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3 Guys Before The Game - TCU Preview (Episode 536) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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Welcome one and all. Thank you for sharing some of your precious time with
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us. This is Three Guys Before the Game, episode number five hundred and
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thirty six. It is our TCU preview. If you're a long time watch
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your listener, listener watcher of Three Guys, you probably are saying, right
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now, wait a second. You guys have now done twenty one shows called
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TCU preview. Is that right? Twenty one? I don't know. I
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mean it happens. Wait more years in the league. It's I mean,
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there's been a lot. I mean we review. Preview is what we do.
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That's what this show does this time of the year. We preview and
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then we review. Here's deal. Try not overthink it. Like if you
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want to listen to this and you're looking for tc right, just look it
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says tcupreview. You know what it's about, boom, among other things.
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It's hard because we can't say hanky preview or some of the nonsense we get
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in fact, you know why we don't know. Thank you, Hoppy.
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You got some numbers, don't you. I do? Any numbers from that
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Texas Tech game? Uh? Yeah, that was kind of easy to figure
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out, wasn't it? Good start, bad finish? Yes, one of
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the TCU preview Now, Yes, Hi, hop Hello guys, welcome back,
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good to be back. Wait a minute, I was here last week
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when I want you hear Monday. We were here Thursday, two week.
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So you want me to start or is you just saying hello? It was
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my introduction to get you to go, and I was going to give you
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a little bit more of an introduction. It's time now for hoppies obvious observations
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as the Mountaineers get ready for their final home date on the calendar, and
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two more regular season games remain, and then next week the postseason basketball tournament
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sponsored by the Big Twelve Conference. First, Antony, you brought this to
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my attention. I hadn't thought about it that much, but when you appeared
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on my coffee clash and you mentioned it about thanks for the invite, your
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thanks for coming on the fact that there were eleven thousand fans there Saturday for
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a team that won nine games. Eleven thousand fans there for that, And
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I made the analogy, I mean, we think of this as a as
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a football school, more of a football school. Although if if this,
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if a football team was having the kind of win wall season the basketball team
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is having, you would not have proportionally that sas crowd. Okay, you
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would not be three fourths full. It would not be four fifths full correct
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for the game. So hats off to Mountaineer Nation and the basketball fans for
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coming out the game. Number one second of all is that I've kind of
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moved on, I mean from the season with all due respect. What mean
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It means that the big story now is not about Look, we're gonna break
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down tc The big story is not about TCU. The big story is not
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about Cincinnati. The big story is not about the tournament unless something unforeseen happens.
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It's about who will be the next coach WVU. That is the story,
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and that is what Rin Baker is working on. And Josh Eilert,
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in all likelihood, unless they do something amazing in the Big twelve tournament,
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will not be the coach. I mean that was really set in motion when
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he was hired on June twenty fourth or twenty six, whatever it was,
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when they had interim larger than his name. Okay, I think you got
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the feeling then that it was going to be an interim situation and that something
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unique was going to have to happen for him to continue to be the head
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coach. So and that that search is somewhat complicated by the fact that probably
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whoever you're looking at or trying to get is it going to be in the
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NCAA tournament. So they're still playing. So that's a little bit, a
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little bit dicey. But Josh Eilert and his staff they deserve they deserve medals
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for what they've what they've done this season. You're going to say, what
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do you mean, well, in nine games to over late June, how
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many departures did you have from this team? A Conquo, Mitchell, Waghee,
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Toussaint Belle, all those guys left. And it was chaotic because the
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way of the Huggin situation came down and then with with the Edward's getting hurt,
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with the situation with Battle, with the situation with kerk Careese, all
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of that. And you know what, you never heard from Josh. You
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never heard him complain. You never heard him Bradwood coaches what a coaches always
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say, Well, you know this guy's out, so therefore we can't do
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this. Well, if they do what I told him to do in practice,
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we would be fine with that. Or you know, when I get
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my guys in here. I don't recall him doing any of that, any
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of that the entire season. And he would have been entitled to do it
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for one time. A coach would have been entitled to do that, and
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he never did that once. And you know what they did do, maybe
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they didn't win a lot of games, they managed the team, this team
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was managed. You didn't hear them complaining, You didn't see people storming off,
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You didn't have guys being disciplined, have to be sit down that I
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know of, that I know of hasn't happened. So they deserve accolades and
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praise for how they managed this team. They won't be back next year,
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but they should be respected and honored for what they what they have done this
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season for the Mountaineers. Make a lot of really good points. And you're
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right, he has thrown absolutely no one under the bus. None would this
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would have been under the bus year. Could have done it, didn't do
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it, didn't do it. You know the way the rosters shook out,
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they were turned ten percent of their scoring from last year. And just as
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I said on that very rare appearance on your coffee clutch, the unintended consequences
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of what happened in the off season are just that unintended. There are so
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many things we didn't think about. There are so many things that have happened
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and unfortunately will continue to happen for the foreseeable future because of what happened last
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summer. That's just the reality of it. It's just gonna it's like a
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domino. It just this means this means this means this means, this means
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this. That's just the way that it is. And so you're right,
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they have been. They have been valiant in their effort, in their determination,
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in their resolve to try to do the best they possibly can with what
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they're dealing with. We said it the episode following the episode when Josh was
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in, I thought he was tremendous on our program back in the summer,
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was and summer we had him on fall. Whenever we had him on and
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spoke. I haven't changed my tune, said it a couple times since then.
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I think the job they did in a situation that was all the stuff
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you outlined, We can see all that. What you can't see is the
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toll that takes on you personally and on families, and you don't know what's
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coming next for you, and the ability to put that aside or at least
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on the back burner while you try and keep the program afloat in a situation
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that we've said impossible, pick whatever adjective you want, not just the circumstances,
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but also competing in the best league in America to put your personal thoughts
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of what's coming next for me and my family on the back burner, and
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to continue to plow through and show up and do your job and give Max
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effort tons of respect. That's will always have tons of respect. That's harder
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than anybody realizes unless you've been through it. That's a really difficult spot they
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are in and they've they've all handled it really well. And look, Josh
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first and foremost, we know it's wins and losses, but in terms of
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what you want and what we expect a mountaineer to be, what you expect
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a mountaineer to be, right like Bill Sar, bow your back, jut
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your jaw, and do your job, which is exactly what he did.
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He and that staff did, And I hope it is. Hope it ends
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up being appreciated in some way because they deserve it. I agree, and
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I think long term that it will. I talked to the Texas Tech people
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Saturday before our game. They had a similar situation twelve years ago when West
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Virginia first came in the league. Chris Walker was an interim coach. Yeah
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I don't even remember that. Yeah, he was the interim coach, and
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he said, man, I was talking to Chris Level, their color analysts,
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and he said, Dude, he said, it's just so hard when
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you're in that when you're placed into that environment and you just like everyone knows,
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you know, and you just these guys have been locked in and focused
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and as I said, they've had no drama on this team. They have
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been trying to put out small fires all season long, with eligibility, with
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injury, with you know, the suspension that Creasa had to start the year.
