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3 Guys Before The Game - Cougars Clawed - Hodge Hoops Tips Off (Episode 671) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Welcome one and welcome all. It is time for Three
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  Speaker 1: Guys Before the game. This is episode number six and
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  Speaker 1: seventy one. The title Houger's Claude Hodge Hoops tips a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on.
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  Speaker 2: He is it busy, busy, busy, busy busy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. By the way, Kellogg also tips off wv's women's
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. They put the ball in the air Monday,
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  Speaker 1: which is tomorrow as we record, and Mark Kellogg will
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  Speaker 1: begin his third season as wlev's women's coach. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: into all of this stuff and more textual healings, spreads
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  Speaker 1: on stats, that's all coming your way. Did you get
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  Speaker 1: a final on that football game?
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  Speaker 2: It's nice.
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  Speaker 1: That was really nice.
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  Speaker 2: That was nice.
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  Speaker 1: That was really nice. I mean, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say as first reported here on Three Guys, but we
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  Speaker 1: will go to spreads on stats and look back at
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  Speaker 1: what the senators said. We're the keys to the game
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that first. Let's get into this. Three
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in. The losing streak is over
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  Speaker 1: for the Mountaineers. A bunch of firsts happened Saturday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: in Houston. Let's see Rich Rodriguez got his first Big
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  Speaker 1: twelve Conference victory. Rich Rodriguez got his first Big twelve
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  Speaker 1: Conference road victory. Scottie Fox got his first victory as
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  Speaker 1: a starting quarterback, and a bunch of other things. Forty
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  Speaker 1: five thirty five the final score. West Virginia went in
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  Speaker 1: as a double digit underdog. Houston went in as number
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  Speaker 1: twenty two in the nation. Cougar's had just won at
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State, and you walked into this one, and you said, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be difficult mountaineers dealing with yet
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  Speaker 1: more injuries. And nevertheless, they started strong, they finished strong,
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  Speaker 1: and they put together a template of what a Rich
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez offensive performance looks like. Why did it happen? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, sorry about this. I failed to bring
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  Speaker 1: this up. The third guy's not here. I didn't bring
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  Speaker 1: it up. It was kind of he's he's he's in absentia,
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  Speaker 1: he's currently on assignment for three guys, and he'll be
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  Speaker 1: back within the next nine or ten months. I would
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  Speaker 1: think he'll be back. Maybe hopefully there's a next next
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  Speaker 1: nine or ten months. All right, So forty five to
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  Speaker 1: thirty five pretty wild. West Virginia goes in situationally. Situationally,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of interesting. You could have made a
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  Speaker 1: case for Houston saying they were coming back home, floating
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  Speaker 1: on air after a huge win, playing a te that
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  Speaker 1: they were favored to beat by double digits, playing in
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  Speaker 1: honor of their strength coach Kurt Hester, who passed away
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  Speaker 1: last week, and dedicating the game to him. So situationally,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things there on the other side for
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia, let's be honest, you had to search to
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  Speaker 1: try to find some real things to make this team
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  Speaker 1: go out there and play well. Right, you hadn't won
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  Speaker 1: a league game. You battled, but you didn't beat TCU
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  Speaker 1: at home. What are you supposed to do when you
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  Speaker 1: go on the road against Houston surprise team of the
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  Speaker 1: Big Twelve, right, won four games last year seven to
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  Speaker 1: one overall going into yesterday's game, and yet they found
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  Speaker 1: a way to win.
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  Speaker 2: Why, Well, I think start, I think flip the situation.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read, I'll read directly from what we said Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, not what we said. What you said. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: pat yourself on the back, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Houston off its biggest win under Willie Fritz on the
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  Speaker 2: road last week at Arizona State. I mean that right there,
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  Speaker 2: full stop. That's definition of a letdown spot. One of
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  Speaker 2: the hardest things, if not the hardest thing, in college sports,
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  Speaker 2: is what consistency right, especially for teams where there's some
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  Speaker 2: balance within it. This isn't a Houston team, and quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: really nobody with him. The Big Twelve is so far
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the other teams physically or athletically that you
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  Speaker 2: just can walk through each week. So number one. The
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  Speaker 2: letdown spot was real off their biggest win over Arizona State,
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  Speaker 2: had to return home and try and gather number two.
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  Speaker 2: We said, playing in their six straight game, would that
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  Speaker 2: be a factor. I don't know if it was or wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a lot of games right in a row
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  Speaker 2: number three, early kickoff, that was a factor.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Houston came out sluggish and slow, and what
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  Speaker 2: was the crowd like you looked at it, what was
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  Speaker 2: the crowd non existent? Non existent? Right? So that was
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  Speaker 2: that and then the last thing we said, Houston was
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  Speaker 2: seven and one and they've had an unbelievable season. And
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  Speaker 2: I think Willie Fritz is a terrific coach and that's
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  Speaker 2: documented documented how he's won everywhere he's been. Your two's
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  Speaker 2: always a good year for him. We talked about that,
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  Speaker 2: but that team probably shouldn't have been seven to one.
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  Speaker 2: We literally said the words, are they due for some
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  Speaker 2: regression here? That was a team that if you looked
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  Speaker 2: at the schedule, strength, you looked at some underlying numbers,
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  Speaker 2: you could build the case that some regression was coming
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  Speaker 2: for Houston. So I thought situationally, West Virginia was actually
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  Speaker 2: in a pretty good spot. West Virginia was off one
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  Speaker 2: of its better performances of the year. Certainly it was
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  Speaker 2: in a loss, I get it, but West Virginia had
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  Speaker 2: shown a little life. They'd found a little something with
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  Speaker 2: Scotty Fox in that offense, and that carried over into
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  Speaker 2: that Houston game. And to your point about starting quickly,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was evident right from play number one, Tony,
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  Speaker 2: that offensive line for West Virginia got push, and it
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  Speaker 2: got pushed right away, and it was physical and it
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  Speaker 2: was attacking the defensive line, and I thought that bode
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  Speaker 2: well for the rest of the game, that West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: started so quickly then had that early success. Now West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia had to hold on there. It had to battle
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  Speaker 2: through some adversity because Houston got it together a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: they started doing some things well. That's led to their
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  Speaker 2: seven and one record got back in it. But West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia stepped up and made some big plays. But overall,
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  Speaker 2: the situation was good. The start was really good, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that gave you the momentum to carry it through.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the offensive line push was the single biggest differentiator
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  Speaker 1: in the game than any other thing that West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: has done. All season, and I give a ton of
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  Speaker 1: credit to everyone involved in the program because these are
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  Speaker 1: the moments right in the month of November when things
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  Speaker 1: aren't going well that you just kind of drop off.
