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3 Guys Before The Game - Spring Showcase - Coach Rod Joins (Episode 629) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: And a warm welcome to you and thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. This is Three Guys Before the Game
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  Speaker 1: episode number six hundred and twenty nine, titled Spring Showcase.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Rod joins an intriguing title. I'm sure that's got you.
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  Speaker 1: the other guy that normally sits way down there out
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  Speaker 1: today on assignment and not really that's all right, Rich
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  Speaker 1: Rot'll be the third guy. I mean, I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: just knew, we knew this thing with Hoppy once you know,
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  Speaker 1: they say they're going to be around. I mean the
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  Speaker 1: guy has gone basically last episode, he told us that
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  Speaker 1: even though he is semi retired, he still brings his
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  Speaker 1: ledge to work cold lunch, which I don't I just
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  Speaker 1: don't think that qualifies at all for being any kind
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  Speaker 1: of retired. If you're still bringing to your food to work,
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  Speaker 1: that's he's in. Anyway, he's out for today. Coming up
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  Speaker 1: on our show, we will be joined here in just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit by Coach Rod as the Mountaineers get
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  Speaker 1: ready to pull the curtain down on spring practice drills.
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  Speaker 1: It has worked out really, really well because normally you'd
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  Speaker 1: be in your first week of spring practice right now,
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  Speaker 1: but instead you're ending spring practice. That's crazy right now,
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  Speaker 1: and weather wise, it's worked super good. I bet you
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  Speaker 1: and I will try to remember to ask rich this.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you he was outside more than he thought
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  Speaker 1: he would be outside. I think he thought when he
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  Speaker 1: went into it that he would be in the indoor
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  Speaker 1: building more. But they've been outside a lot really cooperated. Yeah, otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as the practice field now, not the
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  Speaker 1: stadium field, but the practice field, like you can't use
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  Speaker 1: it right now. Have you been by there? No, the
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  Speaker 1: up top of me, it's gone. Oh no, I should
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  Speaker 1: have sent Austin, our producer, a picture of that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gone, doesn't exist anymore. All of the green is
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  Speaker 1: gone and it's just black whatever. The black is the
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  Speaker 1: underlayment for that, and they are getting ready to re
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  Speaker 1: turf put a new carpet down on that practice facility
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  Speaker 1: because if you were to go in the facility's parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: there's about I don't know, a thousand white bags of
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  Speaker 1: rubber pellets. Oh that's what those are. Yes, that's what
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  Speaker 1: they are. Those are the rubber pellets. So they're getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to spread it. And this is probably a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than you wanted to know on this, but someone
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  Speaker 1: told me this and I thought it was interesting. And
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  Speaker 1: that is like, so you put this, you put the car,
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  Speaker 1: and it's got the long fibers when you put it
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  Speaker 1: in there, it's brand new. It's not tapped down at all, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have to do like there is maintenance
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  Speaker 1: to this. You don't cut it right. But you just
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  Speaker 1: can't put the rubber pellets down once and go like
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  Speaker 1: that's our field, because over time they get pushed down
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  Speaker 1: and the fibers get turned, and so you don't have
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  Speaker 1: the same surface a year or two years down the
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  Speaker 1: road that you had day one. It changes and so
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  Speaker 1: as those get put down, it becomes and I'll get
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  Speaker 1: in trouble for saying this, but it is not as
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  Speaker 1: good as it is day one. Well, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: bouncing and springy So what happens when those fields go
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  Speaker 1: down like this particular one was you open yourselves up
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  Speaker 1: to it not being an ideal footing scenario, i e.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as close to grass is what you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to replicate. So a couple of things you have to
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  Speaker 1: change it. You don't necessarily, but there's almost a science
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  Speaker 1: that's developed where they can test like basically, for lack
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  Speaker 1: of a better term, samples that they'll put it down,
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  Speaker 1: see where that thing is as far as the rubber
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  Speaker 1: ratio to the field to the turf ratio, so that
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  Speaker 1: it's it's safe. It's good. Otherwise you could turn an ankle,
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  Speaker 1: you could get hurt, right, you just went really deep
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  Speaker 1: on field maintenance. Probably more. Uh yeah, probably more than
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  Speaker 1: probably more than I should have. Coach Rod is uh
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  Speaker 1: going to join us? I think we've got so this,
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  Speaker 1: this is we've never done. This is a first for us.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that we've never We've never just brought a guy
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  Speaker 1: in hot. We've never brought a guy hot.
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  Speaker 2: We're spotting the ball here. We're just coming right in
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  Speaker 2: with a play. Rich is good with that.
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna run the play.
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  Speaker 3: I'm being a little lazy not being in their studio.
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  Speaker 1: Huh no, No, you're fine. No, I truly appreciate it. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: we got this new fancy gizmo where we can bring
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  Speaker 1: people in on zoom. So I thought this would be ideal.
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  Speaker 1: You're busy. I mean, I'm not running you over here.
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  Speaker 1: You're in the midst of major, major roster evaluation. I
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  Speaker 1: would think of this over here. Then I probably should
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  Speaker 1: have solid points. Okay, So I got a couple of questions,
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  Speaker 1: one that no random order. Were you outside in practice
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  Speaker 1: more than you thought you would be this spring?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? No, are we live now too?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Well we're doing this is hey, Rich, this is hot man.
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  Speaker 1: We're just going We're just going.
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  Speaker 4: No more than I thought, you know, my older, my older,
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  Speaker 4: tougher days, I would have been heck, you know, twenty
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  Speaker 4: five to thirty degrees.
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  Speaker 3: Then I find out practicing in the cold doesn't make
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  Speaker 3: you tough, it just makes you cold.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't need to be out there, but uh,
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  Speaker 4: there's a little bit more room obviously outside and we're
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  Speaker 4: redoing as you I heard you mentioned. We're talking, we
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  Speaker 4: were doing a practice field and then hopefully in a
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  Speaker 4: couple of weeks we start redo our stadium turf. So
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  Speaker 4: but it was good to get out. Last weekend was beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Saturday was a great day. I'm hoping it will be
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  Speaker 4: in a decent day this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know yet. Was I at all close and
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  Speaker 1: trying to explain that the practice turf at a point,
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  Speaker 1: those rubber pellets don't serve the way that they probably
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  Speaker 1: should have, and so you guys felt it at this
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  Speaker 1: point we needed to get that out of there and
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  Speaker 1: basically redo it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think typically you should change them every about every
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  Speaker 4: six years, six to seven. This has been has been
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  Speaker 4: a little bit longer than that, you know, So because
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  Speaker 4: you just like you said, it gets compacted, the turf
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  Speaker 4: itself gets the layover, and there's better actually better product
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  Speaker 4: now too. We had just in fact, we did our
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  Speaker 4: turf last year, Jack State, and did it in three weeks.
