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3 Guys Before The Game - Penn State Preview (Episode 483) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  It's our birthday. How about that it's our birthday and that kind of need
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  and that kind of need, it's our birthday. Welcome in everybody. Three
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  guys before the game. If we were like a human being, we'd be
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  in first grade right now, six years old on this date, and three
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  guys before the game history we launched this podcast, and that was four hundred
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  and eighty two episodes ago. Because this is episode four eighty three, and
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  this is our Penn State preview with the Senator Brad Howe, who has not
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  changed a bit in a course of six years that have gone by. All
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  dog years. Yeah, remind me where I want to get to some numbers
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  doing wonderful work for Make a Wish. So on our episode today, my
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  goodness, the text line, the text line has been very, very busy,
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  so we're gonna try to get to as many as we can. People
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  have questions, people have comments, a bunch of stuff. But of course,
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  since we go into this first game of the season, we are going
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  to break down some of the numbers, key numbers. And I know this
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  is kind of hard for you, Senator, because you will always tell us
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  that you need a base to really make the numbers more accurate. And so
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  when you start a season, you're kind of going off of you know,
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  last season and personnel changes. But for the most part, you can get
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  an idea as to what a team likes to do. So, without any
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  further ado, Ladies and gentlemen, it's been. It's been on summer hiatus,
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  but it's uh, it's coming back. It's the second most popular tune
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  in the six year history of Three Guys Before the game, and I almost
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  went into Casey case In. There it comes once again from our producer,
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  music extraordinaire David Sob. Hit it Baby. It's spreads on stats, so
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  I check the numbers. I'll just go right to the numbers, jump into
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  the analytic worship of the show. I missed this song. Does a nice
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  chat? Mix that up nicely, tremendous. By the way, do you
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  remember a couple of three episodes ago someone asked what the actual lyrics were for
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  textual healing? Yeah, a couple of people wrote them in and I need
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  to get that they've got him. Yeah, it's pretty simple, but I
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  need to get that though you're ready to do this. Yeah, By the
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  way, I screwed something else up. Did I say how many things have
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  I screwed up so far? I don't think any? Have you? Well,
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  So there's a dude, I think he's in Fairmont, and he wanted
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  to sponsor spreads on stats okay, and he sent me an email and then
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  I was gonna deal with it, and then I never dealt with it.
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  Now I can't find it and he lost it. Wait tell people, you
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  can sponsor the program. Parts of the program. Somebody wanted to and you
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  lost the lead. M Yeah. So if if you're the fer amount account
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  and call me or text me do something, I won't lose it this time.
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  All right, I'll go to these numbers. So here's how I'm doing
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  I'm doing it different today than we've done it, and doing it different today
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  than we'll do moving forward when we have some more numbers. So this is
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  a one off spread zone stuff. Maybe a one off, maybe a two
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  off. We'll have to see how it goes. What I'm focusing on here,
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  and listen, we could we could spend this whole episode plus a couple
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  others talking about different keys to this game, because there's a ton of them
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  with all of those on knowns you mentioned. But I'm going to run through
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  a couple that I think are important. That we've put some numbers too,
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  that I think would interest some people. Are surprising people at the very least,
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  so we know West Virginia has to win the turnover battle. So I'm
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  not going to go into that. We've been through that. Westerninia's struggle in
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  that area last year hadn't didn't have a lot of interceptions. They've got to
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  increase both of those, both turnover margin and the interceptions they come up with.
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  But I want to focus in on Garrett Green for a second, the
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  quarterback position, because it's just a massive key to not only Saturday's game but
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  the entire season. We've gone through some numbers with him already, but here's
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  a couple you're ready, a couple that we haven't talked about. Try to
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  do different, Well, just bear with me here. One of the things
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  I think Garrett needs to do. I've mentioned how don't turn it over is
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  critical, and there are a bunch of turnover worthy plays last year's He came
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  in in that small sample size trying to make things happen. You could see
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  why turnovers developed because he was pressing to try and make things happen, and
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  many times did. But he's got to cut down on that. But here's
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  another key. He really just needs to make the throws that are there in
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  this offense. Right, he sat right in this chair and said, I've
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  gone paraphrasing, but he said, I've got to be able to throw the
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  ball if the other team forces us to throw the ball to win. So
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  he knows that, he knows he's got to make the throws that become available.
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  Make the easy throws easy, don't make the easy throws hard. Last
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  year, Garrett's completion percentage was only fifty five percent. That was the lowest
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  in the Big Twelve among quarterbacks that played in at least half the games.
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  What quarterback coaches usually say, get that thing to sixty A minimum sixty five
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  would be even better. So a ten percent jump maybe a lot, but
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  get Garrett up into the sixties. Now, he needs some help from the
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  receivers. That's a quarterback stat, but that's far from being all on.
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  The quarterback line's got to give him some time and those receivers have to catch
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  it. But when he is on the run or rolls out or he's got
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  an open receiver, start there. Make the easy throws. That's Number one
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  with me on that m okay. Number two. The Penn State defense is
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  really talented. We've talked about that all night. But chances are pretty good
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  They're going to be aggressive on Saturday Night as well. So this sets up
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  what I think. This is the matchup I'm most interested in watching this talented
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  Penn State defense against the West Virginia offensive line. Last year, Penn State
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  had the number one graded pass rush per PFF in the Big Ten. Not
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  a surprise, but how about this. Chop Robinson had the second best individual
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  pass pass rush grade in the Big Ten, Linebacker Abduel Carter had the fifth
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  best pass rush grade among linebackers, and Jaire Brown had the best pass rush
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  grade among safeties in the Big Ten, all three levels. Now, Brown's
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  moved on. We talked with Steve about that early in the week. Brown's
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  moved on, But those numbers also show us many Diaz is going to bring
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  pressure from every single level. Normally, when you're going against a team with
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  a great pass rush, we identify one guy that you've got to handle,
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  right Felix and a duque from Kansas State, Will McDonald from an Iowa State.
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  There's been guys West Virginia sesos all the time in the Big twelve.
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  This team is giving you two elite with Chop Robinson and Abduel Carter and we'll
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  probably bring somebody from the safety side when they blitz as well. How well
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  can West Virginia do in standing up to that, So that's a big question.
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  West Virginia was in the middle of the pack last year in the Big
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  Twelve when it came to pass blocking efficiency got to increase a little bit this
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  year. They need to be better. And I think you're helped a little
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  bit by Green's ability to move. That's something you haven't had last year.
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  J T. Daniels had the second highest rate in the Big Twelve among quarterbacks
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  that played in half their games of pressure ending up in a sack. So
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  let me say it again, second highest rate in the Big Twelve of wind
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  pressured that didn't just turn into pressure, it turned into a Sackay that would
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  make some sense, right, Garrett should be able to help with that.
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  He was ninth. Green was in the Big Twelve overall. The only returning
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  quarterbacks with a better percentage that played in at least half the games Quinn Yours,
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  Will Howard, and both of the Kansas quarterbacks, so was ninth.
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  Was ninth overall of all the quarterbacks, not just out of team, so
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  it's not out of ten that's out of every quarterback he was ninth, So
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  he showed an ability even when there's pressure, it didn't necessarily turn into a
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  sack. Again, that's one of those numbers that backs up what your eyes
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  have seen that would make some sense. Correct. And let's talk a little
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  bit more about this point that you're making, and that is we can sit
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  here and say that West Virginia should have a good offensive line this season.
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  Potentially on some days it could be a very good offensive line, but it
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  really doesn't matter in this situation. And by that, I mean there needs
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  to be more than five guys that provide pass protection because at any stroke,
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  Manny Diaz can say, guess what, We're not going to bring five,
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  We're gonna bring seven. Now it comes to how well can West Virginia's backs
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  protect, How well can West Virginia's receivers potentially pass block? How well can
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  newcomer Luke Hamilton, who in all likelihood will be used as a guy in
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  the backfield as pass protection. Those are really the guys that you're going to
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  have to depend upon so that Garrett Green doesn't play the game on his back.
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  A couple of things. Let's hope he has to bring more than five
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  at times because that means they're not getting pressure, which just or up guy.
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  So that would be good. Number two. I'll give you another key.