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  Speaker 1: Give a ton of credit to this coaching staff. They
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  Speaker 1: are unrelenting in their demands. And if you listen to
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  Speaker 1: postgame interviews yesterday from Deor Hubbard and others, they just said,
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  Speaker 1: like the coaches would not stop this week about being physical.
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  Speaker 1: And not only was the offensive line physical, those jet
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  Speaker 1: sweeps that West Virginia ran with great success, incredibly well
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  Speaker 1: blocked on the perimeter.
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  Speaker 2: And that was early. Yes, the perimeter had some really
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  Speaker 2: good blocks early. And if you're looking at that, you went, uh, okay,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are engaged. That's gonna bode well to your right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So a ton of credit to the staff and
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  Speaker 1: then for the players to accept what they were being
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  Speaker 1: asked to do. I mean, let's face it, the seminal
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  Speaker 1: moment of the game, and perhaps it'll become a seminal
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  Speaker 1: moment in this transition as West Virginia looks to turn
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  Speaker 1: this and really put this new Rich Rodriguez team together.
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  Speaker 1: Was a penalty. It was Donovan Haslim assisting deor Hubbard
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  Speaker 1: down the field right, so so real quick.
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  Speaker 2: You can assist from behind, correct, but you can't carry.
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  Speaker 1: No, can't pick him up and walk it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a heck of a nuanced rule.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it is.
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  Speaker 2: You can play by Donna. He just picked him up
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  Speaker 2: and lugged him forward.
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  Speaker 1: So that in itself as cute and as funny as
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  Speaker 1: it is, right, you have this massive guy picking up
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  Speaker 1: as funny as that is, like, that is what has
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  Speaker 1: to happen. That is what needed to happen for West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia to gain a personality on that offensive line. To
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  Speaker 1: this point it has been faceless. It needs to have
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  Speaker 1: the next generation of Dan Moses. It needs to have
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  Speaker 1: the next generation of Ryan Stanchek, nasty mean, pound you
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  Speaker 1: into the field. Haslm is that guy. Haslam is that
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  Speaker 1: guy that now you can look at and go like,
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  Speaker 1: he's just a big dude and technically he's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of room for improvement, but just his massive girth,
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  Speaker 1: he just like bowls over people. It might not be
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  Speaker 1: the right guy to block, but he's going to hit
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  Speaker 1: somebody and this is going to give this this this line.
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  Speaker 1: And also Nick Cray, I don't know if you did
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  Speaker 1: you just pff him on his grade.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we called Nick Cray's name constantly through the game.
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  Speaker 1: They're pulling him and like you're finally starting to get
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  Speaker 1: some teeth into this offensive line. So really really encouraged
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  Speaker 1: by all of that. And then Zach Ally Jordan Scruggs
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  Speaker 1: had the interception. Scruggs says after the game, Coach Allie
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  Speaker 1: checked into that defense because he saw their formation. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we worked on the formation, so I knew what was coming.
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  Speaker 1: They try to throw it to Amari Thomas, he jumps
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  Speaker 1: it massive.
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  Speaker 2: Also, along with credit for the staff for signing, you
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  Speaker 2: got to give a ton of credit to players. This
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  Speaker 2: is a team filled with a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 2: are only here for one year. It is. It would
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  Speaker 2: be very easy at this point to check out, to
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  Speaker 2: lay down, to worry about what's next. And the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they stayed engaged and played better against TCU and
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  Speaker 2: then bounce back here, I give a heck a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credit. I've been on losing teams before. It is
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  Speaker 2: it is hard to stay in there. It is hard
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  Speaker 2: to stay in with your focus when you're getting beat
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  Speaker 2: each week, and this team is not so that locker
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  Speaker 2: room deciding it's got to stay in there and it's
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  Speaker 2: got to get better. And oh, by the way, hashtag
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  Speaker 2: you're allowed to get better. Yes, hashtag you're allowed to
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  Speaker 2: get better. And I think we're seeing that this team
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  Speaker 2: is playing better now and starting to put some some
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  Speaker 2: pieces together.
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  Speaker 1: And some of the young guys are doing it right.
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  Speaker 1: So Cray is still a young guy. Landon Livingston at
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  Speaker 1: center is a young guy. Haslam has eligibility that is remaining.
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  Speaker 1: Scotti Fox obviously is a quarterback, a young guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: a baby.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that now, true freshman, as we said when
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  Speaker 1: he started a couple of weeks ago for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: first starting QB at West Virginia is a true freshman
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  Speaker 1: since Freddie Wyan in the nineteen fifties. Think about the
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  Speaker 1: significance to say that he was able to get better,
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  Speaker 1: to bounce back after the two picks that he threw
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  Speaker 1: against Pitt. Sometimes that leaves a scar. And just little
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  Speaker 1: by little, they kept bringing him along, bringing him along,
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  Speaker 1: and now he's put eight quarters together of big boy
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  Speaker 1: football and now he probably goes back out there Saturday
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  Speaker 1: against Colorado and feels totally different mentally than he had
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  Speaker 1: in the previous appearance.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree quarterback, what fourth, fourth starting quarterback? Only
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  Speaker 2: FBS team to do that most in the FBS four
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  Speaker 2: different starters. De Or Hubbard wasn't even a thought in
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  Speaker 2: the first game of the seasons travel correct now busts
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  Speaker 2: out one hundred yards rushing. Again, a lot of credits
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  Speaker 2: are aligned for that, but credit di or Hubbard. So you're
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  Speaker 2: down there running back four whatever that is, four or
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  Speaker 2: five and he's coming in producing. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: credit all the way around for these guys to hang
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  Speaker 2: in there on the back third of the season to
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  Speaker 2: be producing when it's been such a struggle up to
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  Speaker 2: this point.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday, West Virginia will play its second to last game
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  Speaker 1: at home. They've got Colorado and Texas Tech left, and
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  Speaker 1: then in between that a trip to Arizona State. See
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  Speaker 1: what Arizona State's.
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  Speaker 2: Don give him most impressive with? No? Well, they almost
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  Speaker 2: have to no Levitt in that game yesterday and you
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  Speaker 2: beat Iowa State. That's an impressive win for them.
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  Speaker 1: How about that, dude, Jeff Simms, their quarterback, who has
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  Speaker 1: played a lot of years, like six, has been around.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's been around he goes for two hundred
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  Speaker 1: plus on the ground, adds a whole dimension and Arizona State. Afterward,
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  Speaker 1: they said, guess what, man, we're off this week. We're
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  Speaker 1: taking off this week like we're not like that often.
