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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello everyone, Thank you so very much for
- 0:13Speaker 1: being with us. It is time for three Guys Before
- 0:16Speaker 1: the Game, Episode number five hundred and eighty. This is
- 0:21Speaker 1: our Oklahoma State Game preview. And everyone is here. Everyone
- 0:28Speaker 1: is assembled. You fellers ready to do this saying please
- 0:32Speaker 1: say yes, let's go? All right, well, let's do it.
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- 1:23Speaker 1: And three Guys Spreads on Stats is brought to us
- 1:27Speaker 1: by commonly CPA group. They provide value beyond numbers.
- 1:34Speaker 2: They're gonna get value beyond the numbers today. I got
- 1:36Speaker 2: a lot of them boys.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Yeah, give the guy a week off. He's got twice
- 1:40Speaker 3: as many numbers.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Well, you know you're you're a month in four games in.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Now his numbers are starting to mature, hoppy, They're starting
- 1:47Speaker 1: to get some yeah, some credence to them, some value
- 1:51Speaker 1: to them. Lucky that we're even doing the show today,
- 1:54Speaker 1: that it was touch and go whether we were gonna
- 1:57Speaker 1: be able to pull this off? What reason controversy? Just
- 2:01Speaker 1: before hitting the record button, Brad, through a tizzy, attacked
- 2:08Speaker 1: me unfairly, He says, because I brought up Frankie Valley
- 2:15Speaker 1: yesterday near him, that his phone intercepted the message, and
- 2:20Speaker 1: now he's been bombarded with a bunch of Frankie Valley
- 2:25Speaker 1: stuff ever since then. He puts that on me. Why
- 2:26Speaker 1: are you putting that on me?
- 2:27Speaker 2: Because you said it, you mentioned it. I didn't ask
- 2:29Speaker 2: for an update. Now I've got so many I couldn't
- 2:32Speaker 2: even get to my stats packages because I got Frankie
- 2:34Speaker 2: Valley emails all.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Over the place. All due respect, of.
- 2:37Speaker 3: Course, Well, but Frankie Valley's. They came out with a
- 2:40Speaker 3: statement though, and said, he's okay, it wasn't as bad
- 2:43Speaker 3: as it looked, right, It.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Didn't look good. It did not look good. All right,
- 2:49Speaker 1: Courts and Session, thank you for being with us on
- 2:52Speaker 1: our program today. We're back into action this weekend. The
- 2:56Speaker 1: world champion Mountaineers are first Big twelve road game and
- 3:01Speaker 1: against the Cowboys of Oklahoma State and super super interesting
- 3:06Speaker 1: and intriguing for a bunch of different reasons. I don't
- 3:09Speaker 1: know if it I don't know if it makes the
- 3:10Speaker 1: needle pop at all nationally, but I think for these doesn't.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Are these two particular. There's just an immense amount on
- 3:19Speaker 1: the line. So we'll get into that. Bread's got Brad's
- 3:21Speaker 1: got Brad, Brad whatever his name is. Brent, Brent, Brent
- 3:24Speaker 1: here has Brent Brent Howell has spreads on stats available
- 3:32Speaker 1: and he says, got a loud numbers. And then we've
- 3:35Speaker 1: got textual healing. And we also are getting ready. We're
- 3:40Speaker 1: already advancing next week's game against Iowa State since the
- 3:44Speaker 1: last time we got together. The time for the game
- 3:47Speaker 1: has been set at eight o'clock. It's going to be
- 3:49Speaker 1: the Coal Rush game, which means as far as the
- 3:52Speaker 1: Three Guys food court goes there next to Daniels on
- 3:55Speaker 1: University Avenue, super long time. You've got basically that's about it.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Twelve hour day on Saturday, and we're gonna open on
- 4:02Speaker 1: Friday at four and you can hang out Friday if
- 4:05Speaker 1: you're coming in a.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Little happy hour situation fridur Friday. Yeah, little food that
- 4:08Speaker 2: extends into the dark. And then we're gonna go eight
- 4:11Speaker 2: in the morning until price six seven o'clock.
- 4:14Speaker 1: By the way, you know Rev. Kevin the Barbecue is
- 4:16Speaker 1: familiar with his barbecue. Those pans just went on sale
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- 4:33Speaker 1: There's only fifty of them. If you're gonna do a
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- 4:54Speaker 2: Oh, but this is Thursday October three when you just
- 4:56Speaker 2: made that announcement. Depending on when people listen, it's they're
- 4:59Speaker 2: on sale Thursday October three.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Well it's not. No one's going to listen to it
- 5:03Speaker 1: before then. And they're on sal at one o'clock today.
- 5:05Speaker 2: So, by the way, USA today, somebody may be listening
- 5:07Speaker 2: tomorrow and think he meant tomorrow. Oh, they're on sale now,
- 5:11Speaker 2: Thursday October three.
- 5:13Speaker 1: You are listening live all right. Fellas had a really
- 5:18Speaker 1: good show, by the way, thanks to Tucker Devrees last week.
- 5:21Speaker 1: We dropped that show on Sunday. We taped it earlier
- 5:25Speaker 1: that week or before that, several days before that, got
- 5:28Speaker 1: a lot of really good reviews. The popular episode. Yeah,
- 5:31Speaker 1: some people hear a voice Cadence in Tucker Devrees that
- 5:36Speaker 1: will bring up during textual healing said he's similar to
- 5:40Speaker 1: another former mountaineer and how he sounds. We'll wait to
- 5:43Speaker 1: those texts ago. If you've missed that, go back and
- 5:45Speaker 1: oh yeah, definitely go all right, So time now for hoppies. Obvious.
- 5:50Speaker 1: You need you need a you need a little limerick
- 5:52Speaker 1: or a little jink inger. Hoppies, obvious observation, State.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Reference h who uh be as observations and I'll defer
- 6:01Speaker 3: to Brent for more more details. Oklahoma State has lost
- 6:07Speaker 3: their first two conference games for the first time since
- 6:11Speaker 3: two thousand and five.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Wow, it's a long time now.
- 6:14Speaker 3: Opponent adjusted it was Kansas State and Utah, but they
- 6:18Speaker 3: have struggles, as Brad will document on offense and on defense.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Focus has been on offense, but defense has got issues too.
- 6:26Speaker 3: So the Utah game cam raising doesn't play, so Utah
- 6:31Speaker 3: just says, you know what, what does lineup and run
- 6:33Speaker 3: the ball?
- 6:34Speaker 1: What they do?
- 6:34Speaker 3: Brad rand the ball fifty one times for two hundred
- 6:37Speaker 3: and fifty yards. Micah Bernard ran the ball twenty five
- 6:40Speaker 3: times for one eighty two and Oklahoma State loses to Utah. Okay,
- 6:46Speaker 3: can they get it right against k State? K State
- 6:48Speaker 3: rolls them forty two to twenty. K State had five
- 6:52Speaker 3: hundred and fifty nine yards, including three hundred on the ground.
- 6:56Speaker 3: Three hundred on the ground, so they have not been
- 6:59Speaker 3: able to stop the run so far. In fact, they're
- 7:03Speaker 3: they're and then you turn over to their offense. Their
- 7:07Speaker 3: offense are struggling and Ali Gordon leading rushing in the
- 7:10Speaker 3: nation last year. Everybody says, Okay, he's gonna be great,
- 7:11Speaker 3: and he is a great runner, but something's going on
- 7:13Speaker 3: there because he's averaging only three point eight yards per carrey.
- 7:17Speaker 3: As a team, they're averaging three point five yards per carrey,
- 7:21Speaker 3: which is near the bottom of all the Power four
- 7:23Speaker 3: teams in the country. So they're not running ball successfully.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Bowman has been Alan Bowman in his ninth year, has
- 7:30Speaker 3: been somewhat inconsistent. He has six interceptions so far this season.
- 7:36Speaker 3: They've been clambering for Zane Flores. The fans wont Zaane Floes.
- 7:40Speaker 3: They're highly recruited quarterback, Rechard freshman quarterback, so they got
- 7:46Speaker 3: all kinds of all kinds of issues going on there.
- 7:49Speaker 3: So what you don't know is going into this game,
- 7:53Speaker 3: is this the team that is dysfunctional offensively and defensively
- 7:58Speaker 3: and that's just five games in. That's who they are,
- 8:00Speaker 3: and they're going to struggle all year or they have
- 8:03Speaker 3: a pretty good coach there, are they going to make
- 8:06Speaker 3: changes and get things right Because they're scheduled the rest
- 8:10Speaker 3: of the season not too bad. They have a manageable
- 8:13Speaker 3: schedule at BYU after I mean West Virginia they're favored
- 8:16Speaker 3: against West Virginia at BYU. I know, but hang on,
- 8:21Speaker 3: hop talk about going to Provost.
- 8:24Speaker 1: Cougars and they're going line up at their place.
- 8:26Speaker 3: I understand. But after that Baylor, Arizona State, TCU, Texas Tech, Colorado,
- 8:31Speaker 3: so they they could get it together here for the
- 8:34Speaker 3: remainder of this season and it could start Saturday against
- 8:36Speaker 3: West Virginia. So, Brad, I don't know, I don't know
- 8:39Speaker 3: what you got here. Do you have a team that
- 8:41Speaker 3: is hurt and is going to come out and and
- 8:43Speaker 3: and rally and get it together and start to reach
- 8:46Speaker 3: potential which they have underachieved, or is this a team
- 8:49Speaker 3: that has some fundamental issues that's going to going to
- 8:52Speaker 3: stay with them much of the year.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Now where you talking about Oklahoma State there at the
- 8:56Speaker 2: end of West Virginia Oklahoma State? Because right, I mean
- 8:59Speaker 2: the the same thing can be said for West Virginia,
- 9:02Speaker 2: who found a way obviously to win and snatch victory
- 9:05Speaker 2: from the jaws of defeat against Kansas there and gave
- 9:07Speaker 2: you some confidence moving forward. There was a lot to
- 9:10Speaker 2: like in those final couple possessions, but in falling behind
- 9:13Speaker 2: by eleven, there were some things that still concern you.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Where's this West Virginia defense, Because here's the part where
- 9:19Speaker 2: I think, and this is really hard to do, so
- 9:21Speaker 2: I don't know is the proper thing to say right now?
- 9:23Speaker 2: The challenge is and you said opponent adjusted, and not
- 9:26Speaker 2: only opponent adjusted with utahon Kansas State, but style in
- 9:30Speaker 2: which they play, specifically defensively, is different than the style
- 9:34Speaker 2: that West Virginia gives you. So to just think West
- 9:36Speaker 2: Virginia can plug and play with the same results as
- 9:40Speaker 2: those two teams maybe a little bit inaccurate. You've got
- 9:43Speaker 2: to see where this West Virginia defense is now. Is
- 9:46Speaker 2: the West Virginia defense improving? You saw most of the
- 9:49Speaker 2: second half against Pitt a really good West Virginia defense.
- 9:52Speaker 2: You saw four of the final drives against Kansas getting
- 9:55Speaker 2: off the field with no points. So is that defense
- 9:58Speaker 2: starting to come along a little bit?
- 9:59Speaker 1: What do you see?
- 10:00Speaker 2: And I think you make a great point, and that's
- 10:01Speaker 2: what a lot of my numbers will be based around.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Is the rushing game for Oklahoma States. Something is not right.
- 10:07Speaker 2: That's well said by you, both at the running back
- 10:09Speaker 2: position and the offensive line. West Virginia needs to make
- 10:13Speaker 2: sure that it stays something not right this week, So
- 10:16Speaker 2: we'll see how that goes.
- 10:17Speaker 1: So let's put a little bit more light to the
- 10:19Speaker 1: point that you're making. So what you're saying is that
- 10:23Speaker 1: Utah and Kansas State, let's really let's just make it
- 10:26Speaker 1: really super simple. Utah and Kansas State have cornerbacks that
- 10:31Speaker 1: could get on top at the line of scrimmage of
- 10:33Speaker 1: Oklahoma States receivers and man up and just say you're
- 10:38Speaker 1: not going anywhere, right and that allows them to put
- 10:43Speaker 1: an extra defender or two down in the box to
- 10:46Speaker 1: slow down Oli Gordon. So that's what you're saying.
- 10:49Speaker 2: And so I've got some specific numbers that'll explain that
- 10:51Speaker 2: coming up.
