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3 Guys Before The Game - Utah Preview (Episode 661) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: It's time, your time, our time, everyone's time. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for giving us your ears. As we jump into Three
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  Speaker 1: Guys Before the Game, episode number six hundred and sixty one,
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  Speaker 1: it's West Virginia against the Utah Utes, Saturday afternoon, and
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  Speaker 1: this is appropriately enough our preview of the Utah game.
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  Speaker 1: Gentleman on the far side, if you're watching, is Hoppy Kerchieville.
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  Speaker 1: He'll have obvious observations. The gentleman in the middle, he's
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  Speaker 1: been on a two day bender. And I don't mean
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  Speaker 1: that any alcohol. I'm just saying he hasn't slept in
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  Speaker 1: two days. Trying to mash the numbers together for spreads
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  Speaker 1: on stats of trying to figure out a way what
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  Speaker 1: needs to happen for West Virginia to get a w
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  Speaker 1: all of that plus textual healing. And Hoppy is a
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let's jump in seasons, moving very very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: will play our final game for the month of September
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon, three point thirty is the kickoff. It
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  Speaker 1: is a bunch of stuff going on. We've got the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame induction ceremony, We've got the throwback uniforms,
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  Speaker 1: and while we look back with the throwbacks, we have
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  Speaker 1: history being made. It's the first ever West Virginia Utah
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  Speaker 1: game in Morgantown, just the third ever between the two schools,
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  Speaker 1: and just for the first time ever being played in
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  Speaker 1: one of the school's cities the previous two. We're both
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  Speaker 1: bowl games. One historic Atlantic City, New Jersey, nineteen sixty four,
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  Speaker 1: first ever major bowl game played indoors.
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  Speaker 2: That was, yeah, the one, the weird one inside the
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  Speaker 2: convention center.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct. They brought in natural grass because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't even have artificial turf back then, brought in natural grass,
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  Speaker 1: pushed it into the convention Center. It was the Liberty
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  Speaker 1: Bowl played in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: First, like the end zone too short or something that
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  Speaker 3: might have been weird.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it certainly was because West Virginia got absolutely boat raced.
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  Speaker 1: If we had a longer end zone, probably win the game.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it. And then in one of the
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  Speaker 1: most heinous Bowl games I've ever attended was the Heart
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  Speaker 1: of Texas Bowl, Heart of Texas, Heart of Dallas, I think,
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  Speaker 1: same state.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't go well whatever they did.
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  Speaker 1: The Cotton Bowl was the site it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: just terrible. It was misty, cold, rainy, crappy day after Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been to spring practices that had more people,
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  Speaker 1: just tenable.
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  Speaker 3: And the weather was probably the best part of that day.
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  Speaker 1: They threw us around like we stole something. Go back
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  Speaker 1: one day and pull the stats on that.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: It's do you know who led West Virginia in pass attempts?
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  Speaker 4: Are just saying?
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  Speaker 3: Was it not the starting quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out who the starting quarterback was.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it did not go well.
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  Speaker 1: Jeavon Durant.
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  Speaker 3: Really they threw multiple wide receiver passes.
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  Speaker 4: Nine No, no, that's not right. That can't be right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so oh really what'd you say?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it might say that that can't be right.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at it this week because I thought I
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  Speaker 1: thought that Chris chuggan Off he did had started. Well,
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  Speaker 1: yeah they did. They don't have him as any pass attempts. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not right either. I mean, what do you now
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  Speaker 1: You're questioning wvu's stats on that one?
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  Speaker 3: I am I mean we watched the game chugging. Although
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  Speaker 3: he got a lot of pressure, maybe he didn't get
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  Speaker 3: a pass off.
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  Speaker 4: Just forget, forget that. Yeah, anyway, I don't even remember.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even remember that. I have no recollection of
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  Speaker 4: that game.
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  Speaker 1: And I try to repress it as often as possible myself.
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  Speaker 4: Just forget about it was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway. Point is, this is the first time we're playing
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  Speaker 1: on a campus. It'll be in Morgantown.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I gotta look that up.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get let me do it my computers. Neither one
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  Speaker 3: of you do it. We got a game coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Neither one of you do it. It does not matter. There
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  Speaker 3: was an awful experience. It was an awful game. The
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  Speaker 3: weather was terrible. Western he played terribly. Don't even talk
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  Speaker 3: about it. Move on.
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  Speaker 1: That was the game in which West Virginia's I'll never
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  Speaker 1: forget this. This was like a cartoon. West Virginia's starting
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  Speaker 1: left side tackle got pushed up by a defensive end
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  Speaker 1: from Utah, and while he had him, he threw him
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  Speaker 1: backward and knocked down West Virginia's quarterback. I think I
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  Speaker 1: do remember that like a cartoon. All right, move on,
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  Speaker 1: all right, moving on to further action. As the great
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Nelson used to say, are we recording? Not yet,
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  Speaker 1: We'll start here in a second. All right, hopy, what's
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  Speaker 1: your obvious observations?
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  Speaker 2: Obvious observations are this each team smarting after disappointing performances.
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia we have documented Brad will get into Utah situation,
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  Speaker 2: but they did not play well against Texas Tech. Now
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  Speaker 2: opponent adjusted Texas Tech is pretty good, but the offense
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  Speaker 2: Brad for Utah in a game not effective. I know
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  Speaker 2: you'll get into their quarterback situation, whether he's hurt or not.
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  Speaker 2: But four turnovers in that game by Utah four turnovers,
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  Speaker 2: a turnover on downs, a touchdown called back, And what
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Whittingham said after the game was he was really
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  Speaker 2: disappointed in the fact that upfront they got beat which
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  Speaker 2: we do not expect from a Utah team. So you
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  Speaker 2: got a smarting Utah team and a desperate West Virginia team.
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  Speaker 2: So we will go to the situation with West Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: All these injuries are starting to pile up this Nico
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  Speaker 2: Markell situation, which you'll talk about more. Looks like Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Henderson's going to get the start. Now, Henderson's got these
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  Speaker 2: running skills, but you'd figure if he were the better quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: he would have been starting. But maybe, I guess, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to have a hope, maybe it's a Pat
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  Speaker 2: White situation where the new guy comes in several games
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  Speaker 2: in and gives him a little lift. Nico questionable. That
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  Speaker 2: means he's fifty to fifty. Bowers Livingstone doubtful, So they're
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  Speaker 2: probably out. You know, Brad, you always say you're allowed
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  Speaker 2: to get better, and that's true.
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  Speaker 4: That's a truism. The other truism is you are what
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  Speaker 4: you are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're you're a third of the way through
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  Speaker 2: the season, a third of the way through the season,
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  Speaker 2: and this is probably who you are unless Henderson makes
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  Speaker 2: Unless Henderson can make a significant difference. So I would
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  Speaker 2: just say that this now officially has to be year zero.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got eighty one new guys, you got
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  Speaker 2: all these injuries, new coaching staff.
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  Speaker 4: Just make this year.
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  Speaker 2: Zero and be realistic without being fatalistic or overly optimistic.
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  Speaker 4: Just be realistic.
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  Speaker 2: Try to enjoy the experience, even though that may be
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  Speaker 2: harder for folks who are pay a lot for tickets,
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  Speaker 2: for making the investment to go to games. And you
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  Speaker 2: know if they if they don't see the result on
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  Speaker 2: the field. But you got going forward, You're just gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to be realistic about your chances here because frankly,
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  Speaker 2: starting Saturday, they aren't very good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Hoppy, You're welcome. Those were even a little
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  Speaker 1: bit beyond obvious. But that was very well done on
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  Speaker 1: your part. Meanwhile, I have a massive correction to make.
