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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football - Virginia Football Game Recap (Episode 740) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, welcome one and all. It is time for
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  Speaker 1: three guys before the game. West Virginia and the University
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: of Virginia Cavaliers met on a football field in Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina on Saturday night. And as they say in
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  Speaker 1: the soccer world, West Virginia got the results. They got
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  Speaker 1: the result.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, did they.
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  Speaker 2: All righty.
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  Speaker 1: If you are a follower of West Virginia football, and
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  Speaker 1: we talk, as you well know, ad nauseum in the
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  Speaker 1: offseason about everything, right? From A to Z, we talk.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the big themes in the offseason was, boy,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably going to win those first two if you
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  Speaker 1: could just get the Virginia game. The Virginia game became
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  Speaker 1: the old school de facto Maryland game, which would be
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  Speaker 1: the pendulum swing as to how your season would go.
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  Speaker 1: And so we talked about it on and on and on, saying,
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  Speaker 1: can you find a way? Can you get Virginia? And
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  Speaker 1: then Virginia goes out and they beat North Carolina State
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  Speaker 1: in that opening game. And people went like, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: could be a problem. And then they took care of
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  Speaker 1: business against Norfolk State. Now, they had all offseason to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for NC State. And then they had an
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  Speaker 1: off week after their first game. And then they had
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  Speaker 1: prep and they beat Norfolk State, as they should have.
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  Speaker 1: But Tony Elliott, their head coach, said last week during
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  Speaker 1: his pregame press conference, you know, this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time this season that we've only had the five standard
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  Speaker 1: days to get ready to play an opponent. Did it
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  Speaker 1: factor into the game? And let's face it. Let's face it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest now. Even though we know the final,
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  Speaker 1: we know how it ended. Virginia's first possession of the night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A little worrisome.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of went like... A little worrisome. Probably raised
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  Speaker 1: a heart rate or two across the.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly did mine. Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 3: Do we have to win 77 to 76? Well, followed
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  Speaker 3: by our first possession, which was bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't score on our first possession.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't do much on our first possession.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice that in college football, they allow you more
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  Speaker 2: than one possession. So it doesn't have to just stay
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  Speaker 2: what happened in the first possession. That's a nice little
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  Speaker 2: wrinkle in this... I don't know if that was just
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  Speaker 2: this week's game or they do that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: They do it all the time. So you're saying you're
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  Speaker 1: allowed to get better during the game?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can.
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  Speaker 2: Things change.
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  Speaker 1: Things change.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, you're right. When they marched down the field
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  Speaker 2: and they were running it because that was the fear
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  Speaker 2: you had of Virginia, right?
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  Speaker 3: Offensive line, big offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: They were going to line up and run right at you.
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  Speaker 2: They lined up, ran right at you. So, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know what you're saying there. That was a concern early.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: But that got fixed.
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  Speaker 1: Things got fixed. We'll break it all down by the numbers. 38-27,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia wins, which sets up.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. All right.
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  Speaker 1: These are the kind of games and setups. These are
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  Speaker 1: the kind of scenarios that you hope for. You're undefeated.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got your big 12 conference opener. And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to be played at noon. Nor one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 1: or five. Right? Seven bells on Saturday night. West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: and Oklahoma State should be a fantastic atmosphere. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: into that as the week goes on.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's not just a night game. That's all caps.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Can you capitalize night in this one? Well, there's night games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Games played at night.
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  Speaker 2: Good way to say it. There's games played at night,
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  Speaker 2: and there are night games.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: This is a night game.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Like, bring it.
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  Speaker 1: So you say the 3.30 kick that goes into darkness
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  Speaker 1: doesn't count.
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  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't count.
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  Speaker 3: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: And this isn't your normal 7 o'clock or 7.30 kick.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying because of what West Virginia has done to
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  Speaker 2: start this season, what that means to bring in a
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  Speaker 2: Big 12 conference opponent who owns maybe one of the
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  Speaker 2: best wins in college football this year over Oregon. This
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  Speaker 2: is a come on with it. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: be an old school Morgantown night game. This isn't just
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  Speaker 2: a Milan Pushkar Stadium night game. This is a Morgantown
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  Speaker 2: night game. Welcome into Morgantown.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, before we get any further. We might as well
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  Speaker 1: just get into the obvious stuff. Let's do it. Hoppy's
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  Speaker 1: Obvious Observations.
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  Speaker 2: He's got thoughts that sound brand new. But they're things
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  Speaker 2: we already knew.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his whip bomb ready.
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  Speaker 2: Heaven knows. Let's make it quick before.
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  Speaker 3: His bladder blows. It's Hoppy's Obvious Observations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Can't wait to hear these, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: They're just obvious. That's why I wanted to go early because.
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  Speaker 1: He came in today and goes, hey, guys, listen. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: my obvious observations are really super obvious. Well, of course,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: They're more obvious than usual. Right?
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia got a good win on Saturday?
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  Speaker 1: We'll start there. Oh, this is good. Go ahead. What
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  Speaker 1: are your obvious observations?
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  Speaker 3: Okay. It was nice that WVU could have a home
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  Speaker 3: game in Charlotte. It was.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, fans showed out again.
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  Speaker 3: That's the first thing. Of the 40,000... And, Tony, you
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  Speaker 3: were there. Of the 40,000 fans, about two-thirds are West
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  Speaker 3: Virginia fans. Riff on that. I mean, what a setting
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  Speaker 3: for West Virginia in Charlotte. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it kind of reaffirms what we already know,
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  Speaker 1: that West Virginia fans have incredible passion. And if it's
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  Speaker 1: a realistic... drive to get there they're coming yeah and
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  Speaker 1: during the day the streets of charlotte downtown were just
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  Speaker 1: filled with gold and blue and i'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: be funny but like i didn't see i didn't see
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  Speaker 1: 50 during my walks and i went to eat and
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  Speaker 1: went downtown but i didn't see 50 virginia people didn't
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  Speaker 1: see 50 virginia people which i think that's a whole
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  Speaker 1: nother topic that you can have they don't care I mean,
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  Speaker 1: plain and simple.
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  Speaker 3: Not as much as West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: No, they just, their tradition of their school, they are
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  Speaker 1: not a strong football fan base. I mean, literally, after
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  Speaker 1: the success that they had, they got to remember one thing.
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  Speaker 1: They did win 11 games last year, but before that, right,
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  Speaker 1: they went three wins, three wins, five wins. So they're
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  Speaker 1: still probably tepid, even though they won 11 because of
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  Speaker 1: those 11 games last year, was it eight, were decided
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  Speaker 1: by a score or less. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: they are never going to embrace football and have a
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  Speaker 1: passion and a love that really is impactful. They're much
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  Speaker 1: more of a basketball school.
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  Speaker 2: Well, West Virginia is just on the opposite end of
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  Speaker 2: the spectrum. You don't have to win championships for people
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  Speaker 2: to show up, and they did on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: And this was supposed to be a Virginia home game, right? Right.
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  Speaker 1: No, this was East Carolina. West Virginia was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: play East Carolina. Is that what it was?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Matchmaker, promoter put them together.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, I was reading. I mean, not only did Virginia
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  Speaker 3: lose the game, but I was reading a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the fan blogs, and people were bummed out about not
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  Speaker 3: only losing the game, which was the big thing, but
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  Speaker 3: that West Virginia just was overwhelmed fan-wise. Overwhelmed. Yeah, overwhelmed. Brad,
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  Speaker 3: and we've already touched on this, there was so much
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  Speaker 3: talk at Mountaineer Nation about the Virginia game, and fans, like,
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  Speaker 3: we almost, like, the whole offseason didn't talk about the
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  Speaker 3: first two games.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: And saw the Virginia game as this indicator, as this fulcrum.
