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3 Guys Before The Game - Oklahoma State Preview (Episode 497) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  And away we go. Hey, everybody, welcome in. It is time,
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  Your time, our time. Everybody's time to preview West Virginia and the
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  Cowboys of Oklahoma State. It's episode four ninety seven. This is three guys
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  Sales dot com. You could still pond too, could still do it?
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  Yeah, I mean today we record on Thursday. Today, how it's gonna
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  be in the seventies. Great day. Every time this time of year,
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  I'm walking outside, you know, going to and fro, whether it's the
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  football building, walking back to my vehicle or whatever, I just go like,
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  these are the best days of the year temperature wise. They start a
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  little crisp and then they just like they just kind of drift into like I
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  just wish I could just walk like we're here to Point Marion right now is
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  a great one too, because you're getting the crisp, cool morning, the
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  seventy degrees right sunshine, and the colors of the leaves are missed about right
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  right on, and we kind of, I don't know, we kind of
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  miss them. We missed them miss because I mean it's our busiest, one
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  of our busiest times of years. So I was driving home yesterday, They're
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  all changing and they're changing. I'm looking like, is it miss these it
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  peak? Is it today? Should I enjoy it? Today? Because today,
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  so I worry myself to it and then it it's just it's over.
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  It's not peak, right, but we're close and it's got to be right
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  up on My wife and I getting these jug we argue about two things,
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  landscaping and when the peak season is in the fall. What does she say?
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  What does she say? We just argue about whatever. It is.
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  Like we'll be driving down the road and we'll go for a little drive and
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  I'll say, look, that looks like peak there, and she goes,
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  that's not peak. So she's a peak un till next week. And I
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  try to explain that it's not just like everything is peak at once. So
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  she's a peak conservative. You're more of a peak You're more of a peak
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  liberalist. You're granting peakness way before she's said and then slow down, Charlie.
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  Might look in an area and you might see a little spot that's peak,
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  but maybe the whole area is in peak. Well, i'll tell you
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  what. Around my house, we got to be peak. There's all of
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  it. I'm going to bring Karen over. Come on over, so you
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  want to see peak. We got peak. Karen, come on over.
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  Just unbelievable. See, I think they're the only CPA group in the state,
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  maybe maybe world, in the world that doesn't get nervous when it's tax
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  like when the deadline comes. All the other accountants they're running around all frittery
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  because it's like the first it's like the first time that they ever knew that
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  the taxes were due. Conley CPA group were just like, yeah, we
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  got it, you don't need to do that. What they started to repair
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  the image with the accounts, and now you've dove back in. Although commonly
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  is wonderful, of course, there's something to attack everybody else providing value beyond
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  the numbers. Condy CPIA group. By the way, let me just make
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  a statement here first and foremost. I put this out on social We talked
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  about it a little bit on sports Line. You might as well get right
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  to it, right. Sure, there will not be a three guys before
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  the game food court before the Oklahoma State game on Friday or Saturday. Excuse
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  me, there will not be a three guys before the game food court on
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  Friday or Saturday. Reason, Well, we could sit here and blame it
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  on you that you wouldn't come, but we're we're not going to We're not
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  going to do that. The plain and simple. The reason was this,
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  we couldn't get the right food that we need to have to make it as
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  successful as it was. And rather than do it and doing it half,
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  but we said no, blow it off, do it right, or don't
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  do it at all. I respect that decision. Yeah, so we're just
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  going to wait and hopefully we can do something in a future home game.
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  A lot of logistical issues that going to these things happas. Some have said,
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  if you can't do it right, don't do it right. And I
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  think we don't want our three guys people to be come in and go correct.
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  This is correct. We had two awesome events. People were great packed.
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  Right, we'll regroup, come back next year. Yeah, I mean
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  playing and simple come down, Wait, what do you mean next year?
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  Let me just go there's other This isn't the this isn't this, this is
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  not senior day. This is not the last home game. He never learns
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  he already announced one that now we had to not do now he's going to
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  dive right in and announce another one that we don't know what if we're under
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  six feet of snow, we don't know what's going to happen, so you
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  chill out. Well wait a second, though, you know that everything was
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  set to go didn't happen, which has always been my contention. You know
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  that everything was set to go, but we afi is it going. Everything
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  that we've done is the two that we did in Morgantown, the one we
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  did in Greenboro County, the two food courts that we did, Like everything
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  was like excellent, right, it was five stars, So we thought,
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  why would we give them two stars and have people walk away and go,
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  we'll not recommend it. Yeah, so we're not doing it. So I'm
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  sorry. And it's not because some people took some shots at you and social
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  they thought it was you because you and I said, no, it ain't
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  our boy, it's not freak. He gave he gave a copy, gave
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  great effort, great effort. Totally want the ball, you said, give
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  me the ball, I got third and one. Give me a dog on
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  the ball. I get first. Now there, Okay, we're going to
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  get into textual healing a little bit later on a bunch of things, and
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  we can talk about we can talk about the soccer game now, or we
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  can talk about it later when we get into the the textual healing, and
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  that's what we'll do. We'll do, we'll do, We'll bifurcate it is
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  what we'll do. Okay, we'll bifurcate it. So a teeny bit now
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  and then we'll talk about it later as well. And I'll just say the
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  one word description from last night was wow. Yeah, I mean, what
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  a wow. Just fantastic, just fantastic. It was. It was everything
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  it was. I know, Tony, you were there and so you got
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  a sense of the atmosphere. I watched on the ESPN Plus. I turned
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  it on ESPN plus fifteen minutes later I was able to watch. What does
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  that mean? Just what I said? Did you have buffering? No?
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  No, it had you know, this is your here's your never mind.
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  We know. We'll give it to me really quick because I don't know if
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  there was no just like enter your co enter this in that and to do
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  it. It's like you're playing pong. I mean to try to pong.
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  He gave us pong on that one, but I I just and I don't
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  know much at all about soccer, okay, but I thought it was an
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  incredible atmosphere. It was exciting because, again not being a soccer guy,
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  Brad, I mean sometimes I go, what's going on? I'm not interested?
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  It's dull. I mean you couldn't look away. You could not look
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  away. There was so much goals, physical, yes, yeah, so
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  it just had it had so much going for it. It was thrilling to
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  watch. I just thought it was a remarkable event and just it was a
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  great win for West Virginian. I had had the coach on my morning coffee
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  clad are you still doing that show? Yeah? I do Mondays and Thursdays,
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  good Stratford, And he said their strategy was they were just going to
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  go for it. I mean, you know, you saw the defensive pressure,
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  which is risky, and they were just said we're just gonna go,
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  We're gonna We're gonna press the whole game, which they did, and I
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  think it got Marshall kind of, you know, kind of off balance.
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  And to come away with a five to win when Marshall had given up only
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  five goals in the first twelve games, that was a remarkable game. And
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  a great atmosphere. Did the coach Stratford thank you while he was on the
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  air with you for hiring him? Did not? It's okay, he's moved
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  he's moved on. He's pretty big deal now. I think he's moved on.
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  Like, oh, you got me the jaw. You know. I
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  didn't when when I got there, I just was looking for a fence,
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  just a fence piece just to stand behind us, to get kind of close.
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  And I didn't. I didn't realize where I'd positioned myself. I positioned
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  myself directly behind the two coaching staffs. Oh. And it's really weird because
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  they're like, yeah, they're yes, right, they're like three four feet
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  away from each other. And all of a sudden, like I'm just I'm
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  watching and I'm looking and and and in the background of the foreground it would
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  be the foreground. The game's going on. So I'm watching a game like
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  I just had this moment. I looked at what's closer to me. Well,
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  there's the entire coaching staff with their back They're they're sitting there, and
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  I mean, it was it was fantastic. How about fans storming the pitch,
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  Yeah, that was interesting. That was the only thing the thing lacked
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  was they did not have a guy with a drum. You promised me there'd
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  be a guy. Just there was always a guy with a drum. Get
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  you said, you said to be a guy banging a drum. I used
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  to like that. And then there was no flares that went off in the
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  crowd. I told they wouldn't be flares. Yeah, that probably wouldn't have
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  been a little much. Yeah, but anyway, we'll talk more about it
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  coming up a little bit later. On West Virginia Oklahoma State Saturday, three
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  point thirty, Cowboys had beaten West Virginia seven in a row up until last
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  season. West Virginia goes into Stillwater in absolutely horrifically bad weather torrential rain,
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  and Garrett Green gets knocked out of that game if you remember, concussed,
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  Nico came in and Jalen Anderson ran just like absolute Disney movie, just had
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  a great, great game. West Virginia won that game. So the Cowboys
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  this year they come out and they beat Central Arkansas twenty seven to thirteen.
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  They beat Arizona State at Arizona State and I know it's Arizona State, but
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  yeah, on the road. You still had to go on the road to
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  Big twelve member Arizona State. Then you come home and you lose in one
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  of the more head scratching results of the entire season in college football, thirty
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  three to seven to South. They played three by South. Don't sleep on
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  South, I mean South beat them thirty three to seven. And then they
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  go up to Iowa State and the fighting rock O Becks beat him thirty four
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  to twenty seven, and everyone's going like, what in the heck is up
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  with Oklahoma State. So at that point they're two and two and you're going
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  like they're crapping out, They're gonna go down. They come back six to
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  October Friday night Kansas State and Stillwater beat them twenty nine to twenty one.
