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- 0:08Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, what is up.
- 0:11Speaker 2: We welcome you in. It's time for three Guys Before
- 0:13Speaker 2: the Game. It's our first game recap of the twenty
- 0:17Speaker 2: twenty five football season. This is episode number six hundred
- 0:21Speaker 2: and fifty four. West Virginia is one to zero after
- 0:25Speaker 2: a victory over the Colonials of Robert Morris Don Neeland.
- 0:29Speaker 2: You know what Don Neeland would say if he was
- 0:31Speaker 2: still the head coach, You know tones all that tells
- 0:34Speaker 2: us is we're not gonna go winless. That's the only
- 0:37Speaker 2: thing we learned. We're not gonna be winless. That's all
- 0:40Speaker 2: he would say. Remember that.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Yep.
- 0:43Speaker 2: He was always told us a little bit. He kind
- 0:45Speaker 2: of he don don kind of underpromised. Then he would
- 0:49Speaker 2: over deliver it. He would kind of lay it low right,
- 0:51Speaker 2: Welcome in, everybody.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Hot right, say, playoffs straight ahead, somewhere somewhere in the middle,
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- 2:26Speaker 2: Brad will break down some of the numbers from the game.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Conley CPA Group. Well, they provide value beyond numbers. They
- 2:35Speaker 2: go much much farther than just numbers.
- 2:38Speaker 3: We've got a lot of them coming out of this game,
- 2:40Speaker 3: and we've got a lot of number breakdowns. Really well,
- 2:43Speaker 3: there's just a ton of good numbers to talk about.
- 2:46Speaker 2: I thought you would go like, well, first game, one
- 2:48Speaker 2: game doesn't make a trend.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Well, I'll say that, I'll get my standard disclaimer. One
- 2:51Speaker 3: game is not make a trend. But there were some
- 2:53Speaker 3: good numbers.
- 2:53Speaker 2: All right, let's bust into this bad boy. Hope you're
- 2:56Speaker 2: having a wonderful Labor Day weekend and enjoy because you know,
- 3:00Speaker 2: once labor day comes it's winter. Stop it just don't
- 3:05Speaker 2: do that. Yeah, you take all your white clothes out
- 3:07Speaker 2: of your closet.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Can't wear white anymore, otherwise they'll put you in jail.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Well, that's an old rule. You can do that. That
- 3:12Speaker 2: rule doesn't work and it doesn't know what. You can
- 3:13Speaker 2: wear white after labor day.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Don't wear you can't wait. You can't wear your spats
- 3:17Speaker 1: tony after labor day.
- 3:18Speaker 2: It's spat reference. Yeah, we record here on the final
- 3:21Speaker 2: day of August and game number one, forty five to three.
- 3:24Speaker 2: West Virginia is victorious over the visitors from Robert Morris
- 3:29Speaker 2: and an interesting game in a bunch of different ways.
- 3:31Speaker 2: Let's face it, this was perhaps the one of the
- 3:34Speaker 2: greatest unknown season openers. The official tally total by the
- 3:38Speaker 2: time the game went of newcomers was eighty one eighty
- 3:43Speaker 2: one new players. It was like during the week, it
- 3:45Speaker 2: was like it trended upwards, like we got the free
- 3:47Speaker 2: agent acquisition. That's late. It was eighty one.
- 3:49Speaker 3: Yeah, it was seventy two for a long time, then
- 3:52Speaker 3: we got seventy five.
- 3:52Speaker 2: I thought for a little bit, seventy nine. Yeah. And
- 3:55Speaker 2: then Friday I was talking to the the incomparable Michael Montoro,
- 4:00Speaker 2: who charges in charge of the whole football communication side
- 4:02Speaker 2: of things. I said, what's the number today, goes it's
- 4:05Speaker 2: going to be eighty one eighty one newcomers and they
- 4:07Speaker 2: had fifty seven over on the other side, one hundred
- 4:10Speaker 2: and thirty eight dudes.
- 4:11Speaker 3: One that long ago you could only bring twenty five
- 4:13Speaker 3: players in per year per anciator.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Wait, you can only have one hundred and four players.
- 4:17Speaker 2: It's not true.
- 4:18Speaker 1: What is it now?
- 4:19Speaker 2: Remember they shot that rule down before, like a month
- 4:22Speaker 2: or so ago. Remember rich had to make the cuts.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Rich bemoaned all spring about I gotta cut these guys.
- 4:27Speaker 2: I gotta go down to one oh five. It's not fair.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Why can't we grandfather this thing in?
- 4:31Speaker 3: And then they went like thirty six hours later as well,
- 4:35Speaker 3: I don't have to do it.
- 4:36Speaker 2: But Richard already made his cuts, and so then they
- 4:38Speaker 2: had to go come back. No good, West Virginia's got
- 4:41Speaker 2: we got a few play about one hundred and twenty
- 4:43Speaker 2: plus on the roster.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Yeah hop, I know you're going to jump into obvious
- 4:46Speaker 3: observations to start. Let me just say this because it
- 4:49Speaker 3: relates to those newcomers. So a couple a couple of
- 4:52Speaker 3: the things that jumped out to me just big picture,
- 4:55Speaker 3: not numbers, not performance. The fact that West Virginia seemed
- 4:59Speaker 3: to get lined up offensively, pretty efficiently most times was
- 5:04Speaker 3: was pretty impressive. I mean, you could see the urgency
- 5:08Speaker 3: in the tempo with with which those guys go is
- 5:11Speaker 3: really impressive. And there was one that jumped out to me,
- 5:13Speaker 3: and I think was it Nick Cray that lost his
- 5:15Speaker 3: helmet on One Planet Living Livingston ran about a three
- 5:20Speaker 3: two forty after the helmet that helmet and looked at
- 5:25Speaker 3: the sidelines, and normally guys when they lose their they
- 5:27Speaker 3: come off the sideline. My man was in a dead sprint,
- 5:30Speaker 3: you know, would have beaten sincere Bowers the head race
- 5:34Speaker 3: to get to the sideline. Someone else was in immediately
- 5:37Speaker 3: to replace him, and they didn't miss a beat.
- 5:39Speaker 2: I think it's a fair statement to say that that was.
- 5:43Speaker 2: That was gone over in practice. That was and guys knew.
- 5:48Speaker 3: I think Goo one time goes out of bounds and
- 5:50Speaker 3: runs over the gate on the far sideline and immediately
- 5:54Speaker 3: pops up. And normally the ball is lost at that point, like,
- 5:57Speaker 3: where's the ball? Who's got to find it? It's on
- 5:59Speaker 3: their sideline. You mabe never get the ball back. Not
- 6:01Speaker 3: only was the ball not lost, Nico's back up carrying
- 6:04Speaker 3: the ball and ran it back out quickly.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Yes, I think rich coach is that this way. I
- 6:09Speaker 2: don't care if you have to bring your arm with
- 6:11Speaker 2: you that's detached. You run to the sideline at full space.
- 6:14Speaker 2: So the helmet was no problem for listen, it was not.
- 6:16Speaker 3: So that was one thing. And then on the defensive side,
- 6:19Speaker 3: it just seemed like guys were in right spots a lot.
- 6:22Speaker 3: There were a couple gaps where the receiver got through,
- 6:25Speaker 3: but not big giant misses or guys out of position
- 6:28Speaker 3: or guys getting caught looking in the wrong spot. I thought,
- 6:31Speaker 3: just the alignment on both offense and defense for game one,
- 6:35Speaker 3: for Rich running a tempo and Zach ally being so
- 6:38Speaker 3: multiple and so aggressive, I thought was really impressive for
- 6:41Speaker 3: the first game.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Which makes you say thank goodness for OTAs, because you
- 6:45Speaker 2: would never be able to do that if you had
- 6:47Speaker 2: assembled everyone August the first, and like in the old days,
- 6:50Speaker 2: if you couldn't go out in the summer with these
- 6:52Speaker 2: guys and do that, it wouldn't look anything like that.
- 6:54Speaker 2: So with all of that being said, it does set
- 6:57Speaker 2: up for a really interesting week coming up here with
- 7:00Speaker 2: Ohio University. We'll talk about that on our pre game,
- 7:03Speaker 2: which will be coming up later this week. So we're
- 7:06Speaker 2: going to focus here on Robert Morris. But I do
- 7:08Speaker 2: want to be the first to say, because you only
- 7:10Speaker 2: can use it once is what go ahead? Go ahead
- 7:13Speaker 2: say it.
- 7:14Speaker 3: You will improve the most first and the second game.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Yeah, that's football, lifer. You teams will improve their most
- 7:21Speaker 2: from game one game too, which makes things interesting for
- 7:23Speaker 2: West Virginia. Now there's a lot obviously, but offensive line,
- 7:27Speaker 2: I'd love to, you know, figure out what the what
- 7:30Speaker 2: the theme points are there. What's Jack Bicknell think about
- 7:33Speaker 2: his units performance? All of these units, like, I'd love
- 7:36Speaker 2: to know what their points are because obviously the biggest
- 7:39Speaker 2: mistakes in that game for West Virginia were just ball security.
- 7:42Speaker 2: It's the turnovers and uh, you know you coach that,
- 7:46Speaker 2: but you never know how that's gonna happen.
- 7:47Speaker 3: Yeah, and those are at times random, like you get
- 7:49Speaker 3: a helmet right on the ball a lot. So I
- 7:52Speaker 3: know people will say, well, if you have those turnovers,
- 7:54Speaker 3: going to be a long season. Yeah, it is. You
- 7:55Speaker 3: have three of those or four of those fumbles, five
- 7:57Speaker 3: fumbles a game, it's going to be a long season.
- 7:59Speaker 3: I don't think happens every game. I think there was
- 8:01Speaker 3: a lot of good that you take away. But let's
- 8:04Speaker 3: just get all the disclaimers out now. If we're going to,
- 8:06Speaker 3: like you said, what you improve the most between first
- 8:08Speaker 3: and second week. Also, let's just say this one week
- 8:11Speaker 3: does not make a trend. I also understand, all due respect,
- 8:14Speaker 3: it was Robert Morris, so you don't need to text us.
- 8:16Speaker 3: I get all that, everything that's about to be said,
- 8:19Speaker 3: we preface it with those three disclaimers.
- 8:21Speaker 2: With that, it leads us into my favorite segment of
- 8:25Speaker 2: the entire show. Happy's obvious observations. Here's a guy that
- 8:32Speaker 2: didn't sleep last night because obviously he had to figure
- 8:35Speaker 2: out his observations. What do you have?
- 8:37Speaker 3: No way this is still unsponsored.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Unsponsored, unsponsored. Well, obviously a couple of them you touched on.
- 8:42Speaker 1: One is that I went on at nauseum about how
- 8:46Speaker 1: the story was the return of Rich Rodriguez, and I
- 8:48Speaker 1: still believe that that was the story of the day. However,
- 8:52Speaker 1: I found myself when the game started, guess what, I
- 8:55Speaker 1: was focused on the game and the players. So the
- 8:59Speaker 1: whole story about Rich was the story up until the
- 9:02Speaker 1: time the game started. Then I then it kind of
- 9:04Speaker 1: for me kind of faded to the background. Was much
- 9:05Speaker 1: more focused on the game. That's first second of all,
- 9:08Speaker 1: like you all have mentioned, the speed with which this
- 9:10Speaker 1: offense operates, it is I think it's remarkable how fast
- 9:14Speaker 1: they go the entire game. And props to whoever the
- 9:19Speaker 1: official was who was spotting the ball, because he spotted
- 9:22Speaker 1: the ball and got out of the way. So I'm
- 9:24Speaker 1: sure they had conversations. So that's important. That's important because
- 9:28Speaker 1: you know, we've seen instances with officials like Dilly dowing around,
- 9:31Speaker 1: looking around.
- 9:32Speaker 2: Make sure gave it a dilly daily.
- 9:34Speaker 1: So the speed to me was incredible, and as you said,
- 9:37Speaker 1: getting lined up was was remarkable. Nico's efficiency, Oh, we'll
- 9:44Speaker 1: get into that in the numbers. But yes, you're right,
- 9:45Speaker 1: and I'll let you dig deeper in the numbers. But
- 9:47Speaker 1: seventeen of twenty two, twenty four one touchdown, no interceptions,
- 9:50Speaker 1: a touchdown, running thirteen carries fifty six yards. What take
- 9:54Speaker 1: that all day?
- 9:55Speaker 2: Oh my god, you take that all day? All day?
- 9:57Speaker 1: I just thought he was really efficient and comp it
- 10:00Speaker 1: did not big thing. Not only made plays, didn't make mistakes, right,
- 10:04Speaker 1: did not make mistakes. Cam Vaughan looks like opponent of adjusted,
- 10:09Speaker 1: looks like could be a playmaker, game changer guy. He
- 10:13Speaker 1: made plays, made plays eight and it looks like a
- 10:16Speaker 1: favorite target was targeted eight times, called seven passes. And
- 10:19Speaker 1: that one touchdown was a perfect throw, a difficult catch,
- 10:23Speaker 1: very difficult made a play. How many times over the
- 10:27Speaker 1: years better we talked about can a guy make a
- 10:28Speaker 1: play downfield? The biggest key guy made a play defense
- 10:32Speaker 1: was solid. I'll know you get into stats. I mean
- 10:33Speaker 1: that Robert Morris opponent adjusted, couldn't do.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Anything almost literally couldn't do anyth couldn't do anything. Yeah,
- 10:39Speaker 3: I said this on sports Side Friday. I had a
- 10:43Speaker 3: feeling we have totally under discussed this defense, both in
- 10:47Speaker 3: terms of names of guys, personnel wise and just overall
- 10:50Speaker 3: what you do when Rich is the coach. Right, when
- 10:51Speaker 3: Rich is the coach, we've seen this, the offenses are
- 10:54Speaker 3: usually so dynamic it dominates the conversation. I thought I
- 10:56Speaker 3: was really impressed with the defense.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Defense was just solid all day. Turnovers and Brad, you
- 11:01Speaker 1: touched on this and again that stands out like a
- 11:04Speaker 1: like a sore thumb. But I have to think that's
- 11:07Speaker 1: an aberration. I mean, that just doesn't happen. You don't
- 11:09Speaker 1: fumble fumbled away three times in four possessions whatever it was,
- 11:13Speaker 1: So I think that's got to be an aberration. But
- 11:16Speaker 1: but going forward, I checked a stat on this. If
- 11:20Speaker 1: you're with if it's an evenly matched game, and it
- 11:22Speaker 1: depends on when in the game and where you fumblef
- 11:25Speaker 1: you fumble the ball three times, what happens you lose?
