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3 Guys Before The Game - Ja'Quay Hubbard Visits (Episode 544) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  I hope that when you start listening to this that wherever you are it's dry
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  and nice outside. Because as we begin recording this, I don't know if
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  it means anything, but there was a kid outside of our building collecting two
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  in, everybody. Hey, guess what we got. We got ourselves a
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  special guest. Look at them there. I mean to tell you you talk
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  about a rose between two thorns. Mountaineer football player Jacque Hubbard is our special
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  guest. You're gonna be able to hear meet and by the time we're done,
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  he's gonna be the guy that you're root for next season. Really super
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  avalon unconfirmed looking into that. So there you go, rock and roll.
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  All right, let's do this thing. Nice to have everyone with us.
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  We, in all seriousness, were fortunate enough to have Jaque here. Yes,
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  it is spring football season, and fortunately it's not an everyday practice,
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  not that they don't work, but they're not on the field today as we
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  record. But you were over at the building earlier, Yes, I was.
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  Yeah, what'd you do today? Today? We had some meetings,
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  We had some workouts, some walk through the correct some mistakes that we made
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  throughout practice yesterday. Just a little bit of fine tuning before we hit the
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  field tomorrow. Okay, good deal. You guys practiced earlier this week.
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  Well you were too. It was yesterday you were inside because it was bad
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  weather. Yeah, when we are team meeting, it was raining, cats
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  and dogs and lightning, thunder, the whole nine send. It gets real
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  when it's the lightning out there. You got to chill out. Yeah,
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  rain, you can handle the rain. But we don't need no one being
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  exactly now. The only electricity we want are coming from the running backs and
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  the wide receivers. We don't need any from up in the sky. Well,
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  it's a thrill to have you here, man, long overdue, man,
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  very long over Yeah, for sure, what I mean, what does
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  that mean? Long overdue? We've talked about it, we have, and
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  I've been eager to get on here for about a couple of months. So
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  yeah, we've talked about it in the past. So for those that don't
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  know, this is your last go around, man, this is this season
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  will be your last go around. You're currently working on your master's degree out
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  of the business school. Isn't your MBA, no, sir, sports management?
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  Sports management? But you go through the Business school. You're a member
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  of the Chambers Elite Group. We'll talk about that. And you've had a
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  really super interesting career. You come from Hermitage, Pennsylvania, which isn't far
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  from the Ohio border. So like you're closer to Youngstown than you are Pittsburgh.
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  Yeah, I'm like twenty minutes from Youngstown and a solid hour from Pittsburgh.
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  Okay, yeah, but so you're relatively close to home. Yeah,
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  about two hours, hour forty five really do it? Yeah? So you
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  want to go you want to do this chronologically. I want to do the
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  chronologic at least start that way. As you know, we'll go off the
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  board probably lease start chronologically, as you know, you watch right and you
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  watch so you know what you know, you we'll go. We'll go a
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  bunch of different He did you talk to Green at all about coming on?
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  Like? Did you get any pointers from him? Yeah? I talked to
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  him today during our workout. I said, man, what should I expect?
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  You know, I saw you on there with your mustache looking all good.
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  What should I expect? He said, listen, the guys will have
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  fun. Just do what you do, and so far he was right.
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  Yeah, I mean that's good scouting report. Yeah, okay, so let's
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  just start off from the beginning. Have you always been big? Like if
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  I look at your kinder if I look at your kindergarten picture, you're the
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  tallest kid, tallest kid, the widest kid. You know. I were
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  eighteen now, but just to put in perspective. Shoe that is shoe.
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  Yeah yeah, in the fifth grade, I wore a fifteen Wait wait wait
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  yeah wait wait wait wait wait wait, We'll get one of the engineers here.
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  Because my head said, just it didn't operate. I thought he said
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  that he was in fifth grade he wore size fifteen shoe. Did you really
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  do I did my mom and father can confirm that. I remember specifically,
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  me and my father we would share these Nike ASG boots and he was like
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  thirty five, I was like eleven, and yeah, looking back on it
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  now, I probably looked insane, but yeah, fifteen and fifth grade.
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  Fifteen and fifth grade, dude, I got sixteen. Yeah, I passed
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  you up a while ago. Yeah. So isn't there a place in Sharon,
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  Pennsylvania Ryers has got really big shoes. Yeah right, they know me
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  by my first name. So is that where you used to go? Yeah,
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  and they actually moved. They were in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Now they're
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  in the mall and now's Ohio. Oh yeah, Nole, Well, no,
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  well known Nile. Yeah. So just a little little drive to go
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  get my shoes. So they have big, big shoes. Yes, they
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  go up to a twenty. But I think I'm done so well, I
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  would think so, I would hope I can't do a nineteen. So you're
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  the big kid growing up, what sports do you start to play around with?
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  Well, that's a great question. So I started off with wrestling.
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  Yeah, but we all know there's a weight weight limit. So I remember
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  I was preparing for one of my first matches and I showed up like five
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  pounds overweight and the coach made me run around in a garbage wrestling guy garbage
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  back. By the time we got to the match, I was so dehydrated
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  weak. I got whooped, got whooped. I said, Mom, I
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  want to play basketball. They don't. Wait, they don't made me weigh
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  in every day. So that was the wrestling curve was done? You said
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  that for that. Yeah, they made me do some resaults for like an
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  hour. I was like, that's not done wrestling here. I've got unbelievable
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  respect for wrestlers. I think it's the single toughest, hardest sport. When
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  you agree, I agree. Like, if I become a football coach,
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  I'm looking for linemen that wrestle to play back. Zach Fraser, Zach Fraser,
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  Yeah right, I mean those guys are just in a different world.
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  I've seen them win a match and run off the mat and go jump onto
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  a bicycle because they didn't think they got their heart rate up enough. Man,
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  I'm at a different level, way different. Yeah. So you tell
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  mom, I'm out with the wrestling, out with the wrestling, and so
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  how big are you in basketball? Basketball? Is my first love. Okay,
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  so that's where I get my I'm able to move at three hundred and
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  twenty pounds because you know, I was used to switching off and guarding the
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  point guards one through five. You twitch, I'm switch switching all switch switch
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  one through head and screens, just straight switch that thing on ball switch.
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  I'm switching everything under over. It doesn't matter through. He probably went through.
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  Yeah, a lot of screening. You A lot of people would try
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  to iso me, you know, and they would try to Yeah, obviously
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  put their fast out on me. But I was long and I could move
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  louterly, so I gave I gave them a little bit. So here's a
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  here's a guest. And we haven't talked about this, believe it or not.
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  Did you play AAU or pick the spring tournaments? Would you go around
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  a little bit? Did you ever have to bring your certificate to any of
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  those tournaments because they thought you were playing old younger than you are, older
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  than you really were. Yeah, so I never played AAU. I would
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  always try to get ready for football season within that time. But on the
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  birth certificate note, my mother would have to take it to the Chinese buffets
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  around town. Because they would think we were trying to get get over on
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  them for a deal on the lunch special. I said, listen, I
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  promise you are twelve. I'm twelve. My mom, like, this is
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  a true story, true story. I wish my mother, Tarrika Hubbard was
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  here at a vouch. She would have her birth certificate out off because they
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  think we were trying to get a you know, seven dollars off on the
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  on the buffet. Yeah, that's true story, man. Oh that's a
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  good well. So Nick Malone, Yeah, who was one of your guys
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  on that offensive line. He used to have to bring his birth certificate when
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  he played off season basketball this time of the year because he was so big.
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  I re knew him when he was a little kid, and he was
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  a great feet He always always had great feet, always had great feet.
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  So how long did the basketball did you play in high school? Yeah?
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  I played all the way up. I graduated playing. Well, you played
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  all the way through your senior year, all region. Now senior year I
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  started to really really focus more on football obviously. You know, sometimes I
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  kind of regret that maybe a little bit. You know, you want to
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  finish everything you start. But I remember, like I missed a very important
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  week because I had a showcase in Dallas for football, and we kind of
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  went on a little slump within that week and then so yeah, but you
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  know, I loved basketball. I played until I graduated, and I wouldn't
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  mind coaching one day too that much. My father, he was like,
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  I really got it from my father. He played at Youngstown State. Wy
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  is you? Yeah? When I was younger, told your dad, how
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  big is your dad? He's about six five? It was was he a
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  It was like a power forward power forward? Yeah, okay, so you're
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  really good in football. You get D one off urge and you go to
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  the University of Virginia, which tells us two things instantly. Obviously you're a
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  power five player and you're smart. Absolutely, so who else was sniffing on
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  you? So? My top five at the time was Mississippi State, that
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  team up North Syracuse. I'm gonna say North Carolina and records. I want
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  to say, do you do all five of those visits? No? No,
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  I think I just put him in my top five. It looked cool
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  on Twitter. Where'd you visit? I took an official to Mississippi State who
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  was coaching then Joe Moore Head. He was the offensive coordinator at Penn State.
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  He recruited me where I was from, and then he went down there
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  offered me. And then I took a visit to that team up north a
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  few times, obviously because I was in their backyard. And then I visited
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  Virginia Penn State several times. They never offered me, but we got some
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  payback coming in August for them. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of mine.
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  West Virginia didn't show any interest. We Virginia showed a lot of interest.
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  At the time. The old line coach was Wickline, if I'm pronouncing
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  that correctly. And you know, at the time he recruited me, I
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  had about fifteen offers and he said he would only offer me if I came
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  to camp in person. And not to sound like a d or nothing,
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  but I'm like, you know, I see you guys offer kids in Florida.
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  You don't even know their first name, but you want me to.
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  So I didn't really, I didn't really, you know, I didn't feel
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  love. Yeah, yeah, I kind of never minded it. But then
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  when I left gave it a never mind, Yeah, I never mind it.
