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3 Guys Before The Game - Bounce Back House (Episode 500) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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Hey, everybody, what's happening. We welcome you in. It's three guys
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before the game, and this is episode number five, one hundred five.
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Five looks like five to ten. Could you go back there and spin that
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spin the other zero. I'll start obsessing about the zero. It's gonna do
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that. There's airflow back there. It's going to move it around. He
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blew the whole ten seconds and just let it go where it's going. Here
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you go, Thank you, Hoppy. In case you don't know, it's
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five zero zero, episode five zero zero, Three guys before the game.
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Title of the show Bounce back House, out back at the house they call
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they called their stay in the Bounce House. West Virginia went down there and
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they bounced back or after bounce right out there after losing two games, and
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there may have been a bounceror two that went West Virginia's way. I e
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Jay Von Baker and Beanie Bishop got a bounce there. That's how that happens.
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I don't know if that was not usually good bounce. Those things happen
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all the time. Ball gets kicking in the air, any catch it kind
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of like hail Mary's fall in the hands of the team that's starting. The
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hell Mary, things happened, even though not a bad bounce, yeah,
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bounce back house, welcome in. Three guys before the game will break down.
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the Connley CPA group. All Right, boys, quarters in session. What
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a difference a week makes? All Right? Last Sunday morning, we were
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in here and uh we were bemoaning West Virginia's loss to Oklahoma State. We
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were bemoaning Olie Gordon, who was last scene he ran out of Milan push
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car Steam's last scene in Jane lou just he goes he didn't stop last night,
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sixty two, last seventy one. Yeah, given him the Heisman after
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the game. I'm not sure this, might as well give it to halftime.
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Think about what he's did in the last two games almost six. I
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was gonna say, most guys try to get a thousand in a season.
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My man's going for like a thousand and four weeks. Hello, pretty good.
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Anyway, let's bust it on down. Well, first off, as
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you can see episode five hundred and we have gone to know I mean there's
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no budget on this show, as everyone knows. I mean, we have
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carte blanche on whatever it is that we need. And Austin our newly our
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new buddy here on the technical side. I mean, guy's got some foresight.
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He said, Hey, I'm gonna go spend about three four dollars on
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some uh, some of those milar balloons to well, now, hold on,
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you haven't bought balloons in a while. They're more expensive than that.
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Yeah, that's I think he's got twelve hundred dollars wrapped up in those those
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things. Are those things are not cheap? Boys, No, not cheap.
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Well, that's awesome, big for kid's birthday party. I had to
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be. Austin said, Also, they're supposed to be inflated for a long
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time, which means that for six hundred we could just buy six. Yeah,
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very good, that'd be good if there was gonna be we won't get
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to sex, but we definitely won't get to eight. Wait a minute,
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we got to You were just talking about one hundred. You remembered one hundred,
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and it's at five hundred. I mean it happens quickly, man,
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it does go for quickly. Yeah, i'd have to say, without any
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without any hesitation, there have been as far as this podcast goes, there's
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more yesterday's than there will be tomorrow. In a minute, you do two
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a week. That's only a year. That's only a year to get to
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see how quickly I did it. That's only a year to get to six
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hundred. Really, it's pretty good now if you did four. He went
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by five hundred though. That's what we got to thank everybody for listening along
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for five hundred episodes, because you don't. You don't get many podcasts that
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get to five hundred. Got a note this morning. You two guys got
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this same note, Megan and Harry. I assume that that's the Royal Yes,
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formerly parents, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're separated from the royal
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family. The Texter told us they were paid twenty million for their podcast,
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just slightly less than what we get for this one. They could only muster
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twelve episodes in two years and just disappeared from the podcast universe. So saying
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congratulations on five hundred, yeah, he said we got less than twenty million.
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I've got a little bit more than that. But here we discuss finances.
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Now, five hundred is five hundred is significant for a bunch of different
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reasons, one of which is it's hard to do five hundred of anything.
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And in the podcast space there's something called pod fade. And what happens is
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people begin podcasts and they say I'm gonna do this podcast, and we're gonna
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do this podcast, and they get all excited. And unless you do this
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for a living, this is really hard to do because from a content standpoint,
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you can really struggle. And that's what happens. The charts are pretty
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amazing when you see podcasts, they'll show you how they trend up their number
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of episodes, and then it just absolutely just drops and shuts down. And
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I think one of the reasons why we've been able to continue is because this
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is what we do, right. I host sports Line, Brad host sports
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Line. We do six of those, five of those a week. Hopy
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does his show sporadically, and so you're just in that groove of this is
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what we do. So I think it would be really hard if you just
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came from outside the space. We work on deadlines, we work on this
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is what we do. So five hundred is still a huge accomplishment, and
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to our knowledge, we are the most listened to sports pod in the state
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of West Virginia, and we have done a lot of significant things, you
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know, I mean just recent not being funny, I mean we made over
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thirteen thousand dollars for the lunchbox program at Skyview Elementary through the source Kevin Kaine's
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Churches organization. By doing the food court. We did the beer, which
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is the number one. Well, no, it's the number two. If
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you take the beers that collectives have done and you put it into untapped work
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two. Really my second highest rate at Iowa States beer is rked higher on
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untapped and then two Kurzavel's two. You'd have a drink off with those people.
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Yeah, they together with them, you could do that and among other
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things. So it's been it's been a lot of fun and we'll see,
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uh, we'll see what happens. But that's not why you're here. You're
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here to talk about the world champion mountaineers in West Virginia's victory. And again
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we don't talk about the game before we start recording, and that didn't change
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here today. Although Sparky over on the far side he wanted to start the
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wax poetically, I said, just just chill. So what he got over
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there, buddy? Yesterday in our in the Open for our coverage, Jamie
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who voices the Open, she referenced Disney it's hard to go to Orlando and
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not mention Disney. I think a lot of those Mountain her fans Brad who
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went down there probably went Disney, or they're there today, or they were
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there, you know Friday, and Disney is the place of fantasy, right,
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magic, magic and fantasy. So I found this quote fantasy mirrors,
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just fantasy mirrors. Desire. What do you want? I mean, you
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fantasize about things, and those are things that you want to happen. So
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think about going into this game and tell me if these boxes get checked for
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the WVU Mountaineers going into this game, show up, despite what happened in
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the last two games, show up ready to play. Check run the ball,
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huh double check. Have somebody other than Garrett Green run the ball,
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double check, control the clock, yep. Check third down, do well
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on third down? Good, do good? Do good? Do good on
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third down. Stop UCF from having too many big plays. Yes, check.
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Have individuals on a depleted defense step up and make plays. Check check.
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Fantasies equal desire. The desire was there. They executed a lot to
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break down. They got it done. Excellent job by the Mountaineers yesterday.
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Yeah, good one. Thank you well done. Tie that in well done.
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You know the defense was really depleted, so gyro Favor is out,
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so you lose depth there. Hershey McLaurin out, Lance Dixon not around,
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and that's how you started off there. Lathan's still out. Tray Lath talks
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about that. So just off the top of my head and we'll get into
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some of the specifics here. Okayden Buyser, he was making tackles. He
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stuck his face out and out there, gave you good snaps that twenty six
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snaps. You know who the highest rated defender was, highest graded Beanie per
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pff. Tell me Beanie, Oh. Ben Cutter was a true freshman himself.
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A game the much discuss Ben Cutter, who's had to step up his
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snaps because of Trey Lathan being out. Ben Cutter pops up with the highest
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graded defensive performance of the day for the Mountaineers, So well done to him.
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West Virginia wins at forty one to twenty eight. Mountaineers score in each
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quarter. They were up ten seven after one, they were up seventeen fourteen
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at halftime. I was really upset at halftime because I thought they should have
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gotten more points on their last drive of the second quarter. Yeah, that
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bummed me out. Scoring was even in the third, and then West Virginia
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outscored the Nights seventeen to seven in the fourth quarter. Turnovers. West Virginia
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allowed seventeen points against Oklahoma State off of turnovers. Yesterday they won the turnover
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point contest twenty one ZIP. Say it again, twenty one ZIP twenty one
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ZIP. Turnovers matter, ballgame, Thanks for coming episode five hundred. That's
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what gus Mel's on said. He should say that ballgame. Yeah, turn
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the bowl over four times. A couple of interesting stats and we can pull
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pull these aparts spreads on stats coming up. But total plays run by West
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Virginia right, total plays run by West Virginia UCF sixty nine. They ran
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five. West Virginia ran five more plays and wait, wait, okay,
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I'm sorry, what five or six cups of coffee today? I mean,
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slow it down. How have we done I don't know one undred and ninety
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nine of these? I just was gonna Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead.
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My point to that was West Virginia ran five more plays and had the
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ball twelve more minutes and ten minutes in the fourth quarter. Yes, total
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domination of the time of possession because one team goes really, really quick.
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And what how often do we say when you play those speed teams that want
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to go fast, if they're not converting, you got yourself a problem.
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Yeah, all right, senator, lay it out. We've been waiting for
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your proclamation. Well, there's there's a bunch to get into. The spreads
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on staff stuff will will dive into you. I just I just thought again
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from a resiliency and a mental toughness standpoint for this particular group, and I
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tweeted this after the game. This thought given given the ability of this team
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and this staff to stay connected with all the noise that circulates and all the
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narratives that get pushed out of there as soon as there's one bad drive for
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those guys to buy into coaching messages each week and be able to bounce themselves
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back up and go in. I'm gonna get into this number. I mean,
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that's your third straight wins a six point or more underdog this season.
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That don't discount that. And you talk about market perception is sometimes way off,
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and I think that there's been some narratives this season that have been just
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way off. I think the betting market's been off and have played into some
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of that perception that things are a mess and there's problems and they keep misspricing
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this West Virginia team in the market. And there was another one yesterday where
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they just they were over able to overcome that a touchdown underdog going into the
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game, you go on the road, you get the win, and absolutely
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just hammered them. I mean, you line up, I know that UCF
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defense is no good, and I know they've struggled against the run. You
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line up and run for nearly three hundred against them. That's significant in and
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of itself, and there's pieces within that that we'll get into. But I
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think the other part that emerges is something we've been talking about over the last
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three weeks. We talked about it in the Thursday Previef episode. What's the
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defensive coordinator come up with for a game plan? Now against this West Virginia
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team. You saw what they picked yesterday. They said, you're not going
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to beat us deep. We're not going to give up big plays. Only
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two balls thrown of twenty yards or more. One was on the very first
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play of the game when you tried to take a hit and they said,
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you're not going to do that, and you just said, okay, is
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that that's fine? You don't want thrown deep? Okay, it's fine.
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You know what we're gonna do. We're gonna line up and have three different
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guys run all over you and you can't stop us. And we're gonna run
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right at you, and we're gonna keep running at you and you got no
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ability to stop us. You want to change your defense all you don't want
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to change. You want to keep proecting against a big play. We're gonna
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keep running right at you. So I think that's significant for this program,
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this team offensively, and Garrett continues to play at this extremely high level.
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You saw CJ. Donaldson look like the CJ. Donaldson from last year.
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We'll get into that a little bit. Jaheim White has been coming right led
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the brown mention index this summer. They've been waiting for him to get to
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a point where they could trust him and get him in there more. You
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saw what he brings to the table. So I thought, offensively, that
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was just such a significant effort that you're now multi faceted enough that you can't
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take it all away. You better pick something. And they did, and
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West Virginia came back and did other things that allowed you to still get the
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win, significant significant win. I think, you know, may a couple
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guys. I bought into the narrative I weigh over valued. I mean,
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so did I UCF. So did I because because we saw, with all
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due respect, because we saw the last two games by West Virginia and the
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defensive struggles, and because we watched the UCF Oklahoma game and then that,
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so we bought in. I don't want to speak for you, but I
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bought into the narrative. I did too. Now that said, here here's
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the thing, and I know this is hard to do for all of us
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as fans when you're evaluating the turnovers are just simply massive, and they were
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against West Virginia the week before, and they made they were the difference in
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this game. All those things I just said about the Wester Virginia offense.
