gaming the system by
• 34:04
  not playing strong non conference schedules and then just eating the fat off of being
• 34:09
  in a very, very highly respected league. They took a lot of criticism
• 34:15
  for doing that, and there might be those three schools. That's a valid
• 34:19
  criticism on those three schools. I don't know that you can use that as
• 34:21
  a full blanket statement, but those three were those are pretty bad non conference.
• 34:24
  This is not as analytical or as scientific of the numbers that you use,
• 34:30
  But I truly do believe that the reason Oklahoma did not make it into
• 34:35
  the NCAA Tournament was because they played Country Roads in Norman at the end of
• 34:40
  the West Virginia game. I don't scientifically can't prove that. I think that
• 34:45
  was karma. Yeah, that's unconfirmed. I think unconfirmed. I think that
• 34:47
  was karma came back to bite them in the back. See Oklahoma played Iowa,
• 34:52
  they played usc both top one hundred. They played Providence, a top
• 34:54
  fifty five team. They played ar Kansas who ended up not being any good,
• 34:58
  Top one oh seven, played North Carolina lost, and then they got
• 35:01
  to play people. Then, yeah, they played people their conference track.
• 35:05
  That was just one of those there. There were those bid steelers late that
• 35:08
  affected the Big East Conference too. There were a lot of bid steelers that
• 35:12
  came in there that probably cost the Big twelve another bid or two on that.
• 35:15
  Oklahoma probably had a case there. Ottzel Burger was at UNLV two years.
• 35:21
  The record of twenty nine and thirty. Yeah, yeah, thirty,
• 35:24
  here's it. But in researching then, excuse me, you researched. How
• 35:29
  many coaches do you think you and LV has had since Tark unbelievable? Take
• 35:34
  a guess. They had Raleigh. Yeah, Rolly Massamino was there for two
• 35:37
  years, Thank you God. Raleigh Massamino was there for two years, maybe
• 35:40
  three. They had Raleigh. They had Chris Beard, they had Otselbergery,
• 35:45
  Kruger's son, Don Krueger's Kevin's there and now saved his job. This year,
• 35:50
  I'm gonna say seven, it's over under seven and a half. I
• 35:52
  was gonna say seven, I'm going I'm going seven and seven. Brad he
• 35:59
  went seven numbers seven, fourteen. Excuse me. They've had fourteen coaches since
• 36:05
  tark Oh, my gracious, what was his last year ninety two, So
• 36:12
  it's twenty thirty two years years two a year every two years. Yeah,
• 36:16
  they've had some people that they hired that haven't me and put their furniture in
• 36:20
  the office yet and they take off. Yeah, there's a couple like Howie
• 36:23
  Landa was there a second tim Gergrich was there forgot he was yeah, guy,
• 36:32
  he was there for thirty seconds. Yeah. Max Good was there for
• 36:37
  a minute. Max Good was that the Max Good. Jay spoon Hour was
• 36:40
  there. Some of them were just like six and and it sh Jay was
• 36:44
  my boy. I played youth basketball against Jay Todd took once, foiled him
• 36:47
  out, took all five charges from him along the baseline five charges youth basketball.
• 36:51
  Ah, Jake, gonna tell you what, they lock you down,
• 36:52
  the charge into me, don't get you fouled. Wow, you'd win some
• 37:00
  money on a trivia question on that. How many coaches have UNV had two
• 37:04
  touchdowns? Worth? Fourteen coaches? They haven't been any good since since Lon
• 37:10
  Krueger. Well, this year they were eighteen to thirteen. What was Lawn's
• 37:15
  best year there? I don't know what is it? Let me check he
• 37:17
  was he was one sixty one and seventy one. Let me check what his
• 37:21
  best year. Well, obviously their heyday was with Jerry Tarkanian. When you
• 37:27
  could say they were forward thinking in regard to the nil, Yes, they
• 37:32
  were. One would say a little bit ahead of the game. He had
• 37:36
  aggressive Krueger was he had a thirty and seven year in six and two thousand
• 37:40
  and six, two thousand and seven, he followed up with a he was
• 37:43
  thirty and seven. He was thirty and seven, made to the Sweet sixteen.
• 37:46
  A really good coach. Yeah, so he had success there. You.
• 37:51
  So, if you look at the highest ranked Ken Palm teams to be
• 37:54
  left out of the tournament field, Cincinnata comes in at the fourth highest rank
• 37:59
  that was left out. The Big Twelve had two of the top six,
• 38:05
  Oklahoma being the other one at forty third. Cincinnati was thirty seventh and left
• 38:09
  out the highest with Saint John's at twenty five did not make it in the
• 38:14
  field. All due respect to the n IT, how many teams reach the
• 38:19
  Sweet sixteen from the Big twelve. It's a good question. I haven't gone
• 38:22
  through the bracket yet. I've got to go through the brackets somewhere and look
• 38:25
  at those matchups. Can't answer that today. The league deserves criticism if they
• 38:31
  don't get how many in the sweet sixteen, Again, depends on where you're
• 38:36
  seated. See why you could get through. It's a bust if you don't
• 38:43
  have three Iowa States one to watch and we'll get in. I'd like to
• 38:47
  get into some games to keep an eye and you want to do that now,
• 38:50
  Games to keep an eye on that have coaches names that potentially could be
• 38:53
  around the WVU search. Yeah, we have to do it now because when
• 38:57
  we record on Thursday, we'll be watching the games in here. Yes,
• 39:00
  you're gonna be here Thursday, Hobey, Yeah, be a lot of dead
• 39:04
  air games will be on. We'll be watching. Iowa State's path is interesting.
