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3 Guys Before The Game - BYU Game Preview (Episode 663) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: And on we go. Welcome in everyone. It's time for
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  Speaker 1: three Guys before the game. This is our preview episode
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia and the Cougars of BYU in provo for
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  Speaker 1: the very first time in Big twelve Conference Loop Action.
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  Speaker 1: And this is three Guys before the game with the
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  Speaker 1: boys heavily heavily caffeinated Hoppy Kerchieval and Don near over
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  Speaker 1: coming up. All right, So here's the reason why we're
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  Speaker 1: heavily caffeinated. Today. We come to you, ladies and gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: of the congregation with a heavy dose of cafe. And
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  Speaker 1: because it's International Coffee Day, it's Internet National Coffee Day.
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  Speaker 1: Two days ago was National Coffee Day. We don't even
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  Speaker 1: we don't even acknowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is Wednesday, in case you're listening to this
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  Speaker 2: podcast a day later. So this Wednesday, National.
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  Speaker 1: Coffee Monday was national We didn't even we didn't even
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  Speaker 1: give it an eyebrow ray. Why because we're global. So
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  Speaker 1: we're so we're International Coffee Day celebrators. And so we
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  Speaker 1: went over to our bastion of coffee this morning early
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  Speaker 1: to serve there it is. We went to Mountaineer Roasting.
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  Speaker 1: They had our own caraffe or jug of coffee that's
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  Speaker 1: the game day grind, and we just had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of cups there and we just like people walked in
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  Speaker 1: and go, hey, you want to try this? And we
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  Speaker 1: served coffee to some folks and uh.
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  Speaker 3: Hung out with Rusty Rusty Mountaineer roasting.
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  Speaker 1: Rusty Isaac's Mountaineer Roasting. But we also had another another
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  Speaker 1: guy who's in there every almost every day getting his coffee.
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  Speaker 1: He just stands in line like everybody else there. He
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  Speaker 1: is ladies and gentlemen. Charles Wesley Godwin. He was in
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  Speaker 1: and he was just having a coffee. People just having
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  Speaker 1: a coff He was going up there to go into
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  Speaker 1: a studio and start recording some songs later in the day.
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  Speaker 1: I liked when he was talking to us about them.
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  Speaker 1: They just made some I like when they go like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I got these demos done, I'm gonna track this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna put the lead like the vocals. Put the vocals.
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  Speaker 1: I like like when they talk about all that music.
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  Speaker 4: So he had a couple of good stories, didn't he.
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  Speaker 1: He did because I'd asked him before he went on
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  Speaker 1: tour on the Outlaws tour with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.
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  Speaker 1: I said, dude, you gotta give me something on give
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  Speaker 1: me something on Dylan, like after you do this thing.
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  Speaker 1: So today was the first day I remembered to ask him.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Okay, give me the Dylan story, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: Dylan's story is man, Dylan doesn't deal.
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  Speaker 4: Dylan does he wants he want he is? You think
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  Speaker 4: I'm a loof and distance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He has a closed stage, which means no one,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who. The only people are a sound
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  Speaker 1: people and the other musicians. These only people who get.
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  Speaker 3: To said he sounds great, though, sounds fine, Yeah, sounds great.
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  Speaker 1: Loves Willie Nelson. He loves Willy Nelson.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh isn't that something? Think about that for a second.
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  Speaker 3: What a fun run.
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  Speaker 2: He's on so Stadium tour with Luke Combs. Then he
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  Speaker 2: does the Outlaw Tour here with Dylan and Willie Nelson,
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  Speaker 2: which is just wild. We talked about last show. Just
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  Speaker 2: announced stage Coach. He's going to be on there on
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  Speaker 2: his day with Lady Wilson Riley Green, so pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: And his next show October fifteen, Red Rocks. Yeah he's
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  Speaker 1: he's headlining Red Rocks.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's that's supposed to be never been there, supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be a fantastic venue in.
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  Speaker 3: Front of the show going. Remember that was an auction item.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's the three guys listener or snowell. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you weren't there, were you? No? I wasn't you were, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Doug riding the bike, but he's going to be there.
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  Speaker 1: When Charles was there most recently, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: the last time he was at Red Rocks, absolute massive
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  Speaker 1: snow store. While he was out there, it was it
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  Speaker 1: looked like it was like a postcard.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize it was so big. He said, ninety
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  Speaker 2: five hundred seats in their seats. You can get ninety
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  Speaker 2: five people in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, cool, all right, let's jump in, uh West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia and by you, you know, we guys always talk
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  Speaker 1: about the situation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my first observation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get in Hoppy's obvious observations. Hoppy,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you have something to.
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  Speaker 4: Say situationally, Tony, you were about to say bad spot
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  Speaker 4: for West Virginia coming off a terrible loss at home
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  Speaker 4: going on a long road trip. Provo's your second longest
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  Speaker 4: road trip in.
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  Speaker 3: This league, which is also crazy to say that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't you mean that you be based on
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  Speaker 1: this season's schedule. No, I mean, well, you can go
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  Speaker 1: to Arizona twice. You got the Arizona Arizona state.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that the farthest west is is Phoenix, right
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  Speaker 4: next farthest west is Provo and then Tucson.
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  Speaker 1: First I've heard of that did not do hoarding.
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  Speaker 4: I did my own research, did not go on my
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  Speaker 4: research anyway. It's a long way to go, all right,
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  Speaker 4: So you got a long road trip going to be
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  Speaker 4: a tough environment. You know, sixty thousand fans there byu
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  Speaker 4: IS favored by nineteen and a half eighteen and a
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  Speaker 4: half depending on you tom of day. And they're brad
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  Speaker 4: they are favored right now. They're favored in every game
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  Speaker 4: byu IS except Texas Tech going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good start for the Kugs.
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  Speaker 4: Good start for the Coogs. They were before the season began,
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  Speaker 4: they were projected eight and a half no other up
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  Speaker 4: to nine and a half wins for this season. West Virginia,
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  Speaker 4: you know Injuri has been well documented. Still unsettled at quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Henderson is questionable. Nico Markill Tony, what is the
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  Speaker 4: story you talked to the coach this week? It didn't
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  Speaker 4: come up at his news conference for some reason. What
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  Speaker 4: is the story on Nico Markhill? He's listed us out
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  Speaker 4: for this week, But what insight do you and brand
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  Speaker 4: have about Nico?
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  Speaker 1: Well? I would say this first off, a couple things,
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  Speaker 1: several different insights. One, this is kind of a mind
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  Speaker 1: blower to me after I thought about it. So the
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday press conference happens, and the whole thing with a
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five minutes, however long those last, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize until afterward that there was not one single
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  Speaker 1: question about Nico markiall, And I thought to myself, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about what a difference three weeks makes you go
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  Speaker 1: from coming off the bench in storybook fashion to beating
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  Speaker 1: Pitt and one of the old time great dramatic victories
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  Speaker 1: in that stadium's history, coming back from ten down overtime,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, and three weeks later, basically there's not
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  Speaker 1: one single question, which begs a bunch of different questions. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so the one question would be, well, why not he
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  Speaker 1: had just been the starting quarterback? Like why isn't anyone asking?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Some of that may be he addressed on the Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 2: So get into what was said on the Coaches Show,
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  Speaker 2: because that I mean, he gave an update there, he did,
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  Speaker 2: but you.
