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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football Game Week 1 (Episode 734) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Say it with me. It is
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  Speaker 1: game week 2026. The Mountaineer football team getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: play its first game of the season. And we kick
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  Speaker 1: off our coverage on three guys before the game with
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  Speaker 1: a show creatively entitled WVU football game week one.
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  Speaker 2: I get creative now because.
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  Speaker 1: After nine years of doing this show, We have figured
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  Speaker 1: out creativity is our strong point.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, sometimes straight to the point's better. Just say what
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  Speaker 2: the show's about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's game week.
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  Speaker 2: Don't need to make people have to guess. It's just
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  Speaker 2: game week one.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be clever.
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  Speaker 2: I actually like it.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you came up with it, but I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's game week one.
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  Speaker 1: What is next week? Game week two. You're the one
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  Speaker 1: that really taught me to just keep it simple. WV football,
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  Speaker 1: game week one. All right, it's West Virginia and Coastal Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up. We're going to talk to the play-by-play voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Chanticleers, Chris Burgin. We'll get into that and more. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: we've had a lot of travails trying to get this
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  Speaker 1: show on the air. Awesome. A lot of travails. Let's
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  Speaker 1: all Mountaineers, including you. So we join you today on
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  Speaker 1: the day after the ninth birthday of three guys before
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  Speaker 1: the game. Yesterday, we were in these very same seats
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  Speaker 1: at the very same time, ready to record. But whoops.
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  Speaker 1: We had no internet connectivity because apparently, purportedly, reportedly, something
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  Speaker 1: happened up there on that mild ground road. And so
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  Speaker 1: we had no internet. And it blew what I think
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  Speaker 1: could have become the single most viral moment of the
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  Speaker 1: show's history because at about 8.10 in the morning, in
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  Speaker 1: walks WVU president Michael Benson saying, With a cake with
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  Speaker 1: a candle lit, singing happy birthday in Italian. There it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's that glorious cake.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Jake, for doing that.
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  Speaker 2: With the lit candle.
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  Speaker 1: Nine for the cake, nine years, came in. It was
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  Speaker 1: just an awesome thing. And his plan was, we had
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  Speaker 1: obviously zero idea, which also tells us we have no
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  Speaker 1: security here. And he just pranced right into the building
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  Speaker 1: and came in and we went like, we don't have.
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  Speaker 4: So I thought when he came in with the birthday,
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  Speaker 4: I thought like it was Brad's birthday or your birthday.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't even think of nine years, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: Benson just, and we, we don't see him on the
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  Speaker 4: academic side. We see him on the PR side and, and, but, uh,
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't miss a trick, man. I mean, he does
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  Speaker 4: not miss. He is just checking boxes, Brad.
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  Speaker 1: All the time.
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  Speaker 2: He is really on it. And he had a busy
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  Speaker 2: day yesterday. He was headed to Charleston right from here,
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  Speaker 2: but made some time to have the cake, drop the
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  Speaker 2: cake off, come in and surprise us. It was a
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  Speaker 2: great gesture. We appreciate him. And we've said it a lot, guys.
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  Speaker 2: He's a big sports fan. Not just a sports supporter.
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  Speaker 2: He's a big sports fan. So we certainly appreciate his support,
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  Speaker 2: but he's fun to have around. We've enjoyed his time
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  Speaker 2: here on campus.
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  Speaker 4: And a big week for him. Because his former school,
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  Speaker 4: the Chanticleers, are coming up here.
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  Speaker 1: And a big week because the middle of this week,
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  Speaker 1: starting tomorrow, the West Virginia Business Summit goes on at
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  Speaker 1: the Greenbrier. And, like, that's a big to-do. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of big boys in there. It's been going on since,
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  Speaker 1: I heard this morning, 1948. Is that right? Is that
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  Speaker 1: what it is? Something like that. Steve Roberts and company.
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  Speaker 1: Steve hasn't been there all that time. No, he was
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  Speaker 1: there earlier.
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  Speaker 4: He came there in the 30s. Steve has been there
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  Speaker 4: a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like. Like, I have come and gone, and
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  Speaker 1: he's been there and still going. He's still going.
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  Speaker 2: It was nice of President Benson to fit us into
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  Speaker 2: that what's a busy week. So thank you again.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so very much. We do appreciate that. So
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  Speaker 1: yesterday was our ninth birthday. Today is the 734th episode
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  Speaker 1: we roll on, and we look forward to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different things. So we've got a busy week as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night we begin our off-the-grid program. Fun stuff. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be at Buffalo Wild Wings at the Suncrest
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  Speaker 1: Town Center from 6 until 7.30. We started doing these
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  Speaker 1: last year, and they are fun events. We'll have WVU
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  Speaker 1: student athletes. The three of us will be there. Hoppy
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  Speaker 1: does an extraordinary job with fun questions and trivia. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking for something to do Thursday night, we
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  Speaker 1: invite you to join us. The food court opens up
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  Speaker 1: Friday afternoon right next to Daniel's Men's Store on University Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: And the same kind of stuff that we've had a
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  Speaker 1: year ago will be there, plus one super new addition,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Cutter's Mom's Cookies that we talked about on the
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  Speaker 1: most recent episode. They're now sold out. Yeah, they are.
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  Speaker 1: Those oatmeal cream pies. Correct. How do we get those?
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  Speaker 1: Because I bought five. Homeless. Homeless has got that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: They went like hotcakes, even though they were oatmeal pies.
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  Speaker 1: They went like hotcakes. Well, they went like oatmeal pies. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there may be a straggler or two there. Like, you
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  Speaker 1: could go and say.
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  Speaker 2: Available day of, you mean?
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  Speaker 1: There could be.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: But, I mean, these are custom makes. We saw some pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Wrapped really nice. Looked good. They look great.
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  Speaker 2: So, 4 to 10 on Friday. A little happy hour time.
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  Speaker 2: 4 to 10 on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Some music there. Live music.
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  Speaker 2: Mon Hills Records will be there. 4 to 10 Friday
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  Speaker 2: and then 9 to 11 Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an early morning.
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  Speaker 2: So in and then we'll get you out in time
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  Speaker 2: to get over to the stadium, get inside for the
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  Speaker 2: Pat White ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Had Pat on the Rich Rodriguez show last night.
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  Speaker 1: Heard that. Were you listening? Yes. To the whole interview?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't listen to the whole Pat interview? No, I
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  Speaker 1: heard the Rich portion and then I was doing something.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Pat got emotional. Did he? Got emotional. Were
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  Speaker 1: you listening? Yeah. Talked about the story about his dad.
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  Speaker 1: The week of the Louisville game, which he had his blossoming,
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  Speaker 1: leading up to that week, he had told his dad,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't working. Bring my glove up, my baseball glove.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, I was probably going to go to
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Angels organization, California Angels organization. And his
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  Speaker 1: dad said, Every snap you take this week, take it
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  Speaker 1: like you're the starting quarterback. Good advice. And then after
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  Speaker 1: it's over, we'll talk then. He went out. I forgot
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  Speaker 1: it was Elvis Dummerville. Elvis Doomerville.
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  Speaker 2: Doomerville, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. That tackled Bednarik, which injured him, which opened
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  Speaker 1: the door for Pat to go out there.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that wild? That's life, but it's really sports. You
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  Speaker 2: never know when your opportunity is going to come.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This is very coach speak, but isn't that why they preach?
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  Speaker 2: You always have to be ready.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, think about that particular moment.
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  Speaker 1: In the history of West Virginia football. Legendary.
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  Speaker 2: From that moment on becomes a legendary best to.
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  Speaker 1: Ever do it here. Seminal moment. Everything changes. There's no
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  Speaker 1: sugar bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And the moment came not because of anything Pat did.
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  Speaker 2: It was just circumstance. And then he was prepared to
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  Speaker 2: take that opportunity and run with it.
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  Speaker 1: And now we know many years later, there were 300,000
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  Speaker 1: people there. And they all stayed. Yeah. What a moment
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  Speaker 1: that was. That was. So Pat's deal, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: that happens before the game on Saturday. So this isn't
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  Speaker 1: going to be, hey, I'm just going to stick around
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  Speaker 1: at halftime to watch the retirement. It's before the game. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So at 1130?
