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- 0:09Speaker 1: Welcome one and all the music has begun, and that
- 0:13Speaker 1: means it's time for Three Guys Before the Game. This
- 0:16Speaker 1: is episode number six hundred and seventy eight. It is
- 0:20Speaker 1: a preview edition of West Virginia's final regular season football
- 0:25Speaker 1: game against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech and look Ahead.
- 0:29Speaker 1: This coming Sunday, the Mountaineer basketball team returns to action
- 0:32Speaker 1: after having a week off. They will take on Mercyhurst
- 0:37Speaker 1: and oh Mercy. Look, we've got all three of the
- 0:39Speaker 1: guys in now. We're starting to stack shows together. Yeah,
- 0:44Speaker 1: you guys notice that.
- 0:45Speaker 2: On a roll, a bunch of them lately.
- 0:47Speaker 1: What do you mean by it?
- 0:48Speaker 3: Just like it feels like every thirty six hours we're
- 0:50Speaker 3: popping a show.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I mean, people want people want stuff, People want stuff.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Busy time it is, but it's gonna get quieter, sort
- 0:57Speaker 1: of different, quiet coming up. We'll get it to that.
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- 2:08Speaker 1: do this thing. I'm a guessing. I'm a guessing that
- 2:13Speaker 1: there's gonna be some people driving Thanksgiving travel while they're
- 2:17Speaker 1: listening to this episode of the show.
- 2:19Speaker 3: Probably starts this afternoon. I'm probably now listening to his live.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. Here's the deal, folks. If in
- 2:28Speaker 1: all we were gonna come, we're gonna come to you.
- 2:31Speaker 1: In total honesty today hoppy, I'd say he's going about
- 2:36Speaker 1: sixty percent. Maybe the senator without medications probably operating at
- 2:43Speaker 1: about sixty five, but with with medication he improves about
- 2:47Speaker 1: ninety ninety five.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Give me the ball.
- 2:49Speaker 1: We're fine, which means that I'm only due. I mean,
- 2:52Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time, just kind of.
- 2:54Speaker 2: I took the COVID test.
- 2:56Speaker 1: And you were good.
- 2:56Speaker 2: He brought it, brought it. We believe you.
- 2:59Speaker 1: You told us twice before we started recording that you
- 3:02Speaker 1: were negative, and then you'll bring the thing with you.
- 3:05Speaker 1: So there it is. Kerchival either doesn't have COVID or
- 3:07Speaker 1: he's pregnant, one of the one of the two.
- 3:13Speaker 3: There's probably that damn monkey he had on his head.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Gig e exactly exactly, I mean signed until the monkey
- 3:18Speaker 3: came along.
- 3:19Speaker 1: You sound terrible.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Either that or I or I gave the monkey something.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Maybe monkey box ojebox is a thing.
- 3:25Speaker 1: By the way, what does that mean.
- 3:27Speaker 2: It's a thing. I'm not sure what it is.
- 3:29Speaker 1: But oh monkey, pock monkey posh, I fuck you met monkey.
- 3:31Speaker 2: But I think the monkey pox is only sexually transmitted.
- 3:35Speaker 2: So nothing like that happened over.
- 3:36Speaker 1: There for a little bit more than we needed to know.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Now we move on to further we get into Texas Tech,
- 3:40Speaker 1: and now I got little kids listening while they're driving
- 3:42Speaker 1: the Grandma's for Thanksgiving and they're asking, Mom, what's monkey sex?
- 3:46Speaker 1: I mean, we don't need that.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Sorry, just trying to bring it all together.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Kergieval's loaded it. Here we go on Saturday afternoon high noon.
- 3:54Speaker 1: West Virginia will close out the regular season in football
- 3:57Speaker 1: the end of season one four the Mountaineers and V
- 4:01Speaker 1: two of Rich Rodriguez. And let's be honest, you couldn't
- 4:05Speaker 1: have picked a worst opponent, right, I mean, you got
- 4:08Speaker 1: a team that's number five in the nation with a
- 4:10Speaker 1: single loss. They have to continue to win to keep
- 4:14Speaker 1: in front of them all of their goals Big twelve
- 4:16Speaker 1: championship and obviously the best spot they can get in
- 4:20Speaker 1: the upcoming college football playoffs, so they have reason to play. Meanwhile,
- 4:25Speaker 1: let's face it, West Virginia, no ballgame. You're not going
- 4:30Speaker 1: to get a ball game, win or lose. So that
- 4:33Speaker 1: makes it extremely difficult, Like you can't pick a worst
- 4:37Speaker 1: case scenario than this one. However, that is the job,
- 4:42Speaker 1: that is the mission of this coaching staff and for
- 4:46Speaker 1: the players to try to go out there and absolutely
- 4:50Speaker 1: give it one last great effort and then you just
- 4:54Speaker 1: kind of see where you are. Why'd you give me
- 4:59Speaker 1: the head week.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Well, that's one gonna be one of my obvious observations.
- 5:03Speaker 1: And bye, stand by, stand by my thoughts.
- 5:05Speaker 4: That sound brand new, but the things we already knew
- 5:10Speaker 4: gotta bomb ready.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Heaven knows, I take it quick.
- 5:16Speaker 1: And you'll start coughing toovation. There he is, Ladies and gentlemen,
- 5:27Speaker 1: Hoppy curgilal. You know what else we need for that song?
- 5:29Speaker 1: We need a graphic. We need a cartoon animated graphic.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Uh so someone created that song for us. His name
- 5:35Speaker 1: is Gary Mertens. So anyone out there that wants to
- 5:38Speaker 1: do an AI do an AI graphic of Hoppy that
- 5:41Speaker 1: says Hoppy's obvious observations. We'll put that up on our
- 5:45Speaker 1: TV feed of video feed of this program. I'd like that,
- 5:49Speaker 1: just to send it to the text line, thank you
- 5:51Speaker 1: got it.
- 5:52Speaker 2: So, as you mentioned, Brad, don't like the situation, don't
- 5:56Speaker 2: like anything about the situation. Text on the verge of
- 6:00Speaker 2: playing in the Big twelve Championship game. And I think
- 6:03Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong. I think if Arizona State
- 6:05Speaker 2: loses to Arizona Tech is in. I believe that is.
- 6:10Speaker 2: But if Arizona State beats Arizona, then Texas Tech needs
- 6:14Speaker 2: to win. I think I'm right about that. Anybody have
- 6:16Speaker 2: any confirmation on that.
- 6:18Speaker 1: I saw the scenarios earlier today. I'm going to effort
- 6:21Speaker 1: here to find those and then I'll get back to you.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Okay, But I think that's what it is. So Brad,
- 6:27Speaker 2: Texas Tech has motivation in this game. Number One, the
- 6:30Speaker 2: week off and both teams had a week off, and
- 6:33Speaker 2: the week off probably helped Texas Tech more than West
- 6:36Speaker 2: Virginia because the week off for West Virginia is like,
- 6:39Speaker 2: why why do we have this week off? Now? It's
- 6:42Speaker 2: bad time. For Texas Tech, they needed it because they're
- 6:45Speaker 2: banged up and Baron Morton was banged up, so he's
- 6:47Speaker 2: had another week to get to get better. So West
- 6:52Speaker 2: Virginia coming off of loss, and this question who wanted
- 6:57Speaker 2: to spend another two weeks practicing after a long season
- 7:00Speaker 2: and who wants to be there? Who wants to be there?
