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3 Guys Before The Game - Condiment Kings (Episode 516) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hey, guess what, we're back. We've made it back. Well,
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  actually, these two guys didn't go anywhere. I'm back. So there's three
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  guys before the game. It's episode number five hundred and sixteen. It's our
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  final episode of twenty twenty three, and this episode is entitled Condiment Kings.
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  That's right, you've heard it, Condiment Kings. So nice he didn't use
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  mayo in the title. I know everybody else mayo has been the word.
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  That's Mayo is the word most used word of the week. Mayo. You
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  know what they say, mustard, relish, ketchup or fine. But Duke's
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  Mayo is sublime? Is it? Had Mayo moved to the top ahead of
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  all other condiments this week? Exactly? I mean, people are so fired
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  up in West Virginia. They're taking IV drips of Duke's Mayo. Just put
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  it right into my veins. I'd tell you what they They have achieved a
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  marketing level, like if you just start, if you didn't know anything,
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  and one day somebody could, let's do a Mayo thing, you'd go,
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  yeah, okay, right. They have. They got lightning in a bottle
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  on the activation all Americans. Yeah, they're activation all Americans. I got
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  to know. I got to know the president of Duke's Mayo down there because
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  he got a West Virginia connection. His cousin is Charlie Fedorco, so I
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  met him on a couple of occasions. His name is Joe Tuza, and
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  he told me the story of Duke's Mayo. Oh yeah, Eugena Dukes nineteen
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  seventeen, Greenville, South Carolina military base. There the soldiers were going off
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  the war. She created the mayonnaise and she would use it as she made
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  sad languages for the soldiers who were going off to war. They go off,
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  the ladies are left. They create a company and they start making this
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  stuff. They come back from the war and they say, we want more
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  of that stuff that you put on because mayo at that point was not an
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  accepted condiment. Really, yes, and so she started to make it.
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  They create the company and it's still to this day produced. The majority of
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  it is produced in Greenville, South Carolina. They got a factory in Kansas
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  as well. So there's everything you need to know and more. Well,
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  I'll just say this, I'm on the hunt for that Jalipino you like that
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  one bread? Yeah? On the shoe on the effort. I know Joanah,
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  He'll probably have someone son to case need to get it because we're big
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  du or Duke's family. For the Bowl game, you said you guys were
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  all right. So West Virginia celebrates a thirty to ten victory over the University
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  of North Carolina. We're going to dive into that game. What does it
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  all mean? Mountaineer basketballers are going to basketball as we record tomorrow in Cleveland
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  they game was final, those stats were wrong. I don't know if you
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  COMAXWV dot com. I haven't seen these guys in a long time,
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  literally, So you guys have been busy. You've been doing these other Bowl
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  games. You did the West Virginia game. I'd love to hear your what's
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  your takeaway, Hoppy? Oh, I heard your exclusive interview by the way
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  with Neil Brown when I was driving up the road yesterday. I won.
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  If you were mad about that, why would it be mad? I wanted
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  to hear it. Literally, I literally am going like, I gotta find
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  a station to hear it. I gotta find a station, like I'm going
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  in between like stations. I found it. You did, You did good,
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  Thank you. I think what stood out was that Brown said he was
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  physically an emotional He tried to be prepared for the mayo bath because he absolutely
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  hates mayonnaise and sour cream. So it had something that was a white,
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  creamy stuff. He had a raincoat he was going to use. I mean,
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  he thought it out. He had a Raincoatrin Baker took the raincoat away
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  from him strong move by Ren so he tried to hold his collar up as
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  much as he could so the mayo wouldn't go down his back. I mean,
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  it was classic Neil Brown because Brad he had worked out all details.
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  He figured it out of the mayo bath. But I gosh so much I'm
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  going to actually start with the micro maybe and that is that well, I
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  guess this is macro actually, but causation. So many times, Daniels,
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  in the past couple of years, you thought, you thought two things,
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  So we start over just on the air, this is a lot when you
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  thought two things that there was such, Brad, there was such a narrow
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  margin. Okay, such a narrow margin for this team, like you're just
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  and in that ball game, they did not play their best game offensively,
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  defensively, they did special secondary, did not play their basic game offensively,
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  but found a way to win. And we'll get into all the details of
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  that, first of all. And then second of all, how many times
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  over the last several years have we said, who's going to make a play?
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  You look at the go who's going to make a play? Who's going
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  to make a play? And so many guys Tony in that game made plays.
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  I mean Beanie Bishop, who also at the quarter of the after the
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  game was when he gets the ball, he's a dangerous man. So you
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  know, Beanie Bishop makes makes a play. Tyrone Brad makes makes a play.
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  That defensive front line makes plays. Leyton Bechtel makes makes a play and
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  Garrett and Coach Brown said that, you know, Bechtel was a lacrosse player,
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  so I thought that and broke a tackle. Uh, you know,
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  Michael Hayes missed one from fifty two then then was solid on the other three.
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  Garrett Green, Uh, Jalen White, Jean White, where was kind
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  of bottled up and then made a play? Made guys miss, I mean,
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  just guys making plays to get you the win. That's what stood out
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  to me. So it's interesting you mentioned margin of ra because you actually had
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  a big margin for Ayer against North Carolina, didn't you. Yeah. Maybe,
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  And listen, I know they had lineup deficiencies. I get it,
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  but I took that much like we always say when all due respect Ducaine comes
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  in here and you say, well, you can kind of tell by margin
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  of victory. Okay, Western did exactly what it should have done to North
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  Carolina. Lined up with a backup quarterback new sens, I'm just going to
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  handle you didn't bring your fastball and still were able to win. That defensive
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  performance was fantastic in the second half. And listen, that offensive performance would
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  have been a lot better on paper had that crew not been in there throwing
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  three thy twelve flags, some of them ridiculous. And I won't go on
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  a ran on the officiating because at the end of the day it didn't matter.
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  But if you know, you know, and if you know, you
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  knew, we knew, and if you knew, you knew it was coming.
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  We knew it was Corea and West Virginia was still able to come overcome
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  all of that. I'll go more macro hoppy for what I think it meant.
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  I said this all week. To me, given the traffic getting to
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  North Carolina, the crowd at the game, the sound of the crowd both
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  on radio and TV broadcasts, the pictures coming out of Charlotte, the stories
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  about that, to me, this felt like West Virginia football. You roll
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  into a bull city, you overwhelm the city. The national story is,
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  oh my gosh, he's mountaineer France. Travel the mountain for a Mountaineer fan,
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  Oh the mountain fair. That was West Virginia football. And then you
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  lined up and beat someone's ass. So I thought, this, for the
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  first time in a while, felt like West Virginia football is there. It
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  provided some momentum to this program. You'd already had it with the eight wins,
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  you'd already had it with exceeding expectations. The transfer portal had started out
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  well both in retention and additions. And I think now you head into an
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  offseason with some significant momentum behind you, as you start to get ready for
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  next year's opener against Penn State, which will be a massive atmosphere that last
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  week of August next year, just strap in. It's going to be crazy
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  nuts. So I think from a macro level, West Virginia don't want to
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  steal Texas. Is Texas back and West Virginia still has work to do,
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  But for this week or so, West Virginia was fully back and engaged in
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  the bowl season. Yeah, those are all good takes. My take away
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  the big picture stuff for me is that this season confirmed to me what I
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  had thought and what I would tell you guys, and that is that Neil
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  Brown is the right guy for this job. And it certainly didn't come as
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  quickly as he would have hoped for. It didn't come as quickly as a
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  lot of people expected it to. But I think when you go back and
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  you look at the unprecedented obstacles that were in front of him, a depleted
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  roster when he got here, the advent of the transfer portal, the advent
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  of nil and something called COVID, that he now has navigated this thing where
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  he has brought it where he wants it. It's balanced, and now he
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  is being proactive rather than reactive. He was forced to be reactive when he
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  first got here to try to put his hand on a lot of holes that
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  were leaking water. Now he's at this point where we got this thing,
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  and now you build from here, and so that to me confirms that.
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  And then when you really look back and think of what we were thinking about
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  in August before the Penn State came and we were going like, oh no,
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  here comes a tsunami of Penn State and pit then Texas Tech like what
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  is this thing to see you? And yeah, you know, let's face
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  it, the reality of it was a lot of people thought that Neil would
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  have been removed from his job before the season was over. Yes, that
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  was the reality. And just like this team did this year of flipping the
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  double bird on being picked fourteenth, that's what he basically did. I don't
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  think Neil's going to flip the double bird. He might have, you know,
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  may have thumbed his nose. Is that they just kind of like thumb
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  your nose. That's something he may have done that, but internally that was
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  his motivation. And he comes out on the other end and now this thing
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  is ready again to be where we want it to be. Yeah, get
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  some momentum, and now when you're out making your pitch, you've got some
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  stories there to go tell in recruiting. And you've already seen that. You've
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  seen by the additions they've they've put in place, already that story starting to
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  take effect. You know, this West Virginia team, and this has been
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  true actually for much of Neil Brown's ten years. They went five to the
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  last six, Right, they went five to the last six, and each
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  time they had a setback, they bounced back. And that tells you something
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  about the team, the character of the team. And Neil Brown said in
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  the pregame press conference where he talked about and I don't want to get this
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  wrong, but I don't remember the Zach words, but he talked about the
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  locker room and the atmosphere and how much better bred that it was than the
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  previous year. So he's been chipping away at all that and this team to
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  come back from those two losses Oklahoma Oklahoma State, and then when five o
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  six win the bowl game and those Mountaineer fans went there what happens when you
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  win? Then you build expectations and those fans props to them for all going
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  down there owning the place, but they would have been massively disappointed. It's
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  easy to fall back, Okay, when you're just beginning to have the success,
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  it's very easy to fall back. And I think that would have happened,
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  like, well, it was a great year, but you lost the
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  bowl game against the depleted North Coronina. But you won the game, Brad,
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  and like you's handled you handled it, handled business, handled business.
