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3 Guys Before The Game - Red Raider Redemption (Episode 491) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Welcome in one and all. Yes, it is time for three Guys before
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  the Game. This is episode number four hundred and ninety one, entitled Red
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  Raider Redemption. Finally got those old boys from Lubbock. You were finally got
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  those old boys. They had gotten the world champion mountaineers four times. But
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  not not tonight, Not on a rainy, cold, miserable Saturday afternoon into
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  evening, Not this day, Not in our house. We're gonna now that's
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  a Somali pirate reference. By the way, Saturday, Three Guys Before the
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  Game episode four hundred The Little Coats too. Yeah, this night a Little
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  it's true. I said, cool'd double source. Yeah, pretty good.
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  And that's obviously a picture of Daniel Craig there, and yeah, you can
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  your business. It's actually a good tagline. You just throw that out right
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  now. No. I actually was driving home from the game and there was
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  a truck in front of me. Really super weird. There's this truck in
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  front of me. Normally, you know, on a truck. It was
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  a commercial truck. I don't forgot it was pick up or something, but
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  they had like it was a business's truck. So normally that means like Bob's
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  gutters or Tom's plumbing or Sam's Electric. But it was an accounting firm.
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  They were from Virginia, and they had their tagline on the back of the
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  tailgate and it said something about like less taxing for you or something like that
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  truck were they hauling documents to the jump. But what I said was to
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  myself, you know, i'd be I'll steal that for Conley Group. That's
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  pretty good. It's pretty good. At least you admitted it. Yeah,
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  I mean, I'm not anyone knows it's if it's if it's used before and
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  it's good use, it may have gotten a few professors in trouble through the
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  years, but nevertheless, Okay, so we're in and it is Sunday morning,
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  as we record, we are thrilled to be here with the three game
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  homestand now complete in West Virginia winning all three. You remember I went on
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  the record and I said, you have to win these three, and you
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  said you have to win these three. I said, if you're going to
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  have a successful season, you needed to get those three. And by hook,
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  by crook and and by the chain link of a of a of a
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  measure, they got it done. They're three and one now two to go
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  in a row on the road at TCU and at Houston. But we'll get
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  into that down the road right now. Let's break down. First, a
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  week ago at this time, following West Virginia's victory over the pitt Panthers,
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  Hoppy opened with a wonderful soliloquy that brought in Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and
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  more. I can't wait to find out which way he's going here, sir,
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  the yours well. Teddy Roosevelt said, if you can believe, if
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  you believe you can do something, you're halfway there. And athletic success is
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  probably something like a three legged stool, and that is there's talent, there's
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  preparation, and there's confidence. And talent wise, I'm going to talk specifically
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  about the defense guys and talent wise. You've seen the emergence of some guys
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  here so far this season, some really pleasant surprises of a half dozen guys
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  or more. Talent wise, preparation, clearly Jordan Leslie has prepared this defense
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  well. I mean, Tech had what eighty one plays and you give up
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  thirteen points. You have that defensive stand at the end of defense, which
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  is outstanding. And then confidence. You can see this team as a whole,
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  and also particularly the defense playing with confidence when they'd get those stops and
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  where they ran off the field. I just thought the defense was just exceptional
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  in that game. You add in the confidence level that they've gained over the
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  last couple of games, and now you have a defense that's playing at a
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  high level. And I think that is that was the reason you won the
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  game last night. Yeah, well said the defense wasn't just good, the
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  defense was elite. That's about as good as you've seen a play. I'll
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  give some numbers to back that up, but they were tremendous, but I
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  think an even bigger picture for this group to start three and one, that's
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  as good as it could have been for a start. You weren't going to
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  go to Penn State and win that game. As we talked to see what
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  happened in Iowa. Yeah, Yeah, didn't go well for O'Brien. Farren's
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  got a little problem with that twenty five points per game coming late in the
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  game. And I didn't confirm this this morning, but I had some friends
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  there at the game. Penn State had run more plays than Iowa had yards
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  at one point late. Wow, is that good? Yeah? So you
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  came back and did what you'd had to do for one month, and I'm
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  not sure it could have been any better. And to do that in the
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  face of being picked last in the Big twelve media poll, in the face
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  of everybody screaming about in the Brown's job, and you got to fire him
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  for that group to rally together, tune out the noise, step up and
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  beat a pit team, your biggest rival, to turn around and beat a
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  team that it owns you for the last four years, never mind the one
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  year turnaround. So we talked about on Thursday to go from forty eight ten
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  to what happened last night, to get big BOYD last year like you did
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  by those defensive backs and that defense. To turn around and do what you
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  did. That's a remarkable first four games. A lot of work to do,
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  but you've set yourself up very nicely to get those those three wins to
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  start the season. You're in tremendous position right now to keep moving forward.
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  But I think your best point. You made a lot of good points there.
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  The confidence parts the biggest there is. There is nothing more valuable in
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  sports than confidence, because even talent, if you don't have the confidence,
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  usually it comes with it. I realized then you have no shot. Confidence
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  can carry you a long ways, and I think you're seeing that with this
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  defense in particular. Yeah, those are all good points. And Neil Brown,
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  as you all know, it doesn't shy away from the facts, and
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  he said several times in the last couple of weeks that defensively last year,
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  one of the problems that they had was, you know, from a coaching
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  standpoint, they made it too complicated, or at least the players that they
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  had could not properly get the concept of what they were trying to do.
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  They're trying to play this match defense in which you basically are identifying at the
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  line of scrimmage pre snap. Okay, I'm going with this guy. I'm
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  going with this guy. It got to be too complicated. That's why there
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  were such gaping gaffs defensively, guys just out of position. So so it's
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  like a zone defense, was Amanda Marinca. And so this year they said,
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  okay, let's get back, let's stop the paralysis by analysis for our
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  players. Let's do some really super basic things where they're dropping into areas and
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  zones on the field, they know where they're supposed to be and they can
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  just now start to play football. And it's working and it's working right,
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  and so credit to those guys. Neil mentioned it yesterday on his press conference.
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  At the end, you know, we took a lot of heat on
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  our defense last year, you know, and there were some that would say
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  you gotta make changes, you gotta make changes to your staff. He said,
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  no, I knew we were okay. We just needed to do what
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  we did and it's working right now. Yeah. I think that's that's great.
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  And we always say people can get tarre to saying it how good Neil
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  is in the press conference that answer he gave about what was different last year
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  to this year. That could have been very easy to gloss that over and
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  throw it away. He went really deep on that. That was a really
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  intricate, good answer, And if you're into the nerdy football stuff that was
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  that was awesome, go back and listen to that the way he explained it.
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  But I think that's a couple of things. One, that's what coaching
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  does, right. You looked at what you were doing, said that didn't
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  work. We've got to change it and do something that these guys can do.
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  One. Two, make no mistake, the personnel differences have mattered too,
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  So you just call it what it is. There's some guys out there
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  that are playing right now that just quite frankly, didn't play the way they
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  should have last year. The guys just didn't do what their jobs were last
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  year. So that has mattered too. And we'll get into some of the
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  individuals, but I outlined a bunch of them on Thursday in our segment on
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  how to get pressure. How many different guys same thing this week, there's
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  six or seven guys we can call out defensively that were that were unbelievable.
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  And let's start with I gotta start with this, then we'll get an in
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  Marcus Floyd's line. Ye, did we look at Marcus Floyd's line? Three
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  quarterback hurries? He's a safety. He's a safety. Had three quarterback hurries,
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  three pass breakups, a sack, and a TfL And on one of
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  those quarterback hurries, he ran three straight through past the tackle and straight through
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  the running back that was trying to chip chip him. Marcus Floyd was a
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  dude last year, Lady Brooks, Eddie v be Andy Bishop. I mean,
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  guys stepped ut Bartlett. Yeah, guys stepped up and made place.
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  And while we're talking about preparation and coaching, how about how about the job
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  that Neil Brown did on offense. I mean, especially in the first half
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  of different formations, different plays. Texas Tech was confus used because of what
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  West Virginia was running, and Texas Text figured out some of that stuff where
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  you in the game, but for example, to not put too much pressure
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  on Nico to pass where you where you spread the receivers out, the Nico
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  goes up the middle. They ran at with success several times. So just
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  I think a really really good game plan by Neil Brown, the difference in
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  looks he gave in plays he called with an offense, Let's be honest here,
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  guys, limit is really limited. It's a really limited offense, especially
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  in the passing game right now. But you ran the ball very effectively in
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  the first half, kept the ball the majority of the first half, and
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  then tried to put Nico in safe passing situations to help him out. I
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  thought it was it was almost a perfect first half for what you were working
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  with. I thought overall, the whole plan was very good. You know,
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  another big difference offensively from last year this year Neil called the plays yesterday.
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  Yeah, big difference, big difference. Yeah. Well, and let's
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  just talk about one particular area that we talked about last week. When you're
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  trying to get off the line, why don't you bunch formation? It's hard.
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  How many bunch of formations did you see? Sometimes two, sometimes straight?
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  You saw a lot of bunch of formations. You didn't see it once
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  last year in the Texas Tech game. So some adjustments were made there and
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  Texas Tech didn't even look remotely close to the same defense had had last year.
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  Yeah, I'm dying on this Bredette camping deal. Oh, you're gonna
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  be even more interesting when we start crunching numbers. You know that game last
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  night came down late, like you were which one game talking about everybody standing
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  up West Virginia, Texas. You're standing up late, had to get four
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  red zone stops to get the win, and everybody on their feet. It's
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  anxiously. You probably should do that if you see if you're gonna get the
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  discount or not, you're gonna be standing. You're gonna be standing. Don't
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  forget what it was. So if the past blocking grade for the offensive line
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  was seventy or better, you get what is at four hundred dollars off a
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  thousand dollars and purposes, Oh go ahead, never mind. So you had
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  average seventy. But there's not one offensive line metric. There's really two.
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  There's pass blocking and run blocking. So we decided we would average those two
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  together, and if those are greater seventy or greater than, everybody gets the
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  discount on a camper. So you get four hundred dollars off on a new
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  camper. Pepper dead camping. If the Mountaineer offensive line graded out at seventy
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  percent or better. They did. I know they did. Oh really,
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  what would you like to wake that? Here comes a sixty nine point nine
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  nine? What would you want to like to wager on that dollar? So
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  last night, the run blocking grade for the Mountaineers sixty two point three.
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  That means we're gonna have to be like seventy plus on a pass blocking night
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  where it was the passing game was record setting. So sixty two on the
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  run blocking. Yeah. Pro Football Focus grades the pass blocking of the Mountaineers
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  last night at an eighty three point nine congratulation dinner strapping Onscats campers ready,
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  Oh, I also go, well, we'll get into this later when we
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  do textual healing. Major controversy with Burdette camping major. Yeah, that's well.
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  You were there when the guy told us we'll talk about Yeah, you
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  were standing right there at the food court. Todd. Yeah, Todd from
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  Parkersburg, of course, brought up the salesman over there, Burdette, Jimmy
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  Dean. And oh the Jimmy Dean part of it. Yeah, it wasn't
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  It wasn't so much about Burdette camping. No, the salesman there, Jimmy
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  Dean, Lyon. Well, so you say, yeah, I gotta way
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  to figure out. I got a way to find out who's telling the truth
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  on that one. I gotta figure it out. We'll get into that bitletter
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  a little bit later. It was nice to meet Todd. It was a
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  great story. We'll get into that. A Todd is a great story,
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  all right. So so congratulations you get the count not near offensive line came
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  through. Yes, many pieces to pull apart, and we're gonna start doing
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  that right now. What do you say we start to do? What do
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  you say we start to do? What do you say we start to do
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  the numbers? Yeah? Spreads on stats, ladies and Joe, how did
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  this baby great out that the show? I like this segment because it adds
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  facts to what you think you know from the eye test. That's right.
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  Spreads on stats brought to us by the Conley CPA group, providing value beyond
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  the numbers. The Conley CPA group got accosted by the way by two CPAs
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  over at the Food Corps. You're right there when they came after. They
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  weren't from the Conley Group, No they weren't, but they were outsiders siding
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  the industry. They were much malahint industry that he's attacked and they weren't happy
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  that didn't appreciate him. Yeah, don't blame him. And then and then
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  heat a typical hymn. He didn't apologize her back at down he doubled down
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  on I'm one to go out of the Yeah, I was on the accountant
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  side of thinks you should be. And we'll get into that a little bit
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  later on. All right, so I can't wait. Give me the numbers.
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  What did we see? What did we what did we think we saw?
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  And what did the eye and the sky grade of that. Let's do
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  it a couple of different ways. We'll go to the just overall grades.