- 7:02Speaker 2: Starting now you're you're essentially a professional athlete. You would
- 7:05Speaker 2: think you'll get a great effort. And en Rich Rodriguez
- 7:07Speaker 2: and his staff did a great job, Brad of when
- 7:10Speaker 2: they were really slumping in the middle of season of
- 7:12Speaker 2: getting them to play hard. They so, can you get
- 7:15Speaker 2: one more game out of these guys? It's going to
- 7:18Speaker 2: be hard, crowd's gonna be down, holiday weekend, students are out,
- 7:23Speaker 2: rain should be gone, it's going to be cold. And
- 7:27Speaker 2: again encourage that WV has been playing hard every game
- 7:29Speaker 2: since the mid season slump. But they can they muster
- 7:33Speaker 2: And I have another point, but Brad, can they muster
- 7:35Speaker 2: the kind of energy one more game against a really,
- 7:37Speaker 2: really good team?
- 7:38Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 7:38Speaker 3: I think that's the thing. I mean, you're you're right
- 7:40Speaker 3: in all the situational parts of this. It's a it's
- 7:42Speaker 3: a difficult matchup. It's the most difficult part of the
- 7:44Speaker 3: matchup is the other team is really good. Yeah, we're
- 7:46Speaker 3: gonna get into some of this, but Tech is I
- 7:48Speaker 3: give them a lot of credit. They've done a tremendous job.
- 7:51Speaker 3: It's not just the money spent. They went out and
- 7:53Speaker 3: got guys. I mean they're they're really good and have
- 7:56Speaker 3: flipped their identity guys. I don't want to get into this,
- 7:58Speaker 3: but normally you come in here about the Texas Tech
- 8:01Speaker 3: offense and the defense has been non existent for a
- 8:03Speaker 3: decade and a half. It's completely flipped in this case.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Their offense has been okay, not elite, their defense has
- 8:10Speaker 3: been just absolute lights out.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Yeah. So one other point, the most significant individual associated
- 8:17Speaker 2: with Texas Tech sports will not be in uniform Saturday,
- 8:22Speaker 2: will not be coaching in a game Saturday. Probably will
- 8:25Speaker 2: be here and you know, watching the game. But it's
- 8:27Speaker 2: Cody Campbell. Cody Campbell is a Texas Tech colum. He
- 8:31Speaker 2: was a four year starter on the offensive line from
- 8:33Speaker 2: two thousand and one to two thousand and four, one
- 8:35Speaker 2: year in the NFL, and he put his master's degree
- 8:38Speaker 2: to finance to work and he made money. He was
- 8:41Speaker 2: very successful in the oil and gas business. Understatement, Yeah
- 8:46Speaker 2: successful segment. Yeah. So he's built and sold a couple
- 8:50Speaker 2: of companies. I mean he's a billionaire. He's a legitimate billionaire.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, well you mean there's some illegitimate billionaires wandering
- 8:57Speaker 1: around the streets.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I'm just saying that he's got You can be you
- 9:02Speaker 2: can be maybe a billionaire if it's just all in assets,
- 9:05Speaker 2: but you got a bunch of bills to pay or whatever.
- 9:07Speaker 2: But I mean he I think he's.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Got cash got he got cash. He got cash, he
- 9:11Speaker 1: got cash.
- 9:12Speaker 2: And his wealth has given him power and influence of
- 9:16Speaker 2: the Texas Tech program. He was appointed to the Board
- 9:19Speaker 2: of Governors in two thousand and twenty one and then
- 9:22Speaker 2: elected Chairman of the Board of Governors, and he has
- 9:25Speaker 2: put forth millions to the NIL program at Texas Tech.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Texas Tech spent the second most NIL money of any
- 9:34Speaker 2: school for this season, second only to Ohio State in football,
- 9:38Speaker 2: something like twenty eight million, whor it's believed that they spent,
- 9:41Speaker 2: which is we don't have exact numbers. That's probably almost
- 9:46Speaker 2: close to closer to three than two three times what
- 9:49Speaker 2: West Virginia spent, very close to that. Baron Morton received
- 9:54Speaker 2: an estimated one million as a quarterback in basketball. Brad
- 9:59Speaker 2: JT Topping, how'd he do well? Chris Anderson? Yeah, I
- 10:04Speaker 2: mean Topping like, I can't go to the NBA. I
- 10:06Speaker 2: can make more money at Texas.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Ten second, he's a second round possibility.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Significantly more money, four mill four mills. What he got
- 10:15Speaker 2: na Jerry Najari Najari Kennedy softball player best softball player
- 10:21Speaker 2: in the country, played at Stanford. She did a seven figure.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Deal one million American.
- 10:26Speaker 2: Is that what it went to play for the softball
- 10:29Speaker 2: to let.
- 10:29Speaker 3: Them led him to the World Championship Series.
- 10:31Speaker 2: So now all this was done, this was I think
- 10:35Speaker 2: is interesting all this was done before July one, because
- 10:38Speaker 2: the July one things changed for two reasons. One is
- 10:41Speaker 2: now supposedly everybody's going to be equal with the with
- 10:45Speaker 2: the revenue sharing of about twenty twenty one million dollars.
- 10:48Speaker 2: And then second of all, if you do nil, it's
- 10:51Speaker 2: supposed to pass muster and say him cutting a commercial
- 10:54Speaker 2: is not worth a megion dollars now? So will that
- 10:58Speaker 2: hold up? And will will Texas Tech next year be
- 11:03Speaker 2: able to do the same kinds of things this year
- 11:06Speaker 2: or Tony Will Will Dulote I think is moniforing it,
- 11:11Speaker 2: Will dut step up and say no, you can't, this
- 11:14Speaker 2: is out of whack right, And I don't know what's
- 11:16Speaker 2: going to happen there.
- 11:17Speaker 1: Well, it's really super interesting because while Cody Campbell has
- 11:22Speaker 1: you know, been the catalyst for their expenditures in getting
- 11:26Speaker 1: these athletes, he also realizes and has publicly come out
- 11:31Speaker 1: on multiple occasions saying like this is not sustainable going forward.
- 11:36Speaker 1: And he had a television commercial that aired several weeks back,
- 11:40Speaker 1: and some of the networks wouldn't even run it because
- 11:42Speaker 1: basically he was trying to say, hey, Conference commissioners, you
- 11:46Speaker 1: guys are all on the take. It's all being run
- 11:48Speaker 1: by television. We need to change it. So it's a
- 11:50Speaker 1: great paradox from yeah, he's funding it, but he's going like,
- 11:53Speaker 1: I don't want to keep doing this. Let's get some
- 11:55Speaker 1: stability to this thing. That's what's really interesting. It's testing,
- 11:58Speaker 1: it's estimately. Yeah, I think you're right, Tony.
- 12:00Speaker 3: They also made some news this week too because they
- 12:02Speaker 3: came out and said they're not signing the end the
- 12:04Speaker 3: agreement that everybody else is supposed to sign to play.
- 12:06Speaker 2: By the rules.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Correct, They just signed upsettles that right.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Yeah, so what's going to happen there? Yeah, So supposedly
- 12:13Speaker 2: Texas Tech athletes across the board are earning some fifty
- 12:17Speaker 2: five million dollars this year, and what we talk about
- 12:23Speaker 2: all the time, we can say, wait a minute, going
- 12:26Speaker 2: next year, that's not that's not the rules, right, They
- 12:30Speaker 2: might say, I got your rules right here, that's where
- 12:33Speaker 2: it's going. So I just think that Texas Tech is
- 12:39Speaker 2: that's a real significant program in this new world that
- 12:47Speaker 2: sets an maybe sets an example of what you should do,
- 12:50Speaker 2: or they're gonna get or they're gonna get busted.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Or wow, they're not getting busted.
