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3 Guys Before The Game - BYU Blow Out (Episode 502) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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Hey, everybody, welcome in. It's time for your favorite, my favorite,
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everybody's favorite. Three Guys Before the Game. This is episode number five
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is zero two and it is titled b y you blowout? Whoa who saw
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that coming? If you say you did, I say you're a fibber oddsmaker.
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Wow the I didn't have it. They didn't have it, Like thirty
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the way, speaking of lips that are sore, a member of the Mountaineer
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assistant coaching staff and football got a sore mouth this morning. Matt Moore,
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he got caught in the fire on the sideline there. Play came over last
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night and he took on, took on right, and the took on right
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in a kisser. I talked to Wyatt milem there in postgame and he said
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was standing right next to Matt said, turned around on Coach Moore at bloody
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Mouth. That's a game, physical game, and yesterday's last night's game was
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extremely physical. WHOA, there was some popping going on there. West Virginia
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was doing a lot of the popping. You know, we've been on both
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sides of that this season. We had our situations Aubrey Burks and Trey Lathan
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at TCU and the card has to come out and back to back plays last
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night with BYU, two of the receivers were hit and extremely hard, and
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it just again continues to show, you know, what a physical game it
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is. I think oftentimes people don't we we don't fully appreciate how dangerous it
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is and how fast it happens. Because on the Beanie Bishop hit on Cody
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Epps, the receiver who wore zero. So it was just a I mean,
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it was in the it was just in play. But his helmet looked
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to me, came up and hit him in the chin, and that's all
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it takes sometimes to take someone and you know, looked as though he may
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have been knocked out. I was shocked, shocked. I tell you that
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he came back as well. He didn't. But Roberts too, as Roberts
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zero stayed out two Chase Roberts coming back their number two, his helmet got
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knocked off into a face plant and it was woozy. I was shocked he
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came back to Yeah, that was that was a mind blower. That was
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a mind blower. Anyway, let's get into this thing. What do we
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take away from the game. We've got that coming spreads on stats. What
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are the early grades in with some of the precincts reporting As we say that
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these grades mature as the week goes on, but we get the initial blast
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from what the pro football focused people are grading this to be textual. Healing
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is coming up as well. Got some controversy going on in there. We'll
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deal with that well. Some people are sending stuff in through artificial intelligence and
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some people we might have to Very few policies exist on this program. We
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may more guidelines more we have a guideline. We may have to put one
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on there. Yeah, okay, let's jump in, Hopy. Let's start
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with you. What is your takeaway from the from the game. Like a
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true Mountaineer fan, I was worried to death because everything was favoring West Virginia
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going into the game, favored by ten and my thirteen. The backup quarterback
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is in there. They traveled halfway across the continent twice to play the game,
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and I thought, oh no, this is exactly where you don't want
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to be. And then West Virginia turns its in its most complete performance of
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the year, brand and all three phases of the game dominates the game from
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start to finish, and for a change, Mountain Nation got to be giddy.
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Got to be giddy and not be sweating by halftime as to what was
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going to happen. And you know what that gives you. That gives you
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joy, That gives you joy. You love to win. You lament the
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losses, but it's also nice sometimes just to blow somebody out and relax and
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enjoy the game and enjoy the way the Mountaineers played and say that was fun
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and that was fun the all well said. I agree with all of that.
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You know that you're shaped, your thoughts are shaped by your past experiences,
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and I understand why everybody was antsy. But the flip side of the
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coin of that story was you just said it were playing with a backup quarterback
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for an offense that had struggled all year, his first time in a big
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time situation. They just had two monster travel weeks. They were struggling,
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as it was, all of those worked in West Virginia's favorite. The storylines
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were obvious and right in front of you. The odds makers knew it,
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put the line where they did, and it still wasn't enough. And I
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think you said that, well, I think this team, this program,
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fan base deserved a game like that where you just line up, you march
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right down on the field, and there wasn't a single second in that game
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where you were worried, tense, or uncomfortable that that was going to be
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a game. It was just one of those nice you can sit back,
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you can cheer, you know you've got to win, You put it in
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the can, and you move on to the next one. Great performance all
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the way around. Yeah, to your point, Hoppy, I mean,
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there's some post traumatic stress situations that West Virginia football has. And so you're
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right the Texas Tech game when they came in here and had a bunch of
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players out and you thought, well, here's our day, and they boat
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raced you. And so yeah, and to be quite honest with you,
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even at halftime when things were going swimmingly like we kind of looked at it.
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We looked at each other in the booth and go like, uh,
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I don't know how to act chill. During our broadcast, wanted points on
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every possession and when they didn't get in like a, I don't know,
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they didn't score of the I mean end of the half, five seconds to
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go, We're getting texts he's getting nervou right, you gotta go, you
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gotta get a touchdown here, you gotta have a touch. We need touchdown.
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Five seconds off, get a touchdown, you need a touch, Just
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kick take the points. They're not coming back. This thing's over. You
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know what that is though, Here's what happens. Here's what happens, guys.
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We remember the Jet Duffies, we remember the Texas Tech coming in here
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with injured guys. It's just like sports betting. You always want to come
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in and tell you you talk about your bad beat. You listen to how
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I got screwed on this and how I got beat, and you can remember
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every moment of the bad beats. And what you don't go around and talk
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about is I'll tell you what that one worked in my favorite cast that you
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don't do that. So we don't remember Will Howard coming in here as a
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true freshman's red shirt freshman throwing three picks Kansas State. Never in that game,
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you ran away with it. This will be another one of those.
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We won't talk about this one and remember this one because the backup quarterback didn't
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do anything and he was fine. They had other issues there, but he
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didn't turn into Jet duffide right, and you got the win and it was
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an easy win. So you'll kind of forget this the next time a backup
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comes up and we'll go back to doing Oh my god, I got a
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backup in. I don't know if you can handle it right. The backup
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wasn't bad, by the way. No, he'll be okay. Yeah,
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he'll be okay, he'll make place one. This has a similarity. And
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to use the Utah connection on this, we were in a similar situation when
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we played Utah in that Bowl game. Right. We came in decimated with
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injuries. We just didn't have the personnel that you need to perform and we
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got thrown around like a ragdal and a couple of observations. You know,
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that was just our night last night. It wasn't their night. They were
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so shorthanded. They had lost two really big time players at receiver before the
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game even started. Keanu Hill and Darius Lassiter were gone before the game started.
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Then they lose zero Epps and that certainly is a blow. By the
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end of the set of running running back is out. L J. Martin
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never played, and then they started to play guys that had not played yet
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this season. There was a player Jojo Phillips I think his name was.
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Who are thirteen got in the second half because they literally were out of guy.
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So that kind of stuff happens, and that's just sport, and you
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don't apologize when it happens. You just kind of move on, knowing that
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it can very well happen to you at any time. So you just take
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it. You put it in your pocket. So what's the takeaway from this
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game? Where are you? You are six wins on the season, You're
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already over what you did last year with three games to play, and now
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you are Bowl eligible, so you have four games to play. So there
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is still a lot of opportunity here for this Mountaineer football team. And we
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head into the final three games in a fun mode. And I say fun
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because it's fun to watch this team. We are seeing young guys starting to
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make their way, and it's encouraging to know that they're coming, and it's
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encouraging to know, fingers crossed that they stay because you've got a nice foundation
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that you're building with the Jaheem Whites, the Trailing Rays, the Rodney Gallaghers,
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among a bunch of other guys. So it's all there. There's a
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lot of freshmen making an impact. They're making plays and we always I always
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I'm a firm believer in this. If you're a baby and you're making big
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boy plays as a baby player, you're going to be a really good player.
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And so these guys are making plays, which is very encouraged us.
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So that's kind of like the big picture thing. And now you take it
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game by game and you see how you can end this. Let me go
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to expand on the big picture thing and we talk about that. You know,
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as you as you guys pointed out that by you had a lot of
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problems. But West Virginia didn't go in and make it harder on themselves.
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They didn't turn the ball over. They played again, their most complete game.
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So they could have gone ugly on the thing and you could have gone
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and like, okay, you just won by a score or something like that
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because he didn't play well or you didn't have the same energy for some reason
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where he turned the ball over, and they didn't do that. No,
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they played officially and effectively. That's why they beat them thirty seven to seven
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because they played well. So that was good coaching in the sense that Neil
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got burned at the Houston game because he gave those guys he didn't realize they
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were not mature enough to properly put things into perspective, and when they came
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off the bye week, he still regrets that he didn't bang them earlier in
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the week because he was trying to get their bodies back so that they could
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go play, and they didn't play. They were listless and they didn't get
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it well. Last night he sold them on. They haven't lost in November
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since twenty nineteen, and they were twenty one to one in their last twenty
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two night games. Like a face tattoo like. He would not let it
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go. He would not let He just kept banging them and banging him and
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banging and they were ready to go. Yeah, the crowd was really good.
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It was exactly what you needed. I'll echo what I've been saying now
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for a number of weeks, and that little story there backs this up.
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This staff has done an unbelievable job of rallying these guys, getting them to
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listen to what they're saying to whatever the message is that week, getting that
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through. Then credit the guys on the team for one listening to that then
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executing it and continuing to shut everything out and going to play his team's unbelievable,
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and I know people may be sick of hearing it, but you got
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to keep saying it. The ridiculous pick of fourteenth in the in the poll
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just continues to be one of those group think things that makes your head spin.
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That narrative got way out of control, and a bunch of people that
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don't cover this team jumped on board that narrative because they read a couple things
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in some preseason magazines that were just simply fabricated, just absolutely not right.
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That's one of the worst jobs of analyzing that I've seen that was simply just
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piling on top of a team in a program because there was a narrative that
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was built without really looking to it. As we said in the summer,
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if there was a bet that could have said West Virginia is not going to
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finish fourteenth in this league, I think we all would have lined up and
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get it. I said, I would have put a lot of money on
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that. So that's coming to fruition. So credit to that group again for
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being able to come through. Here's the other part, guys, that this
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team is a hail Mary away from sitting in first place in this league with
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three games to go. You had to go there and bring that out.
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And I know it's maddening for everybody, but a Hail Mary completion is what's
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standing between you in first place, and then your one loss would have been
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to another team that's in first place and as hot as any team in the
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country in Oklahoma State. So I think I just more than being bummed out
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by that, it just backs up what a tremendous job those players and coaches
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have done getting this team to this point. Now still work to do.