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  Speaker 1: Would still think there would have been a question anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So on the Coaches Show, to paraphrase, Rich said that
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  Speaker 1: Nico is not in town that he had gone to
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  Speaker 1: both Colorado and Arizona. So again for those that don't
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  Speaker 1: follow it, real close native of Colorado or lived in Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: main houses in Colorado, finished his high school career in Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: so he has the Arizona connection. And Rich heard was
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  Speaker 1: informed that he has a foot injury which will keep
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  Speaker 1: him out for several weeks. Severals, you know, several could
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  Speaker 1: be three, several could be more than that, right, and
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  Speaker 1: so to this point that's the deal, and it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of quietly has gone quiet.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the follow up question. Sure, The following question is
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  Speaker 4: how confident are you that Nico Marku will real return
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  Speaker 4: to be a part of this team and play for
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  Speaker 4: the Mountaineers this season. What is your level of conference?
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  Speaker 4: And Rich I think would be pretty candid about that.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody in the next press conference, or are you on
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  Speaker 4: the coach the show needs to ask that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do math. Let's just do some simple math.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're already at the halfway play.
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  Speaker 1: Friday night, your season's half over fifty percent, already six
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  Speaker 1: games will be done. Then you have an off week
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  Speaker 1: seven weeks and then you'll play again. So several weeks
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  Speaker 1: now you're getting like, if you just add three, three,
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  Speaker 1: four weeks, guess what nine to ten? You're done? Season's
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  Speaker 1: over seasons?
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  Speaker 4: So red, what are the odds Nico Markyoll returns to quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: This Well, we'll have to see, but I think they
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  Speaker 2: like as Tony Sam. They decrease every week here as
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  Speaker 2: you get later into the season.
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  Speaker 1: And do math hoppy. As I said on a couple
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  Speaker 1: of episodes ago, I mean, the math number in this
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  Speaker 1: world that we're in right now is four, right, right right,
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  Speaker 1: And four is the number you've played in four games.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't played in two, and you have two to
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  Speaker 1: still play. You don't have three and have one to play.
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  Speaker 1: You've played four games. You step back out on that
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  Speaker 1: field and you've lost this season of eligibility, done, not
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  Speaker 1: getting it back. You don't play again. And if you
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  Speaker 1: have a medical issue, you could file at season's end
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  Speaker 1: for a medical red shirt and then you would be
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  Speaker 1: granted an additional year, plus the other year that he
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  Speaker 1: had you could still have too. You play again, you'll
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  Speaker 1: have next year and you're done.
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  Speaker 4: So do you send? And I'm getting away from my
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  Speaker 4: obvious observations, which I still have a few. I'm prepared so.
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  Speaker 1: Do These are obvious questions?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so brand, do you send Khalil Wilkins Wilkins? Do
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  Speaker 4: you send Khalil Wilkins out before sixty thousand people Friday
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  Speaker 4: night to start the game?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that might be your best option. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: this last show, and it would have seen that Jalen Henderson,
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  Speaker 2: who got the start last game, would be the logical choice.
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  Speaker 3: He's been in games before.
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  Speaker 2: But if he's dinged, as it sounds like he is
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  Speaker 2: some sort of injury in there, then it might be
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  Speaker 2: Wilkins and get looks. Given the performance Wilkins put forth
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  Speaker 2: last week in a game when not much was happening elsewhere,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe it's his time throw them in there.
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  Speaker 3: See what you got? See what you got?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, obvious observations.
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  Speaker 1: Let me also say this, Yeah, you asked me your
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  Speaker 1: initial question of like or I asked my why isn't
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  Speaker 1: there more of a what's going on? Because I think
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, the four games is
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  Speaker 1: now accepted. People do the math. I mean every season
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  Speaker 1: now we're seeing guys not play after four games. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a it's like an algebra question. If if
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  Speaker 1: four plus x equals red shirt, then X is normally zero.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand that. I just think it's weird that
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  Speaker 4: he's sort of disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is two guys is I know he'd
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  Speaker 2: take him the majority of the snaps, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: as if you've seen not seen other quarterbacks play, So
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  Speaker 2: this was a different He's your starting quarterback, which I
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  Speaker 2: know gets so much more attention in a normal situation.
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  Speaker 2: This is a group that was subbing guys in constantly anyway,
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  Speaker 2: So I think a little easier to say, Okay, it's hurt,
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  Speaker 2: it's been four games, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, move on, who's next? Now go to the next
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  Speaker 3: part of that all right.
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  Speaker 4: Rest of the obvious observation is that if there's one
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  Speaker 4: and bread, you'll probably be able to build a some
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  Speaker 4: case West Virginia. If there's any upside to playing Friday night,
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  Speaker 4: it's that it gives you one extra day for the
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  Speaker 4: week off to get ready to go to UCF where
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  Speaker 4: you have a chance a better chance to win. Wow, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: why are you looking at him like that?
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  Speaker 3: Well that was I mean, he was going deep for
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  Speaker 3: that one.
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  Speaker 4: That was good.
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  Speaker 2: Now, granted, it's a six day flight to get back
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  Speaker 2: from where you're going, so I think you'll lose the
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  Speaker 2: extra day because you're.
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  Speaker 3: On a plane there. For it's like an international flight.
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  Speaker 3: I think something like that.
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  Speaker 4: You leave at midnight and you get back.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know how many hours you're gaining? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know how many hours you're gaming? You're gaining nine
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  Speaker 1: and a half hours by playing on Friday instead of Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Here's why team's supposed to get back at six. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So hypothetically, if you played Saturday, yes, six more six
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning. So if you played a noon game at
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  Speaker 1: home on a Saturday, you'd be done at three thirty.
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  Speaker 1: You're only netting for nine and a half.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to find something. Okay, I'm trying.
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  Speaker 3: Can I make an obvious observation? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second, that's his thing he does, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's we're in the segment, so I thought I could
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  Speaker 2: jump in and help. Okay, this is bizarre, guys.
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  Speaker 3: This is a conference game. I mean, I don't like.
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  Speaker 2: Can I not normalize this for just a second of
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  Speaker 2: what college foot balls become. It's a conference game that
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  Speaker 2: is kicking at ten thirty Eastern. One of the teams
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  Speaker 2: is based in a time zone that is watching its
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  Speaker 2: team kickoff at tenth. This sitting in Phoenix for the
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  Speaker 2: bowl game. This is int a one off where you
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  Speaker 2: stay plate to watch team. This is a conference game.
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  Speaker 2: This is weird stuff, guys, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it is? Wild, but you know what
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  Speaker 1: it is? What is it? It's seven thirty in the
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  Speaker 1: West Coast. I get so all the West Coasters sit down,
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  Speaker 1: they go, heck, we got a Friday night football game.
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  Speaker 3: There's my point.
