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- 0:06Speaker 1: Music time, which means it is showtime. This is Three
- 0:10Speaker 1: Guys Before the Game, Episode numbers six hundred and ninety four.
- 0:14Speaker 1: This is a recap of West Virginia against the Baylor Bears,
- 0:18Speaker 1: times two. Both the WVU men and the WVU women
- 0:22Speaker 1: hosting Baylor over the weekend at Hope Coliseum. Mountaineers got
- 0:26Speaker 1: a split trying to go to and zero did not happen.
- 0:30Speaker 1: We've got that coming up along with Hoppy's obvious observations,
- 0:34Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the Big twelve as a whole.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Got some big games coming up this week in West
- 0:38Speaker 1: Virginia goes back on the road for a single game
- 0:41Speaker 1: at Cincinnati on Thursday night. And don't look now, but
- 0:45Speaker 1: February's here shortest month of the year, which means the
- 0:48Speaker 1: season is about to scoot really really fast. Nine games
- 0:52Speaker 1: in nine games to play in league play.
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- 2:24Speaker 1: So not the result that we wanted in the men's game.
- 2:27Speaker 1: It was exactly the result we wanted in the women's game. Coincidentally,
- 2:32Speaker 1: both games and with a margin of victory of ten points.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Nationally ranked matchup on Sunday afternoon inside Hope Coliseum, WUVU
- 2:42Speaker 1: knocks off Baylor by a score of seventy to sixty.
- 2:44Speaker 1: It's a huge win for WUVU. Baylor had only lost
- 2:48Speaker 1: three times the entire season, and just take a win
- 2:52Speaker 1: and be happy with it. But every time West Virginia wins,
- 2:55Speaker 1: you know what I do the women, I go like,
- 2:57Speaker 1: if you just would have got the TCU who you
- 3:00Speaker 1: got beat with on a buzzer beater, and the and
- 3:03Speaker 1: the Texas Tech and the Texas Tech, I mean, this
- 3:06Speaker 1: team could be in first place. Mark Kellogg is fabulous.
- 3:12Speaker 1: We said going into the season, what will they do?
- 3:15Speaker 1: What will they do with the loss of an NBA
- 3:18Speaker 1: a w NBA player.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Go get players.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Well, they just keep winning, win, They just keep winning.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Mimi Wheeler, Hello, Yeah, double double double, a big double double,
- 3:29Speaker 2: not like just like slipped over the time.
- 3:34Speaker 4: I'm surprised they did not call security to the Hope
- 3:37Speaker 4: Coliseum because West Virginia stole the ball so.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Much, thirty turnovers for a ranked Baylor team that's a
- 3:43Speaker 2: top fifteen team turned it over thirty.
- 3:46Speaker 3: Thirty, thirty and thirteen steals.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Well, think about this, thirty eight pot ov.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Yeah, the points offense. Yeah, so West Virginia scored more
- 3:55Speaker 1: than half of its points because of Baylor turnovers. They
- 3:58Speaker 1: scored thirty eight. There's seventy off of Baylor turnovers. And
- 4:02Speaker 1: because this is a this is a statistical aberration, West
- 4:06Speaker 1: Virginia was out shot in the game. The Mountaineer shot
- 4:08Speaker 1: twenty nine point eight percent. We'll call it thirty. The
- 4:11Speaker 1: Baylors shot thirty four. Baylor got beat by ten. Why
- 4:16Speaker 1: West Virginia took twenty three more shots at the goal
- 4:22Speaker 1: at the goal because of the turnovers, stealing the ball.
- 4:24Speaker 2: And running down twenty five. In that points off turnover category,
- 4:28Speaker 2: sixteen of those turnovers were live ball variety. Wes tritting
- 4:32Speaker 2: I got a point per possession off of those sixteen
- 4:34Speaker 2: points off those sixteen night ball turnovers.
- 4:36Speaker 4: Pretty good, by the way. Six K at the College
- 4:39Speaker 4: at the Hope Coliseum.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Fantastic, good crowd. Yeah, that probably shouldn't go here. This
- 4:45Speaker 1: early in the show. Go ahead, but the officiating left
- 4:49Speaker 1: a tremendous amount to be desired.
- 4:52Speaker 3: Now, don't get into all our stuff here.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Okay, fine, I'll just leave it with that. The officiating
- 4:57Speaker 1: left a tremendous amount to be desired. Will leave it
- 5:00Speaker 1: at that. I'll get into that more coming up in
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- 6:52Speaker 3: Did you go with you?
- 6:53Speaker 2: You think I prepare for spreads on stats? You should have.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Seen that whole Lord, gosh, I bet you know.
- 6:58Speaker 1: One good thing about that now is the fact that
- 7:00Speaker 1: everyone has a cell phone. You don't have to worry
- 7:02Speaker 1: about mom or dad answering the phones directly.
- 7:04Speaker 2: But I think it's done a disservice to today's youth.
- 7:08Speaker 2: I think that was great character building to have to lie.
- 7:11Speaker 2: You had to line up and say, all right, Dad,
- 7:13Speaker 2: here we go. I'm gonna make a call. I'm gonna
- 7:14Speaker 2: handle it, gonna get your daughter on the phone.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Here that wint and you on the phone.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Be screwed early. Like if you came out of the
- 7:22Speaker 2: gate on that first call and you were a negative,
- 7:24Speaker 2: you were done, potentially cooked. You're ready to do some
- 7:27Speaker 2: scouting reports. Know about the parents in the dad top?
- 7:31Speaker 2: Is the mom tough? Who's the nice one of the two?
- 7:33Speaker 2: Who can I get in there with? Wow? What time
- 7:35Speaker 2: should I be calling?
- 7:36Speaker 3: Classic Brad.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Spreads on that stuff.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Had the analytics anyway.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Anyway, wait digress.
- 7:45Speaker 1: Three point two chance over under Dad will answer. Got
- 7:48Speaker 1: that going for you, all right?
- 7:50Speaker 3: Was an athlete.
- 7:52Speaker 2: I was a sports fan. I'll put up twenty nine
- 7:55Speaker 2: last week. You see that.
- 7:57Speaker 3: I don't think you opened with that.
- 8:00Speaker 2: I never did.
- 8:01Speaker 1: No, I think you're exactly right. Though. Kids don't communicate
- 8:03Speaker 1: well now because they haven't had tough calls to make
- 8:06Speaker 1: correct so they just put their head down.
- 8:08Speaker 2: I mean, there was no help in that. I didn't
- 8:09Speaker 2: go to my mom and say, hey, can you call
- 8:11Speaker 2: for me right now? You get a lot of the
- 8:13Speaker 2: kids wants you to help them.
- 8:15Speaker 1: There was no help.
- 8:16Speaker 3: You were on an island.
- 8:17Speaker 2: Here was like man press coverage. You're by yourself against
- 8:20Speaker 2: an elite receiver, and you better make the play.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Yeah, here's a stupid, not stupid. Here's an obvious observation
- 8:27Speaker 1: before Hoppy's obvious observations. When we were on the Arizona trip,
- 8:31Speaker 1: we spent considerable time on the Arizona campus because we
- 8:34Speaker 1: had an extra day, so we walked the campus and
- 8:38Speaker 1: one of the days I was waiting for someone I
- 8:41Speaker 1: don't know whatever it was, and I was just sitting
- 8:42Speaker 1: there and I'm watching the students are matriculating around the campus. Yeah,
- 8:48Speaker 1: you're exactly right, hoppy they I never realized it. No
- 8:53Speaker 1: one talks.
- 8:54Speaker 2: No, you could.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Be in a church and it would be louder, very quiet.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Heads are down. For those that are talking, they're talking
- 9:02Speaker 1: to someone on a FaceTime Yeah. Yes, So like now,
- 9:05Speaker 1: that's the thing, right, you walk your round campus and
- 9:08Speaker 1: you're talking to your people. That blew my mind.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Headphone usage.
- 9:14Speaker 1: I wanted to scream at the top of my lugs. Hey,
- 9:17Speaker 1: do you realize and understand why you can't communicate? That
- 9:22Speaker 1: blew me away? That's an absolute old man observation. But
- 9:25Speaker 1: it was an old guy. But what the frick?
- 9:29Speaker 4: I think one thing you missed there, another old guy,
- 9:31Speaker 4: is you miss being being required or forced or having
- 9:36Speaker 4: to communicate with people that you don't know or aren't.
- 9:40Speaker 3: Already comfortable with. Yes, which is a lesson in life is.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Like somebody, you run into somebody, how are you going
- 9:44Speaker 4: to interact with them?
- 9:47Speaker 1: You're on it, hobster b an that way. Just that
- 9:50Speaker 1: kind of just made me go, okay, just me, well,
- 9:52Speaker 1: all right. I haven't talked to Jake about this, but
- 9:54Speaker 1: it's time for time for hoppies obvious observation. Let's se
- 9:57Speaker 1: if'n get the video against can we get there? Do
- 9:58Speaker 1: we have the video game? We might able to do
- 10:00Speaker 1: that again? We might, we might, we might. We've done again.
- 10:03Speaker 3: We did well.
- 10:03Speaker 1: We didn't tell them. It is my fault.
- 10:05Speaker 3: That's all right. We can go right into it.
- 10:06Speaker 1: Wait, wait a second, just go blue screen, blue screen,
- 10:09Speaker 1: We go blue screen back in. Oh, that's that's okay, Jake,
- 10:12Speaker 1: don't worry about it. We'll just do this.
- 10:13Speaker 2: He's got thoughts that sound brand new.
- 10:17Speaker 4: Thing we wait, okay, all right, let's just go.
- 10:26Speaker 3: This is not good.