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If u CF doesn't turn it over, that westrated defense was having some trouble.
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I mean, you could see where that UCF offense can go. They
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were making it look easy. They were getting guys in space, they were
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running it. There's the defense still has some work to do and I know
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that's hard given the injuries they have, but those turnovers completely change the game.
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And it's why, guys, we've heard coaches for years lament the mistakes,
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right, don't They always say that more teams lose games than teams win
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it in college football? And I thought, you know, there's a real
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element of truth to that yesterday. Now the defense has to make place.
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You've got to catch those interceptions, you've got to get the fumble. But
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man, that changes the face of the game. Yeah, there's no question.
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How long have we bemoan the fact that West Virginia hasn't had a quarterback
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that can attack the perimeter. What a difference it makes, right, because
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now you have to respect that quarterback and his ability, and that is exactly
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where you need to be. Where you can, yes, throw it,
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but you can also have the ability to run the ball. You wanted to
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talk about CJ. Donaldson running hard as he does not make the start for
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the first time this season, and Justin Johnson does and sometimes that's what it
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takes to get someone back into the quote unquote beast mode. And when he
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went out there, he ran as hard as he has and probably over a
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month and got to start, Steve Unnlan I pointed out in our coverage,
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I mean started maybe from seven yards back, and what's going going downhill?
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And you know, Tony to your point about a running quarterback, and it's
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not just about it's not just about when he runs, but the fact that
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you have to respect Green's run. And on that touchdown where CJ. Donaldson
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is like five yards out, went around the right side and got a touchdown.
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When you look at that play again, Green sticks it into Donaldson's stomach
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it and the linebacker freezes on Green because they think it might be a quarterback
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draw, so he freezes on Green. They're going to see J. Donaldson
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jogging around the right side. So it's not even just when he runs,
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but the threat that he can run. Yeah, and Neil said, didn't
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say it publicly, but set up privately before the game that they were going
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to give Garrett more read options this week. In other words, take him
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pull the onion apart here and what does it all mean Back to your original
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point, we're probably not spending enough time on what you said, Brad.
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As far as the noise that this team had been getting all week, Let's
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face it, everyone was stoking up the flames and getting ready to make a
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pronouncement on the entire season, despite the fact that about half of it was
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still left to be played. And for these guys to go down there against
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a team if you remember that came a two point conversion away from tying Oklahoma
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last week in Norman, and they went down there and they bowled out,
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and I think that says a ton. Now Now the question becomes can you
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do it again? You got a golden opportunity. I didn't realize until yesterday
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that BYU is on the road two straight weeks. That's a tough travel spot
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for them. We know about that first year in the league. I remember
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we went to Austin and the next week we went to Lubbock. These old
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boys are going Austin to Morgantown. Get a little benefit because it's going to
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be a seven o'clock eastern kick at Mylin Pushcar Stadium. But nevertheless, they
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have to come out of the road and they got issues. And I mean,
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I don't want to put another log in the fire, but in their
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quarterback, the quarterback from Pitt last year, Keten Slovs, didn't he have
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a rather derogatory comment regarding the Mountaineers. He did before that game. Yeah,
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he wasn't a fan. Used a word that comes after eating the alphabet.
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Yeah, yeah, just thinking anyway, remember that hop I don't remember
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that. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's on video. I don't know.
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Mountaineer Nation might remember. We'll get into a match up later this week.
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But this is gonna be one of those games. You know how much
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I've talked about quarterback pressures, which we're gonna get into here in just a
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minute. That's a game. He might want to dial up some pressure there.
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It might be to your benefit. Yeah, Lee Koba, did he
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hit John Rice Plumbley, Yes, in the back lot yesterday? You know
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Tony so much of that. I mean, that's a play, but also
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you got to have a little bit of luck because then the West Virginia guys
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there to fall in. I mean, think about fox Is Fumble when he
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took that hard hit and there's Tomas Remac like right there, comes off a
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block and gets it. So that's coaching, though, what's that? That's
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good, that's coaching. That coaching bread. But it's all coaching. I
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mean, it's all in that coaching, remaking. They probably coached him to
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do that, didn't the Yeah, absolutely went over it over and over.
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Yeah, which they really did go over it over and over. But sometimes
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you still got to make the play. Yeah, it's like they go over
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and over. Don't run in the punter pumper turn sometimes running the pumpmatern Yeah,
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don't do that, right, Remac being back helped. Yeah, I'm
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getting it out to a little. He went back to being left handed on
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the running game. That was they might as well. You know, Michigan's
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in all kinds of trouble for stealing signs and doing all kinds of they had
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the military and all kinds of things they are what they were doing, spy
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planes, all kinds of things. I don't know. I don't know exactly
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what they were doing over there. You could have stood behind West Virginia yesterday
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with an arrow pointing saying, we're running this way, U CEF, you
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want to put more guys in the box over here? Come on, just
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come on over with it. Run into the left, guys, you want
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to try and stop this? Couldn't What are you saying? Ran it left?
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Couldn't stop it? By the way, Lee Koba, real quick,
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I think if if and again I always give this disclaimer on Sundays. Those
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PFF stats are still mature, developing, maturing, that's a good word.
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Maturing throughout the days. Here, I think they have Covid down playing every
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snap in yesterday's game. Seriously, that's not easy to do. Seriously,
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they got him listed at all snaps, every snap he played? How much
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you play all of them? All of them? I may snaps you,
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but all, by the way, does every seventy six snaps? I think
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seventy they have down seventy two here? Yeah, pretty close? Does the
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jahem, whye get to the corner fast? Can you get to the can
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you get the corner? Yeah? See, that's the that's the part it
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And again, well we'll spend some time on the defense. I get it.
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And with all those injuries they're still going to have, They've they've got
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an uphill climb here these last four games to try and continue to devise plans.
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You can't count on four turnovers per game, and I'd be nice if
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you could, because that was that was certainly huge yesterday to get those stops.
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But offensively, I just continue to be impressed about how they they evolve,
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and they've been fighting through their own injuries. Nestor got what twelve snaps
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in yesterday, so that line was back and remade with your starters for only
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twelve snaps before he has to go out with an ankle and doesn't return and
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Nick Malone is able to come in. Thank god for Nick Malone being versatile
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enough now to play both tackle positions over the last three weeks. But you
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were you were cooking early again with that line. And so West Range offense
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has found a way as it's doing its own plug and play to continue to
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get better and better and better. And now you're just you're getting those multiple
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weapons. Not only scheme wise, has Neil I think done an a plus
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job of giving different looks, moving people around, getting people in positions where
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they can make plays. Now you've got guys that are being able to mix
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in. So you know Garrett and Garrett by the way, Garrett I say,
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only had two hundred and ten total yards yesterday, felt like he had
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twelve hundred. That stunned me that he didn't have more than fifty yards rushing
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in one hundred and fifty passing or whatever. But we mentioned CJ. Donaldson
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gets his Jaheim White now, if he can keep playing a little bit more,
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if they can trust him in pass protection, if they can trust him
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to know where he's going, he does bring a different element and he don't
24:45
have to get fancy, just that quick toss to him when he's kind of
24:48
flanked out there and he can get to the corner. That's a nice little
24:52
addition to that team. Can we go back to Garret Green for just a
24:53
minute, I mean, certainly, And in the first half where he gets
24:59
his leg bent, I mean you saw the replay, Tony looks like,
25:00
oh my gosh, this is a need, this is an ankle. This
25:03
looks bad. He limps off the field. He's back in the next next
25:07
series or maybe the next play. Well, and he missed a play because
25:11
there's the one ill fated play that he was out, which but this is
25:15
what what well, what an unbelievable play call? That was perfect? What
25:22
an unbelievable play call in that moment. So Nico comes in totally cold,
25:27
right, So what do you want to do. It's third and eight.
25:30
You can't run the ball. On third night, they know you can't run
25:33
the ball. So you got to throw the ball. But you don't want
25:36
the guy that's just come in. He's been sitting over there for however long
25:37
it's been to come in and have to make a throw down the field,
25:40
mistakes could happen. So you run a tunnel screen. That's pretty safe pass
25:45
right, get the ball out of his hands. Got it? And then
25:48
oh, by the way, it's a version of a hook and lateral there,
25:49
right, So it's the tunnel screen. Make the easy throw and catch.
25:52
That's a great first pass for a guy coming in cold. You flip
25:56
it back and here comes Jalen Anderson around the OUTI who has a chance to
26:00
redeem himself and just drops the football. Oh, you talk about a running
26:06
lane being wide open for certainly a big game, potentially a touchdown. Just
26:10
thought it was an unbelievable call that again he got to You got to execute
26:12
those things, man, no question, because I'm not sure when you can
26:15
break that play back out again, No you can't. But but finish.
26:21
The point about Garrett Green is that he has he has that intangible that we've
26:26
talked about after the game. This is what Wyatt Milam said. I love
26:29
Garrett. I love him as my quarterback. He's tough. Just having him
26:33
as a quarterback. As a leader, he really gets us going. You
26:37
never see him down. He's always pushing and encouraging us. Tony, what's
26:41
the value of that. I mean, it's it's you can't priceless, you
26:44
can't even quantify that. I mean, he takes the ball off the right
26:47
he's heard, he comes back in the game and then on that one of
26:49
his touchdown runs takes the ball off the right side. Juke's a guy runs
26:52
into a guy or over at the goal line. I mean his he's hoppying
26:59
today parlance. Yeah, he's a dog. He is d A W G
27:04
a dog, you know. I mean, I don't know if we have
27:07
what we used to call guys like that, but you have to have that,
27:11
you have to have that dynamic personality, that toughness, those leadership qualities
27:18
to have guys follow you. Yeah, and they're following They're following him,
27:22
I mean following you. People are following White mile them. Okay, Yeah,
27:26
that's fact. Every really good quarterback any school has they have that it
27:32
right Major? Did they follow Major? Yes? Yeah? Did they follow
27:34
Pat Whse Yeah? Did they follow Will Greer? Yeah? They followed.
27:38
They follow those guys. And that's what this guy. You know, they
27:42
follow this kid. They like this kid, and he continues to not make
27:47
mistakes. That's the biggest thing. We spent hours this summer talking about his
27:52
need to cut the mistakes down, do what you're supposed to do, and
27:56
then what we say. If you did that and you were comfortable that he
28:00
would do that, you could open the playbook. That's exactly how this is
28:03
playing off. He has been absolutely phenomenal. He not just kind of good
28:07
guys, not just hey, he's pretty good starting quarterback. He has turned
28:11
into an absolutely phenomenal football player this year. He'd been great. By the
28:15
way. Side, note, the more Wyatt Milam can come out for interviews,
28:18
the better off it would be. He was fantastic yesterday and his debut
28:22
appearance. I don't know if his debut might have done one last year.
28:25
He didn't. He didn't do him a whole lot. He was tremendous.