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  Speaker 1: 1145, I believe. Be in your seat at 1130.
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  Speaker 2: And the gates will be, you've got to work to
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  Speaker 2: get in the gates, right? Because it's the first game
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  Speaker 2: through there. So get there early, get in and be
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  Speaker 2: in your seat.
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  Speaker 1: Spoken like a former administrator. Now, get there early. Our
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  Speaker 1: first game, we've got to get some kinks worked out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's kinks, but everybody shows up
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  Speaker 2: at one time there, and then it's tough. So you've
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  Speaker 2: got to get there early, prepare.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit. Okay. Weather's supposed to be nice, no rain, warm,
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  Speaker 1: so hydrate. And by the way, if you're looking for
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  Speaker 1: a cold beer at the ballgame, Connection 304 is being poured.
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  Speaker 1: I heard this. Or served, I should say. They're not
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  Speaker 1: drafting it. It's probably in cans. In the craft beer section, right?
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  Speaker 1: In the craft beer section, Parkersburg Brewing.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Has a connection 304 for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: See, we'll just help you all day long. Stop at
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  Speaker 2: Mountaineer Roasting in the morning. You've been doing a great job,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, filling that, you know that wall where
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  Speaker 2: our coffee sits?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That thing is packed now. I don't know how they come.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody even comes from the back. If you take the
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  Speaker 2: bag off there, one just pops up right there.
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  Speaker 1: There's the wall right there.
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  Speaker 2: You know like the old scoreboard at Wrigley where they
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  Speaker 2: reach through and put the number up? That might be
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  Speaker 2: happening there.
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  Speaker 1: It might be.
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  Speaker 2: If you grab a bag off there, they refill it immediately.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying like, we got you all day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying stop in there, get your coffee, then come
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  Speaker 2: over and see us at the food court.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Then head over, get in line, go in, grab yourself
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  Speaker 2: a water and a Connection 304. You're all set.
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  Speaker 1: And sit there.
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  Speaker 2: Get all your beverages.
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  Speaker 1: At Pat White's ceremony. Sure, perfect.
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  Speaker 2: That's a heck of a day.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great day. We had a... Combination of forces
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  Speaker 1: at Mountaineer Roasting for coffee last Friday.
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  Speaker 2: That might have been bigger than the business summit this week.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of attendees. Yeah. It was all impromptu. We're
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  Speaker 1: sitting there, and our buddy, remember our buddy from Madagascar, Aaron? Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron from Madagascar.
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  Speaker 2: Travels all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. So we had set a time, okay,
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  Speaker 1: he was coming through, and let's have coffee.
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  Speaker 2: It's about a twice a year thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And he brings us coffee. And it's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: He always gives us this Kenyan coffee and this great coffee.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, guys, for you, don't give any to Hoppy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why he says it. But anyway, so
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  Speaker 1: we're sitting there. And it just became a cavalcade of stars.
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  Speaker 1: We had. It's like a red carpet.
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  Speaker 2: There was a Golden Blue Enterprises meeting that we interrupted
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  Speaker 2: with Don Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: Don Robinson, we got him in there. And then we go,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Saban's. He comes through for a brew. He had
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: just come from hot yoga. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Saban's is a hot yoga guy. Yeah, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I'd heard of that. And then we had
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Jace Hurl. Jace Hurl, Mountaineer Assistant Basketball. Mike Randall, Mountaineer
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  Speaker 1: Assistant Basketball. Johnny Estelle.
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  Speaker 2: Once Johnny figured out we were there, I watched him
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  Speaker 2: come in the parking lot. He was up on two wheels.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that bus we took that one time to Charlotte
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  Speaker 2: on the way back? Vern was our driver.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And we went airborne a couple times. That
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  Speaker 1: was Johnny coming in the mountain air roasting. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it was good, and it's the place to be. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're coming in for the game, check them out.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: One of the all-time great Morgantown high basketball players was
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  Speaker 2: in attendance, too.
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  Speaker 1: David Pavelko was there. David Pavelko. Played at Princeton. Now
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  Speaker 1: works for a small startup company named Google. Named Google.
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  Speaker 1: They got a chance. They may have a chance. And
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: David heads up travel. for Google. He's in charge of
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  Speaker 1: Google Travel. Yeah. Yeah. So we had a big meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was there. Literally everybody. Except me. I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: Except you. Yeah. Next time. Totally not a surprise. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So West Virginia, Coastal Carolina. And coming up, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: in just a couple of shakes, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: with the voice of the Chanticleers. But they're in a
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  Speaker 1: situation very similar to where West Virginia was a year
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  Speaker 1: ago with the massive player turnover, new head coach. Interesting, though,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to Zach Alley's W Zach Alley. There's
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: only one Zach Alley, not Zach Alley's. I was talking
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: to Zach Alley last night and I said, OK, so
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: how difficult is it to get ready for this whole
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  Speaker 1: new thing? Because this whole staff comes from Missouri State
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  Speaker 1: and football is such a small little universe. He basically
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  Speaker 1: said it's all the same guys that at one time
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  Speaker 1: were at Louisville. Mm hmm. And so that's... Big Petrino
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  Speaker 1: tree here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like might be the whole Petrino tree on this Coastal staff.
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  Speaker 1: So Nick Petrino, Bobby's son, is the offensive coordinator for the,
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  Speaker 1: now for the Coastals, was at Missouri State. And I said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so is he like, he goes, yeah, carbon copy to
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  Speaker 1: his dad. Pro style, you know, going to go slow.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be one of the big things, right?
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  Speaker 1: Our West Virginia's defense practices constantly of getting back, getting back,
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  Speaker 1: get snap, get pre-snap. And this is going to be like,
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  Speaker 1: which is fine. West Virginia's defense will be like you
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  Speaker 1: on a normal basis. Like, let's go, let's go, let's go,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. We actually can play off. Let's go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So does that favor West Virginia? Sure it does.
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  Speaker 4: Well, one thing that does is, because West Virginia goes fast,
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  Speaker 4: if they can get some three and outs and try
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  Speaker 4: to limit possessions, right?
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  Speaker 1: Sure, absolutely. You know, what's interesting is West Virginia's trade
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  Speaker 1: plays fast. It's... It's not an oxymoron, but it's counterintuitive
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. West Virginia plays fast to possess
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Do you understand that? So West Virginia, like
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  Speaker 1: Rich's thing. Yes, first downs. Rich does not want necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: He's not searching for four play drives like the old
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  Speaker 1: days of the old like run and shoot and like
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  Speaker 1: fire that thing down. Like Rich wants to possess the
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  Speaker 1: ball by keeping the ball by going like long drives.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm a big long drive advocate.
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  Speaker 1: You see that one drive that Virginia had?
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  Speaker 2: 23 plays. We'll talk about Virginia coming up here in
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  Speaker 2: a minute. But that was Army-esque.