- 10:29Speaker 4: I think it's kind of like the Mountaineers for a Saturday,
- 10:31Speaker 4: just like a lot of fails, a little bit off.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Jake's now in the building. Jake has come into the room.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Huh okay, all right, we're gonna make it. Yeah, what
- 10:42Speaker 1: the hell? Just a podcast? I mean, this is what
- 10:45Speaker 1: you're supposed to.
- 10:45Speaker 3: This is not sharp talk about community.
- 10:47Speaker 2: This isn't just communicated, just walked in communicated.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Okay, Jake, here we go. We're gonna run it in three,
- 10:51Speaker 1: my goodness, and three and two and in one.
- 10:55Speaker 5: He's got thoughts that sound brand new, but that things
- 10:58Speaker 5: we already knew he got.
- 11:01Speaker 3: His bomb ready.
- 11:02Speaker 5: Heaven knows, I take it quick before his livation.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was right on, That was yeah, it
- 11:19Speaker 2: was dead on.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Jake and I got a certain work together.
- 11:22Speaker 4: I feel now I feel guilty raising questions about Saturday's game,
- 11:27Speaker 4: and we just had a really bad performance ourselves there
- 11:29Speaker 4: in the answer. Okay, So here's the word that came
- 11:32Speaker 4: to mind. The word is disappointment. Disappointing on several fronts. First,
- 11:38Speaker 4: you lose the first game this season at Whole Coliseum,
- 11:41Speaker 4: so you didn't protect the home court. Disappointing for the
- 11:45Speaker 4: fans who came out on a very very cold day,
- 11:48Speaker 4: made the effort to be there and really didn't and
- 11:51Speaker 4: they tried to make a difference and really didn't respond
- 11:54Speaker 4: enough anyway. Disappointing in the way West Virginia played. Got
- 11:58Speaker 4: off to a slow start again, slow start again, and.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Then you spend the whole game.
- 12:04Speaker 4: Then it takes so much effort to try to make
- 12:07Speaker 4: that up. And coach Odge talked about being disappointed, and
- 12:10Speaker 4: he puts so much emphasis on defense. Ton't hed been
- 12:12Speaker 4: disappointed in the defense early, So you get behind and
- 12:16Speaker 4: it takes it.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Takes all this energy.
- 12:20Speaker 4: Because it starts on the defensive end, and then at
- 12:23Speaker 4: the end in the second half, you go through the
- 12:24Speaker 4: stretch where you're not making shots and some of us
- 12:26Speaker 4: just and Brad, you'll have numbers on this, some of
- 12:29Speaker 4: us just you're not making shots.
- 12:30Speaker 3: And some of it is it.
- 12:30Speaker 4: Takes all this efforts defensively to get back in the game.
- 12:35Speaker 4: It's not always easy to go down when you're exhausted
- 12:38Speaker 4: and try to make shots. So there's a risk reward
- 12:42Speaker 4: to some of that. There's a cost to that effort
- 12:44Speaker 4: that goes into trying to call your way.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Back in the game.
- 12:48Speaker 4: Disappointing and didn't cost to the game, but disappointed in
- 12:51Speaker 4: the officiating. Big time game between West Virginia and Baylor.
- 12:55Speaker 4: The officiating was not up to the standard of the ballgame.
- 13:02Speaker 4: Coach Hodgs there were times in the second half they
- 13:05Speaker 4: were stagnant on offense. Guys where I know we talked
- 13:08Speaker 4: about there were sets where you're not supposed to move,
- 13:10Speaker 4: but he talked about times when the guys weren't moving.
- 13:12Speaker 4: They were just he said, they were tired, just didn't
- 13:14Speaker 4: want to move, didn't shoot.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Well, you'll get into the numbers there. Obviously, honor was
- 13:19Speaker 3: off and in the.
- 13:21Speaker 4: Second half they did a much better job against Eagle staff.
- 13:26Speaker 3: And uh, you know the other thing is, and you
- 13:29Speaker 3: guys talked about this going in.
- 13:30Speaker 4: You all were worried and appropriately Baylor's got guys, they
- 13:36Speaker 4: got They got guys right, and Scott Drew knows how
- 13:40Speaker 4: to coach. And you figured at some point this season
- 13:45Speaker 4: it was he didn't want to look at the record.
- 13:46Speaker 4: He looked at at some point this season they were
- 13:48Speaker 4: going to get start to get it together, right, they
- 13:50Speaker 4: were going to start to play better. And they did.
- 13:53Speaker 4: They started to play better Saturday, and coach Drews said,
- 13:57Speaker 4: we finally defended at a level where we could win.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. I'll get to that too.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:04Speaker 4: They guarded, so they guarded. West Virginia had you know,
- 14:07Speaker 4: had trouble. So you know, if you'd played just a
- 14:10Speaker 4: little bit better, I think, you know, you could have
- 14:13Speaker 4: you could have pulled that one out.
- 14:14Speaker 3: I mean it was close. Forget the ten points, it
- 14:17Speaker 3: was close.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Dane was decided in the first half. It was over
- 14:21Speaker 1: in the first half. Scott Drew wins ninety percent of
- 14:24Speaker 1: his games when he leads, it happen.
- 14:25Speaker 3: I heard you with that stat if you.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Don't come out and you are the hammer instead of
- 14:30Speaker 1: the nail at a start of a game like that,
- 14:32Speaker 1: which West Virginia wasn't they were the Now they got hammered.
- 14:35Speaker 1: That was it. Ballgame.
- 14:37Speaker 4: And we talked about guys. I mean, Cameron Carr is
- 14:40Speaker 4: a dude. He had a great game, yesufu Ogbaen. I
- 14:44Speaker 4: mean they just good players. Good players made more plays,
- 14:48Speaker 4: made more plays. So overall, the word for me is disappointing.
- 14:53Speaker 4: Now you have the road game at Cincinnati. They're coming
- 14:56Speaker 4: off a twenty six point loss to Arizona at Arizona.
- 14:58Speaker 4: But everybody loses Arizona. So the bear Cats two games back,
- 15:02Speaker 4: beat Baylor at home by ten. You got to go
- 15:04Speaker 4: to Cincinnati, and now you've got these games coming up, Brad.
- 15:07Speaker 4: You got on the road against Cincinnati, then you got
- 15:10Speaker 4: Texas second home, then you got UCF and BYU.
- 15:13Speaker 3: This is a defining stretch right here, tough stretch right
- 15:17Speaker 3: right now.
- 15:17Speaker 4: You're in pretty good shape in this league when you're
- 15:20Speaker 4: you got what five wins, you're just one. You're one
- 15:24Speaker 4: back in the win category from the upper half of
- 15:26Speaker 4: the league. So you're in good shape there and you're
- 15:29Speaker 4: two ahead in the win category in the lower parts.
- 15:31Speaker 4: So you're right there, You're okay, But Brad, this stretch
- 15:34Speaker 4: is next four to five games.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Hugeugh, yep, Okay.
- 15:37Speaker 4: We talked about the women, but that was a great
- 15:39Speaker 4: win for the women. Knocked off number fourteen Baylor, the
- 15:42Speaker 4: co leader in the league.
- 15:44Speaker 3: We talked about the.
- 15:44Speaker 4: Thirteen steels, thirty turnovers, Wheeler had her six double double,
- 15:49Speaker 4: six thousand fans there. So just a great win for
- 15:51Speaker 4: West Virginia women rifle team. So I suspect that Army
- 15:58Speaker 4: and Navy have great sharpshooters. One would hope, one would
- 16:01Speaker 4: hope for our national defense. And I'm sure that they do.
- 16:05Speaker 4: But Saturday before the basketball game, they're at the range,
- 16:11Speaker 4: at the range, at the range. What's at the Bill McKenzie.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Is the McKenzie shooting range.
- 16:18Speaker 3: It's the McKenzie shooting range.
- 16:19Speaker 1: He's got his name on it. Yeah, I didn't know that.
- 16:21Speaker 4: They're at the Bill McKenzie Mobile rifle range in the
- 16:23Speaker 4: Shell building.
- 16:24Speaker 1: Oh, he's got the mobile unit.
- 16:25Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got WVU knocks off Army and Navy. Army
- 16:31Speaker 4: and Navy.
- 16:32Speaker 1: That's a good Saturday right there.
- 16:35Speaker 3: The Air Force wasn't available.
- 16:36Speaker 1: It doesn't happen at all.
- 16:37Speaker 2: You take off both what has just taken home the
- 16:39Speaker 2: whole Commander in chiefs bring it right over here.
- 16:42Speaker 3: Same day.
- 16:43Speaker 4: If WVU defeats Kentucky's Saturday, the Mountaineers will claim their
- 16:47Speaker 4: seventeenth Great American Gark. Yeah, the Gark, the Great American
- 16:50Speaker 4: Rifle Conference title, like the Gark. And they're third in
- 16:53Speaker 4: a row. But I thought you beat Army and Navy.
- 16:57Speaker 4: That's a good day.
- 16:59Speaker 5: Uh.
- 17:00Speaker 4: Two other obvious observations benefits of winning a national championship.
- 17:03Speaker 3: What do you get?
- 17:04Speaker 4: You get recruiting, you get donations, you get ticket sales.
- 17:06Speaker 3: You know what else?
- 17:07Speaker 4: You get merch, big time merch sales. This is from
- 17:11Speaker 4: Sports Business Journal. Around ninety four licensees have hopped on
- 17:17Speaker 4: the Indiana University licensing program, and there are retailers and
- 17:21Speaker 4: licensees saying it's the largest championship market ever.
- 17:26Speaker 1: They have the most alums. Because they have the most alums.
- 17:29Speaker 3: Well documented, seal stuff, sell stuff.