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  Speaker 1: What wvu's stats normally is flawless. They are here.
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  Speaker 3: They are hell situation up to spading the stats. I'm
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  Speaker 3: disputing you going on and on and on there, go ahead, well.
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  Speaker 4: Well correct the error.
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  Speaker 1: I went back and I went to the ESPN box
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  Speaker 1: score of the game, and I have been successful in
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  Speaker 1: repressing my memory from the game, chugging off through it
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight times. Thank you, only completed nine nine of
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight. So in the wv stats thing, they got
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  Speaker 1: the wrong player.
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  Speaker 3: He can apologize after he jumped down our throat.
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  Speaker 1: Listen you guys, Hoppy, I hope you'll find it in
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  Speaker 1: your heart to forgive me. I do we're coming across
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  Speaker 1: and reporting something that was on another side. I found
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  Speaker 1: the other side. He was nine to twenty eight for
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  Speaker 1: one twenty nine with a touchdown and two picks.
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  Speaker 4: You are forgiven?
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  Speaker 1: What about you, Brad? How the hell with you now?
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  Speaker 3: You didn't apologize to me? Run your mouth all the
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  Speaker 3: time at me, make me apologize on the show. You
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  Speaker 3: never do it?
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  Speaker 1: You were.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going with year Z? You're probably wrong on that?
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  Speaker 2: Who's with me on your zero?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why you're just coming to that conclusion.
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  Speaker 3: Hasn't it always been that way?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: With eighty players?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it should have been year zero to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't run the ball well that day? Twenty one
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  Speaker 1: carries for twenty nine yards. Twenty one carries for twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine yards. Anyway, I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you guys are barrels of fun, both of us.
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  Speaker 4: Well take issue inn with my obvious observations.
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  Speaker 3: Injuries are are a big thing now, obviously, and we'll
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  Speaker 3: get into some of those specifically, but those are starting
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  Speaker 3: to amount, especially the running back position. We'll get into
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  Speaker 3: that here in just a minute. What's Tie Edwards availability
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  Speaker 3: for this week questionable? Because that makes some assive difference.
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  Speaker 3: If Edwards plays, that changes you a little bit there, right,
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  Speaker 3: We saw that in the Pit game. It also listen,
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  Speaker 3: you're at home, guys. I mean West Virginia is a
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  Speaker 3: decided underdog for a reason in this game. But you're
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  Speaker 3: also coming back home. So this isn't one of those
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  Speaker 3: games you necessarily line up and say, oh, you got
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  Speaker 3: no chance here, line up and go swing. They've got
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  Speaker 3: a long road trip. They came in early so that
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  Speaker 3: the travel for them is something that's already on their mind.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Gundhi did this a few years ago. Who thought
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  Speaker 3: they were coming to Siberia, got in here like on
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday or something.
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  Speaker 1: What are they doing with this? What in the hell
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  Speaker 1: are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's another it's less than three hours to
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  Speaker 4: fly here. It's crazy. It's crazy. I mean they just
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  Speaker 4: played a game at ten o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious, man, It's like less than three hours.
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  Speaker 3: See, that's one of those things, hop is. I look
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  Speaker 3: back at that Texas Tech game. I watched every play
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  Speaker 3: of that game, and credit to Texas Tech because what
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  Speaker 3: Whittingham said afterwards, I think you could see that that front,
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  Speaker 3: that front seven in particular, Texas Tech dominated that offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: which Whittingham is called the best he's ever had. It's
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  Speaker 3: got two teckles that are projected as first round picks,
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  Speaker 3: one of them potentially in the top fifteen, and Texas
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  Speaker 3: Tech won that battle up front. But you talk about
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  Speaker 3: a disadvantaged home game for a team in a massive spot,
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  Speaker 3: having to kick that thing off at ten am locally,
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  Speaker 3: that's the rare road trip for Texas Tech. That body
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  Speaker 3: clock worked in your favor. You don't usually say that
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  Speaker 3: going Nest to West or vice versa, but I thought
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  Speaker 3: it did. So what kind of Utah mentality do you
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  Speaker 3: get coming in here? Is this a team that now
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  Speaker 3: bulks up and says, all right, that's enough of that,
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  Speaker 3: We're going to run the football right at you here.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say ninety five percent chance that's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's usually what good teams do.
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  Speaker 1: They have been braided all week about how bad they played.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to come in here and they are going
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  Speaker 1: to be like bulls you know that got out of
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  Speaker 1: their nose. Yeah, that's what's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So that so we'll see, though I mean it's a
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  Speaker 3: long trip. Weird things can happen, and you're back back
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  Speaker 3: at home. So if you're West Virginia, you're playing with
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  Speaker 3: house money. Hop you go out and nobody has any
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  Speaker 3: expectations for you. You're banged up all over the offense
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  Speaker 3: in every key position, so you go take your swings.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about the quarterback position in particular. See what
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  Speaker 3: Jaalen Henderson has. But he's not the only guy you're
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  Speaker 3: going to see. Maybe somebody else wants to step up
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  Speaker 3: in this game and show you some things you haven't
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  Speaker 3: seen yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't know how the fatigue will impact coming
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  Speaker 1: over as far as they head of travel. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're in the air. That other plane comes up on
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  Speaker 1: Saudiyet refuels you while you're in the air, just just
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  Speaker 1: so you can make it, just so you can make
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  Speaker 1: it here. So you don't know how that's going to
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  Speaker 1: impact him as well.
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  Speaker 3: So you're you're at home, big crowd, beautiful uniforms coming out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see the uniforms. You can tell I've
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  Speaker 3: got the throwback logo on myself.
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  Speaker 1: Where'd you get that?
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  Speaker 3: By the way, of course, where I got it? Daniels Finally,
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  Speaker 3: full allotment of shirts, multiple styles of these polo shirts.
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  Speaker 3: Quarter zips. He's got a loaded house over there with
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  Speaker 3: the throwback gear.
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  Speaker 1: Right, let me put let me put this so that
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  Speaker 1: constitutes is he's got a whole throwback department.
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  Speaker 3: Now it basically as a whole. There's certainly a wall
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  Speaker 3: you go, there's certainly a wall. I'm comfortable in saying
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  Speaker 3: that you better get over there because it's it's going fast.
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  Speaker 2: Point well taken. There's a sixty percent chance of rain
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday. And if it's and today it's miserable, it's rainy,
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  Speaker 2: and it's chilly.
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  Speaker 3: If the weather is poor and chili.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? It's chili if the sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight degrees outside.
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  Speaker 2: If the weather is poor, it will hurt the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't do as we know, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't do something early, people will flee.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they might. It also might not rain, and it
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  Speaker 3: might be a close game and they might not do
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  Speaker 3: anything early, and you might have a couple of plays
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  Speaker 3: in the crowd might be really loud. Is the other
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  Speaker 3: side of that that I understand. Now you might get
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  Speaker 3: beat by twenty eight, but you might not kerchival.
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  Speaker 4: I understand.
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  Speaker 2: I just that I am not disagreeing with you. I
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  Speaker 2: am just pointing out what I think are the obvious observations.
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  Speaker 2: I may be proven wrong, and I hope I am,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that the boxes check for the obvious observations. Here,
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  Speaker 2: you've got it. Like we said before, you would have
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  Speaker 2: to do some things you did not do in two
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  Speaker 2: of the games with with this, with the injuries.