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  Speaker 3: The conversations were like this. If you're going to achieve this,
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  Speaker 3: then it depends on what happens in this. That's why
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  Speaker 3: I think that winning that game was so significant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sets up a lot of optimism, right? And it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Tony, I do think there's some elements to
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  Speaker 2: the old school Maryland in there that you win this
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  Speaker 2: and you feel like, okay, This program is now on
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  Speaker 2: an arc that is ascending, is what that felt like
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  Speaker 2: coming out of there. But I do think, to be fair,
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  Speaker 2: and this is all due respect to Maryland and Maryland's program,
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  Speaker 2: this was a bigger win than some of those Maryland games.
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  Speaker 2: It's a ranked team away from your house. This was
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  Speaker 2: a significant win to get this, maybe more so than
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those Maryland wins over different years.
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  Speaker 3: Tony, also in this game, I mean, WVU didn't win
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  Speaker 3: on a funny bounce. They didn't win on a bad
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  Speaker 3: call against Virginia. They didn't win. It wasn't fluky. That
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  Speaker 3: was a domination. There was no question who won the game.
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  Speaker 3: Not just the score, but who won the game, who
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  Speaker 3: dominated the game. It was West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: 100%. Which made you feel good throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: that game. After you took the lead 12 seconds to
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  Speaker 1: go in the first half, then you played with the
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  Speaker 1: lead the entire second half and you felt There was
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  Speaker 1: no question the feel of the gift. game, it was
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia's game, offensively, defensively, and in special teams. So
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  Speaker 1: you're right. You didn't sneak it out. You didn't steal it.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't, oh my gosh. Wasn't fluky. Sometimes you walk
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  Speaker 1: out of some of these times, you go, let's get
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  Speaker 1: the heck out of here before they arrest us for larceny.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But you had none of that. You won that game.
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  Speaker 2: And you won it in a fashion, and it started
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  Speaker 2: with the fan base that felt like West Virginia football.
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  Speaker 2: You had an offense that was dynamic and exciting with
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  Speaker 2: playmakers that were making big-time plays. And that defense, which
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  Speaker 2: we'll get into, a lot of credit to them. Man,
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  Speaker 2: they were hitting people, weren't they? That was a physical
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  Speaker 2: brand of football. Virginia walked out of that stadium knowing
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  Speaker 2: they played a game and got hit. I just thought
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  Speaker 2: the overall entire experience felt like West Virginia football. It
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  Speaker 2: felt like the brand... it was played exactly what we
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  Speaker 2: all say the brand of West Virginia football should be.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, and take it down one more notch. We
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  Speaker 1: say it's West Virginia football. What is that? That was
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  Speaker 1: Rich Rodriguez football. I mean, that was the template of
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia's football under Rich Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because Don Nealon won a ton of games, and they
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  Speaker 1: were physical, and they hit. But with the exception, right,
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  Speaker 1: of Major Harris, you didn't always have a running quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Don Nealon, One with drop back quarters. This was, because
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  Speaker 1: let's face it, we'll get into the similarities between the
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  Speaker 1: style of Michael Hawkins and Pat White, but there were
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  Speaker 1: runs that came out on Saturday night and you looked
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  Speaker 1: at it and you went like, I saw that about
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  Speaker 1: 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: That looks familiar.
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  Speaker 1: And you didn't, you had not seen that since because
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  Speaker 1: obviously Dana threw it and things like that. I think
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  Speaker 1: what people, the resounding vibe that I get from people
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  Speaker 1: to Brad's point is, and I tell people that weren't
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  Speaker 1: around the first time because they're younger or whatever, like
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  Speaker 1: that's rich Rodriguez football, perfect setup for him. Like tell rich,
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  Speaker 1: this is all he needed. Tell rich you're a 10
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  Speaker 1: point underdog. Tell him it's against a school that's near
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  Speaker 1: your border. Tell him, Oh, they beat you in 2002.
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  Speaker 1: Laughed at you, laughed at you, laughed at you. Um,
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  Speaker 1: Tell them that they're the favorite and they're really good
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  Speaker 1: and no one's going to be able to stop them.
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  Speaker 1: And they're physical. They got a big offensive line. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to be like he I mean, you couldn't give
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  Speaker 1: him the recipe card any better because when he got
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  Speaker 1: in front of his team, you'll never see this.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Like, he hit it. I think he hit everything. He
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  Speaker 1: went into the border. He went into how it all happened,
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  Speaker 1: how the states separated. And so they come out there, right?
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  Speaker 1: And these guys, they just got here, like, in January.
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  Speaker 1: And they went like, oh, yeah, I get this storyline.
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  Speaker 1: And it was perfect for him. You know him. You
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  Speaker 1: give him something. All he needs is a little crack,
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  Speaker 1: and he will make it. And it's not fake. No.
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  Speaker 3: That's who he is.
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  Speaker 2: No. And you took one last point on that. And
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  Speaker 2: you had a quarterback that was dynamic. You had a
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  Speaker 2: running back that was outstanding. And you had a slot
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  Speaker 2: guy that.
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  Speaker 3: Made big plays.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about right on brand. And when those things align
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  Speaker 2: under Rich, it usually goes pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: It did the other night. And Brad, to that point,
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  Speaker 3: we talked before the game, and we talked ad nauseum
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  Speaker 3: over the years, going into a game, a bigger game,
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  Speaker 3: and you go, who's going to make plays, right? That's
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  Speaker 3: what we talked about all the time. And when things
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  Speaker 3: weren't going well, you would say, I don't know who.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to make plays, right? Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Hawkins made, well, I know you're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkins made a lot of plays. DJ Epps made plays.
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  Speaker 3: And then, you know, Cam Cook made plays. Jaden Bray
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  Speaker 3: made a huge play. John Niner made a big play.
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  Speaker 3: The defense, Isaiah Patterson, Kamari Wilson, Ashton Woods, Latimer. Ben Cutter.
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  Speaker 3: Ben Cutter. All had plays. All made plays, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't just one guy or no guys. It was
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of guys. And for, and I'm sure you'll
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  Speaker 3: talk about this too, Brad, but how many times have
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  Speaker 3: we said, how about a quarterback and receiver where not
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  Speaker 3: every throw is going to be perfect? Can you get
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  Speaker 3: a 50-50 ball?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody help. Somebody help go make a play when the
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: throw's not perfect. And I thought you're exactly right on
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  Speaker 2: that Jaden Bray play. I thought was exactly right in
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  Speaker 2: the wheelhouse of what you're talking about. Mike couldn't even
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  Speaker 2: see him. He just knew he was down there. knew
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  Speaker 2: it was one-on-one, and he trusted his guy and threw
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  Speaker 2: it up and then got hit and went down, didn't
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  Speaker 2: even see it. And Bray just said, oh, is that right?
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  Speaker 2: That ball's up for grabs? That's my ball. I'll go
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  Speaker 2: get that. That is exactly what you've been looking for
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  Speaker 2: and what you look for in your receivers. Go get
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  Speaker 2: a ball. Niner the same way. That throw was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit off target.
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  Speaker 3: Guess what?
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  Speaker 2: Throws are going to be off target. Throws are off target.
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  Speaker 2: That happens. The receivers are getting paid to do what?
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  Speaker 2: Block and catch a ball. And catch the balls that
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: are hard. And Neider did that as well. So I
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  Speaker 2: thought those were just two pass catches in a game
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  Speaker 2: full of big plays. But I thought that just tied
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  Speaker 2: right into all of this. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys on that field making plays.