- 17:32Speaker 4: And finally, a little trivia question for you guys, I
- 17:35Speaker 4: think you'll get it on this day in nineteen seventy
- 17:40Speaker 4: This day, nineteen seventy February second, This college athlete became
- 17:44Speaker 4: the first college basketball player to reach the three thousand
- 17:49Speaker 4: point mark.
- 17:52Speaker 1: Loewell Sender or Elvin Hayes.
- 17:56Speaker 4: Seventy nineteen seventy other hint three years his team never
- 18:03Speaker 4: went to Pete Marrivitch. Pete Merrivitch did on February second,
- 18:08Speaker 4: nineteen seventy scored forty.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Nine three thousand points.
- 18:12Speaker 4: Scored forty nine in LSU's one O nine ninety one
- 18:15Speaker 4: victoria of Mississippi State. By the way, there was no
- 18:18Speaker 4: three point shot. No, there was no shot clock, no,
- 18:22Speaker 4: and freshman couldn't play.
- 18:24Speaker 1: And no elastic around the tops of his socks. Oh
- 18:26Speaker 1: remember that? Yeah?
- 18:28Speaker 3: Did it in three seas one.
- 18:30Speaker 4: In three seasons, he finished with three thousand, six hundred
- 18:35Speaker 4: sixty seven points and was the all time leading scorer
- 18:39Speaker 4: in men's and women's college basketball until.
- 18:42Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark.
- 18:43Speaker 1: I loved him, man, I used to watch him. I
- 18:46Speaker 1: loved him in the NBA.
- 18:47Speaker 3: I went back, I do that this day in history,
- 18:49Speaker 3: just for fun. I went back. I saw that, and
- 18:51Speaker 3: I got went down a rabbit hole, started watching.
- 18:53Speaker 1: Him, watch a lot of his stuff. Man, he was indretible,
- 18:56Speaker 1: different dude, he was incredible. Well West Virginia connection, of course,
- 18:59Speaker 1: as dad coached Davis and Elkins, where you you have
- 19:02Speaker 1: an honorary degree from.
- 19:03Speaker 3: Don't you not know? Wesleyan same thing, same league, same
- 19:08Speaker 3: in that in.
- 19:09Speaker 4: That three years they never made the tournament because only
- 19:12Speaker 4: twenty five teams got in at that time. Yeah, he
- 19:15Speaker 4: averaged forty He averaged forty three points a game. There's
- 19:21Speaker 4: forty three points a game with no three point shot.
- 19:25Speaker 4: Played about ten years in the show kind of you know.
- 19:28Speaker 1: Sad Ending died of a heart attack while playing basketball.
- 19:31Speaker 4: Out of he was he was nineteen eighty eight at
- 19:33Speaker 4: the age of forty. He was playing basketball a pickup game.
- 19:36Speaker 4: Died from an undetected heart defect. Undetected heart defense.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Was playing with James Dobson from Focus on the Family. Wow,
- 19:45Speaker 1: really in a pickup game when he collapsed.
- 19:48Speaker 4: Well, so just that that Brad to score that many
- 19:52Speaker 4: points win there's no three point shot. And somebody went
- 19:55Speaker 4: back and looked at his shots actually did an analysis.
- 19:58Speaker 1: Yeah, how many would it have been?
- 20:00Speaker 4: Even and you look at the look at the highlights,
- 20:02Speaker 4: he's way he's way back there. If the three point
- 20:05Speaker 4: line had been in effect, he would have averaged sixty
- 20:08Speaker 4: seven points again.
- 20:10Speaker 2: Right, that's a good one. That's some work to go
- 20:12Speaker 2: back and do that.
- 20:13Speaker 4: Yeah, so anyway, a little trivia for you. That's all
- 20:17Speaker 4: I got.
- 20:18Speaker 1: All right, well let's good, let's do that. Let's close
- 20:20Speaker 1: it then, because I like using the music by all mean.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Well that was something thoughts from Hobby's point of the.
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- 20:42Speaker 2: That's the play.
- 20:46Speaker 3: Had a quick release.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Those passing was I mean, you talk about it. Scoring
- 20:52Speaker 1: with his past passing was incredible. He was a Globe trotter.
- 20:55Speaker 3: He was a Globe Trotter's offered him, Yeah, a million.
- 20:58Speaker 1: Bucks if you on YouTube. They also have some horse
- 21:01Speaker 1: contests that he played against former current NBA players. While
- 21:05Speaker 1: they really remember that and they do one on one
- 21:06Speaker 1: they've played remember at halftime in the NBA when it
- 21:08Speaker 1: used to be on ABC, this is in the very
- 21:10Speaker 1: early seventies, at halftime they would pre tape during the
- 21:14Speaker 1: summer one on one games between NBA players. Really I
- 21:17Speaker 1: don't remember those. Look some of those up. Fantastic games. Yeah,
- 21:22Speaker 1: really good stuff. All right to very good hopey, thank you,
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- 23:20Speaker 2: Well, hop already said what I was going to lead with.
- 23:22Speaker 2: We talked all week. Let's let's look back and look
- 23:26Speaker 2: at what we said going into this game and what
- 23:28Speaker 2: came to fruition. What did not the first thing we
- 23:31Speaker 2: said We sat up here and said, listen, this is dangerous.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Well look out for this team. There's some talent there.
- 23:36Speaker 2: Just didn't feel good about that game. Tony I had
- 23:38Speaker 2: an uneasy feeling about that thing all week, especially after
- 23:41Speaker 2: their loss to Cincinnata and the way Car played in
- 23:44Speaker 2: that game. First thing we pointed out was the elite
- 23:47Speaker 2: offensive rebounding prowess of this Baylor program, not just this
- 23:51Speaker 2: particular team, but that's a Scott Drew trait. This team
- 23:54Speaker 2: was ninth in the country and offensive rebounding percentage coming
- 23:57Speaker 2: into the game had four players in the top level
- 24:00Speaker 2: ven percent nationally in offensive rebounding, so they were very,
- 24:03Speaker 2: very good. Got a lot of their points from second
- 24:04Speaker 2: chance points. We also though, thought there was an opportunity
- 24:07Speaker 2: for West Virginia to return the favor and get some
- 24:10Speaker 2: offensive rebounds and second chance points on the other side,
- 24:13Speaker 2: because the Bears had struggled, believe it or not, with
- 24:15Speaker 2: defensive rebounding and big twelve play, so offensive glass thought
- 24:19Speaker 2: to be a big key both ways. West Virginia did
- 24:21Speaker 2: a great job in this one. Normally hoppy, you walk
- 24:24Speaker 2: out and you take all of these numbers, Yes, twelve
- 24:26Speaker 2: to ten second chance advantage for Baylor, so you only
- 24:29Speaker 2: lost that category by two percentage of second chance points.
- 24:32Speaker 2: Nineteen percent of Baylor's points came that way, eighteen point
- 24:36Speaker 2: nine percent of West Virginia's points came that way. That's
- 24:39Speaker 2: the second best offensive rebounding percentage for West Virginia in
- 24:42Speaker 2: a Big Twelve Conference game. Most of those in the
- 24:45Speaker 2: second half. That kept you in that But that was
- 24:47Speaker 2: something I thought if you were going to lose, it
- 24:49Speaker 2: was because that category would get way out of whack.
- 24:52Speaker 2: It didn't. You held your own on that. We talked
- 24:54Speaker 2: about Baylor being a good shooting team, specifically when you
- 24:58Speaker 2: guarded them. This was something that stood out to me
- 25:00Speaker 2: as an area of concern because I figured West Virginia
- 25:03Speaker 2: would guard them. But this was a Baylor team that
- 25:05Speaker 2: came in top twelve percent nationally in points per possession
- 25:09Speaker 2: on guarded catch and shoots. So this is a team
- 25:11Speaker 2: that even when you guarded them, made shots that this
- 25:15Speaker 2: might wow you. Baylor had twenty three points off guarded
- 25:19Speaker 2: catch and shoots, the second most all season for Baylor.
- 25:23Speaker 2: The most they had in that category came in their
- 25:26Speaker 2: very first game of the year, in a bye game,
- 25:28Speaker 2: so in their only the most points scored in a
- 25:31Speaker 2: meaningful game off guarded catch and shoots came in this one.
- 25:35Speaker 2: They scored zero points on unguarded catching shoots. Zero they
- 25:41Speaker 2: had nineteen total catch and shoots, eighteen of them were guarded,
- 25:47Speaker 2: so they made tough shots. You did not. They did.
- 25:52Speaker 2: So if you want to stop and we can go
- 25:53Speaker 2: on to the next thing, you can, because that was
- 25:55Speaker 2: really the game right there. I'll get into some more stuff,
- 25:56Speaker 2: but that was kind of a wow to me. Out
- 25:59Speaker 2: of nineteen jump shots, eighteen classified as guarded. So that was, obviously,
- 26:04Speaker 2: as you would expect, the fewest unguarded shots in a
- 26:07Speaker 2: game that Baylor's had all season. We mentioned the Bearers
- 26:09Speaker 2: get to the free throw line quite a bit, top
- 26:12Speaker 2: one hundred team and the seventy fourth percentile in free
- 26:14Speaker 2: throw attempt rate, and they don't put opponents on the
- 26:17Speaker 2: line top forty nationally and not putting you on the line.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Actually this came out in West Virginia's favor, and you
- 26:23Speaker 2: were in really good shape here. West Virginia got to
- 26:26Speaker 2: the line. They Baylor did not just a nine percent
- 26:29Speaker 2: free throw attempt rate in the one percentile nationally, So
- 26:32Speaker 2: West Virginia did a really good job of guarding without fouling.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Put them on the line only five times. Flipping around
- 26:37Speaker 2: the other way, you got to the line eighteen times.