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You've got a very difficult opponent coming up Saturday, we know that, and
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then you're going to be favored in your final two games, so you still
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got some things in front of you here, no question. It's fun,
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all right, It's fun. Get into that more. We'll get the stats
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and see what the grades are coming out early on. We do have a
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game time now for next Saturday, and you know you love to go on
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the road and get that at eleven am Central Start not gonna happen. West
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Virginia is going to be on Big Fox for the second straight Saturday night as
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they take on the Oklahoma Sooners. Where Oklahoma's head is after its loss in
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bedlam remains to be seen and you take your swing there. Obviously, the
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last time West Virginia was there, they were an inside the five yard procedure
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penalty and a snap that really determined the outcome of that game. So they
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were there, and where's Oklahoma's head? Who knows, right, I know
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where West Virginia's head is. I would think, let's go, let's go
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ball. This is one of those playing with house money games you go into
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you're not favored to win, and you just go in there and you take
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your shot. You also, I mean, we're going to talk about this
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later in a week, but you're also going to face the most fision offense
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in the in the league really with quinn Ewers out at Texas. I mean,
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this is this is the best offense you're going to face in the best
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quarterback you're going to face, no question about it, no question about it.
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And Drake Stoops just caught another pass. Do they go to Drake Stoops
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a little bit? You guys, I'm sure we're watching that yesterday. Yeah,
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Like, why can't you put six guys around Drake Stoops? Well he
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caught the last but no, he dropped the last pants. Yeah, it
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was I mean, it was like, Wow, he's doing whatever he wants
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and he's had big games against West Virginia. But that's that's for Thursday ahead.
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Wellhome of the I mean, you're right what you said, Hopey,
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And that's that's always the challenge with them, is they they'll come in with
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a good line. Gabriel's really good. He's he's a difference maker when he's
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in that offense, and they always have receivers in skills, so that's going
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to be a real challenge. But they're also sitting back guys, and they've
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played SMU Tulsa, Cincinnati, Iowa State, Texas, UCF, Kansas with
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a backup quarterback in Oklahoma State. They're looking across this West Virginia offense saying,
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well, I'll tell you what we're getting a westerni offense. It's run
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for six hundred and twenty two yards in the last two games. Bearn line
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up and try and stop the running. Got a quarterback that's mobile and can
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run. You got a quarterback that can throw. This team's putting up nearly
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forty a game over the last three. So this is one of those you
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don't need to sit here and panic about what Oklahoma's given you, but they've
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also got to pay attention to what you're bringing to Norman next week on the
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offensive side and on the offensive So Semester probably returns Tony. That's a huge
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addition. You get that line back intact for the first time since the first
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twelve plays of the UCF game. And we were on that run game.
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We were talking last night in our coverage, We're talking about Jem White,
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and I was giving Jeem White a lot of credit, which he deserves for
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breaking tackles and getting to the edge. He was a letter. He was
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he was and in Brad you pointed out but look at look at the gaps
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to him, and the offensive line was, uh was outside. I don't
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know what the grades are, you'll take us, but it seemed like they
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were opening huge holes last night. And then White did the rest. Yeah,
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so White was White was so good, and we'll get into him.
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I got some numbers and Dukes White stats deuce White. I mean, that's
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that's what he reminds me of the Duce Vaughan. He's very similar to verse
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twenty two to that. I mean, compact shifty, can speed you out
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on the outside, can pop inside and make a cut. That one time
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they got him on the toss sweep and he's out there. I forget who
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the lineman was. He's got it. It's that was old school hand on
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the running back there, directed right hand, her hand on the lineman.
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There you got the ball, you're moving downfield. He was really good.
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CJ back to looking like the CJ of last year. Two straight games,
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running hard, running downhill. Here's the other part of that, though,
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Neil again continues, and we've talked about this a bunch. When you trust
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this team not to turn it over, which they didn't. Again, the
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playbook continues to expand. Right that first play to Rodney Gallagher on the jet
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sweep. Then they run Gallagher in motion again and do the three sixty handoff
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by Garrett Green. That was awesome. Then they ran it and ran the
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counter back the other way. Then they ran it a third time motion and
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give it to White around the left side. Every time that play worked.
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So the same action. I mean, Steve Downe that during our coverage was
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just giggling at poor by saying those poor linebackers have no idea what's happening with
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the ball. There, same action running the same motion and you run three
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different plays off and there might have been more than that, but those are
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three that stand out, three different plays. That running game is really clicking
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personnel wise, scheme wise, play calling wise. I was talking to him
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Friday, and what you're talking about is that counter, right, he says,
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that's wing T football. That's what that is. That's old wing t
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football, is what that is. But you're not on the gun. You
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window dress that thing up like the turn by Garrett. That's not just your
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normal handoff counter. He's spinning all the way around, so the ball's disappearing
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for a minute. They don't know where it is. He keeping it because
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his ability to run, which good decisions last night. Just didn't need him
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to run last night, so you don't take the chance of him getting hurt.
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But when he's spinning like that, that's more confusion. In a game
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that's going really fast. The guy's coming at you to block and you're trying
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to look see where the ball is and then all of a sudden, Jahim
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White shoots out of there. That's tough to stop boys. So West Virginia
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on the evening runs the football for three hundred and thirty six yards. That
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is the twelfth consecutive game that West Virginia has run for over one hundred and
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forty yards, which leads the nation. Tony, by the way, stat
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when you run the ball, When West Virginia runs the ball for three hundred
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and forty six yards, they were undefeated at that. But the point I
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want to make is this, let's take a really deep breath. Okay.
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When this group got here now five years ago, I have said it a
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bunch of times that the roster was just not right and they had to do
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a complete rebuild of this offensive line. And if you remember, and you
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can go back and listen to past episodes, we would sit in here and
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so do you think they can get one hundred yards? And if they got
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one hundred yards, we would be like, whoa, they got one hundred
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yards? Okay. And there was a lot of criticism of this staff,
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and there was a lot of criticism of the offensive line and the criticism of
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Matt Moore. And to their credit, they have retooled this offensive line.
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They have molded this group, and now they are running the football. It's
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not that they didn't know how to do it when they got here. They
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didn't take some summer courses of how to run the football. They know how
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to run the football. You have to have players, and you have to
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have experience. And what you're seeing is the harvest of the Wyatt Milems,
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the Zach Frasiers, the Doug Nesters, the Brandon Yeats's and fill in the
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rest of the hole, the Nick Malone coming, Nick Malone depth right.
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And then last night late you had a little Sullivan Weedman got in there.
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He threw a key block in the first half. He's one of the babies
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that they're really high on. And so my point to all this is this,
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these guys know how to coach. It's taken a while to finally get
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the personnel in to get these plays right. They know what they're doing.
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But that roster when they got here was, as I've said, there was
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one NFL player that he inherited, the lowest number in forty plus years that
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any previous coach Neil and rich Stu and Dana inherited. They all inherited seven
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to eight to nine guys that would go on in their first three years when
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those coaches took over, that would be drafted in the NFL. Neil got
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one guy, Colt mckivitt's Tony Fields did go, but Neil brought him in.
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So this was a scratch start. And so now fingers crossed, you
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know that this thing continues to build. I think it's a it's a it's
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huge. It's a huge moment to look back on it and just say,
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it's always the players. It took him a while to get the players,
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but Neil was regarded as an one of the lead offensive play callers in the
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country when he took this job. That's why we were excited. Now you're
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seeing what he can do. You're seeing it and yes, so so first
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and foremost. And here's the other. Here's the other message that we need
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to remember as we move through future years. You're also you know what guys
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allowed to mature, get better and improve over your time. Here is that
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possible or what you are in your first game? Here is how you have
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to remain so that offensive line is a group. Zach Fraser having to play
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as a true freshman. We've used this stat a million times. The first
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true freshman to start on the offensive line over forty years. When he did
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it, then you turned around a year later or two years later and had
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Wyatt Milam do the same exact thing. That speaks to the lack of depth
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along the line, and those guys had to get that experience, and we
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talked about you saw that with a John Bee line team right with those five
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guys came in and got their teeth kicked in early. But guess why by
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the time they were seniors what they do. They're a basket away from the
23:34
Final four as juniors and then seniors made that Sweet sixteen run. So that
23:37
happens. Guys grew up. Garrett Grain no better example than what he has
23:41
been able to do. His role has changed each year that he's been here.
23:45
Now he's operating at an extremely high level. We went through his numbers
23:48
on Thursday. I'll continue to say this. He's not just a productive,
23:52
good starter for this team. He's playing at an all conference type of level.
23:55
He has had an unbelievable year. And you combine that line that is
23:59
really clicking with Garrett Green that's playing well, Joheim White emerging along with CJ.
24:03
Donaldson, and that allows now Neil, It's why I keep bringing up
24:07
every week. It allows Neil to expand and open the playbook that you haven't
24:11
been able to do in past years. You just haven't had the personnel,
24:15
wasn't ready to take on all of those different shifts and motions and different play
24:19
calls out of the set. Now you're seeing all of that come together.
24:23
Sometimes that takes time to get the personnel and everything to match up to what
24:27
you're able to do, and you're seeing it. You're seeing it. And
24:30
this one though, as we mentioned earlier, think you got to keep this
24:33
in mind too, This is a really good combination of experience and mature guys
24:37
combined with some really young players. I mean that's the other thing. If
24:41
you were doing this ideally, you wouldn't have Jahem White as a true freshman
24:45
having this impact. You wouldn't be playing Ray and Gallagher so much you are,
24:48
So that speaks even more. I think it's even more impressive to be
24:52
able to mix those young guys in and get contributions. Yeah, because now
24:55
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the ording senator on the game last night, let's do a couple of reviews
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here first and foremost. You know, I want to thank BYU. First
27:36
of all. You could say thanks for coming, but no, because they
27:37
didn't release well and I don't think they ever released it. It was uncovered
27:41
about the quarterback switch didn't come till late Thursday night, which I know put
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the West Stream staff in a buy and trying to figure out right, but
27:48
it helped this podcast. Well, we had all those key and Slovas numbers
27:52
on Thursday, and had they released that early, we wouldn't have a show
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that they wouldn't have show empty. Show had six hours of ket and Slovas
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pressure information that wouldn't have had been able to use had they announced that earlier
28:02
in the week. So thank you. When the SID came in the booth,
28:04
and by the way, thanks to the SID. First SID, that's
28:08
Sports Information Director. They're the people that take care of the media and stuff.
28:12
First SID to come in our booth this year, really well done.
