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3 Guys Before The Game - Cincinnati Preview (Episode 505) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  If you didn't know any better, you think it was summer. I unbelievable,
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  the last home game of the year. Walking out there today like it's
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  like first weekend of September, the oranges. Beautiful, delectable day out there.
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  Man, it's gonna be perfect Saturday, was it? Yeah? Like
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  fifties, I mean this time of year. Oh you take that seeling days.
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  I mean you guys remember that time we played pitt late November. Field
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  was frozen. That was a little cold. I saw six Eskimos walk out,
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  bumped out. Too cold that night. Too cold. Hey, everybody,
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  welcome in. It's three guys before the game, episode five oh five,
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  And for the very first time, for the very first time in Big
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  twelve membership, it's the Cincinnati preview of West Virginia. And we talked about
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  this. This is not the renewal of a rivalry. It's the renewal of
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  a team you used to play. It could be a v it can be
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  it can grow into one, yeah, coach Sanderfield said, it could be
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  a Yeah, it can grow into one. But right now, And we
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  had talked to the radio analyst at the Cincinnata Network last night, Jim Kelly,
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  and Jim Kelly. He said, you know, we played twenty times
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  West Virginia's won sixteen, so he can't be a rivalry if the series is
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  sixteen three and one, which is what it is. So maybe you do
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  grow a rivalry. But in order to have a rivalry, stupid stuff has
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  to happen, like crazy stuff has to happen. That leaves a scar for
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  people. That's how rivalries. You know, something happens, something always happened.
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  Something. I remember Nippett State Stadium, Nip Fondley and what I say
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  Nippert same thing, Nip and the Bud. That was a that was a
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  massive win in the rich rod Era hit the goal, hit the cross goal
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  post, hit the post, in need of a win, needed to kind
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  of jump start the thing. A lot of people think that might have been
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  the one to kick you into gear there. It's that guy. Was that
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  kicker's name Jonathan Ruffin? That might be right. I think it is the
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  hit the upright three guys before the game. It's a horrifically blown replay review.
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  He said, you know what, name the time you just you just
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  bring it. That's the way to lock down a meeting. That's not all
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  though, Yeah, not all no. So you can cut the camera here,
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  Luke and so uh not only do they bring the lasagna. So Mike's
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  wife, Samantha, she can open this. She makes these cookies. Don't
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  like fifteen states because they're too good addictive, like you're good, these are
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  What what if you're gonna sell food or something. I mean that's probably he's
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  just like you are the biggest Debbie downer. I mean, just like always
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  and then Dave had to do the work, and you're just like, hey,
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  all right? Coming up on the show Textual Healing, we'll get a
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  mail. So anyway, if you don't have a Christmas catalog yet, you
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  show you all that stuff. It's like Harry and David is very similar.
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  Well, the only thing we don't have that Harry and David does are those
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  pairs. I'll tell you what you get some of those pairs from Harry and
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  David, Like invariably every year, Like somebody will send me those Harry and
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  David Pears and there might be like I don't know how they come, like
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  nine or twelve. I mean, when I start and they're ripe, they're
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  ready to go, you just go. I mean, there is no question
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  I can eat four of those and once just dropped forward. You are a
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  big pair guy. Oh I love him. Yeah, I got I got
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  about a half dozen at home right now in a brown back, trying to
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  get him right. But Paris, have they one of those things? They
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  got about a thirty six hour window short window? Yeah, yes, very
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  You have to check them like periodically, and when it's ready, you just
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  gotta go. You attack. It doesn't matter the time of day or night,
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  whether you're just eight or you're gonna eat, you gotta eat it right
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  then, just like when you there's no leeway on that back in August early
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  September when you were in Africa, yeah, and you were on that safari,
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  Yeah, and you saw like when it was time to eat for one
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  of those animals, it's like it's time showtime. Yeah. Speaking of showtime,
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  our first two thirty game of the season Saturday, as West Virginia closes
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  the year. And as I said that, Kerchieval's brow did a big frown
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  because I think I know that myself and Hoppy are sharing the same opinion.
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  I don't know exactly where the Senator stands on this, but I am putting
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  a flag into the air and calling this a beware upset alert game. I've
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  either convinced myself where it's true one of the two. What do you think?
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  Yeah, I agree, we were talking just a little bit in show
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  prep, which was about twenty seconds before we went on the year. But
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  no, I agree with you. Here's what worries me. You know,
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  out we don't know what's going on in the Pushcar Center. But after the
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  embarrassing loss to Oklahoma, it was, well, okay you finished with two
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  wins, and okay, you win the next two. It don't worry you
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  beat since any Bay, I mean almost like it was assumed. And what
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  if we learned, Brad about this league? What have we learned is that
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  there's a lot of equity equality in this league. Teams beat other teams all
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  the time, and you cannot presume of what's going to happen. And I
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  think this is a semi it's not a it's kind of a semi trap.
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  I think West Virginia, who knows how they respond to coming off playing their
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  worst game of the year, granted opponent adjusted, but their worst game of
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  the year. Cincinnati got their first conference win. You hear the coach,
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  you're talking about, Hey, finally things are coming together. You know,
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  the run game is there, so they are playing with some confidence. I
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  think this is a worrisome game for West Virginia. Concerned curtible concern curgible senator.
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  Well, there's some matchup things that concern you, and I'd probably come
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  off more concerned, except hearing him go off there that it's an automatic loss.
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  So I'll try and bring some balances back on here. This one thing
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  this team has done very well this year. It's bounced back from adversity.
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  It's been able to write the ship and get back on track, especially at
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  home. I know the Oklahoma State late turned into something a little bit different,
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  but I think this team gets well this week. I think it comes
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  out it has successful moving the football, and the offense rebounds. The defense
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  is going to have a challenge. It's going to face a running game.
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  We're gonna get into that in a minute. It's going to face an elite
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  running game here and a quarterback that's every bit of Garrett Green running the football
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  when he wants some specific things, you're gonna have to take advantage. But
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  yes, this matchup, this isn't a just roll out and play and win.
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  There's gonna be some challenges here, no question. This game will detect
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  and determine and reveal the soul of the WVU football team. It will be
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  revealed these next two. This one, well, I'm just one at a
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  time because you know me, I just want to go on. I don't
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  even know who we played next week, hop because I just play one game
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  at a time. Anyway, can't wait for Waco anyway, it will reveal
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  who you are. To your point, they had their most embarrassing loss of
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  the season, no iff sands or butts, and now they return home for
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  the one last time. The crowd will not be as big as it normally
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  is because students are gone and it's hunting season, so just by nature,
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  you're not going to have as many people there. You're going to have to
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  bring it. If they come out and play at their level of efficiency that
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  they have displayed at times this season they win the football game. If it's
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  less than that, they put themselves in the crosshears to use a hunting analogy,
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  they put themselves in the cross here to get surprised. To Brad's point,
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  and he's going to get into stats here in just a second. The
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  one thing that you might go the one thing you may know before we started
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  breaking this down is hey, you know Cincinnati I lost seven in a row
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  since now they didn't win until last week in the league. Yeah, but
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  they also have the second best running attack in the league and it's really really
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  good. And as you said, always have to be careful. You much
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  rather play the statue of liberty as your quarterback, someone that just goes back
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  and stands there and that you could pick off right just like stand back there
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  and whack them. Well, this cat moves, and so you don't know
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  what CJ. Donaldson's status is. You don't know what Doug Nester's status is.