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  You can fire players at me, and we'll come up with individual grades that
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  PFF gave him here in a minute. But let's just talk big picture on
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  a couple of different things here. I gave you the Marcus Floyd stats already.
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  I just thought he was a difference maker and and hop you know how
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  we often refer to havoc defensive havoc havots that you allow, and those stats
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  are the quarterback hurries and the sacks and the pass breakups. West Virginia with
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  ten pass breakups on the night. N ten pass breakups last night for a
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  defensive backfield that last year we just you couldn't talk about this about last year.
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  What about the first game this two games this season, ten in one
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  game. And Floyd I just thought was one of those guys that you're gonna
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  have to have dudes, right, You gotta multiple dudes that make big time
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  plays, and there were a lot of them last night. He was really
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  good in a lot of different areas. I thought Jordan Leslie dialed up pressure
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  at the appropriate times. That's something you couldn't do last year because you were
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  afraid of leaving those defensive backs alone in the secondary and not getting home.
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  So I just thought they did a tremendous job, the defensive backs in particular.
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  One of those pass breakups was Beanie Bishop late, save the game,
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  came over late, got that hand in there right at the end of all
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  away in the corner of the end zone. Team coverage grade yesterday for West
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  Virginia was in eighty six on a scale of zero to one hundred and eighty
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  six. That's the second best coverage grade since Neils arrived here in Morgantown.
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  How about that? Really? Good and that to your point, that's a
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  number that backs up what you saw. You didn't need me to tell you
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  it was a really good coverage night, but the grade backs that up.
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  All right, Let's talk about a couple other parts to this on Let's go
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  back and look at what we said on Thursday. We talked a lot about
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  getting pressure on their quarterback was one of the keys to getting a win.
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  We had highlighted tech center and the right guard position his potential weak spot.
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  Their center's grade was slightly better than his average, not much, but slightly
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  better. He he didn't have an awful game, but between the center and
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  the guard, those positions gave up half of West Virginia's pressures. So that
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  was an area that West Virginia was able to exploit a little bit. We
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  talked about Jared Bartlett's starting to come on. Pitt specifically had to slide some
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  protection to whatever side he was coming from late in the game. Last week,
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  Bartlett stepped up, had three more quarterback hurries to lead the team.
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  And then we talked about Marcus Floyd. I thought that was the new wrinkle
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  that kind of took them to a new level. Last night. He had
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  four total pressures including a sack, and I thought was interesting Toney on a
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  day when West Virginian shrines Bruce Irvan, one of the all time great pass
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  rushers, here to have Floyd doing his best Bruce irvin imitation from the safety
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  position was really valuable. You could talk about Aubrey Burke's he was like a
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  missile in that defensive backfield shooting up. How many runs did he stop at
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  or behind the line of scrimmage? So the havoc was really good. You
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  attacked them and made it very difficult for Tech to throw the ball. That's
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  one of the things you always worry about with Texas Tech, right, we
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  talked about it. Oh my gosh, they're gonna throw the ball. They're
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  gonna wanna throw ball. They're gonna throw it for four hundred yards. Oh
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  my gosh, how do you stop the passing game? West Virginia held Tech
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  to three point seven yards per attempt yesterday. So to put that in context,
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  remember West Virginia finished last in the league last year at six ish three
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  point seven for Texas Tech. So he can't say enough things about how good
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  this defense was. In particular, I'd be interested to see take a deep
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  dive. We'd have to get into the Texas Tech numbers. One was the
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  last time they were relegated to that at three point seven yards, So that's
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  another thing. Also in talking to Safety's coach Dante Right last week, he
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  has a morning a coffee club with three of his players who come in three
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  days a week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday early to watch extra tape. Aubrey
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  Berksy says, is front and center. He played yesterday like a guy who
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  watches a ton of tapes. He blew plays up because he knew what the
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  play was before that ball he's out thrown, and they think he's a pro.
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  They think Aubrey burks is going to be a pro. And last night
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  he really really stood out there. I mean, now you're seeing the emergence
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  Tony and brand of some guys who are difference makers. Yeah, right,
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  guys who make plays. I mean there have been times in the last couple
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  of years when you look and you go, who's gonna make a play?
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  Ye, who's gonna make a play. What's gonna happen here? And now
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  you're seeing guys emerge who do make plays and say, oh, okay,
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  you needed that right there. So that that's a really really hopeful sign going
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  forward. And just take a look at the final numbers here from yesterday.
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  Trey Lathan left the team in tackles kids a freshman regard. Freshman played four
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  games. He's here, he comes, here, he comes. Yeah,
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  we highlighted him last Thursday's He's in the top ten in multiple Big twelve categories
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  when it comes to pressure, he's been he's been outstanding. And not only
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  has he been outstanding, he's outstanding from a position that they the coach now
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  was totally unsure about heading into the season, didn't have anybody with any experience
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  over there. So he's not only just been really good, he's filled one
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  of those questions in top right. And that's that's always how you know if
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  you're gonna have a better season than you thought. Every team has a ton
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  of questions to it. How many of those questions turn out to be positive
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  answers that determines it in so far that position there was a giant question has
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  been not just hey, it's okay, found somebody, it's like, been
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  one of your best players, most productive players. We should say, who
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  do you think was the highest graded offensive player for West Virginia because of offenses.
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  So that's the next part of this. The defense couldn't have been better
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  the offense. You're just gonna have to keep trying to piece this thing.
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  I'm say I was gonna say Cold too. Yeah, interesting, coldn't have
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  a great overall grade, But man, he was valuable, wasn't he pass?
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  Yes, I'm scared the hell out everyone in the stands that knee,
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  the way that thing looks, the way the new tight end to tight end
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  pass is an interesting play. It's just a baseball player just throwing the ball
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  into the infield. That's all. It was, so Cole Taylor. Now,
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  the tight end position has many touchdown catches this season, as West Virginia
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  has had out of that position in the last four years. So you're getting
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  some things right, more interceptions than you had all the last year. Tight
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  end matters in the receiving game No. Three. Your top five graded offensive
• 22:03
  players were lineman Nestor, and Remac was fifth on that list. Remac battled
• 22:08
  yesterday because he got hurt. He got it out. You know, did
• 22:11
  you seem a boy Jacque Hubbard leading Nico on that run inside the five yard
• 22:18
  like my man's out there leading away, so he I give I give a
• 22:21
  lot of credit to jaque Hubbard. So that's two weeks in a row he's
• 22:23
  addressed the team before the game as a non starter. Yeah, we talk
• 22:29
  all the time. It is hard to be a leader when you're not one
• 22:32
  of the best players producing on the team. Hubbard's done it two weeks in
• 22:34
  a row as as speaking to the team. And then he came in that
• 22:37
  game and played really well. He's your tenth highest graded offing. You'd love
• 22:41
  that kid. He person his personality, he's a wonderful to try to get
• 22:45
  him, like, get him on the broadcast, just have him come over
• 22:48
  there. He wants to be in broadcasting. You know, we talked about
• 22:52
  this yesterday, Tony nett Is. You need there's so many things you need
• 22:56
  to be successful. One of the things you need is that you need players
• 23:00
  like Jaquoi Hubard who are reinforcing what the coaches say. Because coaches say things,
• 23:04
  some guys get it. Some guys don't goes in one year and out
• 23:07
  the other. They're talking to other guys. They're not talking to me.
• 23:10
  When players who have the respect of their cohorts, when players say the same
• 23:15
  kinds of things that coaches are saying. It makes a huge difference, and
• 23:18
  you're getting some of that this year with guys like Jaquie Hubbard and stand Hubbard
• 23:22
  for a second, because not only are you getting that hot, but you're
• 23:23
  also getting a guy that did not win the starting job. He's been here
• 23:26
  for a while and then he's played a lot of snaps. He didn't win
• 23:29
  the job. Did he sulk, pout, complain? No, what do
• 23:32
  you step up? Okay, found all dress team. I'll be a leader
• 23:33
  that helps you. But those offensive linemen continue to especially in the first half.
• 23:37
  I thought that helps you win the game. Now you had to hold
• 23:41
  on late in the second, but getting out like you did in the first
• 23:44
  half and talk about confidence, punching them in the face and lowering their confidence
• 23:48
  even further than it already was. We talked last week. They came in
• 23:51
  here not sure who they were. Those quarterbacks weren't sure who they were.
• 23:55
  And that's unfortunate for Tyler shuck Man that kids just don't stay healthy. Kenny
• 23:59
  terrible height to see, but they were unsure of themselves and you made them
• 24:02
  more unsure in the first half. But look at these offensive lineman Milemn one,
• 24:07
  nest Or two, Remac five, Brandon Yates seven. That's Brandon Ates
• 24:11
  quietly is having a nice year sliding into that offensive line. Moving over to
• 24:15
  the guard spot, Frasier eight, Jacque Hubbard ten of your highest grade offensive
• 24:21
  players. Now, the next evolution of this has to be some playmakers,
• 24:26
  specifically at the receiver position. West Virginia is going to have to find some
• 24:30
  guys hoppy that make Let's start with this, how about just making the easy
• 24:33
  catches. You can't have a backup quarterback in there who's going to have limited
• 24:37
  throwing attempts as it is, throw two terrific passes that are dropped into an
• 24:42
  interception. Devin Carter can't have that hit his chest and pop up and turn
• 24:45
  into an interception. It just can't. So you're not only not making the
• 24:48
  easy ones. Someone's got to help out that passing game. Who's gonna step
• 24:52
  up and make plays. You need playmakers otherwise you're gonna end up with what
• 24:56
  teams did last night in the second half and just put everybody up and say
• 25:00
  you can't run on us. And as good as this offensive line is,
• 25:03
  it's gonna be hard to move people with numbers that don't match up in the
• 25:07
  box. You want go to catch the football better, totally agree. One
• 25:11
  piece of ken it may I submit just a little defense on Devin Carter on
• 25:15
  that one. Yeah, if you go back and you look at that,
• 25:18
  he had his one arm was being I mean it was a great hellay by
• 25:22
  the defensive great play by the defensive player. As soon as the ball came
• 25:23
  in he was able to grab him, so he couldn't get his full extension,
• 25:27
  so it wasn't as blatant as it looked. It would have been a
• 25:30
  hard catch, but his arm was being held. So anyway, to your
• 25:34
  point, it catch you two your two thousand percent, right, Yeah,
• 25:37
  they've got to help. I do think it's coming. I don't think it's
• 25:41
  gonna stay. I know you copy, you're gonna wins. I do think
• 25:45
  at some point they will get some form of mojo, because right now it
• 25:48
  is not there. I do think it's going to happen. I truly do
• 25:52
  well. I mean, we talk all the time, and we talked about
• 25:55
  this a lot yesterday. Is that you're playing with your backup quarterback. He
• 26:00
  has to have help. You got help from the offensive line, You're got
• 26:03
  help from the running game. I mean you has to have you can't put
• 26:06
  everything on him. Not every pass is going to be perfect. Guys have
• 26:08
  to get open, Guys have to catch the ball. I like you said
• 26:11
  it was okay, difficult catch. But I mean, if you're gonna have
• 26:14
  success offensively, I mean, you only had twenty points, You're really kind
• 26:17
  of lucky you got to. But but somebody else is going to have to
• 26:21
  do something to help that quarterback. And no question, you're running through the
• 26:25
  rain drops right now. You just won a game, two old school games
• 26:27
  in a row, old school scores. I mean, don Nellen was on
• 26:30
  the field yesterday because they honored the ninety three team and H like, don
• 26:36
  that's the way it should be. Playing twenty that's that's a good score.
• 26:38
  But no, you can't do it anymore. Everyone knows that they've got to
• 26:42
  get this thing going. You're you're asking your defense to do too much.
• 26:45
  Three point seven yards per attempt for West Virginia SJA throwing it I mentioned that's
• 26:49
  the same number for Texas Tech. Wasn't good enough for them. He had
• 26:52
  to fumble inside the red zone. Offensively last week, what's your defense do?
• 26:56
  Bailed you out on the next play with a pick. He had two
• 26:57
  interceptions this week that no turnovers games he lost. The turnover battle didn't affect
• 27:03
  you get a pump block last week, didn't. This defense is playing so
• 27:07
  far, I don't even know if above his head it's right. But you
• 27:10
  are asking it to do too much. The offense has to find itself,
• 27:12
  and that's that's difficult again for all the reasons we've outlined, but that offense
• 27:17
  has to find a way to get it going. May I also submit this
• 27:21
  which may have gone by a lot of folks don't realize it. So West
• 27:23
  Virginia's played a third of its season right now. Four out of the twelve
• 27:26
  games, the starting quarterback for West Virginia, Garrett Greene, has only played
• 27:33
  thirty eight percent of the snaps. Nico Markiels played sixty two percent of the
• 27:40
  snaps. If you do it by quarter right, Garrett played all four then
• 27:44
  he played two against Ducane. That's six. Nico played two against Ducane four
• 27:49
  and four. That's ten out of sixteen quarters. That's sixty two percent.
