Latest / 3 Guys Before The Game / 3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Basketball Trainer Randy Meador Visits (Episode 643)
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- 0:06Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome on board. Everyone, get on the board.
- 0:10Speaker 1: It's time for three guys before the game. Our summer
- 0:12Speaker 1: series continues. And have I have I ever said we
- 0:19Speaker 1: got a good one for you?
- 0:20Speaker 2: Oh?
- 0:21Speaker 3: No, not once.
- 0:23Speaker 4: How many episodes is this?
- 0:24Speaker 1: This makes six hundred and forty three. If you're scoring
- 0:28Speaker 1: at home, getting close to the end, aren't we man
- 0:31Speaker 1: not going to see eight hundred so this is closer
- 0:34Speaker 1: to the end.
- 0:35Speaker 4: But the point was, that's a lot of episodes. When
- 0:37Speaker 4: we finally got a guess that probably should have been
- 0:39Speaker 4: here about three hundred episodes ago.
- 0:41Speaker 3: He was busy, Yeah, he was busy.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Lucky we We're lucky. We have him in on ready
- 0:48Speaker 1: to go for today's show after he spent probably a
- 0:52Speaker 1: good half of an hour of treating Kerchieval before we
- 0:58Speaker 1: started to roll tape. He it was kind of embarrassing
- 1:01Speaker 1: for the others of us here.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Wait, why was it embarrassing?
- 1:04Speaker 4: Randy Special trying to sit down for the show, and
- 1:07Speaker 4: you're over there, you're making him work. He's not here to.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Work, thank you. Our special guest is WUV retired WVU
- 1:14Speaker 1: basketball athletics trainer Randy Meta. This is going to be
- 1:20Speaker 1: good because if you're a Mountaineer fan. You've heard his
- 1:23Speaker 1: name countless times, quite honestly, Jee Fleming. Jack Fleming said
- 1:28Speaker 1: his name more than I would.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Jack.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Jack would get at least six obligatory Randy meta references
- 1:35Speaker 1: in each game broadcast.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Now trainer.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Is on the floor and Randy is holding a towel.
- 1:41Speaker 1: He get Randy, gety.
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- 3:00Speaker 5: I think?
- 3:00Speaker 4: So?
- 3:00Speaker 1: Okay, good, you better get up on that mike. See quiet.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I need to give background here. Let me tell you
- 3:06Speaker 1: who this dude is. This young man, this young man
- 3:10Speaker 1: is that young man over there there is Randy Metter.
- 3:16Speaker 1: He is the outgoing basketball athletic trainer, certified athletic trainer
- 3:22Speaker 1: for West Virginia basketball, and he has an historic spot
- 3:28Speaker 1: all time in WUV basketball in that he did the
- 3:32Speaker 1: job longer than any athletic trainer in WVU history, longer
- 3:39Speaker 1: than Whitey Gwinn, longer than dwarfed Whitey Gwynn. As far
- 3:43Speaker 1: as years of total service. I looked it up, did you?
- 3:46Speaker 1: So Randy has just finished year forty or forty one,
- 3:52Speaker 1: however you want to count it. So this is the
- 3:55Speaker 1: beauty and this is the magic of this show. So
- 3:58Speaker 1: you're going to go back into who basically year six
- 4:04Speaker 1: of Gail Catlet, so we're talking eighty four season. So
- 4:08Speaker 1: he has been here man through Gail Catlet, who had
- 4:12Speaker 1: a twenty plus year run, into John Bline, into Bob Huggins,
- 4:20Speaker 1: into Darren Devrees the quickest tenure and.
- 4:25Speaker 3: No Dan Dockets.
- 4:26Speaker 4: You don't forget Dan dockis well back up Josh Eiler.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Josh Eiler for the introm season. So you get the
- 4:31Speaker 1: perspective on this. This is a guy who has literally
- 4:36Speaker 1: seen and been a part of WVU basketball for forty
- 4:40Speaker 1: plus years.
- 4:41Speaker 3: When is the book coming out?
- 4:43Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be good. Now, now let me just say this.
- 4:46Speaker 1: This is the other little dirty, unknown secret about this
- 4:49Speaker 1: side of the business, and that is this. If you
- 4:53Speaker 1: think that the athletic trainer like his job is he
- 4:57Speaker 1: sits toward the end of the bench and go out
- 5:00Speaker 1: onto the floor when a player is injured, that would
- 5:04Speaker 1: be like saying, I don't know that that there are
- 5:09Speaker 1: fish in the sea. This is a job that begins
- 5:12Speaker 1: before anyone comes into the building, doesn't end until everyone's
- 5:16Speaker 1: out of the building. And it literally is it literally
- 5:21Speaker 1: is you're on call three hundred and sixty five days
- 5:23Speaker 1: a year. There is no off season because for a
- 5:25Speaker 1: bunch of different reasons. So with that all as the
- 5:30Speaker 1: premise to this conversation, like, congratulations first on your on
- 5:36Speaker 1: your on your retirement, well incredibly well deserved. I mean,
- 5:40Speaker 1: I'm tired for you when I think when I think
- 5:43Speaker 1: about when I think about what you have gone through
- 5:46Speaker 1: through the years. But it's been it's been a fascinating run,
- 5:49Speaker 1: hasn't it, of what you were able to get into
- 5:52Speaker 1: and experience and see.
- 5:53Speaker 5: Oh, definitely, definitely. I mean I still think the forty
- 5:56Speaker 5: years is flown by so uh yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
- 6:01Speaker 5: A lot of great games, a lot of great trips,
- 6:03Speaker 5: great people be around.
- 6:05Speaker 3: I can't believe he's retiring. I mean, it's just because
- 6:08Speaker 3: he's like an institution. You'd see him.
- 6:09Speaker 1: It's Randy Matter. Yeah, it's kind of like mountaineer Randy Metder.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Like mountaineers here, so is Randy.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Medder mountaineer changes frequently he.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Does, he does Okay, so let's jump all the way
- 6:20Speaker 1: into the background. You've got an interesting background in that
- 6:24Speaker 1: your dad was not an athletics trainer, but you were
- 6:28Speaker 1: born into the college world environment. You're from the state
- 6:33Speaker 1: of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio, Miami of Ohio. So how does
- 6:37Speaker 1: a nice guy like you get into a business like this.
- 6:40Speaker 5: So my dad was a audio visual manager. He did
- 6:45Speaker 5: photos and still shots and everything back with Miami for
- 6:49Speaker 5: He did it for I think thirty five three eight
- 6:51Speaker 5: years or something.
- 6:52Speaker 1: So the metas worked long term. They don't go, Yeah,
- 6:55Speaker 1: they're not tempted.
- 6:56Speaker 5: I would say I got a lot of my work
- 6:58Speaker 5: ethic from him, right everything.
- 7:00Speaker 2: But uh so.
- 7:01Speaker 5: You know, as you're starting middle school or whatever, but
- 7:05Speaker 5: you know, you can go hang out with Miami football.
- 7:07Speaker 5: Miami basketball is a cool place to be because he
- 7:10Speaker 5: looked up to them, and uh, you know, so I'm
- 7:14Speaker 5: hanging out with him, helping carrying his cases because it
- 7:17Speaker 5: was old school so that you know, the old.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Equipment, everything heavy were big. Yeah, everything's heavy.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:24Speaker 5: And the athletic trainer at Miami he just kind of
- 7:27Speaker 5: saw me and just kind of grabbed me and said, well,
- 7:28Speaker 5: you know, if you're just hanging out, why don't you
- 7:30Speaker 5: come over here and experience this and see what you think.
- 7:32Speaker 5: And he had summer camps and stuff like that.
- 7:34Speaker 1: So you're middle schoolish.
- 7:35Speaker 5: Now that was middle schoolish, but yeah, when I was
- 7:38Speaker 5: into high school, then yeah, there was summer camps and
- 7:41Speaker 5: things like that because middle school is too young. But
- 7:44Speaker 5: you know, he just kind of took me under his wing,
- 7:47Speaker 5: and I was like, well, this is a heck a
- 7:48Speaker 5: lot cooler than watching my dad take pictures, you know.
- 7:51Speaker 1: So so you start hanging out with him.
- 7:53Speaker 5: So yeah, I started hanging out with Ken Wolford at
- 7:55Speaker 5: that time and went to the summer camps, and I
- 7:58Speaker 5: mean I was all in, really fascinated me, and I
- 8:01Speaker 5: just really enjoyed it. So, you know, I go to
- 8:04Speaker 5: school at Miami and then you know, I, like I said,
- 8:07Speaker 5: I kind of trusted him. He took me on her wing.
- 8:09Speaker 5: I was like, you know, the next step because I
- 8:10Speaker 5: knew what I wanted to do to get to the
- 8:12Speaker 5: college setting.
- 8:13Speaker 2: And you know, you need to get a master's.
- 8:15Speaker 1: So you knew you wanted to be a collegiate athletic trainer.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, okay.
- 8:19Speaker 5: And he's like, well, I think the best thing for
- 8:21Speaker 5: you to do? Would you go to WU for grad school?
- 8:24Speaker 5: So you know, off the interview.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Why does he send you here?
- 8:28Speaker 5: He had some previous students that came here and he
- 8:30Speaker 5: knew Spike and everything too.
- 8:32Speaker 1: And okay, so Spike is John Spiker, who I identify
- 8:36Speaker 1: as the godfather of athletic training curriculum at DOUBLEV. Definitely
- 8:40Speaker 1: he was the guy.
- 8:41Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so you know, you know, go learn more
- 8:44Speaker 5: from him, and then you know, just right place, right time.
- 8:47Speaker 5: As I was finishing up my GA year men's basketball
- 8:50Speaker 5: athletic trainer, he left and they were going on a
- 8:52Speaker 5: European tour, so they needed to hire someone quickly.
- 8:55Speaker 2: So that was me.
- 8:57Speaker 1: So who was the trainer you proceeded?
- 9:00Speaker 2: Jim Rudd? Jim Rudd, Yeah, he was here just one
- 9:03Speaker 2: year now.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Jack Broddigum was around too, right.
- 9:05Speaker 5: Right, yeah, just before he was with them, I think
- 9:08Speaker 5: two years prior to that. So and then Jack had
- 9:11Speaker 5: left to go to the Army to get his PT degree.
- 9:15Speaker 1: So you're a g A and they just elevate you
- 9:17Speaker 1: to the.
- 9:18Speaker 2: As interim the first year. Yeah, interim, you know.
- 9:21Speaker 1: That's a big that's a okay, So to put that
- 9:23Speaker 1: into perspective, like that isn't happening anymore.
- 9:27Speaker 2: Nah, I don't see that.
- 9:28Speaker 5: Yeah, we would, I hate say frown up for that,
- 9:30Speaker 5: but it'd be a yeah, it would be a very
- 9:33Speaker 5: unique situation. But again, you know, Jim quit and we
- 9:37Speaker 5: were going on European tour pretty soon, so there wasn't
- 9:40Speaker 5: a lot of time to find someone. So, you know,
- 9:42Speaker 5: Coach Catlet interviewed me and everything and said, okay, but
- 9:45Speaker 5: they put me an interim status.
- 9:47Speaker 2: But then obviously I worked out.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Do you remember the interview with Gail Katlet very thoroughly?
- 9:51Speaker 5: Uh another media person kind of beat you to the
- 9:54Speaker 5: punch on that.
- 9:55Speaker 2: But that's okay. But uh so I'm over there interviewing
- 9:57Speaker 2: him and uh, oh you're from Miami. Me, well, you know,
- 10:01Speaker 2: oh yeah, we don't like Miami. You know, he's a
- 10:06Speaker 2: hard time.
- 10:07Speaker 5: And then you know, as a g A, I was
- 10:09Speaker 5: a ga over at football football, you know, the basketball.
- 10:13Speaker 2: You know, this this interview is going really well.
- 10:16Speaker 1: You know, for those that don't know football coach, there's
- 10:19Speaker 1: this fremeny thing that goes on. Football coaches always pretend
- 10:23Speaker 1: that they like the basketball coach. The basketball coach always
- 10:25Speaker 1: pretends that they like the football coach. But when they're
- 10:27Speaker 1: away from each other, they just kill each other's probably
- 10:30Speaker 1: like I don't know why the hell football gets all
- 10:31Speaker 1: the damn money, right, and like and football guys are going, like,
- 10:35Speaker 1: what tell those guys doing over there? What do they
- 10:36Speaker 1: need that for? They only have fifteen guys. That's that's
- 10:39Speaker 1: the world that this is anyway.