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  Huge win. Then eight days later the Kansas has come in, so two
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  ranked Kansas teams back to back weeks in the still Water and they beat those
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  boys thirty nine thirty two. Kansas just turned it over at the end of
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  the game at an alarming rate, which leads us to this the world champion
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  Mountaineers against Oklahoma State, not trying to hype it, not trying to blow
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  it up bigger than it should be. But I think it's the biggest game
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  of the year. I think it's the biggest game of the year. And
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  here's why. West Virginia obviously was zero to one, then four and one.
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  They lose the heartbreaker at Houston. So you're sitting four and two.
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  You've got a road game next week at UCF in the Bounce House. They'll
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  be waiting for the World champs. Sold out, Da da da da da.
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  You win this week, you regather yourself, and you sit at five
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  and two, and you go, Okay, more than half the season's over.
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  We're at five and two. Let's go all. You lose this week.
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  You've now lost two in a row. You are now even in the
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  Big twelve. At two and two, you lose your mojo. You lose
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  your mojo. That's why this one is massive. You have your arms folded,
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  you have a curious look on your lips. I just I'm not sure
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  I completely agree. I hear what you're saying. I understand the argument.
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  Let me let me start with this. No, I mean it just you.
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  I know everybody wants to put the Houston game behind him. I get
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  that, but I think I think you have to start there. And Brad,
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  you brought up an interesting stat which I went back and double check.
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  Not that you need double checking, but when when it's interesting, huh,
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  that was interesting? Was I right when you would double check? Since you
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  want to said you called me on it was I right, yes, thank
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  you? On the Tremaine Mac Miami, he wasn't gonna add I want to
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  give you credit because I'm once again borrowing your idea, but I think it's
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  a very valid kind of backhanded credit. You said you have to check me.
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  I don't know that it was credit, So just move along with what
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  you were going to say. The Tremaine Mac punt block of nineteen ninety six,
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  what is the emotional effect after that? And West Virginia goes out and
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  loses four to their next five games. But then in two thousand and three
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  on the loss to Miami on the Kellen Winslow of the second catch on fourth
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  down to kick the field goal, and when it, West Virginia goes out
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  and wins their next seven before losing the Bowl game to Maryland. So history
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  is inconclusive. When you have that kind of emotional loss, what happens after
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  that? So I don't know. I'm not sure you can get a good
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  historical perspective. Number one and number two is and Jeff Jenkins was making this
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  point to me, is that for fans it lingers right, it's a loop.
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  The Houston thing is a loop that plays in your head. But if
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  this coaching staff is doing its job, you know, then you start immediately
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  in Oklahoma State and you're looking at tape of Oklamist State, and by Monday,
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  you're completely focused on the next opponent. Meaning it's probably easier for the
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  players to move on than it can be for fans because the players are focused
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  on the next thing and fans are still thinking about the last game. All
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  that being said, it'll be interesting to see. To me, the big
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  story before Brad get to stats is how does this team emotionally respond? So
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  what did you check on him? Were? I gave both of those.
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  I said after the Miami pump block, they lost four or five, and
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  I said after the Kellen Winslow they won the next seven and a share of
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  the title. He didn't believe me on either, so he checked it was
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  a pretty base I believed you just before I used it. I want to
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  give you credit and to go back, and that's all, yeah, those
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  are pretty base stats. I didn't remember. I thought that it was you
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  did well there. He let me. Let me add this to that.
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  I think one of the reasons why they really tanked after that Miami punt block
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  was because in that game they emotionally played and gave everything that they had and
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  they played aid extremely well in that game, Okay, and that crushed them
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  because they just said, we just put forth our best effort. We got
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  nothing out of it the game last Thursday, offense, defense, and special
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  teams. No one. No one is saying, hey man, that was
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  our best effort. They realize they lost because of them, more so than
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  what Houston did. They lost. I would hope that will be a fuel
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  for them rather than we gave it our best effort and it wasn't good enough.
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  Senator, you know what those two games tell you about Saturday's game.
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  Nothing, zero, absolutely nothing. Different staffs, different players, different personalities,
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  totally nothing all. It shouldn't say nothing. What it tells you is
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  it can go either way. So if people sit up and try and prognosticate
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  and say, well, I think this team's gonna bounce back because of this.
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  We don't know that this team's gonna fade because you don't know that,
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  and they don't know that. They're hoping it's the latter. And I tend
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  to side with what you said, and we talked about this in our post
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  game, is that it's it is tougher for fans to move on because you
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  haven't had anything to do since the last game. In fact, I ran
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  into a guy yesterday was walking out of the place, and all he said
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  to me was I'm not over it and kept moving. All I said,
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  literally all I said, did you know who it was? Yeah? I
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  did, I knew him. Somebody just yelled at So that's all that's all
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  we got. Not over it, said, I'm not over it. So
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  yeah, I think that is harder for fans players. You're right, there's
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  a lot of preparation that goes in these games. They're into it, and
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  hopefully that gets the bad taste out of your mouth. Tell me, I
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  think that's a good point there, that that team did not play its best.
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  It knows it didn't play its best, and Neil and the staff have
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  been reiterating that all week. So I do hope that brings some momentum.
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  Then that just turns your attention to the actual field part of that and see
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  if West Virginia can do the things it needs to do to get back on
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  track and win these games. Houston may be in last place when this thing
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  is over, maybe in last place when this is over, and that will
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  always be a pain that this team's not going to be able to get away
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  from that. They let one get away. You know what else? You
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  know what else? These players on the West Virginia team will realize, trust
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  me, they know they didn't play well. I mean, they have gotten
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  it from A to Z because, as Neil said during his press conference on
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  Monday, if he had to do one thing over among things over again,
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  he did not get this team in practice to practice as they had previously because
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  he thought if I break them here, they could break physically because they are
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  they are spent. And he regrets that he did not hit Tuesday Wednesday whatever
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  it would be Tuesday Wednesday of that week, so it's a Thursday game,
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  you know what I mean, the two days they normally hit to make sure
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  that they're ready to go. He didn't, and they weren't mature enough to
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  handle it, and as a result, they were not as physical offensively they
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  weren't as physical defensively, and things got lacks. That won't happen again.
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  But that's what happened to this team. So all of that, it's quite
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  obvious that this team can win football games. Right, they're four and two.
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  The only way they win football games is the way that they won the
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  four games that they won, and that is by being the more physical,
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  the more aggressive, the more hungry teams. If fewer mistakes, fewer penalties.
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  Yeah, and if you the penalties come from being lacks, that's just
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  that's because that's just that's its laziness. You grab your reach. Those things
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  happen. Some of it's crew based too, Yeah, some of that's some
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  of that. That's the challenge of Some of those penalty things can be random
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  differrences. I get it, I get it. With all that being said,
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  this team has no this team has no margin for not playing that way
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  because if they do. My point all of that is the team that might
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  finish last beat you when you don't play at your highest level. Now,
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  you can win games, but you better bring it. Welcome to the league.
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  Yeah, that's every team in the league. Oklahoma State. You don't
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  think the Oklahoma State podcasts are saying the same thing today. They feel pretty
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  good. They've won two in a row too, that they probably didn't think
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  they were going to get based on how that season started. So they come
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  in feeling really really good about themselves. But what are they saying, Well,
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  West Virginia's look good too, ocle Okahoma State's got to show up.
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  They can't turn it over. They've got to be able to run the ball.
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  They've got to be able to get defensive pressure on the quarterback. I
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  mean, it's the same keys both sides. Mentally, they've got to be
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  ready to go. If they come in here saying yet, we got it
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  all fix, we're figured out, we're ready to roll. Now that team
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  just gacked one up, we're in good shape here, then they're going to
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  have problems. So I think both teams are dealing with basically the same types
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  of things, just in a little bit different way. A cauldron of emotion,
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  that's what we'll have on that field Saturday, a cauldron of emotion.
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  Mountaineers. Better have it heated up. Better have it heated up. Well,
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  just as we've said. I mean, Tony, you talked about Houston
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  mand up last you know, in this league, it's last is almost a
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  Misnow it's just going to be the other. It's gonna be everybody. Yeah,
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  it's gonna be I mean, somebody's gonna end up with fewer wins,
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  but it's just gonna be what's the true difference between fourteen and four? Fourteen
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  and three not gonna be a touch. I mean, there'll be some difference
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  there, But that's what this league's gonna be. Oklahoma State's playing mad.
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  They're mad. You watch him play, they look mad. Holly Gordon,
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  they're running back. He's pretty good. He runs angry, he runs very
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  very angry. And he beat up West Virginia last year for a buck thirty
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  plus and he's coming off of buck sixty three against the fighting, fighting Kansas
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  Is. He's run for over one hundred and three straight games. He runs
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  really hard. So point to all that is, if West Virginia doesn't rEFInd
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  the physicality that it displayed in games against TCU and against Texas Tech, be
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  a long day at the ballyard. If they do, they'll be right there.
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  You know. It's wild though, because we do this, fans do
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  this, I get it. How much does a game change your narrative,
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  and in West Virginia's case, how much as twelve seconds changed the narrative.