• 27:56
  So my point is that the guy that they want as the starting court back
• 28:00
  still has not had full control to go out there. You would think he'll
• 28:04
  be ready this coming Saturday, based upon he was at least emergency available against
• 28:11
  Texas Tech. So we'll see. I'm not closing the door on this offense
• 28:15
  yet. I understand, I understand. Let's let's two points I want to
• 28:21
  make before you go to the The text is that you know, I picked
• 28:26
  on Jordan Fox a little bit for Preston Fox, a little bit for dropping
• 28:30
  a past, but what he what he has given you in punt returns is
• 28:33
  invaluable. This is a this is a program that has struggled with punt returns,
• 28:37
  Tony since you and I were children, and and he has done a
• 28:41
  really good job on punt returns. And there was that short punt. I
• 28:45
  mean that they had a good punter obviously, and fantastic punter, Yeah,
• 28:48
  fantastastic, But you know what happens when you kicked the ball fifty yards,
• 28:52
  you may well kick the coverage and you give Preston Fox a little tom and
• 28:56
  he had good returns. Also on his one short punt, Preston Fox came
• 28:59
  up, was a little bit risky, but he came up and grabbed the
• 29:00
  ball, which prevented that ball from hitting and then rolling for another fifteen or
• 29:04
  twenty yards. So Preston Fox did a really nice job on that. I
• 29:07
  thought also about Hayes hitting two field goals absolutely and in a low scoring game
• 29:14
  and one and really I know he had the wind at his back, but
• 29:15
  still not great conditions and a snap that came in low. Yeah, how
• 29:18
  about Preston Fox. Do you realize he returned nine punts nine punts he averaged
• 29:25
  twelve yards. They should have like they should get big trombone, big bass
• 29:30
  drum, maybe borrow that one from Purdue, have a big parade down High
• 29:33
  Street. We haven't averaged twelve yards on a punt return since Willie Drury in
• 29:37
  eighty four. Most people don't. That's something that's gone away in the game.
• 29:41
  A little bit punt returns not what it was. That's why during the
• 29:44
  broadcast I took to calling him pac Man Fox. So pac Man Fox right
• 29:49
  now, sitting fourteenth nationally and punt return yards and when he catches the ball,
• 29:53
  Brad, what's he doing? Goes up field, goes up pac Man
• 29:56
  just catches it, don't jack around, get up the field. Yeah,
• 29:59
  yeah, it's been very nice. Go back to the offense for just a
• 30:02
  second to credit I will credit Nico a couple of different things. One,
• 30:04
  that quarterback draw was was well designed and then well executed for the most part.
• 30:08
  There was one where Texas Tech finally figured it out and stopped. They
• 30:15
  stop. Yeah, keep going until they stop it. So I love the
• 30:17
  calls and continuing to do that. Leading rush was seventy two yards, So
• 30:21
  he did a nice job in that part of it. Also, I give
• 30:22
  him a lot of credit after the game. You know, we've had him
• 30:26
  on this program and he was a tremendous interview when he was still a recruit.
• 30:29
  He stepped up to that podium last night that that wasn't the backup quarterback
• 30:32
  talking. He was a dude, answered the questions, was critical of himself
• 30:36
  in the areas where he needed to be, took ownership, spread the credit
• 30:40
  around to others. I thought he was excellent in the postgame. Yeah,
• 30:41
  he always is. He's excellent, excellent, He's developing. Man, he
• 30:47
  just got a booster shot of as I said, ten quarters, ten quarters
• 30:53
  of football. That's going to make him mature, quicker. He would never
• 31:00
  have gotten had Garrett Green not gotten hurt. So his development has been expedited
• 31:04
  because of what's happened. But he's still, as he'll admit, is still
• 31:10
  trying to get the feel and the processing of boom boom boom boom boom.
• 31:14
  It's coming. He's got all the tools the processing needs to get more and
• 31:18
  more comfortable. Let's go to I know that a play people talked about,
• 31:22
  and that is West Virginia's call it the next to last I guess called the
• 31:26
  next Rry Hoppy. When we get to textual healing, it's only brought up
• 31:30
  seventy seven, So I mean we could address it now and then skip all
• 31:34
  the texts that'll talk about it now, because I think it's an important piece
• 31:37
  of talking. I think I'm on the opposite side of what some of these
• 31:41
  textures are going to say based on what we got in our coverage. Just
• 31:44
  yet, go ahead of well, I'm just gonna say that that the at
• 31:48
  that point in the game you're thinking. I mean, the book says run
• 31:52
  clock right, the book says run clock get a couple of first downs.
• 31:56
  But Texas Tech had been selling out to stop the running. West Dean was
• 32:00
  not even to run successfully. So what do you do? You run a
• 32:01
  play which worked? The play actually worked. The receiver was open, the
• 32:06
  pass was offously the receiver didn't make a play, or the quarterback was off
• 32:09
  whatever. I thought it was the right call. What are you doing.
• 32:12
  You're trying to win the game. You're trying to win a game, and
• 32:14
  if you complete that pass, which you probably should have, you're well on
• 32:17
  your way to winning the game. So I thought it was the right call
• 32:21
  given the circumstance. When you're trying to win the game. You're talking about
• 32:23
  the deep ball in that last drive. I'm shocked. We agree. I
• 32:25
  totally agree with that. You talk about playing coaching to win, and that's
• 32:30
  one thing people want to screen about Donald coach, not to lose coach.
• 32:34
  That's coaching to win. He's trying to win the game. Right there,
• 32:37
  you were averaging three point two yards per carry per rush. In the second
• 32:39
  half. The run game had been shut down Credit Tech. They had slid
• 32:44
  over and started stopping the run and saying to you. They were saying to
• 32:46
  West Virginia, you're gonna have to throw it here, and if you can
• 32:50
  throw it, we'll tip our hat. You ain't running on us. You
• 32:52
  are not running the football. They had all their time outs, so you
• 32:54
  could have run it. You said, two things. Run clock yet primary,
• 32:58
  but you weren't going to run clock. If you bang it right in
• 33:00
  the line, they're gonna take their time outs. Now they wouldn't have had
• 33:01
  them for their final drive. Okay, fine, but you're trying to win.
• 33:05
  If you could complete that pass down the field, change his field position
• 33:08
  at the very least, when you kick it back to them, they're gonna
• 33:10
  have to go the whole field. That's just got to be executed. That,
• 33:14
  in my opinion, was the correct call. It was playing to win
• 33:16
  the game. It was putting pressure on a defense and taking what they gave
• 33:21
  you. You just didn't execute it, whether it was throw or the receiver's
• 33:23
  gotta run entered, he's got to lay out. You gotta do something to
• 33:25
  catch the darn ball there. But I thought that of all the things you're
• 33:29
  going to criticize that staff for, to me, that was not one of
• 33:31
  them. That was trying to close a game on a drive. When you're
• 33:36
  gonna have to throw it, you were gonna have to throw it somewhere try
• 33:38
  and catch them, which, oh, by the way, you did catch
• 33:40
  him. I mean, you call the play and then it's up to guys
• 33:45
  have to do something. At some point you gotta help out the play caller
• 33:50
  and make a darn play and they just didn't. But I have no problem
• 33:52
  with that right there. None. I think you guys are both in agreement,
• 33:57
  something very new, something very unique. Glad to see you guys are
• 34:00
  getting along. Well, we didn't, well, we had a couple of
• 34:02
  fights last night. But oh you did, did you? Was he cantankerous
• 34:06
  during the game? He was, Well, i'll tell you what. The
• 34:08
  short story is that we may have had some ESPN plus streaming issues. Oh
• 34:15
  lord, because I don't know if you know, this is not Tony,
• 34:17
  but that technology is still not exactly perfected. So Brad was Brad was on
• 34:24
  edge much of the night. So your signal was going out? Oh yeah,
• 34:30
  I said, you want to turn your mic gun? Yeah, going
• 34:31
  out? Yeah, you lost parts of the game? Was ever on ohelated,
• 34:37
  fuzzy restarting, swipe up to close the window? Is that Internet related
• 34:42
  or is that there on their end? I don't know who's follow up.
• 34:44
  It might be somebody who wasn't executing there's the right call, just weren't executed.
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  It might be promotions and demotions coming this week, we're gonna get what
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  know what, Hey, if you don't want to, if you don't want
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  So how about get it off? What's this? What's on? Respect?
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  What? What's the game on this week? It's one of one too,
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  is a barometer game. We got that tex tex Tech over the last however
• 36:32
  many years it's been. You go on to win what was it eight?
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  You an average on average West Virginias won eight games in a season. The
• 36:39
  years they've beaten Texas Tech, they've won five and a half. When they've
• 36:43
  lost to the Red Raiders. Yeah, Okay, interesting keeping. So someone
• 36:46
  would say that's that's kind of neat, very good ztation. Correlation anecdotal.
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  It's a completely anecdotal problem because I think as we talked, those are two
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  programs should shouldn't be streaky like that, they should be closer. So it
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  probably does have some correlation to get that team. It probably says he I
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  mean no, I say no. I would say there is correlation. There
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  Yeah, all right, go ahead, let it rip. We had a
• 38:25
  wonderful time at the food court Friday and Saturday. It was a smash it
• 38:30
  second week that we did it. And here's just a couple of the samples
• 38:36
  of the pictures. Justin and Nick with their families at the food court.
• 38:38
  Look at this truly a family affair. They traveled from Daniel's, West Virginia
• 38:43
  and Bolt to join the fun. So you got you got four adults and
• 38:45
  you got five little ones there. And that's fantastic tubs of lemonade there from
• 38:51
  tardy time, which we're trendous that little fella have a quart of lemonade.
• 38:54
  Yeah, that probably there's a lot of trips to the bathroom there. Luke.
• 38:59
  Next picture Luke A WV Grant, his son Miles. They traveled from
• 39:02
  Dallas. Oh they're p one listener he's a P one listener. His son's
• 39:07
  very first game. Left mom at home in Dallas, and she's an a
• 39:10
  lum of Texas Tech, So Mom, you stay there. They were great.
• 39:13
  Luke was great. I'd spent some time talking to him. Yeah,
• 39:15
  wonderful. Also, how about this one, my boy, my boy,
• 39:19
  my boy Kerchival at the food court on Friday. He was there for nearly
• 39:24
  three hours. We will never criticize him for being aloof distant and uncaring.
• 39:34
  Look at him. He is locked in arms folded, wants to do a
• 39:37
  talk line interview right there. And then had a nice visit with him.
• 39:40
  They were a couple of freshmen who were from Rawleigh County. Yeah, Rawleigh
• 39:46
  County. Boyfriend girlfriend and she's in forensics and uh and I forget what his
• 39:54
  majors want to go on broadcast? Nice said, what the hell you want
• 39:58
  to do that for? So yeah, nice visit was him. Yeah.
• 40:01
  Also, great job by our guy rev keV. He sold out of his
• 40:07
  barbecue for the second straight week. He went from fourteen brisket week one to
• 40:12
  twenty one brisket yesterday sold out before the things sold. All of the money
• 40:17
  that they raised goes to the source program, which they fund, the sky
• 40:22
  View Elementary Lunchbox program. And they're unbelievable. I mean, Chick fil A
• 40:29
  goes to Rev keV to learn how to do logistics and serving, and Chick
• 40:32
  fil A's the premier logistics. They've got a team there. Yeah, they
• 40:37
  got it down. It's like it's like it's more like a pit crew.
• 40:40
  It's there, you go, okay, all there before it opened. I
• 40:45
  got there yesterday slightly before it opened. His whole crew was there. They
• 40:49
  were ready, they were ready to roll. And here's the other thing.
• 40:52
  I know you're gonna thank them at the end, but thanks to everybody that
• 40:53
  came by, because that was much like the crowd at Mountaineer Field. It
• 40:58
  was down a little bit from the picnic. Word about the weather, right,
• 41:00
  not that, and still people rolled through and bought the barbecue and bought
• 41:05
  all the other stuff that was there. So thank you for coming. Also,
• 41:07
  super shout out to Duca from the wine bar. He did those mohitas
• 41:12
  and things going on its mimosa also, yeah, I know the situation.