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  Speaker 2: If we're going to understand, if we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: these multiple time zones, can we not take that? Is
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  Speaker 2: there not a time during the day that both the
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  Speaker 2: East Coast and the West coast viewers can watch? Why
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  Speaker 2: are we choosing of the two and it's not two
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  Speaker 2: West Coast teams playing. Can't we get to a point?
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  Speaker 2: Is there not enough TV slots where you can accommodate
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  Speaker 2: both of the fan base or earlier in the day
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  Speaker 2: it's in the eastern times. Michigan State had this, they
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  Speaker 2: had to kick off like at eleven or eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: That that's that's the bizarre part to me. If we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have these these nationwide teams in the tournament
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  Speaker 2: all the times, it's okay, fine, So be it. I
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  Speaker 2: get the principle, the business principle of covering all these
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  Speaker 2: windows where Big twelve play is available from early in
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  Speaker 2: the morning until until early in the morning the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Totally get it. But when the team is participating, one
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  Speaker 2: of the teams participating, can we not have a mediation
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  Speaker 2: there and have have a multiple discussion? May not get
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  Speaker 2: the one times on where both teams can enjoy my question.
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  Speaker 1: So my question to you, then, what you're saying is
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  Speaker 1: if and that changes Friday night makes a difference. But like,
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  Speaker 1: so on a Friday, what time do you think be
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  Speaker 1: what what would be an adequate time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, play it on a Saturday, first of all, so
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  Speaker 2: it's not on a Friday night because I know you
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  Speaker 2: got a game.
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  Speaker 1: You can't play that game. You got to do it Friday.
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  Speaker 1: When would you do it?
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  Speaker 2: Great, I'd have two East Coast teams play on a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I'd have two West Coast teams play on a Friday
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  Speaker 2: late in this window. Put a West Coast team in
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  Speaker 2: against b What if you've got to give them a
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  Speaker 2: Friday slot. Have two in the same time day then
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  Speaker 2: played at ten thirty if you want, and then both
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  Speaker 2: fan bases are in the same position. To eliminate one
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  Speaker 2: team's fan base from a good part of the game,
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  Speaker 2: I think just doesn't make a lot of sense from
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  Speaker 2: a growing of the college football brand. You're making it
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  Speaker 2: harder than.
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  Speaker 3: What it has to do.
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  Speaker 2: And listen, I don't want to I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be in charge of scheduling for any league.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a nightmare of a job.
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  Speaker 2: But just can we get together the amount of time
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  Speaker 2: we spend talking time zones on.
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  Speaker 3: This program, be it that. Can the Big twelve put
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  Speaker 3: the right time zone?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Can we get two teams? We talk a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: All the time. Yeah, we spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: talking all time. I mean to.
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  Speaker 3: Hijack your saying no, it's go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: And now it's kind of an awkward fit of my
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  Speaker 4: next obvious observation saying that I like BYU in the
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  Speaker 4: league because and I understand that this is screwed up
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  Speaker 4: to lay Friday night at ten thirty, But BYU is
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  Speaker 4: a national brand. That's a national brand. Okay. They have
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  Speaker 4: alumni in.
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  Speaker 1: Every state, all fifty of them. So does Jandel's attorneys
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  Speaker 1: at law. They've got clients in all fifty states. So
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  Speaker 1: that's she's got clients in Utah.
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  Speaker 4: There are three hundred BYU graduates in West Virginia, three
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: hundred according to the BYU website. They have a national championship.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Eighty four Robbie Bosco of course holiday.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: They have a Heisman Trophy winner, yeah, Ty Detmer. They
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: had the legendary coach Levelle Edwards, who the stadium is
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: named for and was a dear friend of Don Neils.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Sure so, I just like the fact that there's this
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: national brand. Again, the logistics are horrible, but I like
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: the fact it's a national, national brand.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: You know what, I lost it. I don't know give
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: them what they're spent on their basketball roster.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I like them in the league.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: They I like the fact that Here's why I like
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: them in the league. They care. They I'm all about
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: you bring in people that are like passionate and care.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: These buddies care. They're into it, which I like.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: And they are and they are iconic. They're different. They
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: are not like everybody else. Okay, of course they're owned
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Fifty Six members of the current football team have served
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: an LDS Mission. Members of the team have served in
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: twenty two different countries. They speak more than ten languages,
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: have served on six of the seven continents around the globe.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: BYU currently the several members of the team that are
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: currently serving on mission. According to Forbes and Brand, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: now we're talking about this, it's the most financially healthy
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: college in the country. And because that is, tuition is
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: manageable about thirty three hundred dollars a semester if you're
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: a member the LDS. That right, thirty three hundred if
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: you're a member of Member of the Latter Day Saints.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: And of course we have this connection. Gordon went to
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: by Michael Benson is a graduate of BYU. So they
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: are different and they're apart, and they're a national brand.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: And it's noteworthy. It's in historic, historic story. You know
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: why it's historic. This will be the largest crowd ever,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: largest crowd ever that a West Virginia football team will
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: be playing in front of that's not intoxicated. It can't
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: be largest crowd ever of non intoxicated people.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Now alcohol at the stadium, new alcohol on campus.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fane, no no, no, So you guys, you guys
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: right now, the way that you are just overly caffeinated.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: They throw your ass out right now, wouldn't let you in.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: One final thought, and I just want to scratch a
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: surface on what Brad's going to get into and.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: To get in your territory now, just nothing new for you.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Were starting to get upset by this.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Just slightly. It'll be fine. They have not had the
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: toughest schedule so far. Okay, Portland State, Stanford, East Carolina.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: They did played Colorado.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And he had to go to East Carolina. They had
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: to refuel mid air. Okay to get the Greenville.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: North Carolina got behind against Colorado, came back won the game.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Great story of the true freshman quarterback Bear Bachmeyer correct, yeah,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: correct back Meyer.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And he's named Bear his brother's tiger, the receiver receiver.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And where's number forty seven?