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  Speaker 3: You're right. And the one game where you did it
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  Speaker 3: was in this situation, right, you got a good team
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  Speaker 3: in pitt at home in your ballpark. You probably shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have been in that game. You probably shouldn't have had
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  Speaker 3: the ability against that pit defense to make the comeback
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  Speaker 3: that you did and have the offensive success you did.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're looking for hope, you're you're correct. I
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  Speaker 3: mean you're a two touchdown underdog at home. I'll get
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  Speaker 3: into how historic that number is. So there's no question
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  Speaker 3: that's the thirty thousand foot level. It's easy what you're doing,
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  Speaker 3: I know on the obvious observations. I think the other
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  Speaker 3: side of it, you play the game, go see what happens. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: see what happens here. See if you got some guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're starting to look on the offensive side,
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  Speaker 3: you also need to find some guys that are going
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  Speaker 3: to be around. This cannot be a total eighty person
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  Speaker 3: rebuild next year for rich Rod and this crew. They've
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  Speaker 3: got to find some guys that are able to come
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  Speaker 3: back and make some plays moving forward. Who are those
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  Speaker 3: guys going to be? Are you going to see some
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  Speaker 3: new offensive lineman mixed in those two? Chemo and Crawford
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  Speaker 3: don't appear on the latest injury report, so that would
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  Speaker 3: indicate that they're going to go. So maybe you won't
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  Speaker 3: have the backup cent that position, but quarterback, you're certainly
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  Speaker 3: going to see more run guys running back if there's
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  Speaker 3: no Edwards or if Edwards is limited, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to see some other guys.
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  Speaker 2: No Bowers, no Bowers probably, And what Tony, what did
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  Speaker 2: rich Rod say he wanted? The first thing he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do when he got here was culture, right? And
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  Speaker 2: what is Rich's culture?
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  Speaker 4: Hard edge? You know, play through the whistle fore court,
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  Speaker 4: the whole thing. So what do you get?
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  Speaker 2: Do you get that eighty and you guys do was
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  Speaker 2: that culture established?
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  Speaker 4: And will you see it?
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  Speaker 2: Will you see it over the course of this season
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  Speaker 2: if things don't go well.
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  Speaker 1: At this point? I think that's the only thing that
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you have absolute control over. Right, that's the one thing
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: that he can control. Yes, if he doesn't see it,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: then he can pull plug and replace. Now, there are
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: going to be certain limitations on this team, obviously from
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: an athleticism and from a physicality standpoint, that their highest
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: level of efficiency may not be where you need to
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: be in the Big twelve conference. That eventually will get fixed.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: But to your point, the one thing he can control
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: and they can control is the the ferocity the physicality
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: that they play with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who and if a guy, look, if you're getting
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• 16:10
  Speaker 2: isn't performing, what the heck? Yeah, pay another guy who
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  Speaker 1: And as this thing continues to go the way that
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  Speaker 1: it is right now, I think he will ramp up
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  Speaker 1: that part of it. Like then I think he'll become
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  Speaker 1: absolutely obsessed with if you're not giving it to me
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: all then I think that will be the extra point
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: that he because that's the one thing he can still hang.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Out and so that that was a message this week, Right,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: he didn't feel that was there against Kansas on the road.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: So that's why you've got to feel better about coming
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: home that at least you get that part of it.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: And listen, this totals down. This is the lowest total
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's had to this point, So the odds makers
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: aren't thinking that Utah is going to put up a
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: lot of points. Either's down to forty seven and a half,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: so that denotes a potentially low scoring game, which, again,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: with West Virginia's offense, he'd be crazy to think otherwise
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: at this point until proven differently. But if West Virginia's
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: defense can hang around enough and not be worn out
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: by the end, that's why it's incumbent upon this offense
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: to do enough that the defense gets to rest a
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: little bit. Guys, I went back this, this isn't our
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: number side?
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Is it spreads onto It's not.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: But you know what's interesting that Kansas game? Watching that again,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know that I ever had the feel that
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: West Virginia was going to win that game, and I
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: know the score ended up where it did, but there
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: were some wild stats. If you go back and look
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: at that defensive performance within that game, it really wasn't
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: nearly as bad as that as that game indicated.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Four explosives, four explosive.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: But here's what's more to that point, West Virginia had
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: three explosives in a game when it felt like it
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: didn't do anything offensively, they just happened to score three
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: touchdowns on that correct plus ad and a kick return.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: So it's one of those the defense you might have
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: walked out of there thinking, oh no, the defense isn't
• 17:45
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• 17:47
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• 17:49
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that you have an epiphany in a
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  Speaker 3: a couple ways. If West Virdiny's going to be in
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  Speaker 3: So we started with and I think you have to
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: start this with Utah's offense in that offensive line. What
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  Speaker 3: is that going to look like? What's their ability to
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  Speaker 3: line up and run it on you? You're getting the
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  Speaker 3: number ten national offensive success rate team, So number ten
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: in offensive success rate nationally. Against West Virdini's defense, that's
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: number eleven an opponent offensive success So you've got good
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: on good Right here, you get the number two rush
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: offense success rate in the country in Utah. Going against
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's defense in that same category, that's nineteenth. You're
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: getting the number three nine pass offense success rate team
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: going against West Virginia's defense. That's number twenty in that category.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Stop there, that's a hell of a number, dude, considering
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: where they were a year ago. Right, you're at twenty
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: right now, right, no one's really singing that sets.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Again to get pass against rush you're nineteen and overall
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: you're eleventh. You're a top eleven defense against opponent's success
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: rate right now playing against two pretty good teams in
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: pitt and Kansas and Ohio. You not bad. So it's
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: kind of schedule strength wise. You have a more difficult
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: schedule than what Utah has faced so far.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: That's kind of getting that storylines kind of getting lost.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: It is getting lost because the offense has had so
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: many struggles and injuries. That's what I'm saying. In a
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: game that's predicted to be low scoring with a Utah
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: quarterback that's dinged and you don't know how much that's
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: your formula at home? Long travel trip turnover prone Utah
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: from last week? Does that travel? Do you get some turnovers?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: The hard part of this is I think we're going
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: to find Texas Tech's defenses for real. That's the challenge.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: So if you're just trying to do it off a
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: one game sample and that's the only game Utah has
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: played that's mattered and they really struggled offensively, well, was
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: that more Texas Tech related? Can West Virginia duplicate that
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: you're not dealing with West Virginia's defense from last year,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: You're dealing with one that has been pretty good, even
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: though you got blown out against Kansas Again, I'll mention
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: some of those numbers. It wasn't nearly as bad as
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: the score indicated.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Can I throw something out there? My recon? I've got people, right,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I got people. They say, Devin Dan Pierre. Their quarterbacks
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: ankle much better this week than it was last week, Sony.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Anyone thinking like he's going to come in here dragging
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: his leg, that's not going to be the case.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because they definitely do not minimize injuries that Utah certainly.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: They went through all last year with Cam Rising said
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: he's gonna play every week, and he never played. So
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: they never minimize it. So I'm sure the people that