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  I'm going to start using that you heard it here. First, guys,
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  you never minded it. But then you know, luckily when I left
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  Virginia, uh coach Moore and Coach Brown, you know, whole new staff,
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  whole new culture, close to home. It was the best fit I
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  could ever make. So let's talk about the year at Virginia. Bronco Menden
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  Hall was the coach. What was that all? Like? I mean,
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  going down there. Academically, that's I mean, that is a that is
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  that's an esteemed institution of higher learning. Yeah, at first I thought I
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  maybe bit off a little more than I can chew, just dealing with the
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  academics and the standard he held. Coach Bronco is a tremendous coach, very
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  military, you know type mindset. Came from BYU. Just to give you
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  a little background, he brought fourteen families over from Utah to Virginia, so
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  the culture was established when I got there. You know, there was no
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  figuring out the way he liked to work. Everyone kind of knew and you
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  felt it, man, I mean, like, you know, there was
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  no room really for error, and if you did, you would hear about
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  it. And on top of that, you had Virginia's academics to worry about.
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  But it really really set the tone for me for college football. It
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  really made the transition. Once I got a grasp on it. The transition
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  was nothing because it was very hard. He was a very deliberate, you
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  know, right now, do it this way type guy for sure. So
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  what that teach you? What was the biggest lesson when you walked away from
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  Virginia? You came here? What did you take from Virginia? The biggest
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  lesson was what great question? I would say the biggest question, The biggest
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  takeaway I had was hmm. I would say, will over skill? You
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  know? And that's that's actually as saying we had there. But you know,
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  he he him, him and the staff kind of pride of their celf
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  on, you know, finding the lower recruits and developing them, and you
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  know the amount of work and attention to detail and focus that he made us
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  have every single day and the amount of effort. You know, it didn't
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  matter if the guy was a five star or or or a three star.
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  I felt like I could beat them just by my attention to detail and work
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  ethics. So I would say that's one big takeaway because that's that's a massive
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  change, isn't it coming from high school, when when you're the best out
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  there and physically you can just dominate without really having to do that? Is
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  that the biggest switch? You get to this level and it's like, oh,
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  the film study and the walk through from a practice that you just talked
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  about, that's the biggest change, right, one hundred percent. And like
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  the technique, you know, in high school, I could get away with
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  just being the biggest and the strongest and just running my feet, you know.
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  And I got to college and and there was people the same size as
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  me move it even faster. I'm like, WHOA, what is going on?
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  You know. Definitely something I had to adapt to. I came from
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  a smaller school as well. You know, nothing against my my coaches at
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  Sharpsfield, Pennsylvania, but I was not I was not ready for that level
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  when I came. So there was definitely some growing pains at first. But
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  yeah, I would say technique was the biggest or biggest change. So what
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  led you to leave after one year? Yeah? I was just there.
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  We was just some personal things that transpired. I felt like it was better
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  for me to get closer to home, you know, coaching staff changes at
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  the at my at my area already, and then I just felt like it
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  was a good good time for a change of scenery and kind of switch it
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  up, get closer to home. This is kind of like separate from the
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  fact, but my mother actually had a very bad stroke like within that process,
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  and you know, single mother and all that. So and I didn't
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  want to go to the team up north, right, I made that kind
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  of clear out of high school. So you know it's for me an excellent
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  decision there. We appreciate, appreciate smart logical understood. Yeah, sure,
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  yeah, so it all turned out great as you see. So so you
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  portaled, I was like one of the first, say like you were just
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  like you were a neo portal like right, I was one of the first
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  portal guys, like way before this, like three thousand guys in the portal.
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  I think at the time it was like myself and about maybe thirty other
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  guys. Yeah, like the early adopter West Virginia jumped you right off the
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  bat. When when you put your name in or how long after did you
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  get nervous after you put your name and go like anyone, I was very
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  nervous because this is no disrespect to any lower level conferences or whatnot. But
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  I was just getting you know, all mac and all due respect, very
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  all due respect. I know some players down there that could come up here
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  and kick butt right now. But you know, I abs, yeah,
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  absolutely, I was expecting power five. And then it started hitting. It
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  started hitting. You know, I was getting some pretty big, some pretty
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  big offers schools that wanted me throughout my high school process that I kind of
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  already you know, didn't want to go. But like West Virginia, I
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  didn't have the opportunity, as we just mentioned, to come to West Virginia
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  out of high school. So when they offered me in the portal, I
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  was I was very excited because I'm like, wow, you know, I
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  actually really wanted this opportunity to jump. So you come up here? Had
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  you had you ever been here before you took the visit? Yeah? I
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  actually visited here twice. I have memories pop up all the time. What
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  does that mean? Why did you smile when you said that? Because I
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  was like all fat and out of shape and what I was, wait,
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  you jumped? I had two questions. I was going to get there?
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  Yeah, oh yeah, no. I won't touch on that one too much,
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  but I was all fat and out of shape. We're in my jersey
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  that I were now and I'm like, how did I fit that? Then?
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  Oh, so you come up here for a visit? You like what
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  you see? You like Coach More No, I so I couldn't. So
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  I came up here prior to COVID. They were recruiting me during COVID,
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  So I had a virtual official visit. Oh wow, that's good. So
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  thank goodness, already had a perspective of the campus or you know, yeah,
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  because you if you if, I couldn't see it in person. So
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  I was going off of how I how I saw my sophomore your high school?
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  How about that? I totally didn't remember that or or figure that out.
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  So you got recruited virtually. I remember they had videos and everything where
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  they would walk you through all of the stuff. They had, like a
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  drone go around more Town. You can see them eat and everything. So
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  I was recruited via skype resume. How about that? Yeah, so you
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  say, yes, well, let's talk about that physically when you got here.
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  Yeah, you look a little bit different than you do that man,
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  way different. I was very out of shape, well, especially going from
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  freshman year twenty nineteen. So I got here in August twenty twenty. Majority
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  of that time is COVID. I wasn't working out a high level at all.
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  Sure to be transparent, I was eating my tail, I was eating
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  everything inside. I was you know, I would still lift waists, but
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  what is that compared to a Mike Joe workout. So I came in in
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  terrible shape. And I remember, you know, my first day here.
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  It was a very tough transition beca because when I when I got to Mortgage
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  Town, I had to stay in the hotel for a week. Remember that
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  whole her, whole situation. So my first day out of the hotel,
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  I think it's like practice three. So my first day out the hotel,
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  I just quarantined for a week. And prior to the quarantine, I was
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  sitting down at home for nine months. I jump out at practice three and
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  everyone's moving full speed. This isn't gonna go well, man. I just
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  had to rely on my effort and strain. You know, Coach Moore and
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  Coach Brown can tell you, like when I first got here, I was
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  just going as hard as I can, doing the wrong stuff, but just
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  going that one hundred miles per hour. That was my only hope, you
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  know, just to show them that, I just show them you're trying.
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  Yeah, yeah, that was my only hope. Man. Kind of like
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  kind of like a boxer who maybe out who might be outclassed, but you
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  were just gonna go fine. I'm just gonna brawl and just continue to throw
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  haymakers. It doesn't matter. I'm just if I'm going the wrong way,
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  it doesn't matter. I'm gonna go hard. Quite literally, I think I
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  got in like three fights that first week really here. Yeah against too.
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  Who is who's causing problems for you? Oh? Man? Uh so I
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  think we had I had a couple of friendly, friendly tangles up with Jeff
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  Pooler, oh yeah, remember him, Jake Abbott and then Charrett Bartlett.
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  This is all within like four days of me being here. All those three
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  of those guys can tell you. But just because you know, like the
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  whistle will blow, I'm still driving my feet. Like I said, I
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  didn't even know the play. I'm just I just knew driving. I'm just
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  going as hard as I could. Yeah, only thing I knew, what'd
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  your way when you got here? When I got here I was three fifty
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  Or do your weigh right now. Three. So Neil used to Neil uses
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  code. I don't know if you've ever noticed this or not, but he
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  has some words that he uses so not to hurt anyone's feelings and when and
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  when guys are in a situation and I'm struggling, like all right now,
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  ormever, but he starts with an R when it doesn't he doesn't say we're
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  gonna rebuild his body, but we're going to. It's like it's not realocate,
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  but he uses this nice way of saying, the dude's body is a
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  mess, and we gotta we gotta re we gotta, we gotta redo it.
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  We got to redo his body. Yeah, he probably came in with
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  that statement regarding me. All right, So that's that starts. How like,
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  how does that process begin? Yeah? So so I going into a
• 22:29
  twenty twenty season. I tore my labor like very bad. This is when
• 22:33
  I first got here. So this kind of goes into how my career is
• 22:37
  so different. You know, I transfer, tear my shoulder, so really
• 22:41
  I'm already in off season mode. You know, it's like, Okay,
• 22:45
  I transferred, I'm expecting to play. I didn't even I didn't even have
• 22:48
  my waiver until about week five. Tored my shoulder week six, so then
• 22:56
  I'm in off season mode. As I mentioned, I think at that I
• 22:59
  had to start from the ground up. I wasn't trying to just put a
• 23:02
  bunch of muscle on a bunch of fat. I had to really lock in
• 23:07
  on my on my diet. You know what time I was eating before bed,
• 23:11
  what I was eating prior and post workout, my protein intake, you
• 23:18
  know, I really so the first transition was cut and weight. You know,
• 23:22
  I went from about three fifty about three fifteen within a few months.
• 23:29
  You know, was that eating better things or less of things? I would
• 23:33
  say both? Or more of the better things. Yeah, yeah, more
• 23:37
  of the better things and less of the bad things. And just between us,
• 23:41
  Yeah, like when you were really eating stuff bad, like give me
• 23:45
  something like you would absolutely destroy. Yeah, between us and the thousands people
• 23:48
  watching. But uh right thousands. So you said like a cheat like something
• 23:56
  that I like it? Like did you ever like eat like four chickens or
• 24:00
  anything like that? Oh? Like a whole box of Little Caesars was nothing
• 24:03
  to me? Nothing? If I come back, That's another thing too,
• 24:07
  Like I've been active my whole life, like even at my biggest like I
• 24:11
  have. I've played sports as long as I can remember. So I would
• 24:15
  come home from practice and I would eat like I would eat a lot,
• 24:19
  Like I said, look, what's that mean? What's a lot to you?
• 24:22
  Like? I said, I'd probably have a whole pizza and then and
• 24:27
  that'd be some ice cream after the pizza. Yeah, yeah, maybe some
• 24:30
  ice cream and with oh my goodness, yeah yeah, oh my goodness.