• 39:07
  So they get South Dakota State. Didn't we just say Alzeberger was there?
• 39:10
  So they get South Dakota State first, then they get the winner.
• 39:14
  And this is a game if you're West Virginia fans to keep an eye on
• 39:16
  Washington State and Drake play in the first round. That's a bummer the committee.
• 39:22
  The committee did some odd things putting those two together. Bums me out
• 39:24
  because those are both teams that would be fun to watch as a seven out
• 39:28
  of ten. That could give people some trouble. Darren de Friese, of
• 39:30
  course, the Drake coach has been fantastic there and then Washington State's coach getting
• 39:36
  a lot of love. He's won it multiple places. He's an interesting candidate
• 39:39
  in this carousel right now. Washington State one at three different places. Obviously
• 39:44
  at the school that has a conference that's going away. What does he do?
• 39:47
  Does he look is this is his time to make a move out.
• 39:51
  There's a bunch of jobs open. So that's whe to keep an eye on.
• 39:53
  Washington State and Duke and Drake excuse me, Washington State and Drake Dfreezeer's
• 39:58
  seventy eight and thirty three. Drake, what's your situation with the freeze How
• 40:02
  do you know him? Brother went to same school I did. One of
• 40:07
  his brothers. He's got another brother that was an All American at the University
• 40:12
  of Iowa that then went on to play in the NFL for a number of
• 40:15
  years. Buddy of mine, Dad coached and taught them in high school,
• 40:22
  really small high school, Applington Parkersburg, Hoppy. I've lifted in the Applington
• 40:27
  Parkersburg weight room. Do you know everybody in basketball? I mean everybody that
• 40:30
  comes up you have some connection to working on it. He's been very good.
• 40:36
  So here's another one. Wisconsin five, the five, Wisconsin against the
• 40:40
  twelve. James Madison, Mark Byington's been a name that's swirling around this search.
• 40:45
  That game comes up on the twenty second. What day's twenty second?
• 40:49
  Thursday, Friday eighteen nineteen. Let's get this doesn't matter. Friday Friday,
• 40:53
  Okay, So that game's Friday. Mississippi State the eight against Michigan State the
• 40:59
  nine. Chris jan You want another story, Yes, Chris Jans, the
• 41:02
  Mississippi State coach. He's down there with Jimmy Bell. So he's got Jimmy
• 41:07
  Bell. He's been very successful as well. Longtime Wichita State assistant with Greg
• 41:10
  Marshall. Lots of success there. West Virginia connection. Mark Downey from Morgantown
• 41:15
  used to be on his staff at Bowling Green, which was his next stop.
• 41:19
  He won at Bowling Green, then went to New Mexico State one there
• 41:22
  had Teddy Allen, Theodore Allen, Theodore Allen, one of the darlings of
• 41:27
  the NCA tournament. Would that have been two years ago? He had two
• 41:30
  years ago. So he won there, then took the Mississippi State job.
• 41:34
  Now he has James Bell on his team. Chris Jans when I arrived at
• 41:38
  my school, went to play basketball and baseball. First basketball meeting scrimmage we
• 41:43
  got together. It was immediately, hey, wait do you see Chris Jans.
• 41:46
  Wait to see Chris Jians. He played in the same conference that my
• 41:49
  school was in. Was kind of a Steph Curry before there was Steph Curry
• 41:52
  as a player. He would fire as immediately stepping across that f court.
• 41:57
  He was a really good player in his own right. So that game comes
• 41:59
  up on Thursday, the twenty first, Mississippi State against Michigan State. And
• 42:02
  then there's a play in game one of the play in opening round games,
• 42:06
  Colorado State against Virginia that has some interest. UVA West Virginia obviously played them
• 42:10
  this season. Colorado State is coached by Nico Medved, very successful coach as
• 42:15
  well, who has ties to the Morgantown area through his wife. Yeah,
• 42:20
  there's just a couple copy. You doing anything too hoppy? You doing anything
• 42:22
  on this search? What do you got any obvious observations? Hoo. One
• 42:28
  is that that I suspect that that Rinn Baker's down to like four or five.
• 42:34
  I mean you would you would be at this point to four or five
• 42:37
  people, right, That might be a little light Okay, well, okay,
• 42:43
  that I'm gonna go with four or five, maybe six, Okay,
• 42:46
  but you're I think you're down to that point, and that you can do
• 42:51
  zooms, you can talk on the phone, you gotta do face to face.
• 42:54
  You got to get him in here and you got to meet him in
• 42:58
  person. And frankly, with the names Brad mentioned, you're just not going
• 43:01
  to be able to until somebody's out of the tournament. So it's not like
• 43:06
  your search is stalled, but you're waiting. I think you're in a waiting
• 43:08
  game. Uh. And also that you know the whole Mark Byington thing,
• 43:13
  I mean that's been that started out Brad as the hot name, but I
• 43:16
  get I get a cool vibe on the hot name. It was way overblown
• 43:21
  early, Yes, agreed, it was way overblown early. There were a
• 43:23
  lot of people that ran with that report. That it was done, told
• 43:28
  it was not. That was an early jumping of the gun by some.
