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3 Guys Before The Game - BYU Preview with a visit from Charles Wesley Godwin (Episode 501) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  there? Right, that's a good question. I don't know the answer to
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  Okay, so we now cut to the shot of the studio what we
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  call the three shot. Oh through those that are watching a gaping hole in
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  the middle. You see some of those on Saturday. I was gonna say,
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  C J. Donson could run through that. It wouldn't need that much,
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  spake Garrett Green on a cornerback draw. So we've already established that Hoppy's
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  not here. At the end of the last program, he said he had
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  something else he had to go Down't know what he's doing that more important.
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  Yeah, I think he took his trading post radio station on location, selling
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  a couple of bald tires and a used fishing rod. Somewhere, but anyway,
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  he's not here today. However, we do have a special guest,
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  which led to a lot of speculation on social media platforms as to who it
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  would be, a lot of speculation, and someone when they teased at our
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  three guys social media team made the mention of fourteen. Right, they made
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  mention of fourteen. It's a good hint. It was a really great attention.
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  That was it. You got it, and there were people that got
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  it, and you're gonna get it in just a little bit. We're gonna
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  be joined in studio in just a while by West Virginia's own Charles Wesley Godwin,
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  who is hotter, who is hotter than a sweatband and a firefighters helmet
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  in the music world, and his song Q Country Roads, which if you're
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  watching this or listening to this, you probably already have heard. That's him.
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  He was the guy that gave an impassioned speech to the Mountaineer football team
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  during practice in August about being picked fourteenth in the league. He let him
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  have it. Now, the version that you see on social a little bit
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  different than the version in live, but he delivered the That was a good
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  speech for somebody doesn't do that every day, And I like, coach stand
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  in front of the team that was really now on stage, he's get rattled
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  there, I get. I get that he's a performer, gets on stage.
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  That's a good speech because it came from the heart. Yeah he didn't,
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  he he didn't really, he just like he got his thing going a
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  former football player over here at the high school. Well, sure, and
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  he'll tell us a little bit later. I'm on. He uh made his
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  attempt to walk onto the mountain near football team on a couple of occasions.
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  We'll get that story as well. Can't wait? What did Apple Music?
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  And Apple Music just named him? What? Yeah, performer of the month?
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  Nice nice award music. He probably heard of him. Yeah, yeahone
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  else would be good. His music coming out of that pontoon on the lake
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  on a nice summer today, that I'd be very strong because that has a
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  big entertainment system on that pontoon. Now he's really good speakers. Yeah yeah.
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  Now he's going to be busy next summer when your main will be a
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  little busy, and he's going to be opening up for for Luke Combs in
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  the Stadium tour next summer. So maybe on an all off day on a
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  Monday or something like that. We get them over there, not Cheat Lake
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  or something like that, or Stonewalls. He's familiar cheat Lake. I'm sure
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  you were raised right around. Yeah. Sure, all right, So let's
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  do this thing West Virginia and BYU on Saturday. Later on, when we
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  get the textual healing, we'll get into the schedule stuff. Because the schedule
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  came out. We'll talk a future year of football. Schedule came out.
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  Yeah, yeah, you know the opponents now, you know, I know
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  the opponents. You don't know the dates, but you know where you're going
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  a lot of traditional rivals excuse me, a lot of traditional rivals on that
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  names you'll recognize. No, no, a little weird, a lot of
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  weird. It was weird, a lot of weird. Yeah, we'll get
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  to it at some point. We'll get to, uh have the reunion matchup
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  of the cheese at Bowl when we go play Arizona State. That game,
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  by the way, just ended fifteen minutes ago and David Sills just caught the
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  pass. Yeah, we'll talk all about that, all right. So West
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  Virginia comes home. They snapped the two game skid last week at UCF in
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  large part because they didn't beat themselves, but they took advantage of the things
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  that teams do that do beat themselves, and in this case it was the
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  four turnovers by UCF, which West Virginia produced into twenty one points. And
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  West Virginia also played it cleanly in regard to penalties, the things that they
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  didn't do, and the loss to Houston and Oklahoma State. So now the
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  question becomes, can West Virginia cleanly play again Wednesday or Wednesday Saturday night when
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  they meet up with BYU Senator, we often ask this good matchup, bad
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  matchup? You never pull a punch, good or bad. I think a
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  good matchup. But also here's your grantest salt. I thought last week was
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  a bad matchup for West Virginia. So that didn't go exactly as planned.
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  The other ones. I felt pretty good about those the last previous six games
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  or so. I feel good about this from a West Virginia perspective. On
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  the x's and o's. When we get down into we'll get into some numbers
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  that I think we'll back that up a little bit. But you hit on
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  something there that's important every game, and you're right, we saw the ultimate
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  importance of it last week with the don't make mistakes, let the other team
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  make mistakes, then you take advantage of it. That was the whole story
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  of that game last week. Those four turnovers for UCF, as you mentioned,
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  turning into twenty one points. West Virginia had the turnover, but it
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  didn't hurt them in terms of points. That was the difference in the game
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  the week before against Oklahoma State. It was just the opposite. These two
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  teams are interesting from that standpoint that BYU is that they like to take it
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  away tons of interceptions. You're talking about a top ten turnover margin team in
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  the Cougars, and they don't commit a lot of penalties. So West Virginia
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  in the vein of don't commit a lot of turnovers generally don't commit a lot
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  of penalties. So is this a clean game? Does somebody make more mistakes
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  than the other? Watch that this game even more important than regular games?
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  I think? Okay, injury wise of significance, Doug Nester is out at
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  right tackle. You know, it just doesn't seem as though we're having a
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  ton of luck of getting the band, so to speak. The five offensive
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  linemen starting on a consistent basis. Right, you lose Remac, you lose
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  Wyatt Milem at the same time, and you suffer when that happens. And
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  now Doug Nestor in all likelihood Neil said earlier this week, but you know,
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  doubtful getting better. But doubtful doesn't sound like it doesn't sound like he's
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  gonna be ready to go. However, Nick Malone, who quickly is speeding
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  up the all time chart of walk On, who makes massive production, We'll
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  just go like, okay, that's fine. Last week, I a couple
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  weeks ago, I was playing tight end. Put the eighty eight on me.
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  I'll go over there and play tight end on the left side. When
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  we he went unbalanced, then I'll move inside the left tackle. For why
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  now, I'll just jump over to right tackle. He is the Swiss army
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  knife. And like Charles Godwin, he played over at the high school too.
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  He's to use an old baseball term, utility infielder. Yeah, you've
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  been able to plug Nick into every position. You know. It's unfortunate though
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  from the line perspective you mentioned, haven't been able to get eybody together.
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  Just twelve plays last week is all you got before Nest went out. Remember
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  Garrett was heard a couple games before that, So getting that line and Garrett
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  all healthy and rolling at the same time has been a challenge. You're right
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  if you have to lose one of those those four or five starting offensive lineman
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  that you trust so much. Nick Malone's got a lot of snaps under him.
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  So the other part, getting those first team reps all week this week,
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  that should help as well. So you plug him at right tackle and
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  away you go. Okay, aside here life lesson for us, all right,
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  if your initial plans for something, this doesn't have to be sports related,
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  but if your initial plans for something become discombobulated, just keep pushing along.
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  That's Nick Malone's story. Offered a scholarship by Pitt coming out of high
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  school and then they pulled it, and he could have said, oh woe
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  is me? Didn't said fine, I'll take the walk on at West Virginia.
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  He comes in, works at an incredible rate, makes himself better all
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  the way around. And now look what he's doing. He's enjoying great success.
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  He's playing big boy football and playing a role in winning these football games.
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  So there's your life lesson. When your stuff doesn't go as planned,
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  put your face into the fan and keep on moving. Have trusting yourself,
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  and good things will happen. That's the story of the West Virginia program,
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  isn't it. Through the year. I mean, add Nick to the list
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  of guys that we could go for an hour talking about that did just that.
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  Sure. I mean the guy that they're going to have the statue on
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  it'll be Rich Braydon, Right. He was the one that just like came
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  in and all of a sudden he plays a decade in the NFL, among
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  others. But that's been the essence of this football program you mentioned a second
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  ago, Garrett Green. So this is kind of starting to get a little
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  bit fun. Through the years, we watch quarterbacks get their opportunity and we
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  watch them evolve, we watch them develop, and normally in that process,
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  it starts slowly. Regardless of who you are, I e. Go back
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  and take a look at Major Harris's first couple of starts had a couple like
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  woo. But then you start to see it percolate. Right old school starts
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  to percolate kind of like a teapot, you know, just before it starts
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  to whistle, you know it'll emits some steam, but can't get into the
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  full It's not going yet. It just just before. Well you see that
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  with quarterbacks too, You just watch them do this and then this, and
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  then this and then this. I think we're starting to see that with Garrett
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  Green. He's starting to go like I got it and now I'm bawling.
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  Per usual, we do not discuss the content of this program before the show
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  begins. Correct, I've got a little section on Garrett coming up and spreads
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  on stats. It's you're one hundred percent right, and we've got to keep
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  talking about this because the year that he is producing so far through almost two
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  thirds of the season is his outstanding and I don't mean just outstanding in terms
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  of what the expectations were from external folks. This summer us included. I'm
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  talking about like all conference honor type season for him. So we'll get into
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  some of those numbers that back that up. But he's he's been the driver
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  of this offensive football team so far, along with the offensive line, and
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  he's allowed he has kept you around and able to produce. As now.
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  The receivers are starting to grow up a little bit, the running backs are
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  starting to come along. That room is starting to show the depth that we
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  thought it may have this summer. And so again that the stallwarts along the
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  offensive line and Garrett Green have been just flat out out standing this year.
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  Okay since the last time we got together here on jumping on to the other
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  side of the ball. Now, how about Shannon Bishop Defensive player of the
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  Week this week in the Big twelve comp diference? What excuse me? Shannon
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  Bishop goes by the name Beanie, and Beanie given name is Shannon Beanie Bishop.
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  Now think about this one, folks. You're in the portal this off
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  season and you're looking for a guy and they identify Beanie Bishop. He's playing
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  at Minnesota, not playing as much as he wants. They kind of had
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  him, as Neil said earlier this week, they were playing him a little
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  bit inside. He wasn't out. The streaker wanted a different look, right.
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  Has played a lot of football, a ton of football, like we're
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  heading towards sixty games worth of football, so a ton. But he comes
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  out here and he gets opportunity. And that's the hardest position I think to
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  play on the field because you're man against man and you're isolated and he's the
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  defensive player of the Week in the Big Twelve after he grabs a couple of
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  interceptions and now he's among the nation's leaders in that category. Also with past
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  breakups. So like when we sit here a lot of times and talk about
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  recruiting, sometimes for whatever reason we kind of shrug our shoulders and don't give
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  full credit to a transfer portal addition that pays dividends. But this guy needs
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  to be circled and go like that was a hell of a pickup for an
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  acquisition. For an acquisition, You're exactly right, and he falls into the
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  line of We had conversations on this show this summer about this was some of
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  these guys that were coming in that you were plugging into the starting lineup.
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  Were they going to be hits? Where they going to look like alonzo Ade
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  or Charles wood Woods, recent vintage transfer guys that have come in and said,
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  Okay, you know what I can play. I'm going to be an
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  all conference type of guy. Beanie Bishops right there. You mentioned his four
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  interceptions on the season. That's as many as West Virginia had all of last
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  year as a team. So very good. You want to you want to
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  quick early spreads on stats. Teaser about Beanie Bishop. Yeah, sure,
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  here's something to watch. Watch him on first down, huh, watch him
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  on first down. Three of his four interceptions this season have come on first
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  down, and he dropped one on first down, So we could have four
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  interceptions on first down specifically, and eye on that this weekend. So that's
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  his thing. That's a good that's a good stat. That's a good stat.
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  Little teaser. Yeah, Okay, So health wise, Hudson Clement,
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  I mentioned Nestor out Hudson Clement. Maybe maybe not. I would think it
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  sounds definite for next week, but it'll be a it'll be a game time
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  or for Hudson Clement. These other young guys are coming along. Traylon Ray
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  is good to go. He was a question mark. He's good to go.
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  About the Rodney Gallagher effect, I was just gonna say, can Rodney
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  Gallagher get more involved in the passing game this week? Mixed him in again
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  last week and you can see it's there. You can see that when when
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  he gets some more reps underneath him, he's gonna be able to pop and
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  make some plays that make you go wow. Starting to come. Can you
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  get in the ball through the air a little bit more. They've been mixing
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  it in on the run, throw it a little bit more. I think
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  A. J. Horton's been coming along too. He's starting to be a
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  pretty reliable receiving threat. Then, of course, Stedman Fox when he goes
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  into his receiving role has been very good as well. Stedman Fox when he's
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  in the receiving role, dual nickname guy Oh, Preston Preston well performing.
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  I thought it was pac Man Fox when he returns punts, he's pac Man
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  Fox. When he goes to the receiver because pac Man only played receiver for
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  a few plays. When he goes to receiver and makes those catches, like
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  when he's on his back when he went up on the one against Houston,
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  he turns into Steedman Fox, who, of course should have won the Bullet
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  Nakoff Award. One of the all time great screw jobs in college sports,
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  right up there with Kevin Jones not winning Biggiest Player of the Year right there.
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  Yeah, it was right, and Gino Smith gets screwed out of Offensive
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  Player of the Year too, the Biggiest Yeah, yeah, that was when
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  we were leaving the league. Yeah, they weren't going to give it to
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  flat out Husdin. Whatever happened to Geno did all right selling insurance or something.
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  Maybe he probably did not thinking a whole lot about that award right now,
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  right alright? Probably not. Okay, we uncovered another stat about the
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  by US that was interesting, but then it got diluted, it did,
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  thank goodness. So I gave that step by the way to Neil. He
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  went, did you give him the nickname, the brand, the brand that
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  that's going by? No? I didn't. What did What did the head
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  coach say when the game? That stat? Was that right? I said,
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  yeah, it's right. He goes, like, I'm writing that one
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  down. He goes, I got to get that to the team. They're
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  eight no in their last eight November games. Oh, is that's what you're
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  talking It was which one you're talking about? Night time? The Vampire Vampire
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  Cougars. Okay, go ahead, give it to me. Yeah. So
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  the Vampire Cougars are such named because they are twenty and one over their last
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  twenty one night games, twenty and one for the BYU Vampire Cougars, which
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  I didn't love that stat when I first heard it. Obviously, games at
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  seven o'clock Eastern time, so then five o'clock mount So then we talked to
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  their announcer, talk to their player. Rub the bulk of those have come
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  at home. It's like seventeen and one over their last eighteen night home games,
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  so kind of takes that down just a little bit. Yeah, my
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  stat was there, they've won their last eight straight games in the month of
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  November. And when we were talking to Greg, you went, yeah,
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  but we were independent, so you were playing your power fives early in the
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  season before they went into their league schedule, and then we were left to
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  play the teams that were of lesser power five value in the month of November.
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  So that's a little deceiving. Yeah, so two stats that maybe are
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  yeah, water down just a little bit. Yeah, just a hair there.
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  All right, you're ready to do your thing. Yeah, let's get
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  you sure. Yeah, now you're sitting over, we're hopping normally, says
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  does that rule out you bring in the glasses or do you still have the
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  glass glasses already? Stats are ready, glasses Ready, let's do those numbers.