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: gave that to you are one hundred percent.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, Custodian.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: No, nobody, everybody in college football minimizes the injury situation,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: especially to starting quarterbacks.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: That's good. It's a very solid point on your part.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: There was a dust up this week following that game
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: that Utah perhaps omitted certain key injury information last week.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Now you're right, damp Pierre not on the injury report
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: this week. That's that's the report coming out of Utah's
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: He's fine, okay last week you'll see. But that's a
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: critical component of this, especially running the football. He's a
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: huge part of this. Stop me if you've heard this before.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: He's another mobile quarterback that can take off and run.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Twenty two percent of his carries so far have been
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: scrambles eight yards per attempt. Here's the here if you
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: want to niche this down on the field, to watch this,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: it's a couple things. Fifty percent of damp Yar's rushing
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: yards are around the two ends. Makes sense. That's where
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: your pros are, and if you're scrambling, you're more liable
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to take off around the outside. Right, Fifty two percent
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: of this team's rush yards are around the two ends,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: so they've liked to go outside. Fifty five percent of
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Utah's rushing first downs have come around the ends. Again,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: running to where your strengths are. Can West Virginia shut
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: down both areas of the run game? Can you hold
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the line inside? Which Texas Tech did extremely well. They
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: held Utah to just three point three yards per carry.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: That was part of the success. They didn't feel Utah
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: could beat them through the air and deep downfield, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: they just pushed everybody up in there and condensed that
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: field and handled that running game. And I'll get to
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: a number right well, I'll do it right now. Thirty
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: eight percent of Utah's rush yards came around the ends
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: against Texas Tech, so they closed off that avenue as well,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: held the trenches in the middle, and won the outside battle.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: They held damp Here to just one point eight yards
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: per carry. He only had four quarterback scrambles and six
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: cold runs. Some of that was probably due to that
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: ankle that is now healed completely. He's one hundred percent
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: this week, so that won't be a factor, Hobby, But
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: last week it was a factor.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: And you're hear in this particular game, you're hearing that too.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: That's the narrative that's coming out of camp that he's
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: and he very well. Maybe I'm not saying that he's not.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying you got to test that and see,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: because if he's one hundred percent healthy and you let
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: him outside, you got big problems there. Right, He's going
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: to take advantage of that. So I recognize that this
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Western defense has faced a pretty good offense in pit
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: a good offense, really good offense. I thought in Kansas.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: This is a little different. They're going to do some
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: motion and some shifting, but not like Kansas. They're gonna
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: line up behind that line, and I think we agree
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: what you said. I agree with what you said earlier.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: They're going to say, is that right. We didn't run
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: it last week. We're gonna run it. We're gonna line
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: up and run the football right at you can West
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Virginia match that challenge. Here's one of the other stats
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: coming out of that Kansas game. I reference the defensive
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: numbers for West Virginia were a little bit better than
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: they looked on the field. You help Kansas to a
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: negative offensive EPA for the game expected points at it
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: just kind of overall, how effective is each play at
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: getting you closer to scoring points negative offensive EPA for
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: that Kansas team. So that's rare forty one points that
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: speaks to the BEA and they were held to a
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: negative EPA and the kick return that wasn't factored into
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the offensive EPA. All right, So what can you do
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: with the pressure in this game? Can you get after
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Dan Pierre when he passes, if you can shut down
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the run and force him to throw. Can you get
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: by those tackles? First of all, is Jamoy Robbins and
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: who got in twenty six snaps last week? Is he
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: ready to go?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: He hit the over Dinny yeah, way over?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, way over? Can he go this week and
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: be a factor in the rush in the past rush
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: game around the tackles? And if not, can you get
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: pushed up the middle from your interior defensive lineman which
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: have been playing pretty well also, So that's something. If
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: you allow Dan Pierre to sit back there and throw,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: then that's going to be a problem. Obviously keep an
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: eye on third down. And we'll talk about this going
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: both ways Utah's offense and West Virginia's offense, But here
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: from a Utah perspective, part of why they've been so good.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: They're number two nationally in average third down distance. They're
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: averaging just four and a half yards per third down. Well,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: that's pretty good. Hot if you're third and medium short, medium,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: then you're probably gonna have some success. They're getting a
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: West Virginia defense that's twenty fifth nationally and opponent average
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: third down distance. West Virginia's keeping opponents to eight point
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: one yards per third down? Which of those comes to fruition?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: You hold them in third and long and make dam
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Pier have to go back and throw with those receivers
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: and your d backs up on them. Okay, now you
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: might be able to force a turnover too. I think
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: that's a critical part of that part of why they're
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: And this goes with the stat third and four and
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: a half per third down means you've had success on
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: first and second down. So while third down in itself
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: is going to be important to watch, that gets you
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: off the field. Watch that first down, can you get
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: a stop on first down and now put them behind
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: the sticks. That's something to watch.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: You know, we already have them out in here with
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: an interception against Dan Pierre before the game even starts.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, Chase Wilson got one, got one against when
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: he was at College State.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's talking about West Prariyon's offense for a second.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Who who's going to make plays?
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Hoppy?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Don't we say that all the time? Yes, who's your
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: guys who are going to make place? The quarterback position
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: is the one that you're going to watch here. A
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: number that surprised me a little bit, especially given how
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: much Rich talked about multiple quarterbacks this year. And we've
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: seen him, right, how many have we seen? Five? Four four?
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: The over three and a half hit early on that.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: But Nico, if you take out garbage time, Nico's taken
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: eighty six percent of the snaps for this team. He's
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: taking like seventy six percent of them in just overall.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: So you're gonna get some new guys this week, and
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: they're going to have to make plays. Whether that's Henderson,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: whether that's Fox, whether that's Wilkins, someone's gonna have to
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: make some plays. Who does that?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Gotta come from that. It's got to come from that spot.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Who has Henderson will start correct? Who will end up guys.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: With more.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Number, more carries at the end of the day, Henderson
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: or the or the running back who has the most carries?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Who will have the most carries.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: That's a great question.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: The running back.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I'll answer that by without giving you an answer, I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: will say that I hope it's the quarterback because because
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: if the quarterback is successfully running and continues to get
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: his number call, that means that he's doing really well.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: How they gets stonewall, then it'll be a limited number
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: of quarterback carriers.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Henderson leads the team in EPA per rush right now,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: which makes some sense, right A lot of that came
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: against Kansas. You saw him have some success there. How
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: About at the receiver position, because chances are good you're
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: gonna have to throw it, guys, You're gonna have to
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: loosen up this defense somehow. Utah probably knows you want
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: to run it, hob Do you think they know that?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Are they aware?