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  Speaker 1: We're off this week like go away. So they will
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  Speaker 1: be incredibly well rested for the Mountaineers when West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: goes out there and all right, now you're playing you
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  Speaker 1: just whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Now you play, And if you're West Virginia's you said,
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  Speaker 2: not only with Fox, that team has a little confidence, right,
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  Speaker 2: You're going to practice this week, all right, maybe listening
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more. You're engaged a little bit because
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  Speaker 2: you've got a chance. Now you're playing well.
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  Speaker 1: And again, not to make this that they just won
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  Speaker 1: the world championship, but you beat a ranked team on
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  Speaker 1: the road. This wasn't just hey, we got a road
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  Speaker 1: win against a team that was out there struggling. They
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  Speaker 1: were seven and one. However they got there. They were
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  Speaker 1: seven and one.
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  Speaker 2: In contention for a big twelve title game of correct.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that team had a lot to play.
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  Speaker 1: For, absolutely, and you got it done. So we'll get
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  Speaker 2: about Thursday. We'll start where we always do. Review what
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  Speaker 2: we said Thursday. What hit wouldn't we said? Houston came
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  Speaker 2: in with some outstanding defensive metrics. This has been a
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  Speaker 2: team that had been performing exceptionally well on that side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball, Butt, Big Butt. The one that gave
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  Speaker 2: you hope from a mountaineer perspective was that their defensive
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  Speaker 2: success rate versus the run wasn't as gaudy as some
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  Speaker 2: other numbers. They were just ninety second nationally in that category.
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  Speaker 2: it well in this game. And what do we just
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: say a little bit ago, you started early with that.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You saw the push up front from the offensive line.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: You saw the really really good perimeter blocks led to
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: two hundred and forty six yards on the ground five
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: yards per carry. But here's the number that directly ties
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: to what we were talking about. West Virginia had a
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: nearly seventy percent success rate on the ground in the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: first quarter. That's a remarkable number. Forty is the number
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: that's kind of like average the West with seventy percent
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: success rate on the ground in the first quarter when
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: that line of scrimmage was kind of established. So right away,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: early Tony, I think you could say, like, okay, there
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: was a number that we talked about that maybe showed
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: there was some cracks in that Houston defense. Boom came
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to fruition. We talked about the past defense numbers for Houston,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: same thing, very good raw numbers, but the one part
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: that wasn't good for Houston. Their pass rush grade just
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: twelve out of sixteen in the Big Twelve. We thought
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: that might mean Fox would have some time to throw
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and that would be good. You know, given his arm strength,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you give him a clean pocket and let him go
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to work. And you saw that big play to Whimer
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: was huge. With some time. Houston finishes with zero sacks
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and only three total pressures on the day, so that
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: number came to fruition. Flip over to the defensive side
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: because I thought this was where the numbers from Thursday
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: really told the story. We pointed out on Thursday Houston
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: was the worst pass blocking grade in the Big twelve
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and said, if West Virginia gets pressure on the quarterback,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: it generally bodes well for that defense. Again, I know
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: that's a standard rule in football, but West Virginia's defense
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: has really been contingent on its ability to get to
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the quarterback. I thought that really showed up. West Virginia
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: was good in its pressure game. Four sacks on the day,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and how many of those led to turnovers or near turnovers,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: which leads us into the next numbers that came to fruition.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Houston quarterback Connor Wegman. Let's talk about him for a second.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Raw stats looked really good. He was having a heck
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: of a year for them Houston as a team. Raw
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: stats looked really good. Hadn't actually turned the ball over
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: too much. But what do we say, Tony, You peel
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: back that onion and you looked at those underlying numbers
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that were.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Over worthy play.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: There were a lot of turnover worthy plays for Connor Wegman.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: We said on the show Thursday, there should be a
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: pick or two coming in this game. Get a little
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: bit of pressure and he was liable to throw you
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: a couple. Boy was there. Jordan Scruggs not only got
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the one, but he took it to the house for
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: a huge, biggest play of the game game pick six.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I'll quantify that coming up here in just a little bit.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So he threw two on the day. Derek Carter also
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: had one. And what's interesting, Tony is it's a Houston
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: offense that had run it sixty percent of the time
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: coming into the game. They threw it fifty four percent.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Of the time in this game. So West Virginia's run
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: defense was good enough to force them into a different
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: game plan. Ultimately, you take a quarterback who's prone to
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: turnover worthy plays and force them to do something they
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: hadn't done all year, and it was going to benefit you.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: It did. The other part of Wegman we mentioned coming
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: into the game. It wasn't just the passing turnover worthy plays.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: It was his fumbles. He had fumbled six times on
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: the year. Well, we talked about.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: That back, but they were the most bizarre that was.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: He had done that in those games that he had
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: lost them all. They hadn't turned into actual turnovers. It's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: why you get a look at that second.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: But would check a number? Would you admit that his
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: grip on the ball was bizarrely loose? Had you seen that?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I mean there were times there weren't even people buzz
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in by him when the ball scored it out? Well,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: what is up?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: That's why we talked about it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: You think he's got small hands.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know that, But he fumbles a lot, and
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: it started right away. If they hadn't called that an
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: incomplete pass, you would have had one right away. That's
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: probably the right call, but man, that was close. Then
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: you very nearly got to pick six on the next play.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Then you got in with pressure and he did cough
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it up. So he fumbled three times on the day.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Lost one, should have lost more, lost two. Whatever he
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: lost should have lost more. So four total turnovers on
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the day. Should have had more, should have lost another
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: fumbl or two. Wegman was credited with four turnover worthy
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: plays just on the passing plays. So that was the one,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Tony is we'd try and find these numbers that may
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: tell the story. That one, to me was the biggest
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: one that jumped out because if you just looked at
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Houston and Wigman's ross stats, you wouldn't have seen that
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: that was coming. But it was lurking right under the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: surface there that fumbles and picks were available in this game,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: and you got him.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I thought that was massive, Oh exactly right, and that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: it decided the game right.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Turn team points off those four turnovers. You didn't give
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: any back ballgameame. That was massive. So yeah, that was
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the game. Lastly, we talked about field position. Houston came
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: in really good in this category, two fifteenth nationally in
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: starting field position's field position. Given that West Virginia was
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: near the bottom of the country in that category, we said,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: if those numbers held, West Virginia was at a distinct disadvantage,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: not just because of those numbers, but because it led
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to an entirely additional one additional drive per game was
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: scoring opportunity for Houston that didn't come to fruition. Those
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: numbers did not hold, West Virginia hung right in there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Houston had the field position advantage, but it was only
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: one yard. West Virginia ended the game with an average
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: starting field position on its own thirty six yard line,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: much better than its average up ten plus yards from
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: where it normally starts, so that one came out in
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: West Virginia's favor as well some other numbers that jumped
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: out to me on the day. West Virginia had a