- 12:54Speaker 2: By the way, it helps. Here's the other thing. Helps
- 12:56Speaker 2: to have billionaires.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Yeah a billionaires. Billionaires are pretty good. Yeah, billionaires. It's
- 13:02Speaker 1: one of these weird deals that if you're Texas Tech
- 13:07Speaker 1: and you're a Texas Tech fan, like you're loving this, like, hey,
- 13:11Speaker 1: we have struggled through the years. We have not won
- 13:14Speaker 1: the league championship. We've struggled, and so like if it's
- 13:17Speaker 1: you that are doing it, like you're high five in yourself,
- 13:20Speaker 1: you're just going. But on the outside, we kind of
- 13:22Speaker 1: sit here and everyone else kind of sits here and
- 13:24Speaker 1: they look at them and go like, like you, that's
- 13:27Speaker 1: not fair. But if it was you, if it was
- 13:28Speaker 1: West Virginia and West Virginia had like four or five
- 13:30Speaker 1: billionaires lined up, I mean we were going like suck.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Man, why don't care? What's fair? Would not go and
- 13:36Speaker 2: you know Rich and just whip your a.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Yeah, And like Rich Rodriguez, like I asked him about
- 13:40Speaker 1: it this week, Like he doesn't whine about it. He
- 13:43Speaker 1: like he commends them. He said like, hey man, that's
- 13:47Speaker 1: awesome they can do that. I wish we could do that.
- 13:50Speaker 1: I wish every you know, I'd like to do it.
- 13:51Speaker 1: I'm not running away from that.
- 13:53Speaker 2: But it if if Texas Tech and schools like that
- 13:57Speaker 2: can continue to do that n I L and not
- 14:02Speaker 2: get called on it or not get you know, toned
- 14:04Speaker 2: down so you're paying too much, then you can't compete.
- 14:08Speaker 3: But what's what's interesting though, is so Texas Tech's become
- 14:11Speaker 3: the poster child for it this year. They just got
- 14:14Speaker 3: into this game. There's some others. Why aren't we directing
- 14:17Speaker 3: this at Ohio State, Ohio State out there doing you
- 14:20Speaker 3: know why? Is Texas Tech the one that everybody says, well,
- 14:23Speaker 3: Texas tex doing Oh what's Ohio State.
- 14:25Speaker 2: Been doing for Tech?
- 14:26Speaker 1: Because Texas? Because Texas Tech hasn't.
- 14:31Speaker 2: I know why.
- 14:31Speaker 3: I think that's absolutely outrageous. Go after the freaking Texas
- 14:34Speaker 3: Longhorns or Ohio State out there dropping forty million or
- 14:37Speaker 3: whatever the hell they did. Yeah, no, far be it
- 14:40Speaker 3: for me to defend Texas Tech. But with all due respect,
- 14:43Speaker 3: should be other school's taking eat.
- 14:45Speaker 2: But what a what a fascinating story about Cody Campbell? No, God,
- 14:48Speaker 2: I just head tremendous success, and there's he's in Well,
- 14:53Speaker 2: like you said, Tony, I watched that commercial.
- 14:55Speaker 1: And he's gone to Congress and multiple times he's kind
- 14:58Speaker 1: of saying, hey, we need help here. We need a
- 14:59Speaker 1: gover namental rule that will put some some template down
- 15:04Speaker 1: so that this thing can become more even.
- 15:05Speaker 3: Well, he's also big on the consolidating the media rights, yes,
- 15:09Speaker 3: which is an interesting take that'll that'll be tough to
- 15:11Speaker 3: get traction because the Big ten and the SEC will
- 15:13Speaker 3: balk at that all the way along the line. But
- 15:16Speaker 3: it's an interesting discussion. The other leagues, right NBA, all
- 15:19Speaker 3: the leagues consolidate their rights and it's better for everybody.
- 15:22Speaker 3: I mean, makes a point there.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Now, didn't former WV president Gordon Gee did he have
- 15:27Speaker 1: won out this week? Opined on that he did come out,
- 15:29Speaker 1: and so he did come out and he wrote a
- 15:31Speaker 1: he wrote an op ed piece that basically said the
- 15:35Speaker 1: same thing. Put everything together, then go to the market
- 15:38Speaker 1: and say what's it worth? And the estimate is, you know,
- 15:42Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars more could be generated if
- 15:46Speaker 1: all of the leagues came together and cut one TV deal.
- 15:48Speaker 2: But unfortunately you have the power of the sec in
- 15:52Speaker 2: the Big ten, saying right, we're good.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, that's what I got? Well, you mean is
- 15:58Speaker 1: that it?
- 15:59Speaker 2: Yeah? Is that? Okay? That was something.
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- 17:31Speaker 1: every need when it comes to an event. Hobby the Yeah,
- 17:36Speaker 1: some of the things you said weren't obvious. Really, yeah,
- 17:39Speaker 1: a couple of things. What do you think, Brud I
- 17:43Speaker 1: thought he went over it in pretty deep. He went
- 17:44Speaker 1: pretty deep. Let's stay with Let's let's try to keep
- 17:47Speaker 1: your stuff obvious. Let's let's let's follow the task copy.
- 17:52Speaker 1: I don't I don't know exactly why you needed to.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Well some of the I mean some of the stuff
- 17:57Speaker 2: I don't want to get up in brand stuff either.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Well, you tried in the past and that did not
- 18:01Speaker 1: go win. Let's do spreads on stats and breaking down
- 18:06Speaker 1: some numbers. You know what they're gonna tell us Texas
- 18:09Speaker 1: Tech is like, really good?
- 18:11Speaker 2: Can he find can Brad find an avenue? Can he
- 18:15Speaker 2: find an avenue?
- 18:17Speaker 1: Yeah? Probably food poisoning, COVID breakout. Honestly, I like the scenario.
- 18:27Speaker 1: Take a freaking swing. That's what sports are made about. Man, Hey,
- 18:31Speaker 1: wasn't it that all that long ago that a West
- 18:32Speaker 1: Virginia women's basketball team went out with five players travelling
- 18:35Speaker 1: at halftime?
- 18:36Speaker 2: No, that can't happen. You can't win a game.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Against the nationally rated team. Didn't that just happen?
- 18:41Speaker 2: Huh Green, that's right?
- 18:44Speaker 1: So yeah, man, you take your swing. That's sports. Any
- 18:47Speaker 1: anything can happen. Anything can happen. That's why we keep watching.
- 18:51Speaker 2: Okay.
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- 19:13Speaker 3: Listen, you don't have to reiterate to this fan base
- 19:15Speaker 3: that anything can happen based on what happened final week
- 19:18Speaker 3: of the regular season.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Yeah, decade and a half ago.
- 19:21Speaker 3: Anything can happen, solid point line up. Yeah, they come
- 19:25Speaker 3: in here, look past you. They're flat.
- 19:28Speaker 2: They don't want to be here.
- 19:28Speaker 3: They think they've got to win a couple turnovers. They're
- 19:32Speaker 3: in some trouble.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Curtis Jones running for one hundred and ninety five,
- 19:38Speaker 1: four scores.