- 26:40Speaker 2: You made twelve of them plus eight points at the line. Yeah,
- 26:43Speaker 2: you would have liked a couple more that might have helped,
- 26:45Speaker 2: but that you won that category. We said watch out
- 26:47Speaker 2: for Cameron Carr, coming off a season worse performance. He
- 26:51Speaker 2: led them with sixteen, but West Virginia again made it tough.
- 26:54Speaker 2: Credit Jasper Floyd again six to fifteen from the floor
- 26:57Speaker 2: for Car, a game high for both team. Seven turnovers,
- 27:01Speaker 2: so he got sixteen and he had twelve rebounds. I
- 27:04Speaker 2: get it, but you did enough with those seven turnovers. Defensively,
- 27:08Speaker 2: you made it tough on him. Agmen was very good
- 27:10Speaker 2: and picked up the slack, but Cameron Carr you kind
- 27:13Speaker 2: of held in check coming off what was his worst
- 27:15Speaker 2: performance of the year. Let's talk about West for Denney's
- 27:19Speaker 2: offense for a second, because I thought that's where it
- 27:21Speaker 2: really got you. And I'm going to go into some
- 27:23Speaker 2: numbers here that I think illustrate that. I thought Baylor's defense,
- 27:26Speaker 2: as Scott Drew outlined there, that's what jumped out to me.
- 27:29Speaker 2: I thought they were really good. West Virginia only got
- 27:33Speaker 2: one guarded catch and shoot all game. So we look
- 27:36Speaker 2: at Honor's numbers, just you're not winning it. Just simple
- 27:39Speaker 2: is that you're not gonna win when Honor has the
- 27:41Speaker 2: kind of day from the floor that he did, a
- 27:43Speaker 2: lot of tough shots for him. Nothing came easy except
- 27:46Speaker 2: the couple in the corner where he did. They weren't
- 27:49Speaker 2: classified as on guarded, but they were great looks for Honor.
- 27:51Speaker 2: Got a guy up, guy flies by him, you're down three.
- 27:54Speaker 2: He had two threes from the corner down three that
- 27:57Speaker 2: could have changed the game there. Late We'll get into
- 27:59Speaker 2: some of that when in the five games when Honor
- 28:07Speaker 2: has the fewest catch and shoot jumpers. Okay, so there's
- 28:11Speaker 2: on the on the five games when he's got the
- 28:13Speaker 2: fewest catch and shoot jumpers just never mind guarded aro
- 28:16Speaker 2: on guard, just the fewest total number of catch and
- 28:18Speaker 2: shoots Westford and he's one in four. So that tells
- 28:21Speaker 2: you something, right, I mean, we know he's got to
- 28:23Speaker 2: go offensively, and I thought Baylor did a great job
- 28:26Speaker 2: of taking that away. They also took Tray away after
- 28:30Speaker 2: that stretch, and quite frankly, I thought that it was early,
- 28:34Speaker 2: but I thought you just took control of that game
- 28:36Speaker 2: when he made that second consecutive three Tray I'm talking
- 28:39Speaker 2: about now. That was his ninth point of the game
- 28:42Speaker 2: and he was rolling. He got that with eight twenty
- 28:44Speaker 2: nine to go in the first half.
- 28:46Speaker 3: Didn't score the rest of the game.
- 28:48Speaker 2: Yeah, so they I thought, that's as good a job
- 28:50Speaker 2: as we've seen in a close game. Houston probably did
- 28:53Speaker 2: the best job, but that's a really good job by Baylor.
- 28:56Speaker 2: I thought of taking honor and Tray away and saying,
- 28:58Speaker 2: other guys are going to have to be and man, guys,
- 29:01Speaker 2: there were other shots. There were other shots available in
- 29:03Speaker 2: the lane. I'll get into those coming up here. And
- 29:06Speaker 2: just a little bit that you couldn't you couldn't finish.
- 29:08Speaker 2: You tied a season low for field goals in this game,
- 29:12Speaker 2: and threes. Here's where I thought the game was decided.
- 29:16Speaker 2: And I understand your point in the first half and
- 29:17Speaker 2: that stat was Scott Drew. But I thought, this is
- 29:20Speaker 2: the death knell to me. At eleven twenty nine in
- 29:23Speaker 2: the second half, West Virginia had forty seven points on
- 29:27Speaker 2: the board. They'd scored forty seven points with eleven twenty
- 29:30Speaker 2: nine to go in the second half. Fast forward to
- 29:33Speaker 2: the very last play of the game. Jasper scored in
- 29:35Speaker 2: essence at the buzzer with one second remaining to land
- 29:39Speaker 2: on fifty three four point. That means you went eleven
- 29:41Speaker 2: minutes and twenty eight seconds and scored four points. And
- 29:46Speaker 2: I do think fatigue with some of it. I think
- 29:49Speaker 2: that the grind defensively that you were putting forth, which
- 29:52Speaker 2: was an elite defensive effort to climb back in it.
- 29:55Speaker 2: And I think Baylor was tired too. Yes, they were
- 29:56Speaker 2: guarding you at the other end. That was just standing
- 29:59Speaker 2: in the center of the rain, just throwing punches, and
- 30:01Speaker 2: I do think it affected both offenses. But guys, you
- 30:04Speaker 2: had eleven twenty eight on the clock and you could
- 30:07Speaker 2: only manage four points. That to me was the biggest
- 30:09Speaker 2: part where you went, oh my gosh, you just they
- 30:13Speaker 2: felt like they were trying to hand you in the game.
- 30:15Speaker 2: You kept getting turnover after turnover, you kept getting stops.
- 30:18Speaker 2: You were doing a great job there, But man, how
- 30:21Speaker 2: many multiple layups miss layups? Did we have multiple misses
- 30:25Speaker 2: on those little jump hooks from point blank range.
- 30:27Speaker 1: When you get some creation, how many layps are missed?
- 30:29Speaker 2: I'm coming so we missed a bunch of those shots.
- 30:32Speaker 2: I mentioned the two honor threes that normally you would take.
- 30:36Speaker 2: But again, there's some fatigue, so it's easy for me
- 30:38Speaker 2: to say, make those open threes, but he missed those.
- 30:41Speaker 2: Here's the numbers. Okay, eight for fourteen at the rim
- 30:44Speaker 2: for the game, eight of fourteen at the rim.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Surprising.
- 30:49Speaker 2: That's not very good.
- 30:50Speaker 1: I thought it'd be worse. Yeah.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Yeah, Still, that's a lot of misses for not a
- 30:53Speaker 2: lot of shots. Remember you're not You don't have a
- 30:55Speaker 2: lot of shots. Thirteen of twenty nine in the lane
- 30:59Speaker 2: or at the rim. Yeah, that's so forty five percent.
- 31:01Speaker 2: So there were opportunities there, and I thought your offense
- 31:04Speaker 2: was reacting to them taking away your shooters by getting
- 31:08Speaker 2: it down into the paint. You just could not finish turnovers.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Let's talk about those for a second, because those are
- 31:13Speaker 2: starting to get a little bit concerning. Eighteen point three
- 31:17Speaker 2: percent turnover percentage against Baylor. That's the sixth Big twelve
- 31:21Speaker 2: game with an eighteen percent or higher number. I think
- 31:24Speaker 2: you're a little fortunate to be three and three in
- 31:26Speaker 2: those games. West Virginia is now sixteenth out of sixteen
- 31:29Speaker 2: in turnover percentage in Big twelve play. So Ross would
- 31:32Speaker 2: tell you happy, if you're going to limit possessions offensively,
- 31:37Speaker 2: you cannot turn it over at a rate that's nearly
- 31:39Speaker 2: almost one in five possessions. That's got to get cleaned
- 31:42Speaker 2: up here pretty quickly. You're also not countering that enough
- 31:46Speaker 2: defensively twelve out of sixteenth the opponent turnover percentage. And
- 31:50Speaker 2: so that's another part here, guys, as you look at
- 31:53Speaker 2: what needs to happen offensively, West Virginia is gonna slow
- 31:58Speaker 2: the ball down and control tempo, which works on the
- 32:00Speaker 2: defensive end. We've seen that. That's what when they've won games,
- 32:03Speaker 2: it's because of that. But if you're struggling to make
- 32:06Speaker 2: shots in big stretches, you've got to find ways to
- 32:08Speaker 2: get some easy points. You're not really doing it off
- 32:11Speaker 2: points off turnovers lately, and you're not getting to the
- 32:14Speaker 2: free throw line enough either. You're thirteenth in the league
- 32:16Speaker 2: and free throw attempt rate and then fifteenth in the
- 32:19Speaker 2: league and free throw percentage when you get there. So
- 32:22Speaker 2: nothing easy offensively right now. And that's part of why
- 32:24Speaker 2: you've seen the stretches of struggling on the offensive end.
- 32:29Speaker 2: Now another reason for some of that. I'm going to
- 32:31Speaker 2: jump ahead, like do a kind of season look right now.
- 32:34Speaker 2: Eric Haslam, who runs haslo Metrics, a respected site, of
- 32:38Speaker 2: his top fifteen defensive efficiency teams. You just put this
- 32:41Speaker 2: out today. Iowa States one, Houston four, Arizona five, Kansas eleven,
- 32:47Speaker 2: Clemson's fourteen. So nearly a quarter of West Virginia's opponents
- 32:50Speaker 2: so far this season have been in the top fourteen
- 32:53Speaker 2: in defensive efficiency. So sometimes that's going to make the
- 32:55Speaker 2: offense not quite work right. Ken Palm thinks it's been
- 32:59Speaker 2: even tougher. Twenty seven percent of West Virginia's opponents in
- 33:02Speaker 2: his top fifteen, including Arizona, Iowa State, Cincinnata, Houston, Kansas,
- 33:07Speaker 2: and Clemson in that particular area. So there you go.