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  Those receivers have to get off the line. In West Virginia's blowout losses
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  last year to Tech in Texas, what was the biggest problem. You can
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  name a bunch of things, but one of them was the receivers couldn't get
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  open, so then you had nowhere to go with the ball and it all
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  dragged down. I thought Greg coach Hunter made a good point last night on
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  sports Line. We were kind of talking about something similar to this, and
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  he mentioned, if this offensive line is able to handle people up front,
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  then maybe that frees up the tight ends a little more to become the pass
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  catchers we think Cole Taylor has a chance to be. You know, the
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  past couple of years, those tight ends have had to stay in and provide
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  additional help to the offensive line over Neil Brown's first three years. Last year
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  that got a little better. But hopefully those guys can get freed up to
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  get out into the pass routes a little more frequently. All right, now,
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  let's flip over to the other side. Here's something to watch when West
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  Virginia's on defense. We know Penn State returns a lot of experience along the
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  offensive line, but that group still has some questions to answer in terms of
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  what is their ceiling, what's their ability to improve from last year. They
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  already got a bit of bad news yesterday that came out officially, their left
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  guard Tangwell is announcing he's medically retiring, so he will not be in the
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  game. He was projected left star, left guard starter, so that's already
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  a significant ding to them. So we've talked about left tackle Ohlu Fashioneu by
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  saying that right Ohlu Fashioneu he's a pro, probably be a top ten pick.
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  He's going to be really good. It's the rest of the guys that
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  you have some questions about. So a new starting left guard will be inserted.
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  And then additionally, the center, the right guard, and the right
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  tackle all had grades last season in the fifties, which isn't great. So
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  there's some questions about that line. Even though they're experienced, how good are
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  they Last year they were outside the top one hundred in opportunity rates, So
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  there's what one hundred and thirty roughly Division one teams. Penn State was one
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  hundred and six in opportunity rate, which is the percentage of carries that gain
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  at least four yards. That's a surprising number given those running backs that you
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  have. Penn State was one hundred and sixth nationally an opportunity rate, the
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  percentage of a team's carries that gain at least four yards. So they had
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  a lot of big runs. Right, We've been talking about Singleton and his
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  ability to pop it long runs and the same thing with a caron Allen as
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  well. So yeah, so yeah, so they're gonna they're gonna they'll big
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  play it more than they will mulch you. So that's something to watch,
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  right, And there's questions about Western's defensive line. We've we've heard from the
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  coaches all summer here they're gonna play ten guys who's gonna step up, who's
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  gonna be able to play, But you're going against an offensive line who has
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  success within that that's a that's a spot and again i'm nitpicking over a top
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  ten team in Penn State who should be very good, but that's an area
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  that some people have some questions about along that offensive line. So keep an
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  eye on that all right, one against the spread number. Here, we'll
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  go into West Virginia when it's a double digit dog in its last four games,
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  has covered each of those games locations, homer away, all on the
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  road. Say it again, West Virginia has covered its last four games.
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  Is a double digit dog, all on the road since twenty nineteen. Okay,
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  they're two and two straight up in those games. Now, none of
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  them have been as large as this, but there's been an eighteen in there
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  of fourteen in there, so two and two straight up, four and oh
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  against the spread as a double digit underdog. Here's what's interesting. The average
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  points West Virginia has scored in each of those games seventeen points seven five,
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  just under eighteen points a game. They've given up just seventeen and a half
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  points per game, so they have a positive point differential in those four games
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  as a double digit dog. All of them hit the under by an average
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  of more than two touchdowns per game, an average of fifteen points below.
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  What the number is. This total, as you would expect, has dropped
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  from fifty three and a half down to fifteen and a half, so that
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  the under money is coming in on this for two teams that are going to
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  want to run the football? Was one of those four games, the close
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  one at Oklahoma? Yes, what was the line? And then I don't
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  remember that one thirteen and a half. Maybe I'm going off memories, so
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  don't hold me to that. So there's a if you're looking for a positive
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  spin on the number, if you can keep it close. The recent history
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  shows you that West Virginia has been able to do that. So with what
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  you've studied and the numbers that you have parsed or ciphered, what's the biggest
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  what's the biggest statistical category that West Virginia is the absolute must of mung and
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  a bunch of musts. If I eliminate turnovers because I think that's too easy.
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  The second one is easy also, it's just it's running the ball.
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  How close to two hundred yards rushing can you get? Penn State did not
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  give up many big rushing games last year. The outlier was Michigan went Michigan
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  went for four bills on them. That was the unusual one. Minnesota didn't
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  get to two hundred. There's some good rushing teams they face Utah it didn't
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  get to two hundred against them. So some teams with good lines, good
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  rushing attacks that wanted to run the football that did not get to two hundred.
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  So West Virginia's got to do it for a couple of reasons, and
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  one of them's part of the Upset playbook. Page one is you've got to
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  control the ball. With West Virginia's skill sets that it has, with that
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  line in those backs, in a mobile quarterback, it stands to reason they've
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  got to run the football. Here's the other part of that. If your
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  goal is to shorten the game, which I think that has to be a
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  primary goal for West Virginia. When you're out talented you are, the new
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  rules may help you. You know this running clock on first down it didn't
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  have a real overall effect on the games in Week zero in terms of time,
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  the games were like three minutes shorter. In terms of plays run,
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  each team ran an average of five or six plays less. So really negligible
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  on all that. But here's where I think it's different. If you have
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  a team like West Virginia that finds success running it, that wants the game
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  to slow down, that wants there to be fewer possessions, you can bleed
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  some more clock here because that thing's going to run. So if you're if
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  that fits into what you want to do, I think it turns into an
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  advantage, all things being equal. I don't know that it's going to change
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  the game very much. Teams that want to go faster are still going to
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  go fast, and it may not affect you. But if you're a running
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  team that has success that wants it to be slowed down, I think you
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  can gain some minutes of time of possession by just slowing yourself down. Agree
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  with you to your point regarding running the ball for one hundred and fifty yards,
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  Okay, if you were going to go there on Saturday night and try
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  to do that with past West Virginia quarterbacks and the opposing team knew that you
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  did not have a quarterback that could really threaten you and running the ball,
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  guess what, you aren't going to run for one hundred and fifty yards because
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  they were just going to outnumber you. Garrett Green, is that one possibility
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  of giving you the opportunity to run the ball, because realistically he could produce
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  he could produce fifty to seventy five yards in the shut your microphone off and
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  while you do that all the time fifty to You know what, For those
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  of you watching on YouTube, I'd like you to go back watch the tape
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  kind of like they do the replay monitor. Come in, watch the tape
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  and see if my hand reached at any point. Because he shut his mic
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  off, because he goes a bunch of stuff over there. He gets a
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  little bit like Kirchival, Like Kirchival has to go to the lip bomb Brad
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  like he's like a baseball guy. He's got a good three indicators, shuts
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  his mic off and then he forgets you said anyway, I think you shout
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  en off while you weren't on camera. See, I think Garrett needs to
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  get you that fifty seventy five eighty hit a big play in which he gets
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  thirty yards, thirty five yards. It will be invaluable to trying to get
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  to that number you're talking about. If you just if you're not gonna get
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  that, it ain't happening, no question. All right, real quick,
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  let's last thing. We'll move on from numbers to go back over opponents last
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  year that ran for one hundred or more yards against Penn State Ohio did it
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  early right out a hundred yards. That's the Bobcats, Yes, not the
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  Buck guys. Auburn went for one nineteen, Michigan went for four eighteen.
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  That was the big outlier. Yeah, then you have Minnesota at one sixty
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  five, and that's a team that lines up and wants to run it,
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  and then Utah wants to do the same thing. They went for one eighty
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  four. That's it. Those are the only teams that got over one hundred.
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  And if West Virginia lands at one hundred, that's not going to be
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  a pretty night. They've got to get well north of that to go in.
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  So you're really talking about Michigan at four eighteen that was an elite running
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  team. You're talking about Minnesota that likes to do it and was good at
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  one sixty five and Utah at one eighty four. So where's West Virginia fit
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  in that comparison. Yeah, And they won that game, the Rose Bowl
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  against Utah, and offensively they hit some big plays. They had an eighty
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  yard touchdown run in that game. And so those are good indicators. Those
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  are good indicators. Garrett Green, plain and simple, it's going to how
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  he handles it, both plus and minus. Well. Ultimately, determine the
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  come of this game. This is not one of those games where you say,
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  well, whomever the quarterback is, they just have to be a game
• 23:06
  manager. Like how many times are we talking a game may just has to
• 23:10
  manage a game. You don't have to win the game. You don't have
• 23:11
  to win the game. I'm not saying Garrett has to win the game.