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  Speaker 4: We did it the last minute and it was night
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  Speaker 4: and day because it was our turf.
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  Speaker 3: There was like our turf.
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  Speaker 4: Here was just gotten hard and pressed and you you
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  Speaker 4: just got to redo it. So but the products are
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  Speaker 4: getting better every year, and our products are good product,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So spring practice concludes here this week, you have a
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  Speaker 2: scrimmage on Saturday. You're going into the final few practices
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  Speaker 2: before the Golden Blue showcase. What are you looking for
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  Speaker 2: out of this final week of the final few practices?
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  Speaker 4: More still a little bit of teaching and a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of scheme stuff, but probably more evaluation. That last
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  Speaker 4: scrimmage was more evaluation in nature, and the practices this
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  Speaker 4: week will probably be more geared toward that. The spring,
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  Speaker 4: the spring scrimmage wherever you want to call up, will
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  Speaker 4: be mostly evalua. You know, nothing scheme wise, we're trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out. We still got to evaluate and give
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  Speaker 4: guys opportunities to show show us something and all that.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, the first group, if there is such
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  Speaker 4: a thing a first group, everybody will get a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of play, but there's a lot of guys. There's
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  Speaker 4: thirty five forty guys that really are still in the
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  Speaker 4: hard evaluation phase.
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  Speaker 3: This week, it's going to be important for us to
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  Speaker 3: take a good eye at them what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: You're a difficult guy to please on the field. Were
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  Speaker 1: you at some points pleasantly surprised with some of the
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  Speaker 1: plays you made on offense during Saturday scrimmage?
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  Speaker 4: No, hell, it was you know where it might have
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  Speaker 4: been one or two that we fell into it, but
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  Speaker 4: that was just awful defense. You know, I think our
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  Speaker 4: defense has had some pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Days and we're doing a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Zach's got more blitzes in the history of
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  Speaker 4: mankind as he wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, Saturday will be simplified a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll probably.
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  Speaker 4: There's a few things we want to look at doing,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I like there. It's not like there's
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  Speaker 4: not some plays Like I mentioned Tony there, somebody said, well,
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  Speaker 4: unhappy with the roster. No, I'm unhappy with the depth
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  Speaker 4: or unhappy with the comp petition.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, until we have two.
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  Speaker 4: To three guys at every position that are closely competing,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know if we ever get to that point,
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  Speaker 4: but the closer we can get to that point, the
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  Speaker 4: better we can be.
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  Speaker 3: And we're not there right now.
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  Speaker 2: How About at the quarterback position, it does seem like
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  Speaker 2: you've got some competition going on there. You told us
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  Speaker 2: when you went here last time that you thought you
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  Speaker 2: had at least four guys that you could win with.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel after going through spring with that
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  Speaker 2: quarterback position.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if it's the we have four
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  Speaker 4: or or three or two that are ready to.
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  Speaker 3: Win with right now, but the POTENTI.
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  Speaker 4: Is that I think we have two to three for
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  Speaker 4: sure that we feel comfortable with. There's so much more
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  Speaker 4: and part of the progress has been slowed because we
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  Speaker 4: haven't been been able to or I didn't want to
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  Speaker 4: put more in because there's so much more we need
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  Speaker 4: to put in and the value what the quarterbacks can do.
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  Speaker 4: But we've been slowed down so much because everybody's so
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  Speaker 4: new up from the old line. You can't you know,
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  Speaker 4: those are the guys you don't want to confuse, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because you gotta there's they're all new, every one of them.
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  Speaker 4: There's no there's no vector on the old line, and
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  Speaker 4: so it's not like if you have you know, a
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  Speaker 4: year from now and two years from now, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: have a veteran group and boy, we you know, we'll
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  Speaker 4: be able to do some stuff and really value what
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  Speaker 4: So I've been hesitant to do that because you don't
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  Speaker 4: want to have a whole lot of fun. So I
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  Speaker 4: guess twenty five different blitzes with offens of line and
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  Speaker 4: it never played. It just becomes a sack fest, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean. So you know we've had we've
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  Speaker 4: had it. We've had it. I guess, I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to say dumb it down, but we've had to reduce
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  Speaker 4: a lot of what we wanted to do and check
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  Speaker 4: with the quarterbacks just because of the inexperience up front.
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  Speaker 1: Rich you've put your offense in now obviously through the
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  Speaker 1: years multiple times. I mean, heck, you did it at Glenville,
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  Speaker 1: you did it at Tulane, you did it at Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: you did it back here, you did it at Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: you did it at Arizon, you did it at Old Miss,
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  Speaker 1: you did it a Louisiana Monroe. You've done this a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've had a bunch of first time springs.
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  Speaker 3: Are you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay with how this is going? Is it typical? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit better, is it a little bit worse?
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  Speaker 1: What's your what's your report card?
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  Speaker 4: I think if I've probably looked at my notes from
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  Speaker 4: ten to eleven, twelve different times, I put it in
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  Speaker 4: the first spring was always the ugliest frustrating. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: and it's and that's almost like clock and it's like,
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  Speaker 4: well it should be that, but it's still was that way.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's not only because it's the terminology is new,
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  Speaker 4: the staff is new, you know, some of the plays
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  Speaker 4: are new, but the pace which what you learned at
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  Speaker 4: you know, the expectations of how doing it, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to not be too frustrated. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: think this has been as frustrating as some of the
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  Speaker 4: other spots back at it, but it's still more frustrating
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  Speaker 4: than it should be. And I had That's why this
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  Speaker 4: morning I had the whole offensive line for I myself.
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  Speaker 4: I was a running back coach and a quarterback coach
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  Speaker 4: and a low line coach, and then we had to
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  Speaker 4: walk through and I was a running back coach and
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  Speaker 4: the on line coach and quarterback coach. And so I
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  Speaker 4: had three hours myself with the fellas, and I said,
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  Speaker 4: I don't really like doing this, but I'll keep.
