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3 Guys Before The Game - Duquesne Preview (Episode 486) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hey, hey, welcome in. Everybody, ready to do this thing again.
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  After we after we surprised you yesterday with that special edition with the Mountaineer
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  basketball coach Josh Eiler, we're back. That was it was very nice.
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  If you haven't listened to that one, make sure you do. Today we
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  begin our preview of the Duqueane Duke. So we're gonna title this one called
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  the Duqueane Preview. How's that pretty good? Excellent? Yeah, seems to
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  work. Episode for eighty six. Dean's here Hoppies back. You knew that
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  these folks, but I mean others. They get nervous, they break out
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  a little hives and rashes. Maybe just a nervous group anyway, Okay,
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  stop talking. It's the first it's the first episode. I don't alien eight
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  people more in they're on their first episode. Yeah, so happy. Yesterday
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  was the anniversary of the first game at Mountaineer Field September six. I don't
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  don't tell me I was there. Well, yeah, you know who it
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  was. Wait a minute, don't tell me. Gosh my miss Cincinnati.
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  Yeah, very good. You pulled that one out, buck, I did,
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  I did? I can't remember. Forty three years later, Yeah,
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  you're on top of that. September six, nineteen eighty, press box was
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  not finished yet. Oh really, no, I mean it was it was
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  open. I've told you that story. I've told you that story. No,
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  I don't think so. Okay, So the press box was kind of
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  finished, but the glass wasn't in yet and it was concreting. A carpet
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  wasn't down, but you could sit there and for the press to work on,
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  and they just had boards there. I mean they were working like crazy
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  sure twenty four seven to get the thing finished in time of the game.
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  Somebody's building wasn't there yet. Press box wasn't completely finished. So the legendary
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  Mickey for Ferry, Oh boy rights in his column are somewhere that he that
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  they didn't have the carpet down yet in the press box for the first game.
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  So the next home game, and I got to know the project manager
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  was a great guy. Next home game, the carpet still wasn't down,
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  but under Mickey's seat they put a little square of carpet, which the dean
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  did not think was very funny, but everybody else thought was hilarious. Well,
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  I'll tell you what I mentioned Mickey last Saturday when we were at Penn
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  Steate, Because I went up to the general press box at Penn steak because
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  we were lower. We were one level down. And I walked in there
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  and like not everything has changed at that stadium. I mean, it's sill.
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  And I walked down there. Kevin Kevin Kinder was down there, Greg
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  Hunter was down there, and I said, guys, as I make this
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  walk toward you, I'm surprised I'm not seeing Shorty Hardman, Mickey Fferry,
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  Bill Smith, Bob Baker, and all those guys because it stopped in time.
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  It's the same thing, same thing, same box. It's incredible.
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  Yeah. Anyway, all right, We've got one of three in a row
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  at home for the world champion Mountaineers on Saturday. It goes beyond sane that
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  this three game series is just mega mega important for this team. And you
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  go from one end of the spectrum to the other. Talent wise, West
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  Virginia played the most talented team that it's going to play this season at last
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  Saturday. Now, I'm not going to say the best team, because potentially
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  teams grow, so teams are gonna morph, and not necessarily the most talented
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  team is the best team. But you can say the most talented team that
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  they'll see for sure, and they may have been the best team that they'll
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  see. But with all due respect obviously just scholarship wise and things like that.
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  Ducane's on the other end of that spectrum. So this is a team
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  that you must play extremely. You must have a great deal of success in
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  this game, I think if you're going to have success going forward in this
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  season. And I looked at some past years when West Virginia is like,
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  you know that occasional four and seven that propped up like in the eighties and
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  things like that, you can see what happens in these games when you're not
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  going to have a good year. Yes, it's actually a game, and
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  when you're good, it's like two quarters of it, it's done and over
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  see you later. So that'll be one indicator on Saturday, Tony, I'm
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  looking forward to the start of the season Saturday. I think you should always
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  begin the season last CS opponent. One thing you should never do, ever
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  do, is start the season on the road against a power or five opponent.
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  I'm glad West Virginia did not do it that this year, So you
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  started home against a manageable opponent. I was out of the country, so
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  to me, the game did not exist. I was not present so the
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  game did not occur. Did the tree make any noise when it fell into
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  woods? Not at all? So let's get the season started Saturday. If
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  Kerchival's feet aren't on Terra Firma USA, then the season hasn't started yet.
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  Looked forward to it. Yeah, yeah, I thought you'd have the hang
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  of it by now, since it was three years in a row on the
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  road against power five. As Neil Brown pointed out very pointedly, Yeah,
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  but you know what this is a I did enough research to be dangerous and
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  obviously West Virginia will be a heavy favorite brand. But you know this is
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  a good program. It is. I mean the head coach, Jerry Schmidt.
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  Schmidt has been their nineteen seasons. They typically have winning seasons. They've
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  won the Northeast Conference like five times. They've been into postseason play a couple
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  of times. They I know this won't impress Mountaineer fans. A couple of
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  years ago they beat Ohio University. They have not had success against Power five
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  teams. TCU, Florida State beat them like they stole something, beat them
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  forty. But I'll tell you this, it's a it's a well run,
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  established program. So there I mean, they're not a bunch of jokers coming
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  in. It's a real program that gets good players out of Pennsylvania and other
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  places. Yeah, and they'll have some guys leven Division one transfers coming in,
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  FBS fourteen something like that coming in. So yeah, they'll have some
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  talent to me this week. So again, all due respected, Ducaine,
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  this is about West Virginia. This is about what West Virginia is able to
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  do. And I think your point right there is what you try and watch
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  in this game to see how much better they can look from week one now
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  into week two, recognizing the difference in competition. But there's some things West
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  Virginia has to work on. We'll dive into some of those here in a
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  minute. But that's what I'm watching this week. It's less about the opponent
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  and mostly about West Virginia and the things that it does within this game.