• 23:17
  I'm saying Garrett's play. Garrett's play well ultimately decide whether or not West Virginia
• 23:25
  wins because he either is going to turn it over and that will cause a
• 23:30
  cavalcade of problems that will cost you, or he's gonna make positive plays that
• 23:37
  because he made those plays, that's why you're in the game to win the
• 23:40
  game. Totally agree. I think there's a lot of important keys is He's
• 23:42
  just massive. James Franklin came out this week and said for Drew Aller,
• 23:47
  he does need to be a game manager. He said, that's all he
• 23:48
  needs to do. We don't need to put a lot on him. We've
• 23:51
  got a great defense, we've got two talented running backs. We don't need
• 23:52
  Drew Aller to win the game. Literally said, just need him to manage
• 23:56
  the game. I'm with you on the Garrett greenside, He's gonna have to
• 24:00
  make plays. That's what he's in there for, that's what he does.
• 24:02
  You saw that at times last year. Now you need the consistency and the
• 24:06
  production here in game one. I'm intrigued. I'm interested to watch West Virginia's
• 24:11
  offense. I think they're doing a lot of neat stuff. They got stuff
• 24:14
  that looks neat, different neat stuff. So I'm interested to see that you
• 24:19
  have anything else for the good of the order. Now, that was a
• 24:22
  longer segment than it may be. We won't get in, but we had
• 24:23
  to get a bunch of numbers out there. So what's going to change going
• 24:26
  forward? You said like this will be the one thing. Well, sometimes
• 24:29
  I'll be able as we get deeper into the season and those stats start to
• 24:33
  normalize themselves, We'll be able to get West Virginia's offensive line against the other
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  team's defensive line, and some of those opportunity rate and stuff rate numbers.
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  I'll bring some of those to the table, havoc rates. You think this
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  could be a whole new I mean, new season for you, new year
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  for you, even more significant than you've done in the past. Are you
• 24:52
  better than you were a year. I would hope so don used don you
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  only used to say, hey, you get worse, you get better,
• 25:00
  You never stay the same. What do you think you're What are you trending
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  guys, like he's here now, he's in spirit in absentia. What is
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  he coming back? He'll be here next next Thursday for the preview for du
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  Queane. Do we know that? We're just gonna just say, well,
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  you know, it's kind of nice to not be there. On that student
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  I was listening. I was listening to his show that he doesn't do anymore.
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  And the guy on that radio there, that Dave Wilson, he said,
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  Hoppy's gonna be back next Wednesday. So I'm figuring he could probably make
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  his way in here next Thursday. I don't know. That might be unconfirmed
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  as well. Yeah, normally on this program when we do receive food,
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  we eat it right on set. Well, we were so hungry before we
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  started to record today. We jumped in and these were the dudes from the
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  Chimmi Shack over there in Star City voted the best food truck in West Virginia
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  in twenty and twenty two best food truck in West Virginia. So these guys
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  are open in Star City now where the Hot Dog Place used to be,
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  and they make these chimmy chogas, and they brought us three. They brought
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  us the oh, I'm just gonna say this right barbicoa slow braised beef and
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  cheese. They brought us the Stray Cat, which is the name of their
• 27:48
  place. It's the Stray Cat. Chimmi Shack shredded cheese and cheese. It
• 27:52
  shredded chicken and cheese. And then they brought us Pepperoni roll which is sauce,
• 27:59
  cheese and wow. Couple thoughts. Extremely tasty, excellent, extremely tasty.
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  However, you would probably have to be Joey chestnut to eat more than
• 28:12
  one because they are loaded and they are filling. They did not go cheap
• 28:18
  on the amount that is inside the fried shell around it. Very very good.
• 28:25
  Took a little sample of each. Proud of both of us. We
• 28:27
  just took a sample of each. Didn't eat all three of them. I
• 28:32
  went I went back into the stray Cat twice. I had no idea.
• 28:36
  I had no idea. They were voted the best food truck in West Virginia.
• 28:37
  But it's right here on their menu. First I've heard of it.
• 28:40
  It's very good. That's pretty dog gone good to be the best. I
• 28:44
  can see why those things were awesome. Thank you, guys, appreciate you
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  know what. You know what. I'll give him credit as well, because
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  you screwed up the first delivery of them. Yeah. I never did hear
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  from the girls. And it's one of those A lot of people like it
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  let's do this thing. Yeah, we'll about that hot dog placed down
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  over the hill. You go down the hill and that weird ass hot dog
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  place that were like built into the like built into the dirt. Yeah,
• 29:14
  Like, how'd they get that thing in there? It's like in a hill.
• 29:15
  Yeah, it's a good question, but that's where they are. It's
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  like a roots seller. Very good. Check them out. Do you see
• 29:22
  those desserts on there too? Very good? Tasty? All right, here
• 29:25
  we go text line, Hey, two guys, I was preparing to watch
• 29:30
  episode four eighty two live on the Youtubes and it got me to wondering,
• 29:34
  I cannot remember how this all started, so I went to episode one to
• 29:38
  re listen, and I was amazed it started. First ever show. It
• 29:44
  started with Tony attacking Hoppy for cleaning his microphone, the attacking Brad, then
• 29:48
  attacking Brad for taking Hoppy's side on that. After Tony mentioned Alan Taylor's podcast
• 29:55
  being an hour long, Hoppy remarked, I could never give anybody an hour.
• 30:00
  Well, yes, he was wrong when he shows up anyway, Tony
• 30:03
  attacked Brad for his will Greer Heisman comments, saying, paraphrasing, do you
• 30:07
  think they're going to talk on Sports Center about Greer throwing for four sixteen?
• 30:12
  He threw for three seventy one, so he was close. The only thing
• 30:15
  that surprised me was that Tony did not attack tex Australian punter. Some thing's
• 30:21
  never change. I love what you guys do. Go Mountaineers. Jim Preston
• 30:23
  County Yeah, that was so weird. When you go back to listen to
• 30:27
  the first one, I jumping all over Hoppy for putting alcohol on his microphone
• 30:32
  before we recorded, and that was all pre COVID. Now you know what
• 30:34
  we've done for the last six years. We alcohol the microphone. The whole
• 30:38
  thing down. The whole thing goes down. Text her three Guys, Hello,
• 30:44
  p one listener from Austin, Texas. As a proud Doddridge County College
• 30:48
  and WVU alum, I've had the privilege to study and work abroad for a
• 30:52
  number of years. After listening to three of my favorite guys across five continents
• 30:57
  and dozens of countries, I wanted to check in. My favorite three Guys
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  story is from the year I spent teaching English in East to More. I
• 31:08
  had a classroom of around eighty students, and on some days we would listen
• 31:12
  to three Guys in order to practice our English and maybe learn some new vocabulary
• 31:18
  from Hoppy. This proved to be a fairly effective strategy because eventually several of
• 31:23
  those students wanted to start watching WVU basketball games, which started at eight am
• 31:30
  local time. So three Guys is responsible for twenty students living about ten thousand
• 31:37
  miles away from West Virginia. Knowing the names Jordan McCabe, Emmett Matthews,
• 31:42
  and Chase Harler and the differences between a man demand defense and a zone.
• 31:48
  I appreciate everything the three guys has done and making anyone anywhere feel like home
• 31:53
  with this podcast. Signed by Dylan from Dot Thanks Dylan. Did you look
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  up east to more No? I think that was I think that was on
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  lying King check that out or that was one of the characters. Anyway,
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  Hey, Scopes and Spreads, I don't remember you mentioning the second biggest craft
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  beer sensation in the state, Big Timbers Country Roads Trust lagger. Fifteen percent
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  of sales go to the Country Roads Trust went to Elkins this week and grabbed
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  a case to have tailgating for the season along with some kerchival Signed by not
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  from Brian in Berkeley Springs, Southeast Asia. Excuse me, Southeast Asia.
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  It's on the southernmost edge of Indonesia, northwest of Australia. You're just teaching
• 32:45
  English. That's all we're doing is helping America and everyone else in the world.