• 41:21
  Also Rusty from Mountaineer Roasting. They he had his coffee. He was pulling
• 41:25
  espresso shots and my boy over here he normally has to have a food fou
• 41:30
  coffee. I said, just do this. I got him a double shot
• 41:34
  cappuccino, made it wet and he liked you liked it. It was good,
• 41:37
  very good. It was good Rushman, A nice little design on top
• 41:39
  there at the milk. Yeah, it was great. You know what you
• 41:42
  did to him though. He had that, and he had another coffee from
• 41:44
  someplace. I was another coffee. He got to this station and then he
• 41:47
  was having trouble with the stream. I thought he's gonna rip the television off
• 41:51
  the wall. He was so wired. Yeah. Yeah. Also, tardy
• 41:57
  time. Should you should have gone a kickoff a bullet you should have been
• 42:01
  a bullet on. It's a long day. I had to be ready late
• 42:07
  tardy time. Those mini pancakes that they made, I brought two home.
• 42:10
  I brought home the pank of the banana. It was, it was.
• 42:14
  It was fantastic. Also, Kerchival sold out. Bill Chestnut brew Works sold
• 42:19
  out of a Hoppy's draft beer. Very limited allocation of cans holding strong.
• 42:23
  You're a three nine four rating on untapped. You're still knocking a heck out
• 42:28
  of it there it is, and a lot of cans too. Not just
• 42:30
  a US sold out of it all. And also, uh look at that,
• 42:35
  by the way, thanks thanks for the deal. There that machine that
• 42:39
  was first used to pull a draft when Hank Williams Senior was performing in Beckley.
• 42:45
  A little old, but it worked, Thank you very much, Madison.
• 42:47
  They're pouring the beer right there. She's she's just terrific. Also on
• 42:52
  the field late yesterday Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, there's another picture that nomadic
• 42:57
  Dave took day Jay Jacobs right before his Hall of Fame induction. So how
• 43:01
  about our boy home. Now, I'm not going to call him homeless Dave.
• 43:04
  I'm calling him. What did I just say before that? Dunless?
• 43:09
  I think it's challenge jonssile Chal. No, he's a wandering, wandering day
• 43:15
  wandering. So he got on the field. So he worked the food court,
• 43:16
  then he got onto the field. How do you get on the field,
• 43:20
  Dave? Just I mean he has like a global all access. It's
• 43:24
  good. Well he's and he's a doer. Yes, oh my god,
• 43:29
  Because he said I was talking to him, I said, hey, what's
• 43:30
  up? He said, I just got in from Los Angeles. He took
• 43:34
  the red eye Thursday night from LA. He's going rand logistics for the food
• 43:37
  court. He's incredible. But yeah, thanks, you're right. Thanks to
• 43:40
  all the vendors there, they were awesome. I hate three guys. Alex
• 43:43
  a native of Morgantown, w V. Grant I got a solution for your
• 43:45
  no listeners in the state of Dakota, North End South. I'm a financial
• 43:50
  planner, work mostly from home in Minnesota. Company I work for, though
• 43:54
  based in Fargo, just sixty miles away. I visit the office once or
• 43:59
  twice a week, frequently listening to your pod on my drive. Problem is
• 44:02
  the road to Fargo almost completely in Minnesota. Fargo's right on the border.
• 44:07
  I don't know exactly how they determine when someone's listening. Maybe I could download
• 44:09
  the episode while at work. Yeah, I could do that and we could
• 44:12
  bump up the number to forty nine states love the show. Let's go appreciate
• 44:15
  that. Yeah, texts are not necessarily for airing, so you're about to
• 44:20
  air it? What the hell? But a quick story in video. This
• 44:22
  spring, my son and sister were bowling at suburban lanes. Eight eight WV
• 44:28
  football players come in. They bowled two lanes next to us. Now,
• 44:30
  while we watch the games. We cheer extra hard for our bowling buddies.
• 44:34
  When I hear about Trey Lathan's power, I think, yeah, you should
• 44:37
  see him bowld I'm pretty sure. And then he sent us a video,
• 44:39
  but we couldn't download the videos, so anyway, I guess, yeah,
• 44:43
  they're good. Kids are bowling. Good to see him. If you can't,
• 44:46
  I mean, you can't bowl good, bowlhard. There's a T shirt.
• 44:52
  Here's a T shirt. I'm gonna go over to Jerry Lorenz say hey,
• 44:54
  Jerry, I got a T shirt for your suburban lanes. Can't bowl
• 44:58
  well, bowlhard? Good day, gentlemen. I'm born in Missouri. I
• 45:01
  was an army brat, moved to multiple states, even overseas throughout my childhood.
• 45:05
  In the mid seventies to the early eighties, my father was born and
• 45:07
  raised in Fairmont. My mother born and raised in Wisconsin. When my father
• 45:10
  retired and with the catchphrase, happy wife, Happy life, we settled in
• 45:16
  Wisconsin. Growing up, my father would talk about West Virginia or WVU,
• 45:20
  and a certain spark came into his eyes that would light up. Well.
• 45:24
  He has passed, and while I have been only to West Virginia for family
• 45:28
  reunions years ago. I attempt to continue the spark of his West Virginia pride
• 45:30
  on my brother and his family who live in Canada, along with anyone else
• 45:34
  who will listen to me. Late spring of this year, I first started
• 45:37
  listening to your podcast, and the pride that comes over the airways is something
• 45:40
  I greatly appreciate. It was your show who introduced me to the Country Roads
• 45:45
  Trust. I'm now a member. Also through year show, I've picked up
• 45:47
  a saying not even the army understands effordine. I've tried to limit using it
• 45:52
  in my current job while giving presentations to military leaders. Attached to picture taken
• 45:57
  last night in Norfolk, Virginia, effordin while wearing an effortine blue short sleeve
• 46:02
  T shirt to see Morgantown native and WV hype man Charles Wesley. God when
• 46:07
  there he is so Charles, thank you and I hope to meet you guys.
• 46:10
  Sometimes can't say thank you enough. I love John Clen Carson in Virginia,
• 46:15
  So thanks John. How about this? So he was at the concert
• 46:19
  there and Charles that night had his regular attire on. When Charles performed last
• 46:23
  Thursday down in southern West Virginia for the Appalachia Healing thing. He had the
• 46:29
  effortine shirt on you. Thank you John and Charles Wesley than I know Charles
• 46:35
  listened, so thank you Charles. We can get We should get Charles in
• 46:38
  here just for a little cameo appearance. Don't you think? Be great?
• 46:40
  Yeah? Terrific? Text her, Hello, the assumed mayor of Eleanor here.
• 46:46
  I wanted to give you an update on my trip to Morgantown this weekend.
• 46:50
  As previously noted, I penciled in my wonderfully amazing girlfriend for the game.
• 46:54
  I did so with the knowledge that she seemingly had a Mountaineer curse on
• 46:59
  her, equivalent to the one that Babe Ruth had on Boston then a Billy
• 47:01
  Goat had on Chicago. You remember this good deal. Every time he brought
• 47:06
  his girlfriend, the Mountaineers lost. So he was asking us if he should
• 47:08
  bring her any Yes, yes I do, and I said you should dump
• 47:12
  her anyway. He said, after hearing Tony's advice that I should dump her
• 47:15
  the way don Plitze White did West Virginia and Brad urging me to stay home
• 47:20
  as if we were hosting Baylor during COVID I ultimately chose to use the same
• 47:24
  decision making process coach Brown news when listening to an entire stadium urge him to
• 47:29
  run the ball with four minutes to go up seven, I ignored everyone and
• 47:32
  brought her to the game. I can happily say we finally sang Country Roads
• 47:37
  together. Curse lifted, keep up the amazing work to win the game.
• 47:44
  Happy couple, Yeah, Scopes spreads Dean. I always love hearing the wet
• 47:49
  to break up. If West Virginia had lost, though, I have to
• 47:52
  leave her at the stadium, I may have gone a little too strong and
• 47:55
  might have my recommendation. Scope spreads Dean. I always love hearing the West
• 48:00
  Virginia connection stories during textual healing, so I thought i'd sure mine. I
• 48:04
  live in a small town in northern Maine called Van Buren. The closest Walmart.
• 48:08
  The closest Walmart is seventy nine miles south. Oh my gosh, which
• 48:13
  is also how far the closest entrance to the interstate is for this part of
• 48:16
  Maine. To get to Dine ninety five, there's seventy nine miles away.
• 48:21
  We're right on the Canadian border, and we can see Canada from the windows
• 48:24
  upstairs. I work in healthcare. My facility I work for is in town,
• 48:30
  and the nurse that I replace when I go in is from Spencer,
• 48:32
  West Virginia. Because I'm originally from Buffalo, West Virginia, and last year
• 48:38
  we had a traveling nurse from Hurricane there were a handful of overnight shifts where
• 48:44
  the only three nurses working we're all from West Virginia. Somehow we all ended
• 48:49
  up in this little town where the graduating class at the high school is around
• 48:52
  twenty. We are the first town to ever have a McDonald's close because it
• 48:58
  wasn't making enough money to operate. Thank you for the entertainment, the information,
• 49:05
  everything else that comes from the work you guys put in this show means
• 49:08
  more to me than I could possibly express. It's so hard being so far
• 49:13
  from home during football season, and having you guys twice a week during the
• 49:16
  season really helps me feel really reconnected that I have. There's nothing I loved
• 49:22
  more than Saturday and sometimes Thursdays in Morgantown. I've lived so far away so
• 49:25
  long. I think the last game I saw in Morgantown was East Carolina when
• 49:30
  kJ ran for three thirty seven and four touchdowns. I was able to catch
• 49:34
  a few games when the Mountaineers played in Hartford. Sadly, Biggie's football died,
• 49:37
  so did my chances to make many games. Thank you guys for being
• 49:40
  there bringing a slice of home a couple of times a week. I love
• 49:45
  the season and enjoy I love the end season shows and enjoy the offseason just
• 49:50
  as much. I always look forward to the summer sessions. Wish you guys
• 49:52
  the best. Congratulations the old Golden Blue for getting West Virginia, the w
• 49:57
  over the Wreck and Red Raiders. The way things have gone the last couple
• 50:00
  the seasons, it could have been easy for the guys to drop their heads
• 50:01
  and say here we go again. Mindset and tech got to the TD early
• 50:07
  in the fourth, but instead we drove the field. Had the answer the
• 50:10
  right way. I had the MSN broadcast SYNCD with the ESPN Plus and it
• 50:15
  was a little sad when Taylor did not come down with that catch in the
• 50:17
  end zone. However, the worst part of that play was Tony missing the
• 50:21
  perfect chance to mention the ball going through Taylor's hands and crewming off of his
• 50:27
  helmet. Thanks again, Roger Van Buren, great Rogero pressing that small remote
• 50:31
  townent ESPM plus worked for him. I was just gonna say, how come
• 50:35
  it works in Van Buren, Maine and we can't get it here. He's
• 50:37
  probably getting his feed from Canada's Internet and that worked. You know, it
• 50:40
  might be internal though, in fairness, I mean, we got to look
• 50:43
  at ourselves first. Maybe some self scout self scouting. Hey, guys,
• 50:50
  I'm enthused the Mountaineers one today. First time texting watcher pot every week encouraged
• 50:53
  by the Mountaineers Game one. Unfortunately, I watched that game from against Penn
• 50:59
  State in my hospital room at Ruby. Have since been rehabbing at home.
• 51:01
  Not able to come down during the three games stand. I've been a season
• 51:06
  ticket holder since the eighties. Last two games dog fights. Happy with the
• 51:09
  winds, not with the play calling. Can't believe we didn't run the ball
• 51:13
  or burn some time off or force them to use a time out. Previously
• 51:17
  addressed on this program by the Senators Analysis Analysis on the pregame show. We
• 51:22
  needed to run the ball and we didn't do it. Not good when you're
• 51:24
  leading rushers your quarterback. We didn't score more than thirty points. Great day
• 51:29
  for a rain soaked day. Another unmad goal was losing the turnover margin two
• 51:34
  to zero. I also worry about the receiver drops. These need to be
• 51:37
  cleaned up fast. Hope to get back in the stands for the next home
• 51:40
  game. Also, I hope the speakeasy will be open. The brisket,
• 51:44
  pulled pork and chicken sound great. Would love to try the lemonade, but
• 51:47
  my wife would murder me. I'm diabetic and a pound of sugar, as
• 51:51
  you three guys said in one glass, would send me back to Ruby,
• 51:54
  either from shock or my wife killing me. It's a great day to be
• 51:57
  amount and there. I'll take the win, clean it up and on the
• 52:00
  others things up above, and we'll lose a close ruining the close games ran
• 52:02
  for one hundred and sixteen yards in the first half. When you kind of
• 52:06
  set the tone for that game. I thought they did a nice job running
• 52:07
  it, and as we outlined, I was totally unbored to play calling late.