28:27
Yeah, tremendous from what I'm told. Not a big fan of the he
28:32
should do them more. He's really good. Yeah, he should be a
28:34
fan. He's excellent fan of what interviews fan. He was great, engaging,
28:41
personable by the way, so was Preston Fox. We had Preston Fox
28:44
on the pregame. First time we've heard from pac Man Fox. Packman Fox,
28:48
Yeah, Stedman Fox, and he was fantastic. Sometimes he's Stedman Fox
28:52
on our broadcast Great Receiving Place. He Stedman Fox. He's just out there
28:56
making great receiving plays. Yeah yeah, all right, you to do some
29:00
stats again. This is These stats will change during the course of the week,
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30:06
What hit you in the head a couple things, and we've gone over some
30:08
of the numbers, but let's look at this one stat kind of recap what
30:12
one of the things we talked about on Thursday. We'll come back to it.
30:15
How did it look? So, as we mentioned earlier, the turnovers
30:18
and points off turnovers were really the key stat. If you want to look
30:22
at a number, that was it. That's what changed that game, and
30:23
quite frankly, it helped cover up some troubling defensive numbers that were developing throughout
30:29
that game. One of those we've talked over the last couple of weeks about
30:32
passing downs, the need for West Virginia to get the opposing team into passing
30:37
downs. That was going to be another critical component I thought of a win
30:40
this week because UCF likes to run it so much, Right, can you
30:44
force them into throwing the football? Ultimately you did. Late they had to
30:47
start throwing it because they got behind by so much. You saw what happened
30:49
abby, what happens when they had to just become a passing team. They
30:52
made mistakes, mispasses, through interceptions, etc. Couldn't do it correct.
30:57
Game was already decided at that point, but the numbers continue to hold except
31:03
for this one. This is where turnovers just erase a lot of the stats
31:06
that you think matter in West Virginia's wins. West Virginia's put teams in passing
31:10
downs thirty seven percent of the time and losses those teams have been in passing
31:14
downs only about twenty four percent of the time. And we've talked about the
31:17
rushing success has kept teams out of passing downs. Yesterday, only twenty percent
31:22
of UCF's downs were considered passing downs, so they were having success running it.
31:27
Ran it for nearly six yards per carry, another troubling number yesterday.
31:33
Westry's got to find a way to fix this. Last week, Oklahoma State
31:36
went for seven yards per play on first down. That let them control it,
31:40
right, how much better or easier is it hop when you're in second
31:41
and three to open that playbook up and be able to do what you want
31:45
to do. Everything's available in second and three. UCF average seven and a
31:48
half yards per play on first down. It's a problem. UCF averaged nine
31:52
yards per play on third down. So again, do turnovers make a difference?
31:57
Yes? Can they just wreck your game plan which they did for UCF
32:00
yesterday? We talked on Thursday to keep an eye on the right side,
32:05
a gap between the center and the right guard. Yeah, we did bring
32:08
that up when they when they run it there, they've had success. They
32:10
were averaging nine point eight yards per carry through that particular hole in Big twelve
32:16
play. UCF yesterday had ten carries through that gap, the most of any
32:21
area on the field, but they were held to sixty one yards rushing,
32:24
so still a big number six point one yards per carry, but significantly below
32:29
their season average. Thirty three percent of their rushing first downs came from that
32:34
hole, so that stayed true to the scout. West Virginia did a better
32:37
job than most Big twelve teams have done this year in slowing that hole down.
32:40
Am I correct? They only ran for twenty seven yards in the second
32:44
half. I'll tell you that. Yeah, I believe so. I think
32:46
if you take away some sack sack yards, but they have the twenty seven
32:53
rushing yard second half twenty that's a mind blower in the Yeah, you wouldn't
32:58
expect that. You wouldn't think that was the case they had, but they
33:00
had to change up their game plan. That's why you forced him into doing
33:02
and see that's what you want to do, right, force him into doing
33:05
something they didn't want to do. That was to have to throw it.
33:07
Some individual performances. Let's look at this real quick. We talked about CJ.
33:10
I said they were left handed with CJ. Yesterday, seventy of his
33:14
one hundred and twenty one yards came running to the left side. Five of
33:17
his six first down runs came running to the left side. Remack and Mielem
33:22
being over there to anchor that side big again, and six tight ends over
33:24
there too. Garrett Garrett Green. We talked on Thursday how he led the
33:29
country in first down rushing percentage. Forty four percent of his carries had gone
33:34
for a first down. Six of thirteen went for first downs. On Saturday,
33:37
forty six percent of his carries, even better than his nation leading average.
33:43
Here's the other part that was big for him. They took away that
33:45
deep passing game. Said, you're not going to throw it deep on us,
33:47
right, m hm, You're gonna do something else. Can you throw
33:51
it underneath, Garrett Green? Can you make those plays underneath? He did
33:53
sixty one percent completion percentage yesterday, up from his season average. I was
33:59
just going to say and should have been more if receivers don't drop balls that
34:01
are thrown right at him. Yes, so well done in that area as
34:06
well. Beanie Bishop, hopy you mentioned the unbelievable play on his interception.
34:10
He coached a tremendous job of coaching there to get him in the right position
34:15
when the receiver's falling on his back and then kicks it straight up in the
34:17
air. I thought Neil did a great job of coaching him up on that,
34:21
how to play about two and a half yards behind the receiver. He
34:23
paid, your eyes on the ball when the ball, just when that comes
34:27
off of his foot, make sure that you go there. And they did
34:29
a great in the air. You make sure they've coached a bunch of time
34:31
going there and you catch it. When the ball's in the are you actually
34:34
don't catch it. It was very good by Beanie Bishop. That's his fourth
34:37
interception on the season. Pretty good. Yeah, entire team. Entire team
34:43
had four last year, entire team had four. So well done there,
34:45
well done. Let's talk against the spread numbers for a second. I alluded
34:50
to this in the open. That's your third straight win this season as a
34:53
six point or more underdog. Two of those have come on the road.
34:59
Excuse me for here is gonna get big now. Two of those have come
35:02
on the road. That's eight overall wins under Neil Brown in four and three
35:07
quarter seasons when being a six point or more underdog. West Virginia has six
35:14
total six total road wins when a dog is six or more since joining the
35:17
Big twelve. And Neil's got how many Neil's got four of those road wins,
35:22
four of the six road wins in that category. Pretty good. So
35:25
West Virginia doing a nice job this season. Again that I think some of
35:29
that narrative and some of that noise out there has influenced the market, and
35:34
West Virginia's been getting some good numbers and handling it. Speaking of the market
35:37
and speaking of the odds, short term memory, didn you have a ticket
35:43
that said West Virginia would win more than four and a half games? This
35:46
h thank you, thank you for bringing that up. So congratulations to all
35:50
of us that said that four and a half is a bad number. They're
35:52
gonna win more than four and a half. We'll take that to the windows.
35:54
So congratulations everybody. He said, take it take it to the take
35:59
it to the old school. Take it to the window. You don't even
36:00
take it to the window. You just cash out on your on your app.
36:04
You the only one that had that. Some people might have taken it
36:06
to the window. Have you ever gone to have you ever gone to a
36:07
window? Yeah? Oh you have collected it with a window. Sure,
36:10
that's old school, is old school, that's old school. You have a
36:13
look, you have a newspaper wrapped up when you walk in there underneath your
36:16
arm and going, hey, here's a ticket and you can me can pay
36:19
up on this. So solid point, glad you brought that up. Thank
36:21
you? Am I so your kiddy yesterday and your kids can get braces now
36:23
because you hit that. Maybe not that. Hey, can I add to
36:28
your your your spreads one sets? You're the guy. Can I throw in
36:31
something that This is an open segment here, so this is you hop and
36:37
this is Holly CPA group likes you. I get a little obsessed by this,
36:40
but I think this continues to stand out. Michael Hayes has only attempted
36:45
ten field goals, but he's made nine and the one he missed was fifty
36:49
plus. Okay, so he's he's been money. Yes, there were no
36:52
kickoff returns yesterday zero out of six. Okay, so Hayes has been solid.
36:59
Oliver Strong has punted twenty eight times, averaging forty three yards. There
37:06
have been no touchbacks. Think about that for a second. I mean,
37:09
Tony, how many games you know a guy punts the ball rolling in he
37:12
is no touchbacks and twelve have been down inside the twenty. So that's been
37:17
an element. I think that's been I know we've had some issues with special
37:22
teams, but that part of special teams, that's a good point. That's
37:25
been solid. It is really good. But there's a problem. Okay,
37:30
and you normally don't bring up problems between teammates, but Straw and Garrett Green
37:37
don't like each other. Oh really, that's a little strong. I think
37:40
you could you put that? Could you put that? Could you put that
37:44
slide up if you would on the Oliver Straw text possibly could we get that
37:49
up there? So Straw after the game texted this breaking news. Garrett Green
37:54
does not like Australians. He wanted to keep me off the field as much
38:00
which is possible today. You dog number six, So yeah, I mean,
38:06
you know, Ollie comes here to punt and Garrett's out there running around,
38:08
you know, doing all that thing, and Oliver only gets to participate
38:12
twice, and we know he's probably gonna have to go to the portal.
38:15
Now, he's probably gonna have to find a team that's really horrifically bad on
38:19
offense so he can punt nine to twelve times in a game. So Alli's
38:23
a little bit upset by the whole thing hidden yardage. We talk about field
38:28
position. There's that great stat that if you're plus ten in field position yard
38:30
age, you win like ninety six percent of the time. Is something ridiculous.
38:35
You know what West Virginia was yesterday thanks to those special teams, thanks
38:37
to the interceptions starting shorts at least plus ten plus eighteen plus eighteen. I
38:45
get you a w hey, by the way, because sometimes people take things
38:50
too seriously that are set in this program. There is no real spat between
38:53
Oliver Straw and Garrett Green, thank you. However, However, we did
38:59
have a hunter years ago that literally did used to root for the offense to
39:06
stall so that he could punt. Is that right? Oh yeah, oh
39:12
oh yeah, absolutely absolutely lutely do you want to finish that story? He
39:16
did? I'm not gonna say his name, But yeah he did, he
39:20
did. You're here yet, senator for that one. Okay, we'll just
39:23
leave that as it is. Anything else for us, I think that's the
39:29
highlights. I'm not gonna say it either. I bet I knew who it
39:30
was was. It was it a while ago, while ago, I know
39:36
exactly what it was. You would agree with me there, yes, yes,
39:40
give me an individual grade or two. Well, I told you Ben.
39:44
To me, Ben Cutter jumping out as the highest graded defender was was
39:46
significant, you know, looking through here. Berks and Bishop played most every
39:50
play too, which makes sense because you're running along on guys. Anthony Wilson
39:53
played the bulk of the plays offensive. I'll give me a couple offensively.
39:58
That offense played really well. White highest grade offensive player, Garrett right there,
40:02
CJ right there. Oh, we didn't mention him, and it was
40:06
he got some carriages to day. Rodney Gallagher highly graded coming out of that
40:08
game. He's starting again. He and White. Right, the young guys,
40:12
what do we say. You can't come into game one expecting them to
40:15
be through the roof with these numbers. But as the season goes on,
40:17
they looked like playmakers starting to see it a little bit start to get Gallagher
40:21
mixed in there a little bit more. Yeah, he was active in the
40:22
first half. Remack your highest graded offensive lineman coming out of yesday with with
40:27
mylem right on his heel, Zach right in the ballpark as well. So
40:30
really good game from those guys. And they had you know, they can
40:34
do that play with Zach Fraser, Tony where and Steve Donod pointed this out
40:37
where they pulled the center. I mean, that's unheard of, it's uncommon
40:43
common. Well, they pulled the center. He goes in a gap on
40:46
the right side and blocks the linebacker to try to free up the running back.