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  Texture. In twenty nineteen, Austin Kendall, an app like in there
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  a lot of apps that teach different languages. Yeah, the Three Guys language
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  learning addition out there like that Babbel thing. I think, Yeah, Babbel,
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  That's what I was looking for. Thank you. I think we can
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  challenge Babbel. You think we start our own three guys app I put an
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  episode eight hundred dot com. They're gonna have a They're gonna have a heck
• 33:12
  of a time when they start to go in to their teacher. What's this
• 33:15
  word? Blow it up? Mean? Twenty nine as Cincinnata? Is that
• 33:23
  the name of it? In twenty nineteen, Austin Kendall and Jared Deggi combined
• 33:28
  for about two hundred two thousand, eight hundred pass yards nineteen touchdowns during a
• 33:32
  complete rebuild. If I said Green and Mark, you all finished this season
• 33:37
  with those same numbers. Your immediate thought about the season is what signed by
• 33:42
  the bearded ear? Uh need to say? Don't mean to avoid the question
• 33:49
  bearded ear, but would like to see the rushing numbers and the interception numbers
• 33:52
  off of that, then I'll answer that question. Sure, those on their
• 33:57
  surface would be fine. That comes with like four interceptions? Is all you
• 34:02
  have? Five to a five to one ratio. Be splendid. Ralph and
• 34:07
  Charleston writes Tony, this being a game week, I always look forward to
• 34:09
  you setting the scene. It's always right on. Is your ability part of
• 34:15
  your formal training? Do you have a checklist whether uniforms, expected, crowd,
• 34:20
  importance of the game, et cetera. Do you have to put a
• 34:22
  lot of time into it? Is it inspiration or is it just come to
• 34:24
  you naturally? Thank you keep up the work. Great work, Ralph and
• 34:29
  Charleston. I guess I could be completely honest. I never write those you've
• 34:36
  been using chat GPT for the last twenty years. Not true. No,
• 34:42
  in all seriousness, sometimes they flow really super easy. It's go ough't they
• 34:46
  come? And sometimes you kind of like you have to sit and think.
• 34:52
  But in essence, what I'm trying to do is just trying to take it
• 34:54
  from like really far out, what's the big story of the game, and
• 34:59
  then you you would you kind of factor in what's happening internally in your program,
• 35:04
  and then what's happening externally to the other program, and then just kind
• 35:07
  of comes together. I do think you're an underrated writer, Thank you.
• 35:13
  I don't think people would know that yeah, because they hear you speak more
• 35:16
  than they read your writing. I used to think you're a really good writer.
• 35:19
  I used to absolutely get sick when I had to write, like in
• 35:23
  school, Like if a teacher the first day said okay, like in high
• 35:28
  school, this year, we're going to have three eight page papers. Like
• 35:34
  you didn't like that would get sick. It would literally like God, So
• 35:37
  what changed? It was my kryptonite. I don't know, I don't know
• 35:42
  what changed. Probably just stop thinking like it was hard to do and just
• 35:45
  like just do it. Because I write broadcast. Broadcast is so much easier
• 35:49
  than like writing print. It's a different, whole different thing. For broadcasts,
• 35:54
  you try to write for like an eighth grade level because I'm I get
• 36:00
  too much in the weeds here. When you write for audio for radio,
• 36:04
  for a sportscast for something like that, the person that's listening only gets to
• 36:07
  hear it once, so it has to be extremely well concise and short and
• 36:14
  to the point so that they're going to catch it half listening or full listening.
• 36:19
  When you read something that's written for print, a website, a newspaper,
• 36:22
  at any point while you're reading a story, you can always jump back
• 36:25
  up to see exactly know who is that? Brown said, what you can
• 36:30
  always go jump back and broadcast it needs to be twelve fourteen words sentences.
• 36:38
  West Virginia's football team leaves tomorrow for Penn State. The Mountaineers open the season
• 36:44
  Saturday night against number seven against the number seven Knitney Lions. Head coach Neil
• 36:50
  Brown says offense will be the key in Saturday's game. Insert to sound bite.
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  See what I'm saying says like boo boop boop. See put that in
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  our babble killer. We're coming. Hey, Yeah, our apps should be
• 37:06
  we can teach you how to talk like a fifth grader Texter father of three
• 37:13
  kids here. This is Josh and Morgantown. I've got three kids three and
• 37:15
  under. I'm trying to figure out how to watch Saturday's game. I've been
• 37:20
  invited to several friends as houses to watch the game, but I get the
• 37:22
  feeling from my wife if I do that, I might need a place to
• 37:25
  crash that night. Do you guys all have a couch that I can crash
• 37:30
  on if I go that route? Shore come on. In separate football question,
• 37:34
  do you think the players went to coach Brown and said who they wanted
• 37:38
  to be the starting quarterback. And does Neil call coach Saracca for game planning
• 37:45
  advice against Penn State or is that pointless giving that no one DC or offensive
• 37:50
  coordinator is wise around when he was there. That's a good question. So
• 37:58
  he's talking about coach Saracca that was here, was at Penn State, was
• 38:04
  here and then went to Minnesota after he was at Minnesota before he went to
• 38:07
  Penn State. Yeah, probably if anything right. He calls him and says,
• 38:15
  Okay, tell me how Franklin thinks. Right, I thought you were
• 38:17
  gonna say. He calls him and says, you owe us one since you
• 38:22
  walked over to Minnesota and then smacked us in the bowl, you ow us
• 38:25
  one. Curtain solid point text, a couple of quick questions. I went
• 38:30
  six and six on the sports line prediction show my toss ups Oklahoma State and
• 38:37
  Oklahoma As they can go either way? What do you all think? And
• 38:42
  he updates on the Three Guys Tailgate saw where WVU Athletics announced the Almost Heaven
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  this, in the six years of this podcast, we have noticed on several
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  occasions that once we do start something, other people follow, and I guess
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  the imitation is the greatest form of flattery, So thank you very much.
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  You think they heard about three guys food courts, right, Well, I'm
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  sure there's no doubt, no doubt about that. Yeah, how's that going?
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  He asks, Yeah, how's that going? We're still efforting because there's
• 39:34
  a lot of things. Logistically, as someone might have said before, a
• 39:37
  lot of people throw up things that you get. There's a lot of hurdles.
• 39:43
  It's a lot of hurdles to do things, isn't there. I'm not
• 39:47
  gonna start. I'm just saying there's a lot of hurdles. Sometimes when you're
• 39:52
  in the race, you know there's ten hurdles out there. Other times you
• 39:54
  start the race and you clear a couple of hurdles, then people keep throwing
• 39:58
  other hurdles in the back end. Well, what's that one thing? You
• 40:01
  and hop you always say, don't make it harder, don't make it harder.
• 40:06
  And I'm not staying a word because it's not over yet. Texture Joe
• 40:10
  Mock in Texas never misses an episode. I tried to tell you don't over
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  promise. Well, I had No, you don't listen done events before a
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  lot of times people make it harder. Events are hard. I can't go
• 40:32
  out on the limb too early. All I'm saying is what we're trying to
• 40:38
  do is unbelievably benign considering what goes on in this city. Are you freaking
• 40:47
  kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me? That's all I'll say for now,
• 40:55
  anyway, Joe Mock in Texas, who never missed an episode, congratulations
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  on six years of awesome content and your merch at episode eight hundred dot com
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  is fantastic. We love the shirt in the Mountaineer Morning Coffee that we bought
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  recently. By the way, I am curious about Tony's high school acquaintance,
• 41:10
  Mark Mauv, mentioned in episode four eight zero. When he became an adult.
• 41:15
  It folks give him the nickname Mauv man if so I'm sure Tony,
• 41:21
  with his commun voice, stopped believing he exists. Thank you, Joe.
• 41:25
  You think MAV had its day? I do had a great run. Hello
• 41:32
  from John. MAV lasted long enough that if they had a Color Hall of
• 41:37
  Fame, MAV would be it. Think had a long enough career. I
• 41:39
  think I think there might be some debate, although once you've entered into like
• 41:46
  if people go if your if your toilet comes in the color, you're probably
• 41:51
  in the Hall of Fame. There were MAV toilets at one point there was,
• 41:53
  I think so like it depends on what used to be green toilets back
• 41:58
  in the old days. It would also depend on this, like who is
• 42:01
  on the MAUV Hall of Fame selection committee, because sometimes you can get like
• 42:07
  Baseball, like if the same people on the Baseball Hall of Fame Selection committee
• 42:10
  were on the color selection committee, MOUV would not get in. So you
• 42:15
  think if MAUV was difficult to interview, they wouldn't get in. I could
• 42:17
  be friendly to the media in order to get those Hall of Famer voters in
• 42:21
  baseball, they're just the most just go away from me. But like there
• 42:25
  are some halls of fame like you kind of they make some decisions that could
• 42:29
  be I'm not any kind of hall of fame. You kind of go like,
• 42:30
  how in the hell did that person get in the Hall of Fame?