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  So it's just it was Frankly, it was just joyous. You can't find
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  a downside to this. It also won other one other just note, let
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  me just be on record as I've already been multiple times on this. Can
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  someone please figure out how to bring regionality back into the sport? Can we
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  can we just go to work on that. Can someone get it figured out?
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  Be an opponent, be at location you saw again, I don't know
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  how many examples you need to get the thing fixed. There's another example of
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  you put teams in a region and it's going to be pretty good, and
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  it's going to be a pretty good atmosphere. And then, oh, by
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  the way, to the TV execs that are watching, I'm sure, I'm
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  sure the ESPN folks are watching, the watching. It makes for a better
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  TV product when the crowd is like it is and there's some atmosphere. Can
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  we just can we get to work on that? Another example of it works
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  if you're close to home. Sure, no, absolutely, there's no question
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  about that. That was and we'll get into that when we do textual healing.
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  People had a couple of people had some good lines that puts it into
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  perspective of what it all means for them, and I think they hit it
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  like like perfectly, all right. So individually, a lot of the guys
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  that made plays in this game are going to be back next season. Traylon
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  Ray seventy five yard touchdown pass to start the game eleven seconds in. He
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  was a true freshman. Garrett Green has one more season to come back to
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  Beanie Bishop is done, but what an exclamation point for him on an All
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  American season. The punt return and he was a dude. Michael hayes Man
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  punt return Town hadn't returned to punt, and copp Gon put Beanie back,
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  put Beanie back, takes a punt back to the house. First punt return
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  in college. Yeah, why wouldn't he did in high school? Yeah,
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  Michael Hayes got at Michael Hayes comes back. He's back. He's a nice
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  solid he was so solid. We didn't talk about him enough exactly, just
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  lined up made fields and hold on real quick on Hayes for misses all season,
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  three of them from fifty plus inside for automatic exactly. And Jaheem White
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  obviously come back. That's the scoring in the game for West Virginia and GARREYT.
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  Green. We're gonna get into this stat in a little bit. What's
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  fun about Garrett is he's still not a finished product and he's making massively impactful
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  plays and playing in big boy games and doing some thing statistically that haven't been
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  done. And we'll talk about that coming up. But here's a dude,
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  Hudson Hudson Clement, just football player. I think he's gonna be good.
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  Yeah, I think he's he is. He keeps elevating himself and again,
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  I think the difference maker from him is the athleticism that he brings. I
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  think he's got a chance to be some make some big boy plays moving forward.
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  Everyone that caught a ball in the game is coming back next year.
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  That's nice, right, that's the cool Taylor massive year. He's in store
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  for a big one. Garrett Green, real quick, let me give you
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  this. I thought the full Garrett Green experience was on display. Experience though
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  I thought you got the I got. I think he got the full thing
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  here. Here's what I mean by that. The the deep ball and arm
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  strength were on display right away. Play one, which, by the way,
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  that also kind of exemplifies this season. Really smart, good play calling
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  coupled with excellent execution all week. All it run, West Virginia runs,
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  West Virginia runs, best FBS run run, run, run run, and
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  here it comes to North Carolina safety four buddies, first play run run here
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  we come. Oh God, Treylan Ray just got behind me. I mean,
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  what a great just kick right in the stuff. Oh you're thinking,
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  know what we're doing. Here's what we're gonna We're gonna throw deep on you
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  and then just laid it right in there for a touchdown. So his ability
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  to throw it deep at the arm strength on display his ability to run it,
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  and it's just so nice to be on the other side of a third
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  and twelve and they've got you corraled and nobody's open. So you know what
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  I'll just do. I'll just tuck it and take off. Now again,
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  that crew put an end to a bunch of good runs, or Garrett would
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  have been over one hundred yards rushing. So the running ability of Green was
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  on display. And then the third component of his game, the toughness.
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  For the nine hundred straight game, he comes up with an ankle injury and
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  he's limping off and you're going, oh no, oh, no, b
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  okay, be okay, and then two plays later, Neil's using him like
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  Rich used Rashid and that gay or Pat and a Gator bowl. Just run
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  round, run round round, and he's all fine. I thought you got
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  all of it from Garrett on in that game, on that and on that
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  touchdown pass. I asked Neil Brun about that. He said they decided on
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  Friday that's what they were going to do, so then new right away.
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  And also, as Steve Dunlap on Our Coverage pointed out that in North Carolina
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  plays at man coverage that the d back was looking in the backfield expecting to
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  run, and there it goes, trailing Ray. Nice deep cross, see
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  you later. Nice to have you out of the gate. That always does
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  make you feel better to start a game. Okay, yeah, seven nothing,
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  here we go seven oohing. We're not going to get shut out,
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  and now let's move on to further ex but also fun. If you're a
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  true Mountaineer fan, you also had a negative reaction to that. You went,
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  oh, no, we scored to start the ninety three Sugar Bowl.
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  Never scored again. Oh my gosh, see the classic Mountaineer fan. Oh
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  no, it's bad. We just scored the first points. I wasn't giving
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  it back. I wasn't giving it back. Yeah, just just overall a
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  great effort, and now they can build off of that. Ay Tony not
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  to Connor Harrold is gonna be pretty good. Yeah he is. He's gonna
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  be pretty good once he gets seasoned. But they got a transfer quarterback coming
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  in, so it's not even like it's given to his job. Yeah,
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  where's the kid coming from? Brad don't remember a and m oh yeah it
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  is Max Johnson. Yeah, yeah, I mean a lot. I mean
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  he's six' five. He was the valedictorian of his high school class.
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  He's got an arm. He could run. I mean he got dinged up
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  a little bit so he couldn't run the second half, which helthed West Virginia's
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  pressure. But I think he's gonna be pretty good. Two state championships in
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  Alabama at the big school level. That's the other part. And Haro Harrold's
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  fine. Early he was, he was good round the football. Second half,
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  he just overwhelmed them and that defensive front, that's that's where you should
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  be excited. Up front, they they were fantastic, not only with the
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  push but then containing Harrold and and maybe the ankle had something to do with
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  that, but they contained much better in the first half. He was just
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  getting outside making place. But think about those guys up front. Most of
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  them return as well, So you got Dura Jaya we talked about in pregame.
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  Mom talked about in pregame. Those guys are I think going to be
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  very, very good. They had great numbers this year in limited snaps.
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  Sean Martin, Hopefully you get a chance to see him return. He went
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  out early with an injury. You mentioned Tyron Bradley with the interception, he
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  could be big off the edge next year, stepping up. So I thought
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  defensive elite. Coba was just finished out, which was a fantastic season.
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  Again, he was kind of in that Michael Hayes category. Coba was so
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  good and so consistent all year. We probably didn't talk about him enough for
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  a job he did. But I thought that defense, particularly upfront, and
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  that's where it's going to start on the offense and defensive lines. And I
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  thought that defensive line gave you a lot to be excited about going into next
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  year. Well you take a look, and these are very unusual stats for
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  defensive linemen. Edward Vestern and finisher again with six tackles, a tackle and
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  a half behind the line and a sack. All right, Tomawa Dura Jaya
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  four tackles including the TfL and half of a sack. You had Jalen Thornton,
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  who I thought played extremely well. I was happy for him, really
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  good. I'm really happy for him because he dug it out there and he
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  comes in here with just that huge your dad was John out of the dome.
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  He comes out, he gets had a nice season. Four tackles,
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  a tackle and a half behind the line, a sack and a half,
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  and two quarterback hurries Tyron Bradley the three tackles to go along with that extremely
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  memorable interception for Tora Malba had three tackles, had half of a TfL,
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  half of a sack Asanni Redwood, who just absolutely had a wonderfully physical sack.
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  I mean, so those are unusual numbers all of those guys. Normally
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  that's linebacker, safety stuff, but the defensive line, so super big shout
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  out to Jordan Leslie, the defensive coordinator, Andrew Jackson, the d line
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  coach. When the season started and we said they're going to play nine guys
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  that we thought meant they don't have really three good ones. They're just gonna
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  have to go by committee. They got a bunch of dudes you had a
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  bunch of and that's gonna be. That's gonna be not something nice to build.
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  And speaking of Jordan Leslie dialing up some nice pressure, credit Marcus Floyd
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  off that left edge a bunch. He was fantastic as well. Most of
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  those names we just mentioned, Floyd not being one of them. Most of
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  those names are are eligible to come back next year. So you start in
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  a very good place defensively, I think, especially up front speaking of guys
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  coming back, and when I interviewed Neil Brown on the coffee class yesterday and
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  so all you got the day off today is nope, working retention. It
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  just it never it never ends. It never ends. I mean normally he
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  said, after a bowl game, you'd be okay, take some time off.
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  So they had to start right away by some of those names you mentioned
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  to make sure to retain. Is I mean of those guys as possibly a
• 21:42
  lot of them were already set. But you're going to see another wave of
• 21:45
  people, both incoming and outgoing after the Bulls get done. So you just
• 21:48
  see who it is. But I think westerd is in pretty good shape.
• 21:51
  You've already got commitments back from the majority of playmakers that you felt like make
• 21:56
  up the nucleus of that team. The one other area, let's talk,
• 21:57
  let's talk real quick about offensive line, because there were some different pieces along
• 22:02
  the line that were used. We didn't know how that would go. So
• 22:04
  here's here's how good this running game has become. Guys. They went for
• 22:08
  one seventy five, averaged almost six yards per game, and you walk out
• 22:11
  of there going well. It was pretty good, but it wasn't grist.