- 10:40Speaker 2: So the interview is going really well. You know, I'm
- 10:42Speaker 2: sitting here, this is great.
- 10:44Speaker 1: You know, guy's crushing me.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:46Speaker 5: But then Lester Row walks in and coach you know
- 10:51Speaker 5: Lester of course, yeah, the great guy. So, uh, Lester,
- 10:55Speaker 5: how you doing? You know he goes, oh, yeah, yeah,
- 10:57Speaker 5: I know, Randy, he's a great guy. You know when
- 10:59Speaker 5: who's that football was back then the coliseum that side
- 11:02Speaker 5: of campus had no weight room. Came over and lifted
- 11:05Speaker 5: at football with Al Johnson. He goes, yeah, whenever we
- 11:08Speaker 5: need anything, Randy will help us out. You know, you
- 11:11Speaker 5: do this or do whatever. And you know, I just
- 11:13Speaker 5: I like football, I like basketball. I like sports all
- 11:16Speaker 5: building people out. So you know, I knew Lester and everything.
- 11:19Speaker 5: And uh so Lester gave me a pat on the
- 11:21Speaker 5: back and you know, voted confidence and everything else.
- 11:24Speaker 2: And then after that it was all good.
- 11:26Speaker 4: You were in with the you were a made man.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Lester got you in there, les.
- 11:29Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah did yeah, because that interview was going really well.
- 11:32Speaker 2: You know, I had to be honest. Yeah, I'm from Miami, Yeah,
- 11:35Speaker 2: was my GA physician, was at football. But I mean
- 11:37Speaker 2: I know basketball too.
- 11:38Speaker 5: I mean played a lot of basketball and worked basketball
- 11:41Speaker 5: in undergrad.
- 11:42Speaker 4: So back up a little bit here when you said
- 11:44Speaker 4: you were interested in it right away, so that was
- 11:47Speaker 4: obviously not something you thought about. You didn't even probably
- 11:50Speaker 4: know that was a career. What interested you specifically.
- 11:55Speaker 5: The ability to be able to help, uh, you know,
- 11:58Speaker 5: athletes recover, understand the body anatomy and I have no
- 12:04Speaker 5: injuries and you know, figure this out and work as
- 12:08Speaker 5: a team as an athletic trainers and team physicians and
- 12:10Speaker 5: everything like that.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I just found it very intriguing.
- 12:12Speaker 1: See, I don't know why you would ask him that question,
- 12:15Speaker 1: because he just what he just said is exactly what
- 12:18Speaker 1: he did before the show started. He still loves, he
- 12:22Speaker 1: still loves to help people. Like copy said, I've got
- 12:24Speaker 1: this I band situation. He goes out there, he gets
- 12:27Speaker 1: on his phone, he shows him what roller he's supposed
- 12:29Speaker 1: to use. He gives him exercised, so you still love
- 12:32Speaker 1: the actual.
- 12:33Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on this aspect of it. But we're hopping
- 12:36Speaker 5: our bikers, so you know, bikers stick together.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
- 12:41Speaker 4: It's interesting about what the reason I asked that is
- 12:43Speaker 4: because it's it's another example. How many times have we
- 12:46Speaker 4: done this and talked to people there's a single individual
- 12:48Speaker 4: that kind of grabs you and says, hey, take a
- 12:51Speaker 4: look at this in an area that Randy may never
- 12:54Speaker 4: have seen. You could have bypassed that and never seen
- 12:57Speaker 4: that area. And yet it not only turns into a
- 12:59Speaker 4: job and a career, but something you really love. That
- 13:02Speaker 4: that those stories always are remarkable to me. That that's
- 13:05Speaker 4: that's a lot of times all it takes is one
- 13:07Speaker 4: person just saying, hey, take a look at this, seminal moment.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Seminal moment you're off and running.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Yeah, no, very true.
- 13:14Speaker 5: And then uh, I've been reflecting, you know a lot recently,
- 13:17Speaker 5: and you know the saying, you know, if you find
- 13:20Speaker 5: what you enjoy to do, you never work a day
- 13:22Speaker 5: in life. And that and that's that's another thing. You know,
- 13:25Speaker 5: when forty years goes like, yeah, you got to figure
- 13:27Speaker 5: you were in the right profession. I never I still.
- 13:30Speaker 5: You know, I'm going to work going up and down
- 13:34Speaker 5: the Colisseum steps. You know that never got old or whatever.
- 13:36Speaker 3: So, yeah, you're gonna you're gonna miss it, aren't you.
- 13:39Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's a lot of aspects one miss.
- 13:42Speaker 3: What What are you going to miss the most? The games,
- 13:44Speaker 3: the people you become close to, the work itself. What
- 13:49Speaker 3: are you going to miss the most?
- 13:50Speaker 2: Do you think the first two? The games? I still
- 13:53Speaker 2: really enjoy the games.
- 13:54Speaker 5: I always told my wife Bev, if when I get
- 13:57Speaker 5: tired of travel, you know, I'll look for some else.
- 14:00Speaker 2: And I still enjoy the travel.
- 14:03Speaker 5: I still enjoy the travel, you know, going to different places,
- 14:07Speaker 5: the people that we've gotten to know, you know, within
- 14:10Speaker 5: the Big twelve, we have our own little athletic training
- 14:13Speaker 5: you know group and everything. Uh so yeah, I like that.
- 14:16Speaker 5: The uh you know, it's got a whole new group
- 14:19Speaker 5: of players in. But I've been very impressed with the
- 14:22Speaker 5: quality of the players and their personalities and everything. I
- 14:27Speaker 5: don't know why you had to assault, So you know,
- 14:31Speaker 5: that bonding I'll miss.
- 14:33Speaker 2: But also you think look back.
- 14:35Speaker 5: You know, there's been four coaches in four years, and
- 14:37Speaker 5: there's been a whole totally new teams. The last two
- 14:41Speaker 5: years we had free as a holdover and ab as
- 14:44Speaker 5: a holdover, but they both read shirts.
- 14:45Speaker 2: So we have zero points coming back.
- 14:47Speaker 5: You know, So you don't have the bond that you
- 14:49Speaker 5: have that you used to develop on it, you know,
- 14:52Speaker 5: like with the Deshaun Butler's or the Truck Bryant or
- 14:56Speaker 5: John Flowers the.
- 14:57Speaker 1: Hair Bears and watching those guys grow up with that
- 14:59Speaker 1: team that was.
- 15:00Speaker 5: Yeah, you miss those kind of relationships. I just don't
- 15:03Speaker 5: see those happening in the future unfortunately. Yeah, so those
- 15:07Speaker 5: are factors that were involved in my decision.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Think about this. You started Atlantic ten, Yeah, you've gone
- 15:16Speaker 1: Atlantic ten, Big East, Big twelve. I think just think
- 15:21Speaker 1: about the bizarre if you were to say that in
- 15:23Speaker 1: a nineteen eighty four Randy, before you're done here, you're
- 15:25Speaker 1: going to stay at the same school and be in
- 15:28Speaker 1: the Big East, the Big twelve, you go like, yeah.
- 15:31Speaker 4: And almost in the Pac twelve too, if you want
- 15:34Speaker 4: to toe right, I mean, you've gone from Saint bona
- 15:36Speaker 4: Venture to Utah. Seriously, right, that's a that's a heck
- 15:39Speaker 4: of a swath of geography there.
- 15:40Speaker 3: That you're covered.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Can I ask you a couple always going to those
- 15:46Speaker 1: legal pad This is always trouble.
- 15:48Speaker 4: Are you asking what do you mean technical things like
- 15:50Speaker 4: how to treat an ankle?
- 15:51Speaker 1: We go to and talk about a multipitous strange pronation sublxation.
- 15:55Speaker 1: What are you doing?
- 15:56Speaker 3: How do you help Randy? Don't pay attention to these guys.
- 16:00Speaker 3: How do you help a player understand the difference between
- 16:04Speaker 3: pain and soreness? That is a good question question, thank you?
- 16:11Speaker 5: Well, you know the pain I want to take care
- 16:15Speaker 5: of and evaluate and even when I'm doing a long
- 16:17Speaker 5: term rehab, if they wake up sore the next morning,
- 16:20Speaker 5: then I think we worked.
- 16:21Speaker 2: Them about the right amount.
- 16:24Speaker 5: If there continue to be sore halfway through the day,
- 16:28Speaker 5: I say, afternoon, then maybe we did too much. Okay,
- 16:32Speaker 5: but the pain pain, I expect to see symptoms of
- 16:35Speaker 5: inflammation like swelling, redness, loss of function, soreness. I mean,
- 16:41Speaker 5: we're all not that young right now. We probably all
- 16:43Speaker 5: wake up with a little bit soreness in the morning,
- 16:45Speaker 5: but as we start moving around it disappears.
- 16:48Speaker 3: How do you help though the player up here understand
- 16:52Speaker 3: the difference between pain and soreness? Because what's the player
- 16:55Speaker 3: going to say? Players can say it hurts, yeah, right,
- 16:57Speaker 3: So well.
- 16:58Speaker 4: Or the opposite or I'm fine, yeah, and not tell
- 17:01Speaker 4: you how.
- 17:02Speaker 5: And that's my job to figure that out. And then
- 17:04Speaker 5: I just like I told you, I'll explain to them.
- 17:06Speaker 5: My job is to help educate them and then you know,
- 17:10Speaker 5: apply that if the soreness is not affecting them, it's just, uh,
- 17:16Speaker 5: they just feel a little bit, but they can still
- 17:18Speaker 5: run the court full speed, change direction, do what they
- 17:21Speaker 5: need to do. I don't say we disregard it, but
- 17:24Speaker 5: I still want to work with them to try and
- 17:26Speaker 5: help eliminate that. Uh someone with pain again, I might
- 17:30Speaker 5: suspect they have swelling or something else going on.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Then we need to treat that and they're probably going
- 17:35Speaker 2: to be a step slow or something's going on. There.
- 17:37Speaker 3: One other question about that and then so what role
- 17:42Speaker 3: have you played with coaches of any over the years,
- 17:43Speaker 3: And maybe it's different with different coaches as to can
- 17:47Speaker 3: this guy go and how.
- 17:49Speaker 5: He And that goes back to this total roster changeover.
- 17:57Speaker 5: And I'm not the only one. I mean us as
- 18:00Speaker 5: athletic trainers communicate and you know this is happening across
- 18:03Speaker 5: the country. But you know, someone to ask you, uh,
- 18:07Speaker 5: so and so got hurt, what do you think, well,
- 18:09Speaker 5: it's the first time. It's like dealing with fifteen freshmen
- 18:12Speaker 5: now or whatever. Because it's the first time I've seen
- 18:14Speaker 5: this person injured, I have nothing to go from. You know,
- 18:17Speaker 5: is he a sweller or not a swell or is
- 18:19Speaker 5: he a tough guy or is he not a tough guy?
- 18:21Speaker 5: You know, is it pain or is it soreness? So
- 18:24Speaker 5: you know I have to Unfortunately, I may not look
- 18:27Speaker 5: as smart because I don't know this individual as well,
- 18:30Speaker 5: and I know a lot I'll be a lot smarter
- 18:32Speaker 5: tomorrow when I see him in the morning and see
- 18:35Speaker 5: there is swelling, there isn't swelling. You know, there's full motion,
- 18:38Speaker 5: there isn't full motion. So you know, you don't always
- 18:42Speaker 5: know immediately the severity of that injury.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Now very severe injuries, sure, yes.
- 18:46Speaker 5: You do, but that middle of the road, that second degree,
- 18:50Speaker 5: you don't know as well, and it takes a little
- 18:52Speaker 5: bit more time since you don't know these as.
- 18:54Speaker 3: One other question I want to go to these guys,
- 18:56Speaker 3: is that so? And again you don't have to name
- 18:58Speaker 3: coaches or particular stances, but have you had instances where
- 19:03Speaker 3: coaches have said, Randy, dang it, Well, they might say
- 19:06Speaker 3: sithingles get this guy ready to go.
- 19:09Speaker 4: Sure, Oh yeah, I've had that happens all the time,
- 19:12Speaker 4: all the time. I would think, right if from a
- 19:13Speaker 4: coach perspective, you need your guys back on the floor,
- 19:15Speaker 4: So I would think.
