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- 0:11Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome in. It is time for another episode
- 0:15Speaker 1: of Three Guys Before the Game. This is number six
- 0:20Speaker 1: and twenty three. It is our Colorado recap and our
- 0:23Speaker 1: NCAA look ahead. Two guys here instead of three, which
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- 1:16Speaker 1: let's jump in truth and honesty first. Did not think
- 1:21Speaker 1: I would be here, did not think he would be here,
- 1:23Speaker 1: did not think we would be recording this today. Thought
- 1:28Speaker 1: right now we would be in Kansas City watching Iowa
- 1:34Speaker 1: State in BYU and getting ready for West Virginia and Houston,
- 1:37Speaker 1: but it did not work out that way. But you
- 1:41Speaker 1: know that by now, sixty seven to sixty final score.
- 1:44Speaker 1: West Virginia falls in its opening game of the Big
- 1:47Speaker 1: Twelve Conference tournament. For a team that has exceeded expectations
- 1:53Speaker 1: all season long, staying away pretty much from a stinker
- 1:59Speaker 1: the whole season, with the exception of Arizona State. But
- 2:04Speaker 1: you've stayed away, had had not any bad losses, right
- 2:10Speaker 1: with the exception of Arizona State. But they fall. So
- 2:14Speaker 1: what's it all mean? We'll try to pull some of
- 2:17Speaker 1: the pieces apart and figure it out. Kirtibal gone on assignment.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Where is he? Don't know, He's in Charleston for the
- 2:30Speaker 1: girls state tournament. So anyway, all right, is it fair
- 2:36Speaker 1: to say, well, that's less than twenty four hours since
- 2:40Speaker 1: the game was played? Still mad?
- 2:44Speaker 2: Bummed?
- 2:44Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, bombed.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Had the game up up what nine with nine minutes
- 2:49Speaker 2: to go and it was one of those Listen, Colorado,
- 2:53Speaker 2: I'll give them credit for hanging in there. It's pretty
- 2:55Speaker 2: wild what they did. They won two conference games up
- 2:59Speaker 2: prior to March eight, two conference wins since March eight,
- 3:04Speaker 2: what's today thirteen in five days, they've had they've beaten
- 3:07Speaker 2: three conference opponents two the whole time. Then they beat
- 3:11Speaker 2: tcued and the regular season, got TCU again in the
- 3:15Speaker 2: opening round of the tournament. THENK got West Virginia yesterday,
- 3:19Speaker 2: so more wins than they had an entire conference season.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Here over the last five days we talked going in,
- 3:26Speaker 2: you hesitate when you're when you're waiting for an opponent,
- 3:29Speaker 2: you hesitate to pick one that you'd rather have. I
- 3:33Speaker 2: would have rather seen TCU. We talked about it before
- 3:35Speaker 2: the game. Colorado presented some challenges which ultimately came to
- 3:39Speaker 2: fruition that you thought wouldn't be there if you had
- 3:42Speaker 2: played TCU, a team you beat once and a team
- 3:45Speaker 2: you had down double figures the second time on the
- 3:47Speaker 2: road and should have won save for some free throw
- 3:50Speaker 2: weirdness in the game. So that was a tougher matchup
- 3:53Speaker 2: than it looked on paper going in. So it presented
- 3:55Speaker 2: some concerns. First half, though I was over some of
- 3:58Speaker 2: those concerns because of how well West for and his
- 4:00Speaker 2: defense was playing. It was really aggressive. It was taking
- 4:03Speaker 2: advantage of a team in Colorado that is the eleventh
- 4:06Speaker 2: worst nationally in turnover percentage. That seemed to be West
- 4:10Speaker 2: Virginia's point of differentiation. Make them turn the ball over,
- 4:13Speaker 2: get some points off turnovers, you're going to win the game.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Javon Small was not only the best player on the
- 4:19Speaker 2: floor for the first twelve minutes of that game, he
- 4:21Speaker 2: looked like one of the best players in the country,
- 4:23Speaker 2: dominating that game early, looked like he was going to
- 4:26Speaker 2: be able to get whatever he wanted. They did not
- 4:28Speaker 2: have an answer for him defensively individually. And then it
- 4:32Speaker 2: changed Tony, it changed West Virginia did some uncharacteristic things.
- 4:36Speaker 2: The turnover game flipped all the way to the other side.
- 4:40Speaker 2: It wasn't just a rough game for West Virginia. It
- 4:43Speaker 2: was its single worst performance of the season in terms
- 4:45Speaker 2: of turnover percentage. It was the single best performance for
- 4:49Speaker 2: a Colorado team against an opponent this season. When it
- 4:53Speaker 2: came to turnover percentage. That just doesn't happen against them,
- 4:56Speaker 2: and some of them were just unforced errors by West Virginia,
- 4:59Speaker 2: and that, in my opinion, changed the game. West Virginia's
- 5:02Speaker 2: had scoring droughts before and there was in this game.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Multiple times they've overcome that and it usually comes from
- 5:09Speaker 2: the defense leading the charge, and yesterday West Virginia just
- 5:11Speaker 2: couldn't get those turnovers late and then had trouble stopping
- 5:15Speaker 2: Elijah Malone inside, which we'll get into.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the best thing you said all of
- 5:19Speaker 1: that was this, you had to have some extreme things
- 5:22Speaker 1: happen in that game for Colorado to win, and so
- 5:26Speaker 1: two extreme things happened. West Virginia's turnover percentage was its
- 5:29Speaker 1: highest of the season and Colorado's turnover percentage was its
- 5:32Speaker 1: lowest to the season.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Right Boom in the second half in particular.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so that ends it. Plus you got to
- 5:39Speaker 1: make shots, and West Virginia had looks. They go six
- 5:43Speaker 1: of nineteen from three point range, had looks, did not
- 5:47Speaker 1: go down from three, and you need more than one
- 5:52Speaker 1: guy scoring it. Tobyo'connie did have eleven, but that was it.
- 5:56Speaker 1: Northern Mountaineer was in double figures. Javon Small got twenty three,
- 6:00Speaker 1: but that was a late twenty three. He had limited
- 6:04Speaker 1: shot attempts up until at least the final six minutes
- 6:08Speaker 1: five minutes of the game is when he started to
- 6:10Speaker 1: pull the trigger and just there's no way to sugarcoat it.
- 6:15Speaker 1: That is a bad, bad loss. Sure, you were going
- 6:20Speaker 1: to be a massive underdog if you advanced and go
- 6:22Speaker 1: to play Houston, but that would have been completely okay.