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  Speaker 3: Doing if I have to.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's let's flip over the.
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  Speaker 3: After women and children at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you yeah, I was over there the other
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  Speaker 1: day when you did announce to the offensive line that
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  Speaker 1: you would be serving as the offensive line coach. So
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  Speaker 1: you went ahead and did that.
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  Speaker 4: Huh yeah, Oh yeah, this morning bright and eard nine
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  Speaker 4: o'clock and uh, you know, and here's a side note
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  Speaker 4: to that. I just maybe you got Like I tell you, guys,
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  Speaker 4: listen to go to the restroom before you go to
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  Speaker 4: the meeting. We might and I don't like long meetings,
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  Speaker 4: I said, but this was gonna be long. We might
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  Speaker 4: be an hour and a half, you know, or so
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  Speaker 4: so whatever, it might be two hours, who knows, So
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  Speaker 4: go ahead, go to the restroom. Because I didn't like.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're young guys. You can't take it an hour,
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  Speaker 4: an hour and a half in a meeting.
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  Speaker 3: It sure was. And I said, but if you gotta go,
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  Speaker 3: you go. You know, I'm not gonna be the hold
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  Speaker 3: job keeping you from dancing. I'm not gonna keep you
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  Speaker 3: from going to the restroom and shure it out. We're
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  Speaker 3: halfway through.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of guys go in the restroom and I'm like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, i' let it go.
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  Speaker 4: And then fifteen minutes later, some more guys going in
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  Speaker 4: and I'm saying, listen, I said, I'm sixty one years
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  Speaker 4: old and I can handle.
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  Speaker 3: An hour and a half.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, I said, do we have that problems in this
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  Speaker 4: room that you young guys can't code it for? Well,
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  Speaker 4: if you were an airplane or something, you couldn't go.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so that was part of my frustration.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: He sounds like me on a road trip. Yeah right,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to pull over. You just want to
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  Speaker 2: keep going. Right, once you start rich, you want to roll.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but let him get you, let him use the restroom.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I understand suck defense here for a second. You've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned it a couple times today, and you've said it
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  Speaker 2: throughout spring with Zach Alley's defense, heavy blitz likes to run,
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  Speaker 2: Blitzes likes to run a bunch of them. That's the
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  Speaker 2: identity you want from the defense. It's going to be aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna bring pressure, you're gonna get after it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's part we don't want to, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think our defense has to be, you know, one
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  Speaker 4: of those that that's active and doesn't let you know
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  Speaker 4: where we're coming from. I mean, everybody wants to disguise
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  Speaker 4: on defense, but how.
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  Speaker 3: Go on it? I always talk about this both on
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  Speaker 3: offense defense.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be the hardest working team before the
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  Speaker 4: snap and after snap. Everybody talks about after the snap
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  Speaker 4: that hey, you know you're gonna run to the ball
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  Speaker 4: or work hard to get downfield, block or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But how hard do you work.
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  Speaker 4: Before the snap on offense? How hard do you work
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  Speaker 4: to get lined up quickly? On defense? How hard do
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  Speaker 4: you work to disguise if they let you disguise? And
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  Speaker 4: so we want to that's kind of me part of
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  Speaker 4: our our program's identities. We went out work them not
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  Speaker 4: just after the snamp, but before the snap.
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  Speaker 1: So you've talked about this a ton of roster reduction
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  Speaker 1: and then going into the transfer portal, and you've struggled
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  Speaker 1: with this a ton, and it's quite quite clear you're
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  Speaker 1: not happy with it. But in your mind right now, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: do you have a list of what positions you need
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  Speaker 1: to go get in the portal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got a temporary list, but in fact, probably
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  Speaker 4: before Friday, maybe before Thursday, we'll have a more definitive
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  Speaker 4: list of this is this is what our current roster
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  Speaker 4: is going to look like here in about two weeks,
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  Speaker 4: and this is what our our target positions need to be.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of have an overview without even looking at it,
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  Speaker 4: but we're gonna get into a.
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  Speaker 3: Deep dive this week.
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  Speaker 4: Is staff with a current roster and what we need
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  Speaker 4: to do because our one O five has to be
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  Speaker 4: the best one O five we can get, and we
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  Speaker 4: strategically have to have, you know, certain number of guys
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  Speaker 4: at each position. And now we find a couple of
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  Speaker 4: guys that can play a little bit of both ways too,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, I mean, you don't have to do
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  Speaker 4: a lot of it with it, but there's tight ends
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: that can play d N or d N. I think
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: we have some d ns that maybe can play a
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: little bit of roll of a tight end too, and
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: that helps us construct the type type of roster we want.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: You've said that a couple of times. You think that
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: happens right now? Is that for something this fall or
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: you think you're targeting that more than next year.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: This year it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Happens, Yeah, this fall, this far more than anything because
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: we're we're having a cut so well, that's why I
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: think they should have grandfather clause the roster reduction from
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: one twenty then to one fifteen and one ten, one
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: of five, but just going straight out to one to
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: one oh five right now, it's it's like, Ali, you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: how do we we got to make sure we have
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: enough of quality bodies, not just bodies, but quality bodies
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Rich when you talk to your staff and you've got
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: your general manager and he came over from Oklahoma and
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: you never have Obviously, no one ever says, yeah, I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: got enough money. I got more money than I know
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: what to do. But do you feel comfortable that when
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: you go out to the portal and obviously the nil
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: portion of it or whatever we want to call it,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: their deal with the university, do you feel comfortable enough
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that you'll have enough dollars to go get what you need?