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Which I love love it? I love stupid, you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I love stupid stuff in sports. Yeah, like three two
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: final football game scores and like forty seven is your love?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Why is forty seven? Because when he was five years old,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: his father gave him the number forty seven. He's warn
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: it ever since. He wants to play like a full back.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: And he's six two two twenty work with it. So
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: there are those are my obvious observations. I'll defer to
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Brad with more specifics because I think Brad maybe, just maybe,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: even though West Virginia is a nineteen point dog in
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: this and an a team that's a nineteen point deficit
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: almost never wins. Okay, you think about Northern Illinois, notre
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: name last year, Vanderbilt and Alabama, but week to week
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: it doesn't happen.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Ye hard one to pull off. I'm interested in Brad's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: insights into the game.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: So that's what I got.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: As a former resident Brad of the state of Utah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I did feel like we were residents there for all
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: dual citizenship.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: You guys were there and we were there apartment, you
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: know what it was exactly.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It was like it was like super long. I loved
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: every day. It's like I was on vacation. It was like,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: this is.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Awesome, wonderful, taking our walks every day.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: This is like, this is the greatest place ever. I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: loved it. Three guys before the game, I don't think
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you can boat. You can't boat, but you know, there
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: is a salt salt lake. There is a salt lake.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: If you go into Salt Lake. You'll see every one
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of the pontoons in Salt Lake is from Lou Wendell.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I think we have to confron they hold up with
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: all that salt well.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Lou puts a special salve underneath the bottom puts a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: special salve underneath the bottom of though. If you need
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: anything done when it comes to marine sales or service,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: then visit Lou Wendel Marine Sales. They have stood the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: test of time, celebrating their fortieth anniversary. If you're getting
• 21:09
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• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to an end by all means, but still the weather's
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: still super good. May are the official dealer of avalon
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Pontoon boats made one percent in the United States of America,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: plus those G three John boats. Speaking of boats, Chris
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Lawrence of Metro News put out a picture in the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: story this week that's something. Did you see that picture?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: A deer jump there?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Dear John buck. It wasn't just a It was a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: buck jumped into a boat. And Chris had a picture
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: might have been a Lou Wendel boat. But if you
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: need anything in the boating world, visit Lou Wendole Marine
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Sales dot com. Saint Albans, West Virginia can just visit
• 21:46
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• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Get that Gomart rewards card. It got giddy the other day,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: filled up with fuel. I was down to fumes, down
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to fumes, which makes me even giddier knowing that I'm
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: just racking up those points on filling up there. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: then it prints out that receipt of all the stuff
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that I can get about in arm's length full of stuff.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And if you go on Saturdays to go Maart, triple
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the rewards points, not once, not twice, but three times
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the rewards points at Gomart's on Saturdays. Just go to
• 22:18
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• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It's really really I'm working my way backwards to Saturday
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: to be ready. It was Tuesday this week. I was
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: on fumes. I barely got in there. You need a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: go Mart calculator, like I had the door open as
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I was pulling up with the pumps like a hop
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: out of it, and make sure this is supposed to plaset
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: goes downhill a little bit, which was good.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: You laugh about it. I did it once light.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: This is the least surprising thing that'll be said.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: On today's show, the light the light at don Neeln
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Drive on seven oh five. Yes, truck runs out, truck
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: runs out. I'm praying light goes green. Take my leg
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: take my seriously went neutral, put it in neutral.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Like Fred Flinstone's you reach outside the car and that
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you're late. You're not a scooter.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, got the push because there's a little bit of
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a hill there. People don't know that. Got a little
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: bit of a hill there. Then there's that next light
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: app at right and so it's like prayer that no
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: one else is coming and like, man, you'll got it
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in there because.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: The power steering wasn't working. Great you had no gas
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: correct well, just PSA for folks coming in. Will be
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: a month a lot of construction out there on one nineteen.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Get off the interstate, you come buy go mart as
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: your head of the stadium. There can slow you down
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: if you a little use some fuels sitting in the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: traffic there. So anyway, my point is I'm getting closer
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to Saturdays when I can get triple points. Are right
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: now on single points, working on efforting.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Let's do this now, let's go time for spreads on
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: stats numbers. I'll just go right to the numbers hit
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it jump into the analytics worship of the shoe spreads
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: on stats were autos by the comly CPA group. They
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  Speaker 1: only scratching what they do. Besides full service public accounting,
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  Speaker 1: they're your business consultant, helping you make the best decisions
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  Speaker 1: possible for your business. It walks side by side with
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you to try to figure out the best way to
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  Speaker 1: do things when it comes to your business. Also, you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: can outsource your accounting fact as we do. That's what
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: three guys does. We outsource our accounting to the folks
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: at Conny and they just say, okay, here's the deal. Heough.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: We say, here's a bunch of receipts.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Brad and I oftentime go, how come Hoppy makes that
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: much more right?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I mean all right, let's jump in. You got anything
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: positive over there?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Well, in a normal situation, yeah, I think there'd be
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: a couple of things you come at. You're right, hop
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of course. On the on the situational spot, it's a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: tough one in one of the most difficult places to
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: play on the short week with a team that's battered.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: So just on its surface, that doesn't look great. So
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: we'll dive into some of these numbers. But the numbers,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: as you would imagine for a team that started like
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: they have and a team that started like West the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: number there's giant gaps here in the numbers, but a
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: couple things that you would look at if you're trying
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to say, well, okay, here's why you play the game.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Go out and take your shots at it. To your point,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: hop on the schedule for BYU, PFF has them as
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the one hundred and eighteenth most difficult schedule so far
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: out of one thirty six, they have the thirty sixth
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: toughest moving forward, so it starts to talk to the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: strength of the Big twelve in terms of balance. West
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Virginia to this point is played the thirtieth most difficult schedule,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: so strength the schedule is a huge gap. And so
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: if all things were being equal, you would point at
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: that and say, okay, you're on the road. I get it,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: but take your swings when it gets to that. I'm
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: interested in this one, guys, just to see if West
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Virginia can get itself up off the mat. Before you
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: start to get into matchup situations. This is two games
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: where you just really haven't been competitive for a lot
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: of the game. In Utah it was it was all
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the games. So can this team get itself back together?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Can the defense step forth and get a BYU offense
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that's right the ball pretty effectively with a true freshman
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: quarterback that hasn't turned it over. And I'll get to
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: that in a minute. Is the second point. If you're
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: looking for an area where maybe you can exploit or
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: catch a break, maybe it's in that do for a
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: turnover here at some point or maybe two. But that's
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: the first and foremost. When we can jump in here,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: it's to me who's going to fight the rest of
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the season for this West Virginia team. Who's going to
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: step forth in a role that maybe you haven't seen yet.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Is that Khalil Wilkins. Is it Di or Hubbard who
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: we talked about, Malik Agbo who we mentioned on this
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: show on Sunday that played pretty well on Saturday. Rich
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: address that yesterdays press conference haslam on the offensive line.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: So there's a handful of guys on the offensive side
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: that you haven't called their names. A bunch tony, but
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: that stepped forth and showed you a little bit at
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: least in that second half. Correct, who steps up this weekend?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Does the defense? Is it able to rally itself and
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: give you a decent effort before we get to any numbers.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I think that's the first point of discussion.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: There was a breathtaking stat that Zach Ally, the coordinator,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: used during his press conference on Tuesday, and that was
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to kind of give you the idea of where we
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: are with analytics nowadays. They have they do the research,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they have some service. So West Virginia in the country
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: third fastest, third fastest on defense to get to the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: ball carrier below one ten and bringing that ball carrier
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to the ground. That's there's the key. You know, PFF
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: had nineteen missed tackles, Brad twenty four. I think Zach
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: said over thirty.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the grade probably one four twenty four.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, oh he had over thirty.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: But Jinder Bread, to your point, while we're looking for
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: rays of sunshine, is that you're talking about getting up
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: off the mat. That if you get a decent start
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: and it's late second quarter and it's closed, you go okay,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: then you forget about the other stuff.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Sure, right, It's just like plat play the game.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And that's what you're looking for, and that's
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: what Rich will be looking for moving forward, is who's
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: willing to put your face back in the fan and
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: fight a little But here, when you've had two rough,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: rough weeks, some numbers on BYU and we'll go through