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  So this is going to have to be a self motivated performance by the
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  Mountaineers, which makes the start of the game, the first quarter massively important.
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  If you bring it and you have your energy, you're probably in good
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  shape. If you are if you lag and lar laggard, and you're you're
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  committing penalties and you turn the ball over early on in the game. Dude,
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  dude, be careful. I'm really interested to see what spread zone stats
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  has because when I just looked at the at the macro stats, they look
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  pretty similar. I mean, what a lot of difference in the overall stats.
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  You would not if you didn't know the records. You'd look at these
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  stats and say, well, it must have pretty similar records. Yeah,
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  And that's the thing. I know. Everybody loses their mind when you come
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  out and say you got a challenge from a team that's trained seven and I'm
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  going to say the cliche that comes with that. I think they're better than
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  their record indicase they've had some close games. They just they've had turnover problems,
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  They've had red zone problems that have that have switched games. West Virginian
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  has been very good at what turnovers and red zones. I mean that changes
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  you from a six win team to a three win team. So you've got
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  to you're gonna have to play. Here's let me just give you. This
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  isn't the spreads on stats. What are you doing? I'm gonna bonus he
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  has stat because we just talked about the quarterbacks able to run it. Coming
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  into this game. Emory Jones leads the Big Twelve in quarterback rushing yards.
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  Excuse me, Emory Jones leads the quarter the Big Twelve and quarterback rushing yards.
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  Garrett Green is third. Emory Jones leads the Big Twelve and quarterback rushing
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  attempts. Green is third. You're getting two quarterbacks that can run it,
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  will run it, have to run it for both teams. So you want
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  early key which quarterback runs it better. There you go, and what happens
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  we'd have to play a team has running quarterback problems. It's tough. Well,
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  both ways they're saying the same thing. They're saying the same thing over
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  here going on. I get this off and Garret Green's gonna take off and
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  run it. But you know also that that running back Kiner, I mean,
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  he's got to going now too, and he's almost he's like one hundred
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  yards away from a thousand yards coming off of very solid performance. And coach
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  Saderfield was talking about that said, Kiner's really come into his own and he
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  said he's not a breakaway speed guy. He's tough guy, tough, got
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  to bring down breaks, tackles, gets yards and what did he have against
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  Houston? I mean a buck something. Yeah, he's like you say,
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  he's realistically within a thousand yards. So to the quarterback question, really important
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  game for Garrett Green, it was it was his poorest game at the season.
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  How does he bounce back? Does that shake him confidence wise? Or
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  does he does he ball out? It'll be really interesting because that tells you
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  a lot about him as well. My guess is it's the latter. My
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  guess is, oh yeah, okay, fine, Yeah, I didn't play
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  well here it comes. That's what you better get. You better get that
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  if you've got lingering impact from what happened there last Saturday. Not good.
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  He of course, is far from a loan though. He can't. He
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  can't do that on alone. If the guy's up front don't perform better as
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  well, then you're in big trouble all the way around. I don't care
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  what Garrett's thinking. Those guys up front have to get back to dominating and
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  thisten. They're gonna get it. That's gonna be a great matchup to watch
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  that interior of the West Virginia offensive line against the interior of the Cincinnati defensive
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  line. That's a big boy on big boy right there. So you've got
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  some really fun game within the game matchups here. You're gonna have to take
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  advantage of Cincinnati's young corners. Can you do that? Can you run it
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  enough to back them up so they don't know what's coming and then attack those
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  young corners that they have. That's that's where the game is going to be
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  decided. But every position group has to play better than Oklahoma, obviously,
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  but those upfront guys, they can't get owned like they did in Oklahoma.
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  Yeah, if you I know, when you watch the game, most of
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  the time, we follow the ball, okay, but if you're going to
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  go back and watch the game after the game's over, then watch their nose
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  guard and West Virginia's Zach Frazier. So their nose guard is Dante Corleone.
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  Don't put the d in there like the Godfather. It's not corter Leone.
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  It's Corleone. Dante Corleone. He is a dude. He is a future
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  NFL stud preseason All American. Watch him against Zach Frasier because you've got two
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  of the best players in the country at their respective positions, and they'll play
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  right over the top oftentimes of each other. So watch that one and if
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  you can watch during the game, watch that and if not, go back
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  and watch it afterward and see how that looks. So that is going to
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  be a big, big key. So turnovers, they've Cincinnata forced three turnovers
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  against Houston. Yeah they Hey on the rivalry that we were talking about rivalry
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  right, yeah, no, not yet, but has the potential to be,
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  you know, and and game with benefits. Is that what you're calling
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  this? Scott Sanderfield called it that as well. He says this will be
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  a natural rivalry going forward in the Big twelve. I mean there has right,
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  Yeah, that's right, of course it is. Of course it is.
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  Yeah, closest upon that you have. But you don't you don't have
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  to worry now on rivalry week. You don't have to go nine thousand miles
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  to Ames and try and force a rivalry week in there. You know,
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  clearly Ames or Arizona, Utah for that matter, Ames is closer than Orlando,
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  but that tells me, but not as close as Cincinnata. But that
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  tells me that Cincinnati is I mean, they've bounced around conferences. So they're
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  happy to be in the Big twelve. I'm sure that they're looking for that
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  too. Sure they're looking for a rivalry too. So it takes two.
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  Right, you can't go to Iowa State and say you're our rival. Well,
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  you know you're not really, I mean, but welcome in. I
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  mean, so you got to have them too. I think I think you
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  have the chance here. Your your point is is well accepted and well taken.
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  However, I think it'll be difficult for Mountaineer fans to embrace It's it's
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  going to be hard for them to fully accept Cincinnati as a rival because in
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  their heart of hearts, they know the traditional rivals are Pit Virginia Tech,
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  Maryland, Penn State, although Penn State doesn't consider West Virginia arrival. But
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  those are the foundational, those are the like, those are the ones you
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  were born with, and so to adopt another one in it takes. I
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  think it takes. Now you've got a better chance of Cincinnati becoming a rival
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  than Iowa State. Yeah. And the other thing, I mean, people,
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  all those teams you just named aren't played on a regular basis. They're
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  not in the conference. This is going to be different. First, you
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  know, we don't play these guys every year. That new schedule at came
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  to five. I know that. I think that changes eventually. But the
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  first time West TRAINI he plays over there and there's a ton of Mountain Air
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  fans in there, that's what will start. I think there'll be some good
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  number of Cincinnati fans here today. Maybe the record keeps some of them down.
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  That's going to be the game. That's going to be a heavily attended
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  game moving forward, because the only one you can get too easily in this
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  league. Probably not many road trips to Utah when you play out there.
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  Probably not man our guy that takes the train, though they might take that
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  out there. That'd be a nice train trip. Have we heard from him
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  this year? Early did for him, Hoppy the guy from Pennsylvania. You
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  never heard from him again Austin. Was that this year or last year?