• 43:32
  I mean absolutely not done. And again I the vibe I get, it's
• 43:37
  it's it's all. It's that is not Byington and it's not. And look,
• 43:40
  and I don't want I don't want to start trouble here. I don't
• 43:43
  want to, which means you're about to. Well, I'm just gonna say
• 43:46
  that it continues to circulate out there. There are still individuals who still want,
• 43:51
  you know, the Bob Huggins thing, and that just again it unequivocally,
• 43:55
  without question, that is not going to happen under any circumstance. There
• 43:59
  is no avenue people can talk about it, people can say he should apply
• 44:04
  for whatever. It is not going to happen. And rarely do I say
• 44:08
  things so definitively than that that is simply not. There's no way. If
• 44:15
  you've followed us through the years when it comes to coaching searches and we haven't
• 44:20
  had a ton through the years, it seems like we're always talking about one
• 44:23
  like it. Well, not really, I mean not really. At West
• 44:29
  Virginia you just said you UNLV's had fourteen some Jerry turcans. I mean West
• 44:32
  Virginia's had fewer than the average, they're under the averages. But my point
• 44:37
  to this is this, we always say this, the two most difficult stories
• 44:42
  to cover are coaching searches and conference reorganization. Are if those are the two
• 44:47
  most difficult, because what happens is everyone wants to know, and sometimes people
• 44:55
  say things and they take off like a flame and gas it just explodes.
• 45:04
  So the reason I bring this up is because we were all down in Charleston
• 45:07
  for the state boys basketball tournament and we had a couple of people come up
• 45:13
  to Brad and I and say, hey, I hear that West Virginia's first
• 45:20
  one or two candidates have turned them down. No. No, hasn't even
• 45:29
  gotten to that point yet. It hasn't even gotten to that point. Conversations
• 45:34
  are happening. Ren Baker has his list. Think of this as a game
• 45:38
  of dominoes, and you've got all the dominoes lined up, you have to
• 45:44
  wait for the dominoes that begin to fall to trigger the next move. That's
• 45:49
  the point that you're at right now. So to your point, Hobby,
• 45:52
  ren Baker has he probably started a list. He probably had his list of
• 45:57
  about forty five to fifty names, and then they prioritize and then you have
• 46:05
  to It's a it's a it's literally a game of like you have to wait
• 46:09
  before you can move based upon the NCAA tournament and based upon what other schools
• 46:15
  do and n I and n I t For example, the Indiana State coach.
• 46:19
  Let's talk about him next. Let's get into this. So was he
• 46:22
  on West Virginia's list? Yeah, he was on West Virginia's list. Looks
• 46:29
  like he's going to Saint Louis. Why is he going to Saint Louis.
• 46:32
  Well, West Virginia may have had him on their list, but he may
• 46:37
  have gotten that vibe that you're gonna have to wait for us to go through
• 46:42
  some other names before we get to you in our pecking order. Right.
• 46:46
  So that's how this thing plays. So people are asking me, what do
• 46:51
  you? What do you? Here's what I say, West Virginia is going
• 46:53
  to get a really good basketball coach. They're going to get a really good
• 46:57
  basketball coach who's got really good credentials. But at this moment, no one
• 47:01
  knows who it's going to be, including Reren Baker. He knows who his
• 47:06
  list is, but you don't know how the dominoes are going to roll.
• 47:09
  Look, and also there are like Mark Byington is one of those guys who's
• 47:15
  on the on everybody's list, right, anybody that's looking for a coach,
• 47:19
  Byington's name comes up. So there's an echo chamber, correct that goes on,
• 47:23
  along with Dusty May and Josh Shirtz the Indiana State and Darren de Fries.
• 47:28
  I mean there's three or four guys that are on everybody's list, yes,
• 47:32
  and then you've got to dig down get the next wave. And so
• 47:35
  yeah, you get down to five or six that you do the interviews with
• 47:37
  and that's when the matrix starts happening. The only guy, so yeah,
• 47:40
  you're right on shirts He gets a sense. Okay, I'm I'm probably not
• 47:44
  the number one. I've just had a historic year at Indiana State. I've
• 47:47
  got to make some sort of move here. I've got to keep going because
• 47:51
  Saint Louis, Indiana State and Saint Louis without digging in doesn't seem like a
• 47:54
  huge, massive move, but it resets the clock and keeps him moving a
• 47:58
  little bit. Yeah, it's fluid. It truly is incredibly fluid. And
• 48:05
  you don't know where the thing is going to end up other than you're going
• 48:08
  to come out of this fine. You're going to get a guy that has
• 48:12
  won. Wren has his priorities as to what he wants. He knows what
• 48:16
  the ingredients are that you need to have to be successful in this job,
• 48:22
  both on the court and off the court. So it's just a matter of
• 48:24
  okay, I'll go, and I would also submit there's probably a name or
• 48:29
  two out there that isn't getting a ton of talk right now. That might
• 48:34
  be a sitting coach at a Power five school, power six school that you
• 48:38
  also have to kind of have conversations with as well. So all of that
• 48:43
  is in play, incredibly fluid, but you just have to wait, not
• 48:49
  too long. Well, it could be a couple of weeks, this depends.
• 48:52
  Just think of this after this weekend is old. You've you've never had
• 48:57
  more resources at your disposal in terms of staff, You've never had more people
• 49:00
  understanding the portal. You've never had more players available in the portal. So
• 49:04
  yes, you need to move quickly, but you don't need to rush.
