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- 0:09Speaker 1: Well, hello there, it's been a while, Happy holidays and
- 0:13Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. As we welcome you into
- 0:15Speaker 1: three Guys before the game. It's time to kick off
- 0:18Speaker 1: the Big twelve conference portion of the basketball season. West
- 0:21Speaker 1: Virginia Men taking on the Cyclones of Iowa State, the
- 0:25Speaker 1: very first league game for any school. Nine o'clock Eastern
- 0:31Speaker 1: tip off, Mountaineers Cyclones inside the Hilton Coliseum. We'll get
- 0:37Speaker 1: into that, plus Hoppies, obvious observations. We've got football news,
- 0:42Speaker 1: a familiar face, a familiar voice is coming back into
- 0:47Speaker 1: Mountaineer football world. Plus the wv women's team. They got
- 0:51Speaker 1: a two game jawn into the Sunflower State taking on
- 0:55Speaker 1: the Kansases. That'll be coming up. Textual healing as well,
- 0:59Speaker 1: and who knows what else we'll get into. I mean,
- 1:03Speaker 1: you know, there's a little stuff going on here in
- 1:06Speaker 1: the world of college sports. When John Caliperi comes out
- 1:09Speaker 1: and criticizes the way things are working. Let's do this thing.
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- 2:10Speaker 2: They might be getting calls today like it's the last
- 2:12Speaker 2: day of the year. What, yeah, do I need to
- 2:14Speaker 2: do something? Beside some papers, some documents, what do you need?
- 2:17Speaker 1: There might be a few signages, a few checks going out,
- 2:21Speaker 1: a few checks. Music, gotta have post date that to
- 2:23Speaker 1: the thirty first, bring that in there last day. You
- 2:28Speaker 1: can write twenty twenty five on your check, But how
- 2:30Speaker 1: many we'll write twenty twenty five for.
- 2:33Speaker 2: The next couple of weeks.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Hang on a second, just happens there, just it just
- 2:37Speaker 1: kind of happens, all right. So it's been a bit.
- 2:40Speaker 1: I think we did the last one. What was it
- 2:42Speaker 1: twenty second of the twenty third, maybe the twenty third,
- 2:44Speaker 1: I think twenty Okay, So we're all good. Everyone had good,
- 2:50Speaker 1: good holidays. You guys have done literally no exaggeration. How
- 2:54Speaker 1: many bowl games have you pregame and hosted halftimes for
- 2:58Speaker 1: at this point?
- 2:58Speaker 2: Ran how many? I don't know, thirteen maybe something? Oh
- 3:03Speaker 2: more than that, isn't it.
- 3:05Speaker 1: I've five on Saturday? Pardon me, you had five Saturday?
- 3:09Speaker 1: Five Saturday.
- 3:10Speaker 2: It's been but you know what it's if you like
- 3:13Speaker 2: college football, and Brad and I do, it's been fun.
- 3:16Speaker 2: I mean it's been fun. There's the long days in there,
- 3:18Speaker 2: but get to watch a lot of football. And one
- 3:22Speaker 2: thing I don't want to the royal we speak for Brad,
- 3:25Speaker 2: but you get to see and hear about players, Brad
- 3:29Speaker 2: that you don't normally throughout the year. And somebody always
- 3:32Speaker 2: has a day. You enjoy that somebody has a day.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Ken Seals had a day yesterday for TCU. Oh my gosh,
- 3:38Speaker 2: did he pretty wild?
- 3:41Speaker 3: Pretty wild? They end up winning their bowl game, but
- 3:43Speaker 3: he was. He's a good story. Started at Vanderbilt, then
- 3:46Speaker 3: transfers to TCU. We talked about this on the air.
- 3:49Speaker 3: He grew up a TCU fan. So he starts his
- 3:52Speaker 3: last game in college football as the TCU quarterback and
- 3:55Speaker 3: they get a walk off win last night.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh Hoover on the sideline during that game. Did
- 4:00Speaker 1: I see him there?
- 4:01Speaker 2: Or was he there? He wasn't know where. He's not
- 4:04Speaker 2: with the Indiana team. I saw him. I think that
- 4:07Speaker 2: was him on the sideline. That would be that was
- 4:08Speaker 2: really see, Like, that's a no go for me. What
- 4:12Speaker 2: if Josh Houver put his name in the portal? He's
- 4:15Speaker 2: not standing on my sideline for the bowl game? Yeah,
- 4:18Speaker 2: I would agree, not happening. I knew that would be you.
- 4:20Speaker 2: You just like, no, no, no, I think thank you
- 4:23Speaker 2: for thank you for your service. Good luck with your next.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Yeah, move on, you don't want to be with us
- 4:27Speaker 1: to play in the game.
- 4:28Speaker 2: See you later. But Ken seals. Yeah, that's a great story.
- 4:31Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're only two days away now from the
- 4:34Speaker 1: opening of the portal.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Oh my golly, you talk about an influx, and nothing's happened.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Nothing's happened since then. What do you mean, I'm you
- 4:46Speaker 2: mean no deals are cut. I'm saying that like at
- 4:49Speaker 2: twelve oh one or whatever. I mean, all these deals
- 4:53Speaker 2: you know have been done in agent Well, who was it?
- 4:56Speaker 2: We saw an interview with Lane Kiffin halftime one of
- 4:58Speaker 2: those ball I guess it was the Old Miss game
- 5:00Speaker 2: and he said, they said, what have you been doing?
- 5:02Speaker 2: I'll have been doing is talking to agents. Yeah, well
- 5:05Speaker 2: I don't do that. Portal hasn't open yet. No, the
- 5:08Speaker 2: interview was during the LSU Houston game, and I'm sure
- 5:11Speaker 2: Houston fans were happy as the Kougs marched down the
- 5:13Speaker 2: field and scored a touchdown and we were watching Lane
- 5:16Speaker 2: Kiffin on camera then got back to the game. Nice
- 5:19Speaker 2: for that went over?
- 5:20Speaker 3: Well, yeah, as Houston walked out of good win tenth win.
- 5:25Speaker 3: We said it in preseason look out for Willie Fritz
- 5:26Speaker 3: in year two.
- 5:27Speaker 2: He came through.
- 5:28Speaker 1: So I think that with the TCU win last night,
- 5:30Speaker 1: that makes the league three and oh you know correct.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Okay, well that's good, that's good start. Yeah.
- 5:35Speaker 1: So these deals are kind of like in the NBA
- 5:37Speaker 1: where they're cut like weeks and weeks in advance, but
- 5:40Speaker 1: they can't be announced until the date comes. That's what
- 5:45Speaker 1: this is going to be. In college football.
- 5:47Speaker 2: You're going to.
- 5:47Speaker 1: See some instantaneous deals done because they've been done for
- 5:51Speaker 1: weeks or months that hey, this kid's going here, this
- 5:54Speaker 1: kid's going there. It's a done deal. And obviously we'll
- 5:57Speaker 1: see how West Virginia puts its list together. West Virginia
- 6:00Speaker 1: has its list, they know what they're going to do.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Agreements have been made verbally, and.
- 6:08Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.
- 6:10Speaker 1: One of the areas where they're going to add a
- 6:11Speaker 1: few more will be the offensive line. And in that
- 6:15Speaker 1: offensive line room, Brad, there's gonna be there's gonna be
- 6:18Speaker 1: a new person in the offensive line new Well, there'll
- 6:23Speaker 1: be a new.
- 6:25Speaker 2: No news, take the word new out.
- 6:26Speaker 1: There will be a coach that's been here. This will
- 6:29Speaker 1: be his third visit in he was.
- 6:31Speaker 3: He and Travis in a dead heat for most tours
- 6:34Speaker 3: of duty.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Very similar to Billy Martin and the Yankees during the Heyday.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Do they just keep coming back? Which is a good thing.
- 6:41Speaker 1: But Rick Trickett has formerly been named as the Mountaineer
- 6:46Speaker 1: offensive line coach and if you're an older person, then
- 6:50Speaker 1: you know his background and his story. If you're a
- 6:54Speaker 1: younger person, you're in for a treat. This would be
- 7:00Speaker 1: a a perfect characterization of what you would think an
- 7:07Speaker 1: old school offensive line coach would be. He's the Bill
- 7:10Speaker 1: ker Lavitch of offensive line coaches. True, he's got the voice,
- 7:15Speaker 1: he's got the demeanor, and he's got a ton of
- 7:19Speaker 1: success wherever he's been. His offensive line moves and blocks
- 7:24Speaker 1: people because quite simply, he doesn't give them any alternatives.
- 7:28Speaker 1: It's it's as simple as that. It's like, you're gonna
- 7:31Speaker 1: do this because no is not an act. That kind
- 7:34Speaker 1: of like the Jen Dills. He's the Jen Dills. He's
- 7:37Speaker 1: the Jen Dills of offensive line coaches. He simply won't
- 7:39Speaker 1: take no for an answer. Oh you won't be down,
- 7:41Speaker 1: you won't w't get in there. He's gonna do it.
- 7:44Speaker 1: So it's gonna it's gonna be interesting fun to have
- 7:47Speaker 1: trick back into the fold.
- 7:49Speaker 2: And that's that was a position that for a variety
- 7:54Speaker 2: of reasons, West Virginia very much struggle with. And now
- 7:57Speaker 2: they went out and they're trying to get offensive lineman.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Now tricks coming back, and yeah, that's it's just amazing.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Seventy seven, seventy seven years old. But he's a young seven.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Oh, he's a young seventy seven years He's always been
- 8:09Speaker 1: he's always been what's up, Cage, He's always been bouncy.