- 11:27Speaker 1: You lose the ball, you lose the game. The chances
- 11:30Speaker 1: of winning a game if you fumble the ball three
- 11:31Speaker 1: times in an even game is like one in ten
- 11:34Speaker 1: one in seven. So fortunately, unfortunately you fumbled, but you
- 11:39Speaker 1: did it against Robert Moore or somebody else, you probably
- 11:41Speaker 1: lose the game. Pac Man Fox Wow. A lot of
- 11:44Speaker 1: confidence in having pac Man Fox back there. He was
- 11:47Speaker 1: good five returns fifty two yards and average ten point four.
- 11:51Speaker 1: What's that do, Tony? For your field position?
- 11:53Speaker 2: This is a game changer, literally, no pun intended.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Yeah, So those are my obvious observations.
- 11:59Speaker 2: Well done, Hoppy, Thank you. Credits to the crowd.
- 12:02Speaker 3: I mean, we've talked about the season ticket number, how
- 12:04Speaker 3: it's up, but crowd looked great.
- 12:06Speaker 2: And I've said this many times.
- 12:08Speaker 3: Not many places in the country do a theme day
- 12:10Speaker 3: better than West Virginia. The stripe, the stadium is always awesome.
- 12:13Speaker 3: That gold Rush was tremendous, tremendous job by the fans,
- 12:16Speaker 3: and I thought, Rich, we'll get into the numbers here,
- 12:20Speaker 3: so I won't do that here. But I thought, just
- 12:22Speaker 3: one quick note on Rich's postgame Tony is when he
- 12:26Speaker 3: slid in there again, and he's not going to do
- 12:28Speaker 3: this every game, right, this is probably the end of this.
- 12:31Speaker 3: He's done enough of the I made a mistake. I'm
- 12:33Speaker 3: glad to be back. It's great to be here. And
- 12:35Speaker 3: he's not a guy.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Guys, he's not.
- 12:37Speaker 3: A guy that was going to talk about walking out
- 12:39Speaker 3: before the game and looking at the stadium and get
- 12:41Speaker 3: all sentimental and emotional. But he did in the middle
- 12:44Speaker 3: to endish of that.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Press himself go a little bit.
- 12:47Speaker 3: He did, and I thought it was a great It
- 12:49Speaker 3: sounded very sincere, and I thought it was a nice
- 12:51Speaker 3: touch where he just said, let me say this again.
- 12:55Speaker 3: He said, I'm just so thankful to the administration of
- 12:58Speaker 3: the Athletic Department, to Ren Baker for allowing us to
- 13:01Speaker 3: come back, and how appreciative I am to be back and.
- 13:05Speaker 2: To be leading this program.
- 13:06Speaker 3: And then he slid into to make this the best
- 13:08Speaker 3: program in America, and he said, we're a long way
- 13:10Speaker 3: from that, but that's the mission, and I'm very thankful
- 13:13Speaker 3: and appreciative to be back. And I thought that was
- 13:15Speaker 3: a good way to say it without dwelling, without going
- 13:18Speaker 3: over the top. He mentioned how great the fans were
- 13:20Speaker 3: and how great the turnout was, and then just added
- 13:22Speaker 3: in again how thankful he was to be back.
- 13:24Speaker 1: Yeah, that's appropriate. It was well said by him and
- 13:27Speaker 1: Brad and Tony. By the way, when he was hired,
- 13:30Speaker 1: it was I think you could call it, no, you
- 13:32Speaker 1: can call it a controversial hire. However, we did a
- 13:35Speaker 1: scientific poll, not anecdotal scientific with Rex Repass and Research
- 13:39Speaker 1: America and West Virginian's sixty percent favor the rehiring of
- 13:45Speaker 1: rich Rodricus. Only nine percent were against it. I think
- 13:49Speaker 1: between the time he was hired and the first game,
- 13:53Speaker 1: the support for him has increased.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it increased. It increased the day of his
- 14:00Speaker 2: press conference, right, and in a couple of weeks he
- 14:04Speaker 2: beats Pitt. That sixty goes to seventy seven.
- 14:06Speaker 3: It goes up right, or one hundred and four percent.
- 14:10Speaker 1: But again if you lose. But but the point being
- 14:12Speaker 1: that that he is he's trending upward. Yes, okay, he's
- 14:16Speaker 1: trending upward.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Yeah. The speed which they operate that offense, and you
- 14:22Speaker 2: just got to remember, that's the first time, so it's
- 14:25Speaker 2: gonna get it's going to go faster once these guys
- 14:27Speaker 2: get really oil and that is a whole When that
- 14:30Speaker 2: thing kicks that first drive, it was absolutely basketball. They
- 14:35Speaker 2: were humming. It was a basketball game, and it was
- 14:38Speaker 2: really fun to see that because it's breathtaking to see
- 14:41Speaker 2: and it's breath taking away from a defense, and you
- 14:43Speaker 2: could see that there was like WHOA had a few
- 14:46Speaker 2: had a few guys go down from Robert Morris their
- 14:49Speaker 2: second half? Is that right?
- 14:50Speaker 3: I was told by something in this room that maybe
- 14:53Speaker 3: that doesn't happen anymore because there's rules against that. I
- 14:57Speaker 3: was cautioned that that wouldn't be a thing.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Well, it was a hot day. Cramp, a lot of cramping.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Correct bad rule because that only applies. You can only
- 15:06Speaker 2: enforce that rule after the ball spotted for play, so
- 15:09Speaker 2: it's still there is no rule. I can just dump
- 15:11Speaker 2: jump down every time it plays over before they spotted,
- 15:13Speaker 2: I can get out, get away with it.
- 15:15Speaker 3: And like many rules that are subjective in nature, block charge,
- 15:19Speaker 3: how do the officials got to make a judgment call
- 15:21Speaker 3: on whether the guys?
- 15:23Speaker 2: I know, Yeah, that's a pretty tough one right there.
- 15:25Speaker 1: It won't be the last time it comes up, but
- 15:26Speaker 1: it was. I thought it came at a weird time.
- 15:28Speaker 1: The game was already well out of hand, and I
- 15:31Speaker 1: would have done it earlier.
- 15:33Speaker 2: Yeah, first half, Yeah, I would have done it on
- 15:35Speaker 2: the first drive. Absolutely would have done it on the
- 15:37Speaker 2: first drive. Try to take away the tempo.
- 15:40Speaker 3: It'll be a topic good discussion moving forward. I'll just
- 15:42Speaker 3: say that, do you.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Think it will it replace give me the targeting.
- 15:45Speaker 2: Give me the over.
- 15:46Speaker 3: However many times you want to say it's gonna happen,
- 15:47Speaker 3: give me the over.
- 15:48Speaker 2: And the way we're playing now, we're gonna lose. I mean,
- 15:51Speaker 2: it will become an obsession for West Virginia fans, obviously
- 15:54Speaker 2: all of us, now, every every like, no one will
- 15:56Speaker 2: ever get hurt on the other team. Thank you. I
- 15:59Speaker 2: just honestly that first reported.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Can I ask a dumb question?
- 16:03Speaker 2: No such thing as a dumb question.
- 16:04Speaker 1: This is but this is a dumb question. And most
- 16:06Speaker 1: people listening are very sports are very tuned in. How
- 16:10Speaker 1: does everybody know what to do when you're going that fast?
- 16:14Speaker 2: Because you practice it?
- 16:15Speaker 1: I understand you practiced it, But how does everybody know
- 16:18Speaker 1: the plays?
- 16:19Speaker 2: Because there's they've they've they've evolved down to words a
- 16:22Speaker 2: one word bark.
- 16:23Speaker 1: It's a one word. It's a one word, and you
- 16:25Speaker 1: just just marks out one word and go. You know
- 16:28Speaker 1: what else is reading?
- 16:29Speaker 2: Obviously everyone reading everything receivers reading with the with the uh,
- 16:34Speaker 2: the leverages on the d back and he's looking at everything,
- 16:36Speaker 2: and then the quarterback is making all those calls as well.
- 16:39Speaker 3: You you brought this up in our pre show extensive
- 16:41Speaker 3: production meeting. But let's talk about this before we get
- 16:43Speaker 3: into the numbers. I do like that, Rich, when something works,
- 16:49Speaker 3: When something works, run it.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Again, that hitch to Cam Vaughan, just like bang bang bang,
- 17:00Speaker 2: like are we gonna fix us or no?
- 17:02Speaker 3: No. What was great about that is how many games
- 17:05Speaker 3: over and not just West Virginia games, just college football games,
- 17:08Speaker 3: when you watch when you're lined up and you may
- 17:10Speaker 3: have single covers in the defense's back, and so many
- 17:13Speaker 3: people watch, go, why don't you just throw it to
- 17:16Speaker 3: him and get the seven yards they're giving?
- 17:18Speaker 2: Rich?
- 17:18Speaker 1: Did that right?
- 17:19Speaker 3: They do that, and they're because you just throw it
- 17:21Speaker 3: out there, and then that DBA could stay off again.
- 17:23Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna
- 17:24Speaker 2: right back.
- 17:25Speaker 1: I think the quarterback run or I called that. I'm
- 17:28Speaker 1: gonna let's call that the p w R. Pat White
- 17:30Speaker 1: rule is like Pat White going, let's keep going, keep running.
- 17:34Speaker 2: So last year right and merch brings us up a lot.
- 17:37Speaker 2: Supposedly they ran the same play twenty six straight times.
- 17:41Speaker 2: I wish you had a camera on Kertchible right there.
- 17:44Speaker 2: He almost I almost got it for a full spit
- 17:46Speaker 2: out out of his out of his tutors travel much
- 17:49Speaker 2: twenty six straight times.
- 17:50Speaker 1: And in that case, in that case, it's not hard
- 17:52Speaker 1: to get lined up because you're going to run.
- 17:54Speaker 2: The opposing coach. The opposing coach said, like they ran
- 17:56Speaker 2: the same play, said yeah, I would have run it more,
- 17:58Speaker 2: and like, what fix yourself changing?
- 18:01Speaker 3: Which is great. It's the to use a sports analogy.
- 18:04Speaker 3: It's like a baseball pitcher that in the old days
- 18:06Speaker 3: used to say with throw ninety five. Now you say
- 18:08Speaker 3: it's a baseball pitcher, there's one hundred and two. It
- 18:09Speaker 3: just says, all is that right here it comes? You
- 18:12Speaker 3: want to see our signals here, We're just gonna tell
- 18:13Speaker 3: you it's gonna be a fastball and you can't stop it.
- 18:15Speaker 3: And if you remember, West Virginia was like that back
- 18:18Speaker 3: when in the heyday, when it was rolling. It's like, oh,
- 18:20Speaker 3: you know we're gonna run. Okay, great, we're gonna yeah,
- 18:22Speaker 3: we're gonna run.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Here we go. Yeah, we're gonna write at you and
- 18:24Speaker 1: any question that rich Fron's gonna run a quarterback.
- 18:27Speaker 2: No gotta be willing and Nico two hundred and thirty pounds.
- 18:31Speaker 2: You know, Nico's not gonna win. You know he's not
- 18:33Speaker 2: gonna beat you, sain Bolt, but two hundred and thirty
- 18:36Speaker 2: pounds is a load, and he's willing to stick his
- 18:38Speaker 2: face in there. That's all you need, that's all you
- 18:40Speaker 2: need to have.
- 18:40Speaker 1: He coached for. He can get you six.
- 18:42Speaker 3: Coach Hunter on Friday, sports Line brought a nugget. Heaviest
- 18:46Speaker 3: starting quarterback in the history of West Virginia football recently.
- 18:49Speaker 3: I bolted up to two thirty two. Yeah, how about
- 18:53Speaker 3: that light room.
- 18:53Speaker 2: Yeah, two hundred and thirty two pounds plus state champ,
- 18:57Speaker 2: multi state champion wrestler. So he's a tough.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Well, so you got that, and then you've got as
- 19:02Speaker 3: we talk, by the way, the overhits on quarterbacks played
- 19:04Speaker 3: this season. Thanks, I mean, I don't know why that
- 19:06Speaker 3: the lot was bad. Line shouldn't had three and a half,
- 19:07Speaker 3: should have had seven and a half.
- 19:09Speaker 2: I hammered that quarterback.
- 19:10Speaker 3: I hammered it all righted to and it didn't move enough.
- 19:12Speaker 3: So did you were you under on that.
- 19:14Speaker 1: I was under. I was under well, I was under
- 19:16Speaker 1: four and a half. I mean, I'm looking bad right now.
- 19:20Speaker 3: It gives you the opportunity though, with multiple quarterbacks, you
- 19:22Speaker 3: could put Nico back in the full back position on
- 19:25Speaker 3: a third and one if you needed to.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Good.
- 19:26Speaker 3: So the quarterback number hits, which was impressed, and all
- 19:30Speaker 3: of them did something right. Jalen Henderson came in and
- 19:33Speaker 3: ran Scotti zer Away in his first game as a Mountaineer,
- 19:37Speaker 3: takes off and goes to the house on a big
- 19:39Speaker 3: touchdown run.
- 19:40Speaker 2: That was awesome to see.
- 19:42Speaker 1: By the way, Now it's it's it's like this new
- 19:44Speaker 1: and different offense that Rich is running. Really, it's like
- 19:49Speaker 1: nineteen fifty six, nineteen fifty five Notre Dame and Paul
- 19:52Speaker 1: Horning taking the ball for Notre Dame at quarterback and
- 19:55Speaker 1: running off.
- 19:55Speaker 2: There there are times, yeah, there are times where it's
- 19:58Speaker 2: old school. Yeah, there are times it's also.
- 20:00Speaker 1: But boy, it works. I mean it's right, well, we'll see.
- 20:03Speaker 1: But you like the option, You like the fact that
- 20:05Speaker 1: you got a quarter about that run.
- 20:06Speaker 3: It did the game and the complete picture and I
- 20:09Speaker 3: know the first half was closed and it was fumble lay.
- 20:12Speaker 3: The complete picture is what we said you needed out
- 20:14Speaker 3: of this game. It doesn't tell you if you're good,
- 20:17Speaker 3: but it probably eliminated that you're really bad.
- 20:19Speaker 2: Correct. I think that's what it did.
- 20:21Speaker 3: There were enough playmakers, the mechanics of both sides, and
- 20:24Speaker 3: the fundamentals look pretty good. You have multiple guys at
- 20:27Speaker 3: every position, as Rich has been talking. So I think
- 20:30Speaker 3: we're live for that discussion of Bowl games should be
- 20:34Speaker 3: a goal. See how this big twelve shakes out. I
- 20:36Speaker 3: think you've eliminated that you're really bad three guys before.