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  Twelve seconds were three seconds one play that goes the other way, and we're
• 22:10
  sitting here five and one with a ranked football team, Giddyon laughing and saying,
• 22:12
  Okay, who's next, Come on, bring it because this team's got
• 22:15
  it together. So I think you also have to remember that that one bad
• 22:19
  moment doesn't change what this season has been already for a team that's further ahead
• 22:25
  than most people thought. The flip side of that is also true for Oklahoma
• 22:29
  State. They had significant issues early in the season for a reason. Now
• 22:33
  some of that they think they fix, one of them being the quarterback position.
• 22:36
  They weren't sure who the quarterback was and they were playing three. They
• 22:38
  feel like they've settled on Alan Bowman, who we've seen twelve years ago when
• 22:42
  he played for Texas Tech. So they kind a veteran quarterback right comes back
• 22:47
  probably at the end of his career. You get ten plus years, you're
• 22:49
  probably getting towards the tail end of your career. But he's seen a lot
• 22:52
  right at Texas Tech and at Michigan and now here. But that's a team
• 22:56
  too. These narratives have seemed to switch a little bit just over the last
• 23:00
  couple of weeks, so be careful about it that. By the way,
• 23:02
  the last time Alan Bowman started the three consecutive games he was playing for Texas
• 23:04
  Tech in twenty twenty or whenever it was, or seven or you know,
• 23:10
  five years ago. The the but I think for for West Virginia, Neil
• 23:19
  Brown said it because again, when you whenever going forwards for the next forty
• 23:23
  years, the future hosts of this show will say, oh, the Houston
• 23:27
  game, Oh think got beat the last second, As Neil Brown said,
• 23:30
  practically though practically the game wasn't lost on that. The game was lost by
• 23:34
  the other mistakes to put your position for that that play to take place,
• 23:38
  and then a flucky thing happened. So and that's that's sort of that's how
• 23:44
  a coach addresses it, right, That's what a coach does. So the
• 23:47
  coach looks at the game and goes, wow, I wish i'd a rushed
• 23:48
  five. But at the same time, there's these other forty things that happened
• 23:52
  that we need to work on before the next game. But there were also
• 23:55
  some things and I'm going to get into this in a couple of different areas
• 23:57
  that I think you pull out of that despite the loss. I know it's
• 24:02
  about wins and losses, but you also try and look big picture because there's
• 24:04
  still half a season left, and you look at some things within that game,
• 24:07
  and that's a couple pieces of execution that changed that game. I mean,
• 24:12
  you make some plays that are quite frankly routine a lot of the time,
• 24:15
  and you're hanging fifty six on that Houston team and it's not even a
• 24:18
  ballgame. Late. There were so many plays available there. Westernginia made a
• 24:23
  lot of them, but they also missed a ton of them. Yeah,
• 24:26
  so you look at that and go, Okay, it's just execution. It
• 24:29
  wasn't like it wasn't like the Texas and Texas Tech game last year where you
• 24:33
  just went, oh my god, you just got out class there. There
• 24:37
  wasn't even anything you could have done. This was not that, this was
• 24:41
  tweak. A couple execution things, and that was really close to being an
• 24:45
  excellent game. Yeah, but you're right, But what worries you is they
• 24:48
  had not been like that to that point. Right. You look at that
• 24:52
  game and to go, wow, that's in two phases. That's the worst
• 24:55
  they played correct, mm hmmm, yes, yeah, So you look at
• 24:57
  that and go, wow, I hope that it's an aberration. Well maybe
• 25:00
  it is. But what I always SIT's a one week business here. You
• 25:03
  don't you don't. You can't just pick up the bad performance and move it
• 25:06
  forward, just like you can't assume the good performance is automatically going to move
• 25:08
  forward. Some of this as opponent adjusted. They weren't ready played it simple,
• 25:15
  Why do they lose the game? They weren't ready. They were not
• 25:18
  ready. I think they'll be ready on Saturday. I don't think they were
• 25:22
  ready. It's the human nature of this stuff. Just just when you think,
• 25:26
  just when you think you've made it, you get a wake up call.
• 25:30
  They got their wake up call. I'd be stunned if they don't ball
• 25:33
  out on Saturday. Now what that eventually leads to on the scoreboard, I
• 25:37
  don't know. I say they ball out, well I hope, so,
• 25:41
  I mean you get it, you know, Tony talking about Ali Gordon,
• 25:45
  I mean he's a threat. I mean he's on a roll. I mean
• 25:47
  he's rushed for like you said, he's rushed for like uh I checked it.
• 25:49
  Three fourteen in the last two games, both wins he had against Kansas,
• 25:57
  he had two hundred and eight for all purpose yards too, like hundred
• 26:03
  and sixteen eight times on hundred and sixteen yards receiving. Yeah, one hundred
• 26:06
  and sixty three on the ground. You gotta worry about that's a baller.
• 26:08
  Yeah, he's a baller. Let me make one more point. Yeah,
• 26:11
  that you can't pick it up and move it forward. And I think you
• 26:14
  need to dive into these games and pull things out other than just the wins
• 26:18
  and losses at times. Oklahoma State's doing that. You know what their postgame
• 26:22
  win expectancy was against Kansas in that game, No, twenty percent, So
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  they were not expected to win that game. They did. Credit to them
• 26:30
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• 26:33
  one of those It doesn't all of a sudden make Oklahoma State a juggernaut.
• 26:36
  No, No, they won two in a row. So you've got to
• 26:37
  look within that game and say, all right, what things did Kansas do
• 26:41
  that should have won them the game eight out of ten times based on how
• 26:45
  that box score looked that then they didn't do. Yeah, what happened?
• 26:48
  There had some turnovers late, right, that was a big thing. Yeah.
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  two. But first, let's talk offensively for just a second, because hop
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  as we just mentioned, West Virgigia's ability to throw the ball down the field
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  against Houston the other night was a real bright spot and quite frankly, it
• 31:44
  should have been good enough to win them the game. But I think it's
• 31:47
  potentially massive for this team moving forward. You know, if you're an opposing
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  defensive coordinator, now you have a real decision to make. Do you bring
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  your safeties down and crash to sell out the run like Doug Belkin Houston did
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  to your detriment, just get torched all night over your head because your corners
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  weren't able to handle man demand coverage and your safeties at vacated the area and
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  that back end was open all night. And you've got a quarterback in Garrett
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  Green that can really throw it deep. So do you do that? Or
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  do you hold them back and then allow West Virginia to do what it really
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  wants to do and run right at you. So I think if nothing else
• 32:20
  from the other night, and again, I know it was a loss,
• 32:22
  but that puts some really good stuff on film that you really hadn't seen since
• 32:25
  the Ducaine game. And I think defensive coordinators could dismiss that. All due
• 32:30
  respect to Ducaine, you're dealing with a different level of competition there. So
• 32:32
  now to do it in a Big twelve game. And I know Houston struggles
• 32:36
  mightily against the pass and the run. Their defenses had a ton of problems,
• 32:39
  But I think the way Garrett Green threw the ball, the way those
• 32:43
  receivers caught the ball for the most part on those big plays, has to
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  give some pause and some concern, especially to an Oklahoma State staff that just
• 32:51
  gave up five thirty yard touchdown passes to Kansas. Right, So that's a
• 32:54
  group that has to say two, the more complete bus, the tight end
• 33:00
  comp down the scene. But who's to say that's not going to happen again.
• 33:04
  I mean, I'm sure that's been pointed out on film. That's a
• 33:07
  defensive backfield that struggled there, and they're getting a team when they watched the
• 33:09
  film this week that says, Okay, that guy can throw it deep.
• 33:13
  So I think that's potentially massive. Let's let's put some numbers to back up
• 33:16
  what Garrett has done this year, because I think it's also important to go
• 33:21
  back to what we talked about this summer with Green. There were a couple
• 33:23
  things. One of it was not just Garrett, but it was offensive philosophy.
• 33:28
  Last year with West Virginia, both Garrett Green and JT. Daniels were
• 33:31
  the bottom two quarterbacks when it came to yards per attempt. And again,
• 33:36
  if you watched the games last year, you could see that we was just
• 33:37
  couldn't push it down down the field, receiver wise, quarterback wise, offensive
• 33:42
  scheme wise, they just weren't doing that. Garrett last year had a six
• 33:45
  yards per tempt average, which is huge, no, which is low Garrett
• 33:51
  did Garrett last year last in the Big Twelve. Lowis in the Big twelve,
• 33:54
  just six yards per attempt. This year it's up to eight point eight
• 34:00
  already almost nine yards. That's almost what up seventy percent are increased by seventy
• 34:05
  percent. That's jumped a ton. So that's seventh in the Big Twelve.
• 34:08
  But that counts every quarterback. Like both Kansas quarterbacks are higher on that yards
• 34:13
  per attempt. Some of that aided by last week against Oklahoma State. So
• 34:16
  that's really good. His intended this is a new stat for you. His
• 34:21
  intended air yards per attempt. Excuse me, intended air yards wants to throw
• 34:28
  far, how far you attempted to throw the football, even if it wasn't
• 34:31
  a catch. Intended air yards per attempt twelve point one. Twelve point one.
• 34:38
  That's good. That's that's more than a first down. So that shows
• 34:42
  you your intended air yards on all your passes throughout the game. You're trying
• 34:45
  to throw the ball down the field. Think about this hot season, his
• 34:47
  intended passes are are twelve yards down the field the average, yeah season.