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  Speaker 1: 23 play drive.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is one of those. I think Rich
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  Speaker 2: would welcome a few more explosives this year than you
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  Speaker 2: had last year. I'm interested to watch that. I hope
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  Speaker 2: we're trending back towards the days. Remember in the Pat
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  Speaker 2: White speaking of his time, one of the criticisms was,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Rich might want to slow it down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. You're scoring too fast. Remember how often
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  Speaker 2: that scoring too fast line came up? That would be
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  Speaker 2: nice to get a little bit of a return back
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  Speaker 2: there with some explosives this year, which I think you'll have.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Hawkins breaks out and runs for it. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think Rich is going to get to touch it. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think Rich is going to say, oh, bring it
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  Speaker 4: back because we want to lengthen that drive. But I
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  Speaker 4: know what you're saying, Tony, is that it is about
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  Speaker 4: first downs, advancing the sticks, possessing the ball. But also,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Tony, at the college, generally speaking, generalization, You
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  Speaker 4: know what happens on long drives? Somebody screws it up.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody screws it up. Somebody holds. Somebody drops. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: things happen. The more you have the ball, the more
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  Speaker 4: opportunities for something to go wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's why this is, if you have it
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  Speaker 2: going successfully, this is jab, jab, jab, and you get
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  Speaker 2: a couple first downs, right? And you're rolling, and you're rolling,
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  Speaker 2: and you jab, jab, jab, and suddenly you're hanging on
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  Speaker 2: your hips, and you're a little bit tired, and boom,
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  Speaker 2: that's when the explosive comes. That's if you're doing it right.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Doesn't have to be a 23-play drive, but if you
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: can get some nice little sucker punches in there, get
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: them tired, and then somebody takes off for a big explosive.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: That's probably the idea.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: The defense doesn't get lined up right. The guy's looking
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: to the lane.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: So we were talking about this again last night with Rich,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: and his point is this. I said, can you still
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: make teams tired with all of the stoppages now, longer
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: TV timeouts? When plays go to review, they sometimes last
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: for a tremendous amount of time. Can you still make
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: teams tired? He said, yes. But the only way is
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: if you get first downs. So to Rich, the five
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: play drive is absolutely infuriating to him. He would take
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: a three play score drive. He doesn't want five plays
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: punt drives. And so he's more in the line of
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I want three first downs on a drive. Then I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: can make a team.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Fatigue, which is what happened last year. You were the
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: fastest team in the country in terms of using the
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: play clock, but you were one of the most inefficient.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: You were bottom five in the country in offensive efficiency.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what you do not want in this offense.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: So can I give you something related to that? It
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: was going to be my obvious observations. Well, we can
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: just do obvious observations. Well, you got time because... Well,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: we got time. Okay. All right. That's fine. I don't
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: want to interrupt the flow here.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: We got time.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: He's got thoughts that sound brand new. But they're things
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: we already knew.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: He's got his whip bomb ready.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Heaven knows. Let's make it quick before his bladder blows.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: It's hot.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: You're on the clock. You have seven minutes. All right.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I was host of the WVU Medicine Heart and Vascular
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Institute Gala Friday night.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And guess who was a big... Everybody wanted to meet
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: certain people there. Sure.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Dr.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Badwar, obviously, but also WVU baseball coach Steve Sabans. Sabes
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: was there. Sabes was there. It was his wife, Tabitha.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: And Sabes' mom and dad... Who come up frequently, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: we're trying to convince to move to West Virginia, Brad.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: How is the sales pitch going?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: It's going well. We got the mom on board. Okay.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: So that's a big step.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: That's usually a key in the recruiting process.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Yes. Okay. So we have her recruited. She's a commitment.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: She's verbaled?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: She's verbaled. Okay. The dad, we're still efforting.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: All right. So keep you updated on that.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: The latest WVU women's basketball recruit, Brad, of course, she's
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: already been living with the head coach.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: It was a good get.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Kaylee Kellogg has said yes to head coach Mark Kellogg.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Talked to her on Sportsline the other night. It was
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: really fun to catch up with her and exciting hire
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: for the women's basketball program.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Indeed.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: And it's good to see her back on the floor.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: She missed all of last year with a knee injury.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: So she is back played on the Nike EYBL tour
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and is back for Morgantown High World Champion, Morgantown High
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Mohegans this year.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: It This was all set up for yesterday because two
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: years ago yesterday, so it would have been the anniversary,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: the Mountaineers opened the season against Penn State. Drew Allard
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: was 11 for 17. They scored 20 points in the
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: second quarter and rolled over West Virginia 34-12. But Brad,
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: who came on at the quarterback spot late in that
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: game for Penn State?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Bo Perbula. And he looked pretty good. He goes, I'm
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: not going to talk about this. He looked pretty good.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: We'll get into some numbers from Bo.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He didn't do much in the game against West Virginia.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: He came on late, but we saw what he could
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: do in the NC State game. I've been scanning the
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: cut list in the NFL to see what Mountaineers have
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: made and who didn't. Tony, here's a name to mention.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: You said his name many times on a limited basis.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Austin Brinkman. Austin Brinkman. Austin Brinkman. Good young man.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: WVU's long snapper for four seasons. In the second year,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: made the 53-man roster with the Texans again. Has a
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: three-year deal. Pay him a million dollars a year. Tony,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: if there's a big lineman out there who's not sure
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: that he can make it as a tackle or a
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: guard or center, learn how to snap.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: But you have some athleticism. You've got to get down
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the field.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: You've got to get down the field. I understand that.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: That's a great story.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yes. He was a good kid. He was a good kid.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Never missed.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe he still is a good kid.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, he's probably a good young man. Good young man.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: So you said was. But, I mean, think about that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Still is.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: You just don't think about that. I mean, nobody drafts
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: the snapper.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: It's a walk-on. But you know what? If you can
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: snap the football. It's awesome, man. Brad, you can play.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: You can play. Rules worth noting. I get obsessed by
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the rules, rule changes, rule changes.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: The end of the rule book.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: The rule, which was approved last season, quote, if a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: player presents as injured after the ball is spotted, that
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: team will be charged with a timeout. If all timeouts
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: are used, the team is charged with a delay of game.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: That was last year's rule. Now, it's supposed to be
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: a point of emphasis this season. Brad, is that relevant
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: given how the Mountaineers play?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: It's relevant. Let's see if it happens.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Let's see if it's enforced. I'm not sure it was enforced.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Last year a whole lot.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: No.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Rule 921. On unsportsmanlike conduct and taunting has been updated.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Any action simulating gun violence, a slashing of the throat motion, quote,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: actions that interfere with orderly game administration, taunting actions that
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: are directed at an opponent and abusive, threatening, or celebratory
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: actions that are demeaning to the game or opponent is
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: going to be flagged.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Well, get ready.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: We're going to have some textual healing, Tony, coming in
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: on these. Did you see TCU got nabbed for one
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: of these?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Did you see what he did? What did he do?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't see what he did.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: He signaled first down.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: But see, that's not taunting.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Celebratory. But here's what will make you nuts. And again,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I get this is hard. I understand it. Officials that listen,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You're going to Texas. I get it. The
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: TCU guy gets up, signals first down, and boom, gets
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: hit with a 15-yarder. I'm watching the Virginia game. One
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: of those guys gets up, signals first down. No one
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: does anything. He goes back to the huddle.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Which is it? Exactly.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: But I'll make a prediction that we will lose our
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: mind over that at some point here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So that is considered taunting now?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: It was in the TCU game in Ireland. I don't
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: know if there was Irish officials or if there was American.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: It got lost in translation, but they flagged the TCU
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: running back for that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't have been insulting the young men like that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Here's the deal. So I read the rule. I'm going
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to go back and reread the rule. Like, okay, we
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: get this, the slashing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: That's been for years.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: But I don't think it says specifically that this.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it is that, then say that.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Again, one crew flagged it, one crew did not.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I think the thing they're guessing is if they feel
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it was a pre-planned celebration, like, hey, if I do this,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go sit in a teapot mode and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: put a thing on my head, then they're going to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: flag you. I think if you pop up and just
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: go like that and we'll go back, you're right. It's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this fine line.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: You can't say it's not a penalty. It was a penalty.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: With the first game of the season, they called the first.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: All he did was pop up and signal first down.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: He got back to the huddle.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: And by the way, everybody does. I mean, not everybody,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: but most guys do that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: A lot of guys have done that. That's what I'm saying.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Get ready. Okay. All right. We'll see.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Prepare yourself.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Okay. Finally, this year, sports seasons have narratives. Okay. And
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: by narratives, I mean that you can talk about the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: whole season. We do endlessly.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: But what is a sentence or two that summarizes the season?