- 6:27Speaker 1: You're playing the one seed, the team that lost one
- 6:29Speaker 1: league game in Houston. You go take your swing. You
- 6:32Speaker 1: see what happens. But this one leaves a mark, so
- 6:36Speaker 1: it hurts. It sucks.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Now, hold on one second, because I think we got
- 6:41Speaker 2: a touch on that offense for just a second, and
- 6:43Speaker 2: I thought that's where you were a little bit concerned
- 6:46Speaker 2: with how they do things defensively. They had the ability
- 6:49Speaker 2: to switch everybody when Malone's not in the game, which
- 6:52Speaker 2: causes some problems that sometimes they went to some zone
- 6:54Speaker 2: which caused West Virginia some problems. Its inability to knock
- 6:58Speaker 2: down some shots, and when Javon Small is going to
- 7:00Speaker 2: go twenty six minutes without a field goal, west Virginia's
- 7:02Speaker 2: in some trouble. If nobody else is going to be
- 7:04Speaker 2: able to hit some shots, that's a real problem. And
- 7:06Speaker 2: that's what it was yesterday, twenty six plus minutes with
- 7:09Speaker 2: no field goal from West Virginia. If you look down,
- 7:12Speaker 2: I did some numbers the other day, Tony West Virginia's
- 7:15Speaker 2: six and two on the season. When Joe Yesafu scores
- 7:17Speaker 2: in double figures. West Virginia's twelve and three on the
- 7:20Speaker 2: season when Jonathan Powell scores in double figures and they'd
- 7:23Speaker 2: had three straight wins with JP and double figures. So
- 7:26Speaker 2: you talk about that second and a lot of times
- 7:28Speaker 2: a third scorer coming along. That's usually what West Virginia needs,
- 7:32Speaker 2: and it just didn't have that yesterday. Toby reaches double figures,
- 7:35Speaker 2: but that was it for the Mountaineers. And again, you
- 7:37Speaker 2: turn the ball over as much as WVU did, which
- 7:39Speaker 2: is uncharacteristic of that team. Wes Rdinia had more turnovers
- 7:43Speaker 2: in the second half of that game than it averages
- 7:45Speaker 2: per game on the season. That just doesn't happen, and
- 7:47Speaker 2: that's against the Colorado defense that isn't necessarily known for
- 7:50Speaker 2: forcing turnovers. So at the end of the day, the
- 7:53Speaker 2: lack of shooting, the lack of scoring, Javon's lack of
- 7:57Speaker 2: scoring a field goal for that long, those are all
- 7:59Speaker 2: major factor in that game. But at the end of
- 8:01Speaker 2: the day, West Virginia's turnovers and its inability to stop
- 8:04Speaker 2: Elijah Malone inside are probably the two biggest keys.
- 8:06Speaker 1: So that was the biggest thing. West Virginia had no
- 8:07Speaker 1: answer from Malone, who scored all but two of his
- 8:11Speaker 1: points in the second half. He finished up the game
- 8:14Speaker 1: with fourteen, so he got a dozen. I don't know
- 8:17Speaker 1: how much of that was the foul trouble that Amani
- 8:19Speaker 1: Hansbury was dealing with. Some just did not guard as
- 8:23Speaker 1: well as they needed to guard. He was able to
- 8:24Speaker 1: stick his two hundred and sixty eight pounds backside deep
- 8:28Speaker 1: underneath the rim, post up and score. And he was
- 8:31Speaker 1: not a factor at all in the first game because
- 8:34Speaker 1: he left the game with a back injury with less
- 8:36Speaker 1: than ten minutes of playing time. Now, as I was saying,
- 8:39Speaker 1: so all of that is not good. However, the good
- 8:42Speaker 1: news is if you're looking for the bright light today,
- 8:45Speaker 1: despite the loss, West Virginia is still locked into the
- 8:49Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament. They will be a in all likelihood a
- 8:52Speaker 1: ten seed when the pairings come out on Sunday. So
- 8:57Speaker 1: that was Wednesday, and you will now have at least
- 9:00Speaker 1: a minimum of seven days. You won't play again at
- 9:05Speaker 1: the earliest until next Thursday. So just a ton of
- 9:08Speaker 1: time for this team to mentally and physically reset when
- 9:15Speaker 1: you go out there, and you'll be an underdog as
- 9:17Speaker 1: well when you play your first NCAA tournament game, because
- 9:20Speaker 1: in all likelihood you're going to be playing a seven seed,
- 9:23Speaker 1: but you get a chance to recalculate and hopefully you
- 9:28Speaker 1: know you play better basketball.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you still have to keep in perspective,
- 9:32Speaker 2: which is hard after that loss. Just how great of
- 9:34Speaker 2: a season it was, given the injuries that were sustained,
- 9:37Speaker 2: but tuckrative reason then Jaden Stone to name two primarily
- 9:42Speaker 2: but really good season. Here's here's some numbers to put
- 9:45Speaker 2: a bow on the regular season. West Virginia hadn't lost
- 9:48Speaker 2: to a team ranked lower than twenty eighth in the
- 9:50Speaker 2: Ken Palm ranking since February fifth. That was the loss
- 9:53Speaker 2: to TCU. Only had two losses all season to a
- 9:56Speaker 2: team ranked lower than seventy fifth in Ken Palm. That
- 9:59Speaker 2: was Colorado eighty fourth and TCU eighty seven. So again
- 10:03Speaker 2: my point to the Colorado game yesterday, as bad as
- 10:06Speaker 2: their conference record looked, that was not a team that
- 10:09Speaker 2: was even the worst loss on your schedule. From those metrics.
- 10:12Speaker 2: You had eight losses to top thirty teams this year.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Eight of your thirteen losses the top thirty teams. You
- 10:18Speaker 2: finish the season with the fourth most difficult Big twelve
- 10:21Speaker 2: strength of schedule. That's the other part of that. And
- 10:24Speaker 2: it's unfortunate you have to do this in these massive
- 10:26Speaker 2: leagues now, but that matters who you get stuck with
- 10:29Speaker 2: schedule wise. West Virginia drawing BYU in Houston twice, that
- 10:32Speaker 2: didn't do you any favors right there. That shows in
- 10:34Speaker 2: the fourth most difficult Big twelve Strength to Schedule bracket
- 10:38Speaker 2: matrix continues to have West Virginia included. It's right in
- 10:42Speaker 2: that nine point seven to nine point eight average seed.
- 10:44Speaker 2: You're right, I think you go to a ten seed
- 10:46Speaker 2: in this particular case. This morning I looked online and
- 10:51Speaker 2: showing a little bit different now as we record by
- 10:53Speaker 2: look this morning, there were one hundred and seven total
- 10:55Speaker 2: bracket simulations. It's the first time I've seen West Virginia
- 10:59Speaker 2: out on in bracket simulation. For the last month, there
- 11:02Speaker 2: was something called d ratings dot Com. Excuse me, d
- 11:06Speaker 2: ratings dot Com. I've never heard of that, but that's
- 11:08Speaker 2: one of the simulations they use. They had West Virginia
- 11:11Speaker 2: listed out not in their NCAA tournament. So I clicked
- 11:14Speaker 2: on that site. Tony clicked on that site once, see
- 11:17Speaker 2: what d ratings dot Com was. Yeah, they had West
- 11:19Speaker 2: Virginia's a ten seed. Now that may have been before
- 11:22Speaker 2: Westernia played yesterday. So basically, West Virginia is in the
- 11:25Speaker 2: NCAA tournaments. We've said all along. I know there's a
- 11:27Speaker 2: lot of chatter online about dropping to Dayton or being
- 11:30Speaker 2: a bubble team or are you in, and again, there's
- 11:32Speaker 2: just no indication that there's anything that shows West Virginia's
- 11:35Speaker 2: not in this tournament field. They're in, you'll find out Sunday.