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  I'll just go right to the numbers here. Let's jump into the analytics
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  All right, boom, we played all the way to the end of
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  the music. Senator, do you have numbers that are going to make us
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  go like I think I do. I think I do. So let's die.
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  Let we're going to dive right in and we're going to go back to
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  our old trustee number one defensive key, havoc rate. I haven't used havocrate
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  much this year. Guy came up to me last week in Orlando, missus
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  havoc rate. He goes to me and goes like, hey, love the
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  podcast. He goes, you know, Brad has not been bringing out havoc
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  rate much this year, said, I'll look into it. I don't know
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  exactly why why I haven't. Well, he's right, he's right. Moved
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  on to some other stats. But the havoc rate includes tackles for loss and
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  sacks on the quarterback right past breakups interceptions. So we've been talking about it,
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  just not putting it under one umbrella of havoc right. I think I've
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  only done it for one show. But I'm gonna get back to part of
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  the havoc rate that we've talked about every game with this defense. It is
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  the key. It's the biggest difference in this defense when it looks good versus
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  when it looks like it's struggling, and that's getting pressure on the quarterback.
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  So you're ready to dive in on your ability to get pressure on b Why
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  I used quarterback by the way, as a guy you've seen before. Yeah,
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  I was Slovs. I was just going to bring him up. You
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  know, sometimes I remember stuff right and sometimes I don't. You know,
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  changes did he use derogatory commentary regarding West Virginia University last year prior to the
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  contest against Pitt. He did. He was pitt starting quarterback. Former USC
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  quarterback transferred to Pitt. I think got hung up in the in the rivalry
• 22:15
  there, in the emotion of the rivalry in the West Virginia giving the eat
• 22:18
  bleep pit back to them, got a little fired up and may have dropped
• 22:22
  a profane word or two once. Well that wasn't nice. When here he
• 22:29
  comes an outsider from the West Coast. He didn't know anything about the rivalry,
• 22:33
  and for him to say that, yeah, that's a big rivalry still.
• 22:37
  I mean, Garrett's not out there saying bad things. K body mouth
• 22:41
  stuff. He was not saying potty mouth stuff. That happens. What are
• 22:44
  you gonna do? So anyway, Keaton Slovas has returned. Now, you
• 22:47
  don't think Neil would run that video to the team or anything like that.
• 22:52
  I don't know if he has that. I don't know if he had that.
• 22:55
  Okay, maybe, and well, if that guy at Michigan on that
• 22:56
  sideline was working for him, he'd have it. He got everything else,
• 23:00
  well that they would have had it before Slovas even said it. Hey,
• 23:06
  hey, he's thinking about saying this. All right, go ahead allegedly.
• 23:10
  All right, let's get into some pressure on Slovas. Do we think West
• 23:12
  Virginia can get to BYU quarterback Keyton Slovas? I think they can, Tony.
• 23:18
  Here's why are you ready to bear with me, dig In, I'm
• 23:19
  going through a lot of stuff. Here we go. Okay, Slovas has
• 23:23
  the second most dropbacks under pressure in the Big Twelve. Okay, here's what's
• 23:29
  interesting. Quarterbacks. There's a stat out there you can niche down where the
• 23:33
  pressure's coming from. Who's responsible for giving up the pressure? And quarterbacks sometimes
• 23:38
  own some of that right that that might not be on the lineman. They're
• 23:41
  the ones that always get blamed, but sometimes it's on the quarterback. Slid.
• 23:45
  Quarterbacks responsible for their most own pressures in the league, and tell me
• 23:48
  if you see a similarity here. I'll go in order of which quarterbacks responsible
• 23:52
  for their most owned pressures. Donovan Smith, Houston, Baron Morton, Texas
• 23:57
  Tech, along with Tyler Shuck, Blake's Shapin Baylor, and then Slovas.
• 24:03
  Those are your top four or five? How many I named? West Virginia
• 24:07
  got to Smith in the first half, didn't in the second, lost the
• 24:10
  game, got to the Texas Tech quarterbacks won the game. Haven't seen Baylor
• 24:15
  yet. Baylor's been struggling. Slovas is next up on that list, so
• 24:18
  that he's fitting into that category of quarterbacks that West Virginia has been able to
• 24:22
  get some pressure on. He's not going to run away from you, no,
• 24:26
  Jenny, thanks for bringing that up. He only has four quarterback scrambles
• 24:29
  on the entire year, so he's going to be in the pocket. You're
• 24:32
  going to be able to identify where he is, get by your guy and
• 24:34
  get home and get a little pressure on him. Outside of the quarterback being
• 24:38
  responsible for his own pressures, the right tackle spot is the one that's giving
• 24:41
  up the most pressure that comes against West Virginia's left side rushers. We've been
• 24:45
  through this before. There seems to be a matchup that comes up time and
• 24:48
  time again. That's Sean Martin and Jared Bartlett. Most notably, West Virginia
• 24:53
  has three of the top thirty pass rushers in the Big Twelve when it comes
• 24:57
  to total pressures from the left, Sid Lathan's one. So you got two
• 25:02
  in this game here that are coming. Okay, So here's the catch though,
• 25:07
  over the last two games, you know, we're not the only ones
• 25:11
  that have these numbers. I think the coaches actually look at this too,
• 25:12
  maybe a little bit, so they know that pressure's coming, that those two
• 25:15
  guys are good pressure guys over the last two games, just two total pressures
• 25:21
  combined from Martlett, Martin and Bartlett. You saw that there was a play
• 25:25
  last week on the TV broadcast that illustrated this really well. Shawn Martin comes
• 25:29
  off and fires in and is immediately double teamed and stood up. So Seawn
• 25:33
  Martin wasn't effective on that play, probably didn't great out great on that play,
• 25:36
  of course, he had two guys on him. But you know what
• 25:37
  it did, opened up a massive hole, like the size of the hole
• 25:41
  between you and I right now. And Ben Cutter flew right in there.
• 25:44
  For a quarterback pressure. So Martin doesn't have the numbers over the last couple
• 25:48
  games, doesn't mean those guys aren't contributing. But keep an eye on that
• 25:51
  right tackle spot. West Virginia should be able to get some pressure in through
• 25:53
  there. Here's the other part of why pressure has been prevalent on Keyden Slovas.
• 25:57
  He has the most passivettempts in the Big Twelve when holding the ball for
• 26:03
  two point five seconds or more, so they run out again. Most pass
• 26:07
  attempts in the Big Twelve that are over two and a half seconds or more,
• 26:11
  so the quarterback holding the ball for two point five seconds or more.
• 26:15
  You remember Alan Bowman from Oklahoma State. We talked about going into that game.
• 26:19
  Pressure on him would be difficult. One of the reasons why two seconds.
• 26:22
  He got rid of the ball under two and a half seconds every time.
• 26:26
  He just didn't have the ball very often. So here's here's the catch.
• 26:29
  Twenty two. Slovas is going to hold it a little bit longer so
• 26:32
  you can have a chance to get home. But you better get home because
• 26:36
  when you don't, He's really effective. Eleven touchdowns just four interceptions when holding
• 26:41
  the ball for two and a half seconds or more. That's the most touchdown
• 26:44
  throws in that category in the league. So little feast or famin there.
• 26:48
  If he's back there and you're not getting to him and he has all day,
• 26:49
  he's going to make some really good throws on you. Sure. Now,
• 26:52
  he also has the most turnover worthy plays in the Big twelve on throws
• 26:57
  taking longer than two and a half seconds, so he'll throw some dimes.
• 27:02
  But you can also get some picks in there too. Second in total pressures
• 27:07
  on throws of two and a half seconds or more, So you're getting in
• 27:11
  there. But his pressure to sack ratio, that's kind of a new one.
• 27:15
  Pressure to sack ratio is pretty low, so you can get in there.
• 27:18
  You may not have a lot of sacks savvy enough to get rid of
• 27:21
  the ball as well, but that those numbers all tell me you've got a
• 27:23
  chance to get home, beat your block, get home. H That's all
• 27:29
  good stuff there, that's all good stuff. Okay, So there's the pressure
• 27:33
  rates. I think you get home. I think you can make him uncomfortable.
• 27:36
  And again that's the key. When we've seen West Virginia go through that
• 27:38
  four game winning streak, it relied a lot on the pressure that helps the
• 27:42
  defensive backs. That's where interceptions start to come. It's super important that West
• 27:47
  Virginia gets some pressure on. Keiden Slovas, would you agree that TFLs and
• 27:53
  sacks at nighttime are much more exciting and much more appreciated by the crowd.
• 28:02
  H Maybe it just gets louder in those moments. I just think they're special.
• 28:06
  I just think they look different, like a sack at I'm just telling
• 28:10
  a sack at night like a sack at twelve twenty five in the afternoon.
• 28:15
  It's a nice thing, it's a sack. But for some reason, a
• 28:18
  sack at seven forty seven pm, where quarterbacks like trying to and it says
• 28:22
  like he gets grabbed and thrown down, the crowd just goes there's just a
• 28:26
  higher level of energy. Is that something about nighttime? It's something about getting
• 28:32
  run down at night. I just think that's what it is. Is that
• 28:33
  scientific? No, no, no, anecdotal. If Hoppy was here,
• 28:37
  he'd definitely call it anecdotal. I just think they're Doug Flutie got sacked at
• 28:41
  night. That's one of the all time great sacks. Donovan McNabb, he
• 28:45
  got sacked at night. That was one of the all time greats. Fill
• 28:48
  in the blanks of your all time great sacks. Most of them happened at
• 28:52
  night, unscientifically, go ahead and didn't have that in a secondment, we'll
• 28:56
  watch for that. Thank you, tony. Couple. Couple, you get
• 29:00
  a T shirt for three guys. I love nighttime sacks, all right,
• 29:03
  fair enough, that'll be a good seller. Watch for pressure on first down
• 29:07
  from them, from them, and that plays into what I give you earlier
• 29:11
  on Beanie Bishop a lot of interceptions on first down. Watch bringing pressure on
• 29:15
  first down. Here's why Slovas is third in the Big twelve and first down
• 29:18
  pass attempts, so they like to throw it on first down. Okay,
• 29:22
  he's faced the most pressure on first down in the Big twelve because they like
• 29:26
  to throw it a lot, So that would make some sense. Slovas has
• 29:29
  one of the worst EPA marks in the league on first down EPA Expected points
• 29:34
  added, so it's a measure of how successful each play is. He's got
• 29:38
  one of the lowest in the league on first down, so that's a down
• 29:42
  a bunch of things there. They're gonna throw it a lot on first down.
• 29:45
  You can get pressure on him and Beanie Bishop likes to pick the ball
• 29:48
  off on first down, so that's important. Watch first down coming up on
• 29:52
  Saturday. You know, if a Beanie gets a first down interception on Saturday,
• 29:56
  people are gonna be just like that. It will take you to a
• 29:59
  whole new level of spreads on stamen. It may not happen, but it's
• 30:03
  been that's been the most common time when to get it, Like if if
• 30:07
  he gets a first down interception on Saturday, in organized crime terms, you
• 30:11
  would become a made man like no one would ever be able to touch you.
• 30:15
  Again. It's just like, nah, don't he's maybe won't get to
• 30:18
  episode eight hundred. I won't be here for five oh two. If he
• 30:21
  gets it on fo I just saw it, that'll be a walk off.
• 30:22
  I'll see you. You can also come get him on third down two another
• 30:26
  passing down. The worst EPA on third down passing in the league is BYU
• 30:32
  and Keton Slovas. In particular, that includes every quarterback that's taken at least
• 30:37
  one snap. He's thirty third on that list who in EPA, So they
• 30:41
  have not been successful on third down. And it ties back into when you
• 30:45
  get pressure is when you keep teams in passing downs. When you can assume
• 30:48
  they're gonna throw it, you can call your blitzer as you can pin yours
• 30:51
  back. You can come get them first and third, keep an eye on
• 30:53
  it. I shouldn't ask you this. Have thirty three different quarterbacks throwing a
• 30:56
  ball in the Big Twelve this year? It's more than that. Yeah,
• 31:00
  at least once. And now is that wild? Yeah, it's it's unbelievable
• 31:03
  when you start to go down the list. Yeah, there's a lot of
• 31:06
  dudes that have played. Okay, all right, so that's that's the defensive
• 31:10
  side of things. Get some pressure in those specific matchups, get some turnovers,
• 31:14
  roll to a win. Let's transition over to West Virgina's offense for a
• 31:17
  second. I'll kind of get through this quickly. I know we want to
• 31:18
  get Charles Wesley in here with us, but let's talk Garrett Green for a
• 31:22
  second. You mentioned earlier how great he's been playing. We've talked about him
• 31:26
  each week. He's just been the driver of this engine for West Virginia.
• 31:29
  He's been outstanding. Here's some numbers to back that up, and excuse me,
• 31:32
  I've got so many I'm gonna have to go to multiple devices here to
• 31:34
  keep track of all the great numbers. Sure do get you some more monitors.
• 31:37
  We get you. Well, I were trying to take the thing on
• 31:40
  the road. You gotta be a little bit mobile, So I've got multiple
• 31:41
  devices here for this one. A couple things. Garrett leads the Big twelve
• 31:47
  in big time throw percentage. So these are those the turnover worthy plays and
• 31:52
  big time throw percentage stats are PFS proprietory numbers that it's not just touchdowns and
• 31:56
  interceptions. Sometimes you make an unbelievably great throw and it doesn't turn into a
• 32:01
  touchdown, and it may turn into a turnover. Neither were your fault right
• 32:05
  should have been in touch So it's it's a little bit more in the weeds
• 32:07
  than a touchdown interception. Say, let me say that again. He leads
• 32:10
  the Big twelve in big time throw percentage. You know how massive that is
• 32:15
  for a guy you weren't sure of in his first year as a starting quarterback
• 32:19
  to come in two thirds of the season and still be holding onto that number.
• 32:22
  Yes, that's incredible. Yeah, so leads a Big twelve Big ten
• 32:25
  throw percent Here's what's what's equally as important, maybe more important, than that
• 32:30
  stat. He is sixteenth in the Big twelve sixteenth. How many teams are
• 32:35
  there this year? Yeah, a dozen, there's there fourteen, same thing
• 32:39
  whatever, or twelve fourteen there's twelve. No, no, no, I'm
• 32:43
  just fourteen. There's fourteen two leave any othereen, there's fourteen. He's sixteenth
• 32:49
  in the Big twelve in turnover worthy plays. So basically as good as you
• 32:53
  can get. Only Quinn youwers is this is the lone starter in this league
• 32:59
  who has left turnover worthy plays at the quarterback position than Garrett Green. That's
• 33:02
  a wild that's a wild stat. Huge credit to him in this offense.
• 33:07
  Go back to August. What was our concern that that was the whole question?
• 33:10
  And it plays in nicely because I don't know how many times I said
• 33:14
  it. I'm sure people were tired of me saying it. We kept saying,
• 33:16
  if he can limit turnovers, if Garrett limits turnovers, then Neil can
• 33:21
  get to page three, four, five, and six in the playbook.
• 33:23
  You can run more, obviously when you trust that your quarterback is not going
• 33:27
  to turn it over. What are you seeing with Neil and his play calling?
• 33:30
  It's tremendous, multiple different sets, motion different plays each game. Right.
• 33:35
  That was one of the critis, Oh, it's not creative enough.
• 33:36
  You don't run the same play all the time. You saying that this year.