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Like last year, it was, well, Rich's first year, got
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: a late start, four wins disappointing, next year should be better.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Fair? That's the narrative. All right. Okay.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I think there's three possible narratives for this season. One,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: five wins or fewer, serious disappointment and immense pressure on
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Rich Rod to have a better third season.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: That's one narrative.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Second narrative, six or seven wins. Could have used a
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: few more wins, but they're headed in the right direction,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: got a bowl game, insert key player here, returning next
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: year even better. That's another narrative. Eight wins or more,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: the narrative is, I told you rehiring Rich Rod was
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: the right thing to do. So those are the three
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: general narratives, Brad, I see for this season.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I won't quibble too much with those.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. More on West Virginia coming up in just a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: little bit. Right now, please welcome to the program the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: play-by-play voice of the Chanticleers. of Coastal Carolina, Chris Bergen. Chris,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: good morning to you. Thanks so much for being with us.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Guys, good morning to you. I appreciate you having me
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: on this morning.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: It's our pleasure. So how many years have you been
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: doing this?
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Well, let's see. I started working at Coastal back in 2007.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I was the women's basketball play-by-play announcer, and this will
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: show you how far our technology has gone. At that
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: point in time, we were just doing games internet-only. So
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: over time, we've improved a little bit. Now they're on
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: radio like everybody else. But I started there and then
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: sort of migrated myself up through various broadcast roles, sort
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: of served as a Swiss Army knife. I've done some
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: baseball for Coastal. Spent the last, gosh, 10 years before
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I took over the play-by-play role on the sidelines as
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: a sideline analyst. And then two years ago, this would
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: be my third year at play-by-play, I moved upstairs.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Outstanding.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Welcome.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: You guys have done a lot in 23 years of
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: playing college football, and it is kind of amazing. Your
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: first season was 2003. You had the incredible run when
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Chadwell was your coach. You get ranked as high as
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: number 11. You get the huge victory at home over BYU.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So things are going well, but obviously you guys made
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: a coaching transition this past offseason. If you would, set
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the stage as to what wasn't going well and why.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: they think the new staff will be the guys that
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: will get this thing done.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Well, to answer your first question, I think probably it
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: just had gotten stagnant. Now Coach Beck got us to
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: three consecutive bowl games. He never lost to Appalachian State,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: which at Coastal is as big a deal for you
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: guys as beating Pittsburgh. So, I mean, that was a
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: big deal for the program to continue to have some
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: success over the school in Boone is what Coastal fans
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: reference Appalachian State. But it just felt like the program
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: needed a change in leadership and maybe a refresh in energy.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: And I'm not sure they could have done a better job.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Chance Miller and the athletic department could have done a
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: better job in finding somebody with energy than Ryan Beard.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I did a terrific job at Missouri State, guided them
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: through the transition, sort of like Coastal went through back
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: in the mid-2010s to go from FCS up to FBS.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Same thing with Missouri State. And I think he brings
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: a different level of energy into the program. He's changed
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: things up, obviously, has overhauled the roster, which everybody's doing nowadays.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: But certainly at our level, you almost have to year
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: in and year out. You've got to bring in 45
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: to almost 60 new players. Redid the staff, the whole
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: nine yards. A lot of things have changed, but I
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: think it's probably for the best. And we'll see starting
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Saturday where the program is right now. I don't know
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: how much expectations are for Coach Beard this season. It
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: would be nice to get to a bowl game and contend, obviously,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: in the Sun Belt, but I think you're probably looking
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: at him probably for next year and the year after
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: to lay the foundation this year and then really start
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: to see things turn the corner next season.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that roster overhaul and certainly West Virginia going
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: through the same thing again, year two under Rich Rodriguez. Chris,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: as we sit here today, a couple days out from
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: this game, what do you think you know about this team,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: even though there's so many new guys and all this
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: new coaching staff?
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I think first off, guys, our defense should be
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: pretty good. Down the stretch last year, it just fell
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: apart for whatever reason, especially against the run. I think
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: that will be massively improved. We've got some talent on
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: that side of the football, returnees, but certainly it went
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: into the transfer portal. I actually made a nice trade
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: with you guys, sent Zeke Campbell up your way and
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: brought in Obina Owoku from West Virginia. So we appreciate that. Hate, though,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: that Zeke is up there for you guys. I'm sure
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: he'll do a great job. Really enjoyed watching him play
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: last year, and he was a massive impact for us
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: on the defensive line. But I think our front seven
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: is going to be very, very solid. And the nice
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: part about the defense is that's Ryan Beard's specialty as
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: a head coach. He's also the secondary's coach. So I
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: asked one of the secondary members a couple of weeks
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: ago at a press conference, I said, so what's it
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: like to actually play with your position coach also being
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: your head coach? And he said he kind of liked
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: it because it's a situation where he understands the that
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: he knows Coach Beard knows that role about as well
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: as anybody on the staff. So I think that'll be
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: a nice change defensively. Offensively, the only thing I think
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I know is our wide receivers. We've got several back
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: from last year that I think can have an impact
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: on the offense and their running game should be pretty solid.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Most of the guys either came in with high accolades
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: from the school where they were previously or did a
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: nice job last season. And guys like Javon Edwards and
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Dominic Nicely did a nice job for Coastal last season.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: The quarterback position is totally up for grabs. Coach Beard
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: said yesterday we could play as many as three, almost four.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: And I think he's right to that degree in not
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: naming a starter because I think he probably knows and
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: he plays his cards extremely close to the vest. He's
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: not a guy I think I'd want to play poker
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: with because he's got an awfully good poker face. But
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I think you'll probably see a very, very possible three
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: guys play quarterback on Saturday.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Wow. Sounds like West Virginia last year. Hey, Chris.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: So what is– West Virginia has a lot of new
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: players as well, especially on offense. What is the perception
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: from the coastal perspective about this West Virginia team?
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Coach Beard said yesterday he's extremely impressed with Rich Rod,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: that he loves the way he coaches his team. They
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: understand from a coastal perspective. that West Virginia is probably
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: going to try to run the football right down coastal
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: throats on Saturday with the revamped offensive line you guys
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: have and some really, really talented guys in the backfield.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: I think what Coach Beard is most impressed with offensively
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: for West Virginia is the job Michael Hawkins has done
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: in the past. He seems... very familiar with what he
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: does not only just as a runner but also as
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: a passer. So I think they're terribly concerned. Can our
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: front seven, if you will, withstand up front a West
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Virginia team that looks like they're going to have a
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: concerted effort to run the football? Didn't get a real
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: good gauge from the offensive guys as to what they're
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: expecting to see defensively from you guys on Saturday, but
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I know it'll be a solid unit. But, yeah, extremely
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: impressed with what Rich Rod has done in the second season.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: up there, and we actually saw him as head coach
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: at Jacksonville State a couple years ago to open the season,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: so we understand how fast you guys are probably going
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: to play, and hopefully this intense heat that Coastal has
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: dealt with throughout the all-season training camp will pay dividends
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: on Saturday.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: When West Virginia has a ball, your color guy will
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: not have much time.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Which is a bad thing because Lane loves to talk,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: and Lane's actually a holdover from the first regime. He's
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the only one on our broadcast team. As I mentioned,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I've been around Coastal since 07. Lane's been there since 2003.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: So he's been virtually, he's called virtually every Coastal football game.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: So he's a tremendous resource for me in terms of history.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: And he's seen it all. And so, yeah, he loves
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: to get his input in, does a great job for us.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Chris Bergen is the play-by-play voice of Coastal Carolina. So
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: sticking with your offense, Nick Petrino is the offensive coordinator.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Style of play will look like what do you think?