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  Knowing that I don't think you can get too low after last week's game given
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  the competition, nor should you get too high after this week's competition. Go
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  out, take care of business, get some reps, get multiple guys in,
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  and then you get ready to go. And I actually think hoppy the
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  season begins next week. I think you're you're basically preordained to be one and
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  one through these opening two games, and then next week then you're off and
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  running with the PIT and the Texas Tech and the TCU and the rest of
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  the Big twelve schedule. So take care of your business, work on some
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  things, clean some things up, and then next week it gets serious.
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  Next week you're saying, this is kind of like sorbet game. What does
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  that mean? Well, I mean you at a fancy restaurant, right,
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  they'll give you, they'll give you a little something to get things going.
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  Start, we'll start start, a little startch off, and then after they
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  give you something that's got a pretty significant flavor to it, then they'll give
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  you some Sorbett palate cleanser that cleanse the palette, cleanses the palette. So
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  you're saying, we did that somewhere the other day. Didn't when we had
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  a little we were tasting. Yeah, but you did it with a waffle
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  we were tasting and then we cleansed the palette. Well that was just sparkling
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  water. Yeah, Well it was a it was a palette cleansed. But
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  you're worried, but you always but as Mountain your faith. We always have
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  to be worried that it's midway through the third quarter and it's thirteen ten or
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  something. You know that that would be that would be of great concern,
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  That would be of great concern. This needs to be It needs to be
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  what it was last year against Housing sixty six seven or whatever that was where
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  it was Western. I don't think it's sixty six, do you. I
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  don't think it's that well. I don't know that it'll end up that way.
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  But that's a game that's never in doubt and you're able to work on
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  your things. That's what you're looking for. Okay, I'm sure there is
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  there a line on the game. There will be not yet. Okay,
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  what do you mean by that? What what do you mean there will be?
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  There will be a line. It's not out yet. Why FCS FBS
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  games come out later? Will it be thirty five? That's probably in the
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  ballpark. Okay, those games come out later. Why do you think that
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  is not as much information? Hmm, okay, But there will be a
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  number, there'll be a number. Yeah. We have a text later on
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  the program Professor Vinny, who apparently does a little bit more than just create
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  game off cation models. He was kind of asking about that as well,
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  So, which is totally fun to be out. Okay, probably Friday Hoppy,
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  you've done research on this, well, I gave you everything I had.
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  What their quarterback parents? Who was? I mean, he's been around.
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  He's a guy I think it was at Rhode Island, maybe transferred in.
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  It was a starter two years ago, had a good year, got
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  hurt last year. He's back. So you know, he's a guy that's
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  played. I mean six foot two twenty so he's a stout guy. I
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  mean again, I think at that level for a program, they have guys
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  at that level. And sorry, and it's a but you should. You
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  should. There's no question you should take care of business. If you don't,
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  then you have serious problems. I think they give you a couple of
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  things to work on here too. You know, we'll get into some of
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  these areas. The couple of things that I want to see from West Viginia
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  defensive backs, defensive backfield, pass coverage as a whole, and some of
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  that includes the guys up front. I have to get get some pass for
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  us to help the guys on the back end. But you should get some
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  work against these guys. They also played down a level to their opponent last
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  week against Edinburgh, they were the much better team and they dominated them.
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  But this is a team in Duquesne that comes in with the fourth Well,
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  let me reface, wad are you starting spreads on staff? No, this
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  is a bonus. This is a bonus. Is this is this is this
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  is this is a bonus. So, out of the four hundred and twenty
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  eight teams graded by Pro Football Focus, so that's FCS, that's FBS,
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  that's a lot. That's a lot of team four hundred twenty eight teams,
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  Duquesne had the seventh best coverage grade after Week one. Okay, again,
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  level of competition, but you'll see, Yeah, you went from what was
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  maybe one of the best coverage units in the country, all all of the
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  country last year in Penn State to a Duquene team that took care of its
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  opponent that it should have. Can West Virginia's receivers go out and show you
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  a little something that'll be one to watch. Also, they threw the deep
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  vault very well in the first game. So you want to see Westernia's defensive
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  backs, you're probably going to get a test they were four or five on
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  passes over twenty yards or more against again an inferior opponent for them two opponent
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  West Virginia. Then, theoretically West Virginia's playing down in an opponent the same
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  as Duquee did with Edinborough. Can you stop that? So? History will
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  tell us this. Since West Virginia played in such a high profile game to
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  open the season, its emotions and its energies were at its absolute peak,
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  and they swung it out and they battled, didn't get the result. It's
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  physically, I think, and emotionally impossible for them to be as lit up
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  oh this week. I'm just being are you are you suggesting are you suggesting
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  a soft spot? Are you suggesting adown? So he's been gone, He
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  hasn't been approbably in Africa, they just they just they don't let people finish
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  their statements. Is that what that is? Now? Sorry? Go ahead,
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  my apologies. So my thinking is that physically and mentally there's just no
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  way to be as engaged as they were last week with all of that hype
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  surrounding that. However, however, it still doesn't matter. You could be
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  a couple of clicks down. You still have to go out there. There's
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  no excuses whatsoever. There are no excuses whatsoever. They hey had to hangover
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  and most like bull crap. You go out there and you absolutely play at
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  high level of football, otherwise you won't. As the weeks go by,
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  Tony, I agree with you, and I understand that maybe you're kind of
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  half suggesting a potential not flat spot. But now I'm saying I'm just saying
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  they just it's physically impossible. But I mean, but this is it's the
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  season opener. It's going to be kind of at night. And you know,
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  if you kind of been n that's a good one. And you know,
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  and Brad, you were athlete at high school and college level. When
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  you went out and thump somebody, you know, when you went in locker
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  room, it was still win, right, it's still win. You still
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  had the joy of winning. And after all that work, I mean,
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  how much work have they put in over the last year, and you know
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  what you want to do. You want to win and play well? Okay,
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  and play well. Now here's the thing. It's the definition of flat
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  spot. It's the absolute, very definite. The definition was created for these
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  games coming off the Penn State to open the season with Pitt to your traditional
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  rivals book handed by a game against a team that you're much But it's the
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  absolute definition of it. Now, that doesn't mean you're not gonna win,
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  that doesn't mean you were going to be flat. But the spot is exactly
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  what the definition, what the term was made for. West Virginia's hope is
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  it's got to be that get your confidence back, stay focused on one game
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  at a time. And Neil's right when he says there's only twelve games,
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  how can you not get up for him? But the side of that is
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  it happens every week. There's teams that don't get up for games. So
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  that's the challenge that this group has. They've got to make sure they're elevated
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  up and come and play. Being the first game at Mountaineer Field should help.