• 22:15
  It's pretty good. One hundred and seventy five and average six yards per carry,
• 22:18
  and again a bunch of runs negated by all the flags that came in,
• 22:22
  which again the reason we keep mentioning that West Virginia top twenty in least
• 22:26
  penalized teams in the country. Four point eight per game on average got flagged
• 22:30
  ten times, one of them was declined, called for nine penalties ten So
• 22:34
  that was that was a different, differently called game than had been called all
• 22:38
  season. I'll put it aside. Again, West Virginia's running game was very
• 22:42
  good without Zach Fraser, and their Brandon Yates did a nice job snap in
• 22:48
  the ball. The only snaf fou came just on a weird timing situation coming
• 22:51
  back along there hit Clement's foot as he was running by. But overall line
• 22:55
  did pretty well, I thought, Davin Night, I was just going to
• 22:56
  say that that I think the reason that it felt that way even we got
• 23:00
  one hundred and seventy some yards is that a lot of that was Garrett Green,
• 23:03
  and Garrett Green had a long world had a long run in there,
• 23:06
  so y in terms of being able to establish the run. They really did
• 23:10
  struggle all night to establish a run. I don't think the ever quite did
• 23:12
  that, accept with it with with Green. But yet my point is when
• 23:18
  you say you struggle to run the ball and you put up one seventy five,
• 23:22
  you can't take the forty eight yard or out of it because you know
• 23:25
  why the forty eight yard are actually happened. So you look at those numbers
• 23:29
  and say, all right, you didn't have your fastball dominating and you still
• 23:32
  run for almost two hundred. Yeah. CJ. Donaldson keeps a lot of
• 23:36
  those drives alive as well. When he's out there. I mean, he's
• 23:37
  that third down conversion guy. And you held Hampton under one hundred yards.
• 23:44
  Yeah, the defensive performance was a plus. You could see he was oh
• 23:47
  yeah, he's a guy. You could see he was a dude. And
• 23:49
  think about this, from where these guys started on the offensive line to now
• 23:53
  leading the nation in most one hundred and forty yard or more games in a
• 23:57
  row is West Virginia, I think sixteen or seventeen games in a row now,
• 24:02
  and that's a that's a that's a tremendous accomplishment. Three guys before the
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  converged upon this place called the Dilworth Grill. But like they they they needed
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  a drink when they got there because many of them had just driven down and
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  it was just horrific. They go like, dude, yeah, non stop
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  rain wrecks and bumper to bumper traffic. Yeah. You know when it's bumper
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  to bumper in Summersville, you got a long, long day ahead of you.
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  By the time you get a big Walker Mountain tunnel, I mean,
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  I asked, I had him on the show. Yeah, I heard that,
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  and I it was a long trip, and I just was hoping for
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  a Somemersville reference. How did Soup? I mean, how did he get
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  on your list of guests? I mean, of all the people, how'd
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  was seven hours. I think he did throwing a lunch reference in there.
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  Something. With all due respect, to soup. All right, So uh,
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  next up, we'll get more football coming up during text healing. Next
• 27:00
  up, we've got the Mountaineer basketballers. They're in action on Saturday night as
• 27:07
  they take on the Buckeyes of Ohio State fifteen years ago. This week,
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  Alex Ruoff and DaShan Butler combined to score thirty three. West Virginia went into
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  Columbus gave a high est state its largest margin of loss on its home floor
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  in a non conference game in ever, in ever, and this one's going
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  to be in Cleveland, but this is a really good Ohio State's here.
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  last State's pretty good guys top thirty in ken Palm twenty seventh to be exact.
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  They come in having only lost two games. Those are to Penn State
• 28:48
  back on December ninth and Texas A and M on Friday, November tenth.
• 28:52
  Really good offensively nineteenth in the country in offensive efficiency. They shoot the three
• 28:57
  well, nearly thirty eight percent from three. They also get on the offensive
• 29:03
  glass. So Western He's gonna have its work cut out for their For them
• 29:07
  in that side of things, they have four players guys that average in double
• 29:11
  figures, so it's multiple guys you have to keep an eye on here.
• 29:15
  Now if you're looking for some advantages. They are slower paced. That should
• 29:19
  help West Virginia. We've seen West Virginian be able to stay in games with
• 29:22
  teams that aren't pushing it up and down. But the biggest concern I think
• 29:26
  comes in with this offensive rebounding. Can you keep the buck guys off the
• 29:30
  glass? They come in twenty second nationally. When it comes to offensive rebounds,
• 29:33
  you're gonna have to control turnovers as well against them. That's been the
• 29:37
  formula in their two losses. Their opponents have controlled the turnovers. And oh,
• 29:42
  by the way, can you ask Raykwon he's been getting twenty nine again,
• 29:45
  can he maybe get about forty? I think that's too much to get
• 29:48
  forty forty? Forty's a little hos go ahead and keeps going twenty nine again.
• 29:52
  There's gonna be there's gonna be two battles. He's been good. There
• 29:55
  gonna be two battles on the floor. You've got a ray Quon and a
• 29:57
  Jamison. They've got a starter named Jami James a pretty good part. Yeah,
• 30:00
  he's pretty good. He's a big guy. He's an interesting body type
• 30:03
  six to seven. But more than half his shots are three. So the
• 30:07
  Jamison battle will hit from three. The ray Kwan battle will want to get
• 30:11
  inside and hit some of those twos. This offense part is what concerns you
• 30:18
  a little bit. Are you going to be able to keep them in check
• 30:19
  offensively with multiple guys that can score. The first guy you're going to pay
• 30:25
  attention to is Bruce Thornton. Very good. You mentioned Jamison Battle. Roddy
• 30:29
  Gale is another guy, z key inside. And they also have a familiar
• 30:33
  name for Mountine's Conference fans and Big twelve members, Dale Bonnerd. Why wouldn't
• 30:37
  they? Former Fairmont State Falcons standout MEC offensive Player of the Year Player of
• 30:42
  the Year, went to Baylor, played a couple of years there, and
• 30:45
  now is transferred to Ohio States of Cleveland native, so he returns home for
• 30:49
  his final year. All right, what else do I need to tell you
• 30:52
  about them? Keep an eye on Thornton here when they have the ball hoppy
• 30:56
  from a pick and roll standpoint, Yeah, he's really good in the pick
• 31:00
  and roll one point two to two points per possession. He scores fifty seven
• 31:06
  percent of the time when they're in a pick and roll situation. Tony,
• 31:08
  how do you guard that? How do you guard the pick and roll?
• 31:11
  How do you guard the pick and roll? Well, that's always a that's
• 31:15
  always a great question. You say, Hey, Jesse, can you make
• 31:18
  your rest, Tony, Jesse's not playing. Yeah, it's a concern,
• 31:22
  Okay, it's a concern concern. You gotta try and either fight over the
• 31:26
  screen or you're gonna have to hedge out on him, but then have somebody
• 31:29
  help if they roll. I think that's one of those you got. I
• 31:32
  think you got a hedge hard on these guys and get the ball out of
• 31:33
  his hands. They don't use the role man a lot. Those guys with
• 31:37
  the ball want to take the shot. So I think you forge if you're
• 31:41
  if you're able to, you try and force them to do something they don't
• 31:44
  want to do, which is give the ball up in that situation. But
• 31:47
  there's multiple guys to keep an eye on. They got a dude, what's
• 31:52
  your numbers showing on Felix Akpara. Yeah, he's pretty good, good in
• 31:56
  the middle, big guy, defensive presence six eleven five matchup there against a
• 32:00
  cook a cook, Yeah, he's more of a defensive guy. They have
• 32:04
  enough other offensive guys they won't look to him too often offensively. But it
• 32:07
  also shows why if you look at their a heat map of their defense on
• 32:12
  the shooting chart, you don't get a lot at the rim, and they're
• 32:15
  pretty good on three. You're gonna have to cook from the mid range,
• 32:17
  which fits ray kwon battle pretty well. That's why I said, can he
• 32:21
  get you twenty nine? Has been fantastic. He gets you twenty nine again,
• 32:23
  that's about all you can ask. But can he get a little can
• 32:27
  you get you a few more baskets? Mid range is going to be open.
• 32:30
  You've got to twenty nine a little bit more. More appreciate your Rayk
• 32:35
  on twenty nine? Can you can you get to thirty seven? But he
• 32:39
  his last four games, going back to last year, he's averaging twenty eight
• 32:44
  points per game in his last four games. Think about that. Averaging,
• 32:46
  Yeah, averaging. I would say that after the first game where he got
• 32:50
  twenty nine, I said, so what's the number on the next game?
• 32:52
  Twenty three? Twenty four to twenty five and Brady eighteen seventeen. I too
• 32:55
  high of a number. By the way, congratulations to him. He not
• 32:59
  only won the twelve Newcomer of the Week yesterday, also the Big twelve Player
• 33:01
  of the Week. Good start, Yeah, that's that's pretty good. That's
• 33:05
  a great start. So you're gonna have to find a way to make threes.
• 33:07
  They're pretty good defensively against the three, and like I said, get
• 33:10
  into that mid range area and try and chew them up from inside. And
• 33:14
  then the other part, Guys, here's I mean, here's the other thing.
• 33:17
  When you're playing a team that's really good from three and they again,
• 33:21
  they have multiple guys that shoot forty percent or better from behind the line.
• 33:24
  So when you have multiple guys, this generally doesn't happen, but it did
• 33:29
  to them against UCLA. They ended up winning the game, but made one
• 33:31
  three against UCLA. So when there's a team that's really good from three,
• 33:36
  there's also some variance that comes into play. You're playing at a neutral site,
• 33:40
  this needs to be a game where they're missing from three. But then
• 33:44
  you've got to keep them off the glass, and that's the part of your
• 33:45
  West Virginia. You need to come up with an answer for that because that's
• 33:49
  been a deficiency so far. So miss some threes, get on the offensive
• 33:52
  glass, make your mid range twos, and see what you got coming down
• 33:55
  the stretch. You expect the line to be around what be double digits.