28:17
Lost art ye stars came in what old school Yeah, WVU. Mike Montoro
28:22
he does. He goes to every guy's booth. That's why he's beloved.
28:25
That's why those guys getting awards. This BYU's Sid came in, first guy
28:30
this year to come in and go, hey, can I help you out?
28:32
You got the names? And I said, so, it's like about
28:34
twenty five minutes before kick. I said, you guys are ready to go
28:37
with the slowvis thing? Yeah, he goes, yeah, he's out.
28:41
I said, okay, what else? Who's out? Since so they had
28:44
obviously a bunch of guys. Well, thank you to them because it allowed
28:47
us to have a show last Thursday. So let's kind of start right there,
28:49
because if you remember back to Thursday, the reason that was so heavily
28:53
talked about was I thought West Virginia could get a lot of pressure hopy on
28:57
Slovas, and there were a ton of numbers it would indicate offensive line wise
29:00
and quarterback wise, that was going to be a good matchup. Well,
29:04
it didn't matter last night. I thought Retzloft did a nice job of avoiding
29:07
pressure at times, extending play getting outside. He had a couple runs early
29:11
in that game. But at the end of the day, West Virginia's pressure
29:15
was really good. Because why why does pressure always come hoppy? What's the
29:18
key stat therese third it second law? They can't they got they got to
29:22
pass because they can't run. Can't run there it is Cougar's couldn't run it
29:26
last night, just sixty seven yards on the night, and that's been their
29:27
story all year. They were down around eighty one yards per game rushing.
29:33
That continued. So you start with that, shut off the run, they've
29:36
got to go to pass. Then the other part last night they were behind,
29:38
so they're going to drop back and pass. So what does that do?
29:41
Guys? When opponents can't run it and or they're behind and have to
29:45
throw it a bunch, leads to a lot of passing downs, right,
29:48
and when teams are in passing downs. We've gone through this. When they
29:52
are a lot, West Virginia wins. When they're not, West Virginia loses.
29:56
So last night it's another example those numbers that you're looking for. Above
30:00
thirty percent passing downs, West Virginia is gonna win its games. That's been
30:03
the stat this year BYU face passing downs on thirty five percent of its plays
30:07
last night, so you knew they were coming. Lee Koba had pressures,
30:11
Lockhart had pressures him, and Russell got credited with some pressures. So the
30:15
entire defense did a nice job of creating some havoc there in the defensive backfield,
30:19
getting some sacks and TFLs, and then the other havoc stat that I'll
30:23
get to him into some pass breakups. We said last Thursday that Sean Martin
30:27
was a guy to watch. He should be able to get some pressure with
30:30
the matchup that he was getting. He did. He added two more pressures
30:33
and was in the backfield a bunch even when he wasn't credited. So Sean
30:37
Martin came through in that matchup that we highlighted. Hoppy. Yes, when
30:41
West Virginia gets pressure, does that help the defensive backs? You think,
30:44
do they look a little bit better? Defensive backs look much better when there's
30:47
pressure on the quarterback. Braw you go with that too. They were great.
30:49
Beanie five pass breakups already leads a nation in that category. Tremendous.
30:55
One point here we talked about the first down, the potential for a first
31:00
down interception in this game. Oh yes, Beanie had it in his hands
31:04
on first down. It would have been a tough interception because the receiver was
31:07
right there. But he was in better position than the receiver had it right
31:11
in his hands. The collision knocked it up popped in the air. Aubrey
31:15
Burks almost had a second swipe at it that came on first down, so
31:18
they didn't come to fruition. We were right there. You know. You
31:22
gave me that on Thursday, and I had him on Thursday night and interviewed
31:26
him on Thursday. I let him know that. I said, I don't
31:26
know if you know this, but you're really good on first dome. Maybe
31:30
I planted the seed. Maybe he was sniffing even harder on first down.
31:33
Other part of that we mentioned. The running game was absolutely dominating last night.
31:37
Seven yards per rush. Here's another metric. Rushing success rate measures the
31:41
percentage of successful runs based on yards needed and adjusted for down. Okay,
31:48
so just like a sound success rate, rushing success rate fifty percent or above
31:52
is considered above average. Westernding, he was sixty percent last night. So
31:56
one of those stats. You didn't need that to tell you. West for
32:00
Jy ran it well, but they did. Numbers backed it up. White
32:02
we mentioned one hundred and forty six yards nine point one yards per carry.
32:07
He had a fifty five percent breakaway percentage. So what that means is fifty
32:12
five percent of his total rushing yards came on runs of fifteen yards or more.
32:15
So he was a big play guy. Fifty five percent a nice breakaway
32:19
number for that. CJ was CJ for the second straight week. One hundred
32:22
yards, two rushing touchdowns, seven rushing first downs gained. He was heavy
32:25
left handed, as they liked to do with CJ. Very successful. There.
32:30
Another matchup we talked about last Thursday of keeping an eye on was Nick
32:34
Malone in at right tackle for the injured Doug Nester. Eyu had a really
32:37
strong rush from the left side. Solid effort again by Nick Malone, the
32:42
second best pass blocking grade among the starting offensive linemen for Malone, so neutralized
32:46
their very good left side rush. He's from over the high school. Yeah,
32:51
the high school. Yeah on Donaldson, you know, and Donaldson a
32:55
couple times he got yards. It was a big third or fourth fourth down,
33:00
big play and he's got him. So we call that honking. He
33:04
honked it up in there. Yeah, that was all that was him,
33:06
That was all him. So well, he's so this isn't a surprise because
33:08
they're generally short yard of situations, but ninety one percent of CJ's fourth down
33:14
rushing yards come after contact. You saw it right there. I mean he
33:17
was hit behind the line of scrimmage, powered through that to get the first
33:21
down. That was big. That was big. He's very physical. Really
33:22
happy for him the last two weeks. Anybody particular, you want to know
33:27
Jaem White highest graded offensive player? Probably not a surprise there. Yeah,
33:30
I was just that was what I was going to ask. How did great
33:34
fourth? Highest graded offensive player? Nico was actually second in his limited snaps
33:37
graded out really well, So it went White, Nico, Frasier Green,
33:43
Stedman, Preston Fox had another very good game. Hubbard was out there.
33:47
Who Stedman Fox? I don't have him on my rock related to pac Man
33:52
Fox. So he's pac Man Fox when he returns ponce he's been so valuable,
33:55
he's turning into Stedman Fox and honor of Stedman Bailey when he's receiver just
34:00
making plays. Hmm, okay, got it, got it? Yeah,
34:05
someone threw another one at us. We'll get into a textual healing. I
34:07
think this this might become. This might take off of putting past players' names
34:14
on current players and using alliteration. It's starting to take off. Brad started.
34:16
Brad started with it's all you ad edition. It's all you Burke's and
34:22
Coba the two highest graded defensive players, Anthony Wilson and Beanie were right out
34:25
there too. Excuse me? I thought Anthony Wilson was a missile at times?
34:30
Was he not here? He was played really hard, played really well.
34:34
How about Ben Cutter for the second straight game, highest graded defender coming
34:37
out of UCF Top five here, top six in this particular game, starting
34:43
to play second half, he read that what was that? I'm trying to
34:45
remember what it was a little dumb pass out in the flat he came out.
34:49
He was a docket. Yeah, he was Tony. If you were
34:52
watching in person, you're watching on TV, He's not in the screen and
34:57
then all of a sudden, Yeah that was Anthony Anthony Wilson. When you're
34:59
talking, yes, he's a borer, Yeah, just a borer coming in.
35:01
What about Michael Hayes. You got a grade from Michael Hayes on that
35:05
on the one you're talking about there, That was that pass in the flat.
35:07
Wilson literally was not in the television picture you could see and he just
35:12
flies through the screen, makes the tackle. He was excellent. Yeah,
35:14
Hayes was great. Yeah, Hayes was great. No, question, Well
35:16
does PFF how do they rank? How do they grade kickers? Here's a
35:21
grade eleven of twelve or twelve of thirteen. What is he? Now?
35:23
Yeah, I mean they don't necessarily give you a grade, they just list
35:27
the stats. There. Hayes and Beanie are Are they the top two off
35:32
season acquisitions in the free agent market? I mean, I know, I
35:37
know I talk based on productivity, I mean every week, but I mean
35:40
Hayes is just he's become automatic. It looked he had a long one and
35:44
they had a couple of tough angle ones. Do you realize his only missed
35:47
this season as a fifty yarder right came aft. Yes, he made it
35:51
though you remember he made the kick at TCU, but it got waved off
35:57
by a penalty. They brought it back five yard He missed it after they
36:00
brought it back the extra five hours. Otherwise he wouldn't have missed. Here's
36:06
another observation. You know, Lee Coba is good whether you have ten returning
36:10
starters on defense, whether you have one, whether you're playing with four defenders
36:14
or fifteen, doesn't matter. Lee Kobe is really good, right, we
36:15
know that, But I think it's important to note especially these last two games.
36:20
As we've talked about this, Coba and cut are getting such high grades.
36:22
Give some credit there to the defensive line. Yes, we had talked
36:24
about during those two game losing straight, the defensive line had to re emerge
36:29
like it was during the four. If those linebackers are making a lot of
36:31
plays and tackles for losses and tackles period, that probably means your defensive line
36:37
is doing a good job up front. So I think that's been noticeable these
36:39
last two games, with your defensive line returning not only getting pressures but absorbing
36:45
some blocks up front and letting those linebackers turn loose a little bit. So
36:49
credit to them. Mike Lockhart was a good example the other night. He
36:51
was excellent again. He's had a really good year. Lockhart has let's expand
36:54
on defensive line. When this was August and we were getting out of camp
36:59
and we heard Andrew Jackson the line coach, and Neil say this, we're
37:02
gonna rotate. We could rotate eight or nine guys. We all looked at
37:06
each other and went, oh, dear, sweet mercy, they don't have
37:09
a defensive line. There's no one that's good. And so they're just gonna
37:13
play a bunch of guys and it's just gonna be this you know, slap
37:16
it together thing instead. I can't remember when you've had that many guys that
37:22
don't set you back when they go out there. And last night you saw
37:27
Asani Redwood and you saw Ham and Russell. These guys are still babies in
37:30
the program and those guys will become the future going forward. So that's a
37:36
huge shout out to them. You don't get the success that the d Backs
37:39
and Beanie Bishop have had and Malachi Ruffin have had without those guys, you
37:46
know, being really really good for the most part of the season. And
37:50
every one of them has contributed. We've called their names at every point.