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: positive EPA on both run and pass plays, first time
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: all season that's happened, And again that number backs up
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: what you saw in the field. Wes Virginia had success
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: throwing it, they were certainly running it really well, had
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: more explosive plays than Houston did, and six of those
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: explosives explosives came on the ground. Also impressive as We've
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: said many times, if a rich Rodriguez team is going
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to run it on you and run it for explosive plays,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: you're probably in some trouble. You mix in Scotti Fox,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: who can really throw it. Hence the forty five points
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: follow four for four on fourth down. West Virginia was
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: so not great on third, but you're really converted on fourth,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: including that big pass to Whimer. Get back to that
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in a minute. Defensively, West Virginia created twice as many
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: havoc plays than Houston. Remember how it can be TfL sacks, turnovers,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: pass breakups. Should have had more save for the officiating.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Get into that maybe here in a minute.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I might bring that up.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: When probability added, Let's look at these plays that were
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: game changing. What plays this game added the most win
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: probability to West Virginia's numbers. First and foremost, the Scrubs
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: pick six added a thirty seven percent win probability to
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: West Virginia's game. You get those pick six man game changer.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: It was twenty four to twenty one. Am I correct?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: When he threw that pick, they were going in. They
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: would have taken the lead with points there.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I'll check it Fox's fourth down touchdown run added twenty
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: one percent to the win probability. Carter's interception of Weigman
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: added another twelve point seven win probability, and then finally,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the fourth down pass from Fox to Wimer for fifty
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: three yards added eleven percent win probability. So some massive
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: big plays. I mean, look at those four big plays
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: right there. Two of them offensively, both on fourth down,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: two of them defensively in terms of turnovers and interceptions.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Just massive swings in the games.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Right there, it was twenty four to twenty one. West
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Virginia had hit a fifty yard field goal, so they
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: get the ball and they're deep inside West Virginia territory.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It's fourteen point swing.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that hence the almost forty percent change and win probability.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: All right, let's look at some PFF grades real quick,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: back to back weeks. Now, with the best offensive grades
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: of the season versus an FBS team. You had your
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: best run grade of the season. You had your second
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: best defensive grade against an FBS team. You had your
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: second best run defensive grade versus an FBS team, And
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: two of your three best this season have come in
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the last two games. We mentioned Houston ran it for
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: just two point six yards per carry, and your run
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: defense forced them into doing something that they hadn't done
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: all year through it a lot more than they normally
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: had on the year. Ultimately, that led to two interceptions
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: and the mistakes that got you the win. That was
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the best pass rush grade since Pitt, So again it
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: showed that they didn't have a great offensive line in
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: terms of pass protection. West Virginia exploited that it's going
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: to some individual numbers offensively, no surprise, your highest graded
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: offensive player was di Or Hubbard. He goes for a
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: career high one hundred and eight yard on the ground
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: and ran for seven first downs himself. Ryan Ward and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Jacob Barrick nineteen and thirty six snaps, so not not
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the full sixty eight to seventy snaps. They were two
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and three in that game. So Barrett continues to be
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: up there when it comes to run blocking in particular.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Scotty Fox highly graded as well, right up near the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: top of the charts. You mentioned some of the offensive linemen.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Livingston and Haslam in particular, both put up pass blocking
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: grades in the eighties, So sixty five is really good.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: You can get sixty five grades. You're doing pretty well.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Eighties for both of those guys. In the pass blocking.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Area, Livingston had a great block on the Scotty Fox
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: touchdown run on fourth down at four, got second level
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and smashed this guy out. Boom opened up the door.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I was checking something else, sir. Let's go to
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: defense for a second. No surprise. Scrugs leads the way
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: with the best overall defensive grade. It was a ninety
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: in the nineties. Devin Grant Nasani Redwood two and three.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Grant back to back weeks, has had really good games.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Redwood in there as well. Say hello to Jamori Robinson.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Haven't called his name much.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: She joined the squad this week.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Did join the squad, had led the team with three
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: quarterback pressures, had that sack. And how about one Fred Perry.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Fred Perry, you called his name a bunch Frederick, Yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: you called him a bunch. Team high eleven tackles, added
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: three assists. He had a team high six stops. That's
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: at PFF stat that constitutes its definition is a play
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: that constitutes a failure for the offense. Perry was six
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: of those by himself.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: On the sack that he had did you think they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: were might have called hands to the head there. I
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: got a little nervous there. He came flying in. I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: went on and don't do that. But yeah, that worked
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: out well, that worked out well, really good. Here's some
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: other numbers.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: There's the book real quick. You mentioned you mentioned Nick
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Krae blocking numbers. He was really good against the pass
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: in particular as well. Seventy one grade.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: So West Virginia pressure. Yeah, West Virginia ends the game
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: attempting twenty two passes. Rich we talked Friday afternoon what
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: we got there, and he thought they would definitely have
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to pass it thirty or more times. And had they
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: thrown at thirty or more times, it would be the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: first time that a Rich Rodriguez offense passed it thirty
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: or more times in back to back games since twenty sixteen.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: So you understand. And so he probably had to be
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the most surprised guy that he didn't have to. Why
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: didn't he have to? Obviously they were running the ball.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Each team had thirteen drives.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Now you should have just told Rich that their success
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: rate against the run wasn't very good.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, at this point I think he wanted to
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: wait and see West Virginia had thirteen drives. Four of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: those were seventy or more yards in length. They had
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: two drives of ten or more plays. They had a
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: drive success rate of seventy six percent and TD rate
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of thirty eight percent. Both teams had a TD rate
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: of thirty eight percent. West Virginia had four to three
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and outs, Houston had won three and out. Just efficient.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's complimentary football, right, your defense, your special teams, right,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: that was important at the end on the ball that
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: hit the Weltman's leg on you. So you made the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: special teams check mark there.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: We'll see it too. Really, I mean you got you
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: not only got the turnover off special teams, which is
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a double bonus, but you had the fifty yard field
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: goal you mentioned earlier.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And we just kind of take that in pass huge. Yeah,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: absolutely right. Ali Straw averaged forty six on six punts
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: with a long of fifty five. Two of his punts
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: were fifty or more.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: And he had the one where he had to go
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: out of the back of the end zone with a
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: shorter drop than North. Those are always those making nervous.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: I didn't see his dad, Oh you didn't see Anthony,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: didn't see he was there.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: He was there, I know, I know. I didn't we
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: got in there early. I didn't at the stadium early
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and didn't see him. But he was there. Probably in
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Bangkok now.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then probably back for Colorado.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably staying around for Colorado, probably staying around.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I'll probably be here. I hope he is. We'll talk
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: about that coming up. Meanwhile, basketball games that count begin
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: tomorrow inside Hope Coliseum. West Virginia's women's team will take