• 49:07
  How about that hobby, Well, that's what move quickly, but don't rush.
• 49:09
  That's what John Wood. John wouldn't said. It's that's a very good
• 49:14
  saying for right now. Yeah, move was move quickly, but don't hurry
• 49:17
  or don't rush. Don't know, not hurry. I think he said double
• 49:20
  check. I used don't don't rush quote myself not John wouldn't. Thank you.
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  Really, yeah, and Fred Fred Fred the the full quote is be
• 50:20
  quick, but don't hurry and recruit NBA players. That was the other part.
• 50:23
  Then I'll just use my own what I say. Well, I don't
• 50:28
  know it's your quote. He threw me off. You were so excited to
• 50:30
  mention John Wooden. Yeah, it's not your quotes Wooden's quote. It wasn't
• 50:37
  Wooden's quote. What was Wooden's quote? Be quick, but don't hurry.
• 50:39
  I said, move quickly, don't rush. Hey, hoppy, did he
• 50:42
  get NBA players? Yeah? Yeah, he was a futurest progressive. He
• 50:46
  was progressive. He was progressive in the nil game. That's one of the
• 50:52
  great untold stories. It is. But you still won nine in a row,
• 50:55
  so you rite nine nine or row eight nine whatever? It was never
• 51:02
  to be done again. Yeah, no, not possible. All right,
• 51:07
  you guys are ready to do some healing. It's time to do some healing.
• 51:09
  Let's do some healing. I just check quotes. They do have that
• 51:17
  attributed to Brian Home. It's a different Wikipedia. Go quickly, don't rush,
• 51:28
  it's the same thing. What did he say? He said? He
• 51:37
  said, whatever you do be original. What he says the same thing,
• 51:40
  not even the same words be quick, but don't hurry. Yeah, not
• 51:44
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• 52:13
  You say to your wife, Ay, is there any derivative of quick
• 52:15
  or rush or hurry has to be attributed to John Wooden. You say to
• 52:21
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• 52:24
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  Mountaineer Roasting Russy Rusty Isaac's Uh. He made a trip to South America with
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  WV stew Udents is part of their spring break. Whereabouts Columbia, Ecuador,
• 53:05
  Prue. I don't know, so Guatemala. I believe it's Central America.
• 53:09
  So here we go. I want to show you some pictures if you would
• 53:12
  put those coffee pictures up Austin, so that gentleman there, his name is
• 53:17
  Ricardo Zelea. He is the owner of Finca Santa Clara. That's his farm,
• 53:25
  and they produce Guatemalan coffee that makes up fifty percent of our game day
• 53:31
  grink. Can you show us a little bit there? So there he is,
• 53:35
  and you see those those wooden dryers, I think you would say those
• 53:39
  are all beans inside there. And then here is the actual coffee bean on
• 53:45
  the plant. So I didn't know this until a bit ago, but inside
• 53:50
  those what look like cherries are pits. Those pits are the coffee bean.
• 53:57
  And so you dry those, you dry those fruits off, and they literally
• 54:00
  drive them off. I think in the sun and then they get to the
• 54:02
  pit. That's the coffee bean. And you ship the coffee bean. It's
• 54:07
  in a green form. They send it over here, he mixes it here,
• 54:09
  he roasts it in Morgantown, and that makes our game day grind.
• 54:13
  So it's not roasted there, No, oh, Condon, It's got to
• 54:15
  be roasted here. Okay, Yeah, so you get the green you get
• 54:19
  the green beans. But yeah, that's it's inside basically of a cherry.
• 54:22
  What abouts in Guatemala? I don't know, dude, I don't know.
• 54:25
  But yeah, so that was Uh so that's good. That's great having some
• 54:30
  today as a matter of fact, Yeah, so happy to have that from
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  the text line here, just asking Buckwheed in Chicago. Rites, I just
• 54:43
  finished watching episode five three nine. Actually it was five three eight. I
• 54:45
  made a mistake to this is five three nine, But anyway, I get
• 54:49
  your point. I'm in the middle of reading My Losing Season on Hoppy's unequivocal
• 54:52
  recommendation, and I found numerous parallels with the past season for Josh eilc.