• 42:34
  That must not be too hard, right some of them, and some you
• 42:37
  go like, how is anyway text or Hello from John and the friendliest City
• 42:43
  in the United States of America. Kaiser, So I'd like to sit down
• 42:45
  with Hoppy and do a blind taste test with multiple beers, including kirche Al.
• 42:51
  Let me tell you why. I find the Kurchiveil very tasty. Of
• 42:54
  course, I'm a big Hoppy fan. I also find the Trust Lagger very
• 42:59
  tasty. I'm a huge WV fan. And I also find Dj Freshy's Helf
• 43:04
  of Vice and very tasty. This is a beer that my buddy at White
• 43:07
  Horse Brewery in Berlin, Pennsylvania, brewding, my honor John's got his own
• 43:10
  beer. Yeah, so obviously there's a psychological component to taste. I think
• 43:15
  it'd be fun to sit down with the aforementioned varieties, along with some Cold
• 43:19
  Trail Ale, maybe Cougar Bait, and some Halleck and blindly pick our favorite.
• 43:23
  Love the show, Loved My Mountaineers, Thanks for the years of entertainment.
• 43:27
  So that Halleck, that's obviously, that's our Chestnut brew Works. That
• 43:31
  makes the Hobby Church of All. Bill a fantastic job. Bill has been
• 43:36
  busy this fault. He's pumping some out right can't keep can't keep it in,
• 43:39
  can't keep it in, It's in the hoppers right now. It's no
• 43:42
  pun intended. Texter Gentleman just finished episode four hundred and eighty two, with
• 43:46
  all due respect. The more Steve Jones rattled on, the more I felt
• 43:50
  like myself sinking into my seat and my blue and gold glasses faded to a
• 43:54
  dim shade of gray. Still praying for a twenty seventeen Neil Brown miracle.
• 43:59
  Troy Over, I love the show, Fellers, text her from Punta Gorda,
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• 44:19
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• 44:35
  good run again. Pretty good boy, Morgan and Morgantown. Tony brad huh
• 44:44
  real name probably not Tony Bratt. I think it's about time the NC double
• 44:47
  A self imposes the death penalty. The hard bough thing was bizarre, but
• 44:52
  Arizona State self imposing a one year bowl bank. Gimme a break, and
• 44:55
  someone tell Ryanderson the Sun Devils probably weren't going to play in a bowl game
• 45:00
  as sure. Anyway, what a joke. That's probably why they did it.
• 45:04
  Reminiscent of Auburn giving itself an NCA tournament ban on a year when they
• 45:07
  knew they weren't he good and we're going to make the NSA tournament. Here's
• 45:12
  an oldie. Remember Rich from Indiana used to write all the time at Rich
• 45:15
  in Indianapolis. He'd been He's back. No Rich from Indie here ben a
• 45:21
  bit since my last text. Please accept my apologies. Last episode, a
• 45:24
  text was generated by a P one listener named Ryan from Noblesville, Indiana.
• 45:29
  This piqued my interest because I actually don't live in Indianapolis, but I'm on
• 45:31
  the north side of the city and Westfield. Noblesville and Westfield are as close
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  to down the Holler as Indiana gets. This creates a perfect opportunity for three
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• 45:45
  enjoy meeting him. I'm not terribly interested in running a five K, but
• 45:50
  I do like rice, crispy treats, and golf a lot. Main reason
• 45:53
  for a lack of texts. Thanks, I love the show. With all
• 45:57
  due respect, you need to stop disrespecting the original classic sized reci cup.
• 46:01
  The whole convenience store industry owes its existence to the ability to pop in and
• 46:06
  grab a two pack off the shelf. I mean he makes a very solid
• 46:09
  point, well a couple of things. I certainly still love the original.
• 46:13
  I don't know if there's any disrespect going on, but it's just simply pointing
• 46:15
  out the ratio is better in the shapes. To his point, though,
• 46:20
  those convenience stores wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for the old two cup reci
• 46:23
  pack standard in the industry. Actually, I remember the onesies, just one,
• 46:29
  that's how it started. Then they went double and then, like everything
• 46:31
  else, things get huged for. I mean, you used to be growing
• 46:35
  up, you'd get yourself a Remember the glass Coca Cola bottles? Yeah,
• 46:38
  the little ones? Yes, was that twelve ounces? It might have been
• 46:42
  eight ounces or twelve ounces? Remember that that was a pop? Yeah,
• 46:45
  that was a pop. Like we should do one of those things, like
• 46:47
  you know how lead of those evolution things, like it starts with a gorilla
• 46:52
  and it goes like to a man, why can't you do one of those
• 46:54
  with like pop bottles, Like the history of our pop bouts, Like the
• 46:59
  bottle was like this big, and then it got like we went eight ounce,
• 47:02
  then we went to sixteen ouncers, and then they started the big gulf
• 47:07
  comes in and now basically it's a barrel. The people go in and get
• 47:12
  a big piece of garden hose, they stick it down on the barrel and
• 47:15
  they siph it it into their head. Like when did that all happen?
• 47:17
  Everything gets supercised. Texter Sitting in Hilo, Hawaii. I'm on a cruise
• 47:24
  ship listening to three guys. I sure hate going to be unable to watch
• 47:30
  the game. They're teaching a new guy to pilot a lifeboat down there.
• 47:34
  Sure hope he won't be our pilot if needed, go mountaineer US. No
• 47:38
  careful with that. Enjoy the cruising Texter. Hello, I'm twenty three years
• 47:45
  old and recently my dad has encouraged me to listen to three guys before the
• 47:47
  game. During my commute to work, I've been listening to Tony Call West
• 47:52
  Virginia games since I was a toddler, and I hadn't seen Brad since we
• 47:55
  talked. At the twenty eighteen West Virginia State Baseball Tournament, I mentioned to
• 48:00
  my dad how much older Brad looks now with his white beard. Thank He
• 48:04
  replied with, yeah, and Tony looks really good for being in his seventies.
• 48:08
  True. I agree with that. I thought to myself, there's no
• 48:10
  way Tony's in his seventies. After I did some research, I found out
• 48:15
  that Tony turns sixty one on eight of September. My dad turns fifty on
• 48:20
  the eleventh. I thought you would both get a kick out of this.
• 48:22
  You both still look great. I love the show Go Mountaineers. How did
• 48:28
  you get in there and change the Internet to say sixty one? That was
• 48:30
  well done by you. You teach me how to do this good job.
• 48:35
  I thought you're gonna be seventy three. On September eighth, h Boy text
• 48:42
  her scopes sabbatical, hoppy and spreads. I'm scrolling Facebook this morning came across
• 48:47
  a very interesting site. Here we go. Someone has made it down to
• 48:52
  point pleasant made an offering to the moth man. Timing wise, this could
• 48:55
  not have come better knowing the world champion mountaineers are set to do battle with
• 49:00
  the nitnees on Saturday. Now the question is who was It was Hoppy sabbatical
• 49:05
  a coverage sneak down there and make peace with the cryptid legend after Scopes drug
• 49:07
  him through the mud, or is Neil brown effort in a big season for
• 49:12
  the old Golden Blue. Either way, I think it's a gesture and bringing
• 49:14
  good fortune. It's all mountaineers this year, wherever you may be. Signed
• 49:19
  a local, a coal miners kid from morgan Tum by way of Willing.
• 49:22
  So you see there it is in Point Pleasant and they got a big recy
• 49:27
  cup, got a mountain dew probably that way pound mountain dew and some other
• 49:31
  stuff. So someone made a love offering to the moth man, like the
• 49:37
  thought, that's a neat clock in that town there. Look at that,
• 49:40
  this old school clock. Thank you very much, scared no man, Texter.
• 49:50
  I love the week one preview. Great insight from the voice of Ninny
• 49:52
  Lyons. As a side, what exactly is a nitney in your opinion?
• 49:55
  What to find success this weekend? Are we satisfied with staying close for three
• 50:00
  quarters? There is nothing short of a victory, a successful trip. The
• 50:05
  Nitney thinks that's a Native Apparently it's a Native American term. Some say mountain
• 50:12
  Nitney. It stands for like one mountain. Some say it does like there
• 50:16
  was a female Native American historically. I don't know exactly. Is anyway you
• 50:22
  can answer the other part, what defined success to you this weekend? Well?
• 50:24
  Everyways yells at me when I say this, because I get this program
• 50:28
  was not built on moral victories. But if you go in here and play
• 50:31
  with them, I think that bodes well for the rest of the season.