- 19:15Speaker 5: That happens a lot different caliber with different coaches. But yeah,
- 19:19Speaker 5: you know, as long as they know. You know, in
- 19:23Speaker 5: the old days, we didn't even have MRIs. But and
- 19:25Speaker 5: when the doctors said they're cleared, coaches wanted them cleared
- 19:29Speaker 5: and playing. You know, if MRI came back and it's good,
- 19:32Speaker 5: they want them back playing. Okay, So yeah, definitely.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Right, you take over in eighty four. Immediately you go
- 19:40Speaker 1: on a foreign tour. Yes, I'm just trying to do
- 19:43Speaker 1: the math in my head. I bet you've gone on
- 19:45Speaker 1: over ten foreign tours. Have you counted?
- 19:48Speaker 2: You know, I've never counted them up.
- 19:50Speaker 1: And you went on Atlantic ten trips? Have done? Yeah?
- 19:54Speaker 1: With the Yeah, you were all starts, we used to
- 19:58Speaker 1: have that.
- 19:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 19:58Speaker 1: So you've been as a SAI, right, he's been around.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been a little kid from Oxford, Ohio. I
- 20:05Speaker 2: never would have fought.
- 20:06Speaker 1: You've been to Italy? I mean, do you count them up?
- 20:08Speaker 1: Where you've been Italy?
- 20:10Speaker 2: Spain, uh, Northern Europe.
- 20:12Speaker 5: That first trip I think was five countries, ten games
- 20:15Speaker 5: in fourteen days, all on bus, you.
- 20:18Speaker 4: Know ten, say a ten games in fourteen days. I'm
- 20:22Speaker 4: pretty sure school. That's the old school where now you're
- 20:26Speaker 4: like three and if they are actually games or not
- 20:30Speaker 4: when you go over it tames.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was there was competition back then.
- 20:35Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, and somewhat maybe fights, but uh yeah. Then
- 20:41Speaker 5: I've been to you know, Japan, uh Seul, South Korea,
- 20:46Speaker 5: and Hong Kong.
- 20:47Speaker 2: Australia twice. One included New Zealand, so.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Cat used to like Australia.
- 20:53Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was pretty cool to The second time
- 20:58Speaker 5: was uh to thousands, so they were getting ready for
- 21:01Speaker 5: the Olympics, so we were we were able to tour
- 21:04Speaker 5: the Olympic site, so that that was great.
- 21:07Speaker 1: And then they and then the November tournaments right Puerto
- 21:10Speaker 1: Rico's and the whole Bahama, Bahamas and San Juan and Charleston,
- 21:16Speaker 1: Vegas just all over the place.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:19Speaker 1: Germany when you played Texas A and MG.
- 21:21Speaker 2: Yeah really that was it was an oversea bos one game. Germany.
- 21:25Speaker 2: That was a great trip until the.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Game, Yeah, yeah, that wasn't a good day to be
- 21:28Speaker 1: a mountaineer wherever, wherever you may be.
- 21:31Speaker 3: Any of these names from the eighty four eighty five
- 21:33Speaker 3: teams stand out to you.
- 21:35Speaker 2: Dale still in touch with them, are you? Oh yeah,
- 21:38Speaker 2: oh yeah.
- 21:38Speaker 3: Bernardo Brown, JJ Crawl Holman Harley was on that team.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Dunk Bounce Dunk in the NCAA.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Vernon Odem, Darryl Pinkney, Lester Rowe from Buffalo.
- 21:50Speaker 2: That guy kind of helped me a little bit.
- 21:51Speaker 3: Yeah. Eric Simmitch, Eric Wayne Yearwood was on the team.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Is it fair to say the dal Blaney and Eric Semmish,
- 22:00Speaker 1: two names that you just mentioned, are probably in your
- 22:03Speaker 1: top ten list of most enjoyable knuckleheads that you worked with.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna say, goofballs, but yeah, yeah, I.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Just remember that they had a great rapport with you
- 22:18Speaker 1: and it was a NonStop comedy show. Those guys were knuckleheads.
- 22:21Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was before Seinfeld and everything.
- 22:23Speaker 1: Else, exactly. I mean they just to guy to go
- 22:26Speaker 1: into it now. John McKinny, our legendary radio engineer for
- 22:30Speaker 1: the Mountaineer Sports Network, and Jim Galuski, who was the
- 22:33Speaker 1: film guy. So it was like this pack. It was.
- 22:36Speaker 1: It was John McKenny and Jimbo and like Randy would
- 22:39Speaker 1: kind of be like third party and Blainey and Semish
- 22:43Speaker 1: and there would be on the road. They would constantly
- 22:47Speaker 1: engage in practical jokes against each other, to the point
- 22:53Speaker 1: where they got keys to get into each other's room. Really,
- 22:57Speaker 1: McKinney would go in back then phone old school phones,
- 23:01Speaker 1: unscrewed the phone. McKinny would go in, unscrew the phone
- 23:05Speaker 1: so the mouthpiece wouldn't work, and then start calling over
- 23:08Speaker 1: and they hello, hello there. They did everything. They did.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Shaving cream on the phone, you put it and you
- 23:17Speaker 1: got it on your ear.
- 23:18Speaker 3: They did.
- 23:18Speaker 1: They just planted everything coool aid and shower water, the mattress,
- 23:23Speaker 1: this did that and that was those.
- 23:26Speaker 3: Shower that's a good one.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Did everything.
- 23:29Speaker 2: How do you do that?
- 23:30Speaker 3: Just unscrew the thing and put.
- 23:32Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, McKinny.
- 23:34Speaker 1: That was like McKinny was like mckayval. It was. It
- 23:39Speaker 1: was just it was fun, legendary Woody O'Hara, I mean,
- 23:43Speaker 1: it was like a traveling road show and Jack Jack
- 23:46Speaker 1: was a character. Wood He was a character. Mickey went
- 23:49Speaker 1: on a future Mickey for Fairy would travel with the
- 23:51Speaker 1: team and it was it was just like it was Seinfeld.
- 23:56Speaker 1: It was it was fun, it was one. It was
- 23:58Speaker 1: it was like a band of brothers, like we're going
- 24:00Speaker 1: in there because you know, Gail. Gail was perfect at
- 24:03Speaker 1: like creating the tension of like it's us against all
- 24:07Speaker 1: these Atlantic ten schools, right like Rhode Island doesn't hate
- 24:10Speaker 1: like us. We don't like them. The Temple thing, the
- 24:12Speaker 1: whole Temple thing. Temple like they when we went to Temple,
- 24:17Speaker 1: they gave us nine towels. When those bastards come back,
- 24:21Speaker 1: all they're getting is nine towels. That's it, you understand.
- 24:24Speaker 1: I mean it was that, it was constant.
- 24:27Speaker 5: But we had I mean when Bill Cosby was well respected.
- 24:31Speaker 5: I mean we had so many battles at Temple and
- 24:34Speaker 5: Bill Cosby came over our locker room, win and lose
- 24:37Speaker 5: sometimes and just give his credit, yeah, for how good
- 24:40Speaker 5: the games were and how strategic those games were. Yeah,
- 24:43Speaker 5: because you know, no shot clock, he was holding the ball.
- 24:45Speaker 5: Some of those scores. Yeah, forty four, forty two, and
- 24:48Speaker 5: every possession was just tension two three zone was it?
- 24:53Speaker 3: One three one? I mean the Temple ran.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a matchup kind of crazy thing that
- 24:57Speaker 1: he did. He was good.
- 24:59Speaker 3: It was a good cat.
- 25:00Speaker 2: Those were some fun games.
- 25:02Speaker 1: Remember when Tom Penders got it going at Rhode Island.
- 25:04Speaker 1: There was this great hostility and animosity between the two schools,
- 25:08Speaker 1: to the point where Penders had to have a security
- 25:10Speaker 1: guard when he came here when the Atlantic ten Tournament
- 25:13Speaker 1: was held here, he had a dude, brought a dude
- 25:15Speaker 1: from Rhode Island with him. Oh yeah, because it was gouty,
- 25:17Speaker 1: because like it was hot.
- 25:19Speaker 2: Yeah, Randy.
- 25:20Speaker 3: During the games, are you into the games and what's
- 25:25Speaker 3: going on in the strategy or you just kind of preoccupied.
- 25:28Speaker 2: With Oh no, yeah, I'm I'm a big basketball fan.
- 25:31Speaker 3: Okay.
- 25:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 25:34Speaker 5: We played a lot of basketball at lunchtime. Yeah, we
- 25:38Speaker 5: had a lot of basketball.
- 25:40Speaker 2: Lots.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Yeah, lots of lunchtime basketball. Garrett Ford, Rocky Gianola, and
- 25:45Speaker 1: a guy named Brad Howe.
- 25:47Speaker 4: No, I never played. I would never go down and play.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Huh reason.
- 25:52Speaker 4: Once I was done playing, I was done playing. Rarely
- 25:54Speaker 4: pictures up again.
- 25:55Speaker 1: You'd watch.
- 25:56Speaker 4: I'd go out and see him out there.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Heavy contact in those games.
- 26:00Speaker 4: Coach Garrett fordelbows were flying a lot. I didn't have
- 26:03Speaker 4: time to get hurt. I didn't need to get down
- 26:05Speaker 4: for he was flying flying.
- 26:08Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, so he knocked one guy flat. I
- 26:12Speaker 5: don't say his name or anything.
- 26:14Speaker 2: He looked at you as you can't do that, because
- 26:15Speaker 2: I just did.
- 26:17Speaker 1: Garrett played the Maathaye old school. It's just think, have
- 26:22Speaker 1: you count the victories of the coaches that you have
- 26:25Speaker 1: worked for? Gail hugs John right amazing. So let me
- 26:34Speaker 1: ask you some coach questions. Please be careful, nothing dangerous
- 26:39Speaker 1: at all. So they've all they've all had the ultra
- 26:43Speaker 1: levels of success all the time. When his coach is
- 26:44Speaker 1: Gail cal What made Gail as good as he was
- 26:48Speaker 1: and as successful as he was? What did he have.
- 26:53Speaker 2: All?
- 26:53Speaker 3: Right?
- 26:55Speaker 2: Even back in that time, I think he had a
- 26:56Speaker 2: good strategy.
- 26:57Speaker 5: I mean you had that trapping press and uh a
- 27:01Speaker 5: matchup two three zone that you know, it wasn't a
- 27:04Speaker 5: stand still two three zone.
- 27:06Speaker 2: I think that confused uh, posing teams, and he would
- 27:11Speaker 2: change frequently on timeouts, and he would change his defense
- 27:15Speaker 2: a lot on uh yeah, and I don't think that
- 27:19Speaker 2: was always done back in that air or time.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Great stuff out of timeouts to offense.
- 27:25Speaker 5: At Yeah, he's.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Drawed up and he gets you some good the weakness.
- 27:31Speaker 2: Yeah, he knew that. He could play the off the
- 27:33Speaker 2: weakness of the other team, So all right, hugs.
- 27:41Speaker 5: Uh, you know he was demanding and wanted to outwork everybody.
- 27:44Speaker 5: I mean, those three hour practices put work ethic in everyone,
- 27:47Speaker 5: and I think we'd wear down I mean, how many
- 27:50Speaker 5: times did it come down to that last four minute
- 27:53Speaker 5: time out? And you know we could if we were
- 27:56Speaker 5: four points down going into that last four minute time
- 27:59Speaker 5: out still felt like you you're going to win, you know,
- 28:03Speaker 5: because they we would just wear people down, you.
- 28:07Speaker 1: Know, overall.
- 28:07Speaker 5: And then you know when the press was happening too,
- 28:10Speaker 5: you know, our press was pretty darn good and forty
- 28:14Speaker 5: minutes seemed like nothing after three hour.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, exactly, pretty fast, b lined.
- 28:25Speaker 2: I you know, I think the.
- 28:27Speaker 5: Whole do different offensive strategy. You know, at that time,
- 28:31Speaker 5: I don't think that you know, he had one thing
- 28:33Speaker 5: going on one side of the court, one thing going
- 28:34Speaker 5: on the other side of the court. Hadn't really seen
- 28:36Speaker 5: that one three one. I mean we joked about that
- 28:39Speaker 5: with Temple, but it seemed like Temple was the only
- 28:42Speaker 5: school running out way back then in two thousands. I
- 28:46Speaker 5: don't think we saw a lot of one three one.