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Probably are aware, So.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: You're gonna have to throw it. How About Rodney Gallagher
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: third on the team now with ten catches, third with
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: fourteen targets and third in receiving yards. Here's what's interesting.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: He's the only West Virginia receiver that has more than
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: three catches this season and has a positive EPA per play,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: So he's been quietly. It's not huge numbers. Ten catches
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: over the four games is obviously not a huge number.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Is there a way to get Gallagher more involved in
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: the offense right again? If you could run it, that
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: would help because then it loosens up and then we
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: know Rich can get into the offense at play calling
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: a little bit more and be a little bit more
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: creative than you're able to when you're just not moving it.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Gallagher here might be a guy that you look for
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: and say, all, is he ready to go? Because those
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: underlying numbers are starting to look good? Can he break
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: that out and put some volume behind it. He's also
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: second on the team in EPA per rush. Now he
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: only has a couple carries, but on that jet sweep
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: that's been working.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: So you're saying, pump it to twenty four.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you can't just pump into anybody, but
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: that's a guy. If you're looking for people to make
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: plays that can run it or that can catch it
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: and can be in different spots. Maybe Gallagher is a
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: guy that starts to step forward even more than he
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: already has. How about Jeff Wimer? Is Wimer a guy
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: that's ready to make some plays at receiver? Someone's got
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: a compliment Cam Vaughan and loosen up that coverage on him.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Weimer's moved into number three in terms of snaps played
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: now among wide receivers. Now he has just six targets
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: and two catches. But this is the guy that had
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: seventy five catches and was a thousand yard receiver last year.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: I'll be it at a different level. Hop I understand that.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: But is Wimer a guy fairly big target? Is he
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: a guy that can make some catches? He has been
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: an effective blocker for this team, so he plays fifty
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: percent of the snaps when West Virginia's in a one
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: receiver set, and he's got the second best run blocking
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: grade on this team overall including everybody, the second best
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: run blocking grade only behind tight and Jacob Barrett.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Can you play guard or tackle?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Probably not big enough. But is Wimer a guy? Because again,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have to throw it some You've got to
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: find a way to loosen this defense up. Utah, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: would assume does the same thing Kansas does, where it
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: just pushes guys in, locks up on your receivers and says,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: go ahead, can you beat me deep? And can you
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: get the protection long enough to throw it deep? So
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: run it, try and loosen that up. Back to third
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: down from a West Virginia offensive side of things. Part
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: of why hoppy third down has been such a struggle.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: You're eighty eighth in the country an average third down
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: distance at seven point two yards per third down. So
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: what do we just say for a team that has
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: really struggled to throw the football? You do not want
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: to be third and long, and that's what you've been
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: doing on average, Hence the struggles offensively. But Utah's defense
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: just one sixteen nationally an opponent third down distance six
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: point four yards, so only less than a yard. But
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: that makes a little bit of a difference. Can you
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: be in third medium where you have more of the
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: playbook opening?
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: What else?
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Questions?
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Well, it's all good stuff.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's hold on and I've done. Let me give
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: you two more.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Things, just one other note, I mean, besides Kyle Whittingham.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Whittingham being a really really good offensive line guy, and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: this is their you know, to his account, their best
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: offensive line they've ever had. Morgan Scally is their defensive coordinator.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Former player there grew up less than five miles from
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: their stadium. Just Utah lifer. He's the coach and waiting
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and he's their defensive coordinator, and they are oftentimes considered
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to be one of the best defenses in the country.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: So this is going to be a really interesting Now
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Rich has gone against him on multiple occasions. Rich will
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: beat the Utes four straight years when he was at Arizona,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: so there is familiarity as scheme and things like that.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Though the.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: That lost to Texas Tech, this final score is a
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: little bit deceiving. I mean, Texas Tech got points late
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: in that game. The Utah defense and that backup quarterback
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: came in and was very effective. They didn't lose a
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: lot when it started went out, they got better. They
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: didn't lose a lot, they got better with him. So
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: that final score a bit a bit deceptive. So that
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: tells that Utah defense it is pretty good.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, so.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I just mentioned early down success. You've got to have
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: success on first and down to even give yourself a
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: shot on third down. Utah's defense number eight nationally in
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: early down opponent's success rate. So they've been very good.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: That's been one of the keys, or maybe the biggest
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: key to their excess. Here's here's why I keep pointing
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: to you have got to find a way to throw it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: And I know it's all interrelated. Run it better, then
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: you have a chance to throw it. But hop West
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Virginia now one hundred and thirty second nationally and EPA
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: per pass one hundred and thirty six teams, so you're
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: literally near the bottom. And he expected points added per pass.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: You get a Utah defense that's nineteenth in the country
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: in EPA per pass. So yes, you're getting a very
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: very good Utah defense.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: So the Utah defense comes in and just says, we
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: don't think you can pass it. If you might complete
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: a couple passes, we don't think you can pass it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: We will line up, try to run and see what happens.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so again I'm not breaking new ground here,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: but can you run it with any kind of success
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: which you want to do anyway, which then forces them
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: to have to change that up. Right, Then they've got
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: to devote more resources to stopping your run. Can Jalen Henderson,
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Khalil Wilkins, et cetera come in and spark something with
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: the running game so that they have to come off
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: that and force you to force them to stop the run.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: And then when you have to throw it, can you
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: do it enough to make some plays. That's been a
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: struggle all season.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And you know that, Tony, as we saw last week,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: when the offense can't do anything that fuel positioned in
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: the first half, you just felt like you were in mud. Right,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: You're starting deep in your own territory. You punt, they
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: get a return, they're starting at midfield. I mean, it's
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: it's like you're behind, even if you're not behind score
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: wise that much, you're just behind.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Well Bred's got that stat that this money.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you were plus you were minus fourteen yards last
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: year last week. In field position you lose ninety per
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: or you win ninety percent of the time if you're
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: plus ten. So that's what you're looking for. Watch that
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: throughout the game. If that that's something you know. If
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: you're watching that and it's not the gaps not closing
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: or it's staying at that, but one team's close that
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: has the advantage. Generally, they find a way to pull
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: it out. The aberration though, was West Virginia against Pitt Yes,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: you were like minus twelve or minus thirteen yards and
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: found a way to win that game. That just doesn't
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: happen very often. All right, last set of numbers for you.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about what this line has done. Opened at
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: twelve and a half on DraftKings dropped to West Virginia ten. Again,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: that's a big home dog twelve and a half. Jump
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: back up to thirteen and a half after all that
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: injury news after Rich's press conference, settled back in at
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: twelve and a half. As we record here on Thursday,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: total is ticked down a hair down to that forty
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: seven and a half we referenced earlier. That's the lowest
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: total we've seen on a West Virginia game this year. Again,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: makes sense, two good defenses, West Virginia struggles offensively tied
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: in with injuries. But here's what jumped out to me, guys.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: This is the largest home dog role for West Virginia
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: since September twenty eighth, twenty thirteen. Say that again, largest
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: home dog role since twenty thirteen against Oklahoma State when
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: you were a nineteen and a half point dog. Guess
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: what you did in that game. We referenced it earlier.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: What won the game? Gundy was all flipped out about
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: coming here for the first time.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they they might have come a week early. Two.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I think they took a lou Wendell pond tune in.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, good numbers.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all good stuff. We'll see how it plays out.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Three offense, Can defense win it for you? And the
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: offense does enough to get you some.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Point their pay special teams has to play just a
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: superb game.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Better your defense. So you come into this hot, You
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: come into this at East with defense against offense from
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: just a pure statistical standpoint that you say, okay, it
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: wouldn't be totally inconceivable that you hold them in check,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: get a couple turnovers, and your defense does its part.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: To me, the giant question, and this I'm not plowing
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: new ground. Can the offense do anything? Can the offense
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: keep you in this game and gets you some points
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: to keep it close?
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: And as the build of this program continues, like in
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: years to come, the answer is going to be yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: like go ahead, two three years and go how's Rich's
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: offense going to be gon be like, let's go, yeah,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: bring it on, let's go that way.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: That's where if you're trying to build some optimism for
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: the future, you figure that's gonna come along. It's come
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: along everywhere, right. The first year looks looks choppy almost
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: every time, and then it comes and almost every place
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: he's been or every place he's been, the offense comes
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: along and looks really good. If you can keep that
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: defense playing at a level like this, Zach ally sticks
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: around and this defense plays like that, and that offense
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: comes Yeah. Now you're lining up on these shit and going, okay,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: come on, what do you got who wants in?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Got a message earlier this morning from a Three
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Guys listener said that he stopped at Tutors and ordered
• 39:05
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• 39:09
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• 39:11
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• 39:15
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• 39:18
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• 39:20
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  Speaker 3: Get your connection three or four on the way up
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: for the game.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: A lot of places.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: You know what I have?