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You remember, man, like my score sheet when we went to Florida
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and Fort Myers had eight guys on it and only seven potentially could have got
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onto the floor. Yeah, think about it. Think about you're playing Virginia,
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You're playing SMU who's having a really good season, and you got seven
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dudes. Those guys hard. The phone should be ringing off the hook for
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those guys. And first foremost, Josh, Josh, Josh should have his
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pick of next jobs. It's probably hard for him to see it right now.
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I bet if you go back to him a year from now, he
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the experience he gains, how about dog gears, the experience he gained in
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coaching, And I'm sure it's really hard to see right now will help him
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immensely moving forward. Now, how about just the media side of things.
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That's one thing to sit back when you're not doing it and think how you'd
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handle questions and what you'd say when you're out there. Then to actually have
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to do it multiple times every week in a season in which you haven't won
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many games. And I think he's handled that tremendously well. That's invaluable for
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a guy that had never done that before. Moving forward, I've noticed several
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times this year we're opposing coaches have these elongated conversations with him, either before
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the game or after the game. So I asked him last week, I
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said, like, you know, like what's that. What's the gist of
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those conversations, And he said the general theme has just been, dude,
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we know and we see what you're going through, and what you guys have
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done has been absolutely unbelievable because they're a pain in the butt to play.
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I mean, you know, you don't think Iowa State and especially Oberg tj
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Ottsburg, he had a long I mean it was like a powwhow that they
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had because they coaches respect coaches, because coaches no more than anyone what you're
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dealing with. And I guarantee every other coach in the league's looking at this
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situation going, hey, for friend kidding me, Yeah, I don't want
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to do what. Yeah, he's got he's dealing with what Still Yes,
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So those are the guys that know the most. A lesser coach would have
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said after every loss, look what I had to deal with. A lesser
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human being would have done. That didn't do it, No, he didn't.
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So it leads us in two the Frogs of TCU, And if you're
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coming to the game, please arrive as if the game will start at seven
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rather than nine. They did move the game time, which is very unusual.
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Basketball normally doesn't. It's locked, but they took it off of the
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main ESPN platform. It was supposed to be on two. They moved it
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to plus and by moving it to plus, West Virginia had the opportunity to
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move the time good and so they go seven. TCU. I'm sure certainly
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isn't complaining after they just had to go to Provo over the weekend. So
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that's why it's seven. So if you are coming to the game, seven
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tip and that'll be that. And then on the road, Saturday to play
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Cincinnata in the final regular season game. Do you want to do a quick
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tech review before we dive into TCU or no, we just move on.
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No, I think that we could do a quick quick tech review and just
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a three second sting. I'll just give you a couple because I was giddy
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there in the first half. Excuse me, I was giddy in the first
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half. What it was going exactly according to plan text defensive struggles away from
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home. We talked about that gap between their defensive effort at home and away.
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It's about as pronounced as anybody in the country. What was happening in
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the first half making shots, scored forty four points and made shots on pace
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for eighty eight points. After the first half, they couldn't guard. You
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were right there, we went in the game scene. You got to make
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some threes. West Virginia led the big twelve in three point field goal percentage.
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Hopey going into that game. We talked about that and made threes in
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the first half. Made threes in the first half, made eight of them.
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What did I text you a halftime though? Hey you sir, you
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texted me he said, you be careful. Here said good news. As
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you made eight threes news, that is, as you made eight threes and
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your only classics this Well, that's right. One other number we talked about
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heading into that game, you had to keep Texas Tech under twenty points at
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the rim if you got there. That seemed to be a formula to beat
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them under twenty points at the rim. West Virginia was close. It's why
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that game was close for a long time. Twenty five points for Texas Tech
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at the rim. So I've got a bunch more, but doesn't matter,
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Niah. You don't need to have the you don't need to have the upper
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level analytical package to figure out what happened on Saturday. The big question is,
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uh, after shooting forty percent in the first half for Texas Tech and
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thirty seven from three, why did West Virginia's defense get worse? Why was
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Tech able to shoot fifty seven percent in the second half and forty seven from
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three? Why? That's the question. Well, what's the answer. I
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mean, I think it met I think I think the game means more to
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Texas Tech at this juncture in the season. You take a look at the
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standings as we record and Houston's one Iowa State's two, Baylor's three, Texas
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Tech BYU Kansas all tied for the fourth spot. The fourth spot gives you
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the double by in the tournament. Yeah, that's helpful. They're jockeying big
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time, right, So they also needed a twentieth win to make sure there's
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no doubts whatsoever as far as their postseason fate goes. So they had more
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to play for. Tony, you made that point on my program. Is
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that because I heard you're open your open Saturday. You're talking about you can
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be the spoiler. But the motivation to be a spoiler is typically not as
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great as the motivation to have to improve survival postseason. Yes, chances,
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Yeah, all right, you ready to do the big Yeah? Well you
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got more there, you got well, you just I mean, you asked
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the question. I'll give you a partial answer for why Texas Tech shot it
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better. That's the most points They had thirty four points off spot jumpers in
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the game. That's their second most all season. Their first most was against
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San Houston State. Is a spot up jumper unguarded. Get into that.
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That was the most points off on guarded catching shoots. Since they had to
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win over Kansas back on February twelfth. So they got ten unguarded shots and
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got fifteen points out of those. So that's the best points per possession on
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unguarded shots since back the end of January. Here's your answer for Texas Tech.
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That's the only partial answer. The second part of that, they got
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their most points off guarded catch and shoots in Big twelve play all season in
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Big twelve play. Yeah, that'll do it. Made shots. Yeah,
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so both unguarded and guarded. There you go. Didn't guard, didn't guard
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really really good. All right, what do we got? TCU?
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Okay, frogs come in. They're they're scuffling here. Just to tad as
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well. I've lost two in a row, lost three of its last four.
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And you mentioned earlier that tough travel. They were just in Provo.
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Head home, come back to Morgantown. Can you catch a little tired legs
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on the frog legs? Oh, tired frog special on the menu today,
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Tired frog legs. Maybe that's the title of west Ford and he gets a
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Yeah, we'll take it. We'll Tony use that seam center. Tired frog
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Legs that's especially applicable here though, because that's gonna be something to watch.
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Let's jump right into one of the keys here, TCU in transition West Virginia
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versus transition offense. So TCU is gonna want to push it and run.
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They lead the Big Twelve in transition possessions per game. But here's what's interesting,
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just seventh in points per possession in those transitions. So they want to
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get out run, they're gonna get the most. They're gonna push it the
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most. You've got to make them ineffective and get back and stop that.