• 54:58
  As I'm sure Hopy knows. The book is about much more than the senior
• 55:00
  year of basketball for Pat Conroy at the Citadel. Thank you, Hoppy,
• 55:05
  keep up the outstanding work Mountaineers. One of the great sports books of all
• 55:09
  time, that is your book. You do highly recommend that. Yeah,
• 55:13
  I'm going to get that for you, Brett. We have not read it
• 55:15
  yet. I'll get it for you. Texter. It's with a great honor
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  that I inform you that three guys before the Game has won the prestigious outstanding
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  DOUBLEVU Sports podcast in Northern mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Excellent. Congratulations on
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  being the best WVU podcast in all of Northern Mountain Pleasant. Like necessarily,
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  Brian Burgess like to thank the entire crew. He's the chairman of the Northern
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  mount Pleasant DOUBLEV Sports Podcast Association. A lot of work goes into this and
• 55:45
  m planning. Texter, I have a small adjustment to make to y'all's comments
• 55:52
  about the Knar River camera. The river was smooth, but the current was
• 55:55
  very swift, probably too much for most boats. Just Saturday, the water
• 56:00
  level was just below the gates at the Windfield locks here. In a few
• 56:02
  days it will be normal and I will be fishing it all right. Good
• 56:06
  up date. Thanks for helping me through the work days. You know the
• 56:10
  advice when you're fishing, be quick, but don't hurry. Yeah, says
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  in the state of West Virginia. Texter asks a question, how much do
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  we have to pay? I lost that? How much do we have to
• 57:22
  pay to hear the eleven minute lost episode? Will the audio file be on
• 57:29
  sale at episode eight hundred dot com? Yeah? What did you do with
• 57:34
  that? Is it? I had archive I had. That's here, I
• 57:37
  mean I had a little peace. Maybe next episode remind me Texter Kylon Martinsburg,
• 57:42
  who's an aspiring landowner, wanted to get your guys thoughts on the new
• 57:45
  college football playoff model and the revenue distribution. I think having a playoff auto
• 57:51
  bid for the winner of the Big Twelve is great for West Virginia. However,
• 57:54
  all Big twelve schools will be at a significant disadvantage when it comes to
• 57:58
  revenue compared to the Big ten SEC schools. Thoughts. I'm gotta get into
• 58:06
  that a little more. My knee jerk reaction is I don't like. I
• 58:08
  don't like that auto BID's great. As we've talked, I think got tremendous
• 58:13
  that that adds to the conference season. Now your niche down trying to win
• 58:15
  a conference season, not just trying to win a conference season, then having
• 58:20
  to fight your way in with politics. So I think that part's good.
• 58:22
  The uneven revenue distribution is going to be a potential problem down the road,
• 58:27
  though, Texter Hi Brad Tony Hoppey, my son and son in law just
• 58:34
  texted me asking if I was the Siesta Key trolley rider. I hadn't listened
• 58:39
  to the show yet, But I guess I forgot to sign my name on
• 58:43
  my text. Sorry guys, but thanks for reading my text on the show.
• 58:45
  Julie B. From Morgantown. So that was the h he was on
• 58:47
  a trolley. Gotta forget that one on the conk train. Oh that's what
• 58:57
  they call it. I think conk train. John O no Adam and D.
• 59:02
  C. Rights. I got last minute tickets to the ACC semi final
• 59:07
  basketball tournament with friends who went to school in Pennsylvania and Uva. Between the
• 59:14
  two games, two gentlemen come and sit next to me. One of them
• 59:17
  happened to be a cook a cook as they always say, a West Virginia
• 59:22
  connection. What cook a cook went to the ACC went to the tournament.
• 59:28
  He's a basketball fan, likes to watch games. John from Oudre State Park
• 59:34
  Rights mid karaoke text. We're celebrating our friend Will's bachelor party in Nashville.
• 59:40
  What we didn't know was the SEC tournament was there this week. The place
• 59:45
  crawling with Kentucky fans. I felt obligated to carry the torch and sing country
• 59:50
  Roads. A little nervous with all the blue As I started to sing,
• 59:53
  A couple of gold hats walked in in the dimly lit room. The shining
• 59:58
  hats of the gold turned out to be Hello Mountaineers who belted it out with
• 1:00:00
  me as Kentucky went down to Texas. A and M always a West Virginia
• 1:00:07
  connection. Good work, well done. Absolutely Speaking of West Virginia connection,
• 1:00:15
  saw here on the Twitter verse, Jeff Goodman basketball college writer reports that referee
• 1:00:22
  Ted Valentine, who's a West Virginia native, will work the nc DOUBLEA Tournament
• 1:00:27
  this season for the first time since twenty and nineteen. Valentine was one of
• 1:00:31
  the officials that was sent home after contact tracing in twenty twenty one, and
• 1:00:37
  he was not allowed to work the last two NCUBA tournaments by the NCAA because
• 1:00:43
  he didn't leave the bubble immediately when he was asked to do so. Valentine
• 1:00:47
  thought he should be allowed to test again and be eligible to officiate Sweet sixteen
• 1:00:52
  games, so they put him on an undesired hiatus, but now ted secret
• 1:00:58
  probation. Yeah, Teddy will be in the nca tournament. One of the
• 1:01:00
  more animated officials. He is, you'll see. Yeah, just saw him
• 1:01:05
  this summer TBT. We talked to him Texter. Hey, by the way,
• 1:01:12
  we were at the state tournament, as you know, and watching those
• 1:01:15
  games, and when you're Tony, you're that close all the time you're there.
• 1:01:19
  And I know we've talked a lot about officiating and calls or no calls
• 1:01:22
  and maybe having a chance to question officials. It's it's hard to do in
• 1:01:27
  basketball. There is so much there's so much going on. It happens so
• 1:01:30
  fast, there's so much contact. You know, it's a very even at
• 1:01:36
  the high school level. We were watching, I mean, it's so physical.
• 1:01:37
  How much do you call red? You saw it. It's hard,
• 1:01:40
  It's really hard. I thought the guys did a really good job. Yeah,
• 1:01:45
  I did too. I thought they did a really good job. The
• 1:01:50
  state tournament finals were absolutely bizarre, never seen, terrific, never seen before.
• 1:01:55
  You think about this, well, I mean all four games were decided
• 1:02:00
  by three points, last possession. All four games, the team that won
• 1:02:06
  avenged a loss against that same team from the regular season. All four games
• 1:02:12
  were won against two I mean, what more do you want? And all
• 1:02:15
  four games decided by three points? Is that right? Yeah? Or less?