• 50:34
  I think that's that trying to be realistic about this. You can listen,
• 50:37
  you walk in and win this game, biggest regular season win in the school's
• 50:40
  history. Yeah, agree, Statistically, yeah, that's a that's a massive
• 50:45
  win obviously. So I think if you can go in and play with them
• 50:47
  and walk out with some confidence and move that forward, that's what you're looking
• 50:51
  to do. Steve and Pat Wilson and Tornado, West Virginia. The Mountaineers
• 50:57
  are repping in steamboats Springs, Colorado. Look at that. They went in
• 51:01
  there, steamboat springs, put them, put them put them out near flag
• 51:06
  on top of that thing. Steve and Pad are the folks that grow Sam
• 51:09
  Marzanos and past episodes. They sent us pictures a long time ago. Good
• 51:15
  to hear from you guys. Stay well, Texter. Just my opinion.
• 51:22
  Penn State's good, but they're full of themselves. NBC treating this game like
• 51:28
  a national championship. We're expected to do nothing. This feels like Oklahoma eighty
• 51:34
  two. Oklahoma was another NFL team, they said, and we went to
• 51:37
  their place, lined up, whipped them and made them like it. If
• 51:42
  our line plays like they can play, I believe we can run the ball
• 51:45
  have a chance to win at the end. I also think with the new
• 51:46
  clock running first downs it will shorten it some, which will help us with
• 51:51
  ball control. Go out here sign by the East Bank guy. There you
• 51:55
  go, Texter writing in to provide much needed rebuttal to why we should stop
• 52:02
  playing two power conference teams a year out of the conference. He asks,
• 52:08
  what's the most important number in college football right now? Wins is up there,
• 52:13
  yes, but viewers takes the cake. Playing these high profile games earlier
• 52:19
  in the year while the rest of the country plays cupcakes give smaller market teams
• 52:22
  like ours a chance to get much needed exposure. This year, the Penn
• 52:28
  State and PIT games will likely average around five million viewers. Last year,
• 52:34
  PITT did three million, Virginia Tech did one and a half. Those were
• 52:37
  our most watch games. Is playing a two for one against an ECU or
• 52:42
  Ohio really more beneficial to the program as a whole in the current landscape,
• 52:45
  Keep in mind group of five opponents are far from automatic wins, as we
• 52:50
  well know. Lastly, where is this program today without that Virginia Tech series?
• 52:55
  Much worse off? I would say bunch of good points. Yeah,
• 53:00
  that was important to building in the brand. But I'll say this, CETCU
• 53:02
  from last year played nobody in the nonconference right, got the all the way
• 53:07
  to a national championship game. If you're gonna play those games, I agree,
• 53:09
  there's more eyeballs on you Gotta win those games, and playing these is
• 53:13
  more difficult to win the games. Gotta get wins. Here's something that was
• 53:16
  encouraging. You know how I've been complaining about college football and not recognizing strength
• 53:22
  of schedule and not making it part of it, encouraging teams to dumb down
• 53:25
  the schedule. This story with Florida playing on Thursday night, the night we're
• 53:30
  recording this seam maybe listening this after the games happened. Florida's going to Utah,
• 53:34
  Big twelve member Utah. I'm sure they'll have no idea what time the
• 53:36
  kickoff is when they head out there. So they're playing at Utah first time
• 53:40
  since nineteen ninety and one that they're on the road out of the state of
• 53:45
  Florida for a non conference game. Can that be correct? It's correct,
• 53:49
  went to Sarak Houston got bat Spurrier was a coach tony ninety one. That's
• 53:55
  thirty two years Florida hasn't left the state for a non conference game. Are
• 53:59
  you and me very smart? Very smart? They're ad Scott Strickland said,
• 54:06
  here's the deal. That's intentional hopes when this playoff field expands to twelve,
• 54:10
  which is coming right, that he hopes strength the schedule starts to become a
• 54:15
  component and you're not penalized for playing in games like that. That's an important
• 54:21
  statement from an sec ad that's thinking that direction. I think that's for the
• 54:25
  good of the sport if that comes to fruition and it moves that way,
• 54:28
  because it is not that way now. But I thought that was an interesting
• 54:31
  quote to go with a ridiculous stat that Florida hasn't left its state thirty two
• 54:37
  years. You got beat, they said, heck with this, We're not
• 54:42
  leaving Florida anymore. Text or Hay three guys very excited for this season.
• 54:46
  Just got my tickets. I'll be making my way to stay college for the
• 54:49
  opener. I'm wondering if you guys recommend anything in the area, particularly food
• 54:53
  recommendations. Tony, I'm very sorry. I do not. I don't.
• 55:00
  We're staying about over an hour away, so I haven't even focused in on
• 55:04
  state college food situation. Texture. I got a couple of week one over
• 55:08
  unders over under fifteen and a half carries for C. J. Donaldson.
• 55:14
  It's a good one. Chad Scott, he's that exact number. He said,
• 55:15
  fifteen. Want to get him fifteen plus touches? What is it?
• 55:22
  Over over under thirteen and a half total touches by the other running backs Anderson
• 55:29
  Johnson and Heisman front runner Jaheem White over because you've got to get over thirty
• 55:35
  carries. Love the show. Let's go shock the world. Signed by Troy
• 55:38
  in Long Island Text Adam and Beckley. Growing up, we always called the
• 55:44
  rice crispy treats with butterscotch and chocolate scotch a rouse good name. They were
• 55:49
  a staple of birthday parties in Boone County back in the day. My wife
• 55:52
  and mom still make them regularly and I consume them in mass quantities. Love
• 55:55
  the show Go Mountaineers. I'm actually having one of those bad boys with lunch
• 55:59
  to the got got the little baggy with it too, little scotch real.
• 56:04
  I like that. And he went with a good seal on that bag right
• 56:07
  zip lock in order not to get any air in there and make that thing
• 56:08
  because you're getting ruins in with air if you get air on those rays crisp,
• 56:12
  because it's all of a sudden, you're you're eating something like that's fact.
• 56:14
  That's why you got a zip at like ninety eight percent of the way
• 56:16
  and then squeeze the remaining air out then seal it in. Yeah, I
• 56:20
  mean, I might even recommend him getting a vacuum sealer. Put those be
• 56:23
  fine too. You got vacuum sealer. Don't you used to have it for
• 56:27
  luggage? You ever did that with the luggage? That? Oh yeah it
• 56:30
  works. That might that might wrinkle your clothes little bit ye's okay, and
• 56:34
  iron in the room wherever you're going. I vacuum seal a lot of stuff.
• 56:37
  Food wise, yeah, I do, Yeah, I do. Text
• 56:43
  or high two guys in an empty chair. We didn't even bring the chair
• 56:46
  over today, We just left it over there. That's kind of coming in.
• 56:50
  I was thinking, with realignment uncertainty hovering over the sport, it's time
• 56:53
  for mounts in your nation to come together and appreciate being on NBC. Appreciate
• 56:57
  the chance to play a full Power five schedule, apre shape the chance to
• 57:00
  prove people wrong. Folks in Corvallis and Pullman would die to have the certainty
• 57:07
  we have. And instead of worrying about wins and losses, let's all just
• 57:08
  enjoy the year. I'm excited, ready for the fighting Neil Browns to be
• 57:13
  back and hopefully take a step forward. I love the show. Signed by
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  Benny in the Bay Area parentheses. This is my real name, Thanks Benny.
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• 58:02
  Jake from Work writes, guys, any connection to Penn State's monster defense
• 58:08
  and the lack of big ten offense With all due respect to Maryland, Rutger
• 58:13
  and Northwestern, they just don't scream good offense to me. What do you
• 58:15
  think? Always let's go out and ears. I'm not taking anything away from
• 58:21
  from the from their scheduled this year, m Delaware, Illinois, Belan is
• 58:30
  a little better, Iowa. The way you said, Delaware, Delaware,
• 58:35
  Northwestern Unas Indiana. They're gonna have trouble with Indiana. You know, Tom
• 58:42
  Allen wouldn't said he's named his kicker, but he's not releasing that. Then,
• 58:45
  Maryland, Rutgers, Michigan State pretty good. I'd like that. Texter,
• 58:52
  Hey, brad Tony Hoppy, help me understand how does the ACC benefit
• 58:57
  by adding any more marginal programs other than some short term money growth. I
• 59:01
  don't see the value of Calford and SMU and no additional value to the conference
• 59:07
  from purely a financial perspective after travel and logistical costs. What am I missing?