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They lead the league in shots per game at the rim. In the first
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meeting, TCU had a season high in transition possessions in Big Twelve play.
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Remember they were running all night long on West Virginia, but they also that
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was also the most transition possessions West Virginia's faced in a Big twelve game.
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But that was the third lowest transition points per possession for TCU on the season,
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So they got a ton they didn't convert at the normal high rate that
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they can. It was the best points per possession transition defense that West Virginia's
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played all year. Can you replicate that tc will turn it over and transition
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as well, fifth in the league and turnover percentage when they run. So
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can West Virginia get back and can they force some turnovers? Now? Happy
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I realize what I'm asking there. This isn't a strength of West Virginia's team,
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right, three hundred and forty ninth out of what three sixty three?
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So three hundred and forty ninth out of three hundred and sixty three teams in
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steal percentage, three hundred and second in opponent turnover percentage, So West regt
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doesn't get a lot of steals or turnovers. So that'd be great because TCU
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will give you some. But West Virginia hasn't been able to do that.
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But that's going to be number one key. Can you get back and stop
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transition? One other number kind of went down further in the weeds here.
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That's a stunner. The three best defensive performances West Virginia has had in transition
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have been the three games where it played the most zone U c F in
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a win, most recently TCU there and Saint John's. So that which would
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make sense if you're running back to get to a spot on the floor.
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That should be easier and you should be better able to do that than running
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back trying to find guys. Who's got who? Who's got who? I
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got looking around and I miss twelve? So run, but get back and
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just pack that lane in. Can they do it again? Well? West
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Virginia throw some zone at TCU. Really, the only zone TCU is faced
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this year came against Baylor, So Baylor played zone on fifty six possessions in
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a win over TCU. In the rest of Big Twelve play, TCUs faced
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just seventeen possessions of zone. But the reason why I bring that up,
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Hoppy, is that what you just asked? Why am I bring up?
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Z D just asked that, Thank you. I appreciate using TCU's last in
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the Big Twelve in points per possession against zone. West Frans had some success
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in zone this year. Stay in the zone, yeah, p on it,
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Just stay in his zone now packington. TCU has taken the lead over
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West Virginia in three point percentage within league play after Saturday. Yeah, TCU
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won West Virginia two. It's really close. But TCU doesn't like to shoot
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a ton of threes. They much prefer to get to the basket. So
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do you zone them a little bit? And again they hit threes. Tip
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your heat. It's good analysis. They had it, if I'm not mistaken.
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Did they have a double figure lead first half at BYUS? They did
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and they lost double figures. How about them dudes out in Provo? Yeah,
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seventeen thousand and nine seventy eight on hand. Really good environment there,
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seventeen nine to seven eight. That's like professional basketball sized crowd. Yeah.
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One other thing to watch. Yeah, this has been a problem all year,
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so I'm not telling you anything you don't know. Watch the turnovers.
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TCU seventeenth nationally and steal percentage twenty eighth, then opponent turnover percentage. In
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the first meeting, West Virginia turned it over on twenty four percent of its
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possessions, almost a quarter of its possessions. TCU had ten steals that turned
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into a twenty six to eight points off turnover advantage. Here's a bizarre stat
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from that game. Oh, twenty six to eight isn't bizarre enough? No,
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this is this is weird. This was weird. West Virginia had eleven
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players playing that game. Okay, I'm with you, only five of them
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had turnovers. All five of those players had at least three, so not
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everybody was turning over, but the five guys that had turned well, they
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did it really well. It was weird. It just kind of jumped out
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to me. So you got to try and limit some get back on defense.
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You've got to try and limit your turnovers, your hope here. This
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is another big, big gap home and road split with TCU, much like
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Texas Tech was. TCU comes in at the one hundred percentile defensive rating at
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home, so it's basically points per one hundred persessions. They're twenty third percentile
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on the road, so give up some points. So can you just outscore
25:55
them? West Virginia hasn't really shown the ability defensively to stop many people struggled
26:00
offensively against West Virginia. This is one where we just score, just score
26:03
on TCU. That's going to be a key Senior day. Will be interesting
26:08
here, won't it? It will? What is it? What does it
26:14
mean? We talked about that in football, like I'm looking at this thing.
26:17
There's no one that's been here for four years. No, there's no
26:22
one that's been here. I mean Jesse Edwards is done. He'll walk Ray
26:27
Kwan battle's done, He'll walk. That's it. Oh, I have cook
26:32
cook, he's done too. Three guys. You should call it just PtD
26:37
Possible departure day D two. Yeah, I mean those are the people that
26:41
are out of eligibility. That doesn't mean you won't have thirteen guys walk potentially
26:47
come out as a group. By the way, B why you average is
26:49
seventeen thousand? Yeah, I must admit not disappointed that the world champion mountaineers
26:56
didn't have to go there this year. Number two is doing games. I
27:00
don't care how good you are going on. That's gonna be not easy here,
27:04
so go ahead. I've got a lot more. But basically those are
27:07
the highlights. I'll say, they'll save the other stuff for later. You
27:10
know who's last in the league, you know? And attendance. They may
27:15
be first in one category but last in another. Really, Houston? Yeah
27:18
is that right? That's just because they're building small. What's what's their attendance?
27:22
Sixty five? Yeah? I think the whole thing plays is like seven
27:26
thousand, isn't it? That's all? It is? Like eight? Maybe
27:29
seven or eight? Is it? O? Fun? There? Those are
27:30
tennis numbers don't mean anything anymore. What does that mean? Why nobody does
27:33
them real anymore? Real? Yeah? What do you mean? A lot
27:37
of it's tickets distributed, people that have said they might want to go.
27:41
I mean, just you think they count people that disclipe where they have to
27:47
send a note in say hey, we're thinking about going. They phone calls
27:52
that came into the ticket office inquiring about it, People that checked on stub
27:56
hub to see what the costs were for that game. I think they get
27:57
counted sometimes. Did you go to the game? Well? I thought about
28:00
it. Okay, there's one you know who was at the last Mountaineer game,
28:03
Former Three Guys guest Charles Wesley Godwin. Really yeah, So I talked
28:11
to Chuck and it's a good time to talk to him and catch him because
28:18
do you know how about how busy he's gonna get. So I went on
28:21
to stub hub or whatever it is, take a geek, seak, geek
28:23
whatever, and I just put his name in this morning. There's fifty two
28:26
dates and my man is gonna be like the old Johnny Cash song. I've
28:32
been everywhere man. Yeah, he's torn with Luke Combs this summer. Oh
28:36
yeah, and it starts in April. And basically doesn't stop. He goes
28:41
pretty much through August, just NonStop. He's all over the place. Twice
28:45
he's already blowing up, but he's gonna blow up, blow up. Yeah,
28:48
and then it's coming along in a great time with Luke Combs. Luke
28:51
Combs of course at the Grammy performance with Tracy Chapman in Fast Car and really
28:55
just that was a rocket ship. It's coming for him. So it's good
28:59
to see Charles. He brought us two little ones there, his wife as
29:03
well as brother who lives here in Morgantown. And he told me, he
29:07
said, I think this is my first hoop game since Bettina was coaching Louisville.