• 52:12
  That was really good. Griffin from Morgantown originally from Parkersburg. I'm happy
• 52:16
  we got the opportunity to stop by the Three Guys food court. Thanks to
• 52:21
  Tony for stopping at our table and talking to us. We were at Daniels
• 52:23
  working with fine looking Phil to get for I get our suits for my wedding,
• 52:28
  which is today Sunday, and we're happy to get the chance to have
• 52:34
  some delicious Rev barbecue and drink a couple of Kerchieveils. All. My groomsman
• 52:38
  said that Rev's BBQ brisket tacos were the best they've ever had. Quote.
• 52:44
  Hope to see the food court continue. So he's getting married today. For
• 52:47
  minutes, Texas says this, I've been laughing for five straight minutes when Hoppy
• 52:52
  said in the last episode, how's your salvation? Efforting Ellen Clarksburg, gentlemen,
• 53:00
  if you would have told me before the season that du Kane would score
• 53:04
  more touchdowns against US than Pitt and Texas Tech combined, I would have said,
• 53:08
  no way. Holding Texas Tech to one touchdown. I don't care if
• 53:13
  either the backup quarterback who last year played successfully against West Virginia and won the
• 53:16
  game, holding them to one touchdown. That is a major, major win.
• 53:21
  This next Texter is starting a movement regarding the Big Twelve conference's refusal to
• 53:27
  advertise game times and anything other than central refusal. I've started to respond to
• 53:31
  the weekly game time announcement tweets that they put out with what time Eastern and
• 53:37
  I include at Brett your mark in the tweets. I suggest we mobilize the
• 53:42
  legion of three guys listeners in WV Twitter to in and date Big twelve offices
• 53:45
  to do the same hashtag efforty. I think given a big middle finger to
• 53:50
  the Eastern Times. I think they should. I think now is the time
• 53:52
  we've waited long enough. Nice you tried to approach it diplomatically through the proper
• 53:55
  channels, multiple channels. I say, go ahead and keep doing it.
• 54:00
  Bang him, fix it quote text just said fact out loud when alone in
• 54:06
  my car, when I heard hoppies take on mimosas nothing worse than a water
• 54:10
  down mosa. Proper way to serve them is to bring out a bottle of
• 54:15
  champagne and a glass of oj and let me pour my own ideal ratio ninety
• 54:19
  nine percent champagne, one percent orange juice. Man Duke could make him anyway
• 54:22
  you want. Duke's Duca knows what he's doing. Well, Ducon knows what
• 54:27
  he's doing. Not his first radio No, he's he was terrific. That's
• 54:30
  great, chef too, hoppy. Is he that's what his deal is.
• 54:36
  Well, no, I'm just I had wife Abby. They're helping as well.
• 54:40
  She was kind of multitasking with her full time jobs. Was the dean
• 54:45
  of the business school was there? Yeah? Then, yeah, he was
• 54:47
  there trying. I think he's wrong whether they're trying to pick up some marketing
• 54:50
  tips. I had one of those by accident. I don't know that it
• 54:55
  was accident. I had one of those blue things. He didn't pick it
• 54:59
  up, thinking it was water drink it. That would have been an accident.
• 55:00
  Somebody handed you the drink and said would you like this? You said
• 55:02
  absolutely. I took it in two steps, wasn't it Martini Hoppy? Yeah?
• 55:08
  What did it do to you? It just like made you feel warm
• 55:12
  and fuzzy. He gets it was good, It was delicious. It was
• 55:16
  it was good. It just so he'll take care of you. Had a
• 55:22
  designated driver. I neighbor Chuck. Yeah, yeah, Chuck was there.
• 55:25
  Surprised he didn't have identified didn't have as a tool belt on with some work
• 55:29
  tools. Hello, this is Owen from Beckley who just showed his picture with
• 55:34
  his girlfriend. I want to say thank you for the hospitality at the three
• 55:37
  Guys fan Friday fan fan of and I told Hoppy, you guys are like
• 55:39
  mythical figures to the people of West Virginia. But you guys couldn't have been
• 55:44
  more down to earth. Thank you for making a video saying hi to my
• 55:46
  dad. I've never seen him happier. You guys are the best. Yeah,
• 55:52
  that's that was the young man there from that young major and his dad
• 55:55
  is a respiratory therapist. That's right. Yeah, yeah, so he he
• 56:00
  saves lives. Also, I received we can't show the video because we can't
• 56:05
  get it to play because it was sent to us on an Instagram link.
• 56:07
  But anyway, there was this country Roads was being sung at this massive beerfest
• 56:15
  in Germany at the net covid. I mean it was like all you and
• 56:19
  the people were rocking it. So that was neat Mike and Parkersburg. Guys.
• 56:25
  We just gotta keep dragging teams into the deep water and then pulling them
• 56:29
  under. I like that. We're not going to just roll off from anyone
• 56:31
  this year. That is side like an alligator, like drag him in rolls
• 56:38
  good. But if we can get teams into a rock fight, I love
• 56:40
  this team's chances the O and the D lines are stout in testinal fortitude off
• 56:45
  the charts. I'm so rooting for Kneel and Company. A lot easier to
• 56:47
  keep the same coach and to make changes, as you guys know. By
• 56:51
  the way, the Three Guys food Court was awesome last week and this week
• 56:54
  as well, even if Hoppy was m Ia yesterday. Lolps, we have
• 56:59
  landed Richie Cowdy. We'll hop you. I mean, Hobby's not coming on
• 57:01
  Saturdays. I'm just telling you because he locks in. He's got a big
• 57:05
  broadcast do. But Friday, I thought you went above and beyond the call
• 57:08
  of duty. I enjoyed the get. I enjoyed it very much Friday.
• 57:12
  Probably a little bit too much actually, but it was nice. But I
• 57:15
  mean, did you go because you wanted to go? Or did Chuck say,
• 57:17
  hey, Hoppy, I'll let's go. No. I wanted to go,
• 57:22
  and I knew that you were going to go after the show, and
• 57:24
  knew Brad would be there, and I just I wanted to go, and
• 57:30
  so I texted Chuck. I said, hey, buddy, you want to
• 57:34
  And Chuck had a good time, so it was you know, we had
• 57:37
  fun. I just wanted to go. What I don't do enough of while
• 57:39
  I'm there is i'd love to sit and talk with folks more on why they
• 57:45
  listen, what they like, what they don't like, how they consume it.
• 57:50
  Don't do enough of that well, because a lot of it, too
• 57:52
  is just you're you're talking to them about them and who they are and so,
• 57:58
  which is really great. And you know, it's fun because it's like
• 58:00
  there's this club or society and we get to meet the members. Yeah,
• 58:07
  it's great. Hey, three guys, I just watched a Texas Tech podcast.
• 58:10
  They're calling this game the fight for John Denver's soul. If they feel
• 58:15
  all that strong about it, we'll never win. We're gonna have to steal
• 58:19
  the statue Tony. This might be for Brad since being governor. This might
• 58:22
  be for Hoppy. How many WV football or basketball games as the governor Jim
• 58:27
  Justice attended in Morgantown. I hope it's a great day to be a mountaineer.
• 58:31
  I don't know. I don't know that. I don't think he comes
• 58:34
  to many, and remember he's a Marshall grand but I don't know. I
• 58:39
  don't think many. I don't know Texter or Hello. I just want to
• 58:43
  address the kinder gentler hoppy Tony don't miss my deadline Careeri and Brad don't mess
• 58:47
  with my shoes? How may need to lighten up. As for someone who
• 58:51
  can do a good Tony imitation, there's this guy in Morgantown that I hear
• 58:54
  on the radio that sounds pretty close Andrew something or another. By the way,
• 58:59
  food gets big thumbs up from both missus Wayne from Clarksburg and me.
• 59:02
  Will you do it for the rest of the season. You know, don't
• 59:06
  mess with my shoes that last episode? Do you want me to put my
• 59:08
  shoes up on the I I just simply said I'm gonna pull a hamstring If
• 59:14
  I do. That would have limited me. I want to give it a
• 59:15
  big shout out to Joe and Amanda White from Barbersville. Terrific. They were
• 59:20
  there their son Alex playing golf at Cabel Midland, and Amanda said to me,
• 59:23
  she goes as soon as you said that, I totally agree with you.
• 59:27
  I was worried about my hamstring when he was talking about it. Thank
• 59:30
  you. But they got to see the shoes. What I say, come
• 59:31
  to that, Yeah, it was accomplished. Accomplished. T Dubb and Barbersville
• 59:37
  checks and fellas. Cole Taylor is to Mountaineer football what Eric Stevenson was to
• 59:43
  Mountaineer basketball. Nice reference. It's just an instant, instant productivity. Yeah,
• 59:47
  that Garrick provided. I don't think. I don't see any noticeable Yeah
• 59:54
  that's good. I mean, yeah, I'm with you. And Cole's from
• 59:58
  Colorado and Eric's from the Northwest, so we just need to keep going west
• 1:00:00
  of the Mississippi to get instant impact players. You know, I want to
• 1:00:04
  go back to that tight end to tighten pass, which was a complete surprise
• 1:00:09
  to everybody, and you know, you only have a limited amount of time
• 1:00:14
  to prepare for a game, and you think, oh it is it?
• 1:00:15
  Why don't just run that play? It is not easy to put in something
• 1:00:20
  entirely different and have and have and execute that play Brad successfully. That's not
• 1:00:24
  easy to do and it worked perfect. Yeah, one of the new wrinkles
• 1:00:28
  brought out at a great time. Thank god Cole Taylor wasn't seriously hurt on
• 1:00:30
  that co did not look good the way he was in like a semi split
• 1:00:34
  there. And now you have like now the TCU defensive coaches like, oh
• 1:00:37
  crap, right for that yeah, text or Brad for you over under on
• 1:00:43
  West Virginia players with a passing completion lines three and a half, Yeah,
• 1:00:47
  you're you're see you're right at three right now under? He might go over.
• 1:00:53
  There might be another wrinkle in there. Callagher might go over. That's
• 1:00:59
  a good line, though, Let's go over text or first time text or
• 1:01:05
  forever? Listener? How many pass interference calls has been called defending preston Fox?
• 1:01:08
  It reminds me of Kevin White and David Sills. Defense can't defend them
• 1:01:13
  special. I think when he finally gets to play free, he's going to
• 1:01:15
  have a heck of a game and a heck of a career. West Virginia
• 1:01:20
  got And of course all the calls were by against Texas Tech are absolutely legitimate,
• 1:01:23
  But man, did you get some good calls at good times in that
• 1:01:28
  game. Thought the crew did a wonderful job, especially the exact science of
• 1:01:31
  spotting the ball, especially when there's a giant pile of twenty two and one,
• 1:01:35
  you know exactly where that ball spot came right in and had that exact
• 1:01:39
  spot that gave West Virginia the first time. It is it's just it's just
• 1:01:45
  a game of just half inches, So it's incredible they can get it that
• 1:01:49
  close as they did with a chain link fence. One of the one of
• 1:01:52
  the great, one of the great mysteries of sport right there that we're still
• 1:01:57
  using that What did you guys offenses on it comes and they always run in
• 1:02:01
  like weaving got it. It's because the guy on one end is holding exactly
• 1:02:08
  the link where he's gonna put down. That's what it is. Is that
• 1:02:12
  what it is that makes it all accurate. It did a perfect job.
• 1:02:14
  Yes, what did you guys think, really quick, what did you guys
• 1:02:15
  think of the replay over rule on the completion down the Mountaineer sideline late in
• 1:02:22
  the game on number four? Jordans I said during our broadcast right away said
• 1:02:25
  that's that's I was hoping that they were gonna say he didn't have complete controlling
• 1:02:30
  was out about it. It's one of those though, and I know we
• 1:02:32
  gotta get moving all at text, but it's one of those moments and replay
• 1:02:36
  though, where you could have very easily said not enough evidence to overturn because
• 1:02:40
  was his foot really down? Was he bobbling at that? I mean that
• 1:02:44
  was that's that? Yeah, But I thought they were going to overturn that,
• 1:02:47
  and it probably was the right call. But I thought, that's you
• 1:02:51
  know two things. On times they won't reverse with overwhelming evidence, and sometimes
• 1:02:54
  like on that when it's a bang bang in two different situations. Yeah,
• 1:02:58
  that's good overturn that. Two things. One is it Also it gives you
• 1:03:01
  new respect for the officials. I mean you saw that, Tony, I'm
• 1:03:05
  sure in real time. I mean to make that call in real time super
• 1:03:07
  hard, extremely difficult, first of all. Second of all, when we
• 1:03:10
  saw the replay over and overthought, we were talking about it during the game,
• 1:03:14
  thought yeah, you can probably overturn that. Yeah, what do you
• 1:03:15
  think Like I said, I thought it. I thought he was still handling
• 1:03:20
  it out of him button that he bumped me out. Anyway, you can't
• 1:03:22
  complain because you got a lot of good calls in the game. Absolutely text
• 1:03:25
  or Scopes new word alert. I've never heard you say the word regurgitate.