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I think the plan if it goes to like
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: we think, where the schools start taking care of the
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: rev shar starting in July, and then what NIO there
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: is is AI checked by the NCA and it's a
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: little bit more above ground or or out front and legal.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I still think there's gonna be some deals done that
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: nobody's gonna know about. And the difference is like right now,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: there are a lot of our competitors that are buying
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: people right now but for Jill for July, so they're
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: they're kind of loading up their rosters now and then
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: you know, those guys might have to take a pay
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: cut later. But that's how some of the folks and
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: some in our league are doing I don't blame if
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: you've got the money to do it, and you could
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: buy a guy to come in there now and try
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: to lock him in and then in the rev share
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: let the school take over.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Why not do it. So there's a handful and not
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: I don't think everybody, I think majority of them are
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: doing that, but there's enough, including in our league, with
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: some guys that are doing that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Totally off topic here, and we've asked ourselves this question
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: first time here. You ran offensive line freeze when the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: other team jumps off sides. Please tell me that's coming
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: back where the offensive line just stays absolute.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's their favorite play. Tony shit, They just you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: they don't have to move. They have a cake for
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: that for about ten times a game. About that freeze play,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah that's good.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell you what my all time favorite, I mean
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: free the freeze option and and then the offensive line.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Just I'm been big into freezes like that. That's one
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of the all time greats. That's a free place. I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: love it.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've had a few, that's the frustrating part, even
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: though we wouldn't have showed it in the spring game
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: or any like that. But you know, we got a
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: few new trick plays too that that we've gathered over
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: the years that I haven't even come close to to
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: repping those out.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: So those are always fun. Those are easy though. Kids
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: you said, it's amazing you put those in. The guys
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: won't screw it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. What what do you want Saturday to be
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: for the fans? Rich And it's kind of neat because
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: you've been on the field obviously coaching it now, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be the first time you've been back in
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: there when actually we've got people fans in the stands.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: What do you want Saturday to look like?
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: And be like, well, you know, I think a lot
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: of this, there's probably a portion of them that aren't
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: able to make it to the games for whatever reason.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: That they can make it to the Spring game or
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Spring showcase.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: So, you know, just to experience Mountain air Field, to experience,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: you know, our atmosphere. I understand we're gonna do some
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: neat stuff in the parking lots and you know, so
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: there'll be some tailgating going on. They'll get to see
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: all of our guys in action for a little bit.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: They'll see a lot of our young guys in an
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: action a lot. We'll they'll have an opportunity to meet
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: meet their guys, meet our players after the scrimmage and
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: get an autograph, get a.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Picture with them.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: And so just to experience that, and I think sometimes
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: we don't I say, we and the guys and the
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: team don't even realize that, Hey, there's there's a lot
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: of people in this state that know who they are
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: and look up to them and and want to shake
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: their hand or take a picture of them. And hopefully
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: the weather will cooperate, but either way, we're going to
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: give our great fans that opportunity to do that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Saturday.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me just hit a couple of things for
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the folks. Number one, we've got free tickets. All you
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: have to do is claim one before coming to the game.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So it's a free ticket, and then you can make
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a donation UH as a result, and you go to
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: WU game dot com. Fan Fast outside of the stadium
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: starts at ten am. Concert Powell Brothers begins at eleven am.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Gates open at noon, showcase starts at one, and then afterward,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: UH you can see do a meet and greet with
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the players. So it is bring uh, especially for younger guys,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: kids that haven't been on the field before. Afterward, bring
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: whatever you want signed and that should be a good
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: way to put a cap on this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: So the key, I think you're letting them on the
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: field too, right, hopefully correct? Yes, just you know, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: think you know, if you're Kevin like Jesu, it's a
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: pretty you know, neat stadium and then actually be all
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: on the field. To be able to get on the field,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: it's kind of a you know, a great photo opportunity,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: So they should be fun get.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Your picture made there on the field. Well, hockey, since
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you're tearing the field up in three weeks, bring a razorblade,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: w don't say that. I don't say that because now
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: people are say, you're kidding. I'm musically joke, bad joke,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: don't do that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Fine, that's okay.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Just remind me of the Virginia Tech game at night
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: that we won. The fans wouldn't leave and they wouldn't
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: be telling them to leave. And I wasn't going to
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: say anything until the guy was peeing on a ten
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: yard line.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I'm okay, we gotta go now, somebody's yeah, get down
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: the southern side.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: That was the line. That was the line we do
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: right there. Hopefully we have more of those. Hopefully you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: have to tell people in the future that they're celebrating
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that you have to stop peeing on the field. Let's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: bring it downtown, get yeah, take it home and take it. Yeah,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: all right, well listen, appreciate the time very much. We
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: look forward to seeing everything on Saturday. It's amazing how
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: quick this thing is going to be over with first
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Saturday of April, and it'll be cooked. And then, as
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you said, this thing won't end. Roster portal changes O
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: t a's it's it's it doesn't stop. Off we go.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I guess I'll just say, looking at that I guess
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: there is always some news, some exciting news, you know
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: that lasts.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: A little bit longer, and norma's boring in the summer, right.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: So no, this yeah, not now, this is just keeps
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: keeps on going. All right, buddy, thank you so much
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: for your time. We appreciate it. Thanks, Rich, take care
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: there he is Rich Rodriguez joining us here and again
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't cost anything. The money still goes to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: children's hospital. If you'd like to make a donation and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: just go to WVU game dot com claim and then
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you'll be in business.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably biggest note coming out of here. You
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: know you've got events all day, but go claim that ticket.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: So you've got it, then come on up for free.