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: this again. I don't know if there's much point in
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: just grinding the numbers to a halt here until you
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: see West Virginia's ability to bounce back a little bit.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: But they're off to a great start. As you said,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: hoppy better EPA per play defensively than Utah had. Slightly
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: better was Utah on the offensive EPA. We know how
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: much West Virginia struggled. This is the team overall and
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: BYU eleventh nationally and adjusted EPA expected points added per play,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: a bunch of numbers to like, if you're them, they're
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: going to try and run it more than they throw it.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Run at fifty six percent of the time. So we
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: saw that rush defense for West Virginia be good early.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Can it find itself again against an offensive line that
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: has been good but maybe not at the level that
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Utah's was. So can they bounce back there. You guys
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: mentioned freshman quarterback Bear Bachmeier, so that's normally one thing
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: you would draw your attention to immediately as a true
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: freshman quarterback. Again, he's at home, I get it, so
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: that should make him a little more comfortable. He's been
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: off to a great start, hasn't turned it over yet
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: this season through four games, nearly seventy percent completion percentages
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: do and they're doing a good job of asking him
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to do what he can do as a freshman, managing
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: it very very well. A number against Colorado guys, he
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: had one hundred and eighty pass yards. One hundred and
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: twenty three of those came after the catch, So they're
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: doing a great job not throwing it a lot downfield,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: keeping it in the middle of the field, getting it
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: to receivers and letting them do the work. In fact,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: listen to these numbers across the middle of the field
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: behind the line of scrimmage strowing screens thirteen of sixteen
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: go to zero to ten yards in the middle of
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: the field, twelve of seventeen ninety six yards in one
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: of his touchdowns, ten to twenty yards middle of the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: field eleven of sixteen two hundred and sixteen yards, So
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: attacking the middle with him not throwing it deep very often,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: getting it underneath, and letting your playmakers go to work.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: He's been really effective off play action slash RPO sixty
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: five percent completion percentage. Four of his six touchdown passes
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: have come in that format. Here's where I say, when
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: you go turnovers and four games, okay, you're due, right,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: that's the positive spin from a West Virginia defense that
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: has been pretty good at creating turnovers this season. If
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: you go to the PFF stats that we talk about
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a lot big time throws versus turnover worthy plays. So remember,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: big time throws are great. Throws may not have turned
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: in or may not have been a touchdown, but greated
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: is a big time throw. Turnover worthy the same thing
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: may not have turned into a turnover but probably should
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: have been. So six touchdown passes, zero interceptions on the season,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: raw counting stats, just two big time throws, two turnover
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: worthy plays.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: When you look a little deeper.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: At the next level, so maybe do for a pick here,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: and you're probably gonna need a couple of those turnovers
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to help yourself. While you look, you're looking like you're
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: gonna ask something there.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: No, I want to say this about the crowd. Talk
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: to someone this week. It's been there for football and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to your point about how important it is to just
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: get your feet underneath you. At the start of the game,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: they said, what it's like is unique. He said, it's
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: like a like you walk walked into a twilight zone,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: like a white twilight zone. Like everything is just like
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: that's what it is, and you're in there for the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: first time. It can be offsetting to you. And so
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I think that is absolutely massive. You know, West Virginia
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: leant to score three points in the first half and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it's two league games so far, and this is not
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: one of those occasions where you want to get down
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: seven or ten because that that that what those what
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: are those mountains hoppy?
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I'll look that up against Whytch a shot by shot.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: It's that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is big Rock comes down and the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: bowlders rolling will run it over. You're going to run
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: right over your head if you get behind early. Yeah.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Defensively for the Cougars, they're off to a really good
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: start fourth nationally and EPA per play twelfth nationally and
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: success rate for this defense. So that's an area to
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: keep an eye on. And we know West Virginia has
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: struggled mightily on the offensive end. Here's a couple numbers
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: that may jump at you.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Wemember.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: We went with that available yard stat for Utah last week.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It was eighty six percent, the most I could find
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: going back a number of years.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Remember that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Well, this won't make you feel any better, but I
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: think it's something to keep an eye on. Flip it
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: around to West Virginia's offense against BYU's defense. BYU is
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: number one in the country nationally in available yards allowed
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: to its opponents. They're allowing opposing offenses to just pick
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: up twenty one percent of the available yards to it.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: That's double trouble when you look at West Virginia's offense
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: is managing only to gain thirty nine percent of its
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: available yards, which is one eleventh nationally. So again, you
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: didn't need that number to know that. But that's a
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: match to keep an eye on in this game. I'll
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: give you another one. We talk a lot about field position.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: BYU is number four in the country. This is net
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: field position offense defense number four nationally at plus eleven yards.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: So we talk about that ten yard difference, you win
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: ninety plus percent of the time. They're averaging that through
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: four games. West Virginia Flip them around there on the
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: other end of the spectrum, one twenty seven out of
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: one thirty six a minus five point six yards in
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: field position. So ho for an offense that's struggling to
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: move it and move it in long drives without a
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: ton of explosives, you're getting a team that feasts off
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: that defensively. So that's something that's got to change obviously
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: in this game if you're going to have a chance
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: to hang into it.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: You know what's not coming true? What you know how
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Phil Steele always says the turnover margin bounces back and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: forth in one year to the next. We're on a
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: two year low, aren't we here on turnover margin. We're
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: on the wrong side two second year in a row.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: You've been better this year than.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: You have been. Yeah, but you've been still not good,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: but still not good. You need more. You're to struggling offense. Man,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: then you're unable to convert.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Or convert their downs. Put you in up in long
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: third and long you get emotion penalty. You have a
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: lot of difficulty putting together long drives, right, I mean
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: how many how many ten play drives.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Have you had? Well, you can look it up ease
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: as you scored.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: I mean it's not enough. So you know, Brad, you're
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: you're great with the numbers. It's just it's just hard
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: to find an avenue here. It really is not trying
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: to be just overly pessimistic. I'm trying to be realistic.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: It is hard to find an avenue.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we Western has really struggled on third down, guys,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: one of the worst in the country, one twenty eight
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: out of one thirty six. But what's interesting if you
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: look down at all their offensive numbers, one of their
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: better numbers, it's not great, but it's one of their
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: better numbers is early down success. They haven't been awful,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: but yet they're really struggling to convert that on third down.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Because again, if this offense is put in a in
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: a third and long where it has to go to
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the air, that's really where it's been a struggle. This
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: offense is as we have seen, guys, it's not running
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: it at a great level that it wants to most
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: of the so it's really struggling when it passes just
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: a twenty nine grade, so scale of zero to one hundred,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: a twenty nine grade win under pressure, a three percent
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: big time throw percentage rate, and a five percent turnover
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: worthy percentage when you go to the air. So just
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: struggling all the way around right here, and you're going
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: to have to find something in this game, and hopefully
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: that starts with the defense and some turnovers.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Tony. Also, this BYU team, as always every year, it's
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: a mature team.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Men.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Their average age is twenty two, and they have one
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: player who's twenty eight. Excuse me, they have one player
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: who's twenty eight.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that's an old fellow right there, twenty eight years old.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: And they have one of their starters I think had
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: already is married and already gone on mission and come back.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: And there's something to that that maturity level.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Right. Oh, yeah, there's difference. I mean, there's no question. Yeah.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: I mean they can play or some other places too.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: They get guys from Utah State, but they have a
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: lot of guys too that have played a lot of
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: football at by mm HM.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Absolutely same in basketball.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: One last number for you, I'll leave you with this.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: If there's another glimmer of hope about this BYU offense
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: is they're averaging seven yards per third down as well.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: So can you get a freshman quarterback in that position
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: and go ahead and get some pressure? Find that pressure
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: that existed against Pitt in particular. Colorado had a little
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: bit of success last week doing that. In the game
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: they kept really close to BYU. Put them in third
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and long for a quarterback that hasn't turned it over yet,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: can you turn up the pressure and get a break
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: or two either if it's not a turnover, can you
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: get off the field there on third down a little
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: bit and get the ball back?