• 1:03:31
  John from Wellen Park, Florida via Moundsville, home of the Harlots. I
• 1:03:35
  used the word during the broadcast yesterday when a receiver from Tech had positioned himself
• 1:03:39
  to catch the ball. He was hit hard in the back, and I
• 1:03:42
  said he regurgitated the ball. Oh okay, yeah, Tray Lathan on the
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  hit. Yeah, hey, three guys, is it me or does our
• 1:03:49
  fan base stink? Right now? What's this? Every week? Can't be
• 1:03:52
  a rivalry? Where's the love? I don't know that any coach will ever
• 1:03:55
  be able to live up to the legend of Kneeling or the expectations that Rich
• 1:04:00
  I'd set for the fan base. If Neilan were to be our head coach,
• 1:04:02
  would you have made it past year five and the new college football era
• 1:04:06
  question? I don't know. Don won six, then he won nine,
• 1:04:11
  then he won nine, then he won nine. So yeah, he's probably
• 1:04:13
  around for year five. Not enough? Didn't win a nannym Texter, Greg
• 1:04:16
  and Catletzburg. Did somebody say this team had to score more than eighteen points
• 1:04:23
  to win? Great wins? So happy for those guys. What if before
• 1:04:27
  the game somebody had said West Virginia's only going to score twenty points? Do
• 1:04:30
  you have to win? He'd say no, Well, I'll tell you what
• 1:04:32
  the lock was. The lock was the under How that thing was at fifty
• 1:04:36
  five? That's a miss miss price by Vegas. How'd you do on that?
• 1:04:43
  Lock of the week? Was the under and now said plus six on
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  our pregame show, and now Brad's two girls get to get new shoes this
• 1:04:49
  week. Read from Reidsville. Hey guys, longtime listener, first time text
• 1:04:55
  or good game plan by Neil and staff. Overall ran when they should,
• 1:04:59
  through when they could. One pick was a bad throw. One pick unlucky.
• 1:05:01
  My only real gripe about the play call was the one we already talked
• 1:05:04
  about. Late in the game. I realized box was loaded to an extent,
• 1:05:08
  but it's frustrating to see us not utilize our strength running backs to the
• 1:05:11
  old line when we had a tight lead. Nonetheless, good scrappy win Coach
• 1:05:14
  Brown of the program. Scrappy teams find ways to win and keep it up.
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  Love the show, Love all you guys do. Signed by Reid in
• 1:05:19
  Reidsville, probably not his real name, Texter. I recently returned from a
• 1:05:27
  vacation in West Virginia's fifty sixth County otherwise known as Hory County, South Carolina.
• 1:05:31
  It must be myrtle beaches there huts. While there, I had the
• 1:05:35
  opportunity to eat at flip Flops Bar and Grill on the shore. The food
• 1:05:40
  good, beverages, coal, but a last no kerchival anywhere. What made
• 1:05:44
  this little pub fun was scanning the dozens of flip flops that adorned the bar.
• 1:05:47
  I came across two that were decorated with flying wvs and it made my
• 1:05:51
  day. There they are up on the wall there, hoppy flyingwes. I
• 1:05:55
  also spotted a boat at Merle's Inlet that sported our internationally recognized logo. So
• 1:06:00
  there's a mountaineer logo on one of those boats. One matter close right there
• 1:06:03
  from Lowell Marine. You know like it might be right? Well, sure
• 1:06:08
  it is, because when you go down there, you have fun. And
• 1:06:10
  Louwendell Marine Sales they sell family fund Visit them at Louwendell Marine Sales dot com.
• 1:06:15
  That's Louwendell Marine Sales dot com. That may be where they parked the
• 1:06:19
  James Bond pontoon in Merle's Inlet. On a matter close to home, I
• 1:06:25
  respectfully suggest several items for inclusion on your episode eight hundred website. How about
• 1:06:30
  mudflaps, sippy cups and Christmas ornaments? Oh yeah? A deck of three
• 1:06:35
  guys playing cards could also be part of it, but instead of the customary
• 1:06:40
  King, Jack and Joker have the faces of you three clowns. Thank you
• 1:06:44
  fair Okay, who's show? Who's the joker? That's Gaale from Martinsburg,
• 1:06:49
  Jim the Poet, laureatete checking in. Last week it was Mick and the
• 1:06:55
  Stones. Today the great songwriter d Snyder of Twisted Sister. We're not gonna
• 1:07:00
  take it. No, we ain't gonna take it. We're not gonna take
• 1:07:02
  it anymore. Keep up the good work, get some horned frogs Twisted Sister.
• 1:07:10
  Three guys, I got a dilemma. Oh this is kind of wow.
• 1:07:13
  This is for both you, guys. I love listening to Tony while
• 1:07:15
  watching the game of the stadium, but I also like to hear Brad and
• 1:07:16
  Happy the rest of the crew and how coach Dunlap breaks down the game.
• 1:07:20
  Is he back from fishing yet this week? He's not been with you ever?
• 1:07:25
  Request resolution for said dilemma. Can Metro News breakdown during the game be
• 1:07:30
  recorded into a podcast? If it was recorded, then I could go back
• 1:07:33
  and rewatch the recorded game. I can sync up the Metro News comments and
• 1:07:39
  see the breakdown as the game takes place. I'd love to see the or
• 1:07:42
  be able to hear both broadcast Signed by a P one listener. Yeah,
• 1:07:46
  probably not. I can't even get ESPN plus. Thank you. Yeah,
• 1:07:53
  I don't think nine hours, nine a half hours without the game. You
• 1:07:59
  had one more thing and the whole thing Will Collast almost did yesterday at text.
• 1:08:08
  He please forgive any grammatical or spelling airas as I'm trying to get this
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  in under the six am Central time deadline. As a lifelong mountaineer fan,
• 1:08:18
  this weekend was a top ten all time. Friday and my girlfriend and I
• 1:08:23
  connected with two of my buddies to start our adventure. John, who I've
• 1:08:26
  known since first grade, and his former roommate at Duke, Mike, came
• 1:08:30
  in from Baltimore and Atlanta, respectively. This has become an annual visit with
• 1:08:33
  Mike. Never seen a mountaineer loss in Morgantown ever. We had a wonderful
• 1:08:39
  time at the food court. We actually got to chat with all three of
• 1:08:41
  the guys Friday night. What a great event. The rest of the weekend
• 1:08:44
  has been food, beverages, tailgating, and finally standing in the rain with
• 1:08:47
  friends to sing country Roads Early are houp Okay, yeah, just great.
• 1:08:53
  Just guys were seen by the world on TV. More Texan so there they
• 1:08:57
  are on TV. And go back to that one picture Luke, the previous
• 1:09:01
  one. So both the guys on the end are Duke graduates. Okay,
• 1:09:05
  the gentleman on the left is a psychiatrist. We could use him. The
• 1:09:10
  gentleman on the right is a life coach. Both Duke grads. And they
• 1:09:16
  were really impressed that I knew that Duke was playing Connecticut this weekend. And
• 1:09:19
  then Jimmy's Jimmy our boy, Jimmy Smallridge there who you know, you know,
• 1:09:25
  Jim Charleston. Yeah, there's wonderful things. Mountaineer Food Bank board members,
• 1:09:29
  Yes, whole thing. So there you go. Think its great to
• 1:09:30
  see you guys. I did my head to do my don Cricky. I
• 1:09:33
  was like a trained seeah, there they are right there, and they battled
• 1:09:38
  through the rain that and and props to those who I know it was a
• 1:09:41
  lousy day, and it promps to those fans who came and stayed. I
• 1:09:44
  mean it was kind of nasty there Troy and Long Island. What's the last
• 1:09:46
  time West Virginia one two straight with less than a hundred yards passing? I
• 1:09:51
  mean that might go into like where you got to go in and get the
• 1:09:55
  record books and they're moldy and dusty. Here's here's another one. I'm not
• 1:09:59
  sure if it ended up this way. I have to check. I get
• 1:10:00
  the stat sheets somewhere that Texas Tech might have had more fourth down conversions than
• 1:10:05
  third down conversion. Yes, it wasn't true. Five of eight row on
• 1:10:10
  fourth down, two of eighteen on third Yeah. A gentleman who identifies himself
• 1:10:15
  as Lost Creek from Lost Creek? Can we finally be seeing the climb paying
• 1:10:19
  off? Also? I finally had a kerchivl good stuff texter. He If
• 1:10:27
  anyone didn't make it to the food court the past couple of weeks, what
• 1:10:30
  are you doing? Jolie and I had a blast. Had too many awesome
• 1:10:32
  food and beverages to list. I want to give Brad and I don't want
• 1:10:35
  to give Brad an aneurism, But I think Texas Tech brought the Lubbock West
• 1:10:39
  Texas wind with them. It was really whipping in the stadium. Love the
• 1:10:43
  event. Everyone's hospitality go years there you go. Jelly were great, they've
• 1:10:46
  been they've been. Yeah, every time the food court has been open.
• 1:10:49
  Yeah, that that Morgantown win. You can't come up here and playing that.
• 1:10:53
  If you're not used to that, you can't come into this wind in
• 1:10:55
  here. You have no idea what you're doing. Texas Tech was really I
• 1:10:57
  mean that put everybody want to talk about the punter all week. He hit
• 1:10:59
  it straight up in the wind, got him. I couldn't throw into that
• 1:11:01
  win. You cannot come in here and handle Morgantown win unless you deal with
• 1:11:05
  it every day, sending you're right. Seth from Parkersburg watched the game on
• 1:11:11
  his phone and a Margaritaville bar. There you go, have a big cocktail.
• 1:11:16
  He let his family have the tickets. That's why he stayed back.
• 1:11:19
  This is our boy, Jason and Tulsa remember him had that horrific legging here.
• 1:11:24
  Yeah, I'm stepped into that big gopher hole. He's back, He
• 1:11:28
  says, Alert, Alert Alert in game text. Well we're down two turnovers
• 1:11:33
  but still winning by ten at a half. What's happening and what's going on?
• 1:11:36
  And also what is happening Tony? I think you're Sean mcdonno. Impersonation
• 1:11:42
  is becoming unintentional because it was applied mid game too. Lee Coba with the
• 1:11:47
  tackle and I love it. You do do that, you know that.
• 1:11:50
  What's that just unintentionally slip into do you know you're doing it? No?
• 1:11:57
  What was the stoppage of play on the Brady? And then we actually got
• 1:12:01
  the spot by a single subatomic particle? Has the tide turn? Has the
• 1:12:05
  world gone mad? No penalties in the first half? And who and the
• 1:12:09
  world is calling these plays and formations? This is amazing? Hashtag my opinion
• 1:12:14
  is worthless, And then slowly he writes back after the game slightly lower alert
• 1:12:17
  postgame text, whoa there you go, Texter, Hello Scopes Dean, the
• 1:12:27
  dean of Drink and Daniel's best employee. It was good to finally get a
• 1:12:30
  win against the Red Raiders. Neil definitely needed that. Hopefully we can keep
• 1:12:34
  the momentum going next week and get Green back to help spark the offense against
• 1:12:39
  the Frogs. What I would really like to say is I feel like the
• 1:12:43
  episode eight hundred website needs to carry three guys decoder pins, similar to the
• 1:12:46
  ones on the movie A Christmas Story. That way, Tony could give up
• 1:12:50
  messages for us listeners to decode each week like Ralfie. Seriously, though I
• 1:12:55
  love the show, always look forward, can't ever seem to catch them when
• 1:12:59
  they're online. Hello, l let's go mountaineers, not hoppy? How or
• 1:13:02
  hugs and high point? And there he is. There's this dacoda ring and
• 1:13:05
  it says, see that Brad he hit things. Yeah, there's a code
• 1:13:10
  there medallion. Did you see final looking Phil? Was that at the food
• 1:13:15
  gathering on Friday? Yeah? It's tape measure around his neck. Came down
• 1:13:18
  Saturday too with his tape measure around until I'm sure he's He told a great
• 1:13:24
  story about Zack Spiker and Jay Wright about going clothes shopping. No, I
• 1:13:29
  never told you that story. Do you know this story? Center? Jay
• 1:13:32
  Wright? Come in? No? What was it? I was a story?