• 34:00
  I don't think it's out yet, but based on what Ken Palm has,
• 34:04
  he's got that game listed right now Ohio State by eleven, so you may
• 34:08
  see a double digit line here m all right, no bussing, are flying
• 34:15
  bus, Get on the bus. GUS teams going over tonight and they're gonna
• 34:21
  they're gonna leave early, gonna practice at the Cavaliers facility, and then they're
• 34:25
  gonna go to the Cavaliers game tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks. Oh nice,
• 34:30
  Yeah, so almost says he's got a night game tomorrow, so you got
• 34:32
  plenty of time and then they'll go do the shoot around thing tomorrow. So
• 34:37
  off we go into the wild Blue yonder. Then after this it'll be Houston,
• 34:43
  then Kansas State, then a trip to Oklahoma. Yeah, gets realm
• 34:50
  had to go trouble last night. Oh six turnovers last game in the Big
• 34:55
  Twelve. And the newcomer Arizona new member, of course, as good as
• 35:00
  Arizona lookd you, I almost want to see if you can hold that off
• 35:02
  for a year. Can they go play in the Mountain West or something?
• 35:05
  Maybe keep Oklahoma for another year. Gotta go play at Arizona next year.
• 35:08
  Their young quarterback really good. Tied for the nation's leading touchdown passes this year
• 35:13
  with twenty three. If you want to add another number into the spread zone
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  stats segment, Noah Faffita keep an eye on him. You can't just stay.
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• 35:28
  around. So that's there's the future. He had flowing locks, has very
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  what what was that guy? Like the heart throb of romance novels that had
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  the long hair, bobbia. What happened to him? Whatever? That cats
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  still around? Oh? I don't know if you ever see any pictures of
• 35:46
  him anymore. I mean he was he was a dude. Speaking of dudes?
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  Is that it for the segment? You don't want to know? Like
• 35:52
  what they do out of timeouts in Yeah, go ahead, hit me,
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  give me one. They go to battle most often out of a timeout.
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  So do we if he's going to get more twenty nine? Yeah, it's
• 36:06
  good, a good plan guard the three coming out of a timeout. I'll
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  just say that they like the three out of the time, especially if it's
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  good, Green's not good. Not sure I've seen this yet this year.
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  The whole thing's red. Every region field goal percentage for Roddy Gale has red.
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  There is a lighter shade of pink. Maybe if you can put him
• 39:22
  in the corners you get a little pink. No, that's the bench on
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  the bench, Coppy all red. What's the shooting percentage? Which zone would
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  you like? Seventy percent at the rim he's forty two percent from from straight
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  on from three forty three from mid range. However, you're only as good
• 39:38
  as your last game. He was one of five against New Orleans and their
• 39:40
  last doubting Yeah, well, look out there's Jamison battle. Oh my god,
• 39:45
  a lot of red Jamison. The pretty good against New Orleans. He
• 39:49
  went seventeen at nine. I mean they beat the living snot out of New
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  Orleans. Yeah, I'd prefer you give their shooting numbers against UCLA. That
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• 40:22
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  But like I saw, I've been looking through their notes the other day,
• 40:29
  Like Ohio State's only like three or four hundred games in a row compared to
• 40:31
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  was a reward, so James one. James notifies James notifies us and says,
• 42:47
  looking, guys, I didn't order this barrel. Our crack staff figured
• 42:52
  out the mistake. It should have gone across town in Charleston. OK,
• 42:57
  so got the city, right, Yeah, I got the city. So
• 43:00
  James says, hey, oh I know what's coming. Don't worry about this.
• 43:04
  I'm thrilled to be part of this episode eight hundred escapade. And he
• 43:08
  says, I'll drive it over so it belongs to it. It's a local
• 43:13
  dentist in Charleston who he just happened in years gone by, had gone on
• 43:17
  fishing trips with him. They lost touch. James delivers to Brian. They
• 43:23
  end up reconnecting and catching up. Three guys community and that a great Christmas
• 43:30
  holiday store. That is absolutely so thanks. How about James, I'll just
• 43:35
  handle it, just take care of it for you. That's a West Virginia
• 43:37
  thing. Yeah that's so. I think I know that guy. I'm gonna
• 43:40
  drop that off. Yeah exactly so here but here's another deal. Here's another
• 43:45
  deal. As you know, I like to move on. So thanks everyone
• 43:46
  for all the holiday shopping. I got a thought driving back yesterday about a
• 43:52
  little Valentine's special, A little Valentine Listen, I'm thinking a little Valentine pop
• 44:00
  corn. Those folks at Mountaineer Popcorn they made that Mountaineer Moscha was something Red.
• 44:04
  Well popcorn was a hit. Well give him a short break. I
• 44:07
  mean they're probably exhausted. I'm just saying that was good popcorn. You know.
• 44:12
  Here's the deal, though, Valentine's would be Actually, that's a good
• 44:15
  idea. It's six weeks away. You gotta get we gotta get the we
• 44:19
  gotta get the red. It's a wonderful idea. It would be nice if
• 44:22
  he would bring that up in the production meetings rather than on air. Now
• 44:25
  you got Now, we've got to come up with something for Valentine's Day.
• 44:28
  Well, he's gonna will said it. He just did it, and then
• 44:30
  he's good. He's what he's gonna do. Get off your and he's gonna
• 44:31
  call Dave. Call day. He's gonna forget he said it. By the
• 44:35
  time we get off the air. I'm gonna have to call Dave and say,
• 44:37
  hey, can you execute on the Valentine's Day promotion that your boy promised
• 44:42
  because he's gonna get on a bus go and I'm gonna call him later and
• 44:45
  go, Okay, Dave's working on that Valentine's promotion. She's gonna what are
• 44:47
  you talking about? What Valentine's promotion is actually very good. Right, that's
• 44:51
  a very good thing. I'm thinking some red popcorn with some of our coffee.
• 44:54
  That Mountaineer by the way, Just stop, just stop. I'm just
• 44:58
  saying that. You Okay, it is a it is a good idea.
• 45:00
  I just wish he wouldn't do that publicly before we can get that building on
• 45:05
  it. So don't build on it. Just well, at least the coffee
• 45:07
  is already in production. I mean, I think rush sheet's over there.
• 45:09
  I mean it should be. Let me give them, just let me reave
• 45:12
  it. The demand. He should be able to about twenty four hours a
• 45:14
  day, well, sharping coffee out. Let me just read a few reviews
• 45:15
  about the popcorns. It wasn't great service, high quality product, quick delivery,
• 45:21
  ear and during the rush Mountaineer munch is so scrumpious, big hit in
• 45:24
  the stockings. This product is excellent. Customer service excellent, just like the
• 45:30
  Three Guys podcast, Thank you very much. One word this reviewer says delicious.
• 45:35
  One one person says worth every penny, Another says wonderful product. Another
• 45:38
  says the product was outstanding as advertised. Because that's who we are. We
• 45:42
  ain't selling you know, bs, I'm not we're not going never going to
• 45:45
  do that. If it ain't good, we ain't selling it. So the
• 45:49
  Christmas Holiday store is closed, but now you've just opened. The Valentine's Day
• 45:52
  store is open. At episode eight hundred, dot com, I'm just thinking
• 45:55
  this. There's a lot of three guys listeners, and we have a we
• 45:59
  have a he's very to catch up on sleep and busting his ass for the
• 46:01
  yeah saying now he's got a bit. Now he's gotta get back there.
• 46:05
  We have a large female demo that's growing, but it's mostly male dominated obviously
• 46:10
  on this show. I think if you guys are smart, when my Red
• 46:14
  Popcorn comes out for Valentine's you buy that for your special song my Red Popcorn,
• 46:17
  I read corn that. You know what. I think we are building
• 46:22
  on an idea Tony's my Red Popcorn rad take a note. Now I'm on
• 46:28
  Tony's side. Here we go from the text line high three guys. Now
• 46:34
  I've had two guys. When I updated on where we are, you won't
• 46:36
  have any idea what I'm talking about. Brett from Kilgore, Texas, but
• 46:39
  still a mountaineer from Morgantown at Heart, Episode five point fifteen Tony plays an
• 46:44
  old pregame clip where the team starts hitting and tackling each other before that pit
• 46:46
  game. When he said it was the seventy one pit game, I quickly
• 46:51
  concluded that I know why there was a reason for the over emotion in seventy
• 46:58
  at Pitt Stadium, West Virginia goes up thirty five eight, and then that
• 47:00
  was the game that Pitt scores twenty eight unanswered points. They get a TD
• 47:06
  with a minute to go. West Virginia's perspective, slow death. Fast forward
• 47:10
  the next year pregame Raw rob video clip. I think there's a lot of
• 47:14
  pent up emotion being unleashed. If that is not an accurate story, it's
• 47:16
  sure makes for a good one. Here we go, here's another. This
• 47:21
  was interesting. Three guys, longtime listener, first time Texter, thank you
• 47:24
  for what you do. Per video five point fifteen of the seventy one pregame
• 47:28
  at Pitt. My brother Terry Vodhoffer was the captain of the team. I
• 47:32
  can remember as a nine year old sitting with my parents on the fifty yard
• 47:36
  line. The team runs out at us a little mountaineerfield. I can still
• 47:38
  hear my mom saying prior to every game. Why do they beat themselves up
• 47:43
  like that, They're going to be tired before the game even starts. I
• 47:45
  have great memories of those days. Terry and his wife Kathy are now retired,
• 47:50
  living in the villages in Florida. David Scott Vodhoffer from Moundsville, West
• 47:52
  Virginia. By the way, there they are, so there you go.
• 47:57
  That's Terry and he was a member. He was one of those guys as
• 48:00
  it was smashing on the sideline. No, thank you very much, Ben
• 48:05
  in Chicago. Rights twenty twenty three. Pretty impressive year for WVU athletics baseball
• 48:10
  team wins the Big Twelve regular season, men's soccer College Cup, three players
• 48:15
  drafted in the first round of the MLS Draft. Women's basketball undefeated so far.