- 8:14Speaker 2: It takes care of himself, goochepe.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Yeah, So welcome back to Trick. Look forward to to
- 8:20Speaker 1: seeing him, and then we look forward to the post
- 8:22Speaker 1: Christmas arrival of a bunch of.
- 8:24Speaker 3: New names on the Mountaineer roster, a bunch of new names.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:28Speaker 1: I haven't been over there, so I don't know any
- 8:30Speaker 1: of the inside stories on some of these kids that
- 8:34Speaker 1: have left. But my perception is that the number that
- 8:38Speaker 1: they were offered and the number that they were looking
- 8:41Speaker 1: for most of the time is the reason why they're
- 8:45Speaker 1: not with the program anymore, plain and simple.
- 8:49Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's kind of how that works now.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Yeah, right, And the Cam Vaughan didn't surprise me at all. No,
- 8:54Speaker 1: Why well, I mean you could just see by his
- 8:58Speaker 1: physical stuff on the sideline during games, and then in
- 9:06Speaker 1: that Texas Tech game where he didn't run back after
- 9:11Speaker 1: the ball got intercepted, You're going like, seriously, is that
- 9:15Speaker 1: what we're going to do? So I knew that was
- 9:17Speaker 1: going to be a very precarious situation at best. And
- 9:23Speaker 1: my guess would be they probably had to come to
- 9:26Speaker 1: Jesus meeting. The number was probably lower than he was
- 9:30Speaker 1: thinking for and they just said, fine.
- 9:32Speaker 2: Well you've had a year to evaluate, right, I mean,
- 9:36Speaker 2: you have data.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Yeah, So that one did not surprise me at all.
- 9:39Speaker 1: What surprised me is when he said he was coming back.
- 9:42Speaker 1: And it didn't surprise me when he said, so, we'll
- 9:44Speaker 1: see what happens there.
- 9:46Speaker 2: All right. Basketball wise, West.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Virginia getting ready to hit the road. They will take
- 9:51Speaker 1: on the number three rated, undefeated Cyclones of Iowa State,
- 9:57Speaker 1: and that's a pretty big chunk, right. But the fact
- 10:01Speaker 1: that they went into Purdue, took Purdue's uniforms, took them off,
- 10:07Speaker 1: laughed at them, stuck their nose in the snow, beat
- 10:10Speaker 1: him like they stole something, just just absolutely annihilated them.
- 10:14Speaker 2: You go, like, whoa eighty one fifty eight when they
- 10:17Speaker 2: were number one at Purdue, when they were number one
- 10:19Speaker 2: in the country. So they're playing really well. I watched
- 10:22Speaker 2: them the other night.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Against Houston Christian HCU HCU, and yeah, they got it.
- 10:30Speaker 1: They got all the pieces, They got all the pieces.
- 10:31Speaker 2: This will be fun.
- 10:32Speaker 1: It will give an opportunity to see where West Virginia
- 10:35Speaker 1: figures in two teams that pride themselves on their defense.
- 10:39Speaker 1: My gosh, their defense sufucating.
- 10:42Speaker 3: Number three in the country defensive efficiency.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Those poor buddies from Houston Christian they got that ball
- 10:48Speaker 1: into a corner around the sideline. They might as well
- 10:51Speaker 1: just handed it to them.
- 10:52Speaker 3: You know, they hum around though they just only a
- 10:53Speaker 3: ten point game with nine of us to go there.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I know, they just but when they
- 10:57Speaker 1: trap you.
- 10:59Speaker 2: You big boys. Stuff.
- 11:02Speaker 1: All right, let's do this thing. It's time for hoppies.
- 11:04Speaker 1: Obvious observations, thoms.
- 11:06Speaker 3: That sound brand new, but the things we already knew.
- 11:10Speaker 3: He got his living bomb ready, Heaven knows, I's it
- 11:14Speaker 3: quick before.
- 11:14Speaker 2: His ladder bladderspine all good, Yeah, baby, I got a
- 11:27Speaker 2: bunch of stuff. Actually, but I'm gonna the obvious observations.
- 11:31Speaker 2: On Iowa State, we've already said. You said like three things,
- 11:34Speaker 2: but that was all I had. They've beaten really good
- 11:36Speaker 2: they've beaten good teams. They're undefeated. I beat Purdue on
- 11:39Speaker 2: the road, really good defense, and you know, spreads one
- 11:43Speaker 2: stats will have all those numbers I'm gonna move on
- 11:45Speaker 2: to my other stuff. Bowl games success. W has had
- 11:50Speaker 2: a mixed record in bowl games over the years. They're
- 11:53Speaker 2: seventeen and twenty four. But on this date, Tony, on
- 11:57Speaker 2: this date, December thirty first, oh West Virginia's a perfect
- 12:01Speaker 2: four and oh TCU on bowl games. On December thirty
- 12:05Speaker 2: first seventy five Peach Bowl beat NC State thirteen to ten,
- 12:08Speaker 2: eighty one. Peach Bowl beat the Florida Gators lined up,
- 12:11Speaker 2: lined up beat him twenty six to six, eighty four
- 12:14Speaker 2: Blue Bonny Bowl. Yeah, you were there.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Did Kenneth Davis get hurt in that game?
- 12:18Speaker 2: He got hurt early? Brad may have been may have
- 12:20Speaker 2: Davis did? Yeah, And I I don't know, I remember
- 12:25Speaker 2: these things. It was the Blue Bony Bowl, Astro Astro
- 12:28Speaker 2: Blue Bony. Dennis Brown was the defensive.
- 12:31Speaker 3: Broke a leg maybe yeah, it broke.
- 12:32Speaker 2: His leg defensive coordinator. I have heard that for WVU
- 12:36Speaker 2: at the time. And after the game, I went up
- 12:38Speaker 2: to him. That'd be that. Back then you could just
- 12:40Speaker 2: go up and talk to people. What does that mean?
- 12:43Speaker 2: It means that things a little more restricted now. I
- 12:46Speaker 2: just went up and ask him a question. He said,
- 12:48Speaker 2: I just have one thing to say. I have one quote.
- 12:50Speaker 2: They didn't invent football in Texas, which is and the
- 12:57Speaker 2: twenty twenty Liberty Bowl beat the Army, twenty four twenty one.
- 13:01Speaker 1: Beat the Army. And you go out there and you
- 13:02Speaker 1: can beat the Army. That's a good day.
- 13:04Speaker 2: So you're four. And I'll tell you what. That game's
- 13:06Speaker 2: probably underrated. Oh you beat Army in a bowl game.
- 13:09Speaker 2: We just did that again.
- 13:10Speaker 3: That's a that's a hard squad to beat in a
- 13:12Speaker 3: bowl game.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Now, horrible weather. Josh Chandler Sumito with the interception seal.
- 13:16Speaker 2: Jake fofteen to prepare for their house. But West Virginia's
- 13:19Speaker 2: won forty two percent of their bowl games. They've won
- 13:21Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Right December thirty first played on this date. Yeah, okay,
- 13:27Speaker 2: I'll go through this quickly. I don't want you up
- 13:28Speaker 2: a lot of time. The top ten WVU Sports stories
- 13:31Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five, as rated by me, John Antonic
- 13:36Speaker 2: and Mike Figi. They helped me. Oh you got together
- 13:39Speaker 2: with them? What'd you have like a meeting? No, we
- 13:41Speaker 2: just exchanged emails. Wow. Number ten Peyton Hall wraps up
- 13:47Speaker 2: his career on the WVU Wrestling team all time wins leader. Wow,
- 13:50Speaker 2: that's saying something. Man one hundred and sixty five pound
- 13:52Speaker 2: class Number nine Jj Quinnoley in sir career at WVU
- 13:56Speaker 2: ry one hundred and twenty six games, twenty sixteen points
- 13:59Speaker 2: three on a forty one assists, three hundred and twenty
- 14:01Speaker 2: six deals.
- 14:02Speaker 3: She was tremendous.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Now with the Dallas Wings. Number eight Marcus Caldera scores
- 14:08Speaker 2: a memorable hat trick in the NCAA Tournament, marking the
- 14:10Speaker 2: highlight of a great career. Yeah, it's a good one.
- 14:12Speaker 2: Numbers number seven WVU Rifle team wins their twentieth Natty.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Pretty good when the championship is seven, Yeah, I have Well,
- 14:22Speaker 2: it's pretty tough grader. Tough grader. It's hard. And remember
- 14:26Speaker 2: they I was reminded this they were in third place.
- 14:29Speaker 2: It was a walk off, going to the last day
- 14:30Speaker 2: as a walk off exactly.
- 14:31Speaker 3: So a walkoff world championship only gets you seven big
- 14:35Speaker 3: gear in WVU sports.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Just another Natty. Well, actually it wasn't.
- 14:39Speaker 3: When you've won, when you've won seventy seven natties, Yeah,
- 14:41Speaker 3: so you just get you get in at.
- 14:43Speaker 2: Seven, win another one.
- 14:44Speaker 3: Yeah, you're at seven.
- 14:45Speaker 2: Number six Kaylee McCabe wins a Natty in the three
- 14:48Speaker 2: thousand meter. Yeah, that's the sorts championship. That's a world's championship.
- 14:52Speaker 2: She's number five. WU baseball team under Steve Sabins advances
- 14:56Speaker 2: to the NCAA Super Regionals for the second consecutive year.
- 14:59Speaker 1: And what about Big twelve Conference champions?
- 15:02Speaker 2: Big twelve Conference champions? And you know who they beat
- 15:05Speaker 2: in the regionals? Yeah, our old rival Clemson absolutely run
- 15:09Speaker 2: into them a lot. Hoppy has already described them as
- 15:12Speaker 2: the biggest, the biggest non traditional rival rival Clemson. I'm good.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Number four. Javon Small scores twelve consecutive points to lead
- 15:24Speaker 2: WVU to a sixty four to fifty seven win over
- 15:26Speaker 2: second ranked Iowa State.