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  Crowd will help that you're better than the opponent you're playing. You should
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  have some success that gets you bouncy. All that stuff should apply. Yeah,
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  and you start if you get rolling. If you start out strong,
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  get rolling. It's fun to be winning, it's fun to have big games,
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  and so that can build on it. But you're right, I mean
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  I would be much more worried if they were playing Texas Tech today I mean
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  Saturday, and then playing pit I mean, then would it be a real
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  flat spot. So here's what I think. Last week and the previous weeks
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  leading up to the opener, they watched tape and they looked at that Penn
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  State tape and they said, if I don't do this, I will be
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  a flat out embarrassed. Right again, they watched the tape this week and
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  they go like, that's not what I was dealing with last week. I'll
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  be fine. There's two ways to look at that. I'll be fine.
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  You walk out there and you think I'm gonna be fine, that's when you
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  get absolutely taken aback, or you go into the mindset with like, Okay,
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  I should dominate this guy. If I don't do this, this,
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  and this to this guy, then that's on me. That's when you see
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  what the mentality of a team is. You know, Don Neeland told a
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  great story about when he was an assistant at Michigan and they were it was
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  the week they were playing Northwestern and guys were jacking around out and Neeland goes
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  like, are you guys better very and Northwestern is gonna beat you? Guys,
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  you gotta and Neeland said when the players looked at him and sit coach
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  were Michigan is Northwestern. We're gonna beat Northwestern. But that's a different kind
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  of thing because they had such confidence in you know, that well established program.
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  West Virginia's not there. I mean, you can't afford it. You
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  don't, you can't. You have not earned that kind of confidence even against
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  a much lesser opponent. I do think this offensive line has been around long
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  enough that these guys like it. To them, they're gonna go out there
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  and they're gonna go They're gonna hammer mode. That's what I see happening.
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  Yeah, And that's it's a good point, and that's the that's probably the
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  most important part of this. If that offensive line goes out, I'm totally
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  with you. With the makeup of those guys, you would expect them to
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  God, I don't care who who you're playing. Line up, let's go,
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  we're gonna, we're going and we're gonna mash. And so if that
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  unit's doing that, the other stuff all in place. Yeah, you know,
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  that line blows up some holes. Running backs go through big holes,
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  big games, long runs. All of a sudden if those guys on skill
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  weren't energized, Yeah, they are now because the crowd has just exploded to
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  go, okay, let's do this thing. Let's go agree. So if
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  there, if West Virginia's rolling, do you get Mark You'll in sooner?
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  Do you get him in? Do you get do you let him have a
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  series. So that's a great question, and we'll spend some time on our
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  Saturday game day coverage talking about this because the short answers, Yes, you
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  want both of those guys to play, but you also have a starter in
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  Garrett Green that needs rest. Me. Yeah, so you may even let
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  the leash a little bit longer here if you're Neil, because Garrett needs snaps.
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  Garrett needs some things to work on as the starting quarterback. But yeah,
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  this is obvious a game where your hope is that you're ahead enough you
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  can get multiple back up saying, I would think that includes the quarterback you're
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  ready get and don't get C. J. Donaldson hurt, get him out
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  of there, let him get his you know whatever, and then get him
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  out. Coach Kerchival, you're ready for this, sure, let's do it.
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  wait for this because you yall's going glasses class. Okay, good, go
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  ahead, and good passes your credibility. Yea, all right, I got
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  a couple of things for you. Yeah, and it focuses on what I
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  think is not just for this game, one of the keys, but it's
• 22:27
  the key moving forward. And there's a lot of tentacles to this hoppy We're
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  gonna talk about West Virginia's need to find some explosive plays in this offense.
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  That's been an issue. All Right, that's in and you can drill down
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  on this, which we won't do today, but we will as the season
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  moves on. This affects everything. You're gonna have to spread the field and
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  get people down the field in order to back those folks out of the box,
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  right, the very simple concept, that's what you're gonna have to do.
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  So let's dive into here are some of the numbers, because there's two
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  sides to this equation of finding explosive place Against Penn State, West Virginia had
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  just one pass play of more than twenty five yards and it had just two
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  runs of more than fifteen yards. So one pass play over twenty five two
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  runs more than fifteen. I'm gonna take the passing game side of this,
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  and let's talk about the two parts that come with this. There's really three
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  offensive line being one gotta provide protection, but that's there. We'll put that
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  to the side. One of the two parts is the quarterback and the ability
• 23:23
  of that quarterback to push the ball down the field. The other part of
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  this is the receivers and their ability to one get by the defensive backs and
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  then two make the catch when they do that. Let's do quarterback first,
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  and I've used this one before. We talked in the offseason about how West
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  Virginia's two quarterbacks last year had the two lowest yards per attempt numbers among all
• 23:45
  Big Twelve quarterbacks that played half the games. Jt was just six point four
• 23:48
  yards per attempt. Garrett was just six point two yards attempt. Now,
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  it's not a huge surprise with Garrett. He was asked to do many other
• 23:56
  things when he came in, didn't didn't throw the ball down the field a
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  lot, But point remains two lowest in the Big Twelve. Now, this
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  is a very small sample size, I get it. We've only had the
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  one game, But Garrett's yards per attempt coming out of the Penn State game,
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  we're just six yards per attempt. So it actually went down from what
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  it was last year. Better than that, I'll give you an example,
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  Skyler Howard in the year West Virginia one ten, and we've talked about this
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  great running game. Ran it a lot, Skyler ran it a lot,
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  but had a consistent, very talented deep threat in Shelton Gibson. He was
• 24:33
  eight yards per attempt that season, so that's a reasonable number to get into
• 24:38
  Drew all Er. The other night was eleven yards per atempt against West Virginia.