- 11:40Speaker 2: But they should be in this field. I don't think
- 11:42Speaker 2: there's much of a question.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Okay, just for the heck of it, if West Virginia
- 11:46Speaker 1: is a ten and if bracket matrix is right, which
- 11:51Speaker 1: is again for those of you that don't follow, bracket
- 11:53Speaker 1: matrix takes how many.
- 11:54Speaker 2: Different it was one hundred and seven this morning. It's
- 11:56Speaker 2: anywhere between eighty and ninety to one hundred and ten
- 11:59Speaker 2: as it gets going. It was one of seven this morning.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Okay, one hundred and seven different people that project the brackets,
- 12:04Speaker 1: they take them and then they just basically do the
- 12:06Speaker 1: composite of what it's saying. And so when we say
- 12:08Speaker 1: West Virginia is a high nine nine point seven eight,
- 12:12Speaker 1: right now, that is the combination of all of the projections.
- 12:16Speaker 1: So this is really good to use. So if that
- 12:19Speaker 1: were to be the case, and let's say West Virginia
- 12:21Speaker 1: goes a ten, So here are the sevens as of
- 12:25Speaker 1: right now. Marquette, Gonzaga, Memphis are the sevens that they're
- 12:35Speaker 1: listing right now. Connecticut has a eight, but an eight
- 12:40Speaker 1: point zero nine.
- 12:41Speaker 2: Hold on, back up, go over, you're looking at the
- 12:44Speaker 2: composite average. Just go go far left here you're looking
- 12:47Speaker 2: at the averages, so that on the seventh seed line
- 12:50Speaker 2: it's actually Missouri, Kansas BYU and Marquette, correct.
- 12:55Speaker 1: And they're not going to rematch you with your two
- 12:56Speaker 1: big twelve teams and they open, so Missouri Marquette as
- 13:00Speaker 1: of this moment would appear to be the two.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Yeah, there's potentially still some shifting around of conference tournaments
- 13:06Speaker 2: going on. If you want to really have some fun,
- 13:08Speaker 2: then look ahead to the twos, right, because that's what
- 13:10Speaker 2: you would match up as a ten if you were
- 13:13Speaker 2: able to win your first game. Do I have that correct?
- 13:14Speaker 2: If I've done my brackets correct? The current twos listed Alabama, Tennessee,
- 13:20Speaker 2: Michigan State, and Saint John's So fun exercise now, but
- 13:25Speaker 2: still some movement, but I think the bottom line is
- 13:27Speaker 2: West virgin has been in all of these brackets time,
- 13:29Speaker 2: all the way along since they started projecting them. Should
- 13:32Speaker 2: be looking at NCAA tournament, all right.
- 13:34Speaker 1: So to your point, obviously we're always prisoners of the moment,
- 13:39Speaker 1: and so the moment doesn't feel all that good. But
- 13:41Speaker 1: as you said, and I'm in total agreement, and I've
- 13:44Speaker 1: been saying this all season long, to be sitting here
- 13:48Speaker 1: and talking about being locked into the NCAA Tournament on
- 13:52Speaker 1: the thirteenth of March is something that I never ever
- 13:56Speaker 1: would have thought would be the case. So you would
- 13:59Speaker 1: hate for this loss to take away from what these
- 14:06Speaker 1: guys have accomplished, and you just hope that they can
- 14:10Speaker 1: regather themselves and again they're going to be an underdog,
- 14:13Speaker 1: but the fact that they are here is like the
- 14:16Speaker 1: biggest win of the season. Like, to me, okay, whatever happens, happens,
- 14:20Speaker 1: this was amazing.
- 14:21Speaker 2: The fact that you can be disappointed for a loss
- 14:24Speaker 2: in the Big twelve tournament after you got a buy,
- 14:26Speaker 2: I think is illustrative of how far this program came
- 14:30Speaker 2: from where it was almost exactly one year ago today, right,
- 14:34Speaker 2: I mean, you're closing in on a calendar year a
- 14:35Speaker 2: couple more weeks or another week or so away from
- 14:38Speaker 2: a calendar year ago where you sat, and then back
- 14:40Speaker 2: that up five or six months. It's remarkable. It's remarkable
- 14:44Speaker 2: what they were able to do. Now, I assume a
- 14:46Speaker 2: lot of fans are like I am. You get greedy
- 14:48Speaker 2: in those situations. Right, you get the buye and you
- 14:51Speaker 2: get the sixteen seed in the Big twelve tournament. You think, Okay,
- 14:54Speaker 2: go in and get one here against Colorado. However it
- 14:56Speaker 2: looks ugly or not get that win, then you go
- 14:58Speaker 2: take your shot at Houston. See what you got?
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- 16:46Speaker 1: So let's jump in. Things get fragile this time of year.
- 16:50Speaker 1: And Brad and I were talking while we were at
- 16:52Speaker 1: the tournament as we were watching and talking with the
- 16:55Speaker 1: Iowa State people that you can never say wait till
- 17:00Speaker 1: next year, never say wait till next year, because you
- 17:04Speaker 1: never know what's going to happen next year. And Iowa
- 17:07Speaker 1: State has got this absolutely loaded squad, but they have
- 17:13Speaker 1: been dealing with injuries off and on, whether it's a pneumonia,
- 17:17Speaker 1: whether it's a joint, whether it's whatever it might be.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Have never been one hundred percent healthy. And as we
- 17:24Speaker 1: record here today, we're watching BYU in Iowa State, so
- 17:28Speaker 1: by the time you listen, game will be over. But
- 17:30Speaker 1: we do know this. The tame and Lipsey, their point
- 17:33Speaker 1: guard who's really really good, is out today at least
- 17:37Speaker 1: to start the game with a groin injury, which we
- 17:39Speaker 1: literally saw him experience and suffer during the game, so
- 17:45Speaker 1: they could be out and right now you know they're
- 17:48Speaker 1: in a battle, but they might not have a long
- 17:51Speaker 1: run as long as they thought they were going to be.
- 17:54Speaker 1: Why because this season got hit by injury. West Virginia
- 17:57Speaker 1: is a classic example. Right They've sent game eight Ben
- 18:01Speaker 1: without Tucker and Ben without Jayden Stone all season long.
- 18:04Speaker 1: So you never know, take the moment that you're in,
- 18:07Speaker 1: squeeze every single drop out of it because things happen.
- 18:10Speaker 2: It's a great point. Fragile is a good word to use.
- 18:12Speaker 2: I still contend West Virginia's probably a twenty two minimum,
- 18:15Speaker 2: twenty three or twenty four win team with Tucker Deverriege.
- 18:18Speaker 2: You're talking about twenty three and nine, twenty four and
- 18:20Speaker 2: eight type of team. Then what are we talking about
- 18:23Speaker 2: NCAA tournament wise? I Aowa stayed. I thought going into
- 18:25Speaker 2: the season after some of those early games, that was
- 18:27Speaker 2: a Final four looking team. And as we sat there
- 18:30Speaker 2: court side Tony yesterday and watched them, they physically have it.