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  Speaker 3: And to that, Tony, again, how many times have we seen, like,
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  Speaker 3: somebody catch a ball, right? That's not perfect. And you
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: had that. You had that. And then I know, Brad,
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  Speaker 3: I won't get into this. I know you talk about
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Epps because he's a dude. We know that now.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, just real quick on the Epps. Let's
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  Speaker 2: just go ahead and mention it now because it's in
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  Speaker 2: the obvious observations. Throw down the seam. And I know
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  Speaker 2: we say this occasionally, but this is true in this case.
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  Speaker 2: Had he just called timeout and froze everybody and ran
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: it downfield and went to hand it to DJ Epps,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure he could have placed it any better.
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  Speaker 2: That was unbelievable of a throw. And great concentration to
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: catch with a guy draped all over you. But that throw?
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Tony, I have a question for you. If Rich has
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: a quarterback and a running back that he likes, does
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: he give him the ball?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And Cook, coming off the field, said he was fine.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: He said, I can take more carries. And so he
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: had 30. So he's got 70 through three. What was
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: our over-under on that?
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: You guys aren't even close.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: He took the under.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: It's not even close. He's on pace for 7-12. He
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: sat here. He sat in this chair and just said
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: that's what he conditions himself for. He's not worried about
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: taking 30 carries. That's a lot of carries. He was
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: hulking it right up in there.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: You're going to have probably stats on broken tackles. But
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: late in the game, Tony, I love this. Late in
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: the game, when you're just trying to run the ball,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: like I think I texted you, now get the ball back,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: run some clock, and score, which is exactly what they did,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: dominate the line of scrimmage, and Cook just running, just
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: breaking tackles.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Do you want to reveal all your texts on Saturday?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: What? What do you mean?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you want to reveal all your texts
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: publicly from Saturday? What was your pregame text?
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, I said in my pregame text, I said I
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: thought Virginia would win the game.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to talk about tax, I
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: might as well.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: And I also said I will not be shocked if
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: I'm wrong, and I hope I'm wrong.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: That's correct. You did say that.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Talk about on brand. That was on brand, too. How
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: you just kept running it in there, and it wasn't
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: breaking it, and you were getting three, and you were
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: getting four, and then maybe you were getting stopped, and
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: you just kept coming, and you just kept coming. And
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: then by the end of that game, Cam Cook's just
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: running through people. And those three yards became five and
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: six and seven. You absolutely just choked them out. Just
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: choked them out.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: You scored on three of your first nine possessions, and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: then you scored on your last three possessions.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was huge.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: You wore them out.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Tony, the reason I did that was my egregious mistake
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: was I wasn't sure about Hawkins' passing proven wrong. And
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I bought into the Pribula myth.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: What do you mean a myth? There's something not true
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: about him?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I watched that NC State game. Oh, this guy's
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: going to be trouble. This guy can run all over
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: the place. And I bought into the myth.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: What if I told you last week before the game,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Pribula's numbers for the night are going to be eight carries,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: negative one yard.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I would have been stunned, right? That's a stunning, stunning stat.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: You know why, Brad? Because every game's different. Because you're
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: allowed to get better.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, really? Matchups matter?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Matchups matter.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Let's see. WVU said, we said after the UT Martin game,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: we were watching the emergence of Michael Hawkins. This is
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: what the words Rich Rodriguez used after the game to
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: describe him. Dynamic, composure, electric. I would add entertaining to that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's fun.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Fun to watch. He's fun to watch. Leaping over a guy.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: He likes to do that hurdle into the end zone.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Boy, he was up, too.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: He got up.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: That'll be a picture in the building.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: It should be.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: That'll be one of the pictures in the building.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It should be.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: That's an all-timer.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Brad, Coach Tony Elliott said their goal was to make
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: West Virginia one-dimensional. Did they do that? They did. We'll
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: get into that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: That's coming.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: A couple more. Sunbelt officials must have been told that
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: illegal formation was going to be a point of emphasis
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: this season.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Had four in the backfield there a couple of times
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: on that punt. Need to work on that this week.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Never seen so many of those.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: WVU undefeated through three games for the first time since 2018.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Some WVU fans I saw were upset that West Virginia
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: is not ranked now because they beat it 25. Don't
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: worry about that. Forget about that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to give you this then. Who cares?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: One, two.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I've said this the first two weeks. You're never as
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: good as you think. You're never as bad as you think.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: You're somewhere in the middle. So don't think this Mountaineer
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: football team is the finished product yet. There's still a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: lot of of things that need to and have to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: get better, and they will get better. Because if you're
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a good team, you've got a chance. What did I say?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I always say I wait three to four games before
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you can make some really good assessments as to, okay,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you're going to be strong this year. And the other
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: thing I say going into this game is You have
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to wait until the bright lights come on for these
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: guys to see how they shine, who runs away from
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the light and who embraces the light. Those guys that
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you've all mentioned here, right, all of these guys, they
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: wanted that light, which is a great sign, which is
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a great sign that, like, I want this. Bring this
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to me. I want to shine.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: And Rich Rodriguez said about Hawkins, says even when things
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: don't go well, he comes off the field and he
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: still knows why, which is a big deal. You know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: it's not like he's not all freaked out about it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: One last thing, the targeting call against Nick Taylor, which,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: by the way, Brad, might be shown in film session
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: as an example of what targeting actually is. It was targeting.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: But the penalty change, which is experimental for this year,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: you're suspended for the rest of the game, but not
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: for the first half of the next game, which is good. However,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: if he gets a second targeting, he'll be suspended for
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the first half of the next game, the rest of
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: that game and the first half of the next game.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It is nice you don't have to start Oklahoma State
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: without him. That rule change comes home to roost there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: It was targeting. This, to me, doesn't completely erase, but
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: it certainly mollifies the painful memory of... Mollifies? Did you
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: just give it a mollify? I did. Of the tire bowl.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: When you were just embarrassed, it was horrible, and that's
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: been a bad taste, Brad, in our... Collective mouths since 2002.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: It was referenced during the TV broadcast. We talked about
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: it a lot. You've got a new memory now. You do.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Still a bad taste from that one. That won't leave.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: It won't leave. But glad you got this one.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: This recalibrates it. Like, even if you're UVA and you're saying,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: or West Virginia, you're saying, UVA is saying, boy, we
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: really embarrassed them in 2002. But they had to do
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: this in 2026.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: World champs have now won four in a row there
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in Charlotte.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Charlotte's been good. The Charlotte home field's been good.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's because you win more times at home than
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you do. So you go to Charlotte's home game.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: That's what I got.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Very good, Hoppy. They weren't blatantly obvious, like you said.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: No, they were pretty obvious. I mean, candidly.
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• 23:17
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• 23:18
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• 23:22
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• 23:30
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• 23:35
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• 23:39
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• 23:43
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• 23:45
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• 23:46
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• 23:48
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• 23:51
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• 23:54
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• 23:57
  Speaker 1: What's a little bit?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a quarter tank. Sometimes I go a half.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Depends on how far away I am from triple rewards.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Well, do it quickly because the gas is going to
• 24:05
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• 24:08
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• 24:10
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• 24:19
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• 24:22
  Speaker 1: We're going to blow this one out here this weekend. Food, barbecue, cookies.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of stuff.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, there it is right there. He already put it
• 24:30
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• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Wings inside Suncrest Town Center from 6 to 730.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: 6 to 730.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: We'd love to have you there. It's kind of the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: official start of the football weekend. Food court. On Friday,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: right next to Daniel's Men's Shop, that'll start about 4
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: o'clock on Friday. And we'll have all of our stuff there.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Then Saturday, because it's a night game, it'll be a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: full day at the food court. Now, as far as
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: food goes, once again, we have partnered this year with RevCav.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: All of the money goes to funding that. The source,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: which is food for those that are food insecure students
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: here in Montegalia County and beyond. And if you're looking
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: for just like the most easy, best tasting way to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: do a pregame tailgate, Rev has these game day pans,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: which you get brisket, pork, turkey breast, and a side
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: as well. And it serves like 200 to 250 people.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Am I reading that right?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: No. You added a zero, 20 to 25 people.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: 20 to 25 people, all for 300. So you get
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: unbelievable food and a donation that goes to the source.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: And all you have to do to order that is
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: go to Rev Kev's website. So it's... Look that up, Hoppy.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Is it Rev Kev's Barbecue?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I'll get that for you.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I'll check for you. I'll get that for you in
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a second. No, it's the source. It's the source.org. Look
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: up the source.org. There should be an order thing there. Also,
• 26:09
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• 26:14
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• 26:17
  Speaker 1: two weeks, you're going to obviously pre-order again.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Obviously.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: If you haven't had them yet, the oatmeal cream pie
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: is just the chef's kiss. And then those Baker's Dozen
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies. Now, Baker's Dozen means you get 13. Now,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you buy 12, you get one for free. You only
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: pay for 12, but you get one free. Pre-order those
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: as well. You can do that on our text line, 304-404-4083.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Let's get into the numbers.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Let's check the numbers. We'll just go right to the numbers. SourceWV.org.