29:11
My goodness. Yeah, remember that crazy game Terence Mitchell, he was
29:18
here for that. How about this bizarre one? So I go up there
29:19
concession stand before the game, next over there, next to the apparel,
29:26
you know, chuck over the bussions. No, I was using my my
29:30
uh what do they call those? My TuxBox? What do they call those
29:33
things? They give you a card anyway, a card media. They give
29:37
you a card to go Gaemable for money at the concession stand instead of opening
29:41
there's no more media there's no more media room. Really been a while since
29:45
you've been there. But the Jerry West Lounge doesn't exist anymore. But you
29:51
know, so who's working, who's working the checkout at the at the that's
29:56
the big one that looks like a grocery store. Al must is just wide
29:57
open. There's differrects. Yeah, that's always my go too too. You
30:02
never guess one hundred years David Mayfield, excuse me, was working fund raiser
30:08
for what group? Romney Rotary? Really they used? They used groups fundraising
30:15
groups. And David and his wife where they're running cash register and I did
30:22
not recognize him, and he said, dude, And I went, David
30:26
Mayfield looks the same, what number thirty five? Well done? And I
30:32
told his wife, I said, did you know him when he played?
30:33
He goes No, I knew people that knew him when he played. And
30:36
I said, he wouldn't be able to play anymore, David David agnote,
30:40
he would be suspended, he would be kicked targeting three three times a year,
30:44
whether he wanted to or not. He'd be out three times a year.
30:47
He'd hit you. Yeah, by the way, uh cougar Cougar Arena
30:51
seven thousand, seven thousands, so they're filling the thing. I don't know
30:56
why he had to take a shot at people. So you're saying in the
31:00
past those numbers weren't accurate. More accurate. There weren't accurate more then they're
31:06
more, they're more accurate. Yeah, it's done a different way now.
31:08
A lot of people just do it on tickets distributed. Didn't used to be
31:11
done that way. So whatever tickets printed sitting on, if it's good,
31:15
don't worry about numbers. I'll just tell you this what West Virginia to respect
31:18
your numbership? Well that was it came up and I was just don't care.
31:23
Well, Tony mentioned it, and I just thought I would back it
31:26
up with some information. That's all. This is a mind blower with the
31:29
way West Virginia fans have turned out this season. Fantastic. Oh yeah,
31:33
fantastic. It's one of the things I've said this before on here. I'll
31:36
say it again as as we get reader ready to enter the coaching search.
31:40
Part of what's happening that matters, sure, that's that's one of the very
31:44
best things about this job is the support that you get. That's something that
31:48
is really high on coaches lists. Yeah, what are you looking for support?
31:52
Not just internal administrative support. What's the fan base give you. It's
31:56
great support here, no question. Yeah. Well last week and on three
32:00
have them as one of the the oasz's of N I L right, isn't
32:06
that what they wrote? Something like that strong nilthing like that. It's out
32:08
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for it now because today we'll be thinking better. Don't be the guy that
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Can I bring up one thing? Yeah? I want to send our
33:22
condolences out to the Catlet family. Absolutely. Annis Katlt lost away earlier this
33:28
week, eighty four years old. Was first lady of West Virginia basketball for
33:31
a long time when Gail was here. So certainly thinking of Christa Kara,
33:35
and of course Gail is as Annis has passed. They were married for sixty
33:39
years, sixty years, and we all covered Coach Catlett a lot, and
33:45
he always talked about or whether Eve when he wasn't coaching. He and and
33:49
Anisty, I mean they were they were a couple and she was around.
33:52
Yeah, she was around and involved. And I've said this for she was
33:54
always great to me. And my fondest memory there telling you when we were
33:58
in the sweet sixteen run out Boise. Yes, Uh, I will always
34:01
think fondly of Annis for a lot of reasons, but mainly this. She
34:06
played along with my nuttiness superstitions, which they were extensive back then, hob
34:12
They it still exist, but they were extensive back then. And as we
34:14
were making that run through the NCAA tournament, one of my things, I
34:17
handed out tickets before the game down in the lobby or on the bus,
34:21
on the different people. And I give her a lot of lot of credit
34:24
for putting up with my nonsense of I mean, I couldn't give her tickets
34:28
before I could give her tickets, and she never never bad and I never
34:31
said I need them, never, just let you be crazy. And I
34:35
will always thank fondly of Vantage for letting me be crazy in what was the
34:38
midst of an unbelievable fun runz. Certainly she was from right here in Morgantown.
34:44
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. I was talking to Jay Jacobs and they
34:46
grew up together right in the same neighborhood, Hope Crest. Yeah, I
34:51
believe, he said, is up there, and so yeah, absolutely so.
34:53
Condolences to the Catlet family. All right, you guys ready to do
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It's real, yeah, real stuff. All right, let's just kind
36:15
of jump in here. Here's one for you. This is from DJ in
36:19
Monroe County. Way, Monroe County is beautiful, beautiful. Weren't you down
36:23
there? Been there? With all of the college football playoff talk regarding twelve
36:29
teams, it makes me ponder this question. Are the sec in the Big
36:32
Ten going to eat themselves? How are Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, LSU,
36:37
Georgia not going to devour each other? How are Ohio State, Michigan,
36:42
Washington, Oregon, Penn State not going to ruin chance after chance for
36:45
representation. Now, this will keep the conferences happy, but the individual programs
36:51
are CFP chance has become slim as a West Virginia phantom, satisfied with being
36:55
a top program at a conference that gets a bid but isn't near as tough.
37:00
Now, let's go and get that bid in my lifetime. Please be
37:02
blessed, DJ Monroe County. It's a great text, and it's a great
37:07
point, and it's coming. But it's part of why those conferences are asking
37:10
for more bids. It's part of hopy we start talking about this back in
37:14
the fall. It's why Suddenly strength the schedule will be getting pushed now because
37:20
those two leagues need to explain why three and four loss teams need to be
37:23
in the playoffs. So suddenly, after all these years of you just got
37:28
to win games, win games, win games, no one wants to talk
37:30
about schedule strength, Suddenly they'll start pushing, well, look what we have
37:34
to go through in our league. Suddenly that'll be a thing. Whereas margat
37:37
Baylor's eleven to one and Alabama's seven and four. Oklahoma went seven and five,
37:45
but they should get in look at the schedule they played. That'll start
37:47
to be a thing. But DJ makes a great point. I talked to
37:51
someone in the know this weekend about telling the Big ten and the SEC to
38:00
get away from us with your request for three bids, just say like not
38:06
doing it. So the person that I spoke to is I said, why
38:10
can't you just gonna, you know, thumb your nose at them for that
38:14
and just say not doing it, don't care. So here's the issue.