- 18:35Speaker 2: They have great size, they have versatility, they have guards
- 18:38Speaker 2: that can score. But you said it correctly, they have
- 18:40Speaker 2: just battled through that. We saw the game here in Morgantown.
- 18:44Speaker 2: They didn't play with Montsilovitch, one of their very best players,
- 18:47Speaker 2: but great shooter. Yesterday we watched Lipsey take himself out
- 18:50Speaker 2: of the game right in front of us, head straight
- 18:52Speaker 2: to the locker room. Keishaw Gilbert, first team All Conference,
- 18:55Speaker 2: didn't play much the other day and I don't think
- 18:56Speaker 2: at all in the second half, and he has not
- 18:58Speaker 2: been in there today. It's just one of those things.
- 19:00Speaker 2: It feels like for Iowa State. Sometimes you get feels
- 19:03Speaker 2: it feels for Iowa State that it's too hard for
- 19:06Speaker 2: them right now, doesn't it. They're just struggling. They're good,
- 19:09Speaker 2: they won yesterday, They're hanging around today against a BYU
- 19:12Speaker 2: team that is as hot as any team in the country,
- 19:15Speaker 2: eight straight, twelve of its last fourteen. But it just
- 19:18Speaker 2: feels like it's much harder for Iowa State than it
- 19:20Speaker 2: was earlier. And I think that's because of that disjointed
- 19:23Speaker 2: lineup over the last two months.
- 19:24Speaker 1: All right, let's do some numbers. So I check the numbers.
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- 20:14Speaker 1: Did you have any Do you have any WAHA moments
- 20:17Speaker 1: when you looked at these.
- 20:19Speaker 2: No, because I think you could see it unfolding. The
- 20:21Speaker 2: biggest AHA was the Javan number that we were talking
- 20:24Speaker 2: about throughout the broadcast and tracking that where he scored
- 20:28Speaker 2: his final basket. I think it was eight twenty six
- 20:30Speaker 2: in the first half, last time he got a basket,
- 20:32Speaker 2: and it went all the way late until the second
- 20:34Speaker 2: half when he got that follow up tip in before
- 20:36Speaker 2: he scored a field goal again. So it was twenty
- 20:38Speaker 2: six plus minutes. That was really the wow moment of
- 20:41Speaker 2: the game. There was twenty I think it was twenty
- 20:42Speaker 2: one plus minutes without a single point, So that was
- 20:45Speaker 2: real challenge. Some of these numbers I gave you earlier.
- 20:47Speaker 2: The turnover number was one that was really big, and
- 20:51Speaker 2: I'm sure Darren will talk some more about that, But
- 20:53Speaker 2: Coylraddo comes into this game eleventh worst in the country
- 20:56Speaker 2: and turnover percentage only had four in the second half.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Some of that was the way they changed their defense,
- 21:02Speaker 2: less dribbling, less passing that West Virginia was really disruptive
- 21:05Speaker 2: with in the first half, and they were able to
- 21:07Speaker 2: just post entry that thing down into Malone, who was
- 21:10Speaker 2: really tough to stop in the pain. I'll get to
- 21:13Speaker 2: that coming up here in just a second. West Virginia
- 21:15Speaker 2: had six steals in the first half that flipped in
- 21:18Speaker 2: the second half when Colorado had six steals. Not too
- 21:21Speaker 2: dissimilar from that UCF game Tony. We mentioned in that one,
- 21:24Speaker 2: the final regular season game, West Virginia had a fourteen
- 21:27Speaker 2: to two turnover points off turnover advantage in the first
- 21:30Speaker 2: half against UCF while building that twenty seven point lead.
- 21:33Speaker 2: That flipped to a fifteen to two advantage for UCF
- 21:37Speaker 2: in the second half, which fueled their comeback. And so
- 21:39Speaker 2: that's part of what this game did. First half, West
- 21:41Speaker 2: Virginia was doing what it had to do. It was
- 21:44Speaker 2: so disruptive defensively. Colorado was really struggling in the second half, though.
- 21:48Speaker 2: And how about this number. This was kind of a wow.
- 21:50Speaker 2: Although you knew the turnovers were a problem, West Virginia
- 21:53Speaker 2: had nine of them in the final nine minutes in
- 21:55Speaker 2: forty nine seconds.
- 21:56Speaker 1: Excuse me, what was it?
- 21:57Speaker 2: Nine turnovers in the final nine to forty nine the
- 22:00Speaker 2: game I mentioned earlier. West Virginia only averaged ten point
- 22:04Speaker 2: six turnovers per game this season, so almost matched your
- 22:08Speaker 2: season average in the final nine to forty nine. That
- 22:11Speaker 2: was obviously one of the reasons you couldn't hold that lead.
- 22:14Speaker 2: Colorado had eight live ball turnovers on the game, So
- 22:17Speaker 2: of those fifteen on the game, eight were live ball turnovers.
- 22:21Speaker 2: They scored one point eight to eight points per possession
- 22:24Speaker 2: off those, so nearly a basket off of every one.
- 22:27Speaker 2: And here's here's part of the point to that this
- 22:30Speaker 2: isn't necessarily what Colorado does. That's up almost a full
- 22:33Speaker 2: point per possession from their previous five games. So they
- 22:37Speaker 2: got some and then they converted at a rate that
- 22:40Speaker 2: they hadn't over the last five games. That kind of
- 22:43Speaker 2: jumped first meeting, West Virginia was plus ten against Colorado
- 22:46Speaker 2: on points off turnovers. That went to a minus two
- 22:49Speaker 2: here the other day. So I've said this a million times.
- 22:52Speaker 2: If West Virginia is not hitting shots from the field,
- 22:54Speaker 2: it's got to find points somewhere else. This isn't a
- 22:56Speaker 2: team that gets to the free throw line a lot,
- 22:58Speaker 2: so that's usually not one area. It generally comes from
- 23:01Speaker 2: your defense in points off turnovers. So if you lose
- 23:03Speaker 2: that category coupled with a game in which you're not
- 23:06Speaker 2: shooting it, well that's a recipe for disaster. West Virginia
- 23:10Speaker 2: now two in five in Big twelve games when it
- 23:13Speaker 2: makes six or fewer three pointers, and really that's six
- 23:16Speaker 2: is a little inflated because two of them came late
- 23:18Speaker 2: from Javon when the game was pretty much decided at
- 23:21Speaker 2: that point. So there's really the things that jumped out
- 23:24Speaker 2: to you, some defensive things for Western. I'm sorry, I'll
- 23:28Speaker 2: give you one more. The Colorado zone bothered West Virginia,
- 23:32Speaker 2: and you got some looks. You had some shots from
- 23:34Speaker 2: inside the pain and it's one of those, Tony, you're
- 23:36Speaker 2: not talking. You need to make five or six of those.