- 33:11Speaker 2: There's more. That's kind of the the eleven twenty eight
- 33:15Speaker 2: where you only got four points when the game was
- 33:17Speaker 2: I thought there for the taking. That's the part that
- 33:20Speaker 2: was a bummer.
- 33:20Speaker 4: There was that whatever it was, four five, six, seven
- 33:24Speaker 4: minutes Tony where nobody was scoring, and it was just
- 33:27Speaker 4: like Brad said, just like punchers in there, can somebody
- 33:31Speaker 4: land a punch. Good defensive play on both ends, and
- 33:34Speaker 4: neither team during that stretch could really take advantage. Then
- 33:38Speaker 4: West Virginia continued to be cold, and Bay were made
- 33:41Speaker 4: to a couple shots.
- 33:42Speaker 1: You were walking up a hill the entire game. Baylor
- 33:45Speaker 1: led the game for basically thirty seven minutes. Thirty six
- 33:49Speaker 1: minutes and fifty six seconds. West Virginia had the lead
- 33:52Speaker 1: for two twenty four It was tied once and the
- 33:55Speaker 1: lead changed hands only three times the whole game. Wow,
- 33:57Speaker 1: So you were literally you were trying to catch up
- 34:01Speaker 1: for forty minutes basically.
- 34:02Speaker 2: And you know, when you play teams like that that
- 34:04Speaker 2: are struggling, and I've been on many teams like that,
- 34:07Speaker 2: hop when you get them down finally, that's the point
- 34:11Speaker 2: where you got to crush because there's a there's an
- 34:13Speaker 2: internal feeling that gives you the here we go again evidence.
- 34:18Speaker 2: Look at Kansas State, they got absolutely obliterated by Iowa
- 34:22Speaker 2: State on Saturday, had no fight left in them. They
- 34:24Speaker 2: get down big. What do they say when I were done?
- 34:26Speaker 2: So I would have liked to see that coliseum was
- 34:29Speaker 2: hopping when Trey hit that last three. It was rolling.
- 34:32Speaker 2: You would grab the lead if you could attacked on
- 34:35Speaker 2: a couple more buckets there. You wonder what that Baylor
- 34:38Speaker 2: team that was struggling mightily and had been on the
- 34:40Speaker 2: road for a week, what they did instead that give
- 34:43Speaker 2: them credit, they clawed back in You're right, Drew's a
- 34:45Speaker 2: very good coach. They climbed back in it, and then
- 34:48Speaker 2: they were in a game and just said, all right,
- 34:49Speaker 2: we're here, we might as well go win it.
- 34:51Speaker 1: Well, the reality of it is this, they have more
- 34:54Speaker 1: talented players. True, they have more skilled players. They have
- 34:57Speaker 1: two guys that right now are being listed in the
- 34:59Speaker 1: first round of the NBA Draft. That doesn't mean you
- 35:02Speaker 1: can't beat them, But what it means is you have
- 35:05Speaker 1: to play at a really, really high level of efficiency.
- 35:09Speaker 1: You can't go eleven plus minutes scoring four points. And again,
- 35:13Speaker 1: the beginning of the game gave Baylor the confidence and
- 35:19Speaker 1: the breath and the life that it needed coming off
- 35:22Speaker 1: a loss against Cincinnati. They got in here Thursday night,
- 35:26Speaker 1: they played Lucy Goosey, they played with nothing to lose,
- 35:29Speaker 1: and they said let's get after it. And West Virginia
- 35:32Speaker 1: did not respond to that initial charge and as a
- 35:35Speaker 1: result was climbing up the hill the whole game.
- 35:37Speaker 2: It is frustrating, though, because those two guys are referring
- 35:40Speaker 2: to went eleven of twenty seven with nine turnovers on
- 35:43Speaker 2: the day. I mean, that's a winnable formula. You held
- 35:46Speaker 2: those guys in check for the most part that game
- 35:49Speaker 2: was there. That's going to be a that's gonna be
- 35:51Speaker 2: one you're going to look back on and be disappointed.
- 35:53Speaker 2: And they was there.
- 35:53Speaker 4: It's interesting too that when Kansas comes in, you go
- 35:56Speaker 4: good Kansas. Because West Virginia does well against Kansas at home.
- 35:59Speaker 4: Baylor comes in, Oh, Baylor.
- 36:01Speaker 1: No team's had more success in Morgantown than Baylor. They're
- 36:05Speaker 1: nine to four now.
- 36:05Speaker 2: And that's most that's been recent because West Virginia early
- 36:08Speaker 2: on was was the more successful. As we mentioned, there's
- 36:11Speaker 2: been a number one Baylor team rolled into the coliseum
- 36:13Speaker 2: and got beat. But it's been in this in this
- 36:16Speaker 2: four years of turmoil for West Virginia, Baylor's really taking
- 36:20Speaker 2: advantage of those games. That's where they've made their hay
- 36:22Speaker 2: in this series.
- 36:24Speaker 4: One thing that I like, one of the many things
- 36:28Speaker 4: I like about coach Hodge is he doesn't throw players
- 36:32Speaker 4: under the bus. He takes personal responsibility. He always talks
- 36:37Speaker 4: about well when they when they in that during that
- 36:40Speaker 4: drive period, he says, I need to maybe I need
- 36:42Speaker 4: to call better stuff, I need to be a better coach.
- 36:44Speaker 4: I mean, he takes he takes responsibility for the outcome
- 36:48Speaker 4: of the games.
- 36:49Speaker 3: Yeah, and when things don't go well.
- 36:50Speaker 2: And he's not just saying that, I mean he thinks that.
- 36:52Speaker 2: I mean when he went back and watched the film,
- 36:54Speaker 2: he was thinking, all right, what could I have called
- 36:55Speaker 2: differently to get there? But again, you did get some shots.
- 36:57Speaker 2: I mean, at some point you just gotta gotta make
- 36:59Speaker 2: some shotts and West Forradian didn't in this game. Now
- 37:01Speaker 2: you're you're due somewhere along the line to start making
- 37:05Speaker 2: some shots. But I do think Big twelve teams have
- 37:07Speaker 2: have certainly stepped up their perimeter defense. You're down to
- 37:11Speaker 2: double digit threes in one of the last six games,
- 37:13Speaker 2: So teams are doing a good job now of taking
- 37:16Speaker 2: away your shooters and saying, go ahead, you want to
- 37:18Speaker 2: score in the paint, go scoring the paint. But we
- 37:20Speaker 2: are absolutely not letting your shooters right, take these shots away.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Cincinnati was the one where you made some shots against,
- 37:26Speaker 2: which is the next coming game. Now you're walking into
- 37:29Speaker 2: their building. They're playing better. They certainly haven't quit. But
- 37:31Speaker 2: that's a team you you scored against from distance last
- 37:34Speaker 2: time you did.
- 37:35Speaker 1: But that's an aberration because statistically they guard well, they
- 37:38Speaker 1: do that.
- 37:38Speaker 2: What they guarded you, well, yeah, you mad, you just
- 37:41Speaker 2: made some outside shots. You had as many threes as
- 37:43Speaker 2: you did twos in that.
- 37:44Speaker 4: Game, and Tony, to your point, it's starting at Ko Tandrafertz,
- 37:48Speaker 4: it's starting to look a little bit like a trend
- 37:50Speaker 4: of these slow starts four games.
- 37:53Speaker 1: Can't get behind, Yeah, get behind, and hopefully these guys
- 37:59Speaker 1: get that lesson. They understand that because you can't play
- 38:01Speaker 1: with these teams and just think every game you're going
- 38:04Speaker 1: to be able to come back.
- 38:05Speaker 4: It just doesn't work, especially especially when when your offense
- 38:08Speaker 4: is predicated upon slowing down the game, limiting possessions, those
- 38:12Speaker 4: kinds of things. It's like every possession becomes huge. It's
- 38:15Speaker 4: not going to be a one o nine, one o
- 38:16Speaker 4: six game.
- 38:17Speaker 2: Credit Jasper. There's not a lot of individual shoutouts, I
- 38:20Speaker 2: realized when you don't win the game. But I mean,
- 38:21Speaker 2: he was really good again defensively, he just he is
- 38:24Speaker 2: so good on ball. As I've mentioned many times, nine
- 38:27Speaker 2: rebounds led you in that category. Four of those were offensive.
- 38:30Speaker 2: So yeah, Asper with a really really good night. Nine
- 38:32Speaker 2: rebounds at your point guard. You don't see that very
- 38:34Speaker 2: often for you guys. Before the game is brought to
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- 39:27Speaker 1: All right, So, as we said, Cincinnati is coming up
- 39:31Speaker 1: the rare Thursday Sunday games coming up for the Mountaineers.
- 39:35Speaker 1: We've got a Super Bowl Sunday game at home, one
- 39:38Speaker 1: o'clock tip this coming Sunday, and then the Cincinnati game
- 39:41Speaker 1: is a seven o'clock game in Cincinnati. And at this point,
- 39:45Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, you know what I mean, Like,
- 39:49Speaker 1: I don't know what do it mean just like this
- 39:51Speaker 1: is this is separation time in college basketball. This is
- 39:55Speaker 1: where some teams go south and some teams stay the
- 39:58Speaker 1: same and some teams go north. Like just take a
- 40:01Speaker 1: look as we get into this week, as Brad said,
- 40:05Speaker 1: you've got two four to six eight teams right now
- 40:09Speaker 1: with winning records in the league, and you've got from
- 40:13Speaker 1: the next round down they're at least one to two
- 40:17Speaker 1: games under. Those teams are Oklahoma State, You've got one
- 40:21Speaker 1: game against them, Cincinnati, you've got them this week, TCU
- 40:26Speaker 1: you've got them later, Utah, Kansas State. You've got five
- 40:33Speaker 1: of your nine games left against teams currently below you
- 40:37Speaker 1: in the standings. You have five league wins. You're with me,
- 40:41Speaker 1: I'm with you. You're following how this is gonna work.