- 15:29Speaker 3: He was pretty good, nice stretch on the took it.
- 15:34Speaker 2: Over on the day they honored Jerry West, Jerry Magic
- 15:37Speaker 2: in the building. So add that to it. Number three
- 15:41Speaker 2: WVU football team wins a dramatic comeback victory over pitt
- 15:45Speaker 2: led By what I find the peculiar you put that there? Well,
- 15:52Speaker 2: A couple of things. One is it was pitt it
- 15:55Speaker 2: was over time, it was a comeback, It was Nico
- 15:57Speaker 2: Markill's best game, and it was always going to be
- 15:59Speaker 2: sort of this questionable career. You beat Pitt in rich
- 16:02Speaker 2: Rodriguez's return, avenging the loss to Pitt. So I have
- 16:05Speaker 2: that pretty high number two. This will be interesting. I
- 16:10Speaker 2: have nowhere no idea where is WVU women's basketball team.
- 16:12Speaker 2: The Greenbrier five beats the Duke's pretty well. Number one,
- 16:20Speaker 2: and I had to combine a bunch of stuff here
- 16:23Speaker 2: ran out of space. So this is all combined into
- 16:27Speaker 2: number one. And that is everything that happened off the field.
- 16:31Speaker 2: The addition of one hundred and forty scholarships at WVU,
- 16:34Speaker 2: the Board of Governors funding the athletic department, Reren Baker
- 16:40Speaker 2: and staff. The announcement of multi million dollar renovations to
- 16:43Speaker 2: Mylan Pushcar Stadium in the Colosseum, the naming of Hope Conloseum,
- 16:46Speaker 2: the selling of naming rights of the Colosseum, creation of
- 16:49Speaker 2: Golden Blue Enterprises, and all those developments and more designed
- 16:53Speaker 2: to guarantee WVU athletics future going forward in an uncertain environment.
- 17:00Speaker 2: All those things I combined to be the number one
- 17:02Speaker 2: story for twenty twenty five. It's a good one.
- 17:05Speaker 3: I wish you three would have called a basketball guy,
- 17:08Speaker 3: I might have had the hiring a Ross Hodge somewhere
- 17:10Speaker 3: in the top ten. I mean he did hire a
- 17:13Speaker 3: new basketball coach.
- 17:13Speaker 1: He didn't have the departure and the hiring that that
- 17:16Speaker 1: would be in the top I.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Was trying to go through this quickly. I had it.
- 17:19Speaker 2: I had the what happened with West Virginia's basketball winter
- 17:23Speaker 2: of on small and then you know the departure of
- 17:26Speaker 2: debris is coming with Hodge. So that's all in there.
- 17:29Speaker 2: I just didn't get have time to geting.
- 17:30Speaker 1: You don't think not getting into the NCAA tournament was
- 17:32Speaker 1: one of the top ten.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Do you want to have a list? Did you have?
- 17:38Speaker 2: And finally.
- 17:41Speaker 3: And finally, I'm just playing out to hire to do basketball?
- 17:45Speaker 3: Kut doesn't he make top ten?
- 17:46Speaker 2: Well? It was. It's pretty parochial and okay, no, I
- 17:50Speaker 2: appreciate you doing that. I've been working to it clearly.
- 17:54Speaker 3: I just I mean, okay, you want to just sit here,
- 17:57Speaker 3: I'll just sit here and say yes, Hoppy, everything you
- 17:59Speaker 3: said was wonderful, Hoppy, that was a wonderful list. I've
- 18:02Speaker 3: got no disputes, and I thought it was exactly as
- 18:05Speaker 3: I would have determined.
- 18:07Speaker 2: I didn't have that because we hired a new basketball
- 18:09Speaker 2: coach every year, So that's fine.
- 18:12Speaker 1: And finally, I appreciate you doing the list.
- 18:15Speaker 2: That's the list. And then the final thing I have, Oh,
- 18:17Speaker 2: this is the end. This is the end. But I mean,
- 18:20Speaker 2: this tells you we're in this nether world. Is the
- 18:23Speaker 2: kerfuffle over Scott Drew signing James nause On Christmas Eve,
- 18:29Speaker 2: who was an NBA draft pick in twenty twenty three.
- 18:32Speaker 2: He's played in Europe for four or five years. He
- 18:35Speaker 2: has four years of eligibility remaining. And two things about that.
- 18:40Speaker 2: That's first and the first part of it is I
- 18:43Speaker 2: was the bed last night, I was thinking, and I
- 18:45Speaker 2: looked up the eligibility rules for Kai for Thailand kickboxing,
- 18:51Speaker 2: and the eligibility rules for Thai kickboxing are tougher than
- 18:55Speaker 2: West Virginia than national basketball eligibility rules I kickboxing. Once
- 19:01Speaker 2: a fighters competed as a professional, they're not allowed to return.
- 19:03Speaker 1: His amateur status, can't go back to amateurs.
- 19:05Speaker 2: So TI kickboxing eligibility rules are tougher than college basketball
- 19:10Speaker 2: rules in the United States. And also, finally, this is
- 19:13Speaker 2: what this is what tells you that we're in this
- 19:15Speaker 2: crazy world with the signing of Nause by Baylor. The
- 19:20Speaker 2: criticism comes from John Caliperi, and the headline on CBS
- 19:26Speaker 2: Sports was John Caliperry denounces NCA eligibility rules after Baylor
- 19:31Speaker 2: signs James Nause, outlining potential changes to recruiting. Calva Perry
- 19:36Speaker 2: spoke at length protecting about protecting the integrity of college basketball. Brad,
- 19:42Speaker 2: beat me up, Scottie. We are in a different world
- 19:45Speaker 2: right now. Amen. Hop.
- 19:49Speaker 1: I think that all of this craziness regarding eligibility and
- 19:54Speaker 1: people getting all twisted about all this stuff, I think
- 19:57Speaker 1: it's good. I think it's part of the process. I
- 19:59Speaker 1: think this thing has to hit absolutely rock bottom and
- 20:03Speaker 1: the craziness has to reach a point where finally we
- 20:07Speaker 1: realize that we're at the end and we've hit rock bottom,
- 20:12Speaker 1: and now we have to start to build the thing
- 20:14Speaker 1: back up. But we need to have people screaming about it.
- 20:16Speaker 1: We need to have stupid stuff happening. We need more
- 20:19Speaker 1: guys that have either been drafted or played in the end.
- 20:22Speaker 3: We need somebody that's coming due.
- 20:26Speaker 2: I know.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Charlie Baker came out with a strongly worded statement from
- 20:29Speaker 3: the president of the ncaa thank you mister Baker. I think
- 20:32Speaker 3: I think someone's gonna challenge that, someone that's played in
- 20:34Speaker 3: the NBA.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Yeah, because what's your grounds? Because these guys there's no
- 20:38Speaker 1: longer amateurs. What's your grounds? So I think it does.
- 20:41Speaker 1: This is part of the process of the evolution of
- 20:43Speaker 1: trying to redefine this new world. And you got to
- 20:45Speaker 1: have you got to have a lot of stupid, crazy
- 20:48Speaker 1: stuff and enough people just losing their minds over it
- 20:50Speaker 1: to finally get some change. But it's an absolute Hey, hey,
- 20:53Speaker 1: let me and I don't have anything against Baylor.
- 20:56Speaker 2: I wish we would have done it really hell yeah. Yeah.
- 21:00Speaker 1: If Roscodge came out there and said, hey man, we
- 21:02Speaker 1: got uh, we got nig nag Nagai. Yeah, okay, take them,
- 21:06Speaker 1: bring him on the bus, put them on the bus,
- 21:08Speaker 1: let's go, let's play.
- 21:09Speaker 2: If well, I told you the other day.
- 21:10Speaker 3: If if I get on the if I get on
- 21:12Speaker 3: the plane tomorrow and Tarik Phillip was sitting in the
- 21:14Speaker 3: row in front of me, who's over in London right now,
- 21:16Speaker 3: Tarik was right there, I'd be high five of him saying, great,
- 21:19Speaker 3: you got Lindsay, go lock up on tam and Lindsay.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Iwa state. We're here.
- 21:23Speaker 3: We got SAgs, Kanaate and Tarik Philip with us. We
- 21:26Speaker 3: got a twelve man rotation now here, we.
- 21:27Speaker 1: Got SAgs gonna come up a two hand block the ball,
- 21:29Speaker 1: take it right off the dog gone back.
- 21:31Speaker 2: We're just gonna hold it right there?
- 21:32Speaker 3: Is that right, Montchilovitch, You got Tarik Philip on you now.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, get up in your arm with that sure,
- 21:38Speaker 2: bring back Devin Ebanks play the play the front of
- 21:40Speaker 2: the zone.
- 21:41Speaker 1: So yeah, I think we I think it's a process.
- 21:43Speaker 1: It's stupid, it's crazy. It's like nothing we've ever seen before.
- 21:47Speaker 1: And it's all being all the covers are being pulled
- 21:50Speaker 1: back on all of the the stupidness of these rules
- 21:54Speaker 1: and their inability for leadership.
- 21:56Speaker 2: It's just a mess. But but all that, but also
- 21:58Speaker 2: when to believe the point when calib Peri comes out
- 22:01Speaker 2: and says this is damaging the integrity of the game
- 22:04Speaker 2: and the whole story, never mentions j Newmas or Memphis
- 22:09Speaker 2: or Kentucky or that whole Hitany of things may have.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Had a problem, and a few previous stops may have
- 22:15Speaker 1: had a problem or two.