• 34:52
  Ok, think about this. A bubble screen like that would probably be a
• 34:55
  two yard attempt. So this is the action intended area, so basic area
• 35:00
  yard Okay, intended intended air yards per attempt, So pretty good, right,
• 35:07
  pretty good. Here's one last stat, and on Garrett Green in the
• 35:09
  passing game. This is pretty wild given all those questions we have this summer
• 35:13
  about could they push it down the field? Green leads all Big twelve quarterbacks,
• 35:16
  that's regular quarterback starters. Green leads all Big twelve quarterbacks in percentage of
• 35:22
  attempts that have been twenty yards or more. Really, so his total percentage
• 35:28
  of attempts are of more than twenty yards, more than every quarterback in this
• 35:31
  league. Air Neil's that's it that surprises me. Surprises me. So to
• 35:40
  my point in the opening there, you see those numbers to back up what's
• 35:45
  on film, and you're you're forcing that defense to make a choice. Right,
• 35:49
  they have to decide what they want to do, and ultimately is the
• 35:52
  as an offensive coordinator, is that what you want to do? If you're
• 35:54
  going to be predictable, you better be so talented and good at execution that
• 35:58
  it doesn't matter that you know what coming. Most teams are going to have
• 36:00
  to do. So what are we doing? What are they doing? What
• 36:04
  are they doing here? Don't be predictable. They have not been. They're
• 36:06
  throwing it down the field. Chatted with someone yesterday and they, you know,
• 36:09
  had great respect for Oklahoma States defense. But Oklahoma State's not going to
• 36:14
  kill you with fancy. Oklahoma State's got three down linemen, right, They'll
• 36:17
  play three safeties and they will come straight up the field on you. So
• 36:22
  one of the big keys for West Virginia will be all of that pre snap
• 36:25
  movement that we saw last week against Houston, We've seen for a good part
• 36:29
  of this season. They don't want Houston's defenders to be squared up to the
• 36:35
  line of scrimmage when that ball is snapped. In other words, they want
• 36:38
  to get them so that they can attack them when they're at an angle.
• 36:44
  Oklahoma's I say, Western Oklahoma States defenders, they don't want them to be
• 36:49
  honed in, locked in. They want them to be searching this way that
• 36:52
  way to kind of so they can help ease off the line, because they've
• 36:54
  struggled with that, especially against Oklahoma State, who has a history of oh
• 37:00
  yeah, I mean league leaders in really good corners that will just absolutely lock
• 37:04
  you down. A couple more notes on the passing game and offensive coordinator before
• 37:09
  we move on to the defensive side. I mentioned this in our wrap up
• 37:13
  show on Friday, but I think it bears mentioning again given those numbers I
• 37:15
  just gave you. I thought Neil's game plan was outstanding offensively against Houston,
• 37:21
  and one of the ways that it was outstanding, what do we just say
• 37:24
  right there? Hop you don't want to be predictable, right, And that's
• 37:28
  part of why Houston had so much trouble about what was coming is Neil completely
• 37:30
  broke tendency on first down against them. Heading into that Houston game, only
• 37:35
  one Power Five team had thrown it less on first down than West Virginia.
• 37:39
  The Mountaineers came out against Houston threw it nineteen times on first down. Ye
• 37:44
  win against tends with a lot of big play success there. In fact,
• 37:46
  it's moved them up. How about this style. I'll give you one more
• 37:49
  on first down. The average throw depth on first down for West Virginia's thirteen
• 37:54
  point two yards. That's nineteenth in the country. So again illustrates that West
• 38:00
  Virginia's taken some shots downfield, so its first in that category. Iowa,
• 38:02
  h No, they would not be first in that. Colorado's up there.
• 38:07
  Okay, So that's the offensive side of the ball for West Virginia. And
• 38:10
  I use all of those numbers to illustrate. Again, I think that's a
• 38:14
  real key. That's as we get later in the season, these numbers become
• 38:17
  more consistent, you can start to see what the identity of this team is.
• 38:21
  And I think that's it, right, we just saw it. It's
• 38:23
  run the ball first. If you can make them make a decision on defense,
• 38:27
  throw it and hit them deep if you can on top of it for
• 38:29
  some explosive play. So I think you'll continue to see that moving forward.
• 38:32
  Let's flip over to the defensive side, and this is the stuff. I've
• 38:35
  got a couple of new numbers in here for you. But it's the same
• 38:37
  key that we've been talking about. Because as much as we knew this was
• 38:40
  a key in the four wins, I thought it really came to light and
• 38:44
  the loss that West Virginia has got to get pressure on its quarterback. That's
• 38:47
  been the biggest key defensively. And we talked about last week going into the
• 38:52
  game the loss of Trey Lathan and how much of effect that would have on
• 38:54
  the defense. He was a top twenty five pass rusher in the Big twelve
• 38:59
  when he went out for the season. We mentioned on Friday, West Virginia
• 39:01
  just did not get anywhere close to Smith in the second half. He was
• 39:06
  eleven of eleven just in the second half throwing the football. Now, part
• 39:09
  of the lack of pressure in the second half had to do with Houston's ability
• 39:14
  to run the ball hoppy. Are you ready for this? Yes, this
• 39:15
  is an important down in the weeds. They had thirteen rushes in the second
• 39:20
  half and averaged eight point one yards per rush. Okay, what'd that do?
• 39:24
  That allowed Houston to stay out of obvious passing downs, which is critical.
• 39:30
  So passing downs are defined as second down with eight yards or more to
• 39:34
  go, or third and fourth down with five or more yards. Okay,
• 39:37
  second and eight or more or third and fourth and five or more. You
• 39:42
  with me there? Okay, here we go. Here's the new number for
• 39:44
  you. We haven't talked about this only twenty you bringing new stuff out to
• 39:49
  the only twenty eight percent of Houston's plays last Thursday were in passing downs.
• 39:53
  It was actually just fifteen plays we're in passing downs. Here's the key,
• 39:59
  here's why that matters. That's the second lowest of the season. Would you
• 40:02
  guys like to guess which game the opponent had the lowest percentage of pass plays?
• 40:08
  Can you tell where I'm going? If pass plays are important keys to
• 40:12
  getting pressure and Westerdeane's pressure has been keys to wins and losses. You didn't
• 40:16
  get pressure and you didn't have a lot of passing downs in the Houston loss.
• 40:21
  What other opponent would have the lowest percentage of pass downs? This year
• 40:25
  Penn State. Your only other loss was to Penn State. So in the
• 40:29
  four wins, the opponent percentage of pass on passing downs was thirty nine point
• 40:35
  two, five percent of their place, so you knew they were passing when
• 40:37
  you thought they were passing. Allows you to bring more pressure. Right in
• 40:42
  the two losses, just twenty seven percent. Stop the run, stop the
• 40:45
  run. So the key, the key being defensive pressure, is actually keyed
• 40:50
  by stopping the run and forcing them into passing situations. How about that one
• 40:54
  hoppy right? Like that one? Well, it makes it makes perfect sense.
• 40:58
  Stop the run. You can get pressing the quarterback and third and long.
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  Yeah. Right, You do a lot better now this year than last
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  year. When he used to crush you with those stats. He used to
• 41:07
  take it personal. How you couldn't get the good numb Remember that he'd kind
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  of get sit over there in the corner like all bummed. Why's Brad get
• 41:12
  the numbers? How do where's Brad get those numbers? Remember you started stealing
• 41:15
  your stuff? Looking over? Yeah he did look over a couple times.
• 41:17
  Say it looked over. But now you're totally good with it? You?
• 41:21
  Well, yeah, I mean he's gone to such another level. It's just
• 41:22
  like okay, I'm now I'm just enjoying it. Just sit back. Well,
• 41:29
  so those are a couple of keys. That's some mora. Wel do
• 41:30
  how are you feeling? I mean, I like this matchup. I think
• 41:36
  you can your back home westream has been playing well at home. I think
• 41:38
  your point on the motivation angle, which again that's just simply what you have
• 41:42
  to see. I think the numbers bear out that you can have some success
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• 42:01
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  back there and pat the ball, so that pressure is important. But getting
• 42:07
  pressure on him has been difficult. They get the ball out of his hands
• 42:10
  quickly, hasn't been turning it over a lot, so that'll be the challenge.
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  Daniels through another day, given one. All right, So moving ahead to
• 43:38
  further action and we'll get ready for uh textual uh textual healing. Went down
• 43:45
  to Doddridge County Tuesday. I spoke down there, and uh change of times
• 43:54
  the schedule. The speech was scheduled for before when before COVID started, before
• 44:00
  COVID starts. So I just thought, while that, so all the tenth,
• 44:01
  eleventh, and the twelfth's right, that we're in there and this not
• 44:06
  there anymore. They're gone right there. I mean, you know they've already
• 44:09
  graduated. Things move on, right the kids. This kid's moves on.
• 44:13
  It blew me away because when we went down there for the Saint Mary's game
• 44:16
  to start the high school football season, Metro News did the game right.
• 44:20
  It was Saint Mary's and Doddridge County back on whatever. It was August whatever.
• 44:24
  And you know you haven't been there, have you? No? The
• 44:27
  new school mind blow, right, brat mind blows. So I came back
• 44:30
  and I started calling it. I started calling it Doddridge County College. You
• 44:35
  know kind of just you know, just like a one off line. So
• 44:38
  I get there and those dudes like they got it going on. They absolutely
• 44:46
  have a going They have what education should be and what it's going to become.