• 24:36
  Okay, But then did you so was it a struggle to switch to the
• 24:41
  eating the way you're supposed to or did you see results right away and said,
• 24:44
  okay, this is I'm all in on this. I like that.
• 24:45
  Yeah, it was so. At first it was hard because you know,
• 24:49
  you go from the little Caesars to a tuna salad. You know, that's
• 24:53
  difference, right. But then once I saw the results and I saw kind
• 24:59
  of how my body started changing and the number on the scale, and kind
• 25:03
  of how the coaches you know, hey, hyber, good job, like
• 25:07
  you know that kind of that, it was easy at that point because I
• 25:11
  always knew the end goal wasn't to just have a you know, a supermodel
• 25:17
  body. I was trying to become a better football player. So once I
• 25:19
  kind of saw the number go down, the the prs go up, I
• 25:26
  kind of became addicted. Yeah, for sure. Three guys before the game
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  Yeah. So the camera people, you've bought in the sport coat and
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  then put the jersey over the top of it, perfectly tailored. Yeah hebo
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  by the way, I was just over there today working my shift.
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  Yeah. A lot of new Spring sport coats in oh really, a lot
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  of new Spring sport cuts something. Maybe you could wear to a Kentucky Derby
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  party somewhere. So the fact Phil was getting a outfit ready today for somebody
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  I think for that exact purpose. Yeah, I need to get more into
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  like Kentucky Derby and stuff. You need a hat like a feather out of
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  it? Oh yeah like Cam? Oh yeah, his hats are different.
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  You know Cam's different. He is a very unique human being. Sure,
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  com. All right, so let's jump in here. The body changes.
• 27:41
  You do a complete body change. How much stronger are you today than you
• 27:47
  were when you got here from UVA? Night and day? So you work
• 27:52
  two twenty you mentioned now two twenty five. I mean you guys, when
• 27:56
  you work out, like when Zach closed to the combine, they use two
• 27:57
  twenty five as Yeah, So how often do you bench bench? We you
• 28:03
  meaning like the two twenty five rep? We don't really, we don't.
• 28:06
  We don't do that day nine okay, So what do you work out with
• 28:08
  when you when you do bench? What do you work out with? Okay?
• 28:11
  So the last winner kind of block that we had I finished with three
• 28:18
  eighty five. That was my max. So I would say my working sets
• 28:23
  can be about m working sets probably about two two eighty five to nineties.
• 28:33
  You know, how many how many how many reps? How many sets on
• 28:37
  that? Yeah, it varies depending on what coach Mike has for the day.
• 28:40
  But I would say five by five is maybe like a typical typical day
• 28:45
  for that five by five mixed out in with some maybe some rows heavy rows,
• 28:51
  uh, heavy shrugs, kind of do all that in one little circuit.
• 28:56
  The strength staff is regarded as one of the best in the country,
• 29:00
  and Mike Joseph is often praised as one of the best in the countries.
• 29:03
  Second and none. Okay, why what is it that makes him special?
• 29:08
  Passion? Easy passion. He's so passionate. He loves West Virginia sports more
• 29:14
  than anybody. You know, I say that he from Fairmont. He just
• 29:19
  I have to give him credit. You know, he helped me really not
• 29:23
  only change my body, but change my mindset. You know, it's all.
• 29:26
  You know. He has these sayings in a weave room, such as
• 29:30
  like rep integrity and whatnot, and he really means it, you know.
• 29:36
  He it's not a gimmick. You know, if anyone knows coach Mike,
• 29:38
  you know he's not for the social media or none of that. He really
• 29:44
  he's really focused on maximizing your potential. And and they ain't gonna be easy,
• 29:49
  you know, it's not. You know, it won't just be a
• 29:52
  little easy transition. He does he definitely does test you out mentally. But
• 29:56
  if you're able to really lock in on the process, says, it's for
• 30:00
  the better for sure. What else workout wise? It's not just straight lifting.
• 30:04
  How about agility, stretching, flexibility, what's worse? Some other things
• 30:07
  you like? So well? I don't like running, I'd say yeah much.
• 30:12
  I don't think I'll ever become a fan of running, but it's definitely
• 30:17
  beneficial. I really had to hone in on mobility. I naturally have high
• 30:21
  hips, so I really have to I really had the last you know,
• 30:26
  year or so, I really had to work on, you know, being
• 30:27
  able to play lower. And we go to yoga. Our strength staff,
• 30:33
  Yeah they get We go to yoga about twice a week. I go once
• 30:37
  a week, but it's offered twice a week. Downward dog, you can
• 30:41
  do it, no problem. I could do it all you heels, down
• 30:45
  hand, everything's down. Well. It is hot, so when it's hot
• 30:49
  in there and I'm loosened up, I could do it. You're doing hot
• 30:52
  so you're doing hot yoga. Yeah, it's not just regular. Yeah,
• 30:55
  let me mention that we're doing hot yoga and it gets real in there.
• 30:59
  Man has to get real in there. What do you mean by that?
• 31:02
  Well, after I work out, well, after we do the yoga session,
• 31:06
  which is on a Saturday, I sleep for like two hours. Crushes
• 31:08
  you crushes you can difference. So can't you feel great right away? Well?
• 31:14
  Even like with then, you know you'll you'll maybe do a stretch,
• 31:18
  You'll maybe like kind of relaxed and then go into it again. And like
• 31:22
  as you're getting deeper and you work on your breaths, you just feel your
• 31:25
  body and sinking into the stretch. I'm like, wow, this this stuff
• 31:27
  really works. Yeah, oh yeah, it works. Going back to food
• 31:33
  here, isn't it amazing the amount of food and the quality of food and
• 31:37
  how tight they watch you guys with your food nowadays compared to how it used
• 31:41
  to be. You guys don't turn a corner without someone having a clipboard in
• 31:45
  front of going like okay, what did you eat? How much? Right?
• 31:48
  When it wakes? It's so much easier, right, I mean,
• 31:49
  the stuff's there, you know what you're supposed to do. That that helps
• 31:52
  a ton, Yeah, for sure. Like when we when we go home
• 31:56
  for breaks, I have the biggest reality check on you know how expensive it
• 32:02
  is to eat healthy? Oh? My goodness, how quickly fruit goes bad.
• 32:09
  Like I'm learning all this. You know, protein shakes. I could
• 32:13
  go right now, you know, I'm so fortunate for this lifestyle. I
• 32:16
  can go grab three protein shakes right now, right, I do that in
• 32:22
  sheets. I'm paying twelve dollars, no question. By the way, Gomart,
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  they give me to you for free, just like if he has a
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  rewards card, I would. Don't you think that? Well yeah, unconfirmed,
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  you heard your first anyway anyways, yeah, no, you're exactly right.
• 32:36
  I mean, what you have at your arms disposal inside the facility is
• 32:42
  just mind um me man like like you like every day we get fed,
• 32:45
  you know, I have I have friends who play at lower levels and they
• 32:50
  get they get fed, you know, maybe once a day. And you
• 32:52
  can't get enough food where we're at, you know. I mean I always
• 32:57
  mess with this, the skinnier guys on the team who can't make weight or
• 33:01
  struggle to make weight, and I'm like, you're just not trying. Let
• 33:06
  me here, I'll give you some of my weight. How about that?
• 33:08
  You know it's around, it's around. Let's walk through your progression on the
• 33:15
  field here. As you said you had you had to basically reform your body
• 33:19
  come back from a shoulder. And you do that and you start seeing playing
• 33:24
  time, and it leads you to becoming a key contributor. Last year and
• 33:30
  perhaps not even perhaps you were. You were the vocal leader of that offensive
• 33:37
  line. You led those guys pre game and inside the middle of those scrums
• 33:43
  before games. And now you've become a fixture as well on that offensive line.
• 33:49
  Walk us through playing for you. Yeah. So twenty twenty one,
• 33:54
  I come back from my surgery. Well, let me start, like,
• 34:00
  since I've been here, I changed positions four times. This will and you
• 34:07
  know this being I'm a super senior, but this is only my third spring
• 34:10
  ball, just to kind of give you guys a picture on how my career
• 34:14
  has gone, you know, way different than the normal person. For instance,
• 34:17
  Johnny Williams. I only have one more springball than him, and he
• 34:21
  was born in six in the world. But so in twenty twenty one,
• 34:28
  I come back. I'm at left tackle, Brandon Yates is starting over me.
• 34:32
  I see some action, but as I mentioned, he's a starter,
• 34:36
  he's the guy. So then that fall in spring I moved to right tackle.
• 34:44
  Y Malin comes in me and Yates battle at right tackle. I ended
• 34:47
  up starting twelve games at right tackle that season. We come back last year
• 34:57
  and I'm now at guard and me and Yates, and I want to,
• 35:02
  you know, give a shout out with the Yates. You know, me
• 35:05
  and him have made each other way better football players, you know, by
• 35:08
  battling each other within these years, and we've able, we've been able to
• 35:13
  keep a really good relate, not even good, a great relationship within it.
• 35:16
  And it taught me a lot of life lessons along the way. But
• 35:21
  you know, I end up starting tackle and then moving the guards. Sorry,
• 35:24
  and then he gets the nod going into Penn State. He starts.
• 35:30
  But then, as you guys see, I played in like every game last
• 35:32
  year even though I didn't start, which was also, you know, maybe
• 35:38
  more difficult that meets the eye, because you might not be getting all the
• 35:43
  same amount of reps, but you're expected to perform at the level as if
• 35:46
  you were. So I really had to hone in on you know, walkthroughs.