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: That's a good question. I think it's going to be
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: a pro-style type. You may actually see, and I was
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: mentioning this to Tony, I think you may actually see
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: some huddle from us, which I know is foreign to
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: a lot of fans anymore, and we may actually go I-formation.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that, yeah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: We don't necessarily have a designated fullback, but we may
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: put a situation where a tight end would drop back
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: into the backfield and serve as a pseudo fullback, but Yeah,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: and I asked Coach about that. I asked Coach Petrino
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: when he was made available to the media a couple
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: of weeks back. I said, you know, how does that
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: help you? And he said, well, one thing he likes
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: about the guy formation, especially in short yardage, you get
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: an extra blocker in the backfield. It helps you control
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: the tempo. He seemed to like running out of the guy.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: But for the most part, I think it will look
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: like every other team's spread offense. With the quarterback, especially,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: you know, Bailey– Gara and Jackson, if all three of
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: them get in, they can all run the football. So
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I would think you'll see some sort of RPO out
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: of the team. And then we actually, coaches talked about
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: this numerous times, we'll utilize the tight end. That is,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: I think, one reason that one of our returnees stayed,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Zach Courtney, a fifth-year guy. He actually got in the
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: transfer portal, if I'm not mistaken, and came back to
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Coastal because they convinced him, hey, look, in our offense,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: the tight end is valuable. So he's excited about that opportunity.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: So I think you'll see some passes to the tight end,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: and they'll be utilized, obviously, as blockers in a run game.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Let's jump back over to defense for a second. You
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier that Chris Beards thought that Rich is going
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: to try and run the football, certainly right on that
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: part of it. Two talented linebackers there for Coastal. Tell
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: us a little bit about that linebacking core that's going
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: to be so critical to trying to slow down this
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: West Virginia run game.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: In terms of the defense, and I mentioned earlier about
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: the front seven, the linebacking corps is probably aware that
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: you talk to Coach Beard and L.D. Scott, the defensive coordinator,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: they get a big smile on their face because they
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: are a very good group. Savon McDowell, who probably is
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the most talented in terms of athleticism of the group,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: number 19, he'll make a lot of tackles. He'll be
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: in a lot of plays. Trey Brown had a terrific
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: year last year, number 55. And then the only question
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: mark really in that starting group is probably Wyatt Gettingen
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: and his health, number 34, which our fans will see
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: on Saturday. He spent the majority of last season on
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: the shelf, unfortunately, with an injury. And that was a
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: huge loss for our defense because, as I mentioned, down
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: the stretch, just could not stop the run game. And
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: I think Wyatt's absence, just his knowledge of the program
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: and what they expect to see, I think that was critical,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: not having him in the mix. But that is a
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: trio that probably as a group outside of maybe the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: running back units that that trio of linebackers is probably
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: the most cohesive and best group that Coastal has.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Well, we're certainly looking forward to it. And we hope
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you guys have a great trip up. Weather should be really,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: really nice. You get to take part in the Pat
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: White retirement. As you well know, to retire a number,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: it happens very, very rarely. So we're going to do
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that pregame. So I hope you guys have just a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: wonderful experience coming up.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Will any Chanticleer fans be coming this way? I mean,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: West Virginians, Chris, go to South Carolina like they're going
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: across the street.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Hundreds of thousands have passed the coastal campus on the
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: way in there through Conway, right?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So the road goes both ways. Will any fans be
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: headed up our way?
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: I think absolutely so for a couple of reasons. First off,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I just want to make sure Pat White is not playing.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: As far as we know, he's not.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: But we have often joked at Myrtle Beach, it's actually–
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: the true capital of West Virginia, because we know your
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: fans and folks love to vacation down here. But I
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: will give you a quick idea, guys, and then I'll
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: let you run. it's supposed to be 112 degrees, I think,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday for the Gamecocks home
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: opener with the real feel. So I am thrilled about
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: getting out of South Carolina for the weekend and come
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: up to 78 degrees. The only problem is Coastal may
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: not get me back on the plane to come home.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I may stay up there until about October. But, yeah,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: the heat down here has just been extremely oppressive. And
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: so we're excited about cooler weather to open the season.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have. I mean, Rich has been bemoaning the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: fact that it hasn't been hot enough here And so
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: you guys have been getting a lot of heat, huh?
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. It's probably been as brutal a summer as
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: we've had here in South Carolina in years. And if
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Coach Rodriguez would like to come down here and visit,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I don't think he'd want to stay. I think he'd
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: much prefer the weather you guys have been enjoying.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Well, Chris, thanks so much for your time again. We
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: appreciate it, and we look forward to seeing you on Saturday.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Same here, guys. I enjoyed it. I appreciate you guys
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: having me on. Look forward to watching West Virginia play
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: on Saturday.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You take care. There he is.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Chris Burgin, the play-by-play voice of the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina.
• 36:01
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• 36:04
  Speaker 4: we'll do this Thursday, but... Yeah, we'll get into the
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• 36:12
  Speaker 4: last several... Transition years are hard.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Hard, man. They are hard. Hard. Hard. You figure out
• 36:18
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• 36:22
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• 38:26
  Speaker 2: So we don't have any West Virginia numbers yet.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: So what I'm doing this time, we're going to look
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: ahead at a couple West Virginia opponents that played in
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: week zero. That's how we're going to do this one.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: So in the future.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: There's a couple nuggets on each.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: So future opponents. Future opponents. OK. Future opponents. You got that, Hoppy?
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: You understand what he's going with? I'm still just impressed
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: you were. So I checked the numbers.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: We'll just go right to the numbers. Here comes the heater.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Let's jump into the analytics. You know, there's just certain
• 38:54
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• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I got a couple of those.
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  Speaker 1: 400 years no 40 years Missed a zero there. You
• 39:42
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• 39:46
  Speaker 2: You miss a zero. They don't miss zeros.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: That was a rounding error for us there. All right,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: what do you got?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Let's talk Virginia for a second. Who? Virginia Cavaliers, because
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I think it was clear, Hoppy, in watching that game
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the other day, they will never lose again.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Never. They might be national champions.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Single greatest football team ever assembled was the Virginia Cavaliers 2026.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I was listening to a sports talk show, and again,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: week zero is just. There are too many things people
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: take from week zero, including us.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Been waiting nine months to watch. Now we're going to
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: sign a season narrative. I think Virginia could compete for
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the league. I think Virginia might be in the playoffs.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I think Virginia could be.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: But either and I've texted you guys, either Virginia looked
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: good or NC State.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Is bad or some version of that. I don't know.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: It was right in the middle.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think it was all of that. So let's
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: talk about Virginia a little bit here and what they
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: did well and maybe where this goes throughout the rest
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: of season, because As you know, one week does not
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: make a season, as we're fond of saying on this program.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: We talked in the last episode when we were previewing
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Cavaliers a little bit about that age on the offensive line.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: It's unreal that we're still sitting here debating whether the
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: class of 2022 should get their fifth year of eligibility.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: And Virginia's lining up across their offensive line in terms
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: of starters. Two guys in their seventh year. Two guys
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: in their sixth years. And the baby of the group
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: that's still working into some experience is in his fifth year.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: It's a remarkable, breathtaking look at their line. 7-7, 6-6,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: and 5.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Incredible.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: So that's the strength of the team. And they were
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: built pretty smartly. You've got a veteran offensive line that's
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: very talented. Fully vested in the pension plan of the
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: league here now. And you have a quarterback whose strength
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: is running the football in Bo Pribula. So it's It's
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: interesting to watch them. They did about as good a job,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I think, as Tony Elliott could have hoped in game one.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what you want. The only times Pribula had
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: to throw it were just to get some work in.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Nine of 11, so he's very efficient through the year,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: but the strength was on the running game. So a
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: couple numbers that stood out to me. The run block
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: grade for Virginia in that game, the second best grade
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: the Cavaliers have had as a program since the start
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: of the 2025 season. So you try and decide, is
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: that a true Virginia, or was that an outlier performance?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Second best grade in more than a season. Pretty impressive
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: performance there for the run blockers. Pass grade, third best
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: since the start of the 2025 season. So really good.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: They put together the run and the pass. How about
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Pribula himself? Ran for 120, nearly nine yards per carry.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Here's what stood out to me. Most of those carries
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: were designed runs. 12 of his 14 were called runs.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: for the quarterback so again you know when he's in
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: there you're going to get that but this wasn't a
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: lot of drop back and scramble because when he dropped
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: back he had all day to throw are you going
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to be able to contain him number one and put
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: some pressure on him it's it's obvious and you didn't
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: need to see this game to know this the key
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: against them can you stop that run and plug some
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: of those holes if they're allowed to just run when
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: they want to run it's going to be a long
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: day can you force him to throw it and say
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: go beat us with your arm let's see if you
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: can do that and if you do You tip your cap,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: but you've got to make him throw the football. If
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: they're allowed to run it like they did, that could
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: be very difficult game. The 9 of 11 passing was impressive,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: not just from a completion percentage. Two touchdowns through the air,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: 14 yards per attempt. So not only efficient, but hitting
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: some big plays when he did that. Here's what else
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: jumped out to me for the quarterback. He had a 91.2
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: offensive grade. And that was Virginia's best offensive grade from
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: any player since week 12 of the 2023 season. That's
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: pretty impressive right there, guys. So again, was that an
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: outlier performance? Can he back that up and do that
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: every week? If he does that every week, he's in
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: the Heisman contention. And that's a really good Virginia team
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: that's probably in the college football playoff. But can you
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: stack performance after performance? It's the second best single grade
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: of his career for him personally. The best came in
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: a game when he only had 24 snaps. So for
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: all intents and purposes, that's the single best game by
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: every metric that Bo Pribula, I can't say his name
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: very well.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: It's hard to say. There's a lot of controversy. The
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: announcer that worked the game on Saturday, the color analyst,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: he took a beating after the game for missaying his name.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take a beating because I haven't said
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: it right once yet.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: So I went to UVA's website, and they have the
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: aforementioned player saying his name. I listened to it, though,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm still messing up. He's saying Pribula. Pribula? He's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: saying B-E-E-L-A. Really? Pribula. What are you calling your name?