- 23:38Speaker 2: You make a couple of those little bunnies from inside
- 23:41Speaker 2: mid lane, and that probably shoots them out of a zone.
- 23:44Speaker 2: They go back into a mandaman, which they were having
- 23:47Speaker 2: trouble staying with Javon in particular. And it's little things
- 23:50Speaker 2: like that when your margin for errorsslim, that changes the game.
- 23:54Speaker 2: The more they got stops from their zone, the longer
- 23:56Speaker 2: they could stay in the zone. West Virginia had fifteen
- 23:59Speaker 2: possessions again inside zone defense where it didn't get any points.
- 24:02Speaker 2: That's probably ballgame right there.
- 24:03Speaker 1: I'd love to know as well.
- 24:04Speaker 2: Some of those are turnovers. Those aren't all misshots.
- 24:07Speaker 1: What was a field goal percentage in the lane? Missed, missed,
- 24:10Speaker 1: a little missed, A bunch of little push shots, little
- 24:14Speaker 1: eight footers, nine footers, ten footers. You got to get those.
- 24:17Speaker 2: Together, and that's what I'm saying. Those are the ones
- 24:18Speaker 2: you hit a couple of those that shoots him out
- 24:20Speaker 2: of the zone. Defensively, Malone, Elijah Malone was really good inside.
- 24:23Speaker 2: He only played what's seven minutes in the game in
- 24:26Speaker 2: Boulder with a back injury, and he was a concern
- 24:28Speaker 2: for the Mountaineer staff going into that game. He's six',
- 24:30Speaker 2: ten he's a wide, body you have to fight him
- 24:33Speaker 2: on the. Catch you have to make it difficult for
- 24:35Speaker 2: him to get the ball because when he burrows in
- 24:37Speaker 2: inside that restricted, arc it's nearly impossible to, stop especially
- 24:41Speaker 2: For West virginia When eduardo's not in the, game to
- 24:44Speaker 2: bother him with his, length and that's what. Happened AND
- 24:46Speaker 2: i do think the fouls On amani early changed the
- 24:49Speaker 2: way you could approach. That amani couldn't be his physical
- 24:52Speaker 2: inside with him pre catch because of the foul trouble
- 24:56Speaker 2: and was worried about getting. Dinged even, Further malone finishes
- 24:59Speaker 2: up five of six on shots at the, rim which
- 25:02Speaker 2: for this is defined as shots within four and a
- 25:04Speaker 2: half feet of the. Basket so he got in low
- 25:06Speaker 2: and lay and deep to the basket and it was
- 25:08Speaker 2: hard to. Stop he was seven of nine on shots
- 25:11Speaker 2: in the. Pain colorado got a total of thirty nine
- 25:14Speaker 2: percent of its shots at the, rim so again that's
- 25:16Speaker 2: within four and a half, feet almost forty percent of
- 25:19Speaker 2: it shots, inside and That's West virginia's. Ryptonite when you
- 25:22Speaker 2: can burrow in deep and get in, there that's what
- 25:24Speaker 2: you're concerned. About almost sixty percent of their field goal
- 25:27Speaker 2: attempts were in the, lane SO i give them. Credit
- 25:30Speaker 2: Tad boyle does a nice. Job darren has a lot
- 25:32Speaker 2: of respect for how he runs his, offenses and he's
- 25:34Speaker 2: a good. Coach he, recognized, hey, guys don't stand outside
- 25:37Speaker 2: and bomb. Threes that's not what we. Do get it
- 25:39Speaker 2: inside and hammer him, inside and that it was especially
- 25:41Speaker 2: true in the second. Half colorado was ozho of seven
- 25:45Speaker 2: on guarded jump. Shots so when you force them into
- 25:48Speaker 2: shooting jump, shots you were generally in their face and
- 25:50Speaker 2: they weren't performing. Well but when they got it, inside
- 25:53Speaker 2: that was the. Problem the free throw line Kept colorado
- 25:56Speaker 2: in that game until the second half when it was
- 25:58Speaker 2: able to take over in. Side it had a free
- 26:01Speaker 2: throw attempt rate of forty five. Percent that's up from
- 26:04Speaker 2: the previous five games at thirty eight, percent so that
- 26:07Speaker 2: was a little bit of a factor as.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Well all, right moving, on here's another thing that you
- 26:17Speaker 1: take away from, that which is. Sports they looked great in,
- 26:21Speaker 1: practice practiced, hard they were, bouncy they were locked, in
- 26:26Speaker 1: they were giving it in, practice and then you just don't.
- 26:29Speaker 1: Know that's, right if you always knew it would be pretty,
- 26:34Speaker 1: easy but when you just don't know from one to the,
- 26:37Speaker 1: next what you're going to see and why it doesn't.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Translate that's always a question that keeps coaches.
- 26:42Speaker 2: Up confidence and momentum are, BIG i think in any
- 26:44Speaker 2: walk of. Life in sports, man it's just. Massive and
- 26:48Speaker 2: When West virginia is going cold and not making shots
- 26:51Speaker 2: and struggling offensively and they're coming right back and throwing
- 26:54Speaker 2: it in for layups in the, lane that is hard
- 26:56Speaker 2: and it creates a tough Environment West. VIRGINIA i still Contend,
- 27:01Speaker 2: tony you just needed a couple shots to go down
- 27:04Speaker 2: seven forty seven to go on the. Clock javon coming
- 27:07Speaker 2: off the screen to our, left and you get whistled
- 27:10Speaker 2: for an illegal screen call that hadn't been called all.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Game there were screens on every. Possession there wasn't one
- 27:15Speaker 2: of those all game that ended up in a wing
- 27:17Speaker 2: three For. Javon you don't know what that does to
- 27:20Speaker 2: change the, game, Right Those those are the kind of
- 27:22Speaker 2: things that happen in a game that's a thin margin for.
- 27:25Speaker 2: Air that flipped, things AND i thought that was one
- 27:28Speaker 2: of those moments that was. Massive and then As West
- 27:30Speaker 2: virginia continued to go either with a turnover or a,
- 27:33Speaker 2: misshot it's hard to keep that confidence up.
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- 31:17Speaker 2: they maybe or do for. One WOULDN'T i thought somebody
- 31:19Speaker 2: could get through this league with one.
- 31:21Speaker 1: Loss what'd you think of your first big twelve? Tournament
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- 32:02Speaker 1: so like you would love to See West virginia keep,
- 32:07Speaker 1: playing but there's a lot Of mountaineer fans that are
- 32:09Speaker 1: there going to be there for the next couple of three.
- 32:11Speaker 1: Days but it's just put that in your. Mind, hey
- 32:16Speaker 1: your team may not be, there but people stay for
- 32:19Speaker 1: the whole event and it is really, fun.
- 32:21Speaker 2: Some fun basketball and just game after game after.
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- 33:25Speaker 1: Here Texter buddy In, virginia tell me what the hell
- 33:31Speaker 1: DID i just? Watch seventy chance Of. Winning colorado played
- 33:36Speaker 1: the day before Doormat big twelve team first time this.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Year coach may have gotten. Out, coach why were we
- 33:44Speaker 1: so lackluster in the second, Half Ugh buddy In, Virginia,
- 33:50Speaker 1: well those are questions that coaches asked. Themselves is exactly what?