- 10:52Speaker 1: And so the difference this week is West Virginia is
- 10:55Speaker 1: not going to put its corners on top of the
- 10:58Speaker 1: shoes of the receiver of Oklahoma State because to this
- 11:02Speaker 1: moment they have not proven that they can come close
- 11:06Speaker 1: to being able to do that. So you're going to
- 11:09Speaker 1: give up space right now. So now you got a
- 11:11Speaker 1: little Now you got a little situation here. Is it
- 11:15Speaker 1: a quick game for Alan Bowman? Is it the opportunity
- 11:19Speaker 1: now for Ali Gordon since there's not going to be
- 11:21Speaker 1: extra help in the box to go That is what
- 11:24Speaker 1: you're talking.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Is it a quick game for Alan Bowman? And let
- 11:26Speaker 2: me just spoiler alert we'll move ahead the ansers. Yes,
- 11:28Speaker 2: and I'll get into those numbers as well.
- 11:30Speaker 1: He gets it out of his hand, we'll dive into that.
- 11:33Speaker 2: I think, Boma, you're gonna like the numbers in this
- 11:35Speaker 2: one week we get down.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Let's go in this one. Bowman gets the ball out
- 11:37Speaker 1: of his hands faster that dinner check comes out of
- 11:40Speaker 1: Hoppy's hands. Just whoo? Where is that?
- 11:44Speaker 2: And also we'll talk about this here and just a
- 11:45Speaker 2: meant I'll put some context around this. But where is
- 11:48Speaker 2: West Virginia's offense? You know, ten the last twelve games
- 11:51Speaker 2: you put up more than thirty points. So can you
- 11:53Speaker 2: keep that rolling? Because it doesn't feel well. Not only
- 11:56Speaker 2: doesn't feel West Fraan's offense has not hit its stride yet.
- 11:59Speaker 2: It is not clicking on all cylinders. But there's some
- 12:02Speaker 2: things that are getting better with that offense as this
- 12:05Speaker 2: new offensive line is playing together. Right, you want to
- 12:08Speaker 2: see Jahem White? Is this the week he has a
- 12:10Speaker 2: breakout game? You need Jaheem White to get going at
- 12:12Speaker 2: some point. CJ has been very good. How about receivers,
- 12:16Speaker 2: We'll get into receivers because you talk about cornerbacks that
- 12:18Speaker 2: want to come up and get right on you. It's
- 12:20Speaker 2: part of the reason West Virginia's three and nine against
- 12:23Speaker 2: Oklahoma State since this series began, they have always had
- 12:26Speaker 2: aggressive corners that come up, grab hold and you're going
- 12:29Speaker 2: to make those officials call the holding and if they don't,
- 12:32Speaker 2: then you've got a long day coming at the wide
- 12:33Speaker 2: receiver position unless you can get their hands off you.
- 12:36Speaker 2: So what's West Virginia's offense ready to bring to the table.
- 12:39Speaker 2: He saw six takeover last week last game. Right where's
- 12:43Speaker 2: he now? Is he ready to just say, okay, you
- 12:45Speaker 2: know what if the pass hid in there, if you're
- 12:47Speaker 2: holding my guys get down fields go, I'll just run
- 12:49Speaker 2: around you because you're right on the run. Defense for
- 12:52Speaker 2: Oklahoma State isn't just struggling, They're massively struggling. So we'll
- 12:55Speaker 2: get in some of those numbers here.
- 12:56Speaker 3: And justin Brad, you talked about three and nine since
- 12:58Speaker 3: against Oclome, Mistates and show in the league, and I
- 13:00Speaker 3: think they've only got one win at Oklahoma State. Now,
- 13:02Speaker 3: different teams, but West Virginia has struggled and Stillwater just
- 13:05Speaker 3: has not has not been able to play well right.
- 13:08Speaker 1: In four or three and four all time as Stillwater? Well,
- 13:11Speaker 1: really right?
- 13:12Speaker 3: Never mind?
- 13:12Speaker 1: Cut that wing three two one cut? Oh forgot, we
- 13:16Speaker 1: don't edit. Just go with it. Hey, listen, you might
- 13:19Speaker 1: be the first person that's ever said anything on three
- 13:22Speaker 1: guys that isn't true. You're looking at me perplexed, moment
- 13:26Speaker 1: to look it up. No, I'll look it up for you. Three.
- 13:29Speaker 3: So West Virginia's three and four at Stillwater?
- 13:32Speaker 1: Now, what what got you the win? Last year?
- 13:33Speaker 2: Were just there last last time you were there, you
- 13:35Speaker 2: got the win right, right? Two big Jalen Anderson won right.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Explosive runs got you home. In that game, Nico came in, remember,
- 13:42Speaker 2: did a great job as a relief, came out of
- 13:44Speaker 2: the bullpen, called for the lefty out of the bullpen,
- 13:46Speaker 2: comes in, closes the game.
- 13:47Speaker 1: Yeah, three and four. So West Virginia all time in
- 13:49Speaker 1: this series, they've played fifteen times. West Virginia is five
- 13:53Speaker 1: and ten against them. What's interesting is that West Virginia
- 13:58Speaker 1: has had more success in Stillwater than they have in
- 14:01Speaker 1: Morgantown against the Pokes. West Virginia's two and five in
- 14:05Speaker 1: Morgantown against OSU. They're three and four in Stillwater and
- 14:11Speaker 1: ohen one in the sun Ball. And I always look
- 14:14Speaker 1: at this series and I always ask this question every
- 14:16Speaker 1: time we play them. Why did this happen? Nineteen twenty eight,
- 14:20Speaker 1: nineteen twenty nine, these two teams played against each other
- 14:23Speaker 1: like just stopped. Think about that, basically one hundred years ago,
- 14:27Speaker 1: longtime historic rival at hundred years ago, like a blimp.
- 14:31Speaker 1: West they got him in twenty eight to come to Morgantown,
- 14:36Speaker 1: played at Mountaineer Field.
- 14:37Speaker 2: Lined up, they were sleepy from the train ride.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Lined up, beat them, train went wagon train thirty two
- 14:42Speaker 1: to six. And then the very next year and the
- 14:45Speaker 1: year that the Depression began, twenty nine, West Virginia goes
- 14:50Speaker 1: to what was known as Lewis Field Stadium in Stillwater
- 14:53Speaker 1: and West Virginia rolled them in front of a crowd
- 14:57Speaker 1: of ten thousand Mountaineers, win it by a final of
- 14:59Speaker 1: nine to six. It went out there, kicked five field
- 15:03Speaker 1: goals for the whole game. Don't I don't like.
- 15:05Speaker 3: To do some research and find out why in the
- 15:07Speaker 3: world they had that series. But nevertheless, okay, let me
- 15:10Speaker 3: let me try again. Since I was inaccurate on my
- 15:12Speaker 3: last segment, is that I don't West Virginia fans. I
- 15:18Speaker 3: don't think we're factoring in I wasn't a lost to pit.
- 15:21Speaker 3: So if you're thinking this team can win seven eight games,
- 15:24Speaker 3: maybe not seven eight games, whatever, you were factoring in
- 15:27Speaker 3: the Pit win. So you didn't get that. So you
- 15:30Speaker 3: got to make it up somewhere. And one of the
- 15:33Speaker 3: one of the things that this program has struggled with
- 15:35Speaker 3: over the last couple of years, Brad is winning these
- 15:39Speaker 3: kinds of games on a road against a team that's
- 15:42Speaker 3: favored not by much, you know, three three and a half.
- 15:44Speaker 3: So is this is this a chance to get one back?
- 15:48Speaker 1: Right? It is?
- 15:50Speaker 2: I mean these are hard spots, right underdog on the road,
- 15:52Speaker 2: those are hard spots. But this is and that's what
- 15:55Speaker 2: I think so intriguing about this game is our Oklahoma
- 15:58Speaker 2: States struggles something it's going to plague them all year,
- 16:01Speaker 2: and can you keep them down for one more week?
- 16:03Speaker 2: And did the Kansas game springboards you or was it just.
- 16:07Speaker 1: A one off?
- 16:07Speaker 2: You had a great comeback and that game just sits
- 16:09Speaker 2: by itself. So I still think we had similar conversations
- 16:13Speaker 2: going into the Kansas game, both teams desperate for a win,
- 16:15Speaker 2: and how that turnout down to the very last possession, right,
- 16:18Speaker 2: it was. It was a back and forth type of game.
- 16:20Speaker 3: But do you see what thatent with Kansas? You see
- 16:21Speaker 3: how it tilted the scales for Kansas.
- 16:23Speaker 2: They had another tough one last week. Yeah, this is
- 16:25Speaker 2: a massively important game, as we'll say each week for
- 16:27Speaker 2: the next however many weeks are left, but this is
- 16:30Speaker 2: this is gonna be fun.
- 16:30Speaker 1: One. Well, two things that don't favor you, and that
- 16:34Speaker 1: was the stat that you used that since two thousand
- 16:38Speaker 1: and five, it's the first time they've gone oh and
- 16:40Speaker 1: two to start the league. Okay, go do a little
- 16:43Speaker 1: bit more math, like when's the last time they started
- 16:44Speaker 1: oh to three in the league. So history does not
- 16:47Speaker 1: favor you in this thing. But at the same time,
- 16:51Speaker 1: it's one day you got a fifty to fifty chance
- 16:54Speaker 1: to go in there and win this football game. But
- 16:56Speaker 1: history says they find a way to fix themselves. Like
- 17:00Speaker 1: those animals, they they grow their limbs back. You know,
- 17:02Speaker 1: they lose a limb, you know what I mean, Brad, Brent,
- 17:05Speaker 1: they they grow that they grow let limb grows back.
- 17:08Speaker 1: These guys always find a way to regenerate.
- 17:10Speaker 3: And also because you got you gotta assign something near
- 17:13Speaker 3: to my Gundhy. I mean the guy, the guy can coach,
- 17:16Speaker 3: the guy finds a way to win, He finds a
- 17:18Speaker 3: way to have winning seasons. So if anybody can fix it,
- 17:21Speaker 3: I think it's Gundy.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Yeah. I like him, man, I just he's a different yet,
- 17:27Speaker 1: he's a different dude, but like I just like I
- 17:29Speaker 1: just like his approach to it. He just kind of
- 17:31Speaker 1: like you get it fixed. He has some pretty good stuff.
- 17:35Speaker 1: He basically vowed after their last game, I'm just gonna
- 17:40Speaker 1: through the through my experience, when this kind of thing happens,
- 17:43Speaker 1: you just have to recommit and work harder. Yeah, that's
- 17:45Speaker 1: what he's saying. So I'm gonna I'm gonna spend more hours.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna spend more hours this week, so you're gonna
- 17:50Speaker 1: get their best version coming up on Saturday.
- 17:54Speaker 2: See, that's the challenge with them is because you're right,
- 17:56Speaker 2: he's one of the very best in the league, really
- 17:58Speaker 2: one of the very best nationally. So yeah, he's been
- 18:00Speaker 2: through this, he's seen these things and knows how to
- 18:02Speaker 2: get his team. What you don't know, because here's what
- 18:05Speaker 2: doesn't matter. In Gundy's fourth year, he didn't have this
- 18:07Speaker 2: particular set of players. This is a whole new set
- 18:09Speaker 2: of players that don't care about the history. Right where
- 18:11Speaker 2: are they? Does this offensive line just have problems? Is
- 18:14Speaker 2: Alan Bowman capable of beating you with his arm if
- 18:16Speaker 2: you bottle the game?
- 18:18Speaker 1: The run game up?
- 18:18Speaker 2: And there's some actual serious questions that don't have to
- 18:21Speaker 2: do with history, that don't have to do with Mike
- 18:24Speaker 2: Gundy's ability to motivate. There's some on field issues that
- 18:27Speaker 2: this team is trying to clean up, both offensively and defensively.
- 18:30Speaker 2: That's the intriguing part of this to me.
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- 22:31Speaker 2: Let's talk about the main theme of this. We all
- 22:35Speaker 2: just hit on an Oklahoma stage rushing game so far,
- 22:39Speaker 2: super baffling part of their season return one of the
- 22:43Speaker 2: nation's best running backs, if not the best, hop as
- 22:45Speaker 2: you mentioned, plus an experienced offensive line. That's the other
- 22:48Speaker 2: part of that. It wasn't just Ollie Gordon, at whole
- 22:50Speaker 2: offensive line was back. Yet they've really struggled to run
- 22:52Speaker 2: the ball. Their run block grade versus Kansas State last
- 22:57Speaker 2: week was the lowest against an a honent other than
- 23:00Speaker 2: Oklahoma or Texas since at least twenty fourteen. I couldn't
- 23:05Speaker 2: go back any further than twenty fourteen on the PF
- 23:06Speaker 2: database lowest run block grade.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Okay, so k State ate them up. That's pretty historic,
- 23:12Speaker 1: right it is. That's hard to believe.