37:52
I mean you're talking Jalen Thornton. Even Dade Hawkins has played and been good.
37:57
Mulda deroge Aya have been really good. And then you're just starting to
38:00
mix guys in. Tyron Bradley was around a lot. You saw the eight
38:05
a lot last night just around the ball. I think I mentioned him and
38:07
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38:10
game, very good. So I think overall that defensive line is helping drive
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a gentleman as a listener and his family owns and runs Laurel Mountain Inn in
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don't see this on boxes often homemade pies, right, you don't see it
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enough. You don't see it. So he said, I'd love to make
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you guys a pie, and so I said okay. So they got regular
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and sugar free pies and family owned and operated since nineteen ninety one. As
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I always say, if you're in business for more than a decade, you're
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doing really, really well. So he brought these Bozo Barettis a pie last
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night and then he delivered this. Don't drop it because I'd like to try
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something. I just lost my head set. He delivered this to the press
43:52
box, and I, who've oftentimes been chastised for not bringing in the stuff
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that I get, put it in the refriger in the booth. Yeah,
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he did a nice jot. Then brought it home last night, put it
44:04
in my garage refrigerator, and so that I wouldn't forget it, I put
44:07
my car keys in the refrigerator. So I do. And when I had
44:12
to come today it would be here. And that is an absolutely coconut cream
44:17
pie. That's my favorite. Yeah, I'm cutting this bad boy. So
44:21
you guys keep talking, Oh I will, because I think this is one
44:23
of these situations sometimes hoppy. He forgets that we have a microphone as well,
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so he can't just spew his narrative and there's not a comeback like a
44:30
lot of times when he does. So he I do give him credit.
44:34
He did get his pie and kept it. That's an upset because earlier in
44:37
the day, when Mike made contact about bringing a pie over, he pulled
44:42
his usual self and just said, yeah, bring it to the press box.
44:45
Didn't ask it, didn't ask us what we wanted, so we're not
44:47
we're in a different location, different location, we're not available. Didn't ask
44:51
what kind we wanted, which is why he ended up with with coconut,
44:53
which is fine. I'll eat that too, But give a lot of credit
44:57
to Mike and his family who persevered through Karreedi selfish and found out where we
45:01
were and made a second trip over with a special delivery recye peanut butter chocolate
45:07
pie. Brought that to our location. Whole family came over, went down,
45:12
met him during a broadcast. Wonderful Mike, Mike and his family tremendous,
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so coared he tried to screw us out of a pie. Mike persevered,
45:21
got us one. We had that last night during our broadcast. It
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was excellent. So thanks Michael family, Belington, West Virginia. Check him
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out if you're in the area. It's a good one. You're asking me
45:35
do I want a piece? That's good. Although I had about three pieces
45:39
of the chocolate peanut butter last night. So that's very good. Hey,
45:49
okay, I'll bring up something well I shouldn't do all meeting. Oh,
45:52
go ahead, it's podcast. Let me a drink first, it's a podcast.
45:57
So as you know, the officials were very big he last night.
46:01
What they have were they very twenty, very busy. Two teams that were
46:07
in the top fifteen least penalized teams in America BYU and West Virginia just played
46:13
a game that now has an FBS record for the season and number of penalties
46:16
called. Is it a record? Is this as the record for the season
46:21
so far? Twenty two teams that top fifteen Kerchible least penalized teams now own
46:27
the record for most penalties in the game. I hope that crew has some
46:30
film study today. I think. Well, I will say that on the
46:34
first first possession by West Virginia two two pass interference calls against me one.
46:39
Those were excellent. Those were excellent calls. But what do we say when
46:43
that happened? Though, we said, oh, oh, here we go.
46:45
There's going to be a lot a lot of yeah, exactly. But
46:49
here's what Neil Brown said about the negative about the penalties, about the penalty.
46:52
He said most of them were legitimate. That's what he said. And
46:57
you know, Tony, there were what like five perceed recalls procedure calls,
47:01
and so he was asked about that. He said his quote was BYU does
47:08
a shift right before the snap? Okay, so it was clearly trying to,
47:15
I think gingerly suggest that that shift was causing West Virginia to do commit
47:22
procedure penalties. I looked up the rule. I'm knowing this is dangerous because
47:25
I don't I don't completely know if I'm right here about this, But if
47:30
the defensive line, of course, the defensive line can move around, but
47:32
if they if they quote threaten an offensive lineman threatens an offensive lineman causing an
47:37
immediate reaction before the ball is snapped, that's that's a violation. So there
47:44
are certain things as a defensive line that you can't do. I mean,
47:46
you can't obviously mock the snap count that kind. You can't yell stuff out.
47:51
You can't do that. Even though I can done a lot, and
47:52
I'm not sure i'd like to hear from an official. I need to do
47:57
more research. I'm not sure if you can do like a huge shift just
48:00
before the snap that might suggest that the snap has happened. Do you follow
48:05
me on that? Right I do? Right or wrong about that? There's
48:08
something called disconcerting signals, which basically you're clapping your hands. You're trying to
48:15
get them to jump. And I talked to why Milamb after the game and
48:19
he indicated that that wasn't it was on them. Oh okay, it was
48:23
again West Virginia was screwing the thing up, and he said, I had
48:27
a couple but there. You know, you're always going to get a little
48:30
bit of that, But that was weird to me. The thing that that
48:34
crew will be chastised over will be the ineligible man downfield. Not that it
48:39
wasn't the correct call, but the adjudication of it took so long and they
48:45
had to go to that replay and it literally took minutes and minutes to get
48:50
it done. That's what they'll be chastised for by their supervisor going like,
48:54
boys, you got an ineligible downfield. You know where the line of scrimmage
48:59
was with a twenty seven? Bring it back? What are we doing?
49:01
Among other things. Neil Neil's very good at telling you what's happened in what
49:09
he's thinking in press conference. Yes, you also know you get fined for
49:13
talking about officiating, right, yes, yes, so you also get fined
49:16
for talking about officiating. You know that, right? Yes? Okay,
49:20
So so in a thirty seven to seven game, there's no need to talk
49:22
about the officiating, so I will There's also some of those pass interference calls
49:25
that we have seen way way more contact, and someone went in Westerning's favor,
49:30
So take it and move on. There was one of the hits on
49:35
Garrett Green. I mean, Garrett's not even in his full slide yet.
49:37
I mean there was some that CRU's got some film study work to do.
49:40
I'll just I'll leave it at that didn't affect the game. Westerning is fine,
49:44
obviously blow him out. Those two teams should not have played a game
49:46
in which sets an FBS record for the season in penalties. They that crew
49:51
was here for the Texas Tech game and they called the most penalties of the
49:55
season until last night. Really, and look, even though I know what
50:01
you're saying on the slide on Garrett Green, I get that. I just
50:05
think that that again, if you look I look to the rules again today,
50:08
what's the number one point of emphasis? Tony concussion protocol, so he
50:14
wasn't a full side. I know. I just I just think there when
50:16
when there's a if, they're going to default, they're going to default to
50:21
yes to the UH protecting the player, the defensives players. So I think
50:27
that's what happens in this case. That I'll in the coming weeks, I'll
50:30
point out the number of times when a guy goes into his slide, gets
50:31
hit and there's no call. So just I'll go ahead, No, I
50:35
understanding, understands to get some consistent it's just not it. The crew did
50:39
not do a good job watching night period. Move on, next subject,
50:43
the next subject. The next subject is Mike from the Pies. You know
50:50
I'm a food snob, right, Yes, well, document, that was
50:53
better than he That was better than he promised. That was better than he
50:58
So he under promised and overproduced. I would drive to Belington to eat there.
51:01
Oh this is a good pie, I mean really good chocolate peanut butter.
51:06
Last night was excellent. I might start staying. I might sleep all
51:08
the time at the Laurel Mountain end. Is that an end too? Or
51:13
is it just a restaurants? Good question? That was due. That was
51:15
awesome, Thanks so much for your work. Okay, so here's in for
51:19
running all around town. This podcast has taken a turn, though, What
51:22
that's just weird. I mean, we're just sitting here on a Sunday morning,
51:24
having coffee and pie while talking about football. Bring a setup a stree,
51:29
old men, I'll meet you on Sunday. I'll bring the coffee,
51:32
I'll bring the pie. We'll take a big piece of Peach Cobler. Football
51:37
game, last night of Peach Cobbler. All right, let's do this thing
51:40
before the show. We don't talk about what we're gonna say, as you
51:44
probably know so hot. So this will be the last time that we're reading
51:50
a poem that was developed by artificial intelligence. We just knew policy. I'm
51:55
gonna read it one last time. Scopes unfold spreads in the night, Triple
52:02
h echoes arrhythmic delight, big Z speaks, Morgantown's voice, bright and poetic
52:08
whispers. A tale takes flight from Morgantown's heart, A jig unfold, Donaldson
52:14
Green tells to be told, Hayes's precision turning silver to gold, wv U's
52:19
triumph, A story to be bold. Tony May doubt my jig's skillful grace,
52:25
but results speak louder. Setting the pace, Neil Brown off the hot
52:30
seats, embrace bowl eligible, a joyous race scoreboard, a blaze, cheers
52:36
in the air, white rushing beyond compare Oklahoma, beckons, a challenge to
52:40
bear in this jig triumph and victory. We declare so hoppy is questioning the
52:47
authenticity of the authorship and as a result, that will be our final AI
52:55
poem. That was pretty good, Poe though, well, yeah it is
53:00
pretty guys. I mean I wrote him back and I said, roses are
53:04
red, violets are blue. I like your poem. Geez a, I
53:08
degenerate that now I did it myself. Hi, three guys, this is
53:12
Caitlin from Utah. I currently live in Robinson, Illinois, married in listener,
53:17
first time Texter, wife of Shane from Morgantown. I have to say
53:21
thanks to the team in the WVU community for an amazing game and trip to
53:24
the wild and wonderful Morgantown. Thoroughly enjoyed tailgating, the man trip, cheering
53:30
on the mountaineers, and of course singing country roads the icing on the cake.
53:35
As a Utah native and Utes fan. My mom taught me to cheer
53:37
for anyone but BYU. I was the black sheep in a big disappointment when
53:43
I chose to be a cougar. Happy to report I've come a long way
53:46
from those days, and I understand why ninety percent of my husband's wardrobe is
53:51
WVU apparel. And I even shocked my parents with my knowledge of players as
53:55
we discussed the game. Here we are with some good u Utah folks.