- 19:39Speaker 3: Eighteen carries, one to ninety five. Curtis Jones Heisman campaign
- 19:43Speaker 3: continues in earnest.
- 19:46Speaker 1: You know, Rich is talking more and more about two
- 19:49Speaker 1: way players starting next year, really because they will go
- 19:53Speaker 1: down to one hundred and five players. And he said,
- 19:57Speaker 1: I'm looking at guys now, like linebackers that can be
- 19:59Speaker 1: full back, and the Curtis Joneses of the world, they're
- 20:02Speaker 1: they're they're looking at that.
- 20:04Speaker 3: He's looked good running the ball. That I mean that
- 20:07Speaker 3: I don't know why he wouldn't play both ways.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you think so, I asked him, he
- 20:12Speaker 1: thinks Curtis going forward will play more defense than offense. Sure,
- 20:15Speaker 1: you're gonna get bigger backs, sure, but he's been effective.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Do you or Harbard out which now, I mean, what
- 20:21Speaker 1: do we do?
- 20:22Speaker 2: It is? It is remarkable.
- 20:23Speaker 3: I know we've said that every week of this year,
- 20:25Speaker 3: but we'll look back and that will be the story
- 20:27Speaker 3: of this season. The injury situation is just remarkable. Guys,
- 20:31Speaker 3: we're down a Sincere Bowers and a linebacker as your
- 20:34Speaker 3: backup running back.
- 20:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go find you. Go ahead and do
- 20:40Speaker 1: your thing. I'm gonna go find my first football chart
- 20:44Speaker 1: of the season this year and look at the look
- 20:47Speaker 1: at the depth. We'll start counting players.
- 20:49Speaker 3: Out here on quarterback, four and running back. I think
- 20:52Speaker 3: five some guys won't even be on your chart. Let's
- 20:54Speaker 3: let's talk about this Texas Tech defense, because I think
- 20:56Speaker 3: that's the pretty remarkable story of this As I mentioned earlier,
- 21:00Speaker 3: the first part of that story, hopy, is just that
- 21:02Speaker 3: it's Texas Tech has a defense, let alone maybe a
- 21:06Speaker 3: generationally good defense, and that's how they've been winning games.
- 21:10Speaker 3: It has not been the offense driving them. Pro Football
- 21:12Speaker 3: Focus charts five different defensive categories. Texas Tech is number
- 21:17Speaker 3: one in the Big twelve in each of those categories.
- 21:19Speaker 1: So again, lost the ball.
- 21:21Speaker 3: PFF charts five different defensive categories. Tech is number one
- 21:25Speaker 3: in the Big twelve in each of those categories. Now
- 21:28Speaker 3: listen to this buckle in here because I'm gonna read
- 21:30Speaker 3: off some numbers, but this was pretty amazing. Texas Tech
- 21:33Speaker 3: Defense is number one nationally in opponent available yards. I've
- 21:37Speaker 3: used that a bunch this year. They give up only
- 21:40Speaker 3: twenty eight percent of the available yards to the opposing
- 21:43Speaker 3: offense that you can stop right there. That's an unbelievable number.
- 21:47Speaker 3: So teams are having trouble moving the ball against them
- 21:50Speaker 3: at all. Number two nationally and early down EPA per
- 21:53Speaker 3: play number four nationally in EPA per rush, number six
- 21:58Speaker 3: nationally in EPA per pass, So teams have struggled to
- 22:02Speaker 3: run and they've struggled to pass.
- 22:03Speaker 1: That's a problem, not a good combination.
- 22:06Speaker 3: Number twenty three nationally in third down success, number thirty
- 22:10Speaker 3: nationally in average third down distance they're holding. So look
- 22:14Speaker 3: at what I just said there, struggle in early down
- 22:17Speaker 3: EPA and then because you're struggling early downs puts you
- 22:21Speaker 3: behind the sticks. That's seven point four yards to go.
- 22:24Speaker 3: Therefore your top twenty five in third down conversion rate
- 22:27Speaker 3: for your opponent. It is all. It's just amazing. So
- 22:30Speaker 3: what I mean categories, they just give you one, two, three,
- 22:32Speaker 3: six categories where your top thirty nationally defensively. So the biggest,
- 22:37Speaker 3: the biggest question, or the starting point question if you
- 22:40Speaker 3: have any chance to be in this game, is because
- 22:42Speaker 3: West Virginia's ability to hold up front offensive line against
- 22:46Speaker 3: their defensive line. That's the massive challenge, and that could
- 22:49Speaker 3: have gone under your obvious observations. This is a Texas
- 22:52Speaker 3: Tech team that went into Utah and dominated that ute front.
- 22:56Speaker 3: That Utah front is really good, multiple pros, multiple first
- 22:58Speaker 3: round guys up there. Tech was outstanding just with it's
- 23:01Speaker 3: front four. I think that's what's amazing about them. They
- 23:04Speaker 3: don't have to bring a lot of pressure from other
- 23:05Speaker 3: people that up that front four is getting it. Their
- 23:08Speaker 3: defense is in the ninety ninth percentile and havoc percentage,
- 23:12Speaker 3: so they come and get you. This West Virginia offensive
- 23:15Speaker 3: line that has struggled at times, has a heck of
- 23:17Speaker 3: a challenge in front of it. The Tech defense faces
- 23:20Speaker 3: an average of just twenty eight rushing plays per game,
- 23:23Speaker 3: seventh nationally. Why is that most teams are having trouble
- 23:27Speaker 3: running the ball at all, and or you're behind, you
- 23:29Speaker 3: gotta throw it thirty nine pass attempts per game on
- 23:32Speaker 3: average they're facing that's a lot, and that's part of
- 23:36Speaker 3: why the havoc is so big. They turn you into
- 23:38Speaker 3: a passing team, then they then they come get you
- 23:41Speaker 3: and it all flows downhill.
- 23:43Speaker 1: From when they throw the ground meat hoppy and the
- 23:45Speaker 1: Pirana tech y.
- 23:48Speaker 3: David Bailey's a guy that got a lot of publicity
- 23:51Speaker 3: for the the Nideal nil deal he signed coming to
- 23:54Speaker 3: Texas Tech, and he's been as as advertised. I think
- 23:57Speaker 3: that's what we've said multiple times. Where Texas went out
- 23:59Speaker 3: and whatever they did, forty million dollars whatever the report is,
- 24:03Speaker 3: and they've yacked up a couple games, right, jacked to
- 24:05Speaker 3: a Florida team that got rid of its coach and
- 24:07Speaker 3: they're sitting at eight and three. Texas Tech has not
- 24:09Speaker 3: done that. It's just handled its business and has been
- 24:11Speaker 3: as advertised except for the Arizona stake game. Bailey has
- 24:15Speaker 3: thirteen sacks on the year. Here's the number that really
- 24:18Speaker 3: jumped though. He's got thirteen sacks good, that's not the
- 24:23Speaker 3: number to The number is seventy one total pressures by him.
- 24:28Speaker 3: He Bailey has seventy one. To put that in context
- 24:31Speaker 3: for you, West Virginia has been pretty good at rushing
- 24:34Speaker 3: the passer this year. When we've seen Wes Virginia play well,
- 24:37Speaker 3: we generally come in the recap and say what they
- 24:39Speaker 3: got after the passer made the passer made the quarterback struggle.