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- 24:12Speaker 3: Perfect, here we go. Let's start. Coming out of the
- 24:15Speaker 3: Robert Morris game. West Virginia now sits with the third
- 24:19Speaker 3: best overall grade of any Big twelve team. Excuse me
- 24:22Speaker 3: to this point, third best grade overall of any Big
- 24:24Speaker 3: twelve team. Okay, all right, how about this Air Rodriguez
- 24:29Speaker 3: best passing grade of any Big twelve team?
- 24:32Speaker 2: Really, why would you be surprised? Not surprised?
- 24:34Speaker 3: Just Rich comes in, just Er, it's out, airs it out.
- 24:36Speaker 3: Everybody knows that third best run defense grade in all
- 24:40Speaker 3: of the Big twelve right now, early sample sized numbers.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Curtsey pff. All right, let's talk about some offensive numbers. First,
- 24:48Speaker 3: highest graded offensive players per Pro Football Focus. Ready, would
- 24:53Speaker 3: you like to take a guest because there's a lot
- 24:55Speaker 3: of candidate cho Nico number two, very big guests. This
- 24:59Speaker 3: is like feud style Niko number two. So Vaughan, No,
- 25:05Speaker 3: Vaughn's up there, but not number two. He was the
- 25:06Speaker 3: highest graded wide receiver, Cam Vaughan.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Hmmm.
- 25:11Speaker 3: Number three, highest graded offensive player, Jalen Henderson, and number
- 25:16Speaker 3: one jem the aforementioned Scotty z Aeraway, Scotty Fox, christ.
- 25:20Speaker 4: N in there on limited snaps one, two and three
- 25:23Speaker 4: were quarterbacks.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Pretty good.
- 25:26Speaker 3: Nick Cray highest graded offensive lineman.
- 25:29Speaker 2: That's encouraging. That was a good, right, So this was.
- 25:32Speaker 3: This was one that I'll throw. I won't do a
- 25:34Speaker 3: ton of these. We'll get more as the season goes on,
- 25:37Speaker 3: as the data matures, as we always talk about. But
- 25:40Speaker 3: I thought this kind of backed up what we had
- 25:42Speaker 3: said before that the offense just looked the part.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Again.
- 25:46Speaker 3: I know, all due respect to Robert Morris, you're going
- 25:48Speaker 3: to face better defenses, but the success rate for West
- 25:52Speaker 3: Virginia's offense just d and so success rate is defined
- 25:54Speaker 3: by if on first down you get fifty percent of
- 25:57Speaker 3: your needed yards, that's successful play. If by second down
- 26:01Speaker 3: you have seventy percent of your available yards, that's a
- 26:04Speaker 3: successful play. And then if you convert on third or
- 26:06Speaker 3: fourth down as successful play. West Virginia's offense had a
- 26:10Speaker 3: ridiculously high eighty two percent success rate yesterday. So again,
- 26:15Speaker 3: just a number that backed up what you saw in
- 26:17Speaker 3: the field that the offense was working. Let's go to
- 26:20Speaker 3: some individuals. Nico Hoppy. You referenced that eighty five percent
- 26:25Speaker 3: completion percentage yes day. How efficient was He just made
- 26:28Speaker 3: some tremendous shrows and guys caught the ball too, that's
- 26:31Speaker 3: the other part. Yes, guys just made catches. How much
- 26:34Speaker 3: better does the offense look when you throw it and
- 26:36Speaker 3: catch it pretty easy?
- 26:37Speaker 2: It helps.
- 26:37Speaker 3: Nico had a career fifty eight and a half percent
- 26:40Speaker 3: completion percentage, So you talk about a massage jump. That
- 26:43Speaker 3: was a career high. His previous high was last year
- 26:46Speaker 3: versus Arizona eighteen of twenty two, eighty two percent. Here's
- 26:51Speaker 3: one that jumped out to me. He had ten point
- 26:54Speaker 3: five yards per attempt, which is good. Now, a lot
- 26:57Speaker 3: of that was yards after catch. I realized those receivers
- 27:00Speaker 3: did a good job of catching it and getting going.
- 27:02Speaker 3: But to put that number in perspective, and again it
- 27:04Speaker 3: was just one game. His previous high in any game
- 27:08Speaker 3: before that was ten point four against Cincinnata last year.
- 27:12Speaker 3: But on the season in twenty twenty two just four
- 27:15Speaker 3: and a half yards per attempt. Twenty twenty three, four
- 27:18Speaker 3: and a half yards per attempt. Last year, it took
- 27:21Speaker 3: a nice jump to seven point eight yards per attempt,
- 27:24Speaker 3: and day one game one ten and a half yards
- 27:28Speaker 3: per attempt.
- 27:28Speaker 2: Very good.
- 27:29Speaker 3: Had one rushing touchdown yesterday on pace to go over
- 27:33Speaker 3: the four and a half. Thank you had three career
- 27:36Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns entering yesterday, But I had one yesterday.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Go ahead, just that again you still those are great numbers.
- 27:44Speaker 1: I do think they speak speak well of how West
- 27:47Speaker 1: Virginia performed. You do have to constantly remind opponent of
- 27:51Speaker 1: Justin because that long touchdown passed Havevon.
- 27:54Speaker 3: What did he have to be able to do that
- 27:57Speaker 3: time and time in the receiver head space?
- 28:00Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 28:00Speaker 3: Yeah he had time. No, it was a good protection.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Yeah there was here. This one jumped to me too.
- 28:06Speaker 3: Nico had five carries of more than ten yards all
- 28:09Speaker 3: of last season. Five carries of more than ten years.
- 28:12Speaker 3: He had three yesterday, which led the team, and that's
- 28:15Speaker 3: not necessarily what he's in there for is to bust
- 28:17Speaker 3: off ten yard run. So I thought that was encouraging. Again,
- 28:20Speaker 3: offense was running no matter who you put in there.
- 28:23Speaker 3: But really really good again Happi's obvious observation. Arm so
- 28:27Speaker 3: really good first game for Nico. I thought he was
- 28:29Speaker 3: really efficient good.
- 28:30Speaker 2: And what that does is now in Ohio University and
- 28:33Speaker 2: future opponents start looking at West Virginia. When you have
- 28:36Speaker 2: a quarterback that shows the ability and the desire he'll
- 28:40Speaker 2: go run, it completely changes completely, changes how defenses can
- 28:45Speaker 2: scheme you up and play. It changes everything they can do.
- 28:48Speaker 2: If your statue of liberty and you're just gonna drop
- 28:50Speaker 2: back and go like this, they go like h kind
- 28:54Speaker 2: of like those hyenas, like they go, it's all gonna
- 28:58Speaker 2: be just gonna be standing back there. We're gonna full chuck.
- 29:00Speaker 2: But when those hyenas, no, guess what, you might put
- 29:03Speaker 2: your tusks on and you might start running down the
- 29:05Speaker 2: field after them. It changes the complete dynamic of everything.
- 29:08Speaker 3: Yeah and OUs and changes the passing game as well,
- 29:11Speaker 3: because you're not quite sure what's guy's on it. But
- 29:13Speaker 3: then you bring in these other guys that we've already
- 29:15Speaker 3: talked about. But Jalen Henderson comes in, two carries, goes
- 29:18Speaker 3: for forty yards. So he also showed the ability you
- 29:21Speaker 3: give him a crease or a crack and he can
- 29:23Speaker 3: take off and go. We mentioned Scotti Fox that big
- 29:26Speaker 3: run in his first game. Khalil Wilkins comes in late,
- 29:28Speaker 3: gets a couple carries, two carries thirty six yards for him.
- 29:32Speaker 3: So as advertised, and again we often say coaches don't
- 29:35Speaker 3: always give you the the unvarnished truth when they talk,
- 29:38Speaker 3: he was true to his word. Rich was about the
- 29:40Speaker 3: quarterbacks right, felt that they could all do something, and
- 29:42Speaker 3: he talked after the game that those other guys would
- 29:45Speaker 3: have been in earlier had you taken care of your
- 29:47Speaker 3: business in the first half. But he did find a
- 29:49Speaker 3: way to get four different guys in in that game, right.
- 29:51Speaker 2: And you might be wondering about Max Brown. He did
- 29:53Speaker 2: not get in the game, was not dressed in uniform.
- 29:56Speaker 2: He was dressed on the sideline there and sweats or whatever.
- 29:59Speaker 2: But he Rich mentioned had a little bit of a
- 30:01Speaker 2: hamstring and so that's why he did not have gear on.
- 30:04Speaker 3: Let's talk running back for just a second, because again
- 30:07Speaker 3: another position that we had a lot of questions about
- 30:09Speaker 3: outside of Jaheen coming in just in terms of depth
- 30:12Speaker 3: of who you were going to see hop but Jahim
- 30:14Speaker 3: first question there. Jehem had moments where he looked like Jaheim.
- 30:17Speaker 3: You can see what he does. This number jumped. Well,
- 30:19Speaker 3: let's do two numbers on him. First of all, eighteen
- 30:22Speaker 3: carries in that game. Only two games in his career
- 30:25Speaker 3: where he's had more nineteen against Oklahoma State a couple
- 30:29Speaker 3: years ago or last year, twenty one against Cincinnati in
- 30:32Speaker 3: twenty twenty three.
- 30:32Speaker 2: That's a shocking stat. Almost shot a career high in
- 30:35Speaker 2: game one. Shocking stat.
- 30:37Speaker 3: What do you mean that Rich used one guy and
- 30:39Speaker 3: ran him a lot? No, because that's not shocking. No,
- 30:40Speaker 3: you would have thought that that Jehem White had more carries.
- 30:44Speaker 3: You with thought, I would have bet a bunch of
- 30:47Speaker 3: reci cups from over there at the Gomart that he
- 30:50Speaker 3: would have had giant ones or just the regular size, any.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Of them, the manhole cover ones that now weigh thirteen
- 30:54Speaker 2: pounds they got over there. I would say he had twenty,
- 30:57Speaker 2: that he had twenty five or more multiple times in
- 30:59Speaker 2: his career. Yeah, So this is whatn'ty. This guy had
- 31:02Speaker 2: sixteen hundred yards going in the last night yesterday's game.
- 31:05Speaker 3: So again the workhorse part when we talked about this,
- 31:09Speaker 3: when we talked tried to project Jehem's yards when if
- 31:13Speaker 3: you stay healthy and you have a premiere back, Rich
- 31:16Speaker 3: loves the premiere back and we'll give you the ball.
- 31:18Speaker 3: And it showed up there in game one, Jem was
- 31:20Speaker 3: really good. This number jumped me. Eighty two of his
- 31:24Speaker 3: ninety three yards came after contact, eighty eight percent. I
- 31:28Speaker 3: thought he ran really hard. Yes, yes, that's what you
- 31:30Speaker 3: were gonna say.
- 31:31Speaker 2: One percent. They have been on him to do exactly
- 31:36Speaker 2: what he did. He ran different yesterday than he has
- 31:39Speaker 2: run in the past. He put his shoulder down and
- 31:42Speaker 2: he got yards after contact. I bet he as the
- 31:45Speaker 2: season goes on, I bet you his yards after contact
- 31:48Speaker 2: will go spiraling high compared to what he's done in
- 31:52Speaker 2: the past.
- 31:53Speaker 3: Thank you for talking about in the past, because I'll
- 31:55Speaker 3: give you some numbers that we can track that. So
- 31:57Speaker 3: eighty eight percent of those yards after contact yesterday, just
- 32:00Speaker 3: one game. Last season, seventy one percent of his yards
- 32:04Speaker 3: after contact, give me that way and say that again
- 32:06Speaker 3: last season seventy one percent of his total yards after contact.
- 32:09Speaker 2: But here's the big one. Was it yesterday eighty eight percent?
- 32:13Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three just forty eight percent of his
- 32:15Speaker 3: yards after contact? So it took a big leap from
- 32:18Speaker 3: freshman year to sophomore year, and then a big leap
- 32:20Speaker 3: from sophomore year to game one yesterday, So we'll keep.
- 32:22Speaker 2: An eye on that.
- 32:23Speaker 3: Fifty six percent of his yards against Robert Morris came
- 32:27Speaker 3: either around the left tackle or around the right end
- 32:31Speaker 3: all the way outside, so half his yards around the
- 32:33Speaker 3: outside edges, which is no surprise.
- 32:36Speaker 2: Kind of rerupt you sure? So to me, number one,
- 32:41Speaker 2: Jeem White for West Virginia holds a massively important part
- 32:46Speaker 2: of this season going forward, and yesterday to me was
- 32:51Speaker 2: going to be his first test. Are you in with us,
- 32:55Speaker 2: us being the new staff, or are you going to
- 32:59Speaker 2: not come fully in with us? And they have been
- 33:04Speaker 2: on him hot and heavy during pre season to try
- 33:07Speaker 2: to explain to him, this is what we require if
- 33:10Speaker 2: you're going to play for us at that running back spot,
- 33:13Speaker 2: and I wondered, I wondered before the game. I talked
- 33:17Speaker 2: to someone within the program on Friday and I said,
- 33:20Speaker 2: where do you think he stands on all this. He
- 33:21Speaker 2: said he wouldn't still be here personally, he still wouldn't
- 33:26Speaker 2: be here if he wasn't going to buy, and like
- 33:27Speaker 2: he couldn't have lasted as long as he did up
- 33:30Speaker 2: to this point. So we think that he'll be fine.
- 33:33Speaker 2: And he went out there and he said, I'm gonna
- 33:35Speaker 2: show you a little something here, and he added to
- 33:37Speaker 2: his game.
- 33:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was clear. Once that red light
- 33:40Speaker 3: came on and the game was played, he looked like
- 33:42Speaker 3: a dude. He looked like the Jeem White you were
- 33:45Speaker 3: hoping you would see. And he the numbers back that up.
- 33:49Speaker 3: An encouraging part. I thought Clay Ash had a couple
- 33:51Speaker 3: of nice uns. He looked like he's a guy that
- 33:54Speaker 3: can play for you as well the former walk on.
- 33:56Speaker 3: But Sincere Bowers is a guy we've talked about a
- 33:58Speaker 3: bunch of guys Rich Rich wants speed. Rich has talked
- 34:02Speaker 3: about speed. Rich has said to us privately and publicly,
- 34:05Speaker 3: they need more speed. They got to get fast. That
- 34:07Speaker 3: was the key from five to seven right. There was
- 34:09Speaker 3: none of this sec speed bs. It was West Virginia
- 34:12Speaker 3: speed back in the day. Bowers is one of those
- 34:15Speaker 3: guys that has it. The transfer from Iowa Central. How
- 34:17Speaker 3: about in his first game that touchdown run that he had.
- 34:20Speaker 3: You saw that burst tony he got when he got
- 34:22Speaker 3: through there and took off. I thought, sincere Bowers looked
- 34:25Speaker 3: really good and capable through one game.