• 23:25
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• 24:41
  Speaker 1: All Right, So a couple of things there. Off a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: totally side note, really happy that the Freeze plays back,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and really really feel for the offensive lineman who had
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the coach Rod as their line coach. Well, he said
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: he was going to do that, so he jumped right in.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It's a class. That's a case of laying down the law.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I remember when he first came and Rick Trickett was
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: his offensive line coach, and there needed to be an
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: understanding of what their expectation was. And I remember that
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: first spring literally and it's an eye opener. And that's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: just kind of you know, you change, you change the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: whole way of how they want things done well. And
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he said it right there.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: From a practical standpoint too, they've got to get that
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: group up to speed in order to install the rest
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: of the offense. If they're not able to keep the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: blitzes off of them, then you're going to be behind.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: A little bit so important group.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: We say it every year in football, but really important
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: for this particular offense. We spend so much time on
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Rich's offense talking about the skill, but when they've been
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: really good, that's driven.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: By the offensive line. And we'll do a little basketball
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: coming up here with spreads on stats in just a
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: little bit, But before that, Mountaineer baseball team, what a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: wild series this week. Fair to say you agree with
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: this that no sport in college is more different than
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: college baseball is when compared to its professional version. Okay,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: now walk me through here, Like in college basketball compared
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to the NBA. Yeah, there's more scoring in the NBA
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: because twenty four second shot clock, but it's pretty much
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: similar game right, spread the floor, you shoot threes. In
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: college football scores relatively right, kind of sort of in
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that same range NFL scores. In college baseball compared to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, you don't see just this incredible amount
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of offense and these runs being scored. West Virginia scored
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: thirty nine runs in its last two games.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Yesterday was wild. Fifteen consecutive runs for BYU. They put
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: up fifteen straight slow pit softball league. They were hitting
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: it hard. They got their home run limit. That couldn't
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: take anymore. Next person was going to be an out
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: fifteen straight for BYU. West Virginia answers that run with
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: a run of its own twelve straight. Yeah, what a
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: wild game. Season high twenty hits.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: It was crazy. What a bizarre series. Eighty combined runs
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: in the series, the most in a Big twelve series
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: this season. So what he won two of three, which
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: is the most important.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: You win two to three, and what do you take
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: out of it? West Virginia can hit the ball, they
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: can mash, they can hit it now. They got a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: really weird week, an a typical week at Ohio State Tuesday,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: right home to pit on Wednesday and we've got a
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: guest coming in here in just a little bit. I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: think he's arrived. I think I heard some you know
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: what we didn't do though, This will be real professional.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Go over there and get his mic set up. You
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: go get a chair. We didn't put a chair out there,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'll do this. Okay, god it, we
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: have a guest. I mean, we're just hitting guests. I mean,
• 27:53
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• 27:55
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• 28:50
  Speaker 1: but perhaps the greatest barbecue master in the history of
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the world, Kevin Kane. Reverend Kevin Kane joins us on
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the programme. Hello, gentlemen, top of the datia, Sir, right
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: back at you. So you might be wondering whys Revkev
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: here I mentioned West Virginia Pitt Wednesday here in Morgantown. Revkev,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: he of the Rev. Kev's barbecue that took care of
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: us at our three guys tailgate parties during the football season. Well,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: he's hooked up with the folks at WVU and he
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: is going to cook and have barbecue ready for those
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of you that would be interested that are going to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the Pit game.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're actually going to be at six games this year,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: and this will be our first one for Pitt. Have
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: the barbecue trailer over there and we'll be there this Wednesday.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: We'll be there this Saturday as well for Utah and
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: four additional games after that. But we're just trying to,
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: you know, continue to advance the cause of the source
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: as we sell barbecue and help feed some kiddos in
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: our community.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, so people that might not be familiar with us,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: tell them what the sources.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: So the source basically is a five oh one C
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: three that we have. We support three and hopefully soon
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: to be four local grade schools in town to help
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: offset food and security. So we provide lunch bags for
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: these children at these grade schools on the weekends, about
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: three thousand calories we send the kids home with every
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: single weekend and to date, with all private funding through
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: people that buy barbecue and you know, bless the kids,
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: two and a half million meals, we've been able to
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: provide for these kids. And that's what the source is
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: all about. We do before and after school care for
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: the kids at Skyview Elementary, provide a summer camp for
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: the kids in our community. But we've even branched out
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: into a holistic wellness program where we're offering nearly free
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: mental health certified mental health coaching and working with twenty
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: some couples between the ages of twenty two and thirty
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: three right now, just working on what it means to
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: be married. And we're just really trying to revitalize our
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: community through education, and that's really what the source is
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: all about, feeding kids, empowering families, cultivating community.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Awesome. And so these dollars that people use when they
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: buy the barbecue goes straight in right back.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: We are a nonprofit organization and honestly, we we literally
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: are nonprofit. I mean we are we we it's so funny.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: We just got our numbers back from last year and
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: we we finished right on the line, which was great
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: for us. We everything that comes in goes right back
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: out to the people in the community and uh, just blessing.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: So when people come on Wednesday to the pick game,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: give barbecue in the box at the at the trailer
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: and pulled pork sandwiches, all that money goes straight back
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: into the program.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Nobody's profit, all right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I was just going to ask about menu. The boxes
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: are back from the from the three guys you got them.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: That's a great idea of explain this.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the boxes. So basically, the base of the box
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: is either corn cake, mac and cheese or tater tots.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Then whatever meats you want, brisket, pulled pork, pulled chicken,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: and then we have like fifteen toppings that you can
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: put on the top.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: It's all in a nice easy box. You can take
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: it with you, dig right in, stick and go.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Its greatest greatest adventure since fire. Really the when you
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the way you guys do that box barbeque oftentimes is
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: kind of you got you got to need a third hand.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: It gets messy. You guys put everything in there. You
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: just get a fork, you hold that thing, and you
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: just crush that thing. It's perfect.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: It's hilarious because people say all the time, I usually
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: don't like my food touching. This was amazing.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Oh that's the best part. That's his brother in law
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: would really struggle. That's anti fi when they touch. Just
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: get it all in there and mash it all together.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: That's We're gonna be there this Wednesday, starting at three o'clock.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: I think first pitch is six six thirty. And then Saturday,
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: I think first pitch is four thirty. We'll be there
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: at noon.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that picture looks good both days too, seventies
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: both days.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Seventy both days. I think it may be a little
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: cloudy on Wednesday, but we'll be there.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: We'll be ready to roll.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, Austin, can you show for those that don't know
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: what the trailer that's what that's from our food court
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: there and then show them the trailer. So that's the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: trailer that we'll be there, but it'll be open. Where
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: are you parking that thing?
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: So we're going to be in between Star Furniture and
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: BW three. Okay, right there in that free parking lot
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: across the street from the stadium. People can walk up.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: They can get their barbecue in a box, pull pork sandwiches,
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: and just tailgate there before we beat Pitt Perfect.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: So as for those of you that are regulars here,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you know that food is very important to this program.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: We take great passion and pride and food and we
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: would not advocate for anything that wasn't good. And I'm
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: just telling you this. I've been around you know when
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it comes to barbecue. I've eaten Kansas City barbecue. I've
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: eaten it all over the place, Texas whole deal. This
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: is phenomenal. I had text Joe, I had brisket multiple
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: times in Texas this year, and I right back to him.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I go, he bristles, their brisket down here is not
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: as good as the one that you do. That's so kind.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: That's true. Is you know I'm not gonna blow smoke.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: You and I have known each other for a long time,
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: and I know if you're anything, it's dead flat August.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: So thank you very much.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: We try to do our best, so check it out, folks,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: So give me the time again. You're starting on Wednesday
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: at what time?