• 44:52
  Like the days like when we went to school and you sit there and
• 44:54
  you go like first period through like like that's over. It's kind of like
• 45:00
  this college campus thing. They got so much going on. And when they
• 45:06
  took over. Scott cochrane's the principal there at Dodders. He gave me this,
• 45:12
  gave him medallion what is it presentation, gave me a book like this
• 45:15
  is like they give you the Midilians there. He is. So he's a
• 45:17
  big listener by the way, he's P one listener. P one listener listens
• 45:22
  to you guys. And so he gave me that. But so he's a
• 45:24
  principal Dodders County. But I met with Adam Cheeseman, who's the superintendent.
• 45:30
  I met Matt Alexander, who's a P one listener of three guys. That's
• 45:34
  how we met when we were there for the football game. He's the truancy
• 45:37
  diversion specialist. It's still tough job. Tough job, I mean still to
• 45:42
  this day kids don't want to go. I met with a director of Student
• 45:45
  Achievement Ken Michelle Roby, who's a human resources manager her Son Brock starting right
• 45:51
  tackle for Rich Rodriguez at Jacksonville State. Yeah, he's an RCB guy.
• 45:55
  But the point to all this is this, So I go over there and
• 46:00
  they have this program College and Career Ready. You should see the facility.
• 46:04
  They have diesel engine, HVAC, plumbing engineering. These kids just pop around
• 46:13
  on this campus and they go these things and it's amazing. And then another
• 46:17
  thing I just kind of lost, was you realize how many kids are taking
• 46:22
  college credit classes. Like they're like, we have a girl, right,
• 46:27
  Adriana Lenhard, who's a producer. Do you realize when she got here she
• 46:30
  had thirty three hours talk to the she's going portal on us. You didn't
• 46:36
  know this, She's going portal. She's out in three Well, I think
• 46:38
  that's good because you can get to college credit while you're in high school.
• 46:44
  And you know, sometimes you hear seniors saying, well, that's my senior
• 46:45
  in high school. I just want to like just jack jack around for a
• 46:50
  year. And also if you can get your if you want a four year
• 46:52
  degree, but you can get here in three years. Guess what, you
• 46:54
  save yourself chunk of money. Absolutely, So they got that, They got
• 46:58
  a program with Glenville to another program and they got a full call. I
• 47:01
  went in the kitchen they made, they had lunch for us there, pro
• 47:06
  chef, pro kitchen, outstanding. So I just as like that's where education
• 47:12
  needs to be. When they took over, they were in the bottom fifty
• 47:14
  of the counties and achievement scores in the state of West Virginia. They're three
• 47:17
  now number three. I think they've benefited too. There's a lot of oil
• 47:22
  and care absolutely from the property taxes from that, and they know that county,
• 47:28
  they know that, but they're doing it. Man. So yeah,
• 47:30
  that's what you do with I might go, I might go Portal, might
• 47:32
  go back to high school at MIA, go to Doddridge, Michael to Doddridge
• 47:36
  County, Downty, you do Doddridge County College, University. Yeah, let's
• 47:43
  do this thing. Textual Healing is brought to us by episode eight hundred dot
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  Hang the banner, that's just beautiful. Can I get one of those?
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  Kind of get comped on one of those? Now? No. Hey,
• 48:30
  so we were talking about the soccer game earlier. Speaking of apparel, did
• 48:35
  you see what Ren Baker was wearing last night? Center? You're a big
• 48:37
  apparel guy. Do you see what he was wearing? Look at that back.
• 48:42
  Is that a throwback jacket? Yeah, it's like it's like silk.
• 48:45
  It was silk and like really super shiny. Is he with the band?
• 48:50
  No, that's just a fifties group? No? No, I said,
• 48:52
  dude, you look I said, you're too young to know this, but
• 48:54
  I said, you look like Richie Cunningham Happy Days And he said, no,
• 48:58
  I know happy Days. I'm totally totally familiar with Happy Days. But
• 49:00
  that things like the rave and like he got that at Fanatics sold out.
• 49:07
  Can't get them? Yeah, you can't get them. So it's like a
• 49:08
  rounds set of the old starter jacket exactly. But that's like an old school
• 49:14
  old mountaineer because it's got some old mountaineer stuff on it to kind of look
• 49:16
  you you were in school Hoppy before the flying WV. So that was a
• 49:21
  that was a hot topic there at at his See did you see when Marshall
• 49:27
  and a West Virginia player collided over near the West Virginia fans chippy. I
• 49:31
  saw it over there. I was. I was across the entire field from
• 49:36
  that, but I saw that over there. It was it was a bad,
• 49:37
  bad position for the Marshall play. Not a good day. And the
• 49:40
  ref you know, credit to ref got in here quick right away. Well
• 49:45
  they were on it, man. That was That was a hard game to
• 49:46
  officiate. Absolutely, yeah, I mean there was. It was play at
• 49:50
  the end of the half where they had to go to the video replay.
• 49:52
  That was was that, Freddy, Freddy, I have it here somewhere.
• 49:57
  It was the heck of a play, Freddy. You know what else?
• 50:00
  You know what other thing I learned? I'm not gonna say it. I
• 50:02
  can say it, man, you miss a lot when you're not watching it
• 50:05
  on TV. I mean, it happens once. It's not like you're at
• 50:09
  the football stadium or the basketball stadium and you get to see basketball arena.
• 50:13
  You get to watch it on the high on the on the uh replay,
• 50:15
  ain't no replay. You better keep your eyes locked down to the field otherwise
• 50:20
  like one and done is Jeddy Jorgensen? Yeah, Freddie Jorgenson. That was
• 50:23
  an incredible play. Yes it was. And he ran something like seventy five
• 50:28
  yards to get down there, sprinted down there, yeah, and made that
• 50:30
  play. It was you know, and that was Coach Tradford said that was
• 50:35
  the most pivotal play of the game because if Todd Gold goes in, it's
• 50:37
  three three going into halftime, exactly right, exactly right. Anyone that turns
• 50:44
  their nose down on soccer, all I would say to you is this,
• 50:47
  go watch that last night. The skill level, Yeah, the skill the
• 50:52
  skill level of those dudes is breathtaking. And I know Marshall didn't play its
• 50:58
  best game, but you know what they brought. They brought effort. West
• 51:00
  Virginia brought effort. Like very rarely do you see any kind of an athletic
• 51:06
  competition where both teams just bring it and that was electric. It was fantastic
• 51:13
  and absolutely fantastic. Texter, Hoppy, keep watching the Americans. My wife
• 51:20
  and I just finished binge watching and hated to see it end. Signed by
• 51:23
  John and Wheeling. So you're still on that season? Two? Yeah,
• 51:27
  okay, Texter. Three amigos. Roger here on nineteen seventy grad now in
• 51:34
  North Carolina. A little levity. After the Houston game, I took my
• 51:37
  grandson fly fishing for steelhead, and PA stopped at the Gomart in Flatwoods to
• 51:44
  buy a ten foot slim gym fly rod. Excellent, they only had nine
• 51:47
  footers. How about using your powers to correct the problem. However, go
• 51:52
  Ears, Well, yeah, I mean I think maybe they were out that
• 51:55
  day, but normally they do stock the ten foot fly rod slim at all
• 52:00
  Gomart locations across the state. Get your rewards card at gomart dot com triple
• 52:05
  rewards points on Saturdays in the month. So do that, Texter. Hey
• 52:09
  guys, how many more years of eligibility does Garrett Green have? And I
• 52:14
  used to think of him and these young receivers getting two or three to jail
• 52:16
  together. So after this season is over, Garrett has two Texter last week,
• 52:23
  I was a step ahead of your advice, and I actually was on
• 52:28
  a long walk while I was listening to your pod. I stopped to see
• 52:30
  a man about a mule behind a city landscaping garage. Thinking I was in
• 52:36
  the clear and in the act. You dropped Dolly sods during one of your
• 52:39
  earnest promotional diatribes. I lost it. I started laughing about the same time
• 52:45
  the gentleman walked around the corner, unfortunately for him, catching me in the
• 52:49
  process while guffawing loudly. I had to pivot like Taevon Austin in midstream and
• 52:54
  vamoose surely had to be absolutely sheep. Just look on my face. Hopefully
• 53:01
  the good lad thought my act was as funny as yours was, so we
• 53:05
  made him laugh when I gave him Dalis sads signed by Wig and ROWANOK,
• 53:13
  Sprucenum. Don't start harpus, Faerry, I'm not doing ITV. Don't cab
• 53:30
  wing. Go just read the next thing. I know what you're doing over
• 53:32
  there, just reading capeon. What are you doing? Who are you texting?
• 53:39
  I'm just doing work multitasking, Texter. I got a message on the
• 53:44
  show. I'm doing stuff he's nuts. I got a message from my buddy
• 53:47
  in the Oklahoma State a D's office over the weekend. He said, if
• 53:52
  West Virginia beats Oklahoma State, they would officially change the Cowboys mascot head to
• 53:58
  this like that Nate, Nate. It's noted by Nate in the canov ally.