- 34:27Speaker 2: Yesterday, thoroughbred like copy kind of came out of that
- 34:30Speaker 2: gate and went.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Like you in your pregame interview with the coach yesterday
- 34:34Speaker 1: which I listened to, and you asked him about speed
- 34:37Speaker 1: and he seemed confident that they were okay, not where
- 34:41Speaker 1: they want to be, but it's like, okay, we're okay.
- 34:44Speaker 1: We got to get better, but we have some speed.
- 34:45Speaker 1: So that was encouraging. It wasn't did you what it was?
- 34:49Speaker 1: That your takeaway as well?
- 34:50Speaker 3: Yeah, but six carries fifty four yards for Bowers officially
- 34:53Speaker 3: nine yards of carry, which.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Can we take that for the rest of his career?
- 34:57Speaker 2: So I think that rich when he when he first
- 35:00Speaker 2: got here, remember one of his continuing lines was we
- 35:03Speaker 2: need to get a lot more team speed. That was
- 35:05Speaker 2: one and they went through spring and then he said,
- 35:07Speaker 2: we need more team speed. And then they went out
- 35:09Speaker 2: and got some more team speed. And Sir Bowers is
- 35:12Speaker 2: one of those late guys post spring and I think,
- 35:14Speaker 2: to answer your question, I think he thinks it's improved
- 35:17Speaker 2: from what it was, but they still have to go
- 35:21Speaker 2: several steps to continue. Because you remember when we talked
- 35:23Speaker 2: to him, we were coming off the field in spring,
- 35:25Speaker 2: and he said, we said, what do you think He said,
- 35:27Speaker 2: don't have a couple of guys yet with breathtaking speed.
- 35:30Speaker 2: Breathtaking speed. He lives like he lives for breathtaking speed
- 35:35Speaker 2: because look, in the past, I mean, his guys that
- 35:37Speaker 2: were his best are guys that just can make plays
- 35:40Speaker 2: in the open field. He feels that the hardest play
- 35:43Speaker 2: to make is in the open field in football. So
- 35:45Speaker 2: his whole, his whole deal oftentimes is designed to get
- 35:48Speaker 2: guys just an open field. So you got, if I
- 35:50Speaker 2: give me a fast guy, chances are I'll win in
- 35:53Speaker 2: a one on one.
- 35:55Speaker 3: And guys, we've talked about that forever that in college football,
- 35:58Speaker 3: the need for big plays is so massive because it
- 36:00Speaker 3: is hard to sustain twelve yard drives and if you
- 36:04Speaker 3: have to mulch and get four and five and three
- 36:08Speaker 3: and one and seven yards per carry and march down
- 36:11Speaker 3: the field, what generally happens.
- 36:12Speaker 1: Well, something goes wrong. You get the personal foul and
- 36:16Speaker 1: it's just, yeah, you can't do it.
- 36:18Speaker 3: Yeah, So it makes sense that he wants some speed
- 36:21Speaker 3: where this line doesn't have to mulch for twelve plays.
- 36:25Speaker 3: It has to create a couple seams and then elite
- 36:27Speaker 3: athletes take off.
- 36:28Speaker 2: And go and again.
- 36:29Speaker 3: Jaheim is one of those guys, and Bowers from a
- 36:31Speaker 3: pure speed perspective, is also one. So I thought that
- 36:34Speaker 3: was encouraging, not only that he got in, but that
- 36:36Speaker 3: there were results that backed up what he did.
- 36:38Speaker 4: Clay Ash got absolutely rock Oh so he didn't come
- 36:42Speaker 4: back in after that, so we'll have to see exactly
- 36:44Speaker 4: like that.
- 36:45Speaker 3: The jet sweep was coming and he just the the
- 36:49Speaker 3: defender took Ash and absolutely drilled.
- 36:51Speaker 2: It.
- 36:51Speaker 3: Might have been a little helmet to helmet contact on
- 36:54Speaker 3: that one. Nico kept it and took off, but you're right,
- 36:56Speaker 3: that was a that was a big hit.
- 36:57Speaker 4: He wait, ash Man like, he is an absolute anomaly.
- 37:02Speaker 2: You do not see guys of that speed or that size.
- 37:06Speaker 2: I should say that run that hard or that fast.
- 37:11Speaker 2: I mean, he is fearless and I'm happier in heck.
- 37:16Speaker 2: You know that he's here because he is an outlier
- 37:19Speaker 2: in this game where you look at you know, the
- 37:22Speaker 2: prototypical what that guy looks like. No, it's here in
- 37:26Speaker 2: your head and your toughness, and he's gonna make plays.
- 37:30Speaker 3: And he's worked his tail off the last couple of years.
- 37:32Speaker 3: I mean, you don't see a lot of walk on
- 37:34Speaker 3: ball carrier backs, like walk on full back, h back
- 37:37Speaker 3: hybrid type walk on ball carriers doesn't happen a whole lot.
- 37:40Speaker 2: I was talking to someone in the program and they said,
- 37:42Speaker 2: this dude's wired a little bit different. His whole deal
- 37:47Speaker 2: and growing up was he has been put into situations
- 37:50Speaker 2: like mountain climbing, rock climbing, hill climbing, like mental toughness stuff.
- 37:58Speaker 2: That's like his whole background is all that which you
- 38:00Speaker 2: have to have if you're going to play at this
- 38:02Speaker 2: level and not be you know this, this this is
- 38:05Speaker 2: an enormous, ginormous guy. To play in this position, you've
- 38:08Speaker 2: got to be just mentally an absolute rock. And I
- 38:10Speaker 2: think that's what you got there.
- 38:10Speaker 3: All right, let's jump over to the defense again. Really
- 38:13Speaker 3: impressed with how the defensive played and hoppy you said it.
- 38:15Speaker 3: Robert Morris almost literally did nothing, just almost literally did
- 38:19Speaker 3: nothing yesterday, highest graded defensive players per PFF. Anybody want
- 38:23Speaker 3: to guess on defensive graded players.
- 38:27Speaker 2: Chase Wilson probably pretty good.
- 38:28Speaker 3: Chase Wilson very high. Number four for Chase Wilson, he
- 38:31Speaker 3: was He called his name a lot yesterday.
- 38:33Speaker 2: Frederick Frederick Perry.
- 38:34Speaker 3: Frederick Perry, number three, a guy we have liked since
- 38:38Speaker 3: we did the Jacksonville State Bowl game on national radio.
- 38:40Speaker 3: When we identified him before we knew his name. Who's that? Remember,
- 38:43Speaker 3: we said, who's that guy? And is he coming with rich?
- 38:46Speaker 3: Hopefully that was fred Perry. He did a lot of
- 38:48Speaker 3: different things yesterday. He was number three. Caaraco number five
- 38:52Speaker 3: also had a good game. Number two Hammond Russell one
- 38:57Speaker 3: of the guys we do know the name. Hammond was disruptive,
- 39:00Speaker 3: tony two sacks yesterday. He was a load in the
- 39:03Speaker 3: He he did what you want a guy in the
- 39:05Speaker 3: interior to do. He was a load up front.
- 39:07Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you two. I hope one of them
- 39:09Speaker 2: is right.
- 39:09Speaker 3: There's only one spot left there.
- 39:10Speaker 2: I know there was five. One spot left. It's either
- 39:13Speaker 2: Devin Grant bing I got no, you didn't get it.
- 39:15Speaker 3: And I was surprised because when I'm opening the app
- 39:18Speaker 3: and my first note I made coming in today, I
- 39:20Speaker 3: said defensively. Let's talk Devin Grant, because I thought Devon
- 39:23Speaker 3: Grant was in on one hundred and twelve.
- 39:25Speaker 2: Tackles and had eight sacks.
- 39:27Speaker 3: Every time I looked up or would hear you, there
- 39:29Speaker 3: were Devon Grant, and there's ninety one Demo Grant, there's
- 39:31Speaker 3: Devin Grant.
- 39:31Speaker 2: I'll give you another one. Yeah, Devin Grant was like six.
- 39:33Speaker 2: He was up there. He had a good game.
- 39:34Speaker 3: I'm probably wrong here, but Edward Kelly, No, not there,
- 39:38Speaker 3: Not Edward Kelly, Ben Bogel, I wouldn't have been Bogel
- 39:41Speaker 3: good grade. Do you have your big charts?
- 39:43Speaker 2: I do? Can you access those here? Real quick?
- 39:46Speaker 3: So I want to talk about the I thought this
- 39:49Speaker 3: was this was pretty interesting, hoping Tony sent me this
- 39:53Speaker 3: yesterday so he could try and follow on because there's
- 39:54Speaker 3: so many new guys on Tony's charts.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Here.
- 39:57Speaker 3: He has the two linebacker positions, and he has renames
- 40:00Speaker 3: on each side. Middle linebacker Karrico, Bogel, Ashton Woods, number
- 40:06Speaker 3: thirty three, other side, Chase Wilson, then Ben Cutter and
- 40:10Speaker 3: number twelve John Lewis. Quick side note. Did Ben Cutter
- 40:14Speaker 3: have a nice offseason.
- 40:15Speaker 2: In the weight room? May have gotten a bit bigger.
- 40:17Speaker 3: It got some arms, Ben Cutter, all six of those
- 40:21Speaker 3: guys out of the linebacker position I have written down
- 40:24Speaker 3: before I looked at grades or anything, I had made
- 40:27Speaker 3: notes on all six of those linebackers making place.
- 40:30Speaker 1: How about that.
- 40:30Speaker 3: That's pretty darn good. John Lewis, number twelve, Ashton Woods
- 40:33Speaker 3: was around. Yeah, a ton of balls. I thought all
- 40:35Speaker 3: of those linebackers had a nice day. Four sacks. You
- 40:40Speaker 3: had twenty all of last season, ninety eighth nationally, and
- 40:43Speaker 3: so much of last year's struggles came on the defensive side,
- 40:47Speaker 3: hoping and we know the coverage, and we know the
- 40:49Speaker 3: linebackers couldn't cover last year, we know the defensive back struggled.
- 40:52Speaker 3: Some of that was because you didn't get enough pressure
- 40:55Speaker 3: right four sacks, So not only were you getting pressure,
- 40:58Speaker 3: it resulted in some loss of eight tackles for lost
- 41:01Speaker 3: four sacks. There's only seven teams in the nation that
- 41:05Speaker 3: have played one game that have more sacks through those
- 41:08Speaker 3: one games. Again, small sample size stops. I use this
- 41:12Speaker 3: stat a lot. This is a PFF stat that is
- 41:15Speaker 3: defined as a failure for the offense. So these are
- 41:18Speaker 3: generally your best defender by the end of the year,
- 41:20Speaker 3: we'll end up with your most stops. Okay, Fred Perry
- 41:24Speaker 3: led the team yesterday four stops. Chase Wilson right behind
- 41:28Speaker 3: with three. Makes some sense. Those are two guys that
- 41:30Speaker 3: you probably thought would be right up there. Havoc makes
- 41:33Speaker 3: an early return to Havoc boys Havoc.
- 41:38Speaker 1: Again.
- 41:39Speaker 3: These numbers will mature as we move. We'll keep an
- 41:41Speaker 3: eye on this.
- 41:41Speaker 2: This will be a big number all year because this
- 41:43Speaker 2: whole thing is based on Havoc.
- 41:44Speaker 3: I think Westernings defense broke the computer. I'm not sure
- 41:48Speaker 3: this is right listed as a front seven Havoc number
- 41:52Speaker 3: two hundred percent overall, Like, I don't even know that.
- 41:56Speaker 5: I I don't even know how that can be define
- 41:59Speaker 5: havoc for a yeah, havoc is a HAC play would
- 42:02Speaker 5: be a tackle for loss, a batted pass, so deflection,
- 42:06Speaker 5: a broken up pass and interception of forced fumble, any
- 42:09Speaker 5: of those things.
- 42:09Speaker 3: Kind of what you would think a defensive play that
- 42:11Speaker 3: created something. They got to be wrong, that's wrong, that
- 42:15Speaker 3: can't be right. How to be wrong?
- 42:17Speaker 1: List it's two hundred percent compared to the last year
- 42:19Speaker 1: in a game or something like that.
- 42:20Speaker 3: But here's what's not a typo. We just mentioned. We've
- 42:23Speaker 3: mentioned it twice that Robert Morris almost literally did nothing.
- 42:26Speaker 3: Their success rate, I told you what was Western day
- 42:29Speaker 3: is eighty eight percent. Yeah, Robert Morris's success rate. So
- 42:34Speaker 3: first down fifty percent of the yards, by second down
- 42:36Speaker 3: seventy percent of the yards, or a third or fourth
- 42:38Speaker 3: down conversion zero percent.
- 42:41Speaker 1: That's low.
- 42:42Speaker 2: There's only one way to go up for them.
- 42:44Speaker 3: Pretty good defense and that concludes the first that's good.
- 42:48Speaker 1: Five Yeah, very good. How much let me say this
- 42:53Speaker 1: that those are really good numbers. How much do you
- 42:56Speaker 1: want to temper those numbers? Opponent adjusted ton a ton?
- 43:01Speaker 3: But I think we'll say what we sat, what we
- 43:04Speaker 3: always say in this. We're not coming in here going well,
- 43:07Speaker 3: I don't know about the receivers. Can somebody make a playoff?
- 43:10Speaker 3: And we didn't mention Jayden Bray, who I thought had
- 43:12Speaker 3: a really solid game and made some catches. We were
- 43:15Speaker 3: wondering because we heard so much about Jaden but hadn't
- 43:17Speaker 3: seen him play. He came in made some plays. Man
- 43:19Speaker 3: Man Singleton was targeted a lot. You said his name
- 43:22Speaker 3: a bunch yesterday as well. So I think you come
- 43:24Speaker 3: in with different guys in pieces that you saw that
- 43:27Speaker 3: said Okay, now let's see what you get here comes
- 43:29Speaker 3: the stairstep Ohio, you is going to present more of
- 43:32Speaker 3: a challenge and you go on the road. But I
- 43:34Speaker 3: think you saw what you needed to see in Game
- 43:36Speaker 3: one to feel like, okay, reasonable to have Bowl season
- 43:40Speaker 3: expectations on this team.
- 43:41Speaker 1: Okay, okay in my opinion.
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- 45:22Speaker 2: not going to jump ahead because we're still doing Robert Morris,
- 45:25Speaker 2: but like, what's the line going to be? That's a
- 45:28Speaker 2: great question.
- 45:29Speaker 3: The ratings have West Virginia somewhat preseason power ratings by
- 45:32Speaker 3: ten or so, so I was thinking this line probably
- 45:35Speaker 3: somewhere between seven and ten. West Virginia favored Ohio. You
- 45:39Speaker 3: lost a ton of dudes. They have their quarterback back Navarrow,
- 45:42Speaker 3: who's very good. We'll talk about but they lost a ton.