• 35:52
  Maybe when he was in I was taking extra reps behind everyone, or
• 35:55
  maybe watching you know, three times amount of his film so that when I
• 36:00
  get in that situation, I can't let my teammates down. You know,
• 36:02
  I beg for this opportunity. When I get it, I can't put right
• 36:06
  down my leg. So that was really been my mindsetting. You know,
• 36:08
  this year, He'll be at center, I'll be at guard, and we
• 36:14
  still we still all push each other. And you know, shout out to
• 36:19
  Brandon Yates for sure. What changed in the offensive line? What's changed in
• 36:24
  the offensive line room since you first got here? Oh, the work ethic,
• 36:30
  the work ethic, and the in like the the like, the fighter
• 36:36
  mentality. Nothing against those previous guys. But Coach Moore would be the first
• 36:42
  to tell you. Coach Brown will be the first to tell you. You
• 36:44
  know, when I first got here, you know, the offensive line was
• 36:49
  kind of the group. This is twenty twenty. You know, offensive line
• 36:52
  was kind of the group that you know, maybe had to get going a
• 36:54
  little bit. You know, come on, guys, like let's go do
• 36:57
  some extra work or you know, hey this wasn't good enough. Let's you
• 37:00
  know. And I think, along with guys like you know, Fraser,
• 37:06
  myself, Yates, Doug Wyatt, Tomas Nick Malone, I think now the
• 37:14
  expectation is, you know, we have to lead the team, and you
• 37:19
  know, you'll you'll catch us in there doing extra work. We all try
• 37:22
  to outwork each other, you know, we try to show up earlier than
• 37:25
  each other. So I think that just fighter mentality that tried to be the
• 37:29
  best you can be, because if you have a good old line, you
• 37:31
  always have a chance. And I think we really took that personal. You
• 37:36
  don't have a good old line, you got no chance. Zero. Experience
• 37:38
  though, really helps that. I mean those guys you just named, there's
• 37:42
  a lot of snaps in there, right, I mean even you put four
• 37:45
  hundred some snaps last year for sure. For sure. Experience alone, Yeah,
• 37:47
  like me and Malone, our our position on the team last year.
• 37:52
  You know, we weren't the starters, but we played every single game right
• 37:55
  and and yeah, like that, the expectation never dropped. You know,
• 38:00
  you can ask Coach Brown then It's like when me and Malone were in the
• 38:04
  game, we were supposed to play like Doug and Yates, no questions.
• 38:07
  Yes, you know, and you know mentally and maybe be a little tough.
• 38:13
  As I mentioned, you know, you don't get the all the first
• 38:15
  team reps. You know, you're going against the second team, so they
• 38:21
  may not be up to the standard as that next Texas Tech guy you're going
• 38:25
  to see on Saturday. So you got to really hone in on your technique.
• 38:30
  To me and Malone, we learned a lot last year, and Spring's
• 38:35
  been going good beside him, you know, so far, and it's going
• 38:38
  pretty well, all right, So judge your performance if I if I look
• 38:40
  at the straight numbers, I see you had two hundred and some pass blocking
• 38:44
  opportunities only allowed for pressures. You feel like you had a really good year
• 38:47
  last year. You took a step forward. Yes, I definitely took a
• 38:51
  step forward. For me, having my first year at guard, definitely took
• 38:54
  a step forward. Knowledge. My knowledge of the game has went up.
• 38:59
  That was something that I struggled with when I first got here too, that
• 39:00
  I think kept me off the field. It was like I would go as
• 39:04
  hard as I can, but you know, maybe I wouldn't see that this
• 39:07
  guy was gonna slant inside because the mic was bumped over. You know,
• 39:12
  there's little stuff that I didn't have in my arsenal that I have now that
• 39:15
  I'm able to apply. So yeah, that's hard to get those. Other
• 39:20
  than just playing right well, it speeds you up when you play to get
• 39:22
  that stuff, right, Yeah, you know, I don't I don't really
• 39:25
  know how it's you could really, I mean you can see it on film,
• 39:29
  you could see it on paper, but until you really get an action
• 39:31
  and do it, you don't have a chance. You know. Yeah,
• 39:36
  if someone were to ask you to describe Zach Frazier as a football player,
• 39:39
  what would you say? Mm? Physical, leverage, strain, little nasty,
• 39:51
  smart, little nasty, Yeah, nasty, but really smart. Like
• 39:54
  you know, you take all like you know, that's what people usually want
• 39:58
  to mention first, the nasty, the physical. But he was so he
• 40:02
  was so good at anticipating what was going to happen. He made all of
• 40:07
  our lives way easier with some of the calls he had. And Brandion Yates
• 40:10
  had been doing a great job this off season on you know, doing the
• 40:15
  same thing like Fraser. You know, if he could see something before it
• 40:19
  happens, he can make a call that would get us all on the right
• 40:22
  hats and so yeah, like, one of the biggest takeaways is his preparation.
• 40:27
  He watched more film than anyone. I know. I'm sure you guys
• 40:30
  have heard that before. Like, he he watched film all the time home
• 40:34
  on the stadium. He had this big notepad. I remember he told me,
• 40:37
  you know, me, me and Fraser, we got, you know,
• 40:39
  pretty closer. His last year, him and his father would go over,
• 40:44
  would go over stuff. His dad had like a notebook of things that,
• 40:49
  you know, maybe like a scouting report, and they would go over
• 40:51
  it together. Like you know, he's been a next level guy. I
• 40:54
  saw this coming. I saw this. I could have put my life savings
• 40:59
  on it. I saw this coming. He saw he was going to explode.
• 41:01
  I saw this coming even when he was at Guard when I first got
• 41:05
  here and I had to sit out that year. I'm like, he's a
• 41:07
  true freshman doing this. I couldn't do that last year, you know what
• 41:10
  I mean. So yeah, I saw this coming from you. Yeah.
• 41:13
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• 42:07
  how fun was last season? Got nine wins in the Bowl? Win last
• 42:10
  season was so fun? You know, just you know, everything we went
• 42:17
  through the previous year, how we really underperformed because we you know, we
• 42:22
  we see everything. You know, it is what it is, is reality.
• 42:27
  It's twenty twenty four, and you could either let it motivate you or
• 42:30
  discourage you. And we definitely as the team, like we really played that
• 42:35
  fourteenth, you know, the media pickers fourteenth that was everything to us because
• 42:39
  we you know, we really felt like we worked harder than anyone in the
• 42:43
  country, and so it really meant a lot to us to get to that
• 42:47
  point. We really felt like we should have had eleven easily. You know,
• 42:52
  I think that's what's really going for this team right now, because you
• 42:55
  know, one thing I realized throughout the offseason, a lot of guys would
• 42:59
  mention like, you know here or here like we were honestly, man,
• 43:02
  I say we were about a quarter away from being eleven win team, you
• 43:07
  know, the Houston tragedy and then Oklahoma State we had them, man,
• 43:13
  So you know, you take those two games and if you could just maybe
• 43:15
  take a little bit of a bigger step than you were at the point of
• 43:19
  last year to where when you get in those moments, you know, because
• 43:22
  this is my last year, you know, and this is if I'm not
• 43:27
  mistaken, the whole old lines last year. Besides Thomas, Thomas has another
• 43:31
  year, so the mindsets really like, you know, we don't have time
• 43:35
  to say what if no more, you know, like it's either now or
• 43:37
  never. So yeah, last year was really fun going to Charlotte, that
• 43:43
  whole experience, you know, out selling North Carolina fans in North Carolina.
• 43:50
  How about that playing you know in the Panther Stadium with the skyline skyline in
• 43:54
  the back. It was everything. But honestly, man, it just made
• 44:00
  us hungrier to get the Dallas this year. Why is Neil Brown successful?
• 44:07
  Neil Brown is successful because he focuses on culture first and foremost. If you
• 44:15
  don't have culture, you don't have anything. I can speak from experience from
• 44:19
  when I first got here to the present. The culture is night and day.
• 44:24
  What do you mean by that? I mean by that, you know,
• 44:27
  we don't have as many energy vampires as we like to call it,
• 44:30
  meaning you know, always complaining, always, you know, making excuses or
• 44:38
  always saying, you know, I'm not playing because of this, or you
• 44:43
  know, instead of just working. So we have a lot less energy vampires
• 44:47
  and we've become more He's allowed us to become more of a player led team,
• 44:52
  which you know, essentially the players are ones on the field. You
• 44:55
  know, We're the ones who you know, either make the mistake or make
• 45:00
  the play. So I think by him allowing us to have a little bit
• 45:02
  more of a player led team and in the expectation, you know, I
• 45:07
  think, you know, coach coach Brown has had a lot of patients,
• 45:13
  but it's like an urgent. It's like an urgent process. You know.
• 45:15
  It's like he's patient but realize you got to get better, you know.
• 45:20
  And I think he like speaking personally that that really allowed me to hone in
• 45:27
  on my development, knowing like, Okay, he's going to give me time,
• 45:30
  but I can't mess it up again. You know. I think him
• 45:32
  and Coach Moore are doing a great job with that allows you, because confidence
• 45:37
  is everything. You get confidence through reps. That offense gained a lot of
• 45:40
  confidence last year. You had a bunch of dudes playing at a high level.
• 45:44
  Not only you guys along the line. Garrett was fantastic Jaheem White CJ
• 45:49
  wide receiver room, but a lot of those guys were babies, right the
• 45:52
  receivers in Jaheem in particular, what's the step forward for this offensive unit this
• 45:55
  year? Where does that show itself? Yeah? Good question, I would
• 45:59
  say, really just so, Coach Brown has a saying right now that's all
• 46:05
  around the building. It's called better your best. So whatever you did last
• 46:08
  year, take your best plays, your best moments. What steps will you
• 46:15
  take to better that? You know? For instance, you know Jahim he
• 46:19
  was like one of the most explosive running backs in the country. And you
• 46:22
  know, if people probably feel like he could do no wrong. Now there
• 46:27
  is little things mistakes that he made through on the way. If he could
• 46:30
  fine tune those, you know, how he could have a Heisman year,
• 46:34
  you know. Or like the young wide outs. You know, I think
• 46:37
  a lot of their success came because they were able to just go out there
• 46:40
  and play. You know. So now it's like keep that creativity, you
• 46:45
  know, coach Coach Scott has a saying called bap be a player, you
• 46:49
  know, keep that bath mentality. And but with that, you know,
• 46:53
  they got stronger, they got faster, they learned the game more, their
• 46:58
  condition levels up. So really just taking what we did last year and just
• 47:02
  doing everything around you to be able to repeat your best you know so and
• 47:08
  then on the flip side, whatever you did bad last year, you know,
• 47:15
  fix it, fix it, I guess that's short word, fix it.