38:17
If you were to do that and they were able and they wanted to bow
38:21
up and play hardball, then they would expand and they would take eight more
38:28
teams each. Now you got two twenty four team leagues. Now you know
38:31
what you have. Now you'll legitimately have enough for a forty eight team that
38:37
this is how we're going to determine the national champion. He'll be these forty
38:39
eight schools. So if that were to come into play, then your hope
38:44
is for you know, from your West Virginia personec are you one of the
38:47
forty eight? That's as we as we said Friday night. You know,
38:52
if you if you go in and you think about it, the big twelve
38:54
getting twelve is probably a pretty good deal on that side, or too sorry,
39:00
twelve getting two. There's probably some merit there to grabbing the two.
39:02
As long as you can stay around in this, I think maybe the more
39:05
distasteful what I said was hop the whole thing just feels distasteful, those two
39:09
leagues being able to try and tell you what you have to do. It
39:12
just you don't like the way that looks. The automatic buys might be the
39:16
more distasteful part of the whole process. Them demanding the automatic buys. Now,
39:22
maybe they get the automatic buys every single year. Maybe it's not up
39:25
for debate, but what are we playing for that? I think A lot
39:28
of jockeying is going on right now, a little rhetoric going back and forth,
39:30
just kind of you know, push pull, pushball hoppy. I don't
39:34
know if you were here the day that I instituted a new rule. I
39:37
three guys, but I do one long text now per show. That's your
39:43
your it's your prerogative. Here's you set the rules. Thank you. Here's
39:45
the long text, gentlemen. I've been a have been gone for a while,
39:49
but something happened yesterday that called me back. I work on Capitol Street
39:53
in Charleston. As his tradition in the office, I took my boss out
39:58
to lunch next door to celebrate her birthday. And when we approached the door
40:01
in the rain, very pleasant young man held the door and insisted we go
40:05
in ahead of him. He also insisted we go ahead of him in line.
40:09
We thought he was with the people in front of him, but he
40:12
said no, he was alone, so we asked him to join us.
40:15
He agreed, I know where this is going. And neither of us knew
40:20
him from Adam, but he had already made an impression on us, both
40:23
as quite as a gentleman. We were seated, ordered the food came out
40:28
quick. As we began to eat and talk, we discovered that he had
40:31
recently moved back from Morgantown. We began to ask him about his family and
40:37
work, and as you would when getting to know someone, discovered that he
40:39
knew some folks in common from church and he's now working in sports journalism.
40:45
One thing led to another as I spoke to him, I found out that
40:49
you guys know him very well. I've heard Tony refer to Taylor Tyler County
40:54
Consolidated many times, but I had no idea that I was having lunch with
40:59
him. I heard some interesting stories about things like how great Tony's sandwiches are,
41:06
house sitting and the like. We shared experiences about winners in Morgantown,
41:10
and I have to say that you guys made quite an impression on him.
41:15
He's a reflection of the professional gentleman he worked with at West Virginia Radio.
41:19
We enjoyed lunch so much we bought his two Taylor's just one part of the
41:23
three guys legacy that you have given the world. Thank you. So here's
41:28
my question. I don't remember him. Did he work He had worked here,
41:32
No, no bred for a while we've had guys here. I remember
41:37
Matthew used to do this show, right, Timmy Gwynn worked here. I
41:40
don't remember a Taylor he you remember him? Yes, I do, Yes,
41:45
Taylor an outstanding young man, was professional, he was I think that
41:52
you you beat him like a rented mule a lot, but you got the
41:58
best out of him. And it was a sad day when he left.
42:00
I will say that last lines, what's frightening, But glad this one turned
42:05
out. Okay, Taylor's just one part of the three guys legacy of given
42:07
the world. That's always, that's always his name was Taylor Tyler. Oh
42:14
that kid, now, I get it. Nice young man, he's terrific.
42:20
I heard this story shortly after it happened. He called me. I
42:22
was horrified. He called me last week and horrified. Horrified. Well turned
42:25
out, okay, I mean Taylor's now going to eat with I mean he
42:29
could have been kidnapped. That poor little buddy. He's I don't know if
42:31
he's up for that yet. I tell you what, when somebody bought his
42:35
lunch, I made his day. Yeah he did, didn't. He didn't
42:42
very nice, yester, He didn't hesitate when the food came around. Now.
42:45
This is Jim from Charleston. Latest discussion about officials on your podcast has
42:49
a story of Jim Valvana once told an official was right near him. Valvano
42:52
asked if he could get a technical file for what he was thinking. No,
42:57
coach, I can't give you a technical foul for what you're thinking.
42:59
That's good is because I think you suck and the ref gave them the technical
43:02
There's no justice sometimes. Three guys, John from Nashville, Tony. During
43:10
your last episode, you expressed amazement that the article from the Minnesota Gopher PR
43:15
Department never mentioned the name of Caitlin Clark and I was blowout victory in her
43:19
exceptional performance. I was as surprised that you and Brad never took the opportunity
43:23
to mention the name of the losing coach in that game. Out of sight,
43:29
out of mind. I didn't to be ho. I didn't put two
43:32
and two together there. She had a good day yesterday or this weekend Saturday.
43:38
Caitlin Clark yesterday, yesterday, yesterday tremendous. Again, we were talking
43:42
about that Minnesota Gopher golden doph again that hops she was unbelievable. She buried
43:46
them right at the start, had the first fifteen points of the game.
43:50
You see what they did yesterday. Maya Moore was there at the end of
43:52
the game. I watch the whole thing. What neat before the game?
43:54
She was there? Oh was that before the game? They met before the
43:58
game? Okay, yeah, you passed Pete Merivitch. That's that's something crazy.
44:06
Nolan Ryan showed up for the game. Excuse me, yeah, Nolan
44:08
Ryan. The picture really the Iowa game at once see Kaitlin Clark that it
44:14
might be my last chance going to the game. How about that, dude?
44:16
Youts tickets were something like five hundred dollars. That was a great game,
44:21
Ohio Iowa six. I mean that was a that was an NCAA tournament
44:25
final type of game. It was. It was fun. I'm reluctant to
44:30
read the next text because I don't want it to become a habit. But
44:35
I'm going to do it anyway because if I open this door, then everyone's
44:39
going to say please, please, please. So I'm only doing it once.
44:45
Should I do it? That is what's going to happen. These are
44:51
hard. This is it's hard to help me tough. That puts me in
44:52
a tough. It's hard to help every cause. So anyway, you know
44:57
what, do it. This isn't it's a off. I'm not doing it
45:00
all the time. Okay, say first in. This is first in.