- 22:17Speaker 2: Yeah, oh boy, that was a good job. That was
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- 26:23Speaker 2: I had it. That's a nice Daniels, of course. Well,
- 26:26Speaker 2: of course you knew that. Yeah, I too.
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- 26:56Speaker 2: to put Little Gold where rush coming up?
- 26:59Speaker 1: So where where are what's the style for this coming
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- 27:08Speaker 2: I don't know that. I don't know if there's a
- 27:10Speaker 2: specific style. I mean it's just the regulars stuff. I mean,
- 27:15Speaker 2: we've we've been going through a tight period for a
- 27:17Speaker 2: long time.
- 27:18Speaker 3: He does have some great new sport codes in tight
- 27:20Speaker 3: well yeah, I mean form fitting.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:22Speaker 3: You got to take it back to Ebo the Taylor.
- 27:24Speaker 3: You don't want to be walking around with things all
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- 27:27Speaker 2: I am coming in next week.
- 27:29Speaker 3: He's been saying that for two years. Believe it when
- 27:32Speaker 3: I see it. Okay, going on Tuesday just to see him.
- 27:35Speaker 2: Will league play beginning.
- 27:39Speaker 3: Yeah, take a quick look at the league here, So
- 27:42Speaker 3: it is what we thought it was going to be.
- 27:44Speaker 3: Just using the Ken Palm rankings, the Big Twelve has
- 27:47Speaker 3: the number two, three, ten, twelve, seventeen, twenty, first and
- 27:53Speaker 3: thirtieth ranked teams. Every team in this league save Utah
- 27:58Speaker 3: is eighty fifth or high in the Kim Palm rankings.
- 28:02Speaker 3: That's pretty wild, man. So that shows you there's I
- 28:04Speaker 3: mean there's legit four maybe more, but legit four national
- 28:09Speaker 3: title contenders in this league Arizona, Iowa State, BYU and
- 28:12Speaker 3: Houston right now Texas Tech. I think given their high
- 28:15Speaker 3: end talent, it wouldn't rule them out either. But you
- 28:18Speaker 3: look at this league. I've said this before that from
- 28:21Speaker 3: Baylor down through Utah, that's a big chunk of this league.
- 28:25Speaker 3: That's nearly impossible to put that in order, right, Hope,
- 28:28Speaker 3: you have a little trouble ranking his top stories of
- 28:30Speaker 3: the year. You try and rank those teams from six
- 28:33Speaker 3: down to sixteen. Good luck, It's going to be a
- 28:35Speaker 3: wild couple of months in this league. Looking forward to it,
- 28:39Speaker 3: all right, talk Iowa State specifically, as you guys mentioned
- 28:42Speaker 3: it's it's pretty crazy when you look at their numbers.
- 28:44Speaker 3: They have done a couple things have really helped them.
- 28:48Speaker 3: They have done a nice job. Excuse me, continuity wise.
- 28:57Speaker 2: Hell of a use of the mic thing there. That's good.
- 29:01Speaker 1: We get on coaches all the time because I never
- 29:02Speaker 1: know how to use their cough button. Used you did,
- 29:05Speaker 1: but you like you were.
- 29:07Speaker 3: You just kind of trying to see if Jake would
- 29:09Speaker 3: get me off camera so I wouldn't cough on camera.
- 29:11Speaker 3: But he gave me a close up there while I
- 29:13Speaker 3: was coughing. So thank you, Jacob. Appreciate appreciate that very much.
- 29:18Speaker 3: So a couple of things in looking at them. So
- 29:20Speaker 3: Taman Lipsey's really interesting raising Ames High Product ninth season
- 29:24Speaker 3: now played for the Little Cyclones.
- 29:27Speaker 2: Thereon names.
- 29:28Speaker 3: Fred Hoiberg played for the Little Cyclones. Harrison Barnes me
- 29:30Speaker 3: if turned outs some NBA dudes.
- 29:32Speaker 2: There, Taman's Harris parents.
- 29:33Speaker 3: The last time I was in Ames, I was in
- 29:35Speaker 3: Ames High's gym. Hoppy so guarding Hoiberg? Who are the
- 29:39Speaker 3: Little Cyclones? Ames High School?
- 29:42Speaker 2: Oh Aames High Schools cycles. There's a Little Cyclones. Oh okay, yeah,
- 29:45Speaker 2: so he's a home product. Yes, Okay from Ames, she
- 29:49Speaker 2: would have been good if Morgantown would have been the
- 29:50Speaker 2: little Mountaineers. I like that kind of like that Ames
- 29:53Speaker 2: had little Cyclones.
- 29:54Speaker 3: So anyway, Lipsy played it, played at Names High and
- 29:57Speaker 3: then has stayed there and has kept coming back, and
- 29:59Speaker 3: his is really an anchor for that group. Then you
- 30:02Speaker 3: add in Josh Jefferson from last year who stayed Manchillevich
- 30:05Speaker 3: is back again this year. So that core group of guys,
- 30:08Speaker 3: those are three really talented players. That's their core that
- 30:11Speaker 3: they carried over. But then they and got Lucky's not
- 30:15Speaker 3: the right term, because they had to evaluate, they had
- 30:17Speaker 3: to have the right fit. Nottzolberger's done a tremendous job
- 30:20Speaker 3: with that. But Killian Torre, the freshman guard and Blake
- 30:23Speaker 3: Buchanan the transfer from Virginia. You talk about two guys
- 30:26Speaker 3: that have not only meshed perfectly with that group, but
- 30:29Speaker 3: I think have kicked them into a new category. Bukant
- 30:32Speaker 3: of likes to dunk, Buchanan likes to dunk, and man Torre.
- 30:35Speaker 3: Here's what Torre gives them that not a lot of
- 30:37Speaker 3: teams have. Normally, you go in and you're you're hoping
- 30:41Speaker 3: if you've got one really talented wing defender that you
- 30:43Speaker 3: can match up on the other team's best wing. And
- 30:45Speaker 3: then you've got a guard that you say, okay, you
- 30:46Speaker 3: take their best guard. They bring two of the better
- 30:50Speaker 3: defensive guards in this league at you. So that's where
- 30:52Speaker 3: West Virginia's first challenge begins is you're gonna get Killian
- 30:55Speaker 3: Torre on the ball on Jasper Floyd, Emir Jenkins. So
- 30:58Speaker 3: that's a massive map. This team is number one in
- 31:01Speaker 3: the country in turnover margin Iowa State. You have got
- 31:04Speaker 3: to handle the turnovers. You've got to handle the hard head.
- 31:07Speaker 2: Stop me.
- 31:07Speaker 3: If you've heard this scouting report, the hard hedge coming
- 31:09Speaker 3: on the ball screen at the top of the key.
- 31:12Speaker 3: You better be able to stop that because that trap
- 31:14Speaker 3: is coming hard right there. So Emir and Jasper in
- 31:17Speaker 3: particular have to handle that spot.
- 31:19Speaker 2: Now.
- 31:19Speaker 3: If you do, then some opportunities open up. But Torre
- 31:22Speaker 3: is going to be right on that ball, and he's
- 31:23Speaker 3: been as good as there is in this league, true
- 31:25Speaker 3: freshman out of France. Yes, correct, Yeah, but that allows
- 31:29Speaker 3: the real beauty of that for them. That allows Taman Lipsey,
- 31:33Speaker 3: who might be the best defensive guard in this league,
- 31:35Speaker 3: to go off ball in this case, he's going to
- 31:37Speaker 3: draw honor. So your guards right away are going to
- 31:41Speaker 3: have a massive challenge in this game.
- 31:42Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, I know, suffocating defense, suffocating.
- 31:49Speaker 3: And then what's what I think has put Iowa State
- 31:51Speaker 3: into a different category the last couple of years. They
- 31:54Speaker 3: have been an elite defensive team under Alzilberger every year
- 31:57Speaker 3: top ten in defensive efficiency, but now they've moved into
- 32:00Speaker 3: a top ten type defense, type twelve type defense this year.
- 32:03Speaker 3: Or offense, excuse me, they're number eleven now, so they've
- 32:06Speaker 3: let the reins off offensively and they they're dudes now
- 32:09Speaker 3: offensively at Josh Jefferson six' nine is a nightmare, matchup matchup.
- 32:14Speaker 3: Nightmare he'll bring the ball up the. Floor he'll sometimes
- 32:16Speaker 3: just put his head down and go straight to the.
- 32:18Speaker 3: Rim you're gonna have to have multiple guys on, him
- 32:21Speaker 3: And manchilovich is absolutely blistering the. Nets i'll get into
- 32:24Speaker 3: some of the numbers individual of these, guys but they
- 32:27Speaker 3: really they're a complete. Team they bring everything to the.
- 32:29Speaker 3: Table as good a defensive team as we're going to
- 32:32Speaker 3: face all season and one of the better offensive teams
- 32:35Speaker 3: you're going to face all. Season they really space. You
- 32:37Speaker 3: that's going to be kind of a game within the
- 32:39Speaker 3: game here is they put those guys five out and
- 32:42Speaker 3: really try and draw your defense. Out and what's ross
- 32:44Speaker 3: and this defense want to? Do you want to stay
- 32:46Speaker 3: come packed and pack that? Lane so interested to watch
- 32:49Speaker 3: that little chess match that's going on. There this is
- 32:53Speaker 3: as mentioned And i'm gonna give in some specific numbers
- 32:56Speaker 3: of these. Shooters this is a team that's top twenty
- 32:58Speaker 3: five and two point field goal percentage and top five
- 33:01Speaker 3: and three point. Percentage that that's a tough.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Combination.