• 54:07
  I'll tell you what. That had looked better than that stupid paper mache
• 54:09
  had they have. You know what, I don't see much difference between that
• 54:15
  and the previous head on it. It's about the same. That head freak
• 54:19
  you out a little bit, Not that one, but their head. Oh
• 54:22
  yeah, it's a bad head. But if you get close to it,
• 54:23
  like the paper mache starting to peel off, you make it the dude's got
• 54:27
  a bad head. Bad head. They should invest more money. They should
• 54:30
  invest more money in the mascot's head at Oklahoma State because that thing needs to
• 54:34
  be like repainted redone resumthing loss Sam blasted, greeting three guys. I believe
• 54:40
  that I speak for a lot of people insane that being a mountaineer fans is
• 54:45
  extremely frustrating. Frustration even more difficult to deal with when you live in a
• 54:50
  place where nobody cares. Here in New York State, very few people that
• 54:53
  care about college sports, let alone the world champion Mountaineers. My point is
• 54:59
  that I have a few chances, very few chances, to vent frustration when
• 55:02
  things like Thursday happened. This past Saturday, the wife and I went to
• 55:06
  our local apple orchard. It was there that we spotted a man wearing a
• 55:09
  West Virginia sweatshirt like me, a Canaw Valley guy who had married a New
• 55:15
  Yorker. The conversation I had with him regarding the mountaineers most recent heartbreak was
• 55:20
  extremely therapeutic. It was like finding a friend you hadn't seen in decades.
• 55:24
  I believe the people in West Virginia take for granted their proximity to other like
• 55:29
  minded people. They should cherish their privilege of having other miserable souls to shed
• 55:34
  tears with. Feeling a little better now. Signed by Delbert in the Adirondacks
• 55:39
  interr Fans will find each other. Yeah, Texter Prime try toon water per
• 55:45
  Tony Slash blackwater Falls Lake, listening as I practiced my disc golf on a
• 55:52
  CRISP Davis afternoon. So there you go, so like he's saying, I
• 55:58
  mean you could drop, Hey, look, put that other one up there,
• 56:00
  So the one that's on sale. So you could definitely take that pontoon.
• 56:06
  There's the one we're talking about. You could put that in that body
• 56:08
  of water. Nice. That is the twenty twenty three yvalon twenty three eighty
• 56:12
  five entertainer. Go in there, tell him you want that bad boy.
• 56:15
  That thing will make more noise than woodstock, I mean music, things like
• 56:21
  that. What's it called the entertainer, Yeah, the entertainer. You got
• 56:23
  to tell him that you're a three guys listener. When you go in,
• 56:25
  they'll give it to you for eighty nine seven seventy four at lou Wendell Marine
• 56:30
  Sales. That's a gorgeous ship. Go back to the other picture. Now
• 56:34
  that's past peak. Oh yeah, that's past peak. Wait that's up in
• 56:37
  the mountain. Yeah, Karen would even say that's past peak. We could
• 56:40
  probably agree on that. Yeah, Texter, Hey, three guys, Ryan
• 56:45
  and Baltimore. Did Garrett Green do enough with his arm Thursday to make some
• 56:51
  teams rethink loading the box? Or do you think he'll need to prove that
• 56:53
  he's capable of throwing it well each game going forward? Senator just went through
• 56:58
  that, yes or no. Great question. Do they move the safeties back
• 57:01
  or do they continue to stick their their there's snoots in there into the box.
• 57:07
  I think you gotta stop run first. If I'm opposing West Virginia,
• 57:09
  I try and stop run first. Do it again, is what you're saying.
• 57:13
  Do it again, Do it again, show me, show me again,
• 57:15
  Make them go to the make West Virginia go the air, and then
• 57:17
  adjust per down in distance. I'm thinking trailing ray this week. I want
• 57:22
  me a trailing ray long one. He's about ready draw alextra coverage toward Devin
• 57:27
  Carter. Give me Carter's hot now, I know. An a great job
• 57:30
  though, talk about game planning. Did a nice job of moving him in
• 57:35
  the slot more. They hadn't done that a lot. Put him difference,
• 57:37
  harder to press coverage. I thought the again the tweaks I thought were really
• 57:39
  good against Houston. Yeah, Texter says, this is from Tom in Whiteville,
• 57:45
  Virginia. Just wanted to formally apologize to Mountaineer Nation on behalf of my
• 57:50
  wife. West Virginia scores. The TD goes up with twelve seconds to go,
• 57:54
  I exclaimed loudly, let's go. However, I'm a lifetime Mountaineer fan,
• 57:59
  so I know the tell was not finished. I nervously wring my hands
• 58:04
  together. When the wife says, what do you have to be worried about?
• 58:07
  They can't score twelve seconds? I knew then defeat was inevitable. Signed
• 58:14
  by Tom and Whitfield. Yeah, she learned a painful lesson there, Texter.
• 58:20
  The UCF game kickoff time announced Monday, eleven am Central. Per usual,
• 58:24
  I bought tickets for the UCF game on a secondary market some time ago.
• 58:29
  Today I received an email from the ticket merchant to let me know about
• 58:32
  the announced kickoff time. The email showed the kickoff time was eleven a m.
• 58:38
  No, time's unlisted. Say, well, I've had conversation about this
• 58:43
  again, high level sources, high level sources. I think we're making progress.
• 58:52
  Oh okay, I would have been three years three now. Sometimes I'm
• 58:57
  accused of going a little bit too quick on making a prediction. Yes,
• 59:02
  why don't you just leave it at the update you just provided. I'm hopeful
• 59:07
  that next week when the times come out, that it'll be corrected. Really
• 59:12
  really, yeah, we will watch with interest. By the way, the
• 59:15
  commissioner is going to be here this weekend. No kidding. Yeah, so
• 59:21
  they bring them in, I'll bring it up, Texter. Here's a shout
• 59:25
  out to wv's volleyball team. They finally broke their conference losing streak against TCU,
• 59:30
  c L and Clarksburg. Good work. I still have that item that
• 59:37
  cl sent me. I've been waiting for basketball season. That's fine. When
• 59:39
  we do basketball, I want to bring it in. Yeah, I was
• 59:40
  the thing. I reacted because I forgot something again. Package Texter Hay three
• 59:46
  guys may be stretching it a bit, but always a West Virginia connection.
• 59:51
  Fans of our soccer team in Detroit must have been watching the backyard brawl.
• 59:55
  The Pittsburgh river Hounds were in town last weekend, and then this chant broke
• 1:00:00
  out and he gave us a video of the sweet Caroline and the people in
• 1:00:04
  the soccer game in Detroit gave a pitt the business. Dave also adds in
• 1:00:09
  Michigan, I think Brad should bring back the yp r R stat. He
• 1:00:15
  could then add a new compliment to it. The havoc rate in the studio
• 1:00:19
  is Hoppy and Tony trying to wrap their heads around yp r R. By
• 1:00:22
  the way, it's good if a player is above two. He got it,
• 1:00:25
  he understood it. The two clowns couldn't get it. Whatever happened to
• 1:00:29
  havoc rate? I just used it last week? Thank you. Hey,
• 1:00:34
  three guys, this is not biser from Kaiser. What'd you say? I
• 1:00:42
  missed it? What was it? What did goofball say? Go ahead,
• 1:00:51
  three guys, this is not baiser from Kaiser. I got a question and
• 1:00:54
  a solution for a hail Mary tip drill. Once the ball is tipped,
• 1:01:00
  aren't you allowed to grab, hold or tackle the other players that are around
• 1:01:05
  the ball. So next time, if the ball's tipped or swatted, start
• 1:01:07
  laying those guys out and hold them there until tomorrow. I also had a
• 1:01:13
  petty crazy experience the day after the game. Knock on the door. It
• 1:01:16
  was some missionaries. Obviously they're probably used to having the door shut on them
• 1:01:21
  all at the time, but not like this. The first question they asked
• 1:01:24
  me is if I believe in our Lord and Savior, And before they finished
• 1:01:28
  their question, I said, yeah, I do, and he hates West
• 1:01:30
  Virginia football, and I slammed the door in their face. Oh. As
• 1:01:34
  a few days have passed, I feel pretty bad, but I bet they'll
• 1:01:37
  make another appearance and the next time I will not open the door. Love
• 1:01:42
  the show. Thanks for everything, or we should have said listen, come
• 1:01:45
  on in. We need some help. Yeah. Hey, do you know
• 1:01:47
  how often the quote unquote hail Mary works? Give me a percent? I
• 1:01:53
  did research. Less than five six, almost ten percent of the time works
• 1:02:01
  Colorado State one on one last week. It's not very much. It's not
• 1:02:05
  very much. But you know what is not never? No, it's not
• 1:02:07
  never no, it's not never. So ninety percent of the time it does
• 1:02:10
  not work. You feel pretty good if you had ninety percent odds on se
• 1:02:15
  absolutely absolutely, But the point being, I mean, so when it happens,
• 1:02:17
  you go that. But occasionally it does happen in prime and it happened
• 1:02:22
  to Colorado State. Right, seems high? Ten seems sorry, that seems
• 1:02:25
  high. I want to check my work. I'll have to check that work.
• 1:02:30
  How many times does it happen this year? I don't know. Less
• 1:02:34
  than five. You're gonna go west than five this year? Problem? Less
• 1:02:37
  than five? How many games there been? Just one thousand and six more
• 1:02:42
  than fifty? Text? Hello, can't you let me have something here?