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  Some of that included a big seventy two year Your issue here is that
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  West Virginia does not have a a proven vertical threat. Okay, so the
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  second part of this equation would be the receivers. Thank you very much,
• 24:55
  Tony. Sure. This is a non rehearsed By the way, yards per
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  rout has become a new popular metric. Yards per route run ypr yprr technically,
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  yards per route run ypr. Okay, this is easy to calculate.
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  It's receiving yards divided by the number of routes that you run. Not just
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  catches our target, but the number of times you're in a pass route.
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  Okay, it's a good stat because it accounts. While you're laughing, I'm
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  not even in the good because I still had that rout row in my head.
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  Rout row. He just round a rear route anyway, and what kind
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  of really serious deep analytics? I got Davis over here doing rout rod rout
• 25:40
  road just round a real route. It's a running back. Really start under
• 25:45
  why we battle sometime? Get third grade? Ver I'm paying it. I
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  think should I turn in my seat because I think it's what's coming? Is
• 25:55
  a very relevant stat I would like to hear it. Tony can watch cartoons.
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  I'll behave yards per route run. So the reason this is important.
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  It accounts for the targets the receiver is getting, and then what the receiver
• 26:10
  does which each of those targets. Here's your number, Hoppy, this is
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  what you were gonna ask me next, So I'll just answer it for yess.
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  If you have a two plus yards per route run, that's good.
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  That's really good. Really okay, okay, two plus yards per route run
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  West VIRGINI had two players that eclipse that mark against Penn State. Devin Carter.
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  You could probably guess his was fantastic, had that deep ball three point
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  four six yards per route run. I'll go ahead and let you take a
• 26:33
  guess. Neither Cold Taylor or trailing Ray. Excuse me, either Cole Taylor
• 26:41
  or trailing Ray logical guesses because you would think one of those two. No,
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  the answer is Jalen Anderson three yards per route run. Didn't run tun
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  the routes, but three yards per route run. Here's one to watch.
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  And you just brought him up. Cole Taylor. He was just one yard
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  per route run. But as Neil told you, told you directly right,
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  thought he should have had a couple more targets minimum put him at five.
• 27:03
  He had three targets. Thought he should have had a couple more. He
• 27:06
  was open, but they couldn't get the ball in his direction. Here's what
• 27:08
  you like about Taylor's that every route that the individual runs, or just when
• 27:14
  he's targeted yards per route run. And as I said in the open when
• 27:18
  Dingong was giggling, you might not have heard it. It accounts for every
• 27:22
  route you want run, not targets. Okay, was directly what I said.
• 27:26
  All right, I missed him. I got it now I may have
• 27:30
  interrupted his concentration. Sorry, go ahead, still listen. So here's what
• 27:33
  you like about Taylor. Because someone's gonna have to come up and join Carter.
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  You would expect Carter to stay in that range. If you can keep
• 27:41
  a running back in that range. That's fantastic, But you need another air
• 27:44
  quotes receiver, be it a true receiver or the tight end. Taylor's cold.
• 27:49
  Taylor's average depth of target, now this is another stat. Stay with
• 27:53
  me here. His average depth of target was fourteen yards. What is that?
• 27:59
  So given contest is three times that he was targeted on average, he
• 28:03
  was fourteen yards down the field. So that's not every route run. That's
• 28:07
  the balls that are thrown to you. Okay, average depth of target of
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  fourteen that's that's really good. If you're West Virginia, you need that to
• 28:14
  happen. That gets him to the middle of the field fifteen yards downfield and
• 28:17
  you're moving the sticks. So so, but yards per route run not there.
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  Average depth of target very good, But how much of that one yard
• 28:23
  it was? His was one? Yeah, because he ran thirty routes.
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  But basically, so I bet you how how hard is that to qualify when
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  he's staying into run block and when he take you account, that's not that's
• 28:33
  not a passing play. Yards per route run that's why you take in the
• 28:37
  routes that they're running. He wasn't the target on every one of those,
• 28:41
  But how many plays. Was he in for a pass play that he wasn't
• 28:44
  blocking? They take that into account. It's a really consistent measure. It's
• 28:48
  it's it's really well done. If you go back in and look up,
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  maybe I'll do that next week. Pull the NFL guys that lead in yards
• 28:55
  per route run every year and you go down the list, you go,
• 28:56
  yep, yep, yep, they're the better. Well, that further and
• 29:03
  further quantifies West Virginia's ongoing issues with big plays. Right, that's what you're
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  saying. I mean, that's what that means, and that slantifies what we
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  suspect. That's why you're looking overall on that team. How many guys can
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  you get into that two yards per route run? And this offense is obviously
• 29:18
  not built to have a ton of those, but you're gonna have to find
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  a couple, a second reliable option to go with a Devin Carter, who
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  you would think and hope can keep that number up above there. But it's
• 29:26
  just a it's a different stat we haven't talked much about here, but it
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  plays into a category that West Virginia is going to have to find a way
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  to be able to push the ball down the field a good point, good
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  good stat I think it was a solid effort on very solid You came out
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  here and we're gonna do some textual healing and textual healing. That's my cue
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  that I need to hit that. That song that is now up to this
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  gonna need to get jump started. This first text is uh, it's the
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  culmination of a story you remember were several episodes back. I think you were
• 30:55
  still here, hoppy when that gentleman was in a quandary that he was going
• 30:57
  to be getting married when the Penn State game was literally happening. Yeah,
• 31:03
  well, the wife writes in high three guys, Emma from Charlottesville, Troy's
• 31:11
  now wife. We got married during the Penn State game. We loved all
• 31:15
  the comments from fans of the show. He had to send a picture of
• 31:18
  the groom's cake. Look at this cake. Oh my gosh, look at
• 31:21
  this cake. Brad Mountaineer helmet. She's pulling his leg back as he's trying
• 31:27
  to go to the Mountaineer football game on their wedding cake. You see the
• 31:30
  football there. Well done. He's down in a yoga terms that'd be a
• 31:36
  three legged be a three legged dog, and she's pulling back on him.