45:04
He gets first in, first up. You can do it and then decide
45:07
in the future. I mean, it's not not going to do it all
45:08
the time. It's impossible. It's impossible. It's impossible to do these.
45:14
You can't do these, So I'm not doing it. I'll do this.
45:17
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45:22
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to the website. Andrew, thank you very much. You were first in.
45:54
Don't come to me if you've got a chicken fry or a something else,
45:59
not going to do it. Thank you. Wow, I just you
46:01
just can't. If you can't, Hoppy, I know you can't move on
46:07
next. I mean on your on your gossip gab thing that you do and
46:12
you couldn't be impossible. Hey, Hoppy, we're having that. You can't
46:14
do it right? Yeah? Yeah, I know, I know. Texter
46:20
pig Pen from Boone County, I'm sure you were kidding that. Eminem Mars
46:23
is using comacs but Recee's is Hershey's that whatever. Don't forget the world's greatest
46:30
potato wedges are participating go marts. That sounds good that he does. Right
46:36
now, you'll be ted. You're going to legislature this week? Hup?
46:39
Yeah, tomorrow you stop at a gomart. Yeah, get the Ring's a
46:44
legislator's still going. This should be the final week lot going on, like
46:47
going. I'll be there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and then Saturday we'll
46:52
be doing single A and double A Girls Saturday Night on Metro News Oh,
46:59
it's gonna be a long run for long week, long week, mort writes
47:04
in from Kanas City, scope spreads maybe even the Hanky super spreader hobby.
47:12
As a born and bred West Virginian, and I was raised to be a
47:14
gentleman less than Hanky, to hold others accountable and to acknowledge others when they
47:19
are correct. Despite of my oft critical responses to your railroad knowledge, I've
47:23
come here today to say you are correct, sir, correcting your analysis of
47:28
people entering a passenger train and then hiding in the restroom to forego presenting the
47:32
conductor with a ticket. In fact, the youtubes are filled with this being
47:37
practiced in Japan across their vast national passenger network. I'm hoping to catch either
47:44
of the men or the lady Mountaineers at the upcoming tournaments in Kansas City and
47:47
potentially getting more enthusiastic let's goes on the sidewalk. Oh, so apparently this
47:51
guy yelled at me. He says, I'm trying to get a potentially more
47:54
enthusiastic Let's go on the sidewalk from the WVU play by play announcer than the
47:59
last time. So yeah, I mean I'm Natale not into that. Like
48:02
if you just screamed, let's go across the street and I'm in Kansas City,
48:06
chances are I'll give you a handwave. Handwave is good. Fine.
48:14
I remember one time at Charleston. It was late at night. It was
48:16
walking back and someone said, tell you give us a go herd. I
48:22
gave it to him. Nice O, sure, go hurd Fine Texter,
48:29
big guy in Mullins rights Hello firecrackers. In two thousand and seven, at
48:31
a family reunion on Labor Day, I was in charge of the fireworks.
48:36
Jeez. I had it set up perfectly. Everyone was out in front on
48:38
the hill. Imagine a small valley fifty yards from the hill. Another hill
48:42
one hundred yards on the other side of the valley were almost eye level.
48:46
So showtime comes. I've got about seven or eight firework mortar tubes set up
48:50
on a sturdy but old wooden table. First mistake debatable. Always use something
48:54
anchored in the ground. Long story short, the table falls over, the
48:59
mortars start firing at the one hundred or so people on the other hill talk
49:02
about running. Wow. Needless to say, I have not been in charge
49:06
of fireworks since. Yeah, that could have been a problem, Texter Duo
49:12
or Trio. I just finished listening to the Texas Tech preview. I almost
49:15
paused a few minutes then to set a mid pod text. When you started
49:20
talking about lamb, I got to say, some of the best lamb is
49:23
raised right here in West Virginia. Our lambs are born and raised about five
49:29
miles from the flatwoods. Go Mart, let me know the next time you'll
49:31
be around, I can hook you up. Oh. I love lamb.
49:36
I did not realize that West Virginia had great lamb. Now I'm familiar with
49:40
the Cattleman's Association. Now they'll make you a ribby stake that'll make you want
49:44
to change your name. It's so good, really good. I'm all for
49:49
lamb. Yeah. I like clam too. Yeah, reach out to me,
49:53
Texter Philip from Philippi. Hello, three guys, pregame text feeling good
49:57
about beating Texas Tech. I hope this age is well. Uh Oh,
50:01
anyway, I want to say if you've gotten I have not seen the Hudson
50:05
Clement story on Twitter. Check it out. Warms your heart, that's for
50:08
sure. Yeah, there's a a twelve minute docu thing on huntson pretty good
50:15
story. On Clement Hudson. Clement, Yeah, I don't know who produced
50:20
it, but it's pretty good. It's got interviews with his mom and his
50:22
dad and how they got to West Virginia from Michigan. Yeah, his brother
50:29
coming here. Oh yeah, he's in Murphy Murph. Mom calls him Murph.
50:34
I like that, you know, I like names that or different Texter,
50:38
AJ and PA. Just to let you know, Tony Reeses is a
50:42
product of Hershey's, not Eminem mars as you reference in your comacs ad at
50:45
the beginning of Thursday, you say that, why don't you just kill me?
50:49
I did. I want to make sure that a Pennsylvania company receives proper
50:52
credit. Another Pennsylvania chocolate company, Gardeners of Tyrone, makes a peanut butter
50:58
melt away that will make Brad forget all about receas. Provide me with an
51:01
address and I will send you three guys a sample. I look forward to
51:05
each episode, though I do miss the third guy when he's a no show.
51:08
I think he may be referring to you. Hop. Yeah, I
51:12
know, I know. Here's where we are, okay with food solicitation.
51:17
I send him our address and this comes at a really good time of the
51:22
year because you know, basketball is getting ready to end. This is like,
51:25
you know how in New York City they have Fashion Week. Three Guys
51:30
is now entering our food season where we survey foods and review foods that potentially
51:37
we could sell on our Three Guys website. Is that right? Yeah?
51:45
And so wait a minute, No, it's true because like I went to
51:50
that hunting fishing show yesterday. Yeah, and there was the longest line you
51:54
would ever imagine on this cat from Eastern PA that sells pickle. Excuse me,
52:00
there was a line from here over to the high school of people lining
52:05
up to buy these custom made pickles. Oh, so I said to myself,
52:10
they do sell wholesale. I'm willing to. I mean, you know
52:14
what we're about, right, We're about like taking and this is for West
52:16
Virginia people. I'm willing to take a taste or look at potential products that
52:22
we could sell for you on our website. They can't keep that coffee in
52:28
right, the popcorn goes crazy. I mean it pops off the shelves.
52:32
So we are in our current. If you want to send us something,
52:36
the address is two six zero Spruce Street, Morgantown two six five oh five.