• 26:48
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• 27:54
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• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I think there's some nuggets in here, some stuff.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Because this is Monday morning that we're taping, these numbers
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: are probably more refined grade-wise, right?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I would think so.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Ready?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Let's recap, as we always do. Let's recap from the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: preview episode on Thursday and see what came true and
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: what did not. First and foremost, we talked a little
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: bit about Virginia's unbelievable success last year in close one-score games.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: And how many they won late, guys?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Seven out of eight.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Won five there in the last minute or so.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: We're in overtime.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: We'd kind of hope maybe some regression, Hoppy.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, regression to the mean.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: For Virginia in a close game, in a good game
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: against a good opponent. Thought it might go the other way. Hmm.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, it did.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Turned out pretty well for West Virginia. Number one key,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: we said, which team can run it when they want
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: to run it? Both of these teams wanted to lean
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: on their run. Answer could have gone in Hoppy's obvious observation.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: West Virginia... Ran it when it wanted to run it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Ends up with 247 yards on the ground. UVA just 157.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: West Virginia ran for nearly five yards per carry. And
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: as we talked about, the second half, that was really noticeable.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Cook started to punish some defenders. Those holes started to open.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: The line started to get some movement. And it was
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: really noticeable late how West Virginia dominated on the ground.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Here's a stat that kind of jumped to me. Now,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: they didn't run it a ton because they were behind,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: so they had to go to the air, which I'll
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: get to in a minute. But UVA averaged just 2.1
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: yards per carry in the second half.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: 2.1 yards per carry.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I always ask you, what's a wild number? That's a
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: wild number.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I thought that was, too. I thought, there. If these
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: two teams want to run it first and foremost, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you get into the heat of the game in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: second half, and you cannot run it if you don't
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: run it, you're Virginia, you're done.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: And you were. They had those, what, two ninth-year linemen,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: two tenth-year linemen, and one guy that came from the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: senior center?
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Yes. That's correct.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And they got two yards of carry in the second half?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Correct. In the second half, yes. That offensive line was
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: not talked about at all last week. No. Not mentioned.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Credit to West Virginia's defense.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: And we'll get into them a little bit, too. But
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: they were fantastic, obviously. You guys mentioned this number, the
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: carries by Hawkins and Cook. And again, if you've followed
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Rich for a while, it isn't a surprise. When he
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: trusts you and it works, guess what he's going to do?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: He's going to keep doing it.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: He's going to go to it. So 48 of West
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Virginia's 51 carries came from those two. I didn't do
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the percentage on that, but it was high.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I'll do the percent. I think it's 98, but I'll check.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: So that also illustrated to one of your obvious points
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: where it's players make the games here, guys. Players doing well,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: players making mistakes, that's who wins the game. West Virginia's
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: guys that it needed to be stars were stars. When
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: you looked across the field at Virginia and who they
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: needed to be stars, they were not. They were held
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: in check. West Virginia's stars were stars the other night.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: And I thought if you want to boil it down,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: That was the biggest difference.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: That's 94% of the runs.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: 94% of the carries. Worked out pretty well. The second key,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and I kind of thought this would be the most
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: important key, and I thought this played itself out as well.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: If the run gets stopped, which team can throw it
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: more effectively? For two teams that want to run it,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: which team can throw it more effectively? Here's some wow numbers.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: You want to talk about West Virginia throwing the football? Now,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: number one nationally among FBS teams in EPA per pass.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Expected points added per pass. How many expected points can
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: come off each successful pass play? Number one nationally in FBS.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Not running the ball, throwing the ball through the air.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: So you have been, you haven't done it a ton.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Air rich.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: You have been ultimately really effective when you want to
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: go to the air. Second nationally in explosive pass rate.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Second nationally in yards per attempt. First nationally in percentage
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: of deep passes. Again, all things your eyes tell you,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: but just some mind-blowing numbers. Michael Hawkins specifically. Third nationally
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: in PFF grade. Second overall in overall quarterback grade, but
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: the guy at number one has taken like six naps.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: So for all intents and purposes, through three weeks, Michael
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Hawkins Jr. has the single best PFF quarterback grade in
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the country. That's a pretty good start for the.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Young man, right?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: He's sixth nationally in big-time throws. We've talked about that
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: a lot over the years. So not all touchdown passes
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: are big-time throws, and not all non-touchdowns are big-time throws.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: So sixth nationally in big-time throws, which you pair with
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: zero interceptions and just one turnover-worthy play, which I'll get
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: up to in a minute. But of quarterbacks with at
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: least 12 completions, Hawkins is third nationally in yards per attempt,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: and that shows you with those numbers, the big-time throws,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: he's pushing it down the field. Leads the nation in
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: rushing yards for quarterbacks. Leads the nation in rushing touchdowns
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: for quarterbacks. He's second in missed tackles forced nationally and
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: fifth in runs of 10 yards or more. I mean,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the dude has put up an unbelievable resume through three games.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: But here's why I thought this key changed the game.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Hawkins and West Virginia early hit some big plays in
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the past game that I thought put Virginia's defense on
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: their heels. You could not load up only against the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: run with West Virginia. because they came right back and
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: hit you right in the face with those big pass plays.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Nearly 30% of West Virginia's pass plays on the day
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: were deemed explosive. Compare that to just 6% of Virginia's
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: pass plays. And that's where I thought this game changed.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: It became obvious really fast that UVA didn't trust Pirrola
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to throw it down the field. There were a couple
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: third and longers where he went to swing it to
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: the sides, and you went, they do not trust him
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: to put it in harm's way. Which I get. We
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: went through his turnover problems at Missouri last week on
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: the preview show. And they weren't going to put the
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: ball in a position to be picked off early. They
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: were trying to play conservative and hang around. But as
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: soon as you don't trust him to throw it downfield,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: what's West Virginia do now?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: That's part of why you were able to slow the rundown,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: I think, is because you didn't worry about them going
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: over top of you. And if you were, okay, go ahead.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Go ahead and try and throw it deep there.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: You just couldn't.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: They would not let him throw it downfield. And here's
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the numbers. Nine of his 33 pass attempts were behind
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage. That's nearly 30%. Almost a third
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: of his passes behind the line of scrimmage. 23 of 33,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: 70% were 10 yards or less. 70% of his pass attempts,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: 10 yards or less. Just 5.5 yards per drop back,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: which sits in the 34th percentile for Pribula. They were
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: not pushing the ball down the field. You could gang
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: up on the run and say to them, go ahead.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: You want to try and beat us over the top?