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Now, two years ago BYU came in here in West
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Virginia beat him like they stole something.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Because they had no quarterback. They had to start first
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: ever start for Jake Rehetzloff, who's now the quarterback at Tulane.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: He was supposed to be the starting quarterback for him
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: this year, had a situation and that's what opened up
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the door for Bear Brockmeyer to become their starting quarterback.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: He had been at Stanford and they made the move
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: over there. So other than yeah, but Rehetzlov is not ready.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: On that night game here and West Virginia just dominated.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And so that's one things we're saying, right, that's why
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: we talk about situations so much. You got to be
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: yu team in here that could do some things, but
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: it had a quarterback starting for the first time. West
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Virginia's defense was all over them and it just didn't work.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: So wait a minute. Now you're talking about a team
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: that's going to our style environment and with a young
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: quarterback starting for the first time.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Ris Wilkins. Yeah, so that's that's the challenge that you
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: have to overcome this week.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Exactly right, very very similar, very similar, very similar.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: The other thing is, guys, and this could have gone
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: under your obvious observations from just an X and O
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: standpoint on the field. Can you get some explosives here?
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Can can Hubbard break one off? And we saw some
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: explosive last week. It was when the game was decided
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: and it was later and I get there were some
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: second string defensive guys in there, but you saw the
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: long run from Bowie, you saw Wilkins take off on
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: a couple Hubbard had the twenty nine yeard run. For
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: an offense that is struggling to put together sustained drives,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: it's just critical. Can you get cam Vaughn loose somehow
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: on the back end and hit it. I know I've
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: said this every game so far, but this offense is
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: going to have to find some explosives because it's struggling
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: to drive all the way down the field.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wonder if that is what it's going
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to take a seminal moment where they have one or
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: two big plays on the same drive and all of
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, they just get a different feel
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: and sense about them. Hey, we can do this. I
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: think right now, there's just more doubt than there is
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: sure confidence that you can make plays consistently. Well.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: If you can hit a couple big plays, then the
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: tempo maybe becomes an advantage. And I thought Rich's answer
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: earlier this week on tempo, He's asked the question, do
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: you consider slowing it down? Because, as we know, and
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: as he knows, if you're not producing first downs, man,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: that's tough on your defense to keep throwing them out there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: And I thought his answer was very good. It wasn't
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: just a dismissive no, this is what we do. We're
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: going to run tempo. He did talk about yeah, that's
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: what they do, and their most success over the years
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: is come when they're able to do some form of tempo.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: But he also said he doesn't feel there at a
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: position talent wise, and just strength us to line up
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: milk clock and try and just bang into you and
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: let the defense get itself set and see what you're running.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: He's still feels the advantages to try and go fast
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: and hope you can pop some plays for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll probably be the case, right because they were
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  Speaker 1: on the road last week. So this is the first
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  Speaker 2: Hey, there'll be some some Mountaineer fans going down to
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  Speaker 2: the number, but there'll be some mountain air fans going.
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  Speaker 1: Mateos?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mateos, that was a good one. That'd be your
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be a not far from the Jazz's Arena.
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  Speaker 1: Just down the street. We went to a couple of games,
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that would be. It would be. It would be
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  Speaker 1: A lot of mountain Your fans are doing it. I
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• 43:01
  Speaker 1: still having a little I have to leave two days early,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: but still having a little question in my mind about
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the Utai s I D. When I questioned him on
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: how long it took to get here, some dispute on
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: the air travel, he got a little cantankerous on there
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: on that four hours. I said, it didn't take four hours,
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  Speaker 1: I know they got it down for three thirty going out,
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  Speaker 1: it home faster than three three.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I think it was three sub three on the way back,
• 43:31
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• 43:36
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• 43:38
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  Speaker 2: On maybe that you don't, I mean, he's right, you
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  Speaker 4: You don't know where they got they got an extra
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• 44:01
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• 44:03
  Speaker 1: How about the tractor trailer that carries the mountaineer gear.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: What you ever think about that?
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: It's a nice looking truck.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, when did they leave the.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Central van in storage? I know that look nice.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why they That's why they had those other uniforms.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: So they get with the regular uniform called the gear.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Not much different. I mean, that's about when you left
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: when you went to Rutgers or Syracuse.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: You're talking about times change member. They used to rent.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: They used to rent like a big box truck.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, that's that's how.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: They would carry the gear.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Branding's come a long way.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you got these tractor trailers that have these
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• 44:40
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  Speaker 4: I think also, what we're gonna do? Are you just
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  Speaker 4: I hope you can stay away. It's twelve thirty. It's
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  Speaker 4: going to be like two o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it'll be it'll be late. That's one where
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  Speaker 1: I put my I take my phone, I put it down.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to know what time it is. I
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  Speaker 1: never look again until the game's.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Over, just like I don't body clock issues.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to know.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Here's we've kind of done the reverse of Utah banged
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  Speaker 2: on Utah a week for coming out seven days early. Now,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: I spent the whole podcast complaining about a ten thirty
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  Speaker 2: eastern kick off.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: I've done the exact thing we were losing our mind about. Yeah, well,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: policies Utah.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Sorry. If you're not going to the game on Saturday
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: night here in Morgantown, I strongly encourage you to watch
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: the West Virginia men's soccer team in action, top ten
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: game in the world, both teams Top ten, West Virginia
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and Gardner Webb. Is that right? Does that? Does that
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: make sense? It's Gardener Web I'll double check, man, I
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: hope it's Gardener Webs. That sound right.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that is, but let me double chick.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Why is it not garden a webbit? No, Georgia State,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Georgia State, Georgia State, Georgia Southern. It's not Gardner Webb.