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: What are you going I.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Mentioned this on a previous show. That's that, Like, I think,
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: is that a keg? Like a keg of water?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Here?
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Water, giant water?
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: You're doing those one to day.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: You got the giant water?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Got that at Go Mart? Yeah?
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Helkview you got?
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Did you drive to elk View.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: To get it?
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: You need a guess, Well, there's a there's an other
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: at other places, but Elkview for sure has it because
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: I bought it there multiple times. That's a big water.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Look at that, boys, it's a lot of water.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Is that a leader?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: So just grab that.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: It's a leader, right, I don't know, I think so.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: So I take it to your tail gate with some connection?
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Three or four?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: How many? So my question was, remember when I was
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: in elementary school. Perhaps you don't when I was in elementary,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: but remember they said that metrics.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Is one and a half leaders, one and a half leaders.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: So with how many ounces?
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Almost fifty one?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good day. They say if you get
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: sixty four. Yeah, swimming you're swimming down a wr right pond.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Right there, doesn't depend on your weight whatever.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Three guys reminds you that the Hall of Fame induction
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: ceremonies for the twenty twenty five class will take place
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: at twelve thirty on Saturday at the indoor practice facility.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: It's free. All you have to do is just walk
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: in there and it's a well of a class. Some
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: great great names on the rifle side. Petra Zoo blazing unbelievable,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: a member of the WV rifle team. A guy I'm
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing. Haven't seen him in a long
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: time football baseball stand out, Darryl Whittmore. He was good
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: freshman All American football player and then went on to
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: play for the Mountain Your baseball team, eventually to Major
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: League Baseball front Royal Virginia native. Uh, it would be
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: wonderful to see Wit. And then Chelsea Carrier Aids, unbelievable
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: track and field performer Marion County High School before she
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: got just amazing. So Chelsea Carrier Aids will be in.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: And then from the football side, we've got a trio.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: We've got the legendary Pat McAfee being enshrined into the
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Bill Kerlavich, who really is a standout
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: in the sense that like might be one of a few,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: if not the only, just straight assistant coach that didn't
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: play like Steve Dunlap went in as player and a coach,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: but Curlab did not play here. This is just straight
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: for what he did as a coach. Played all played
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: at Salem. Salem's at Salem. And but Kurlab is going in.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: He'll be there, and then the late Bill Stewart will
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: also be in Trump And I know that Blaine who's
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Bucks now will be sending a message.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: And I saw Karen Stuart she'll also speak.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Awesome, it's great. The cur LAVs also interesting from this standpoint.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: So that's the third coach, Neil and assistant to go in.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: So you have Steve, Donnie, Donnie Young, Yeah, and thenker Lab.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: No other assistant coaches in the Hall of Fame.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Don't hold me to it. There might be Greg.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Thought no on sports Online. So no other assistance. Will
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: you ever have another assistant go in? Given look what
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: it took for Donnie, Steve and Kerlab and the length
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: of time they were here to get in lifetime of work.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Now you just you don't stay that long. Might be historic,
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: might not have many, if any assistants going after.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: That was one of the strengths of the kneel and
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: staff was the skill and the longevity of those assistants.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's great similarity between what West Virginia's staff and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the composition of it under coach Neilan was able to do.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: You did have a foundation of coaches that were here,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: same thing at Virginia Tech, right, Yeah, Frank Beemer had
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: a long list of guys. You know, Bud Foster is
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the first that comes to mind, but many others that
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: stayed with him through the duration and that consistency was
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: able to really author those programs.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: And some of those guys, I don't know what they're like, Dunlapping, Curlavite,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they were that motivated to be
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: a head coach.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Never heard it mentioned. I mean I never heard like, hey,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Steve wants to be a head coach, never heard curlab
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: wants to be I think those guys were like they
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: were comfortable in their skin, like this is what I
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: want to do, and for some that's great, right, this
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: this is what I want. I want to be really
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: really good at what I do, And they were, Yeah,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: because that opens up a whole nother conversation that I
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: always I was just talking with someone on the sideline
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: there the other day a practice going, Like, you know,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: why do people think a coordinator is necessarily going to
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: be a good head coach. Got nothing to do with it.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: It's got nothing to do with it. Like, there's no like,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: if you're superb at dialing up places does not mean
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: you could be a CEO manager of hundreds. It doesn't
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: necessarily pre does it. It does not make you a
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: great head coach. Now you could be, but it doesn't
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: necessarily Like he's a hot coordinator. Who Okay, fine, that
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't make him. I'm not always gonna go with a guy.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Ren Baker approach. Show me
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: a head coach that has wonted hard places. That's what
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I want to see. Guy wins at hard places, girl
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: wins at hard places. I want to see that that
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: will normally give you a better chance to have success.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just it's not every school that can go hire
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: that though. So that's why you have to start to
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: list somewhere else. And so, at least from a coordinator perspective,
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: you in essence have been the quote head coach of
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: a part of that. You're not going to jump down
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: to a position coach. So there's your opposite argument of
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: why no, I get it.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I understand, I understand, but I do like those stories.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, John Beeline was a classic story. Right, My
• 45:50
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• 46:29
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  Speaker 3: But those first two jobs a head coach when you're
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  Speaker 3: young at really hard places, that doesn't And that's starting
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  Speaker 3: to happen in basketball. We've talked about that. Guys. You're
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: starting to see coaches that didn't necessarily go on to
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  Speaker 3: be power for assistance get head coaching jobs other places
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: starting to find out. There's good coaches all over, and
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: there's something to be said for running your program and
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  Speaker 3: being a head coach at some point, regardless of.
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  Speaker 1: Level, makes it more resourceful. Mark Kellock, I mean, look
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  Speaker 1: at Mark's background. Ross Hodge, I mean that was hard.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'd coach atjuco is a hard gig.
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  Speaker 4: Last time I checked it was thirty one left. That
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  Speaker 1: I think it might be less than us out, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll check. Yeah, we'd love it six until eight, Mark Kellogg,
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  Speaker 1: Haley admired and loved to watch all the mount Mountaineer greats,
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  Speaker 1: Basketball's Mike Gansey and football's Grant Wiley.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: So that name served as inspiration to name the baby
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  Speaker 1: Gansey Grant, chef fraud. Look at the baby, hot dog
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  Speaker 3: With the chaff That's a good name.
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  Speaker 4: That is that.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta tell Ganzy and Grant that they have a
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  Speaker 1: to your podcast potential copyright infringement of the television show
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• 53:35
  Speaker 1: The Three Guys podcast is basically a replication of Fraser's
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: plotting characters like Fraser, you take calls and texts from
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  Speaker 1: calling patients and provide psychological advice for how to mentally
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: process the ups and downs of the tumultuous life of
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  Speaker 1: a Mountaineer fan. With that said, the infringement really occurs
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: with the replication of characters. Two of your show's characters
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: are highly similar to Fraser and Niles and that they
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  Speaker 1: are socialites, food connoisseur and snobs drink only the finest
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  Speaker 1: are fashionistas that spend a good amount of time at
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  Speaker 1: their local tailor Daniels of Morgantown, and love to throw parties.