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Indiana Fort Wayne, Correct Indiana Purdue Fort.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Wayn Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne, ipfw.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: IPFW Mark Kellogg tips off season number three and the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: wv women again picked for a fine finish within the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Big Twelve Conference. So that game is inside the Hope Coliseum.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Ball goes in the air at seven. Then they'll play
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: again on Friday inside Hope Coliseum. Meanwhile, Ross Hodge will
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: coach his very first regular season game Tuesday evening at
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the coliseum against the visiting Mount Saint Mary's Mountaineers from Emmettsburg, Maryland.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: A year ago, they won the MAC not the Mid
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: American but the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference won their tournament,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: got into the NCAA Tournament and beat American University in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the first four game, then unfortunately had to meet up
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: against the Blue Devils of Duke and that's where their
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: season came to an end. But they were a really
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: good team, not picked great this year, like they're like
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: thirteen maybe thirteen in the metro. So the mac I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: should say, so, we'll see what they've got. They've obviously
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: got a lot of new.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Personal history of their better players off that NCAA tournament team,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: so they come in a rebuild mode. They'll probably shoot
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: a few more threes against West Virginia than they will
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: in the regular season. There that length probably should bother
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: West Virginia. They'll give you some pressure, a little man pressure,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: do a little diamond formation pressure in West Virginia. We'll
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: have to handle that, but it's one of those If
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: West Virginia handles that pressure, it will get open shots
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: in the lane, and it will spread them out so
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: much you'll have some open looks from the perimeter as well.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they shot a ton of threes in their exhibition game. Again,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Hood against Hood put it up a lot. If I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: just looked at it this morning. But do I want
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to say over forty.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Also. Yeah, and they also played Richmond and got beat
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: in one of their exhibitions as well.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, it'll be fun inside the Hope Coliseum.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Tip off a seven and super busy start because you're
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: gonna go with the man's team. You're gonna go Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: This week West Virginia with three in a row at home,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and on Thursday, the Campbell's from Campbell will come in
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and Joe Yesfu, who won some games for the Mountaineers
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: last season, is now an assistant coach at Campbell, So
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: that'll be neat.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: It'll be great. Yeah, welcome him back in the coliseum
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: one year after he was here. I had Joe last year.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Every bit of at least four games you don't win
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: if he hadn't done what he did in those individual games.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Colorado was won at Cincinnati if you remember both on Sundays.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: He was outstanding. So fun to see him come back
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: in with the Campbels.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: How soon do we see Jackson Fields.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Be a handful of games here? You think we be
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: a handful of games by next Sunday? What do you
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: think that'd be? It? That'd be optimistic, but not not
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: out of the realm by Pitt.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Probably closer, getting closer right around it. Yeah, obviously West
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Virginia has to play the first five games without Saint
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Bonaventure transfer chance More. Now, it's okay, it's okay to
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: play in the G League, get paid, it's okay, But
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you certainly couldn't play, Certainly couldn't play five games for
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Arkansas ninety two years ago.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Just a handful of minutes in those five games. It
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't five complete games.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Certainly, certainly, certainly wouldn't want to do that. So anyway,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: chance More will have to be a spectator in tomorrow's
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: game and will be ineligible for the first five games,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: but he will be eligible and jackson Field should be
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: good to go by the time West Virginia heads down
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to Charleston, South Carolina for that event. We're gonna open
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it up against Clemson, and Xavier is also there and
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Georgia is also there, so that should be good. And
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: obviously we're having that massive three guys event in Charleston
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: on the off day, which is Saturday. Efforting is that
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I can say that right?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you have said it. I don't know
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: that you can say it. Yeah, well, we'll get into
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: that also this weekend. I'll tell you here in a second.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: This weekend for the home game against Colorado. By the way,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: weather's gonna be decent, right, I think so. Yeah, it's
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: supposed to be prior right, what's it say?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Looked Saturday fifty three for a high, forty five for
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: a low. Perfect. It's November football weather. Yeah, it's football weather.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: So we'll see. They'll change five times by the time
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: by the time the game is played. But we do
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: have some information on the food court for this weekend
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Friday seven.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's nice shirt you got on. Speaking
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: of food court.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Revkev. Revkev's biscuit and barbecue, brisket and barbecue. They
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: will Okay, I'll tell you that in a second. I'll
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: just tell you that. Now.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: What the heck.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're doing this week. Got this high level
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: information from Homeless Dave A couple of things. We will
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: not be doing a show at Buffalo Wild Wings this
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: coming week. We did have some folks show up last
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Thursday before a home game, but we weren't there. This
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: is what we are going to do. We will have
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: one more event with Buffalo Wild Wings before Christmas, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: we are efforting on a date now, so maybe packaging
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: around basketball. So nothing there Buffalo Wilde, but you can
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: still go. They will be open. They'll be open.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: You can go get some wings.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: They have chicken there. They got chicken. You want to
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: go to Buffalo Wild Wings. No official three Guys food
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: court this weekend, but there will be people there. We're
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: teaming up with the Live Like Brent crew giving them
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the space next to Daniel's Men's Wear for their annual tailgate.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: The food court area will be open Friday and the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Live Like Brent folks will be out in full force
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning, probably also there for postgame and all of
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: money raise goes to theu WVU Cancer Institute. We encourage
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: you to stop by and visit. Food court will have
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: its normal vibe, music, fire pit, et cetera, but we
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: have conflicts and won't be as visible. You know, We've
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: got some stuff going on.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Stuff.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: We will not be selling Connection three oh four, but
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: just hang out there. This is the group that we
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: partnered with and went to Stonewall Resort during the summer.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Lived Like Brent is a fund which honors a former
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: WVU student who died of a blood disease, a blood cancer,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and the money will go to that. This is who
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: will be there this week, rebkevs Barbecue, he'd be there,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the lemonade stand, lemon will be there and grateful Bread
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: will all be set up. So we encourage you to
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: stop on over great people and you'll like. On the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: merchandise front, getting close to our three guys Christmas Shopping Guide.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: The holiday shopping season about to begin.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: The Elves are positioning in Martinsburg and in Shepherdstown. The
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: first production of our popcorn Mountaineer Munch will start and
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: goes in this week with our friends at Mountaineer popcoh
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: very good. Not that's addictive. It's absolutely addictive, So do
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  Speaker 1: check that out. Three guys before the game. Brought to
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• 38:15
  Speaker 1: heading into party seasons, things are gonna get ramped up.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Thanksgivings coming quickly. People get together. We have our functions,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: we have get togethers. If you're looking for someone to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: cater your next event, whether it be a party or
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a tailgate. The folks at Tutors they got you covered.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: All you have to do is put in an order
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• 38:35
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• 38:42
  Speaker 1: get on their website, take a look at what you
• 38:44
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• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Though don't need healing. I think we need some What
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: we're getting is we're getting a lot of chest bumping,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the little chest pound and stuff. That's fine, it's fine.