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• 46:53
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• 46:56
  Speaker 1: what the heck, it's it's uh, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Georgia.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: The attraction's West Virginia is what's your point is.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Georgia Southern both teams in the top ten on Georgia
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: three Southern, well he took three.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, glad, I didn't come at you with like emery.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Georgia Southern seven o'clock, Hopy on Saturday night
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: at Dick de Lesque Soccer Stadium, a matchup, yes, seven
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: o'clock between two top ten teams on that beautiful new
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: field that they have over there, and Coach Stratford would
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: strongly appreciate your support there in that game because it
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: is a big one.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: West Virginia and Georgia Southern should play it like an
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: eleven thirty Eastern time to get that West Coast audience in.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Georgia Southern just beat Marshall. So this is a big
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: game in league, in loop play, big game.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: West Virginia three one and one at home, three zero
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: to one away.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so check it out. I'll received this package and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: we didn't see it until we got done taping on Sunday.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Dear Tony Brad Hoppy the hanky kerchieval. Thanks, thank you
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: guys for your efforts and entertaining mount in your fans.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I don't take it for granted. Wonderful show. I'm the
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: crazy guy who did a short interview series with Jay Jacobs. Anyway,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Tony saved me and my
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: girlfriend from spending a horrible week in dreaded Naples, Italy. Instead,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: we road trip through Tuscany to Amalfi. We owe you
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: a mountaineer connection. We took a trip to Iceland and yes,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: narrow roads. Dear lord, help, I'm sorry, not Iceland, Ireland.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Ireland doesn't right, really, I mean it's not going to
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: win any handwriting words, but anyway.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: It's hard to handwrite anymore.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, lost art. But we were with friends hiking on
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: the rim of the Cliffs of more overlooking the Atlantic
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: one thousand feet below, when lo and behold someone noticed
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: my girlfriend Katie's West Virginia sweatshirt and exclaimed, go ears.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: We found out these people shouting, shouting were former WVU
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: students during the Final four era. Amazing, they're in the
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: cliff of Moores. Hoppy, they got mountaineer fangel and okay,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: so here we go? Is it?
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Anthony straw By chances No.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the hoppy you see, Enjoy the Coal Cookies. My
• 49:11
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• 49:35
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  Speaker 1: you very much, thank you. Oh by the way, yes,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Sweeties is the name of the company Sweeties.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Pumpkin Spice cookies as well. You know it's pumpkin spicy.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, just pumpkin spice. Things out of control, Texter.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: On your last episode, Hoppy mentioned the fans must be patient.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: While that is true for this season, it cannot be
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: true after this season. With the next round of re
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: alignment and or super conferences looming. Patients cannot be in
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: the Mountaineer vocabulary. With all due respect, fellas, it's been
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: a long time since our beloved WVU football program has
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: been nationally relevant on a consistent basis, and it will
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: be a short time until realignment after the season, patients
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: can no longer be in our DNA period respectfully, the
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Greenbrier ghost, I want to say something to you before
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: you say something. Sure, I disagree with you on year zero.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I am buying year zero. Cheer one quicker to fix
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: not buying zero.
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: Not buying zero, okay, I'm I'm on zero for a
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: couple of reasons. One is that and I'll see obviously, Tony,
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: you don't so bread can settle. This is that since
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: it's now a year round sport in terms of recruiting
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: and training and preparation. And I think I think those
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: are reasonable observations, not excuses. Rich got a late start
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: mid December. That's actually pretty late when you think about it,
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: because you got to accumulate the staff. One of those
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: transfer periods was already over, okay, basically over high school
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: recruiting was already done, so he really got a late start.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: Second of all, and this this is I think a
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: fastening part of the story, Brad, that that it that
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: we don't have all the numbers on because they're not
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: releasing the numbers. Is that several teams, as we know,
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: front loaded, like Texas Tech frontloaded right before July one
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: when the rev share kicked in, so they frontloaded. West
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: Virginia did not. They started July one with the assuming
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: they would have twenty one million dollars to spend on
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: the on their sports programs. They don't say how much,
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: but football got you know, more than half of that,
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: so I don't know, you know, thirteen fourteen for whatever
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: the number is, did not spend at all. They held back.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: This has been known too, did not spend at all
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: how much I don't know, three four, five, six million
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: dollars they didn't spend. So going into the next season,
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: you're going to have whatever the Lion's share of twenty
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: one point five or twenty two million dollars is for
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: football as well as what you held back. So I
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: think going forward you're going to be in better shape
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: financially for the next season, much more than you were
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: this season. Also, when and this is going to I
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: gotta figure out a way to say this and not
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: sound terribly derogatory, is that a lot of the a
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: lot of the work to acquire transfers had already been
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: done in college football by the time Rich got rolling. MH.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: So now he's I guarantee you, like every responsible program,
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: that they're not only preparing for the next game, but
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: they're looking around to look at players. So that's why
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: it's year zero. He hasn't had a full year. He
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: needs a full year. I do agree that you don't
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: have a lot of time. That two to three years
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: is the new five to six years. So to my mind,
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: he has two or three years to make this program
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: competitive again.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Right, there's a compelling argument there.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Well done by the jos.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: That's that's a compelling case here for a year zero.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: I'm starting again. I know a lot of a lot
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: of teams go through that. I get it, But I
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: mean I do understand the other side too, where you
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: do have money are paying guys. So people say there
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: is nobody has a year zero anymore. You got to
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: go right away. But that was a compelling argument there.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I think I could buy that, thank you.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: The thing that will make this not year zero is
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: when they go to market this year. They're going to market.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: They got they have large resources. They have large resources
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: right up to the top of the Big twelve conference.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: I think, guys, the top five.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Of the Big twelve conference, they're going to market.
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: So they have more resources. So what so you buy
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: better players. So it's going to better players quick. So
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: it's going to be a different year than this year.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: You're going to buy better players quicker, which I'm saying
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: will will expedite your improvement significantly.
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Well, then that that's the argument for this being year zero.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here's the I'm not looking at three years. Well
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: he didn't say that either.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: He said two to three.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: I said, I said two to three.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: Four, you went the three. He did say two.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said two to three. I'm not looking at three.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: Well he said two to three.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: Here here's the other thing, guys, I think that maybe
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: as in the ballpark of as valuable as the dollars
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: so great that you've got more money, that that matters.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: As we've you also have to your point, evaluation, right,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: you have evaluation a longer time to evaluate what you need.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: You've got to cut down on the misses in the portal.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: You've got to go get guys that can play and
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: that you know can play. And I think that extra,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: that full whatever that becomes at that point at least
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: another additional nine months of evaluation I think will be
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: a big benefit to this program heading into next year.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: It's a combination the extra evaluation period and the extra dollars,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: so they'll have a better idea of who's good enough
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: and they'll have more money to go spend to get them.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: That's the equation that'll expedite it.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: And you know, based on this year's experience that look,
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: you got guys presumable, You got guys you thought could
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: help you, and you now know with a year of evaluation,
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: like we got this guy thinking he could help, and
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: now we know how he matched up against Big twelve competition,
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: and we need we need to.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Do better correct, which is what Chuck and Fairmont saying
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: listening to your last show. I've got to disagree. This
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: feels more like roadwork on I seventy nine rather than
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: building a house. I think the mediocre, mediocrity of the
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: last several years has made people impatient. Despite this being
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Rich's first year in his second tenure. My only worry
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: is if we go three, nine, four, eight, do we
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: have another sixty or seventy leave and are looking at
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: another year zero next year. I hope this isn't the
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: start of a really bad cycle. I don't think that's
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: going to be the case, but there will be a
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: large number of players again transitioning, whether that's leaving or
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: coming in. You're going to get that number again. But
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: that's okay if you're getting to right players.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: And also there is don't don't lose sight of the
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: fact of high school recruiting. I know that seems antiquated now,
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: but you still do recruit high school players. That's what
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: he wants and you can get and you know, and
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: I think if you see what's going on nationwide, you
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: see guys. You see school are paying more for skill
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: guys or the key left tackle or the corner or something.