54:00
See there we met in our section who also came to cheer against BYU.
54:08
So you got Utah so they came to cheer against b YU. I happy
54:14
to report you all have made an official mountaineer out of me and so Adrian.
54:17
If you would go through a couple more of those pictures. Uh,
54:21
here they are in the crowd last night with their gear. And then here
54:24
they were when they were in Utah, straight there with with Utah gear on.
54:31
They were what they were doing. They're doing that thing like Michigan's guy
54:36
was out there. They were illegally scouting a future a future conference. Well,
54:40
same thing. Don't know that they were doing that. They dress up
54:43
in the school colors. They're in there scouting for West Virginia and they didn't
54:46
a military grade video surveillance equipment or anything. Oh okay, so in that
54:50
case, we'll just let them go. Well, Caitlyn, I'm delighted that
54:52
you guys had a wonderful time. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
54:57
Right, how about how about she she leads with married in listener first
55:00
time. Texture. Here we go real quick, give it. Give some
55:06
credit to those b YU fans. Yes, yes, they were very good,
55:08
right, filled up their sections. I like them a lot. Here's
55:10
why I like them. I like them because they care. Yeah, that's
55:16
why I like them. They care. I like teams that have schools that
55:20
care. Their fans care. And they were very passionate. And that's awesome.
55:24
And obviously it doesn't hurt. I mean, it doesn't hurt to carry
55:28
the state's flag. When you come onto the field. You're bringing the West
55:31
Virginia flag out there with you. You did, Yeah, yes, they've
55:35
done that each stop in the Big twelve, like they get it from a
55:37
marketing standpoint, like that's a good move. And then they stayed. The
55:42
team stayed on the field for the singing of country Roads. I don't remember
55:45
seeing that. That's true. They did you know in the ONNI groups,
55:49
Tony, they tied in with a lot of with West Virginia University. They
55:52
did a book drive. Yep. So that's a good team to have it
55:57
in this league. And I think that's could be a good rivalry that developed
56:00
sort of like I will tell you this when we go to Provo and they'll
56:04
be waiting on our ass. That's tough places they will And that's a program.
56:09
I mean last night, I think is what's happened to them now is
56:14
a bit of an aberration. I mean, Brad, they have a long
56:15
tradition and a great tradition and great fan support. There'll be a factor in
56:21
this league. Yeah, I mean mark that down again. It's you're seeing
56:22
this and people say it all the time, and I think fans just dismissed
56:25
this a lot, and media we dismissed this a lot. That's a hard
56:29
upgrade, even for a BYU that's played a pretty significant schedule, probably a
56:32
more difficult schedule over time than the other new teams in this league. That's
56:37
still a difficult grind. It's the grind. Is the is the thing that
56:39
people always have said, it's not the one off, and we saw that
56:44
at West Virginia. It's not one off situations. Most people can hang with
56:46
anybody. It's the week after week and I think by you just saw that
56:50
the difficult travel against two good teams in a league. That's hard to do,
56:53
man. And I mean if they, like you said, you were
56:55
at Texas aid the fly bah mack, then they came in on Thursday.
56:59
Just I mean, I'd like to know. You can't quantify it, but
57:01
certainly was a factory. They'll be fine. There'll be fine. You know
57:05
why why Because they got money. You got money, you got nil,
57:08
you got nal, you can go get players. They'll be fine and care.
57:12
Yeah, they care. Their fan base cares. That's generally a good
57:15
recipe. And by the way, it's not like, as you said,
57:17
Hoppy, that they're starting from scratch. They got two quarterbacks that are starting
57:21
games today in the NFL. Okay John from Alabama rights and Hello, update
57:28
on my ten year old son Tate. Remember he was going to bring him
57:30
to the game. He's been whining, Dinam. He's locked in now as
57:32
a mountaineer for life. What a weekend and what a victory here he goes,
57:37
Oh look, call Sam Shott pac Man Fox had the night off,
57:40
but Steedman Fox bawled out and see the pictures. So there is Evans scored.
57:45
He even scored as yeah, he even scored a glove from one of
57:51
the players. Post game a single country Roads, by the way, had
57:55
two kerchievels at Kegler's impressive beerd love the show. Let's go out nears know
58:00
who had the beers with a kid or the dad? Well, Tony,
58:02
Well the dad did, dad did? Okay, Well he got there first,
58:06
triped him out in your field, and you get a glovey, I
58:07
think the dad's right, he's locked in. He's locked You get one of
58:09
those. He's out that. You get it, You get a win,
58:12
you get a glove, you get a kerchaveil I mean, good for him
58:14
checking a lot of boxes there. Yeah, well done, Texter. I
58:17
found the reaction to West Virginia's new football conference schedule surprising. The conference,
58:22
in the last two years has now added eight teams, five in Mountain Time
58:27
or whatever weird clock thing Arizona does. Being surprised by the schedule is like
58:31
taking a job that's eighty five percent traveled and then wondering why your boss is
58:36
mad when he keeps seeing you in the office. To his point, there's
58:40
gonna be a lot of travel when you have teams all over the place.
58:45
I get it, Tony Happy Brett Congratulations episode five hundred. You guys do
58:50
a fantastic job. The discussion about Shack at the UCF victory Thanks for having
58:55
us reminded me of this photo my wife took of me and Shack the year
58:59
that he played at the Greenbrier Classic Pro Amo. You know you know who
59:04
that is there? His left hand was like an octopus on my shoulder.
59:07
Keep up the great work, go ears. You know who that is?
59:09
Hot? Who is then? Tom and Charleston Hoppy. A few years back,
59:14
you and I discussed a lawsuit where I had my clients sue a football
59:19
coach who made a Faustian bargain. Tom Flaherty, I couldn't tell from that
59:25
picture. Yeah sure, Tom's not a small I mean not a teeny guy,
59:30
goes. Shack got him under the armpit. By the way, credit
59:34
to Tom not only for the picture of great picture town, but the getting
59:36
Faustian bargain back in there keeping Thank you very much, Tom, and not
59:42
the Jerry Faustian Jerry of course, although it's interchangeable, it's the same thing.
59:46
It's the same thing. It's not even in the same universe. You
59:55
still don't understand, do you know. Okay, so now let me go
59:58
back. All right, I understand what you're saying. But when I was
1:00:01
saying, yeah, that was like when Notre Dame did a stupid thing and
1:00:05
they took a high school coach and they and as a result, they suffered
1:00:08
after that, that was my thing. But I understand what you're saying.
1:00:10
Okay, I get you. All right, Uh, this is Corey from
1:00:14
Salt Lake City. If we're using pac Man Fox, how about if we
1:00:20
use a Aaron Beasley Beanie Bishop Combo Beasley Bishop. I like that. Brad,
1:00:28
Guys, Brad will probably effort that Brad comes up with some good ones.
1:00:30
I mean, so far we've only done have we done anybody else?
1:00:34
It's only it's only just pac Man Fox and Steedman Fox, Lee Wiley,
1:00:46
rant Koba out there making plays. Don't forget. I'm got old Zach Moses
1:00:52
there. Hey, guys, I work for a home remodeling company in the
1:00:57
DC area, so I'm constantly driving. The other day I visited a house
1:01:01
located in a neighborhood that was behind the local community college. As I turned
1:01:06
into that neighborhood, I noticed all the streets were named after colleges. So
1:01:08
I turned onto Rutger Street, on the Yale Place, onto Fordham Street,
1:01:13
went past Auburn Avenue, only to arrive at my destination at the customer's home,
1:01:16
located on Pitt Court, clearly regrettably named after the Pitt The customers could
1:01:24
not have been nicer, had no way of knowing that their unfortunate luck of
1:01:29
living on a street with that name. But as I left their home and
1:01:31
drove down the street, I turned on a sweet Caroline in my car made
1:01:35
sure to roll down the window so that I could appropriately serenade the neighborhood.
1:01:39
By the way, I loved the episode with Charles Wesley Gobwin. Really looking
1:01:43
forward to this basketball season. I'm ready for Coach Eilert and the guys to
1:01:46
shock the world and hoping for a great first season for Coach Kellogg as well.
1:01:50
Let's go Mountaineers, Dan and Damascus, Maryland, Rutgers Rutgers. It
1:01:55
was a big, big conversation point at one thirty yesterday afternoon as Rutgers was
1:02:00
leading at halftime in a Rutger Ohio state all they wanted a Rutger Road coach.
1:02:05
Rutger had to make our guy, Charles Wesley godwins sideline appearance. He's
1:02:07
want to know on the sideline this season, undefeated on the sideline. Of
1:02:10
course he is his relation, Cobby, you really missed a good show.
1:02:15
I'm sorry about that. I was out of town. He was apologies and
1:02:17
he was off his card. Good well, you upgraded. Then I was
1:02:21
gone. He was in you and he have something in common? What's that
1:02:24
you now have? Both been featured on CBS Saturday Morning. He performed on
1:02:29
it yesterday. He's a little bit bigger deal he is, and he was
1:02:34
outstanding. He blowed it up and in the classic West Virginia connection story.
1:02:42
He was introduced by one of the hosts on the program CBS Saturday Morning,
1:02:46
Dana Jacobson, former ESPN, former ESPN anchor now works at CBS Money,
1:02:51
who went to high school with Brad. Really always a connection, always an
1:02:55
Iowa connection. Did he wear an efforting shirt? No, man, you
1:03:00
gotta go back. I taped it. He I will, dude. I'm
1:03:04
just telling you what those guys are gonna blow they're blowing up as we speak.
1:03:08
I mean, I think now it's gonna be one of those things where
1:03:13
like he said, he's he was watching the Grammy Awards and said, you
1:03:16
know what, I think that would be fun. I could do that.
1:03:20
This is while he's in college. He said, I think I could do
1:03:22
that. I think one day he's on there. There's my there you go.
1:03:25
Here's my prediction. Okay, I think one day he's on there.
1:03:30
Another plug. If you haven't, I know that's gotten thousands of downloads already.
1:03:34
If you haven't, you have to go back and listen to it.
1:03:36
You can skip through the preview part and listen to the interview on him.
1:03:38
I'm still blown away. IM just told fifty people this week about that.
1:03:42
His story getting into music is absolutely incredible. I still I can't get over
1:03:46
that he's a finance major and he's watching He's going like hm, never saying,
1:03:51
didn't play an instrum until he got to college, didn't even know he
1:03:53
could sing, just that I want to said I want to do that.
1:03:55
He said, I want to do that. Pitt Goes buys a guitar.