• 33:39
  No, your quarterback's doing an unbelievable job that allows everything else to work.
• 33:43
  He's he's just been tremendous. Here's the other part. I said.
• 33:45
  He was playing at an all Big twelve level. He's got the second best
• 33:49
  overall grade for a quarterback in this league. From excuse me say that again?
• 33:52
  What best overall offensive grade for a quarterback in this league? Remarkable?
• 33:59
  How about that? Remarkable? Say that one more time. Just make it
• 34:01
  three second best overall grade among Big twelve quarterbacks per PFF. Yeah right,
• 34:09
  okay, two more quick things here. The other part of the UCF game
• 34:14
  that stood out. We talked about this in episode five hundred. Defensive coordinators
• 34:17
  now are having to determine what you want to take away from West Virginia.
• 34:21
  UCF decided to take the deep ball away. Garrett only had two attempts over
• 34:24
  twenty yards one and was on the first play of the game they forced him
• 34:27
  to throw underneath. We've heard Neil talk about Garrett needs to keep improving on
• 34:30
  his underneath accuracy, right, you know what he did against them, just
• 34:35
  responded with one of his highest completion percents might be in his career, sixty
• 34:37
  one percent underneath it should have been over seventy. Yes, had some drops
• 34:42
  in there, So okay, fine, you want to take the ball way,
• 34:44
  I'll throw it underneath. Just two interceptions on the year, which is
• 34:46
  really one. I think this might be last time I say two interceptions.
• 34:50
  He has one interception. He's only been sacked four times all season in eight
• 34:54
  games, so a lot of credit to that offensive line, but also his
• 34:59
  ability to get outside the pocket. Those work in conjunction. So now you're
• 35:02
  telling me your quarterback is not turning it over. He's not taking sacks.
• 35:06
  The offense doesn't penalize itself very much four and a half penalties per game total.
• 35:12
  You wonder why you're having some success. That's three pretty key areas.
• 35:15
  One last thing offensively ready, Yeah, I'm with you. The aforementioned Nick
• 35:19
  Malone. And again we didn't talk about this. Next terrific watch BYU's left
• 35:23
  side pressure coming against Nick Malone. Inserted assuming into the starting lineup for Doug
• 35:29
  Nester at the right tackle. You'll also have some right guard too. But
• 35:31
  watch Nick Malone BYU has three players in the top thirty, just like West
• 35:36
  Virginia when it comes to pressure from the left side. So Malone is not
• 35:40
  only if he plays, he is going to have an important role as he
• 35:44
  normally would, especially big against this group. They've got some guys that can
• 35:46
  come from the left side. May have to have some shared property between Nick
• 35:52
  Malone and Treylan Davis. This week you'll probably get somebody offset over there.
• 35:54
  Offset, get some help back back there and give them so you might see
• 35:58
  a little eighty one there next up next to uh. Nick. By the
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• 43:00
  so you know, it wasn't in my cards to ever really be at
• 43:04
  a high level. Okay, well you say you weren't that good, but
• 43:06
  obviously you were good enough to get opportunities to walk on to the mountain your
• 43:10
  football program. No, nah, now come on, give me, let's
• 43:15
  go. Let's go through the story. Yeah, I'll tell you guys straight,
• 43:16
  and it's it's always embarrassing to to like talk about this, but it
• 43:20
  is. It's a fact of my story, and it was. It was
• 43:22
  the best thing that ever happened to me too, looking back on it.
• 43:25
  But you know, I really really wanted to play college football, and I
• 43:30
  had great I had really good grades, and I had a good junior year
• 43:32
  in high school. So I was getting recruited by like Ivy League type of
• 43:37
  places in Hillsdale, which is a D two school up there in Michigan.
• 43:42
  Sound was kind of like that probably was what my best case scenario would have
• 43:46
  been. Go out there my senior year, Papa hamstring the summertime, and
• 43:51
  then just keep trying to come back too early and just keep tearing it throughout
• 43:53
  the season. And I was never anything to write home to mom about.
• 43:59
  Uh So then I was like, Okay, I'm gonna try to walk on
• 44:01
  for the Mountaineers. I still want to make this happen. I'll get healthy
• 44:06
  coaches, coaches Bill stut And so I went out there, and you know,
• 44:10
  I tried out, uh my freshman year of college, and you know,
• 44:15
  gave it my best go and you know, it didn't wasn't in the
• 44:19
  cards for me. I didn't make it. It wasn't good enough. Then
• 44:22
  I tried out two more times with Dana and and again just never So what
• 44:28
  never looked good enough without pads on? So what did Dana say? Nah?
• 44:30
  Not pretty good? Oh no, I didn't even I didn't even get
• 44:34
  you. Danna never acknowledged my existence. Bill Stu knew me from high school
• 44:38
  though, and he was nice enough to even come up and say hi to
• 44:40
  me that morning, I remember. But yeah, it was never in the
• 44:45
  cards. And you know, by three years in the eligibilities running up,
• 44:50
  and you know, I just faced reality and that that uh was where my
• 44:55
  you know, my first dream died. That's a that's a valuable lesson enough
• 45:00
  for everybody to have those moments in life. Absolutely. So you're a business
• 45:04
  major at WUVU, a finance finance major, and you graduate, you graduate
• 45:08
  from there, So this is when the thing gets really interesting music wise,
• 45:14
  Okay, and this might be the one that people go like, wait a
• 45:16
  second, because obviously if you're if you're in music, then your dad had
• 45:22
  to be a musician, your mom had to be a musician. You had
• 45:25
  to come from a family music. You had never played an instrument, Yeah,
• 45:30
  I mean I didn't grow up playing or singing. But you know me,
• 45:35
  Nathan Colombo, Sam Angottie, you know your al's neighbors here in the
• 45:38
  parking lot, we picked up instruments. Yeah, there are junior year of
• 45:45
  college as hobbies, things to get into, you know, just trying to
• 45:50
  find things to do with our time because none of us were playing sports anymore.
• 45:53
  And then I just got very lucky. I found the one thing that
• 45:58
  I had talent for natural when it came to music, especially once I started
• 46:02
  singing and writing. So that's that's how I found it. So I didn't
• 46:07
  find it until I was twenty years Oh okay, back up, because that
• 46:08
  that part that to me, that's the most obelievable part. In so like
• 46:12
  in second grade, you weren't like carrying home a violin and you got to
• 46:15
  go do the rental sheet, the rental form from school or any of that.
• 46:17
  No, I wouldn't even sing in church. I just thought I probably
• 46:22
  can't sing. I just assumed. And you know you're embarrassed too. You
• 46:24
  never open your mouth in front of people like that, you know, just
• 46:28
  saying so like I didn't know any of that, had had no idea,
• 46:30
  But once I picked it up, I found a love for it, and
• 46:34
  and the whole the whole way it happened too was the twenty eleven Grammys.
• 46:40
  I'm just watching them on TV and the Aver Brothers perform a song and I'm
• 46:45
  like, wow, that was incredible, And then they played with Bob Dylan
• 46:50
  another song, and I'm just like, man, maybe maybe I should pick
• 46:52
  up a guitar. That'd be something I could do in the evenings because I
• 46:55
  always have hunted and fish, but you can't do that every day when you're
• 46:59
  going to class. Some Morgantown and stuff. So that's how it started,
• 47:02
  picked it up as a hobby, and then it just snowballed through the rest
• 47:07
  of college there to us playing you know, bar gigs and what used to
• 47:09
  be chicken Bones over there. That was so that group was called Man,
• 47:15
  I remember that, Sam, And there were times you'd have that cranked on
• 47:20
  the the studio system in here the Truth under a different name, because I
• 47:27
  tell I tell him still this day, it's here. I listened to it
• 47:31
  when I fly home at night, late nights. I put it on.
• 47:35
  I tell him all the time. I put it on my headsets. I
• 47:37
  put the Van Delia album on, and I just like, that's what I
• 47:39
  listened. True, And so you guys, hold on real quick here,
• 47:43
  we gotta go back this Like in fifth grade, you weren't ever just like
• 47:46
  singing along to something on the radio and someone went a really good singer.
• 47:50
  No, never, never, you was playing sports music. Wasn't even a
• 47:54
  thought. Yeah. Yeah, I was just a you know, a local
• 47:58
  yokl kid that just you know, really wanted to be good at sports.
• 48:01
  And you know, it just wasn't in the car. So what was the
• 48:04
  first time you sang something and someone went hold on here? The like the
• 48:10
  moment that kind of changed my life was I was on West Virginia has a
• 48:15
  good study of broad program, and I was under the promised scholarship, so
• 48:17
  I was still going to school for free here and they have a great study
• 48:22
  broad program, and I'd never been abroad, and I'm like, you know
• 48:27
  what, I'm gonna just take advantage of this stuff. It was just kind
• 48:30
  of this like interesting time in my life where I gave up that dream and
• 48:35
  I'm just like kind of just exploring all this new stuff. And so I
• 48:38
  went over there and there advising me on these different places I can go around
• 48:42
  the world where I could still have credits towards a finance degree. So I
• 48:45
  didn't want to go over there and just not take any steps forward. So
• 48:50
  it was between Hertfordshire, England, Bamberg, Germany, Tartu Estonia, and
• 48:53
  Hong Kong. There are four universities where a year ago and you know,
• 48:59
  I could still get credits towards my degree, And yeah, I kind of
• 49:02
  looked at each one of those and ended up landing on Tartu as being the
• 49:07
  best fit for being exotic and different, different language, different part of the
• 49:13
  world, but still not so far off the deep end that you know,
• 49:16
  I felt like I could I could still go there and function and find comfort
• 49:21
  and like a you know, find my space where you know, a West
• 49:23
  Virginia kid maybe going abroad for the first time. Maybe it wouldn't be a
• 49:27
  good idea to go to Hong Kong for half a year, you know what
• 49:30
  I mean? That might be a little much too much in the in the
• 49:32
  deep end. And then Hertfordshire, England felt a little too shallow there.
• 49:36
  You know, I could I go there right now and get about and go
• 49:38
  about my day without much any problem. But Tartu is a nice in between
• 49:44
  there with being a little exotic and have an experience. So I guess the
• 49:47
  point of the story is that when I was over there, brought my guitar
• 49:51
  and keep practicing in the evenings. And I had five other flatmates I was
• 49:53
  living with, so they couldn't help. But hear that when I just do
• 49:58
  my regular fifteen or twenty minutes in the they enjoyed. That made me a
• 50:02
  little uncomfortable. But that's just where I live, so there were was anywhere
• 50:06
  else for me to go. It's not like in a walk around tart two
• 50:08
  and find a place to jam. There. That was the most privacy I
• 50:12
  could find, that just right there in my own room. So we went
• 50:16
  to a show one night and one of my roommates belong he's from Mexico City,
• 50:21
  took my guitar out of the room after I already left with a couple
• 50:24
  of the American buddies. I made over there and brought my guitar to the
• 50:30
  show. Show ends. It's like a little place like one two three,
• 50:34
  kind of to picture it. And after the show ends, he runs up
• 50:37
  on stage and they had not cut the mic yet and Blomb says for me
• 50:42
  to go up there and sing, and somehow convinces the room to start chanting
• 50:45
  Charlie to go up there and sing a song, and I'm freaking out and
• 50:49
  I'm shaking in my jeans. I'm like, oh my gosh, you played
• 50:52
  outside your room at this point. Yeah, And I'm kind of doing the
• 50:54
  math in my yeah, or like with Nate and Sam and Gotti at Nate's
• 50:59
  old apartment at so, like, you know, it was never it never
• 51:01
  intended to be in public in that way, and I'm kind of doing the
• 51:08
  math in my head, and I'm like, you know, at this point,
• 51:12
  it's probably worse if I if I was out and just don't just get
• 51:15
  do this, just say one or else that I just felt like it was
• 51:20
  gonna be worse if I just right, you know at that walk off you
• 51:22
  can't yeah, yeah, yeah, at that point you kind of got to
• 51:24
  just do it. Thing. It's like riding the ball at the weddings,
• 51:27
  like what are you gonna do? Everybody's chating? You better get up there
• 51:29
  and right and here comes the football. But oh is that right? You
• 51:31
  want to challenge me? Here we go. I gotta do this, yeah.
• 51:32
  Yeah. So I went up and sang a song or two and it
• 51:37
  it went well, and then the next that was a Friday. The next
• 51:43
  Monday, I got a Facebook message from a fashion designer there in town and
• 51:47
  she said, I'm having a fashion show this Friday, and I'd love you
• 51:51
  to play the music for the models to walk to. Can you feel twenty
• 51:55
  minutes? I was like, I can feel twenty minutes. She's like,
• 51:59
  I'll pay you one hundred and fifty euro. I'm like, deal, that's
• 52:02
  a ton of money at twenty years old, and you know, so I
• 52:07
  go there and play my first gig. It turned out to be a lingerie
• 52:12
  fashion show and it was in this cafe and had this courtyard in the middle,
• 52:17
  and there were French doors on each end of the cafe and the models
• 52:22
  would walk out through the crowd, and then they'd walk through the other French
• 52:24
  doors into the next outfit and it was a show for twenty minutes. Got
• 52:29
  paid one hundred and fifty euro. Drinks are on me that night, and
• 52:34
  then that changed my whole life. I was like, this is the that
• 52:36
  was your epiphany. Yeah, I was like, this is the easiest money
• 52:38
  I've ever made. That was kind of fun, you know. I got
• 52:42
  over the nerves, the nerves weren't. Weren't Like I didn't freeze and I'm
• 52:46
  able to just I could do it. So I was like, all right,
• 52:50
  let me try to do some more of this, you know when I
• 52:52
  get back. So I played some more gigs over there, and then it
• 52:54
  came back, started the band with Nate and Sam and we started playing bar
• 52:59
  gigs for the rest of our time in college. And then I just never
• 53:00
  looked back, started writing songs and then just trying to figure my way out
• 53:07
  in this world. How how does this work? And you know it took
• 53:10
  took a decade. That's remarkable. It is remarkable. So how does it
• 53:15
  start? Yeah? You wrote? Did you write West Virginia Highway? Overseas?
• 53:22
  No? Where were you? Where? Did you write something in Italy?
• 53:25
  I was probably I don't know, I can't remember to any that was
• 53:29
  the first stuff. What does it? You know? No? No,
• 53:31
  no, no, we just don't really. I'm so, I'm very things
• 53:37
  have worked out very well. Why does that? Why does because your voice
• 53:40
  you're different? Yeah, you look back at your young stuff? What what
• 53:45
  what is it? Because everyone does like you do that all the time.
• 53:47
  I can't. I cannot listen to my play by play from when I started.
• 53:52
  It makes me like, like make me puke. It's bad. It's
• 53:55
  bad. Yeah, you know it's bad. I'm right there with you.
• 53:58
  It's it's just what you know. Okay, So what does it mean for
• 54:00
  you to have lyrics that you've written in a tattoo on Nathan Adrian's back.