- 33:05Speaker 3: BOYS i, mean you're gonna have To you're gonna have
- 33:07Speaker 3: to really guard in this one for a team that
- 33:10Speaker 3: comes in shooting forty one percent from three point land
- 33:13Speaker 3: Does Iowa state's awesome?
- 33:17Speaker 2: Questions you have AN? Eu? Yes, yeah stop what so
- 33:22Speaker 2: give us a? PLAN i, mean find a? Vulnerability what
- 33:26Speaker 2: what you gotta hope you're not shoot? Always you always
- 33:30Speaker 2: find a way to, say well if you can do,
- 33:33Speaker 2: this if you you always find a. Way.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Yeah and so it starts with let's Take West virginia.
- 33:39Speaker 3: Offensively so you're gonna have to make shots right on
- 33:41Speaker 3: Our houp's gonna have to have a big. Game you're
- 33:43Speaker 3: gonna have to find somebody else to make outside shots as.
- 33:45Speaker 3: Well can trace and carry over the performance we just
- 33:48Speaker 3: saw Against Mississippi Valley state and give you a second
- 33:51Speaker 3: score that can do it either with the ball in
- 33:53Speaker 3: his hands or as a standstill, shooter because it's it's
- 33:56Speaker 3: the same thing we talked about With wake and it's
- 33:58Speaker 3: much easier to sit here and say this than it
- 34:00Speaker 3: is to execute. It but if you handle the hard
- 34:04Speaker 3: heads at the, top now you've got an. Advantage that
- 34:07Speaker 3: short role THAT i talk so much, about where the
- 34:11Speaker 3: guy receiving the, ball and that could be A, laureent
- 34:13Speaker 3: it could Be harlan o Bi. Oha you could put
- 34:15Speaker 3: chance there right at the free throw, line just to
- 34:19Speaker 3: step inside the free throw. Line If West virginia can
- 34:21Speaker 3: get the ball, there now you have numbers because they've
- 34:24Speaker 3: sent two guys at the. Ball if you can avoid their,
- 34:27Speaker 3: traps And West virginia did that really well last, year
- 34:29Speaker 3: avoid their, traps that's the way to attack. Them and
- 34:32Speaker 3: then you've got to bury the shot after, that whether
- 34:34Speaker 3: that's a drive into the paint and Get you're gonna
- 34:36Speaker 3: hear paint touch a, Lot get a paint touch and
- 34:38Speaker 3: kick it and make the. Three that's how you have
- 34:41Speaker 3: to attack, them because, they're in, essence they're doing What
- 34:43Speaker 3: West virginia is trying to do as. Well they try
- 34:45Speaker 3: and just cut the floor in half on you and
- 34:47Speaker 3: push you over into the side and. Corner and, Then,
- 34:49Speaker 3: tony that trap you talked about starts to become a.
- 34:52Speaker 3: Challenge if you can't handle their double, teams you're in
- 34:55Speaker 3: big time. Trouble and then so therefore you've got to
- 34:58Speaker 3: protect the basketball right that goes along with. That don't
- 35:00Speaker 3: turn it over and give them runouts on those live ball,
- 35:03Speaker 3: turnovers and make that first pass and then close once you've.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Made that first.
- 35:08Speaker 3: Pass if you can do, that that's how you beat,
- 35:09Speaker 3: them which nobody's been able to do yet this year
- 35:12Speaker 3: as they come in.
- 35:12Speaker 2: Undefeated, tony what's an environment like?
- 35:14Speaker 1: Tough, well that's WHAT i was thinking of Because West virginia's,
- 35:19Speaker 1: ROSTER i, mean these guys have played a lot of basketball,
- 35:22Speaker 1: games But Hilton coliseum is truly one of the top ten.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Venues isn't in all of college? BASKETBALL i would Say mountaineer,
- 35:32Speaker 1: like it'll be, Packed it'll be nine O'clock friday, night
- 35:36Speaker 1: eight o'clock their. Time even though their students won't be in,
- 35:39Speaker 1: session doesn't, matter it'll be lit. Up and that to
- 35:45Speaker 1: me is a big part of this game is emotionally and.
- 35:47Speaker 1: Mentally how Does West virginia withstand the sound and the,
- 35:53Speaker 1: environment because When Iowa state makes, shots the place is
- 35:57Speaker 1: going to get really super, loud and this is going
- 36:00Speaker 1: to be as much mental as it is.
- 36:02Speaker 3: Physical, yeah that defense really gets cranked and they'll make
- 36:05Speaker 3: some runs on, you and you've got to be able
- 36:07Speaker 3: to handle those runs when it gets when it gets fired.
- 36:09Speaker 3: Up the other part and it's you feel less confident
- 36:13Speaker 3: in this because they're at, home but you also need some.
- 36:16Speaker 3: Regression right that we talk a. Lot you got it
- 36:18Speaker 3: Against Ohio. State they had some open looks that they
- 36:21Speaker 3: just couldn't, finish And West virginia was due for a
- 36:24Speaker 3: few games like. That this would be a nice time
- 36:26Speaker 3: for that to show. Up Iowa state is off the
- 36:29Speaker 3: charts in some of these, numbers and then let's go
- 36:31Speaker 3: down a few of these real. Quick they're top five
- 36:34Speaker 3: percent nationally in points per possession half, court top ten
- 36:37Speaker 3: nationally points per possession in. Transition that's something you don't often.
- 36:41Speaker 3: See so if they if you allow them to, run
- 36:44Speaker 3: they're going to. Run you stick them in half. Court,
- 36:46Speaker 3: fine they're one of the better teams in half. Court
- 36:48Speaker 3: they're great out of, timeouts the pick and roll ball
- 36:51Speaker 3: handler really good with those. Guards but Then jefferson as
- 36:55Speaker 3: the role man their top two. Percent when he starts
- 36:58Speaker 3: rolling down the, lane they create a ton of matchup.
- 37:01Speaker 3: Problems and here are the, parts here are the things
- 37:03Speaker 3: where you need. Regression how about this. Number they're top
- 37:06Speaker 3: four percent nationally in points per shot unguarded catch and.
- 37:10Speaker 3: Shoots So West virginia has been outstanding at not leaving
- 37:13Speaker 3: open shooters for the most, part very few per, game
- 37:16Speaker 3: one of the best in the. Country but this team
- 37:18Speaker 3: makes them. Win you guard. Them manchilovich is third fifty
- 37:22Speaker 3: two percent on guarded catch and shoot, threes fifty two
- 37:26Speaker 3: percent when you're guarding. Him his numbers are just. SILLY i,
- 37:30Speaker 3: mean he's absolutely. Silly fifty eight percent when he's on
- 37:33Speaker 3: guarded four percent From anchilovich from three on dribble. Jumpers
- 37:38Speaker 3: so it's another. One you, say run him off the, line,
- 37:40Speaker 3: right don't let him be a stand still catch and
- 37:42Speaker 3: shoot jump. Shot, well he puts it on the. Floor
- 37:43Speaker 3: he's still shooting above fifty percent from.
- 37:45Speaker 2: Three you, Know, brad you're right about, regression and you
- 37:49Speaker 2: look for, that you hope for. That but they've established
- 37:52Speaker 2: those numbers with a really tough schedule In Saint, John's, Creighton,
- 37:57Speaker 2: Syracuse Purdue. Iowa so those are numbers they've built up Over.
- 38:01Speaker 1: Patsy's, no they've stunn. It they went to the players
- 38:03Speaker 1: here a. Tournament that's when they caught people's. Eyes they
- 38:06Speaker 1: just kind of went there and went like bing bing.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Bang people like. Whoa and then they go To purdue
- 38:11Speaker 2: and they went why that's why they are where they.
- 38:14Speaker 3: Are Mentioned Josh jefferson six,' nine so this is going
- 38:17Speaker 3: to be a good Test For. West virginia, but again
- 38:19Speaker 3: you throw some bodies, at, Him Right jackson fields is
- 38:22Speaker 3: going to probably guard him for a. Little bit you
- 38:23Speaker 3: Would Think brendan laurian is going to match Up with
- 38:25Speaker 3: jefferson for. A while but you're gonna need athletes like
- 38:28Speaker 3: those two to be able to guard this guy who
- 38:30Speaker 3: all the times initiate. Their offense he leads him, and
- 38:33Speaker 3: assists but he's also one of the best in the
- 38:35Speaker 3: country as the pick and, roll rollman so.
- 38:37Speaker 2: He'll go in.
- 38:38Speaker 3: Or out he's shooting where his game is taking a.
- 38:40Speaker 3: Big jump he is shooting over forty two percent. From
- 38:44Speaker 3: three that's something new. For him he hasn't been able to.
- 38:47Speaker 3: Do that doesn't shoot a ton, of them but he's
- 38:49Speaker 3: making threes at a really high clip. As well it'd
- 38:51Speaker 3: be nice if he had one of those days where
- 38:53Speaker 3: again doesn't take a lot, of them but can he
- 38:55Speaker 3: get a one for four and zero for four out
- 38:57Speaker 3: of him? From three that would. Help tremendously We Met,
- 39:00Speaker 3: taman lipsey just a really talented two, way Player so
- 39:04Speaker 3: honor is gonna have his hands Full. Against taman you're
- 39:06Speaker 3: gonna have to do a good job setting screens to
- 39:08Speaker 3: try And. Pop onnor we mentioned the True Freshman, KILLIAN
- 39:11Speaker 3: torre i think in addition to what we mentioned with
- 39:14Speaker 3: him just as one of the best on ball defenders
- 39:17Speaker 3: that really showed Up. Against purdue He Took, braden smith
- 39:20Speaker 3: who's probably the best point Guard, in america is closing
- 39:23Speaker 3: in on the NCAA's all time assist record and forced
- 39:26Speaker 3: him into six turnovers in. That game smith has, seen
- 39:29Speaker 3: everything he's been in every, big Moment, and tory the
- 39:31Speaker 3: freshman matched up against a senior for. Six turnovers in
- 39:35Speaker 3: that game and really changed the face of. That Game Mentioned,
- 39:37Speaker 3: blake buchanan he's been very good for them. As well
- 39:40Speaker 3: keep an eye in. This game guys on the left
- 39:42Speaker 3: wing three, excuse me left wing three be a. Key
- 39:46Speaker 3: Spot iowa state shoots a blistering forty eight percent as
- 39:51Speaker 3: a team from the left. Wing three forty eight percent.