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Go.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Conversely, So 5.5 for Virginia per dropback. Hawkins, 11 yards
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: per dropback attempt. Those explosive plays were the difference. UVA
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: had no idea where they were going to get hit from.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Was it going to be Cook up the middle? Was
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: it going to be Hawkins around the edge? Was it
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: DJ Epps or Bray down the field? And so the
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: offense was clicking, and those numbers back it up. UVA
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: ended up throwing it on 41% of its early down plays.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: And that's where I thought it really got into some trouble.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Some of that was late. I realize when they're behind.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: But inexplicably, there were some first downs early in that
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: game that they threw it. I don't know why they
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: would do that, why they didn't just keep trying to
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: mash West Virginia while having success. It's not like it
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: wasn't working, guys. I don't know why they would throw
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: on first down. There were three possessions where they tried
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to throw on first down. Pass was incomplete. It's second
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: and 10. Now you're right in West Virginia's wheelhouse. Now
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: they are behind the sticks, and you've got a guy
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: you don't trust to throw it having to throw it.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: So I thought that their lack of trust in him
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: throwing it down the field, and their inexplicable decision to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: throw on first down, I thought changed the whole tenor
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: of the game.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they needed to take the rich philosophy there and
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: pound it. Take your chance there.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: The third key we talked about, and I mentioned this earlier,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: which quarterback avoids the mistakes, thought that would be critical.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Both actually pretty much avoided the mistakes. Some of that was,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I think, the way they managed their quarterback, and Hawkins
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: was just a lead on the other side. But that
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: key didn't come to fruition because neither of them turned
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: it over like we thought they might. The Hawkins stuff
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: is just mind-blowing what he's doing so far. Let me
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: go back into that big-time throw number again. So the
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: five touchdowns, zero interceptions we talked about through three games,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: and those PFF stats, seven big-time throws, which just raw numbers,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: that's six nationally. But if you take his percentage of
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: big-time throws, percentage of overall passes that end up in
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: big-time throws, he's 7th. There's six guys ahead of him
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: have a combined 15 passes. None of those six have
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: more than four. So in essence, as you sit here
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: after week three, he leads the country in big time
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: throw percentage. For a guy that really his legs are
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: probably the star of the show. That's how well he's
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: throwing the football. Cam Cook. I think Hawkins has been
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: so dynamic, guys. We're probably not talking about what Cook
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: has done enough.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: It's like the White-Slayton dynamic where sometimes you didn't talk
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: about Slayton because White had 200 yards.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: And never mind the workhorse nature that you guys mentioned.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: That has been fantastic. But he's at 317 through three games.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: He's over 100 yards per game. 70 rushing attempts we mentioned.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: So he's 12th nationally in rushing yards for running backs.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: He's third nationally in rush attempts for running backs. He's
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: third nationally in missed tackles forced for running backs with
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: 23 of them. So Those two guys have just been outstanding.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Lights out.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the final three offensive series of that game,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: and I thought that this really illustrated exactly where Rich
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: wants to be with this. Wear you down, wear you down,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: wear you down, and then just strangle you late. Two
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: touchdowns and one field goal over the last three possessions.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: You went eight plays, 83 yards. You went eight plays,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: 78 yards. You went seven plays, 18 yards. So that's
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: 179 yards of total offense. It was 25% of the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: total possessions in the game, but 41% of your total
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: yards came in the last three drives. You talk about
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: when it was on display and it was working, it
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: was those three. All right, quickly, some PFF grades. We'll
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: just do this real fast. Number one offensive grade, you
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: could probably guess.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Probably the quarterback.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Could have gone in your obvious observations there. Hawk, number
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: one in there. Jaden Bray, two.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Epps, three.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Cook, four. Wes King up there at number five. That
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: offensive line did a nice job. A lot of credit
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to our guy Nick Cray. When Nick went down, that
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: looked bad. Credit to him. He got himself back in
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that game and played. But also credit Josh Isosa, who
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: came in and played significant, valuable snaps for West Virginia.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: There's a little bit of that depth of the offensive
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: line that we heard so much about that we haven't seen.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: There's a great example of it. Isosa's worked himself into
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: a position. And that's a guy we talked a lot
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: about over the years coming from Oklahoma. And when would
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Isosa break through? Would he be a guy you can
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: And he was. And he came in and played pretty well.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: So hope Nick is OK moving forward. But that was
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: good to see some depth in there. Niter, sixth best grade.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Bubba Grayson, number seven. So a couple linemen up in there. Defensively,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Nick Taylor, Ashton Woods. How about the youngster, Matt Sig,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: rolling in there? He did it again, guys. You watch him,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: and that's just a football player. He makes plays. He closes.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: He gets to the ball. He hits when he gets there.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Fun to watch. He falls into that category. If you're
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: going to be a really good player, you're really good
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: right at the start. That's plain and simple. Like the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: first day he played a game, he looked at him
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: and went like, that dude. can play. Totally.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Catches punts, too. Catches punts.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, he fields punts. He hits people hard. He
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: makes tackles when he gets there.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like, yeah, it's just going to be fun.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: He gets there.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: His recognition of speed is really impressive.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: K.J.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Henson. fourth graded defender. You called his name a lot.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Two weeks in a row.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: And that's massive, guys. That's one of those guys coming
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: in from Juco, highly successful at that level. But you
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: never know how fast that's going to take. And that's
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: a guy you have to have good right away. And
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: he's been good right away. This was encouraging to see, too.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: How about Emerson Joy? Had two pressures in the game.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: So again, another guy. I don't know how much he
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: expected him back in July to have to come and play.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: He's going to play an important role moving forward.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And that's because of the injury to Darius Wiley.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Afogo. David Afogo was really good. Led the team with
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: three pressures. Here's a stat. This is the last one.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: We'll wrap this up. This is where you just have
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: to keep playing. And sometimes the early panic you get
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: in games or the early elation, you just have to
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: keep it tempered. Virginia, coming out of the first quarter,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: had a plus 12-yard field position advantage. And we talk
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: all the time, Hop, if you get to plus 10,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: you win like 90% of the time. Now, it's hard
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: to sustain, and it wasn't sustained. But plus 12 after
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: one quarter for West Virginia. But you hung around enough that, again,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: all that other stuff could eventually take over. You walk
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: out with what was a really good win and one
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: of those signature wins in Rich's career. You have Pitt
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: last year. You have Houston last year. This is one
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: of those, that if this season continues and then it
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: rolls into the next couple of years being really competitive
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: in this league, I think this is one you'll look
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: back at and say, still not quite sure where it
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: was going. You felt optimistic, but that it started to
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: go a little bit after this game.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: So on Saturday, you've got an opportunity to not only
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: start your league play at 1-0, you've got an opportunity
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: to equal your win total from last season. You won
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: four games last year. You could have four in your
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: satchel before the end of September. And then everyone will
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: have that collective bounce. And then after that, you go
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: on the road for the first time in league. Your
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: first true road game of the year, right? Because that
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: was not a road game Saturday. That was a comfortable
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: game on Saturday. You go to Iowa State, and they're
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: looking very, very impressive.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: They'll be ready.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll be looking very impressive. But so, yeah, it's
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: going to be fun. As we said, when you have
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: preseason predictions, normally what happens... In a 16-team league, like
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a couple of the teams that are supposed to do
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: well don't. A couple of teams that are supposed to
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: not do well do. And right now, West Virginia has
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: a chance to be one of those teams that was
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: not highly thought of that can have itself a very
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: productive season.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Yep, you got a chance. I think the situation next week,
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: this would normally be one hop where you'd worry about
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a letdown from the emotion. But
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: the fact you're returning home at night in front of
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: what will be a packed house on a gold rush,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I think helps you significantly. I think the offseason publicity
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma State got is good fodder for you this week.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: They have what we said earlier, one of the best
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: wins in college football over Oregon. The one thing, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: we'll get into this Thursday, the one difference, Virginia wanted
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: to run it, and you made them one-dimensional. Oklahoma State's
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: going to throw it, and West Virginia's defense is going
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: to have to be ready to come. Can you get
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: pressure on Mestemaker, who gets it out pretty quickly? And
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: can you cover up some of these receivers? So their
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: passing offense is elite.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Completely different challenges this week than last week. Correct. And
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: also one of the rare times I oftentimes talk about
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: how football from coaches and folks within programs, when you
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: talk to them, it's the number one leading sport of
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: things that are said that don't come true. My wife
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: got on me because I said football coaches are the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: biggest liars. She says, you can't say that. I mean,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean, euphemistically. I don't
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: think they maliciously lie. They think, but they think something's
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: going to happen. This past game, what they said to
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: me was what happened.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: So you have the, and you and I didn't talk much,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: I don't think, a day or two before the game.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: You have the benefit of having that. I didn't have that,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: and I just, I looked at that line. I couldn't
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: get past that line, which was 10. I don't worry
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: about the number. I just said, like, what do you think?