• 31:41
  She says, I had to send a picture of the groom's cake. An
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  amazing night aside from the WV loss. We're big fans of you guys.
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  We'll be at the pick end. Look at us, Brad. Maybe we'll
• 31:52
  see you there. We'd love to see you guys. That is fantastic from
• 31:57
  Emma. It's Emma, M and Troy. They're terrific. Congratulations text or
• 32:04
  hey guys. Brian from Williamstown. I'm curious to your thoughts about the secondary.
• 32:07
  It seems year after year defensive backs playing ten yards plus off the line
• 32:12
  at the snap. Also time for the Sternwell Festival and Marietta this week.
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  I'm sure I'll see plenty of nice boats to have your booze cruise on.
• 32:20
  Let alone pontoons. Should be a good time for all. Last little update,
• 32:23
  my wife doing great health wise. Thanks for all your listeners and their
• 32:27
  support over the last nine months. By the way, curious of Brad's mower.
• 32:30
  Guys could fix this problem. Wild night last night for us. The
• 32:35
  mower caught fire after mowing last night. Apparently it happened look at that to
• 32:40
  look outside around nine while going into the kitchen, saw the fire out the
• 32:45
  window. All the family and the pets are safe. House is safe,
• 32:47
  but man with a nerve racking event. Three areas three area of fire departments
• 32:52
  came to the house. Anyways, just had to share as I laughed myself
• 32:57
  to thinking, well here's a real problem for a law maw er. Hob
• 33:00
  Brad. Yeah, Brad, say your a little chintzy little battery. He
• 33:05
  doesn't think they can fix that one thing for a Duke Quesney and pit beat
• 33:07
  down to help take the stress off the insurance process. I'm about to go
• 33:10
  through, damn mine. Thank goodness, that was a separate structure, not
• 33:16
  the garage exactly. I think far M text her what we didn't win a
• 33:25
  road game against the top ten team and one of the hardest environments in the
• 33:30
  country in our first game of the season. Clearly the only logical decision is
• 33:35
  to fire Neil Brown, hire Jimbo Fish your elect Rich Rodriguez president, and
• 33:38
  rehire Bob Huggins his basketball coach. Or maybe we really can't draw any conclusion
• 33:44
  about the season from the first game. By the way, it was my
• 33:47
  first game with the baby, but he did not get to stay up and
• 33:51
  watch. There you go, that a little fella, just just to risch
• 33:57
  the young one right there. Oh yeah, that's a baby baby, Yeah,
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  That's lou Wendell Marine Sales dot Com. Hey guys, Tyler Morgantown. They
• 34:27
  understand we were three touchdown dogs in this game, but it feels like with
• 34:30
  Neil, we don't have competent decision making. It's been that way since he
• 34:35
  arrived. For some reasons. It feels like West Virginia has lost its trip.
• 34:37
  It's chip. Example, Neil says he's not discouraged. He should be
• 34:43
  discouraged because we left plays out on the field. We had a chance to
• 34:46
  win. Just because we were predicted to lose doesn't make an acceptable and that's
• 34:50
  a huge problem with Mountaineer football. Colorado was a three touchdown underdog and bawled
• 34:54
  out the whole new roster. They made plays to win. Thanks guys,
• 34:59
  love the show. Hope you all enjoyed the atmosphere. Heard it was great,
• 35:04
  Tyler. Three deep breaths, brother, three deep breasts. Let's just
• 35:08
  see how the thing plays out, all right, One game does not make
• 35:13
  a season, certainly entitle to your comments. But let's just see three guys,
• 35:20
  I'm an analytics guy. Neil's record twenty two, twenty six. To
• 35:24
  me, your record says you are what you are. Certainly that's large enough
• 35:28
  sample size. Even if somehow he manages to win six, he'll still have
• 35:31
  a losing record. W beers nowhere close to being a routine top twenty five
• 35:37
  team like we were under Rich Bill or even Dana. I can outstand this
• 35:43
  mediocrity and lack of an identity. I'm assuming he's still being here in the
• 35:47
  administration's complacency is all about money. If his buyout wasn't as high as it
• 35:52
  is, do you think he'd still be here? I think Rinn Bakers made
• 35:54
  it pretty clear. I mean, we all know that this is a make
• 35:58
  or break season for Neil Brown. And you know, in management, sometimes
• 36:06
  I mean, you have to act, but also sometimes decisions make themselves frankly,
• 36:09
  and you just sort of confirm it. And that's what's going to happen
• 36:13
  this year. I think this decision will make itself at some point in this
• 36:15
  season. Sean and Florida. So I'm at a local brewery. I had
• 36:22
  my West Virginia stuff on. Another patron gave me some useful information Apparently you
• 36:27
  Seef is paying homage to each opponent at home this season with a culinary treat.
• 36:31
  So you guessed it. When West Virginia plays, it's Pepperoni rolls.