- 45:45Speaker 3: But then I tell you what. They opened the season
- 45:48Speaker 3: and they went in there. I'm only threw quarter one
- 45:49Speaker 3: of that game, so I'm going back and watching it.
- 45:51Speaker 3: But they lined up again a Rutgers and gave them
- 45:54Speaker 3: all they could handle. Yeah, gave the fighting Shannas. I
- 45:57Speaker 3: mean Shaanna was chopping wood right up to the end
- 45:58Speaker 3: to try and get that win. So wift watch. They
- 46:01Speaker 3: played pretty well in the challenge. Give me an early
- 46:04Speaker 3: without I haven't done any looking at that today to
- 46:05Speaker 3: see where the revised power ring is, but give me
- 46:07Speaker 3: somewhere between maybe a seven and ten.
- 46:10Speaker 2: I'm thrilled par closer to seven. I'm thrilled with two things. Well,
- 46:15Speaker 2: I'm thrilled at Ohio. You gave Rutgers everything that they
- 46:18Speaker 2: could because that immediately gets your guys locked in. Chase
- 46:22Speaker 2: Wilson after the game and his postgame press Covering said, yeah,
- 46:25Speaker 2: I did watch the Rutgers game, and I watched Ohio you,
- 46:28Speaker 2: and he goes like, they're really good. Yeah, and they
- 46:29Speaker 2: already know about the quarterback. You're going to get a
- 46:32Speaker 2: run pass quarterback this week, and so Zach Ally and
- 46:35Speaker 2: that defense are going to be really tested. And so
- 46:38Speaker 2: now at least West Virginia has won in the book
- 46:41Speaker 2: that they can take a look at and see how
- 46:42Speaker 2: Hio use running their stuff. So this is going to
- 46:44Speaker 2: be a fun, fun chess match coming up this weekend
- 46:47Speaker 2: to see how West Virginia's defense, which seems to have
- 46:50Speaker 2: some really good speed. Coach Wallace, who's watched a lot
- 46:53Speaker 2: of football through the years, immediately looked at West Virginia
- 46:57Speaker 2: said defense fast.
- 46:59Speaker 3: It's a great point because that if you should have
- 47:01Speaker 3: started with this too. That's really I agree with that.
- 47:04Speaker 3: As you looked just out at the defense. Don't worry
- 47:06Speaker 3: about numbers or who's doing They just felt fast and
- 47:08Speaker 3: athletic right they were they were running to the ball,
- 47:11Speaker 3: they were around. I think that's a good assessment there.
- 47:13Speaker 3: They do look faster. Rich mentioned he watched some of
- 47:15Speaker 3: that Ohio you Rutgers game too. I'm anxious to get
- 47:18Speaker 3: into this because the flip side of that, though, I
- 47:20Speaker 3: thought that OHIOO offense looked very good, and then their
- 47:22Speaker 3: new head coach, their former offensive coordinator. We had their
- 47:25Speaker 3: bowl game as well, and they looked very good defensively,
- 47:27Speaker 3: though Rutgers ran on them. So Ohio you, I mean,
- 47:31Speaker 3: you might want to strap in because you're getting a
- 47:33Speaker 3: heavy dose of So here you go, Here you go
- 47:35Speaker 3: to these guys already not a taunt, just saying I.
- 47:41Speaker 2: Won't be able to go in there to Athens and
- 47:42Speaker 2: they're gonna point at me and say, there's the guy
- 47:44Speaker 2: that's talking smack against the.
- 47:45Speaker 3: Bobcat all due respect and did not talk smack. Just
- 47:49Speaker 3: said you're gonna get some. You're gonna get a heavy
- 47:51Speaker 3: dose to the ball on the ground.
- 47:52Speaker 1: A big, a big focus week because people around them
- 47:58Speaker 1: are gonna say, boy, I can't wait till pick comes in.
- 48:00Speaker 1: I can't wait till the pit GA mean people Brad
- 48:02Speaker 1: Worth and Tony Worth of Tail. Okay, people already talking
- 48:04Speaker 1: about the pick game. Well, so, and so that's what
- 48:06Speaker 1: we'll just tell you.
- 48:07Speaker 3: What we're going to open the preview with this is
- 48:09Speaker 3: by definition of trap game, absolutely you're off a great
- 48:12Speaker 3: performance and an open opener against an inferior opponent. Now
- 48:15Speaker 3: you're on the road at a tricky place with a good,
- 48:18Speaker 3: experienced quarterback, and you have your biggest rival and a
- 48:23Speaker 3: massive game on deck. Yeah, it's the definition. So what's
- 48:26Speaker 3: this team able to do?
- 48:27Speaker 2: Can you go? Can you go?
- 48:29Speaker 3: Make it a business trip? This is a business trip? Hoppyous?
- 48:31Speaker 2: They say, yes, the heck. They're going all the way
- 48:33Speaker 2: up there to Columbus to spend Friday night. Yeah, I
- 48:35Speaker 2: mean they're not. You can't stay in Athens. They don't
- 48:37Speaker 2: have what they need there as far as hotels go.
- 48:39Speaker 2: So they're going to go to Columbus.
- 48:40Speaker 3: Well, we'll be a nice contingent mountain near fans. At
- 48:43Speaker 3: that time, we already talked to a few people that
- 48:45Speaker 3: already have bought season tickets in order to have their ticket.
- 48:47Speaker 2: I talked to someone, I talked to something. We'll get
- 48:49Speaker 2: into this food court that we did this weekend as well.
- 48:51Speaker 2: Also something else is trendy. And again, you, I really
- 48:56Speaker 2: wish you would apologize to me about attacking me when
- 48:58Speaker 2: I announced that we were going to be doing things
- 49:00Speaker 2: with Buffalo Wild Wings. You guys jumped all on me.
- 49:02Speaker 2: And I said, and it's not done yet. It's not done.
- 49:04Speaker 2: It's done, and now the thing's exploding.
- 49:06Speaker 3: I mean, you missed the details on it, but it
- 49:08Speaker 3: is exploding and it was a great event. All right,
- 49:10Speaker 3: let's do right about that.
- 49:11Speaker 2: Let's do this. Was he mistreat details as usually? I
- 49:14Speaker 2: mean as usual? I mean he's a lot of detailed.
- 49:15Speaker 1: Guy's lucky.
- 49:16Speaker 2: I'm drowning you guys out with my music. I noticed that.
- 49:21Speaker 1: Do you know there's a story today on the CBS website.
- 49:25Speaker 1: Help to check with Ben Kirchill about that? What is
- 49:27Speaker 1: Kaylen de Bor's buyout?
- 49:29Speaker 2: I knew that was not gonna be a good day for.
- 49:31Speaker 3: Them, fellas Saban. If I got the number right, I
- 49:34Speaker 3: don't remember where I saw this. I'm sorry, I can't
- 49:35Speaker 3: attribute it. Saban was like one thirty, two and two
- 49:40Speaker 3: at Alabama when he was a ten point more favorite,
- 49:43Speaker 3: or maybe it was fourteen or more favorite.
- 49:45Speaker 2: Poor Kaylen de Bor just four and four. Yeah, that's
- 49:48Speaker 2: not gonna go. Well.
- 49:49Speaker 3: Calendor is a really good football country.
- 49:51Speaker 2: But what's the word, what's the rules?
- 49:54Speaker 1: What's the rule?
- 49:55Speaker 2: You don't want to be the guy after the guy
- 49:57Speaker 2: and that is the guy of all guys that ain't
- 50:00Speaker 2: gonna go well, ain't gonna go well? Three guys before
- 50:05Speaker 2: the games, time for textual healing. Let's do this.
- 50:07Speaker 1: We should be right.
- 50:07Speaker 3: Alabama lost yesterday?
- 50:09Speaker 2: Yes? Is that a conference? They only lose?
- 50:11Speaker 3: I mean the SEC. Nobody beats the SEC? It was
- 50:14Speaker 3: so they lost? It was no, it was a non
- 50:16Speaker 3: conference game.
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- 50:43Speaker 2: A lot of people that I met this weekend. They
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- 50:51Speaker 1: So let's uh connection three oh four huge hit.
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- 51:01Speaker 2: Okay, so we get a great deal of texts during
- 51:05Speaker 2: the course of the week and between shows, and especially
- 51:11Speaker 2: when it comes to games, so not every text is used.
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- 51:20Speaker 2: your text has used we or not, we certainly appreciate
- 51:22Speaker 2: you listening and chiming it. Here we go, Roger up
- 51:25Speaker 2: there in Maine. Okay, up in Maine. Goal one was
- 51:29Speaker 2: to establish the culture, and I think they were well
- 51:33Speaker 2: on their way to accomplishing that. I'd loved seeing the
- 51:35Speaker 2: defense swarm to the ball again. I only saw a
- 51:38Speaker 2: couple where someone in the coverage was in the secondary
- 51:40Speaker 2: was out of place. The airs where all things that
- 51:42Speaker 2: can be cleaned or fixed. I feel the same way
- 51:44Speaker 2: about the fumbles. Fixable. I don't think it's going to
- 51:46Speaker 2: be an issue. Slow start, but basically a totally new roster,
- 51:50Speaker 2: new system. But they played well in the second half.
- 51:52Speaker 2: I feel the old line will improve every week, start
- 51:54Speaker 2: to build on what looks to be a solid foundation.
- 51:56Speaker 2: My biggest takeaway well though, was this Jaheem White, watching
- 52:01Speaker 2: him run and deliver the hits instead of taking the hits,
- 52:05Speaker 2: pushing guys back while dealing others behind him. To me,
- 52:09Speaker 2: he was setting the tone for what hard edge is
- 52:10Speaker 2: meant to look like on offense, in my opinion, looked
- 52:13Speaker 2: like he's going one hundred percent every play, leading by
- 52:15Speaker 2: example when it comes to hard edge culture. Yeah, yep, yeah,
- 52:20Speaker 2: we discussed that, and I think you're exactly right. Thank you.
- 52:21Speaker 2: Roger Glenn from Glenn Ferris Wrights Scopes. Hello, midgame text
- 52:29Speaker 2: here recalling your unprovoked attack on hyenas in a recent episode.
- 52:34Speaker 2: As I sit on my back porch right now, enjoying
- 52:36Speaker 2: a beautiful Georgia afternoon, West Virginia hot dogs and adult
- 52:39Speaker 2: beverage or five and enjoying the World Champion Mountaineers on MSN,
- 52:43Speaker 2: I was shocked to hear you describe the WVU defense
- 52:45Speaker 2: as a pack of hyenas at the six minute mark
- 52:48Speaker 2: in the second quarter. So what is it you pro
- 52:51Speaker 2: hyena or not. That's a good job.
- 52:54Speaker 3: I don't think Glenn from Glenn Ferris is his real name,
- 52:56Speaker 3: but that's good text.
- 52:57Speaker 2: I am row hyena when it comes to attacking something
- 53:03Speaker 2: that I want attacked. I am anti hyena when I
- 53:06Speaker 2: feel that they're unnecessarily attacking something they shouldn't be attacking.
- 53:10Speaker 1: Well, that's so you want it both ways that I'm
- 53:14Speaker 1: probably attack I Carr.
- 53:21Speaker 2: You want to want some, go get you some, but like,
- 53:24Speaker 2: don't be playing with.
- 53:25Speaker 3: I'm swarming and circling it.
- 53:28Speaker 2: But don't be doing that to people that are like
- 53:30Speaker 2: you shouldn't be messing with.
- 53:32Speaker 1: Here's I'll take the macro on that you've got. You
- 53:35Speaker 1: have fixations and right now you have like a Hyena fixation,
- 53:39Speaker 1: and you're just gonna apply it however you want to
- 53:42Speaker 1: apply it. If it's a negative, you will apply it.
- 53:44Speaker 1: If it's a positive, you'll apply it. You just it's
- 53:46Speaker 1: it's all, it's all emanating from Hyena.
- 53:48Speaker 3: I have to say that was a good explanation by him.
- 53:51Speaker 3: That was a really good explanation when he wants something attacked,
- 53:54Speaker 3: like yeah.
- 53:55Speaker 2: Yeah, and if I don't want to attack, you better
- 53:57Speaker 2: stay away. Lying going to come again to put one
- 53:59Speaker 2: of them in their mouth and just start swinging it
- 54:01Speaker 2: around Michael and Clodin. Remember he made that fudge that
- 54:06Speaker 2: that was his wife made the fudge. That was great, judge.
- 54:08Speaker 2: I will admit at the half, I was thinking this
- 54:10Speaker 2: year is going to be a disaster. But after the
- 54:12Speaker 2: second half and some hard pondering, the first half was
- 54:16Speaker 2: not going to be good. Regardless, this team may very
- 54:18Speaker 2: well continue to improve through the year barring injuries. Let's go,
- 54:22Speaker 2: you're allowed to improve, you are you are allowed to improve.
- 54:25Speaker 1: And they improved, and they got let's just first and
- 54:32Speaker 1: again opponent adjusted for the umpteenth time. But you were
- 54:35Speaker 1: curious to see how they were going to come out
- 54:37Speaker 1: in the second half because you were holding your breath
- 54:39Speaker 1: something like, is this going to be like a like
- 54:41Speaker 1: a twenty to ten game, and you're not going to
- 54:43Speaker 1: feel good?
- 54:44Speaker 3: But they came out and like, it's just wild though
- 54:46Speaker 3: the expectations that sometimes go along with this.
- 54:48Speaker 2: I mean, if of course.
- 54:49Speaker 3: They're going to get better, they had not played in
- 54:51Speaker 3: a game, and that group had not played together. Okay,
- 54:55Speaker 3: it looked a little off at the beginning, Yeah, get better.
- 54:58Speaker 2: I was incorrect. And during the first half when those
- 55:01Speaker 2: fumbles happened, Yeah, I said, don't know if they've repainted
- 55:05Speaker 2: the locker room walls in the off season, but when
- 55:07Speaker 2: Rich goes in there at halftime, that paint's coming off
- 55:09Speaker 2: of those walls. And Rich specifically said a postgame like,
- 55:13Speaker 2: I didn't go in there and take the paint off
- 55:14Speaker 2: the walls. And Jed was in there, and.
- 55:18Speaker 4: Jed said he was like, hey, guys, that was about
- 55:21Speaker 4: as bad as we could possibly play. But we're doing everything,
- 55:24Speaker 4: So I think, what why Rich didn't lose his mind.
- 55:27Speaker 4: He felt they were playing hard to his definition of hard,
- 55:31Speaker 4: and he said, hey.
- 55:31Speaker 2: The mistakes. Stop doing the mistakes, and we're going to
- 55:34Speaker 2: be totally fine. They went back out for the best.