- 33:59Speaker 1: Happened you? Know the simple, answer and you might want
- 34:02Speaker 1: to pull your hair, out BUT i mean the whole
- 34:05Speaker 1: object of success in the game is to put the
- 34:08Speaker 1: ball into the. Hole West virginia did not help itself
- 34:12Speaker 1: at the free throw, line going twelve out of. Eighteen
- 34:16Speaker 1: that's sixty seven. Percent you needed a sixteen of eighteen.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Performance colorado did help. Itself they go eighteen to twenty,
- 34:25Speaker 1: two eighty two. Percent they put the ball in the. Basket.
- 34:28Speaker 1: More West virginia shot forty one percent to forty five
- 34:33Speaker 1: percent From. Colorado got to make, shots, Man AND i
- 34:36Speaker 1: think the biggest thing Is brad, said was the. Turnovers
- 34:40Speaker 1: it was there and you just didn't execute. It but
- 34:43Speaker 1: that that's what.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Happens West virginia's won games two. Ways it's one of
- 34:46Speaker 2: the elite defenses in the. Country it continues to be
- 34:48Speaker 2: a top twenty defense. Nationally in effective field goal percentage
- 34:52Speaker 2: for the opponent they shot what in the second half sixty,
- 34:55Speaker 2: percent sixty one sixty sixty sixty one percent in the second.
- 35:01Speaker 2: Half there's. One number. Two West virginia is a top
- 35:04Speaker 2: one fifteen team, nationally which is really good out of
- 35:06Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty four, teams top one hundred and fifteen.
- 35:09Speaker 2: Teams in turnover. Percentage it had its worst turnover percentage
- 35:13Speaker 2: of the. Game so we can drill down as we
- 35:15Speaker 2: did earlier. Today but those are the two.
- 35:16Speaker 1: Reasons phil In, Ashland Kentucky Rights hoppy was. Right it
- 35:22Speaker 1: was a special basketball, season in large part because of
- 35:24Speaker 1: our preseason, Expectations tucker's. Injury an outstanding coaching job of
- 35:29Speaker 1: a group of young men who bought into the coach's.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Message West virginia should be very proud of this. Group
- 35:34Speaker 1: now my obvious, Observation hoppy said that he had worked
- 35:39Speaker 1: hard on his obvious. Observations if the observations are truly,
- 35:44Speaker 1: obvious isn't little work? Needed thanks for what you. Do
- 35:50Speaker 1: Think phil's got a great. Point why Is hoppy preparing
- 35:52Speaker 1: on stuff that's? Obvious that's several texts on The mountaineer baseball,
- 35:58Speaker 1: team which leaves today For, Stillwater, oklahoma And West virginia
- 36:03Speaker 1: opens Up Big twelve play in the nicest stadium in
- 36:06Speaker 1: the Entire Big Twelve, conference, Right, Oh Bright? Stadium is
- 36:10Speaker 1: that what it? Is bre oh.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Brak it's a nice.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Facility it's A TRIPLE a level baseball, stadium that nice of.
- 36:19Speaker 1: Equality So West virginia is going to find out real
- 36:21Speaker 1: quick exactly where they are Because Oklahoma state year in
- 36:26Speaker 1: and year, out very. Good three game of Fair, Friday
- 36:30Speaker 1: saturday And. Sunday, yeah but what they've been doing has
- 36:33Speaker 1: been on a record setting. Pace it's been absolutely. Fantastic
- 36:37Speaker 1: so best out to those guys as they get ready
- 36:40Speaker 1: to play In. Stillwater one thing THAT i really like
- 36:45Speaker 1: about Coach devrees his refusal to consider any adverse circumstances
- 36:50Speaker 1: as having an impact on his team at a press.
- 36:53Speaker 1: Conference often asked and given plenty of opportunity to address,
- 36:56Speaker 1: injuries short bench, travel, officiating never takes the, bait only
- 37:00Speaker 1: acknowledges that there are circumstances that the team faces and
- 37:03Speaker 1: they deal with. Them some coaches would call attention to
- 37:06Speaker 1: these and then we'll say they're not going to complain about,
- 37:09Speaker 1: it thereby complaining in an indirect. Way but he won't
- 37:13Speaker 1: even go. There very classy serves as player as well
- 37:15Speaker 1: on the court and. Beyond it's aj IN.
- 37:18Speaker 2: Pa it's a solid. Observation he does not give an
- 37:23Speaker 2: inch on ANY i mean he wears the shirt and
- 37:25Speaker 2: he said it all. Year no.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Excuses texas says it seems from this year's officiating that
- 37:31Speaker 1: the best way to get a call is to lower
- 37:32Speaker 1: your shoulder or fake. Contact perhaps Coach devrees could Hire
- 37:37Speaker 1: Truck bryant to teach the head jerk to his.
- 37:40Speaker 2: Players MAN ucf had one last night late in the
- 37:42Speaker 2: game against excuse, me Against Kansas Ivy curry going to the.
- 37:46Speaker 2: BASKET i do not know how you call a foul
- 37:48Speaker 2: on The kansas. Guy he flat lowered his, shoulder pushed
- 37:51Speaker 2: off the whole. Thing kansas got. Fouled, yeah, yeah you
- 37:55Speaker 2: put your head down and Go one quick note, again
- 37:57Speaker 2: this is dated material WHEN i say, it But Curtis
- 38:02Speaker 2: jones is on an all time heater twenty two points
- 38:05Speaker 2: For Iowa state in the first, half six three, pointers
- 38:08Speaker 2: and As i'm saying, this there's still three minutes to,
- 38:10Speaker 2: go so who knows where he's going to end. Up
- 38:12Speaker 2: he absolutely just Vaulted Iowa state PAST. Byu and it's, Interesting,
- 38:17Speaker 2: tony this is one of those things you talk ABOUT
- 38:19Speaker 2: naca tournament will hit this some next. Week if you
- 38:21Speaker 2: look AT, byus who's as hot as any team in the,
- 38:23Speaker 2: country and there's a lot of reasons to like how they.
- 38:25Speaker 2: Play this is what would concern you If i'm A
- 38:28Speaker 2: byu fan going into the. Tournament they just play so
- 38:31Speaker 2: little defense that at times another team can get hot
- 38:35Speaker 2: and their. Offense BYU's offense doesn't have a chance to
- 38:38Speaker 2: keep up and stay with you if you guard a
- 38:40Speaker 2: little bit and get somebody. Hot that's the recipe against
- 38:44Speaker 2: And Curtis. Jones they can't find him right. Now they've
- 38:46Speaker 2: given up forty six points with three minutes to go
- 38:49Speaker 2: in the first. HALF i Was states on pace to
- 38:51Speaker 2: score more than one.