- 39:54Speaker 3: Pretty Good west virginia is really good. As well forty
- 39:57Speaker 3: two percent percent better from that Spot than West Virgin
- 40:02Speaker 3: west virginia is a, great. Percentage, honor specifically it's forty
- 40:05Speaker 3: three percent from. That spot But Here's iyoway state guys
- 40:08Speaker 3: from that left. Wing three monchilovitch's fifty, excuse me, fifty two.
- 40:13Speaker 2: Fifty.
- 40:13Speaker 3: Two percent jefferson sixty three percent from the left, wing
- 40:18Speaker 3: three tore a fifty seven percent left.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Wing Three nate adrian hit a left wing three There
- 40:24Speaker 1: At iowa state beat him with a left.
- 40:26Speaker 3: Wing three monchillovitch is not his. Best, spot yeah be
- 40:32Speaker 3: top of the. Key three nearly sixty percent from three
- 40:34Speaker 3: from the.
- 40:35Speaker 2: Top board so you got. Your handsful these are very
- 40:39Speaker 2: very concerning numbers for. A head. They're good the heck of.
- 40:44Speaker 3: A win Walk, into hilton walk out with a win
- 40:46Speaker 3: be a heck of. A, win well go.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Get them they're legitimate national. Champion, contender, Yeah welcome Welcome
- 40:51Speaker 1: to big that's. What is So, is houston who you'll
- 40:54Speaker 1: see here in the not too. Distant, Future right you're
- 40:57Speaker 1: gonna open up the season with three of your first
- 41:00Speaker 1: four league games top twenty Five, Teams Kansas iowa State,
- 41:03Speaker 1: and houston And then cincinnata will be Here, next tuesday
- 41:07Speaker 1: the first. Of two we have a couple Of former
- 41:10Speaker 1: mountaineers on, that Team And sincere Harris and kerr Carrisa
- 41:15Speaker 1: saw sincere started in their, Last game carisa came off,
- 41:19Speaker 1: the Bench And gisel james of course has Returned, for
- 41:23Speaker 1: cincinnati because that's what you. Do nowadays you make, mid
- 41:26Speaker 1: season go to the waiver wires.
- 41:28Speaker 2: And bring you bring.
- 41:29Speaker 3: Guys back Baylor and cincinnati both going into.
- 41:31Speaker 2: The, waiverwire yeah, absolutely, so well this will.
- 41:34Speaker 3: Be fun this is This is welcome to the best
- 41:36Speaker 3: League in america and one of the as, you said
- 41:38Speaker 3: one of the toughest venues, to play but tough venue
- 41:40Speaker 3: last year where You opened big twelve play and you,
- 41:42Speaker 3: walked in got to win And Fog allen fieldhouse got
- 41:45Speaker 3: back on, that plane came, back home celebrated the.
- 41:48Speaker 1: NEW year i do like this. Weird schedule never have
- 41:52Speaker 1: we had this much off time around this time of.
- 41:56Speaker 1: The year this is one game in nineteen or twenty
- 41:59Speaker 1: days because you play. The thirteenth he played the, twenty
- 42:02Speaker 1: second and now you're gonna play. The second is that good?
- 42:06Speaker 1: OR ben i think it's good for this team because,
- 42:11Speaker 1: everyone's eligible, everyone's healthy and so he was able to
- 42:13Speaker 1: actually practice five against five and not have to use
- 42:18Speaker 1: grad students and student managers and things. Like that he
- 42:21Speaker 1: can literally practice good. AGAINST good i think it will.
- 42:24Speaker 1: Help them but did not did not pick up anybody
- 42:26Speaker 1: in the. Waiver line we Didn't get we didn't get
- 42:28Speaker 1: any player ack. With it we probably had one in
- 42:30Speaker 1: our pocket that were. Holding right we Had, a skollie.
- 42:32Speaker 2: Didn't activate anyth.
- 42:32Speaker 1: Didn't activate we didn't activate a scout only you know what.
- 42:35Speaker 1: That means just didn't have. Anyone Available otherwise i'm sure
- 42:38Speaker 1: they would have.
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- 42:40Speaker 3: where your. Roster was decided to stay pat and just
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- 42:44Speaker 3: wanted to. Bring UP no, I mean i'm sure we
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- 42:51Speaker 3: rather sit on the bench there For the grizzlies or
- 42:53Speaker 3: you want to come come get in the?
- 42:54Speaker 2: Lineup? Here, eh no.
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- 46:08Speaker 1: Three guys Before the game is brought to us by
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- 46:21Speaker 2: we got a, Problem here tony is?
- 46:23Speaker 1: HE down i haven't seen him go this hard since
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- 47:01Speaker 2: the live stuff we'll be doing in the. New, year
- 47:03Speaker 2: yeah it's, All, Then yeah. Homeless works we don't even
- 47:08Speaker 2: meet before, the Show and homeless has got his Out. Till,
- 47:10Speaker 2: april yeah. He does.
- 47:12Speaker 1: He does he send an email out, and, said okay
- 47:14Speaker 1: this is what you's here's what your next several months. Are, Doing,
- 47:18Speaker 1: UH texter i AM glad i was not the only
- 47:23Speaker 1: one who noticed That the Grinch And santa claus were
- 47:25Speaker 1: in the Handshake line. Monday night my immediate reaction was
- 47:28Speaker 1: to question if these costumed characters are supposed to, be
- 47:31Speaker 1: there or is this some sort of prank perpetuated perpetrated by.
- 47:34Speaker 1: These individuals by the looks Of the Grinch and santa
- 47:37Speaker 1: and the reactions Of The mississippi. Valley players it all
- 47:40Speaker 1: seemed to be very, Natural anyway it was good for. A, Laugh,
- 47:43Speaker 1: hey jake will you put that picture up there THAT
- 47:46Speaker 1: this i sent him a picture of the three guys and.
- 47:51Speaker 2: They're there so those guys walked down the.
- 47:55Speaker 1: Handshake line guys were IN. A, wv santa we're in
- 47:58Speaker 1: A W the grinch is just a in.
- 48:00Speaker 2: The.
- 48:00Speaker 3: Elf, now now they were employees. That night they were
- 48:03Speaker 3: there as part of the game. Operations crew it wasn't
- 48:06Speaker 3: just three guys that came out of the, Stand.
- 48:08Speaker 1: Now i'm aware. OF that i just didn't know if
- 48:09Speaker 1: they were also designated to go into the. Handshake line that's.
- 48:12Speaker 3: The, question well that might have been. Pushing, boundaries yeah
- 48:15Speaker 3: but they weren't JUST.
- 48:16Speaker 2: RANDOM ti. I understand they were part of, the.
- 48:18Speaker 3: Textures Right The mississippi valley, players like no one. Even,
- 48:21Speaker 3: flinched no they may just. Walk through Shut the grench's
- 48:24Speaker 3: hand like.
- 48:24Speaker 2: He's supposed to.
- 48:24Speaker 3: Be there, thank you, Good, GAME grinch a, Good, Game, santa.
- 48:27Speaker 2: Crunch, be good, be safe best, of luck best, the
- 48:30Speaker 2: luck rest of. The season best, Of.
- 48:32Speaker 1: Luck grinch hope You get. Christmas season best, Of, luck
- 48:34Speaker 1: grench hope you get everything Out. Of whoville say Hello.
- 48:38Speaker 1: To sydney Lu.
- 48:39Speaker 3: Who good luck, to You. MISTER elf i know you
- 48:41Speaker 3: got a tough couple of days.
- 48:42Speaker 2: Coming up surprised you could get away for.
- 48:44Speaker 3: The game the coast didn't, Even flinch like the coach
- 48:46Speaker 3: didn't even stop. Like that, he's, like okay shake. My
- 48:49Speaker 3: hand see everybody.
- 48:51Speaker 1: Just got Beat, fifty Hell, hey grench?
- 48:53Speaker 2: What's Up?
- 48:54Speaker 1: Merry christmas happy you. New you thanks for giving us,
- 48:56Speaker 1: your insight and thanks for being a window into. The
- 48:58Speaker 1: mountaineers for all of us that are Away From, west
- 49:01Speaker 1: virginia many blessings in the. New year let's go Mountaineers
- 49:04Speaker 1: from chad class of ninety two and.
- 49:06Speaker 2: Ninety four get to Hear.
- 49:07Speaker 3: From chad Texting at chad at the.
- 49:10Speaker 2: Food court, Yeah exactly Chad And.
- 49:13Speaker 1: Frank moore by, the way It was Craig from winfield
- 49:15Speaker 1: that sent us, the picture the highly needed Picture Of
- 49:18Speaker 1: santa grinch in.
- 49:19Speaker 2: The alp so thank you.