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  And went to Austin. Yeah, he's gone, he's gone. Radio silent
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  on this. Certainly, Hope might have already started on the way out to
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  Utah to get there next year for the game. Certainly wasn't hope. It
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  wasn't anything we said. That's never happened. You need to go and we'll
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  find you two are poopooing it. I'm glad Cincinnati's in the league. I
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  didn't say it wasn't. You two are against it. You don't like it,
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  you don't like them being here. Welcome. I'm glad they're in the
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  league. Bring it on. I like Cincinnati in the league, liked playing
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  them before, like like taking the bus trip and when we take the bus
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  trips. I don't know what you guys are coming from. I like it.
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  Glad they're in the league. Yeah, happy, three guys before the
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  are unbelievable, you know, hoppy me. I don't know if it's a
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  rivalry. Listen, I'm in if you need to tell more people, how
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  from the great state of West Virginia. So here's the funny part of what
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  just happened? What you fell for? His third grade like he just he
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  just like, oh hey, Hoppy, you want this strawberry? Whoo.
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  I didn't take the strawberry. You just bit into it. He's goating.
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  He was falsely accused. He was just playing with you. You bought into
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  it. So it made his day. So now he's out a happy day
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  that he made you lose your happy He's open. Guess what I did.
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  Hoppy got upset. He'll come out of this. He'll come like later tonight
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  when we go down and do sports line. Yeah, he'll walk you Knowle's
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  put his papers down over there and go how about me getting happy today.
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  That's what it's gonna be. You ready to do your thing? Let's go.
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  Is it good? It's good. Yeah. I think there's a lot
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  of stuff here, but you better strap in. I really, what does
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  back. Yeah, we did. We were staring at the clock, and
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  where's our boy? See, probably wasn't good on yours anyway, Senator,
• 23:48
  you're ready, so you say these are really good? Yeah, we might
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  coming at you. I'm ready. I'm ready, boy, you read it,
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  bring it. I'm listening, anxious, my glasses on here as we
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  get ready to die into the spreads on stats Cincinnati preview for West Virginia's biggest
• 24:03
  rival. So here's question one. We begin with the same question we have
• 24:10
  each week. I think it's especially relevant this week. It's West Virginia going
• 24:14
  to be able to slow down that running attack. Right. If Cincinnati's running
• 24:17
  on you, look out, you got problems. If you can get them
• 24:18
  into that passing down situation. Again, I think that's where the advantages really
• 24:23
  come in for West Virginia. You're getting a team in Cincinnati that's fourth in
• 24:26
  the Big twelve in interceptions, just eleventh in EPA when it comes to the
• 24:32
  past. So it's a team that doesn't want us throw it. They've struggled
• 24:36
  at times. So can you make them throw it. Can you get pressure
• 24:40
  on the quarterback when they do throw it right, because that's the key.
• 24:42
  Slow this run game down enough so that they've got to get into obvious passing
• 24:45
  situations and then you come at them. A couple numbers that we've gone through
• 24:48
  every week this season, will continue to look at these. For Cincinnati,
• 24:52
  the right tackle has allowed the second most pressures in the Big Twelve and the
• 24:56
  center has given up the ninth most come from that area. They have four
• 25:00
  players in the top thirty of most pressures allowed, four players in the top
• 25:06
  thirty. Versely, Wes Virginia has none in the top there. That tells
• 25:10
  you how good that offensive line has been for West Virginia. Bartlett and Martin
• 25:14
  are the two guys to watch coming from the left side if right tackles the
• 25:17
  area that you've got to come through. Bartlet eleventh, Martin seventeenth. In
• 25:21
  pressures from the left side. Those are numbers that we've updated going along.
• 25:25
  So you're going to see both quarterbacks from Cincinnati. They're going to play two,
• 25:27
  but it's Emery Jones that takes the bulk of the snaps. I think
• 25:30
  if he stays in there and you have to make him throw and you can
• 25:33
  get a little pressure. I think you've got a chance to get a pick
• 25:37
  or two, which would be massive. Right, this is to me,
• 25:40
  this is a similar game plan to UCF. Right. UCF wanted to run
• 25:44
  it, and when they threw it, what happened. You were able to
• 25:45
  get turnovers and that changed that game because you weren't having a lot of success
• 25:49
  slowing them down via the run. Wouldn't that be kind of neat? Maybe
• 25:52
  if we're senior day, Beanie Bishop or Malachi Ruffin, get a pick six,
• 25:56
  bring one back to the house, that'd be a whole another level.
• 26:00
  I'll just take a pick, but a pick six would be fantastic. So
• 26:02
  when you look at Jones per PFF, he has just eight big time throws
• 26:07
  and twelve turnover worthy plays that has turned into ten actual interceptions. Now here's
• 26:14
  what you want to keep an eye on, Hopy you ready, Yes,
• 26:15
  keep an eye on the middle of the field. When Emery Jones drops back
• 26:18
  to pass, eight of his ten interceptions have come down the middle. But
• 26:23
  conversely, so of nine of his fifteen touchdown passes. So the middle of
• 26:27
  the field is where they want to attack. That's where he can be picked
• 26:30
  off, but you better get there because they can also score from that area.
• 26:33
  Uh, Senator, If I'm not mistaken, last week, didn't you
• 26:34
  tell us that West Virginia is one of the best teams in the league and
• 26:37
  guarding the seam route correct. So that kind of plays in a West Virginia
• 26:41
  strength and you get a pick right in that little seam route there. All
• 26:45
  right, Well, if you want to go ahead and call it now,
• 26:47
  I'm just say and watch the middle of the field, very important part of
• 26:49
  the action coming up on Saturday. Like most quarterbacks, Jones really struggles when
• 26:53
  he's pressured, just a forty four PFF grade win under pressure, averaging just
• 26:59
  four point four yards per attempt in those situations. Only has one big time
• 27:04
  throw when he's under pressure. Now again, you've got to watch out for
• 27:07
  him taking off scrambling on you when you're under pressure, but get after him
• 27:11
  when he has to pass. I think good things happen. Here's the other
• 27:15
  part that comes with Cincinnati when they run it well, that really kicks in
• 27:21
  their play action, and they love to play action, which makes some sense
• 27:23
  for good running teams. Right. Eleven of fifteen touchdown passes from Jones have
• 27:27
  come off play action and he only has three interceptions in those situations. That
• 27:33
  yards per attempt number jumps from four point four yards under pressure, which is
• 27:37
  very much obviously all the way up to nine point two when coming off play
• 27:41
  action. So the running game is not only just going to help the obvious
• 27:44
  the running game, it's also going to help their pass games significantly. It's
• 27:48
  a big difference when they can operate out of play action or not. All
• 27:51
  right, So there's that pressure Western He's got to get pressure defensively. That's
• 27:53
  a good start. Let's flip over the offensive side. We mentioned the running
• 27:56
  quarterback battle the game within the game there. Garrett's going to have to have
• 28:00
  a big game with his legs here, and I know that's true for every
• 28:04
  West Virginia game except for BYU, and they didn't need to run him.