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: And those guys said, like, We're going to– no one's
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: hit him.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: In the face.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: And West Virginia did. My goodness.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: No one's hit him in the face. No one's hit him.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Just run the ball straight at him. They don't want
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: any of that.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: You know, Tony, speaking of hitting him in the face,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: and Brad, you had stats on Pribula. I mean, West
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Virginia got– I mean, how many times did those linebackers
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: shoot the gaps and just get out? I mean, he
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: took hits.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I think what you saw– you know, oftentimes you hear,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: and we heard it last week going into the game,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Tony Elliott talked about this, of Zach Alley doing a
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: lot of different things, right? And so you see different
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: players being sent from different places. So, you know, one
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: time it's Latimer. Another time it's Ashton Woods. Another time
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: it's a standard defensive lineman or an end. He does
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: constantly keep the thing moving. And when you talk to people,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: they say that does make a quarterback unsettled because he
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: just doesn't have a full confidence every time he goes
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to the line. Like last time, this guy came. Now,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: am I all right?
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: No.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, this guy hits you. So
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: the next time you go up, you go like, all right.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: That's a whole part of the head thing.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Latimer was really good again, too. That's a guy we
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: didn't mention. I thought he made some plays. And he
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: had that pressure like a couple times when Ben Cutter
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: and Ashton Woods both came flying up the different A gaps,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: overwhelmed them. And Pribula struggled under pressure, again, as many
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks do. But I just thought just tremendous effort all
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: the way around. I thought the branding was right on,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: spot on. And it was a heck of a weekend.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 45:27
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• 45:29
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• 46:53
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• 46:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:59
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• 47:08
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• 47:11
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• 47:13
  Speaker 1: James the Lawman from Fairmont writes, in-game text. These normally
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: are pretty good. Some don't age well. As a kid,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: my mom taught me a field goal hex that has
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: worked countless times. You curl three fingers in the air
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: on each hand and make a hissing sound. Hoppy, could you?
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I guess curl three fingers like this, like this.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: And then make a hissing sound like a snake. He says,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I've used it three times this year and it's worked
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: each time. Once at the end of the Colorado Georgia
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Tech game, which obviously he must have had money on
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: if he was watching once in the stands at the
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: UT Martin game. And just now for the Virginia field
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: goal attempt. Let's let's hope this thing keeps going all
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: year long. Let's go. He had to have money on
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Colorado Georgia Tech. What's he trying for a missed field
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: goal in that game for if he didn't? James, thank you.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Now, a lot of people think that sometimes
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I may go over the top a bit on Lou
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Wendell and where their crafts float. I mean, because Coastal Carolina,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: they used Lou Wendell pontoons to get up here. Well,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: here's proof. Texter says Lou Wendell. spotted driving home. There
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: you go. From the game in Virginia, heading north. Another
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: great night to be a Mountaineer wherever you may be.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: So without question, that is a Lewendl pontoon. And don't forget,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Lewendl is the award-winning, award-winning marine dealership located in lovely St. Albans,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: recognized as the state of West Virginia's biggest pontoon boat
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: dealer in the state. They also are the only Honda
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: marine premium dealership in the state of West Virginia. So
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: If it's time to take your boat out this year,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: if it's time, you know, you might want to go
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: in and go, you know, season's coming to an end.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Might want to go get one. The deal might be
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, might be a little good.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Visit the good folks at Lewendl Marine Sales in St.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Albans.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: You can go to lewwendlmarinesales.com. Visit them in St.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Albans.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Lewendl himself is there. Son Michael's there as well. Say
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: hello to the fellas for us. Okay, so in our
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: almost a West Virginia, always a West Virginia connection. I
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: think I told you this yesterday, Hoppy. You didn't know.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: But the referee for Saturday's game, Steve Robinson, Stephen Robinson,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: is from Beckley. Played football there for the Flying Eagles
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: and basketball for the Flying Eagles.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: I understand now.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Lives in Charleston.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: So I thought he and his career was spectacular. Very
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: nice job.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Wonderful job.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Young men. Young men in the striped shirts. Fantastic.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Got the calls exactly right.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Big Steve with us. Yeah. This was hit by several people,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: and we'll just use this one as a theme.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Really super simple sentences.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I'm back in. How could anyone not be after a
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: win like that considering the history? So this person must
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: have taken themselves out, and now they're back in.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Welcome back.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Welcome back into the wagon.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Well, look, fans are in categories.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Excuse me?
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Fans are in categories, generally speaking. There's categories that are
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: always in. Think you're going to win every game. There
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: are fans like, boy, I hope we win. And then
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: there are fans like, ah. I don't know. Okay, why'd
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: you hire Rich Rodriguez? And now it's like, oh, yeah,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: I'm in.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I hear you. This was interesting. This is an
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: immediate post-game text. I'd like to take at least partial
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: credit for this victory. The players did all right, too.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I know Brad will appreciate this story. I had to
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: leave my house after the first quarter on Saturday to
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: pick up my kid who's a member of the UHS,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: University High School Band, upon their return from an outstanding
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: performance at Laurel Highlands. We were down 14-7 when I
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: left the house. Mountaineers were. By the time we got back,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: we were up 21-14 before halftime. So I texted my
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: wife and I said, I can't come home now, can I?
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: She said, I love you, but no.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Very good.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: So you got a heavy superstition thing. I dropped my
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: kid off at the house and the dog... And I
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: spent halftime and most of the second half just driving
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: around Morgantown, listening to Tony and Dwight until it was 35-21,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: and we all felt safe.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: It's devoted.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: It was still a little tense after my return, but
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: all's well that ends well, and I was glad to
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: do my part, even with gas prices the way they are.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Got to get to GoMart.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Well, if he would have went to GoMart, he would
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: have got triple the rewards points.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, for your continued efforting to give us the
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: best coverage of any school in the nation. You guys rock.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Let's go Mountaineers. And this was signed off by yet
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: another different Michael in Morgantown. So he just drove around
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: because he thought he would put a hex on like
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: the dude with the fingers and the hissing on the
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: field goals.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Everybody doing their part.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Everyone's crazy.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Everybody doing their part.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Everyone's crazy, and it's a nice crazy. We love it.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Speaking of characters, Charlie from Midlothian checking in. Now, that
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: was the ultimate thanks for having us. I was at
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Scott Stadium in 1985. when their pep band did one
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: of those derogatory West Virginia halftime skits. Well, right now
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: we're visiting Virginia Beach, and when I went shopping at
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: the Kroger's on Friday afternoon in the mayonnaise aisle, I
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: saw this sitting on top of the shelf. I took
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: it as an omen of good things to come. Little
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Duke's Mayo with a flying WV on it. Great game
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: out here. His karma might not always be on time,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: but as Charlie says, it's never late.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: Duke's Mayo has been good to West Virginia. Very good. Oh, yeah.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: This one, Brad, you've kind of had a strained relationship.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: Excuse me?