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: But you can still I think through high school, or
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: maybe trade through high school. Brad build some of the core,
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: can't you.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, but not right away. I mean that's the
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: thing with the high school kids. And this program's always
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: been about development. It still has to find a way
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: to have some development pieces. But getting a freshman in
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: and asking them to play immediately, that's going to be hard.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: So there does have to be Patience may not be
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: the right word, but it's going to take some time
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: to backfill with some high school kids and get them
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: ready to play. You're still going to have to try
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: and get for the next year or two heavy portal
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: guys that can play right away. I heard a basketball
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: coach talking today say he told his guys, this is basketball,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: but he told his guys, treat this like a bar.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: What got to be twenty one and we're not interested.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Got to be twenty one and we're not interested. Now
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: football is different because of the roster size, but the
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: development piece still I think needs to be important to
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Westford any moving forward. I think Rich agrees with that.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: He sees that as well.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Yes he does, he wants he His emphasis is going
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: to be on high school with using the portal as
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: salt rather than the entree.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: And that's where that and to me, the offensive line
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: is the biggest example of that that there has got
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: to be some guys in the line that can grow
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: up over the next couple of years. It can't be
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: having to go buy twelve offensive linemen every year and
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: try and find five.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Whereas you probably gonna have to spend five hundred I've
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: told you this on Sunday. You're gonna have to go
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: out and spend majority You're gonna have to spend five
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: hundred on offensive linemen five hundred thousand dollars offensive.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: But the hope is you've got two or three guys
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: that can return that you're comfortable a starter five at
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: five hundred.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Correct, And another thing along that line. I've asked Rich
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: twice in the last week or so, can you get
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the right players here that do Absolutely? He doesn't even hesitate. Absolutely,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I can get the right guys here to win. And
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: it's not an issue. So he's not going like no,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: He's going like, they're there. I can get these guys.
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: Again, it's yeah, that's not hypothetical for him, right, he
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: in particular he has done that.
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, and he's and look, Rich is not out
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: there in terms of coaching. What is Rich now? Ho
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: old is he?
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Sixty three?
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Sixty three? You know, we've seen coaches who are of
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: that generation who really have had trouble adjusting to the changes.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: But I think I don't want to speak for Rush.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: I think the Rich is like, hey, here's a way
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: to go get players. I think that's how he's looking
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: at it, embracing that and not and not.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Pushing back against. Yeah, he's got no problem he just
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: wants guys. I think Mike gundhy Mike Gundy's demise. Mike
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Gundy's demise was because he wanted to play old school,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: and Rich is like, Eh, what's the rule? How do
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: I get it? Go get guys. Texter Chester from Winchester,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: probably not his name, Brad yeah, probably not. Wants to
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: know if it's too late to schedule a home football
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: game against Oklahoma State. I think it might be the
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: help for this year. It is j d from the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Southern coal Fields. The throwbacks were nice, but can we
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: get the names on the jerseys next time? They could
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: even do them in Hoppy's new favorite color, bright sky blue.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Don't start, Don't start.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Texter Hello. Just wanted to give a quick shout out
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: and congratulations to former Mountaineer and three Guys guests Dale
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Blaney on winning at Sharon Speedway Saturday, becoming the oldest
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: person to win a World of Outlaws race. Areas Hoppy,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: there you go see old Dale. That's Dale in the middle.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Now that he got they fired up there in his
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: next picture, he's all jacked up and finally won himself
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: a World's championship at the World of Outlaws.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: So Dale.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: That's an amazing story. So for those that may be
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: on the younger side, Dale's a Mountaineer Basketball Hall of Famer,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: one of the all time great Mountaineer basketball players, and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: family involved in racing obviously brother Dave nephew. The blaming
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: family is becoming, you know, racing royalty. And I did
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: not know he was still running up there, Sharon Motor Speedway.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: They just trade and pain. He wins the World's championship.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Good for him, graduations deal. He only stops by for
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: a hoop game or two. That's a season.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: Ye, he's a good player.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I hate playing good play. He was in
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: the I mean he was an NBA guy. The story,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Well know, hey, three guys midweek text here. Like you,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: guys often say, it's never as good as you think
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: or as bad. After playing Utah, they were definitely better.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: But we still have guys who are working on building
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the hard edged culture we need and rich we'll get
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: this fixed. One thing I've realized after listening to the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: post Utah pod is that, unlike our team, our fans
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: are very soft. We have a lot more Karens than
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: we do Kerlavit's all due respect to Karen Kerchievell after
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Doctor Ed's text, Our fans are soft. We had a
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: great time in the blue lots sharing some Putnam County
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: moonshine with Utah fans, and we will continue to support
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: this team and the staff appreciate all you guys do.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Here is to eight hundred more podcasts, signed by the
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Joker from Poka. Oh.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: You know, I just want to reemphasize because I wrote
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: a column about this for tomorrow too, for the next day,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: for Thursday, that.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Try to quantify the day. It's it's a little difficult that.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: This is not about I'm trying to have a realistic,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: fact based observation of where things are and not make
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: excuses or be jingoistic, but look at it realistically. So
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: that's where I'm whether you agree, where.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: You're making your mistake, because this is all about emotion
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: and irrational tell you.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: So whether you agree or disagree, that's fine. I just
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: want to clarify what my intent is with the kinds
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: of things I've said and the kinds of things I'm
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: writing this week.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: Absolutely before we go, I'm not done yet.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let me get this in here, because as
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: everybody knows, this is a live program. In this breaking news,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: so live program, breaking news, I'd like to go right
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: to the breaking. According to on three on three, Nico
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Markiel redshirting this season.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Well they just came out with that.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: Huh really, who's they quoting?
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: Verified source?
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Who they attribute that to? A source with on three sports.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: They're just going straight with it. So can we claim
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: as first reported?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: No, because we did not first report it, but we were.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: Talking about it right quick before we have reaction.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: We did we go with heavy indication? Did we go
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: with well, wait a second, do the math. I did it.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: I did it the day after. I did it the
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: day after the Monday after the injury. He went to
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Rich on Sunday. I just like the simple thing is like,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: you're just played four games, bang bang bang bang.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: Now, not to steal your thunder, but about seven hundred
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: thousand people, absolutely right.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, absolutely so play that out. So answer this fill
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: in the blank.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Suddenly it's become a game show. Yes, go ahead with
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Ellen Ludden.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: Boy, you just dated yourself for the Allen Ludden reference.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: The chances that Nico Markhill will be on the w
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: W football team next season are zero zero.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he just went in the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I'll change by zero. All right? Two point
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