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Wednesday will be open at three, Saturday will be open
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: at noon.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Perfect? All right, brother, awesome, thanks guys, Thank you Rev.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: You were just in Ireland.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: I was.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Did you have any inkling that you were going to
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: stay there and cook barbecue for the Irish folks?
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: I will tell you you talk about take me home
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: country roads. Ireland is so like West Virginia Bowling Hills.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: We flew into Dublin and got out of Dublin as
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: quickly as possible. Spent ninety nine percent of our time
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: in a little town called Trille over on the on
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: the West coast. It was amazing, it was. I was
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: there for Saint Patrick's.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Stay near water. Oh yeah, absolutely, on the coast. Yeah.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: Crazy. If there's any Star Wars fans.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Out there, I saw it. I was there.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the little island where Luke Skywalker. We had tea
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: one day overlooking the sea out over that island.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It was amazing and right there. There's also a thing.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Did you see this? The first transatlantic cable? It literally
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: runs a cable from there to Massachusetts.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: Underneath I saw all of that. Yeah, and I saw
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: the place where the people from Ireland claim that I
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: can't remember the guy's name now off the top of
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: my head, but that he actually discovered this side of
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: the world rather than you know, one of the debated people.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, that's kind of neat. Yeah, so I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: didn't even see you had a camera assistant here with you.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Chine in the house.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Well you'd be Hey, Brad, it'd be nice if we
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: could get a revs CA have his brisket and barbecue
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: T shirt. Never got one of those, that's one I got. Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: we'll take it. Give me your sizes, we'll take it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Olympic Athletic tall all right, that's good. Guys are the best,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Thanks buddy. How many you cook A lot of pigs?
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: We cook a lot. We cook, we cook a lot,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: like every single day. We're cooking.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: We're all over the place. Hopefully we'll be back with
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: you guys this fall.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a plan. We're all for it.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: I'm in man, We're all in thanks for.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Doing Thanks about I appreciate it. Thanks all right. So
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: go to the baseball game, and you know what, you
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: might not even be a baseball fan. Just go there
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: just to eat. You'll become a barbecue and a baseball
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: fan all at the same time. Yeah, you can just
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: go for the food. If you'll go for the food, absolutely,
• 36:46
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• 36:52
  Speaker 1: there's some speculation, this is unconfirmed, that Kevin brings the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: pigs over to barbecue on lou Wendel pontoon boats. He
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: just ferries them across the waterways there and it is
• 37:04
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• 37:54
  Speaker 1: know that the spring football game showcase is going to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: be on Saturday afternoon. You know what we don't know yet.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: We don't know when the introductory press conference is going
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to be for West Virginia's new head basketball coach, Ross
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Hodge because he's playing in the nit Semis Tuesday Evening
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: win Play Thursday title game. So it's gonna be this
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: week probably, but don't know yet. But we do know this.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Brad's got numbers. Sign check the numbers. We'll just go
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: right to the numbers here. Let's jump into the analytics
• 38:40
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• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the numbers on ross Heideley's second second batch through.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure we've done this before, have we. There's
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: breaking down a game here with It's not West Virginia's.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Game, so this could open up a whole new thing.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: We just handicap games. We're gonna pull a game out here.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Who whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: So you're saying to me that you're going to break
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: down North Texas Calorvine. Yeah, now, stop, I got full
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: game breakdown here. Now stop. Now what if I would
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: have told you two months ago that you were going
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: to break down cal Irvine. North Texas at some point
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: this season.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Probably did not have it on the Bengo car, which
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: which is kind of interesting. This is such a unique
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: setup in what's happening. It does give us a chance
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: to get a first hand look at offense and defensive
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: systems that the new West Virginia.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Coach is going to have.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Right he kind of had an inkling that was going
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: to Ross Hodge the last time North Texas played, So
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: you get a chance tomorrow night to go in and
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: watch them with a little different eye than what you
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: would normally have for this n game.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: So I'm kind of excited for this. He plays first
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night, so it's the seven o'clock game.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: This will be a This should be a defensive battle here.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Both of these teams really known for their defense. It's
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: a coin flip game at this point. Cal Rvine favored
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: by a point. Ken Palm projects it as a sixty
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: three to sixty two type of game. The total yesterday
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: total points on DraftKings as of yesterday afternoon. Was that
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: one twenty eight and a half right in there. So
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: you're getting two really good defensive teams we've talked about.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: That's the identity for Ross Hodge and this North Texas team.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: They come in.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Forty second defense overall, twenty fifth in effective field goal defense,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: sixteenth in opponent three point field goal percentage, and they're
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: getting a really good shooting team from three and cal Irvine,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: So that'll be something to watch. But this Cal Irvine
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: team comes in with some gaudy numbers as well. How
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: about this nineteenth in total defensive efficiency, tenth in effective
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: field goal defense, and second in opponent two point field
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: goal percentage. So this is two really talented and really
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: good defensive teams. Both are in the top twenty five,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: top twenty fifth percentile. And points per possession off live
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: ball turnovers, that's something we talked a lot about. West
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Virginia was really good at this season. You get a
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: UCI team, I'm giving you a little UCI that'd be
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Cal Irvine. Give a UCI there tony sixteen assists per game,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: top ten nationally, so they pass it really well. Here's
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: a couple of keys to watch the game if you
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: want to boil it on to two things to watch.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Keep an eye on the free throw line tonight. Calravine
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: gets there quite a bit and they make their free throws.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: They're fourth nationally and eighty one percent free throw percentage.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: But here's an interesting number. North Texas puts teams on
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: the line a lot. They're in the bottom sixty teams
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: nationally in opponent free throw attempt rate, UCI top ten
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: in opponent free throw attempt rate, meaning they don't put
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: teams on the line very much. So back to a
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: key that we've talked about all season with West Virginia,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: it's going to play in this game, which team gets
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: to the line and if it's if it's Calorvine, lookout
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: because they shoot it very well. So which team can
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: guard without fouling in this game? Officiating style is going
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: to matter. Here's another thing to watch. Cal Ravine likes
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: to run, and they're getting a North Texas defense that,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: while it's very very good, it surprisingly has not been
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: great in transition with its transition defense. North Texas three
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: hundred and nineteenth nationally in points per possession in transition
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: not getting back Yeah, a little bit surprising there. And
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: they're getting a uci offense. That's twentieth nationally in points
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: per possession. So that's a real key. Cal Ravine's gonna
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: want to get out and run when it has the opportunity.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Can North Texas get back and close that off and
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: build a wall force them to run some half court offense.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: The other thing you don't know certainly right is what
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: is going on internally inside the North Texas roster. Right,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: so now they know they're head coach is leaving, it
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: could go one way or the other. Probably doesn't go
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: in the middle, like, are they okay, we know we're
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: only going to be together for this much longer. We're
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: going to do this and go out in a bang?