40:51
Okay, centers don't pull. No, I didn't really, Matt Moore,
40:53
I told you a couple of weeks three weeks ago, I said to
40:55
Matt, we're talking about Zach, and I said, have you ever had
40:59
anybody who goes? He goes? I've never had a guy be able to
41:01
do that. Ever, they can do things with him that he can do
41:06
with other guys because he just has the ability to go get it done.
41:08
So super happy for him, super happy for him. Anything else, No,
41:14
I think that's I think we got to Eddie Vester Renan graded out really
41:16
well. Defensively, he was in there in a pressure. He caused one
41:20
of the interceptions, yes, one of those. Remember we were talking about
41:22
that Plumbley could not step into his throw, had to short arm it because
41:24
eddiv was right up in his face. Led to a drastically underthrown ball that
41:29
was picked. So credit to him on that as well. He didn't get
41:31
the interception in the stat sheet, but that was because of him that that
41:34
ball was should be well, I mean an exception assistant, yeah, really
41:38
assist Yeah, he would get one on that. Yeah, I'm just looking
41:43
at total tackle numbers. So Lee Koba had a day, right, eight
41:45
total, five solo, one sack, TfL and a forced fumble. That's
41:51
a day. Welcome and see those guys work in tandem. The fact that
41:54
Cutter had such a good game, that probably means that Coba is going to
41:58
as well, right, because they okay, who do you handle here?
42:01
They're both running wild back there. You know, I stood behind Ben Cutter.
42:06
Probably should have introduced myself to him getting on the airplane. And interesting
42:09
body build for a true freshman. You kidding me? He's got a Grant
42:16
Wiley body. Oh really yeah, back before Grant started doing the hot yoga.
42:22
I mean Grant, Grant's like a buck seventy six. Now he's leaned
42:24
out. Yeah, he's leaned out. Speaking of former mountaineers after the game,
42:34
I got one of these, but which always makes you nervous as heck,
42:36
it got one of these, Tony. It's been a long time.
42:40
You probably don't remember me. Oh jeez, a former player. I binged
42:45
it. Fortunately Corey McIntyre. Oh yeah, yeah, Corey mcint he nailed
42:52
it. Yeah, I got him. Boy, what a nice career he
42:55
had, not only here, but then in the NFL. Charles Manuel saw
43:00
him as well. At the contest. He was going over to Charles to
43:05
Charlie Bauman's place. Charlie's got the place. I don't know if they serve
43:07
kertravel yet, probably want to, but we haven't reached out of state yet.
43:13
But yeah, so there's, as you can tell, guys, a
43:16
ton of mountaineers that are down there. Yeah, ton good representing Corey's sons
43:22
on the team. That's why he he's got another one. He said,
43:24
here's my other he was a receiver. There's my other one right there.
43:29
Long long, he got some offers too. Yeah, he got he got
43:32
a nice littlepreadsheet of offers. Yeah. So he told me that his son,
43:38
He told me that his son that's here is having a great time and
43:42
obviously he's They think a ton of him. They've they've oftentimes plus got a
43:45
As I said this Thursday of last week, don't discount all those kids coming
43:50
back to the state of Florida wanting to really perform well. And yeah,
43:54
c J. Donaldson, Garrett Green's grandmother saw him play for very first time.
44:00
So that was huge for those guys. And I'll tell you what,
44:01
after the game was over, it was like old home week on the field
44:06
between the two teams. So those kids, you know, yeah, they
44:08
all know each other. They're from down there. They played against against each
44:12
other. They some of them were on the same high school teams. It
44:15
was like everybody knows everybody. Hey, real quick. Some speaking of you,
44:20
it made me think of some defensive linemen too. We talked about can
44:22
that group come back to where it was during the four game winning shot where
44:25
you mentioned a bunch of guys you called some names yesterday, but I assume
44:29
besteren and you said a bunch Lockhart, you said a bunch happy for Jalen
44:32
Thornton. I'm not him getting right in there on that. He was good.
44:37
Moba was good. Again. Those were all three higher your top ten
44:39
players. Yeah, so that defensive line came through again. And you know
44:43
sometimes Brad, you pointed out yesterday that you maybe you don't call Martin's name,
44:46
but it was a key play where Martin got double team and Cutter was
44:51
was wide open the gap. It's a great point. I forgot about that.
44:52
Yeah, So yeah, we didn't say Sean Martin's name a bunch,
44:55
but guess what, he had two guys on him, so you got to
44:58
occupy two with Martin. That free that gap for Cutter to shoot right there.
45:00
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45:46
Tony, don't we get kind of preoccupied and get don't want this to
45:51
get away from us. Maybe you were playing on mission anyway. But the
45:53
statement released today by Matnor basketball coach Josh Eilert on a Cook, a Cook
46:00
who of course collapsed during the game Friday nights against George Mason, and Iwert
46:04
said a Cook is recovering at his home in Morgantown. He will continue to
46:07
be monitored and evaluated by our medical team. Brad, you were at the
46:10
game Friday was a scary moment, frightening moment, as he collapsed in the
46:15
first media time out of the second half and was down with medical personnel who
46:19
got there extremely fast. Both WVU medical staff and the emergency crew that were
46:22
on hand got there really cooking, but he was down for every bit of
46:24
twenty minutes before they were able to get him up, get him out on
46:28
a stretcher. And then after the game, Quinn Sleazinski and Josh Eiler both
46:30
talking about a Cook texting throughout the rest of the game and saying congratulations and
46:37
glad to hear that he's home now and resting. But that was certainly a
46:39
scary situation in the moment, horrifically frightening, horrifically frightening. And as you
46:45
said, you know, the care we oftentimes, you know, we just
46:51
think of it in passing, but the care that is available at these venues
46:55
instantaneously, I mean is critical. I saw obviously Randy Matter, who's a
47:00
longtime athletic trainer for WVU, but our team doctor for basketball is BJ Balsic
47:07
and he, besides doing that, his regular gig, his day to day
47:12
gig is he is an emergency room. He's in the emergency room at WV
47:15
Medicine. I mean, he sees these kinds of things like constantly, and
47:21
immediately all of the attention goes on to those guys, and so it's great
47:24
to have that association all the time. And those BJ travels with us and
47:30
we're always bringing we have docs with us all the time. But it's life
47:32
or death sometimes and it's great to have that there. Yeah, And he
47:36
was right on top of this situation and involved in it. And here's the
47:37
other thing. I think some people forget there were other WVU hospital personnel in
47:42
the stands that were monitoring that from the stands. If there was other help
47:45
needed to come in, those people were there too and paying attention. So
47:49
total team effort on that one. Glad to see he's back home and resting
47:52
now super super scary. All right, let's do this thing. I wonder,
48:13
I wonder how long the textual healing song, how many episodes the textual
48:16
healing song has been in. It'd be a good one to go back someone
48:21
that researches such things. Thank you very much, over under over over one
48:27
fifty. Oh that's a good question. I thought you were gonna go Daniels,
48:32
Hey, real quick, one side note before you move on. Jen
48:36
C. Edwards might be fun to watch this year. I won't get in
48:40
the bast player I watched. I watched the last I watched the last ten
48:45
twelve minutes. He's a dude. Yeah he should get the ball, right,
48:52
He's going to get the ball, getting the ball, He's a dude.
48:58
I got olfering of ve. We gotta get tougher, dude. Oh
49:02
yeah, you got a long way to go. We gotta get physical.
49:05
Yeah, you gotta a long way to go. You gotta get physical.
49:07
She got a couple of pieces there. It's a if you had battle,
49:10
if you had battle, he's a that offense. That that's a that's a
49:14
game changer offensive. But you could tell guys were still trying to find their
49:16
their way through, learn the offense, find their spots. But I'm just
49:20
saying, Jesse edwar's gonna be fun. You made it, made a good
49:22
point. And that is preseason game, exhibition game, whatever it was.
49:27
And it was a coach ioword was he into the game? Teddy? We
49:31
had him on three guys. We asked about you know, he's so calm
49:34
and chill and after the game, I mean he just calm and chill and
49:37
measured and Andrew just really we asked him, Okay, what's the sideline demeanor
49:40
gonna be? In fact, I got on him, I said, you
49:43
gotta get a technical like early on getting you know, I'm just gonna be.
49:45
I'm gonna be. Call didn't take long, but my man was animated
49:50
on the sidelines getting after those officials. The block charge thing, we'll get
49:53
into that as this show moves on. The block charge thing is there.
49:58
Josh is arguing with that he was. He was great. I thought,
50:00
that's the other part we'll talk about. Staff wise. I continue to be
50:04
impressed not only what the job Josh does, but these assistants as well.
50:07
They were all engaged coaching, talking, talking to these players. It was
50:12
it was fun to watch them. Sow. Coach Dickey had the first seat,
50:14
didn't he was Coach Dicky was right in the Coach Dickey been in a
50:17
few few hoop hoop tussles through the years. I was good, but it's
50:22
fun to see day Sean up and calling a player over right, and Alex
50:25
we've seen before Jordan's bad day. I thought they were all were really engaged
50:29
in Tony. I said, it was a fun atmosphere. I mean,
50:31
if you would have told me we were walking out of there from a mid
50:34
January game, from a crowd being into it was a close game. It
50:37
was back and forth. Wasn't your normal exhibition game. Yeah, that's what
50:39
they lost the attendants that I didn't I didn't see Somewhere around nine, I
50:43
think, oh really yeah, I mean it's break good crowd. Okay.
50:45
We began with a poem in textual healing spread Scopes Triple H big Z from
50:52
Morgantown. Here we go again, Ready for a poem. Sure in the
51:00
rid, Iron's embrace, atal unfolds mountaineers and knights and battles, bold FBC
51:06
mortgages stage a symphony start West Virginia's anthem etched on the heart, Eric Green
51:12
a maestro in cleats, three touchdowns, danced to victory's beats, Bishop's interceptions,
51:17
Coba's force, defensive notes charting a winning course, a seventeen point crescendo,
51:24
fourth quarter delight, mountaineer resilience, a radiant light in Irish jig rhythms,
51:30
the run game sways two eighty six yards and triumphant displays, Beanie's interceptions,
51:37
defensive waltz, Coba's forced fumble, altering the pulse, Triumphant echoes in
51:44
the Florida Night to two Games, skit halted in the football fight. Mountaineer
51:49
jubulation, a spirited cheer, resilient journey crystal clear towards bowl eligibility. The
51:54
path they trace byu awaits the next dance in this football grace. It's pretty
52:02
good. It's nice, well done, Yeah, well done, thank you
52:06
AI, no question, really, absolutely absolutely oh I didn't even think of
52:14
that Nevertheless, he put the components in. I mean, he put the
52:17
recipe in there. He just didn't cook it. Okay, Yeah, it
52:22
can do that. You just tell it what you want, spits it up.
52:24
What was nice? Yeah, Hey, I don't have anything against it.
52:30
I mean you're just like, hey, hey, I hope you big
52:32
z. I hope you did write that. If you did, you shouldn't
52:36
be writing to this show. You should be writing poetry. Yeah, really
52:38
writing songs? Top forty songs Texter identifying as Joe and Charleston. Five hundred
52:46
episodes. What an accomplishment. Some facts and figures. WVU football is forty
52:52
two and thirty eight in the eighty game since this show started. Men's basketball
52:55
has one hundred and sixteen wins, averaging nineteen wins a year since this show
53:00
started. Saturday was the thirteenth road win since the show began. Only tech
53:06
last year in UCF in the Eastern time zone. You have to go back
53:09
to twenty fourteen Maryland otherwise, So he grades us solid mostly consistent win in
53:16
all three phases. That is what fans wanted this season. Joe and Charleston
53:21
anecdotal not scientific. Uh, here's another one that kept track of us over
53:27
five hundred. Hey, three guys, this is AJ in historic South Park.