- 23:14Speaker 2: This season Oklahoma State has three games with a below
- 23:18Speaker 2: fifty three run block gate grade. Take out the Texas
- 23:22Speaker 2: and Oklahoma games. They only have six of those games
- 23:25Speaker 2: over the last ten seasons, have three already this season,
- 23:29Speaker 2: so they're having that historically bad season according to PFF's numbers.
- 23:34Speaker 2: Running the football, Olie Gordon has been hit at the
- 23:37Speaker 2: line of scrimmage on fifty five percent of his carries.
- 23:41Speaker 2: That's the twelfth highest rate in the country and the
- 23:44Speaker 2: second highest rate in the Big twelve.
- 23:45Speaker 1: First time we hit him last week last year here
- 23:48Speaker 1: was in the blue lock. Correct.
- 23:50Speaker 2: That hasn't happened so far this year.
- 23:52Speaker 3: So before everybody dumps on Olie Gordon, he's got to
- 23:54Speaker 3: have some help, right.
- 23:55Speaker 2: That's part of it.
- 23:56Speaker 1: That's part of it.
- 23:57Speaker 2: But here's the other thing though. This is also interesting.
- 24:00Speaker 2: So much credit given to their offensive line returning everybody,
- 24:04Speaker 2: but this isn't far off from last year's grading performance
- 24:08Speaker 2: by that Oklahoma State line. If you look at it,
- 24:10Speaker 2: they were last season one hundred and third nationally in
- 24:14Speaker 2: line push but twentieth in explosiveness, which means Ali Gordon
- 24:20Speaker 2: was doing a lot of it on his own. A
- 24:21Speaker 2: lot of those big runs were him hitting the whole
- 24:23Speaker 2: or getting through by the way. That numbers courtesy of
- 24:26Speaker 2: Pick six Previews. That has some good stuff inside it.
- 24:29Speaker 2: But so the offensive line isn't a whole lot different
- 24:31Speaker 2: from what it was last year. But I think that
- 24:32Speaker 2: would surprise the Oak State folks that they have all
- 24:35Speaker 2: those guys back and they didn't take a step forward.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Go a question, sir. I'd be interested, Not that I'm
- 24:41Speaker 1: expecting you to have this, but I'd like to know
- 24:43Speaker 1: what Gordon's yards after initial contact work last year compared
- 24:49Speaker 1: to this year. Oh, I've got it. I don't have it.
- 24:51Speaker 1: I mean I can get it while we're talking about it.
- 24:53Speaker 1: I wouldn't that be I mean that woud probably tell
- 24:55Speaker 1: a hell of a story. Right like last year he
- 24:56Speaker 1: was getting hit but went through this year. I mean, okay, anyway,
- 25:00Speaker 1: we'll get to that. Okay.
- 25:01Speaker 2: Western as run defense has actually been good against running backs.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Prior to the Kansas game. They held Desmond Reid of
- 25:07Speaker 2: pit in check twenty five twenty six yards for him.
- 25:10Speaker 2: Penn State's talented backs, they have that duo Singleton and
- 25:13Speaker 2: k Tron Allen held them mostly in check outside of
- 25:16Speaker 2: that long Singleton run, really one hundred combined yards rushing
- 25:19Speaker 2: for those two Penn State backs outside of the long run. Now,
- 25:23Speaker 2: quarterback scrambles have hurt this defense, but running backs have not.
- 25:27Speaker 3: Now.
- 25:27Speaker 2: I know they ran for a lot last week, Neil
- 25:29Speaker 2: explained they were doing some more in the pass game
- 25:31Speaker 2: to give up some run. But here's the thing. Quarterback
- 25:33Speaker 2: scrambles shouldn't be a factor this week.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Bowman not a flight risk.
- 25:36Speaker 2: Not a flight risk, hasn't run once in a scramble,
- 25:39Speaker 2: has not taken off and scrambled one time. They ran
- 25:42Speaker 2: a couple designed runs with him last week for whatever reason,
- 25:44Speaker 2: but he just has not scrambled. So if he does
- 25:46Speaker 2: this week, that will be something unusual. Now, as we mentioned,
- 25:50Speaker 2: slowing the run game is obviously priority number one. When
- 25:53Speaker 2: you play Oklahoma State, you got a back like Gordon,
- 25:55Speaker 2: you're going to say, stop him and see if Alan
- 25:58Speaker 2: Bowman can beat you through the air. That's what Utah
- 26:00Speaker 2: in Kansas State did. They just said, Okay, let's see
- 26:03Speaker 2: if you can throw it to beat us. Now, here's
- 26:06Speaker 2: what's interesting about their passing game. Much like their run
- 26:08Speaker 2: game is bizarre in that the results don't back up
- 26:11Speaker 2: what their experience was. Passing game is interesting and that
- 26:14Speaker 2: if you want to build a case that Almond Bowman's
- 26:16Speaker 2: having a fantastic year, you can go pull out some
- 26:19Speaker 2: statistics that tell you he is. If you want to
- 26:21Speaker 2: say that Bowman struggling a little bit, I can find
- 26:24Speaker 2: things that show you Bowman struggling. So who is Alan
- 26:26Speaker 2: Bowman this year? I think they're trying to figure this out.
- 26:29Speaker 2: Here's some of those numbers, hop you ready, Yep, He's
- 26:32Speaker 2: thrown for a ton of yards, nearly sixteen hundred of
- 26:35Speaker 2: them to this point, third in the Big Twelve and
- 26:37Speaker 2: first in intended air yards.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Me, what's then? Thank you, Hoppy.
- 26:44Speaker 2: I wrote down the definition because I knew you would ask.
- 26:46Speaker 2: I thought it would be you first, though. I did
- 26:47Speaker 2: intended air yards the total yards downfield for all throws,
- 26:51Speaker 2: whether or not they were completed, so where you're trying
- 26:53Speaker 2: to go with the ball. He leads the Big Twelve
- 26:55Speaker 2: in intended.
- 26:56Speaker 1: Air yards, so he's letting it go.
- 26:58Speaker 2: But here's what's very hit and miss. They had to
- 27:00Speaker 2: pull him during the Utah game because he was struggling
- 27:02Speaker 2: so bad. Right, put him back in in the Kansas
- 27:05Speaker 2: State game. He's second in the Big Twelve in interceptions.
- 27:07Speaker 2: Hope you mentioned his number. Six of them, He really
- 27:10Speaker 2: should have a few more if you go off Pro
- 27:11Speaker 2: football focuses turnover worthy plays, so he has six, probably
- 27:14Speaker 2: should have a couple others. But here's where it gets
- 27:17Speaker 2: difficult with him. You're likely not going to get many sacks.
- 27:21Speaker 2: They lead the country in only giving up one sacks
- 27:24Speaker 2: so far this year. They did it last year too,
- 27:26Speaker 2: only three sacks given up last year by Oklahoma State.
- 27:29Speaker 2: Here's why he'll get rid of it in a hurry.
- 27:31Speaker 2: He's second in the Big Twelve in dropbacks of less
- 27:34Speaker 2: than two and a half seconds. Sixty four percent of
- 27:37Speaker 2: his dropbacks he releases within two and a half seconds,
- 27:41Speaker 2: so he's onloading right. That leads the Big twelve. Or
- 27:44Speaker 2: he also leads the Big twelve in touchdown passes on
- 27:47Speaker 2: dropbacks less than two and a half seconds. So he's
- 27:49Speaker 2: going to get back there and try and get it
- 27:51Speaker 2: out fast against this West Virginia zone. But if you
- 27:54Speaker 2: can get pressure, then he's likely to struggle. Some numbers
- 27:58Speaker 2: last week Bowman was there just two of fifteen for
- 28:01Speaker 2: ninety one yards when under pressure.
- 28:03Speaker 1: From that Kansas State defense.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Two of fifteen, but when he wasn't twenty four of
- 28:08Speaker 2: thirty five for two seventy three. Now again, that's most quarterbacks, right.
- 28:12Speaker 2: You put him under pressure, they're gonna have problems, but
- 28:15Speaker 2: particularly with him because he's not going to scramble a ton.
- 28:18Speaker 2: Can you get home before he releases it? I thought
- 28:21Speaker 2: last year again, you didn't need him at the end
- 28:23Speaker 2: of the game because Gordon was running wild. But I
- 28:25Speaker 2: thought he did a nice job of managing that getting
- 28:27Speaker 2: the ball out. You couldn't get home to him.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 28:29Speaker 2: West Virginia's not getting a lot of sacks right now defensively,
- 28:32Speaker 2: but they are getting some pressures. Can they affect him
- 28:34Speaker 2: throwing the ball?
- 28:35Speaker 1: You need a good day from Sean Martin's arms. You know,
- 28:39Speaker 1: if you're not going to touch it's a good point. Yeah,
- 28:41Speaker 1: then you have to alter the throw by at least
- 28:44Speaker 1: getting enough push to make him alter his pass.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Good one. Okay, here's something to keep in mind. We
- 28:49Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier the losses to Utah and Kansas State.
- 28:52Speaker 2: Oklahoma State had those corner but saw those cornerbacks who
- 28:55Speaker 2: were aggressive and got up in press man a lot
- 28:57Speaker 2: more than what West Virginia plays. Here's some numbers for
- 29:00Speaker 2: West Virginia's played zone seventy percent of the time on
- 29:03Speaker 2: the season. Okay, seventy percent of the time. Utah has
- 29:07Speaker 2: gone zone just forty three percent of the time, Case
- 29:10Speaker 2: State just forty percent of the time. So they felt
- 29:13Speaker 2: comfortable with their defensive backs, which, as you mentioned, allows
- 29:16Speaker 2: them to put more in the box and make Oklahoma
- 29:20Speaker 2: State struggle with the run game, so you know he's
- 29:23Speaker 2: going to get rid of it fast, which likely leads
- 29:25Speaker 2: to balls underneath when he tries to go deep. He
- 29:29Speaker 2: being Alan Bowman, just five of twenty seven this season
- 29:32Speaker 2: on passes of twenty yards or more. Wow, So he
- 29:35Speaker 2: has not had success throwing it downfield underneath. Can West
- 29:39Speaker 2: Virginia's coverage underneath be up to par? Has it gotten better?
- 29:43Speaker 3: Bred on that? Another stat what do they have on
- 29:46Speaker 3: yards after catch? Because West Virginia's going to get frustrated
- 29:50Speaker 3: because they're going to complete some passes underneath and are
- 29:53Speaker 3: guy's going to be tackled right away or they going
- 29:54Speaker 3: to get yards have to catch?
- 29:56Speaker 2: Well, that's that's what they make their hay off of,
- 29:58Speaker 2: right because they're not having success deep. So their big
- 30:01Speaker 2: pass plays, if you go back and watch the couple weeks,
- 30:04Speaker 2: it'd be a gland route called a glance route hoppy
- 30:07Speaker 2: and you run that off an RPO when it's.
- 30:09Speaker 1: Very run all the time, when you got a single
- 30:11Speaker 1: high safety gonna read that outside linebacker.
- 30:14Speaker 2: So you sit there and you hold it in and
- 30:15Speaker 2: see if that safety drops down on you or if
- 30:17Speaker 2: he stays back. They cut underneath and they hit it.
- 30:20Speaker 2: So West Virginia is going to have to stop that.
- 30:22Speaker 2: Not only can you get there and bat it down,
- 30:24Speaker 2: but can you get all over them if they happen
- 30:26Speaker 2: to complete it. You're going to see that all day.
- 30:27Speaker 1: But to your point, you have to have an exceptional
- 30:30Speaker 1: day of open field tackles if you graze guys and
- 30:34Speaker 1: let them go their bands going play and they run
- 30:36Speaker 1: the RPO all day long.