- 24:42Speaker 3: West Virginia's leading player with pressures has twenty three how
- 24:47Speaker 3: many seventy one? West Virginia has nine guys with at
- 24:52Speaker 3: least ten pressures on the season, so it's multiple different guys.
- 24:56Speaker 3: Tech only has five with more than ten, but they
- 24:59Speaker 3: have four with more than twenty three. So their top
- 25:03Speaker 3: end guys, they're just bringing their front line guys and
- 25:06Speaker 3: saying we're coming to get you.
- 25:08Speaker 2: And Brad, if you can get pressure with four, what's
- 25:10Speaker 2: that do when you're trying to pass.
- 25:11Speaker 3: Well, then you get trouble throwing the ball into coverage, right,
- 25:13Speaker 3: And so that's why all those numbers have been so good.
- 25:15Speaker 3: So before you go anywhere else, I'm going to go
- 25:17Speaker 3: to a couple different spots. But that Western Deal offensive
- 25:20Speaker 3: line again obvious observation, is going to have to have
- 25:22Speaker 3: its best game of the year if you have any
- 25:24Speaker 3: chance of hanging around and staying in there with this
- 25:27Speaker 3: Texas Tech team. Flip over to the other side. Offensively,
- 25:30Speaker 3: they have a rush offense that's just one thirteenth nationally
- 25:34Speaker 3: in EPA per rush, and they're going against a West
- 25:37Speaker 3: Virginia defense that's fifteenth in the nation in that category.
- 25:41Speaker 3: So if you go back to the blueprint that Arizona
- 25:43Speaker 3: State put forth, it was to lock up their offense,
- 25:47Speaker 3: lock up the Texas Tech offense, and then try and
- 25:50Speaker 3: scratch out some points. Arizona State had four field goals
- 25:52Speaker 3: in that game. So is that the formula there? Can
- 25:55Speaker 3: you hold their offense in check, not give up big
- 25:58Speaker 3: explosive plays, limit their run which you've been good at,
- 26:01Speaker 3: and then hope that you get some short fields, you
- 26:03Speaker 3: get a turnover or two that lead to some points.
- 26:07Speaker 3: Their offense, Texas Techas offense on third down has struggled.
- 26:10Speaker 3: It's just one hundred and twenty seventh nationally in third
- 26:13Speaker 3: down distance.
- 26:14Speaker 1: It is average. You wanted, you wanted, you wanted, you
- 26:17Speaker 1: wanted a light, and you wanted a shining light. This
- 26:19Speaker 1: is it.
- 26:20Speaker 3: It's averaged nearly eight yards to go on third down
- 26:23Speaker 3: and it gets a West Virginia defense Guys, that is
- 26:26Speaker 3: sixth nationally enforcing opponents to have to go eight yards
- 26:30Speaker 3: per third down. So that matches up a good on good.
- 26:33Speaker 3: Can you keep that in that area? Texas Tech has
- 26:36Speaker 3: struggled with their distance to go. West Virginia has kept
- 26:38Speaker 3: opponents in third and long. Do you have a chance
- 26:41Speaker 3: right there?
- 26:42Speaker 2: Yeah, just that that's that's something that gives you a
- 26:47Speaker 2: little bit of hope. But they're averaging what forty points
- 26:50Speaker 2: a game, forty four points a game, something like that,
- 26:52Speaker 2: So they're getting it done even though they got long
- 26:55Speaker 2: third downs that they're not converting.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Right, they're just fifty ninth nationally in passing success rate.
- 27:00Speaker 3: They've been pretty explosive though, seventy six nationally inexplosive play
- 27:05Speaker 3: percentage through the air. So yeah, listen, they're really good.
- 27:08Speaker 3: I mean they're really good. So building a case for
- 27:10Speaker 3: West Virginia given what the numbers have said all season
- 27:13Speaker 3: is difficult. But Arizona State did that. That's what you do.
- 27:17Speaker 3: Limit their offense, get a turnover too, and see if
- 27:20Speaker 3: you can make something happen. You mentioned Baron Morton. He's
- 27:23Speaker 3: been he's been really good. Seventeen touchdowns, four interceptions. Now,
- 27:29Speaker 3: usually when we see those numbers and they're heavy touchdown
- 27:34Speaker 3: very few interceptions. We've had a bunch this year where
- 27:36Speaker 3: we've said what there's some underlying numbers there that might
- 27:40Speaker 3: be uh yeah, might show you a little more. This
- 27:43Speaker 3: isn't as glaring as some of these others, so I
- 27:46Speaker 3: don't know that I'm ready to say, like we have
- 27:48Speaker 3: in the other worthy a turnovers coming, but they're not
- 27:51Speaker 3: quite as gaudy when you look underneath the hood. Nine
- 27:55Speaker 3: turnover worthy plays with just four interceptions, So that tells
- 27:58Speaker 3: you you might be due for one or two in there.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Maybe you could throw it here a little bit. So
- 28:02Speaker 3: limit the run, make Morton throw it. Maybe you can
- 28:05Speaker 3: come up with an interception or two. In his career,
- 28:09Speaker 3: Baron Morton sixty six touchdowns, twenty six interceptions.
- 28:14Speaker 2: However, oh okay.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Forty eight big time throws forty eight turnover worthy place
- 28:21Speaker 3: fifty to fifty, so not totally inconceivable. Again, limit their run,
- 28:26Speaker 3: make Morton throw it, don't give up the explosive, get
- 28:29Speaker 3: some pressure, get them in long third down, come up
- 28:32Speaker 3: with a pick or two. You got to be in
- 28:33Speaker 3: good field position when you get the picks. Try and
- 28:36Speaker 3: scrabble out some field goals right there. Make it a
- 28:38Speaker 3: little bit difficult there and just hang around, hang around
- 28:41Speaker 3: with them. That would be the area in which to
- 28:43Speaker 3: do it. We mentioned this is a big underdog role
- 28:46Speaker 3: for West Virginia twenty three and a half on DraftKings.
- 28:48Speaker 3: As we record, haven't seen this very often for a
- 28:50Speaker 3: West Virginia program. So largest underdog role since twenty nineteen
- 28:54Speaker 3: when you were a thirty two point dog against Oklahoma
- 28:58Speaker 3: one of the games. This has only happened five previous
- 29:00Speaker 3: time since two thousand and one where you've been this
- 29:02Speaker 3: big of an underdog. But you know what, one of
- 29:05Speaker 3: them was boys. And the only time you've covered the
- 29:08Speaker 3: number with a number this big two thousand and three Miami,
- 29:13Speaker 3: when you were a big dog down at their place,
- 29:16Speaker 3: down at their place. I remember kind of a famous game.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Yeah if you remember, is that cue?
- 29:20Speaker 3: Yeah, Kellen Winslow play played our ass off down West
- 29:23Speaker 3: Virginia was right there, and then ultimately after that it
- 29:26Speaker 3: led to them taking off. So again that didn't turn
- 29:29Speaker 3: out to a win. It was really close to being
- 29:30Speaker 3: a win. But it's not a situation West Virginia has
- 29:33Speaker 3: found itself in very often. So there are some numbers.