1:03:59
Wow. Interesting, Oh, great story. Quick question, gentlemen, I've
1:04:02
heard conspiracy theories saying that Bob Huggins is behind a lot of the issues that's
1:04:08
been happening to basketball these days. You don't know what's true and what's not.
1:04:15
What's your opinion, what do you mean things? I mean, players,
1:04:19
eligibilities and stuff. Here's well, I would say the answer is no,
1:04:28
Yeah, I think conspiracies are just that, conspiracy theories. I've heard
1:04:38
nothing to indicate there's any truth. No, I know's just it's just like
1:04:42
it makes I shake my head knowing what's coming in basketball schedule wise and where
1:04:49
we are right now. That's what makes me upset and bothered. We were
1:04:56
talking yesterday on our show, Brad. I mean Josh Eilert again, he's
1:05:01
been magnificent, I think in how he's handled everything and has he had a
1:05:05
lot of darts thrown at him early. It's it's incredible, you know,
1:05:10
it's incredible darts. It's like he's standing on the bottom of the mountain.
1:05:13
They just keep pushing these massive boulders down, like here, get out of
1:05:15
the way of that one. Yeah, get out of the way of that
1:05:17
one. Eight players on scholarship going into tomorrow's season opening game or like better,
1:05:24
like Sisyphis. He pushes the bolder up to the hill and rolls back
1:05:26
down. He pushes the boulder up hill, rolls back down Against a good
1:05:29
Missouri State team. Yes, a good Missouri State team that's experienced and three
1:05:34
starters back and a transfer portal guy from Arkansas that got named preseason All Conference.
1:05:42
You better buckle it up. Don't just think, oh, it's the
1:05:45
first game of the season, You're just gonna roll out there and get him.
1:05:49
Gotta play. I'm just telling you what, every single time it goes
1:05:53
up, you better play. Right. Is there a line on that game?
1:05:56
Uh? Yeah? I think West Rain is favored by seven at this
1:05:58
point, at least yesterday last I saw it. Texter Jeremy from Cooper'stown.
1:06:05
I made my annual trek from upstate New York to Morgantown yesterday seven hours,
1:06:10
three minutes, record time, Q Country Roads, great show with Charles Wesley
1:06:15
Godwin, two full hours of entertainment on my drive. Check this picture out
1:06:18
I took this morning on my run in the Blue lot. Let's go boys,
1:06:23
Let's get bowl Ellis. Look at that shot. It's gorgeous. That
1:06:26
looks like a Utah Son We'll see some of those in Utah there. Absolutely
1:06:30
beautiful yep. And how about yesterday? Was yesterday a perfect day? Awesome?
1:06:36
Great fall football day? Yeah. Hi, my husband Cameron is a
1:06:42
huge fan of your show and would make me listen any chance he gets.
1:06:45
I've heard about textual healing, so I wanted to text into him to wish
1:06:49
him a happy Veterans Day and give him a shout out for being an incredible
1:06:54
husband. Hi. B, hope you're having a great day your favorite wife,
1:06:58
Sophie, his favorite wife. Awesome. Yeah, Veterans Day coming up
1:07:02
on the eleventh eleventh hour, eleventh day, eleventh month. Texter says this,
1:07:09
please bring back the always a West Virginia connection hats talking about episode eight
1:07:13
hundred website. Can we not sell those anymore? They sold out? You're
1:07:16
your peril guy, I mean your Christmas Yes, when we open up our
1:07:20
holiday store on that we're not adding some additional hats as well. Yeah,
1:07:25
well, get the new logo. I would be really nice. How much
1:07:29
stuff is actually for sale? A lot? What do you mean, I've
1:07:31
never looked at it, Stunner. That's a shock, stunner, shocked.
1:07:35
Imagine that I'm waiting for Marshall. Olidic catalog in the hobby is going like
1:07:41
I've never been to the website. I'll tell you what. That royalty check
1:07:44
could certainly be nice about that. I do get a third, correct,
1:07:49
I haven't seen that any. Enjoying my kerchevel with my brother taigating at the
1:07:55
BYU game. Thanks Tony for buying our first one at the three Guys tailgate.
1:07:59
We just walked a Kroger's to get us a four pack. Enjoy my
1:08:01
time listening with you guys twice a week on my way from Morgantown to Philippy.
1:08:06
Signed from the Lear South Coal Miner. Those guys are a great guy.
1:08:10
Great We had fun talking with that. Yeah, good dudes. Oh
1:08:13
here we go, p One, Jason and Tulsa. Hey, guys,
1:08:15
glad to see the NCAA has decided to use WVU home night games to let
1:08:20
people off the street trial being an official for the night ou I literally see
1:08:26
fewer flags during a round of golf. I don't really mind it this time
1:08:30
because I'm happy for a lopsided Mountaineer wind to go on for four hours.
1:08:33
I'm anxious for the Senators analysis of the post game grades. Is there any
1:08:38
kind of adjusted grade for the offensive line that takes into account how good the
1:08:41
opposing defensive line is. I'm just wondering if our line was that good or
1:08:45
if their d line was that bad, because I could have gone for one
1:08:46
hundred yards with some of those holes even if I was still on my walker.
1:08:49
I love the show. There was one of the penalties where it was
1:08:55
a great shot because afterward it was all over, like an official was over
1:08:59
and he was picking up flags. It was like he was picking up trash.
1:09:02
It was like a pile. It was a pile of flags. Literally,
1:09:06
Yeah, didn't been over to pick up his or his buddies and flow
1:09:12
are How about that? The best flag of the night? What was the
1:09:15
best flag of the night? You mean you mean what? How do you
1:09:17
mean best? If it was the best flag of the night? Trying find
1:09:20
best the best flag of the night, what do you mean? Like?
1:09:24
Were the best call? The one no one saw was sitting on the twenty
1:09:27
yard line on that ninety yard kickoff returns off? I didn't see did you
1:09:30
guys see it? See it? It came after the celebration. Teams celebrated
1:09:35
the end zone. They're cutting the way to the sideline guys are pulling the
1:09:40
pads out, the iPads out there to look at the breakdown and cover offs
1:09:44
flag old on the plate. I didn't see it either, or Klonie Sataki
1:09:46
absolutely lost his mind. I don't blame him. That was a late call.
1:09:50
Didn't see it away from the plate. It didn't fall out of the
1:09:54
guy's pocket, and he didn't want to go back on it at that point.
1:09:57
I think also, if you're b YU at that point, you just
1:09:59
go like, oh, okay, I get it. That's how it's going
1:10:01
to go tonight. Yeah, exactly if they ever needed all that was,
1:10:04
if they ever needed a this is not your night, that was not your
1:10:08
night call, because that would have been had to start a second if that
1:10:11
might have been like something they could build on. And you know, I'm
1:10:14
not exaggerating when I say that they were cutting away to shots of the guys
1:10:16
on the side, not the celebration in the end zone, sideline helmets off,
1:10:21
guys celebrating, well the same dude, Okay, okay, you got
1:10:27
that one. Listen, you got that one. How about the ineligible man
1:10:30
downfield? They're ready to snap the next playoff. I mean they're in formation
1:10:35
and the officials just standing there like, Okay, here we go, We're
1:10:38
gonna have the snap, and the guy just sits down the line. Jo
1:10:40
just goes through the flag, and I'm thinking, well, it's a legal
1:10:44
procedure, Hey, come back in eligible man downfield. From the last play,
1:10:48
the best call, which was actually the best call was and our poor
1:10:54
friend Brandon Yates, where Yates pulled and he was halfway down the line.
1:11:00
That one was probably valid. They might have got that one right. He
1:11:04
didn't jump they were asking him to. He needed to get ahead start.
1:11:09
I get it. But you know what Steve dunlapso, which was a great
1:11:11
point, is that you know West Virginia pools so much Tony that you know,
1:11:15
yeah, sometimes you gotta get there. Well, that's sorry, that's
1:11:17
all right. Texter says. This is a season of firsts. In my
1:11:20
nearly thirty five years of watching football, I don't think I've seen two defensive
1:11:25
line holding calls, but I saw two in the same game this year.
1:11:29
Last night, I saw a penalty called twelve seconds into the play clock for
1:11:31
the next player. Has anyone ever in the history of slim gyms, fax
1:11:38
machines and pontoon boats combined, ever seen a penalty called on the previous play.
1:11:44
If we can do this, how about go back and call all forty
1:11:46
six files against Kelly Oopre Kelly former Kansas player his eighth year in the league.
1:11:58
That's an elite text. He didn't even identify. You gotta sign that.
1:12:04
That's a great text, Kelly, sweet mercy. Is there any way
1:12:15
to follow up on those officials? Not to all due respect, I'll ask,
1:12:18
Yeah, there will be. I'll do as well as I can,
1:12:23
sniffing around to see if there was any things. But again, so Neil
1:12:27
did not blast them by one bit. Well you wouldn't. You wouldn't.
1:12:31
Yeah, Okay, So maybe Coloni Sataki might Maybe he maybe he'll wonder out
1:12:36
loud and they'll just give him welcome to the Big twelve. Who knows well?
1:12:43
Again, Neil Brown said, most of the calls were But again,
1:12:45
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Hey, three goofs. I was just a prime spot on the pondent Is
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this trever int want prime spot right there? Hey, three goofs. I
1:14:25
was listening to the twenty four hour Radio Thumb prior to the game and heard
1:14:29
the three Guys commercial that says, you guys will take our calls, tweets
1:14:32
and text. Did I miss something during your podcast? I watch on youtubes
1:14:38
and I love the show Jim and Morgantown. Now we don't do any of
1:14:41
that. That commercial was cut about six years ago. Old promo. We
1:14:44
used to do phone calls and have them recorded and then I'd go in there
1:14:46
and edit it and nah, don't do that anymore. I was signed by
1:14:50
Robin Frostburg. We got to get that updated. Yeah. Probably in game
1:14:56
text BYU fans showed up and are noticeably louder than other fan base. I
1:15:00
haven't heard another fangroup close to this loud during the home game since joining the
1:15:02
Big twelve. Let's come out heres, Texter says in game text alert Tony
1:15:08
gets his nighttime sack and it was Magnificent Texter Hoppy Senator Scopes episode five zero
1:15:16
one. A Texter said he missed Tony Sean McDonough in personation. All he
1:15:21
has to do is listen to Tony's call of the game, and every once
1:15:25
in a while that Syracuse broadcasting voice comes in makes me laugh every time.