• 1:02:51
  I mean, I was just trying to make the point that it does that
• 1:02:55
  it does work. Sometimes it's not a play. But you didn't let me
• 1:02:59
  have a basic history oracle fact that I just regurgitated without double check. And
• 1:03:01
  so you're gonna throw some obscure thing. I'm certainly gonna call you on it.
• 1:03:05
  Hey, do me a favorite, don't check? That might be the
• 1:03:08
  NFL stat Act. Three guys, Hello, this is your good buddy Jay
• 1:03:13
  from Charlotte. Total bummer about last week, but the beat goes on scopes.
• 1:03:17
  We'll certainly appreciate my upcoming travel. I'm leaving Monday, twenty three October
• 1:03:23
  for South Africa. Wow. Plan to visit Cape Town and yes, a
• 1:03:27
  three day safari at Krueger National Park. I'll try to channel my inner scopes
• 1:03:31
  and go big game hunting. In all seriousness, I'm just hoping I return
• 1:03:36
  alive. I'll be on the safari the day of the UCF game. So
• 1:03:39
  I have spent approximately thirty eight hours researching. Now how I can watch the
• 1:03:44
  game on my phone. I've learned how to use a VPN and have brought
• 1:03:47
  the necessary equipment to cast the game. Wow, if I can find a
• 1:03:51
  TV in the lodge at this point, well, all that I've learned I
• 1:03:53
  could probably hack into the Federal Reserve. Let's hope all goes well with my
• 1:03:58
  Safari game. Watch and for the boys down in Orlando. Jay and Charlotte,
• 1:04:02
  Hay, three guys, there you go. Jane and Charlotte. Congratulations.
• 1:04:05
  You and Hopey can exchange although you were on the different side the Krueger's.
• 1:04:10
  Well, that's South Africa, but Kruger is one of the big ones
• 1:04:13
  that was farther north than Zimbabwe, right, Jay's got to do some time
• 1:04:17
  zone work there too. Yeah, oh yeah, Okay. By the way,
• 1:04:20
  our boy, our boy Aaron that listens in Africa. He sent a
• 1:04:27
  scent of coffee. Recently sent a bag of Rwandan coffee, So I'm going
• 1:04:31
  to bruise some for you and bring it in, okay, Texter, Hey,
• 1:04:39
  three guys, this is the real Morgan and Morgantown. In the light
• 1:04:43
  of this week's opponent, can you think of a better coach's rant than what
• 1:04:45
  Mike Gundy did when he was I'm a man, I'm forty. No,
• 1:04:47
  that's all time, that's all timer. You see him now now you said
• 1:04:54
  that was really he's a quirky guy. Yeah, he's a different cat.
• 1:04:59
  And he does that rant and you get one impression of it, and you
• 1:05:00
  see him on the sideline during a game. He's totally chilled on the side.
• 1:05:04
  He is totally He's the most chilled guy on the sideline in the league.
• 1:05:10
  Yeah, in the league. Yeah, he is. He's completely.
• 1:05:12
  He's a really good coach. He's a real Yes, he's a good coach.
• 1:05:15
  He pays, you know what he he pays. He pays a penance
• 1:05:19
  and a punishment for staying there as long as he's did as he has and
• 1:05:24
  has had success. Guys don't do that anymore. Well, he he is
• 1:05:30
  tied with the Kyle Whittingham, second longest certain active coach nineteen seasons. Right,
• 1:05:36
  he's number one. Kirk Farrans, well done, Yeah, Texter.
• 1:05:41
  Three guys, why are we a two point favorite? Signed by Doctor Jeff
• 1:05:45
  and Charleston Centator? Why would it be too power ranking? Plus you get
• 1:05:49
  a couple of points for being home. It's up to three and a half
• 1:05:54
  a DraftKings by the way, thank you, Texter. I was watching the
• 1:05:58
  West Virginia Marshall's sockr contest. I thought I caught a glimpse of Tony standing
• 1:06:02
  at the end of the field behind the goal was that you also shout out
• 1:06:06
  to both teams. Great for the state to see both D one teams in
• 1:06:10
  the top five playing high level soccer. Josh and Mason, West Virginia.
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  I don't know if I was ever near. I was there. I roamed
• 1:06:15
  a little bit. I walked in. I was walking like I was one
• 1:06:21
  hundred yards from the stadium, and we scored, and so I got all
• 1:06:29
  of the love from the security person that said it was your mojo. And
• 1:06:34
  then Marshall scored and she said you can leave now. You didn't use your
• 1:06:39
  cloud to go up into the press box for no former, No, no,
• 1:06:41
  I stayed with the people. It was with the boys. Yeah.
• 1:06:45
  I was with the boy Ben Ben Murray from the Mountaineer Athletic Club, who
• 1:06:48
  was only wearing what you're wearing. He only had a pullover on and I
• 1:06:51
  said, dude, but he just spent about a year in Nebraska. So
• 1:06:55
  he goes, I'm fine, I'm good, he's from Kansas. It was
• 1:06:59
  Chili. Yeah, it was Chiley, Texter Hey. Three guys the definition
• 1:07:02
  of entertainment, West Virginia five, Marshall two, Coach Stratford as this team
• 1:07:10
  rolling the Mountain State is the top of men's soccer, and WV with the
• 1:07:15
  biggest win of the season. I think Marshall was still number one in the
• 1:07:18
  Power ratings soccer. I think they could be God Stratford told me that this
• 1:07:24
  morning hadn't given up. They gave up five goals the entire year, and
• 1:07:28
  they give up five, So yeah, that could happen. Texter Paul and
• 1:07:33
  Cathy at Atlanta Airport heading up to the game, ran into a tall dude
• 1:07:38
  with an Oklahoma State backpack. I gave him a Go Mountaineers. He looked
• 1:07:44
  at me smiled. First thing he said was he was playing for Oklahoma State
• 1:07:48
  back in twenty fifteen and he absolutely hated playing Press Virginia. He never beat
• 1:07:54
  us. See sometimes athletes never get over losing that wonder Who was m Danny
• 1:08:02
  from Grafton, West Virginia. Grafton by used to be a great train town.
• 1:08:06
  But I'd live in Charleston, South Carolina. Now, would you guys
• 1:08:10
  rather have at best a nine to three football season or raykwon battle being eligible
• 1:08:15
  this season? Oh you got that one before both, I said, I
• 1:08:18
  answered yes. The NCAA doing is due diligence spread how about Mike Boyton,
• 1:08:24
  a head coach at Oklahoma State. He was right, gave a little uh,
• 1:08:27
  gave a little shot under the belt to the nc DOUBLEA because remember Hoppy,
• 1:08:32
  they had to set out the NCAA tournament. Yeah, in Kansas is
• 1:08:38
  giggling, is giggling at him? Giggling, I say, Texter scope spreads
• 1:08:44
  Dean. Kudos to WU basketball social media for posting the correct time zone yesterday
• 1:08:49
  during Big twelve media Day. Still a shame. Big twelve never gets away
• 1:08:53
  from Central. If they need help in designing the twenty game conference schedule next
• 1:08:57
  week, I'll offer my service, as I am, after all, a
• 1:09:00
  professional mapper. Just a thought signed by p One, Jennings and Dunbar.
• 1:09:05
  So why are you confident that this time zone thing is going to change?
• 1:09:10
  Why do you do that? Conversation has been had and the person said that
• 1:09:15
  they would effort toward resolving the issue. Right. Texter flying to Wyoming for
• 1:09:25
  a hunting trip, always wearing a flying WV. Of course, flight attendant
• 1:09:29
  on my plane steps up in Denver, walks by and says, I used
• 1:09:33
  to live in Pocahontas County. Of course, always a West Virginia connection.
• 1:09:40
  Gotta love it. Love the show guy, Signed by Scottie in Milton.
• 1:09:44
  I mean, do you get that if you're from California. I used to
• 1:09:46
  live in California. No you don't so, no, you don't saw a
• 1:09:53
  thing today it looked like it was accurate. I never realized flight attendants man,
• 1:10:00
  for the for the crap that they take, they don't make a whole
• 1:10:01
  lot of money. No pilots on that are doing those regional fights, they
• 1:10:08
  don't make a lot of money. No. Man, It's just like,
• 1:10:12
  and I think it's a hard job. It is. You think, yeah,
• 1:10:15
  yeah, it's a hard job. You got crazy people like him get
• 1:10:17
  all nervous when they fly. You got to deal with all that anxiety.
• 1:10:20
  It's just he's not He's not the problem. You're not the problem. I'm
• 1:10:26
  not the problem. It's the craziest. Yeah, I'm not a problem.
• 1:10:30
  I sit down, get my book out, read, fall asleep, Get
• 1:10:32
  up? Yeah, you fall asleep a little quicker if I take care of
• 1:10:35
  you. Tempted murder Texter. Hey, three guys, hoppy. We had
• 1:10:42
  don Neelan on last night on sports Line Coach and that honor that is so
• 1:10:46
  great, fantastic for him. That's fantastic. He uh, he's the best.
• 1:10:51
  You should have heard him. You should go back and listen. And
• 1:10:54
  I know you don't listen to our show because I don't know why it is,
• 1:10:57
  but list to my show. That solid point. But anyway, he
• 1:11:01
  absolutely crushed John Denver did he right at the beginning, came out firing.