- 30:38Speaker 2: Yes, correct, and especially with that route, I mean, and
- 30:41Speaker 2: that's really hard to stop because you've got to make
- 30:42Speaker 2: a decision. Can your guys inside the box, your frontline,
- 30:46Speaker 2: front seven, can they handle the running game on their
- 30:48Speaker 2: own so the safeties can stay back and help with
- 30:51Speaker 2: some coverage, or are you going to need to commit
- 30:53Speaker 2: someone else down in the box to help slow down
- 30:55Speaker 2: Ollie Gordon? And then that's when they're going to go
- 30:57Speaker 2: after you with those type of passes. So really to
- 31:00Speaker 2: watch that matchup to me a a at times struggling
- 31:04Speaker 2: Oklahoma State pass game against at times a struggling West
- 31:07Speaker 2: Virginia pass defense. Which of those come through?
- 31:09Speaker 3: You know, Brad and what that's that's really really insightful
- 31:13Speaker 3: and it gets back to what we talk about. You're
- 31:15Speaker 3: just not good enough. Most teams aren't to do everything right.
- 31:18Speaker 3: You got to what can you live with? Yeah, what
- 31:20Speaker 3: can you live with? Oklahoma State and Kansas excuse me? Oklahoma,
- 31:24Speaker 3: Kansas State and Utah wanted to make Alan Bowman in
- 31:27Speaker 3: the passing game beat them, and Oklahoma State couldn't come through.
- 31:30Speaker 1: How's West Virginia react? All right?
- 31:31Speaker 2: Flip over to the other side of the ball.
- 31:33Speaker 1: You still with me? Hop numbers? Oh go, how are
- 31:35Speaker 1: you doing a nice job, Brent.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Let's go to the other side. Oklahoma States run defense.
- 31:41Speaker 2: This is also really hard to figure out. You ready
- 31:43Speaker 2: for this one. They've given up the most rushing yards
- 31:46Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve. Oklahoma State's defense most rushing yards
- 31:50Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve, but they also have the most
- 31:53Speaker 2: run stuffs in the league.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Talk about games. All of these numbers that you're bringing
- 32:01Speaker 1: up at this moment, they're undefinable. I truly believe that
- 32:06Speaker 1: Oklahoma State at this moment is undefinable. Exactly what are
- 32:09Speaker 1: you and I think? The same A lot of West Virginia? Yeah,
- 32:12Speaker 1: to a degree. You could make the same case for
- 32:13Speaker 1: West Virginia.
- 32:14Speaker 3: Doesn't that mean inconsistent? Just inconsistency, right?
- 32:19Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 32:19Speaker 3: Not trend but inconsistent.
- 32:20Speaker 2: But it's also this league, right, You're having trouble to
- 32:23Speaker 2: find what anybody is in this league. Everybody said UCF
- 32:26Speaker 2: had the greatest rushing attack in the history of college football.
- 32:29Speaker 1: And play anybody.
- 32:29Speaker 2: They get a good front seven or a front defensive
- 32:32Speaker 2: line from Colorado that everybody said was no good, but
- 32:34Speaker 2: they actually were good against run defense, and they absolutely
- 32:36Speaker 2: locked up UCF and said, I was all right, you
- 32:38Speaker 2: can't run the football. So that's his league, how do
- 32:41Speaker 2: you know? All right, so stay with me here on
- 32:43Speaker 2: this run defense for oklhum State, Let's try and figure
- 32:44Speaker 2: this out. So my guys over at Sports Info Solutions SIS, Okay,
- 32:49Speaker 2: Sports Info Solutions tremendous database there. They have a couple
- 32:52Speaker 2: of stats that help quantify those numbers even further. You ready, yeah,
- 32:57Speaker 2: boom percentage excuse me, boom boom percentage the percentage of
- 33:02Speaker 2: rushes that resulted in an EPA of at least one
- 33:06Speaker 2: EPA expected points added. Here's an easy definition. It means
- 33:10Speaker 2: it's a very successful play for the offense. They also
- 33:13Speaker 2: chart bust percentage, so it's the exact opposite a very
- 33:17Speaker 2: unsuccessful play for the offense. Okay, Oklahoma States number one
- 33:22Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve in boom percentage, meaning offenses have
- 33:25Speaker 2: more successful running plays against their defense than any.
- 33:28Speaker 1: Other team in the league. Wow.
- 33:30Speaker 2: They also lead in bust percentage, meaning they have more
- 33:33Speaker 2: plays that result in a negative play or an unsuccessful
- 33:37Speaker 2: play for the offense than any team in the league.
- 33:39Speaker 1: So or bust, they're absolutely feast or famine.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Feast or famine. Boom or bust. So which of those
- 33:45Speaker 2: happens on Saturday? Here's one to watch. You want to
- 33:49Speaker 2: watch one? You want to watch one? Boys route, This
- 33:53Speaker 2: is the running game. Oklahoma State defense also has the
- 33:56Speaker 2: highest boom percentage for opposing quarterback on scrambles or designed runs.
- 34:03Speaker 2: So six six might want to take off a few
- 34:06Speaker 2: times tomorrow and see if that holds true. A lot
- 34:09Speaker 2: of that comes from what Avery Johnson did to him
- 34:11Speaker 2: last week. Right, a very successful runner. But nearly thirty
- 34:14Speaker 2: percent of quarterback runs against Oklahoma State have resulted in
- 34:18Speaker 2: a very successful play for the offense. So almost a
- 34:21Speaker 2: third of all quarterback run plays. That's the second most
- 34:24Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve. Well, last year, he probably wants
- 34:27Speaker 2: to take off. Six Last year ran for a bucks
- 34:30Speaker 2: seventeen against him. And averaged over seven yards per tote,
- 34:34Speaker 2: So that's yeah, six.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Put that right up there. Again.
- 34:39Speaker 2: To your point, though, is who and what is West Virginia.
- 34:44Speaker 2: It's running it well, which he's running it pretty well,
- 34:47Speaker 2: but it's not the number one team in the country
- 34:49Speaker 2: like we saw by the end of last year. West
- 34:51Speaker 2: Vitein is tenth out of sixteen in Pro football focused
- 34:54Speaker 2: run grades so far. Now, remember you're early, and some
- 34:57Speaker 2: of that has to do with schedule. I mentioned UCF
- 35:00Speaker 2: that's running away with every rushing metric you can have. Well,
- 35:02Speaker 2: they played in New Hampshire and Sam Houston State put
- 35:05Speaker 2: it four hundred yards per game.
- 35:07Speaker 1: Respect to those two.
- 35:08Speaker 2: Of course, then they opened Big Twelve playing things got
- 35:10Speaker 2: a little bit different, so some of those numbers still maturing.
- 35:13Speaker 2: West Virginia does have the third best run blocking grade
- 35:16Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve and it has the fifth best
- 35:18Speaker 2: EPA per rush.
- 35:20Speaker 1: In the league.
- 35:21Speaker 2: So doing well, can it kick it up a notch
- 35:24Speaker 2: against a struggling Oklahoma State run defense.
- 35:28Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent. Last year, what's interesting
- 35:31Speaker 1: I'd look back down on these numbers. It was Justin Johnson,
- 35:34Speaker 1: who was the second leading rusher for the Mountaineers. He
- 35:37Speaker 1: had seventy two. CJ had thirty nine yards on thirteen
- 35:43Speaker 1: carries and did score one of the two touchdowns. But
- 35:46Speaker 1: I do agree with you. Two of the three have
- 35:49Speaker 1: to have big games, Garrett. I think I put Garrett
- 35:52Speaker 1: in there. He had he's won, yes, and then either CJ.
- 35:56Speaker 1: Donaldson or Jehem White. You you gotta have a game.
- 35:58Speaker 2: CJ's playing really well to me, the X factor wild card,
- 36:01Speaker 2: and I'll go down on game twelve or thirteen. However
- 36:04Speaker 2: many there are this year saying this, Jeheim White's gotta
- 36:07Speaker 2: get going. That's part of the magic of this rushing
- 36:10Speaker 2: offense is you don't know what the hell's happening. Is
- 36:13Speaker 2: it gonna be Garrett? Is that CJ's at Jeem White.
- 36:15Speaker 2: Now you got motion, you got jet sweeps. That's when
- 36:17Speaker 2: this thing's at its best. So far, they haven't been
- 36:20Speaker 2: able to get White unlocked and get those big runs.
- 36:24Speaker 1: He's bordering on a sophomore slump. He can still get
- 36:28Speaker 1: himself out. But you go through halfway through the season
- 36:31Speaker 1: and you're not putting up numbers like you expected and
- 36:33Speaker 1: like he expected, then you're having one.
- 36:35Speaker 3: Well, remember different circumstance. He went halfway through last year
- 36:40Speaker 3: because he wasn't playing, so his big numbers from last
- 36:43Speaker 3: year win in the second half of the season.
- 36:45Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe he'll get greased up. Yeah, you hope.
- 36:48Speaker 1: So great opportunity is sitting right here in front of
- 36:50Speaker 1: against the team that's struggling to stop the run. All right,
- 36:55Speaker 1: those are like, that's excellent, those are really good. You
- 36:58Speaker 1: get some good ones. You said you could look up
- 37:00Speaker 1: Go ahead and look up that Oliver Gordon. What was
- 37:03Speaker 1: his yards after contact last year compared to what he's
- 37:07Speaker 1: doing this year? I think that number will be pretty interesting.
- 37:11Speaker 1: In other words, was he getting hit last year and
- 37:13Speaker 1: then having great success and then this year I would
- 37:16Speaker 1: make obviously, based upon his numbers, he's not. He's not
- 37:20Speaker 1: having great success after initial contact. So Brad'll look that up.
- 37:25Speaker 3: Go ahead, talks amongst yourselves, Well, I want to go
- 37:27Speaker 3: back to those numbers, though, which are in We talked
- 37:31Speaker 3: about inconsistent and Tony I would think that's that's either
- 37:35Speaker 3: excuse me, you're just inconsistent. I'm talking about their defensive
- 37:38Speaker 3: numbers or you know, guys not going the where they're
- 37:43Speaker 3: supposed to go, and you know a guy makes a
- 37:45Speaker 3: play because a guy makes a play, but then he
- 37:46Speaker 3: goes the wrong way or he takes a play off
- 37:48Speaker 3: or something. You know, there are all kinds of reasons
- 37:51Speaker 3: why that could be like that, right.
- 37:53Speaker 1: I agree, And I think this that you can give
- 37:57Speaker 1: the West Virginia the benefit of the doubt up until
- 37:59Speaker 1: this point by saying, hey, you had to play two
- 38:02Speaker 1: power fives, you played Penn State, you played Pitch, you
- 38:05Speaker 1: had Pitt Beach, you blew the game. It was therefore you. Okay,
- 38:08Speaker 1: so let's skew the numbers a little bit. That's done.
- 38:12Speaker 1: You also had a bye week, okay, So what they
- 38:16Speaker 1: do here on Saturday, that's basically who they are. I
- 38:21Speaker 1: truly believe, really, I truly believe that you're playing against
- 38:24Speaker 1: a team that right now is struggling. It's not going
- 38:28Speaker 1: to get any easier than this going forward, and this
- 38:32Speaker 1: is who you are. So if you don't defend the pass,
- 38:36Speaker 1: well you're not going to. If you don't, if you
- 38:40Speaker 1: don't pound them on the ground against a team that's
- 38:43Speaker 1: struggling to run the ball, then you're probably not going
- 38:46Speaker 1: to going forward. I truly believe. I always what do
- 38:49Speaker 1: I always say? I say this, People get way early,
- 38:53Speaker 1: they get too excited after the first game or second game.
- 38:55Speaker 1: I always say give it a month. I always say
- 38:57Speaker 1: that be fair, give it a month. Now I'm saying
- 39:00Speaker 1: I gave you a month, and I gave you an
- 39:02Speaker 1: off week. Now, what you put out on that field
- 39:06Speaker 1: is who you are.
- 39:07Speaker 3: Well, the same would apply for Oklahoma State. This is
- 39:09Speaker 3: the this is their sixth game in a row. They
- 39:12Speaker 3: haven't had it off week.
- 39:13Speaker 2: I mean to tell you some situations. About as good
- 39:15Speaker 2: as you can get for a situation.
- 39:16Speaker 1: They've had two of the most physical teams in the league,
- 39:20Speaker 1: k State and Utahs. Had they just played them, they
- 39:23Speaker 1: should be hurt a little bit, they should be banged
- 39:25Speaker 1: up a little bit.
- 39:26Speaker 2: And consecutive games and you're coming off of bye week. Okay,
- 39:28Speaker 2: here you want some numbers.
- 39:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I like this yards after I'm really looking forward
- 39:31Speaker 1: to this. So this is interesting.
- 39:33Speaker 2: Last year, almost fifty percent of his yards were after contact,
- 39:37Speaker 2: nine hundred of his total seventeen hundred and thirty seven.