52:43
We make no commitments whatsoever that will sell it, but we'll taste it,
52:47
look at it, sniff it. See hey, two guys and the
52:52
third guy, if he shows up, that might be you. Hop Yeah.
52:57
The guy who sang the national anthem at the text Tech game was really
53:00
good. I bet he's in the top ten for how fast he sang it.
53:05
Did anyone time? That guy, he was really good. And I
53:07
always like the ones who just sing it and don't make it all about them.
53:09
I'm sure Hoppy will be back full time someday. Signed by Steven Saint
53:14
Mary's the gentleman who sang it as a friend of mine, Randall Reid Smith.
53:17
He happens to be the curator of the West Virginia Department of Arts,
53:22
Culture and History. He just got promoted, by the way, well what
53:24
does he now? He's now the secretary of what arts arts all that.
53:31
I saw him, had him on my coffee clatch last week, Oh you
53:36
did at the Capitol, and he told me he was going to be singing.
53:38
He's the best. He is the best now eleven and two all time.
53:42
He was eleven and one going into the game. He sang professionally for
53:45
years in Europe. Yes, and now he's back and he brings to me
53:50
they're going to do well. I shouldn't bring it up because I don't know
53:52
the whole story. But they're going to do some work inside the capitol,
53:54
which is already magnificent, but they're going to add some artwork inside the rotunda
54:00
of the capitol. He was telling me about that. Really. Yeah,
54:02
So when they do that, they go they go to pottery barn and pick
54:05
up some stuff or how do they do that? No, they have specialized
54:07
people who do these things. When Cass Gilbert, oh, here we go,
54:14
we just went down in our rabbit hole, give us a Cass Gilbert.
54:20
According to Randall Reid Smith, I mean Cass Gilbert, the famous architect
54:23
designer designed the famous West Virginia capital and he had an idea or ideas for
54:30
what was going to be I don't know what you call them, but the
54:34
archways inside the dome that there's nothing there right now, they're just blank,
54:39
okay. And he had ideas for designs but they were never done. So
54:44
now Randall Reid Smith got got some money from the governor and they're going to
54:49
do them and they're going to be like symbols or representations of scenes from West
54:55
Virginia. It's gonna be a nice addition, gonna be done this year.
55:00
This is signed. Next Texter comes in Ralph and Charleston. Nowhere it was
55:04
good Ralph and Charleston. Monitoring Hoppy in the upper rotunda. He says that
55:10
West Virginia should recruit based on geography New York City guards. They'll run through
55:15
a skyscraper to get to the basket. Two we need some Eastern European guys.
55:20
They lived the life of adversity that they've overcome. Three we need descendants
55:23
of coal miners any state because they'll get down and dirty. Four we need
55:28
some Midwestern guys who are corn fed, strong as a silo and a tornado.
55:32
Thanks for your basketball coverage. You keep us paying attention, Texter high
55:37
three guys, Buddy in Hampton, Virginia. What do you think that the
55:39
reason is the West Virginia basketball team can be leading or I'd at least be
55:43
close at halftime and then come out and get beat soundly in the second half.
55:47
At first, I thought it was because we didn't have a deep roster,
55:50
complete roster, but now we do, and we're still getting beat the
55:52
same way. I think we're also getting beat soundly on the way we defend
55:55
the pick and roll, and that we ought to change our defensive strategy.
56:00
What do you all think, thanks, I think they've tried to guard the
56:04
pick and roll about as many different ways as you possibly can this year,
56:07
and as I said earlier, I just think at this point, this late
56:09
in the season, teams have more to play for by the way people have
56:15
been trying to defend the pick and roll for about ah. What ever,
56:21
Charlie from Midlothian, what did Nasmiths say about the pick and roll? Had
56:24
you fight through the screen? Go over it, go top, over the
56:30
top, fight through the top, go over it. Speaking of that,
56:34
I watched Deuce McBride last night. Yeah, and he had a fantastic game.
56:37
He played over forty minutes in the game because Brunson got hurt. He
56:40
had sixteen I think, and played really well and they lauded him at the
56:45
end of the game. You talk about a dude, they'll go over a
56:46
screen. You could see his training right Why watch him? He battles By
56:52
the way, I turned on the the Missoulas versus the Warriors yesterday? Did
56:58
you stick in a real big wasn't a real close contest? Was it?
57:01
What was that like? Up fifty at the half? Up like one oh
57:05
one fifty? What I had to look at it for a while just to
57:07
see if that was that was? So? Seven straight games for the Celtics
57:13
now we record on Monday, seven straight games where they've led by twenty or
57:15
more at some point in the game. But you know what, they they
57:20
have to win the title. I mean, that's there's no there's no second
57:24
place for them this year. They stay healthy, They're they're gonna be the
57:28
betting favorite god to stay healthy. Charlie from Midlothian's concerned the Kroger and Albertsons
57:32
will merge and that Albertsons will take over the accounting department and then kill his
57:37
fuel points scam esctually. The best they're smart, they will could happen.
57:43
That'll be the first thing it shows up with the auditors, like what is
57:45
going on here? Randy and Missouri City. When you do the scout Brad
57:51
of TCU, make sure you do the scout on Jamie Dixon. He does
57:54
things that don't show up in the box score for example instant instance a six
58:00
man zone defense where he plays the point in the one two threes. Also
58:07
famous double pick and roll. I was setting a pick in the backcourt on
58:09
the official when TCU's got the ball. Jamie likes to come out like Leice,
58:15
get out there on the floor, Joe Mock in Texas good Friend.
58:23
He goes to the dentist the other day. Girls got a hoodie on that
58:27
says the Mothman on it. And we apologize we can't do pictures today.
58:31
And if you've been watching during this episode, you also realize that about nine
58:35
of our cameras aren't working. So this has been a little spartan. We're
58:39
sorry we're having technical things, but I do. I'm gonna tell you this
58:43
right here, right now. I give a ton of credit. We took
58:46
a kid out of high school to come down us talk about next man up,
58:51
showing up, getting it done. We had, we had a series
58:53
of illnesses run through. We went five deep. We're on five to This
59:00
is not a joke. Took a kid out of high school. Ben Lohman,
59:05
who works for us in the summer. I just mentioned him on the
59:07
last show, didn't I They had that seven He had seven. He had
59:12
seventeen rebounds in a game recently, and he's in here running the show because
59:15
we pulled him out of school. Fairly excused, right, fairly excused,
59:21
I think, excuse. They gave me great work. He didn't like run
59:22
out of there like he didn't go side door on him. He said,
59:24
look, I gotta go do a working man's job in a working man town.
59:29
Thank you, Ben. And then he comes in and none of the
59:30
cameras work. Can't get the pictures. Other than that's been a hell of
59:35
a show. He just steps and handles it. Yeah, give him the
59:37
ball. So anyway, Joe sent me a picture of Her name is Jordan.