- 55:35Speaker 3: So a couple of it was you were controlling the game,
- 55:38Speaker 3: and so live betting looks exactly like that, Like if
- 55:42Speaker 3: you're doing live betting right, you're looking at that game,
- 55:43Speaker 3: going this is what was at halftime?
- 55:45Speaker 2: Ten to nothing, ten.
- 55:45Speaker 3: Three, ten three, and you go, well, give me the
- 55:48Speaker 3: live line here. I mean, West Virginia's dominating this game.
- 55:51Speaker 3: It's three plays that are probably not going to repeat themselves.
- 55:54Speaker 3: Happened last night in Clemson LSU Clemson led at the half.
- 56:00Speaker 2: Was kind of hayensk.
- 56:01Speaker 3: He was doing a lot of yapping early and he
- 56:02Speaker 3: probably should not have been. If you were watching that
- 56:05Speaker 3: ls you look like a team like they're not scoring here,
- 56:08Speaker 3: but ls U's the better team. What happens it come
- 56:10Speaker 3: through and one and so I thought that was first
- 56:12Speaker 3: half versus second.
- 56:12Speaker 2: Half Texter gentlemen halftime thought I did not like the
- 56:16Speaker 2: booing of the team as it left the field was there,
- 56:20Speaker 2: There was, There was m h and and I thought, yeah,
- 56:25Speaker 2: that's a good point. So here's the deal. I again,
- 56:30Speaker 2: now that everyone's getting paid in the whole thing, you're
- 56:32Speaker 2: probably leaning more toward Okay, it's probably gonna happen more.
- 56:36Speaker 2: But that was not that was not the situation to boo, because,
- 56:43Speaker 2: in my opinion, you boo when like there's lacksadaisical effort
- 56:48Speaker 2: and people are just nonchalant about things. Those were like
- 56:52Speaker 2: those fumbles were some helmets hitting the ball and those
- 56:56Speaker 2: are mistakes, but statistically you were absolutely mulching them like.
- 57:00Speaker 2: That was not the time. I agree, I didn't like
- 57:03Speaker 2: the booing there.
- 57:04Speaker 1: However, watching the game, you're doing the game, we're all
- 57:07Speaker 1: watching the game. That was really really difficult to watch.
- 57:12Speaker 1: When they fumbled three consecutive times, with three out of
- 57:15Speaker 1: four times, that was just weird frustrating, and you go,
- 57:18Speaker 1: what is going what is happening here? So I mean
- 57:21Speaker 1: there is a natural passionate reaction to that. Yeah, I
- 57:27Speaker 1: get it, but like it frankly would have been worse
- 57:30Speaker 1: if it had been ten to three and they had
- 57:32Speaker 1: not fumbled, because then you'd be going, Wow, you can't
- 57:35Speaker 1: dominate this team.
- 57:36Speaker 2: So yeah, Charlie from Midlothian. I bet not too many
- 57:42Speaker 2: people had Robert Morris and his West Virginia connection on
- 57:47Speaker 2: their Bengo card that you guys mentioned. Hopey mentioned on
- 57:49Speaker 2: Thursday's podcast Elite Story. If only he had kept the
- 57:52Speaker 2: mineral rights, as Brad suggested, he would have made tons
- 57:55Speaker 2: of more money from coal. He would a good way
- 57:57Speaker 2: to start the season, glad I got going second half
- 57:59Speaker 2: Scotty Fox. They made a lot of people happy with
- 58:02Speaker 2: that TV run, so he took it over to the.
- 58:04Speaker 3: Kicked it kicked the spread over the area.
- 58:06Speaker 2: Yeah, you think some of those people that were booing
- 58:08Speaker 2: at the end of the first half may have had
- 58:10Speaker 2: a dollar or two on that probably maybe. Question and
- 58:13Speaker 2: co oh, this is the.
- 58:14Speaker 3: Hit that live line with that live line got a.
- 58:17Speaker 2: Little situation here. Question and comment, go mart In Flatwoods.
- 58:22Speaker 2: What is the story? Is it? The right twix versus
- 58:26Speaker 2: the left twis? I went into the one on the
- 58:28Speaker 2: left side and saw the seven foot slim gym, then
- 58:31Speaker 2: got back on seventy nine, had north to Morgantown. But
- 58:33Speaker 2: I couldn't help but think the ten foot slim gym
- 58:36Speaker 2: that Tony talks about might have been on the right
- 58:38Speaker 2: side gomart. Is there a preference for you, guys, which
- 58:42Speaker 2: go mart do you go to in flat Woods? The
- 58:43Speaker 2: left side one or the right side one? Well, depends
- 58:46Speaker 2: on which way you're going left, right right. I mean
- 58:49Speaker 2: that puts you into a quandary because there's two go
- 58:50Speaker 2: marts next right next to each other. One there, one there, I.
- 58:53Speaker 3: Mean right in the geographic center of the state there
- 58:55Speaker 3: in Flatwoods. Of course, I'm I'm left.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Which way are you going?
- 59:00Speaker 3: The left side of our line? So I have I
- 59:01Speaker 3: run heavy left? Okay, I run heavy left when I
- 59:04Speaker 3: go there.
- 59:05Speaker 1: I'm a left If you're going south south, I'm a
- 59:10Speaker 1: left side guy as well.
- 59:11Speaker 2: Yeah. By the way, He ends this by saying comment,
- 59:14Speaker 2: after hearing about Russell Johnson, the author from West Virginia
- 59:17Speaker 2: that lives in North Carolina, I picked up his first
- 59:19Speaker 2: book in the Mountaineer series. Remember you'd send us those books, yes,
- 59:22Speaker 2: and it was awesome. I just finished the second and
- 59:25Speaker 2: ordered the third. Oh good book. Report. Don't know if
- 59:28Speaker 2: you know this. We'll show some pictures coming up here
- 59:30Speaker 2: from the food Russell Johnson's dad was at the food court.
- 59:32Speaker 2: I heard that, Yeah resently. Yeah, uh Texter Scopes, Dean
- 59:37Speaker 2: Emerediths and Senator y'all talk about REVCVS barbecue boxes and
- 59:41Speaker 2: they are excellent. But you can't be sleeping on the
- 59:44Speaker 2: three meat plates with two sides. Wowza, that is a
- 59:47Speaker 2: lot of great meat. And yes, meat koma is a
- 59:50Speaker 2: real possibility. Did so we.
- 59:54Speaker 3: Only talked for a brief minute yesterday while you were there.
- 59:57Speaker 3: I would have talked to you sooner, but I looked
- 59:59Speaker 3: over and saw him buried in the corner, just inhaling something.
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: Did you go biscuit? Yeah, sold out before I got
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: my order in on the brisky.
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: That was good. That was the breakfast biscuit direct the
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: eggs you put the egg on it. Yeah, biscuit, brisket,
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: pepper jack cheese with a fried egg on top of
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: good order, Good order.
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: He sold out of those fast get it.
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: He wanted my mom make more there for the pit game.
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna get I'm gonna get me
- 1:00:24Speaker 3: one there. I went a little brisket and chicken.
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: It was very good.
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: He sold out brisket, Yes, we sold out everything.
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: I mean, he was I got wrong.
- 1:00:32Speaker 3: I got chicken lad Yeah, I got chicken late too,
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: and brisket.
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: Texter is widely reported on the podcast. One game does
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: not make a trend, but a few observations. Is it
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: possible West Virginia might actually continue to defer when winning
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: the flip? Opening the second half with that impressive drive
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: was a great reset after all those fumbles in quarter two?
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: Is West Virginia where kickers go when they are tired
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: of kicking the ball all the way into the end
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: zone sixty five percent of the time like they have
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: historically done. One ball made it to the end zone
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: on Sat. Yeah, Texter. Having a two hundred and thirty
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: five pound quarterback who isn't afraid to push his face
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: into a fan sure does help the execution of the
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: tush push. Great time of the year. Love the pod,
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: Doug and Winfield. Now let's talk about the tush push. Yes,
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: how about that formation?
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: I like it? A flying saucer, I like it?
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: Hey, right at the household yesterday, Karen Kirshavill was trying
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: to come up with a mountaineer West Virginia related name.
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: Former advertising person Karen.
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: Yes, so she's got a list of twenty I should
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: probably bring it in. But did you guys talk about
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: that that we need a mountaineer West Virginia related name
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: for the tush push.
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, I'm thinking something out loud with the
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: moth Man. Try to get the moth man. Texter, rate
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: my plate. This is someone that was listening to the
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: game out of state. Rate my plate. Hickory smoked baby
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: back ribs topped with a bourbon peach sauce, sauteed onions,
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: and beer bread made with connection.
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: Three oh four.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: Tell you what I did notice this when I looked
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: at that picture earlier. He goes with a very wide onion.
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: There's a very wide cut on that onion. Those aren't
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: like slivered onions, those like some wide dice. Those are
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: not diced craft. That's a big cut and it looks fantastic.
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: We give me five stars, Texter. Hello Zach and Lake Tahoe. Oh,
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: this is a good question. Can we discuss what happened
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: with the weird fear catch by Robert Morris in the
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: first quarter? Yeah, so ball comes in fielded about two
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: yards into the end zone. Dude takes off, takes it up,
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: I think to the sixteen yard line. Penalty marker comes
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: down and the official say there was a signal of
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: a fair catch, so that's illegal touch. So the rule
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: is you take the ball where the fair catch was
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: called for. It was called for made the tea by
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: one of the up men, right, so the ball fielded
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: at the two, So it becomes a touch back because
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: the play is dead upon the receipt of the ball
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: after the signal was made. Where was the signal made.
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: It was made in the end zone, so it's a touchback.
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: So they they they enforced the rule properly. But what
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: they aired on was as soon as that cat started
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: running the ball out of the end zone, they should
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: have blown their whistles and said no, no, no, no, no,
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: the play's dead. It's out to the twenty yard line.
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: But they let the cat run out to the sixteen.
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: That's what led to the confusion.
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: So the guy, the up guy can signal the fair cat.
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: Anyone on the field can go like cad and.
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: The official was standing was looking right at it, right
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: at it, but didn't call it right.
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: That's what That's the only thing I think those officials
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: when they go through their review, they're going to go, no,
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: that should have been blown dead. The guy should not
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: be allowed to run out there after that's done. Play's dead.
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: And on the on the fumble where they initially looked
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: at it and said for West Virginia said it wasn't
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: a fumbledinglandand against it was that was the right call
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: to They got that right, that was a fumble. So
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: how did they did they make the initial call?
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: The initial call was it wasn't and then then they
- 1:04:04Speaker 2: looked at it again somewhere again you're looking at it
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: upstairs and they're looking at it at mission control in Texas.
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: So someone went like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait,
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: actually he did fumble it. Let me get another look
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: at that when he fumbled, it would have benefited West
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: Virginia if they just kind of played on.
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: But is there Okay, okay, I'm just thinking out loud.
- 1:04:24Speaker 2: But I think when they go to review themselves this week,
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: they're gonna go like, we should have never said it
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: wasn't a fumble. You always go the other way.
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: You always will fumble first, because if you blow the
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: play dead, the recovery of the fumble could get messed up.
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: But if you tony, if you take a punt, if
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: you signal a fair catch, yes, and you take the
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: punt and you run, You're gonna get flayed, is that right?
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: Yes?
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: Okay, So on the kickoff, if there's it was a
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: legitimate fair catch, call plays dead. Oh soo the play okay,
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: play's dead right then?
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: All right? Yeah, Ben in Chicago, I want to run.
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: I want you to run all of your text today
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: through AI and then tell me how many times the
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: word fumble is used. I would put the over under
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: at forty nine and a half. Eh, I didn't do it,
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: but yeah, pretty close. Texter, Hey hit the over on
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: the quarterback fellas hammered as they did Andrew in Little Rock,
- 1:05:21Speaker 2: Arkansas by the way of Parkersburg South. All right, so
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: let's reconsider a realistic now quarterback over under for the season.
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: Over under how many quarterbacks we will see in the
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: game at the same time. Two and a half is
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: the number on under. That's an easy one.
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: But on this quarterback thing, that Robert Morris game, You're
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: not going to have a game like that again this season,
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: so there may be it may be hard to get
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: to that fourth quarterback. Okay, unless you have an injury,
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: it may be.
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: Hard to get four.
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: But that multiple are coming, multiple are coming. Okay again,
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: you could see it, guys, as great a game as
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: Nico had, Jalen Henderson's Scotti Fox brought you a little
- 1:06:07Speaker 3: something different. I mean, Wilkins did as well. But you're right,
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: it's going to be hard to get to four. But
- 1:06:10Speaker 3: those guys bring some different skill sets in there. Change
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: a pace, jump start the offense. I mean, Nico is
- 1:06:16Speaker 3: probably not going to be able to complete eighty eight
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: percent of his passes or whatever the heck that was.
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: So at some point you might need like a basketball team,
- 1:06:23Speaker 3: Tony bringing a guy off the bench.
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: You need some shooting.
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: You might put somebody in there that normally get somebody
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: in there, get something, go and eat a little spark.
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see guys, No, I think so too.
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: And also, if Nico's gonna run twelve times a game
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: or more, you're gonna get a little nick dnup.
- 1:06:39Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh absolutely, Rich knows that. Yeah, which is why
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: you have multipliers ready to go. Why three guys before
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: the game is brought to us by the good folks
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- 1:06:55Speaker 2: saving on your food and your fuel. Check it out
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- 1:07:12Speaker 2: that and start rolling up those points. Texter, here comes
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: a heater, he writes it, Here comes a heater. Some
- 1:07:19Speaker 2: may be disappointed in the fumbles, but here are the
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: all times that West Virginia has gone over six hundred
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: and twenty five yards of offense in the history of
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: West Virginia football.
- 1:07:29Speaker 4: Well, so, West Virginia, when we finded our total offense
- 1:07:32Speaker 4: was what last night yesterday six something?
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: Obviously, Chick, I can tell you I got it right here.
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: I had it right here. Total offense by West Virginia
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: was that was the first half. We'll get it for
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: you here, I'll get it anyway. Let's do this thing,
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: Texter says.
- 1:07:55Speaker 3: Because you ran for nearly four bills.
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: Right, why is this hard? Total offense West Virginia six
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: two five? Okay, it's only happened at West Virginia rarely.
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: Neil did it once, Dana eleven times. Rich did it
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: just one eleven times. Yeah, oh, Dana in ninety five
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: thousand yards in that Baylor game when it was seventy
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: to sixty three, Well, Dana did it eleven. Rich did
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: it just once. In his first stint as head coach.
- 1:08:30Speaker 3: Two times, two times Rich one Rich one point.