- 28:48Speaker 5: And then just the movement and the ball and the chemistry.
- 28:51Speaker 5: Uh you know there's a lot of smoking mirrors maybe
- 28:54Speaker 5: for twenty five seconds then boom.
- 28:57Speaker 2: You know, he would get that going.
- 28:59Speaker 5: Whether it was door, yeah, because the back doors arrow,
- 29:03Speaker 5: there's it's not gonna standing in the corner, you know.
- 29:05Speaker 1: So yeah, Darren, it was quick. It's swift.
- 29:11Speaker 5: But I mean how we go in nineteen games, you know,
- 29:14Speaker 5: with the players and the injuries that we had and everything.
- 29:18Speaker 5: You know, again, another very good strategy person and good
- 29:22Speaker 5: at timeouts and those he got those guys to believe
- 29:24Speaker 5: in themselves and even with the seven eight players, wouldn't
- 29:29Speaker 5: be able to win nineteen games.
- 29:30Speaker 2: That was I think have incredible players.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, sometimes we sit here and we I
- 29:38Speaker 1: don't want to say. I don't know if the words
- 29:39Speaker 1: marginalize or we don't put the significance into what it is.
- 29:45Speaker 1: You think, oh, basketball, it's a sprained ankle. It's ay,
- 29:48Speaker 1: they bump forehead, You got stitches, and this is delicate.
- 29:52Speaker 1: I mean you're putting in some life threatening situations. You
- 29:55Speaker 1: you you've through the years, you have been close to
- 29:58Speaker 1: situations that literally could fatal if you weren't there.
- 30:02Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Yes, I mean had two incidents.
- 30:07Speaker 5: In the last previous two years, and uh yeah those
- 30:12Speaker 5: you know, you don't enjoy those at all, but you're
- 30:16Speaker 5: prior training and what you've learned, you do put that
- 30:19Speaker 5: to use, you know, like a hobby said, you know,
- 30:21Speaker 5: I'm a basketball fan, but yeah, I still I have
- 30:24Speaker 5: to you know, I'm there for a medical reason, and
- 30:26Speaker 5: I'm there for a reason. I need to do my job,
- 30:29Speaker 5: and I try and teach younger athletic training students and
- 30:33Speaker 5: people that you know, we don't need to be there
- 30:36Speaker 5: to be aggressive. We need to be assertive though when
- 30:39Speaker 5: it's our time to do something. I mean, we don't
- 30:42Speaker 5: want coaches or other players handling injuries.
- 30:44Speaker 2: That's what we're here for.
- 30:46Speaker 5: So you know, when that does happen, you know, if
- 30:49Speaker 5: I can do nothing the whole practice or a game
- 30:51Speaker 5: except my little job, then that's fine. But when someone
- 30:54Speaker 5: does get hurt, you have to be assertive and.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Take care of that.
- 30:57Speaker 1: And the thing about that is it literally happened in
- 31:00Speaker 1: a split second. Something can happen in a split second.
- 31:02Speaker 1: And obviously the one that we can talk about is
- 31:05Speaker 1: a cook. A cook because it happened in a game,
- 31:07Speaker 1: and in the exhibition game and everyone saw that happening,
- 31:11Speaker 1: and literally, you know, it is a moment of just
- 31:16Speaker 1: the unknown, ye and you have to aggressively get in there,
- 31:21Speaker 1: and it's it's it's you guys do not get the
- 31:27Speaker 1: recognition that you deserve. You know, when we had John
- 31:29Speaker 1: Spiker in here a long time ago, now a couple
- 31:31Speaker 1: of years, and you know that there's that and you'll
- 31:33Speaker 1: know what this is. There's a football injury that happens
- 31:36Speaker 1: when a collar bone can cut off the windpipe. And
- 31:41Speaker 1: when you run out onto that field and that person's
- 31:44Speaker 1: down this number one, you're starting off, you have zero
- 31:46Speaker 1: idea exactly what you're going to get to when you
- 31:47Speaker 1: get there, and then you look down and you immediately
- 31:50Speaker 1: have to make an examination and get your hand down
- 31:55Speaker 1: in there to get that bone away from there so
- 31:58Speaker 1: the air isn't cut off. I mean, it's just we
- 32:00Speaker 1: take this stuff for granted. But you're saving lives.
- 32:05Speaker 5: Yes, you know, it'd be nice if my whole career
- 32:08Speaker 5: I didn't have to worry about that. But yes, you're
- 32:10Speaker 5: totally correct. And that's why we have our education and
- 32:14Speaker 5: planning and practice and prevention in those areas for those
- 32:18Speaker 5: moments that do happen. And yeah, I mean it's unfortunate
- 32:21Speaker 5: and you're you're there for the student athlete. It would
- 32:25Speaker 5: be nice if no disrespective you know, coaches would appreciate
- 32:29Speaker 5: that because you know, let's be honest, it's sports, it's athletics,
- 32:32Speaker 5: but it shouldn't be life or death.
- 32:34Speaker 2: But there's times that can be that.
- 32:36Speaker 5: And you know, then we go back to you know,
- 32:38Speaker 5: the coaches wants them back out there. We still we
- 32:43Speaker 5: need to be looking out for the health and well
- 32:45Speaker 5: being of the student.
- 32:47Speaker 3: How much how much has the has the technology changed
- 32:51Speaker 3: since you started, as you've gone from and breaking open
- 32:56Speaker 3: the ammonia cap to concussion proto call for.
- 33:00Speaker 2: Example, you know, like a concussion.
- 33:02Speaker 5: I mean, you know that's you know, we were in
- 33:05Speaker 5: the dark ages and then you know, around two thousand
- 33:09Speaker 5: it started getting more and more important and obviously the
- 33:12Speaker 5: diagnosis a CTE and then we probably jumped over too
- 33:17Speaker 5: much to being too conservative. And then some great research
- 33:19Speaker 5: came out of Buffalo and everything, and you know, now
- 33:24Speaker 5: controlled exercise helps with the rehab and so I think
- 33:28Speaker 5: we're in a pretty good place now with concussions. But
- 33:31Speaker 5: you know, unfortunately, even minor concussions takes the honesty of
- 33:37Speaker 5: the student athlete or the professional athlete to admit that
- 33:41Speaker 5: there's something's wrong, because every concussion isn't obvious. You know,
- 33:45Speaker 5: you don't have to lose conscious, you don't you know,
- 33:48Speaker 5: you know, a football player with a helmet, you may
- 33:51Speaker 5: not always recognize that they're having a mild concussion immediately,
- 33:56Speaker 5: so you need their honesty to let you know. But uh, yeah,
- 33:59Speaker 5: it'd be nice to be able to avoid all of
- 34:01Speaker 5: ct and hopefully in the future there'll be much less
- 34:04Speaker 5: of that.
- 34:05Speaker 4: But how about the difference, speaking along the change in technology,
- 34:08Speaker 4: how about the difference just in players today understanding body
- 34:12Speaker 4: and rehabit recovery more than they would have in the
- 34:14Speaker 4: mid eighties when you just didn't have some of that
- 34:16Speaker 4: information available versus what the what you have now to
- 34:19Speaker 4: be able to track sleep and all of the.
- 34:21Speaker 5: Yeah, I means so there's a lot of good things.
- 34:24Speaker 5: And yeah, you know, sleep rings we have. We have
- 34:28Speaker 5: two devices on every basketball player for every practice. That
- 34:33Speaker 5: gives us more information than we need to know, but
- 34:35Speaker 5: but it gives us good information, especially like if I'm
- 34:38Speaker 5: trying to get someone back from a ank or knee injury,
- 34:41Speaker 5: I can really look at the statistics about how much
- 34:44Speaker 5: they're doing and how much I want to progress them
- 34:46Speaker 5: and everything. So that's that's a good information when you
- 34:51Speaker 5: first say that. Sometimes though the uh you know, when
- 34:54Speaker 5: the NBA started load management, some of that was good.
- 34:57Speaker 5: And then you know, when you have high school kids
- 35:00Speaker 5: talking about load management, it's like, you know, you haven't
- 35:04Speaker 5: proven yourself yet. How about giving maximum efforts?
- 35:07Speaker 4: So how how far does the typical player run during
- 35:09Speaker 4: a game or a practice? The five mile mark?
- 35:14Speaker 5: Uh, three hour practices we were getting up to six
- 35:16Speaker 5: pretty easily. Yeah, but you know that was only one
- 35:19Speaker 5: coach that did the three hours.
- 35:21Speaker 4: But three and a half to five miles per day
- 35:24Speaker 4: is a reasonable number.
- 35:25Speaker 5: Reasonable, you know, even some of the coaches. Some of
- 35:30Speaker 5: the coaches even condensed it down more as the season
- 35:34Speaker 5: went on to try and save leg sure. And also
- 35:37Speaker 5: you look at last year we were only using seven
- 35:40Speaker 5: or eight players. Yes, so uh three, you know, two
- 35:44Speaker 5: point seventy five to three. Three point five.
- 35:48Speaker 4: Was because it was a conscious effort to dial it
- 35:51Speaker 4: back in that you wouldn't have understood that.
- 35:55Speaker 2: You know, not at all.
- 35:56Speaker 5: And then plus in eighty seven we didn't have the
- 35:58Speaker 5: twenty hour week rule anything like that, So you know,
- 36:01Speaker 5: when you're winning, things are good and maybe you don't
- 36:03Speaker 5: practice long, but I can remember some long practices after
- 36:06Speaker 5: some losses.
- 36:07Speaker 2: You know.
- 36:07Speaker 4: See that's what's amazing. You talk about things we just
- 36:09Speaker 4: gloss over and go with. I mean, just take the
- 36:11Speaker 4: three miles. You're running three miles every day, and I
- 36:13Speaker 4: know they're young and in great shape, which is an
- 36:15Speaker 4: easier bounce back than any of us have. That's a
- 36:18Speaker 4: lot by the time you get into February and co
- 36:20Speaker 4: that is a ton of tax on your body. And
- 36:22Speaker 4: it's hard three miles.
- 36:23Speaker 2: It's not a.
- 36:24Speaker 4: Leisure lea three miles wind sprints for three miles.
- 36:29Speaker 2: Yeah, and for the most part, probably six days a week. Yeah.
- 36:34Speaker 3: So over the course of your career, I mean you've
- 36:38Speaker 3: seen it all. So in your role, did you always
- 36:42Speaker 3: stay in your lane with just the medical part or
- 36:47Speaker 3: did you have moments or relationship with coaches where you
- 36:50Speaker 3: felt compelled or necessary to give a coach additional information
- 36:54Speaker 3: about a player and what a player might be going
- 36:57Speaker 3: through mentally or other aspects of that player than just
- 37:01Speaker 3: the physical.
- 37:02Speaker 2: Yes, definitely.
- 37:06Speaker 5: I'd like to say I filtered and pick and choose
- 37:08Speaker 5: along those lines, because you don't I don't want to
- 37:14Speaker 5: set the player up for failure because he's probably already
- 37:17Speaker 5: in a stressful situation. So you want to protect that player,
- 37:23Speaker 5: but you also want the coach to.
- 37:25Speaker 2: Know certain things.
- 37:26Speaker 5: But if you give them almost too much information, then
- 37:28Speaker 5: it might be I hate to say, punishment, or they
- 37:31Speaker 5: might look down upon them or something. And you know,
- 37:34Speaker 5: you don't again, you don't want to make things worse
- 37:37Speaker 5: for the player, But there's sometimes maybe you need to
- 37:40Speaker 5: let the coach know that this person's suffering something else
- 37:44Speaker 5: that's going on in their life that is affecting them.
- 37:47Speaker 2: And I mean, we.
- 37:49Speaker 5: Know mental health has been a much bigger issue now
- 37:52Speaker 5: than it was in the eighties. So yeah, there's definitely
- 37:56Speaker 5: been times where I've fight it in coaches to let
- 38:01Speaker 5: them know more than just the physical aspect.
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- 39:42Speaker 3: You know about Randy, which I didn't know. We were
- 39:45Speaker 3: talking beforehand when he was giving me physical therapy. Big biker,
- 39:51Speaker 3: Oh huge.