• 28:07
  They're going to need to run him this week. And West Virginia's going to
• 28:10
  have to have him to be productive on the ground. So let's look at
• 28:12
  some numbers. Hop you ready to dive in here. Yes, last week
• 28:15
  versus Houston, the Cougar quarterback Donovan Smith ran for eighty eight yards and averaged
• 28:22
  six point eight yards per carry. Against the Cincinnati defense. He was Houston's
• 28:26
  leading rusher and had sixty three percent of their rushing yards. Houston is a
• 28:30
  team averaged six yards rushing for the game. Now, Houston wanted to throw
• 28:34
  it a lot, didn't get him the win, but their quarterback had success
• 28:38
  running it. Green enters this game third in the Big Twelve in quarterback rushing
• 28:42
  yards with four hundred and sixty seven. He averages five point eight yards per
• 28:48
  carry and has the second fewest stuffs among quarterbacks in the Big Twelve. Yeah,
• 28:53
  it gets out of harm's way. He does, okay with me?
• 28:56
  Hop so far? Yes, all right. We also know that West rigid
• 29:00
  and he likes him to have the ball in his hands in big moments,
• 29:03
  third downs and or near the end zone when you're down inside the five yard
• 29:06
  line. Green is second in the league in rushing touchdowns by a quarterback and
• 29:11
  leads in first downs gained. So he's going to get the ball in those
• 29:14
  situations. Now you really want to get into the weeds. We're going way
• 29:18
  down here. Oh yeah, bringing it out. Only two games left,
• 29:19
  So this is from my friends over at Sports Infos Solutions. Garrett leads the
• 29:23
  Big Twelve quarterbacks in rush attempts, yards rushing, and first downs gained going
• 29:30
  off tackle to the right. Kerchival off tackle to the right has been very
• 29:36
  successful, better than any other quarterback in the league, so keep an eye
• 29:40
  on that. We normally talk about this team being left handed a lot,
• 29:42
  and Doug Nester might not go so Nick Malone is going to have to be
• 29:45
  the yeoman there, get over there and clear it, which is fine.
• 29:48
  He played against Byu started on the right side, they went for two hundred
• 29:51
  and ten yards over on the right hand side. Nicks had a great year.
• 29:55
  So it goes either way. Bret. Is that because that that's where
• 29:59
  the the opening is or because he's right handed. So he's right handed,
• 30:03
  so sure, yeah that helps, but remember a lot of quarterbacks in this
• 30:06
  league are right handed, and he still has the best in all those categories.
• 30:07
  So yeah, that's a lot of the reason. But he's been very
• 30:10
  successful at it. So Garrett's legs are going to be a big success in
• 30:14
  this win. I'm sure the next question you want to ask me is how
• 30:17
  Cincinnati's run defense against a quarterback running? Was that the next question exactly what
• 30:22
  I was going to ask you, Thank you, thank you for asking.
• 30:25
  Cincinnati is twelve out of fourteen Big Twelve teams when it comes to opponent rushing
• 30:30
  yards, opponent quarterback rushing yard like that number. Bearcats have given up the
• 30:34
  fifth most rushing first downs to quarterbacks and they have the most misstackles that quarterbacks.
• 30:41
  That's a cycle right there. Yeah, so that's going to be important.
• 30:44
  And add to that, the status of CJ. Donaldson is unclear for
• 30:48
  this game. You mentioned Nester, but Donaldson' status is unclear. Last time
• 30:52
  we saw him, he was limping off that field trying to work on a
• 30:55
  balance on that leg over on the sideline. So if you don't see Donaldson,
• 30:59
  that comes even more important for Garrett Green to have a big game.
• 31:03
  Those are good numbers. Yeah, are your numbers more comprehensive now that we're
• 31:08
  almost at the end of the season. Brad got a lot of them.
• 31:11
  In fact, today full disclosure, I had to get up and walk away
• 31:15
  from the computer, huh, because I thought that was getting a little lengthy.
• 31:18
  I've got a bunch more to me. But you know what, my
• 31:21
  takeaway from what you just said is that Garrett Green, who's coming off his
• 31:26
  by the coach's admission, is worst game of the year. That Garrett Green
• 31:30
  needs to get back to being Garrett Green, and that probably that also means
• 31:33
  running the football, getting a big third down play, running when there's nothing
• 31:37
  there, and being a huge offensive factor in this game. And I think
• 31:41
  he is, and I think he has to be. When West Virginia's clicking
• 31:44
  and winning and scoring points, he's having great games, right those games that
• 31:47
  we've seen like that, we're sitting there saying, hey, look at Grett
• 31:49
  Green, look at that deep ball, look at that pass, look at
• 31:51
  that run. Oh my gosh, he just took off on third and nine
• 31:53
  and got a first down. So yeah, I think you've got to be
• 31:56
  back to He's got to drive the bus offensively with help from those guys front
• 32:00
  clear in the path and getting some stops on Amory Jones and don't let him
• 32:01
  beat you. Yeah, because that's the other part of this, guys.
• 32:05
  And I didn't get into it here, but West Virginia doesn't have great numbers
• 32:07
  against running quarterbacks either. We'll talk more about that coming up later, but
• 32:10
  that that's going to be a challenge. That's the matchup here, guys.
• 32:14
  It's two teams that want to run it and are very good at running it.
• 32:15
  You mentioned they're big twelve numbers that they're second in the league behind West
• 32:20
  Virginia, But if you go nationally across all games, Cincinnati's actually fourth in
• 32:23
  the country and rushing yards per game. West Virginia's seventh. So this team's
• 32:28
  been successful. The wins haven't followed, but it can run it against another
• 32:31
  team that wants to run it. With two guys at quarterback that also want
• 32:35
  to run it. I think I may that might be your best That might
• 32:38
  be his best performance this season right there, Hobey, it's very strong,
• 32:42
  very strong. Good job and running quarterbacks. Ground Game nineteen forty seven.
• 32:45
  I kind of like that off the right tackle. Hey, by the way,
• 32:50
  quarterback rush off the right tackle. That's a nice one. You know
• 32:52
  what I loved last week? Love because you know I like crazy stupid sports
• 32:55
  stuff. Thirty two straight runs by Michigan two like to me just made me
• 33:01
  laugh inside thirty two straight runs. Love it. Remember when Pitt came into
• 33:07
  West Virginian and didn't throw all what Yeah, didn't throw it the whole game?
• 33:12
  Or yeah, I think it might have been the whole game. Marina
• 33:14
  was hurt. Yeah, so they just yeah, didn't throw it. Yeah,
• 33:17
  that was a wild stat I love that. It's the ultimate just we're
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  hog sightings. So I'm not that that is a big pig right there?
• 42:00
  Yeah? So is that now an invasive species? I don't know, but
• 42:06
  he looks he doesn't look happy. I mean, I don't think that well,
• 42:08
  I don't know. I'm not gonna saying because I don't know. Yeah,
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  don't say anything. As you get that, you get those people all
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  it. It doesn't sit right with me. Back in Wyoming County, we
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  Isn't a good look. Once again, this is Mike from Salem.
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• 43:23
  just listening driving up here from fort Worth to Norman's on his way to Oklahoma.
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  He was listening to three guys. So there you go, Dylan.