1:15:30
I'm an over the road truck driver. So I get to listen on Sirious
1:15:32
signed by Frank and Kluksburg Hon Eh, don't know what he's referring to.
1:15:39
First and ten, I did turn the TV on yesterday and I saw that
1:15:43
Sean was doing the Clemson game against Notre Dame. I stayed on it just
1:15:46
because he was doing the game. Well known Catholic institution located in South Bend
1:15:51
with great tradition, Dabo Dabo. Sweeney certainly took some criticism this week and
1:15:58
fired back in game text from the stadium. Hey BYU been nice having you,
1:16:05
Texter, Thanks for coming Scope spreads hopefully Hoppy longtime listener zero for one
1:16:12
as a Texter. In other words, he mun a text it but not
1:16:14
get read. As our beloved Mountaineers don the American flag state outline helmets tonight,
1:16:19
I can't help. But to think of what this podcast did for me.
1:16:23
In my last deployment last year to the Middle East. There were many
1:16:26
long shifts staring into the desert, missing my wife, my friends, my
1:16:30
family, and my kids and our beloved state. This podcast made me feel
1:16:33
as if I were home. Thank you all for bringing home to me in
1:16:36
the form of this podcast. Well so far away, love the podcast,
1:16:42
Keep up the great work and we'll see you next year in Pittsburgh. For
1:16:45
the three guys Tailgates signed by Timbow from Making That's awesome. Thank you for
1:16:49
your service. He's doing the real work. We're just three clowns here having
1:16:54
pie. Well. Yes, I saw someone at Neil's talk show the other
1:16:57
night and they said I listened to you and they were out of the country,
1:17:00
like we're really somewhere, and I was like, great, appreciate that.
1:17:03
Scopes unfold spreads in the night. Triple h Echo is a rhythmic delight.
1:17:12
Oh, this was just a piece of the poem that got read.
1:17:15
Yeah. Four never mind beautiful win White turning into something special. Great compliment
1:17:21
to CJ and GG the O chopped wood, the d laid Wood. Chris
1:17:28
from Marietta, Hey three guys. Awesome game. Just want to give a
1:17:31
shout out to Gresso's in Columbus, Ohia, a mountaineer strong in the land
1:17:38
of the Buckeyes. Great place to watch the game. Signed by Ronan.
1:17:41
Yeah, so Gresso's is a mountaineer deal in Columbus, oh And Eric's here
1:17:47
he lives here, but back and forth the whole deal. But yeah,
1:17:49
that's really good. They're a big mountaineer haven there. Jeff from Tampa.
1:17:54
Watching the game on TV by you had many players with a C on their
1:17:58
upper right corner of their jerseys. I can only assume that means captain.
1:18:00
The number of players with the SEA was in double digits by my account.
1:18:03
Any story here? Why so many captains? They do have a lot of
1:18:05
captains, right, it does eight? They have eight captains. Wasn't double
1:18:10
figures, Jeff, But they do have eight captains. Let's go mountaineer,
1:18:15
says this Texter. No shave equals will win again. I hope Coach Klaney
1:18:19
enjoyed Country Roads, Brad. I was wondering. Brad was wondering who I
1:18:24
was Last week. Jeff from Lumberport, PS, I'm still looking for a
1:18:28
hanky. On episode eight, hundred dot com still efforting on that hoppy well
1:18:32
you've you've got We've never gone to the website, Brad, make a note.
1:18:35
We need to get the hanky when we do holiday when we open up
1:18:39
the holiday gifts. Texter not gonna lie. When I heard a backup QB
1:18:45
was starting, I got an uneasy feeling. Thanks to the likes of Jed
1:18:48
Duffy and Henry Columbia. Fortunately it worked in the good guy's favor. Hey,
1:18:51
I've got a question in quiry. Minds want to know when Green,
1:18:55
Donaldson, White and Johnson walk around, do they habitually go to the left.
1:19:00
I hit send on this, knowing that my funny may indeed fall flat.
1:19:02
Oh well, it was a win without the elevated blood pressure, Shawn.
1:19:05
It really you know what you saw yesterday last night win and I think
1:19:11
it speaks to the character of this team. You just see a lot of
1:19:15
good vibration on that sideline. I mean, it helps when you're winning,
1:19:17
obviously, but Green stay even when Green's out of the game, he stays
1:19:20
very engaged. It just looks like a place where people were happy with what
1:19:26
they're doing, and that means something. You know, I will say this
1:19:29
a good joke there by the text, I get it. Who was a
1:19:31
Sean Jeff oh Roley going left? Yees? So I get it? And
1:19:34
this team's been left handed a lot. C. J. Donaldson was very
1:19:39
effective to left side two hundred and ten yards coming to the right last night,
1:19:42
though they also banged them to the right hand side. Had some big
1:19:45
runs there thirty seven yard or and eighteen yard or of twenty three yarders,
1:19:48
so some of those big plays actually came right. So credit to the entire
1:19:51
offensive line last night. Texter says, which one does not belong? Bruce
1:19:57
Arians AJ and historic s the park Jaheem White or Tony Coreedy? The obvious
1:20:03
answer, Tony Creedy the only one who did not reach the top by the
1:20:06
way of York, Pennsylvania a football in p one listener hotbed. Yeah,
1:20:13
remember I have talked about I was. I thought I had a job in
1:20:16
York, Pennsylvania. Oh, then it didn't happen. So he's jeemes from
1:20:20
there. I didn't know Bruce Arians was from York, PA, didn't you,
1:20:24
Texter? Our boys reached the gridiron Nirvana. Let's keep it going all
1:20:27
the way to Dallas for the big twelve Championship formerly the Real Morgan in Morgantown,
1:20:31
Texter Tony is right sacks during night games feel different. Neil has me
1:20:35
trusting the climb best West Virginia has looked in a long time. Texter Mark
1:20:41
from South Charleston, Tony Brad Charles, I'm sorry, I mean hoppy.
1:20:46
Hello, quick merch idea for episode eight hundred dot com a two sided shirt
1:20:51
side A thanks for having us, side B, which is accessible by flipping
1:20:56
the shirt inside out. Thanks for coming. Take it for what it's worth.
1:20:59
Cheers, guys, let's go Mountaineers. So people are suggesting, what
1:21:03
do you say when you win at home? You can't say thanks for having
1:21:10
us? No, thanks for coming? The appropriate response thanks for coming,
1:21:15
say when someone's leaving your house, you always going thanks for coming. How
1:21:17
about response thanks for having us? Could I offer this one as an alternate?
1:21:21
Would you go with good to see you? What just about good to
1:21:26
see you? You're walking away? Go hey, good to see you.
1:21:30
That's pretty good too, because that's got that anyway. Logan in Greenbrier County
1:21:38
rights in he went to the game a lot of respect. That got my
1:21:41
picture made with the Mountaineer mascot. He's wearing a new quarter zip from Daniels.
1:21:45
Great running for the team. There is there's a guy you remember.
1:21:48
I believe you talked to him down there in Greenbrier County, Hoppy and Brad
1:21:53
and ronsf you remember him absolutely. Yeah. By the way, the Mountaineer
1:21:56
beard and mullet wrong this year, I mean very strong. It's Michael his
1:22:02
beard is you know you got it going? Yeah, Tony. In light
1:22:06
of our point guard issue, I'm concerned for Brad. Can one of you
1:22:10
check on the dollar value of those reading glasses. I know he values his
1:22:14
amateur status with fine looking Phil, but just want to make sure he doesn't
1:22:16
get tagged with an impermissible benefit investigation. Charles in Southwest virgin you know what
1:22:21
he's talking about. You said on the last episode that Phil gave you those
1:22:26
glasses, and he does not want you to be the recipient of an impermissible
1:22:30
benefit and all of a sudden be suspended from three guys. No such thing
1:22:33
anymore. You can take whatever you want, except except played for them,
1:22:39
Shotel kirk res I just play for the Mountaineers, yeah, Texter, my
1:22:43
son John and I met the man last night after the game, the special
1:22:47
guest. Also my other son Silas's first game. There you go, there's
1:22:53
up in the crowd and there's Charles Wesley Godwin And got another picture there a
1:22:58
little sparky there. He is a good one. Texter Tony Hoppy Brad.
1:23:05
Hello, I know how much Tony loves sacks at night. So here's your
1:23:10
T shirt slogan, it's getting late, time to hit the sack. You
1:23:14
can have your crack staff come up with the image. Big win for West
1:23:16
Virginia with some nighttime sacks. Brian from Hurricane, there were a couple times
1:23:20
last night in that game where and I know that we know the BYU couldn't
1:23:25
run the ball, but after the ball was snapped there were five Mountaineers in
1:23:29
the BYU backfield. Brand It's like swarming. Yeah, well you you just
1:23:33
came back from that Safari. Yeah, I mean that's kind of kind of
1:23:38
like the will to to Beast roaming along on the planes of the Serengetti and
1:23:41
all of a sudden, here come the Lions. Yeah. Wow, Yeah,
1:23:45
it's a long Yeah, that's their Hey, guys, Joe from Barbersville,
1:23:48
what's the deal with all these night games? Just saw the schedule for
1:23:51
next week another seven pm game? Can we give spreads a job for Thursday
1:23:56
show? I'd like to know West Virginia's winning percentage in night games six pm
1:24:00
or later most games, most night games played by WUVU in one season.
1:24:05
And lastly, does Phil see greater revenue a Daniels from night games in Morgantown?
1:24:10
Night games helped the Morgantown economy all the way around. Uh. On
1:24:16
the other are you going to accept this other thing on fighting? I'll try
1:24:21
to find that because Brad Brad's not going to get the it's in there in
1:24:26
it's in their game notes, right Texa. Last night, I had a
1:24:29
friend who texted me a tweet from Florida State's barstool account during their game Florida
1:24:33
State pitt Last night they played Florida State played Sweet Caroline. Oh no,
1:24:39
wait, where was that game? Is that? Is that pit? During
1:24:43
Saturday's Florida State pit game when they were playing Sweet Caroline at the stadium in
1:24:46
Pittsburgh, Florida State fans sang the WVU lyrics that could catch on then pitt
1:24:54
some problems, Yeah, yeah, two and two and seven maybe like that
1:25:00
Texter. They said, we would finish fourteenth and I took that personally from
1:25:09
the Jordan. Jordan. Yeah, that's good. How about this one,
1:25:15
guys, This will tell you a little bit about travel. Thanks for coming.