• 59:10
  Joel and Atlanta? Who's an a lump? Yeah? I mean,
• 59:15
  if this thing happens with cal and Stanford and SMU to the ACC, it
• 59:19
  would be the absolute top of the mountain of the stupidity and the craziness that
• 59:25
  we've entered in. I mean, to be quite honest with you, it
• 59:34
  would It would be, in my opinion, strictly my opinion, it would
• 59:38
  be a major slap into what the ACC perceives itself to be. Does that
• 59:45
  make sense? What do you mean? What I mean is this? For
• 59:51
  years they were the ACC. We are the ACC, the Atlantic Coast Conference.
• 59:58
  Come hither and we will have our folks talk with you, and we
• 1:00:02
  will wear sport coats. Our young men will wear sport coats with pastel colors
• 1:00:08
  straw hats, and our young ladies will wear sun dresses, and they'll attend
• 1:00:12
  our football contests on Saturdays. They're big and promptly at one pm, where
• 1:00:17
  the acc well, you're gonna go get SMU, You're gonna go get Cal,
• 1:00:22
  You're gonna go get Stanford. It would be, like I said,
• 1:00:27
  it would be the pinnacle of the bizarre moves that have been made. As
• 1:00:31
  if not having Arizona and Arizona State and Utah in your conference isn't absolutely crazy,
• 1:00:36
  but that's that's would be the ultimate Texter JD and Morgantown Stats got a
• 1:00:43
  number for you. I heard Penn Stay was one of the worst in the
• 1:00:45
  country defending the scramble, giving up an average of eight yards per play.
• 1:00:50
  My take is that it's safe to say that every time any of our QB
• 1:00:52
  scramble will gain at least eight yards. What's your take and what's your over
• 1:00:57
  under? Inquirying minds want to know me in me, Uh, that'd be
• 1:01:02
  great if they got over eight yards per scramble. I would take that.
• 1:01:08
  Yeah, trying to see if I can find something here. Whatever, I'm
• 1:01:12
  gonna imagine you're gonna go under on that seven point eight as an average,
• 1:01:15
  probably, but you said it in our earlier segment. Hopefully take off for
• 1:01:20
  a for a couple of big ones Garrett had. Garrett was credited with just
• 1:01:29
  over six yards per scramble attempt last year. Just over six Okay, text
• 1:01:40
  or three guys, Morgan and Morgantown. Check out Ryan Anderson's latest podcast about
• 1:01:45
  the self imposed bowl band Definitely worth a listen. See there, there you
• 1:01:52
  go. Text heading up to happy. Best feeling if we beat Penn State
• 1:02:02
  might be hearing the reaction from all the naysayers. Spreads told me not too
• 1:02:06
  long ago. It's easy to get on the Hayton bandwagon. Second best feeling
• 1:02:09
  would be getting to say thanks for having us to the Penn State fans where
• 1:02:14
  we are staying this weekend. Being Alheimer, it'd be an Alheimer thanks for
• 1:02:17
  having us. Oh, you know what, do it? It's a T
• 1:02:22
  shirt. If it happens, it's a T shirt. Be available at episode
• 1:02:25
  eight hundred dot com on Monday. Thanks for having us. Text her back
• 1:02:30
  in April, I wrote you guys about some life advice. I told you
• 1:02:36
  that my wife was having a baby just days before the Penn State game,
• 1:02:38
  and I was in a dilemma if I should go to the game or stay
• 1:02:42
  home with my family. Hoppy and Brad, without hesitation, told me to
• 1:02:45
  stay home. However, Tony made some great points and made the case for
• 1:02:51
  me to go to the game if I had helped from my mother in law.
• 1:02:54
  Luckily, my mother in law and wife saw the video and gave me
• 1:02:58
  to go ahead to attend Saturday. Well, guess what, Baby Matthew was
• 1:03:02
  born on August eighteenth, and I'm looking forward to take in the family to
• 1:03:08
  many Mountaineer games and years ahead. Signed by John and Phillipsburg, New Jersey,
• 1:03:13
  New Jersey. Oh there you go, man, how about that?
• 1:03:15
  Congratulations? Congratulations. Now he's got two little ones. He got two little
• 1:03:20
  ones, so that means he and the wife are on their last opportunity here
• 1:03:24
  to play man defense because when the third one comes, they got zoned up.
• 1:03:29
  Everyone's just going to get an area of the family room to defend because
• 1:03:32
  right now they can man them up. Congratulations John, and congratulations to your
• 1:03:37
  wife because you actually did none of the work. And that's awesome. How
• 1:03:42
  cute. Enjoy the game? Yeah, but also remember goes fast? Oh
• 1:03:46
  the babies go fast, do they not? Oh? Man? Remember that
• 1:03:51
  job? Yeah, I don't miss. Yeah, I'll give you a game
• 1:03:53
  Saturday. Other than that stick running house text her. This Mothman deco was
• 1:03:59
  spotted on a laptop computer at Wheeling Hospital. Oh boy, let's go him
• 1:04:02
  out here. Signed by John S. Marshall. Is there a picture of
• 1:04:04
  that? I'm not going to look. Yeah, it says Mothman on a
• 1:04:08
  license. I'm not looking. Texter had a dream last night. Must be
• 1:04:15
  shared. Starting quarterback debate was settled when after a touch back, the offense
• 1:04:19
  rolled out with Garrett and Niko flanking CJ, who took a direct snap,
• 1:04:24
  went seventy five on touch as the belwildered Penn State defense didn't know how to
• 1:04:28
  react. Excited for my first state college experience, Let's go Mountaineers, Texter,
• 1:04:32
  congratulations on six years guys. I hope you're following Tony's idea of the
• 1:04:36
  eight to ten years of career eligibility and that there will be many more.
• 1:04:41
  And seriously, thank you for giving my dad and I something to continually look
• 1:04:45
  forward to. Thank you very very much, Texter Brad. I know we're
• 1:04:51
  all anticipating a big game Saturday, but I wanted to give a shout.
• 1:04:56
  Tyson Baigent, who was just named the Bear's backup, well deserved. Hope
• 1:04:59
  he does well in the big league. Signed by Kathy in Washington, West
• 1:05:01
  Virginia. Yeah, it's We talked about that this week on sport Line and
• 1:05:09
  that's one of the all time great stories of all time. Incredible story.
• 1:05:12
  I tell you. My favorite part is when he was when he signed at
• 1:05:14
  Shepard he said I'm gonna be in the NFL and said save the tape.
• 1:05:16
  He like, it's nothing. He didn't say it. He looked at the
• 1:05:18
  Karras and saved the tape. It's great text, her Tony. You don't
• 1:05:25
  have to read this because no one will know what I'm what I'm talking about.
• 1:05:29
  But of all your impressions, Dale Miller is the best. I haven't
• 1:05:32
  seen him in thirty years, but I can totally hear his voice like I'm
• 1:05:35
  back at Holly Field on a baseball road trip all those years ago. So
• 1:05:39
  Dale, our former president here, was also unbelievable general manager coach of the
• 1:05:44
  American Legion team. It was pimped out. I mean, those guys traveled
• 1:05:47
  like the Yankees, they dressed like the Yankees. They wanted nothing, walk
• 1:05:50
  up music before walk up music, I mean light years. It was like
• 1:05:54
  it was. It was big boy anyway, he says, I'm one of
• 1:05:58
  your summer episodes. All through, guys were talking about a Dale memory.
• 1:06:01
  I remember one game. We're at Holly Field before there were lights. We're
• 1:06:04
  playing Garrett County, Maryland, starting to get dark to the points getting hard
• 1:06:09
  to see. One of our batters hits a deep shot right down the right
• 1:06:12
  field line, over the fence. But there's no way anyone would know if
• 1:06:15
  the ball was fair or foul. But Dale comes charging out of the dugout
• 1:06:18
  loudly exclaiming something like that's a game. That's the game, and given the
• 1:06:24
  umpire absolutely no chance to do anything other than call it a home run,
• 1:06:28
  which ended the game in a walk off fashion. It was also fun when
• 1:06:31
  all of our players were trying to get clues from Dale to figure out where
• 1:06:34
  he had the prize during the Treasure Hunt contest and closed as a team photos.
• 1:06:40
  So there they are, oh Man, so Dale and radio station WHR
• 1:06:46
  and w VQ for that matter. Here locally, they used to do this
• 1:06:50
  game every year on the radio called Treasure Hunt, and Dale would create these
• 1:06:56
  clues, and these clues would be posted at convenience stores and places all over
• 1:07:01
  the area. And I mean hundreds and hundreds and hundreds not I mean it
• 1:07:06
  might be thousands of people would try to find that treasure and it was.