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: Did it two times. All due respect to Bob Morris,
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: but that's still a pretty good stat signed by Ryan
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: and Martinsburg. Yeah, that is significant when you get up there,
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: by the way, didn't Rich Tye Holgerson yesterday for wins?
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:08:47Speaker 3: Second all time sixty one? Is that right, Brad?
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: Yes, that would be his one hundred and ninety first
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: career victory for Rich, So he's nine away from two hundred.
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: That's the But you know what's weird too. Of course
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: it's gonna be eclipsed here hopefully next week.
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: But that Dana.
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: Horgerson's the second winning as coach at West Virginia.
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: That, yeah, truly is it is? It is wild. It
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: is wild. Hey, three guys, great day to be a mountaineer.
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: I started it off by taking in the food court
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: and having conversations with Brad and Hoppy about expectations for
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: the season, our family farm, Brad's glorified golf cart, also
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: known as a jeep wrangler. Overall, great day to be
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: a mountaineer, and thank you guys for all the entertainment
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: and great food. Signed by Matthew in Morgan Tell Yeah
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: via Grafton. Yeah, so there's a nice folks. They're Hoppy,
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: they are great. Those the two boys are twins and
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: they're both students at WVU. The mom and dad live
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: just outside of Grafton. They have a farm. They have
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: a couple hundred acres beef farmers and we talked a
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: lot of farming.
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: The guys, they are the ones that made us our keychains.
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: Great, thank you guys. This was the next This next one.
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: Only one of the brothers dropped to Pete Samil and me,
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: good like that a lot.
- 1:10:12Speaker 2: I cackled, by the way, yesterday afternoon when everyone in
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: the booth was all a flutter. Hey, Pete Samil's reporting
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: that Nico Markiel is going to be the starting quarterback,
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: and I went, oh, really, I could have told you
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: that three weeks ago. It's amazing. Anyway, Carson, the three guys.
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: Baby finally got to meet up with two of the guys.
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys for being so cool. Hopefully we can
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: get up with Brad at the next one. Also a
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: huge thanks to Homeless Day for arranging everything with the
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: meet up. Let's go mountaineers. Also, that's our son Wyatt.
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: He didn't mean to leave him out super excited, So
- 1:10:49Speaker 2: there we go, Brad. That's the baby we did that.
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: We did the gender reveal on and there's why at
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: the young fella there on the right hand side next
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: to Hoppy, Hoppy's hat was absolutely wearing Poe. Not very nice, Chappoe.
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: That little baby man baby's got more hair than Kerchieval
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: and it's not even close hair. So thanks very much.
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: It was great meeting you guys. You know what, why
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: don't we just do this? We took a gazillion and
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: four pictures at the food court this weekend. We had
- 1:11:16Speaker 2: some unbelievable conversations with folks. Yes, Braiden, our producer, extraordinary brain.
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: Let's go through that montage of picks if you could so,
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: for no rhyme or reason, here are some of the
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: pictures coming out of the food court. There's the Senator
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: with two Joy and Genie. Oh you knew their names, ladies.
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: Go ahead, you can just keep flipping through these braiden
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: once again. Senatorop right there for a second because I
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: want I want to say something about these guys. That's
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: Terry on the left as you're looking at it to
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: my right, and then Ryan, excuse me, Blake on the right.
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: He's stationed with the USS Wasp Navy in Roanoke. So wow,
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: thank you for his service. It was great, great talking
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: to those guys. He's in Rhode Island right now for school.
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: Blake is but loved catching up with those two guys.
- 1:11:57Speaker 3: I had a great conversation to former offensive on coach
- 1:12:00Speaker 3: Herb Hand. Yes, Herbert Hand. I had a great conversation
- 1:12:04Speaker 3: with him.
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: He's in charge bread of the entire like the mechan
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: the engines of a ship, the engines of a ship.
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: They have like five diesel engines. He gave us some
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: he gave him some great intel in that.
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: That was back Bradon, Can you put that back up?
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: That's Gary from Pittsburgh. He was down so we enjoyed
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: talking to him.
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: He got to meet him, all right. What else we
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: got here on the picture eight. Oh this is oh yeah,
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: that's a that's a stunner. Right there. There's doctor Pellegrino. Yeah,
- 1:12:31Speaker 2: he was there fifty. That was Friday Friday. Also, you
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: know who else is in that pictad?
- 1:12:38Speaker 3: Uh my former elite five star lawn guy that entered
- 1:12:42Speaker 3: the transfer portal and now my lawn's horrific.
- 1:12:44Speaker 2: Yeah. Parker.
- 1:12:46Speaker 4: Yeah, Parker is the Morgan from Morgantown. Morgan from Morgantown. Yeah,
- 1:12:51Speaker 4: these guys are great.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: Chad Moore on the left, and that's Frank Moore on
- 1:12:55Speaker 3: the right, former WVU sports management graduate that has gone
- 1:12:59Speaker 3: on to do big boy things. He fun catching up
- 1:13:03Speaker 3: with him. I haven't seen Franklin a long time. He's
- 1:13:04Speaker 3: here in the late nineties. He is now out in
- 1:13:07Speaker 3: LA works for CIA.
- 1:13:09Speaker 2: Well I've heard of that. Yeah, you heard of that.
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: I heard of that. I heard of that. Yeah, so
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: he's dropped to good line.
- 1:13:14Speaker 3: He was talking about his his daughters just learning to
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: drive since and he wasn't in LA.
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: He wasn't doing it to brag.
- 1:13:21Speaker 3: He said, you get work on our permit going out
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: to get practice their practice parking or practice driving spot
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: the Rose Bowl.
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: Probably got a few spaces. Yeah, so again, you can
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: kind of roll through these braiden unless these guys know
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: every name. Look, he's a cute little cheerleader there. Huh,
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: family's coming in. It was a good it's a good
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: deal man family fun. You see kerschievill just holding court
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: in his total comfort zone around people. He's really come
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: out of his shell thanks to the food court. By
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: the way, the food court presented to us by Clear
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: Mountain Bank, and they're absolutely fantastic. And I was going
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: to kind of get to this, uh a little bit.
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: I think we've created something as usual on this program unintentionally, Okay,
- 1:14:06Speaker 2: and that is braid You can kind of keep flipping.
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: We haven't have we talked about Have we talked about
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: our Buffalo wild wings thing? Yet?
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: We have not?
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: I don't think, so okay, keep the brain. Yeah, it's
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: just kind of rolled through them. Kercheval on me. Those
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: are those are nice people, great people there. And then
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: that was that was right when I was leaving yesterday
- 1:14:25Speaker 2: from Starbucks.
- 1:14:26Speaker 3: Is how he identified city Every time we've been to
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: the Charleston Starbucks, Todds.
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: The Charleston not gonna come night.
- 1:14:31Speaker 3: So look at this, we're gonna be missing a picture.
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: Well wait second, so go Mart. We just go to
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: the Gomart thing. That's what I was talking about, Like
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: on that app, like they just tell you just walk
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: in here and just get yourself free coffee, fountain, drink,
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: whatever you want, free single bag. They just get the
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: app and they just like it for they.
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: Just told you.
- 1:14:49Speaker 3: The other day when I went in to check on
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: the man trip stuff, I had a free drinks as
- 1:14:52Speaker 3: wonder God drink Jeremy at the Postal Plaza.
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: Very nice. Yeah, yeah, well I talked about the Postal
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: Plaza on coming up here in just a little bit.
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: You know, you guys have you constantly accused me of
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: not being social, and I think I'm dispelling that. And
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: I was there Friday and Saturday and I thoroughly enjoy it.
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: I mean, the weather was perfect, there was as you know,
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: I'm into the vibe. Now what is the vibe? And
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: the vibe is just.
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: Friendly and upbeat and happy, and it's like it's not
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: drunken behavior.
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: We have beer, but it's not drunk behavior.
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: Kids around as family oriented.
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: So it's just a really nice environment.
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: I enjoyed it.
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: Mountaineer fans are everywhere stopped by the lighthouse restaurant in Saucelito, California,
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: for lunch while I was on the West Coast driving tour.
- 1:15:40Speaker 2: Sitting at a table, probably wearing his mountaineer hat, was
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: Steve Degley and his wife from Tampa. A small world.
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: Signed by Tim's a grat of WVU nineteen seventy and three.
- 1:15:52Speaker 2: So we had a picture there as well. Guys out
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: in California. He's got his West Virginia hat on, has
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: a hat on there and guy comes up to him
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: right there, Sauce Alito. It's a nice place to visit,
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: I would think, sauce Alito, just north of San Francisco. Yeah,
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: is that what it is? Hoppying? Yeah? I believe. So
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: do we have that picture Brayden uh signed by Tim.
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: Two people, guy in a white hat West Virginia had
- 1:16:13Speaker 2: on the left, older gentleman on the right. I shouldn't
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: probably said older gentleman. There's a young guy and an
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: older guy. I mean I would qualify as an older
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: guy as well as I try to run that back
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: really well. Oh that so that those guys there, you know,
- 1:16:26Speaker 2: you don't know the story because this was Friday. So
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: we got We've got dad on the right, hand side
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: son on the left hand side. That gentleman turns eighty
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: years old today. Yes, that's right, that turned eighty years
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: old today. Brat. And you know what, like I like
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: shook his hand, and I could instantly tell when I
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: shook his hand, like the dude was like rock and
- 1:16:47Speaker 2: uh coal miner, Yes, yeah, former coal miner. And I said,
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: you work out or you do something? He said, yeah,
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: I walk two miles every day. And basically what I
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: wanted to say is this. And I told him, I said,
- 1:16:58Speaker 2: you know you're going to turn eight on Sunday. You
- 1:17:00Speaker 2: would whip Kerchival's ass right now. Wouldn't even be close.
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: It wouldn't close. Wouldn't be close. He could just he
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: was one of those guys.
- 1:17:05Speaker 3: I'll tell you what they'll give Couril, both of those
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: guys in good shape for their age.
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: I'll give him credit. Hobbi good, I mean, got your hobby.
- 1:17:11Speaker 2: Just rode a four hundred and six miles on a bicycle.
- 1:17:13Speaker 3: By the way, Well, real quick, Braiden, we're gonna do
- 1:17:16Speaker 3: some production on the fly. If Braiden can check what
- 1:17:18Speaker 3: I just sent him there, can he get a couple.
- 1:17:19Speaker 2: Of pictures up?
- 1:17:20Speaker 3: I can't believe we missed. There's no picture of what
- 1:17:22Speaker 3: I just sent him. See if he can get that
- 1:17:24Speaker 3: up there.
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: You're talking about your very special visitor to thee. There
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: we go, ohh yeah, there we go. President Benson came
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: to the food court. How awesome is that? Awesome? Just
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: rolled right over by himself, just walked across the way.
- 1:17:35Speaker 2: He didn't have any he didn't have any handlers, handlers,
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: He just walked.
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: Over, no special transportation, just getting his steps in, just
- 1:17:41Speaker 3: walked over and jumped in and started working the crowd
- 1:17:44Speaker 3: and talking to everybody.
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: We saw him. We all saw him Friday evening right
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: at an event, and you know, I spoke to him briefly,
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: and then I saw one of his people and I said,
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great if we could get him down
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: to the tailgate. I said, how about the pick came
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: and she said, you know, we'll we'll make that happen.
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: It's that's a busy weekend, but we'll make that happen.
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: And I said, he's really he's really getting out there.
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: And then literally hours later, Brad, he just comes rolling in,
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: just walking into the tailgate, hung around for about fifteen
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: or twenty minutes got his picture made and and you
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: know again you got to see how he does at
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: running a major, major institution. But he is doing to
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: me all the right things early and that is getting out,
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: meeting people, letting people see who he is and understanding
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: what it is to be a West Virginian and to
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: be the head of this flagship institution. I mean, he
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: is checking all those boxes.
- 1:18:42Speaker 3: He You know, the episode after he was on, you
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: were asking about how we referred to the the administration Downtown.
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: I used to work in a flex Downtown. It was
- 1:18:50Speaker 3: just it was a catch all category, not derogatory in
- 1:18:53Speaker 3: any way. Just when we were have you sent the
- 1:18:55Speaker 3: press release Downtown for approval of this Downtown. We're going
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: downtown for meeting. Downtown needs to see us. Downtown's coming out,
- 1:19:01Speaker 3: just downtown. President Benson yesterday guys tweeted after his appearance
- 1:19:05Speaker 3: at the food court. He said, Downtown approves of the
- 1:19:09Speaker 3: three guys.
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: So he likes personality. So he liked it.
- 1:19:13Speaker 3: You know what, Now he didn't get to eat. He
- 1:19:15Speaker 3: will eat when he comes back at the at the
- 1:19:17Speaker 3: next one.
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: Yeah, well here's something else. So thank you to President
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: Benson for coming out. So we're going to do the
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: food court for the pit game, and we're gonna have
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: live music there. We didn't have live music. We just
- 1:19:27Speaker 2: had streaming music this past weekend. Now do you think
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: maybe we get a keyboard out there and let the
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: president play for us, maybe a song or two, because
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: he's an accomplished Well, he busy, he's busy. We'll have
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: to see. Yeah, we'll have to see. Now. So the
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: thing that I the thing that I started, I first
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: reported on this program that we were going to do
- 1:19:50Speaker 2: a Thursday show this year before home games. Yes, and
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: it's going to be a live show. And we did
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: the first one at Buffalo Wild Wings.
- 1:19:58Speaker 3: He will be back as that I was as you reported.
- 1:20:00Speaker 3: We were going to do Thursday before home games, is
- 1:20:03Speaker 3: what he reported. But what the first one was on
- 1:20:05Speaker 3: what night?
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: Though? I'm sorry Wednesday? Okay, thank you. We're going to
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: do We're going to go forward. We're going to do
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: a live two hour show from six until eight on
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: the night before home football games. So our next one
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: at Buffalo Wild Wings at Suncrest Town Center. Some referred
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: to it as the old Orchard Bypass area. We're going
- 1:20:27Speaker 2: to be there before the PID game. And what I
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: wanted to tell you was I told a lot of
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: people over the weekend that are from out of state
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: that come in to start their weekend. I said, come
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: to Buffalo Wild Wings on Thursday between six and eight
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: and we're going to have a fun time. So we
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: had the event and Kerchieval did trivia and that was memorable.
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: And also people have been asking us and Hoppy you
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: know this. I didn't think a lot of people would
- 1:20:59Speaker 2: sign up for the Blazing Wing Challenge.
- 1:21:01Speaker 4: You said none would? Yeah, you said none. Right, I
- 1:21:04Speaker 4: was baiting them. Which is a sauce which is Ghost
- 1:21:08Speaker 4: Scorpion and Carolina Reaper fixed together. We had four people
- 1:21:14Speaker 4: do the challenge. You have to eat ten of those
- 1:21:15Speaker 4: wings in five minutes. Four people tried it. Three successfully
- 1:21:21Speaker 4: eight the ten wings in five minutes, which is amazing
- 1:21:25Speaker 4: and con firedness.