• 1:11:08
  He says that you know you as you know, you know this part of
• 1:11:12
  it like it always bummed him out that they made him go out on the
• 1:11:15
  field before the kickoff of the West Virginia Cincinnati game when they opened the stadium.
• 1:11:19
  He did not want to be there. It was his first game as
• 1:11:21
  the head coach. Wanted the room. He wanted to be in the locker
• 1:11:25
  room to get his team because all the pressure was on. Yeah, they
• 1:11:27
  made me go out there. He said, sit on that stage and he
• 1:11:30
  said, John Denver came out there and sang that song and he said and
• 1:11:33
  he said, you know what he said. Then he left. He said
• 1:11:36
  they paid him twenty five thousand dollars and he took off. Didn't even watch
• 1:11:40
  the game. Classic kneeling Classic. One reporter got a quick interview with John
• 1:11:45
  Dinver that day. Do you still have that on tape somewhere, might be
• 1:11:48
  I don't know that was backing, that was tape, that was tape back,
• 1:11:51
  was tape back then? Yeah, exactly, So don took a shot
• 1:11:55
  at him, stayed for the game. Yeah, anyway, you know who
• 1:12:00
  did was the other two whose names escaped me? Who were with him?
• 1:12:04
  The writers you had, who wrote it with him? Who sang how many?
• 1:12:09
  With him? And they stayed for the game. Sure? Absolutely,
• 1:12:12
  Hey, three guys, I listened to the interview of coach Nielan last night
• 1:12:15
  on Sportsland. First of all, I'm glad that he is being enshrined at
• 1:12:18
  Mountaineer Field. What a great coach and human being. A quick story about
• 1:12:21
  my father and coach Neelan. My dad a lifelong Mountaineer fan. When he
• 1:12:26
  retired, he would go over to Mountaineer Field watch the team practice there at
• 1:12:30
  the stadium. At the end of practice, Coach Neilan would come by and
• 1:12:32
  call my dad, Hey, coach, how we doing. Knowing my dad,
• 1:12:36
  he would be critical of some things, but Coach Neelan always took the
• 1:12:40
  criticism and praise with grace, never once speaking harshly to my dad. This
• 1:12:44
  went on for a few years until coach Neilan retired. The other side of
• 1:12:47
  the story came when coach Rod took over the program and saw my father sitting
• 1:12:50
  in the stands and he asked, who's the old guy, and they proceeded
• 1:12:55
  to remove my dad from practice as you different, as you can guess,
• 1:13:00
  my dad never liked coach Rot. The interview with Coach Neelon brought back memories
• 1:13:04
  of him and my father. My dad passed away over fifteen years ago.
• 1:13:09
  He would have been really proud of what they're doing for Coach Neeling. I
• 1:13:12
  will be at the game Saturday. Hopefully Coach Neil Brown will write this ship
• 1:13:15
  get us back on track with a win, respectfully. Sheryl Oldman in Kenna.
• 1:13:21
  Yeah, that's great, and that unfortunately that happens when you get the
• 1:13:25
  coaching changes. I mean, coaches are paranoid, right, so if they
• 1:13:30
  don't know someone, that the whole thing happens. But that happens, I
• 1:13:33
  mean, unfortunately, it does happen that when things, let me try to
• 1:13:41
  put this all into context, when things change, coaches, staffs, athletic
• 1:13:45
  administration, they oftentimes don't realize and don't know the people, and like you
• 1:13:54
  could have someone that like invested their whole tons of years, tons of support,
• 1:13:59
  tons of they go like they just it's like sad sometimes like no,
• 1:14:03
  man, that's that's so and so like now he's been here since like ratt
• 1:14:08
  rogers like, no, he's good. He's good. But they sometimes it
• 1:14:12
  loses in translation. That's unfortunate. Okay, did you see this? This
• 1:14:17
  was a tweet yesterday, so it's really good. They do see this.
• 1:14:20
  Hop No, So they took a picture. Those are that's six of the
• 1:14:24
  Big Twelve coaches. You got Josh Eilert. There, you got Mark Pope,
• 1:14:28
  Mark Pope, Jamie Dixon, Bill Self, Scott Drew, Jerome Tang,
• 1:14:32
  among others. And it says, real quick, that's Porter Moser right
• 1:14:35
  in the middle. So it's the talle Skuy's Mark Pope right then Jamie Dixon.
• 1:14:40
  Then Self is kind of hunched over laughing, laughing. Porter Moser's behind
• 1:14:43
  him. Yeah, And here's the reason for the laughing. So it says
• 1:14:45
  Bill Self and Oklahoma's Porter Moser were getting ready for the Big Twelve Basketball Coaches
• 1:14:49
  picture today, laughing. Moser said to Bill Self, I can't stand too
• 1:14:54
  close to Bill. Someone will call a foul. And Bill Self said,
• 1:14:58
  only at home, it's actually pretty good by both. You think Bill Selz
• 1:15:03
  lost some weight, notice that, Oh dude, I mean he had his
• 1:15:09
  health scare and he dropped a ton of weight. Yeah. I thought Josh
• 1:15:15
  Eilert was superb handling the media a plus at Big twelve. You said it
• 1:15:18
  last night, Hopey. I said this on Sports Signed last night. I
• 1:15:21
  thought, you know, the two parts to head coaching and Josh's tenure right
• 1:15:26
  now are the preseason stuff and then the in season coaching. And I thought
• 1:15:30
  for the preseason stuff, especially if you want a grade on a curve,
• 1:15:33
  I don't think you need to, but if you want to grade on a
• 1:15:34
  curve of how nuts of a situation it was or is that he's taking over,
• 1:15:40
  and how he's done for a guy that's never been a head coach,
• 1:15:44
  I think he's been a plus. Yes, I think he's handled the external
• 1:15:46
  stuff expertly. I think he's handled it, by all reports, the internal
• 1:15:50
  stuff extremely well. Also, I'm not sure he could have handled these first
• 1:15:57
  however many months it's been now first couple of months any better than he had.
• 1:16:00
  And I know there's a whole second part to when you start playing games
• 1:16:01
  stuff, But so far for a guy that has not done it, he
• 1:16:04
  has been very head coachy in my opinion so far. I mean, absolutely,
• 1:16:08
  he's handled it professionally. He's handled it with significant a plump, not
• 1:16:12
  only the public part, but also going to see players in their own environment
• 1:16:17
  and trying to bring some unity to the team and you know, filling out
• 1:16:20
  that roster. And yeah, I mean, but here's a guy that tells
• 1:16:25
  you I don't think that. I mean, there's a natural part to it.
• 1:16:27
  But also it strikes me here's a guy who's been preparing to be a
• 1:16:31
  head coach and probably thinking if I am a head coach. Of course it
• 1:16:35
  happened in a way he didn't expect it. If I get the head coach,
• 1:16:38
  here's what I'm going to do. Absolutely right, absolutely right, no
• 1:16:41
  question, real quick before we go, shout out to Jim Green. Jim
• 1:16:46
  Green ran into him. I was out in public Big three Guys. Listener
• 1:16:49
  said, hello, awesome, So you're getting out in public. Yeah,
• 1:16:53
  unlike some members of Three Guys. I'm out. What are you saying?
• 1:16:58
  I know why? You guilty? Guilty conscience? What you've been out,
• 1:17:01
  you did, You've done to better, You're doing better. I was I
• 1:17:04
  haven't been out since. No, you did well. I will always,
• 1:17:09
  seriously, will always be indebted to you for coming out at the Three guys
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  food court and hoppy is not the reason why we're not having one. It's
• 1:17:18
  just you couldn't get the right food that we want to do it logistics.
• 1:17:25
  Let's just get all the food options we want to Yeah, and I'm not
• 1:17:28
  going to get you to like me inviting you over to my house and saying,
• 1:17:30
  hey, have this piece of toast. You enjoy it pretty good?
• 1:17:33
  I see you. No, I can't do that like you inviting people and
• 1:17:36
  saying I'm not gonna be home. But yeah, exactly not going to do
• 1:17:39
  that. I'm not going to do that. You think they would use the
• 1:17:42
  Doddridge County coin that they gave me, like for the coin. That's a
• 1:17:45
  good time. It's yeah, yep, United to make a difference. That's
• 1:17:53
  their statement, character commitment, be a bulldog. It's all about pride.
• 1:17:59
  It's all up pride. Three guys before the game. So we're back on
• 1:18:02
  Sunday afternoon afternoon. Oh yeah, it'll be the afternoon recap. Oh yeah.
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  That would be that play that plays all kinds of music. If you get
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  on that thing, you'd be like the talk of the talk of the water.
• 1:19:01
  Plenty of seating. H that's too many though, too many people?
• 1:19:05
  No, just enough comfortable, like just won't be you won't be able spread
• 1:19:10
  out too hoppy. Yeah, that's an arm day. That's like an arm
• 1:19:13
  extension, like spread your arms up. You could probably get two poors you
• 1:19:15
  could probably get ten people on there. Oh, my comfort level would be
• 1:19:19
  like, yeah, I thought I was gonna set the over under number four.
• 1:19:23
  Well, your reality is you like to be by yourself. I mean
• 1:19:25
  you're comfortable with one, right, That's why the two extra people coming along
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