• 54:08
  That's awesome, it's true. And you know what, Nate, Nate can
• 54:14
  take covert in this. He's not the last one. You know, there's
• 54:16
  a lot of people now that, but he you know, he uh,
• 54:22
  yeah, that's cool. He was he has if I wake in West Virginia,
• 54:25
  I'll be I have one or I have one. Yeah, that's what
• 54:28
  it is. If I wish you would have waited a few more years to
• 54:34
  get some of the you know, the last few albums, you've got some
• 54:37
  new lyrics, you'd rather have them on there instead. Yeah, but you
• 54:40
  know, it's cool and he can always say that. You know, it's
• 54:44
  in the music world how it is where people are like, oh I knew
• 54:46
  so and so. Yeah, it's like a thing. He can definitely say
• 54:50
  that without a doubt. This is like, this is like asking which one
• 54:52
  of your kids you like most bother, give me one or two lyrics that
• 54:55
  you've written that you love the most and I love the most. There's the
• 55:02
  one in the car that I told you the other day. It's always the
• 55:06
  newest thing. That's That's what I was trying to get to because I forget
• 55:08
  what it was. I can't remember either what that was. You're right every
• 55:12
  day now, Yeah, oh that was a that was a new song,
• 55:15
  and uh he gave it. It's about a guy that that you know is
• 55:23
  this woman's left him or or they've broken up and he's saying time time healed
• 55:30
  wounds, or the kind of fear I want to stay right when you stood
• 55:32
  right here. So you know, the meaning behind something like that is how
• 55:37
  some people if you're going through a heartbreak or something, you're sad and and
• 55:44
  you you feel bad about it, but you also don't want to move on
• 55:47
  because it's almost better to have that that that hurt feeling. It's almost closer
• 55:53
  to what what what you want than being so far away where you've moved on
• 56:00
  past. Yeah, so that that's like a way of saying that, and
• 56:02
  then you know, in a in a arty way, I love it.
• 56:07
  So football wise, you've never left your passion for the Mountaineers and you get
• 56:13
  an opportunity in August to speak to the team. You were at practice,
• 56:19
  you're standing right by, said we just hanging out with you, and Neil
• 56:22
  gave you the heads of eight. We're gonna be breaking here in just a
• 56:23
  little bit. Like you come over and you had nothing scripted. You had
• 56:29
  some ideas in your head, and that became kind of viral if you would
• 56:35
  play a little bit of this looke of this is this is Charles right when
• 56:40
  the Mountaineers were practicing in August. It was one of those deals where it's
• 56:45
  kind of like mid practice and it's time to go, go, go go,
• 56:50
  And you went up there and you became bummed out about the fourteenth place
• 56:54
  preseason prediction. Yeah. So yeah, Neil was like, hey, you
• 56:59
  want to say something like, I mean kind of I didn't. I didn't
• 57:04
  really know what I would say. And I know some of the guys on
• 57:07
  the team are fans of mine, but a lot of them have no idea
• 57:08
  who they're not country music fans. I don't know somebody I don't know,
• 57:13
  Like, I can't go up there and talk to them about myself because that's
• 57:16
  not really going to connect with them. So I was like, what what
• 57:22
  do I say to a bunch of kids trying to make anything any kind of
• 57:27
  impact, any positive impact. Right, Let's take a little look at it.
• 57:30
  Go ahead and roll that if you would. Look. So, I
• 57:34
  want you to give a big welcome to w W and morgane out Charles Wesley
• 57:37
  govern. I appreciate that's good. Hey, guys, I'm not one for
• 57:45
  for big speeches at all. But uh, I know a lot of you
• 57:49
  don't know who I am. Some of you do. But really the point
• 57:52
  is is, I've made it to the pros and my chosen profession. I've
• 57:55
  gone about I've gotten in very exclusive territory, and I guess what I'm here
• 58:00
  here to tell you all is a lot of people doubt you. Outside these
• 58:04
  facilities, outside this town, outside of this state, outside of your fan
• 58:07
  base, A lot of folks are underestimating each every one of y'all. A
• 58:10
  couple of years ago, I played a festival in Kentucky that I felt very
• 58:15
  disrespected by. There's a few acts that were booked after me later that day,
• 58:22
  after me and my guys that should not have been where they were when
• 58:24
  we were booked in the two twenty slot. In the afternoon, and I
• 58:28
  use that as a gift. I took that as an opportunity to get my
• 58:34
  guys fired up before we stepped on stage. Every time for the next year,
• 58:37
  every time we go out on stage, we needed nothing else but two
• 58:39
  twenty. That's all we said. And we go out there and we've become
• 58:43
  one of the best live acts in the country now. So I guess what
• 58:46
  I'm here to tell you, guys is is each and every one of you
• 58:49
  were exceptional on every level that you've ever played at in your life. You've
• 58:52
  all won at every level we've played at. Right, you guys have won
• 58:57
  championships all state. You're gonna be Hall of Famers in your heighth They picked
• 59:00
  you all fourteenth. They picked you fourteenth. They must have forgot who you
• 59:07
  are. Do. You have the bodies, you have, the speed,
• 59:10
  you have the physicality, and all you need is the mentality when you step
• 59:14
  on that field, and you, guys, there shouldn't be anything else that
• 59:16
  needs said this year before you step on the field to get your absolute best
• 59:20
  other than fourteen fourteen. I know you guys are better than that. I
• 59:27
  believe in you. You guys are gonna kill it. And I think you're
• 59:29
  gonna have one of the best seasons you ever had in your life. This
• 59:30
  is gonna be one of those seasons you never forget. And you're gonna love
• 59:34
  every every guy that's part of this team, part of this staff, part
• 59:37
  of this part of this whole program. You'all are gonna have a connection like
• 59:42
  you've never had before, because this is gonna be a special year. If
• 59:45
  you guys got an opportunity, you got a gift, then picking you all
• 59:49
  fourteenth, that's the Christmas gift right there. Open that up and pull it
• 59:52
  out before every game. All right, I think you guys are gonna have
• 59:55
  a great season. I wish you all the best. I'm gonna be watching
• 59:59
  every game and I wish you all nothing but the best. Yeah. There,
• 1:00:02
  it is just some hard cuts there. Yeah that may have been in
• 1:00:07
  added version. But yeah, you're trying to think of what to say to
• 1:00:10
  a bunch of kids, and I guess the best thing that I could think
• 1:00:15
  of is to try to share a little bit of and there's this isn't the
• 1:00:21
  only way, but there's certain mentalities that people have to have in life to
• 1:00:25
  succeed. There's there's things that help people get along what you're talking about with
• 1:00:29
  Nick Malone there earlier, you know, getting a scholarship pooled. There's certain
• 1:00:32
  ways that people can react to situations like that, and everybody comes across stuff
• 1:00:37
  like that in their life. There's certain ways that you can react to those
• 1:00:39
  situations that can you can turn it into an asset or a deficit in your
• 1:00:43
  life. And and you know, so I was just sharing with them just
• 1:00:49
  a little something about, you know, how you can twist things in your
• 1:00:51
  head to make things work in your favor, because you know, it's very
• 1:00:57
  rare in life where the path is paved nice and clean, you know,
• 1:01:00
  ahead of you. So point, I've learned, uh learned a lot of
• 1:01:04
  things in the decade I've been doing this, and you know, I've I've
• 1:01:07
  accomplished some pretty pretty cool things that I never thought I would be able to.
• 1:01:13
  And then that was just the best thing that I could think of there
• 1:01:15
  in the moment, trying to share with those kids so that you know,
• 1:01:20
  maybe they can absorb a little bit of that, apply it to their lives,
• 1:01:23
  to this season and and start down that path of succeeding well. And
• 1:01:29
  you know, I think they're doing a great job Uh, you mentioned the
• 1:01:32
  Avit's the avits tweaked your peaked your interest in so you run around with those
• 1:01:37
  guys. Now you see those guys be on that Luke Coast comb start.
• 1:01:40
  Yeah, I'm looking. I haven't gotten to meet them yet, so I'm
• 1:01:44
  looking forward to meeting them, and I think the DC will be the first
• 1:01:45
  one be together, and uh yeah, I can't wait to meet them.
• 1:01:49
  You're doing stadium tours, dude, with Luke Combs. Yeah, you're doing
• 1:01:52
  stadium tours. Yeah, you know, Luke and I played a show here
• 1:01:55
  in Morgantown before too, right, Yeah, Peter Smith Saloon anywhere at twenty
• 1:02:00
  sixteen. Is that amazing? Yeah? I had a lot of folks in
• 1:02:02
  Morgantown would like to have been at that show. Now, is it amazing
• 1:02:06
  or what? Yeah? You ready do some of this textual healing. I
• 1:02:08
  mean you're regular listening. When you run, you go five miles. I
• 1:02:14
  go for at least a five k and then I've been doing ten k's pretty
• 1:02:19
  consistently lately and kind of building my way up to that marathon mileage. You're
• 1:02:23
  gonna do what you want to do a marathon, you want to do it?
• 1:02:27
  Yeah, yeah, I'll do one, do one next year. Looking
• 1:02:29
  at uh, there's one up in Massachusetts. I got like a little run
• 1:02:32
  club. I started on the strawa app. So we'll pick one somewhere in
• 1:02:38
  the country and do a show the night before and then then run run the
• 1:02:43
  race the next day with you know, run club members that'll travel in and
• 1:02:47
  make a fun thing of it. It would be good to have a marathon
• 1:02:52
  hanging over my head each year. In that way, physical is forced to
• 1:02:55
  kind of stay. You can never let yourself get too far away from having
• 1:03:00
  a ramp back up for it, which, you know, I think that's
• 1:03:02
  a good thing. Look at this, dude. Physical conditioning is allowing Mick
• 1:03:07
  Jagger to perform in his eighties. Same thing with you. When you're eighty,
• 1:03:09
  you're gonna be in great shape. Yeah, yeah, I look at
• 1:03:13
  Bruce Springsteen's a big home inspiration for me. And you know he's in his
• 1:03:16
  mid seventies and still putting on three hour shows and doing it. And yeah,
• 1:03:21
  I want to. I want to do this as long as I'm physically
• 1:03:22
  able to. So I'm gonna try to try to help myself as much as
• 1:03:25
  I can. All right, let's jump into some of these things. Ready
• 1:03:28
  you that's your script right there by the way. You get a script for
• 1:03:30
  free. You get to keep that. Keep that on your way home.
• 1:03:34
  I think I recognize this from Sunday. Have you ever stood by Shack?
• 1:03:38
  Yeah? This is coming here. So here here. Drove down with my
• 1:03:43
  buddy from South Carolina this weekend and watch the Mountaineers and get back on track
• 1:03:46
  against the fighting Pegasus. Awesome game. Probably twenty percent of the stadium was
• 1:03:51
  West Virginia fans. As we're walking out of the stadium, we take one
• 1:03:53
  last look at the stadium and it said the ceremonial thanks for having us to
• 1:03:57
  the Bounce house. God beside us. We're in the Golden lo starts to
• 1:04:00
  laugh. I asked him if he was a Three Guys fan. Well,
• 1:04:02
  he laughed and said, yeah, I produced their music. Low and Behold.
• 1:04:05
  It was the illustrious David Sab. I had to get a picture made
• 1:04:10
  with him and set it in so you know sob you know so yeah,
• 1:04:13
  Yeah, he's a big music grew up with all the sobs, so he's
• 1:04:16
  a big music producer for the show. As you know. Yeah, man,
• 1:04:20
  I mean, it's it's incredible. What do you think of his stuff,
• 1:04:23
  like if you had to rank it, it's good stuff. Yeah,
• 1:04:27
  it's great. He kind of went a little squirrely on us because he came
• 1:04:30
  in strong and produced some stuff for us. I think he's retired, like
• 1:04:32
  I think, like it's right, he's excited. Yeah, we retired.
• 1:04:35
  You know, we're willing to accept the stuff. We got no fresh stuff.
• 1:04:39
  More do you need? Well, I think a few more things.
• 1:04:42
  I mean a few more spreads on stats. I mean that's locked down.
• 1:04:45
  That's great. That has been bouncy. It's great. Yeah, here's a
• 1:04:50
  fun and yeah, I love the sobs. That's that's cool that they ran
• 1:04:55
  into each other down there in Florida. Fun fact about the Interest song,
• 1:04:58
  you know, King of Cool right downy Iris downy Ires is down Iris.
• 1:05:03
  That song is recorded in my my producer's studio, so my lead guitarists and
• 1:05:11
  he's also my producer. We made each of my three albums together. He
• 1:05:15
  bought that studio in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, Okay, and he you know,
• 1:05:19
  he's renovated it. And and that's where I made Seneca and How Mighty
• 1:05:24
  Fall, and that same studio that Donnay Iris recorded Downny Yeah, Donny when
• 1:05:29
  you go up to Donny Donald, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's you
• 1:05:33
  know, he's a big, big time up there in the in Beaver County.
• 1:05:36
  But uh yeah they uh that that used to be called Jerry Recording Studios
• 1:05:42
  and it was all done there, and that was Yeah, that's where I
• 1:05:45
  made my first two albums. I was just up there yesterday. Where'd you
• 1:05:48
  do vandel Yet? When you do that album? We were at PA there,
• 1:05:53
  weren't you. Yeah, we were up in Mckee'sport. That's that's a
• 1:05:56
  tough time there. You gotta be you gotta be a man to come out
• 1:05:58
  of there now. Uh, Texter says, have you ever stood by Shaquille
• 1:06:00
  O'Neill, Yes, I have. Look at the hands. Oh my,
• 1:06:03
  so look at Shaq's hands next to that guy's hand. No, that's Shack
• 1:06:08
  Big. Shack is big. I know all about that man. There's a
• 1:06:13
  NBA player that comes after a lot of the show is Meers Leonard and he's
• 1:06:15
  a seven footer. Yeah yeah, every time I shake his hand and just
• 1:06:18
  gets enveloped. Is that got small hands to begin with? And like yeah,
• 1:06:21
  when he shakes my hand, his like fingers are up here on the
• 1:06:25
  farms do small hands help you with the guitar? Uh? No, you'd
• 1:06:29
  like to have you like that, you like to have your hands? Yeah,
• 1:06:30
  I don't think. I think the only thing that they would help as
• 1:06:32
  a machinist or a jeweler. Yeah, or a jewelery jeweler might work.
• 1:06:39
  Texter says, Hey, guys, Mountain Mama Country Roads, singing Country Roads
• 1:06:43
  in Annapolis, Happy five hundred. Thanks for reading the text. Uh include
• 1:06:45
  my bad though, for not making it clear that the text was a follow
• 1:06:47
  up to one I sent early giving a shout out here goes. I saw
• 1:06:50
  this at my hair salon. I immediately thought about you and efforting. So
• 1:06:55
  this is a sign that says behind every success is effort. Behind every effort
• 1:06:59
  is passion. Behind every passion is someone with the courage to try. That
• 1:07:03
  looks like we were talking about Nick Malone talking about you, Texter. Guys,
• 1:07:11
  could you discuss why we couldn't move to a four man front since we're
• 1:07:14
  so thinn at linebacker? Four down, two five, John and Parkersburg.
• 1:07:19
  You know what West Virginia does some odds, some even and the answer,
• 1:07:26
  my guess would be, is that it's all dependent upon what the opposing team
• 1:07:30
  is trying to do to you, and that in some part plays into that.
• 1:07:35
  So it's not as easy to say, Okay, all of a sudden,
• 1:07:38
  we're going to be four down because we don't have linebackers. I think
• 1:07:40
  they'd rather try to get through that. Hey, guys, texting from the
• 1:07:44
  wild west of Jackson holl where a few of us die hard Mountaineer fans exist.