• 36:35
  I haven't confirmed it. I'm sure this isn't a big deal for West Virginians,
• 36:38
  but for this now, Floridian, I can't wait to taste them,
• 36:40
  no matter how mediocre they may be. You Seef, twenty minutes from my
• 36:45
  house, and I'm looking forward to being able to go watch some West Virginia
• 36:47
  games there. The Kicking Nikkis will be here in about two weeks. Football
• 36:52
  game in October, and I hope I get a chance to see coach Maizie
• 36:54
  down here before we retire. Signed by Sean and Florida, Well, I'll
• 36:58
  tell you this, Sean, I don't know how the pepper only rules are
• 37:00
  gonna be at UCF. But who what these bad boys right here? Where
• 37:09
  they come from? Yesterday when we recorded you remember Laura was here, Yeah,
• 37:14
  Laura Alef So Laura A. Leff bought us. This might be a
• 37:16
  few remnants of multitude that she left us. There was hot there was mozzarella,
• 37:21
  there was jes That's what's left. I mean they went well, and
• 37:25
  uh, and so she brought us this and that peanut butter cake, which
• 37:30
  should be illegal, and about forty nine states because are you kidding me?
• 37:37
  I've never had peanut butter cake before. Good, good ratio. Unbelievable now.
• 37:45
  Laura, of course, the daughter of the legendary Doc Stevens for a
• 37:49
  long time announcer. Yeah, yeah, Doc was the best. Yeah,
• 37:53
  it was great from the College of Creative Arts, the best long time PA
• 37:59
  announcer going way back. So thank you very much, Laura, and that
• 38:01
  stuff was great. Text Or I did my best to will the Mountaineers to
• 38:05
  a victory over Penn State. The two missed field goals. Let me know
• 38:07
  that I need to buy a palette of these candles. I might be alone
• 38:12
  in thinking this, but a lot of positive to take away from Saturday.
• 38:15
  There you go, he had a lucky flame candle and that's why that kid
• 38:19
  from Penn State missed those two field goals. Either or that's why that outbuilding
• 38:22
  caught fire. Different texts, Hoppy, it's different guy. Three guys.
• 38:30
  A couple of takeaways from the game. I appreciate Brad's breakdown on Sunday.
• 38:35
  I thought the running game running d perform solid. CJ Starr in the making
• 38:40
  or made a couple of call outs. CJ seemed to have very limited touches
• 38:44
  in the second half. Why biggest concern in a pass heavy, high scoring
• 38:47
  league. How concerning is our secondary and our inability to score quickly with big
• 38:52
  plays kept it close, but big twelve teams spread the ball. Even if
• 38:55
  we don't cover in the second day, we're gonna have a hard time keeping
• 38:59
  up. Also, with a history of rich quarterbacks over the years, being
• 39:02
  the most pass heavy league, how have we not been able to recruit a
• 39:07
  true spinner of the ball. I know JT didn't work out, had expectations,
• 39:10
  but we should be an attractive spot for quarterbacks. Thanks for insight,
• 39:14
  Andrew Pittsburgh. By the way, we were all pretty pumped about JT.
• 39:17
  Daniels. Let's be fair, absolutely everybody was pretty wow JT Daniels here.
• 39:22
  And in the first couple of games, we'll like, hey this Kuna were
• 39:24
  pretty good, pretty good, and then he faded. But JT Daniels looked
• 39:29
  I mean from months we talked about, hey man, this is great.
• 39:34
  JT. Daniels in here. So I imagine the coaches thought the same thing
• 39:37
  just didn't work out as everybody had hoped. I'm still interested to see where
• 39:43
  this offense goes, because I you know, the one thing that you've talked
• 39:45
  about over the last four years is everybody opined and couldn't wait to get a
• 39:51
  running quarterback right with nobody's right, Why wan't they pulled the ball? Why
• 39:53
  don't he got a quarterback that was really successful running the ball? If you
• 39:57
  can get if you can get the passing game to come a along a little
• 40:00
  bit, here, have Garrett make those passes that he needs to make,
• 40:02
  the easy ones in particular, and push the ball down the field a little
• 40:06
  bit. I'm excited to see what this running game can do in this offense.
• 40:08
  Yeah. So I think that I think we saw Saturday. The line
• 40:12
  is ready to go. The line is talented as we thought. You've got
• 40:14
  a good stable of backs, and the quarterback adds a real added dimension.
• 40:17
  They're not just on the designed runs, but the ability to take off and
• 40:21
  plays with your leg. Yes, you just got to keep coming with the
• 40:23
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  out. We got a contest. We're gonna do as well on this Ducae
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  game. Got a prop No, no, give it to you a second.
• 41:13
  Oh. With all the speculation on where's Hoppy, it's been rumored that
• 41:15
  he has once again Ben spotted in Saint Petersburg, Florida, had a live
• 41:20
  music venue there. He is. I said, you went to Africa and
• 41:24
  there you were at Saint Petersburg. Is one of the better pictures that does
• 41:30
  that does look like me, probably got more a little more hair, but
• 41:34
  I mean it's it is a legitimate doppel ganger for sure. Texter Brad said
• 41:37
  that he's sure James Franklin didn't know the point spread. Well, there was
• 41:42
  a story on this very thing on ESPN dot com bout a year ago,
• 41:45
  and coaches said they all actually are aware of the point spread because it was
• 41:47
  brought up to them by alumni booster types all the time. And it's impossible
• 41:52
  to ignore. Brad, Why were you so wrong? Must not have come
• 41:57
  through well enough in the audio version that was dripping with sarcasm. I have
• 42:01
  no doubts the point spread was well known. Now, I'm not insinuating hoppy
• 42:07
  that anybody had any money on the game. I'm not saying that. But
• 42:10
  for coaches to say they're not aware of the point spread, I just I
• 42:13
  don't believe that is because coaches pride themselves on being aware of everything, so
• 42:16
  they would have but that. But you don't think that they scored that last
• 42:22
  touchdown because of that, Well, you'll never get anybody to agree with that,
• 42:25
  But I could absolutely buy the theory that for a guy who's against the
• 42:31
  spread, numbers aren't great, you would like that to be a little better,
• 42:35
  for it to be a convincing win. What do some people point to
• 42:38
  when they're talking about major upsets or convincing wins. What did they did they
• 42:44
  cover? Did they cover right? Or that's the largest upset? What?