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: You've kind of had a strained relationship of late with
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: these two guys, John and Jason.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: John and Jason. So I saw them at the food court.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: They still around.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen them in years.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. They left me.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Well, no, they're busy.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: They were at the food court.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: You know why? I haven't seen them. They started a business.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: You seen their business's logo? That's Three Guys Garage. He says,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: we do automotive repair, upgrades, wheels and tires, lift kits,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: automotive accessories, and for you, Brad, specialize in lawnmower batteries.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I would assume, John and Jason, two of the
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: all-time greats, I would assume I'm the third guy because
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I launched that business. If they did not come up
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: and help with my super complicated lawnmower issue. I don't
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: know that they have the wherewithal to get started, right?
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: That gave them some confidence, Hoppy. They can handle any
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: problem that comes their way. Now, granted, they were built
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: in world champion race cars before that, but in terms
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: of the lawnmower business, that's a super difficult problem they
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: solved for me.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: You were, like, we had, there were discussions about three
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: shows about the complicated issue with your lawnmower.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Battery was dead.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: And then when we saw them, I asked the guy, like,
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: what was it with brand? Was it they have to
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: tear it apart? Do you have to, like, get replacement
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: because Charge the battery.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Charge. That's even better, Hoppy. It wasn't even done. He
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: had to charge the battery. That's actually inaccurate. So go
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: to Three Guys Garage.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: I did not know.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: I'm part owner of a Three Guys Garage.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: There's another guy.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm more done working.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Texter says, last week, a number of listeners said they
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: were not over the loss to Virginia in 2002.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Amateurs.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I'm still not over the loss to the Cavs in 1984.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: That should have been a 10-win season. Great win tonight.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: They really impressed me. Yeah, the 84 team, that's the
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: group that beat Flutie. That's the group that beat Penn State.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: And then they all got hurt. And you had three
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: losses in a row. You lost to, and I'm not
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: in this particular order, but you lost at Virginia. You
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: lost to Rutger. And you lost to Temple when Andrew
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Jones jumped offside on the field goal. And so that
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: was three losses. That was the Blue Bonnet Bowl team.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Was that?
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Was that like 26 to 6? Why does that stand
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: out at Virginia? 26 to 6?
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: I don't remember. 19 to 4.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: But you know what? Then they went to Texas and
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: beat TCU. Yeah, beat TCU.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Texter, postgame, what a win for the first time in
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: a long time. I feel hope. For all the talk
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: about the defense, something clicked after that first quarter. They
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: made plays. For all the talk about UVA's geriatric offensive
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: line and Pribula's legs, they were made to look average.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Nick Cray, the epitome of West Virginia football. Hawkins is
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the guy. I'll see you all next week when we
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: take on the Cowboys. Can't wait.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. They beat Penn State 17-14 and then lost
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: to Virginia 27-7. Rutgers 23-19. Lost to Rutgers 23-19. Temple 19-17. Man,
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: we hit a field goal.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: No, 19-17 because Temple had a second. So that was 19.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: 19-17 was the score? 19-17.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: So Temple must have had 16. So we were up 17-16.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: They kick a field goal that was no good. We
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: jumped offside. They moved it five yards closer, and he
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: hit the field goal, walked off, and won. Then beat
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: TCU 31-14. Texter, this is interesting. I'm willing to say
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: it out loud what we are all thinking internally. Here
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: you go. So Tex says corporate. need you to find
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: the differences between this picture and that picture. Picture of
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Pat White on the run, Michael Hawkins on the run.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: You know what you got in that game, Tony? And again,
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: I was flicking back and forth between you and Dwight
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: and Jed and then listening to see what TV was
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: doing just to kind of get a sense of it.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: And because of the way, Brad, the game was going,
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: they had to tell– it was an ACC broadcast crew,
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: and I get that, but they had to tell more
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: of the West Virginia story. So you got a lot
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: of Pat White– Got a lot of shots of him,
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: a lot of shots of Rich Rod. Jed Drenning made
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: the broadcast because they talked about Rich starting back at
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: Glenville and Jed as the quarterback back then. So there
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: was a lot of West Virginia angles that got played
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: in that broadcast, even though the entire nation was watching
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: the Ole Miss-LSU game.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: The West Virginia ratings when they come out on that
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: game are probably not going to be real good when
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: you had Ole Miss-LSU going. Texter, Glenn from Glenn Ferris. First,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: my sincere apologies for the name mix-up in my text
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: last week. I know full well who each of you are.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: As noted, it was a rare in-game text, and I
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: may have been under the influence of something stronger than
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: a Connection 304. Two, I am not going to call
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the game an all-time great game, but the world's champion
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Mountaineers showed a toughness, a physicality that frankly has not
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: been seen since Rich Rod 1.0. And Mike Hawkins and
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Cam Cook are obviously grown-ass men after that performance. 3-0
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: with a win over a ranked team. Now the real
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: test begins. Still keeping the faith along the banks of
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: the Kanawha Falls. P.S. Can you say thanks for having
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: us after a neutral site game?
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: No, I think what you say is, not in our house.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a home game, so I don't know
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: that it applies there.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Don't do it after home games.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: Protect the home field. Protect our house. They did.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: This text piqued my interest. Hi, Tony. I had you
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: on the Varsity app last night while on deployment. It
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: was a great night to be a Mountaineer wherever you
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: may be, all the way over in Somalia.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you for that call. So I texted him back.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Is that our first one from Somalia?
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I texted him back, and I did tell him
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: that I do have a propensity to watch Somali pirate
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: videos on YouTube and asked if, like, does he have
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: any encounter.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: He's over there living it.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: What did you get back?
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I just sent it to him. Just now, I'll get
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: something back from him. Texter, Oki from Jumping Branch.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Long way from Somalia.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: I can't remember seeing West Virginia defense hit like that since, well, darn, Tony, Brad, Hoppy,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: you guys tell me. Also, I thought UVA's play calling
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: was great, but it also ran into hard edge. Welcome
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: to West Virginia, Zach Alley.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: You looked at that game, and we've talked about it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: And you said, what did you say, Brad? That's West
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: Virginia football, right?
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Texter, Ben in Chicago. Two quick points. First, my only
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: disappointment was that Cam Cook did not get a touchdown.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: With how many yards he got from continuing to move
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: his feet and make guys miss, I would have loved
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: to see him get a TD. Second, I have a
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: feeling some of Michael Hawkins' numbers made Brad say, wow. Agree, Ben.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: They did.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Tom in Pittsburgh chimes in. This is interesting. He sent
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: me a video, and the videos don't come out well
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: when you send them on the text line, so I
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: did watch it, but he sent me a video, and
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: he says, this person is putting away the offensive lineman's
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: chairs in the last seconds of last night's game, and
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: it is none other than our athletics director, Ren Baker.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: He does it all from raising millions of dollars to
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: cleaning up the sidelines after a game.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: Good job, Ren. So.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Ren is a former operations guy when he was there
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: at Oklahoma State with Eddie Sutton. And I think those
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: guys get a gene planted in them. Right, Brad? And
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: so he still has that. You'll see him cleaning stuff up.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Takes bags off the bus, just kind of like, because
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: I think it's in him. Because I still think he
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: thinks Coach Sutton's going to yell at him for not
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: doing it.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: Don't you think that's what.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: That is, Brad? There could be some of that in there.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: He does it all.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just glad there was no snakes over there on
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: that sideline.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: No kidding.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Could have possibly impacted the director of athletics. Texter, what
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: were the attendance numbers for the September 19th home game?