• 48:21
  Finally we get to enjoy a home game atmosphere during a Bowl game and
• 48:24
  we go nine to four. No faustian bargains needed here. If, as
• 48:29
  you, as a fan, cannot enjoy and take pride in these impressive accomplishments,
• 48:32
  I got nothing else for you. Signed by Ben in Chicago. Yeah,
• 48:37
  well, said a lot of fun Texter. Hey, guys, Brad,
• 48:40
  it kind of hurts a little bit that you thought I would photoshop such
• 48:45
  a serious matter as an extra large pack of Recei cups. So I'm sending
• 48:49
  a picture next to my Christmas tree for size reference. Nevertheless, I did
• 48:54
  some ciphering per Tony's request. Inside that package seven and eighty calories, two
• 49:01
  hundred and sixteen grams of fat, three hundred and ninety six sugar grams carbs
• 49:08
  stuff, ninety grams of protein. Haven't married Chriss protein, Scottie and Milton
• 49:13
  of protein. That's a good protein day. There, there we go.
• 49:15
  Put that back up again, Austin, please, that is unbelievable. Yeah,
• 49:21
  that's a that's one of those things that we hold the fish close to
• 49:24
  the cameras. No, no, they're that big. It's that big.
• 49:27
  I've seen them, have you, Yeah, they're that big at the walmarts.
• 49:30
  I've never seen that. Oh gosh, So is it big recy cups
• 49:34
  in there or a bunch of smaller one that's a good eighteen Recey cups in
• 49:37
  there, like regular sized? Well, I don't know how. Why is
• 49:39
  it so wide? It's like a big big checks. Merry Christmas to the
• 49:45
  three magi before the game. Quick spreads question which has greater odds this team
• 49:51
  winning thirteen of its next twenty to get an at large berth or winning the
• 49:53
  Big Twelve tournament to get the bid, or Hoppy hitting the cash pop on
• 49:58
  the West Virginia Lottery. I'd say they're all pretty clear. Texter Mountaineer,
• 50:02
  Blue and Gold Turnpike bridges. Thank you Turnpike Commission and State Road Doctor Jeff
• 50:07
  and Charleston. There you go, Hopy have you seen those? No,
• 50:12
  those bridges somewhere in West Virginia. What are the qualifications? He asks to
• 50:15
  be a P one listener. Why is your why is your burrow? Why
• 50:20
  is your fro? Why is why is your eyebrow fur rowed? I'm just
• 50:23
  I'm not aware of that pretty neat? Neat? Is that? Is that
• 50:28
  photoshop? No? I think that's real. I think that's down. Isn't
• 50:30
  that between Charleston and Huntington? And I are totally wrong? I don't know.
• 50:36
  Okay, here here's what I do know, now that it's out there.
• 50:38
  Yeah, here comes two hundred and seven thousand texts to tell us exactly
• 50:43
  where that is? Based on every vector you could come up with. What
• 50:49
  are the qualifications? He asked to be a P one listener. You just
• 50:52
  have to uh, you have to know. You have to be someone that
• 50:57
  listens so closely that you know all the stupid stuff we say. You can
• 51:00
  probably get the inside stuff. Texter, driving back from the Mayo Fall Life,
• 51:06
  I turned into Hoppy's coffee clatch. This was yesterday. My eleven year
• 51:09
  old son in the back seat asked me, Dad, why is Hoppy talking
• 51:14
  about politics? I explained that's what made his career. But he thinks Hoppy
• 51:20
  should just focus more on sports. Probably should signed by Dana usually from Houston,
• 51:24
  but in West Virginia for the holidays. Texter, I received this for
• 51:30
  Christmas. It's going up on the wall here in Myrtle as solid as it
• 51:32
  is. I made he need Hoppy for some retaining wall construction available. There
• 51:37
  you go. So that's the barrel. That's the lid of one of our
• 51:39
  whiskey bourbon barrels that Jeff from Charleston did not deliver that one. No,
• 51:44
  he didn't go to He did not go different to Myrtle for that different one.
• 51:46
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was good if you do, if
• 51:51
  you get the bourbon barrel and deliver it europe one, that's another question.
• 51:57
  Well, actually you're on staff. This is this one? Is this one
• 52:00
  is crazy? You talk about a West Virginia connection. This guy says,
• 52:07
  I'm at the Heineken Experience on Christmas Day. I'm wearing the flying West Virginia.
• 52:13
  Jesse Edwards' best friend Gooz go oo s gooz befriended us. Always a
• 52:20
  West Virginia connection in Amsterdam, Adam. So he's at the Heineken Experience in
• 52:24
  Amsterdam. He's wearing flying West Virginia stuff. Guy comes up to him and
• 52:29
  says, you West Virginia. I he goes, yeah, I'm Jesse Edwards's
• 52:31
  best friend Gooze. Of course I'll have to ask Jesse about that. Of
• 52:35
  course. My goodness, Tony Brett happy. This is real rob from Lost
• 52:38
  River with Land and Hardy, Hampshire, Pocahontas County. Today i won very
• 52:45
  satisfied listener. Thanks to you guys, I'm not ready to look my very
• 52:47
  best. You see my son and daughter in law pay the visit to Daniels
• 52:51
  in search of the perfect Christmas gift. And thanks to fine looking Phil,
• 52:54
  I'm not ready. Whether it be food court or courtside, I'll be sporting
• 52:59
  the finest in West Virginia Peril, no fly Rods, slim Gyms or James
• 53:02
  bron Pontoon. But after their stop at gomart I did score some Recei's Christmas
• 53:07
  trees to hold me over until the next three guys food court event. Keep
• 53:10
  up the great work, excellent, excellent, good way him he's in there.
• 53:14
  Hey, three guys, what a great time in Charlotte with all the
• 53:20
  mountaineers, and you three clowns were also well represented. Tuesday evening, they
• 53:23
  go to this restaurant called the Local looking for a burger and a beer.
• 53:27
  Places full of mountaineers, nearly an open table to be had, But because
• 53:30
  we're all true mountaineers, a lovely couple from Kaiser offers us to share their
• 53:35
  spot at their table. When they finished up their beers, we enjoyed their
• 53:37
  company, our food, our beer. When it came for us to move
• 53:40
  on, I offered them the same favor to three guys who wo had just
• 53:44
  arrived. They take up our offer. One of the guys comming they says,
• 53:45
  hey, nice T shirt. I was wearing my gold efforting shirt.
• 53:51
  Thanks, I said, and then looking more directly at him, I laughed
• 53:53
  and I said I like yours too, he had on the original black three
• 53:58
  Guys shirt your Faces. On Friday, we proceeded to laugh and chat about
• 54:04
  the fact that we're both fans since episode one and how much we enjoy listening
• 54:07
  to you guys. On Wednesday, we stopped by Queen City Bruis and Bites
• 54:10
  for an early lunch at the Tar Hill. Supporters were already outnumbered in the
• 54:14
  small bar. One of the friendly locals noticed my blue T shirt and said,
• 54:17
  in passing, thanks for having us. What does it mean? I
• 54:21
  laughed, and I thought, Oh, you're gonna find out. Truly a
• 54:27
  bold game experience in a great city. Signed by Kathy from Marlington in beautiful
• 54:30
  Pocahontas. That's an awesome one. By the way, real quick, while
• 54:34
  we're here, we got another nice thanks for having us, Wes tweeted us
• 54:37
  he got it as a Christmas present there. It was retweeted that the other
• 54:40
  night after the game. So thanks Wes for getting your thanks for having a
• 54:45
  shirt. That was his Christmas present for him. He wore it the other
• 54:46
  night. Is West Virginia, so west down in Concord it is. He's
• 54:50
  from Preston County. Originally one of the all time great Yeah, that was
• 54:52
  a thanks for having this game too. Wasn't thanks for having us even though
• 54:55
  you're even it was kind of a home game, I mean kind of no,
• 54:59
  you're you're away. Garrett Green said it best after the game. There's
• 55:00
  not many times you can go on the road and give the team playing in
• 55:05
  its own state an away game. That's a Western end. Carolina's in its
• 55:08
  own state Western. It took over the stadium. Yes, texta thanks for
• 55:13
  having us. It warmed with my heart to see the always committing crimes League
• 55:16
  acc always committing Cribs go through its recent turmoil. I still embitter over the
• 55:21
  fact, with the help of ESPN, they broke up our beloved Big East
• 55:24
  twice. Can't wait to watch Wake Forest SMU what a joke. So happy
• 55:30
  now that every single school deemed us unworthy of membership to that clown show it's
• 55:34
  called Karma Boys makes me smile. Talk about a thanks for not having us
• 55:38
  so awesome. Ben and Ripleys. Never forget it, Never forget Ben's Elephants,
• 55:43
  Ben's Hello, three guys. I'm finding I have so much to be
• 55:45
  thankful for this season. I'm thankful for Mac Brown and his staff for making
• 55:50
  mind boggling decisions like going forward on fourth down from their own twenty six with
• 55:53
  eleven minutes left, then heaving a low percentage bomb. That was That was
• 55:58
  a weird call. And I'm thankful for Neil Brown, who never stopped believing
• 56:00
  in his players even when plenty of fair Weather fans were screaming for his ouster.
• 56:06
  I'm thankful for fantastic coaching hires and Mark Kellogg and Jen Greeney. I'm
• 56:10
  also thankful for episode eight hundreds so I could get some of my much needed
• 56:15
  Christmas shopping done. And I'm thankful for the Three Guys Pod because you three
• 56:17
  provide so much entertainment and information about your nation. We have so much to
• 56:22
  look forward to in twenty twenty four. Signed by Joe mock our Boy in
• 56:27
  Texas. Thank you Joe. That's the guy that's adopted Eric Stevenson there while
• 56:31
  Eric's playing in Austin. Did you happen to see Stevenson's follow up on a
• 56:36
  shot last night? I think it was last night? Uh uh oh?