• 42:45
  Why is it an upset? Because of what? What makes it the upset?
• 42:49
  The pot spread? You know, and if you're how many times?
• 42:51
  So everybody wants to talk about Deon Sanders and Colorado was a story of college
• 42:53
  football in Week one and what was referenced every time, not just the win
• 42:58
  three touchdown underdog. Yeah, there's there's almost no way you cannot know the
• 43:02
  spread. I'm not saying you're putting money down on it, I'm not saying
• 43:06
  you're plays right. It's almost impossible to be as dialed in as people are
• 43:09
  in programs and not know what the number is. So there's a I'm gonna
• 43:14
  come up with it. Let's see performance against the p a T sah pets,
• 43:20
  performance against the spread, performance against the spread. And Penn State is
• 43:23
  a team that is legitimately thinks it's going to vie for playoff spots. So
• 43:28
  what do you want to do? Doesn't matter who you're playing, you want
• 43:30
  to win convincingly right well, and margin of victory is a is anyway to
• 43:38
  the textures point. That was sarcasm that I said that getting a lot of
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• 43:57
  go to the game, first home game this Saturday, we are going to
• 44:00
  award three efforting T shirts for the best three guys tailgating picture this Saturday,
• 44:07
  the DUCAEE game. So if you're a three Guys listener, you're going to
• 44:10
  the game, take a picture of you. So what would we qualify as
• 44:15
  the best three guys tailgating pictures? Sometimes it kind of like that supraph Yeah,
• 44:22
  that Supreme Court justice said he'll know when he's star. Yes, So
• 44:27
  the best three tailgating pictures we get from the Duquene game, you're eligible for
• 44:31
  an efforting T shirt. We're gonna give three of those away. Good and
• 44:35
  when you send it in send us your size. Got other things to do,
• 44:39
  so it's chase down whether you're a medium or large. Don't ask if
• 44:45
  it shrinks. A T shirts continue to sell. Those are big hits.
• 44:47
  Efforting. I thought you said the effing T shirts efforting h John from Alabama.
• 44:58
  With all due respect, you were wrong on who you let off with
• 45:00
  the BMI this offseason. It wasn't Heisman front runner Jahim White. It was
• 45:05
  a guy named Explosive or lack thereof. Neil's been talking about Explosive for almost
• 45:08
  five years now. Our recruiting has been slightly up, and now with the
• 45:13
  Portland I l come on, we gotta go get a couple of explosive guys.
• 45:15
  If it's whiter, it's Gallagher, then get him on the field.
• 45:19
  Love the show, Fellas. This next text has just become this crazy thing.
• 45:25
  You remember this the guy down in Florida, Dino. He wants to
• 45:30
  have someone ship him Kerchivel beer. So when West Virginia goes and plays UCA,
• 45:35
  then I got this old boy Rusty down in Monroe County and he comes
• 45:38
  back and he says, I'll drive the beer down there to Dino. See
• 45:42
  we're getting it, get making it work. Yeah, So he says,
• 45:45
  I just heard Rusty's message in the show. I'm a static. I might
• 45:49
  have to meet him up at the Tesla Supercharger by v Pizza to get some
• 45:52
  items with some Sam Marzano sauce. Tony, you're buying. Also made my
• 45:55
  first trip to Happy Valley, came away with hope for the season, and
• 46:00
  he said, ps classless move with six seconds to go to score. Meanwhile,
• 46:05
  then Rusty comes into this. Okay, fellas Dino and I need some
• 46:07
  help funding the beer run. Actually, two tickets to the game and a
• 46:12
  place to stay will suffice for my travels. Any help will be appreciated.
• 46:15
  I really want this adventure to happen. Thanks, Rusty man neuro count Now
• 46:17
  we got a fund to all of a sudden. Now three guys and an
• 46:22
  airbnb. That's what we're doing, number one. Listen, we're asking you
• 46:25
  to do something highly illegal. Go do it yourself. You get in trouble,
• 46:29
  we know nothing about it. Text her that's what I'll think. It's
• 46:34
  illegal. He can take the beer to his buddy, that's all he's doing.
• 46:38
  So three guys there, B and B. Is that our next thing
• 46:40
  after coffee? Well, effy, yeah, I think we'd probably need to
• 46:45
  do a trip. Can take us to Africa. You just came off that
• 46:50
  safari. You can be the hoppy. He's gonna take every Three guys listeners
• 46:52
  to Africa. That's a little trip. Okay, Luke, can you show
• 46:54
  us some of Hoppies pictures from his safari for those that don't know or Hoppy
• 47:00
  went to Rwanda and spent some considerable time there and literally look at that Look
• 47:06
  at that silver silver back mail. They're all far away to see from you
• 47:12
  as not as far as from me to the door over there. You know,
• 47:16
  you know, first down, first, first down away. There's no
• 47:21
  glass or any barrier there. So if that thing turns and charge, you
• 47:24
  know how fast that'd be up on you. You know, they've they've moved
• 47:28
  very easily, very gracefully. They're really remarkable. This is this is up
• 47:32
  in the mountains of Rwanda. This is you remember the dying fossy member of
• 47:36
  gorillas in the midst That's what this is. This is the this is a
• 47:39
  reserve up in the mountains of Rwanda where she was a conservationist to protect the
• 47:45
  gorillas. And there's something like twenty six different families of gorillas and they've been
• 47:50
  expanding because they protect them now. So we hiked up. They break the
• 47:54
  tourists up in the groups and we hiked up to see this one particular family.