- 49:20Speaker 1: Very much we appreciate that, textor hey, THREE guys i
- 49:24Speaker 1: wanted to Wish Everyone, Merry Christmas Happy. New, year also
- 49:27Speaker 1: while driving Home On, christmas eve to see. MY parents
- 49:29Speaker 1: i Noticed The powell mountain goat monument.
- 49:35Speaker 2: Is gone. THAT right i Hope the grinch did not. Steal.
- 49:38Speaker 1: It lol Best Wishes big tony. From dance so the
- 49:40Speaker 1: goat's gone Now, too now now the statue goat's.
- 49:43Speaker 3: Gone out that cutout they had, up there.
- 49:45Speaker 2: That's gone now too awful windy?
- 49:47Speaker 3: UP there i, would think, right that how's that? Thing
- 49:49Speaker 3: secured maybe not a surprise that. It's gone not the,
- 49:52Speaker 3: Goat itself i'm saying. The monument so you think of
- 49:55Speaker 3: My Damn powell mountain goat had a, WIND issue i
- 49:58Speaker 3: mean the monument thing? Another, wind, YEAH well i, think
- 50:02Speaker 3: right wouldn't it be windy up on?
- 50:03Speaker 2: That? Mountain?
- 50:04Speaker 1: Absolutely well my neighbors had a hell of a problem
- 50:07Speaker 1: with the oh and the, WORD joy I, mean jay
- 50:10Speaker 1: and why have been Up all? Christmas season that oh
- 50:12Speaker 1: just keeps?
- 50:13Speaker 2: Going straight it has been going like sixty miles.
- 50:15Speaker 3: An, HOUR yeah i would go all the way Up
- 50:17Speaker 3: On powell mountain there where the.
- 50:19Speaker 2: Goat was probably got.
- 50:21Speaker 1: A situation i'm probably gonna have To, get gerald get
- 50:23Speaker 1: him involved in.
- 50:24Speaker 2: This. Again gerald probably he's going to take care, of,
- 50:26Speaker 2: that right?
- 50:27Speaker 3: Isn't he he Was An avid powell mountain.
- 50:29Speaker 2: Goat watcher, All.
- 50:30Speaker 1: Right, GERALD hayden i want, to report where's? The goat
- 50:33Speaker 1: did it just? Fall down is it in the brush
- 50:35Speaker 1: there on? That hill or did someone?
- 50:37Speaker 2: Steal it.
- 50:39Speaker 1: Text Her merry christmas to ALL of. Wv nation my
- 50:42Speaker 1: dinner consisted of smoking a. Prime rip look at. These pictures,
- 50:46Speaker 1: oh my, you, know yeah it's taking a look. At
- 50:48Speaker 1: these so he got. It going he got an you
- 50:50Speaker 1: got to, farr there he got, a nice a nice
- 50:54Speaker 1: crust on. That thing and then by the time he
- 50:56Speaker 1: started cutting that bad.
- 50:57Speaker 2: Boy up? Did dude?
- 51:02Speaker 1: Very nice congratulations that you tasted wonderful scope spreads and.
- 51:12Speaker 1: Hoppy cubed what do you make of The cam. Vaughn
- 51:14Speaker 1: Announced cam vaughn announcement that he's transferring only three days
- 51:17Speaker 1: after saying he was a mountaineer for life and he.
- 51:20Speaker 1: WAS staying i respect his ability and decision. TO leave
- 51:24Speaker 1: i think we talked. About that It was Josh And.
- 51:28Speaker 1: Matt mason, Thank You. Josh texter previously we had shared
- 51:33Speaker 1: with you our trip To The. Arctic circle recently we
- 51:36Speaker 1: Took The mountaineer Spirit To. New, zealand surprisingly we came
- 51:41Speaker 1: across a statue appearing To. Honor hoppy he really is.
- 51:46Speaker 1: World famous there is also no ki we birds were
- 51:51Speaker 1: allowed to sit on. Our Heads that's Greg and Patty From.
- 51:54Speaker 1: Oak hill so there, You go hop are they?
- 51:57Speaker 2: There there that's where They filmed lord Of the Rings
- 52:01Speaker 2: In new zealand and.
- 52:02Speaker 1: Wonderful people they were at a mountaineer GAME and i
- 52:06Speaker 1: was had.
- 52:06Speaker 2: The, opportunity man. They traveled they were up There In.
- 52:09Speaker 2: Arctic circle now they're down there in, my goodness what? The,
- 52:12Speaker 2: HECK hop i. Don't know and you say you travel, A,
- 52:15Speaker 2: lot know that's that's. SERIOUS travel i mean if they
- 52:17Speaker 2: go To The arctic circle And Then, new zealand. That's
- 52:20Speaker 2: travel That was Greg And. Patty, okill, Yeah.
- 52:23Speaker 1: Yeah gregor Had. From okill home Of the home Of,
- 52:25Speaker 1: The running home Of the running o'kill Is The Red Red, Devil,
- 52:28Speaker 1: Devils Yeah Running.
- 52:29Speaker 2: Red.
- 52:30Speaker 1: Devils yeah if you get them and ravens would, mixed
- 52:32Speaker 1: up ravens would Also The Running. Red devils you Got
- 52:34Speaker 1: Two red devils running into. Each, other yeah three guys
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- 54:42Speaker 1: work guys and here's To efforting in twenty, Twenty six
- 54:45Speaker 1: Dan In fernandina Beach via Beckley, and annapolis did you
- 54:51Speaker 1: know that you were doing a? Lighthearted TONE and i.
- 54:54Speaker 2: Don't know we have fun. WITH it i mean we're,
- 54:56Speaker 2: you know We have what would You say, brad mean
- 54:59Speaker 2: wa have fun? With it? Of, FUN yeah i mean
- 55:01Speaker 2: you guys aren't in there doing quirky. The, clowns no not. At,
- 55:03Speaker 2: all no we're. Fact based we. Do highlights brad has
- 55:07Speaker 2: a bunch. OF insight i think, it's uh but WE have,
- 55:09Speaker 2: i mean we. Have fun you guys do a lot.
- 55:10Speaker 2: Of highlights you do a good job on. The highlights
- 55:13Speaker 2: you missed the. First half you catch up with, those highlights.
- 55:16Speaker 2: Very good enjoy. Doing That, the well just when's Your last? Bowl? Game?
- 55:22Speaker 2: Minds today you're? Done today well we, travel tomorrow Yea,
- 55:26Speaker 2: On friday so you're done. After this don't Forget about january.
- 55:28Speaker 2: TWENTY seventh i think are? YOU going I think i'm
- 55:31Speaker 2: gone that day we're Doing The.
- 55:32Speaker 1: Shrine bowl why? Wouldn't you why? Wouldn't, you Ea Sweast.
- 55:36Speaker 1: Front texter are we losing a lot more to the portal?
- 55:39Speaker 1: Than anticipated rich was saying he wanted to get fifteen
- 55:42Speaker 1: or so in? The portal are we going to need
- 55:44Speaker 1: to get more? Than this my concern is we're going
- 55:47Speaker 1: to hear the same thing next year that we had
- 55:49Speaker 1: so many new players and it. TAKES time i just
- 55:52Speaker 1: hope that this is, WHAT'S going i just hope that
- 55:55Speaker 1: this is what it's.
- 55:56Speaker 2: Going to be.
- 55:57Speaker 1: Every year and if, it is then there's so many
- 55:59Speaker 1: new players he's and cannot be kept thrown. Out there
- 56:02Speaker 1: Jeff and. Scott, DEPOT no i. DON'T think i don't
- 56:07Speaker 1: think that you can continually rotate your roster at the
- 56:13Speaker 1: Rate That west virginia did. LAST year i think this
- 56:18Speaker 1: year there will be, less churn but not a whole lot.
- 56:22Speaker 1: Less churn but you can't do it again. Next Year
- 56:26Speaker 1: and rich was over the top and saying that he
- 56:31Speaker 1: did not want that. He built he wants to build
- 56:34Speaker 1: this thing, high school as he kept saying it and,
- 56:36Speaker 1: Saying it so this should. Be here here's. The deal
- 56:40Speaker 1: they come in, last year. They're late they're just grabbing
- 56:42Speaker 1: and picking through and getting whatever they can get just
- 56:45Speaker 1: to get a team out of. The field then they
- 56:48Speaker 1: evaluate and, They, go okay this, isn't working this. Isn't
- 56:52Speaker 1: working these guys gotta go we gotta go. Get more
- 56:55Speaker 1: now it's totally totally every player that they and would
- 57:00Speaker 1: want to pick is what's on.
- 57:02Speaker 2: This.
- 57:02Speaker 1: Roster now this isn't second Day at gabes right after
- 57:07Speaker 1: the store has already been open for. Twelve hours you
- 57:09Speaker 1: got in there thirteenth Hour IN so i think it.
- 57:12Speaker 1: Will decrease it has, To decrease it has. To DECREASE
- 57:15Speaker 1: but i Understand what. JEFF'S saying, i mean it's one
- 57:18Speaker 1: thing to say that for one year you've got a whole,
- 57:20Speaker 1: new roster but you you basically have a whole new.
- 57:23Speaker 1: Roster again this year you got. TO go, i mean,
- 57:25Speaker 1: the hey it's a. New roster reasoning is out the.
- 57:28Speaker 1: WINDOW now i do think it's. GEN shan i was
- 57:30Speaker 1: thinking the, other DAY and i know this season was
- 57:32Speaker 1: rough for a for a big stretch. OF it, i
- 57:34Speaker 1: mean it looked bleak there for a big stretch.
- 57:36Speaker 3: Of it but if you really think about how close this,
- 57:39Speaker 3: team was it's it's fairly remarkable that this team was
- 57:42Speaker 3: right up on two or three more games that you
- 57:45Speaker 3: really maybe should, have win maybe not even could, have
- 57:47Speaker 3: won should.