- 40:43Speaker 1: So like like in the old meat Loaf song, So
- 40:47Speaker 1: what's it gonna be? Yes or no? Which way you're going?
- 40:52Speaker 1: Which way you're going. I'll find it fascinating because this
- 40:56Speaker 1: team has the opportunity to win more games, but they
- 40:59Speaker 1: have got to telling up really really fast and really
- 41:01Speaker 1: really quick. And you got to find a way to
- 41:04Speaker 1: get on her going and tracing going, because obviously coming
- 41:08Speaker 1: out of that game on Saturday, they were off and
- 41:11Speaker 1: they shot a combined four for twenty and you can't win.
- 41:16Speaker 1: You just can't win. And then even with all that
- 41:18Speaker 1: being said, point blank shots in front of the rim.
- 41:22Speaker 1: That'll be the one memory I take from that game. Yep,
- 41:25Speaker 1: one to two feet away from the rim. It would
- 41:27Speaker 1: not go in.
- 41:27Speaker 3: It was weird.
- 41:29Speaker 4: It was It was like I kept while I was
- 41:31Speaker 4: listening to you guys and watching it, I was thinking
- 41:33Speaker 4: of like one of those old carnival games where you
- 41:36Speaker 4: shoot the basket and like, oh, I gotta do is
- 41:38Speaker 4: make it, make a couple of baskets, and we know
- 41:40Speaker 4: the rim is just the exact same size of the ball.
- 41:43Speaker 1: You think they should have you think they should have
- 41:45Speaker 1: measured it.
- 41:46Speaker 4: It felt like that just bouncing. I mean, there was
- 41:50Speaker 4: not a saw. It was not a forgiving rim.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why I just I'll walk away from that,
- 41:54Speaker 2: just feeling like that was there, It was there for
- 41:56Speaker 2: you taking. You just needed a couple plays, a couple
- 41:58Speaker 2: of shots to go down there in that stretch we
- 42:00Speaker 2: mentioned and I think that goes the other way, but
- 42:03Speaker 2: alas it did not.
- 42:04Speaker 4: It was somebody, I mean just missed a shots they
- 42:07Speaker 4: normally made just missed a layup. It happens, Yeah, it is.
- 42:11Speaker 4: Did you want to talk about the I mentioned officiating
- 42:14Speaker 4: didn't cost West Virginia the game, but there were some
- 42:16Speaker 4: weird calls in there.
- 42:17Speaker 3: Flagrant. You guys are gonna move on.
- 42:21Speaker 1: Well, I would say this about that. Yeah, it was
- 42:25Speaker 1: less it was less than optimal. One would call it suboptimal.
- 42:29Speaker 1: But you also you made three times more You made
- 42:34Speaker 1: three times more shots than they made at the foul line.
- 42:38Speaker 1: You took thirteen more file shots. Yeah, so yeah, I
- 42:42Speaker 1: get it now. The women's game, on the other side,
- 42:46Speaker 1: the officials had a bad day, plain and simple, a
- 42:51Speaker 1: bad day, bizarre calls consistently, and that game's on ESPN two.
- 42:57Speaker 1: That doesn't represent well. And someone I was listening to said,
- 43:02Speaker 1: you know, they might want to take one of the
- 43:04Speaker 1: guys at the scores table and let him ref. Well,
- 43:08Speaker 1: it's none other than Morgantown's own Bill Titus. He runs
- 43:12Speaker 1: the score clock down there at the table. He only
- 43:14Speaker 1: worked multiple final fours as a women's efficiency. You know, what,
- 43:17Speaker 1: what do you think, Brad? You know, kind of like
- 43:20Speaker 1: have him put the black and white shirt on, just
- 43:22Speaker 1: just kind of go over he's to ref games here
- 43:24Speaker 1: at West Virginia. Yeah, Titus, go back out there.
- 43:28Speaker 2: I'll say this, Yes you had a free throw advantage,
- 43:30Speaker 2: but that's not the only indication of how the officiating went.
- 43:33Speaker 2: You should have had more free throws. Quite frankly, there's
- 43:36Speaker 2: timing involved in when the calls are made, and I
- 43:39Speaker 2: thought they were a couple that went against West Virginia
- 43:42Speaker 2: that weren't necessarily the accurate call that came it very
- 43:46Speaker 2: in opportune times, like massively in opportune times. So it's
- 43:50Speaker 2: what I often say, two things can be true at once.
- 43:53Speaker 2: The officiating cannot have had had its ideal day and
- 43:56Speaker 2: you didn't play well enough to get to win. Both
- 43:58Speaker 2: of those things can be true true. So in fact,
- 44:00Speaker 2: that's that's how I walked away from that game. Yes,
- 44:02Speaker 2: you had a massive free throw advantage. You should have.
- 44:05Speaker 2: There were a couple inopportune calls at times that really
- 44:07Speaker 2: really took opportunities away that might have swung that game.
- 44:10Speaker 1: The flagrant on Brennan Laurent was horse crap. It's a
- 44:13Speaker 1: basketball play. The honor Huff getting absolutely tomahawked across the
- 44:18Speaker 1: forearms e xuling up for an underhand scoop would have
- 44:21Speaker 1: put two shots on the line. I mean, how do
- 44:22Speaker 1: you miss that?
- 44:23Speaker 4: I don't know, because the official was right there. I
- 44:26Speaker 4: don't know how you missed that. All right, anyway, not
- 44:28Speaker 4: of that you need. But again, two things can be true.
- 44:31Speaker 4: You didn't play well enough.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Time for textual healing, brought to us
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- 44:58Speaker 4: We don't have any winshield wipers. There's too many different
- 45:00Speaker 4: kinds you'd have to have.
- 45:02Speaker 1: Yea, we might not have windshield wipers. But I tell
- 45:04Speaker 1: you what we do have. We got us some popcorn,
- 45:08Speaker 1: and we got us some good good stuff. Hey, Jakie,
- 45:12Speaker 1: show us some of that home Run three oh four,
- 45:13Speaker 1: someone would asking recently, Yeah, there it is. Now that
- 45:17Speaker 1: is so let me tell you how they make this stuff.
- 45:19Speaker 1: So you got your popcorn, popcorn, You got your popcorn,
- 45:21Speaker 1: You got your chocolate dots over there. They melt that
- 45:24Speaker 1: into a chocolate drizzle on top of those peanuts and
- 45:27Speaker 1: then mix it with that caramel corn. And it's called
- 45:30Speaker 1: home Run three oh four, and it's available right now
- 45:34Speaker 1: on our website. You know that baseball banquet, each table
- 45:37Speaker 1: had some of that. Yeah, you know Tim Bowling? Oh yeah, Brad,
- 45:41Speaker 1: you know Tim.
- 45:41Speaker 2: Heard of it.
- 45:42Speaker 1: Yeah. I was with him Friday over at the Distinguished
- 45:46Speaker 1: Alumni induction. Excuse me, yeah, I went over there to
- 45:49Speaker 1: Mike Florio got inducted. Oh yeah, so I went over
- 45:52Speaker 1: Friday and Bowling was raving about the popcorn from the
- 45:55Speaker 1: baseball leadoff dinner. He said he actually actually stole some
- 46:00Speaker 1: just so we could have more. So here's Bowling out there,
- 46:03Speaker 1: just klepto stealing the popcorn. He loved it so much.
- 46:06Speaker 4: You know who knew who really got into it. President
- 46:08Speaker 4: Benson was killing it too.
- 46:10Speaker 1: He enjoyed it.
- 46:10Speaker 4: Oh he was killing it. Yeah, I mean he didn't
- 46:13Speaker 4: wait to take it home. He opened on site. I
- 46:15Speaker 4: don't blame him and got into it. It's good stuff.
- 46:19Speaker 3: I was sending love. I didn't know anything about that.
- 46:21Speaker 1: Well, you're not one.
- 46:23Speaker 3: I didn't say I was.
- 46:24Speaker 1: It was a really nice night. Mike Florio was in there.
- 46:31Speaker 1: Let me to check missus Mazie a great story. She
- 46:34Speaker 1: used to be the provost here. She became a president
- 46:37Speaker 1: at several institutions. Across the country, including bowling Green. She
- 46:42Speaker 1: was fantastic. Morris Morrison well known speaker, and uh Florio
- 46:50Speaker 1: and uh Florio. Florio was stunning.
- 46:53Speaker 3: How's Florio doing well?
- 46:55Speaker 1: He's at the super Bowl right now, but uh got
- 46:58Speaker 1: emotional really yeah, yeah, old tough guy Floria.
- 47:02Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unusual for him, very.
- 47:04Speaker 1: Unusual, which made me. It was good because it showed
- 47:06Speaker 1: to it meant something to him. You know, one thing
- 47:08Speaker 1: I always say he graduated, he went to undergrad at
- 47:11Speaker 1: Carnegie Mellon. I we used to say he got an
- 47:14Speaker 1: electrical engineering degree, and they revealed actually he got two
- 47:17Speaker 1: degrees from Carnegie Mellon. Then it came down here for
- 47:20Speaker 1: law school.
- 47:21Speaker 2: Wow.