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  Speaker 1: Three Guys Food Court. Your show also has a character
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  Speaker 1: similar to Fraser and Niles's dad, Marty Crane. This character
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  Speaker 1: displays opposite characteristics of being anti social highly like likely
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  Speaker 3: That's a heck of a text there that was well done.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: It was that didn't come from AI, was from the
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: heart Joe the Pilot, Uniontown, Ohio via Mineral Wells regarding
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: the rash of injuries as the timing on this significant
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: potential medical shirt to preserve eligibility or is it coaches
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: providing cover for getting benched or do we just have
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  Speaker 4: Question.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: So the news that broke this week about Nico going
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: to Colorado and getting his foot examined, and he's listed
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: as fifty to fifty on the injury report for this week.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: So give me the rule or rules about where things
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: stand with him in terms of a medical red shirt.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: If the specialists were to deem him unable to play
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, he has played in
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: four games, he could apply for a medical red shirt.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: He's already had a traditional red shirt. He could apply
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: for a medical red shirt. If that were to be granted,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: then he would have this his junior year of eligibility reinstored. Restored,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: and he would have another year after that. So if
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: he stops playing right now, he would have two years
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  Speaker 1: to play.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and there would be a just is there a
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: timeline on the decision.
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  Speaker 1: That comes after the season? Actually, oh really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, if but if you don't see him the rest
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: of the year.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Then plays, If he plays at West Virginia again, then
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: there's no shot for a medical red shirt. Okay, if
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: he plays again this season. Three guys, longtime listener, love
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  Speaker 1: the show no matter the season, win or lose. You guys,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: get me through the week and ready for the next game.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Growing up in West Virginia now living here in Morgantown,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I've attended more Mountaineer sporting events than I can count. Football, baseball, basketball,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: men and women's soccer, volleyball, you name it, I've been there.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: And as part of all those games, I've watched many pregame,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: in game, halftime performances from the band cheered dance teams. Well,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: now I have the proud privilege to watch my daughter
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Abby where the old Golden Blue and be part of
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: some of those performances. She's going to be there tonight.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: This is Thursday night performing at b Dubs as part
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: of the WVU hip Hop Dance Team. They're gonna perform hoppy. Oh,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Brad may even recognize her. Can you please give a
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: shout out for me and you guys to my daughter
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Abby has Abby, you make this old grad proud. Unfortunately
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: I can't make it tonight. I'll be taking one of
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: my other daughters to basketball or dance. You make my
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: night and her as if you'll give her a shout
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: thanks to you guys. Keep Clay in Morgantown.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: This will be a first ever for three guys to
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: have a hip hop dance team. That's new.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: I did not know that there wasn't aware of that.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Would they be the official three guys dance team? Then
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: we have a band, We have a house band.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: The Two Sides is our house band, and yeah, that
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: will well, we'll probably have a ceremony, probably raise their
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: hands and make them the official hip hop team.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: By the way, speaking to.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Me, hip hop team and live music.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Speaking of hip hop and music, hoppy, this will probably
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: be a good opportunity. You were aware where what happened is.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: I'll make this story short because it's really kind of
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: a long story.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Stunner.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: But but the wife and I and my wife's first
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: cousin were at one ty three Pleasant Street last night,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: which is a club in Morgantown on Pleasant Street, and
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: they had two bands there. They had to band Red
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Cross R A. D. D. K Ross and the Melvins.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: And I have an interest through my wife and my
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: wife's cousin in Red Cross.
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  Speaker 4: They're a punk ish band.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: They're a punk rock band from southern California that's been
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: around for forty plus years. Two brothers, Stephen and Jeff MacDonald,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: and they are one of the most influential bands in
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: rock that you've never heard of. Okay, They've influenced Nirvana,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: They've influenced like Axel Rose, Sonic Youth, all kinds and
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: they were an and I interviewed them for our State
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: of Minds series. So they were in studio yesterday and
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: I spent a half hour with them on State of Minds.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: And then we went to the show last night and
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: it was a fantastic show, just a wonderful show. And
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I'm standing there, we were right up front and somebody
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: goes three guys and I don't know anybody, right because
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: everybody's younger than I.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know anybody.
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: And they said, hey, three guys hoppy.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: So I already had my ear plugs in, but I
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: went over and talking to him and it was can
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: you show the picture? It was Brad and Derek Felix, Oh,
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: the Felixes. Yeah, so that's Brad on the on my
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: right and his son Derek on the left. Big three
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: guys listeners and Brad. I had my arm around him
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: his shoulders. He was on the swim team here really yeah,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: he still seems like he's on the swim team. They
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: now are in Winchester. At least Brad is and had
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: a nice visit with him last night at the club.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: So he swam for coach swam for coach Gilson, I believe.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: So oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: So I was at the club last night.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: You so you were the oldest person watching a punk
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: group perform.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: There's no doubt about It's awesome.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I love you.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: That's why you're staring this morning. What's your left tight
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: this morning?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: I am in a great mood. I had a wonderful time.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: I had like a great time. And that's one other
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: thing about being semi retired. I got ab at eight
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: o'clock this morning. But even though here's the thing about
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: they must they suited me because the show started at eight.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: At eight, Oh good, that was good. So you don't
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: have to wait till like ten or eleven four starts.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: I mean it started at eight and Red Cross is
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  Speaker 2: the band I wanted to see. Played for an hour.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: Then there was a break and then the Melvins came
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: on and didn't stay for the whole Melvin Show.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: Had to leave them early.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: So sure I was home by like ten o'clock at
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: ten thirty. Well perfect, so it was, but we had
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: we had a great time.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Perfect.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: But anyway, ran into Brad and Derek.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Fel that's awesome, good deal. You say, ice in there
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: in one tooth right now.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: You know it's a cool place. Yeah, it's a cool place.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: And they get there's a story there, Tony. I mean
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: they get, they get bands and again getting Red Cross.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean thing to you, guys, I understand that.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: But getting Red.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Across what helped me in case it was a disaster.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: Not that right now.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I mean I would like that it's a different transfusion
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: or something like that if I needed them for.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: That getting Red Cross, Google Red Cross, Google Melvin's very
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: influential rock punk bands, and to get them in Morgantown.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: It's a pretty big deal.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: To your point, if the Walls could talk inside of
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: one two three, Pleasant, it would be an unbelievable documentary, wouldn't.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: It, Because it's been once he's repleasant. They've done a
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: great job with that. Before that, it was a Naia
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: bingie Ye dance. That is the underground railroad.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: That's like Old Orchard Bypass. Yeah, yeah, I haven't heard that.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: We should get that was a good one.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Well, we should do a show at one two three.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Do you think they'd let us in there and do
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: a live show?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe on and off night it was allowed.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: It's pretty loud there.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: Speaking of live shows, go back to this hip hop
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: team thing. So they're dancing at the Buffalo Wild Wings performing.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Well, since it's a hip hop team, they'll probably refer
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: to it as b Dubs and instead of the Buffalo
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Wild Wings.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: Probably true.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, they're gonna have to move some tables.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: How many are there?
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: You know? I don't, but I do know. We've got
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: five people. We have five people registered for the Wing content. Really.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's great. Hey, I sent you how many.
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  Speaker 3: We have five? Any of the dance team members doing that?
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  Speaker 4: Probably not, I hope not.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody someone doing that. There's some something somebody that you
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  Speaker 1: didn't think would be in there.
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  Speaker 3: As wead you can't do that, then dance you'll probably
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  Speaker 3: do it before. Abby's a heck of a dancer.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, don't know her.
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  Speaker 3: I see a lot of dance recitals. I know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of dance practice. I know Abby, she's very good dancer.
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  Speaker 3: Could you get my trivia questions?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I thought they were good.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty easy but good. But this is fine. I want people.
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  Speaker 1: I want people to win, so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not they're not all football specific, but I
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  Speaker 2: thought they were.