59:42
She says she's never been to West Virginia, but she loves the story
59:45
of the moth Man so much. I started to explain to her how a
59:47
certain podcast claims they know the inside story, but her eyes had already glazed
59:52
over at that point, so I thanked her for letting me take the picture.
59:54
So she works at a veterinary veterans veterinary office the Austin So there you
1:00:00
go. I can't get you the picture, Joe. But anyway, it
1:00:04
was Joe next to the young Lady p One Jennings, been a while since
1:00:09
I checked in. Just thanks for the constant laughter. I pay attention to
1:00:13
the spreads on stats. By the way, I message Hoppy happy birthday last
1:00:19
week and give an extended invitation anytime to meet in Charleston. It's nice.
1:00:22
I'll go a step further and extend invitations to all of you to meet it
1:00:25
at a new place to try in Charleston when you're all here for the boys
1:00:29
tournament. TC's got my contact infosts, so let me know. Thank you,
1:00:32
Jennings. Very nice offer, plus all that food we're going to be
1:00:38
getting in as we do our month of March review samples. Professor Vinnie here
1:00:47
is someone who coaches youth sports. I can attest to Tony's concern about officials
1:00:52
and umpires and the potential shortage. I coach my daughter's T ball team,
1:00:57
and a lot of the umpires or other coaches or league board members, the
1:01:00
biggest concern we have is parents behavior. Numerous times last year I had to
1:01:04
tell my kids parents that umpires aren't going to make the call right every time
1:01:08
they're volunteers and oh yeah, it's a tee ball. Everyone gets the same
1:01:14
exact trophy at the end of the year, even the champs. It's wild,
1:01:17
tough stuff. So I can see why there's a shortage. No one
1:01:21
wants to deal with all the headaches. It's hey, here's the deal.
1:01:27
Man. If you're a t ball parent and you're screaming during your games about
1:01:31
not being unhappy about calls, just shut up. Here's the other thing is
1:01:38
that you need to learn early in life, whether it's t ball or at
1:01:42
some point, that things, the calls aren't always going to go your way.
1:01:47
And it's not that you spend your life trying to get all the calls
1:01:51
to go your way. You spend your life saying, how am I going
1:01:52
to deal with things when they don't go my way? Yeah, that's that's
1:01:58
one of the most that's one of the more valuable lessons in sport. And
1:02:00
here's another valuable lesson. When you're at that level, it doesn't freaking matter.
1:02:07
Doesn't matter. All due respect to both of you, not a single
1:02:10
person listened to anything you just said. Yeah, I know, not one.
1:02:14
You're not going to change them, all due respect, not going to
1:02:16
change maybe not even all due respect, not going to change them. I
1:02:19
get it. Three guys. The rational side out there, bad out there.
1:02:22
It's bad out there, three guys. The rational side of my brain
1:02:28
wrote off this men's basketball season about two weeks ago. After all, how's
1:02:31
a team that's won nine games all season, none on the road, and
1:02:34
none back to back going to win five games and five days on the road.
1:02:38
Ten minutes into the Texas Tech game, the mountaineer side of my brain,
1:02:42
apparently the dominant side, was calculating our NCAA tournament seed following the inevitable
1:02:46
Big twelve championship. About ninety minutes later, the rational side was seen drinking
1:02:52
a whiskey and smoking a cigar, and the mountaineer side was ordering season football
1:02:57
tickets. Thank you, Robin Atlanta, last one in Three Guys. Recently,
1:03:02
I was in western Maryland and West Virginia, and I missed three episodes
1:03:07
of Three Guys due to poor Wi FI. I was well entertained driving though
1:03:13
back to Georgia time flew. I laughed a lot, Thank you for making
1:03:15
the long drive less tiresome. There was some conversation about awful officiating of the
1:03:21
games and the oversight, intentional or not, of blatant files. The notion
1:03:25
was floated that it might be due to two few referees spread too thin.
1:03:29
Well, I remember when there were two refs per game. I was in
1:03:32
the coliseum the first game three referees were used. The students immediately started channing
1:03:38
three blind mice. Doesn't seem to me that they were wrong. Would you
1:03:43
please offer a brief explanation of when a call can be reviewed. If reviews
1:03:47
were initiated more often, perhaps overlooking blatant files would stop. Lastly, I
1:03:53
left my heart in West Virginia. Thanks so much for all you do in
1:03:57
the Connection of Home MJ and Savannah MJ Hoppy hunt bred I did. Oh
1:04:00
yeah, got our picture made? Got our picture made? Whether delightful?
1:04:05
Delightful? Lader sister sister too? Yeah? Yeah? So what's reviewable?
1:04:10
You know, I can kind of half butt it and tell you probably next
1:04:15
episode. Let's make a note and I'll just get the full this is what
1:04:19
can be reviewed? Okay. Good wins from Mark Kellogg and the Women over
1:04:24
the weekend and said a good TCU team had a fourteen oh rundown in the
1:04:29
first quarter, twenty to nothing run overall. I'm sorry, twenty to nothing
1:04:32
run. That's usually that's usually a good recipe game, good win town for
1:04:38
the tournament on the Big twelve tournament for found By right, Yeah, is
1:04:42
that right? Yes? But unfortunately JJ Quinnerley is injured. Did not finish
1:04:46
the game Saturday against the TCUs status don't know, don't know yet, don't
1:04:53
know yet. Yeah, they'll play the last game Friday night, is what
1:04:57
they'll do. They'll play like after nine clock on Friday night. So you
1:05:01
just fingers crossed that. Hope there's a speedy recovery there. Yes, she
1:05:04
was limping after the game in the handshake line. I hope you all right?
1:05:10
Yeah, I hate to see that. All right, we're out.
1:05:14
So what is it? Thursday? The next week's going to be helter skelter.
1:05:20
I'll be here Monday next week. I won't Oh yeah, you won't.
1:05:25
I leap Sunday. You want to do something TVD Sunday morning, be
1:05:31
determined. If I get back Saturday night, we'll see. All right.
1:05:38
So here's the deal. We're going to try to do our best. We
1:05:40
might not be back for nine weeks, don't know. See in July.
1:05:44
Yeah, see, we'll be back. Spring balls, spring ball, as
1:05:47
we said, No, Episode eight hundred's not Gonna happen Episode five thirty seven,
1:05:53
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1:06:33
minutes. Back in high school and playing basketball. You might see him at
1:06:36
the state tournament next week. Yeah, they got a chance. I got
1:06:40
to beat Morefield this week on the road. Can he get it a little
1:06:45
double double action? Well, I want to see him hit his head on
1:06:47
a rim. Just go up there and just hit his head on the rim.
1:06:49
Just one, bring one down. All right, we're out. Thanks
1:06:54
for being with a seal, but