• 1:13:35
  Do you want to tell that? No? I'm not. I know
• 1:13:38
  Matt Painter one time split his pants or forgot his suit, and he came
• 1:13:41
  over and got his suit before they played himself by himself. Why wouldn't he
• 1:13:45
  that Painter did? Why wouldn't He's great text? Hey guys, I saw
• 1:13:53
  a news article that Scopes is going to love. According to CBS, Miami
• 1:13:57
  has a tight end petitioning the ACC for an ninth year of eligibility. I
• 1:14:01
  saw that, lest is it nine years? Yeah? Went on that that's
• 1:14:04
  that's right into line with Tony your yeah one away from ten player for life,
• 1:14:13
  uh Texter Todd in Summersville, Summerville, South Carolina. This team has
• 1:14:17
  turned the corner with depth and confidence. Take a look at West Virginia's last
• 1:14:23
  seven games. They're five and two. Oklahoma a win twenty three twenty number
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  fifteen, Kansas State. Do you lost forty eight thirty one? You beat
• 1:14:32
  Oak State twenty four nineteen, you lose to Penn State thirty eight fifteen,
• 1:14:36
  they're number seven in the country. You beat Duquesne, you beat pitt you
• 1:14:40
  beat Texas. Texts So of your last seven games, your two losses have
• 1:14:43
  been the number seven and number fifteen. It's a good point, respectable record
• 1:14:46
  against a tough schedule. That's good to put that in perspective. Text Jim
• 1:14:51
  and Clarksburg. West Virginia's lawed one TD in their last eight quarters. That's
• 1:14:56
  impressive. It is. It's real good text or hey, three guys Jordan
• 1:15:01
  and Morgantown. Gives me hope. Maybe this team's just different. Am I
• 1:15:04
  the only Mountaineer fan watching seeing the missed opportunities offensively and watching the fourth quarter
• 1:15:11
  unfold thinking I've seen this movie before text is gonna go score, then get
• 1:15:14
  two and win, and we're gonna be left thinking, what the heck happened?
• 1:15:16
  Great to see them rewriting the script and hope that they can keep the
• 1:15:19
  good vibes rolling. Texter, all right, I didn't want to say it,
• 1:15:24
  and jinks it till it happened. It took us three and a half
• 1:15:26
  games to get a false start penalty. What's the longest streak in West Virginia
• 1:15:30
  history without one? There was some question about that call too, and they
• 1:15:33
  wasn't happy about that. Yeah, because he felt they could have come to
• 1:15:36
  him and warned them about Zach Frazier and the double snap ps. He says
• 1:15:42
  the brisket is legit. He says, the brisket is legit, one percent
• 1:15:45
  delicious. Someone else checking him From North Dakota. My brother Steve moved to
• 1:15:51
  North Dakota twenty. Doesn't go a day without sporting the flying West Virginia represents
• 1:15:56
  the state. I'm effordine for years asking my brother to subscribe to three Guys.
• 1:16:00
  Well, there it is. When I heard Tony say there's no subscribers
• 1:16:01
  in Dakotas, I sent the latest link to my brother for him to give
• 1:16:04
  it a listen and try, and now Tony should be able to confirm a
• 1:16:08
  subscriber. Look at that, and there we go. He's still getting Yeah
• 1:16:10
  standing there, that's no North Dakota hoppy, Yeah, that we're in North
• 1:16:15
  Dakota. Yeah. By the way, if he took a step, would
• 1:16:17
  he didn't be in South Dakota? So can we take both there? Solid
• 1:16:20
  point could be I mean you could. I don't know where he's crossing from.
• 1:16:25
  So text her no way. Better to celebrate first big twelve win in
• 1:16:30
  the air than with my very first kirche veil. Dan and Rowan Oak been
• 1:16:33
  refreshing. How big is it? How is he got Andre the Giant's hand?
• 1:16:39
  The picture of year you with Hunter driving your truck? How big is
• 1:16:42
  the dude's hand? He? Small is the beard? We go? Smaller
• 1:16:45
  can looks like a that looks like a fumble. It's a thimble thimble.
• 1:16:48
  It looks like a thimble fumble thimble. That's no kirche veil at all.
• 1:16:53
  That's thanks Andre the Giant for drinking drinking kerchef text or big w great Weather.
• 1:17:02
  Nico's the all time great bad weather quarterback. He loves the slop.
• 1:17:08
  His father was a mutter good Pereopolis phil Our Air Force. He does get
• 1:17:14
  wins in bed weather. He does text or our Air Force and Space Force
• 1:17:17
  buddies got to sing country roads for the first time. There you go,
• 1:17:20
  hoppy. Oh yeah, Yeah, that's Morgan from Morgantown on the left.
• 1:17:27
  Yes, and that's your lawn cutter guy. Well, that's used to be
• 1:17:30
  elite, world class landscaping that entered the trans report. What's he majoring in?
• 1:17:35
  I don't know. That's yea is an elite landscaper. He's at a
• 1:17:41
  very bright future. Those are some people can only assume grad school came in
• 1:17:44
  with a hell of an offer Ni l one and just pulled him away.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah, Joe and a manager my trust to do a better job of raising
• 1:17:50
  money so that I can retain. Are you saying that it's important how much
• 1:17:54
  money the trust raises? What's what happened? I lost my guy. Yeah,
• 1:17:57
  we'll get out there and do a good job at getting enough money.
• 1:18:00
  Don't you sell some hats or beer or something. I gotta entered the portal,
• 1:18:02
  couldn't do any about it. Joe and amand to check in here at
• 1:18:05
  the university. A billion daughter budget, I don't bought him away from me.
• 1:18:10
  Joe and a man to check in from Barbersville. Great time Saturday,
• 1:18:13
  talking with Brad, enjoying the pancakes from Tardy Time pancakes with Nutella and peanut
• 1:18:17
  butter. Way to go, FYI. Great game today, finishing up three
• 1:18:20
  great homestand there so many games, so many big decisions coming for coach.
• 1:18:25
  Who do you think will be under center against TCU? To channel Hoppy,
• 1:18:29
  I need a firm answer, markol Or Green confirmed answers. Only looking forward
• 1:18:32
  to three guys rooting on cabl Midland Golf at the regionals. You were talking
• 1:18:36
  about those folks was Alex the plays for Cavimanland, So that's probably was that
• 1:18:40
  Joe Joe white In. Hey, bring up Luke the picture of me and
• 1:18:46
  Brad and the dude with the gold hoodie on that I sent you late Todd.
• 1:18:53
  There he is. What a story? Tell that story? Great story.
• 1:18:57
  He was the first one there yesterday morning, just came walking in and
• 1:19:00
  had chance to talk to hims. Got big lemonade right there, Hoppy.
• 1:19:02
  Well, really really fun story. The first part of it is that he
• 1:19:06
  found the show while going through cancer treatments. And listen to it every day
• 1:19:12
  and glad to say he's in remission and it's clear and he's he's doing great
• 1:19:15
  on that front. But his wife and he went ahead and decided too.
• 1:19:21
  They sold their home and have bought an RV that they live in for their
• 1:19:26
  home, but also bring it to each game. Okay, and so while
• 1:19:30
  listening to one of the shows he took advantage of I think it was maybe
• 1:19:33
  the very first Burdette camping promotion. And when I remember years ago when this
• 1:19:40
  started, we had that receipt on the show of the big discount. A
• 1:19:45
  bunch of partners that was Todd from Parkersburg. Yeah, a lot the way.
• 1:19:48
  So they drive every weekend with their with their RV which is also their
• 1:19:51
  home. Oh man, and blessed us hard. He's been listening to the
• 1:19:55
  show for a number of years and battling through. Good job. So thanks
• 1:19:59
  Todd, J Todd. So yeah, so this is what going back to
• 1:20:01
  earlier in the episode when I said they got a salesman over there at Burdette.
• 1:20:05
  That doesn't tell the truth. Wow, yeah, not about the sales
• 1:20:12
  part of the vehicles and stuff, but yeah, they got a sales guy
• 1:20:15
  over there named Jimmy Dean that time I went out and killed a boar with
• 1:20:19
  one shot. He was talking to He was talking to Todd at Burdette.
• 1:20:26
  This was after I had killed the boar. They were talking about it,
• 1:20:29
  and Jimmy Dean was on the hunt, and Jimmy Dean told him that after
• 1:20:34
  I shot and killed the boar that I was so excited that I paid my
• 1:20:39
  pants. It's not true. It's not true. Here, let's get stupider.
• 1:20:43
  So I thought about this, there's only one way to prove the truth.
• 1:20:45
  Bring your pants in. I'm willing to do a lie detector test.
• 1:20:50
  Jimmy can do a lie detector test, and we'll see who's bsen. Oh,
• 1:20:55
  go get an independent guy. No, they're not submissive, able to
• 1:20:58
  be submitted in court. But like Kayley, let's put it up. I
• 1:21:02
  mean, I thought that was kind of bs on his pipe there. Look,
• 1:21:06
  there are questions, there are questions lingering about the hunt. But I
• 1:21:11
  seriously doubt I believe you when you say you didn't pee your paints like I
• 1:21:15
  like I told him, I believe him on that I said I didn't.
• 1:21:18
  My whole deal was like kill the boar, I'm out of here. See
• 1:21:21
  you later. So yeah, So, Jimmy, you can now had the
• 1:21:26
  boar been awake and been charging at you, I could have maybe understood that
• 1:21:30
  we know it was, it wasn't charging the whole charge. It might not
• 1:21:32
  have been p Yeah, mister creedis pooped his paints. Uh, there'll be
• 1:21:40
  no further comments. Texter. One guy, one guy efforting some got some
• 1:21:45
  good coffee. Hassan Feffer is always the one from our group, consistently effort
• 1:21:48
  nine game. So look great group there at a tailgate, and the one
• 1:21:53
  gentleman there in the blue shirts got his efforting T shirt with a big coffee
• 1:21:56
  looks. I love it. Great work, Texter. That was a win
• 1:22:00
  is a win game. Texas is nine Texas Texas nine penalties for ninety six
• 1:22:04
  seemed to all come at key times. At this level, you have to
• 1:22:09
  take advantage of the other team's mistakes. I watched the game at a bar
• 1:22:12
  here and probably forty WV fans were watching, including a table that was rooting
• 1:22:16
  for Texas Tech. Not bad for being five hundred miles away from Morgantown.
• 1:22:21
  Mountaineer fans just want a competent team on the field. The rain held the
• 1:22:25
  crowdown Saturday, but they deserve more for the rest of the years. Sun
• 1:22:28
  by Joe and try those to those that came. As we said last week,
• 1:22:30
  it can be a less than capacity crowd and still make a difference because
• 1:22:33
  those people that showed up and stayed through the rain, they wanted to be
• 1:22:36
  there. They were loud. They got loud there at the Enna, Tony
• 1:22:39
  right that last drive, they were extremely loud and made a difference. We
• 1:22:41
  always say that, like when you get weird weather or delays in games,
• 1:22:45
  like the ones that stay like they go like ten X on their volume.
• 1:22:50
  Hey, three guys, this is the real Morgan and Morgantown. Two thoughts.
• 1:22:54
  This team always seems to start slow, but I love how our defense
• 1:22:57
  is coming along and number two been getting way too much enjoyment every time that
• 1:23:01
  Clown Athletic director Ray Anderson of Arizona State and the Sun Devils lose. He
• 1:23:05
  had made a disparaging comment about the great state of West Virginia. Good have
• 1:23:12
  a reason to be upset when they come in text. Gentlemen, I'm impressed
• 1:23:15
  with the leadership and the resilience of this team. They seem to be improving
• 1:23:18
  each week. I'll take ugly wins every week. I believe we're forming an
• 1:23:23
  identity. We play hard every play. What do y'all think of the identity
• 1:23:27
  of this team Mason and Mason County. So farst hits you right in the
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  face. Yeah, punch your right in the mouth, which which Neil Brown's
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  stress, the coaching staff stress that they wanted to be tougher than they were
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  in so far, that's proven to be true. Jim and Morgantown wrote a
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  text about that last possession where West Virginia threw it. Were addressed it Charles
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  and Wyoming. So when you score TD with one second left to go up
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  to everyone knows you take a knee on the point after try instead of risking
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  a block and return the kick. What's this? Okay? Fine, he's
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  right, but doesn't matter those of us holding a plus train and a half
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  ticket worth. Thanks Tony for getting the game broadcast back in real time.