• 1:07:47
  Tony, I wish I would have run into you out here, but
• 1:07:50
  sure, you know how a few of us call this place home. For
• 1:07:54
  my son's sixteenth birthday, all you wanted to do is go to the BYU
• 1:07:58
  game. So we're gonna fly to West Virginia to this weekend. My only
• 1:08:00
  hope is we get to sing Country Roads for the first time with him.
• 1:08:03
  It'll be his third game. He's never had a chance to sing the song,
• 1:08:08
  which is both sad and expensive. We've had our doubts this season,
• 1:08:12
  but feel better after UCF. Really hoping for a memorable birthday trip and hopefully
• 1:08:16
  get some great food. If you guys have the food court open, let's
• 1:08:20
  go. Not the yogi from Salt Lake City's brother Chad. No, I'm
• 1:08:26
  sorry again no food court this week, but we are efforting to do something
• 1:08:30
  going forward. Next picture is just a picture. It's not even a text.
• 1:08:32
  Someone just send us this picture. Half pound recey cup. Oh yeah,
• 1:08:36
  no, eight ounces, Charles, eight ounces? Too much? Too
• 1:08:42
  much? To no such thing too much? Man, that's a medium sized
• 1:08:46
  pizza. Ye. Well, you know you and I have a mutual friend
• 1:08:50
  that says this, there's no such thing as too many meatballs. And I
• 1:08:55
  don't know if there's too much. I don't know if there's such a thing
• 1:08:58
  as a too big of a RecA cup. And put that in a in
• 1:09:00
  what you put like a cake in where you covered, keep the air off
• 1:09:03
  of you cut a slice, cut a slice and reci seats put the doll
• 1:09:10
  I gotta look at that'd be great. I mean they lid off. Yeah,
• 1:09:12
  that works. I mean that's a good And that's a serious move there.
• 1:09:15
  Man, you think about having having an episode of Cribs or somebody's got
• 1:09:18
  a recas cut, got a rec cup dome? What's that over there?
• 1:09:21
  That's our recy cup dome? What do you got got an eight ouncer over
• 1:09:25
  there? Kind of power move? Then yes, if you're looking for that
• 1:09:28
  eight ounce recy cup or actually the seventy two pound recy cup with the thirteen
• 1:09:31
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• 1:09:36
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  com. Text amazing how football brings people all over the country to Morgantown.
• 1:09:54
  My brother and his family drive five hours from Jackson Hole to fly out of
• 1:09:58
  Salt Lake for the BYU game this weekend. While he's in the airport,
• 1:10:00
  he sees a c of BYU and WVU jerseys flying to Morgantown. The WVU
• 1:10:05
  jerseys were lds faithful that completed their mission in West Virginia. I've met many
• 1:10:11
  missionaries that went to West Virginia for their mission. They speak fondly of their
• 1:10:14
  time spent in Appalachia and the wonderful folks they met. Should be a good
• 1:10:18
  one this weekend packed the Damn Stadium signed by Jogi Chris in Salt Lake City.
• 1:10:27
  You done anything, You've done much in Utah? Yeah? Yeah,
• 1:10:30
  we Salt Lake, Yeah, we played the depot in August, had a
• 1:10:33
  hell of a show. Yeah. I like it out there, so but
• 1:10:38
  I'm should I do it every one of your shows, but you put something
• 1:10:40
  out on social when you did you send Country Roads in that location, they
• 1:10:43
  went bananas. Red Rocks. That was a great that was awesome our Red
• 1:10:45
  Rocks. Yeah. Yeah, we did it at the end of every show.
• 1:10:47
  Yeah, you know, it's it's cool. Man. I've met uh,
• 1:10:50
  I met Zach Denver. He came out to our Red Rocks show and
• 1:10:54
  our Assmen show last month, and it's neat man, got the got the
• 1:10:59
  blessing and the family, you know what I mean. So it's pretty cool.
• 1:11:02
  It's a moment man. Anywhere we go, it's a big thing because
• 1:11:04
  Red Rocks the greatest place you've ever played. Now, Yeah, from the
• 1:11:11
  performers perspective, it's not bad sound coming out now, No, no,
• 1:11:16
  no, it's great. It's great and it's an amazing place, but it's
• 1:11:18
  not as electric as some other places. It can be. What's the most
• 1:11:21
  electric place? From the front road. Sometimes the most electric would be a
• 1:11:26
  would be like a state fair, some janky setup. Where where there where
• 1:11:30
  the where the bear, where the barricade isn't isn't like it might just be
• 1:11:33
  like the metal like bike fence, yeah or something. They're right up on
• 1:11:36
  the stage since sometimes those situations can make a show more electric than than even
• 1:11:42
  like, you know, a Red Rocks is a little strange, whereas from
• 1:11:44
  the performers perspective, you know, there might there's like ten yards between us
• 1:11:47
  and the front row, so it's not it's not as electric as what some
• 1:11:50
  other places can be, even though this shows seem like, oh my gosh,
• 1:11:54
  what must that be like? Yeah, well there's other places that are
• 1:11:57
  you know, can be way crazier. From the crowd perspective, yeah,
• 1:12:01
  I don't think there's a better place to see a show than Red Rocks.
• 1:12:03
  I've you know, I've seen watch shows there and and perform there. And
• 1:12:06
  from the crowd, you're you're looking out and you know, as the opener
• 1:12:11
  is finishing, you know, whatever time year you're there, you might catch
• 1:12:14
  the sunset and you see the Denver skyline out in the distance and you're watching,
• 1:12:17
  you know, somebody you've traveled to Colorado to go see, which is
• 1:12:19
  usually somebody you know, one of people's favorites, favorite artists and stuff,
• 1:12:24
  so it's it's probably the best place to see a show, yeah, but
• 1:12:30
  to perform on there are some more electric venues in the you you take on
• 1:12:33
  this persona of a badass when you get on stage visually. Hey, look,
• 1:12:39
  put some of those pictures up again, like when you put on your
• 1:12:42
  like, let me see something like, that's a bad boy right there.
• 1:12:44
  Hey man, that's a bad that's a bad looking dude right there. Yeah.
• 1:12:47
  You know we're I. I try to make the most out every night.
• 1:12:51
  You know you're gonna be away and putting all those miles in, you
• 1:12:54
  might as well go all out. So when it's time putting on a show,
• 1:12:57
  we go out there and give them Hell yeah, that's freaking awesome.
• 1:13:00
  You go. And by the way, thank you for wearing the efforting T
• 1:13:02
  shirt when you played down in Southern West virgin That was awesome. I'll tell
• 1:13:05
  you what. I was gonna wear it anyway, as I told you months
• 1:13:10
  before, I'm gonna wear it at at Healing Appalachia just because of the nature
• 1:13:14
  of the event, right, what's there to fundraise for? But then the
• 1:13:18
  icing on the cake was that day I'm supposed to take a flight from I
• 1:13:24
  did the opry the night before, and when I was getting a little greedy,
• 1:13:27
  I was trying to make trying to do everything. So I did the
• 1:13:30
  opry the night before, and I have an early morning flight from Nashville to
• 1:13:33
  Louisbourg. All right, so there's this, and you know what anybody works
• 1:13:39
  out there for Contour, Sorry it's JANKI. You can't depend on them.
• 1:13:44
  They have this thing where they work their flights through American, so you can
• 1:13:47
  book a flight with American. And here I am the guy that's complaining about
• 1:13:50
  flights. But I'm just explaining the situation. And then you go to Charlotte,
• 1:13:57
  then you get on a little Contour plane to go to Louisbourg. So
• 1:14:00
  long story short, the Lewisbourg airport is closed and Contour doesn't let anybody know
• 1:14:05
  about this that holds a Contour ticket. I'm there at the American desk and
• 1:14:10
  my stuff is I'm not able to like, nothing is checking in for me,
• 1:14:13
  the baggage, the ticket and all. And the American workers at the
• 1:14:16
  desk have no idea why they never seen anything like it. You know,
• 1:14:20
  I got the confirmation and everything, and they pull the supervisor over, pull
• 1:14:26
  another supervisor over, they're trying to make this thing work on the computer.
• 1:14:29
  It's not happening. Too late, can't catch the flight, just waiting all
• 1:14:33
  the time gone, you got to perform that night. Yes, I'm like,
• 1:14:35
  all right, eight hour drive. I'll get down, rent a car
• 1:14:40
  and get up there to Lewisbourg. All there's a ton of things going on
• 1:14:43
  in Nashville that weekend, big festival, Americana Fest. All the rental cars
• 1:14:48
  are gone, and my tour managers like, well, there's a box U
• 1:14:55
  haul truck that's available over here on the east side, and that I'm like,
• 1:15:00
  we're taking that. So me and my manager go and get this U
• 1:15:04
  haul box truck and we drive it up to Louisbourg that day to make that
• 1:15:09
  show, so you know, and rolling and park right next to the buses.
• 1:15:15
  And the funny thing too, is my band is already there with the
• 1:15:17
  rig and everything. So we just have our two bags and in my one
• 1:15:21
  like travel guitar in this entire box truck. So we like go back and
• 1:15:27
  lift up the garage door of the box truck and there's just two suitcases of
• 1:15:30
  a guitar and just a giant infty room. But that was that was the
• 1:15:33
  situation of the day. So it was you know, had you got a
• 1:15:40
  call from your guys earlier in the day say hey, are you coming?
• 1:15:43
  Your response is just simply efforting, true efforting, That's all you had to
• 1:15:45
  say. Yeah, just that had been eight hours. That had been the
• 1:15:49
  text, wife and kids are on the way down. How are things getting
• 1:15:53
  along? Effortingf he one listener first time text or Dave cheat Lake. Your
• 1:15:59
  UCF pre game show was a great accompaniment to the Fall Foliage to our for
• 1:16:03
  our drive to Gaylax, Virginia to participate in the Zoom Barbecue competition this past
• 1:16:08
  weekend. Upon finishing the show, the fue light came on. We made
• 1:16:11
  a pit stop at the Gomar past the New River Gorge. I also grabbed
• 1:16:15
  a Pepperoni rolling coffee. We had a great weekend and even brought home some
• 1:16:17
  hardware. Gave the contest organizer the thanks for having us on our way out.
• 1:16:23
  Love the show. Here's some picks. Look at the food he made.
• 1:16:25
  Look at that Charles Senate, I would crush like those, but he
• 1:16:30
  got six there done, same like it would be. And then there's the
• 1:16:32
  other one. You got that in you don't you? Tony I got over,
• 1:16:35
  read over, you got that. But yeah, that overeating thing.
• 1:16:39
  I've often talked to me myself about it, and just like you're grow you're
• 1:16:42
  a grown man now, you just can't control yourself, can't control yourself.
• 1:16:45
  He does the same thing too. Hey, we all have our things.
• 1:16:48
  Yeah, I guess it could be worse, right, it could be something
• 1:16:53
  good morning. Three guys kept catching up a Sunday show in the Shack conversation.
• 1:16:56
  Enjoy the photos for comparisons to see how big Shack is. It was
• 1:17:00
  great Me and you Tony. This is John and Marshall kind of legal says
• 1:17:01
  this to that guy was a big guy. I met him at the motel
• 1:17:04
  that we stayed at the next day. He's taking pictures out there. Yeah,
• 1:17:09
  so I'm six four. Yeah, go back to the other one.
• 1:17:13
  So I'm six four, So that guy's about six four, makes him look
• 1:17:16
  five six next to Shack. Yeah, that's something man. Yeah, then
• 1:17:20
  he sneaks snuck in. I didn't know this guy took this picture either.
• 1:17:24
  So that's us in our boots. See how tiny that booth was. Bread,
• 1:17:26
  Yeah, Shaq took that or the other guy the other guy. Oh
• 1:17:29
  yeah, I don't think shak was up there. Diesel was Shaq could take
• 1:17:30
  that and he'd just be standing behind him and standing right behind him on level
• 1:17:34
  ground. Yeah, he was doing his JITs. He just took the picture
• 1:17:39
  right there. That's what it looked like. He he was doing his DJ
• 1:17:42
  thing as Diesel. He performed for the show. Yeah, they have him
• 1:17:45
  at They love having them in the festivals, you know, because a great
• 1:17:48
  draw and draws a great yeah. Yeah, uh Texter. A wife that
• 1:17:53
  listens to three guys, then my hubsband must listen to me tell him everything
• 1:17:58
  you said. I listened to football, but basketball has my heart. I'm
• 1:18:00
  hoping to hear a breakdown of the upcoming season soon. We love going to
• 1:18:04
  the games, but being this far south makes it hard, and listening to
• 1:18:08
  your previews and recaps help ease the pain. My son's a freshman at WV
• 1:18:12
  this year, so he's enjoyed home games for all of us. Signed by
• 1:18:15
  Laurie from Monroe County. Of course, Monroe County one of the most beautiful
• 1:18:17
  counties in the state of West Virginia. Absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous county. Thank
• 1:18:25
  you for listening, Laurie. We do appreciate it. Basketball and I just
• 1:18:28
  thought of something. Dude, Well we're going to record Sunday. Oh yeah,
• 1:18:31
  I guess we couldn't prey talk about it Sunday. Yeah, Okay,
• 1:18:33
  we'kout we're going to do Monday, so that's fine. Yeah, basketball's got
• 1:18:38
  the situation here, going to Charles losing these dudes. I can't wait,
• 1:18:42
  man, I can't wait to watch how these guys do this year. You
• 1:18:45
  talk about the ultimate challenge, Yeah, it's been I can't remember a time
• 1:18:48
  in West Virginia's program in my lifetime where we've had a year like this,
• 1:18:54
  And wouldn't it be something if they went out there and did something special this
• 1:18:58
  year? Yes? Yeah, absolutely. Matt and Roanoke, Virginia. I'm
• 1:19:01
  a longtime listener, first time Texter, graduated in twenty fourteen. I live
• 1:19:05
  in Roanoke. I'm married into a diehard Virginia Tech family. Speaking of not
• 1:19:10
  wearing Virginia Tech gear to a Virginia Tech game last year, I was able
• 1:19:13
  to walk and talk my father in law into loaning me his hockey club box
• 1:19:17
  pass during the West Virginia game against Tech. My wife and I march into
• 1:19:21
  the box suite full WV gear. We got our free hot dog bottle of
• 1:19:27
  water. We watched Sam James score a touchdown on the box suitees TV.
• 1:19:30
  After the score, we gave all the disgruntled hockey fans a look and said,
• 1:19:33
  thanks for having us made our way back to our seats. Never wear
• 1:19:36
  Virginia tech gear no matter the situation, just my thoughts on the matter.
• 1:19:40
  Thank you. Seems like you mean all right? He did ye if he
• 1:19:44
  took the food, got a touchdown. We were checking into the hotel and
• 1:19:47
  going through security at the stadium Saturday, and the girl checking us said,
• 1:19:56
  will you West Virginia guys go? Yeah. Sam James is my nephew.
• 1:20:00
  Small world, small world man. Always always a West Virginia connection. You
• 1:20:04
  know that. For Hey, three guys, longtime listener. I'm watching the
• 1:20:08
  Mountaineers takedown. You see, if my son and I were ending the long
• 1:20:11
  drive from Mineral County, West Virginia to America's Georgia went on a wild boar
• 1:20:15
  hunt. We're big hunters. During the game, it reminded me of Tony's
• 1:20:18
  boar hunt controversy. As the Knights fell on my phone watching the game at
• 1:20:24
  the motel, we waited for the night to fall and my son killed this
• 1:20:28
  Georgia boor hawk. Good loss. We are longtime season ticket holders. Keep
• 1:20:32
  up the good work, love the show, trust the climb. Let's go
• 1:20:36
  mountaineers. Look at that dad boy, that's that's that's a holl right there.