• 56:38
  He came in from the wing on a shot, bounces up, Coach Stevenson
• 56:44
  grabs it, hammers the dunk. Did he Yeah, So Joe's feeding him
• 56:47
  her Well, if he's getting up that high, he's getting up twas the
• 56:51
  night before game day, I was filled with glee and once again I got
• 56:54
  to meet a very famous celebrity, Not Brad, not Hoppy. They were
• 56:59
  nowhere to be Finn certainly not at Dilworth in the heart of uptown, and
• 57:01
  there I got to witness the master and action mister Tony, longtime listener,
• 57:07
  first time text or thanks for all you guys do. I enjoy your banner
• 57:09
  and insight. Can't wait to plow through the arbitrary eight hundredth episode to continue
• 57:14
  for many more years to come. Thanks TC for talking to me before the
• 57:17
  show and the whole to Mayo primer. I planned to finish off the evening
• 57:22
  with a big old thanks for having us. Here's hoping you're reading this text
• 57:25
  after a big victory. By the way, do you guys know where I
• 57:28
  can get a large version of this flag? So that flag he had the
• 57:31
  three guys flag come from. We sell that on the site we do.
• 57:36
  Yeah, that's Andrew and Fort Mills South Carolin, a great guy from Deep
• 57:39
  Credits Photoshop. You guys are actually holding that signed it see up to the
• 57:44
  left corner. I signed it, put your name on it. Put Hoppy's
• 57:45
  name on it too, said please send all checks my name correctly, No,
• 57:52
  h opp I right, yeah, I E Yeah, he was a
• 57:57
  good dude. I enjoyed him. Hey, guys, who was that Andrew?
• 58:01
  Andrew took that banner all the way down to the game. Yeah at
• 58:05
  its from Fort Mill. They make a lot of material. I think.
• 58:07
  Doesn't Fort Mill sound like a textile place? It certainly does. Yeah,
• 58:09
  a lot of sheets. Hey, guys, wanted to clarify a statement made
• 58:14
  by Tony making the comment that rich Rod won a lot of Bowl games.
• 58:17
  He won two, he lost three, equal to Dana and stew don't make
• 58:21
  the guy a hero and his mediocre a best without the greatest West Virginia quarterback
• 58:24
  of all time. Thanks guys, love the pod, Christma Mullins because he
• 58:28
  took me to the wood ship there. Two of the two were good ones
• 58:31
  high white Neil's one two now yeah beat the army three guys. My wife,
• 58:37
  who I met at Lyon Tower in two thousand and our ten year old
• 58:42
  daughter made the slow trip from Pittsburgh to Charlotte. Our daughter insisted on packing
• 58:45
  her own suitcase upon arrival, we realized she packed no underwear, one pair
• 58:50
  of socks, no tennis shoes, but she had all of this in there.
• 58:54
  She said she had all that she needed. Once out there, always
• 58:58
  am outa there, Happy New Year. There's Mike from Oakdale. Well done,
• 59:00
  very good. That's a good one, Texter. When you come to
• 59:08
  a game and you think it's going to be a home game, but it's
• 59:10
  eighty five percent West Virginia fans and GG throws a t D on the first
• 59:15
  play of the game. Three guys after the show, thanks for having us.
• 59:20
  To those of those poor guys, they didn't know they were being taunted.
• 59:24
  Boy, here's a text. This guy writes this, Hey guys,
• 59:30
  pack man Bishop, that's the text said. I got one of those the
• 59:35
  other night, right after the punp return. I just tweeted out as was
• 59:37
  Beingie Bishop, a good portal pickup, and it was great. The ninety
• 59:42
  five percent of the people got the joke. There were two that one called
• 59:45
  me an idiot for tweeting that was at a real question. Another guy ask
• 59:47
  for I guess the sarcasm funt and didn't come through, but I got Adam
• 59:51
  Crowley tweeted underneath he gave. He gave it a pac Man Bishop as well.
• 59:54
  Texter in game text, as I enjoy the Mountaineer take over here in
• 1:00:00
  Charlotte. At halftime, I got to say, first half officiating was worse
• 1:00:02
  than needing a whole tub of Duke's mail. Let's go. We knew that
• 1:00:07
  was coming. You called it, Tony Brad called it. Jeff Jenkins called
• 1:00:13
  it. Well, you still have the nightmares from me. You know,
• 1:00:15
  you know that guy was the that referee used to work in the Big East,
• 1:00:19
  and every time he came out on the field was just like time for
• 1:00:22
  a coldonoscopy. Texter halftime from Charlotte, hoping to give you thanks for having
• 1:00:28
  us. As we head back North Travis from Lincoln County with Jesse from Greenbrier.
• 1:00:31
  Lord, I hope this age as well. Look at those guys,
• 1:00:34
  got three guys hat on there. Good dude. I like the way it
• 1:00:37
  angled that picture because it gives a little style. Texter in game text.
• 1:00:43
  The North Carolina fans beside us just left with twelve forty eight to go,
• 1:00:46
  when the score was twenty seven to ten. They said, we've had enough.
• 1:00:50
  I said, we're glad you came. It's my new Thanks for having
• 1:00:52
  us for home games. Signed by Wayne Texter. This is what I was
• 1:00:58
  saying, is we were talking earlier, very early in this what this meant
• 1:01:01
  to people. Jesse in Southwest Virginia says, the Mountaineers are fun to watch
• 1:01:07
  again. Yeah, I think that's what That's what's been gone. Yeah,
• 1:01:13
  the fun of watching them. It just felt so much like a struggle.
• 1:01:15
  This season was fun. There were plays, it was excitement, there was
• 1:01:21
  something, There were things to get excited about. Texter ce Ellen Clarksburg.
• 1:01:23
  I'm tired of the criticism of our victory over a depleted North Carolina team.
• 1:01:28
  Maybe we should be praising the West Virginia stapf or keeping this team together and
• 1:01:30
  praising the players for their efforts. What do I always say? Happy schedule
• 1:01:35
  play who's on the schedule, and don't apologize. No one felt sorry for
• 1:01:37
  West Virginia when you rolled into a bowl without Will Greer and got absolutely curb
• 1:01:42
  stopped, right? Did anybody did anybody make excuses or apologize or say it
• 1:01:46
  was less of a win for whoever that was was that Utah that year.
• 1:01:49
  I don't even remember who it was. Anybody saying that, anybody apologize no,
• 1:01:52
  no, anybody put by anything, none, forget it, North Carolina.
• 1:01:57
  You're on your own. You want guys to opt out, that's part
• 1:01:59
  of the deal. I'll play. You got beat and you got hammered,
• 1:02:00
  and no apologies. Will gives you a hand when you're on your back.
• 1:02:05
  Kerchable, So no asterisks, no nothing. You won the game, agreed
• 1:02:09
  handle them, Will and Charlottesville Proud of my Mountaineers tonight. If you would
• 1:02:14
  have told me we'd hold him to only ten, even with Mayo, I
• 1:02:15
  wouldn't have believed a defense on fire. If the coaches are judged on getting
• 1:02:20
  players ready to go, the defensive staff was above excellent. This is really
• 1:02:23
  interesting here. This is from Travis twenty sixteen. This is a tweet that
• 1:02:29
  I sent in twenty sixteen. Travis says this was a joke my friends and
• 1:02:31
  I had kicked around after listening to the radio one morning. He wrote,
• 1:02:37
  I'd like to work with you to develop an IPA called Hoppy Kerchievel. Let's
• 1:02:42
  talk about the details. All things are negotiable. He wrote that. In
• 1:02:45
  twenty sixteen, he said me. He sent it out to Morgantown Brewing Company,
• 1:02:53
  and he writes this this was a joke my friends and I had kicked
• 1:02:58
  around. Then he says, royalties perhaps, awesome. You guys made this
• 1:03:00
  a reality. I love it. I haven't got to try it yet,
• 1:03:04
  but I hope to get it soon. Thanks. So that was the guy
• 1:03:07
  that planted the seed. He was the Johnny Appleseed. Interesting. I don't
• 1:03:12
  even know if we get royalties, so this is interesting. This is an
• 1:03:16
  interesting one. During the postgame, I said, it's a great day to
• 1:03:20
  be a mountaineer wherever you may ob. Oh, well done. Well it
• 1:03:24
  wasn't me. So I got that text from P one listener Rick Harshburger.
• 1:03:30
  He texted it to me right after the game. I said, dude,
• 1:03:34
  you mind if I use that? That's great? He said, no,
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  go ahead. Now I get this text. That was my line, Tony.
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  My dad took it and took the credit. This is Rick's son,
• 1:03:45
  Brett, who lives in Fairmont. So a lot of problems now in the
• 1:03:49
  Harshburger residence as to who so Brett harsh Burger made up It's a great day
• 1:03:53
  to be a mountaineer wherever you may ob and I used Rick stole it like
• 1:03:59
  a thief, and then I called seem very nice guy. Well sure,
• 1:04:01
  heyeh. I didn't raize Rick was stealing his material, though, so you
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  did or did not use it at the end. I used my regular when
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  the when it was I used the regular line. And then I looked at
• 1:04:12
  my phone right when postgame started I saw he had written that. I went,
• 1:04:15
  oh, that's good. I said, can I use this? He
• 1:04:16
  goes, yeah, absolutely, so okay, okay, Perryopolis Phil throwing away
• 1:04:24
  all of my miracle whip and getting Dukes after the big victory, great season,
• 1:04:28
  looked forward to next year. I was not a Garrett Green fan at
• 1:04:30
  the beginning, but I have seen the light. Guy's a playmaker. He
• 1:04:33
  was the difference. Let's go. This was interesting too, And I've not
• 1:04:38
  thought about this, but I think this is true. Text writes, just
• 1:04:41
  this, Garrett Green looks just like the Mountaineer statue. Yeah he's, I
• 1:04:46
  mean, he's there's some pictures out there that you if you see people put
• 1:04:50
  it together. Yeah yeah yeah. Texter enjoyed an absolute incredible Bowl game atmosphere
• 1:04:57
  in Charlotte, complete with the Neil May. Afterwards, we find a restaurant
• 1:05:00
  with a heated patio near the stadium. The place was packed, to the
• 1:05:03
  gills with mountaineers and joined a few beverages some appetizers. We overheard a group
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  at the other table exclaim, my mom gets her cows from your cousin.