- 47:22Speaker 4: Yeah, you know my son he was we were in
- 47:26Speaker 4: we went to Pittsburgh and we were talking about that.
- 47:27Speaker 4: He said, you know, I was I went to Carnegie
- 47:30Speaker 4: Mellon and I didn't. I decide not to go there.
- 47:33Speaker 4: And I said, what makes you think you could have
- 47:35Speaker 4: gotten into Carnegie Mellon.
- 47:38Speaker 1: Yeah, my oldest son, Michael, got a call he could
- 47:42Speaker 1: have gotten in right from basketball to go play there.
- 47:46Speaker 1: So we went up there one day, walked around on campus,
- 47:49Speaker 1: probably about fifteen twenty minut Seddid a little bit of
- 47:51Speaker 1: a visit, I said, Mike, I don't think so. Yeah,
- 47:57Speaker 1: I think he's in total agreement with me. Meanwhile, Texter,
- 48:02Speaker 1: I've been playing the at home version of Spreads on
- 48:04Speaker 1: Stats that I bought from episode eight hundred dot com.
- 48:08Speaker 1: Pretty sweet, except my hoppy action figure did not arrive.
- 48:11Speaker 1: Or is it on a backpacking trip to Uzbekistan? Anyway,
- 48:16Speaker 1: My research project revolves around the amount of money that
- 48:19Speaker 1: each college football program really has. As in Ultra Wealthy Donors,
- 48:24Speaker 1: it's apparent that the Big ten will be in charge
- 48:26Speaker 1: until the model changes. If you rank the Big ten
- 48:29Speaker 1: in the SEC one through thirty four in Ultra Wealthy Donors,
- 48:33Speaker 1: four of the top seven are Michigan, Ohio State, Indiana.
- 48:38Speaker 1: Each of those three have won a national championship Oregon.
- 48:41Speaker 1: The other three of the top seven all fired their
- 48:44Speaker 1: coach last season Arkansas, Auburn, Michigan State. This could ultimately
- 48:49Speaker 1: benefit the Big twelve sum because there is starting to
- 48:51Speaker 1: become some friction in the alliance between the Big ten
- 48:53Speaker 1: and the SEC. And then he takes a shot at me,
- 48:56Speaker 1: He says, ps, I appreciate Tony explaining the last episode
- 49:01Speaker 1: that his brother in law is his brother in law
- 49:03Speaker 1: by marriage? That really connected the dots formula. Oh, good,
- 49:09Speaker 1: old Pete from Pennsboro.
- 49:10Speaker 4: Boy, they're not giving any slack Tony.
- 49:14Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they're not. Pete from Pennsburgh. Not his real name.
- 49:18Speaker 2: Imagine that.
- 49:19Speaker 1: I think that's a guy that works at United Bank.
- 49:21Speaker 1: He got he got revealed one day by someone. So
- 49:24Speaker 1: that's that Pete from Pennsboro. That's actually blowblows whatever name
- 49:27Speaker 1: is for me. United Bank's. Okay, uh, Texter, No Valentine's
- 49:31Speaker 1: Delight popcorn. This year, we did have the Valentine's. We're
- 49:35Speaker 1: not doing the Valentine's home Run three all four, So
- 49:38Speaker 1: tell your significant other that really the home Run three
- 49:40Speaker 1: oh four is really the Valentine's popcorn. Ted from Colorado.
- 49:45Speaker 1: I laughed at your discussion of Coach Hodge and the crouch.
- 49:48Speaker 1: Growing up in Wyoming County with coal miners, it was
- 49:51Speaker 1: not called the crouch when coal miners assumed that position.
- 49:54Speaker 1: They were hunkered down. I think the crowd should be
- 49:57Speaker 1: replaced with hunkered down.
- 49:58Speaker 3: I think that's a good suggestion you might want to
- 50:00Speaker 3: think about that.
- 50:01Speaker 1: I don't like it, okay, Evan and Evan and Arlington, Virginia.
- 50:07Speaker 1: I ran in a I ran into Gortat in the
- 50:09Speaker 1: grocery store. A few times. You could see him from
- 50:11Speaker 1: an aisle over. Now he played in DC. The screen.
- 50:16Speaker 1: So this guy Evan sees him in these shoppings.
- 50:19Speaker 4: He's setting up a screen in Aisle six. He might
- 50:22Speaker 4: he might be. He might work for the Wizards.
- 50:24Speaker 1: Right now, now I'll check. I want to hear a funny story.
- 50:26Speaker 1: Remember Minut Bowl. How tall was he?
- 50:29Speaker 2: Like?
- 50:29Speaker 1: Seven seven seven? So when he played for the seventy
- 50:33Speaker 1: six ers, the seventy six Ers used to use Saint
- 50:36Speaker 1: Joe's Jim for their shoot arounds or their their shoot
- 50:40Speaker 1: around I think on the day of the game. So
- 50:42Speaker 1: West Virginia would play Saint Joe's. So a couple of
- 50:45Speaker 1: times we were there twice I saw it. So we
- 50:49Speaker 1: would shoot around and then the Sixers would come in
- 50:52Speaker 1: after us, and then we would walk out and Minut
- 50:55Speaker 1: Bowl had you remember those conversion vans. Yes, okay, drove
- 50:59Speaker 1: a converts but they had cut they had cut the
- 51:03Speaker 1: roof off of it and put an extender on the
- 51:07Speaker 1: thing that allowed him to drive it, because if he didn't,
- 51:12Speaker 1: his head would be oh my god, right, kind of
- 51:14Speaker 1: like Fred Flintstone. He had popped his head through this
- 51:17Speaker 1: so that I always remember Minute Bowl because of that.
- 51:20Speaker 2: Similar to Josuiak driving the little car he had when
- 51:23Speaker 2: he was a little.
- 51:24Speaker 1: Car that he had, Yeah, sprint fire, whatevery.
- 51:26Speaker 4: Gortad is currently head of player development and assistant coach
- 51:29Speaker 4: with the Wizards, so.
- 51:30Speaker 1: He still might be shopping over there.
- 51:32Speaker 2: He might be.
- 51:34Speaker 1: As a follow up to your discussion about Nico not
- 51:36Speaker 1: yet finding a new team, do you guys talk about
- 51:38Speaker 1: that on sports line? I don't remember talking about that
- 51:40Speaker 1: here anyway. Eleven thousand plus players entered the portal this year.
- 51:44Speaker 1: As of the twenty third of January, after the portal closed,
- 51:48Speaker 1: fifty eight hundred almost fifty nine hundred still looking for
- 51:51Speaker 1: a new home. Wow. Twenty percent from FBS, twenty six
- 51:55Speaker 1: percent from FCS, fifty four percent from D two's and
- 51:58Speaker 1: D three's.
- 51:59Speaker 3: You're sat. The grass isn't always a greener.
- 52:00Speaker 1: Apparently not. Of the eleven thousand plus kids who entered
- 52:03Speaker 1: the portal, fifty three percent don't have a home.
- 52:05Speaker 2: That's incredible.
- 52:07Speaker 3: Wow, that's that is a that's a relevant stat Brad.
- 52:13Speaker 4: Is this saying is seeking to find an equilibrium.
- 52:18Speaker 1: Seven Power four Conference teams lost at least thirty percent
- 52:21Speaker 1: of their offensive and defensive snaps to the portal. Iowa
- 52:24Speaker 1: State lost sixty three percent, Oak State fifty three percent,
- 52:28Speaker 1: which I say good because West Virginia gets to play them.
- 52:31Speaker 1: Auburn thirty nine, Colorado thirty seven, Michigan State Kale thirty four,
- 52:36Speaker 1: Penn State thirty two. Yeah, and Colorado's the only school
- 52:40Speaker 1: that didn't have a head coaching change.
- 52:42Speaker 4: Iowa State sixty three percent loss covers Penn States thirty
- 52:45Speaker 4: two percent.
- 52:46Speaker 1: Seriously, there's a lot there.
- 52:48Speaker 2: True.
- 52:49Speaker 1: How about this one? Tony transferred once. I did transfer once,
- 52:53Speaker 1: and I'm sure that was a difficult process. But TJ. Finley,
- 52:56Speaker 1: a coveted quarterback recruit, has played at seven schools LSU, Auburn,
- 53:01Speaker 1: Texas State, two Lane, Western, Kentucky, Georgia, stating out incarnate word,
- 53:06Speaker 1: how in God's name does one get a degree by
- 53:08Speaker 1: going to seven schools? Transferring once would be a pain
- 53:10Speaker 1: in the butt, but transferring seven times the amazing.
- 53:14Speaker 2: And we talked about this on an episode a couple
- 53:16Speaker 2: episodes ago. That one just stuns me. And coveted quarterback
- 53:20Speaker 2: recruit probably went away after the second transfer there.
- 53:23Speaker 1: All due respect to TJ Hey Jake, I forgot to
- 53:25Speaker 1: put the graphic, but there's a there's a baseball graphic
- 53:28Speaker 1: that has all the UH has a bunch of school
- 53:31Speaker 1: logos on it. The WVU it's basketball logos. I don't
- 53:36Speaker 1: think people realize how good of a program we have
- 53:39Speaker 1: been in the last quarter century. And the gentleman put
- 53:42Speaker 1: a centigraphic along with that, and it showed that despite
- 53:47Speaker 1: the fact that West Virginia has had this unprecedented turbulence
- 53:52Speaker 1: within the program, that WVU against ranked teams still has
- 53:58Speaker 1: a very high number over A there. It is right there.
- 54:02Speaker 1: So most ranked wins in college basketball in the last
- 54:07Speaker 1: is that, say ten ten seasons? Does that look great?
- 54:11Speaker 1: It's ten, right, and then you can see West Virginia
- 54:13Speaker 1: thirty two, So you down.