• 1:02:19
  And the two win all four games as well? Yes, I think
• 1:02:22
  the two seed beat the one and two went to overtime. I mean,
• 1:02:27
  the odds of that happening are impossible. So it's a great day of basketball.
• 1:02:30
  Here is a great week, but it really gess. Here's here's something
• 1:02:35
  in the quada, here's something. Two things can be true at the same
• 1:02:37
  time. That was a bad game. That was a great game. Yeah,
• 1:02:43
  I mean they couldn't they couldn't shoot it. They were both thirty percent
• 1:02:47
  range for the game. It was twenty eight to twenty eight at the end
• 1:02:51
  of the fourth quarter. And it wasn't a it wasn't an intended stall game.
• 1:02:57
  But at the same time, the game was fabulous, dramatic and great
• 1:03:01
  to watch. So that's kind of the beauty of the game. Sometimes you
• 1:03:06
  got people making shots, sometimes you don't. That's the beauty of the game.
• 1:03:09
  And sometimes, as I contend in that one, that was a lot
• 1:03:12
  about the defense and physicality, because you know, when it's hard to make
• 1:03:15
  shots when you're tired and you've been leaned on and you've been banging and it's
• 1:03:19
  physical, and we we a lot of times just say it's a bad offense,
• 1:03:22
  begains. They couldn't shoot, they make shots, I miss. Sometimes
• 1:03:24
  there's other factors that lead to that that you gotta that you got an absolutely
• 1:03:29
  equation. And I think that was true in that game. I mean,
• 1:03:31
  extremely entertaining, dramatic game. But percentage wise, you wouldn't send that tape
• 1:03:37
  in and say, hey, watch the beauty of the game. But it
• 1:03:40
  was a game. It was it was it was good. I enjoyed it.
• 1:03:44
  But you but you would. I think you would sacrifice the quote unquote
• 1:03:47
  quality as a game for a great finish. Yes, And you know what
• 1:03:52
  else, that State tournament is just it still has Like for example, blue
• 1:03:59
  Field played Wheeling Central in the SEMIS on Friday, Like I'm watching that game
• 1:04:04
  and I'm saying to myself, like, this is what the state tournament is
• 1:04:08
  all about. All the way to the top of the state, all the
• 1:04:11
  way to the bottom of the state, and they are balling back and forth
• 1:04:15
  like that's the state tournament. It was fantastic. And then for example,
• 1:04:19
  and this is true for all of these communities, but when Shady Spring won
• 1:04:25
  that game, you see what that means to those people in that community.
• 1:04:29
  I mean that was just the fifth time that they've been there in their school's
• 1:04:31
  history. They had lost the previous two years. And it's their second state
• 1:04:39
  championship. And it's just such an absolute fine line of what determines a win
• 1:04:45
  and a loss. I mean, Dave Rettin just unbelievable coach, but like
• 1:04:51
  it just comes down to like a shot here or there. That's what makes
• 1:04:55
  people go because you just don't know. And then the execution in our second
• 1:05:00
  game, the quad A game, the Spring Mills Morgantown game that Searon Young,
• 1:05:04
  one of the best players in the state, came within a last second
• 1:05:08
  shot his freshman year of winning four state titles, was one of those kids.
• 1:05:13
  He was struggling right because they put two six to seven guys on him.
• 1:05:15
  It was tough to get shots off. And the play that Dave Tollman
• 1:05:19
  drew up at the end of that game stolen from Brad Stevens, former Butler
• 1:05:23
  coach Celtics. It involved a cross court pass all the way across the court
• 1:05:29
  in tail because the pass has to be good, the guy in the corner
• 1:05:31
  has to catch it with about six inches of landing room. You talk about
• 1:05:35
  watch the baseline, watch this on. Then he has to deliver a pass.
• 1:05:39
  Then there has to be a screen. Then you get the ball and
• 1:05:41
  have to make the shot. That's how that game ended in Quada. While
• 1:05:45
  while the place is just irrupting, you know, I mean the den in
• 1:05:48
  there, I mean it gets really loud. And also because a lot of
• 1:05:54
  the fans are young fans, it's really high pitched. So I mean,
• 1:05:58
  it's just it's just it's intense. It is a great atmosphere. And coaches,
• 1:06:02
  you know, Tony, you've been there many times. Coaches talk about
• 1:06:04
  how it is different there. Oh absolutely. I mean, you go to
• 1:06:09
  some of these high school gyms, man, it's it's a night and day
• 1:06:12
  difference. You get under that floor and the lights and the whole thing,
• 1:06:15
  it's a completely different game. I congratulate every single team winners and those that
• 1:06:18
  didn't come up with the win for just fantastic basketball. By the way,
• 1:06:25
  all those games, all four of the title games, are available on Metro
• 1:06:28
  News Television. You can watch those now and it's like they're n CUAA because
• 1:06:32
  it's get to Charleston, right, we want to get to Charleston. You
• 1:06:35
  hear that all the time. Texas says Tony, I thought you would be
• 1:06:41
  interested as a fellow Italian signed by Rich and Williamswick. So what that is
• 1:06:45
  is there. I'm gonna read this really super quick what you should look for
• 1:06:49
  to authenticate Italian products that you buy, and it says dispatch here the market
• 1:06:56
  is rife with impostors for items like parmies, parmegiano, reggiano, chief sam
• 1:07:02
  marzano, tomatoes, balsamic vinegar. Thankfully, these ingredients are so prized in
• 1:07:06
  Italy there's subject to a specific set of parameters in order to be called the
• 1:07:11
  real thing. This is called a DOP in Italy, which translates to a
• 1:07:15
  designated protected origin. This protection, set forth by the Italian government, specifies
• 1:07:20
  precisely how and wear an item can be made to use the official name.