• 39:15
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• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to hear from you. This is a big weekend for
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the football game with Steve Slayton coming back to Morgantown.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: He is going to be honored for his upcoming enshrinement
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: into the College Football Hall of Fame, which is just
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: an unbelievable, incredible honor. So Steve Slayton will be back.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: In fact, saw him yesterday. He lives in Houston. He
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: was in the director of Athletics's box which is right
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: next door to us, and he has great family there,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: his kids front row seats watching there and say good luck,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: charm Steve. He wass say Dad, is this what you
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: used to do? And say, yeah, that's exactly what I
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: used to do. There is an opportunity if you would
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: like to get something autographed by Steve. He's coming to
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: town and it's coming up Friday between four thirty and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: six thirty inside Kegler's Clubhouse, Dale Sparks. The Eye of
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the Mountaineers will be there and he will be selling
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: photos from the Dale Sparks collection. So all you have
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: to do is make a purchase and Steve will be
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: there to sign. Four point thirty to six thirty this
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: coming Friday, Steve Slayton on his way into the College
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. Check it out four thirty to
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: six thirty at Kegler's Clubhouse. Check it out. From the
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: text line, Texter writes, Chip in Saint Albans, the fox
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: is in the Henhouse. Coin it now, that's not bad.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: That's not bad. Josh from outside of Knoxville, formerly Josh
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: from Josh from Audre State Park.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Josh move He moves.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: She's in Knoxville. Now there are the volunteers, he writes
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: in Donovan Haslam now has my favorite mountaineer penalty of
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: all time? Can someone get him? And assisting the runner
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: T shirt? That is what the official called that, assisting
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the runner Texter. Hey fellas, it's Dougie Fresher from murals
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Inlet in South Carolina. Yeah, pretty good, great win, hopefully
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: a sign of better days ahead. A few questions regarding officiating.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: How do they assign the crews for each game? Do
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: teams have the opportunity to provide input on who gets
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: a signed to their game? The crew yesterday seemed to
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: get a signed to us on a regular basis, and
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to be blunt, they are consistently awful. Second, how do
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: teams provide input postgame? So you have no say whatsoever
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: and who gets assigned to your games? And that particular crew,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I think that's the second time we've had those guys
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and you really don't get any say. And I'll tell
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: you about more about that in a second. How do
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: teams provide input postgame? You would take the plays that
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: you have in question, you would put them together and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: you would submit them to the supervisor of officials in
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the conference and say, could you please give us an
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: explanation on this? And there were several penalties interference calls
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: that obviously have grown. They drew great ire from fans
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: and from members of the coaching staff as well.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: And I think I have no earthly idea what pass
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: interference is anymore. I agree it is. You talk about
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: block charge being called inconsistently by people. Pass interference is
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: absolutely a debacle across college football.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: No question, one hundred percent agree. I think the the
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the buddy back there had a bad day. I would
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: think when he gets his report.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Card, I think his PFF grade is not good.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I think when he gets his report card, they're going
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: to say, eh, now, exactly sure what you do. So
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: that's how they provide their input. And in regard to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: like getting guys off of a crew, the only way
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: that really truly happens is that you have to get
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: in my view, you have to get a number of
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: coaches like you got to get a posse, and then
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the off season, when you get together for your coaches meetings,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: you say, hey, you know, this guy consistently is bad
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and we as a group of coaches here all are
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: in agreement that this guy is bad, don't want them.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: That would be the way you get rid of guys.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: And it's an incredibly difficult job. I get it, just
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: like basketball officiating with all the contact going, but with
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: all the hand fighting that is allowed. I just don't
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: understand when things get called. I'll give you another one.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: How can Scotty Fox be picked up in the air
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: slammed to the turf and that's not excessive personal foul?
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: But sometimes when you hit the quarterback and it's boom boom,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: that is called don't disagree. Now, Okay, he's outside the pocket,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: he's become a runner. But you can't pick people up
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: and slam them with no call. Sometimes that's called. Sometimes
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: it's not the inconsistency, Man makes you crazy.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: That's the word. It's the inconsistency on the interference calls.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: They just make it consistent so you look at it
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: and go, yeah it is or no it isn't. Texter,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Thanks for all you do. I hope to see you
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: in South Carolina Low Country in a few weeks. Have
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: that big shebang, that thing that's getting bigger. But I'm
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: telling you it's gonna be a limited number of people
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: that are going to it's only about two fifty that
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: play seats that seafood place we're going to. It's gonna
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: be but you better get your tickets early on that one.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: You don't get the tickets aren't on sell you No,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Now you.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Might not even be able to go and me that
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: tight Now I'll bring Brad, But if we're gonna bump
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: anyone out, it's gonna be hoppy. Charleston Blair of Memphis,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Tennessee rights. I send this before the game has concluded,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: but I'm excited. This is a rich Rod offensive football team.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Love the Zach Alley defense. Texter is the defender not
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: allowed an equal shot at the ball. The defensive pass
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: interferences are ridiculous. The one that's set up forty five
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: thirty five was the worst. I thought the official with
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the better view would overrule that one, but no. Texter
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: walked into Houston and said, thanks for having us. The
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: sound of those sweet words from John Denver never sounded
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: so good. Let's go out here those good Thanks for
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: having us, Texter. Hey, guys, I began crying when I
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: was listening to your story about the homemade device that
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Joan and your wife was prevented from purchasing because it
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: reminded me of a time that a Lowe's associate would
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: not scan my items at the register. Because I had
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: gathered the materials to build a device to chug apple
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: juice beer bong, I had to walk out in shame
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: as a twenty one year old. Of course, those people
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: at Low's are very very vigilant on it. Mean, heck,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: they're putting things together. They're at Lowe's check I wait
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a second, you can't buy those items together, build those
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: cannons and things. Texter As bad as a game Scottie
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Fox had against Pitt, his mid season turnaround has been
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: amazing as a true freshman. So as the Senator would say,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: you are allowed to improve from game one to game nine,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Eric in mineral.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Count aloud, to get better, as we often say, and again,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: I think you always have to remember that Scott he fought.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: So you're telling me Fox is playing better now that
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: he's got some real game reps and he's got games
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: on top of games, and he's gotten better. Imagine that, Yes,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: imagine how that works.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you went to think about putting into perspective. I mean,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: last November, he's running around there at Mentor High School
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: in Ohio right probably getting ready for the playoffs. And
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: like one year later he's on national TV beating a
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: ranked team on the road. That's pretty good, very impressive.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I say, If you're good when you're young,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: you're going to be good. And he's showing good. So
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: let's just keep putting it together and hopefully he can,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: as they say, stack these performances together. A jesse in
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and I love the name of this place, the Woodlands
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: in Texas. Metre Kerchi will look that up. Give us
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: the whole breakdown much more than I wanted to know. Wow,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: we looked so bad and starting oning four in the league,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I was worried rich would lose the team. Last week
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: we competed against the talent the TCU team. Today we
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: knock off seven on Houston. Brad is correct. You are
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: allowed to get better, Richard Staff can coach. Thank you
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: for making my Monday so much better. Let's go pitt
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: still sucks. Oh my snuck that in there at the end.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Jeff and Scott Depot. I believe it's time. Thanks for
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: having us. That was a classic. Thanks for having us.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Wasn't it good to see you?