- 39:53Speaker 1: Got big. He's got the world's largest bike holder on
- 39:57Speaker 1: the back of his car. No, it is a.
- 40:00Speaker 2: Large, No, it is large. It's just a two bike
- 40:02Speaker 2: though I've seen the four.
- 40:04Speaker 1: That's a big that's a big hold.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Two of us.
- 40:07Speaker 1: COVID did it about damn near killing.
- 40:10Speaker 5: So you look at forty one years and I'll just
- 40:14Speaker 5: tell people, Uh, I feel like I only have had
- 40:17Speaker 5: three bad years and it was in the last five years.
- 40:22Speaker 2: COVID was the start of it. So yeah, COVID was awful.
- 40:30Speaker 5: We furloughed many many of our staff was furloughed, which
- 40:33Speaker 5: was not uncommon in the university settings across the country.
- 40:39Speaker 5: And uh so we were really down a lot of people.
- 40:44Speaker 5: And on my side of campus there's only me and
- 40:46Speaker 5: another person for all the sports over there. So I
- 40:51Speaker 5: at the beginning, I was in a hazmat suit swabbing
- 40:54Speaker 5: people and that was not the nose swab it was,
- 40:57Speaker 5: And so I was the only one swab on everybody
- 41:00Speaker 5: on that side of campus.
- 41:02Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it has had a has met suit.
- 41:05Speaker 5: I had a hazmat suit, because that's how you started,
- 41:07Speaker 5: you know, you know this you look back at some
- 41:10Speaker 5: of the stuff from the beginning, Yeah, you almost laugh.
- 41:12Speaker 2: But we didn't know. You didn't know.
- 41:15Speaker 5: And I'm out there in a ninety degree weather and
- 41:18Speaker 5: in a hazmat suit swabing everybody. And then the amount
- 41:21Speaker 5: of spreadsheets and what you do to keep track of
- 41:24Speaker 5: the testing three times a week for everybody, or what
- 41:27Speaker 5: you do to keep track of all your positives, and
- 41:29Speaker 5: then the retest. I mean I had spreadsheets out the
- 41:31Speaker 5: wazoo and I was testing out the It was awful.
- 41:35Speaker 2: It was awful.
- 41:36Speaker 1: Yeah, and then games played in front of no one
- 41:39Speaker 1: and masks on, Coaches didn't want to put their mask on,
- 41:42Speaker 1: had half a mask on, half a mask off. Just
- 41:45Speaker 1: it was when you look back on it was like
- 41:46Speaker 1: this is this is this this massively bad dream that
- 41:50Speaker 1: we all lived through, really really was.
- 41:52Speaker 5: And then you know I was doing everything I could
- 41:56Speaker 5: just to keep the team on the court.
- 41:58Speaker 1: Uh.
- 41:59Speaker 5: Once we you know, we got back into somewhat more
- 42:02Speaker 5: north and we're actually playing and everything, but the uh,
- 42:08Speaker 5: some people wanted to do the political argument and everything
- 42:12Speaker 5: like that, and I'm like, I am just doing what
- 42:14Speaker 5: I can do to try and keep people on the team.
- 42:16Speaker 2: I don't want to get into the politics of all
- 42:18Speaker 2: this is.
- 42:18Speaker 5: I'm not pro COVID just because I'm doing this. I'm
- 42:22Speaker 5: doing it because I understand the rules and regulations and
- 42:25Speaker 5: this is.
- 42:25Speaker 2: What we have to do. Sorry about the politics.
- 42:29Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't want to be the guy that
- 42:30Speaker 1: lets someone go and then they spread the whole thing
- 42:32Speaker 1: out there and all of a sudden, you now you
- 42:34Speaker 1: don't have games or I.
- 42:35Speaker 5: Didn't follow a protocol directly, and just because we didn't
- 42:38Speaker 5: follow the protocol, we're being punished.
- 42:41Speaker 2: And you had.
- 42:44Speaker 5: County Health, you had the national you know CDC, I
- 42:50Speaker 5: mean you, and then you had the Big twelve rules,
- 42:52Speaker 5: you had NCA rules.
- 42:53Speaker 2: There was so many rules.
- 42:54Speaker 5: And they were constantly changing, and so I mean I
- 42:57Speaker 5: was as of today or as of right now, all right,
- 43:00Speaker 5: this is the rule, and you know it could change
- 43:03Speaker 5: tomorrow or the county anyone could change and it could
- 43:07Speaker 5: affect us. And I had to try and stay up
- 43:10Speaker 5: to date with all those and the team physicians were
- 43:12Speaker 5: absolutely great, too, But we weren't fighting again.
- 43:17Speaker 2: I was just trying to Yeah one.
- 43:20Speaker 3: Well, and health professionals, whether it's at your level or
- 43:24Speaker 3: at the highest levels. In my opinion, I think did
- 43:27Speaker 3: an historic job of dealing with a black swan event,
- 43:32Speaker 3: an unprecedented event. And because of that, I know this
- 43:35Speaker 3: will be controversial to some. Because of that, lives were saved,
- 43:39Speaker 3: lives were saved and people stayed healthy because people did
- 43:45Speaker 3: like you and others did the right things.
- 43:48Speaker 2: Yeah agree, I agree, yes.
- 43:52Speaker 1: Well, what will meander away from that? Right now?
- 43:55Speaker 2: If I never hear COVID again, I will be happy.
- 43:57Speaker 1: One of the one of the things people may not
- 44:00Speaker 1: be aware of is, besides the position that you held
- 44:03Speaker 1: on a day to day basis with basketball, you are
- 44:05Speaker 1: also a instructor, professor, teacher. How many courses? How many
- 44:12Speaker 1: sections would you teach a semester?
- 44:14Speaker 5: Well, early on they tried to have me. I taught
- 44:18Speaker 5: one in the spring, but that wasn't very successful.
- 44:21Speaker 1: Travel that didn't last very well.
- 44:23Speaker 3: Sol sure will not be here today.
- 44:25Speaker 5: Yeah, So I ended up teaching two in the fall
- 44:29Speaker 5: for many, many years, and then guest lecture at different
- 44:32Speaker 5: things at different times at that but our athletic training
- 44:37Speaker 5: program was in undergrad for several years, and I think
- 44:39Speaker 5: it was twenty two or twenty three went to the
- 44:43Speaker 5: graduate level totally. So I have not taught except guest
- 44:46Speaker 5: lecture the last few years. But yeah, I taught for
- 44:51Speaker 5: many years those two classes and thoroughly enjoyed it.
- 44:54Speaker 1: I think people would be astounded to know the number
- 44:57Speaker 1: of athletic trainers at this university. You guys have produced
- 45:01Speaker 1: and where they.
- 45:01Speaker 4: Are I think and give some give some examples just
- 45:05Speaker 4: of the of the pro.
- 45:07Speaker 2: Teams, well some of the teams.
- 45:09Speaker 5: So one of my ex students just became the head
- 45:12Speaker 5: athletic train with the Boston Celtics.
- 45:14Speaker 3: That heard heard of them.
- 45:16Speaker 5: Yeah, one of our lums is also now it's going
- 45:18Speaker 5: to be back with Dallas. So we had a pretty
- 45:21Speaker 5: famous guy down at LSU two and.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Jack and Roucci, Yeah, Jack Rucin.
- 45:26Speaker 5: And we've had, uh there was one time we had
- 45:30Speaker 5: the most in the NFL, but we haven't looked at
- 45:32Speaker 5: that statistically yet. But we have several within the NFL
- 45:38Speaker 5: we've had, I mean, we have physicians pts pas.
- 45:42Speaker 1: That's one of the great untold stories from a university
- 45:45Speaker 1: standpoint of how prominent and successful the athletic training curriculum is. Yes,
- 45:50Speaker 1: it's considered one of the best.
- 45:51Speaker 2: In the nation.
- 45:52Speaker 5: Yes, and uh, we're celebrating our fiftieth this summer, that
- 45:59Speaker 5: second weekend of July, so looking forward to that. We
- 46:02Speaker 5: celebrate the fortieth in twenty fifteen. Then something interrupted it
- 46:07Speaker 5: in twenty twenty was I don't want to mention again. Yeah,
- 46:10Speaker 5: so yeah, so hopefully we'll have several comeback. For several years,
- 46:17Speaker 5: I've been the keeper of the w Athletic Training Alumni
- 46:20Speaker 5: List SERVE and we have over seven hundred alumni that
- 46:23Speaker 5: are on that, so you know, we do have a
- 46:26Speaker 5: large amount of alumni from here and many many of
- 46:29Speaker 5: them have gone on.
- 46:30Speaker 2: To very successful careers.
- 46:33Speaker 4: It is the most freakish athlete that you've been around
- 46:36Speaker 4: in the forty years. Good quick, can you and there's
- 46:39Speaker 4: been a lot. Can you identify one above all others?
- 46:42Speaker 1: That's a good road trip. We always ask these kind
- 46:44Speaker 1: of questions when around road trips.
- 46:45Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean one that stands out I think is
- 46:50Speaker 5: dealing with basketball.
- 46:51Speaker 2: You know, I've had exposure to a lot of other sports.
- 46:54Speaker 5: Too, either through supervision or again, we didn't you know,
- 46:57Speaker 5: way back, we didn't have as many athlete trainers. You'd
- 47:00Speaker 5: cover more events, but we've we've been blessed with a lot,
- 47:03Speaker 5: but with basketball.
- 47:05Speaker 2: I think Joe Alexander.
- 47:07Speaker 1: Thought that the first name.
- 47:09Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he was a freakish athlete. Yeah what did what?
- 47:13Speaker 3: So can you explain him physiologically?
- 47:18Speaker 1: Good question?
- 47:18Speaker 2: Hop?
- 47:19Speaker 5: Uh, quick muscle, I mean his muscle fibers. He was
- 47:24Speaker 5: quick twitch, and I mean he could jump through the
- 47:26Speaker 5: roof and you know he could run. He's fairly strong.
- 47:29Speaker 5: You know you didn't look like that, but I mean,
- 47:31Speaker 5: obviously we've had stronger athletes, but the ability to do what.
- 47:36Speaker 4: Everything he did in a six eight body. Yeah, it
- 47:39Speaker 4: wasn't like he was a five to ten dude running
- 47:41Speaker 4: around with there. Six eight Yeah.
- 47:42Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's pretty good.
- 47:44Speaker 1: Elite elite, elite second jumper, elite second jump, oscar se
- 47:51Speaker 1: second jump, second jump.
- 47:52Speaker 4: He was a quick second jumper.
- 47:54Speaker 5: Well he's a pogo stick now he could jump to
- 47:59Speaker 5: now quick quick?
- 48:01Speaker 2: Yeah that that shot blocking.
- 48:03Speaker 3: Lester could jump.
- 48:05Speaker 2: Lester could jump. You know they kind of listed him
- 48:09Speaker 2: at six'.
- 48:09Speaker 5: Four, yeah you could jump very well, too so old old,
- 48:14Speaker 5: SCHOOL i mean Old Phil. Wilson he was a pretty
- 48:16Speaker 5: good shot blocker.
- 48:17Speaker 1: Also, well, yeah one time was the all time leading shot.
- 48:20Speaker 2: Blocker yeah he was.
- 48:21Speaker 1: Long his arms were.
- 48:22Speaker 2: Long, yeah but he was you know a lot of.
- 48:23Speaker 1: Way. Yeah, Yeah, okay here we. Go there's Another you
- 48:27Speaker 1: have to answer.
- 48:28Speaker 2: This.
- 48:28Speaker 1: Huh you can't run away from, this.
- 48:30Speaker 4: Don't you can't tell him what to. Answer he'll decide
- 48:32Speaker 4: how he's going to. Answer you just asked the. Question he'll.
- 48:36Speaker 1: ANSWER i was just had you in my.
- 48:38Speaker 3: Back what if he chooses not to, answer what if
- 48:39Speaker 3: IT'S i?
- 48:40Speaker 4: Choose, ACTUALLY i think we want to hear the answer
- 48:42Speaker 4: to this.
- 48:44Speaker 2: Answer.
- 48:45Speaker 1: This he's, right he got to. Answer just answer the,
- 48:47Speaker 1: question mister matter forty one, years give me your top
- 48:52Speaker 1: five players if you were the general. Manager you're you're
- 48:56Speaker 1: the general. Manager you get to make.