- 39:41Speaker 1: He's so big and strong. Yeah, okay, so fifty percent
- 39:46Speaker 1: is all right, Just look on something else. What do
- 39:49Speaker 1: you doing.
- 39:50Speaker 2: He was sixth in the league and broken tackles last year. Okay,
- 39:53Speaker 2: he was second in just misstackles.
- 39:56Speaker 1: Okay, some guys didn't want to tackle them.
- 40:00Speaker 2: But and I had looked this up before, seventy six
- 40:03Speaker 2: percent of his rushing yards this year after contact because he's.
- 40:08Speaker 1: Getting hit, he's getting hit early.
- 40:10Speaker 2: He he only has zero point six yards on average
- 40:14Speaker 2: before he's contacted. That's the ninth lowest in the country.
- 40:17Speaker 2: So there's people are getting in up on him, he's
- 40:20Speaker 2: getting blowed up, he's getting he getting blowed up. He
- 40:22Speaker 2: getting blowed up early.
- 40:23Speaker 1: And it's the same offensive line, same guys. Here's someone
- 40:27Speaker 1: here's here's some speculation. What's it. They quietly have always
- 40:34Speaker 1: had a really good what they used to call a
- 40:38Speaker 1: cowboy back, which was a tight end. Don't necessity in
- 40:42Speaker 1: that tight end would help their run game a ton.
- 40:46Speaker 1: Don't think they're having the same productivity from that tight
- 40:49Speaker 1: end spot this year and as a result, that's not
- 40:53Speaker 1: that has not benefited them, that has hurt their running game. Okay,
- 40:58Speaker 1: in West Virginia runs a ball alatcas tray, then Davis
- 41:00Speaker 1: comes around across that formation and he'll take your cavities
- 41:03Speaker 1: out for you and people that goes unnoticed, right, But
- 41:07Speaker 1: they they don't have they have not had great tight
- 41:09Speaker 1: end play.
- 41:11Speaker 2: He Gordon leads the league in miss tackles and he's
- 41:14Speaker 2: second in the league in broken tackles this year.
- 41:17Speaker 1: He's a horse, I'm sorry.
- 41:18Speaker 2: Leads the league in both of us leads and broken
- 41:19Speaker 2: and leads and missed.
- 41:20Speaker 1: He's a horse. So there you go. That's really good.
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- 42:26Speaker 1: I'd like you to do if you come up to
- 42:28Speaker 1: a game. I would love for you to visit the
- 42:32Speaker 1: three guys before the game of Food Court, which is
- 42:34Speaker 1: located on University Avenue, right next to Daniel's Men's store,
- 42:38Speaker 1: because great things happen there. Global things happen there. Global, Yes,
- 42:43Speaker 1: things happen there, and that's not an exaggeration. And let
- 42:46Speaker 1: me tell you a little bit about what I'm talking about.
- 42:49Speaker 1: During the last three guys, we debuted, well, we had
- 42:53Speaker 1: our beer out there for the second time, Connection three
- 42:55Speaker 1: h four from Parkersburg Brewing, Right, And I also said
- 42:59Speaker 1: on a recent episode, wouldn't it be great? Wouldn't be
- 43:01Speaker 1: kind of neat if someone stuck? Why aren't they? What
- 43:05Speaker 1: I said was, well, why aren't they serving Connection three
- 43:07Speaker 1: oh four in Munich at Octoberfest? What I said, why
- 43:12Speaker 1: would you? Right? Well, as anyone who's a listening to
- 43:16Speaker 1: this show, you know, I make stuff happen. You make
- 43:19Speaker 1: stuff up. You are looking at the Loewen Brow beer
- 43:24Speaker 1: House whatever they call him, at Octoberfest, and guess what
- 43:28Speaker 1: there it is inside? Look, oh, what do we have here?
- 43:33Speaker 1: Friends of the podcast. A professor from WVU took a
- 43:38Speaker 1: six pack of Connection three oh four. Look look yeah,
- 43:42Speaker 1: and also this is for real, So they took it
- 43:44Speaker 1: over in a six pack. They brought it into the
- 43:46Speaker 1: Low and Brow.
- 43:48Speaker 2: Beer jointyob Yeah and Beer Octoberfest Homeless.
- 43:54Speaker 1: Dave says that Low and Brow has now named Connection
- 43:57Speaker 1: three oh four is its sister beer of the United States. Confirmed,
- 44:01Speaker 1: I'm confirmed. So there you go. And there right there, gentlemen,
- 44:05Speaker 1: is this a wild board that Scopes got in Monroe
- 44:08Speaker 1: County that has now been memorialized in Germany? Connection three four? Right, yeah,
- 44:13Speaker 1: he's got to put the cann of beer right there.
- 44:14Speaker 1: He just finished drinking this. So Connection to three four
- 44:17Speaker 1: has arrived at Octoberfest. That one's a week though. Good
- 44:20Speaker 1: to see you, thank you very much. It's sleeping.
- 44:22Speaker 3: So how did how do you get how do you transport?
- 44:25Speaker 1: Put it in a suitcase? Exactly? That's not a herd,
- 44:28Speaker 1: that's not a hard one. Heck, we can bring fig
- 44:30Speaker 1: trees over from Italy. We can take a dog on.
- 44:33Speaker 1: We can put a beer six pack of beer in
- 44:34Speaker 1: the suitcase. So thanks for doing that. Very nice international. Also,
- 44:39Speaker 1: the coozies are arriving and they will be available at
- 44:42Speaker 1: the food court on October. They are there. They are
- 44:45Speaker 1: people of ass form Coozies. Three guys coozies available uh
- 44:49Speaker 1: during the Iowa State October eleven and twelve. As always,
- 44:52Speaker 1: we practice scarcity while supplies last. They will be there.
- 44:56Speaker 2: We'll have some more. We've reloaded the hats too. We
- 44:58Speaker 2: sold out of those hats at the last food court.
- 44:59Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll have those as well than you thanks to those,
- 45:04Speaker 1: Thanks to the people that have been drinking. Connection three
- 45:06Speaker 1: oh four continues to get great ratings, hovering around a
- 45:09Speaker 1: four point zero on on Tap, with more and more
- 45:12Speaker 1: reviews happening. Enjoy you. Everyone's enjoying the beer.
- 45:16Speaker 3: And I looked the other day at the Kroger. Still
- 45:20Speaker 3: not in the Kroger, right.
- 45:21Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to get there. Still, we're still bat
- 45:23Speaker 1: We're efforting on that food court Friday and Saturday this week,
- 45:28Speaker 1: not this week, a week from now when we play
- 45:30Speaker 1: away stay and they will make sure that there's enough
- 45:33Speaker 1: beer there. We may have to allocate six packs to
- 45:37Speaker 1: two per person, but we will do that. Also unconfirmed,
- 45:41Speaker 1: Hudson Clement's dad, we'll play. H will perform. He's a
- 45:47Speaker 1: he's a musician. He'll perform at the food court October eleven.
- 45:50Speaker 1: That will be the Murphy Clement's dad as well. He
- 45:52Speaker 1: would be Murphy's dad as well. Yeah, his name is
- 45:55Speaker 1: Mike Clement, So Mike is going to perform a set
- 45:59Speaker 1: or two at the food court and a few more surprises.
- 46:02Speaker 1: A regular at the food court, he and his wife regular.
- 46:04Speaker 2: He's playing when the day of the iy tead game
- 46:05Speaker 2: on Saturday Friday. Okay, during the hap hour portion of it.
- 46:08Speaker 1: I mean we're missing Anthony Straw. I mean Oliver's dad
- 46:11Speaker 1: went back to Australia. He'll be back, he comes back,
- 46:13Speaker 1: he'll come back there.
- 46:14Speaker 2: Hey, another side note there on the I Stack game.
- 46:16Speaker 2: That's of course the coal Rush game debuting those black
- 46:19Speaker 2: they are sweet black helmets, black uniforms. Your coal Rush
- 46:23Speaker 2: headquarters would be over at fine looking phills.
- 46:25Speaker 1: Oh yeah there, what do they have? Everything?
- 46:28Speaker 2: Every everything? So I was doing my shift. I was
- 46:30Speaker 2: in there, clocked in Tuesday morning, Tuesday morning for usual.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Enjoyed meeting Rob from Fairmont. He was there looking for
- 46:36Speaker 2: his coal Rush stuff. Want to be alright, first one,
- 46:38Speaker 2: sorry I missed him. Well, you just missed Rob. And
- 46:40Speaker 2: you also missed Jeremy from Petersburg who listens to the podcast.
- 46:43Speaker 2: He was on his way to work in Fairmont, came
- 46:46Speaker 2: through and wanted to stop picked up a few items
- 46:47Speaker 2: from that over. You just missed Jeremy. You missed rob
- 46:51Speaker 2: By a while he was already cleared you missed you.
- 46:53Speaker 2: So they have black shirts, shirts, reporters.
- 46:57Speaker 1: In beautiful stuff, soft stuff, rush headquarters. Everybody's supposed to
- 47:01Speaker 1: address in black for the game.
- 47:03Speaker 2: Correct, Okay, but anyway, thanks to that was good fun
- 47:06Speaker 2: talking to those guys. Well, you know you're shot on
- 47:08Speaker 2: my shift had to stop folding from it at their kurdial.
- 47:11Speaker 1: Our first textual healing message is very significant. Three guys,
- 47:16Speaker 1: I'm reaching out from Asheville, North Carolina. It has been
- 47:18Speaker 1: an incredibly difficult week. My family and I are safe.
- 47:22Speaker 1: No electricity or water, but cell service was restored. Please
- 47:26Speaker 1: remember in your prayers folks in our area far worse
- 47:29Speaker 1: off than my family. I have seen and heard things
- 47:31Speaker 1: this week that are indescribable. I have been out of
- 47:35Speaker 1: the loop regarding any news, but may try to access
- 47:37Speaker 1: your Oklahoma State game preview via the cellular network. I'm
- 47:41Speaker 1: guessing that will be Thursday. I need to hear some
- 47:43Speaker 1: familiar voices of home Go Mountaineers. Much love, Jay in Asheville,
- 47:49Speaker 1: North Carolina. And this ties right into this one. Todd
- 47:57Speaker 1: from Milton again, always a West Virginia connection. I'm a
- 48:00Speaker 1: travel nurse. I'm currently living in California. I just started
- 48:04Speaker 1: running a new place. When I met the owners of
- 48:07Speaker 1: the apartment, they asked if I went to WVU, which
- 48:11Speaker 1: I said yeah. They then asked if I was a
- 48:13Speaker 1: Charles Wesley Godwin fan, which of course I said yeah.
- 48:16Speaker 1: The whole family are big WVU fans now because of
- 48:20Speaker 1: how much they like Charles Wesley Godwin. They even showed
- 48:24Speaker 1: me their merchandise with the flying WV they had recently bought.
- 48:28Speaker 1: They will be tuning into three Guys fans hopefully now.
- 48:31Speaker 1: Along that line, Charles took on his website where he
- 48:37Speaker 1: sells his merchandise for Ashville because he's had great, great
- 48:43Speaker 1: dates in Nashville or Ashville where he has played multiplication.
- 48:47Speaker 1: So what he did was he took one hundred percent
- 48:49Speaker 1: of everything he sold on his website merchandise and donated
- 48:53Speaker 1: one hundred percent for a forty eight hour period and
- 48:56Speaker 1: that's now elapsed, and he ended up selling us a
- 49:00Speaker 1: whisker under eighteen thousand dollars worth of stuff that he's
- 49:04Speaker 1: donating to Asheville. Well, so thanks to Charles for doing that,
- 49:09Speaker 1: Thanks to Jay for checking in too. They're glad he's safe.
- 49:12Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Tony, that's horrific, and West Virginians can
- 49:17Speaker 3: relate to how bad that is. We've had some bad
- 49:19Speaker 3: footing in West Virginia, not so much with this storm,
- 49:22Speaker 3: but with previous storms, so I know West Virginia's very
- 49:25Speaker 3: empathetic to what's happened in western North Carolina. It's just unimaginable.