53:30
I'm formerly the real Morgan in Morgantown. Congratulations on five hundred episodes.
53:37
I took a look at the numbers, and since August the thirty first of
53:39
twenty seventeen, your first episode, the world champion Mountaineer football team and basketball
53:45
teams are a combined one fifty eight and one twenty two. That's fifty six
53:50
percent winning percentage. The greatest Mountaineer team of all time the forty two national
53:54
champs, coached by Dike Race, he had a sixty six percent winning percentage.
53:59
So thanks to three guys before the game for keeping the old Golden Blue
54:01
moving in the right direction. Texter says, I have just two things to
54:08
say. The one weekend I decide not to play Draft Kings and take WVU
54:16
and Kansas and the upset they both would have hit criminal on my part.
54:21
Last thing, Wren's thanks for having us retweet is one of the all time
54:24
all timers. Congratulations on five hundred guys. Yeah, so, after the
54:31
game was over, as I made my way toward the bus is to get
54:37
home. It's kind of crazy what they do there. When the game's over,
54:44
fans are allowed to go on to the field, and I didn't know
54:47
it. So I look over in the tunnel after the game was over,
54:50
like five minutes, and it looked like they were getting ready to start Woodstock.
54:53
I mean it was completely shoulder to shoulder people before they released them,
54:59
and then they let them on the field for about thirty minutes. You can
55:00
just wander around. So I'm looking up top and I see this dude with
55:05
a mountaineer jersey gold eighteen, wearing gold eighteen. I'm watching him. He's
55:12
like full, like he's a three quarter sprint. I see, what's this
55:15
dude gonna do. He runs out to the middle of the field, runs
55:17
up to the middle of the field, drags his heel across the logo.
55:22
He's all by the side, and he just gives it a big wave,
55:24
just gave it a big wave. So I walked down. I start seeing
55:27
people and they started going, hey, thanks for having us, Thanks for
55:30
having us. I got a couple of those tweets, texts last night,
55:35
Oh yeah it's out there, Hey, Luke, play me a, play
55:38
me a thanks for having us. Had a couple had a couple with the
55:44
thanks for having us deal said some other people. Obviously we don't have this.
55:52
Okay, whatever, Well, that's your lawnmower, Joe, guys a
55:58
legation that that's a let's go out in ears and thanks for having us.
56:00
At the end of that, yeah, exactly as you have. You have
56:02
a picture of Eric on that tweet. Did you talk about that? Eric?
56:07
Eric Holt was one of the first ones, and he gave it the
56:10
picture of the thanks for having us t shirt, the blue one. Yeah,
56:14
yeah, that's the blue one. Yeah. So Eric is a Eric's
56:15
a p one one. And these are the pictures Luke that Dave had sent
56:23
you the blue T shirt. Nevertheless, by the way we talked about this
56:30
yesterday, I was kind of dismissive of it. But I think we're seeing
56:32
that a rivalry quickly developing with UCF. I mean, if you go to
56:37
Kansas State, you go like, hey, folks, good luck the rest
56:38
of the season. I mean, I think it's kind of like that.
56:40
I think there's already brad some tension here, and you see f in West
56:45
Virginia. One of the reasons is because of maybe the opponent's attitude, but
56:49
also that West Virginia fans I mean, Tony, you were there, was
56:52
West Virginia representing yesterday. You could hear it, man, you could hear
56:55
it. They were there. They loved it. Yeah, absolutely, they
56:59
were waiting on it and they love it. Talk to a bunch of people
57:01
who made the week out of it. It came down and went to Disney
57:07
did this the thempar stuff like that? So good. Welcome to the Big
57:09
twelve Leather and it's a good destination. Mountaineers will be well represented every time.
57:13
Yes, they play there. But thanks thanks to all the folks for
57:15
the thanks for having us mentioning that. Eric, thanks for the purch of
57:19
your T shirt. Those are available at episode eight hundred dot com if you
57:22
would like one. Yeah, Lewis and Lewis Bourg probably not his real name,
57:27
writes in haters had a bad day today. Let's go mountaineers, Texter,
57:32
Hello, Scope spreads doctor Kerchivill, PhD. When I was a student
57:37
at Concord, I read is it how do you say? Guys name Goeth
57:43
Faust, So I was definitely thinking of that when the Faustian Agreement reference was
57:49
mentioned. I was very relieved when doctor Kerchievell stepped in and explained it we
57:53
have spreads on stats. Can we get a segment where Hoppy explains literary references
57:58
brought to us by the book Extra Change. Anyway, I'm glad the Mountaineers
58:02
broke the losing streak. This team is very fun to watch. Keep the
58:07
great content coming. I'll listen and occasionally watch as long as this train keeps
58:12
on rolling down the line. Jeff and Edwards, California. Hey, Tony,
58:16
I followed up on this, and I think I have this right,
58:19
but as usual, there's probably an element there that's incorrect. Is that the
58:22
whole Faustian bargain? And but you all can relate to this because one of
58:28
the great rock guitarists of all time is Erry Clapton and he has the song
58:31
with Crossroads went down to the Crossroads. Yeah, sure, okay, And
58:35
that's reference to Robert Johnson, the great blues guitarist who supposedly went to the
58:39
crossroads and sold his soul to become one of the great blues guitarists of all
58:44
time. The Faustian bargain there, So that's what Crossroads is about. So
58:47
it's that here's another one along that line. This is signed by not Dean
58:52
Smith from North Carolina. Of course the dean was correct regarding the Faustian bargain,
59:00
and of course the other two guys tried to make it sports related when
59:02
it was not best line and all of that is quote, can't you just
59:07
let us be dumb and leave us alone, hoppy? The teaching never ends.
59:10
Take it from a real dean. So this guy identifies as a real
59:15
dean from North Carolina. I wonder if he was involved in that academic fraud
59:19
situation there at UNS. So there was no fraud there, Tony, because
59:22
every student bread was entitled to take the false class. Well, there might
59:24
have been fraud, but there wasn't an NNCA A violation. I think that's
59:28
an important distinction because it was happening across the whole school. The whole school
59:30
wasn't just athletes. Anyone could take the fame to take the free class.
59:32
Yeah. T. Dub in Barbersville, you fellas remind me he still worries
59:38
about academics when they let teams in That still a requirement for that league or
59:43
absolutely huh, absolutely high thought it went away because no, no, the
59:47
highest concern T. Dub in Barbersville, You fellaws remind me of Johnny Carson's
59:53
character Karnak the Magnificent. You're holding up the envelope and saying thanks for having
59:59
us. You guys called it sports Line, and three guys laid out what
1:00:01
we needed to happen, and we executed to all of those fans who were
1:00:05
done last week. Applications for new fans will be posted at a later date.
1:00:08
You're either with us or you aren't. Texter, listening to the conversation
1:00:13
about attendance at the stadium. I think Tony's take on the reason why it's
1:00:16
down is absolutely spot on. But I also think that it matters that there's
1:00:21
so much turmoil about the academic transformation process currently happening at WVU and the aks
1:00:27
that so many feel about the whole process. I know this is a sports
1:00:30
podcast, but that's got to play a role as well. Hoppy, does
1:00:35
it Are people not going to the games because of the academic changes? I
1:00:42
don't think so. Texter. Hey, three guys, I have to stop
1:00:45
midshow to text in and ask what the heck is Hoppy talking about. You
1:00:52
absolutely do not wear Virginia Tech gear as a Mountaineer fan. You stroll right
1:00:58
into Lane Stadium where in the old, gold, old and blue. I've
1:01:00
been in the situation wearing braves. Geartt of Phillies game. Braves were not
1:01:04
involved in It's worth the bad looks and the words. I promise you can
1:01:07
still enjoy. Enter sand Man with a flying West Virginia on your chest.
1:01:12
Let's go bow in Somersville. Then this follow up is this the guy who
1:01:17
asked about wearing tech colors to their game. If so, that good and
1:01:22
that golden blue really looked in the middle of all that. I didn't watch
1:01:25
much of that game, happened to see that. I watched three minutes of
1:01:29
the game. I at home, I got I sat down, and they
1:01:32
took that shot, and I said to Joan, I said, look at
1:01:35
that West Virginia guy in the crowd the same and then I turned it back
1:01:37
off because Syracuse is so bad. They were getting their butt handed to me.
1:01:40
But the three minutes I watched, was that right there? Really?
1:01:44
And that's not photoshopped in? That's no, no, no, that was
1:01:46
real. I watched the game live. That's a that's a screenshot from the
1:01:50
game. That's that's strong, that's true. And also to the fan who
1:01:53
wore braves toosing, I don't know that I'd play congratulations bo I would not
1:02:04
be doing that. End game text Todd and Missouri, Hello, watching us
1:02:12
defend UCF as they run at will. Other teams will stack the box on
1:02:15
our run game with success. In contrast, we appear to play more of
1:02:20
a prevent scheme, giving UCF not only the run game but also the short
1:02:23
pass is to drive the field. Why do we do this? Am I
1:02:27
missing something here? They ran for twenty seven yards in the second half,
1:02:37
and ultimately the goal is to win the game. So anyway, he adds,
1:02:43
I'm sorry I jumped in. I'm getting excited for my trip to Preston
1:02:45
County for deer Honey. Thanks for the show. Like many of us that
1:02:49
have moved away, the show keeps me connected with my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers.
1:02:54
This next text is interesting. Not sure if you've ever noticed or not,
1:03:00
but the Big Twelve Conference has historically listed all game times in Central Standard
1:03:04
Time. Definitely not a big deal or something to spend a decade dwelling now,
1:03:07
but this is something I noticed. I did see Eastern times the past
1:03:13
couple of weekends, so maybe a national nightmare is over. Signed W Baker
1:03:17
Morgantown. Not sure it's really from W Baker, But last night after they
1:03:24
released the game times for this week, yeah, the twitter verse was blowing
1:03:30
up. Can we put the schedule for this week's games up with the Eastern
1:03:36
time zone representations and all of that. I mean, it was a huge,
1:03:40
huge thing and people were certainly reacting to it, and people got fired
1:03:46
up over it. Do you think we're now at the point, like you're
1:03:49
over the point of no return, Like it's part of the Big Twelve's office
1:03:53
now, it's their collective front of their minds. I'd like to put Eastern
1:03:58
in the Eastern time zone games, at least i'd like to think so.
1:04:00
So what they did this weekend with the new graphic is like if BYU's playing,
1:04:04
they listed one in Mountain, you know they should yeah for that one
1:04:08
first and then you can just do the math, right, I mean,
1:04:11
look for that's the time of the BYU fans, so you can you can
1:04:15
as a courtesy, you could put that in. They did boast it's seven
1:04:16
Eastern five Mountain. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's why they should
1:04:18
do it. Yeah, but I think with the point being BYU should be
1:04:23
thankful that they were able to get that in year one. They didn't have
1:04:27
to wait a decade. Tony bring that up with the BYU folks. When
1:04:30
you see him at the they don't even know that that's a big deal.
1:04:32
Yeah, they'll just think it's just it's normal. But I mean, I
1:04:36
would say it's probably would you think among the five hundred episodes and the things
1:04:41
that we've been able to accomplish, that getting the Eastern time zone fixed is
1:04:45
it's definitely a top three thing that weigh up the list? Could it be
1:04:48
one that's a pretty big deal? It is because it because it transcends West
1:04:54
Virginia. I was just gonna say, the impact that has had to Central
1:04:57
Florida, Cincinnata by you and Utah, Arizona. Arizona say, don't even
1:05:01
have any idea that this was. They're not even in the league, right,
1:05:03
so they're just gonna walk right in think everything's just honkey. Everybody's got
1:05:06
it. Yeah, So a debt of gratitude for that, well, it
1:05:12
was. Wren was a big part of that. What was cross This was
1:05:14
a really good we do the hashtag hat, you're wearing the nice efforting shirt.