• 1:20:44
  Well done. He's a kiddo too, right, Yeah, a little
• 1:20:45
  kid got that thing. Man. Hey, good shot, Bud. I'd
• 1:20:48
  like the story on that. I got two with one shot in February?
• 1:20:51
  Did you ever? I did? You got two with one? Got two
• 1:20:56
  with one? I was on the ground and then stepped out in the window
• 1:21:00
  and down there seventy five yards and those woods is a long way. How
• 1:21:03
  thick it is? And yeah it's you know, it steps out in this
• 1:21:06
  window, and you know they'll travel, thirty of them, you know,
• 1:21:11
  in a little pack, and you know I make the shot and turns out
• 1:21:15
  a smaller one. It also stepped out in that same window right there next
• 1:21:18
  to it. Bang bang. Yeah, it's all good though. We had
• 1:21:21
  three tags. So did they both go down instantaneous? Yeah? It went
• 1:21:26
  down. Yeah, And yours weren't already sleeping when you shot them. They
• 1:21:29
  were moving, Yeah, they were walking and eating good. Yeah. My
• 1:21:32
  father in law, he got one and it worked out where I got the
• 1:21:35
  two two done right there. So first time this said anybody's come on here
• 1:21:39
  live with a story of killing a boar, while it was actually a wake
• 1:21:42
  Oh deer, he's talking about deer. Oh dear, I think you said
• 1:21:47
  you in Florida. Yeah, oh you were in Florida. I thought you
• 1:21:50
  were in West Virginia. No, no, no, I'll go deer hunting
• 1:21:53
  here at the end of the morning. I was going to ask you if
• 1:21:54
  you're going, Oh, yeah, yeah, I can't. Where do you
• 1:21:56
  go? Where do you go? Hey, got County? It's the way
• 1:22:03
  orcs man. See, I thought you're gonna I thought you were gonna a
• 1:22:08
  little Seneca. Are you a little down there? You'll be down there at
• 1:22:11
  Seneca? Yeah? Oh, and you know what we were talking about.
• 1:22:13
  Always a West Virginia connection, getting uh. They call her hair and Makeup
• 1:22:17
  But just like the grease stuff off of our face before we run, we
• 1:22:21
  tape for CBS Saturday morning last week and it'll be on this Saturday. Really
• 1:22:27
  the hair and makeup lady from Buchanan Wait say time Square, Wait time at
• 1:22:32
  r L Studio, Wait wait, wait wait, And her husband is from
• 1:22:35
  Bucanan. Yeah, it was like, wait a second, you just you
• 1:22:39
  just throw at us. Yeah, we're gonna be on CBS. You're gonna
• 1:22:41
  be on CBS Sunday Morning. Yeah, what's the story? Saturday Morning?
• 1:22:44
  Saturday Morning so hoppy. Kerchival was also on CBS Saturday Morning featured him all
• 1:22:47
  for real. Yeah, there we go. He was known as the Mansion
• 1:22:50
  Whisperer. That was the title of his he does so what, so what's
• 1:22:56
  your feature? What's the story? Just singing a song? We did three
• 1:22:59
  songs, and I think, oh, you always when they bring the band
• 1:23:01
  at the end of the at the end of the first hour and then yeah,
• 1:23:03
  you know, at the end of the show, will be the will
• 1:23:05
  be the band. Oh dude, I didn't know you were doing that.
• 1:23:09
  Yeah, that's big. Yeah, it's great. But you know, like
• 1:23:12
  I said, the hair and makeup lady all my husband's from Banan, you
• 1:23:15
  know, it's great. And everywhere I run into that, there's there's things
• 1:23:19
  like that that really is true. There's always that truly is you know what.
• 1:23:26
  You know the Maverick You ever heard the Mavericks, that big group.
• 1:23:29
  Okay, so I saw them for the very first time on that CBS Saturday
• 1:23:32
  morning when they play, and that's so I started. I got to listen
• 1:23:34
  to this stuff, and so I've been listening to them. So like that's
• 1:23:36
  gonna happen to you. People are going to hear you Saturday. They're fine,
• 1:23:41
  are they? Morgantown's and Shawn Wilhelm big Mavericks fan? Is that right?
• 1:23:45
  Yeah? I think he's down down in Key West now, Uh,
• 1:23:47
  but anyways, he's a he's a huge Mavericks fan. He was my old
• 1:23:50
  bass player. Awesome. Let me see here a great fun fact from Saturday.
• 1:23:56
  The last time West Virginia won a league game in the state of Florida
• 1:23:59
  was twenty eleve USF. Interesting enough, we wore the same uniform combo that
• 1:24:03
  we wore Saturday, blue white blue. Yet that year we lost three,
• 1:24:08
  but we won the conference, smashed the Dabos and the Orange Bowl, and
• 1:24:11
  I'll remember. Great win. Now let's go get byu, Texter. I've
• 1:24:17
  been trying to get to know about our new conference members. For instance,
• 1:24:20
  I learned that the team in Florida must be called the UCF Knights, not
• 1:24:26
  the University of Central Florida or the Golden Knights. I wonder if saying it
• 1:24:29
  wrong is the equivalent of people calling the World Champion Mountaineers the University of West
• 1:24:32
  Virginia or spelling our abbreviation WVa. Anyway, I got a question that may
• 1:24:38
  help to learn more about the fine folks from BYU. If their fans walk
• 1:24:42
  by your tailgate, would it be considered bad form to ask them if they
• 1:24:45
  would like a beer or maybe some moonshine? What about a soda? We
• 1:24:49
  don't want to offend our new conference mates. I got no idea. I
• 1:24:55
  think you just play. You just get them over food foo over exactly.
• 1:25:00
  You just go like, hey, can we get you something? And then
• 1:25:01
  they'll make the call on yes. And that's always a good move man.
• 1:25:05
  For you know, West Virginia fans be nice to the other fans as they're
• 1:25:09
  coming in, envite them into your tailgate. It's a good move because I've
• 1:25:13
  been in a West Virginia fan in an away game, and folks are nice.
• 1:25:15
  I always remember that in a positive light. Yes, let me see
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  John from Alabama who used to be in Parkersburg, big red guy, Hello,
• 1:25:28
  my ten year old son and I are coming up to the BYU game
• 1:25:30
  for something much more powerful than textual healing. You see, it's been a
• 1:25:33
  difficult raising a Sun to be a mountaineer fan in Alabama. My son Tate
• 1:25:38
  does an incredible job of taking all the jab from the Bama fans at school
• 1:25:42
  and at sports practices on Mondays after a loss. Anyway, I'm fearing that
• 1:25:45
  he's starting to be persuaded to come over to the SEC dark side. We
• 1:25:50
  got a rear break in travel sports this week, and we're coming to Morgantown
• 1:25:54
  to try to experience a victory and rolling out the red carpet for him flying
• 1:25:58
  instead of driving. Nice hotel for two nights at the waterfront, Nice pregame
• 1:26:01
  meal consisting of fly rod slim Gyms, pumpkin reces cups, pepper running rolls,
• 1:26:05
  and a few kerchieve elves for my efforts of course, well catching a
• 1:26:10
  glimpse of his favorite player, pac Man Fox at the Man trip, Tate
• 1:26:14
  will be listening as usual. We love the show. Any other advice would
• 1:26:16
  be appreciated. Well, Charles is going to be at the game. I'd
• 1:26:19
  say try to find Charles somewhere in the crowd and get your picture made with
• 1:26:23
  Charles. You're going to game Saturday. I am man just the only weekend
• 1:26:26
  you're not working the season. Yeah, yeah, I think it's working out.
• 1:26:30
  It's kind of worked out that way. Perfect. You're gonna be in
• 1:26:33
  Morgantown four nights in a row. You've already sold out here. Yeah,
• 1:26:38
  it'd be a good time. But you ever played there? No, No,
• 1:26:42
  I haven't. I haven't been. I haven't even been inside the building
• 1:26:45
  since I saw Kendrick Lamar there in college. How about that? Which you
• 1:26:48
  know he'd be playing the coliseum for two nights if he came back. But
• 1:26:53
  yeah, so I can't wait. I heard it. They renovated it,
• 1:26:56
  and it's nice. It's real nice. They've done a real nice job.
• 1:26:59
  Yeah, I can't wait for game this weekend. Guys, it's gonna be
• 1:27:01
  This is a big one. It's important. How are you as a fan
• 1:27:04
  during a game? Are you animated? Are you chilled out? I'm pretty
• 1:27:10
  animated. Samantha has to tell you to chill I was watching, like to
• 1:27:15
  give you an example. You know, we're in this like we were playing
• 1:27:17
  Green Hall and it's right outside of New Brunfels, Texas a couple of weeks
• 1:27:23
  ago during the Oak State game, and my front of house guy is a
• 1:27:27
  Oak State fan and some of my bandon and I were all in this cottage
• 1:27:30
  and we're watching the game and that that punt return and or black thereof and
• 1:27:41
  the punt happened there and they were all out that door in about five.
• 1:27:47
  I mean, sometimes it's just involuntary and you know that's you get that,
• 1:27:54
  But then you get weeks like last week, and that was what a fun
• 1:27:56
  game to watch, Man, that was. That was a great week.
• 1:28:00
  Yeah, three guys just wanted to give a quick shout out to p One,
• 1:28:02
  Shannon and d C who got married at the Ericson Alumni Center last Saturday.
• 1:28:06
  We started the day with a tour of the Man's basketball facility, followed
• 1:28:11
  by lunch at Mario's Fishbowl. We watched the world champion Mountaineers take down UCF
• 1:28:15
  all before the ceremony. Perfect day for a noon Eastern kickoff. A truly
• 1:28:19
  great day. All caps Eastern there. Yeah, all capsas're referring to you
• 1:28:24
  guys. Yeah, to you guys, moving mountains. We appreciate changing those
• 1:28:28
  big twelve media. Yeah, took away schedules, took a decade. It's
• 1:28:31
  been a lot of hammering away. It's beautiful to see though, my god,
• 1:28:34
  real, seriously, it was. It was a great feel. Hey
• 1:28:38
  do we have a picture of that Luke four guys in suits at the Ericson
• 1:28:41
  Alumni Center. I think that was in there as well. Yeah, he
• 1:28:45
  gave you so you didn't read the signature there, oh, signed by I
• 1:28:48
  got you signed by Brian and Chandler Arizona, the heart of Big twelve country.
• 1:28:55
  Uh, Texter, I'm just hoping. I was just listening to you
• 1:28:58
  read the records of the football in the back basketball team since the show began.
• 1:29:00
  Did those records include the Kansas forfeited wins in the Big twelve Tournament championship?
• 1:29:05
  Good point, might have to adjust the numbers a little. Without Brad
• 1:29:08
  badmouthing the NC double A and there are no rules, we would never have
• 1:29:11
  won the Big twelve Championship. Thanks Brad. Now hanging the damn banner,
• 1:29:15
  Glenn Scott Deepop, can we talk a second about this? Absolutely love to
• 1:29:17
  I mean hashtag HTB by the way, episode eight hundred doucs and I think
• 1:29:20
  you kind of laid the roadmap there a couple of weeks ago. The university
• 1:29:24
  just needs to do what's right, no matter what, and then just let
• 1:29:29
  it. If the NC DOUBLEA wants to go to court, you just drag
• 1:29:32
  them for years. Hang the banner, change go in there and scratch the
• 1:29:36
  name, like change the number of wins in the season. Let these guys
• 1:29:41
  play. Yeah what just say? What did? I don't anything to anybody
• 1:29:45
  else. I've never seen anything like it. Man, it's it's it's something
• 1:29:48
  else. So I hear it all fired up. But like cat you,
• 1:29:51
  I hear it. So the deal on that is like UCF did that with
• 1:29:55
  the National Championship. You go into a stadium, dude, as big as
• 1:29:58
  your I mean as big as you. You can see it says twenty seventeen
• 1:30:01
  National Football Champion They did rings in the whole thing, the whole thing.
• 1:30:05
  See if you do that, though, basically, here's the concern. I'll
• 1:30:09
  explain why. If you do that, you're giving the finger to the NC
• 1:30:12
  double A, and you they might go like, okay, you gave us
• 1:30:15
  the finger. But down the road, oh, they might not allow.
• 1:30:18
  They might deny a waiver to you, Then they might make another. They
• 1:30:21
  might deny another waiver. Then they might allow somebody else in the league to
• 1:30:25
  still get the win. They might do what else, I gonna do.
• 1:30:29
  Are already getting it, it's already taking it, like yeah, you know,
• 1:30:35
  all right, fine, here we go. That's the HTV. Tony's
• 1:30:39
  always the more sensible in the matters because we've talked about this stuff, you
• 1:30:43
  know, as it comes up over the years in private situations, and Tony's
• 1:30:45
  always very sensible in it. You know. Yeah, you're probably right,
• 1:30:49
  Tony. Yeah. I mean there are certain things where I just put the
• 1:30:53
  hammer down and say this is what we're doing. But there are other things
• 1:30:56
  I just know how the whole thing works. Well, he's right. I
• 1:30:58
  mean, he's right. You can't. You can't. Can't do it.
• 1:31:00
  They can't. I get it. You should be able to, Yeah,
• 1:31:02
  you should be able to. It's the same thing in the music industry.
• 1:31:04
  Sometimes you just put your head down, keep moving because otherwise they'll blackball you.
• 1:31:10
  How political is the music scene everything? Sometimes I feel like a politician.
• 1:31:15
  Yeah, it's something three guys. They can't actually hang the banner.
• 1:31:18
  But that's why we do the shirt ht because that's our that's our little way
• 1:31:21
  of getting a little sense of victory after getting hosed because they used an illegal
• 1:31:26
  guy that went for a double double in the big twelve Champions. Seriously though,
• 1:31:29
  maybe maybe those guys want to get rings, you know what I mean,
• 1:31:32
  just so you know, sure, make a big ceremony of it,
• 1:31:35
  But I seriously do want to I want to have a banner back there.
• 1:31:39
  I do want to get the one I was. Why just make a banner
• 1:31:43
  and just hang it, just hang the band just so we can, just
• 1:31:45
  so we can laugh, like heck every time we come in and says we'll
• 1:31:47
  hang it. Big twelve Champions. Yeah when and you know Nate Adrian was
• 1:31:51
  on that team, wouldn't he Yeah, probably seventeen Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:31:57
  so you know when he comes back from Italy, maybe he's got some
• 1:31:59
  ice on the thing. Wouldn't hurt you know what I'm saying. I'm with
• 1:32:04
  you. You know those guy's got robbed. Yeah. Hey, three guys
• 1:32:08
  Shane Shane not Morgan from Morgantown, Proud Mohegan and Mountaineerlum longtime listener, first
• 1:32:14
  time text he loved the show. Love the way I stay connected. It's
• 1:32:16
  been nice way to give my wife a peek into the wild. Wonderful as
• 1:32:19
  well. Big congrats. I'm passing five hundred shows currently. I'm in Robinson
• 1:32:24
  Illinois, working in hr for the same company as my esteemed colleagues, Mountaineer
• 1:32:29
  basketball legends Cam Thurman and Kevin Noreen. We were married last year out in
• 1:32:33
  Big Twelve Country, the other mountain state, Utah, where my wife's from.