- 49:28Speaker 3: One other note, not nearly as bad as the Asheville area,
- 49:32Speaker 3: but Mercer County got hit hard with high winds and
- 49:36Speaker 3: electricity outages. So as of today when we're recording it,
- 49:39Speaker 3: we're still five thousand homes in Mercer County without power
- 49:43Speaker 3: and several thousands according to the city manager I talked
- 49:47Speaker 3: to today, thousands of trees, thousands of trees came down,
- 49:51Speaker 3: and still almost a week later, they still have about
- 49:54Speaker 3: five thousand people without power. So the folks in Mercer
- 49:56Speaker 3: County are struggling too, not as bad, not nearly as
- 49:59Speaker 3: bad as Ashville. Obviously no loss of life, but still
- 50:03Speaker 3: issues there.
- 50:05Speaker 1: Producer Austin, I jumped ahead two pages because there were
- 50:09Speaker 1: two ones that we already read on a previous show.
- 50:11Speaker 1: We read about the guy in Bulgaria, right, we did
- 50:14Speaker 1: that one I don't think so. No, all right, fun,
- 50:17Speaker 1: let me do it. I've got an ultimate I've got it.
- 50:20Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've got an ultimate West Virginia connection store
- 50:23Speaker 1: for you guys. But I wanted to start with my
- 50:25Speaker 1: connection to Tony. When I was an undergrad at WVU,
- 50:28Speaker 1: I student taught both of your boys at Suncrest Elementary.
- 50:33Speaker 1: Of course, that's the home of the Fighting Seals. It's
- 50:35Speaker 1: wild to see you guys now doing shows with him.
- 50:38Speaker 1: It makes me realize how long ago I was enrolled
- 50:39Speaker 1: at West Virginia. Great memories. Now on of my connection story.
- 50:42Speaker 1: I was recently in Paris post Olympics, and as someone
- 50:46Speaker 1: who frequents the top fifty bars in the world list
- 50:49Speaker 1: look it up for your travels, I met a reservation
- 50:51Speaker 1: at the Little Red Door, number six in the third
- 50:55Speaker 1: What does that hopy arandisement? I can't. I don't know. Anyway,
- 51:01Speaker 1: I sat at the bar to enjoy a cocktail. Stay
- 51:05Speaker 1: with me here. Our bartender starts mixing drinks and we
- 51:08Speaker 1: get to talk. He's about six to three, tight end
- 51:11Speaker 1: build from Bulgaria. We talk about the Olympics, sports and spirits.
- 51:17Speaker 1: Then he asked me if I played American football and
- 51:19Speaker 1: I returned the same question. Turns out he played seven
- 51:21Speaker 1: on seven full contact football in Bulgaria worked with an
- 51:25Speaker 1: organization called PPI. That's the same one that Eddie Vester
- 51:29Speaker 1: Rinnan came through. Before I can even finish my thought,
- 51:32Speaker 1: he says, I was being recruited by you guessed it,
- 51:37Speaker 1: West Virginia, the Bulgarian bartender in Paris. My jaw hits
- 51:41Speaker 1: the floor or miraculately my martini. Sorry for the long one,
- 51:45Speaker 1: but your words about West Virginia connections always rings true.
- 51:48Speaker 1: It's incredible how far the flying WV reaches. Keep up
- 51:51Speaker 1: the good work. Yeah, that's exactly why we created the
- 51:54Speaker 1: can You Rest the Passer? Yeah?
- 51:57Speaker 2: Really, that's that organization run by Brandon Collier. Of course,
- 52:00Speaker 2: Yeah you knew that.
- 52:00Speaker 1: Though you remember from Gordy from Massachusetts that left our
- 52:04Speaker 1: mouths agape about as John Beeline's story and how Adam
- 52:07Speaker 1: and the coaching Well, he comes back and he said,
- 52:09Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys sharing my text with Coach Bline
- 52:13Speaker 1: and the kind words on your show. You guys are
- 52:15Speaker 1: the connective tissue between regular guys like myself and coaching legends.
- 52:20Speaker 1: I had one major omission from my story. I'd like
- 52:22Speaker 1: to add during my time in grad school at West Virginia,
- 52:26Speaker 1: I met and befriended Adam Hughes, a long snapper for
- 52:29Speaker 1: the Mountaineers during seven eight season. I remember he was
- 52:31Speaker 1: Pat McAfee's long snapper. After grad school, I hired him
- 52:35Speaker 1: to work with me. He moved up to Massachusetts. I'm
- 52:38Speaker 1: blessed and honored to have been named his first son's
- 52:41Speaker 1: godfather Ben and his wedding and call him my best friend.
- 52:44Speaker 1: Gordy's all over this When I take my children to
- 52:47Speaker 1: West Virginia October nineteen against k State, Adam and his
- 52:50Speaker 1: sons are going to come in for the weekend with us.
- 52:52Speaker 1: Wonderful homecoming for Adam and I and a chance to
- 52:55Speaker 1: show off the university that changed our lives to our
- 52:58Speaker 1: wives and kids. It's Adam's first time back to campus
- 53:01Speaker 1: since he played here. My gosh, the best part we
- 53:05Speaker 1: are taking a brand new lou Wendell Marine G three
- 53:08Speaker 1: pontoonbo from Cape Cod to Morgantown. You three are appreciated
- 53:13Speaker 1: more than you realize for the work that you do
- 53:15Speaker 1: direct impact. Gordy from Massachusetts, Well done, Gordy. Wow, Well
- 53:20Speaker 1: he's had some connections. I'll see yeah Texter, Hey, three
- 53:24Speaker 1: guys Matt in Louisville last week and my girlfriend and
- 53:27Speaker 1: I went to Bourbon and Beyond to watch Charles Wesley
- 53:31Speaker 1: Godwin jam Out. We both wore some West Virginia gear
- 53:34Speaker 1: to the festival. Now I live in Louisville and she
- 53:36Speaker 1: still lives back home, and so she hasn't experienced that
- 53:39Speaker 1: three h four connection. I told her to be ready
- 53:42Speaker 1: for her, for her and so let's go. Wait a second.
- 53:45Speaker 1: I told her to be prepared to hear some let's
- 53:48Speaker 1: goes and where are you from? She didn't believe me,
- 53:52Speaker 1: but no, sooner than walking in the gates, we hear
- 53:54Speaker 1: our first, let's go. We asked about twenty times if
- 53:57Speaker 1: we were from West Virginia and where we were from?
- 54:00Speaker 1: Great time, and Charles put it down. Of course she
- 54:04Speaker 1: did put it down, big man. I was with Charles
- 54:07Speaker 1: this past weekend. Oh you were? Yeah. He was at
- 54:09Speaker 1: Pepper Day and we had a we had a musical conversation.
- 54:15Speaker 1: Had a big disagreement with some No, he and I
- 54:19Speaker 1: didn't disagree. We agreed. Who is the most transformative American
- 54:25Speaker 1: band that transformed music? I gotta think about that I don'tkay,
- 54:31Speaker 1: just so someone so we took the American off and
- 54:35Speaker 1: someone that we am not going to mention his name
- 54:37Speaker 1: because it really doesn't I don't want to hurt his character.
- 54:41Speaker 1: But he said the Beatles were not a transformative man.
- 54:44Speaker 1: They talk about transformative from she Loves Me, She Loves Me, Yeah, Yeah, yeah,
- 54:50Speaker 1: to Strawberry Fields and are you kidding me? So Charles?
- 54:53Speaker 1: He said, if you qualified down to me, and he
- 54:55Speaker 1: said he would have to put Nirvana in that category transformative.
- 55:01Speaker 1: But anyway, I let you think about it. Yeah. This
- 55:04Speaker 1: is a wild picture. Speaking of Octoberfest, Joe and Paula
- 55:08Speaker 1: Alaverio representing the old Golden Blue for West Virginia. Look
- 55:11Speaker 1: at this hop in Munich's Octoberfest. They were with fourteen
- 55:15Speaker 1: other friends and seven point two million new ones.
- 55:18Speaker 4: Geez.
- 55:18Speaker 1: So that's Joe, longtime in Morgantown, native Parkersburg residence. He's
- 55:24Speaker 1: got the flying WV on that gold shirt right towards
- 55:26Speaker 1: the left hand side, near the rest.
- 55:27Speaker 2: There are more people from Usherny at Octoberfest than are
- 55:30Speaker 2: still in the state.
- 55:31Speaker 1: Stunner.
- 55:32Speaker 3: Well, they're here. They're at Myrtle Beach and at Octoberfest.
- 55:36Speaker 2: And they're at October Fest like it's happening in Fairmount.
- 55:38Speaker 1: I know Joe used to be a longtime high school
- 55:41Speaker 1: official here in West Virginia's surprised didn't wear officials uniform
- 55:44Speaker 1: walk around there. But thank you Joe and wife Paula.
- 55:47Speaker 1: Hope you guys had a wonderful time. Texter Scope Senator
- 55:51Speaker 1: Hoppy Hoppy Hoppy, Me and the missus both class of
- 55:55Speaker 1: nineteen eighty alums traveling to Stillwater to see the world
- 55:58Speaker 1: champion Mountaineers Oklahoma will be number forty seven on my
- 56:01Speaker 1: quest to visit all fifty states. Hope to see my
- 56:04Speaker 1: friend of the show, mister Joe Mock there. Signed by
- 56:06Speaker 1: Steve P. From Ellicott City, Maryland. Text, how about this
- 56:12Speaker 1: picture Flatwood's Gomart at the end of the rainbow. That's
- 56:15Speaker 1: flat Woods and got a rainbow.
- 56:17Speaker 3: Bright one right, it looks like a second one next
- 56:20Speaker 3: to it.
- 56:20Speaker 2: Yeah, and the double absolutely And I was happy at
- 56:23Speaker 2: that one a lot. And you went on you went
- 56:26Speaker 2: on the tour. I was on the last bye week.
- 56:29Speaker 2: During the bye week, just gonna drive around the state,
- 56:31Speaker 2: gonna go to different go march. Well, you were aware
- 56:33Speaker 2: Neddie was.
- 56:34Speaker 1: One of them Neddie.
- 56:35Speaker 2: There it is there is there's same day you hit
- 56:39Speaker 2: a Nettie?
- 56:39Speaker 1: Yeah? And where else did you summer at Somersville? No?
- 56:42Speaker 1: Flat Woods?
- 56:43Speaker 2: Flatwoods?
- 56:43Speaker 1: Flat Woods? Was it Flatwoods World Headquarters?
- 56:46Speaker 3: I was at the World headquarters in Flatwoods. That's the
- 56:48Speaker 3: flat Woods. That's the flat Woods one. I think the
- 56:50Speaker 3: other one was Netty back then.
- 56:51Speaker 1: I think the other one was Nettie. Well there's two,
- 56:53Speaker 1: there's two Gomarts and flat Woods. That was such a man.
- 56:57Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the that's the one in Nettie.
- 56:58Speaker 1: Yeah, that is Neddie.
- 57:00Speaker 2: Before you make the turns time, just driving around the state,
- 57:02Speaker 2: stopping the mats.
- 57:04Speaker 1: I'll go walk in, get some candy.
- 57:06Speaker 3: Go in, get a snack.
- 57:07Speaker 1: Let me tell you the restroom. Yeah, let me tell
- 57:09Speaker 1: you something about the Gomarts here, folks. Is your tailgating
- 57:13Speaker 1: strategy falling flat? That is the question. Gomart ready to
- 57:18Speaker 1: help you score big. Check this out. It's a contest
- 57:20Speaker 1: enter for a chance to win the ultimate tailgating package.
- 57:24Speaker 1: You get two hundred dollars in a Gomart gift card.
- 57:27Speaker 1: You get tailgating supplies, a pop up tent, a portable grill,
- 57:32Speaker 1: and a cooler. Stop by your local go Mart. Scan
- 57:35Speaker 1: the QR code in the store to enter. Don't forget
- 57:38Speaker 1: the contest and exits enters stops out October thirty, first Halloween,
- 57:43Speaker 1: so do it before that. For more details, check out
- 57:45Speaker 1: the gomart app or visit gomart dot com.
- 57:49Speaker 2: So I've got a head over and get gas probably
- 57:51Speaker 2: later today, so I'll go cash in my fuel reward
- 57:54Speaker 2: points there that I have hoped. But they all got
- 57:56Speaker 2: a deal on candy. No new month here. This is okay,
- 57:59Speaker 2: this is first I've heard of this big big candy, takeover,
- 58:03Speaker 2: Big candy, takeover. Dollar off on Halloween candy. Okay, two
- 58:07Speaker 2: different Halloween candies, so you can get off on the
- 58:09Speaker 2: on the pumpkins, the Recei's pumpkin shapes, which we know awesome.