• 43:30
  Thanks Dylan, shout out to you. Thank you very much. Text her
• 43:37
  Brad Tony and the Hopster. My wife's wife asked me to provide her with
• 43:42
  a Christmas list for her family. When I provided her the link for the
• 43:45
  efforting and thanks for having the shirt, she replied, you will not be
• 43:49
  allowed to wear them out of the house. How should I handle this situation?
• 43:53
  Signed by Brandon in Herndon, Virginia. Interesting question there, How do
• 43:59
  you handle that divorce? You can just get right down to the root of
• 44:02
  the problem. Doesn't born out of the house. Why wouldn't she wanted to
• 44:07
  wear that? I don't know, Brandon. We're strongly with wear that into
• 44:12
  church on Sunday. It's perfect efforting. That'd be a good church. That
• 44:15
  would be a good church for church, a great church shirt. Yeah,
• 44:17
  you're always efforting that front. I mean, yeah, very good and I
• 44:21
  like super appropriate out of the house. Yeah, because we're all sinners,
• 44:25
  right, So you're walking at church sometimes more than others. I think the
• 44:35
  comeback is, honey, this is really important to me. How about that?
• 44:40
  Can you start there? Why don't you start? Good? To start?
• 44:43
  Yeah? Uh, Texter response maybe important to you, but it's stupid.
• 44:50
  That's what you're going to get Texas. I know we're supposed to be
• 44:53
  getting on to Cincinnati. I can't quite get over Oklahoma after the winds this
• 44:58
  season. You guys often praise the that for making the right adjustments and chastise
• 45:02
  some of us non climb believers for lacking faith. But to use Hoppy's term,
• 45:07
  those games are an aberration. When this staff plays against inferior G five
• 45:12
  talent, they can win. But so far and Neil's tenure, wins against
• 45:15
  comparable teams are the aberration, not the norm. The fact is the poor
• 45:21
  performance against Oklahoma happens more times than a competitive one. So please stop acting
• 45:27
  like we're surprised when Neil hooks a shot into the cart shack instead of hitting
• 45:31
  it down the middle. He is who he is. I was just surprised
• 45:35
  they got that they played as bad as they did and got beat as bad
• 45:37
  as they did in the game. Did not see that? Yeah, I
• 45:42
  mean that's what nobody saw that this year, that's been the aberration. They
• 45:44
  have not had games like that. So and Texter, I almost didn't listen
• 45:49
  to the recap of Oklahoma because I figured there would be a lot of haters,
• 45:54
  But as my wife is fond of saying, I couldn't take the pressure,
• 45:58
  so I listened Monday. I appreciate you your voices of reason. I
• 46:00
  think more folks should have Matt from Tulser's attitude. I left West Virginia in
• 46:05
  nineteen seventy and one for ten years in the Air Force, following the Mountaineers
• 46:09
  as best I could defending Eastern football. Those were lean years in the late
• 46:15
  seventies. I returned an eighty one season ticket holder thereafter for thirty years.
• 46:20
  I took great joy and watching them play, both in person and on TV.
• 46:24
  One of my best trips Sugar Bowl Florida ninety four. Not a good
• 46:28
  result, but what a ride. I think folks lose sight of the fact
• 46:31
  that these guys are eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one. I know there's
• 46:35
  big money involved all that too. Would like us to be relevant. I'm
• 46:38
  sad when we lose, frustrated at times, but I get over it because
• 46:43
  for the most part, these kids are fun to watch. They're good kids.
• 46:45
  We'll have our ups and downs, but it'll be a fun ride.
• 46:47
  I just hope the Jim Bow to Morgantown talk doesn't start, because that grass
• 46:52
  isn't always greener. Thanks to you guys for entertaining us, providing us with
• 46:55
  facts like Hoppy I help coach Brown Stays because I think he's a good man.
• 47:00
  However it plays out, I'll still enjoy the ride with these kids.
• 47:04
  Let's go get us some bear cat and bear skins. Dink from Bridgeport.
• 47:09
  Thank you, Texter. I've got a lot of got a lot of tech,
• 47:21
  got a lot of Jimbo Fisher texts. That's predictable. I think that's
• 47:25
  got a lot of Jimbo Fisher texts. My stance on that is this,
• 47:30
  as I said in August, let's cook the soup and let the soup be
• 47:37
  finished before we need to do anything. Let the season happen. Okay,
• 47:44
  you're sitting here right now with two to go, and at this point three
• 47:50
  or four losses are against ranked teams and one absolute against Houston. See what
• 47:55
  it ends up? I agree, and that's when the evaluation will be made
• 48:00
  mad by the ad. However, as the as the way the season has
• 48:04
  evolved, and maybe we saw this coming, these last two games are enormous,
• 48:08
  enormous, as have every game been before this Pitt was enormous, TC
• 48:15
  that I mean, that's that's the way it works out. It is.
• 48:16
  It's just as the season goes on and you get near the end of season,
• 48:22
  then you have fewer chances. If you stumble, you have fewer chances
• 48:24
  to get it right. Okay, So so each game actually takes on maybe
• 48:30
  a little bit more importance in terms of determining what kind of season. I
• 48:32
  don't know. You'd lose that pit game, it would have been it would
• 48:35
  have been a different tenor well, yeah, there were many important games.
• 48:38
  Is that one? To get off on the right track, I would agree
• 48:40
  on the pit game. The next text was extremely long, so I shortened
• 48:47
  it the gist of it's still there. What's up? Three guys? WV.
• 48:53
  Sports are more than sports. Let me tell you how I come from
• 48:57
  a legacy of mountaineers. My family set up in Kingwood back in the thirties
• 49:00
  forties from Italy, part of many immigrants who worked in the coal mines.
• 49:06
  My dad instantly fell in love for the Mountaineers. One of my earliest memories
• 49:08
  my dad going to see rich Rod's first game against BC. I was seven.
• 49:14
  This coming Friday, the seventeenth, I turned thirty. Guess where I'm
• 49:19
  going Mountaineers against Cincinnata with my family, including my wife and my brother's fiance,
• 49:24
  both of which we met at WVU. I wouldn't have it any other
• 49:29
  way. We'll be cheering loud and proud. We'll certainly be singing country roads
• 49:32
  to the end of the game. I hope you can understand how West Virginia
• 49:36
  sports about more than a game to us through deep family ties. There are
• 49:39
  families Christmas. Oh, absolutely, totally get it. Texter. Three guys,
• 49:45
  Two things. My wife's due date is the day after the Cincinnati games.
• 49:51
  That'd be Sunday. It'd be their first child. If she hasn't given
• 49:54
  birth by then, should we attend the game and possibly be the first birth?
• 50:00
  Inside Milon Pushcar Stadium is just you know, I mean just you can
• 50:07
  walk over there. I guess. I love WV and our fans and get
• 50:09
  the frustration. But if you aren't happy with a year when we're predicted not
• 50:14
  to go to a bowl and possibly get eight or nine wins, that I
• 50:16
  don't know what to tell you. I want the Pat White years back more
• 50:20
  than anyone. It's really hard to be that good. That's why we remember
• 50:23
  them finally and want them back. We'll have our time in the sun again.