• 1:32:39
  She's unique in that, although she's a BYU alum, she and her
• 1:32:42
  family actually root for future conference opponent, the University of Utah. That being
• 1:32:45
  said, her and I are making the eight hour trip to Morgantown for the
• 1:32:48
  matchup of our respective alma maters. Her parents are flying in from Salt Lake
• 1:32:54
  for an in law tour of my home state, and I'm proud to report
• 1:32:57
  that myself and these three Utah natives will be sporty our best West Virginia gear
• 1:33:01
  for the Mountaineers and hoping for a crushing of the Kooks. Here's hoping the
• 1:33:05
  missus and the parents in law I get the opportunity to enjoy college football's best
• 1:33:10
  tradition, singing along to our favorite Johnny boy Denver classic. You were supposed
• 1:33:15
  to sing your song Q Country Roads at the stadium, I was, yeah,
• 1:33:19
  it was the Uh, it's supposed to be the homecoming game on the
• 1:33:26
  right. Twenty eighth right, which we know the homecoming game was not on
• 1:33:30
  the twenty eighth, It was the twenty first, in fact, and I
• 1:33:33
  was in Texas. So once we figured that out and I put the kebash
• 1:33:38
  on that, it's all good. Though. Maybe sometimes one of these days.
• 1:33:41
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've been playing it, man, I
• 1:33:43
  mean they love it. Nate from the Land of Joe Alexander Tony Hoppey,
• 1:33:47
  Senator. I'm sure Brad will probably do a deep analysis on this after the
• 1:33:51
  season is over. But you two knuckleheads who can't can't understand yards per route
• 1:33:58
  run. But if you were to rate our most recent football portal class based
• 1:34:00
  on how they're performing to this point against other Big twelve classes, how do
• 1:34:04
  you rank them? Thinking about this as a class versus an individual. Yeah,
• 1:34:10
  that's postseason. On an unrelated note, I listened to Neil's shows press
• 1:34:15
  conference every week, and I've noticed that Andrew Kree is more soft spoken than
• 1:34:19
  it results in me constantly turning the volume up. Thank you very much,
• 1:34:25
  Nate. I've sent along a note to Junior to turn his microphone up the
• 1:34:30
  uh. Speaking of the some some big time difference transfers Cole Taylor. Yeah,
• 1:34:35
  I see you tweet just about every weekend catch catch catch catch has been.
• 1:34:42
  It's been a big difference this year, you know, having him well,
• 1:34:45
  catching some of his balls on. Coach Blaine Stewart over there, getting
• 1:34:47
  them all, getting them ramped up, getting it done. Man. I
• 1:34:49
  ran into Brian Kelly a couple of weeks ago, say, hey, coach,
• 1:34:54
  just want to thank you for Cole Taylor. You get a version of
• 1:34:59
  thanks for having us. Man. He's been doing really well for us.
• 1:35:00
  I just want to thank you for that. And he goes, man,
• 1:35:02
  thank you for Jordan Jefferson. He's doing that's all done by him. That's
• 1:35:08
  trail. You got me right now. You take care, coach. Any
• 1:35:11
  tell me want to come out to show you. So you were down there,
• 1:35:14
  Yeah, I was in Baton Ruders played the Texas Club and saw the
• 1:35:17
  facilities building and stuff. They got some nice stuff. I was texting Blaine
• 1:35:21
  after. I was like, man, we got to get a walk through
• 1:35:23
  roomy kinds of stuff. They're getting it nice stuff. I was. Kelly
• 1:35:27
  was all right, oh yeah, super nice. Yeah it's good with you.
• 1:35:30
  Yeah. Yeah, hey guys, we got our shirts. No worries
• 1:35:34
  ms. Patty peeled off the paper stickers and we ran them through the laundry
• 1:35:39
  and iron them before we wore them out in public. Also, I did
• 1:35:42
  didn't get popped in the mouth. I forgot. I had a dip in
• 1:35:44
  my lip when the picture was taken. Either. They are right there.
• 1:35:47
  Aside from a nice dinner, the shirts were our anniversary present to each other.
• 1:35:51
  What better definition of efforting than a long marriage signed by Steven Pat Wilson
• 1:35:56
  and Tornado, West Virginia. Thank me, he said, I forgot.
• 1:36:00
  I had to dip in my mouth there at the anniversary too. Absolute.
• 1:36:01
  They're wonderful. Love that they're huge fans and they grow sem Arizona tomatoes in
• 1:36:06
  their garden. Realm. Yeah they do. Yeah, they talked to me
• 1:36:11
  about that last year at TBT. Yeah. Currently Christmas shopping on episode eight
• 1:36:15
  hundred dot com? Can we arrange for Hoppy to model the three guys cropped
• 1:36:18
  Windbreakers signed by Dana from Houston. They might put that on What's gonna Happen
• 1:36:24
  to Episode eight hundred dot com? Once you guys are passed a probably not
• 1:36:28
  gonna have probably not going to see episode the Hunters. So I mean,
• 1:36:31
  so you guys are getting about one hundred a year. You did one hundred
• 1:36:35
  and about thirteen approximately, Yeah, seventy eighty. It's gonna be pretty soon.
• 1:36:42
  You still got what three hundred to go. I don't know, dude,
• 1:36:45
  You're just gonna start start playing in because I think there's only going to
• 1:36:49
  be more and more folks tuning in to the program. You know. It's
• 1:36:53
  like this, Charles is like when those record companies, like they keep pushing
• 1:36:56
  their talent for more and more album. You need another album. You need
• 1:36:59
  to kind of where we are right now. We've got so much creative juice.
• 1:37:02
  Once that juice is gone, it's going to happen. Grant from Parkersburg.
• 1:37:09
  I just read West Virginia's release on Careesa's suspension for receiving impermissible benefits with
• 1:37:14
  nil. How is it openly utilized? Being openly utilized? What possibly is
• 1:37:18
  an impermissible benefit? Honest question? Because it's extremely confused. Okay, I'll
• 1:37:23
  give it to you really super simple. There are still rules you can break,
• 1:37:28
  and one of those rules you can break is if you receive a benefit
• 1:37:30
  for free, you cannot sell it. Plain and simple. That's what it
• 1:37:36
  is. Plain and simple, That's what it is. Curtis and Portland Head.
• 1:37:41
  Well you can just get money though, if you want to go to
• 1:37:43
  that school, that football or basketba park, would just give you money to
• 1:37:45
  go play there. Now that now that rule is not in the books anymore.
• 1:37:48
  That rule is still in the books. Well you should. It's supposedly
• 1:37:51
  it's not pay for play if you go through the NIL chapters that you can
• 1:37:57
  do commercial or something there to get correct you have to do something to get
• 1:38:01
  the money you do. Mm hm huh. So some things are not illegal,
• 1:38:09
  but some are. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, now,
• 1:38:13
  how I would get money and not play a game and leave, But you
• 1:38:17
  can receive money now for things you can receive money. I don't dispute the
• 1:38:21
  fact that there is a lot of convoluted stuff going on, but there are
• 1:38:28
  still certain things to be Selective enforcement is in place again. M yeah,
• 1:38:34
  huh, here's that finger again. Selected enforcement or follow the rules because they
• 1:38:40
  might decide to enforce things on you. Texter, I received my care package
• 1:38:44
  from episode eight hundred. I'm pumped to wear my efforting shirts. So when
• 1:38:47
  asked about it, well, pretty much anything, I can simply point to
• 1:38:50
  the shirt and walk off. I also ordered some of the three Beans before
• 1:38:55
  the Day coffee, which is excellent. My wife is from Bogata, Columbia.
• 1:38:59
  She's a coffee I put it to the test this morning and she passed
• 1:39:02
  it with flying colors. We will definitely be ordering more. As always,
• 1:39:05
  I love the show and appreciate you all do for the years in the state.
• 1:39:09
  Thank you. Signed by whodoo Chris in Houston. Appreciate that Andy writes
• 1:39:14
  in responding to the text about football players and mouthpieces. No, mouthpieces are
• 1:39:20
  not required to be used. Many players have them but don't use them.
• 1:39:24
  In high school they are required, but college athletes are adults. They get
• 1:39:28
  to make that decision. Just take a look at how many of these athletes
• 1:39:30
  wear their pants. Knee pads aren't even close to covering the player's knee.
• 1:39:35
  Just a sign of the times in the evolving game. Just my two cents
• 1:39:39
  from officiating twenty years of football. I appreciate you guys. Signed by Andy
• 1:39:43
  McPherson, not from McPherson, Kansas. Excellent. Andy always weighs in with
• 1:39:46
  the rules. Appreciate that a read from New Jersey thinks I'll do this quick.
• 1:39:53
  He says, I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, But this latest
• 1:39:56
  basket ball issue has me begging this question. It's the firing of Shane Lions
• 1:40:00
  and the unceremonious departure. We've seen Jose Perez with a waiver denial and an
• 1:40:06
  appeal denial, Omar Silverio with a waiver denied that ends his career, Rayquon
• 1:40:11
  Battle with a waiver denial. Kirkcarese is suspended for nine games for something apparently
• 1:40:15
  that happened at Arizona. I can't help but think that Shane Lions and his
• 1:40:18
  connections to the NCAA have something to do with this. What do the three
• 1:40:23
  of you? Say? Read from New Jersey emphatically read I can tell you
• 1:40:28
  this absolutely zero zero. You say you're not a conspiracy theorist. Read don't
• 1:40:39
  go yet. You're right, you're not. No trust me when I tell
• 1:40:42
  you that each of those cases had the reasoning behind them. Shane is not,
• 1:40:46
  nor would he do all that. I wonder if you would have had
• 1:40:50
  more success if Battle would have just arrived like here a month from now,
• 1:40:54
  like in December, and then you just went ahead and used him in January
• 1:40:58
  a couple weeks later, rather than trying to go through the proper channels and
• 1:41:00
  do it the correct way. It might if that would have helped, I
• 1:41:03
  don't know, maybe it wouldn't. The next gentleman wrote along a letter that's
• 1:41:08
  too long, Jim and Williamsburg. I'll just paraphrase it. He's really mad
• 1:41:12
  that the yellow buses no longer run to get people back and forth to the
• 1:41:15
  stadium. Apparently they stopped in Covid and he wanted to know if we could
• 1:41:23
  do anything about it. But he said this, We enjoyed the game despite
• 1:41:26
  the loss. This was the Oklahoma State highlight of the trip was finally securing
• 1:41:29
  two four packs of kerchavel It's everything you said it was. The point of
• 1:41:32
  this is to suggest that the lot of the Colosseum was empty, and it's
• 1:41:35
  away from the stadium. We would have gladly paid more for the yellow busses
• 1:41:39
  efforty. We do a lot of things. We were done buses. Kirchvelle
• 1:41:43
  is hot. You tried it? Oh yeah, yeah, that's great.
• 1:41:45
  I had it over at the Pothcarey. Now, you wouldn't think like maybe
• 1:41:49
  someday, like when you're on stage, like maybe have can placed on a
• 1:41:54
  seat somewhere the people kind of he's already given it. If you all want
• 1:41:58
  to send it out to uh each venue, I'll be at To be honest,
• 1:42:05
  I very rarely drink drink anymore. Yes, I can definitely put it
• 1:42:10
  up there. You know, it's like a placeholder like Looke, like Nick
• 1:42:13
  Saban, he doesn't drink that Coca cola that to make him put on that
• 1:42:15
  podium. My bass player, fellow W Grant, he probably gladly put it
• 1:42:19
  up there. Yeah, efforting, Yeah, Texter. This is from auctioneer
• 1:42:29
  ESPN plus lover and keeper of the Bell. Anthony Beck's son Rocco was having
• 1:42:32
  a good year at Iowa State. He's a quarterback there. Why do you
• 1:42:36
  think West Virginia did not give him an offer when he was coming out of
• 1:42:39
  high school? Also, I attended the Oklahoma State game and noticed that the
• 1:42:43
  big twelve pennant flag at Mountain near field says Central Florida, not UCF.
• 1:42:46
  The Knights won't be pleased. As always loved the show Kevin and Princeton,
• 1:42:51
  And so the the rock O Beck thing was when Nico Markioll was coming in
• 1:42:56
  correct, and that was it. They talked to Nico. They talked to
• 1:42:59
  Rocco. Yeah, he visited buch times. He is having a really good
• 1:43:00
  year for I have of Staates nice job. Yes, he is having a
• 1:43:03
  tremendous yue. Yeah. I mentioned all those those stats at Garrett's high in
• 1:43:06
  the league. In Rocco's right there. He's having an unbelievable freshman year for
• 1:43:10
  them. So good for him, and probably wouldn't have been on the field
• 1:43:13
  if it wasn't for Hunter Decker, their quarterback, getting busted and booted for
• 1:43:15
  gambling. He probably is in the backup the whole year. Yeah, hey,
• 1:43:19
  three guys, which the way he's playing would have been a mistake.
• 1:43:23
  He's going to respect on Hunter Deckers. But Rocos having a great Absolutely,
• 1:43:28
  given all the unfortunate issues with a basketball program, do you think Wren gives
• 1:43:31
  josh an additional year to really give him a fair chance. I don't,
• 1:43:38
  to be quite honest with you, I think whatever it is, it is,
• 1:43:41
  and I don't see that happening. To be quite honest with you,
• 1:43:44
  it would. It would surprise me. That's just my gut. Yeah,
• 1:43:46
  I'd love to see him do great. I want to see Josh win absolutely,
• 1:43:53
  you know, if that's the case, and Josh interviews for jobs somewhere
• 1:43:56
  else. Can you imagine the level of experience on just wild stuff he has
• 1:44:01
  on his resume. I mean, he's gonna walk into whatever job he's interviewing
• 1:44:04
  for in the future. I don't even know if he needs to say it.
• 1:44:06
  He's what sinces, what do you? What do you have? Go
• 1:44:09
  ahead and make up a scenario and try and throw it at me. I've
• 1:44:11
  probably dealt with it in my six months. Any an unbelievable start for Josh.
• 1:44:15
  You're never gonna see worse. You're exact situation stuff. So he's getting
• 1:44:19
  through this great, I think, And it's great. Hopefully these guys have
• 1:44:24
  a great year. And you know, I hope it sets them up,
• 1:44:27
  whether you know it's here or wherever, I hope it sets them up.
• 1:44:30
  Well. Yeah, Shannon and d C. I wanted to reach out give
• 1:44:33
  a huge thank you to find looking Phil and his team of Daniels. This
• 1:44:36
  past weekend I got married. My ride to town, I realized I forgot
• 1:44:41
  my shirts for the rehearsal and the wedding. Oh this isn't gonna end.
• 1:44:44
  Well. I didn't tell my partner because I knew he would have had a
• 1:44:46
  meltdown. I also knew exactly where I had to go to get what I
• 1:44:49
  needed. Phil had me measured shirt tailored into jiffy. Thanks for him to
• 1:44:54
  get in take care of and me, signed by Shannon. You know what
• 1:44:56
  that word jeffy. Jeffy is not used enough anymore. Exactly what that meant.