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Or is it kind of My guess is since you
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: had seven transfers and three freshmen, they'll still play.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: I think they play the bulk of this roster. As
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: we talked last time, are our seniors. There's only two
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: of the top eight that are juniors. There's a third
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: that is a senior that appears that he might have
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: another year of eligibility. Had be Jasper Floyd. He went
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: from Fairfield to North Texas, but did play a year
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: at Hillsboro College. At jc SO he should get that
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: year back based on that junior college transfer rule. So
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: really you're looking at at Bremen, Laurient, Grant Newell, and
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: then potentially Jasper Floyd is really the only guys with
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: eligibility on that team. So I would think you've got
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: a group that will stay together and want to finish
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: as strong as possible. But those are a couple guys
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: to watch if you're looking for folks that have eligibility
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: that may potentially be targets on the other end and
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: coming with Ross Hodge to West Virginia, Laurent Newell and
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Jasper Floyd potentially call.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: It who wins? Don't know? What's that? Me? Flip a coin?
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: It's a coin flipper, literally said that coin flip one
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: point spread. You don't have any kind of a feel, No,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I just gave you the numbers.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Which of those wins out, who gets to the line,
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: what's the style look like, and what's the transition game
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: look like.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: So as soon as this happens, win, lose, whatever, and
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he's here, he being Ross Hodge, then it'll get really
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: fun really quick. You gotta fill the staff, you gotta
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: go get players right, it'll move, it'll move. Yeah, it'll
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: go fast.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: And again, as we've known, Ross now was named what
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: a week or so ago or almost a week ago,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: a few days ago. Those things are underway too. He's
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: working on rounding out that staff. He's working in the portal,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: identifying guys, talking to guys. So it's not as if
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: that stuff's not happening and you're waiting for the green
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: flag to drop. It's ongoing. As the preparations for this
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: game continue as well.
• 45:38
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• 45:41
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• 45:43
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• 46:38
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• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the people are ripped to There's been several text things
• 46:45
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• 46:48
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• 47:08
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• 47:12
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• 47:15
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• 47:18
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• 47:21
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• 47:24
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• 47:26
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• 47:28
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• 47:30
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• 49:35
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• 49:37
  Speaker 1: for incentivized plays. I've lost enough money during the second
• 49:41
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  Speaker 1: through the last few weeks, keeping us all sane. I
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: love the perspective you guys bringing the ups and the
• 49:51
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• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Ethan and York, here's my favorite line on that I
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: just Ethan just thinking out loud here just gives it this.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: He just became the NCAA. He just said, just call it.
• 50:00
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• 50:03
  Speaker 2: everybody's approach to compliance right now, isn't it. Yah, it's fine.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Whatever, what do you want? Yep, do it? Yeah, I
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: know I was thinking about this when I when I
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• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to do that. In all seriousness, dude, think about this,
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  Speaker 1: right you with me? If you get an independent entity,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: you get an independent entity, and they create a means
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: by which you could incentivize plays, and it just it's
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent visible and can be seen everything
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: that goes in and then that gets that's going to happen.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying West Virginia, but someone is going to
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: do that. Someone is going to come up with a
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  Speaker 1: thing where you will sit in the stands and John, hey,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: John is gonna run, run, run, and you're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to your phone and there's gonna be an independent app
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with the university, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: contribute five dollars whatever you want to put into the thing,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll take all of those dollars and that'll get
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  Speaker 2: It's it's actually a good idea if you're if you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have incentive base pay, it's a really good idea.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Given what they're doing with the clearinghouse and trying to
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  Speaker 2: clear every deal through there to make sure it's legal.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: What you're saying right there has a has a long
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: way to go before you can get there. As you
• 51:34
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• 51:37
  Speaker 1: If they're going to try.
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  Speaker 2: And regulate and legislate commercial deals, good luck trying to
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  Speaker 1: Good luck. But you do, you do. You do accept
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  Speaker 1: while driving back to Thessalonika Airport from Stavross. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure whether it was the mountainous views or you're voices
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  Speaker 1: could have sworn I was driving up route too from
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  Speaker 1: Wheeling to Whirton. Listening to spreads on stats talk about
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: coach Hodge was fun. I've read all about his success
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  Speaker 1: on the court, but it was the first time I've
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  Speaker 1: heard he was an elite recruiter. I think we've got
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  Speaker 1: ourselves a good one. Really looking forward to meeting him
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  Speaker 1: at the upcoming coaches caravan in May. I think now
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  Speaker 1: I've listened to you guys in at least five different countries,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: maybe more. It's always great to keep up with the
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  Speaker 1: How many countries? Five? Then to five? He's going to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Forget what he does? What's he doing going all over
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  Speaker 1: the place? Listen to us in all five? He said,
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  Speaker 1: we're big in Greece. Thanks Brian, uh texter. Back to baseball?