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Did UVA have 7,500 in sales, Chris, in Pittsburgh? So
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: the official was listed 39,377, and I don't think they
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: sold 7,500 tickets.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: Would you say it was, was it like two thirds
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: West Virginia, one third Virginia, or even more than that?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: Cause I tell you what on TV, listening to you
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: and watching TV, I didn't see the cutaways to fans.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: I think it was about 10 to one West Virginia.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: It could have been 65, 35, 70, 30. Could have
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: been maybe 75, 25 at the most. Um, last, uh, no,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: two last ones, two last ones. Um, Apparently, the attendance
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: for the Duke's Mayo Classic was 39,000, of which 38,999
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: were Mountaineer fans. Unfortunately, Charlottesville, Virginia, after all, guys, is
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: over 3,000 miles away from Charlotte, and it's hard for
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: UVA fans to travel to the game.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: They're used to going to Stanford.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: My T-shirt selection for this game was, look at this shirt, Hop.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: You remember this? The Wheeling Ironmen of the Continental Football League,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: a blast from the past.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: I must have had upwards of 30 people from Wheeling
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: stop me and ask me about Wheeling. And take a
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: picture of me wearing this particular T-shirt. So Hoppy, the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: old Wheeling Ironman.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Footballers. How about that? That is good.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Looks like they were active 62 to 69. That's back
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: when men were men.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Last one. This is true. Gail from Martinsburg. Longtime listener.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Great win. Saturday. Also exciting news on another front. A
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Guinness World Record was set. In Omaha. We know Omaha.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: We do. One of the great... Great American cities. Well,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, one of the great sushi restaurants in the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: world is there.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Well known.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Anyway, earlier this month, how about this one, boys? A
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  Speaker 1: Guinness record set, a 429 and a half foot Slim
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  Speaker 1: Jim was certified as the world's longest meat snack. It
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  Speaker 1: weighed nearly 70 pounds.
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  Speaker 1: And easily surpassed the previous record, which was just 314 feet.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true?
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  Speaker 3: Is this true?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I don't know how many fly rods you could
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  Speaker 1: make out at a 429-feet Slim Jim, but I would
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  Speaker 1: hazard a guess it would be quite a few.
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  Speaker 2: GoMart have those?
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  Speaker 1: Not yet. I can't wait to hear what the elves
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  Speaker 1: at episode800. com are working on for Christmas. Is it true
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  Speaker 1: that mudflaps and hankies are being efforted for this year's catalog?
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  Speaker 1: Love the show, Galen Martinsburg. She did... That kind of
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  Speaker 1: reminded me. Christmas is probably two weeks from now, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Should we start planning Christmas on the website? I might
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  Speaker 2: be a little behind on that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's something I thought, though.
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  Speaker 3: This will be a classic, me jumping ahead.
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  Speaker 1: We probably should sell Cutter cookies for Christmas, shouldn't we,
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  Speaker 1: on the website?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we should talk to Jen Cutter and
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  Speaker 2: make sure she can keep up with demand before we volunteer.
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  Speaker 3: Her for Christmas cookies. I'm looking at the video of
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  Speaker 3: this Slim Jim. My goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Stupid long, huh?
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  Speaker 2: So it's not in aisle two of Go-Mart?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Just look. If you've got nothing else to do today,
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  Speaker 3: just go to YouTube and put in 429-foot Slim Jim,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll see. Let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: What's the diameter? Is it standard Slim Jim?
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  Speaker 3: It looks like standard diameter.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like a.
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  Speaker 3: No, they have it on a roller, like a cable,
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  Speaker 3: and you're just going along and rolling it out.
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  Speaker 2: Like the thing you put your hose on?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Like one of those things?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And where'd they lay it out? Downtown?
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  Speaker 3: Somewhere downtown.
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  Speaker 2: By where that farmer's market is?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Omaha quite well enough to know exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Where it was. We were there for about six weeks.
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  Speaker 2: We were there for three months.
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  Speaker 3: It's not at the stadium or in the old section
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  Speaker 3: of town. Looks like a parking garage.
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  Speaker 1: Is it near that museum you wanted me to go to?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, it was a great museum.
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  Speaker 2: That coffee shop we went to where Tony met that guy.
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  Speaker 3: No, seriously. Go do that today to see this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go to the Slim Jim thing on YouTubes and
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  Speaker 1: take a look. So, Brad, can you ID where that
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  Speaker 1: area is? You probably know where that is. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: funny as heck.
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  Speaker 2: Shots are too tight here. I can't get it.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about it great. So, was that Slim Jim
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  Speaker 1: that did it? That's great activation, man.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: That is great.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it had to be, like, not come apart, too, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, sure.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise, it's not a record if it busts off at
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  Speaker 4: 150 feet. A lot of people handling it. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think we were in that parking garage.
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  Speaker 3: It was the one place we weren't in Omaha.
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  Speaker 2: Did I let it fly by chance?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, before we go away.
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  Speaker 3: What was that bar downtown?
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  Speaker 2: Let It Fly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that was Let It Fly?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You had problems with the temperature up there in
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  Speaker 1: that studio, didn't you? The air conditioning? Where? Up in
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  Speaker 1: that studio. You became a very, very silly old man
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  Speaker 1: about the temperature.
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  Speaker 3: Turn that air conditioning off.
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  Speaker 1: Turn the air off.
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  Speaker 3: It's cold. Where's my sweater?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Zach, if you would, put back up the Rev
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  Speaker 1: Kev thing, because the thing you do have to remind you,
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  Speaker 1: you have to preorder these pans. By the next time
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  Speaker 1: we come in, the pans. So Hoppy found it. It's thesourcewv.org. Thesourcewv.org.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, as a food connoisseur, self-proclaimed, This stuff
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievable. If you're looking for an easy way to
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  Speaker 1: do your food Saturday for the game, get a pan
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  Speaker 1: or six, and unbelievable. They got brisket, pork, turkey breast
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  Speaker 1: plus a side. Fantastic. Go to the source, wv.org. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see you Thursday. Back for another episode, but also Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be at Buffalo Wild Wings. We'll have music. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have contests.
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  Speaker 3: You know what we'll have?
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  Speaker 1: Special guests. We'll have stuff. We'll just do stuff. And everything.
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  Speaker 1: Look forward to it. Yeah, and everything and stuff. Will
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  Speaker 1: Carrie be there? Oh, yeah, she's the best. We walk
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  Speaker 1: if Carrie the manager's not there. Also, if you'd like
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  Speaker 1: to participate in the Hot Wing Chicken Eating Contest, Jaquay Hubbard,
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  Speaker 1: two minutes, nine seconds for ten smoking, blazing wings.
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  Speaker 2: We have had two doozies. Beth Robinson, the underdog winner
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  Speaker 2: in round one, and then Jaquay went 36 seconds in
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  Speaker 2: and had them all down.
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  Speaker 1: Is Alex, the basketball director of operations, he coming over?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he'll probably be there, but he won't do the
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  Speaker 2: wing challenge.
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  Speaker 3: What about the guy from the kitchen, too?
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  Speaker 1: Nick. No, Alex. Former champion. Alex is soft as a
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  Speaker 1: freeze pop that's been out all day. I mean, can
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  Speaker 1: he get in there and just eat some doggone wings?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little tough. TBD.
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  Speaker 1: Three guys brought to us by Tudor's Biscuit World. Start
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  Speaker 2: 20 for the veggie, which I've done that one.
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  Speaker 1: all Mountaineers, including you. Special thank you to producer Zach,
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  Speaker 1: Back on Thursday with our official preview of West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: and Oklahoma State. Stay well. Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: See you.