- 29:37Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a couple of things. Here's I
- 29:38Speaker 1: was talking about the size of this defense that they've
- 29:41Speaker 1: built defensive end David Bailey sixty three two fifty. Their
- 29:46Speaker 1: nose guards six four three thirty, defensive tackle six three
- 29:50Speaker 1: three hundred. Their dog back, which is like another end,
- 29:53Speaker 1: probably like a bandit type guy six three two forty.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Let's go to the back of middle linebacker ben Roy
- 30:00Speaker 1: Roberts six three two forty. Middle linebacker Jacob Rodriguez is
- 30:05Speaker 1: one of the best defensive players in the country. Pre
- 30:07Speaker 1: season Big twelve Defensive Play the year six one two
- 30:10Speaker 1: thirty five. Their starback, which is like a safety six
- 30:13Speaker 1: two two thirty five corner six foot one ninety five
- 30:17Speaker 1: strong safety six foot two oh five free safety six
- 30:21Speaker 1: four two twenty. And then lastly, their other corner is
- 30:27Speaker 1: six one one eighty five.
- 30:28Speaker 2: That's incredible.
- 30:29Speaker 1: I mean, it's a prototype size one.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Last number on football, this this jumped out. This isn't
- 30:34Speaker 3: necessarily specific to this game, although it's a it's relevant,
- 30:38Speaker 3: But this this surprised me. Guys, we talk all the
- 30:41Speaker 3: time in college sports about how the margin for error
- 30:44Speaker 3: is so thin and small, the difference between winning and losing.
- 30:47Speaker 3: Hop is is a player two here there? How about
- 30:50Speaker 3: this number that just startled me? Texas Tech is number
- 30:54Speaker 3: two nationally in starting field position. On average, they begin
- 30:59Speaker 3: their drives on their own thirty two that was number
- 31:02Speaker 3: two nationally. West Virginia is one hundred and fifth in
- 31:06Speaker 3: that category. Start point, starting point, but they begin their
- 31:10Speaker 3: drives on the twenty nine three yards. Three yards of
- 31:14Speaker 3: field position takes you from number two nationally to a
- 31:17Speaker 3: bottom thirty team three yards. That was stunning to me.
- 31:23Speaker 3: So we talked field position a lot matters. Where you
- 31:26Speaker 3: start matters with exposive plays or can you drive? That's
- 31:28Speaker 3: where a valuable yards comes in. So I saw that
- 31:31Speaker 3: Texas Tech is number two, and it jumped out that
- 31:33Speaker 3: it was only the thirty two. That's an entire college
- 31:37Speaker 3: football subset in between where you are over three yards.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Rich said, last year at Jacksonville State they were top
- 31:43Speaker 1: five in the nation and starting position, and he said,
- 31:46Speaker 1: we returned two kicks the whole year. Just take touchbacks.
- 31:51Speaker 2: It's amazing.
- 31:51Speaker 3: So talk about small margin in an area, isn't that amazing?
- 31:54Speaker 2: It's like it's like golf, right, the difference between the
- 31:57Speaker 2: top one hundred golfers, Yeah.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Is arrow.
- 32:00Speaker 3: But that particular stat that I thought that was wild.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Here are some here's some scenarios. You were talking about
- 32:05Speaker 1: what has to happen for Texas Tech to clinch Just
- 32:08Speaker 1: a couple of things. BYU clinch is a title game
- 32:11Speaker 1: appearance with a win over UCF probably happens. Or an
- 32:15Speaker 1: Arizona State loss, Texas Tech clinches a spot in the
- 32:20Speaker 1: title game with a win over West Virginia they beat
- 32:22Speaker 1: the Mountaineers they're in. Or an Arizona State loss Arizona
- 32:26Speaker 1: Arizona State is Friday, they play and so and then
- 32:29Speaker 1: there's a bunch of different scenarios. They got some crazy
- 32:32Speaker 1: stuff that goes like here you ready for this. Arizona
- 32:35Speaker 1: State can clinch a berth in the title game with
- 32:38Speaker 1: a win over Arizona, a Texas Tech loss, a Utah loss,
- 32:41Speaker 1: and a BYU win.
- 32:44Speaker 2: So you're saying there's a chance, Say there's.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Saying that there's a chance, saying there's a chance. You
- 32:50Speaker 1: we're gonna do some basketball too.
- 32:51Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to talk that now.
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- 35:01Speaker 1: we've got the Mercy Hurst. It's gonna be a busy
- 35:03Speaker 1: week for West Virginia basketball Sunday, Wednesday Saturday of next week.
- 35:08Speaker 1: You're gonna bang three more off three opportunities.
- 35:12Speaker 3: Wake Forest coming up in Charleston, West Virginia next week.
- 35:15Speaker 1: Pretty good situation on Sunday coming up for the Mountaineers.
- 35:18Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you like the bounce back spot. Jackson
- 35:21Speaker 3: fields hopefully making his return to the lineup for West Virginia,
- 35:24Speaker 3: So it'll be good to get him in their six'.
- 35:26Speaker 3: Nine really, athletic will help further you on the, glass
- 35:30Speaker 3: will help. YOU i think on the offensive glass, too
- 35:32Speaker 3: that's an Area West virginia needs to find a way
- 35:34Speaker 3: to get a few more offensive. Rebounds, defensively will be.
- 35:36Speaker 3: Good can step out and hit a shot or, two
- 35:38Speaker 3: just gives you some more. Depth so excited to See
- 35:40Speaker 3: jackson come back. In people like to watch him play all.
- 35:43Speaker 3: Right mercyhurst quick quick scouting report on. Them they won't play.
- 35:47Speaker 3: Fast they don't do a lot of transition up and.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Down that's usually a good matchup For West. Virginia saw
- 35:53Speaker 3: it Against. Clemson when when you have them for most
- 35:56Speaker 3: of the, game if you're gonna go, slow that plays
- 35:58Speaker 3: right Into West virginia's. Hands so and eye on. That The,
- 36:01Speaker 3: Lakers mercy, Hears lakers have been good on the offensive.
- 36:04Speaker 3: Glass seventeen percent of their points have come off second.
- 36:07Speaker 3: Chances but here's what's. Interesting talked about this last night
- 36:11Speaker 3: On ross's Show. HOPPY a lot of folks panicked after game,
- 36:14Speaker 3: one and we're worried That West virginia winn't rebound. Again
- 36:17Speaker 3: what we always, say just hold, on just let the
- 36:19Speaker 3: things start to. Play there was some missed free throws
- 36:22Speaker 3: that led to a big rebounding gap in game. One
- 36:25Speaker 3: you know Where West virginia sits now in defensive rebounding
- 36:28Speaker 3: is a team you've climbed all the way to number six,
- 36:31Speaker 3: nationally really the sixth best defensive rebounding team in the.
- 36:35Speaker 3: Country so if you're looking for a, matchup Mercy hurst
- 36:38Speaker 3: likes to get second chance, points but you're going against
- 36:40Speaker 3: The West virginia team that has just not given those,
- 36:43Speaker 3: up only gave up two To clemson the other night In.
- 36:46Speaker 3: Charleston a lot of cuts to the baskets to watch
- 36:48Speaker 3: some back doors from Mercy. Hurst they have not shot
- 36:50Speaker 3: it well from. Three have The lakers just thirty one
- 36:53Speaker 3: percent their best spot hoppy if you want to watch
- 36:56Speaker 3: a spot on the, Floor, yes they're forty four percent
- 37:00Speaker 3: from the white right wing, three so keep an eye
- 37:03Speaker 3: on shutting that. Off they've struggled on guarded catch and
- 37:06Speaker 3: shoot threes just twenty six, percent which leads me to
- 37:09Speaker 3: a number that made my jaw drop this.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Morning jaw. Dropper you're into these numbers all the, time
- 37:14Speaker 1: so for one to jaw drop you this by pretty
- 37:16Speaker 1: pretty significant surprise.