1:05:16
Episode eight, Hunter dot com the hat we should do another hashtag team
1:05:20
efforting. There's a lot of team efforting that includes not only just us yapping
1:05:25
about it, but all the fans. The fans have done a really nice
1:05:27
job on this of taking over those posts when they would just lest central time
1:05:31
of jumping in. So congratulations to the listeners. They did a great job.
1:05:34
And then certainly Wren coming in here recently, I know he's a recent
1:05:38
entrant into the annoyance about this board. Got done, made his call,
1:05:42
got done. And you don't have to Tony. The way you play this
1:05:45
is it was for the greater good. So it's not like we got this
1:05:48
done. It's like it was for the greater good. It was here to
1:05:50
help. Yeah, just here to know exact Ren Wren dot of the Iron
1:05:56
crossed this tea. I mean, we wrote, we wrote the letter,
1:05:59
but he finished that he had to put the punctuation out. And then us
1:06:02
putting Justin Nusser from the Big twelve office in the Hall of Fame in the
1:06:05
last episode. I mean, that's certainly that hoped it well deserve to be
1:06:10
there because taking action on the issue. Texter, Gentlemen, random quick query,
1:06:15
why do football players have mouthpieces dangling from their face mask when they never
1:06:19
use them. In the old days, that was illegal participation, not no
1:06:23
mole Ben and Scott deetpot He's right, no rules anymore. Ben. I
1:06:27
think they keep on it. I think they use one, but they let
1:06:30
one dangle and then they put the other one in their mouth. So really
1:06:33
is it right? I think some guys are doing that. Yeah. I
1:06:36
think you'd be crazy to run out play out there without them. You'd have
1:06:41
to have you need to have that in your head. And everybody playing with
1:06:43
the mouth guard in their buddy you need to do that just for the contact.
1:06:46
Why just some players I'm not talking about getting hit in the face.
1:06:48
I'm talking about and your teeth bite down, your teeth bite down. I
1:06:53
mean when you get hit, go ahead, what are you gonna say?
1:06:56
No, just that you see a lot of players they take it out,
1:06:58
They put their home and put it back and take it out. Yeah,
1:07:00
I mean, why wouldn't you just have it though, attach to your helmet.
1:07:03
No, you know, just thinking we should get you Like when little
1:07:09
kids and they have their binkie and they have a little clip, so the
1:07:12
binki just hangs down so you can well you should do that with your your
1:07:15
lip bomb. Oh man, right, Barrad, Like we could. We
1:07:18
could put a lip bomb thing and put it. There's a little hang thing
1:07:20
like there, so you could just get I got a problem with it.
1:07:26
Text This team should be seven and one should be competing for the top spot
1:07:30
in the Big twelve. Instead we aren't. Not being last isn't good enough?
1:07:34
Tired of irrelevance. I want to believe in the climb, but every
1:07:38
time we have some hope is dashed. Is this from last week that came
1:07:42
today? He texted that you got that last week and just missed your cut
1:07:45
and paste came in today? Yeah, I came in after the wind correct
1:07:49
text her hello from Tampa. Signed where's he from? I didn't get a
1:07:54
name? Text he Hello Paul from Tampa. Game summary It was the bad
1:07:58
Bounce house for you see you. The atmosphere as intimidating as they alleged to
1:08:03
be. It's always hard for me to say that because I've had phones on.
1:08:10
They do a nice job with their entertainment. It's nice and lively.
1:08:13
There. Shaq was there. Yeah, Shack DJ as Diesel. Pretty good,
1:08:19
pretty good? You ever stood next to Shack? Not directly. Next
1:08:23
time, I saw him near a pool about twenty ten yards I mean about
1:08:28
ten yards away. He's a huge dude. I mean it is weird.
1:08:31
Was on vacation. That was exclusive place. I looked over. I looked
1:08:36
over. Shack was there? True. I was walking back from the beach.
1:08:41
He was at the pool. He's standing up, and I got like,
1:08:44
I'm getting closer and closer and closer. I'm going like, who,
1:08:46
Like what who is that dude? All said of my bodyguard. All that
1:08:49
Shack over again? Autograph picture, get my picture. He was there.
1:08:54
He was there for a wedding Caribbean. He was there for a wedding.
1:08:58
It was he's huge. I saw him once. He was at I was
1:09:02
covering the Greenbrier Golf Classic and he was there and it was on the first
1:09:08
team. By the way, he's a terrible golfer. But I would imagine,
1:09:12
how do you get down that? How do you do that? It
1:09:14
was on the first team. Everybody was crowded around, so you see everybody
1:09:16
on sort of one level, and then there's this person who's like two feet
1:09:20
taller than and he's a giant. It's weird. I mean, it's weird.
1:09:24
To Actually, it's one of my favorite things. Tell you when you're
1:09:26
around when you're around basketball players and if you're not normally and you're so you're
1:09:30
watching it and everybody kind of seems relatively in the same size group until you're
1:09:34
in a normal situation with those guys like Jesse Edwards comes off the pividium for
1:09:40
interviews the other night, duc H ducks to get down and walks by people
1:09:43
and it's just like, my god, Yeah, Periopolis, Phil Wright's Great
1:09:49
Plane by Neil Brown on those turnovers, especially the receiver kicking it off his
1:09:55
foot, very gutsy. Thanks for having us. I don't know why Malzon
1:09:59
taught that kid to kick it up in the air like that. They work
1:10:00
on it. Huh, they work on it. Why wouldn't you tell the
1:10:02
kid to not kick it. No, they work on it to kick it
1:10:05
in case in case, kick it in case there's yourself, kick it to
1:10:09
yourself or another night there that can catch the ball. Yeah, that's probably
1:10:14
what they do. Sharing his Karen. I mean, also, I think
1:10:17
that West Virginia will clutch think of us. I mean again, the weird
1:10:21
things that change football games in the moment. Think if that kid catches that.
1:10:25
I mean that should be that should be first down inside the inside the
1:10:28
ten yard line there and sets an interception going the other way and they're going
1:10:31
in West Virginia scores I think they but I mean West Virginia fans can relate
1:10:35
to that. Over the last two weeks of weird things happening, right like
1:10:39
the Anderson play. Well, to me, that play that we're referring to
1:10:43
jay Von Baker having to go off of his hand, he's kicking it into
1:10:47
the air and us picking it up. That is the give back for the
1:10:51
Jalen Anderson at Houston play. Yeah, because they were going to go into
1:10:57
score West Virginia instead they come up with the ball. Right. It's the
1:11:00
best. Yeah, but you do you know what though, you get greeting.
1:11:04
You think, because they really fell apart in the fourth quarter, you
1:11:08
think, can you hang on to one of those for another game? You
1:11:11
know? Moving forward? Dividends Texter awesome birthday present. Greg and Stewart,
1:11:17
Virginia celebrated his birthday and he said hard fought, win Green is a beast
1:11:24
Texter Mountain Mama singing country roads in Annapolis. They indeed left no doubt on
1:11:30
the road in the heat, efforting all the way. Let's rock Mountain near
1:11:32
field and keep it going at home against BYU Texter. Thanks for having us.
1:11:40
Drew and Heather Eddie from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. They made it. Look
1:11:44
at it. They made their way down on the field. That's what I'm
1:11:45
talking about. It you just go on the field. Awesome, and they
1:11:47
do a really nice job so it doesn't become a lingering. They'll go like,
1:11:53
you now have twenty minutes remaining on the field and they got fifteen the
1:11:58
service Disney experience right there. That's real grass. I'm like, you're gonna
1:12:01
let those people step all over that grass. That's very good. I like
1:12:04
that. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Thank you to Drew and
1:12:09
Heather. Is that right on campus, Tony. Yeah, it's a portion
1:12:12
of the campus that's really nice. Is it nice? It's nice. They
1:12:15
got nice. They got nice facilities. Uh. And to like downtown Rolandos.
1:12:21
I think downtown was, like they said, twenty minutes away, twenty
1:12:25
five minutes away. Sorry, one more. This is a darn fact.
1:12:30
If I told you, guys and every other Mountaineer fan on earth that we
1:12:33
would be five and three after eight with a win over pit. Now one
1:12:39
person would have said, no, thanks, b Yu. Should be fun
1:12:43
next weekend. What's the story on the tailgates situation. I'll definitely find myself
1:12:48
a kerchieval somewhere in touchdown City because I've been so heavily criticized regarding over promising.
1:12:56
We've turned all of the tailgating scheduling to Brad. Brad, what do
1:13:00
you have on that, b Yu. We haven't been kept in a loop.
1:13:03
You've been talking to people I don't know. We're not doing it.
1:13:08
Is that a hard No? Yeah, hard, No situation beyond our control.
1:13:13
Everything's cool like no one's given us any problem. It's just like circle
1:13:16
back next year. Yeah, see you for the It becomes a weather dependent
1:13:23
this time of years. Yes, if you knew you were gonna get last
1:13:26
week's weather, you push forward, but you might not. Texter huh oh
1:13:32
Hey fellas, this is Mike from the Conley CPA group. Hope you boys
1:13:38
are enjoying another beautiful thanks for having us Sunday. Wanted to share a little
1:13:42
value regarding the number, which in this case is four and a half.
1:13:45
Congratulations to everyone, including Brad, who cashed those four and a half win
1:13:48
total tickets yesterday. Remember, gambling winnings are taxable income. However, you
1:13:55
can deduct your gambling losses as itemized deductions up to the amount of your winnings.
1:14:00
That's correct. I may have hit the over myself, so lunch is
1:14:04
on me PS. Hang the banner hashtag h t B. CONGRATU license Mike,
1:14:12
well done, I think, and Mike can get back to his next
1:14:14
show. I think the legislature changed, just changed the law on that,
1:14:18
so you can deduct. As he said, you can deduct gambling losses against
1:14:24
your winnings. H Well, Brad never loses, so he wouldn't have any
1:14:30
of those. Hang the banner, episode eight hunder dot com tack. I'm
1:14:36
sorry, go ahead, never mind this one. I think you guys are
1:14:39
going to find this super Neat High three, guys, we are welcoming Wren
1:14:45
Marie Turner, the newest and the smallest mountaineer with a win against UCF.
1:14:50
Go ears. This is from Mia Turner in Sacramento, California. We love
1:14:56
your show. And so I wrote back to her, and I said,
1:15:00
you gotta tell me the name Wren. Did that by any weird chance?
1:15:03
Said, And she wrote back and said we were looking for a name that
1:15:08
started with a W. Since my husband's name is will. I just came
1:15:12
across Wren online and when I told him, we knew right away it was
1:15:15
the one. He immediately told me she shares the first name of wv's athletic
1:15:21
director, Wren Baker. Oh, by the way, she adds our dog's
1:15:27
name is Kneelan. That's pretty good. Oka. That baby that's a newborn
1:15:34
right there. Sure cute, absolutely gorgeous little baby. Some hair sure,
1:15:43
uh Texter update, This shirt takes on a whole new meeting when you're a
1:15:48
mountaineer and UCF alum. Fun game and as always, it's a great day
1:15:54
to be a mountaineer whenever you're in Orlando, Florida. He's got the shirt
1:15:58
on that says thanks for having us. There you go listen old version of
1:16:03
the thanks. You got a gold and a blue with some UCF dudes.