• 50:27
  College sports are cyclical for most programs. Yeah, I probably wouldn't go
• 50:31
  to the game if she's due. Plus, I mean, how miserable would
• 50:38
  she be. I don't sit on a bench and yeah, text her.
• 50:50
  I texted three weeks ago imploring my fellow Mountaineers to enjoy football season. It's
• 50:54
  a fun and exciting time of the year. As I listened to Sunday's episode,
• 50:59
  my mind went to high Be saying, in response to my text,
• 51:01
  the nature of fandom is emotional. That's a fair and valid point. Still,
• 51:07
  as much as I hated losing by thirty nine to Oklahoma, I like
• 51:10
  the idea this team could finish eight and four, return almost everyone next year.
• 51:14
  Let's see where it goes. The comic relief of listening to folks moan
• 51:17
  and complain in Sunday's textual healing segment was a helpful salve after Saturday night's mauling.
• 51:24
  My mind went to poor Ellen Griswold being caught smoking by her mother from
• 51:29
  the other room in Christmas vacation. To borrow her exasperated words and apply them
• 51:34
  to Mountaineer fans. It's football season and we're all in misery. Go Mountaineers.
• 51:38
  Signed by Jay and Ashville, North Carolina Jay suffering Texter, I don't
• 51:46
  understand the people who are talking about the weak strength of schedule for at least
• 51:51
  the next few years. The Big twelve looks to be extremely flat, which
• 51:54
  is what a team like West Virginia wants similar resources across the board. Also,
• 52:00
  I'm holding to Colorado over four and a half win ticket, which after
• 52:04
  the first few weeks I didn't think I'd have to sweat and I wouldn't.
• 52:08
  Good brother, who they have left, you know, I'm check on that.
• 52:14
  Can you all remember another regular season college football game where both coaches got
• 52:21
  fired after it was over? So he's talking about Mississippi State and Texas A
• 52:25
  and M. Yeah, I can't regular season, he said, I don't
• 52:30
  know. That's a good question. That's a still kind of a relatively newish
• 52:36
  phenomenon too. Now that's true too. Then used to happen like it does
• 52:38
  now texter As. I'm listening to episode five zero four Mountaineer fans complain about
• 52:45
  being eight and four, seven and five. Let's calm down. Remember when
• 52:47
  those records were West Virginia's norm eight and four, seven and five records become
• 52:52
  for WVU ten and two, eleven and one occasionally. That's not mediocrity.
• 52:58
  That's where our team lies in the tier years of national football. This is
• 53:01
  the first team I've seen in the Neil era that even remotely had a shot
• 53:06
  to win games, and I think the season will continue to show that.
• 53:09
  I know it's long, and Tony may not read it, but I feel
• 53:13
  better getting this off my chest. Thanks guys for the show. Grant in
• 53:15
  Redhouse, Colorado is at Washington State and then at Utah. Not easy,
• 53:24
  probably not, probably not, Which is that maybe why you don't assume what
• 53:31
  happens in week one or two We'll continue all the way through the season.
• 53:35
  Good. Probably shouldn't jump to crown national champions and Coach of the Year candidates
• 53:39
  and giant extent shouldn't probably wait till things play out inside the season goes or
• 53:44
  should We'll just rush in and put all resources behind something that's real shiny.
• 53:47
  After the first couple of weeks, I would probably well, knowing me,
• 53:51
  i'd probably panic though the second weekend, fire the coach, hire the coach,
• 53:53
  give him a raise, fire him, I do something. Win's hard,
• 53:55
  man, win's hard. Redo, the whole roster becomes even Doctor Jeff
• 54:01
  and Charleston rights my WV glass is half full of Kertschevl. Eight and four
• 54:08
  would far exceed most of our expectations. Even seven and five is better than
• 54:15
  ending up in fourteenth place in the league. PS what is the origin or
• 54:20
  the definition of boat raced? So we used boat raced several times Sunday on
• 54:24
  the show. So West Virginia got boat race? Well, actually, doctor
• 54:29
  Jeff. Boat raced, according to the Urban Dictionary, is defined as to
• 54:37
  be beaten very badly at something, especially in a fashion that you were behind
• 54:43
  from the start and never had a chance. Comes from the boat race,
• 54:46
  an annual rowing competition between Oxford and Cambridge in which the first side to get
• 54:52
  ahead can then move over to the middle of the river where the current is
• 54:57
  faster and has almost never overtaken their after So that is, you jump ahead
• 55:02
  early, you never look back. That's why we call it a boat race.
• 55:07
  Interesting origin for then, sure, Texter, it's on ESPN Plus this
• 55:12
  weekend. By the way, what's that the boat race? Boat race?
• 55:15
  It's not. I just wanted to say ESPN Plus. Oh yeah, high
• 55:21
  tension day for you hunt Saturday or Saturday you get struggle a little bit.
• 55:24
  If everything works as it should, we'll just turn it on and it'll operate
• 55:29
  smoothly. Certainly it'll be tight. I certainly hope that happens for you.
• 55:35
  Uh textor I'm wondering if stats or fine looking Phil has an optimal blend of
• 55:39
  cotton polyester span Dex blend that they would recommend for workouts. You guys offer
• 55:46
  that at all cotton can get a little heavy span dex. You got to
• 55:50
  be certain. So what would you say, people, I'm polyester almost exclusively
• 55:54
  for workout. Really? Yeah, you don't do any of the spandex stuff
• 55:59
  not usually? Is that a wiki material? Yeah? What a good wool
• 56:04
  sweater. Probably not a big, big, big shawl big wool shawl texter.
• 56:12
  Hey, three guys, this weekend, this weekend's game. The sweatpants
• 56:16
  have certainly changed a lot, haven't they. The Yeah, I mean you
• 56:20
  go from what the Rocky belboas. Remember when Rocky was working out there,
• 56:23
  the grays with that was a that was a gray that like you could use
• 56:28
  that for soundproofing or you can hang that over windows. You wouldn't hear a
• 56:30
  sound. So that material is what what Rocky also went towel inside the sweatshirt.
• 56:37
  Yeah, around the neck, but that was the real gray sweat pant
• 56:43
  material, like they couldn't It makes you stop breathing, Like you look at
• 56:49
  that material nowadays compared to what like they put out now, like it makes
• 56:52
  you like, I gotta go get a breath. That's heavy. He needed
• 56:58
  that. He went into the meat cooler. He's punching the meat. He
• 57:00
  needed to stay a little warm. You go in there with something a little
• 57:02
  bit like he could have caught a cold. Hey, three guys think weekends
• 57:07
  games will be interesting in my house. The wife's family is all from Cincinnati.
• 57:13
  We're gonna have thirteen bear cats staying in our house and going to the
• 57:15
  game. My wife was raised as a bear cat, but has lived in
• 57:19
  Morgantown, cheering On, West Virginia for a few years. She's a bit
• 57:22
  unsure who to root for. Any advice for interacting with the enemy when they're
• 57:25
  inside friendly territory. I suppose I'll make Grandma's chili spaghetti to try to win
• 57:31
  them over little Cincinnati chili. I don't, So let's talk about that a
• 57:37
  little bit, Sincinnati chili. The spaghetti with the chili. Yeah, that's
• 57:43
  a big thing there. And you like that? Oh really, and load
• 57:47
  that all that cheese on there in onions out in out. Oh. This
• 57:59
  was written by the way from grad student Josh, who just successfully defended his
• 58:04
  master's thesis gratulation relations outstanding, Hoppy, did you have to defend your thing
• 58:09
  when you got that honorary degree out there? It's up in your office.