• 1:05:15
  They were referring to the half cow from a farm in Wayne County. They
• 1:05:18
  split out a butcher in Milton each year. I told my buddies that had
• 1:05:23
  to be the most West Virginia since ever. There. Let's go Mountaineers,
• 1:05:27
  Georgie from Jordan Creek. My mom gets her cows from your cousin at perfect
• 1:05:30
  and gave us a Wayne County in a Milton. Yes, perfect, that
• 1:05:33
  is perfect. While in Charlotte, Milton home of the Greyhounds, twenty twenty
• 1:05:40
  three has been in a pretty impressive year for WVU athletics. Indeed it has,
• 1:05:46
  Thank you, Texter. I'm sure Spreads is well aware of this,
• 1:05:49
  but this is wild. Now, this is a stat here, Texter says,
• 1:05:54
  West Virginia quarterback Garrett Green has thrown for over two hundred yards and rushed
• 1:05:59
  for at least seventy five in the game, same game four times. It's
• 1:06:03
  only happened six other times in West Virginia's history. Wow, that's a good
• 1:06:08
  one. That's a good stant that's leave that leaves, that's left cursive.
• 1:06:12
  Kerchiboll with his mouth of gape, let's just speak. Well, that's what
• 1:06:14
  we've said all year, Garrett. If Garrett had been the starter and been
• 1:06:18
  pretty good, you would have said, that's a good that's a good first
• 1:06:21
  year as a starter. Dude was a national and in all time categories and
• 1:06:27
  some things. Is this that illustrates that's a that's a pet white Ish major
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  Harris Ish stat Yeah, that forty eight yard run he had, Oh,
• 1:06:36
  he could be a great guy. At those limbo you know, they wouldn't
• 1:06:40
  do that thing. They put that bar down because he went down like he
• 1:06:44
  made himself really super small to get out of that turbulence in the middle line.
• 1:06:46
  Then and then he shot out and then he showed the speed. Yeah,
• 1:06:49
  turned it on the I think it was that maybe this is I've never
• 1:06:53
  heard this before, maybe you guys have. But the color commentator on the
• 1:06:57
  radio was talking about Garrett Green speed and a defender trying to catch up with
• 1:07:01
  him, and he said, if it's even he's leaving, Oh yeah,
• 1:07:05
  the next year, push ahead real quick for next year. I know we
• 1:07:08
  have nine months to talk about this. This new Big twelve is gonna have
• 1:07:11
  a ton of dudes at quarterback. Yes, I mean, Garrett's gonna be
• 1:07:14
  right in that conversation, but getting first team All Conference next year will be
• 1:07:16
  a challenge. Cam Rising from Utah returns, Avery Johnson from Kansas State you
• 1:07:21
  saw him last night, mentioned Noah Fafida from Arizona, and the list goes
• 1:07:25
  on and on. It's gonna be a heavy quarterback league next year, which
• 1:07:29
  means what usually guys mean. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be a
• 1:07:32
  that's my early call. That's gonna be a good, really deep Big twelve
• 1:07:35
  even when Texas and Oklahoma out. You've got some quarterbacks returning. When you
• 1:07:40
  have two hundred teams in your league, it's easy to make it a deep
• 1:07:42
  league. I'm sure Spreads is well aware. Are the late I'm sorry that
• 1:07:45
  was I did again. Fellas Morning from Charlotte. Dougie Fresher from Merles inlet
• 1:07:49
  checking in great game. Haven't had this feeling of pure joy and excitement in
• 1:07:55
  a while. Great work, excellent work Coach Brown and staff. You'll be
• 1:07:58
  happy to know that when I went out of my way to go up to
• 1:08:00
  all twenty seven Tarhell fans in attendance to tell them thanks for having us Happy
• 1:08:05
  New Year. Look forward to seeing at least two of you in Myrtle Beach
• 1:08:09
  in twenty twenty four. Thanks for a great twenty twenty three. Not by
• 1:08:13
  Dougie Fresh. What are the odds? Don't I don't think he thinks you're
• 1:08:15
  going to Myrtle Beach for us? A lot of we talk about going all
• 1:08:18
  these places. We've never gone anywhere. Dude, we went to don't you
• 1:08:24
  We did good to Ronsford, that's right? And you we went to Ronzifford
• 1:08:28
  and you spent the whole weekend looking around like you were lost, going like
• 1:08:30
  why are we here? How did we get here? Whose house is this?
• 1:08:32
  Is this? Or we did some questions about the house. Well,
• 1:08:35
  you did have questions about that house. Everybody did we just stayed in a
• 1:08:38
  random house. He didn't know how we got their out? Was that up?
• 1:08:40
  Oh? We knew. He was very good at the event. He
• 1:08:43
  was. He was very very good at that be He was very social,
• 1:08:45
  talk to a lot of people, had his own law enforcement circle around him,
• 1:08:49
  moving into different He was weird about the house. He thought maybe we
• 1:08:54
  just showed up. He thought he got us into just some house, like
• 1:08:58
  they're on vacation. We're just going to roll in and stay in the house.
• 1:09:00
  They don't know we're here, exactly. That's what you thought. That's
• 1:09:02
  what I thought Dave had done. Yeah, well he might have. I'm
• 1:09:06
  not saying he didn't. You know, there's Roger in Maine rights. Congratulations
• 1:09:12
  to the team. I could not be more proud. The adversity started with
• 1:09:15
  the Houston game. They faced it, kept fighting, got back on track.
• 1:09:18
  I also feel like Ren Baker should get some credit for coming out at
• 1:09:21
  the end of the season letting everyone know that Neil would be back. Clearing
• 1:09:26
  up that early I felt was a huge detail going into the offseason. While
• 1:09:29
  some fans may not have liked it, to me, clearing up the uncertainty
• 1:09:32
  given the situation was much needed stability. It was important Texter her there were
• 1:09:38
  there were other people there too that didn't live there, not with us,
• 1:09:42
  not with us than a different house, but a different house on the same
• 1:09:45
  property. Yeah, they didn't live They're very nice. We saw on the
• 1:09:49
  driveway. Good to see. Good morning. The best thing was the next
• 1:09:53
  morning when you woke up and you were sitting in that room in the middle
• 1:09:56
  room, and I come out and you just kind of I go hide,
• 1:09:58
  you sleep and go. I didn't sleep good at all. I'm still trying
• 1:10:00
  to figure Dave out, Like, wait, where does he live? That
• 1:10:03
  was? That was like, what are you talking about? Comfortable thought?
• 1:10:08
  We were just in a house squad. We didn't belong to three guys.
• 1:10:12
  My first bowl game, my first bowl game as a twenty year old,
• 1:10:15
  was the Peach Bowl of seventy five. Bobby Bowden's boys took down Lou Holtz
• 1:10:19
  in North Carolina State. So Wednesday was my first bowl game in forty eight
• 1:10:25
  miles. I could not have been more proud. The stadium had to be
• 1:10:28
  about eighty percent golden blue watching a total victory. Great to see. Got
• 1:10:32
  to see old friends from West Virginia and meet other new friends, making this
• 1:10:36
  Male Bowl a wonderful experience. But best of all is that two of our
• 1:10:41
  three tds were scored by freshmen. So with a lot of talent coming back
• 1:10:45
  programs in good hands, makes the future looks bright for the world champions number
• 1:10:48
  fourteen no more. John York from South Carolina by the way of Princeton.
• 1:10:54
  There you go, man, that is four Concord frat brothers at the game.
• 1:10:59
  Those dudes are from Charleston, Princeton o'kill in New Jersey. That's great,
• 1:11:02
  head and the first Bowl game in forty eight years. Outstanding Texter p
• 1:11:08
  One Hassenfeffer from Vienna. It's all about the efforting, even when your pregame
• 1:11:13
  drinking adult beverages. The one hand interception was easily the best example of efferty
• 1:11:17
  I have seen in years. So that's that dude, He's ready. Sure,
• 1:11:21
  that's awesome. It's very nice. Thank you. Look at that.
• 1:11:24
  I mean, we had some we had some threads out. It was good.
• 1:11:27
  Thank you everybody that represented in Charlotte. That's awesome. DJ and Monroe
• 1:11:30
  County rights down there. Yeah, maybe you should DJ from Monroe County Well
• 1:11:35
  brothers. After opening up a can, putting it on two slices of bread
• 1:11:39
  and spreading some duke's mail on those slices and whipping the heels, could Neil
• 1:11:43
  Brown finally remove his heel status from the West Virginia fan base. Maybe nine
• 1:11:48
  and four heck of a season after the years prior. I'm reminded of the
• 1:11:53
  nine and four, eight and five, eight and four seasons of two,
• 1:11:56
  O three, and O four. After these we finally took off after let
• 1:12:00
  Rich build a program a little, also getting Pat White another year of consistent
• 1:12:03
  winning. I believe Neil has us on the right track. If so,
• 1:12:05
  the state dish of West Virginia will be a giant plate of crow. Have
• 1:12:10
  a blessed New Year DJ in Monroe County, Texter. The morning after the
• 1:12:16
  game, I go to a local restaurant called the Maple Street Biscuit Company.