• 47:21
  How good does it feel as an offensive lineman when you know, you
• 47:24
  guys set your blocks and the original play really doesn't work and then Garrett scoots
• 47:29
  out of the pocket and runs down the field and he moves to change.
• 47:32
  Took care of that for us. Huh. A world of difference when the
• 47:36
  quarterback can make plays with his feet. Game changer, yeah, right,
• 47:39
  you know, like this, it's a game changer because, like you said,
• 47:45
  you know, off as a line play, you know it's not going
• 47:46
  to be perfect. You know, there's eighty snaps in the game. You
• 47:50
  know, I'm sure there'll be a few in there that maybe a few ms
• 47:53
  here and there, right, hopefully not, oh goodness, but yeah,
• 47:55
  maybe a few breakdown, maybe a few technical mistakes or whatnot. And to
• 48:00
  have a guy like Garrett who's one of the fastest on the teams as a
• 48:02
  quarterback, and then it really allows us to open up our offense, you
• 48:07
  know, because you can't do zone reads with a quarterback that's not the threat
• 48:10
  to run. Who are you fooling? You know, even if he pulls
• 48:13
  it, he's going to get three yards. So I think that was the
• 48:16
  difference with Garrett. It's like people had to respect him, you know,
• 48:21
  like your defensive end, you better stay home. You crash down that line,
• 48:24
  he's going to pull it and it's a touchdown, you know, and
• 48:28
  then we could play off that guy who's staying home. So having a quarterback
• 48:31
  like Garrett as an offensive lineman a little less anxiety before you Yeah, and
• 48:37
  that's where you guys, really by the end of the year, running multiple
• 48:39
  plays out of the same look just was given. Defense fits right because their
• 48:44
  keys are all jacked up now, right, they think something's going to happen,
• 48:46
  and you have four different plays off that that same look. You could
• 48:50
  really see that come by the end of the year. Last year, for
• 48:52
  sure, for sure, I feel like one of our biggest one of our
• 48:57
  biggest things we had going for us was like all the motions and shifts,
• 49:00
  and it'd be the same play. Like I said, it would be the
• 49:02
  same exact play. You know. Literally, there'd be times where like in
• 49:06
  the huddle we call it play three times in a row, and then in
• 49:09
  my head that's office in Lineman, I'm just doing my job. I look
• 49:12
  on film and it looks completely different. Yeah, you know, so we
• 49:15
  got to what I tell you, we got to in the bowl game,
• 49:16
  we were charting that with Steve Dunlaps, former defensive cornerat I think there was
• 49:20
  eight eight different plays you ran off the same formation there at the in the
• 49:23
  bowl game in the last regular season. Yeah, that was our bread and
• 49:25
  butter. Yeah, that was our bread and butter. Man for sure.
• 49:29
  What's your recollection of the game winning touchdown against Baylor? Man? Emotional roller
• 49:37
  coaster. That game was an emotional roller coaster because you know, we gave
• 49:45
  up the two kick returns. We felt like they should have never even been
• 49:49
  in the game, but they were, you know, and I knew,
• 49:52
  like, you know, I always try to put myself with other people's shoes.
• 49:55
  I'm like, Okay, it's their senior night, and you wouldn't fit
• 49:59
  them. But anyway I would not fit them. You probably have to cut
• 50:01
  a hole in the front of them. But so it's their senior night.
• 50:06
  I'm like, we give them so momentum. This is some of the some
• 50:08
  of the guys last time ever playing football. They're gonna give it their all.
• 50:14
  And then that same drive, Fraser goes down. We know it's bad
• 50:17
  because Fraser doesn't go out. So when I see him hobbling off on one
• 50:22
  leg, Yates runs in so we don't avoid a ten second run on hold
• 50:27
  on stop right there, because that that's probably an underlooked part of that.
• 50:30
  Oh my goodness, that's that's not easy. Yeah, your star lineman just
• 50:32
  goes down, he hops off. Yates didn't misbeat as his hemanon goes out
• 50:37
  there and then has to deliver a perfect snap and does perfect snap. He
• 50:39
  had to give the mic call, he had to pass protect without a timeout,
• 50:45
  like you know, and like you said, like that wasn't in the
• 50:46
  headlines and stuff, but Yates, that was one of the most important parts
• 50:51
  of the season out not even the game. This season. We talk about
• 50:53
  it, we respect it, We talked about it talks about it. Yeah,
• 51:00
  that's why this is the best show. That's why. But that was
• 51:02
  and that's not easy to do. No, Brandon obviously was dialed in and
• 51:06
  ready to go and had repped that and then and then it's so crazy.
• 51:10
  I'm pretty sure Garrett mentioned this on the show. But that play we ran,
• 51:15
  I don't think it was as successful in practice. He said he missed
• 51:20
  it, right, didn't He said he over there? I think he overthrew
• 51:22
  it, like maybe like I think he overthrew it once and then maybe someone
• 51:25
  maybe and made the second time he ran it. So then we win it.
• 51:30
  Then we run it in the most important time, you can't. I
• 51:36
  mean, the game of football is just everything. What defensive lineman are you
• 51:43
  facing in practice now that people may not know about fully yet that you think
• 51:47
  is going to be a star? Corey McIntyre, no hesitation, Corey,
• 51:52
  m We're real old. I did his dad's games. Really. Oh yeah,
• 51:55
  his dad was a hell of a fullback here, blow you up.
• 52:00
  They played in the league for like ten years. Really yeah, I did
• 52:02
  not know that. So Corey last year he was on scout team and honestly,
• 52:08
  you know, he definitely could have he probably could have gave us snaps
• 52:12
  maybe a little bit earlier in the year, but that was up to the
• 52:15
  coach's discretion. You know. See if he was ready, but us going
• 52:19
  against him, I could tell he'd make some flashes. I'm like, oh,
• 52:22
  this kid's gonna be a problem. You know, this kid is definitely
• 52:24
  gonna be a problem. And he told me the other day, he was
• 52:27
  like, you know, going against you and Fraser really got you know,
• 52:30
  got him better. But he's twitchy. He has like natural talent. Once
• 52:35
  he starts honing in a little more on his body definitely got way better this
• 52:37
  offseason. But Corey and Eddie V h Eddie V Man he you know,
• 52:45
  he doesn't really get the praise either, but he does his job every play.
• 52:51
  He's a robot every play. He's a robot. Eddie V does his
• 52:53
  job every play. He won't ever complain. He's gonna go as hard as
• 52:58
  he can, as hard as he can every you play. Yeah, that's
• 53:00
  one of my best friends on the team. I just love the way he
• 53:04
  plays. He just doesn't stop never he defines how you gotta ply he does
• 53:07
  he does. He me and him, we go off of each other,
• 53:09
  you know, I'll tell him or he'll tell me. You know, hey,
• 53:14
  you need to go harder. I'm like, you know what, all
• 53:15
  right, I got how about pass Rusher? Who's the guy that you guys
• 53:20
  have to identify right away? I know you're just a few practices in,
• 53:22
  but you've seen this French guy fly by you at all. Yeah, so
• 53:28
  I'm not on the edge anymore, so it's kind of harder for me to
• 53:30
  get out. Yeah. Yeah, I mean he definitely he got. He
• 53:34
  has some juice off the edge, for sure. He's strong, he's twitchy.
• 53:40
  But honestly, a player who to watch for is just Sid Trotter.
• 53:45
  Oh yeah, oh yeah, Trotter is going to be an animal. You
• 53:49
  heard it first, A gentleman, that's a man and a young guys get
• 53:52
  young guy's body. Yeah, you know he Honestly, I'm pretty sure Coach
• 53:57
  Brown mentioned this. If he didn't tear at the a CEO, he did
• 53:59
  a get it was significant one hundred percent, one hundred percent. And he's
• 54:04
  back and he's moving full speed and he's gonna we had we're really loaded at
• 54:08
  the linebacker this and Chay lay Than he's already back from his injury. He
• 54:12
  would have been that, they would have been a freshman All America a year.
• 54:15
  Yeah, Tray before he got hurt, right, yeah, yeah he
• 54:19
  was. Well that's good man, Okay, my teammates. You got player
• 54:23
  personnel if he wants to get into So you last year, last winter,
• 54:30
  not this winter. The last winter. You served an internship, a broadcast
• 54:34
  internship and uh for the uh what's that? The gold News Nation? What
• 54:39
  is it? What's your what is it? What is it? They're going
• 54:43
  to be mad at you. I know it, gold blue Nation, gold
• 54:46
  blue nation, whatever, blue, gold, gold blue, whatever it takes.
• 54:51
  I had done that before. I have nation in there. Yeah,
• 54:53
  I mean gold Nation. Anyway, we're all family. I'll get crushed for
• 54:59
  this, I know. Anyway, Hey, that's their problem. That didn't
• 55:05
  brand it right, we I mean, you know what three guys is.
• 55:07
  But anyway, did you you want to be a broadcaster? Like, what
• 55:10
  do you want to do after doing that? What do you want to do?
• 55:14
  So? I did the internship, and I think that's why you do
• 55:20
  internships, right the haircubs hair cuts? Yeah, figure out cos Yeah,
• 55:24
  And just like live reps in the game, you don't know until you actually
• 55:27
  go do it right, right? All Right? Now I would rather,
• 55:30
  I think after doing that internship, I would want to be more of like
• 55:36
  a Shannon Sharp Stephen a Roll type, just being able to be my own
• 55:40
  personality and kind of like how we're doing right now, you know, have
• 55:45
  statistics to support my opinions. Right, but like they're reading from the prompt.
• 55:50
  You don't like the prompter, it's just don't use one. Just I
• 55:55
  feel like my natural ability is just for me to talk. So when I
• 56:00
  I'm like this and hello folks, and you know, maybe more practice you
• 56:04
  can get that. Well, I could take carry on that. I think
• 56:06
  one afternoon I get you on there. You can help me on that.