1:25:18
Had a great time watching our mountaineers run for seven yards of carry.
1:25:20
It was fun to see a big brand like BYU and Morgantown. This is
1:25:25
probably a quiet ride home for them. But hey, it's the new big
1:25:27
twelve. So take a look here. That's last night. So they pulled.
1:25:31
They went wheels up at twelve thirty two this morning, okay, and
1:25:38
they were going to get to Provo at one forty eight mountain. But if
1:25:41
you look down on the very bottom between those two blue boxes, you see
1:25:44
what it was going to take them to get through the wind. Four hours
1:25:46
and sixteen minutes total flight time. That's a long four sixteen So you're going
1:25:51
into the wind. I say, at this time of year, it's stronger.
1:25:55
Now, that'll give you a kick on the right way here. But
1:25:58
that's a four hour and six team in a flight. That's why I want
1:26:01
to talk to Ren. This past week. In twenty twenty five, West
1:26:04
Virginia has to go out twice beyond two time zones. But they're going to
1:26:09
get a double by that year, and he's been assured that they'll work those
1:26:15
games so that they don't. You who do they play next week? Or
1:26:19
do I alway stayed at home? Yeah? I alway stayed at home.
1:26:26
I just gets tough. That's very difficult. Yeah. Absolutely. I just
1:26:30
got in from another amazing night in Morgantown. Fans, amazing, the atmosphere,
1:26:32
great by you, faithful that traveled. The game rivaled any team I've
1:26:35
ever seen play the old Golden Blue. My question is, do you think
1:26:41
that one of the reasons that the Cougar has had so much trouble was the
1:26:44
fact that they were not used to heavy air. I'll hang up and listen
1:26:46
the assume Mayor of ellinor heavy air, right, you go out there?
1:26:50
It holds the ball down right air? Yeah, it probably got weird weighted
1:26:55
down Roger Wrights air advantage index Rights. What a tree to get to watch
1:27:01
a mostly stress free game. There was always magic in the stadium for night
1:27:04
games, even watching from the frozen tundra of Northern Maine. Even had a
1:27:09
lot of fun playing the Beanie Bishop minigame of will he getting an interception on
1:27:13
first down. There were a couple of times he had a great shot at
1:27:15
sending Brad into an early retirement from three guys so close, And maybe he
1:27:19
got a little emotional when Burke's got the strip in the recovery. Also thankful
1:27:25
that the curse of the backup quarterback did not strike again. Tony's call never
1:27:30
been more true for me. It was a great night to be a mountaineer
1:27:32
in northern Maine, signed by Rogers. What a great strip by brus and
1:27:36
recovery. He deserves it. Not often strip it and clear, strip it
1:27:41
and then immediately pounce. And that's different. That's Steve Dunlap on our broadcast.
1:27:45
He loves those because that's the defense causes that. You know, that's
1:27:49
not just somebody dropped the ball. I mean, that's that's a guy making
1:27:53
a play, making two plays. It's big because because BYU is riving score
1:27:57
right there. Hey, three guys, So I heard BYU ran out of
1:28:01
the onto the field carrying the West Virginia flag and then stayed the entire game
1:28:05
to send country roads. Is it true? Yes? Is BYU angling to
1:28:10
be our conference buddies? I'd certainly welcome it. They seem nice Granted,
1:28:14
that's easy to say after you beat them. That's a good T shirt idea.
1:28:16
Especially after a home win, you have a thanks for having us for
1:28:20
a way and game wins at home they seem nice just a thought. So
1:28:26
when you went at home, you where they seem nice. Signed by Professor
1:28:30
Vinnie Texter. Scope spreads Dan great win last night, looking forward to another
1:28:33
night game in Norman. Question about the game time selection process. How many
1:28:38
times a season can the Big Twelve use the six day window in selecting game
1:28:42
times? I think it's like seven ish, seven to eight something like that.
1:28:46
Thanks as always, And I admit now, when I went by Daniels
1:28:49
on Friday night, I told my driver that's where I got some pretty darn
1:28:54
good food earlier this season. I think he thought I was nuts because it
1:28:58
was empty. I drove by yesterday too and our spot was just completely barren,
1:29:02
just wisping away in the winds, a couple of sad people wandering around.
1:29:06
There wasn't anyone. They're just our logos still on the cement there in
1:29:10
the middle of the thing. Hey Texter, if you guys are going down
1:29:13
the NPR route, can I suggest some tote bags in the episode eight hundred
1:29:16
dot com store. Also, I have been oh excuse me, I have
1:29:20
never been a country music fan, aside from some Johnny Cash Hello. After
1:29:25
listening to the last episode, I am now a big Charles Wesley Godwin fan.
1:29:29
I even added a few of his songs to my playlist. I loved
1:29:31
the interview. His story is amazing. I love his love for the old
1:29:35
golden blue. It's infectious. And oh yeah, running the ball over BYU
1:29:39
is a wonderful night capsun by Ben in Chicago, Texter, complete game,
1:29:45
dominating win over the Koogs. Neil Brown for president, rising in the polls
1:29:49
Texter. Small addition, I think we should get Heisman front runner Jaheem White
1:29:56
five yards over Denard Robinson and then let him play six total snaps a quarterback
1:30:00
and bring the record back not only home, but to the proper last name.
1:30:06
That's a really good text right there. It's for Pat White had the
1:30:11
all time rushing yards for a quarterback. Gernard Robinson was moving up that list
1:30:15
but wasn't gonna catch him, and they moved White to running back or Gernard
1:30:18
Robins. They moved Robinson to running back and kept adding his accumulated yards while
1:30:24
playing the running back position onto his quarterback total and in one of the great
1:30:28
MCA heists along with the Blittannikoff Award Big East Player of the Year not going
1:30:31
to Kevin Jones. White no longer the holder for all time rushing yards back
1:30:35
quarterback. That's just it. I don't know how to do that. Just
1:30:39
criminal. Speaking to Michigan and Donard Robinson, old Rich Gill Old South Carolina's
1:30:44
scary yesterday, Didny Yes, it was tied twenty eight twenty eight, Brandy,
1:30:48
Yeah, it was. Yeah. They hung right in there, but
1:30:50
then old Shane Meiemer with a kneel down at the end prevents a cover they
1:30:55
were going in to win. There. That's the USC when it covered that.
1:30:59
Did you watch the end that you probably couldn't? Well, you were
1:31:00
up because that into the USC Washington game than not fell asleep entire it's wild,
1:31:06
wild game. Texter scopes, spreads and part time or timer that you
1:31:13
with win number six. Are we in the territory of starting to talk extension
1:31:17
for Neil Brown. I'll say this about that, and it's the same answer
1:31:23
I was going to give and think when everyone wanted to to have Neil fired.
1:31:31
Why don't you just let the season happen and finish just breath, let
1:31:38
the thing happened. See where you are fair? Yeah, I would go
1:31:43
farther. And I'm a big Neil Brown fan, and I said before the
1:31:47
season began the obvious, which is what I do, that this season would
1:31:50
determine his fate. At this point, with the way this team is playing,
1:31:55
I don't think there's any discussion anymore. I think it is absolutely I
1:32:00
mean, nothing is certain, but I don't think there's any legitimate discussion about
1:32:02
whether or not Neil Brown should or will keep his job. It's obvious that
1:32:06
he should keep his job and that will probably include some extension. So I
1:32:12
don't think there's any room. I don't think there's any debate right now on
1:32:15
that. Nope, totally agree. Nor is there any discussion. As you
1:32:16
say, that's just he's a coach. Well my point is, yeah,
1:32:20
my point is everyone losing their mind in the middle of the seat. I'm
1:32:24
just like, just let it all happen. I understand Tony, and that's
1:32:28
the practical thing, and that's what Baker said he's going to do. But
1:32:30
still it's a topic. And I was just trying to address the topic.
1:32:32
And that's that's my opinion that there's no legitimate con There is no legitimate argument.
1:32:38
Now, there is no legitimate argument to replace him as a head coach.
1:32:42
None, zero. Therefore, what's the antithesis of that, and that
1:32:45
is now you've got to talk about extension. Yeah, now there's some contract.
1:32:49
You got to get down in the weeds on the contract and stuff on
1:32:51
that. There's some things that are gonna come up. There are going to
1:32:54
be legitimate discussions between Red and Neil about how that looks. Yeah, yeah,
1:32:59
but he's your coach moving there needs to be something handled there. Last
1:33:02
one last call. I love the Charles Wesley Godwin Podcast. I saw him
1:33:09
in January of twenty twenty. He was opening for Ward Davis. After his
1:33:15
set came out, he came out to watch the show. He was standing
1:33:18
by himself, so I introduced myself asked him if I could buy him a
1:33:20
beer. He smiled and said that would be great. Little did I know
1:33:26
that years later he would become my favorite country singer. I wish I had
1:33:29
bought him more than one beer to thank him for the hours of happiness he
1:33:32
would be providing me through his music. Maybe I'll run into him in Morgantown
1:33:36
one day and I can buy him a Kercha veil. I attached a brilliant
1:33:41
rendition on Sundown. He performed that night. Thanks for the great show,
1:33:45
Scott in Stafford. So we did get that. But the video wouldn't play.
1:33:50
Seems almost I was almost like a line out of American Pie. But
1:33:54
the music wouldn't play. Seems like that my absence and created a great opportunity.
1:34:00
It seems like you you actually went up a click. That was a
1:34:05
That was a great get. That was a great get. He was really
1:34:10
good, great story. Yeah, it's you should go back and listen back
1:34:15
to Wheeling, you know, just his story was unbelievable. His story about
1:34:20
how he came up with his talking points for the team when he went over
1:34:24
to talk the team. We're really interesting as well. It's a great episode.
1:34:29
All right. So Thursday, we're back in here. We're doing our
1:34:33
preview for West Virginia and Oklahoma. By then the basketball team will have played
1:34:40
its first game they go to this week. They have Monmouth King Rice coming
1:34:45
in on Friday, of course, and uh they also the and off we
1:34:49
go here. Yeah, see what you got. That's all you can do.
1:34:56
All you can do is see what you got. I know they're gonna
1:34:59
bust it. I know they're going to play hard. Hopefully the pieces will
1:35:03
come together. That's all. Get some pieces. I don't know if you
1:35:08
have enough, but you've got some pieces. Edwards, Oh absolutely, Sleazinski
1:35:12
look good. All freeing of a I think is going to be fun to
1:35:14
watch it. I think Jojo Harris could could have as could break out absolutely
1:35:18
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