1:16:06
It's a nice fit. Yeah, it is a nice fit. Good work
1:16:10
for him. I give him credit you wearing the thanks for having a shirt
1:16:12
before the game begins. During the game. That's well done. Now you
1:16:15
think that's not when you have one over it and then when it's over.
1:16:17
You take that off and wear thanks for having us. You think he went
1:16:20
over to Phil's and had that T shirt like altered and fitting. I just
1:16:24
think youth helps things. Young just fit better, look better on you when
1:16:29
you're young. Well, I mean Phil does alterations over there. Well,
1:16:31
I mean you absolutely could take your T shirt and if you didn't like to
1:16:34
fit and Phil haven't done here about two seconds. His guys, he's got
1:16:38
two master tailors now, not just one, two masters, two master tailors,
1:16:41
my journey man, not apprentice tailors like master tailor. So yeah,
1:16:44
could he have taken that? Yeah, I mean you could take you could
1:16:46
just take take a fabric. You could take a blank bolt of bolt of
1:16:49
fabrics what they're called bolta fabric and just had like a shirt made out of
1:16:53
this. I'll go in the back and say bolt of fabric, bolt of
1:16:57
fabric, that's what it is, industry term. Hop a hobby. Yeah,
1:17:01
Fostonian bargain. Hey, I've had three people ask me recently if he
1:17:06
can take women's dresses over to Phills to get him and he does those.
1:17:11
Sure. Yeah, it does tremendous outside tailoring wall. I bet Benny and
1:17:20
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categories. How about this one West Virginia? Isn't it one in zero on
1:17:32
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dot com. Let's do let's do this, okay, So for our producers
1:19:16
across the way. After the game was over yesterday, I did have opportunity
1:19:20
to meet a couple of mountaineer fans. Uh, let's bring up this young
1:19:27
lady in this picture who said I wouldn't use her picture. This is Susan
1:19:30
Taylor, so she told me so. Her husband asked if I could,
1:19:35
if they could get their picture made with him, and then you know she
1:19:39
she's taking the picture. He goes, he doesn't listen. I'm the one
1:19:43
that listens. I said, so you don't think we're idiots, and she
1:19:45
said no, thank you. And hubby uh works FedEx, their delivery company,
1:19:53
and she's the listener. She says, you wouldn't use I said,
1:19:58
yeah, I'm using your picture. And then here's another one. What's her
1:20:00
name. I'm sorry, that'd be Susan tays. Yeah, she's terrific.
1:20:03
And then the other picture. This is father and son and Hoppy. You
1:20:06
might remember these cats. This is Jesse and Art Rogers. They're from here
1:20:11
in Morgantown. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh they're they're
1:20:15
wonderful. And they were giving me all kinds of thanks for having us.
1:20:17
Oh oh, so the dad, So the dad Art, he said,
1:20:21
I got to tell you this. He said, we're walking out of the
1:20:24
stands, coming down here right now. And he said, and I'm saying
1:20:27
to these UCF fans on the way out and there, and he said,
1:20:30
they're saying, hey, hey, good luck, Dave good And he goes,
1:20:32
you know what I was saying to them, hey, thanks for having
1:20:34
us. He said, you know what, they didn't even know what I
1:20:35
was doing, right, That's why, Well, that's how it all started.
1:20:39
Okay, you know what we need to go do that when you need
1:20:42
to story, go ahead and tell the story. So because there are some
1:20:44
people that want to know how to thanks for having us. Start. So,
1:20:46
when when I worked in the athletic department, TONI and I would be
1:20:49
on at these road games. It got to the point it came up during
1:20:53
the during the rich era when when you we were just you were just winning
1:20:57
every game, right, So that became our little thing after the game,
1:21:00
and it started just sometimes on the way to the busy thanks for having us,
1:21:02
thanks for having us, like like no big deal, like thanks for
1:21:05
having us. Appreciate you. We'll just go back on the must take our
1:21:08
win and see you. And then we got to the point where it became
1:21:12
fun to be on the field or the court, to walk across the basketball
1:21:16
court and you know, give the thanks for having us. Road winds are
1:21:19
hard to come by, right, so you got to you got to enjoy
1:21:23
the moment a little bit. But it was also a nice way. You
1:21:25
don't want to taunt. You didn't want to appreciate the hospitality that the opposing
1:21:30
administrators showed you while you were there. So this so thanks for having us
1:21:32
was a nice way for us to legitimately thank them, but also kind of
1:21:36
giggle to ourselves, like thanks for having us, so a favorite one.
1:21:41
A couple of them stick out, A couple of them stick out. We
1:21:44
had a great one at the Peterson Event Center, walking right dead across the
1:21:47
middle of the floor, right across the loan. We'd always make sure we
1:21:49
get the logo, and sometimes it would be to people, sometimes just to
1:21:54
ourselves, thanks for having us, and we'd giggle in shortal as we walked
1:21:58
back in there. Probably the number one, the number one you see u
1:22:00
c l a poly pavilion. You don't roll into Polly Pavilion very often and
1:22:04
get the wind western he did under John B. Line. We rolled right
1:22:08
through right through the the mid court at Polly Gay Thanks for having us as
1:22:15
we we Uh. It was the radio guys, yeah, and the but
1:22:20
they like radio and they were very very nice. Sure, but it just
1:22:24
so happened right as we were crossing mid court. Their radio analyst screams to
1:22:29
Tony said hey, okay, Tony, safe travels, safe travels back,
1:22:32
and Tony being polite and said thank you, thanks for having us, just
1:22:39
walked out. So it wasn't you weren't taunting the radio throw Okay, but
1:22:44
okay, this is my question. Yeah, and it's a very clever phrasing.
1:22:48
So what percent his taunt and what percent is a sincere professional thank you
1:22:59
for having me. I like to view it. You know me, I'm
1:23:00
not afraid of the little trash talk and Tony now that it doesn't bother me.
1:23:03
In fact, I think it's healthy. This really isn't as much of
1:23:08
a taunts it as it is an internal way for Mountaineer fans to celebrate the
1:23:14
win among themselves. Okay, that's a good way. Crazy, It's really
1:23:17
for your it's really for yourself that you can kind of giggle, lafle,
1:23:20
thanks for having it and walk out the door and get in your car whatever.
1:23:24
We just won the game. It's kind of like, bless your heart.
1:23:27
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bless your heart. Yeah, bless your
1:23:29
heart. That's your heart. Yeah, Okay, that's what it is.
1:23:32
Uh. Three guys, I got a confession. Houston and Oklahoma State losses
1:23:35
are my fault. I apologize to Mountain their nation. I'm sorry. This
1:23:40
might seem silly, but I'm positive it's true. Last few seasons, I
1:23:45
haven't been following sports as much as other things take priority. This season,
1:23:47
I'm getting back into it. Before my hiatus, I had a silly tradition.
1:23:50
I would only shave after West Virginia's game that week. I shaved before.
1:23:56
They always lost always last few seasons, I didn't really follow the team
1:24:00
much at all, and all the record shows. Today Saturday, I'm in
1:24:02
Charleston Conference. We didn't get to watch the game. I decided after last
1:24:05
week's loss, I wasn't gonna shave to prove my tradition was true. For
1:24:10
the rest of the season. I will only shave Saturday night or Sunday morning
1:24:14
for church. But the rest of the week. My next shall be harry
1:24:16
for the Mountaineers. Once again, I apologize to Oli your nation. That's
1:24:19
totinally his fault correlation. I wonder who it was. Yeah, hopfully hopefully
1:24:26
Hoppy can get his beer on the menu at this grill. This is just
1:24:30
outside of Smyrna, Tennessee. Enjoyed your call of the victory. This is
1:24:33
Randy, first time Texter. Hopefully this text will get picked up by the
1:24:38
chat GPT algorithm or whatever the roll of the dice was selection. Love your
1:24:42
show. There it is Hoppy's Harbor grill. How one of the investments I
1:24:45
have other parts of the country bout ramp, bout slips, fishing supplies,
1:24:51
bait pondtoon rentals. Good morning for you guys, great wins. Still can't
1:24:58
believe we coughed it up at Houston. Sitting here after a few bruise unfortunately
1:25:02
not Kerchievel's. I'm wondering who all we will can retain for next year to
1:25:08
continue to build momentum we were closed last year. Still need to win for
1:25:12
a Bowl. But let's get off the coaches and enjoy the rest of the
1:25:15
year. Houston to have a bad day yesterday, Brad, Yes, forty
1:25:19
eight seven? Is that what it was? Thought? It was forty two?
1:25:23
Nothing or something? Is text? Three guys. I hope this gets
1:25:28
in before the text deadline. While watching the game, I couldn't help but
1:25:30
think on every UCF third down, here comes a fumble thanks to the Senators
1:25:35
Sat bring on the Koogs. This is signed by the three guys. Gi
1:25:40
doc, I met his sister, met his sister. Now, I met
1:25:45
the gi doc's sister yesterday at the game. Really yeah, she identified as
1:25:51
the gi doc's sister. So he's talking about talked about on Thursday. UCF
1:25:57
is fourth nationally and third down fumbles hopped in lead. The stat didn't think
1:26:00
what would happen now? Interestingly, the fumblestat for that game. Both West
1:26:04
Virginia and UCF have have not recovered a lot of fumbles, tied for one
1:26:09
hundred and twenty first in the country out of what one thirty two in fumble
1:26:13
recoveries. Each just had one each the lea end of the game. Western
1:26:16
got one came on second now close, so there were no third down fumbles.
1:26:19
Was not Texter got a fumble on second now scope spreads Hoppy to the
1:26:25
third January of twenty ten. I took my nephew to his first Mountaineer game
1:26:29
at the Gator Bowl. He later graduated from UCF. Today there he is
1:26:34
Hoppy. When he brought him to the Gator Bowl, he said, hoot,
1:26:36
he was at Hooter Hooters today, almost fourteen years later. We attended
1:26:41
the game together. Love the show, keep up the good work. There
1:26:44
he is now he's all grown up in a black shirt. There Jason from
1:26:46
Ronziffertz got the Mountaineer gear on excellent, so he brought the He brought the
1:26:50
young, brought the young. Can we should go back to the Hooters picture
1:26:54
again? So that is him when he was what did you say he was
1:26:57
fourteen? He's fourteen there and now go to the next picture and now he's
1:27:00
all growed up. That's great, he's all growed up there and that kind
1:27:03
of neat. There you go, all right, that great week in Orlando.
1:27:14
Congreat congrats to the world champion Mountaineers. We now live in Orlando.
1:27:18
Can't wait till next week to get back to Mylin Push Car Stadium. There
1:27:23
you go, Hey, Friday, I was working on a news story,
1:27:30
working on a commentary. Sure, yeah, So I called the prosecuting attorney
1:27:34
of Jefferson County. Yeah, and left him and it well, actually he
1:27:39
called me and then it was like when I picked up the phone, he
1:27:44
said, hoppy, hoppy, hoppy, Matt Harvey, big three guys,
1:27:48
listener, Thank you, Prosecutor Harvey. It was Texter says, UCF was
1:27:56
nice enough to let the fans on the field after the game. Seventy five
1:27:59
percent on the field, we're mountaineers. Great win. How about these guys
1:28:03
there, How about that powder blue mountaineer gear stuff? I hadn't seen much
1:28:06
powder blue, almost a UCLA look to it. Texter just want to brag
1:28:12
on the quality of guys. These young men are. To make it a
1:28:15
priority to greet every fan along the sideline. Speaks volumes to how much they
1:28:18
care about the state. So we got this group of So there's CJ saying
1:28:24
hi to the fans after the game, and then you got Garrett saying hi
1:28:28
to the fans after the game, and then fifty four Zach Frazier saying hi
1:28:32
to the fans after the game. And here's some of those two fans after
1:28:38
the game. Looks like he might be wearing that shirt. From that shirt
1:28:42
I've seen. That shirt's got a bunch of stuff on it. They go
1:28:44
back to the Garrett picture real quick. So Garrett right there. I know
1:28:46
he's talking about near fans, but that's a very good see that. That's
1:28:49
like the epitome of a thanks for having us. But that's very well could
1:28:55
be a thanks for having us. Oh or I certainly I fiel, thank
1:28:58
you, thank you for having thanks for having us. There's a lot of
1:29:00
fans there. Oh yeah, they were, they were waiting. Dude,
1:29:02
I haven't played an Eastern time zone in the league game in twelve years.