• 1:45:00
  He did it in a jiffy. That's how Phil works, not to
• 1:45:02
  master Taylor's fels. Fast. Back when they didn't have our luggage at the
• 1:45:06
  wedding, Tony, we probably could have called Phil, and Phil probably could
• 1:45:10
  have fed xd us a suit overnight and it would have been there. It
• 1:45:13
  would have done or he would have think there's any question he would have sent
• 1:45:15
  Harry the Taylor over with just a bunch of fabric. He would a custom
• 1:45:18
  made one for us while we were standing bolta fabric established on the last show,
• 1:45:21
  married in a customed Daniels suit. There you go, just because you
• 1:45:26
  know nobody else would rather go to Charles and I both had our luggage not
• 1:45:30
  arrive till that story. Yeah, mailman from Mercer County. Oh, here's
• 1:45:33
  a mailman from Mercer County. Episode three fifty February two, twenty twenty two,
• 1:45:38
  Tony asked for someone to write a song called Textual Healing. Episode three
• 1:45:43
  fifty two February the seventh of twenty two. David Saw produces Textual Healing,
• 1:45:47
  Soab goes on to produce top ten hits such as Hoppy Go Lucky Hoppy Song
• 1:45:51
  on episode four oh nine October the seventeenth of twenty two. Spreads on stats
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  Brad Song on episode four forty two February the fourteenth of twenty I have spent
• 1:46:00
  more than six months consuming two to three episodes per day of three Guys before
• 1:46:05
  the game, starting with episode one. I have more useless information, but
• 1:46:11
  we'll shared from time to time in order to keep the text brief. Ps.
• 1:46:15
  I have to do something to occupy my mind during the countless hours of
• 1:46:17
  stuffing mailboxes each day. So you've asked that before. Who went back and
• 1:46:23
  listened to the twenty nineteen Red Raider review episode Our Guy, Our Mailman?
• 1:46:30
  Yeah? Because we look at the stats, Charles, and there's people listening
• 1:46:32
  to episodes of like a preview of a game from five years ago, and
• 1:46:38
  we go like, who is who wants to listen to that? We're going
• 1:46:42
  like, well, tell you what you gotta get the defense. You gotta
• 1:46:45
  get Charles Simms, the ball man mailman from Mercer County also would be very
• 1:46:53
  talented in a police station. I imagine being able to write police reports and
• 1:46:57
  sounds like going back and looking at and things like that. My god,
• 1:47:00
  yeah, oh boy, it's great. Uh. Texter Jeremy from Man West,
• 1:47:09
  Virginia, home of the Hillbillies. We're at the basketball game last Friday.
• 1:47:12
  Got a hometown boy who's playing for George Mason Austin Ball. There to
• 1:47:15
  support him. But we're but we are the biggest Mountaineer fans. It was
• 1:47:18
  conflicting. I never in my life cheered for another team than the Mountaineers.
• 1:47:23
  We're cheering every basket except my son Easton. He's twelve. He's cheering for
• 1:47:27
  the Mountaineers the whole game while we're in a George Mason shirt. Lol.
• 1:47:30
  Seth Wilson's favorite. I'm on cloud nine getting to see Dayshaun Butler and Alex
• 1:47:34
  Ruef. Butler actually spoke to us. I was giddy, super nice.
• 1:47:39
  I should have gotten a selfie with him. We're in the row behind the
• 1:47:42
  Mason bench. My son starts saying, Dad, Dad, Dad, behind
• 1:47:45
  you. It was Huggins coach Huggins. I took a picture, but I
• 1:47:48
  definitely was not subtle with it. Look he said, uh, we could
• 1:47:59
  see uh we could also see the ESPN Plus monitor. So I told my
• 1:48:01
  wife to kiss me. We're on TV. So there he is. His
• 1:48:04
  wife's kissing him while he's on TV. Yeah. Man, only bad part
• 1:48:09
  was Austin didn't get into the game. But it's such a He's such a
• 1:48:11
  great kid. He'll always be a hillbilly, real quick. Austin one of
• 1:48:15
  the great dunks in state tournament history. Right at the end of the game,
• 1:48:17
  the assists from our guy Peyton Adams and Verla Guy Peyton dish to Austin
• 1:48:21
  with a great dunk as they're winning it. TJ. Blevins of course the
• 1:48:25
  coach down there, we love our man's basketball, oh the best. What
• 1:48:29
  other state is like this too, where there's a kid from from in state
• 1:48:33
  where everybody in the state is still pulling for them. You know, sure
• 1:48:38
  they get an opportunity to go somewhere. It's like that with if there's ever
• 1:48:41
  a West Virginia in the pros, Like every every West Virginia was a fan
• 1:48:44
  of whatever baseball team Jed Jerko was on the MLB's exactly, it's a special
• 1:48:47
  thinking about West Virginia because I know, I know it's not like that in
• 1:48:50
  other places Texas, says am, I the only one that does not want
• 1:48:55
  to see college teams go to wireless helmet technology. I love watching the pageant
• 1:49:00
  tree of excessive hands signals from the sideline coaches and crazy cardboard signs with even
• 1:49:04
  stranger images. There's something special about this that separates the college game from the
• 1:49:09
  pros. With all that being said, I'm not a coach and never have
• 1:49:12
  been, and I'm sure that wireless technology is superior. I just don't want
• 1:49:15
  it. Signed by Matthew and Charlotte's from Buffalo originally. Ps. I haven't
• 1:49:20
  heard Sean McDonough voice lately. Any reason why, Well, I tell you
• 1:49:26
  this, Matthew, you're a fine young man. I'm sure appreciate your support
• 1:49:30
  of the Mountaineers. And I don't know why I haven't been doing Sean lately.
• 1:49:35
  Perhaps because he's gone into the National Hockey League portion of his season.
• 1:49:40
  Wonderful game they play on ice thought. Aaron Rodgers kind of made a great
• 1:49:45
  point on that on the McAfee show, said these guys are getting paid now,
• 1:49:47
  they're pros. They ought to be able to have the quarterback at least
• 1:49:51
  have Yeah, they hear the play. Yeah, instead of those guys at
• 1:49:55
  Michigan sniff, And it takes all that out of the equation. Yeah,
• 1:50:00
  it was interesting. Seven home games plus Pitt and Cincinnati on the road next
• 1:50:02
  year. West Virginia will play nine games in the Eastern time zone next season?
• 1:50:08
  That's true? Is that right? I went over him. Yeah,
• 1:50:10
  In fact, I told Ren that this morning. He didn't know that either.
• 1:50:13
  You add the three you had the Penn State, the the Ohio U
• 1:50:17
  and then the FCS Albany whoever it is. Yeah, those three those are
• 1:50:24
  all Eastern. So you get nine Eastern games next season. You get six
• 1:50:28
  league games in the Eastern you get you get three? No, you get
• 1:50:32
  so what is it next year? I know you go to Texas Tech and
• 1:50:36
  Arizona. Those are your two long ones. Then you got Cincinnati. Yeah,
• 1:50:42
  and it works out to nine. Wow. Actually did the math?
• 1:50:46
  WHOA, Yeah, that's that's great. Pitt's the other one that you're playing
• 1:50:51
  Eastern time zone because you're up there. Okay, yeah, that'd be great.
• 1:50:57
  Yeah, And we had a great time at uc UP, but I
• 1:51:00
  had to feel for their fans at the stadium that leave their stadium leaves a
• 1:51:03
  lot to be desired. Hope they have another plan. They do. They've
• 1:51:05
  got about one hundred million dollars that they're going to put in the stadium in
• 1:51:08
  the next three years. I was happy to see we are fair catching more
• 1:51:11
  kickoffs. Question for spreads, what's our average field position when we try to
• 1:51:15
  bring back a kickoff? What's the national average? Evansdale will miss Yarl's tailgate
• 1:51:20
  this weekend. Signed by Bill and Evansdale. That might be one for next
• 1:51:24
  week, don't Yeah, I don't know that off top of my head.
• 1:51:28
  Why does the new Big twelve football scheduling format seem so complicated yet vague?
• 1:51:33
  Is it an attempt to ensure that no team gets slammed with a particularly difficult
• 1:51:36
  schedule. It gets a very easy schedule than any given year while taking into
• 1:51:40
  account travel distances JD from the Southern coal fields. I think this, JD.
• 1:51:45
  There's no way to do anything easy in life with sixteen things, sixteen
• 1:51:48
  kids, sixteen dogs, sixteen cats, sixteen teams, Like, how do
• 1:51:53
  you put them in any kind of a format that makes everyone happy. You
• 1:51:56
  can't. I did find this out. We were people saying, why can't
• 1:52:00
  you play Cincinnati every year? The only ones that they're honoring are in state
• 1:52:04
  rivalries, So Arizona Arizona State b YU and Utah Taylor TCU, Kansas Kansas
• 1:52:11
  State. Yeah, exactly, got that on sports Line last night. Yeah.
• 1:52:15
  Two, I saw Colorado will be coming to Morgantown two seasons from now,
• 1:52:23
  think Prime will be there, and so I was like, man,
• 1:52:26
  I hope he still is because I just was like, man, if they
• 1:52:29
  come here next year, that would be a big, big weekend in Morgantown.
• 1:52:31
  Yeah. Texter twenty twenty five, twenty five, Yeah, yeah,
• 1:52:36
  who knows? You know that's a long time, uh Texter. Noah Clarksburg
• 1:52:42
  wants to know. For three guys. For episode eight hundred, why don't
• 1:52:44
  you sell a T shirts? It says Mormons versus the Mullets, like remember
• 1:52:48
  of Notre Dame Miami's convicts versus the Catholics? I remember, and my man,
• 1:52:54
  I guess you could b YU. I guess did it against Coastal in
• 1:52:58
  twenty twenty. I don't know, Three guys, you know most of our
• 1:53:00
  stuff is organic. I just did look up. We beat BYU in that
• 1:53:06
  twenty sixteen meeting. I think it was Utah who we lost to. Oh
• 1:53:11
  yeah in the bowl game. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:53:13
  that was one. So we beat We beat BYU twenty sixteen, thirty thirty
• 1:53:15
  two. Yeah, they had Taysom Hills in d C. Yeah, Utah
• 1:53:19
  was Utah was that bowl game that resembled a spring practice. That was will
• 1:53:26
  always be remembered as when their defensive end picked up our left side tackle and
• 1:53:32
  threw them into our quarterback and knocked the quarterback down. Yeah, that offense
• 1:53:38
  wasn't really clicking that. That's the kind of thing that's on a high school
• 1:53:42
  highlight reel for some kid. That was after we lost Wilger broke his hand
• 1:53:45
  and we were relegated to situation there. Yeah, really quick here toward the
• 1:53:53
  end, long time listener, first time Texter anxiously anticipating a BYU beat down.
• 1:54:00
  This game already has rivalry vibes for me. I work with a significant
• 1:54:03
  number of BYU lums. I actually spent a few years living in Pocatella,
• 1:54:06
  Idaho, supporting work at a Doe lab in that area, located only a
• 1:54:11
  couple hours north of BYU means there's a lot of cougars in our workforce and
• 1:54:15
  a lot of chatter this year, so I'm hoping we show up. Got
• 1:54:17
  to end with two West Virginia connections we made while living out there. After
• 1:54:20
  moving, my wife and I decide we had to check out the ISU Talgate
• 1:54:25
  scene to see how it measured up. It's no blue lot, however,
• 1:54:28
  I did wear a West Virginia shirt. Within an hour of being there.
• 1:54:30
  I get a tap on the shoulder and turn around to see another fine gentleman
• 1:54:35
  also rocking a West Virginia polo. He'd moved out there from Charleston thirty years
• 1:54:40
  ago, still wears golden Blue. A weekend trip number two to West Yellowstone
• 1:54:45
  in November. It's a ghost town that time of the year, but we
• 1:54:46
  find a bar that's opened, the Slippery Otter, sit down, start having
• 1:54:50
  a few beverages. Someone else comes in since besides Nashally, we get to
• 1:54:55
  talk. Turns out he's a pilot used to fly the WVU basketball team around
• 1:54:59
  small World. My dad turned me onto this podcast years ago. If you
• 1:55:01
  could give Chuck a shout out, sure he'd appreciate it. Let's go Hi
• 1:55:05
  out nears. This is the name by Charlie from the Goshen Road Exit.
• 1:55:10
  Well, Chuck, thank you so very much for listening through the years,
• 1:55:13
  and thank you for turning your son on and God blessed Goshen wrote Texter.
• 1:55:18
  Back in my day, having a chance to go to a six and three
• 1:55:21
  start in November was considered fun, enjoy what should hopefully be a great late
• 1:55:27
  season atmosphere, and if y'all could begin to effort the Tucson tailgate for next
• 1:55:30
  year, US West Coast folks would appreciate. It's not by Benny and the
• 1:55:33
  Bay Area Texter. Hey, guys, with a recent retirement announcement from Jay
• 1:55:39
  Jacobs, was wondering why ton wondering Tony if you could give us a few
• 1:55:42
  words about his contribution and I would vote for him coming out on the show
• 1:55:45
  as a guest in the summer. The short answer is yes, I will.
• 1:55:49
  Let's do that. Remind me to do that Sunday because we're literally like
• 1:55:54
  I haven't looked in a long time. Where are we on? This is
• 1:55:58
  a record link thing, Holy potatoes out only two hours hour fifty six mm.
• 1:56:05
  Listen. We gotta go because they rent this studio out in late afternoon
• 1:56:10
  hours to a flea market from around. Lady comes in. They she sells
• 1:56:14
  shawls and crochet. Gotta go. Yeah, that's it. That's enough done,
• 1:56:20
  turn turn the music out. If Kerchibal was here, by the way,
• 1:56:25
  Charles, he would have used up an entire can a lip bomb bite
• 1:56:29
  right now. He'd be nervous. He would have had the pee three times.
• 1:56:31
  He can't, he can't. That's why I'm glad you're here and you're
• 1:56:33
  young. He gave us one fifty six doesn't but it. Yeah, I'm
• 1:56:36
  in take go all day. You know I'm pumped. You have fun?
• 1:56:41
  Did you have fun? Oh? Yeah, dude, Yeah, I'm Now.
• 1:56:45
  Here's a questions. You've got to come back for a summer series interview
• 1:56:48
  because there's there's more to your story we have to get into. I feel
• 1:56:51
  like I've got I've got more questions. A little busy, and I got
• 1:56:55
  to get there. I get home every now and then. I'd love to
• 1:56:58
  come back. Hey, So here's a big question I have for you.
• 1:57:01
  It may be the most difficult question, and you've been asked so far today.
• 1:57:06
  Will you listen to this show now that you've just heard it live?
• 1:57:10
  Will you go back when you're because I got the Yeah, you saw the
• 1:57:13
  beginning of it, like when you're running, you're not gonna go re listen.
• 1:57:15
  No, I was wondering, you know, just it's gonna be.
• 1:57:19
  It'd be a two hour run. I mean he'll be a marathon for you.
• 1:57:21
  No, I mean I got to I got to watch everything from the
• 1:57:25
  control room some Yeah, I got I got my information together. I want
• 1:57:29
  I don't want to hear my own voice, that's for damn sure. I
• 1:57:34
  hope you had as much fun as I did. I hope our listeners as
• 1:57:36
  much fun as we did. Charles Wesley Godwin watch him. Are your tickets,
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  by the way, for the show at the met secondary market tickets they're
• 1:57:46
  going to get hot. I think if four I mean four in a row,
• 1:57:51
  it did make the hotels a little more expensive. Yeah, three guys
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