• 58:13
  It took me so long. They were just here. Fine, please leave,
• 58:17
  We're gonna quit. We have to clear the we have to clear the
• 58:20
  books on this one. Texter. Oh, here we go, Charlie from
• 58:25
  Midlothian, oh Gas Steeler himself, Tony Braden, Hoppy, the three of
• 58:30
  you make three guys in episode eight hundred the outstanding podcast and promotion of West
• 58:36
  Virginia that they are, But like any successful endeavor, there are also people
• 58:39
  behind the scenes that contribute to its success. I had an issue with one
• 58:44
  of my purchases from episode eight hundred dot com this past Sunday. I sent
• 58:49
  an email with pictures describing the issue to Tony and Dave. Wasn't sure if
• 58:53
  Tony would respond, since he probably now has seventy five thousand unread emails,
• 59:00
  but super Dave responded almost immediately assured me that he would make it right.
• 59:07
  Although I have already thanked him, I thought it would be appropriate that he
• 59:09
  get a shout out on the podcast. Dave's amazing, I mean, we
• 59:15
  are the best. Don't have seventy five thousand Charlie on the unread emails,
• 59:20
  have fifty three thousand and six on yours, Yeah, two hundred and eighty
• 59:25
  five messages, and five hundred and eighty phone calls. I'm fine. I
• 59:36
  mean life's going swimmingly for me. I mean, well, I'm not missing
• 59:37
  anything, Texter. I just returned home from my trip to the Isle of
• 59:45
  Carousel carousel that's in the Southern Caribbean with my wife, celebrating our fourth wedding
• 59:52
  anniversary. While there, we visited the original Blue Carousel Liquor distillery close to
• 59:58
  our resort as OHI. I wore my West Virginia t shirt when walking around
• 1:00:02
  the property when a man and his family approached me and asked if I was
• 1:00:07
  from Almost Heaven. Come to find out, he and his wife are from
• 1:00:12
  Wheeling. Of course, they are my hometown and had moved across the country
• 1:00:15
  to California, but we're planning on making the move back toward West Virginia this
• 1:00:20
  coming year. I guess it is true, there's always a West Virginia connection.
• 1:00:23
  Even at the end of Davy Jones's locker, shout out to my wife,
• 1:00:29
  Molly, who's a pick you rn at Ruby's New Children's Hospital. Who
• 1:00:32
  bleeds the old golden blue as hard as anyone love you? That's awesome,
• 1:00:37
  awesome. So carouseow is in the ABC Islands, Who's the Bee and then
• 1:00:46
  Carousel. But those three islands they get like super great weather. That's like
• 1:00:52
  the utopia of weather, can't grow in. I have it since you told
• 1:00:58
  me that. I have that on my phone now everyday because you say it's
• 1:01:00
  always like amazing green. Do you look. Let's look at let's look right
• 1:01:04
  now at the let's look at the bon Air bon Air, bon Air bon
• 1:01:08
  Air. Very nice. So here's the here's the four games. Been there
• 1:01:12
  have you? Sure? Okay? Sure, Here's here's the rule. Here's
• 1:01:15
  the roubles weather. Okay, I bet it's going to be windy in eighty
• 1:01:20
  two. Right now it's eighty seven. So here's the next ten days.
• 1:01:22
  Eighty seven, eighty seven, eighty five, eighty forty five, eighty five,
• 1:01:25
  eighty five, eighty for eighty forty forty forty four. It's the greatest
• 1:01:29
  weather. Up some wonderful people in Bonnair. Really, what were you doing
• 1:01:31
  here visiting? You have people there? That is where he keeps his offshore
• 1:01:38
  account all of his winnings, all of his winnings. He keeps it in
• 1:01:43
  I do you have a body that ran a booking cares out? Well?
• 1:01:45
  Sure I know him too, right, yeah, Texter professor Vinnie here.
• 1:01:50
  So with everything going on with West Virginia Athletics, I struggled with a craft
• 1:01:52
  of text to the podcast. For instance, my head whirls with possibilities related
• 1:01:57
  to the Cincinnati game. With the fact that but was let go by A
• 1:02:00
  and M. I thought about texting what might be the over under on the
• 1:02:02
  number of texts you guys received related to him becoming our next head coach?
• 1:02:07
  My guests was thirty and a half. However, I come to you with
• 1:02:12
  a more pressing matter, that of Christmas music. A local radio station here
• 1:02:16
  in Chicago recently started playing Christmas music around the clock on one November, not
• 1:02:22
  uncommon. My wife, accordingly, rolls her eyes whenever I put the station
• 1:02:25
  on in the car, literally any time before December. So when is it
• 1:02:30
  too early to start listening to Christmas music? Myself? I'm ready for all
• 1:02:34
  things Christmas the day after Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving in relation, I can't wait to
• 1:02:39
  see what Christmas theme merch you guys release. Might I suggest a three guys
• 1:02:45
  themed ugly Christmas sweater? Hoppy thoughts on Christmas music. As to when to
• 1:02:50
  start, I think programmatically you can start, like any time now. Frankly,
• 1:02:54
  I mean because it is November one? Too early? Is the question
• 1:02:59
  too early? Okaymber one? Hate music? Well you know my stands.
• 1:03:04
  I mean, can do what you want to do? He enjoys Christmas music
• 1:03:07
  in July? Play in July? Why I would? Don't take anybody else's
• 1:03:09
  a pay you want it? You want to listen to it? Listen to
• 1:03:12
  it? Yeah, tell your wife. Tell your wife to put some mere
• 1:03:14
  buds in. You're listening to the Christmas music? Tell people very hoppy.
• 1:03:17
  It was a very libertarian people. What to do? You must listen to
• 1:03:21
  Christmas? Christmas? Fair question? When do you think is true? Whatever?
• 1:03:25
  You want to listen to it? Whenever you want to listen to the
• 1:03:27
  answer with them that whenever you want to listen to it? You think I
• 1:03:30
  would care when you tell me I could listen to Christmas music? No,
• 1:03:35
  no, professor, Nie, do what you want. There's a dispute in
• 1:03:38
  their household, that's all. His wife doesn't have to listen to it.
• 1:03:43
  Well, if they're in the car together, well he's driving, she can
• 1:03:45
  drive. Let me tell you something. If Professor Vinnie's biggest problem is you're
• 1:03:52
  they're barking about Christmas music. He's got a good thing going on, that's
• 1:03:54
  their big concern. You know, usually when you argue about something like that,
• 1:03:59
  it's it's really there's deeper issues. Why are you fighting about Christmas music?