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: What a game Saturday, West Virginia? As like we said,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: up seven fifteen unanswered score, twelve win, nineteen sixteen. So
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  Speaker 1: dough Nets. During the three game series, West Virginia scored
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: How about this? This was Heckmestad. West Virginia scored twenty
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: four of its runs with two outs. That's a good number.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: That would make you sick if you're BYU sick. You
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: want to talk about sick Mountaineers. You want to talk
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: about sick. Roll down your window and puke out of
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: your windows. Sick. You want to talk about sick? Texas Tech, Yes, yes,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: holy stomach still hurts for him. That was our Louisville game.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: It was You know what else is interesting too, And
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: it's why we've said many times you do have to
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: be careful about these narratives that you want to assign
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: to leagues based just on NCAA tournament's success. So a
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: lot of people pound in their chest today about two
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: SEC teams in the final four got to half the
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: final four, got to half the final four. SEC basketball
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: got two to the Final four, got to half the
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: final four. Heard it a million times every this morning.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: You're about an inch away from having two big twelve
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: in the Final four. Now I know Texas Tech needed
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: to escape their previous round as well over an SEC.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: I get it, but you got to be a little
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: bit careful about assigning these broad brush strokes and saying
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: what it means for a conference.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I would have should add two in there. Yes, I
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: would have been giddy if there were two Big Twelve.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: With all of the rhetoric and propaganda that's gone on
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: the entire season bloviating about the other conferences, if the
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Big Twelve quietly would have put two in there, it
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: would have been the ultimate thanks for having us. I
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: feel horrible for Texas Tech. I truly do, because I've
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: been on that road. I was listening to their radio
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: broadcast while I was driving Saturday night, and my poor buddies.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: We had Chris on. Chris Level is their color guy.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: I mean I could hear, I could feel it for him.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: It's hard to speak. It's hard to speak when that's
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: going on, right.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, up nine with two point fifty one, and you're
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: staring down the barrel of a final four trip and
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: you said, we've been there. That was our Louisville game
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: at the pit up twenty.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: And then the and it's not it was foul shots,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: which makes you just want to smash your head into
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the carpet and this three all game long, they sucked
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: at the foul line. Yeah, but in that last two
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: and a half the SECD they missed three. Yes. So
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: one of the things you take away from this weekend
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: is how freaking hard it is to get there. Thank you.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: That's the old that's just there's no rhyme, there's no
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: reason everything, All the planets just have to be aligned it.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Rick Barnes has run won a ton of games, does
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: not have a final four, two straight Elite eight knockouts
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: for Tennessee. With that group, it's hard to get there.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Calvin Sampson's had really high level success and at Houston
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: this is just his second Final four.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: And I mean you go back to when West Virginia
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: beat Kentucky, like, is there any reason on paper that
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: that should have happened based on the talent level of
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: that Kentucky team had a great.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Team, Except that was also another NCAA tournament screw job
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: because we should have been a one seat that year,
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: we were a two, got absolutely hosed on that should
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: have been a one.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Three guys, much has been written and discussed on the
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: subject of the transfer portal The attached graph is really
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  Speaker 1: worth a thousand words. It highlights everything we've witnessed since
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: the inception of the portal. So for those of you
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: that will saw that, yeah, I was looking at that
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: this morning. In fact, the starting players from the Sweet
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: sixteen are shown in this graph and the team logo
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: with whom they played for last year. There are a
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: few teams you can identify, but many are put together
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: totally from the portal. I am not an NIL hater,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: but the program today allows uncontrolled amounts of money in
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: conjunction with a conduit to maneuver your talent to the
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  Speaker 1: well doied Texter Joey in Princeton. What's up guys, Westfridge
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Union connection story here had a golf trip this week
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: in Charlotte area. Buddy I get paired up with a
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  Speaker 1: single player. He sees my DOUBLEVU golf bag, says, my
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  Speaker 1: buddy played running back for dou WUVU. I said, oh,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: of course he did. There's always a West Virginia connection
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  Speaker 1: running back Curtis Keaton, really good player. Then went to
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  Speaker 1: James Madison correct played in the NFL. He was really good.
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  Speaker 1: He just he just came. You know, you talk about timing.
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  Speaker 1: He was here when there were some really really good players,
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  Speaker 1: and here's a guy that goes, well, what's happened for right?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Brownie Nagel left when Major Harris was here, and Brownie
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  Speaker 1: Nagel played in the NFL for a number of years
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  Speaker 1: after he went to Lewisville. Hi, guys, just in time
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  Speaker 1: for Easter. A new receas shape. No, despite what you
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  Speaker 1: might be thinking, Tony, it's not a rabbit's foot, it's
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: a carrot. Sorry, Brad, don't have any details on the
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  Speaker 1: chocolate's peanut butter ratio or on the on the carrots.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Might have to do some in store sleuthing at Gomart
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  Speaker 1: to find out. By the way, I passed by that
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  Speaker 1: fish place in Martinsburg every morning on my way to work,
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  Speaker 1: and I continue to watch for that sign to be
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: replaced with one of them that actually reads Mountaineer popcorn
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: more to come gale from martsworks. That fish signs still
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: up there, that's coming down? I think, isn't it?
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: How long that hold?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, they had a town meeting and everything got
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: to get it down. But how long would it take
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: to get a popcorn sign up? That's not that big
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: of a thing. Takes a while to get the ordinance
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: theor I guess I'm surprised they went with carrots there?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Did they need to do a new shape? The RecA
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: eggers is pretty iconic. I don't know why they had
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: to do a new shape with a carrot. Could you
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: put that up there again, Austin and see that they
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: were smaller? Hum could have just stayed with the egg
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: That's where the shapes originated. If I'm not mistaken, There
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: was just more like the oval shape. Yeah, they gotta
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: keep rein vaining. You flipped it around. Looked like a
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: rocket for sure. It's not a rocket though, Three gentlemen,
• 1:02:05
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• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: you're Cougar's. Since you're playing Duke, please be prepared for
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: the following. Number One. Even though the number of fouls
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: called may be approximately even, there will be at least
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: five calls that could go either way. The majority of
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: those will go in favor of Duke. Two. If your
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: scouting report identifies one of Duke's weaknesses, the exact opposite
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: will happen in the game. So if they're shooting twenty
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: one percent from three point range in this game, they'll
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: shoot forty. One of your best players will miss part
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: of the game because he fouls out or is he injured.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: If there is one crucial tipping point foul call, it
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: will go against you. Number five, It will not be
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: difficult to perceive the national TV announcer bias for Duke.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Signed your Big twelve friend, doctor Jeff. They probably hit
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: a couple points there.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: Hugs are on a twenty nine and one run and
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: it lost since December to Texas Tech. I lost one
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: since December.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty amazing. That's pretty amazing, dude. Nowadays basketball, Oh,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: he does a good job. He does a great doesn't
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: do a good job. He does a great job. Twenty
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: nine and one and yeah, to your point one losses
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• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: the final four, and that was an overtime. Yeah, that's
• 1:03:25
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• 1:03:27
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