• 1:07:13
  And if you want they found the treasure, you'd win a car. You'd
• 1:07:16
  win a car, big Boy prize. Yeah, you'd win a car.
• 1:07:19
  And here's what would happen. Like after three four, five weeks, people
• 1:07:24
  would come to the radio station and they would say I found the treasure and
• 1:07:29
  like people would like create fake like you have won the twenty or nineteen eighty
• 1:07:34
  four w A Jr. Treasure Hunt and they're like, oh, well,
• 1:07:39
  that's not it. I mean, it was bizarre, crazy Texter plural guys.
• 1:07:46
  Not sure what the number is today. First time text her it would
• 1:07:49
  be more had you read mind before. I hope I make the cut this
• 1:07:54
  time. Anyway, my daughters on the camera crew for WVU football practice.
• 1:07:59
  It might be interesting if you had the coordinator on to go over what they
• 1:08:02
  do and how that film is used. I've tried to get inside to practice
• 1:08:06
  info from her. She won't give up anything. The best she would do
• 1:08:11
  is send me this picture signed by Wayne and Clarks. Yeah, that's she's
• 1:08:18
  by her. She has the deal. So that's me to the right there,
• 1:08:23
  and talking to Drew, the general manager, and she was behind She's
• 1:08:28
  in the end zone. There. Did not know that was being I did
• 1:08:30
  not know I was being photographed there, did not know my picture was being
• 1:08:33
  made. Yeah, text her, dear, three guys, here's a little
• 1:08:39
  poem I wrote about Saturday in Morgantown's embraced. The cheers arise as WV and
• 1:08:45
  Penn State meet again with eager eyes college football's fervor. A rivalry were born,
• 1:08:50
  and the clash of blue and gold. New memories are sworn. Mountaineers
• 1:08:55
  stand tall, their pride runs deep against the ninny Lyons promises to keep on
• 1:08:58
  the gridiron. They dance with skill might underneath the stadium's electric nightlight. So
• 1:09:02
  here's to the Mountaineers and the Lion's so proud in this gridiron battle where the
• 1:09:05
  crowd roars loud. May this rivalry thrive and tradition's name as w and Penn
• 1:09:11
  State play their storied game. It's pretty good. Good job, Vinner,
• 1:09:15
  Good job, Vinner. Professor Vinny in Chicago chat GPT. Also, you
• 1:09:20
  could write some serious poems now, you could put some info in there.
• 1:09:25
  And you're not saying Vinny did that though, of course, no, he's
• 1:09:28
  a professor. They would like he wouldn't get ten year or eight year if
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  they caught him cheating. J D from the Southern Coal Fields Rights. College
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  football seems to be on a trajectory of consolidation that results in an essentially a
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  professional league at the highest level with anywhere from thirty to forty teams. I
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  see the Mountaineers is very clearly being on the cut line of making the top
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  league or being in a second rung. Speaking only as a fan, where
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  would each of you prefer to see the Mountaineers end up this scenario arise?
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  Personally, I don't care about money or prestige. I just don't want to
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  be rooting for a team that is only competitive once a decade, which would
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  most likely be the case if WV were to find themselves in the pro league.
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  I'd much rather see them competing for championships at the second level nearly every
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  year. Just my opinion as a fan for over thirty years. I'm interested
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  in your thoughts, JD. Mmm, I don't want that to happen.
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  I don't want to be in the second run. You're a top twenty five
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  all time win program. Mmm. I wouldn't like the alternative, be quite
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  honest with you, I'd like to be competitive more than once a decade in
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  the upper division, in the Upper League. But Stuart Mandel wrote a big
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  piece on that. He thinks that's what the thing's going to. It's hard
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  to see it going anywhere else. He thinks it's twenty four. A lot
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  of people do any things that could happen in twenty thirty thirty two thirty three.
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  Text her hello. I don't see how that works. I don't think
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  long term that works for people. Kara from Parsons, Happy anniversary, three
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  guys, thank you for six years of great interviews, entertainment of laughs.
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  This is the best w EVU sports, food, boar hunting, beer,
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  tax, accounting, shaming, LSU corruption podcast out there. Here's the next
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  six years of this stupid podcast, Thank you very much. Won't be six
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  more years. I spoke yesterday or as part of a speaking thing at the
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  West Virginia Business Summit. A lot of accountants in the audience there. I
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  just kept I just like when I walked out, I just kept head down,
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  just got out of there, didn't throw Now. I was worried someone's
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  gonna come and cost me text are good game week. While expectations for this
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  year's squad happened to be low, what I hope for the team is to
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  get beat, not lose. Let me explain when Mike Vick juked Grant Wiley
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  on the sideline and Shane Graham hit a game winner, the Mountaineers played great
• 1:12:11
  and got beat. That wasn't Grantley. I cheered for the guys when they
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  left the field because they played their butts off. Last year, when an
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  ultimate an untimely penalty cost the Mountaineers in Kansas, they lost the game.
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  Nothing to cheer for there, So I can cheer for a team that gets
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  beat. I can't tolerate losing, and I hate losing more than I love
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  winning. Chris the Mullins rebel from Marietta. Yeah, that wasn't grant I
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  can remember it was the end anyway that I forget it. Vic, that
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  was a great play. Pretending he was going out of bounds, he turned
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  it up on the far sideline of crust and cresting. The player who let
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  him go didn't want to get called on a fifteen yard penalty, and so
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  he let him go right. Congratulations on six years I don't think you'll know
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  how much you are loved and appreciated. I get heart palipitations every time you
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  say there will be no hundred, eight hundredth episode, Keep it going sign
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  by Pete and Panana. Thank you Pete, there won't be. There won't
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  be flitter flitter with your heart. I looked it up today. Beatles were
• 1:13:13
  together ten years, so it was noyep. We won't be as long as
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  the Beatles. Scope Senator and the artist formerly known as Hoppy Happy sixth on
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  this day in twenty seventeen that I gave you three clowns eighteen minutes of my
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  life, and I'm glad I did. It's been a fun ride. It's
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  been an honor to meet all of you and become friends. Thanks for everything.
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  Keep going to eight hundred. By the way, I miss Hoppy.
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  Maybe it's time you all put his face on a milk cart and maybe someone
• 1:13:42
  will recognize him to tell him it's time to come on home. Thank you
• 1:13:45
  very much. Thank you. James Texter. Hello, are you clowns going
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  to get Dino and I hooked up for the Big Beer Runner? Is Dino
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  gonna have to contact a bagman from Oak State? For some ransom sec school
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  to hook us up deliver Kirchivel. By the way, this is Rusty.
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  Okay, so Rusty, let's do this thing. We're we're gonna get this
• 1:14:05
  beer down for that UCF game. All right, let's do it. Text
• 1:14:11
  me, Rusty, send a text the text line, I'll hook you up
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  with the Dino. You guys can coordinate beer. Pete from Pennsborough. I
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  wanted to wish you three beacons of sports new integrity, of sports news integrity,
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  a happy six year pot diversary. We've been through a lot. I
• 1:14:28
  went back and looked to see what was happening in the world six years ago
• 1:14:30
  today pretty much all bad news as usual, including the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
• 1:14:35
  If Hoppy ever joins a senior professional boxing league, I assume that would
• 1:14:40
  be his nickname Hurricane Harvey. And lastly, I was curious if Brad had
• 1:14:47
  the stats available to tell us how West Virginia's offensive line ranks among the Big
• 1:14:51
  twelve by p f F grades. You just shut your microphone off, too,
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  but why do you keep shutting that off? Last year they were dead
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  middle of the pack and pass blocking efficiency fifth ten. A little bit higher
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  in the run blocking stats. All right, so that'll do it six years
• 1:15:17
  and uh and moving ahead. Thanks for being with us on this one.
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  We will obviously we'll go into our recap preview mode from here on in.
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  So sometime this Labor Day weekend we'll have our recap of the Penn State game.
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  That could be just stop, just say what you said sometime this Labor
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  Day weekend and move on. You don't need to go into more detail.
• 1:15:45
  You don't need to overpromise something that hasn't been discussed. You don't need to
• 1:15:48
  give wrong inform it. Just say you just did it perfectly. Sometime this
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  Labor Day weekend. Thanks everybody for listening. This is episode for eighty three.
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  Is a Sunday part of Labor Day weekend. Yea, so it's Monday,
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