- 57:48Speaker 2: Have won.
- 57:48Speaker 3: You were you were right There for bowl eligibility with
- 57:51Speaker 3: a group that ultimately you felt like you needed to.
- 57:54Speaker 3: Recruit OVER so, i think if you want, some optimism
- 57:57Speaker 3: even though it's a it's an entirely new, group again
- 57:59Speaker 3: it is just that you were very nearly at six
- 58:02Speaker 3: or seven last year with a group that you're you're
- 58:04Speaker 3: totally moving on from and bringing in a bunch of
- 58:07Speaker 3: guys now to your point that you've had an entire year,
- 58:10Speaker 3: To EVALUATE so i think it is still fair to
- 58:12Speaker 3: expect more wins to follow.
- 58:13Speaker 2: This, year, YEAH agree. I agree AND also i Think
- 58:16Speaker 2: that rich has talked about this and coaches who are
- 58:19Speaker 2: are figuring out it has to be. A combination you
- 58:21Speaker 2: can't get you fifty new guys and. GO out, i
- 58:24Speaker 2: mean you have, to build but also, add right you got,
- 58:26Speaker 2: to build but. Add it it has to be. Both,
- 58:29Speaker 2: things yeah you got to be good at. Both things
- 58:30Speaker 2: and we've said many times. This class they Just, signed
- 58:33Speaker 2: tony they're really thrilled about. That's publicly privately they're excited.
- 58:37Speaker 2: About that they feel there's a bunch of really talented players.
- 58:40Speaker 2: Within there now the next part hits when you start
- 58:42Speaker 2: to see those Announcements coming january two, or three whenever
- 58:45Speaker 2: they start to put. Those out that's now a group
- 58:47Speaker 2: that has to fill, in there and you've got to
- 58:49Speaker 2: have some high. Level production we just Talked About iowa.
- 58:51Speaker 2: State's ability on two of their five starters they. Have
- 58:55Speaker 2: hit that's this hit rate for.
- 58:57Speaker 3: This class has to be really, High.
- 58:59Speaker 1: Correct, Absolutely right, Hey guys christmas traveling and plans got
- 59:04Speaker 1: me behind. And listening but the hot Take for hoppy
- 59:06Speaker 1: and his all his All time christmas songs that we
- 59:09Speaker 1: don't want to hear? EVER again, i agree except as,
- 59:11Speaker 1: number one get Rid Of mariah carey give Me the
- 59:14Speaker 1: chipmunks Over Her Happy. New year three Amigos so Logan,
- 59:19Speaker 1: From mannington Doug. From bridgeport RIGHTS with nba players coming back?
- 59:24Speaker 1: To college is there anyone we know that nil could
- 59:28Speaker 1: bring back with eligibility To. THE mountaineers I know deuce
- 59:32Speaker 1: has at least a, year left though that would be.
- 59:34Speaker 1: Pretty expensive What About? Derek culver what?
- 59:36Speaker 2: About sag?
- 59:36Speaker 1: Speculative question what player that left with eligibility Remaining In
- 59:41Speaker 1: west virginia's history would you have wanted to?
- 59:43Speaker 2: Bring back he.
- 59:44Speaker 3: Just took our sports line question from the. Other night
- 59:46Speaker 3: tony sat in with me on sports the. Other night
- 59:48Speaker 3: it was and that was our question.
- 59:50Speaker 2: RIGHT there i head. IT on, i thought wait, A
- 59:52Speaker 2: minute brad's Hosting and tony's. A guest it, was interesting it.
- 59:56Speaker 2: Was fun how was?
- 59:57Speaker 3: Our question we've got a bunch of. GREAT responses a.
- 59:59Speaker 2: Good, RESPONSE yeah i don't know where this thing. Is
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: GOING like i said at, THE beginning i think we're
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: this is a good place that. We're in.
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: It is why because it's not going to change unless.
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: It explodes it's not going to change hoppy unless the thing.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: Absolutely implodes and so we have to have we have
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: to hit rock bottom before we can build the thing.
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: Back up and we're just getting toward.
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: The bottom when you look at what is happening with
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: what we talk about with, college basketball when you look
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: at the calendar in, college football there's some these two
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: sports which we both love and are extremely popular in,
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: this country they need. Some work leadership. Is horrific they
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: need some.
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: Work because it's it's just. BEYOND leadership i know that's
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: the easy one to take a, shot at and there's
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: certainly no. Argument there but, it's also as you've heard
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: me say for fifteen, years here the ideas are easy to.
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: Come by it's the execution of, those ideas and it's
- 1:01:00Speaker 3: getting everybody that competes in this world to agree to
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: a baseline set. OF rules i think that's still where
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: you have the biggest problem. Moving forward ARE some sec
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: schools going to agree to the rules that are set
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: place because, right now and not just to pick on
- 1:01:15Speaker 3: the sec but there were guardrails put. In place everybody
- 1:01:18Speaker 3: screened for. A salarycap a salarycap was put. In place
- 1:01:21Speaker 3: and what did everybody do immediately on the salarycap ignored
- 1:01:24Speaker 3: the salary cap and went right around. The, Salarycap right
- 1:01:27Speaker 3: so every guardrail that is attempted to put, in place
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: everybody just goes right around. The, Thing eligibility. No WONDER
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: the ncaa, is saying throwing their, hands, up saying what
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: are we going to? Do here what are we Going
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: to everything they try and implement has been found illegal from.
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: The courts the courts just. Overturn it so how do
- 1:01:45Speaker 3: you get to the point where you get a framework
- 1:01:48Speaker 3: that everybody? Agrees with and? WHO'S everybody, i mean. Start
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: there never mind that everybody? Agrees with who? Is everybody
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: is it just the power for is it all one
- 1:01:57Speaker 3: hundred and THIRTY seven fbs? Football programs is the three
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: hundred and sixty seven? Basketball programs who's who has?
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: To?
- 1:02:03Speaker 3: Agree hoppy who agrees on?
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: The? RULES yeah i start there because.
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: So it's easy to screen that everything's fouled up and
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: it's messed up and it's a circus and it's. A
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: Mess and i'm not. Arguing that but now go to the.
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: Next step now give some conquer who, who's deciding and
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: who's going, To acquiesce who's going to come in, and,
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: say yeah for the betterment of, the sport we will
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: set aside Our personal You Mentioned. Scott Drew scott, drew
- 1:02:28Speaker 3: Didn't didn't. Baylor didn't they, didn't, say well it's probably
- 1:02:31Speaker 3: didn't good for the. Whole thing they would, they say
- 1:02:33Speaker 3: we need. A guy there was a thirty one pick in.
- 1:02:35Speaker 3: THE madre i think he can. Help us come, on in,
- 1:02:38Speaker 3: young man come on an, young MAN and I and i'm.
- 1:02:40Speaker 3: WITH you i don't know that you can, blame him
- 1:02:42Speaker 3: Because Had west virginia, Pulled that i'd be sitting up, here,
- 1:02:44Speaker 3: saying hey screw, everybody else you worry, about.
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: Yourselves we'll go.
- 1:02:48Speaker 3: Win games so how do you how do you start
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: the process of getting everybody to follow a set? Of
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: rules and then one, last thing how do you enforce?
- 1:02:57Speaker 3: Those rules and who is enforcing those rules and what
- 1:03:00Speaker 3: teeth does the. Enforcement have we've talked about it. Many
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: times once schools discarded started to thumb their nose at the.
- 1:03:06Speaker 3: Compliance process we really got off.
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: Track there so so the bottom line, of THAT and,
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: I agree i hear what, you're saying it just might
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: be then. TOO late, i mean it's maybe you can't
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: put the genie back in the bottle at. Any point
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: if that's if your if your scenario, is accurate just, like.
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: That it just becomes, total lawlessness is what it. Will
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: become if you're not going to Have any if you're
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: saying it can't, be governed then you'll just have total
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: lawlessness and it'll.
- 1:03:35Speaker 3: Get crazy It's just i'm not saying it you can't.
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: Get there i'm just saying there are a lot of
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: questions beyond this thing needs to be. Cleaned up there
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: are a lot of questions rent address some. Of those
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: this question of well just, make them just make them
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: employees and then you collectively bargain and, get well there's
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: some there's some university issues that come along with making
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: them employees that aren't just as easy as a pro.
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: Sports look so there's just there's a lot of, issues
- 1:03:57Speaker 3: there and it is a. Tough cleanup and you're that.
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: It'll be a high bred employment status and they've got
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: to get a collective. Bargaining agreement but they won't be full.
- 1:04:05Speaker 3: Time employed and that's not something that you just draft
- 1:04:07Speaker 3: Up on tuesday and have an implement On. A, Thursday.
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: Right okay before we go quarterfinals OF The, Cfp Miami.
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: Ohio State ohio, state wins We'll Say, Ohio, State Oregon,
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: Texas tech oregon's two and a half. Point favorite i'd
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: like To See texas tech for.
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: The league you're not gonna be able to. Watch it
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: we're gonna be in. The, Here.
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: Alabama, Indiana, ooh indiana what a two year run they?
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: Have.
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: Had Unbelievable Ole miss, georgia regular JUST an sec.
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: Showdown Game? Who's georgia who's? Who's coaching they.
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: Gotta they gotta? Go there they went over To. Go
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: martin got a guy he's going to coach, the team who's?
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: Coaching them half of LSU's coaching staff is?
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: Coaching? Them Yeah. Uh, georgia, okay deal isn't? It interesting Except?
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: For indiana just like uh those names, From there, it's amazing.
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