- 58:12Speaker 2: Have not seen these before? Snickers pumpkins, Snickers in the
- 58:19Speaker 2: shape of a pumpkin. Not in the bar, the traditional
- 58:21Speaker 2: bar or the big.
- 58:22Speaker 1: Are they are they orange?
- 58:23Speaker 3: No?
- 58:23Speaker 1: They're not orange? How big are they? Like? How round? Like?
- 58:26Speaker 1: Is it that kind of they look?
- 58:28Speaker 2: They appear I have not had a spear to be
- 58:29Speaker 2: the size of the recent peanut butter cut. Really like,
- 58:33Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to go in talk to my guys.
- 58:35Speaker 2: Should I just go and start yelling again.
- 58:36Speaker 1: Yes, walking out? Where are the Snickers pumpkins?
- 58:39Speaker 3: At least say hello to people before you start yelling
- 58:41Speaker 3: for things.
- 58:42Speaker 2: When I say yelling, I'm not yelling at them. I'm
- 58:43Speaker 2: just like can I yelling with I need some help?
- 58:46Speaker 2: Texter Dollar Off those driving and listening to the Open
- 58:51Speaker 2: Week Musings episode. I couldn't help but laugh when I
- 58:54Speaker 2: heard the studio thermostat was set at seventy three degrees fahrenheit.
- 58:57Speaker 2: Kerchival's fallow my classroom thermostat that has said it's sixty
- 59:01Speaker 2: eight year round. I teach high school math, and I
- 59:03Speaker 2: use it as a way to keep my students awake.
- 59:05Speaker 2: Plus I always run hot, so it helps both ways.
- 59:08Speaker 2: When they complain, I explained to them that I sat
- 59:10Speaker 2: through the two thousand and five pit game, and until
- 59:12Speaker 2: their feet are numb up to their ankles, I don't
- 59:14Speaker 2: want to hear them complain coldest I've ever been in
- 59:17Speaker 2: my entire life. Best is to buy a thermostat with
- 59:20Speaker 2: a child lock to keep Hoppy from jacking up the
- 59:22Speaker 2: temperature on you guys. Keep up the good work.
- 59:24Speaker 1: The assumed mayor of Eleanor, I haven't touched it's only
- 59:28Speaker 1: the three of us in here, and it's not us.
- 59:32Speaker 1: Who else is in here?
- 59:33Speaker 3: Well, it's open, it's an open area. There's a lock
- 59:35Speaker 3: on the door.
- 59:36Speaker 2: Coming down from other places and turning it up and
- 59:38Speaker 2: then leaving.
- 59:39Speaker 3: Obviously, I am not I touched the thermist at once
- 59:44Speaker 3: a month.
- 59:45Speaker 2: Those darn people on the second floor just coming down,
- 59:47Speaker 2: and that's what.
- 59:48Speaker 1: Let's go down and check the thermistat Let's go turn
- 59:50Speaker 1: the thermist up in the studio.
- 59:53Speaker 3: I touch the thermist.
- 59:56Speaker 1: Dad turn it down today? In fact, well, I didn't
- 59:59Speaker 1: touch it.
- 59:59Speaker 3: I'm glad it feels comfortably. It was warm during my show.
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: I didn't touch it, all right. He excused Heath from
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: Baltimore too long, So I'm just gonna skim. Did you
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: see the end of the Virginia Tech Miami game? Yes?
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: Did you think there was enough to overrule the call? No?
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: Way, horrific real quick on this. I won't get locked
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: in on this. I don't think this is getting enough attention.
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: This is the stuff that makes us crazy. So ruled
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: a touchdown on the field by Virginia Tech that should
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: have won the game, they go to replay. Okay, indisputable evidence,
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: right for the life of me. I don't understand this.
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: Hot.
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: Shouldn't there be a shot clock on those reviews? If
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: it's indisputable, you know, you look at it, you see it.
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: You can't spend three, four or five minutes reviewing this
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: cause that's very definition not indisputable. There is zero percent
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: chance there was enough to overturn that call. And they
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: went against what the rules were and overturned it anyway.
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: It was just totally arbitrary.
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: Now, I don't know that a touchdown catch was the
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: correct call either. I don't know how they saw that,
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: but they did in fact rule it a touchdown ketch,
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: which therefore it's got to be indisputable, and it wasn't.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: And they just went off of that and said, nope, overruled.
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: There was no way there was enough to overturn that.
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: Whatever was called on the field should have stood.
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: Terrible.
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: It just can't happen. You know that, it's your rule
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: that cannot happen. My buddy Bill and I only care
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: because at some point that's going to happen during Western Oh,
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: no question. Oh, I don't care of tech Winde loses.
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: Couldn't care less what happens to Miami don't care about
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: either of theirs, but you get that the mechanics of
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: that replay were awful.
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: My buddy Bill, who broadcasts those games for the Gobblers,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: he said, what really screwed you up? He goes, they
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: have those led lights there. They shut the lights off,
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: so he says, mayhem breaks out, which they shut the
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: lights off one like, like, was it a touchdown? Was
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: it not a touchdown? They shut the lights off, They
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: start running around, they take the field, storm the field
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: like the lights are off. Is there a replay like
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: the Big twelve? Ever since we told you since the
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: Oklahoma game last year, like, you can't you can't shut
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: the lights off after a touchdown because hell breaks out?
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: Listen, if you can't tell on replay, don't guess that's
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: not that provocative of a statement.
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: They guessed.
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: It so it was not clear, though it couldn't have been.
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: Less clear, clear as mud. You couldn't you couldn't tell
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: if they had it or not. So he rolled, a
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: touchdown should be a touchdown. There's no way you could
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: have seen it.
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: All right, move on, thanks, Brent. He also wants to know,
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: do you think that the bad calls early on this
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: season is due to conference realignment, with referee Cruise now
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: having to call games above their talent, it could go
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: on that for ten hours. Lastly, Tony, did you enjoy
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: your bottle of keante? I assume you drank it with
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: your birthday dinner. Ps. Your birthday is a day after
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: my dad's, three days before mine, and four days before
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: my late grandmothers. I hope you paired it with a
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: nice meal, maybe some Tutors biscuits, REVCVS barbecue or your
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: own home cooked. I'm sure it would go well with
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: some of your world famous brad San Marizona tomatoes olive
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: oil made from olives that I'm sure you snuck past
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: customs and are growing next year tomatoes. I haven't opened
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: it yet, I must say this.
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: Are both models still upstairs?
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: No, I think I brought one home.
- 1:03:07Speaker 3: There's one still upstairs. I think I got I was
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: going to take that other one home because Brent, because
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: Brent didn't want it.
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: Texter love to show you guys. I've been a Mountaineer
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: fan since i was eleven years old. As I've said
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: in a previous message, I'm now a youth pastor assistant
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: football coach. My early years of coaching. I had the
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: opportunity to coach and scheme for a young Sean Martin
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: his senior year at Bluefield. Let me tell you it
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: wasn't easy. He destroyed every scheme we had planned for him.
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: I loved seeing him develop into the player he is today.
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: From that night, I feel like if he can play
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: like we all know he can and have a game
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: like he did against Kansas, he and TJ. Jackson are
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: going to eat up Ali Gordon and put Bowman into
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: a place he's never been before. I believe we're about
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: to see the season we knew it was about to be.
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: Hang on Mountainer Nation, It's going to be good. Signed
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: by Jason Texter, I'll tell you what.
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: Shawn had a massive play on that second to last
- 1:03:59Speaker 2: offensive series for Kansas. YEP, busted through there, blowed up
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: that third downplay it back.
- 1:04:04Speaker 3: So that front, that front has gotten, has really established
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: itself right. And if it can do that against Oli Gordon,
- 1:04:10Speaker 3: you got a great chance.
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: Well. T J.
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: Jackson's been outstanding in particular, has led the bit power
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: foreign pressures heading into last week.
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: Uh three, guys, I'm listening on the Off Weeks Thursday show.
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: I noticed Tony usually the reserved costas like voice from
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: my youth and childhood show a rare moment and acknowledge
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: the jackwagons. A twenty million dollars payout for student athletes.
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: It's a lot, undoubtedly, while it is the biggest concern,
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: how does pay in your operating costs as well as
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: that new obligation look with your main revenue sport collecting
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: a five or six win season. I used to be
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: a bigger donor when Dana was here. He seems to
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: be one of the more polarizing coaches. I found him
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: genuine and to be fair, he was in a tough
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: scenario to start here. There are only so many donors
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: who can give the amounts that West Virginia needs. When
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: Neil came, we got less access with an ask for
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: twice as much and less wins. I let my dollars
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: speak like some of my peers. Only time will tell
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: Allen and Morgantown, what's that mean? Get you got less
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: access with Neil? I don't know what that means. You
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: don't get to drink with them? Is that what it is?
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: What's less access mean? Jeremy and Liberty? Thank you to
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: whoever efforted and got the koozies completed and on episode
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: eight hundred, assuming it was Brad and was homeless, Dave,
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: they look awesome. Can't wait to use them at a
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: watch party or the next West Virginia game I attend.
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: Texter just pointed, just wanted to point out that West
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: Virginia is nine and four and it's last thirteen Big
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: twelve games. Let's make it seventeen and four. Signed by
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: Mike from the thumb of Michigan Texter. Tucker Devrees's interview
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: was fantastic. He's got it, He's humble to a fault,
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: clearly going to be a coach on the floor. Excited
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: to watch this team Chris and Weirton. Texter, I just
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: finished Sunday's podcast, and I couldn't help but notice that
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: the way Tucker talks in chuckles and his cadence of
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: his speech sounds a lot like three Guys Own Nate Adrian.
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: Really it's a bit quieter, breathing way of talking with
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: some little chuckles mixed in. Agree or am I just
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: not fully awake here on the West Coast this Monday morning? Obviously?
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: He says Nate's got a fairly thick West Virginia accent,
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: which is terrific. But in terms of the cadence and
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: the little shortle and kind of clipped shorter answers under
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: his breath, they sound very familiar. Thank you, Curtis and Portland.
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: Then another Texter comes in and says, Tucker sounds so
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: much like Nate Adrian. Did you catch that? I didn't
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: know that.
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: So he's Nate Adrian's duppelganger. He could be Where is Nate?
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: Have they started? He's overseas in Japan?
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: Japan? Yeah? Recently? Yeah, that's a change. Yeah, he drove too.
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: Through four games, Geno Smith is first in the NFL
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: among quarterbacks and passing yards, passing attempts, total completions. He's
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: also second in completion percentage in passing yards per game.
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: I can't wait for that summer series episode. It'd be
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: a great one. It would be a heck of a year.
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: Good friend. Oh, it's unbelievable.
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: So this is an incredible.
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: Story, isn't it. Just We talked about this on sports
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: Line Tenny. It just shows how where you go has
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: a lot to do with your success or not.
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: At the next level. Dude, dude, you can throw it
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: as well.
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, right, he's been around a long time
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: and he is throwing that as well as inbye league.
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: Hey, three guys just want to do the right spot. Hey,
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: three guys just wanted to share a little story. After
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: almost twenty six years in higher education at various institutions
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: in the state, I have landed at the West Virginia
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: Higher Education Policy Commission, hopefully until I retire. Imagine my
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: surprise when I started this summer to find out that
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: I have to complete quarterly efforting reports. I literally laughed
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: out loud, not meaning to in. My predecessor looked around
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: trying to figure out why. I told her I was sorry,
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: and we moved on. But bad news for Brad. Evidently
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: the word efforting was not a new term to the
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: Mountain State. As my predecessor has told me, she has
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: been doing these efforting reports, but she wrote it down
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: as effing reports for at least fifteen years, if not longer. Sorry, Brad,
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: but guess what I can wear. But guess what I
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: can wear to work at least four times a year. Now,
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: there you go. That's efforting. My husband and I listen
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: and watch regularly and look forward to each episode. Hope
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: to catch the food court one day. I missed out
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: last year. You guys weren't at the home game that
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: we attended. I'm heading up today to see my daughter
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: West Virginia. She's in grad school, and we'll listen along
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: the way. Thanks for all the stats and the laughs.
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: Tara or Tara, you'd go teara on that a Tara?
- 1:08:55Speaker 3: Yeah, Tara, I think I'm go Tiara, Tara Tar probably Terror.
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: I didn't know Atara. That's spelled like that. Yeah, that's
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: why you don't know, Uh, Tara, Tara? Next time, could
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: you give us a phonetic? I just did PSTL hoppy.