- 37:18Speaker 3: Me there's a lot Of we talk regression a, lot, yes,
- 37:24Speaker 3: right both positive and. Negative we thought regression was coming
- 37:28Speaker 3: For xavier the other Night, tony and it just never.
- 37:30Speaker 3: Did never had of thirteen from three in the first.
- 37:32Speaker 3: Half it was reasonable to assume that would cool in the.
- 37:35Speaker 3: Second it did. Not they win eight of. Twelve regression usually.
- 37:37Speaker 3: Happens so far on the young, season, guys teams are
- 37:42Speaker 3: shooting fifty four percent Against West virginia on unguarded catch and. Shoots,
- 37:48Speaker 3: now they haven't had a lot of. Them West virginia's
- 37:50Speaker 3: done a really good job Of they just don't allow
- 37:52Speaker 3: a lot of open on guarded catching. Shoots but when
- 37:55Speaker 3: teams have been getting, that they've been shooting like AN
- 37:58Speaker 3: mba esque fifty four percent Against West. Virginia you might, say,
- 38:01Speaker 3: well would you like some context on that? Hobby is
- 38:03Speaker 3: that going to happen very?
- 38:04Speaker 2: Often?
- 38:05Speaker 3: Yes, well right, Now West virginia is three hundred and
- 38:08Speaker 3: sixty second nationally in opponent points per possession off on
- 38:13Speaker 3: guarded catching, Shoots so it's one of the bottom teams
- 38:15Speaker 3: in the. Country teams are making a lot of these
- 38:17Speaker 3: on guarded. Shots SO i started going back because that
- 38:19Speaker 3: fifty four percent out of like a, lot that feels
- 38:22Speaker 3: like regression is coming. There teams aren't going to continue
- 38:24Speaker 3: to do.
- 38:24Speaker 2: THAT i didn't.
- 38:25Speaker 3: THINK i had to go all the way back as
- 38:29Speaker 3: far as the database would allow me to two thousand and,
- 38:32Speaker 3: six two thousand and, seven AND i still couldn't get
- 38:35Speaker 3: to an opponent shooting fifty four percent from three on
- 38:38Speaker 3: on guarded catching. Shoots the biggest NUMBER i could get
- 38:41Speaker 3: to was forty five percent in that two thousand and
- 38:43Speaker 3: six oh seven. Season so my point is a lot
- 38:46Speaker 3: of that was driven by villan Or. Villanovta xavier hit
- 38:50Speaker 3: a bunch of those on Guarded they didn't get, many
- 38:52Speaker 3: but the ones they got they. Hit that number will
- 38:54Speaker 3: start to come down a little.
- 38:57Speaker 1: Bit is this? All you're just talking specifically threes.
- 39:00Speaker 3: On guarded catching shoot anything unguarded catch and shoot?
- 39:03Speaker 1: Threes, okay, yeah so.
- 39:04Speaker 3: Times a percentage Against West virginia in that niche category
- 39:08Speaker 3: now that we have we have not. SEEN i couldn't
- 39:10Speaker 3: go back any further than seventeen years. Ago nineteen years.
- 39:13Speaker 3: Ago however long that's.
- 39:13Speaker 1: Been, yeah, yeah. Wild you, KNOW i want to see
- 39:17Speaker 1: when regression happens For. XAVIER i guarantee you next, game
- 39:21Speaker 1: they're going to go out. Here they're going to go
- 39:22Speaker 1: out here in next game or, two and you're going
- 39:24Speaker 1: to look at the number and they're going to be
- 39:25Speaker 1: like four for thirty two or four for twenty. Six
- 39:29Speaker 1: they're going to have a crap. Night it's just going to.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Happen that's.
- 39:32Speaker 3: BASKETBALL i just thought that was, wild, though because normally
- 39:36Speaker 3: college basketball is not it's NOT nba shooter. Level LIKE,
- 39:39Speaker 3: nba you leave guys open and more often than not
- 39:41Speaker 3: they're banging. It that just doesn't happen in. College even
- 39:44Speaker 3: when guys are, open they're not hitting at a fifty
- 39:46Speaker 3: four percent. Rate so That's it's just it's a small
- 39:50Speaker 3: sample size And westerda is still only it's five and
- 39:52Speaker 3: two on the. Season it's only had two, losses but
- 39:54Speaker 3: that number should should, drop which gives you some more
- 39:57Speaker 3: opportunities moving. Forward, no that surprised. Me didn't expect.
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- 44:39Speaker 1: hey just want to give the props to all you
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- 44:45Speaker 1: thoughts on how early baseball Coach Steve sabans is willing
- 44:49Speaker 1: to recruit for the. PROGRAM i got a one year
- 44:51Speaker 1: old son Named deacon seems to be primed for a
- 44:54Speaker 1: spot in the pitching. Rotation look at. That look at
- 44:58Speaker 1: that looks like he's coming three quarters there over the,
- 45:01Speaker 1: top good, form, right and then he says also solid
- 45:05Speaker 1: solid field ground ball guy as. Well So deacon it
- 45:09Speaker 1: will send it along to Coach sabans and maybe he
- 45:11Speaker 1: can send a prospective student athlete.
- 45:13Speaker 2: Note see if you can work that left hand a
- 45:15Speaker 2: little bit, more.
- 45:16Speaker 1: Sure gonna be a. Lefty good luck to do a deacon,
- 45:18Speaker 1: There charlie from Mid. LOTHIAN i bet you guys didn't
- 45:22Speaker 1: have two different texts from Mid lothian on your bingo
- 45:25Speaker 1: card on the same podcast last. WEEK i didn't even
- 45:27Speaker 1: realize we did. That we had a couple of Mid.
- 45:29Speaker 1: LOTHIANS i sure hope That jay down there in Mid
- 45:32Speaker 1: lothians taking advantage of those fuel saving. Opportunities at the
- 45:36Speaker 1: Mid Lothian kroger's, question any chance we see the jumbo
- 45:41Speaker 1: package with ten blockers And Curtis jones in the wildcat.
- 45:45Speaker 1: Formation oftentimes people like, say, hey what if you did?
- 45:51Speaker 1: This what if you did? That and then they're kind of,
- 45:53Speaker 1: LIKE i don't think that's NOT i don't think that's
- 45:56Speaker 1: too far off. BOARD i could see that happening in
- 45:59Speaker 1: a short yard is. Situation you've had a couple of
- 46:01Speaker 1: weeks to get ready put a bunch of those big
- 46:03Speaker 1: guys out there and have a direct snap back To Curtis. Jones,
- 46:06Speaker 1: YEAH i could see that happening.
- 46:08Speaker 3: Possible over under seven and a half carries For Curtis jones,
- 46:11Speaker 3: TOMORROW i Mean.
- 46:13Speaker 2: Saturday, Boy, well since we have more injuries back, There
- 46:19Speaker 2: i'm gonna go over. Over maybe Maybe.
- 46:23Speaker 1: I'm gonna go under under seven and a.
- 46:26Speaker 2: Half, RIGHT i don't, KNOW i gotta think about. It
- 46:33Speaker 2: might be.