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Those red winds are always good. They're over ranked teams.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: That's a double good. Thanks for having us.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that. Just got a text while
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: we're recording here from Homeless Dave, So he must have
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: forgot something. What's he got going on?
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Says lives that works.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I mean if Dave text in show, No, it's just
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: wasn't urgent. See.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: No, that's from last week about our thing in South
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Carolina coming up, or Mountaineer Munch popcorn that goes on sales.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Soon, or the event in Charleston, West Virginia before the
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: night before the Wake Forest game.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: I talk about that too, that's going to be It
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: was about game day grind over there at near roasting.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: No, we're going to have a special night in Charleston.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: We're going the Charlestons are getting to get hit big.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: We're going to do a big event in South Carolina, Charleston.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: We're going Charlie South and Charlie Weston and we're going
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: to have a big story. Don't want to get ahead
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: of my skis.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: You're I'm just gonna say that you don't know details
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: on that yet, efforting, don't want.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: To get ahead of my skis here on the Charleston,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: West Virginia event. Got a chance to be really special.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: I'll just leave it with that. What are you laughing about?
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why you're laughing.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: I mean it does have a chance to be really fun.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Now just move on. There's one guess that they see.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Just leave it until it's done. It's not done.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: There's one guess that might be there that would be
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: a game changer. That would be great. He says he
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: wants to come. So if he's there, it's going to
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: be real nice. Clark. Hey, guess what Gomart Marty is back.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: You ready for this thing?
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Probably something holiday related.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Right, he's got This is what you need to do.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Marty's Mary Spin is underway. The Gomart people they're going like, hey, yeah,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Thanksgivings coming, We're going into Christmas. Here's what you need
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: to do. Get your Gomart app, go to a go Mart.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: You walk in and you scan the in store QR
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: code and you get to spin. You're with me. You
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: can do this now through December the nineteenth. So you
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: spin and you get sweet treats, awesome prizes or bonus
• 50:30
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  Speaker 1: is underway now all the way to December the nineteenth.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Check it out by visiting a Gomart near you.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: Here's the other thing. If you go on the app,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: there's an instructional video there for that game, so you
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: don't have to try and guess how to play it.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Just click, says right there, instructional video.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Marty's a Gopher.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, go for good times. Get it for good times.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Knew that text her. It wasn't coffee.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: You see how that works. Yeah, go for Gopher, go
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: go for good times. Yeah, pretty creative.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Is there a physical Marty, like a real Marty.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know that. I've not seen that. I think
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: there's stuffed Marty's. Yeah, you think there's a big mask,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: full sized mask I walks around.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: I love that there's a little one.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not can probably fill in and help them out.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: You know, I have experience doing that.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Of course, you were the Connecticut Husky for one day. Yeah. Like,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: I love making. One of the things I would love
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: to do is go into a bar at about midnight
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: on a Friday or Saturday when everyone is really in
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: a good, good vibe, wearing a gorilla suit kind of fun.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I think people would.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Love that, like things that go on in your brain.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, would you like to do that? Like
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: you're just sitting there, like you know, everything's chilled out,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: music's playing, God Walk Gorilla walks in.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: By the way. In case you're wondering, you were probably
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: ann ask man. I did hit Saturday triple reward points again,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: three weeks in a nice winning streak going.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: You'll be on in one of those go marchin.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: It's two weeks to our lineup too, and now hit
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: it perfectly on Saturdays.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Texter wasn't perfect or pretty, but that was the most
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: complete game of the season. Took the whole team to
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: win that one. Games like that give you hope for
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: the future. Time to beat the Buffs. Colorado had a
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: bad night struggling.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Last two weeks have been really a big struggle for
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: the Buffs.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: So they're at a point of they're either gonna pack
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: it or they're going to bounce up. Dion wouldn't let
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: them talk to the media. Players were not allowed to
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: talk to the media after the ball game.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Instructed people to come after him, not the players, So
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: you're right, it will be. It's an interesting mindset. They
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: could be cooked and done, or they might just say,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: all right, that's not we got one last bit of
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: fight left in.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: This here are you watching the end? No, Juju Lewis
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: hurt his hand. He was the third quarterback that they used. Unbelievably,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: highly touted freshman quarterback hurt his hand. I don't know
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: how bad it is.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had something. They've had a weird quarterback situation too.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: They've been rotating three different guys in there. Highly were created,
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: a huge transfer in Salter and then the third stringer.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, guys, shout out to de or Hrbard. I
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: didn't see him being a work horse on my bingo card,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: but he was tough as td Roumans. The Thing of
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Beauty signed by Grateful in Washington State Sean.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations to him. Nice game, This is funny. Next one,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: big Rob from Montgomery Rights. Did Scotty Fox dress up
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: as Pat White for Halloween?
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah? On the fourth and four he honked it up
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: in there, didn't he a little more than four?
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Brandon from Herndon, Virginia. Great, All around whin. I think
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: they got a little luck from this little moth man
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: that did some trick or treating last night for all
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: big candy. We go to our photos. Now we take
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: a look at Sparky out there. He got a little
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: mothman's suit going and to easily identify with those very
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: fluorescent shoes that he's wearing, so he dressed up as
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: the mothmn Herndon, Virginia. Hello Texter, Joe from Barbersville. Great
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: weekend in Houston. Mountaineers looked like a totally different team.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Great wind Friday as well. Mountain your soccers. Soccer players
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: beat the herd Marshall three zip lined up beat them. Okay.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: He also adds this, when you're back in town for basketball,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: can I suggest a dinner for you in Houston at
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: ishtiya I s h t I A. I've never heard
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: of this? Eighteen course dinner? What eighteen course dinner? Fantastic food.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Here are some pictures and hold it right there.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: On the eighteen egging.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: No, we do so. I looked on the wet So
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: that's something that you would be uncomfortable with.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: That is it?