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I heard it differently, but I obviously can't say what
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I've heard.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: That's easier to say than Pribula. Pribula. Pribula. Pribula. I
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: think there's still controversy on that.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Well, we better get used to saying it because he's
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: going to be a key factor.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he was very good. Again, Virginia couldn't have
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: played any better. I thought that was the exact performance
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: you want as a team in week zero there.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: And NC State couldn't do anything offensively. Could not. All right.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: The flip side of that coin, Virginia looked about as
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: good as you can look in college football. TCU, wow. Listen, guys,
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: we talked about going in, the controversy surrounding them. Yes,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: North Carolina had appeared to be a mess, but TCU
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: was battling some things as well with the fight in
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: the locker room, the revoking of the star telegrams. press credentials.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: There was some weird stuff surrounding TCU heading into that game.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Neither of those teams put on a clinic. I mean,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: that tape won't be sent to the whole thing.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: That was an awful game. That was a bad game.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, a typical game won at times. You're playing
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: in the rain in a country. It took you a
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: long time to get there over to Ireland. A lot
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: of penalties, a lot of turnovers. TCU, it's really a
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: rough loss for the Frogs to open that season.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: In a country which took you a long time to
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: get over there. Didn't it?
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Those trips, man.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Think about the fact that, as I've said, that's a
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: bad road trip, right?
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're going to Ireland. So you go there.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Hold on, play it again.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Bo Pribula. No, he says Pribula, Tony. He says not Pribula. Pribula.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Say it, play it again. Bo Pribula. Pribula. Pribula. No, Pribula.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not hearing a heavy U. That's what I said.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't hear what he heard.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing what you heard.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Are you guys hearing a U? Yes. Bo Pribula. Pribula. Pribula. Pribula.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: The long E's in the front part. Pribula is what
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Bo Pribula.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Pribula.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's saying some U. Maybe it's more U than E.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a schwa. Yeah, I got pre-bula there. But TCU. Pre-bula. Pre-bula. Okay.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: You play terrible. You got a problem in the locker room.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: You play terrible in the rain in Ireland.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: You got to leave. You got to fly all the
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: way back after getting beat.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: The only good thing is you got two winnable games
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: before you play again.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: So that's, I mean.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Seasons have not been kind to the loser of that
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: game in Ireland.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: No, they usually have a losing season.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: See Kansas State last season. I think more of a
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: concern for the Frogs was the performance of quarterback Jaden Craig.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: He got a lot. If Drew Mestemaker wasn't in the
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Big 12, Jaden Craig might have been awarded the Newcomer
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: of the Year Award before the season even started. Talented
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: guy reportedly coming in from Harvard. Man, he struggled. Two fumbles,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: 19 of 31 for 168, only five yards per attempt.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Couldn't get the ball down the field. Zero big time throws.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Three turnover worthy plays. Only two offensive players received lower
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: game grades offensively. One of those players played five plays.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: The other played 20. So again, basically the lowest graded
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: offensive player can't be the guy you reportedly spent a
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: lot of money on at the quarterback position. In essence.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: That's not where you want to begin.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: And basically had the game on that fourth down play.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: If he just would have run the ball out of bounds,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: he'd have a first down. But he threw it, and
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: that was it.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: They could not run. I mean, that was the most
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: open run they had all day. They could not run
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: the football. Now, maybe North Carolina's defense is pretty good,
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: but they could not run the football.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: That's what's wild. As poorly as they played, they were
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: right there to get out of that game. You absolutely
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: could have stole it. It's interesting, too. Different offensive system
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: this year. They are trying to be more run heavy.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: They've gone away from that. That fast, run-it-up tempo and throw-it-all-over-the-place,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: it's kind of a different system, but some growing pains
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: there in week one. Now, what do we often say?
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: You can get better.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: You're allowed to get better. So that doesn't automatically mean
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: you look at TCU and say, oh, they're going to
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: lose every game, just like Virginia's not going to win
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: every game. But I thought some important notes coming out
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: of week one.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Just North Dakota State's going to win every game. That's
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: what you have to remember. They brought it. They did.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: They beat Jack State tonight. I chortle, though. I still
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: chortle this day of watching Bill Belichick on the sideline
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: because he's the exact right. He's emotionless on the sideline,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: whether it was on the sideline for the Patriots or
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: whether it's sideline for North Carolina. Arms folded just like
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: you are. And he just kind of like once I
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: get I guess to give him credit. He doesn't change.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Which is why it was so interesting at the end.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: He did show some emotion.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, he did.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: He did not get flagged for the first down signal
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: he gave. When they drew TCU off sides there to
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: keep the drive alive and, in essence, end of the game.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Belichick gave you one and then gave it the first
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: down like that. You don't see that ever out of him.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: And he didn't.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: But look, he's I mean, I think he's had some
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: pressure before, but he's under pressure there to do something.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: And also, Tony not only went on the field, but
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: just calmed things down off the field.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Well, it was such a heavy-handed hire at North Carolina
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: by people that got involved that shouldn't necessarily have been involved,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: board people, that usurped the power of the athletic director.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: So it's formed this, and then he brings that whole
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: clown show thing of all the other things with the
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: GM and then the girlfriend. It's just like, I don't
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: think they're good.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: You can see why the emotion came out of him, though.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: People have written that off. They've gone scorched.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Earth on him. Nine-and-a-half-point dogs.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: You mentioned Mike Lombardi, the GM, is on leave right now.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: His son, Belichick's son, the defensive coordinator, hasn't been around
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: for a while, reported illness there. So there is and
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: was a lot circular around Carolina's program.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's pretty wild.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: So there's a couple things on two future West Virginia opponents.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Good report. Coming up, textual healing in just a little bit.
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• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Real quick, an aside if I may. Jake, can you
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  Speaker 2: throw that picture up? You're looking live right now.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: You are.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Well, not live at me. I mean, you are alive
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  Speaker 2: at me.
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  Speaker 2: That's a live look at the Tudor's Biscuit sack inside
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  Speaker 2: my car from this weekend. I tried one of the
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  Speaker 1: Oh, how was it?
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  Speaker 2: I went vegetables.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, interesting.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Very good, easy. I did carry out. So two stories
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: on that. One, I went in, got the protein bowl, vegetable.