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: One guy had to play hurt because.
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: One guy did it. The guy that didn't get it
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: done literally was trying to chomp on those wings really
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: fast to get started. Bit his tongue.
- 1:21:36Speaker 3: How hot and much did that hurt? With that Carolina
- 1:21:39Speaker 3: Reaper seeping right into your fat? That's the finished He
- 1:21:42Speaker 3: had hard edge. He had a hard edge. He finished
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: the competition he did.
- 1:21:46Speaker 2: Of the four, three had previously tried to do it.
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: The gentleman who bit his tongue had successfully done it
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: in the past, which shows you past success does not
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: indicate future success.
- 1:21:58Speaker 3: And sometimes you don't improve. Yeah, one a week two.
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: The one guy that John John, the first guy that
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: said I'm in. When he I said, do you like
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: hot foods? He said, when I go to an Indian restaurant,
- 1:22:09Speaker 2: they say how hot do you want it? And I
- 1:22:11Speaker 2: say to them, ruin my life.
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: That's what he tells him.
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: Yeah, he says, ruin my life. And he did it.
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: But the other guy, who had never ever even thought
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: about doing a contest, he crushed him. He actually he
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: won the contest.
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: I talked to him afterward. I said, how do you feel?
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: And he said, I'm fine. He said it was hard
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: to breathe afterward for a while. But I said, how
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: did you He said, I thought I'd have a chance
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: because I eat really fast. That was his key was
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: eating fast. So Tony, the fact that because you were
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: you were kind of egging him on because he'd never
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: done it before, right, So he was a long shot,
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: but he was a long shot winner.
- 1:22:50Speaker 3: Agreat very impressive. So three complete it.
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: So what happens on the next one, Like, I think
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: the one guy is going to come.
- 1:22:59Speaker 3: Back, the guy who one, Yeah, he said he's going
- 1:23:01Speaker 3: to defend his world championship, right.
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, exactly.
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: And the guy who said he goes to the Indian restaurant.
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: I saw him too, and he said, Brad, he said
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: he was hurt because he had a big lunch. So
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: he's going to be better prepared. I think he'll come back.
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: He wants to go again.
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: He wants to go again, one second chance. We had
- 1:23:18Speaker 1: a fun time, you know, Brad, that that.
- 1:23:21Speaker 2: Was did you say so?
- 1:23:22Speaker 3: As the clear Mountain folks helped us with that again,
- 1:23:24Speaker 3: that was great.
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: Mountain Dave and Stacy Thomas, they were there.
- 1:23:26Speaker 1: They were there every Friday.
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: They came to the food court, right exactly, Yeah, exactly.
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: It was. It was really good and uh, we had fun.
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: I mean, well that's kind of what this thing is.
- 1:23:34Speaker 2: I mean, we had our birthday, we had we had music.
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: Those guys the two sides. Two sides were fantastic, fantastic.
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: We'll have live music again.
- 1:23:42Speaker 3: So the Thursday before the pit game six to eight,
- 1:23:45Speaker 3: Suncrest Town Center, Buffalo, wild.
- 1:23:47Speaker 2: Wings, and we're going to change it a little bit.
- 1:23:49Speaker 1: What's in What are we doing?
- 1:23:52Speaker 3: But this is the first I'm hearing of this, right,
- 1:23:54Speaker 3: this is unconfirmed.
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: We're gonna we're going to change it a little bit.
- 1:23:58Speaker 2: I think that we're still gonna have guests. Okay, we're
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: still gonna have guests, but I think we need to
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: have more interactive stuff. So we're gonna make a change
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: in the trivia.
- 1:24:13Speaker 3: That might have been the single worst thing we've ever
- 1:24:15Speaker 3: done was Kirschfel's trivia.
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: Ouch.
- 1:24:18Speaker 3: I mean hop, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to be transparent.
- 1:24:20Speaker 3: You just did not handle that well, and you got
- 1:24:22Speaker 3: one wrong.
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: Most of the time.
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: Leading receiver the kid answered Tavon. You yelled him and
- 1:24:29Speaker 3: said it was Steadman. It was actually it is Tavon.
- 1:24:31Speaker 3: So you had an answer wrong in addition to the
- 1:24:33Speaker 3: mismanagement of the questions.
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: I'll say this, it was that I need to improve.
- 1:24:43Speaker 3: Well, maybe you improved the most from week one to
- 1:24:45Speaker 3: week two.
- 1:24:45Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna work on that. I understand. I'm
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: gona get back to the basics, work on it.
- 1:24:50Speaker 3: So trivia, wing eating contests, other things, and well, of course,
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: talk about the pit game as well.
- 1:24:55Speaker 2: Texter says, I stopped by the Postal Plaza Gomart to
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: fill up with gas on Wednesday, and I so I
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: had free items on my app. I walked in the
- 1:25:02Speaker 2: store to claim my items and I thought, hey, thanks
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: three guys. Also, they did not have any connection three
- 1:25:07Speaker 2: to oh four. I was hoping to grab some for sete.
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: Do they usually have three oh four at that location? Efforting? Oh,
- 1:25:13Speaker 2: they don't have efforting.
- 1:25:14Speaker 3: That's a smaller store in terms of cooler space. Yeah,
- 1:25:18Speaker 3: so we're efforting. It's one of the few go marts
- 1:25:20Speaker 3: that does not have connection three oh four At this time,
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: we're efforting.
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: We have to get it in the Kroger too.
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: Did you notice the historic fifth.
- 1:25:28Speaker 3: Film marks all over? Yeah, plenty of stops for no
- 1:25:29Speaker 3: martes all over all, right, so go look easy to get.
- 1:25:33Speaker 2: Did you notice the historic fifty to fifty drawing during.
- 1:25:36Speaker 3: The game that was kind of under publicized there. We
- 1:25:39Speaker 3: didn't talk about that, but I did see that out there.
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: So state legislature in this last session approved that you
- 1:25:46Speaker 2: could have a fifty to fifty drawing at athletic events.
- 1:25:50Speaker 2: So West Virginia had its first ever fifty to fifty drawing,
- 1:25:55Speaker 2: and they they kind of like they did kind of
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: hide the lead. I mean they did have a grap effect,
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: but it wasn't like a massive like in this historic
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: moment our first fifty figure, I said, fifty to fifty drive.
- 1:26:06Speaker 4: It paid out a little under eight grand, Okay, about
- 1:26:10Speaker 4: seventy seven hundred dollars.
- 1:26:12Speaker 2: The winner got that. The winner received pay out with
- 1:26:14Speaker 2: seventy seven hundred dollars total money, It was about fifteen.
- 1:26:17Speaker 3: I stay at the ballpark if you walk out with ag.
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So someone had texted and said, now can
- 1:26:24Speaker 2: you get an arms length of those tickets? And I no,
- 1:26:28Speaker 2: this is a digital and you buy these digitally, right,
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: you kind of do your car and the whole thing.
- 1:26:31Speaker 2: Like in the old school, you go to volunteer fight department,
- 1:26:34Speaker 2: you need to give them the old like give me
- 1:26:35Speaker 2: an arms length of tickets. Right, that's like big, like
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: kind of like that notion you have to make when
- 1:26:39Speaker 2: it comes to like a fair catch. Yeah, you do
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: the same thing. You do that like right there.
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: But so did they give the fifty that the university keeps?
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: Did they give that to Nico? That was what we
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: were pushing for right.
- 1:26:50Speaker 2: No, it goes to a budget. I mean it goes
- 1:26:52Speaker 2: into a pot.
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: Well, we were pushing for a fifty to fifty and
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: you give it to the player.
- 1:26:56Speaker 2: Yeah, but Brad keeps yelling at me every time I
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: kind of bring that up to say, like one should
- 1:27:00Speaker 2: do that. But I think that it's coming. It might
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: be coming. I don't know that you can. It might
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: be the one rule that's in.
- 1:27:06Speaker 1: Place right now.
- 1:27:07Speaker 2: All right, So if you look under NCAA.
- 1:27:12Speaker 3: Don't do a fifty fifty to a player. I mean
- 1:27:16Speaker 3: it's not confirmed, but I think that's what it is.
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: Let me ask Let me ask you guys this. So
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: you say, what we learned about West Virginia was they're
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: not going to be bad, but you don't know how good.
- 1:27:27Speaker 2: That's fair? What about the ruts fair? What about the
- 1:27:30Speaker 2: rest of the league? What about Colorado's loss to Georgia
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: Tech at home? Yeah, don't know.
- 1:27:33Speaker 3: I would have liked, from a league perception standpoint, for
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: Baylor to be able to beat Auburn. That's a that's
- 1:27:39Speaker 3: a team that Hugh Freezer talking about being on the
- 1:27:40Speaker 3: hot seat, I would have liked to see in Colorado.
- 1:27:42Speaker 3: We know Colorado is in a rebuilding phase. You lost
- 1:27:44Speaker 3: Heisman Trophy winner, you lost Sanders would have liked them.
- 1:27:47Speaker 3: Each of those teams losing to visiting teams. They were
- 1:27:50Speaker 3: both at home and didn't protect the home field. Is
- 1:27:52Speaker 3: it is it a deathnet of the league. No, it's not,
- 1:27:55Speaker 3: but for a league that's going to need some perception
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: because the national media is so cec in big top
- 1:28:01Speaker 3: of Big ten bias. I would have liked to see
- 1:28:03Speaker 3: those wins come through.
- 1:28:04Speaker 2: They just did not.
- 1:28:04Speaker 3: In Kansas State again, those international games, man, are tough.
- 1:28:08Speaker 3: You go over there and lose. Kansas State is lucky
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: that it got out of there. It almost chunked one
- 1:28:13Speaker 3: up to North Dakota the other day on a tough
- 1:28:15Speaker 3: second game after being in Ireland.
- 1:28:17Speaker 2: They found a way to win.
- 1:28:18Speaker 3: So we'll see what disappointed in the Baylor performance though
- 1:28:21Speaker 3: on a on a big stage.
- 1:28:23Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing. And Kansas State, that boy, they just
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: they narrowly got out of there with that win. I
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: thought that.
- 1:28:32Speaker 3: Sorry one second on Dylan Edwards, you guys see this
- 1:28:34Speaker 3: where you don't have to dwell on. I know this
- 1:28:35Speaker 3: is already turning into a telethon today, but Dylan Edwards
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: one of their prize returning guys. He looked like he
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: got dinged early in that game in Ireland. Put out
- 1:28:44Speaker 3: there that he's transferring. Really seriously, Yeah, when that called yesterday,
- 1:28:49Speaker 3: This is unconfirmed. I haven't I haven't triple checked my
- 1:28:51Speaker 3: sources there, but saw that something out there that he
- 1:28:54Speaker 3: was transferring.
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: I thought that Colorado's deep.
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: Thing out this year medical red shirt. They're not coming back.
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: The Colorado's defense looked bad, but their past defense look bad.
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: And what else from those games? M anything else?
- 1:29:12Speaker 2: I want to see TCU North Carolina. That is going
- 1:29:16Speaker 2: to be bizarre. So here's the deal. In the NFL,
- 1:29:18Speaker 2: they'll always show Taylor Swift.
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: Hold on, Sorry, that might have I might have been
- 1:29:23Speaker 3: I got got.
- 1:29:24Speaker 2: Oh they faked you out. They faked out, got got got?
- 1:29:27Speaker 2: They faked you out? Okay, so he's not fake account. Yeah.
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: Now, we just play college football every day. It's college football.
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this.
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: It's like bowl season.
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: Will they showed Bill Belichick's girlfriend on the field in
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: the stands in a suite during the game, they show
- 1:29:43Speaker 2: Taylor Swift all the time? Yes? Or no?
- 1:29:45Speaker 1: In a suite?
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: Yes? You think they say they show her? You do see.
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: I don't think they will.
- 1:29:51Speaker 3: I think show I think she's going to be hidden.
- 1:29:54Speaker 4: Really I agree, I agree? Really yeah, I don't think
- 1:30:00Speaker 4: he'll be around Tea. I mean TMZ might have it,
- 1:30:03Speaker 4: but probably not. All right, special thanks to producer Braden
- 1:30:11Speaker 4: throw a lot of stuff at him here during the
- 1:30:13Speaker 4: course of during the course.
- 1:30:14Speaker 1: Of flow, he came into portal new guy.
- 1:30:16Speaker 2: Yeah he did, Yeah he did. We will be back
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: for our preview of the West Virginia Ohio University game
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: coming up Thursday. We'll put that out there and West
- 1:30:30Speaker 2: Virginia it's gonna be an interesting game, man, It'll be
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: an interesting game. You gonna be an interesting All things
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: are set, All things are set for a massive opportunity
- 1:30:43Speaker 2: for West Virginia Week three.
- 1:30:46Speaker 1: Are you moving to week three already?
- 1:30:47Speaker 2: Time out? Can I say something? Week three? I mean
- 1:30:52Speaker 2: game Day, the whole thing. But you gotta win week two.
- 1:30:56Speaker 2: You don't win Week two, there's no.
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: You think there's still a game day opportunity Game day,
- 1:31:01Speaker 1: I'm telling them at game day coming here, you still
- 1:31:03Speaker 1: think that's an opportunity?
- 1:31:04Speaker 2: If you win on next Saturday, yes, if you beat
- 1:31:07Speaker 2: Ohio you yes, you think that's a firm yes, if
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: you win, I'm putting it as a firm yes. On
- 1:31:11Speaker 2: some day, I'm like, hey, listen, I'm gonna own it.
- 1:31:15Speaker 2: I'm gonna own it. You win Saturday against Ohio University,
- 1:31:18Speaker 2: I say game day, and then you, guys, and I'll
- 1:31:21Speaker 2: go on to record, so you can't come around like
- 1:31:22Speaker 2: a little weasel later and say I didn't say it
- 1:31:24Speaker 2: and you go ahead.
- 1:31:26Speaker 3: He's doing a classic Twitter move right here, like he's
- 1:31:29Speaker 3: going to say it and if it's right, then he's
- 1:31:31Speaker 3: going to be the hyena. He's just saying that. Now
- 1:31:35Speaker 3: if he's wrong, it'll be.
- 1:31:37Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Well, it's on tape now,
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: I'm owning it, Ohio.
- 1:31:44Speaker 3: You then we'll talk about it.
- 1:31:45Speaker 2: Well it doesn't Yeah, exactly right. That means zero unless
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: you go beat the Bobcats. I can't wait to see
- 1:31:51Speaker 2: what the West Virginia contingent of fans is going to
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: be like then that what's the volume going to be
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