- 54:17Speaker 4: There, Yeah, well there's look you have if you look
- 54:21Speaker 4: at it in the larger context, West Virginia is an
- 54:24Speaker 4: excellent base in football and basketball and now women's basketball too,
- 54:28Speaker 4: and it's growing in baseball. So you got good bases
- 54:31Speaker 4: the ass in all of those sports.
- 54:34Speaker 1: Yeah, Texter, I was watching an old West Virginia game
- 54:38Speaker 1: and saw play made by a name that wasn't familiar
- 54:42Speaker 1: to me. This is football. I figured Tony could tell
- 54:44Speaker 1: us a story off of the top of his head
- 54:46Speaker 1: about this guy's entire background, including WVU career and where
- 54:49Speaker 1: is he now? Tom Briggs. Tom Briggs was an excellent
- 54:55Speaker 1: transfer defensive player for the Mountaineers. He was very, very tough.
- 55:02Speaker 1: Came from the Syracuse area, and if memory serves me correctly,
- 55:06Speaker 1: never got an offer from Syracuse. But he became a
- 55:09Speaker 1: very important part of West Virginia's defense and I'd have
- 55:14Speaker 1: to look into it. But he made a play. He
- 55:18Speaker 1: made an extremely significant play in the back of my mind,
- 55:21Speaker 1: I want to say, almost like a game winning play
- 55:24Speaker 1: at some point with a sack or something like that.
- 55:26Speaker 1: But he was tough. He was a tough dude.
- 55:29Speaker 4: He played I looked at I'll try to find that Tony.
- 55:31Speaker 4: That name rings a bell with me too. He played
- 55:34Speaker 4: in Arena Football for one, two, three, four, five, six
- 55:38Speaker 4: seven teams from nineteen ninety five to two thousand and eight.
- 55:42Speaker 1: Does the list his hometown, Yeah, Syracuse, it says just
- 55:45Speaker 1: straight Syracuse. I don't know if it was outside of Syracuse.
- 55:49Speaker 1: Texter John from Oklahoma City. Does Indiana's win for the
- 55:52Speaker 1: national title. Add another name to the West Virginia Cradle
- 55:56Speaker 1: of Coaches. We talk about that a lot that whole.
- 56:01Speaker 1: He wasn't born Kurtzig, Natty was not born here, so
- 56:04Speaker 1: it would be a hybrid version of that. You could
- 56:07Speaker 1: make another statement for Tony.
- 56:09Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety one, Briggs recorded forty four tackles, five sacks,
- 56:12Speaker 4: three fumble, three fumble recoveries.
- 56:14Speaker 3: It might have been a fumber and one forced fumble.
- 56:16Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety two, he totaled forty seven tackles, seven sacks,
- 56:19Speaker 4: a forced fumble to fumble recovery. What was his last year?
- 56:23Speaker 4: Ninety two was his last year. Well that's what I'm
- 56:26Speaker 4: just going off Wikipedia. But that's a good run.
- 56:29Speaker 1: That's never rung.
- 56:30Speaker 3: That's a good run.
- 56:31Speaker 1: Well, I'm just no, I know, I get it.
- 56:32Speaker 3: I had thirty seconds to find out.
- 56:34Speaker 2: That's fine.
- 56:35Speaker 1: I love listening to today's episode. You guys were talking
- 56:37Speaker 1: about Temple and John Cheney. My mother and I attended
- 56:40Speaker 1: the game in ninety one where Cheney got tossed before
- 56:43Speaker 1: first half was over. I shouldn't even been there. My
- 56:46Speaker 1: parents lived in Falling Waters were friends with Gerald Catlet.
- 56:49Speaker 1: It was unusual for Gail to call my dad a
- 56:51Speaker 1: couple of times. It wasn't unusual for Gaale to call
- 56:53Speaker 1: my dad a couple of times season ask if you'd
- 56:55Speaker 1: like to come up for a Saturday afternoon game. Dad
- 56:58Speaker 1: wasn't feeling well, so I took my mom. When we
- 56:59Speaker 1: got to the Colisseum, our seats were second row floor,
- 57:03Speaker 1: at the end of the court, near what used to
- 57:05Speaker 1: be the equipment room. Even at the end of the court,
- 57:08Speaker 1: we could hear Cheney's language when he received the two
- 57:10Speaker 1: technicals back to back. It certainly sounded like he threatened
- 57:14Speaker 1: the referee as two West Virginia State Police officers escorted
- 57:18Speaker 1: him from the floor. It was one of the most
- 57:19Speaker 1: entertaining games we ever saw, signed by Tim in Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. Yeah,
- 57:25Speaker 1: I would imagine if you're on those baseline seats, you
- 57:27Speaker 1: probably heard a little bit there and John was John
- 57:30Speaker 1: would have threatened and yeah, anyway, I mean he told
- 57:34Speaker 1: John Calaperi's gonna kill him. I'll kill you. You haven't
- 57:37Speaker 1: seen that video. Look that one up on the YouTube
- 57:40Speaker 1: he was at. I was there.
- 57:42Speaker 3: I don't know where it was.
- 57:43Speaker 4: It might have been one of the tournaments and something
- 57:45Speaker 4: happened during the game and the postgame press conference.
- 57:51Speaker 3: He goes off on the officials. Oh yeah, and he's like,
- 57:54Speaker 3: find me, that's right, find me, Yeah, assume.
- 57:57Speaker 1: Do what I mean?
- 57:58Speaker 3: He would. He wore his emotions on his sleeves.
- 58:01Speaker 1: I was doing the Atlantic ten tournament at the Palaestra
- 58:05Speaker 1: and Temple was playing against somebody and he lost his mind.
- 58:10Speaker 1: So he wanted to go after the official. He really
- 58:13Speaker 1: truly wanted to run across the floor and go get him.
- 58:17Speaker 1: His staff This is absolutely handle Bible. His staff held
- 58:22Speaker 1: him back and he was trying to go so hard
- 58:26Speaker 1: to get him. He literally went into the air. He
- 58:28Speaker 1: literally went into the air, like his head just went
- 58:30Speaker 1: like up in the air, and they were hold they
- 58:32Speaker 1: they were holding him. He wanted to go across the floor.
- 58:34Speaker 4: But you know, his players loved him, oh absolutely, and
- 58:37Speaker 4: loved him and played for him.
- 58:38Speaker 1: He was the first dude that practiced in the morning.
- 58:40Speaker 1: Practice in the morning, six six in the morning. Come
- 58:43Speaker 1: on in, Texter, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
- 58:47Speaker 1: Talking about the Eastern eight Atlantic ten. I was a
- 58:50Speaker 1: freshman eighty eighty one. We went on that long winning
- 58:53Speaker 1: streak only to get beat by Pitt in the finals
- 58:55Speaker 1: of the conference tournament at the Igloo in Pittsburgh. To date,
- 58:58Speaker 1: I swear that was the most tense and exciting basketball
- 59:01Speaker 1: game I've seen in person. The place electric. Hopy would
- 59:03Speaker 1: have been there. Speaking of Cheney, people forget then when
- 59:06Speaker 1: he come to the coliseum, Oh this is this is true.
- 59:08Speaker 1: He would purposely switch the sides of the court so
- 59:11Speaker 1: that you played on defense in front of your basket
- 59:14Speaker 1: in the second half and you had your offense on
- 59:16Speaker 1: your end in the first half, just to mess with
- 59:18Speaker 1: Gail Catlet. Back then, the visiting coach had the option.
- 59:22Speaker 1: Couldn't do that. Today, Cheney was the best ben in
- 59:24Speaker 1: scott depot.
- 59:25Speaker 3: I didn't remember that, Did you remember that?
- 59:27Speaker 1: So I remember this. Remember Gail used to do his
- 59:31Speaker 1: pregame radio interview live.
- 59:34Speaker 3: Yes, yes, do it live.
- 59:36Speaker 1: And so he goes and sits down and he's doing
- 59:38Speaker 1: his pregame with Jack and it's on the air, and he.
- 59:42Speaker 2: Sees he sees temple.
- 59:45Speaker 3: He sees temple on the other side, and he.
- 59:49Speaker 2: Goes, excuse me, right during the interview, excuse.
- 59:56Speaker 1: Me, Jack, he got up, Oh, he got up, started
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: organizing the traveler. What what what do you you know
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: that was just you could do that back then. That's
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: pretty wild.
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: What did they play? Was it the two three zone
- 1:00:10Speaker 3: of the.
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: They played it now they played it matchup zone, matchup zone, matchup.
- 1:00:15Speaker 3: Everybody flipped out. Yeah.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: Yeah. Lastly, here got a guy from the Lear South
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: coal Mine and his brother so right to he found
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: the cheerleaders there on the cheer section and those two
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: dudes there they hit everything this week and every event Friday, Saturday,
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: and Sunday in Morgantown they were there and they closed
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: it up with the victory over the Baylor Bears. So
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- 1:01:48Speaker 4: Cheney won seven hundred and forty one games as a
- 1:01:50Speaker 4: head coach.
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: He was yeah, he was really really good. And always
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- 1:01:58Speaker 1: I haven't. We don't know that yet. Haven't We got
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- 1:02:22Speaker 1: Action. So we got that going on.
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: That's good. It might be part of a fun United
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- 1:02:52Speaker 1: going to do a chicken wing We're going to do
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- 1:03:10Speaker 1: Yes, So think about late this month is when we're
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- 1:03:54Speaker 1: We're gonna have a big chicken. Well, we'll get you
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- 1:03:58Speaker 2: By Rocky's on board and homes? Okay, I thank you
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- 1:04:02Speaker 1: All Right, we're back on Wednesday.
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