• 56:07
  Yeah, okay, I thought he was gonna I thought he was gonna go
• 56:10
  down the road of after looking at it, it's really not what I thought
• 56:15
  it was gonna be. And I thought he was gonna end it with please
• 56:16
  respect my decision. Well, you got half of that comment right. It
• 56:21
  definitely wasn't what I thought it would be. You and I told them this
• 56:23
  all the time, like when they come in to talk to us, you
• 56:27
  guys do so much more that meets the eye. Oh my goodness, you
• 56:31
  like, you do so much more than that don't stop working every constantly,
• 56:36
  NonStop, constantly, like your job is way more, way more in tune
• 56:40
  than that meets the eye. And I wasn't ready for that. I'm gonna
• 56:44
  be honest. I was like, whoa, oh, yeah, they don't
• 56:46
  they don't stop. No, not like yay. On camera stuff's just a
• 56:51
  little teeny tiny piece of it. Yeah right, Literally, like the preparation
• 56:57
  for when you get on camera alone is hours and the highlights and the cutting
• 57:01
  and editing and the yah. You'd rather just get out here and riff and
• 57:07
  just riff. That's all I wanted to do. You know, Yeah,
• 57:09
  I hear you. But who knows that if I a worker along alongside you
• 57:15
  two guys, maybe maybe we could call these four guys, or well the
• 57:21
  one guy that shows up you could become the third guy. If we don't
• 57:25
  even know where the other guy is. I mean, we had to put
• 57:28
  out an amber alert. I think earlier is where you try to find out
• 57:30
  where he is real quick. Speaking of riffing, Tony, you mentioned it
• 57:34
  earlier your your pregame Huddles as a guy that was one of the vocal leaders.
• 57:38
  How does that come about? How did you how did you did you
• 57:42
  just take that you just said here I'm talking. Yeah, I would just
• 57:45
  so really it came from in twenty two of me starting knowing in twenty three
• 57:52
  I would be rotating. I just wanted to affect the game as much as
• 57:57
  possible. I wanted to get my guys do whatever I can help the performance,
• 58:00
  you know, help get them the battle cry. I just felt like
• 58:06
  I felt like sometimes, you know, I think it started off. I
• 58:08
  felt like we were coming off the bus and it was a little flat,
• 58:12
  and I'm like, okay, I know I'm not starting this flat. I
• 58:15
  gotta say something. I was just fired up, you know, and I
• 58:20
  tell I tell everyone, like I never some people think, like, you
• 58:22
  know, do you think about what you're going to say. I'm like,
• 58:24
  no, thank god for editing, because there's a lot of fs and and
• 58:30
  you know, like thank goodness because like if it was raw footage, I'm
• 58:32
  sure I get unfollowed on Twitter by some of you. But I don't know.
• 58:37
  I mean, that's not easy. You just mentioned that's not easy to
• 58:38
  do when you're not the starter. Yeah, no, it's not. Well,
• 58:42
  no, here's the deal. The fact that they listened to you says
• 58:44
  even more than you going in there to do it because because we talked about
• 58:47
  this last night, like, no one knows more than the players in the
• 58:52
  locker room who the pretenders are and who the real guys are. And so
• 58:57
  if a pretender gets up there and tries to say something, you know what
• 59:00
  that is, that is like it out of here. Yeah, no one
• 59:02
  really listens now. Yeah. Yeah, my teammates, I love them to
• 59:07
  death. They've seen everything I've battled through, and I've seen everything they battled
• 59:10
  through. And you know, when I got in front of the team,
• 59:14
  you know, a lot of them would tell me, like, you know,
• 59:15
  Quay, you got to do that every game. You know, you
• 59:17
  got me fired up. So and I really liked that it showed I was
• 59:22
  affecting the game. Still, you know, my passion for the game is
• 59:24
  always there, and as I am right now, I'm sure I won't be
• 59:29
  August thirty first if you see me pregames, So enjoy this nice amount.
• 59:32
  We'll put the delay on. Yeah. A big part of what you've done
• 59:37
  here has been the Chambers Elite program, And for those that don't know,
• 59:43
  when Neil got here, he instituted created something called the fifth Quarter, which
• 59:46
  is in short, it's a development program for student athletes after they're done playing,
• 59:53
  in other words, getting them ready to go into the real world of
• 59:57
  work. That's probably the easiest way you could defe and John Chambers has funded
• 1:00:04
  this program and it gives these young guys that are in it just tremendous opportunities
• 1:00:09
  for development, which can be as short as doing something in the building,
• 1:00:15
  but it could go to Pittsburgh and then, but it can even go overseas,
• 1:00:19
  of which they've you guys have gone overseas. You've gone overseas absolutely,
• 1:00:23
  and I know that's been a big part for you and you guys that if
• 1:00:30
  you would kind of share with me what you think, what have you taken
• 1:00:32
  from that? Yeah, first off, a little recruiting pitch here. No
• 1:00:37
  other school in the whole country can offer this type of you know, situation,
• 1:00:43
  Like even the biggest names you can speak of the opportunities that you have
• 1:00:49
  from this program. Man, it's you know, like you mentioned life after
• 1:00:52
  football. I kind of had to talk in front of the team the other
• 1:00:55
  day about this, but I kind of mentioned like if you're even projected first
• 1:01:00
  round or you know, this is your last year, it's beneficial for everyone
• 1:01:05
  to get in his program because it's taught me so much about kind of what
• 1:01:10
  we were talking about pregame. It's about who you know and and it's about
• 1:01:16
  how what you can take from them, you know, and like us going
• 1:01:21
  to New York and Europe and seeing how businesses run and just kind of how
• 1:01:27
  people at a high level handle themselves. It's priceless, you know, it's
• 1:01:32
  priceless. Yeah. Sure, you got to go see our buddy Dave over
• 1:01:37
  at ug My Guy and he gave you a pair of eighteen ugs. He
• 1:01:39
  did. He gave me a size of hard eight time. Think about that
• 1:01:44
  number one you're talking and then number two you're talking size eighteen, and he
• 1:01:46
  had a pair for you. He had him on the spot too. I
• 1:01:50
  was like, Wow, you did your research. Does he have anything in
• 1:01:52
  his office that's just three guys on it? Probably should shouldn't he brown should?
• 1:01:59
  Well we'll work out. I don't know. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:02:00
  I'm sure I didn't see the whole office. I'll give it. I'll give
• 1:02:02
  him, Yeah, I'll give him some breathing room, a sweeter probably as
• 1:02:06
  a suite of officers. I would think, Yeah, there's a coffee in
• 1:02:08
  there. Probably NCAA tournament. You're following it. I am, I am.
• 1:02:14
  And you know what's so funny? Nick Malone can he can vouch for
• 1:02:21
  this? I had NC State winning the whole thing from the jump. Excuse
• 1:02:24
  me, you heard me? Just stop? You heard me? What I
• 1:02:29
  swear? To goodness? Why you know I really don't well, I do
• 1:02:34
  no. So Casey number twelve, their point guard. He was at Virginia
• 1:02:38
  with me my freshman year, and he was one of the best players in
• 1:02:43
  the country at the time. And we'll come out of high school and his
• 1:02:47
  freshman year, you know, he didn't have a tremendous freshman year. He
• 1:02:51
  was putting up a bunch of shots and and people, you know what Geno
• 1:02:54
  Smith say, they wrote him off and he did not right back, he
• 1:02:58
  did not. And then and I see DJ Burns. We mentioned basketball.
• 1:03:02
  I was DJ Burns before DJ Burns. Like, I couldn't jump, I
• 1:03:07
  just had good feet. I had good court vision because they would double team
• 1:03:10
  me and I would be able to pass pass out of the double. I
• 1:03:14
  was DJ Burns before DJ Burns. Now, he's way better than me.
• 1:03:16
  But I'm just saying, and so I put those two and two together.
• 1:03:22
  I say, okay, before the a SEC Championship, they were on like
• 1:03:24
  a three game losing skid. They're hot at the right time. Come on,
• 1:03:30
  man, seriously, dude, Yeah, okay, so our for our
• 1:03:35
  producer Austin clip that right there. Get that out immediately before NC State loses.
• 1:03:40
  This weekend just made me look smart. Well just I mean, heck,
• 1:03:44
  the fact that you had fact BA got the final four, you get
• 1:03:45
  a ton of pub off indible rush people going to come to you and ask
• 1:03:49
  for predictions. She gave a great breakdown right there. Yeah, valid reasons.
• 1:03:52
  And like DJ Burns and like no one plays like him in the country,
• 1:03:55
  you know, like he says that he slows down the tempo. Everyone
• 1:03:59
  wants to play fast ball. He's he's back to the basket still, he's
• 1:04:01
  old school. You need to keep working though, because you see that people
• 1:04:04
  are trying to put him in the NFL already get him in a camp like
• 1:04:06
  get you right, So you gotta keep going. Yeah, hein't ready for
• 1:04:09
  what you got that right? I mean people think of it respect to him,
• 1:04:13
  of course, yeah, people think of it in the line. You
• 1:04:14
  usually got to be big. I'm like, listen, man, all to
• 1:04:16
  respect acts Jimmy Bell, right, they played for us last year. He
• 1:04:20
  told me, he was like, man, this is way harder and meets
• 1:04:23
  the eye. I'm telling you, Jimmy, Yeah it was, it is
• 1:04:27
  Jimmy. Yeah, Jimmy had a pretty good year. He had a great
• 1:04:30
  year. He had a good year. I also just saw he's gonna try
• 1:04:32
  football Mississippi State to spread Did you see that? Is he? Yeah?
• 1:04:36
  Yeah, I didn't see that. He got a spring under his belt.
• 1:04:39
  Now, yeah, that'll help him, Yeah for sure. Yeah, you
• 1:04:43
  guys, this COVID and these injuries and stuff. You guys are twenty seven
• 1:04:45
  years old. Yeah, I know right, hold you twenty three right,
• 1:04:50
  go ahead, I'll train the order on the team. Are you the oldest
• 1:04:54
  guy on the team. I think I think I'm the oldest of like the
• 1:04:57
  second third. I'm up there. Man, it gets there. I mean,
• 1:05:01
  it happens quick. It happens quick. So you're gonna you're gonna stay
• 1:05:05
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• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:12
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  But if you're a West Virginia and you want you want the state, there
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  at pops. Are we selling that we might work in efforting effort? First
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  time ever? I may have jumped ahead here a little bit, all right,
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  by the way. Yeah, so we received this box out of nowhere,
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  and this came to us from the folks at hal Groves from Vero Beach,
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  Florida. And it's the name of the business is Hall Groves h A.