- 38:51Speaker 1: Hundred you said he's got twenty two in the.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Half he's got twenty two and a half and six
- 38:55Speaker 2: threes in the. Half and this is Without Iowa states
- 38:59Speaker 2: one of its best players without two of its best,
- 39:01Speaker 2: Players Taman limpsey's point guard who's sitting on the, bench
- 39:04Speaker 2: And Keishawn, gilbert first seam league who's not even dressed.
- 39:07Speaker 2: Today well he's got clothes on. Uniform oh thank everybody
- 39:11Speaker 2: knew WHAT i.
- 39:12Speaker 1: Meant, anyway came into, Town texter says to visit my,
- 39:19Speaker 1: dad Watch wednesday's, game feed, up, relaxing enjoying. Games felt
- 39:25Speaker 1: the need to pull off the. Trifecta so here's WHAT i.
- 39:27Speaker 1: DID i went to the book, exchange got a new,
- 39:29Speaker 1: hat got new threads from fine Looking Philip daniels and
- 39:32Speaker 1: the coup De gras connection three oh four logger at
- 39:36Speaker 1: the local goal Mark let's Go. Mountaineers he sent a
- 39:39Speaker 1: picture of that. Too here it.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Is that's a heck of an.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Effort so he goes hat n nice quarters up in
- 39:45Speaker 1: a six. Packer thank you very. Much we appreciate that.
- 39:49Speaker 1: Greatly thank you very. Much that's pretty. Wild, huh that's.
- 39:54Speaker 1: Great he went got a hat case it. Rains he
- 39:58Speaker 1: looked like he was a little bit over. That quarters
- 40:00Speaker 1: are probably a little heavy for right for.
- 40:01Speaker 2: Today it turned out to be seventy five.
- 40:03Speaker 1: Today should probably go back and get a golf. Shirt
- 40:05Speaker 1: probably should for you guys before the game is brought
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- 41:29Speaker 1: You therefore, you step by Step jason And, Charleston South.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Carolina when this podcast first, Began hoppy used to run
- 41:39Speaker 1: and hide as soon as football. Ended fast forward to,
- 41:43Speaker 1: today now leads the basketball postgame shows with obvious. Observations
- 41:49Speaker 1: i'd argue the segment should be Named Hoppy's Intellectual. Insights
- 41:53Speaker 1: it is incredibly inspiring to see someone retire from a
- 41:57Speaker 1: legendary career in one field and continue to grow and
- 42:01Speaker 1: shine in. Another great. Work Copy, Charleston South. Carolina send
- 42:07Speaker 1: it over to.
- 42:07Speaker 2: Hop right now for his thoughts on yesterday's. Game oh
- 42:12Speaker 2: he ran and Hid no.
- 42:15Speaker 1: One over in that other. Chair football must be.
- 42:18Speaker 2: Over love you.
- 42:21Speaker 1: Hot. Yeah here's a great story FORMER wv assistant Coach Eric.
- 42:27Speaker 1: Martin when he took Over South Carolina, state he had
- 42:32Speaker 1: three players on the, roster none of them were on.
- 42:35Speaker 1: Scholarship the ad that took the that Hired eric was
- 42:39Speaker 1: fired shortly after he took the. Job the new ad
- 42:42Speaker 1: didn't make it one year in. Gone eric went from
- 42:45Speaker 1: last place to first in his third, year his team
- 42:49Speaker 1: playing really, well good chance going forward Remarkably the last
- 42:55Speaker 1: Time South Carolina state made The Big dance was two
- 42:57Speaker 1: thousand and. THREE i don't know if you know this
- 42:58Speaker 1: What Eric martin was named the co of the year
- 43:02Speaker 1: in that conference in THE. Miac that's, great, man.
- 43:05Speaker 2: Really that was a hard. Job is a hard, job terribly.
- 43:08Speaker 2: Difficult was darn near an impossible job when he took it,
- 43:11Speaker 2: over and especially given the circumstances there that the text,
- 43:14Speaker 2: outlined he has. Done nice. Job congratulations to Emart next.
- 43:19Speaker 1: Up this texture just says three straight halves of awful
- 43:23Speaker 1: basketball offense and. Defense, okay well that means they're due to.
- 43:29Speaker 2: Play that's not entirely.
- 43:31Speaker 1: Right, no that's. Not let just go with. It h
- 43:34Speaker 1: J d from The southern Coal fields has been a
- 43:36Speaker 1: long time contributor to the. Program he's, pissed he's. Hot
- 43:42Speaker 1: he writes in That Rich rodriguez is officially an old
- 43:45Speaker 1: man wants to keep the kids off of his. Lawn
- 43:47Speaker 1: first it was the sleeve, band and now it's The
- 43:50Speaker 1: TikTok dancing. Band he's picking fights that will have no
- 43:55Speaker 1: impact on game day. PERFORMANCE i don't have a clue
- 43:58Speaker 1: why he leads a football, team not a freaking. CULT
- 44:05Speaker 1: jd take a deep, breath bring it in from the,
- 44:09Speaker 1: diaphragm like just push your stomach, out clean the lungs.
- 44:12Speaker 1: Out this thing About rich and no TikTok is taken
- 44:18Speaker 1: on a life of its, own.
- 44:19Speaker 2: Unbelievable like how do you say this WITHOUT i think sixty?
- 44:24Speaker 2: Minutes Good Morning? America like How day show might have
- 44:30Speaker 2: opened with.
- 44:30Speaker 1: It it was.
- 44:32Speaker 2: A it's the off.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Season first of, all it was a throwaway. Line he
- 44:36Speaker 1: was trying to be. Funny he doesn't care about. TikTok
- 44:42Speaker 1: he's got a whole creative team which produces social media
- 44:46Speaker 1: for all different kinds of platforms that are shooting stuff every.
- 44:50Speaker 1: Day it was a line like like have you forgot
- 44:55Speaker 1: how to listen To? Rich it's like it's like a coffee.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Filter like he's a funny. Guy he talks. Fast he
- 45:05Speaker 1: says stuff to get people. Laughing he says stuff to
- 45:08Speaker 1: get people a. Rise the TikTok line was just to
- 45:11Speaker 1: kind of showing like hey, man like we're gonna be
- 45:13Speaker 1: one team, Unified LIKE i don't want to. TikTok what's? It?
- 45:16Speaker 1: Like he's playing. Dumb he knows exactly what it. Is
- 45:18Speaker 1: he knows all of. That he's got people hired specifically
- 45:21Speaker 1: to do, That so, like don't take what he says
- 45:25Speaker 1: at face. Value he's always just trying to get a
- 45:28Speaker 1: rise or just being. Funny so this Whole TikTok, thing
- 45:32Speaker 1: like people are doing shows about.
- 45:33Speaker 2: That Man JD's, Defense Big jay journalism jumped all over this.
- 45:37Speaker 2: Thing there was some in depth investigative reporting On rich
- 45:40Speaker 2: and The. TikTok every outlet had.