1:29:08
You know what, So is this nice Carquest Bowl win yesterday? So listen,
1:29:12
hey, listen. A nice trip down to Florida, last young,
1:29:15
nice experience, last think of this. We'll get bull rings out of that.
1:29:20
Last road league win, last road league win in the Eastern time Zone
1:29:29
before yesterday was when Steadman caught the ball against us USF and fell on it
1:29:35
and they had to pick them up. Otherwise you don't go anywhere. So
1:29:40
your last two Eastern time Zone Bowl League wins are in Florida. Yeah,
1:29:45
good, interesting stint, Yeah, Texter. I had the pleasure of taking
1:29:48
in the game this weekend from beautiful Grant County on a hike up to Chimney
1:29:54
Top, listening to the whole game on my battery powered FM radio without a
1:29:58
doubt, the most complete f for this season. Very pleased with the effort
1:30:02
of the team and Neil's game plan and aggressive play calling. Following the hike,
1:30:08
my wife and I ventured over to Randolph County to enjoy an evening at
1:30:12
the Forks Restaurant and in where we enjoyed a lovely dinner in evening. What
1:30:15
a great weekend in West Virginia and a great win. Let's go Greg and
1:30:19
Pittsburgh. Texter. Who doesn't love a Thanks for having us game when you
1:30:24
need it the most. I vote that Faustian bargain now also refer to the
1:30:29
Notre Dame coach as well. Congratulations five hundred shows. I can't wait for
1:30:32
the next two nine to nine. Ben in Chicago, Texter says happy five
1:30:39
hundredth looking forward to eight hundred as I know you clowns will pull it off.
1:30:44
Great win yesterday. I'm looking forward to my second night game of the
1:30:46
season. Hoping you all can effort some type of a food court this weekend.
1:30:49
Hey, Tony. One of the that was Jennings. By the way,
1:30:53
pe n p one one of the we play mount your final jeopardy on
1:30:59
our pregame show and the question because it has to be an answer, but
1:31:01
the question, uh, the answer was this Mountaineer quarterback accounted for five touchdowns
1:31:11
in the last time West Virginia played at UCF in two thousand and three.
1:31:17
Indeed, Rashid and so I texted him. Of course he would have been
1:31:23
on the trip with the Mountaineers. I text him, I say good luck,
1:31:25
and I said you had five touchdowns in that game for passing, one
1:31:29
running, and he said I should have had six. And there's a player
1:31:33
that's exactly what they think about. Yeah another one. Yeah, you know
1:31:38
Rashid's I mean, so many of those guys remember all their plays. Why
1:31:42
does Undra not remember his fumbles? Now? Why do you have to do
1:31:45
that? Just why do you have to do that? I told you what
1:31:48
happened when I sent him the videotape of his fumble against Boston College. I
1:31:53
tell you that. He said, I need to verify it, right,
1:31:54
said I need to research that. I said, research what you just fumbled
1:31:58
on. It's on camera. Research it. We must have a crack crew
1:32:01
working on it. Because I haven't heard back from him now in about eight
1:32:04
weeks. That's really unfair. I mean, you've tainted his career. I've
1:32:10
bolstered his career. No, you've tainted it bolstered. How many times do
1:32:15
I say he left as the third all time leading rusher after I disparage his
1:32:18
fumbling. Gentlemen, Happy five hundredth I've only been listening since January. Sad
1:32:27
to think you won't make eight hundred. Your podcast is good therapy, Hoppy.
1:32:30
I've been listening to you for a long time, and I'm glad you
1:32:33
straightened out the others on the Faustian bargain. Brad good analysis, and I
1:32:38
really agree with your take on Coach Brown and those who want to run him
1:32:41
out. Tony, I've been listening to you for a long time and you
1:32:44
always make me laugh. I really enjoyed your banter with coach Wallace today about
1:32:47
going for three or for the first down. His knickers were twisted, weren't
1:32:53
they great? Chompfellas, big win for the World champs. Let's keep them
1:32:57
coming, Dink and Bridgeport. So late in the game when they went for
1:33:00
that fourth and two and converted on the EJ. Horton pass, a coach
1:33:03
is going like, I don't know if you don't take the field goal here,
1:33:06
and I'm going like, it's still a three score game even if you
1:33:10
hit the field goal. He goes, yeah, it is. But even
1:33:14
if they score, all you need to do is come back and hit a
1:33:15
field goal again. And I I'm like, I don't know. That was
1:33:18
nice point. You did a great job. I loved hearing this. After
1:33:20
the game. He talks about how he dives heavily in the analytics on Thursday
1:33:24
and he and he was going to beat They were going into that game aggressive
1:33:27
based on what they told him, based on what UCF does. They were
1:33:30
going all the way up to the minus thirty, he said, so,
1:33:31
meaning back to the Basically your own twenty would have gone forward on fourth downs?
1:33:38
How about that? Yeah, so again it's not willy nilly, not
1:33:41
just out there. Well, I don't know how they we'll go for it
1:33:43
right now. Hey, we'll go for it. That's good. Well,
1:33:45
I don't know shus we go for it. I don't know what do you
1:33:46
guys say? That's not quite hard, that's just Also, that's just I
1:33:48
mean, that's planning. So you know you're not standing over there looking around
1:33:51
trying to figure out what to do. So that's pretty interesting to hear.
1:33:55
It was this next Texter is not an good place. Excuse me, he's
1:34:01
not happy, three guys. I am historically a rational fan. I've never
1:34:05
been a fire the coach guy. But leaving the stadium after Oklahoma State,
1:34:10
I emailed the trust and canceled my recurrent donations for football. I wanted to
1:34:15
move on from Neil. I was beyond frustration all week. I refused a
1:34:18
weir West Virginia gear. I took down my flags. I even refused to
1:34:24
listen to your preview podcast until Friday, which is extreme for me. I
1:34:28
was prepared to not watch today, but my heart changed my plans This was
1:34:32
one of the more fun games in the Brown era. Garrett Green is good,
1:34:36
maybe the most complete QB we've had since Gino. Sorry, will the
1:34:41
future with Garrett Remac Malone, Jaheem Rodney Ray is bright and cautiously excited.
1:34:48
Neil did a fantastic job getting them ready and called a flawless game. I
1:34:53
really want to be one hundred percent invested, but I need to see us
1:34:55
ranked again before I'm ready to be there. We have not been rananked in
1:35:00
five years. This is not the program I've been devoted to for forty five
1:35:03
years. I think it's possible for Neil to get us there. He's got
1:35:08
four games to do it. If he gets us ranked, I'm all in.
1:35:12
I know it's arbitrary, but if he doesn't get us ranked, I'm
1:35:15
one hundred percent out on him and will not be back to a game and
1:35:19
will not donate until he's gone. Signed by Ryan and Covington, Kentucky and
1:35:25
Carer and from Weirton. Originally, well, you got this four games and
1:35:29
they all you put them all, even the Oklahoma game, I mean they
1:35:32
just lost to Kansas. You put them all. Brad in the winnable category,
1:35:36
right, You're not looking into these games thinking, oh, you can't
1:35:39
win. They're all in the winnable category. As you said, West Virginia.
1:35:42
Three of those wins have come against teams where you were where the other
1:35:45
team was favored by a touchdown. And just keep coming, like everybody,
1:35:47
just chill out, just keep coming. You got three losses, one on
1:35:50
an absolute fluke play. It just doesn't happen, Hail Mary. The other
1:35:54
one lost to the top ten team. Okay, Mike and Meadowbrook. Three
1:36:01
guys, you have a knack for making non prediction predictions. This time Brad
1:36:05
comments on a three hundred yard rush game West Virginia basically resembled those remarks Donaldson
1:36:12
White complimented by Green, there you go. You know what's going to miss?
1:36:16
You know, for a team that couldn't run the ball into the into
1:36:19
itself for a couple of years, this team's now gone over two bills two
1:36:24
straight games, which is encouraging. Moved to eleven and one under Neil Brown
1:36:29
when rushing for more than two hundred yards, one loss being to oak State.
1:36:31
Good to have that reassembled O line. Even though you got a yeah
1:36:34
you lost, I hope arrests. Yeah, me too. Really, hope
1:36:40
he's okay. Last text of episode five hundred. Hey guys, Rocky Bombay
1:36:45
here following up a few weeks ago. Hopy, I apologize. It took
1:36:46
me a while to respond. Some of the details of why I have been
1:36:49
abroad for the past twelve years. Long story short, were missionaries South Asia
1:36:55
efforting to encourage and strengthen local churches minority Christian populations. During the Good News
1:37:00
we reach out to different people groups across the nation. We love what we
1:37:02
do, but it's a challenge, as you can imagine, to be away
1:37:04
from home loved once for long stretches. We often say we've made the tough
1:37:09
decision to step away from something we love for something we love more. West
1:37:14
Virginia International Connection Store in my family and I check into a hotel while traveling
1:37:17
on Saturday. Remember we're ten and a half hours ahead of Central time.
1:37:21
I took the kids to the hotel pool. Third song on the radio,
1:37:26
we hear Sweet Caroline. Instinctively, I was obliged to sing along in our
1:37:29
family g rated version, which says eat pooh pit, well done. But
1:37:32
it didn't stop there. At dinner, they got live music there several songs
1:37:36
in and you guess it, they sing country roads. My kids loved it.
1:37:40
This happened in just a couple of hours before kickoff time in the US.
1:37:44
Gave me a good feeling that it wasn't only the only time I'd be
1:37:46
singing country roads yesterday. It truly was a great day to be a mountaineer
1:37:49
all the way over here in South Asia. Great win. Love listening to
1:37:55
you guys each week. By the way, I do own property in Fayette
1:37:58
County of course, signed by Rocky Bombay. Appreciate that. We hey real
1:38:02
quick, I know we're behind on time. One quick shout out. And
1:38:04
met some great people at the basketball game on Friday. Stop buy said,
1:38:08
well who were they? But multiple people, one in particular Walker, my
1:38:12
guy Walker from Summersville. Thank you to Walker, Walker from Somersville. Younger
1:38:15
demo. Oh that's another demo for us, So thank you Walker. It
1:38:19
was nice to meet you and your family. Was he a P one fan
1:38:21
probably listens, Yeah, well that's good. Yeah, that's awesome. That's
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awesome. Well, very good. Special thanks to everyone for making us able
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with us, to come up here and have supper. Yeah yeah, Austin,
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Very very cool, all right, very good, Adriana Lenhard, Luke
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Rousey, our producers and Austin Wright as well. We're back Thursday with our
1:40:10
preview of West Virginia and by you. Thanks for being with us. Oh
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I gotta tell you something later after the show. I'vebout Thursday. You're here,
1:40:20
not here? Well, I want to be here situation all right,
1:40:27
fine, we'll try to get him here at the music. See you