- 46:33Speaker 1: Over, okay here's my chart in front of me from
- 46:36Speaker 1: the first game of the season Against Robert. Morris this
- 46:39Speaker 1: was the running back. Rotation Jaheim white out for the.
- 46:44Speaker 1: Year Clay ash suffered through a lot of. Injuries he
- 46:48Speaker 1: does return this, weekend but he's had a walking boot
- 46:50Speaker 1: on for the last several Sincere, bowers he's missed games
- 46:54Speaker 1: because of injuries this. Year De Or hubbard now out
- 46:56Speaker 1: for the, season Ty edwards now out for the. Season
- 47:00Speaker 1: Tyler jacklitch has also missed weeks because of. Jury so
- 47:04Speaker 1: if you you shut your self officer or weaks than
- 47:06Speaker 1: none For. Jackolyitch. Yeah so if you add In Curtis,
- 47:10Speaker 1: jones you're at number.
- 47:12Speaker 3: Seven, well hold, on go to eight Because jaden knighton
- 47:15Speaker 3: was really ONE, a ONE b on that. Chart he
- 47:18Speaker 3: never got on the field because of academics he was
- 47:21Speaker 3: he was supposed to play a big.
- 47:22Speaker 1: Role here was my depth. Charted Quarterback game one gives you.
- 47:25Speaker 1: Eight Nico, Markiel Jalen, Henderson Max brown out out AND
- 47:32Speaker 1: i Had Scotty fox at four and Then khalil after.
- 47:35Speaker 1: Him every single one of those guys banged.
- 47:38Speaker 3: And it actually went and reverse That wilkins started Before
- 47:41Speaker 3: fox first. Starts So fox is TECHNICALLY qb four correct
- 47:44Speaker 3: in that.
- 47:44Speaker 1: Situation and, uh wide receiver game week, One Man Man,
- 47:50Speaker 1: Singleton Man man went bye, Bye jade And bray out
- 47:56Speaker 1: for the. Season. Uh and that's. IT i mean pretty
- 47:59Speaker 1: much the rest of those guys of, State Cam, Vaughn Gerard,
- 48:02Speaker 1: Bowie Justin, Smith, Brown Jeff, Weimer Rodney, gallagher And Preston.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Fox so it's been at that running back quarterback, POSITION
- 48:11Speaker 1: i mean tight end you, know bang but. Okay and,
- 48:15Speaker 1: defensively these, GUYS i, mean for the most, part, defensively
- 48:19Speaker 1: you have not had any, massive you, know like jaw
- 48:25Speaker 1: dropping injuries back.
- 48:26Speaker 3: There on the defensive Christ jones had seven carries In
- 48:29Speaker 3: West friny's last game Against Arizona. State hubbard was limited
- 48:33Speaker 3: in that.
- 48:33Speaker 1: Game over this, Week i'm going over revised good good
- 48:37Speaker 1: switch Think joe And Charleston. Wrights he's From, Charleston South.
- 48:42Speaker 1: Carolina high scope Spreads. Hop i'm glad you guys had
- 48:48Speaker 1: the most wonderful time in our. City if only the
- 48:51Speaker 1: games could have gone THE wvu. Way the live show was.
- 48:54Speaker 1: Tremendous hoppy's rant About clemson was hysterical and. True the
- 49:00Speaker 1: trivia questions were challenging but. Fun it truly was fun
- 49:04Speaker 1: for everyone from eight to eighty. Eight it was cool
- 49:08Speaker 1: to Meet wren And warren And. Tony now let's go
- 49:12Speaker 1: shock the nation On. Saturday, Yeah Warren baker was. There
- 49:17Speaker 1: warren was, there drove, down he drove he and his. Sister.
- 49:22Speaker 1: Yeah bake's a hoop. Guy baker go to A, baker
- 49:26Speaker 1: go to. It. Yeah so we had three. MOUNTAINERS i
- 49:28Speaker 1: mentioned we. Met Casey legg was, there Tray Von, Westco Warren.
- 49:32Speaker 1: Baker it was. Good it was a good.
- 49:34Speaker 2: Time bakes always likes to, say and he played For Jody.
- 49:38Speaker 2: Gardner he would foul just to get a rest Because
- 49:42Speaker 2: carter wouldn't take him. Out he's a great. Dude just
- 49:48Speaker 2: a personal, note he lost his wife to cancer just
- 49:51Speaker 2: a couple of months, ago so you know he's dealing with.
- 49:54Speaker 2: That but he's the, Best.
- 49:56Speaker 1: Yes he absolutely. Is and another we lost another great
- 49:58Speaker 1: great mountaineer support And Phil, weezer who passed away this past.
- 50:04Speaker 1: Weekend he was a tremendous, supporter but a quiet, supporter
- 50:11Speaker 1: but he was totally in loved them. Mountain he has
- 50:14Speaker 1: had a great relation, long long, time long, time had
- 50:17Speaker 1: a great relationship With Joe harber Because phil always used
- 50:22Speaker 1: to go over To. Germany So phil Is March. Weston
- 50:24Speaker 1: that was his, company and he would go over To
- 50:27Speaker 1: germany and Befriended joe and they Talk german and they
- 50:30Speaker 1: do the whole. Thing and it was just a, great great.
- 50:33Speaker 1: Guy and so we send our condolences To phil's. Family all,
- 50:39Speaker 1: right so what's our deal? Now we come back On,
- 50:41Speaker 1: Monday we're going to recap. Football this is a big.
- 50:46Speaker 1: Week next week big, Week we're gonna recap football. Basketball
- 50:50Speaker 1: but But wednesday be the signing? Day why is that?
- 50:57Speaker 1: Important is it? Sexy? Know will it lead to what
- 51:02Speaker 1: your football record is next? Year? Yes So wednesday starts
- 51:09Speaker 1: the signing. Day bid that's.
- 51:12Speaker 3: Important high school, SIGNING juco signings, correct and then the
- 51:15Speaker 3: portal signing coming shortly. Thereafter so an important five six
- 51:19Speaker 3: weeks coming here from out there football absolutely.
- 51:22Speaker 2: And important because last Year rich started and the signing
- 51:27Speaker 2: free was already. Done. Correct, yes so they've had a
- 51:30Speaker 2: year now to look for, guys and you would think
- 51:32Speaker 2: it'd be.
- 51:32Speaker 1: Better, Yeah and they feel. GOOD i mean they truly
- 51:35Speaker 1: feel good with where they're. Going.
- 51:37Speaker 3: Good we will talk about speed a. BUNCH i have
- 51:39Speaker 3: a feeling with the.
- 51:40Speaker 1: Size he wants big boys that can. Run he wants
- 51:43Speaker 1: big boys that can. Run, Yes speed's gonna be you.
- 51:46Speaker 1: GUYS i mean right, NOW i don't think neither of
- 51:48Speaker 1: you guys could run fast or without. COUGHING i mean
- 51:50Speaker 1: this coughing, THING i. KNOW i don't think it was.
- 51:53Speaker 1: HEALTHY i don't think it was healthy for you guys
- 51:55Speaker 1: to be out. Today probably.
- 51:57Speaker 2: Not and my wife told me not to. Come she, Did, yes.
- 52:01Speaker 1: How about, That, brad she, Said So karen said, no
- 52:05Speaker 1: and you just want old man on. Her.
- 52:07Speaker 2: YEAH i didn't want to leave you guys hang. IN
- 52:09Speaker 2: i MEAN i wanted to of course.
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