• 1:07:24
  So the short on this is this, it's a red and yellow logo.
• 1:07:28
  When you go buy something and you want to know if it's absolutely authentic,
• 1:07:32
  you'll see the DOP on it. There's a little there's a little thing that
• 1:07:36
  says it's been improved. And the same thing for wines, you'll see that
• 1:07:42
  same designation on wine bottles that is from that specific those grapes are from that
• 1:07:45
  specific area. Because like you said, there's so much fraud and all of
• 1:07:50
  that that's out there. That is the thing that says you know it's a
• 1:07:54
  USDA for example, Like, Okay, that's that's the real deal. Okay,
• 1:07:58
  good to know. Matt and Favel wants us to get involved with some
• 1:08:02
  kind of a movement to have wvu's students moved for basketball games. Check with
• 1:08:10
  bread Brad's thanks, did it for many years. Not in that business anymore.
• 1:08:15
  That's kind of what I thought. You said, went to a lot
• 1:08:16
  of meetings on that stuff, not doing it, Fellows, while you guys
• 1:08:18
  were efforting. Competent people can handle that now, hoppy Fellows, while you
• 1:08:23
  guys were efforting with the Quad A and Triple A overtime championship broadcast Saturday.
• 1:08:27
  You guys need to put some respect on hoppies play by play and in game
• 1:08:32
  knowledge. He did an awesome job in the evening games. What can't that
• 1:08:38
  man do? How about show up for work? That might be one thing
• 1:08:45
  he can't do. He says, you're a mansion whisperer, a fashion mogul,
• 1:08:49
  bringing the hanky back, an independent beer icon. You know, he
• 1:08:55
  also is an amateur fireman. If you would, Austin, could you show
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  us that pick sure of our friend from the Charleston Fire Department. We had
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  an encounter Hoppy on Saturday and wonderful gentleman. Uh, actually those are see
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  those two guys there, that's another text. Give me the one where we're
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  standing inside the civic center there, if you would courtside the fire center there
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  there we go Hoppy. Yes, yes, actually one of your guys.
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  Yeah, so Steve, Steve, Steve, he had just finished. Were
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  just biting a stairway fire. He just got back from fighting a stairways.
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  Just a one alarm, just a one alarm, don't be thinks good they
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  handle it. Arson. Someone puts stuff on the steps, try to burn
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  the steps, child's play for them. Went over, said we'll handle this.
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  But he said you Your appearance there at the fire station was really well
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  received. Had a great visit. We uh just hung around for like a
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  two hours. He told us that he said, we were trying to get
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  him leave. He wouldn't. He did tell us that, you know,
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  the alarm came in. I said, hey, you got wait a minute,
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  I'm not finished yet. Don't rush out. Yeah, someone else get
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  it. Yeah. They were fantastic. We had a wonderful visit and it
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  was it was good Texter. We missed you at the Knaw Boulevard Starbuck Saturday
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  morning. But I get it. You guys are busy, your schedule was
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  tight. In your absence, we still had a good time. I met
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  my local firefighters from Charleston's West Side that we're there to see Hoppy, super
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  nice guys, huge Three Guys fans. They also got to meet my new
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  friend Jim pictured here, and we found out that we live on the same
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  street. Of course they do, why wouldn't they. Yeah, there they
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  are. I'm sure we'll get together for Kerchievel's and Mountaineer games in the future.
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  Thanks for bringing us all together, but I think you owe us the
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  Three Guys event and Charleston sometime soon. I know a guy with a stern
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  wheeler. Thanks again, we do need to do with Three Guys in Charleston.
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  I think we got a lot. I think we got a lot of
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  people there. Did you hear what he just said? You hear what he
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  just said, Mister I don't like to leave to go to Saberton and now
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  he's going to go down to Charleston. Okay, fun, that's fine.
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  Wait a minute, you guys, I never said I was I said I
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  wasn't going to be at Starbucks and you guys were talking a big game about
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  Starbucks. What happened to Starbucks? Too early schedule? If we went over
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  there wearing our suits and had a coffee spill, days over, catastrophic.
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  Couldn't take that risk too early to get there, Get over there, get
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  it, socialize and get back, get ready. Load the lighted the whole
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  thing when't worked too much. I could have told you that when you all
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  mentioned it, so you know what we did. You should have told us
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  that you were on the air. We got one of the kids. We
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  would you have listened? Would you have paid attention? No, I would
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  have. He wouldn't have. We got one of the kids that played in
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  the state tournament to go over to the Starbucks and he brought us the coffee.
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  You did what? We got one of the kids that played in the
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  state tournament and sent him over there and said, would you go get a
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  Starbucks? Did he gets back in time for the game? Tony buys?
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  He flies, came back. He had he had a nice game, he
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  played well. I mean he was playing in it that day. No,
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  he had gotten eliminated. It was Ben Loman, oh okay, Ben Loman,
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  the first ever kid in state tournament history history that played in the state
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  tournament and worked the camera for the championship broadcast for in that week in the
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  same way in sports, and then added to it and made a coffee run.