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  Speaker 4: Thought they work.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, very good. You look forward to using those right,
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  Speaker 1: uh text. I was able to make it to the
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  Speaker 1: pit game, my first since two thousand and eleven. It's
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  Speaker 1: a long time. I want to thank Brad for the
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  Speaker 1: shout out a couple of weeks ago. Was emotional because
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  Speaker 1: it was the first game without my dad, but it
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  Speaker 1: was also my buddy Chad's first time at a West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia game, and he had an absolute blast. He's in
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  Speaker 1: East Carolina grad but he was a mountain near that day. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: I was watching some home videos from the late nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighties early nineties and saw one that said Christmas Day,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, I was a toddler watching my sister
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  Speaker 1: play Hungry Hungry Hippos. The camera then turned to my
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  Speaker 1: dad and uncles and they were watching a football game.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was calm except for my uncle Will. He was
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  Speaker 1: screaming at the TV, wishing that someone from West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: would just tackle Thurman Thomas. I don't remember that game,
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  Speaker 1: so I looked it up and I saw that Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: State beat West Virginia thirty five thirty three. What are
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  Speaker 1: your memories from that game? Was Tony or Hoppy? Part
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  Speaker 1: of the coverage for MSN that day, Jeff Goldsboro, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: I got unbelievable memories from that week. Don Neil was
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  Speaker 1: on his way to Ohio State that week and as
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  Speaker 1: the game and as the game was continuing, the pre
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  Speaker 1: preparation was continuing. I'll never forget this. Brent Musburger went
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  Speaker 1: did the game on CBS that Christmas Day and he
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  Speaker 1: came to interview Don like a day or two before
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  Speaker 1: the game, probably the day before the game, and gained
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  Speaker 1: tremendous respect from Musburger at that moment. Hoppy and you'll
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  Speaker 1: get this because when he went to talk with Don,
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  Speaker 1: he brought with him, carried it with him, the old
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  Speaker 1: morants that took like seventy seven batteries and weighed like
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  Speaker 1: ninety two pounds. So he gets in there and he
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  Speaker 1: sits down with Don. I was sitting in a room
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  Speaker 1: and he goes right it ag he goes first off down.
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  Speaker 1: Got to ask you the Ohio State, sorry, what's going
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  Speaker 1: on there? Because like it was a done deal. It
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  Speaker 1: was a done deal. Don was gonna go to Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be the head coach. He'd already told the
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  Speaker 1: assistance on his staff, we're gone. And then the offer
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  Speaker 1: never came from Ohio State. He was told by Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: you're the guy. And then really, no, no, no, no, this
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  Speaker 1: is we're talking football. They hired John Cooper, who was
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  Speaker 1: the guy. I'm thinking I would work Earl Bruce or
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  Speaker 1: whose brother, by the way, lives in Greenborough County. What No,
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  Speaker 1: Earl Bruce's brother lives in Greenborough County attorney anyway, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know that and the week's weather was gorgeous until
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  Speaker 1: until the day of the game and a storm came
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  Speaker 1: through El Paso and the field was literally un invisible.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't see a yard marker, you couldn't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: It was complete snow covered. It was colder in hell.
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  Speaker 1: And I was doing color on the Mountaineer Sports Network
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  Speaker 1: that day. What O'Hara was doing play by play because
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Jack Fleming had a Steelers game. Wow, and poor Woody, right,
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  Speaker 1: you can't see the yard markers. I mean, you talk
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  Speaker 1: about flying blind, and so that that wasn't good. It
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  Speaker 1: was an amazing game. Came down to a two point conversion.
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  Speaker 1: Left side major ran out, couldn't get the ball to
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  Speaker 1: Keith Win and dropped the pass pass whatever, and we
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  Speaker 1: lost that game. Next year, West Virginia goes undefeated and
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  Speaker 1: they Mike Gundy was the quarterback, And Mike Gundhy told
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  Speaker 1: me a couple of years ago that it was so
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  Speaker 1: horrifically cold and bad that day weatherwise, that at halftime
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  Speaker 1: everyone in that stadium tried to get into the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: just to hold off and get a little warmth before
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  Speaker 1: the second half started. And Mike Gundy said that his
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: that there were a lot of people in their smoking
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  Speaker 1: pot and Gundy's dad walked out of there and he said,
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  Speaker 1: like there.
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  Speaker 4: Was always a marijuana although that was it wasn't me.
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  Speaker 4: I smell like it contact you told me, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Gundhy's become a story on this podcast. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 3: a big story this week getting getting fired at Oklahoma State.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of Major in Gundy though, Joe Bricado put out
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  Speaker 3: a video this week. Did you see this when he
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  Speaker 3: came over the major ceremony retiring as Jersey and Gandy
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  Speaker 3: We're playing Oklahoma State and Gundy came over to Major
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  Speaker 3: during the ceremony and said something there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll give you a story. It's not mine.
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  Speaker 2: It's from Steve Dunlap about that game. Because in preparation
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: for Steve Dunlapp then defensive coach for donnelon Uh, he
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  Speaker 2: goes into Nilan and says, I know you guys are
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  Speaker 2: worried about Thurman Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: They got another guy. And Neil insaysted don't laugh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys always you come in here and you and you're
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  Speaker 2: crying all and you say they got these guys, then
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: you know, get out of here. They don't have to
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you this guy. Of course, that other guy
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  Speaker 2: was very sad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dwight Wallace tells the same story because Dwight was
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  Speaker 1: in the box offensively with Mike Jacobs during that time,
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  Speaker 1: and they got excited when they saw Thurman Thomas go
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  Speaker 1: down with an injury, and there and cur laugh Yes,
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  Speaker 1: say the next guy he's better, and they go a
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  Speaker 1: get out of here, he's better. There goes Barry Sanders Freshman.
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  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 1: Gail and Martinsburg writes in hello, all capital letters. So
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  Speaker 1: apparently she wants a So now Brad has a food
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  Speaker 1: management issue and problems with fuel management too. We may
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  Speaker 1: have to call one of the three guys listeners to
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  Speaker 1: step up and develop an app to help him overcome
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  Speaker 1: this dilemma where there's a will there's a three guys way.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, is it true you're efforting baby rattles
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  Speaker 1: and spared tire covers for episode eight hundreds website? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we will have a full by Christmas. We'll have a
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  Speaker 1: full baby rattle section and tires.
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  Speaker 2: We need a bit, we need a infant section because well,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: because so many I'm like Tony here, because so many
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  Speaker 2: people send.
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  Speaker 4: Us pictures right of the newborns.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, We should probably just have some stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we could give away.
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  Speaker 4: Brad's not getting involved in oh.
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  Speaker 1: No, because you know him, mister tightbud over there, he
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: gets all nervous homeless stuff. Tell Dave, tell homeless. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So if you're coming to the game this weekend, Friday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: the food court opens, presented by Clear Mountain Bank and
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  Speaker 1: October seven fundraiser for unit Away, mount and Preston Counties
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  Speaker 1: and you can get those tickets on their website. Love
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  Speaker 1: to have you there. It's going to be a fun,
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  Speaker 1: fun night. By the way, we gonna auction off a
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do a live auction at the event
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  Speaker 1: for someone to come in here and sit in here
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  Speaker 1: and hang out with us when we do three guys. Awesome,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown terrace be there all right? So now I have
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  Speaker 1: we're done.
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• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: in here to recap the game. Next week will be
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit different because we leave on Thursday for
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: the BYU game, which is going to be played on
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: a Friday. If you do Utah's Math. We're gonna leave
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: after the game's over on Saturday night, just to make
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