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: I never had three longs and a short for a
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: phone number, but I do one hundred percent remember the
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: party line. I would totally buy that T shirt. By
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: the way, Thank you, Tara, Tara. Hey guys, Kathy and Marlington.
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: Long but funny story. I missed the Kansas State game
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: because I was heading to Seattle to embark on an
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: Alaskan cruise. But because it was game day, I was
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: decked out in my West Virginia gear, so she must
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: have met the Kansas game. My sister and I caught
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: our Seattle Hotel's airport shuttle along with eight other people.
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: While we're getting off at the motel, she ever heard
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: a young lady ask your friend, I wonder if that
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: lady could sing country roads. She assured them that I could. Then,
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: while waiting to check in, I heard, are you from
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: West Virginia? Yep. Turns out two other West Virginia couples
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: had been on the same bus. They're from Charleston and
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: Tayse Valley areas heading for a different an Alaskan cruise.
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: Six of the ten people on that shuttle were from
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: West Virginia. No, now, I had a couple more West
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: Virginia paral items in my suitcase. In the first night
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: of the cruise, two ladies walked past me and they said, Hey,
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: West Virginia. Where are you from? I said, Pocahontas County.
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: Those ladies were from neighboring Greenbrier County. Two nights later,
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: while relaxing and playing scrabble in a bar area, another
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: woman walked up to our tail and said, now, these
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: are my people. Her first thought was that she was
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: a scrabble fan, but nope. A Florida resident originally from
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: Nicholas County, another neighboring county. On the sixth evening of
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: the cruise, we passed by the Greenbrier County crew and
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: heard West Virginia. We acknowledge each other, and as I
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: turned there was yet another woman in a West Virginia hoodie.
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: Upon asking her where she was from, she replied, Oh,
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: I'm not from West Virginia. My husband travels all over
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: for work and he brings me a shirt from wherever
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: he goes. I always wonder why every time I wear
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: this hoodie I hear people comments something about West Virginia.
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: I laughed and explained to her that the wearing the
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: flying WV is just like wearing a strong magnet YEP
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: that will always attract West Virginians. So there is always
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: a West Virginia connection, even when there is not.
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: Can I give you a couple of connection stories for sure?
- 1:11:21Speaker 3: So two of them. This week, Senator Shelley Moore Campito
- 1:11:25Speaker 3: brought the nation's relatively new archivist, excuse me, Peper of
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: the National Archives keeping the National Archives to Morgantown and
- 1:11:35Speaker 3: to go to the WVU Library in the regional library there.
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: And her husband is from West Virginia. The archivist the
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: archivist husband. Her name is doctor Colleen Shogun s h
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: u ga n Shogun, and I believe that's pronounced Terra,
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: and her husband is from West Virginia. How about okay? Now,
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: the other one is I interviewed this because he was
- 1:12:00Speaker 3: speaking at Shepherd University, is Ray Mabis. Ray Maybes is
- 1:12:04Speaker 3: the former governor of Mississippi, former former ambassador to Saudi Arabia,
- 1:12:11Speaker 3: and former Secretary of the Navy. So we had a
- 1:12:14Speaker 3: very very good interview, very intelligent guy, has a lot
- 1:12:17Speaker 3: of life experiences. And at the end, I said, well, listen,
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: welcome to West Virginia. We love company in West Virginia.
- 1:12:23Speaker 3: He said, I live in West Virginia. Excuse me, maybees
- 1:12:27Speaker 3: is in West Virginia. Well, Ray Mabes, he lives in
- 1:12:30Speaker 3: Harper's Ferry. My goodness, I said, well, next time I'm
- 1:12:33Speaker 3: over that way, I'm from over there. Sureing summit point,
- 1:12:37Speaker 3: I said, I'll stop by, So we'll stop by. So
- 1:12:39Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to go by Ray Mabis's house. Former
- 1:12:42Speaker 3: governor of Mississippi now lives in West Virginia.
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: Of course he does. That's pretty wild. So he chose
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: it just to kind of get out of the DC
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: Beltway thing.
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: Well you get I mean, as an Eastern Panhandled person,
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: you get a lot of those DC folks get out
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: of d C. You're still close enough, you can take
- 1:12:56Speaker 3: the train, you can drive in. But it's a beautiful
- 1:12:59Speaker 3: area just settling at Jeffson County.
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: And when you take that train over from the Eastern Panhandle,
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: you got to get yourself one of these. Yeah, this
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: is the Tutor's Biscuit World. Camo Mug Harvey's got one
- 1:13:12Speaker 1: over there too. You buy this just once, Brad, you
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: know how this works? Yeah?
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: Why once you buy it once and you get refills,
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: and you get.
- 1:13:21Speaker 1: Refills for the price of a small drink every time
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: you go in there. Of course you do. So why
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: wouldn't you. This thing's about twenty ounces or something, twenty
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: four twenty four, Yeah, it's twenty four ounces. And speaking
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: of Tutors Biscuit World, when I go to Stillwater this weekend,
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: I'm gonna look for land. Excuse me why, because I'm thinking,
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: you know, they have franchise opportunities available. I don't think
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: the good folks look at that one like if you're interested,
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: They've got over seventy locations right now, but they are
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: currently currently talking to folks about franchising Tutors Biscuit locations.
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: I'm gonna look, I'm gonna.
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: Look at well, I know over there a few times
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: a year.
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that there's a there's a biscuit
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: in the state of Oklahoma as good as Tutors.
- 1:14:04Speaker 3: There's not fossilive respect to the biscuits. Well because the
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: world champion biscuits are from West Virginia.
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: Correct, So start your day the home made way with
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: Tudors Biscuit World, and they are currently talking to folks
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: about franchise opportunities. Just contact Tutors Biscuit World and you
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: whether it's still Water or Sutton, wherever you want it
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: to be, you can get in there.
- 1:14:23Speaker 3: What's their thing there, what's their food, what's their what's
- 1:14:27Speaker 3: their thing?
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: I bet you the barbecue, their big biscuit. Yeah, barbecue
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: and biscuit gravy people. Oh okay, oh yeah I like us, Yeah,
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: very much like them. How about this? This one blew
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: me away? This just came in late picture from Logan County.
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: This big boy hoppy dude got that yesterday October two
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: days ago October one, in Logan County.
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: Is that one where they're holding the board near the
- 1:14:52Speaker 3: camera so like a fish.
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: So that's big. That is a big pig. My gosh,
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: this big boar might make scopes drop his gun and
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: run up a tree. Yes, it would. It's an elephant.
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: It's a baby elephant. That's a mean ass animal too.
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: Like we had David McCormick on. You know, David's from Logan,
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: cal Yeah, and he he's gone there and hunted those things.
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: He said they will hurt you. I'm sure they will
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: hurt you. That's real. So whoever that is that got
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: that big old pig, congratulations? What is that thing weigh? Uh?
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: That thing right there? Ounds I would say, I was
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: going to say three to four hundred pounds. I would think, Yeah,
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: a lot of ham lined up out of the way
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: of that texter. Three guys Mania continues to grow. Last week,
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: while moderating a political discussion with two prominent members of
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: the West Virginia Legislature, Hoppy rebutted one of their statements
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: with the bombshell that I'll be able to tell my
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: grandchild about with all due respect, signed by AJ from
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: the Greenbrier.
- 1:15:59Speaker 3: So that's why I wasn't here for Tucker Devrees was.
- 1:16:04Speaker 3: I was at this event at the Greenbrier interviewing some
- 1:16:06Speaker 3: of the political leaders of West Virginia at invistation of
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: West Virginia Hospital Association. And at some point I did bad.
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: I gave him. I gave him with all due risks.
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: I gave him all due respect.
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: Now were they were they talking about Rutgers or were
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: they talking about something else?
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: Another subject?
- 1:16:22Speaker 3: So then too much information. We take a break and
- 1:16:25Speaker 3: I'm in the restroom and in comes aj and he
- 1:16:29Speaker 3: stands beside me and we're talking. He goes, hey, man,
- 1:16:32Speaker 3: I cut your all due respects. And I said to him,
- 1:16:37Speaker 3: or he said to me, I said, because I had
- 1:16:38Speaker 3: another segment coming up. I said, I'll try to get
- 1:16:40Speaker 3: in an efforting but I was, I didn't.
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: You're not going to make You're not going to make
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: it with me and Brent until you give a tongue
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: click during the debate. Oh is that right? Won't tell
- 1:16:50Speaker 1: you something?
- 1:16:53Speaker 3: He got a big kick out of that. All due
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: respect And you know I did it not right? Is right?
- 1:17:00Speaker 2: You weren't doing it like we do it here.
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: No, But I think because we do it so much,
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: it just got came out in Neshwick.
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: All due respect, Professor Vinnie's nervous. He thinks this is
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: going to be Oklahoma States get right game or they
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: get right. Might be Doug from Sutton. Three guys, this
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: question may or may not be one of you can
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: answer or will answer. Does Jaheem have an undisclosed injury
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: like they tried to keep CJ's quiet last year? No,
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: I can tell you that if they do, they I
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: haven't heard a whimper of that Rick from cheat Lake.
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: He's probably got a lou Wendell pontoon going on there.
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: Come on, three guys. I was listening to the Sports Line.
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: I heard an ad for the podcast. In the ad,
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: Brad says, well take your calls, text or tweets. I
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: remember when Brad would get on Tony for not responding
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: to tweets, but phone calls. I've been listening for a
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: long time. I never heard you take a call. I
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: think it's past time to update that ad. What say you,
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: Rick from cheat Lake? Yeah, we did. Used to have
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: a voicemail line. That's what the text like. Oh, yeah,
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: that's right. I would go in there and I'd edit
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: the things, and then it just got like, Nah, forget that. Yeah,
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: we don't have work. I mean we don't have a crew.
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: We are staffed.
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean homeless Dave. If we didn't have homeless Dave,
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: we wouldn't have two Nichols. Right, he's homeless Dave. It's
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: in New York this week. It's coming as soon. Is
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: he coming back this weekend? Britt? Yeah, he was been
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: in there all week.
- 1:18:27Speaker 3: I get periodic emails from homeless Dave just from where
- 1:18:30Speaker 3: he likes you.
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: He likes you and Brent.
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: I like, I like homeless Dave.
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: He's a good guy. He just kept Homeless Dave's kind
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: of like Lynt. You know really he just kind of
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: comes into a room, just kind of sits quiet when
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: you think about it, very easy to get along.
- 1:18:45Speaker 3: Well, he's smart, he's unobtrusive.
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: Unobtrusive is probably the best way. Yeah, that's a good
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: way to describe that.
- 1:18:51Speaker 3: And handle stuff, handle stuff, handle stuff, handles absolutely. I
- 1:18:57Speaker 3: mean if homeless Dave says it's going to get done, Yeah,
- 1:19:00Speaker 3: it gets done.
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: Did he did he deliver? Then you go out? No
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: Eastern panel, Brad. Like last week six pack someone showed.
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: Up didn't have it at the food court had already
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: sold out. Gentlemen from the eastern Panhandled. Dave just set
- 1:19:14Speaker 2: up and I got it.
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: I'll bring it out where you live. I'm going out
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: that way anyway, go to the airports.
- 1:19:19Speaker 3: I think one of the gatherings, if I have this right,
- 1:19:22Speaker 3: talked to so many people. One of the three guys, Teelgates,
- 1:19:25Speaker 3: he met somebody and said, you know, I brought a
- 1:19:26Speaker 3: beer barrel to.
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: Your house, and yes he did. It was Don Charles.
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: I think that was Don Charleston. Homeless Dave, he's terrific.
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: He is terrific. Pre you guys brought to us by
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: Tutor's Biscuit World. You know we don't eat before we
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: do this show. Brad doesn't I know, I don't. I don't.
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: I don't would like. I'm operating on a banana so
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: far today, and that's what two of four I could
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: take two of those. I could take two biscuits right now.
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: Take care of it. No, yes, no, you don't know.
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: When I'm ready, I go.
- 1:20:01Speaker 3: I understand that. So you don't want two of the champions,
- 1:20:05Speaker 3: right they're big?
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: I want that champion. You can't. I think I could
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: line up two biscuits they're going to line up Tutor's biscuit.
- 1:20:16Speaker 3: World said that so honestly, like I think I could.
- 1:20:19Speaker 3: I think it starts tough.
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- 1:21:12Speaker 1: All right. Back on Sunday, we'll do the recap of
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: the Oklahoma State game thanks to producer Austin. See you