- 48:57Speaker 4: Picks wait is he is he choosing that based on? Position,
- 49:01Speaker 4: yeah like a couple of guards. Straightforwards you got to
- 49:04Speaker 4: do it that.
- 49:04Speaker 1: Way thank, You. Brad who's your you're building a, team
- 49:08Speaker 1: who's your point?
- 49:08Speaker 2: Guard oh my, gosh.
- 49:11Speaker 1: This is it's a. QUESTION i, MEAN.
- 49:13Speaker 5: I know it's a, question BUT i you don't have to, Say.
- 49:16Speaker 1: Missoula he's not giving you tickets, anyway so he doesn't
- 49:19Speaker 1: have to be the point.
- 49:20Speaker 2: Guard, no, yeah he could, lead but, yeah.
- 49:26Speaker 1: Who's your point?
- 49:26Speaker 2: Guard point? GUARD i don't. Know you got old. School
- 49:30Speaker 2: you go walk on the, wall you, know between the room.
- 49:34Speaker 5: In the coach's locker. Room you got the wh does
- 49:38Speaker 5: you know the ten years at a time like top
- 49:41Speaker 5: five six players point, Guard Juan, Stayton Juwan. SMALL i
- 49:51Speaker 5: Mean John small doesn't give enough credit with the situation last,
- 49:55Speaker 5: year with how few of players we. Had d Nice,
- 49:59Speaker 5: YEAH i mean how many mistakes did he? Make you
- 50:01Speaker 5: you're so quiet.
- 50:02Speaker 4: About three and four?
- 50:03Speaker 1: Years, yeah then you're all done talking About Darris nichols
- 50:05Speaker 1: d Nights Darris nichols.
- 50:08Speaker 2: Another great point. Guard, yeah so that's a good.
- 50:11Speaker 1: One where's Day shon on your all time?
- 50:13Speaker 5: Team he's up, there there's no. Doubt but you, know
- 50:17Speaker 5: personality ones you. Over BUT i think he had some
- 50:19Speaker 5: pretty good statistics too to back it.
- 50:21Speaker 4: Up the third pretty good clutch guy, too game something.
- 50:26Speaker 3: Good yeah that last year Day sean was just like
- 50:30Speaker 3: when it was on the, line like just give him the,
- 50:32Speaker 3: ball right braes getting the ball out.
- 50:33Speaker 1: Of way six or seven games he wanted the.
- 50:35Speaker 5: Gun yeah and, again but you look back at those
- 50:37Speaker 5: a lot of them were one you, know LIKE i,
- 50:39Speaker 5: said after the last we just hung their hung their stayed.
- 50:43Speaker 2: There and then all of a sudden we went it
- 50:45Speaker 2: over in the last few.
- 50:46Speaker 3: Minutes what what what was going through your? Mind speaking
- 50:48Speaker 3: of Day shawn when at The final, four when When
- 50:52Speaker 3: dayshon went, Down.
- 50:53Speaker 5: Well you, know obviously that was absolutely. Awful Day sean
- 50:57Speaker 5: has a lot of personality and, everything and and you,
- 51:00Speaker 5: know obviously he was. CRUSHED i mean we all see
- 51:02Speaker 5: the pictures of the videos and that and. Everything you,
- 51:06Speaker 5: know as a, humor he has an excellent sense of humor,
- 51:09Speaker 5: too and he came out he, goes you, know next,
- 51:11Speaker 5: TIME i Think i'll just.
- 51:12Speaker 2: Pull up jump.
- 51:14Speaker 5: Round that probably would have been a good. Choice but,
- 51:18Speaker 5: yeah so, unfortunate you, KNOW.
- 51:21Speaker 2: Acls.
- 51:22Speaker 5: Happened but you, know in in the final four with
- 51:25Speaker 5: a pack, stadium with.
- 51:26Speaker 3: That, player that player at that moment.
- 51:29Speaker 4: With AN nba, career, yeah waiting for you. Next that
- 51:33Speaker 4: was that was a hard. Situation in addition to just the,
- 51:35Speaker 4: injury it was a tough.
- 51:36Speaker 3: Spot.
- 51:37Speaker 5: Yeah so but we got to spend a lot of
- 51:40Speaker 5: time together the next ten years or so because he you,
- 51:44Speaker 5: know he would continue to, play continue to come back
- 51:46Speaker 5: in the summer From europe or wherever and work with
- 51:49Speaker 5: him for three or four, months send him back. Out you,
- 51:52Speaker 5: know he'd come, back try and work on the knee.
- 51:54Speaker 5: Again so you, know he ended up having three. Surgeries, wow,
- 51:58Speaker 5: yeah it.
- 51:58Speaker 3: Was it was a bad. One.
- 51:59Speaker 1: HUNT i missed on a couple of those. Surgeries we
- 52:02Speaker 1: can say it they. Did wasn't, Here it happened somewhere.
- 52:06Speaker 5: Else it was a long, road and uh he, persevered you,
- 52:10Speaker 5: know uh provided for his family by playing overseas and
- 52:16Speaker 5: did the most he could with a pretty bad.
- 52:18Speaker 2: Knee SO i give him a lot of credit and.
- 52:20Speaker 5: EVERYTHING i think he's doing pretty well, now or Or
- 52:23Speaker 5: joe feels sorry for.
- 52:24Speaker 1: Him Put joe's injury into, perspective because here's a guy
- 52:31Speaker 1: that had to go shoot with his. Offhand it was so.
- 52:33Speaker 1: Bad talk talk us through, that no hippo.
- 52:36Speaker 5: Go but you, know, so, Yeah, joe you know when
- 52:41Speaker 5: you come To Tough Guy, awards you, know he.
- 52:44Speaker 2: Up, Yeah joe's at the, top you.
- 52:46Speaker 5: Know and uh so that injury happens and it goes
- 52:52Speaker 5: undiagnosed because it's not a common.
- 52:54Speaker 2: Injury this.
- 52:57Speaker 5: It was called as cromel and which you, know you,
- 53:00Speaker 5: know rotator cuff, dislocation shoulder, separation those all terms we've
- 53:05Speaker 5: at least heard you know this aso chromeil is actually
- 53:08Speaker 5: where part of his clavical didn't, fuse and actually there
- 53:13Speaker 5: was two parts in his that didn't at. Birth, yeah
- 53:16Speaker 5: it's never, fused so you, know it's like a young
- 53:19Speaker 5: bone in, there and when he got hit in that,
- 53:21Speaker 5: shoulder it kind of displaced and obviously caused his pain
- 53:26Speaker 5: and they eventually had to have surgery on. That but
- 53:29Speaker 5: him being left, handed you, KNOW i, mean he taught
- 53:31Speaker 5: himself how to shoot right, handed go back to That kentucky.
- 53:34Speaker 5: GAME i, mean they just let him go and you,
- 53:37Speaker 5: KNOW i wouldn't even pay attention to him because you're
- 53:40Speaker 5: not going to shoot it in.
- 53:41Speaker 2: Everything AND i mean it is amazing.
- 53:44Speaker 5: That you, know he's very hard to, know it's very,
- 53:46Speaker 5: disciplined and you, know you give him a, challenge he'll overcome.
- 53:50Speaker 5: It you, know you, know don't challenge, him he'll he'll
- 53:53Speaker 5: he'll go right in your you, know face and, everything
- 53:56Speaker 5: and you'll figure something out to get around.
- 53:58Speaker 3: It speaking of guys who tough guys played with, Pain
- 54:02Speaker 3: Nate adrian's one of the guys that comes on this.
- 54:04Speaker 5: Show you know exactly his way. Up, Yeah Joe mizula
- 54:07Speaker 5: and THEN i was gonna Go. Nate and SOMETIMES i,
- 54:09Speaker 5: Say nate's my last tough, guy you, know so because
- 54:11Speaker 5: he's played with he played with multiple injuries too that
- 54:14Speaker 5: weren't always uh, publicized and he played right through him
- 54:18Speaker 5: and everything.
- 54:19Speaker 4: Horrific shoulder there and at the end when That gonzaga. Game,
- 54:23Speaker 4: yeah we've talked about many.
- 54:24Speaker 2: Times, yeah, yeah so, Yeah nate's definitely a tough. Guy,
- 54:27Speaker 2: yeah just like.
- 54:29Speaker 3: You, No i'm.
- 54:30Speaker 1: Not they played through his. Shoulder hoppy's got an it.
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- 56:29Speaker 3: Com, randy what has been your historic go to for
- 56:33Speaker 3: players who are supposed to be rehabbing but maybe aren't
- 56:37Speaker 3: as devoted to the rehabilitation process as they should.
- 56:40Speaker 5: Be, WELL i like to try and start with, myself you,
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- 56:51Speaker 5: do this to get you where you're supposed to. Be
- 56:54Speaker 5: sometimes they're just struggling with. It maybe they're not been
- 56:56Speaker 5: injured before and don't totally understand what they need to.
- 56:59Speaker 2: Do so sometimes that. Works sometimes maybe they're, lazy or
- 57:03Speaker 2: maybe sometimes in forty, years we've had a few, turres.
- 57:09Speaker 1: You, know maybe that might, be that might be A t.
- 57:11Speaker 1: Shirt we've had a few. Tures we've had a.
- 57:13Speaker 5: Futures so you, know maybe you reach, out maybe there's
- 57:17Speaker 5: an assistant, coach a strength, coach, teammate maybe someone else.
- 57:20Speaker 2: Can help find the.
- 57:21Speaker 5: Switch and then ultimately you can obviously go to the
- 57:25Speaker 5: head coach and they'll usually, find you, know, treadmill motivate
- 57:29Speaker 5: tires or some type of motivation to help them get.
- 57:31Speaker 3: There so do you find, that do you find that
- 57:34Speaker 3: most generally, speaking most will do what's? Necessary?
- 57:38Speaker 5: Oh, yeah most, are most are, Motivated, okay, Definitely and
- 57:41Speaker 5: that's one big reason WHY i wanted to stay in
- 57:43Speaker 5: athletics setting. SETTING i, MEAN i didn't want to work
- 57:45Speaker 5: with workman's comp or you, know with all due, respect
- 57:49Speaker 5: respected workers.
- 57:50Speaker 3: Comp, yeah for people like, me old guys that are physical.
- 57:53Speaker 1: Therapy AND i WISH i wish we had the phone
- 57:56Speaker 1: roller here because he said it's going to be extremely.
- 57:58Speaker 1: PAINFUL i. Would i'd love to see him take you
- 58:01Speaker 1: down to the floor and roll that thing over, there
- 58:02Speaker 1: just SO i could see you wins and.
- 58:03Speaker 3: Pain it, does, Well randy will tell you it.
- 58:05Speaker 4: Hurts what's gonna you just got to go through that
- 58:09Speaker 4: to get.
- 58:09Speaker 1: Better right, hypothesis agree or, disagree and probably you AND
- 58:13Speaker 1: i are probably one of the few guys that can
- 58:15Speaker 1: make this argument since we did. IT i maintain that
- 58:21Speaker 1: travel and the wear down on the body was harder
- 58:26Speaker 1: in The atlantic ten than The big.
- 58:28Speaker 5: Twelve hmmm, Interesting, yeah that's Well lank ten a lot
- 58:37Speaker 5: of bus and then you know the commercial flights because
- 58:41Speaker 5: we didn't have the charters back, then so that you, know,
- 58:43Speaker 5: oh you get back To, pittsburgh you still got an
- 58:45Speaker 5: hour and a half hour and forty five minutes because
- 58:47Speaker 5: it's baggage claim back on the, bus load the.
- 58:50Speaker 1: Bus, yeah here's my. Contention it's A wednesday game we're.
- 58:54Speaker 1: Playing let's say we're playing At rody on A. Wednesday
- 58:58Speaker 1: we were leaving the coliseum at a. Lot we're going
- 59:01Speaker 1: to The Pittsburgh Airport.
- 59:02Speaker 3: Tuesday On.
- 59:03Speaker 1: Tuesday On, tuesday we're leaving at. Eleven we're gonna get
- 59:06Speaker 1: to The Pittsburgh. Airport we're gonna jack around. There we're
- 59:08Speaker 1: gonna fly off at like three. O'clock we get To
- 59:10Speaker 1: Rhode island probably like six o'clock by the time we
- 59:13Speaker 1: get on the. Bus we practice there in the gym
- 59:16Speaker 1: at night. Ye get up the next. Morning, yeah teeny.