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  Hand picks fresh from the grove. Since nineteen forty and seven, I
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  tell you what, I haven't seen a more beautiful orange. I mean,
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  I hope our cameras do that. Justice quays like that. The orange just
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  orange that you've ever seen. That's a perfect color, that is like so
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  orange. Just this almost looks fake. I can't wait. I mean there's
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  a buck in there. Yeah, we got sick. Got to have that
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  looking. Yeah. So how big is that in your hand? Yeah?
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  It looks like a tangerine anyway, special thanks to the folks at Hall Grows.
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  We had them in the fridge preserving because there said fruit doesn't have long
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  shelf life. We're trying to preserve it's don't teach right and draw it out.
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  I've lost money. Yeah, Underted, you ready to do this?
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  Uh mount Your baseball team is going to play Marshall in Huntington on April to
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  tenth. And this listener sent us this and said, my wife and I
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  are driving to Huntington and I've prepared myself ready to go. Thanks for having
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  his T shirt. You can get it. Episode eight hundred dot com last
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  episode, some guys said that he got butt chapped over the way that the
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  I think it was the Iowa was the Iowa West Virginia officiating. Well,
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  Texter comes in, says, Brad's butt Cream. Since we can't use preparation,
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  he says, he wants the name of the stuff that we're going to
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  sell. An episode a hundred, Brad's butt Cream, he says, since
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  we can't use preparation h for Hoppy, perhaps TC's tush TELC would be better.
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  But better yet as Brad's butt Cream. With BBC, you could do
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  it in a three ounce size for TSA approval, carry it in your pocketing
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  what's happening right now for your game, use it at half and still have
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  some left for postgame. As you navigate Patterson Drive onto the Star City Bridge.
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  All the best Mike and Merle beach. Here comes another one. As
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  you know, I'm all about collaborations that we're not doing that. Here's another
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  one. We're not doing that. One suggestion boodro butt paste. This was
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  a lifesaver last year at the beach. There's no way I'm attaching my name
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  to this text, Soldier on. This is this going to be the whole
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  text thing here? Well, there's one more. This ISAs we get the
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  point here, this is one more. This was from the gentleman who actually
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  started the text that said he was butt chapped. You didn't ask me.
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  You didn't ask me. But if you need a name for your anti ass
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  chap cream, I think Jamie Lucky's foggy bottom sav would be the perfectness.
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  Can we get to the next that's reeling you get when you flew to Lawrence
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  and you got a host. Well, Grandpa used to call that get in
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  the old foggy bottom. It also sounds like a small unincorporated community over in
• 1:09:51
  Tucker County. There's no way you're reading this on your stupid podcast. I
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  love the show. Pete from Pennsburg should have known. Give it to you.
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  You're gonna read it. Yeah, Anyway, Texter Mike Toddler likes to
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  play stickers on my face. I guess it brings her joy. Anyway,
• 1:10:06
  I was flipping through some photos and noticed that in one of them I kind
• 1:10:11
  of looked like the senator's long lost cousin. They come, that's Jeremiah in
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  Stonewood, Texter. Three guys long text alert. I'm thinking I've been alive
• 1:10:24
  since nineteen eighty. West Virginia's had five football coaches in that time, five
• 1:10:29
  men's basketball coaches and coach Eiler counting coach Eilert for a total of ten coaches
• 1:10:33
  during that whole time period. That's forty three years. How many other schools
• 1:10:38
  can claim that? In the conference? Kansas has had fifteen k State fourteen,
• 1:10:43
  Oaks State twelve, Oklahoma twelve, Iowa State, fifteen, Texas fourteen,
• 1:10:46
  Texas Tech, eighteen different coaches, TCU thirteen, Baylor fifteen, Houston
• 1:10:51
  twenty one coaches BYU eleven, U CF fourteen. I counted UCF since they
• 1:10:58
  moved up in ninety six. Finally, let's take a look at Pitt since
• 1:11:00
  we played them the most during that time. They've had seventeen coaches in West
• 1:11:04
  Virginia said ten. Thank you Justin and Augusta, Georgia. Texter, why
• 1:11:11
  is there so much dead time during men's college basketball games compared to women.
• 1:11:15
  If there's a file turnover or any other stoppage and play, the women seem
• 1:11:19
  to get back to action much faster than the men. I'm not talking about
• 1:11:23
  TV timeouts. Well, it's because they play in the quarter system. I
• 1:11:26
  do like the quarter system. I have to say, it does move it.
• 1:11:29
  Yeah, so you're not going to the foul line as much. Yeah,
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  that's why, Texter. I vehemently disagree Shack with the senator's critique of
• 1:11:42
  your coach Hunter characterization. I find it humorous and a very similar to coach.
• 1:11:46
  Also, I hate to engage in Listener on listener crime, but the
• 1:11:50
  constant reminder by Steven at the Waterfront Marriott of his breakfast mate Sean McDonough reeks
• 1:11:56
  of name dropping and is getting old. Stop at Steven, go downstairs at
• 1:12:00
  the bar, find your former hotel made Dana, and enjoy refreshing beverage.
• 1:12:04
  In all seriousness, very happy with the current direction of WV Sports. I
• 1:12:09
  look forward to bigger and better things for our world champion Mountaineers, Glenn from
• 1:12:14
  Glenn Ferris. I don't think that's his real name, probably not now to
• 1:12:17
  get Steven's back from me. I think he drops that as a reference point
• 1:12:20
  so we know that it's him certainly aware who it is. You wouldn't if
• 1:12:26
  he didn't say that, Steven, and your coach Hunter impersonation is by far
• 1:12:30
  your coach, don't you guy that sits in the front during interviews? You
• 1:12:33
  know, Greg, he always gets to get the first question. Yeah,
• 1:12:35
  you know in the left, Yes, yeah, yeah, exactly, ain't
• 1:12:41
  you quait? Just want to know? Look, just say, you guys
• 1:12:43
  are really steal blocking pretty good. That's not even remotely close to hous right
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  spot on ind it, it's not even close to Quai. Go ahead,
• 1:12:50
  he doesn't know what he's talking about. Your quite defensive line seemed to be
• 1:12:53
  played pretty well. How'd you think you guys did against It's pretty good.
• 1:12:56
  That was pretty light on the voice, Thank you? Yeah, all right,
• 1:12:59
  just let it go. Isaiah and Tampa, Florida longtime listener. I
• 1:13:02
  spent my Easter weekend with my girlfriend's family in Canton, Texas. Saturday,
• 1:13:08
  we traveled to the Trade Day's flea market after walking around, we stumbled upon
• 1:13:13
  a place named Daddy Oh's and we stood shocked seeing pepperoni rolls on the menu.
• 1:13:19
  We had to get one. It was absolutely delicious, but a different
• 1:13:23
  style. It made me miss home. Look at that peppertti. That does
• 1:13:26
  not look that's a pepperoni. It's like a breadstick. Yeah, it looks
• 1:13:30
  like Italian dunker or something. It does not look good at all. I
• 1:13:34
  mean, look towards the look toward the three quarterway on that thing where it's
• 1:13:39
  got that bend in it. I mean it's bread and pepperoni and cheese.
• 1:13:41
  I mean, no matter how little dipping ranch too. What's your favorite dressing?
• 1:13:49
  Depends? What depends? Well, if you had a salad, a
• 1:13:54
  salad French, really French, that's a non traditional pick. I think that's
• 1:13:59
  an under that's an underrated French. You don't hear many Frenches. They don't
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  stacked at a training table, do they They have French? Yeah they do.
• 1:14:05
  We got we got a lot. If you're dipping you ranch ranch,
• 1:14:10
  I say, it's like it's wings. It's only ranch, but French French
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  dressing. French dressing. Guy, you eat eggs, I eggs, that's
• 1:14:19
  so funny you asked that. So I've changed my I changed my diet this
• 1:14:24
  off season, trying to put on a more muscle, more protein. So
• 1:14:27
  I eat like four eggs before I go to bed. That's what I wanted.
• 1:14:29
  I wanted to number putting pepper on that or just go straight pepper and
• 1:14:35
  I dip them in ketchup. So like, excuse me, I'm sorry what
• 1:14:39
  you heard it here? First? The hard boiled egg with pepper in ketchup,
• 1:14:43
  Yes, sir, four of them. Like eate them like chips,
• 1:14:47
  easy, like chips. Well, I mean I was scrambling them, but
• 1:14:53
  it just takes so much time. I got an air fryer. Now,
• 1:14:56
  I put them in there, put them in some cool water, peel them
• 1:14:59
  pepper. The peeling process work. They come right off. That's a pain
• 1:15:02
  sometimes, Yeah, sometimes sometimes they give me a little bit of a hassle.
• 1:15:05
  Yeah, you gotta shock it with more cold water. Is that what
• 1:15:09
  it is? You got ice? Put ice in the water and they'll release
• 1:15:12
  that member and you'll be able to pop them right off. Yeah. Sometimes
• 1:15:15
  put them in a cup. Shake the cup with some water in there,
• 1:15:19
  shake it up, pull them off. It usually just pops right off,
• 1:15:21
  really, Yeah. See this is actually very beneficial to me. I probably
• 1:15:25
  spent a few minutes peeling eggs in the night. So when just as like
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  take that's the worst you lose egg water shaking a cup, just a little
• 1:15:34
  bit of water, shake it you like you think you're eating four eggs.
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  By the time you're done, you got three and a quarter. Yeah,
• 1:15:41
  because half of it's piled off lostgage with the shell mm hm. Three guys.
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  Television is just not enough sometimes. Attached is a picture of my basement.
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  When we bought this house. My wife wanted me to remove the built
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  in so I could put one big TV up and said, I got a
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  better idea. Multiple TVs come Saturdays in the fall or Thursday Friday March Madness,
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  Robin Jersey, good job, Broth. It's okay, multa screen setup.