• 1:04:05
  When in fact, what it's really about is why don't you ever let
• 1:04:09
  me have my way? Or why don't you ever to do All of a
• 1:04:12
  sudden, here here's our boy over here, psychologist. All the guy wants
• 1:04:18
  to do is listen to Frosty at Snowman, Rudolph Redno's Reindeer Hark, the
• 1:04:23
  Herald Angels, and you're talking about the guy's got a divorce coming as well.
• 1:04:26
  Listen to what you want. David Kaiser trying to save a marriage.
• 1:04:32
  David Kaiser, I've been wondering lately why Neil Brown is so divisive to the
• 1:04:38
  fan base. It could be recency biased, but I don't remember this much
• 1:04:41
  victory all aimed at past coaches. There have been message board and Twitter rumors
• 1:04:45
  that Neil wants out because his kids are being harassed. I sincerely hope it
• 1:04:48
  isn't true. I've seen my fair share of personal attacks toward him, but
• 1:04:53
  it would shock me and it would just make me feel sick. What do
• 1:04:55
  you guys think? Why do you guys think the fan base is so divisive?
• 1:05:00
  Just fan base his anks due to losses, or it had always been
• 1:05:01
  this way? Social media just brings it to light. I don't have any
• 1:05:03
  issues criticizing the coaches record, but obviously going after family ridiculous and egregious.
• 1:05:11
  So let me say this about all that. Let's do a historical perspective on
• 1:05:15
  this. I think your line that said is this, has it always been
• 1:05:23
  like this? Or social media just bringing it to light? I think there's
• 1:05:27
  your answer. Let's go back. Did Mountaineer fans want Bobby Bowden fired?
• 1:05:32
  Yes? Yeah, they hung him in FIA, yes. Did they want
• 1:05:35
  Frank Signetti fired? Yes they did. Did they want don niel And fired?
• 1:05:41
  Yes they did. Multiple times. They flew airplanes over the stadium repeatedly
• 1:05:45
  saying fire Donnelon. He'll be honored this weekend with his name and shrine Hall
• 1:05:51
  of Fame. Pretty sure Bowden won some games to win games? Yeah?
• 1:05:57
  Did did Mountaineer fans want to hang Rich Rodriguez when he left, Yeah they
• 1:06:03
  did. Do they want Bill Stewart out? Yes they did. Did they
• 1:06:09
  dislike Dana, Yes they did. Do they like Neil? Some do,
• 1:06:15
  some don't. Has anything changed, absolutely not. Has the platform to dispense
• 1:06:21
  those comments gone about fifty x or one hundred x from what it is used
• 1:06:27
  to be. Yes, nothing's changed. Yeah, that that has changed significantly
• 1:06:31
  though in the ability to be anonymous on there and flamethrow Is has gotten out
• 1:06:35
  of hand. And I agree with Dave here and it goes without saying,
• 1:06:39
  but I'm gonna say it anyway. Anybody going after any coach's family is ridiculous
• 1:06:44
  and egregious. Check check yourself. If that's your I gess that's your line.
• 1:06:48
  I strongly suspect that. Think about not just this situation, but if
• 1:06:54
  you are an if you are a fan and you want a new coach,
• 1:07:00
  okay, and you want the coach to be replaced, then in essence you're
• 1:07:04
  rooting for maybe not rooting, but then you want you want your idea to
• 1:07:10
  be reinforced. You want the team to lose. You want the team to
• 1:07:14
  lose. So when the team wins. It's not like, oh, maybe
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  I was wrong and it's going to be okay, you don't say anything,
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  But when they lose and get whacked, you go. That reinforces your belief.
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  See, I told you he should be fired, Therefore he should be
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  fired. So if you want the person to be fired, you actually are
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  looking for an excuse to reinforce your argument that he or she is fired.
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  Therefore the losses, whether you're rooting for against them or form, the losses
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  benefit your argument. Let's just yeah, I'll believe. Let's just keep this
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  in mind. This is the all time closer to the argument. They hung
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  Bobby Bowden and they wanted don Neelan fired two of the most successful coaches in
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  the history of college football. That's all. So it's just part Unfortunately,
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  it's just part of the deal. You're going to have a group, it
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  doesn't matter who it is. It doesn't matter who it is. You're going
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  to have a group that gets loud. That's what it is. But occasionally
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  you do have to fire the coach. Okay, I wouldn't in this instance,
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  but I'm saying that does happen. So sometimes the complaints are very valid
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  and you got to fire the coach. Three guys spirit of the West Virginia
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  connection. Surprise, no one mentioned this on the broadcast. There was a
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  lot of key Key Tandy Jacksonville state's leading scorer, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. That
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  is former Mountaineer Keith Tandy's cousin. One of my favorite plays is Mountaineer History
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  is Tandy nearly cutting Cincinnati receiver DJ Woods in half on a screenpast. I
• 1:08:58
  remember that? Remember that? Remember that hit? You remember that front the
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  Mountaineer bench. He catches a screen in front of the Mountaineer bench and Keith
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  Tandy was laying in wait. It was one of those explosions like where you
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  see the helmet paint like go up in the air, and my man,
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  would it be a penalty today? That's a good question. I don't know
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  if you targeted him, but he just blew him up. Yeah. That
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  was from Reid in New Jersey. Hey, before are you done? Hoppy?
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  The floor is always yours? Well, I just you mentioned it.
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  But there's an interesting kind of synchronicity to this game because West Virginia is playing
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  Cincinnati. The first game at Mylon Pushcar Stadium was Cincinnati back in nineteen eighty.
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  West Virginia won that game. The head coach for West Virginia at that
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  time, of course, was Donnelan. Now don Neeland's being brought back and
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  this is the Cincinnati game and being honored and the diversified, diversified energy Ring
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  of Honor, And I actually think it's a little late, but I'm glad
• 1:10:00
  they finally got to it. But what a just what a remarkable career brand.
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  I think he's the I don't think he is the patriarch of the modern
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  era of mountaineer sports, no doubt of mountaineer of mountaineer football, no doubt
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  got you going in this direction. Quite frankly, as we've said many times,
• 1:10:17
  the reason you were able to stay in Power five Power for football,
• 1:10:23
  yeah, was because of the success that was laid, primarily by him getting
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  the thing and going laid that made West Virginia a national power played for national
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  championship, and as we love in West Virginia, after he retired, stayed
• 1:10:35
  yeah, stayed still here. No, you're exactly right, one of the
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  best. And to your point, Brad, he legitimized West Virginia's brand to
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  the point that it's still a Power five school that's what he did. If
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  the thing would have just gone down the you could have been Connecticut and talk
• 1:10:53
  about I mean, talk about a great decision, because you know, the
• 1:10:55
  always the story is he was at Michigan and Buchan Becker was telling him,
• 1:10:59
  my god, don't take that. That's a terrible job. Brih. What
• 1:11:01
  did you do in a different era too? As we talk so often,
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  if not only him and how long he stayed and other jobs that he didn't
• 1:11:09
  take. But that's staff. Oh yeah, together. That's the part that
• 1:11:13
  just doesn't happen now that not only does the head coach stay for two decades,
• 1:11:16
  but the majority of a staff stays together like that. So different era,
• 1:11:21
  yeah, absolutely absolutely different era. Hey. As we said earlier on,
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  All right, we're done. Okay, we're back Sunday. We'll recap
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