- 59:19Speaker 1: Keeney go to the walk, through play the, game go
- 59:23Speaker 1: back to the. Hotel leave the hotel at about ten
- 59:27Speaker 1: in the morning On. Thursday now On, thursday now leave the,
- 59:30Speaker 1: hotel get to the, airport fly back To, pittsburgh get
- 59:33Speaker 1: on the, bus come back. Down one road. Game you
- 59:37Speaker 1: Left tuesday at eleven and now you're Back thursday about four,
- 59:40Speaker 1: o'clock four. Thirty that's one road. Game now you know
- 59:44Speaker 1: what the deal. Is, basically we're in the thirty eight
- 59:49Speaker 1: thirty six hours by the time you leave and you
- 59:52Speaker 1: come all the way. Back it's LIKE i just think
- 59:55Speaker 1: first class. SEATS i, say it's, easier even though you're going. Farther,
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: well it's.
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: It's still a.
- 1:00:03Speaker 5: CHALLENGE i, mean there's parts of me THAT i want
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: to agree with, you but there's parts. TOO i, mean
- 1:00:07Speaker 5: when you're getting back at sometimes you, know we've gotten
- 1:00:09Speaker 5: back at four five, six we've seen daylight coming. Back
- 1:00:13Speaker 5: that's a, challenge and you got to take care of
- 1:00:15Speaker 5: yourself on the. Road and you, know if people aren't
- 1:00:18Speaker 5: eating or drinking right or getting the right, rest it
- 1:00:21Speaker 5: is still a. Challenge but total, time no, Comparison, yeah
- 1:00:25Speaker 5: remember we used to Combine Rhode island and Mash or Like.
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: Utah we became citizens Of utah this.
- 1:00:30Speaker 4: Ye, yeah, wow that's a rare three week.
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: Trip we were In. Utah. Yeah next year it will Be.
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: Arizona we'll thank, you.
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:00:40Speaker 5: Forever the travel is definitely a, challenge but having the
- 1:00:44Speaker 5: charters has definitely improved a, situation no doubt about. That
- 1:00:48Speaker 5: but you still need to be aware of because we're
- 1:00:50Speaker 5: jumping time zones and that's a little bit harder on the.
- 1:00:53Speaker 5: Body and, uh the amount of time in the air
- 1:00:57Speaker 5: causes more dehydration. Too you, Know i'm a non pop,
- 1:01:02Speaker 5: drinker so very anti. Caffeine so you.
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: Don't do any.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: Caffeine you don't do any caffeine at.
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: All no.
- 1:01:10Speaker 4: Coffee he frowns on us when we go on our
- 1:01:12Speaker 4: coffee walks on the. Road he does not think that's
- 1:01:14Speaker 4: a Good.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Oh you're a coffee. Here i'm.
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: Life, NO i don't know.
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: CAFFEINE i think our listeners may be, surprised, no and
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: they're not going to like.
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: You for, this.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: Geez they may be surprised to know that it's just
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: part of the deal that when the officials that are
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: working the, game come into the. Arena oftentimes they they,
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: limp they have they have ambulation, disorder they can't walk
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: because they've just gone five days in a. Row you
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: guys provide athletic training OR i should say physical therapy.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: Whatever walk us through a little bit like what do
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: most officials come in.
- 1:01:56Speaker 5: For, well there's a, variety and there's one official that
- 1:02:03Speaker 5: kind of got.
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: Banned OH i need to know this. Story you can
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: go with.
- 1:02:07Speaker 5: This you're, done, dude go our our athletic trainer At.
- 1:02:10Speaker 5: Kansas we kind of like him a lot because he
- 1:02:13Speaker 5: got one guy banned from coming to the athletic.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: Training so what would this guy.
- 1:02:18Speaker 5: Do, well he'd come in and SAY i need about
- 1:02:20Speaker 5: a five minute, stretch and about thirty five or forty five.
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: Minutes, later you're, like you, KNOW i got other people
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: to take care of. Too it's like it's not all about.
- 1:02:28Speaker 5: You and one official maybe kind of thought it was
- 1:02:31Speaker 5: all about.
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: Him OH i got to get the name after he
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: won't spill the beans.
- 1:02:35Speaker 4: And it didn't necessarily help us get calls on those, nights.
- 1:02:38Speaker 5: No, no but uh, yeah him and The kansas guy
- 1:02:41Speaker 5: got at, it and, uh.
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: Basically the kansasize the. Guys, DUDE i got to get
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: guys ready to get the hell out of.
- 1:02:46Speaker 5: Here, YEAH i, mean we're here for the student. ATHLETE i.
- 1:02:49Speaker 5: DON'T i MEAN i can't tell. YOU i mean, Officials
- 1:02:51Speaker 5: i've taken care of.
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: You what do they? Normally just they need's a free.
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: THING i got an. Achilles, okay you know do.
- 1:02:57Speaker 5: This you know we treat you, know treated moisty, whatever
- 1:03:00Speaker 5: stretch it out and tape. It, yeah you know that's
- 1:03:03Speaker 5: not a big. Deal but you, know you got to
- 1:03:06Speaker 5: manage your time on game day and you can't spend
- 1:03:08Speaker 5: an enormous amount of time with one person that doesn't
- 1:03:13Speaker 5: he isn't even on your team and doesn't give you.
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: Calls So.
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: I'm totally for every treatment should equal a, call.
- 1:03:23Speaker 4: And its treatment should get Exactly who are?
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: SOMEBODY i should have had more final?
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: Fours who's some of your favorite? Officials? Uh who would you?
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: LIKE i. DON'T i don't like naming names. Again you
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: know what's?
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: Okay you know you're not saying they're they're bad. GUYS i,
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: mean he doesn't want to leave somebody out he's.
- 1:03:44Speaker 4: Met but a bunch of wonderful officials over.
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: The years wonderful, men the right calls all the, Time,
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: tony just Because, tony you're you're trying to draw him
- 1:03:52Speaker 3: into your, world because you were, constantly always, complaining complaining about,
- 1:03:57Speaker 3: officials and you want to name, names and you want
- 1:03:59Speaker 3: you want, company you want company in, that And randy's
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: a good guy and he's not willing to do.
- 1:04:04Speaker 4: That never think you're getting enough.
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: CALLS i disagree with your assertion THAT i don't like.
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: OFFICIALS i have great respect for. Him some of them
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: have better days than others at. Times and for the,
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: RECORD i was not one of the broadcasters this year
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: at wuvu's press table that had an official look at
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: me and Go it wasn't.
- 1:04:28Speaker 4: Me he was saying, hello he was waving to, me, Acknowledging,
- 1:04:31Speaker 4: hey good to see.
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: You it wasn't. Me i'm just saying that so you
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: can make your.
- 1:04:36Speaker 4: Assertion told me he was doing a fine, job doing
- 1:04:38Speaker 4: an excellent job when he'd come over for, you you're
- 1:04:40Speaker 4: doing an excellent. Job he was just pointing back to,
- 1:04:42Speaker 4: maybe like when you make a good pass on the
- 1:04:44Speaker 4: basketball for you AND soe to assist the guy that
- 1:04:47Speaker 4: scores is supposed to look at the passer and point like,
- 1:04:49Speaker 4: acknowledging good. Job that's what was. Happening he misinterprets guy
- 1:04:53Speaker 4: was pointing saying great, job great and he heard my
- 1:04:56Speaker 4: take on the review and was acknowled that's a great.
- 1:04:59Speaker 4: TAKE i, Think, WELL i think that's that's WHAT i saw.
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: Happening in, fairness we've gone down a rabbit. Hole let's
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: Get randy off the hook on.
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: THAT i JUST i just thought it might be interesting
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: for our listeners to know that. REFS i, mean because
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: they work, night they come in man, like they need,
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: ice they need, heat they need some stem sometimes in
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: order to get them, tape and some guys really. Do
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: there's a lot of, tape.
- 1:05:23Speaker 5: Right oh, YEAH i mean you talked about our. Travel
- 1:05:26Speaker 5: think about those, officials and that's that's a valid complaint
- 1:05:30Speaker 5: from some coaches that their travel is way.
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: Too much and they're down and you don't have a good. Night,
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: yeah and maybe past their prime and they may just
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: be totally exhausted.
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: Too, sure but when you're getting four or five thousand
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: dollars a, night it's tough to, say, Hey i'm not
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: going to do this.
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: ANYMORE i wouldn't, know but.
- 1:05:50Speaker 4: That you also need officials to keep coming up and develop, people,
- 1:05:54Speaker 4: Definitely so the issue starts at the lower. Level you
- 1:05:57Speaker 4: gotta get guys developing, hard, professional get.
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: Into can you give me a couple of your favorite
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: all time.
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: GAMES i was gonna go all About Pat driscoll.
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: Though pat's the greatest call in the history Of mountaineer.
- 1:06:08Speaker 4: Basket a tremendous, call the right call at.
- 1:06:10Speaker 3: The Big East.
- 1:06:11Speaker 2: TOURNAMENT i was going to, go do you remember he
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: was a student manager At Saint. Bonnie that's a great.
- 1:06:17Speaker 2: Story so you, know go back To.
- 1:06:19Speaker 5: Atlantic ten and you know you used to have a
- 1:06:22Speaker 5: manager host you when you went in there the day
- 1:06:24Speaker 5: before for practice and. Everything Pat driscoll was a student
- 1:06:27Speaker 5: manager At Saint, bonnie worked his way up through the,
- 1:06:29Speaker 5: ranks and then we get to know him and see
- 1:06:32Speaker 5: him on the floor and, everything.
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: And he made the great made the greatest. Call and
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: for The, mountaineers he's the one that called the fall
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: against The East. Tournament nova Put gansey on the line
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: to win its clear push by The. Villanova question was
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: the right point six left on the? Clock got to
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: call it foul hap and call it right?
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: Call perfect.
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: Call give me a couple of your favorite, Games, Well.
- 1:06:52Speaker 2: KENTUCKY i mean making it to the final.
- 1:06:53Speaker 5: FOUR i, Mean, petez that's only forty forty one years
- 1:06:57Speaker 5: AND i get to go to one final.
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: Four you, know some never, never no, never but some
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: are more frequent and you're. Jealous. Sure, yeah but, yeah.
- 1:07:07Speaker 3: That was a great.
- 1:07:08Speaker 4: One Yeah, kentucky biggest championship, game Big.
- 1:07:10Speaker 5: East, Yeah Wake, Forest Wake forest up there In. Cleveland,
- 1:07:15Speaker 5: definitely that was a good. ONE i had one six
- 1:07:18Speaker 5: son there. Though that just threw up the whole. Game
- 1:07:20Speaker 5: oh really, yeah he just got.
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: Sick.
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: Yeah, uh we blame it on one. RESTAURANT i.
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: Won't, yeah we.
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: WON'T i don't think.
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: Bever, no we just let that restaurant statute of limitations is.
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: Over So wake Kent Kentucky, championship biggiest championship.
- 1:07:40Speaker 5: GAME i MEAN i enjoyed some of those old temple.
- 1:07:43Speaker 5: THINGS i mean about What cheney got thrown.
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: Out that was an Unbelievable.
- 1:07:48Speaker 3: Saturday was that the same night that everybody Had cheney Mass,
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: no well it was in that.
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: Era but Phil bova was the official that booted. Him,
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: wow Phil bova had A he was like they must
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: have had a thing going because he wasted no. Time
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: he just drilled. Him it was about three or four
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: minutes And cheney goes in and and has to sit
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: in the locker room for the rest of the. Game
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: and someone one of the, administrators uh, like went in
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: and were, like, hey, man like you need. Anything oh,
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: Gosh cheney just like went off on.
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: Him that was a great he.
- 1:08:28Speaker 4: Was he was a great villainy, dislikes, right and.
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: You know what he. Was he was a nice. Guy, yeah,
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: yeah he was a really nice. Guy he had he
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: had a tea Kill john Cal, PERRY i kill you
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: that At leg ten was like it had just enough
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: edge on. It, man it was just a little. Bit
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: it was, edgy which was.
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: Good Jerry gimble star W there was always some.
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: Crap it was you remember that time, that, oh here's
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: one for. You let's talk about this a little. Bit Saint,
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: Joe's West virginia At Saint joe's where you went in
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: the locker, room thought that you won the, game and
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: then they came back out and, said, actually basket doesn't.