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  I just realize you guys are famous that you got people sending pictures of
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  their TVs that back you up, like that's that's not everyday thing. You
• 1:17:09
  don't just get that. Also hammers a lot here. We got some criticism
• 1:17:15
  coming here. That's fair. They also hammers. I'm on the football team.
• 1:17:19
  I hear, I hear yeah, I hear. I hear it too.
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  Brothers, we're good. I get your brother. You stay off of
• 1:17:30
  social during the season at all. Oh, I let them motivate me.
• 1:17:33
  I'll tell you what after after a loss, I go read all the negative
• 1:17:38
  comments. Really, I'm that guy. I screenshot some too. Yeah,
• 1:17:42
  fusure reference guys, you know that you want to fire me up half of
• 1:17:45
  the game, say something. I always like that. People talk all that
• 1:17:48
  trash and they ever stood next to you, they get all their their knees
• 1:17:51
  start to make and they get all shaky, and there but the cowboy lot
• 1:17:57
  of cowboy keyboard operators out there. They would never they would he aks for
• 1:18:00
  an autograph, for a picture exactly. Yeah. Hey three guys. Paul
• 1:18:03
  from Tampa follow up text. I'm watching Yukon destroy Illinois and all I can
• 1:18:09
  think about is Brad to cry and how he didn't get any credit for being
• 1:18:12
  high on Yukon when he missed on by you offered, let's give credit where
• 1:18:15
  it's due. Brad hit that Neil nail on the head. I'm shocked,
• 1:18:18
  thank you. How they're handling Illinois after how much they pulled one out over
• 1:18:23
  Iowa State. I guess that's why they call it March madness. Hey three
• 1:18:29
  guys, Isaac in Ohio, one of your homeboys. Just a random thought
• 1:18:34
  listening to episode five four three, Tony needs to adjust as one liners for
• 1:18:39
  inflation, using the phrase I'd bet a dollar to a donut. No longer
• 1:18:43
  has the same meeting doesn't have a donut connoisseur, I can tell you that
• 1:18:46
  trading a dollar for a donut right now would be quite as steal. I
• 1:18:53
  love the show and the new cream that's coming out to episode eight hundred,
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  say what you did? I'm not going to say what you said. It
• 1:18:59
  should be called I'm We're not doing the cream this time next year? Which
• 1:19:02
  number is bigger West Virginia basketball victories or West Virginia football team's highest ranking good?
• 1:19:12
  For example, Devrez wins eighteen and Neil gets West Virginia's highest seventeen.
• 1:19:16
  Of the polls, d Rock would have the higher number. Keep up the
• 1:19:20
  good work signed by the Beard. I don't know Juquaz here I think will
• 1:19:27
  be number one. I'm pretty biased Texter, being a Charleston alum, I've
• 1:19:32
  been very interested observer these past few weeks with these searches. Compared to Louisville's
• 1:19:38
  ad finally getting Kelsey on his fifth choice, Ren made out with Derez watching
• 1:19:44
  the intro video. Everything was so meticulous, even the Golden Blue file at
• 1:19:46
  Flowers in the club at the post presser meet and greet. Looking on the
• 1:19:50
  WVU photos site to see the events photos, I found it funny that literally
• 1:19:56
  ten pages of photos on there are Brad's first meeting with coach Devrees. Brad
• 1:20:01
  has been a hot popular guy lately, covering all the bases signed by Joe
• 1:20:04
  in South Carolina. I don't think that's true. That's that's definitely unconfirmed.
• 1:20:10
  Be an exaggeration. Steven Tennessee. With the portal in full swing, I'm
• 1:20:15
  interested in the three guys setting the over under how many men's players on basketball
• 1:20:21
  return next season. I'm guessing the over under is one and a half.
• 1:20:26
  And the more I learned about the new coach, I think the real number
• 1:20:29
  is probably zero. Steven Tennessee over under one and a half. What a
• 1:20:36
  number he's set there. I think it's super close. I'm gonna say over
• 1:20:41
  though, you think too. I'm gonna go over three. Hey, the
• 1:20:47
  guy that picked NC State says three. Go with him. That's amazing,
• 1:20:53
  that's amazing. Too bad, I can't bet with dog gone right, don't
• 1:20:58
  know, I don't know, no, no, and no. Too bad?
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  YEA give me a few years the Senator. He wrote scopes and senator.
• 1:21:09
  He knew Hoppy wasn't going to be here, He didn't know Jaque was
• 1:21:12
  going to be here. Very impressed with coach Davrez's early knowledge of Mountaineer basketball
• 1:21:16
  based on the reporting last June when Huggs resigned, read didn't some Red didn't
• 1:21:20
  take some time to do some form of search before naming Eiler coach. Is
• 1:21:25
  it known if Davirees was part of that search in June? Could that initial
• 1:21:29
  search in June have given Davies a little insight via agents discussions, mutual contacts,
• 1:21:33
  or direct conversations with Wren that he would likely be on West Virginia's list
• 1:21:39
  after the season, thus giving him time to do homework on WVU developed a
• 1:21:43
  desire to pursue this job. Doug in Winfield. I wrote specifically back to
• 1:21:47
  Doug on this, and I think what could be said is conversations among athletic
• 1:21:56
  directors and agents are NonStop. So short answer is yes and no. Did
• 1:22:01
  he ever specifically speak with Darren Devrees before that? I don't think so,
• 1:22:06
  to be quite honest with you, but could there be conversations on a wide
• 1:22:11
  expanse with others to say, hey, you know tertiary conversations with others.
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  Yeah, very much. So. Hey, three guys, longtime listener,
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  first time I'm texting. Camping last fall near Spruce Nob you ever go there?
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  Never tallest part of West Virginia, highest peak, never been there.
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  Yeah, you need to get you over there, he said. I was
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  inspired while I was there to write several country music songs. After completing the
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  three songs, I was looking to you knuckleheads and inspiration struck again a three
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  guys intro, complete with hoppy being reached at three longs and two shorts.
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  Even my wife says it's catchy. Now I'm looking for a guitarist, bassist,
• 1:22:54
  and drummer. Let's make some music for our favorite sports podcast. Thanks
• 1:22:59
  for all all you do for US fans. Signed by Greg and Westover.
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  So, if you'd like to provide either guitar, bass or drum so that
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  Greg can record these songs, just send the text and say I'm a guitarist,
• 1:23:15
  I'm a bassist, I'm a drummer, and I'll send you no heck
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  with it. I'm just going to make give myself more work, aren't I.
• 1:23:24
  He gave me his email, Should I give the email? Well?
• 1:23:28
  Just write means Okay, here's the last one. Texter says, I disagree
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  ESPN has too much power, and if Iowa loses in women's basketball, this
• 1:23:42
  is the viewing audience drops tremendously. Thirty shots from the line in West Virginia
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  had five Our women were robbed and playing sight by those who were already wearing
• 1:23:54
  stripes. See what he did there, stripes, you go to jail,
• 1:23:59
  you gotta wear stripe. So he said they were already wearing stripes. They
• 1:24:00
  were criminals. That's what you was saying. No team in the first rounds
• 1:24:05
  defended Caitlin better than the world champion mountaineers. No argument there at the end
• 1:24:13
  there I agree. We're just talking about that they did guard them. Yeah.
• 1:24:18
  So you like dressing and fancy clothes, Oh yeah, I love the
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  dress side well special thanks to Phil Yeah right over Daniels new sport cuts.
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  us today. So thanks to Daniel's Men's Store located on University Avenue in Morgantown.
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  It's your one stop shop for everything mountaineers and custom mountaineer gear that no
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  one else sells. You have some unique stuff over there on the mountaineer side.
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  Walkants off on the right hand side. Yeah, you want the new
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  sport coach. You got to go through the door there back on the left
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  hand side. Boom, take care of your regular Well, no, he
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  works there. He folds, put a shift in every once week. He
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  folds, folds clothes, dress the mannequins. Whatever it takes. Team guy
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  absolutely here to help you that. I hope you've enjoyed this awesome, enjoyed
• 1:25:16
  it was as good as you hoped. It was even better. So yeah,
• 1:25:21
  so who do we need to get next? We've had six in,
• 1:25:24
  We've had sixty six in. So now who is there any double numbers on
• 1:25:27
  defense? Who do we gotta go get? Man? Figure out we should
• 1:25:30
  go defense? Shouldn't we been heavy offense? Who do you think the best
• 1:25:33
  person on defense to speak to would be? Who's running? And I don't
• 1:25:38
  want no cornerback yet, I don't need those guys around. You don't have
• 1:25:43
  to attack the cornerback, don't you agree? All they do is yap.
• 1:25:46
  They're very skinny. I would just say that, I mean, don't they
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  just just go knock the ball down, Just go play. That's part of
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  it. That's what you're looking for. I understand what well. They don't
• 1:25:59
  need to bring it up all the time. Just go play. Yeah,
• 1:26:01
  I had to give you a guy to interview defense defense. You could.
• 1:26:11
  You could probably get a lot of a lot of unfamiliar insight with Eddie V.
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  I was just gonna think that's where you're gonna go. Eddie V would
• 1:26:18
  probably give you. I was in the Finnish Army. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:26:21
  And yeah, Eddie he's one of the most unique people I've ever met.
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  That would be our first guest inn Army. Yes, that's true. You
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  could say that. All right, we'll we'll effort that. Yeah, three
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• 1:27:00
  the studio. Also this weekend, if you're going to Fantasy Camp, Brad
• 1:27:03
  will be front end center going through the drills and doing the thing. I
• 1:27:09
  hope you don't get her drills. I just hope you're planning on stopping in
• 1:27:11
  checking it out. I can't be blowing a hammy or anything. I just
• 1:27:14
  like, seriously, don't come in here on crutches on. Whenever we tape
• 1:27:16
  next week, possible they jump in that punt passing kick competition, it's going
• 1:27:19
  to be hard to not jump in. Just quiet, would you pull a
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  hammy? That's a big problem. All right, Just make sure you're hydrated
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  your stretch. You'll be fine. We're out, see you