• 1:12:19
  On a chalkboard, they have written question the month, what is your go
• 1:12:24
  to karaoke song? The only song written under it was Sweet Caroline. I
• 1:12:30
  let out a laugh to my girlfriend. I said, hey, look at
• 1:12:31
  this. She looked at me and said, don't you dare. I did
• 1:12:35
  not do it, but we clearly left our mark on the Queen City.
• 1:12:38
  I'm excited for next year. Thankfully we stuck it out with coach brown Scott
• 1:12:42
  in Stafford. They played that right early. No, I mean well,
• 1:12:49
  I mean, I'm did just do that? Now? No, West Virginia
• 1:12:54
  communicated that it might go over well, and I think the Duke's Mayo people
• 1:12:58
  they they're not afraid to run it up to the envelope. Oh really,
• 1:13:00
  Oh no, they enjoy that, they like to have. They'd like to
• 1:13:02
  keep things loose and fun and jack around. You know, Brad you pointed
• 1:13:05
  out in the postgame interview with Beanie and some of the other interviews where you
• 1:13:09
  could hear Country Roads in the background. It's the Country Roads is turning into
• 1:13:13
  an all time great music track underneath West Virginia player interviews. He got it
• 1:13:17
  in the Fiesta Bowl with Owen Schmidt. It happened with Beanie. It also
• 1:13:21
  happened with Neil like struck up right at the perfect time too, that the
• 1:13:25
  Country Roads start playing. Bie. Beanie's quote was really good too. Texters,
• 1:13:30
  Mike and Parkersburg, Tony Senator and Happy Times three. Sometimes a picture
• 1:13:33
  and a T shirt says it all there. He is got our got our
• 1:13:38
  gear on there. Thank you, thank you very much. Good to have
• 1:13:40
  you. Thank you, Mike Texter. My wife got this for me for
• 1:13:43
  Christmas. I also received a Mountaineer munch in several game day grinds hot rode
• 1:13:46
  from Woodward's look at that bad boy Nickers does it too well? Sure I
• 1:13:50
  do like me some snickers, So now you can this is standalone. I've
• 1:13:57
  never I do not know how it's possible not. I've never seen these.
• 1:14:00
  You don't go to Walmart's. I do go to Walmart's, I actually do.
• 1:14:05
  They haven't at the Kroger's. I don't think Kroger's has them. Be
• 1:14:12
  hard for Gomart, they don't necessarily have the real estate space shelf space.
• 1:14:15
  Yeah, it's hard. Kroger's does have Duke's Mayo text or hay three,
• 1:14:19
  guys, I saw that Tyron Bradley's pick was number one on Sports Center's Top
• 1:14:25
  ten. Should be I'm curious, can you guys remember the last time West
• 1:14:29
  Virginia had a number one in the top ten baseball? West Trainia Baseball has
• 1:14:32
  been in there a bunch with one. Yeah, I can't tell you what
• 1:14:35
  I think that catch, but that catch was awesome. That was that he
• 1:14:40
  had that That big hook came out of nowhere. I mean just like he
• 1:14:43
  was up there so long. He could have brought his other arm up.
• 1:14:45
  He just decided it looks like a rebound almost. They should have. They
• 1:14:48
  should have a nice camerangle too. That was up above and you could see
• 1:14:51
  him break on that before the throw. He was going to cover the flat
• 1:14:56
  is where he was going That was great recognition. He stopped his coverage route
• 1:15:00
  and turn back before the ball was thrown and then reached out. That was
• 1:15:02
  a really good play, not just the catch. That was a really good
• 1:15:05
  play by Bradley Texter. Jeopardy questioned last week on their show. The answer
• 1:15:12
  is, West Virginia has a statue of this half human, half insect creature,
• 1:15:15
  supposedly first cited in point Pleasant in the mid nineteen sixties. Move along
• 1:15:19
  answers, move alon, who is the mothbat? Move along? That's that's
• 1:15:24
  a tough question. Hell I could have if I was on that show,
• 1:15:26
  I'd say, who's the moth man? Hell I know them, That's what
• 1:15:30
  I would have told them. Along that so you would have gotten one answer
• 1:15:32
  correct on Jeopardy. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, me too. I
• 1:15:39
  could only shake and laugh my head of people who complain about our schedule being
• 1:15:42
  weak, same people saying that beating Penn State at next year's game should be
• 1:15:45
  the only expectation. Let's all relax, enjoy the heck out of a great
• 1:15:49
  season. Let's go out near as Happy New Year to you all from the
• 1:15:53
  great state of Alaska. You know, just have fun with it. Yeah,
• 1:15:56
  I really just enjoy it. Last two gentlemen, I want to win
• 1:16:00
  yesterday. I'll take it. Query. I live in Oregon, but all
• 1:16:04
  of my family is still in Morgantown. They're heading this way soon. I'm
• 1:16:09
  wondering if I could skip the weight and shipping costs by just having them swing
• 1:16:13
  by and grab a thanks for having a shirt before they fly out here this
• 1:16:17
  weekend. I'm assuming y'all don't have a storefront, but is there a place
• 1:16:21
  that a person pickup option would be available? He's gonna throw out a storefront,
• 1:16:26
  So, unfortunately, Curtis, we don't. We never touch any of
• 1:16:30
  the apparel because it's print to order, so it only gets made when it's
• 1:16:34
  ordered. That way, we don't sit around here and go, what the
• 1:16:39
  hell are we going to do with four hundred T shirts? So I'd love
• 1:16:43
  to be able to help his family that's heading out on the Oregon Trail,
• 1:16:45
  but we just want to I'll tell you this, dude, I have up
• 1:16:47
  in my office. I've got an efforting one, but it's not a thanks
• 1:16:51
  for having us I would have given you. They still have the snakes in
• 1:16:56
  your garage? No, I don't. Every once in a while there's some
• 1:17:00
  one will send me a picture and go, hey, you remember the foam
• 1:17:01
  snake? Well, no, I don't have any That was an idea ahead
• 1:17:08
  of its time. People still wear the foam fingers. Why wouldn't they did?
• 1:17:12
  Why didn't they want the snake? Shake your snake? You remember that,
• 1:17:15
  Brad? You weren't here what I got here? So I said,
• 1:17:17
  jake the snake, help right out here. So I had the promotion.
• 1:17:20
  I had these snakes. They were foam snakes, and I wanted everyone to
• 1:17:27
  to wave the sut out of head himself. Did he You didn't have Dave?
• 1:17:31
  Who could have seen that? Well forty years ago, he's just out
• 1:17:33
  there over promising. I didn't have to ad execute this actually was not a
• 1:17:39
  bad idea. Maybe it was a difficult execution. Perhaps I was execution Well
• 1:17:44
  that it's always the executions an idea. Guy. I tell you what,
• 1:17:47
  I've had a couple of good ones, right that Mountaineer munch that was good
• 1:17:53
  popcorn. Now the red popcorn is gonna be good too. Hey, what
• 1:17:58
  do you got for Easter? We'll do Easter afterward? Get us Can we
• 1:18:02
  get a chal Can we get a chocolate tier? Somewhere in West Virginia for
• 1:18:06
  Easter. Make a ten pound just Easter egg made out of chocolate. Three
• 1:18:13
  guys, three guys. How about a three pound one three guys in it?
• 1:18:16
  We could probably do peanut butter. Yeah, I mean how much free
• 1:18:20
  publisity can res get? For God's sake? Just come on, come on
• 1:18:24
  in, that's true, Come on in. Do we have a chocolateer in
• 1:18:27
  West Virginia? Oh yeah, the one that Yeah, the good people in
• 1:18:31
  and I'm gonna here. They come of Vienna, right Hills? Is it
• 1:18:35
  Hills? Yeah? Woods Hills? Yes, here we go. Someone's going
• 1:18:42
  now. I'm gonna get two hundred and seventy text text me, don't go
• 1:18:45
  off the air. I'm gonna find out. Don't don't go off the air.
• 1:18:47
  Phil copy off the air. He doesn't know we're not on the air.
• 1:18:53
  Where does he think we're going? Him? Hurry up, don't go
• 1:18:57
  coming. It's in Wood County. I want to say, you're right,
• 1:19:00
  or it's like Williamstown or uh is it Hollis? Yeah, Halls Holes,
• 1:19:10
  h o Lls. That's it. That's what I said, Halls. Where
• 1:19:14
  where is it? It's Vienna? Yeah, yeah, Vienna said, I
• 1:19:16
  said, Vienna. Oh, thank god o'clock. Let's get down there,
• 1:19:25
  step on it. We got time. We can get there an hour and
• 1:19:27
  a half. Yeah, so maybe we could work with them. Yeah,
• 1:19:30
  Dave can work with them to make a three pound Three guys and the show
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  So we all good, yeah, all good, Hey, good luck,
• 1:20:41
  good luck tomorrow and Brad's going with the game. Oh yeah, Bad's
• 1:20:45
  going game. So Monday is New Year's Day? You doing a show?
• 1:20:53
  Yeah, I don't know if it's a live or show previously enjoyed. We're
• 1:20:57
  not available Monday. We're not going to do the show money, so we
• 1:20:59
  do it too day. Okay, we'll do the next three guys on Tuesday
• 1:21:02
  special. Thank you to Austin Wright for getting up early to do this show.
• 1:21:06
  We started recording at three point thirty am. I don't know why we
• 1:21:11
  set that such an early time, early, very early. Now we're now
• 1:21:14
  we're going to go out and try to get to, you know, one
• 1:21:16
  of those fast food places where all the old guys hang out in the morning
• 1:21:19
  and have all the answers to everything in the world, and they sit there
• 1:21:21
  for two hours and drink one coffee, so we just did. That's what
• 1:21:26
  that's what it is. Music's out happy, you know everybody, so yeah,