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: It's art? So like that eating the art?
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah? What is it what you've said four things about it.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: You haven't told me what kind of food it is?
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: Do you know?
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: No, I don't know, have zero idea. But what that
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: is is so that thing's almost like a dome that
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: they make. And seriously, that's like a dome over the
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: food and then inside of that stuff. I mean, this
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: is the highest level of foody food. Can you show
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: me another picture here? Take a look at this meat
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: perfectly executed and cooked, and then look at that dessert.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: That's what you would I know what that is? Like,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: give me some of that.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I looked it up, went to their website
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: early this morning, and so they do private seatings. That's
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: how you order it this place. They'll do fifteen to
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: twenty courses when you sit down, and it costs you
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: about two fitty too fitty a person. And it's an
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: indigenous cooking restaurant and it's been named one of the
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: top restaurants in the United States. Now I would say
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: this to you, I am a food but like I'm
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: a blue collar foodie and like the foams and the
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: gels and like the weird stuff, Like I'm not into that.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Like my nephew is a big time chef, and that's
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: what he does. A lot of a lot of the phones,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: that stuff, that stuff, he can do that stuff. That's
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: what he does. And I'm going, like chicken palm, you know,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: pretty blue collar in my thing. But thank you very much,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I would eat there, would eat there. Of course you
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: knew that Texter Jim from Clarksburg. Didn't Houston fans realize
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: their team was ranked in seven to one. A lot
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: of empty seats Saturday, Yeah, there was, And that opens
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: up a whole conversation point. So to me, they're a paradox, right,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: there are a paradox in the sense that they have
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: an incredible amount of available players that they can win
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: with right in their city. It is the fourth biggest
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: city in the United States, so they're just players all
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Willie Fritz has said he gets in a car to
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: go recruiting, not a plane, correct.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Right, So they've got that going there. Here's the problem,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: as you probably have figured out, the interest level has
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: never been great, has never been great, from the days
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: of Andrea Ware and David Klingler and like it's never
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: caught on. And you're absolutely right. They are seven and one,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: they're ranked twenty two in a country they beat Arizona State.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: The stadium seats like thirty thousand, and the upper level
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: was completely devoid of human beings. So there's the paradox. Yes,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: you can get great players, I don't think. I asked
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: someone who lives there, what would it take. He said,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: they would have to be constantly in the top ten
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: for people to come out to Pro Sports City Pro Sports, Right,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Astros and you know the whole deal, right, Astros rockets Texans.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Everything is there, and you got a ton of Texas
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: A and m alums that are there and from the
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: other schools. Now, they said when TCU comes in, it'll
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: be fifty to fifty TCU fans, and West Virginia had
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: a good turnout, you know. So that is the thing.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Now you look at West Virginia and you say, well,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: how does West Virginia compete with Houston. Houston's got all
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: these available players. So West Virginia doesn't have all of
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: the players that they could use in their home state.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: But what do recruits get when they come here. They
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: get this tremendous understanding really quick that it matters here.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Energy support. I mean, you put fifty four in there,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: last week for a team that hadn't won a big
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: twelve game.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Correct, and this week I would think should be good.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: And the reality of this week is this, for many
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer fans, this will be the last time they come
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: to a game this season for a lot of them,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: because the next weekend is Thanksgiving weekend and deer hunting
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: is going to be going on, so and the students
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: are going to be gone. Right, that's just the reality
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: of it. If there's one of two games that they're
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: gonna go to before the season ends, there's a stronger
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: probability they're gonna go to the game against Colorado than
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: they are the Texas Tech. And that's just what it is.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Every single year. There's just that weekend's tough. Not that
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: you can't get a good crowd, but I'm just saying
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: that weekend's tough. So West Virginia can sell. Hey, this matters,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: and you will get some kids because of that. But
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Houston's always going to be I mean, think about it.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Think about it. They had a Heisman winner, right, They
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: had a Heisman winner the same time West Virginia was
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: running around with Major Harris. They win the Heisman, and
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: that's always going to be difficult, kind of like Pitt.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Similar to Pitt, like when West Virginia goes up there,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: it locks out. Notre Dame goes up there, it locks out.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: But other than that, you Tech, Boston College, Clemson come in.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Ain't that big of a deal.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Here's the other thing though, too, and right, that's the
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: overarching that's correct, that's the issue they fight. Maryland goes
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: through that as well. Right, When it's when you're dealing
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: with the pro sports city, it's hard. But here's the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: other thing. And we've talked about this a bunch Tony.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: The TV times in this league for some teams, Man
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: eleven am Central doesn't do any favors. Noon's hard enough
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: to draw people here at eleven am. We've seen Utah
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: kick off at ten am local. We've talked about West
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Virginia having to kick off at ten thirty Eastern time.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: So there is some residual effect from the TV money
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: that the schools are getting to setting up some non
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: traditional times to start your games. If Houston had to pick,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: where would eleven o'clock Central be on their card of
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: lists of when we want to start a football last
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: dead last Right, that's brutal. Sure, it is one of
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: the biggest games of this conference season, Utah hosting Texas
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Tech earlier this season, kicked at ten am Utah time. Outrageous, Sure, outrageous.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Because this whole thing is stupid. It's the fundamental issue
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: is this thing is stupid, and they shouldn't have done
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: what they've done. And that's why you got these crazy
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: games going to the West coast to the East coast,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: because the whole thing is bizarrely stupid, and all it's
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: doing is satisfying the television inventory. And we have sold
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: out the entire concept of regional play for college sports
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: for one reason, so the TV networks can have money.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Not even to get into the fact that ESPN's not
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: on YouTube TV anymore, which is a whole story unto itself.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: This weekend, I don't care. Let them eat themselves, cannibalize themselves,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: don't matter, doesn't matter. All right, we've done enough damage.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys tuning in. So here's a program note.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Because we've got the basketballers basketballing on Thursday, we are
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: not going to do our preview show for West Virginia
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Colorado Onday. We will do it early Friday morning so
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: that we can bring you two basketball game recaps and
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: a preview of West Virginia and Colorado. And who knows
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen at Colorado this week. You know, when
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: they get into their press conference, as though it's Deon,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: you know you've been a little colorful, right, he might
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: come out with something totally bizarre and we'll see.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: See where that team goes. You just never know.
• 1:02:25
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