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: Count and oh what was his?
- 1:09:11Speaker 3: Name the.
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: Commissioner it wasn't. Wrong it was The charlie Theiochis oh
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: my Goshh CHARLIE theokis was At Penn. State they get
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: him the. Report long story, Short, yeah so they took
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: the basket away From West virginia after and like they
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: went in And gail said, like, well you can't do,
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: that and they, go, Gay I'm i'm sorry about brought
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: it back out of the, locker brought it back.
- 1:09:35Speaker 4: OUT i can't handle that not.
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: Well but then eventually they came back out Big press
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: released the next, thing and they gave him the basket
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: back and, said, no you can't do. It once you
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: leave the, floor you can't change the. Score but it
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: was some bull Crap philadelphia scorekeeper GUY i knew the guys.
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: Was he was a BIG i never know the. Name
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: i'm not gonna. Say big five guy came back and
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: said you can't do, that and those guys are already
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: off the floor and they tried to change the. Score
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: but there was always that like Crazy. Shenanigans there's Always
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: shenanigans THAT i, thought you, know it.
- 1:10:08Speaker 3: Doesn't there. Wasn't you had you had some good rivalries
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: in that. League you absolutely. Did you, KNOW i know
- 1:10:14Speaker 3: it was it. Wasn't it wasn't in basketball, Terms it
- 1:10:17Speaker 3: wasn't a great respective league, nationally but you had good, rivalries,
- 1:10:21Speaker 3: definitely definitely you had to go up to try to
- 1:10:24Speaker 3: get To bona and go up there as.
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: Well in The golden, era, right so this hobby was
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: Preceding atlantic ten and Probably usten that you would. REMEMBER
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: i wasn't here, yet But i've heard the story Is Dale,
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: miller our former, president would organize buses and they would
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: take a bunch of buses here to The Civic arena
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: In pittsburgh For ducne.
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: Game, yes, Right i've been on those bus. Trips We'd
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: Dale miller to put together to be like four. Buses
- 1:10:49Speaker 3: people would buy tickets and WE i go collect the,
- 1:10:52Speaker 3: tickets go up to The decaye. Game B b flinnery,
- 1:10:55Speaker 3: go bb. Flinnery get a bunch of bus. Duquet but
- 1:11:02Speaker 3: that was a cat let air and it was a
- 1:11:04Speaker 3: lot Of it was a lot of. Excitement, absolutely that was.
- 1:11:07Speaker 3: GOOD i mean cat had a. GOING i mean there
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: was there was a buzz in that. Building good. Game,
- 1:11:14Speaker 3: brandy were you here when the catlet tore his? Coat
- 1:11:19Speaker 3: was that before? You so he'll he'll tell you that.
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: Story that's a good. Story so cat ripped his during the,
- 1:11:25Speaker 3: game cat jumped up during the game and rips the
- 1:11:28Speaker 3: back out of his. Coat and so our radio station
- 1:11:32Speaker 3: W A j A r put together this campaign like
- 1:11:35Speaker 3: Get cat a new, coat and people sent in pieces
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: of materials and this woman made the coat and it
- 1:11:43Speaker 3: actually looked very. Nice it. Was it was a very
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: well done. Coat so it's this coat with all these different,
- 1:11:50Speaker 3: patches And cat led to his, credit where's the? Coat
- 1:11:53Speaker 3: the next game And West virginia wins and somebody ask
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: him about the press. Conversation, coach you're gonna wear that code?
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: Again he, says do it look Like corky the. Clown
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: i'm not gonna wear. That but it. Was it was
- 1:12:10Speaker 3: a Great it was a great, era and you came
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: in just early on. Day but the point, Is, randy
- 1:12:17Speaker 3: you've been around a long. Time it's just how MANY i,
- 1:12:20Speaker 3: mean you could write a book Because i'm sure you
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: have a lot of wonderful.
- 1:12:22Speaker 5: Memories oh, yeah. DEFINITELY i WISH i. COULD i Give
- 1:12:26Speaker 5: Don antonick a lot of credit for all the books he's.
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: Written, yeah he claims he's done after This Bobby bowden.
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: BOOK i think he should write one with.
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: YOU i wouldn't mind are helping. HIM i, mean he's the.
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: Writer here's another thing we didn't bring. Up so these
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: staffs have gotten larger through the. Years you used to
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: be in charge of, travel, travel when we went on the,
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: roads postgame meals and. Travel and now think about this
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: travel when it was. Commercial, dude in all.
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: The tickets changing. Flights oh, man it could make me
- 1:12:58Speaker 2: bold and.
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: Gray, yeah think about all of. That and that's when
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: tickets were, tickets and he's you, know sometimes he's, knuckleheads like, hey,
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: ready LIKE i have my death lost my.
- 1:13:07Speaker 5: Ticket, YEAH us air.
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: Air. Counter somebody just HAD ptsd from the.
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: Counter. Yeah you were in charge a per. Diem they
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: gotta do, this distribute this go, here oh, man all that.
- 1:13:25Speaker 5: Stuff, YEAH i just fell naturally on the athletic trainer
- 1:13:29Speaker 5: for years and.
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: Years that was back in that. Era that's part was
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: part of the.
- 1:13:34Speaker 5: Job and then you started getting you, know directors of
- 1:13:38Speaker 5: basketball operations everything, else so would split duties for a.
- 1:13:42Speaker 5: While and now the staffs are so. Large, yeah don't
- 1:13:45Speaker 5: worry about.
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- 1:15:15Speaker 3: World, Tony, well we Have randy. Here another, Mountaineer Jared,
- 1:15:18Speaker 3: west has been named the head coach Of Jared.
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: West, yeah Of Best. Virginia so the ninety eight ninety
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: eight trim Some, boise that's one of the all time
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: great trips and.
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: Victories there's another great. Victory, yeah Fun.
- 1:15:34Speaker 4: Temple. First remember it was at a nine am early
- 1:15:37Speaker 4: tip out There bois nine am local. Tip, yeah because
- 1:15:41Speaker 4: it was a noon game even Though Bois, yeah lined,
- 1:15:44Speaker 4: up drilled, them then got hugs In, cincinnata that Loaded
- 1:15:47Speaker 4: cincinnati team at the.
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: End we always kid about, That, randy because you remember
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: we didn't come back. Home, no we Went bois To
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: anaheim and, people a lot of people because the team
- 1:15:55Speaker 1: hadn't been playing, well, thought well you people thought we're
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: going Back. Walmart, yeah we went to The, walmart went
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: To walmart and just they Just Eddie passline just said
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: like get whatever you all need to get At. Walmart,
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: yeah get whatever you need to, get and, uh because
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: we just went straight From boise To dianaheim and then GAME.
- 1:16:16Speaker 2: I, mean if we could have gotten, THEM.
- 1:16:18Speaker 4: I got some horse crap, call horrible technical foul call There.
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: Carl williams car and they were taking they were just
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: absolutely what was?
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: It what was the?
- 1:16:26Speaker 5: Technical he needs to show the town on the ground
- 1:16:31Speaker 5: that slipped out of his.
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: Hand he didn't try to throw it and slipped on the.
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: Show Then i'm not gonna mention the officials Named Dave
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: libby who gave a bunch of bad calls On Michael
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: doleac And Brian lewin got in foul trouble and that
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: was the end of that changed the entire.
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: Game that was a great, Team.
- 1:16:50Speaker 5: Mayor yeah it Was Jared west And Brent, solheim all
- 1:16:54Speaker 5: those guys living together down.
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: Great guys still See, Damien, yeah stops up all the.
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: Time, yeah there's a good. Team then those good du good,
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: team good, dudes good, dudes good. Dudes, randy is anything
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: that we haven't asked you that you like to talk?
- 1:17:05Speaker 5: ABOUT i just hate Saying i'm, bragging but, uh in
- 1:17:13Speaker 5: all the, Years i've never missed a, game, wow, exhibition
- 1:17:18Speaker 5: overseas or.
- 1:17:19Speaker 3: Regular so total number of. GAMES i have no.
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: Idea, oh you got to add that. UP i want
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: to do that.
- 1:17:25Speaker 5: Sometime Shelley poe did for me a few years ago
- 1:17:29Speaker 5: WHEN i had five, hundred but it's been a few years. Since, Shelley,
- 1:17:31Speaker 5: oh you're so far past, That so you're far. Enough
- 1:17:35Speaker 5: messerly Or john would do. That but, YEAH i need
- 1:17:39Speaker 5: to do that. SOMETIMES i think that'll be After july one. Year,
- 1:17:43Speaker 5: randy you're you're fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred. Guy, yeah
- 1:17:46Speaker 5: when you think if you just do the average and just,
- 1:17:48Speaker 5: say let's just do it for the hell of, it.
- 1:17:50Speaker 3: Let's just go say forty one, times.
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: No, no, no, no forty, one just do let's just be really.
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: Conservative you think for Forty randy included.
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: Forty my first year as A ga at.
- 1:17:58Speaker 3: Football so with forty times thirty twelve, hundred twelve, hundred
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: let's do thirty three.
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: Games let's do. Forty that's thirteen hundred and twenty. Games
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: if you do forty years at thirty three games a,
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: year WHICH i think is, fair and then add in,
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: exhibition and then they add in all Those european, tours
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: you're fifteen. HUNDRED i, Think, yeah never missed never. Missed so,
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: YEAH i mean a lot of us. LUCK i, mean
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: you think of. BIRTHS i hate say, funerals but uh,
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: my you know my father in law. Passed we had
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: a game In cincinnati and it WAS i mean it just,
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: yeah you, Know i've been, very very.
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: Lucky just on that. Things but So i've never missed a.
- 1:18:40Speaker 3: Game that's.
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: Unbelievable, Yeah i'm pretty.
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: PROUD i think you'll. BE i think you're going to
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: be A hall Of, fame A National Athletic, Trainer hall
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: Of fame. MEMBER i don't think. SO i appreciate, it
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: but they got they got any, Sense i'll do The
- 1:18:54Speaker 1: hall Of. Famer how the hell do you have? That
- 1:18:56Speaker 1: how do you hell do you have? That run and
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: not Do that's that's what they're looking. For that's what
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: they're looking. For all, right we'll get that taken care.
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: Of we do a lot of things around.
- 1:19:04Speaker 3: Here tony just over. Promised once we get, That, Randy,
- 1:19:08Speaker 3: randy we would love to see, that but just don't
- 1:19:11Speaker 3: count on.
- 1:19:11Speaker 4: That don't Count maybe his resume will get him, in probably.
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: Not let me tell you. Something if we got that
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: sign In martinsburg away from The Fish company and got
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: the popcorn. Sign we can certainly get him in The
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: hall Of. Fame that's kind of apples and orange is
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: not same. Thing thank you so much For.
- 1:19:32Speaker 3: Luke go.
- 1:19:33Speaker 5: Go, yeah absolutely so with athletic training and basketball travel and. Everything,
- 1:19:39Speaker 5: UH i gotta give a shout out To bev she
- 1:19:42Speaker 5: was always. There and then, uh two, Kids luke And.
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: Eli, yeah.
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: Unbelievable it's a it's not a, job it's Not randy's.
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: Job it's a family. Job it's literally a way of.
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: Life and if they're not accepting of, it it all blows.
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: Up and you got to have that. Commitment if don't
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: have that, commitment then you got no you got no.
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: Shot and, uh that's an unbelievable. Run AS i said
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: when we, started.
- 1:20:07Speaker 3: Might have to probably buy clothes now because you've been
- 1:20:09Speaker 3: wearing swag now for forty.
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: Years SO i have enough of it THAT i, THINK
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: i think.
- 1:20:17Speaker 3: Take me all the.
- 1:20:17Speaker 5: Way you probably talk About, Langton Big east To big.
- 1:20:23Speaker 5: TWELVE i, mean you, know we really This nike things
- 1:20:26Speaker 5: Really yeah, awesome we're.
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: Champion we're champion there for a. While.
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: Yeah, outs you.
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: Still have The atlantic ten. Championshirt you can probably.
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: Bring that fair to say you probably have a few
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: things that still have the tags on. Them, Yeah, yeah
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: there's still a there's still a good, haul all. Right
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: there he, Is ladies and, Gentlemen Randy, metter outgoing mountaineer
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: basketball athletic, trainer AND i hope you enjoy. That just
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