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  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: We'll do it again. Could have eaten two, maybe three.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Had some folks over at my house doing some landscaping.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: So I was out, and I said, fellas, I'll get
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  Speaker 2: you some Tudor's biscuits while I'm out.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: That's a smart move.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: They each got two. They each got two.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: So two notes. The bag weighed about 40 pounds. Four
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: biscuits in that thing. Like, I had to two-hand that thing.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I was afraid if I took it just up top,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: it dropped it. So I had to two-hand that thing.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: They had no problem taking down two apiece.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: They each ate two? Each ate two.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Didn't bat an eye.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Working guys.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Wasn't Ben Cutter's five, but they each took down two.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: And I took down a protein bowl.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: We screwed one thing up. When we had Chris Burgin,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the play-by-play announcer on, he misspoke because he said that
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: when they fly back to Coastal Carolina, everyone knows Coastal
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Carolina is coming to the game on Lewendell pontoon boats.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: It's one of the great armadas since Columbus. they'll be
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: making their way in. It is the, we're starting to
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: get toward the, well, it's really a nice time in
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: boating season because the humidity for the most part is gone.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: You can still do your boating deal right now, catch
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: a few more weekends before you call it quits. But
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Lewendl Marine Sails, they've been at it for over 40 years.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: They can and they do service your craft once the
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: season is over. And so when it comes to parts, supplies,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: and anything that you need to do to make your
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: boat just right during the off-season, Contact the folks at
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Lew Wendell Marine Sales. We visited, as you all know, probably.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Saw Lew. Making a deal. Mike. It was a lot
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: of fun. And they are there ready to help you out,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: so we're proud to have Lew Wendell Marine Sales and
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina's brain. I think there's like 27 different pontoons
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: to get the whole team up here because they're traveling 75. No,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: they're going to Coastal Waterway. They're going to Coastal Waterway. Confirmed.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Although, what is confirmed, we got a text over the weekend.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Listener to the program was on a Lou Wendell boat
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: at Summersville Lake.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Right. That was a Lou Wendell craft.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: It truly was a Lou Wendell craft on Summersville Lake.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Great views down there. Of course, Summersville Lake, everybody knows that. Beautiful.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so check it out. Lou Wendell Marine Sales. Visit
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: them at louwendellmarinesales.com. All right, we got a lot going on, obviously.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Starts of seasons and things like that. And it is
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: time for... Yeah, baby. Some textual healing, your opportunity to
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• 54:44
  Speaker 1: All right, so earlier we told you about our events
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: for this weekend. We would love to see you. Daniels
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: of Morgantown is where the food court is. Special shout-out.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Our boy Rocky Simmons at Vision Homes. The folks at
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Clear Mountain Bank, they're helping us do a bunch of
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: different stuff. They're involved in our Buffalo Wild Wings events
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: this year. Once again, they're working with Mon Hills Records.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: That's the student group that features WVU student musicians. And
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: this year... We're going to introduce Clear Mountain Corner, Spotlight's
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: local nonprofits and community organizations. We'll talk about those folks.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: All right, so that's the dealio. Let's get into this thing.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Textual healing. Hey, three guys, I'm Landon from North Carolina.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: I wanted to see if you guys could wish my dad, Kevin,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: a happy 49th birthday on your upcoming August 31st episode.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: He and I both listen every episode. He likes to
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: listen on his drive to work. My dad, my brother Braxton,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: and I are all huge WVU fans. Dad grew up
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: in Isaban, West Virginia, which is a small unincorporated community
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: located along Four Pole Creek in both McDowell and Mingo
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: County down in southwestern West Virginia. So I'm sorry that
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: we were unable to give it to you exactly on
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: the 31st, but Kevin, One day late, a very happy
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: 49th birthday, and we shout out everyone in Isaban. I
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: love unincorporated communities. Like, I love it. Really? I get
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: giddy when I'm driving down the road, and a little
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: sign pops up, and it says the name of the place,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: and it says unincorporated. I should just start beeping my horn.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: It's easy to remember Kevin's birthday. He shares it with
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: the podcast here.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Shout out to Core Unincorporated. Maidville. Jerry. Pisgah. Nettie.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Nettie's probably incorporated. You think?
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I think Nettie's big. I'll check. Yeah. Happy anniversary to
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: you guys. Jay from Midlothian. I've been around since Dana
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: leaving and Brown getting hired. A lot of laughs over
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: the years with talk of wild boars, Adirondack chairs, three-point
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: shooting prowess, food shaming, the breaking of international laws with
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: smuggling various items back, West Virginia connections, and of course...
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: A lesson on San Marzano tomatoes. We covered it. A
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: plethora of great info as well. Game previews, getting to
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: know former and current Mountaineers better and much more. Listening,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: watching you all. One of the favorite parts of the week.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Listening back to episode number one. My wife said, I'm
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: glad they haven't changed much. Congratulations. And here is to
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: many more. Well, thank you.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: 18 minutes was the first episode. And yeah, they're probably,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: we didn't know what, We just talked. I don't know
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: what the heck we did. We've certainly refined our work
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: over the years. We certainly have. Now it's a well-oiled
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: thing of nothing. Hello, three guys. Your podcast has been
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: my link to West Virginia for the past few years
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: while I have been efforting a way to find my
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: way back. I'm so excited to tell you this mountain
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: mama will be traveling country roads back home to West
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Virginia September 2. Thank you for keeping me entertained, laughing, crying,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and hopeful the day would come when I could call
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Morgantown home once again. She's coming back. MJ and Savannah
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: returning from Savannah and coming back to live in Morgantown.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Too hot down there. That's what it is. And she
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: said one more thing. There's always a West Virginia connection.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: A military family originally from West Virginia is buying my
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Savannah home. And Armani is the name of my physical
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: therapy aide, Guzman. I burst out laughing when she told
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: me her name and quickly explained why. Now we both
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: have a good laugh. Country roads take me home. Welcome home.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: We'll see her at the food court.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, welcome home.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Text her, as a WVU alum living in Pittsburgh, I
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: always love the Donny Iris intro. He's a local legend
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: and is my dad's favorite artist. Hope you never change it.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: So if you go back to the very first episodes,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know how long it lasted, but we did
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: use the actual Donny Iris song. Mm-hmm. which potentially could
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: have got us in copyright trouble. So the song that
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: you hear, right, that is a version that's unique and different,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: but based on that.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: Ain't no Pittsburgh Donnie Iris on their show. I talked
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: to Donnie. Joe Grischek and Donnie Iris down there. I
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: don't know what they're doing this. I don't get Aaron Rodgers.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: He too old. All right. So here we go. Grant
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: from Parkersburg. I'm an old school college football guy, and
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I do prefer the old system, though I think. You
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: guys should always have been able to make money through
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: real NIL. But in today's environment where the guys are
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: getting paid directly for performance, and this is professional, I
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: don't understand the logic to why these guys can't play
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: just because they were in another professional league's camp.
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: By the way, there was a federal court ruling on
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: Friday that upheld the NCAA's decision on five to play five,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: but that does not resolve all the other court action
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: that's allowing the five to play five to play now.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just really put a stay in place until
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: the rulings can be heard. So it's a victory for
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: the NCAA, yes, but it was a small one in
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: the process. Still a lot to come. What I do
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: find interesting, I don't want to go off legal stuff
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: here too long. I do find this interesting that we're
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: only a couple months removed from many in the industry
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: including some very high-profile names and some high-profile conferences, being
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: overly critical of the Big 12 and its member institutions
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: for what Texas Tech was attempting to do with Brendan Sorsby.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: A lot of talk from some in the SEC conference
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: about never scheduling Texas Tech, and they would never go
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: and play that team, and the Big 12 should take
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: some action, and why is the Big 12 ruining college sports,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: and why is Texas? A lot of rhetoric around that nationally.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: I find it interesting that now in the last couple days,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: reports have popped up. that some SEC schools are saying, well,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: should we even play LSU? Should we not? Should we
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: boycott playing them? It's interesting that that conference now is
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: sitting in a moment exactly as the Big 12 was
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: not too long ago with a line that people think
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: is very bright not to be crossed. They're going to
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: have their own decision just a couple months after a
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: lot of critical talk about the Big 12. Yeah, don't disagree.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see what happens there. Yes.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Texter says, on a recent cruise in the Mediterranean, a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: musician was taking requests. No surprise, someone requested country roads.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: As the crowd was singing along, apparently our enthusiasm got
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: his attention. He stopped halfway through the song. Wait, is
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: anyone here from West Virginia? Several of us cheered. He
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: shook his head and laughed because he was from Kentucky.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Then he proceeded to finish the song as we continued
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: to belt it out. Several entertainers had country roads in
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: their acts during our three weeks. The phenomenon continues. David
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: in Morgantown. That was a three-week cruise they were on. Wow,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: that's a long time. That's a long cruise. Heath from Mobile, Alabama.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: I wonder how the over-under for Latimer would change based
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: on the newish type of play where offenses use touch
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: passes as a way to get ahead of the defense.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Instead of carries, you could estimate touches. How does the
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: over-under change? I don't think Amari Latimer is going to
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: be put into a slot position and brought over for
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: the forward handoff. I don't think that's not his deal.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: His deal is going to be Now, DJ Epps, you
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: could do touches, because he'll kind of spin around there
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: and do his thing. But Latimer is going to be
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: more conventional handoff. Texter, no need to share this message
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  Speaker 1: or photo on the podcast. I'm going to anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Which means you're about to.