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  He's the same kid that we took out of school about a week and
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  a half ago so he could come down and run the video stream because we
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  didn't have anyone else. Took him out of school. MVP, that's my
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  boy. Handled the coffee order flawlessly as well. Oh he's he can manage.
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  He got double figures and rebounds in their game. Got double hey,
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  the twelve rebounds when they played in the state tournament. This way Yeah,
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  then lined up ran a camera former state goal of the year because I did,
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  I did the broadcast. I was leaving and somebody like tapped me on
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  their shoulders, loomed up at the cameras, Ben looming up at the cameras
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  a location. We spotlighted them. Yeah, we spotlighted him on our broadcast.
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  Let's see here, Texter Wrights. The three guys all get up at
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  five or six am. What do you do at five or six am if
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  it's not hunting season? And your guy that gets up at four h nine
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  am. Poor buddy, he's never seen the end of a Super Bowl,
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  missus half of West Virginia basketball games. He's screwed if we get a Thursday
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  night football game. Monday night football is a dream. You guys need to
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  tell the poor buddy he's allowed to walk at five pm. I guess he's
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  in bed by then, lolj in Greenbroo County. No, that's I was,
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  so he can't walk at five pm. I'm talking about Joe Roberts Brad
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  Sure, and Joe is the athletics director at one of the biggest high schools
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  in Ohio, and he is always at events at five PM, so he's
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  got to walk early. This was written on a blog and it says this
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  the invisible letter lurking at the end of a grocery store. I've lived in
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  Indiana for twelve years now, and prior to that, I was born and
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  raised in Oklahoma. In both places, I couldn't help but notice the same
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  strange phenomenon when people talked about shopping at grocery stores. For some reason,
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  people tend to add an S to the end of the name of the store.
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  In the Midwest, I hear all these myers Kroger's all the time in
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  Oklahoma. I've heard several people say Walmart's. I don't think people are suggesting
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  that they went to multiple Kroger stores, So that's why I wrote them as
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  possessive instead of plurals. Why do people do this? It could be because
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  some grocery stores already end in s, whether it's a possessive or a plural
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  name. Whole Foods, albert Sins used to be possessive, but now it's
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  not Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Farmer or Farmer's Market, Public's and my favorite
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  Schnooks. A Saint Louis regional chain just sounds like a word you'd call if
• 1:15:03
  someone wanted to characterize him as some sort of dense nincome poop. On the
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  other hand, some of the major stores have their origins as possessive names.
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  For instance, Meyer began as Meyers thrifty Acres, although Kroger started as Kroger
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  Grocery and Baking Company. Did you know that Walmart was originally called Walton's five
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  and dime, so he goes by. My guess is adding an S to
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  the end of a grocery store name is a holdover from when many stores use
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  the last name of the store owners as their names. So that's why people
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  say Kroger's. A lot of people say Kroger's. They do, or the
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  or the Kroger's or the Krogers. Yeah. Lastly, some of us just
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  generational too with other things like I've got a bunch of people I know say
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  best Buys. Seriously, not a grocery chain obviously, but I get best
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  Buys. That's pretty wild, pretty well, best byes, best spyess,
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  s byes, John Eagles, absolutely good ultiple people that give me giant Eagles.
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  M h hey, three guys. Professor Vinnie here, it's my favorite
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  time of the year watching the tournament, rooting for teams who you hope beat
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  the team with the head coach you want to hire. Interesting. In all
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  seriousness, this coaching surge is going to have to take some patience from the
• 1:16:28
  fans. It's going to be a long next two to three weeks. In
• 1:16:30
  the meantime, let's go WV women's basketball team will win and they will play
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  checks notes Iowa most likely there, he goes. It's good Princeton. Worry
• 1:16:40
  about Princeton. Things will take care of themselves. Get my girl Carla first.
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  Yeah, and not a gimmy. We'll do it. We'll do a
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  more thorough breakdown coming up on Thursday. All right, So when we get
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  back on Thursday, we will have obviously more information. I mean maybe you'll
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  have more information. Who knows. I mean. All I'm saying to you
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  all is this you know you probably won't. Yeah, you probably won't.
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  All I'm saying is just be super. Don't buy what people say. How
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  about that? Is that good? Unless we're here, here, we go,
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  we say things unless Pete Thamil reports it. Don't go with it?
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  What I missed there was a text in there that said, well, Hoppy
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  have it before Pete Thamil, don't get mine. That's your guy. Huh
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  hap, that's you lining up baby one seed against a one seed. Pressure's
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  on. I think you'll get it? Who gets it? Do you think
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  who busts it first? I don't want let me say this. No,
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  I'm not gonna say anything. Can I tell you something? Yeah, it
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  doesn't matter who gets it? Thing it matters to me. Well, sixty
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  eight seconds later someone else will have it, and then thirty two seconds later
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  someone else who cares you get a prize, you get a ribbon, you
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  get a trophy. If someone gets it first, you know a guy told
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  me so much. You know what someone and told me once guy I worked
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  for he was a news director. He said, doesn't matter who gets it
• 1:18:05
  first, it's who gets it right. Maybe someone should go back. John
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  Wood said, if you stole it, close it out. I got a
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  guy bona seta We're out thanks to our producer and Austin Wright. Just remember,
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  just remember, don't listen to hobbies. See