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  Would you please admonish Hoppy for going total steam release on fans for not coming
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  to a fifty degree rain game with rain and tropical force wins. I was
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  there. It was miserable. Look at the poor lady Hoppy, She's trying
• 1:24:20
  to get her tent up. All of a sudden, she's about ready to
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  set sail in the mananga. My poor lady, good work, didn't I
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  don't think I did remember him? Yeah, maybe some of that sounds like
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  you. Oh, no scope spreads Dean. Here's my good, bad ugly
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  from the weekend good food Court. I took in some brisket to my tailgate.
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  Everyone's savored had asked about Rev. keV safe to say, I'll have
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  to bring his brisket to all future tailgates. Bad. The weather sucked,
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  but I stayed until the bitter end, even as I put my poncho on
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  over my efforting T shirt. Three ugly stats were all over the place.
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  But what I call an ugly win is I win my game. Ball goes
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  to the defense for all they did throughout the game. Signed by, he
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  won Jennings and dunbarps still perfect attendance on all three guys events. Thank you
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  Jennings. I didn't get a chance to see him this week. I did
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  not, but glad glad he made it by. I couldn't stay as long
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  Saturday because of our broadcast. I had to get over because I mean,
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  Kirchi was getting nervous. Wondering where I was. You had to get the
• 1:25:18
  I had to get the ESPN plus. I need seven hours to get ESPN
• 1:25:21
  plus up, so I had to get over there early. Beside yourself,
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  Sean and Athens. Three guys, while listening, he was so mad.
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  I didn't have to be mad, you know what I means, were like,
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  yeah, this person's doing enough. Yeah, he's so agg It turns
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  it turns your role around where you have to be like the guy that comes
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  person. Well, I think that was something. He didn't even take that
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  role. He just stayed out of the way I did. I like,
• 1:25:45
  stayed clear of the of the blast. But I thought he's angry enough for
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  both of us. So I'm just considering worry about something else. Seawan and
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  Athens reminding us the back of the eighties, there were hankies. Oh wait,
• 1:25:58
  yeah, there were hankies, the horrible Hanky's WV. So he had
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  one from the major Harrison tell you hank you text yeah blue one today we're
• 1:26:10
  gonna sell those things. Just going back in his pocket. Good morning,
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  three guys. I thought the Mountaineers were going to lose that game, but
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  thankfully that last pass by Morton was tipped at the line defense playing great pressure,
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  pressure, bring pressure, big key. We talked about it. Was
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  it Sean Martin. I think it was Sean Martin. Yeah, they never
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  I never saw the replay. Did you ever see a replay? No?
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  No, I wanted to see that they were they were, they closed,
• 1:26:35
  they closed in on that collapse the posh Was it tipped? Oh yeah,
• 1:26:40
  it was tipped. It went it went up as a missile. So think
• 1:26:44
  about this. Where was the line of scrimmage they were at the Think about
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  this. That ball got tipped and it landed in the end zone, so
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  it was rifled and again in the end. Three guys. I know we
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  won the game today. It was ugly, but who airs the defense is
• 1:27:00
  playing good while holding their last opponents to seventeen or less. Reminds me of
• 1:27:05
  the eighties teams they win defensive battles. I know you're focused on the team,
• 1:27:11
  and rightfully so, but I wanted to give a shout out to the
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  men's soccer team. Although their last match ended with the tie against Georgia,
• 1:27:16
  Southern Marshall's still number one West Virginia's two. I hope they both have continued
• 1:27:21
  success throughout the season. Thank you for all you doing keeping up the stats.
• 1:27:27
  Brad hot Rod and Woodbridge Virginia. We all know that West Virginia is
• 1:27:30
  the epicenter of collegiate soccer. Now, yes, I just hope, hope,
• 1:27:36
  hope, hope that they're still one in two in October when they play.
• 1:27:40
  That'll be hard to do to stay there in those both in those same
• 1:27:43
  spots that long. It's what four weeks, three weeks MJ and Savannah last
• 1:27:49
  week or last night's win over Tech one of those life moments that takes your
• 1:27:53
  breath away. It was a great example of efforting by the defense, the
• 1:27:56
  offense, and the coaches. Hopefully that will quiet the nace years of coach
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  Brown. I'm rooting for him. Can't wait for my journey to Morgantown on
• 1:28:03
  twenty one October. Go Mountaineers. I'm Jay and Savannah Texter Bobby from Myrtle
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  Beach. Finally West Virginia beats Tech again. You think Neil Brown is definitely
• 1:28:15
  off of the hot seat, yet was watching Neil's postgame conference yesterday. He
• 1:28:18
  was still complaining about all the missed opportunities West Virginia had in the first half.
• 1:28:24
  I was like, be happy you won. Lol. But this is
• 1:28:27
  what I like about Neil Brown from day one when he got to Morgantown.
• 1:28:30
  He never complains, He takes the heat, and I finally think they have
• 1:28:33
  this going in the right direction. Next week it's TCU. So unless that
• 1:28:39
  offense can put on more points than the board, that might be a loss.
• 1:28:42
  Than again, defense might win it. As always, I love the
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  show. A couple. Can I get two more quick shout outs? One?
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  Two? Andy Peters played here back in the seventies. He was at
• 1:28:50
  the food court. I know him, well, yeah, yeah, he
• 1:28:54
  came by, he was there. And then I'm going to shout out to
• 1:28:56
  my college roommate. Excuse me, my college roommate from Iowa who went to
• 1:29:00
  grad school here at West Virginia It now lives in Kansas City, drove in
• 1:29:03
  for the game. And a couple interesting points about him. One, he's
• 1:29:06
  never seen a Mountaineer football loss live in person, including that ninety three game
• 1:29:11
  against Boston College. Remember we talked that I attended rug and I went to
• 1:29:15
  that and attended that game. But I've also said many times he's the entire
• 1:29:17
  reason I'm I'm here in this stage. He backed out of the job that
• 1:29:21
  I ultimately got over at the wvf FUD department allowed me to slide in Simon
• 1:29:26
  almost change the course of his course mine. So thanks to Doud. Great
• 1:29:29
  to see him again. So I don't understand. So he was in marketing,
• 1:29:33
  but then he went into basketball coaching. Yeah, okay, yeah.
• 1:29:38
  Another buddy of ours had gotten a head coaching job and called Doug. Doug
• 1:29:42
  played basketball in college, and said, hey, you want to come coach
• 1:29:44
  with me? Right? He had already been interviewing with WVU, and he
• 1:29:47
  said, we had talked, and I said, Van, if you want
• 1:29:49
  to coach, no one's gonna give you a coaching job with the experience spar
• 1:29:51
  ticket. So he took the coaching job, called me and say, hey,
• 1:29:54
  can I get them your name? I said, I guess I'm not
• 1:29:56
  leaving Maryland. You have to give my name. Came an interviewed, got
• 1:29:59
  the job in the West Virginia connection on that his buddy who went in a
• 1:30:01
  coach and eventually coached with former w V assistant coach Matt Brown in Kansas.
• 1:30:06
  Doug, yeah, that's yeah. I wish i'd met. I wish i'd
• 1:30:10
  made room well, and and another another connection there Doug while he was then
• 1:30:15
  became the head coach in Kansas. One of his players was Don Pitzel,
• 1:30:18
  Light's top assistant women's basketball. Last year, Jason played for my roommate DEVN
• 1:30:23
  College. Thanks do great to see him. Thanks for I wish I could
• 1:30:28
  get some dirt because we only know you from a point forward, and it
• 1:30:31
  would have been good to learn some things about you from when you were in
• 1:30:35
  college. He looks great. He looks in great physical condition. It looks
• 1:30:39
  like he's got still got bounced. You could tell he was an athlete.
• 1:30:42
  Yeah, yeah, can you give me his phone number? He could shoot
• 1:30:44
  it. He could shoot it. He could shoot it, couldn't pass,
• 1:30:46
  wouldn't pass, didn't play in defense, but he could talk about the pop
• 1:30:49
  call mc kettle black. Yeah, really like you like you's a great passer.
• 1:30:53
  Yeah, give me a ball ball? Hey, really super quick?
• 1:30:57
  Congratulations too much? Should have shot more. I knew that one. I
• 1:31:00
  knew. Now I'm uncle past any of you. Hey, speaking of scoring
• 1:31:03
  a ton of points. You know who was at the food court on Saturday
• 1:31:08
  morning was Judy Eaton formerm out here basketball stand out yea Her and her husband
• 1:31:14
  Ronnie Music Ronnie's from Morgantown. They live in Huntington, And I said,
• 1:31:17
  did your I said, how many points did you score in high school?
• 1:31:19
  In twenty seventy one? She was fun. I talked to her for a
• 1:31:24
  long time. She's a hoot. And she was on. She was on.
• 1:31:26
  She was on with Georgian Wells and that group of Kitty Blakemore and it
• 1:31:30
  was great. And the sweets, No, that wasn't the sweets. I
• 1:31:32
  think they made it too. I think they had a good they had a
• 1:31:34
  good run. I forget what it was. But her husband, Ronnie,
• 1:31:38
  who played legion ball here in Morgantown for Dale Miller while you were doing the
• 1:31:42
  PA, while I was doing the PA back in the day. He loves
• 1:31:45
  him some Kirchiville, Oh really loves I mean they were fun. They she
• 1:31:49
  was in radio like thirty years in Huntington Morning Morning? Uh show? Did
• 1:31:55
  I know that? I didn't know that. I didn't remember that. I
• 1:31:57
  didn't know that. Yeah, I'm not sure. The way Adell Miller was
• 1:32:00
  present there on Friday, he was the best. Well, you know I
• 1:32:05
  told someone this, I said, you see this event. I said this
• 1:32:10
  to a person. I was talking to a couple from Pennsylvania. I said,
• 1:32:13
  you see that guy right there. I said, everything that we that's
• 1:32:16
  ever happened, you know, as far as the company's growth from two stations
• 1:32:20
  to thirty plus stations, to the Metro News Network, two events and everything,
• 1:32:26
  and like this is this embodies him, Like this is all of what
• 1:32:30
  he would do. Yeah, right, an event, yeah, yeah,
• 1:32:36
  well the Mountaineer Sports Network. He like Parsons, you know, that's that's
• 1:32:42
  that's all him. And so I was like, yeah, I was super
• 1:32:44
  glad. Uh he's just kind of came in stealth, like it was like
• 1:32:47
  getting dark and even though we had string lights, like, he just came
• 1:32:50
  up siding and he gave me the other that what's going on here? Man?
• 1:32:56
  That was great well, and again thank you to everybody that came out.
• 1:32:58
  That was another huge success. The businesses that were there that were thrilled
• 1:33:01
  that everybody came and appreciate y'all come in the last couple of weeks. It's
• 1:33:05
  been fun. Is that it for a tailgate? Well we're debating now you
• 1:33:12
  run into the weather, why do you do that on the air? Why
• 1:33:15
  do you do because why do you do that on the air? We're about
• 1:33:16
  to close the mics, and you could have very easily held that for thirty
• 1:33:19
  more seconds and then asked him, now he's probably gonna promise for the next
• 1:33:23
  home game, three basketball games and two baseball games. Why did you do
• 1:33:26
  that? No better point, We're it's under advisement. You know, yesterday
• 1:33:31
  weather sucked, right, and so, but it didn't really hurt us because
• 1:33:35
  they really didn't get crappy crappy until the afternoon. But now you got to
• 1:33:41
  roll dice. We're gonna be back in one month. Now we could come
• 1:33:44
  back in a month. It could be the most glorious fall day with beautiful
• 1:33:47
  leaves and like sixty five seventy degrees and we're going like, oh, so,
• 1:33:53
  you know, yeah, it's a I think we got to discuss we
• 1:33:58
  probably need an indoor facility, a bubble. We probably need to we need
• 1:34:03
  to practice practice. I mean, you know those coaches they always say like,
• 1:34:10
  I mean, how do you want to win national championships? We don't
• 1:34:13
  have all the facilities practice. How do you want us to get ready if
• 1:34:16
  we can do it? And yeah, I can't prepare in the element.
• 1:34:18
  I gotta be inside get our work done. Is Daniels have any space.
• 1:34:23
  Well, we're using their space right now, they're outdoor space. We'll have
• 1:34:27
  to consult with nomadic Dave, who knows by then Dave will get busy on
• 1:34:30
  it. Yeah, you know where we could to be determined efforting. We
• 1:34:34
  could have it where we could have it downstairs. It's too small. Downstairs
• 1:34:41
  only holds about seventy five people. Well that's about what you'd get. Don't
• 1:34:44
  you think you can put food vendors down there? I mean it takes us
• 1:34:47
  a spait. I'm gonna get a food truck, shell building. I'm sure
• 1:34:51
  in indoor facility. I'm sure they'd be happy to see us. Boy.
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