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  Speaker 1: I simply want to follow up to say thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing our Texas Tech campus photo on your last episode.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I wanted to do. This is why
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: I'm using it. That picture... That we showed on our
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  Speaker 1: last episode. That was that black and white 2012. And then,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: see there? Okay, so that's 2012 at Texas Tech. Now, today,
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  Speaker 1: here are the girls. All grown up. All grown up.
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  Speaker 1: Their senior year. One's a senior. One's a freshman. We'll
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  Speaker 1: stop by the Three Gays tailgate Friday. This Friday. You
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: guys better be there to say hello. Thank you for
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: all the great content. Placing my text on air. And
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: your kind words during Hurricane Helene. You all are a
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  Speaker 1: voice of home to all of us. You definitely got
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  Speaker 1: big fans down here in North Carolina. Go Mountaineers. Thank you, Jay. Texter,
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  Speaker 1: we were lucky to run into one of the legendary
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Greenbrier Five members, Sidney Shaw, in the foreign land of Japan, Epcot, USA.
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  Speaker 1: Tons of WV fans. Look, there's Sidney. Active down here
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  Speaker 1: in Sidney, but Sidney tops the list. So they were
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  Speaker 1: down there.
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  Speaker 2: Sidney got a little face painting done down there, too.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Sa brothers and Mike Carr. Oh, it is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Those knuckleheads. No, Epcot.
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  Speaker 2: The Japan section of Epcot.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Sorry. Yeah. Epcot. Sidney Shaw down there. Hi, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: Friend of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Should knock down a shot.
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  Speaker 2: I love to have an arrow.
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  Speaker 1: Nathan from Chesterfield writes in. He's a CPA, apparently. Petersburg
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: is just a country. No, Petersburg is just a county
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  Speaker 1: over from Lewisburg. Or is that Peterstown? Peterstown is the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: one closer to Morgantown, right? Just jacking around. Everyone knows
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: Petersburg is closer to Pittsburgh than Peterstown. You've got that
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: etched in your memory. Got it. Steve Newberry's Peterstown. Over-under suggestion.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Streaming services needed to watch all 12 or 13 football
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: games this year. He puts the number at five and
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: a half. It's at four already. Tony, I think I'm
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: going to depend on you and Dwight more this year. Oh, absolutely.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: You should be listening to them. But also, over under
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  Speaker 1: on number of times you have a problem with your streaming. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. This is a funny picture. This was funny.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows Gene's Beer Garden?
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: White smoke. Gene's a weird guy, and we have a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I saw somebody put that out on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Well done. That was very well done. Now, Rich still
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: has not said that. He wouldn't say that last night? No.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he acknowledged that he had the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows who it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: But he would not say publicly who it is.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Is that like the worst kept secret that's out there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just whatever. Hey, three guys, as a proud Concord University alum,
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  Speaker 1: I have to acknowledge... The Mountain Lions for beating Davidson
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  Speaker 1: and getting their first ever win over a D1 football team.
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  Speaker 1: What an incredible accomplishment. And an extra shout out to
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: West Virginia native Dom Collins on an awesome game. He
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: put up great numbers in front of a national TV audience.
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  Speaker 2: Princeton product.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Chelsea from Parkersburg. You know, the Davidson football thing is interesting.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: They play in a league with no scholarships. I think
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: it's called Pioneer League. Let me check.
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  Speaker 3: I'll check.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's Pioneer League, and they play teams
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: far away. I think they might have a West Coast
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: conference member. So it's kind of interesting. Concord Scholarship, Davidson
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: technically is D1 non-scholarship. I think that's what it is. Anyway,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: in-game text here. You guys need to attend the D.C.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Area Crab Festival. at least promote it. It's a wonderful event.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: President Benson was here this year. Oh, no surprise. The Mountaineer,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: it's a blast. Excuse me. Yeah, so there they are.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: There's all those Mountaineer fans eating those. I've always heard
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: about that thing, but it always happens at a bad time.
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  Speaker 4: Tony, the Pioneering League, as you're right, generally does not
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: offer athletic scholarships. Schools include, there's 11, I won't go
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: through them all, but you talk about Davidson.
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  Speaker 1: San Diego. San Diego. Is in it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's quite a road trip. Texter. St.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: St. Thomas is in Florida. Oh, I'm sorry. I was
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: thinking of the island. Yeah, St. Thomas is in Florida.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: Not bad. Texter, we finally made it to my Super
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Bowl week. I'm down here in Myrtle Beach. I run
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: a youth flag football league. Over the spring and summer,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: many of my referees were coastal players. We even got
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: to play games on the teal turf. They're awesome dudes,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: but I've been talking a lot of junk about game one.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Every week I'd tell them, they're going to be 11-1
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: this season. Got to get this one or next spring
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: is going to be rough for me. And for your
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer connections, some of the first kids I ever coached
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: down here were the kids of Travis and Tiffany Trickett.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: And if you guys recall, the free concessions at Coastal
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Home Games, I made my impact on their NIL budget
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: last season after going Joey Chestnut on hot dogs. Free concessions.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Coastal gives you free concessions. Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron, originally from Raynell. Yeah. You know, WVU's got a
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: reduced price concession thing, too, where they got like $ 3,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: like simple, easy money things. Really? Yeah, they do.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of connections in this game. President Benson,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: as we mentioned. Travis Trickett's been at both schools.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: Player trades, right?
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Player trades, two for one. Last one. Hey, three guys. Professor,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: I've been wondering about this dude. Like, he went AWOL,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: like Witness Protection Program. Professor Vinny here. Sorry I haven't
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: texted in a while. This past year I went up
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: for tenure. You'll be happy to know I was granted
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the promotion and a rank of associate professor. Speaking of
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: good things.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: That's why he can't screw around anymore now he's an
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: associate professor.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Speaking of good, I hope now that he has the
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: tenure he doesn't just start hammering us. Speaking of good things,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: here's a meaningless and possibly helpful stat since the start
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: of playing college football. West Virginia has has a 60%
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: winning percentage in years ending in six. Causation correlation. It's
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: even better if you just look at the last three
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: years ending in six, a winning percentage of 76%. A
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: sign of possible good things to come. Let's go. That's
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: a good one. Take it.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Take whatever good news you can get, Kirchoffel.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: That's just one of the many numbers. When we come
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: back here in just two days, Thursday we'll be back.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: We will have our full game preview, and Brad will
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: go fully involved on all the breakdown of Coastal Carolina. We, again,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: invite you to join us. We're doing all of our
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: stuff Thursday at Buffalo Wild Wings and then Friday and
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Saturday at the food court and just a whole bunch
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: of stuff going on.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. Special thanks to President Michael Benson
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: yesterday for popping in here and being so nice to
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: give us a nice big cake. And that was, I
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: think it was, you bring anything upstairs to the kitchen here,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: it's like piranhas. They're gone. I mean, we were all
• 1:10:05
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  Speaker 1: care provider for all Mountaineers, including you. That picture right there,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: for those of you watching, that was the very first
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: picture of the very first show. I love that. I
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: had a lot more hair. Yeah, very first picture of
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: the very first show. You guys look great. Still look good.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: This show has aged me. Yeah, well, nine years, seven years,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: nine years, whatever it is. All right, we're out nine
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: years from now. Nine years. Be good, man. We'll see
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: you all. Thanks to Jake, our producer. Back again later
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: this week.