- 45:42Speaker 1: It, NO i would say this in regard to the uniform,
- 45:46Speaker 1: Stuff you're gonna look the, Same like they aren't gonna
- 45:49Speaker 1: let kids have half a half an elastic strap on
- 45:55Speaker 1: their one leg and then you know out there looking
- 45:57Speaker 1: Like quirky the. Clown they're not gonna do. That it's
- 45:59Speaker 1: gonna be one. Uniform but like the other, Stuff rich
- 46:02Speaker 1: is too smart to know that if some player is,
- 46:05Speaker 1: making for, example nil money by being an influencer On,
- 46:09Speaker 1: TikTok he's gon go, like go with it whatever it
- 46:12Speaker 1: needs because at the end of the, Day rich knows
- 46:15Speaker 1: players that make plays are the most important. Thing so
- 46:20Speaker 1: like This TikTok, THING i just kind of a HORTAL i.
- 46:24Speaker 1: DO i absolutely. GO i don't, know, Man i've told you,
- 46:32Speaker 1: before a lot of what rich says number one is
- 46:37Speaker 1: just to send messaging and number two a lot of
- 46:41Speaker 1: it is pretty funny. Stuff that's WHAT i. Think had
- 46:49Speaker 1: a couple of, uh had a couple of Rate my
- 46:52Speaker 1: plates come in while we were, gone and ALSO i
- 46:59Speaker 1: got a different something different for the first. Time we'll
- 47:01Speaker 1: do the rate the plate. First after an endless, Winter
- 47:04Speaker 1: laurie AND i were able to sneak away long weekend
- 47:07Speaker 1: To West virginia's fifty sixth, County Hory, County South. Carolina
- 47:12Speaker 1: fifteen years. Ago we were introduced to a local, Restaurant Villa.
- 47:14Speaker 1: ROMANO i always like to try the special tonight pan
- 47:18Speaker 1: fried chicken covered with sweet, peppers asparagus smothered with a cream.
- 47:22Speaker 1: Sauce could you bring that? Up that was pretty?
- 47:25Speaker 2: Good and all Non Myrtle beach area Right Curry.
- 47:29Speaker 1: County, yeah all non postumeals come with a plate of homemade.
- 47:32Speaker 1: Spaghetti great. Experience of, Course West virginia Connection ronaldo And
- 47:38Speaker 1: franca opened this shop at the location in nineteen eighty.
- 47:41Speaker 1: Five their first restaurant started in one Of West virginia's
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- 47:48Speaker 1: That of course it did, yeah very. Nice so, yeah
- 47:50Speaker 1: that's a great. Place it's, Good, yeah really. Good it's
- 47:53Speaker 1: almost dog un, healthy almost dog. Unhealthy all, right SO
- 47:57Speaker 1: i GOT i got one. Too not to rate my?
- 48:01Speaker 1: Plate did you take one from us the other? Night
- 48:04Speaker 1: you didn't take a? Picture where did we? Eat where was.
- 48:08Speaker 2: With all the other?
- 48:08Speaker 1: BROADCASTERS i did take the broadcasters? Picture that was? Nice
- 48:13Speaker 1: of the PLATE i met, YOU i. DIDN'T i didn't
- 48:16Speaker 1: it was. Chicken that WAS i ate mind too fast
- 48:19Speaker 1: to get a. Picture was that was?
- 48:20Speaker 2: TASTY i, thought.
- 48:21Speaker 1: Okay so here here's this instead of rate my. Plate
- 48:27Speaker 1: so AS i, TRAVEL i carry a. Backpack and during
- 48:31Speaker 1: the course of travel early on this, season you didn't,
- 48:37Speaker 1: know like if there was gonna be enough snacks and
- 48:40Speaker 1: food and stuff like. That SO i began to pre.
- 48:42Speaker 1: Pack but the backpack is pretty, big and SO i
- 48:46Speaker 1: just throw stuff in there WHENEVER i get just in,
- 48:49Speaker 1: case you, KNOW i get. It you, KNOW i might
- 48:51Speaker 1: get hungry somewhere at some.
- 48:52Speaker 2: Point always like to have.
- 48:53Speaker 1: Snacks so this MORNING i emptied out the backpack, completely,
- 48:58Speaker 1: papers stat, sheet game, notes, headphones, cords, chargers, everything and
- 49:07Speaker 1: just TOOK i separated all of the treats that had
- 49:10Speaker 1: accumulated themselves in the, underneath in the bottom of the.
- 49:13Speaker 1: Back but you just don't know what you're carrying. Around, So,
- 49:16Speaker 1: jake if you, could this is rate my. Backpack this
- 49:19Speaker 1: is a that's there's some cheetahs in. There you got.
- 49:25Speaker 1: Cheetos you got a couple of cond. Bars off to
- 49:28Speaker 1: the right side that big twelve. Logo those are two
- 49:30Speaker 1: big twelve. Cookies you took those?
- 49:32Speaker 2: Cookies?
- 49:33Speaker 1: Yeah they had them there on the press table on.
- 49:34Speaker 2: The Press did you take? Mine how'd you get? TWO
- 49:37Speaker 2: i did not have.
- 49:37Speaker 1: ON i took a couple of nutri grain. Bars there's
- 49:40Speaker 1: a payday something From, BUCkies sweetest fish and, orange and
- 49:46Speaker 1: then the zip lock weigh in the back was my
- 49:48Speaker 1: homemade trail. MIX a lot of raisins and nuts in.
- 49:51Speaker 1: THERE i had them all in my. Bag probably just
- 49:53Speaker 1: lose the. Orange it really doesn't fit with the. Others
- 49:59Speaker 1: he got two big twelve?
- 50:00Speaker 2: Cookies, oh how.
- 50:01Speaker 1: About them in a big bag of?
- 50:03Speaker 2: Em, yeah that picture doesn't give the. Perspective that's the big.
- 50:06Speaker 2: Bag that's not one of those tiny.
- 50:07Speaker 1: Bags, yeah you can get all That gomar by the,
- 50:09Speaker 1: way except for the big twelve. COOKIES i think those
- 50:11Speaker 1: are just.
- 50:11Speaker 2: SPECIAL i think they're selling, yet especially off.
- 50:13Speaker 1: Items, yeah, okay SO.
- 50:16Speaker 2: I don't know gomarts selling paydays those are you can get?
- 50:20Speaker 1: Those? Yeah they got. IT i mean they got it.
- 50:22Speaker 1: All they got all that. Stuff so there you. Go
- 50:26Speaker 1: it was a oh my, gosh what have got? Here
- 50:27Speaker 1: we got an Injury cooper. Flag cooper flag has gone
- 50:30Speaker 1: down to the name at the A sec tournament or
- 50:32Speaker 1: during the. GAME i think it's just. Started, yeah oh my.
- 50:36Speaker 1: Goodness it might affect some. Things all. Right so that's.
- 50:39Speaker 1: It West virginia finds out where it's going to. Play,
- 50:47Speaker 1: Yes monday we'll.
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- 52:03Speaker 1: the women and also you'll have baseball. Results so we got.
- 52:07Speaker 1: Stuff still a lot going on going. On spring football is.
- 52:10Speaker 1: Off they practiced. Today now they're done for the week
- 52:13Speaker 1: that had spring break there on the campus of the. University,
- 52:17Speaker 1: okay special thanks to Producer jake Stay well see it