• 47:58
  There was one big silverback mail and probably about six or seven others.
• 48:00
  Pictures are amazing. Go go ahead and look flow flow through some of those
• 48:04
  if you would. There's one of your guides. That's that's Mt. Mountaineer
• 48:09
  guide. Did not know? Oh I did? I not empt? He
• 48:14
  was not didn't even know country roads. But that's another story. But I
• 48:16
  was in Victoria Falls and I come my West Virginia cap on and I'm walking
• 48:22
  down the path and God says Mountaineers Africa and Africa. Question. He was
• 48:27
  from the States, but his son had gone to w VU. Of course,
• 48:30
  of course he did. Why wouldn't he have yet too? Now that's
• 48:35
  I could not get any kurch of veil? Did you ask? I didn't
• 48:38
  ask. That was Zimbabwe beer. That was just how did to taste?
• 48:43
  Okay it was no kurch of veil? But it was fun on a hot
• 48:45
  day in Africa? Did you tell? Anybody? Did tell? Did not
• 48:51
  look at those things? Man? WHOA? We went during the dry season,
• 48:55
  so the all the animals gathered around the water. So what this waste
• 49:00
  where we stayed? Uh, that's that's there. And the elephants just come
• 49:04
  up. That's their water and hoole. That's their chestnubrew works exactly, Yeah,
• 49:07
  exactly, give me another one, Luke. Oh, thank you our
• 49:12
  high level of our high level of sophistication. Looks that's all we got.
• 49:15
  Yeah. So there was a lot of elephants, pretty market pictures. Thanks.
• 49:22
  Did you tell them about the money I gave you? Yeah, you
• 49:24
  gave me. You gave me one hundred billion dollars yea, and Zimbabwe money
• 49:29
  and Zimbabwe money. It literally says one hundred billion dollars, one hundred billion
• 49:34
  worth what I bought it for donal on a quarter. Pretty good. The
• 49:39
  they during the dictatorship of Robert mcgabey, although it started as democracy, the
• 49:46
  things we're going to hell in a hand basket, and inflation was running rampant,
• 49:52
  and so they were issuing these bills that really weren't worth anything, and
• 49:55
  they discontinued their local currency. There's their national currency. A we'll use US
• 50:00
  dollars. They using bobwe money. How about that? Texter gentleman Ben and
• 50:07
  Scott Depot, James Franklin punching a garbage TD six seconds to go. We're
• 50:13
  rolling through campus back to our car. So I didn't see a total Bush
• 50:15
  League not getting near enough tension or scoring. I heard unconfirmed that nobody in
• 50:21
  his press are asked him about it. Bush League again, and Tony is
• 50:23
  correct about Beaver Stadium. It's total paradox, worst audio sound system ever.
• 50:29
  PA guy mentioned our ball, never mentioned our ball carrier, only the Penn
• 50:31
  State tackler. I didn't know that, right. Oh, that would be
• 50:36
  wrong, that would be right, That would be so very wrong if that's
• 50:38
  true. Bush League student section was Dana voice. Yeah, pretty good,
• 50:45
  as good as Auburn's which was fantastic. Hope Neel's around for what goes around
• 50:47
  comes around. Ps I got to meet Maria Taylor. She couldn't have been
• 50:52
  nicer. Well, or she is Maria Taylor there for NBC Saturday Night Football.
• 50:57
  She's terrific, just just just fantastic. Texter just back from a cruise
• 51:01
  in Hawaii. Listen to the game while on a tour bus. Also West
• 51:06
  Virginia Connection, young man behind the guest services desk on the ships of West
• 51:08
  Virginia Grad. It's really fun to talk to Texter. David and Kentucky writes,
• 51:15
  where can I find a number four? Mark mauv Jersey number four?
• 51:19
  Because he played four sports. I'm guessing the headlines of the newspaper when he
• 51:22
  played said Mauv had his day. If you weren't here from then you missed
• 51:30
  the moving Texter. Hello, seriously, I need you. I need for
• 51:36
  you to yell. After traveling to the not so Happy Valley Saturday with my
• 51:40
  youngest son, no, I get to the stadium. I get that the
• 51:43
  stadium's loud. I've never been to a stadium that felt the need to pump
• 51:45
  constant sound into the stadium at all times. Not a moment where music wasn't
• 51:50
  blurring from the speakers. My ears were ringing thirty minutes before kick. This
• 51:54
  just leads me to appreciate games amounts near field trying to brush ourselves off,
• 51:58
  sweep up the next three at home to fight off those pesky mov red raiders
• 52:04
  of Texas Tech. Keep up the amazing work, the assumed mayor of Eleanor,
• 52:07
  Jamie Texter. Hey, three guys, I love your show. You
• 52:13
  guys are awesome. With the twenty twenty three football season underway, how about
• 52:16
  a shout out to the pride of West Virginia and the terrific CD. The
• 52:21
  School of Music has produced a celebration of country as a native. Excuse me,
• 52:25
  celebration of country roads. Oh, I didn't read the next nine.
• 52:29
  Yeah, a celebration of country or excuse me, a celebration of country roads
• 52:34
  as a West Virginia native and wv alum. I'm hoping and praying that we
• 52:37
  can que country roads. September sixteen at mountsineer Field, be pitt All the
• 52:42
  best continued success. Three guys from Mountain Mama in Annapolis. This was interesting
• 52:47
  here. You know the guy that we started talking about the colon oscopies,
• 52:52
  the GI doctor. Right, it's from him. Hello. While not a
• 52:57
  formal wager on draft Kings or Fandel, I lost a bet with my mentor.
• 53:00
  He even gave me the twenty one points. Now I have to wear
• 53:04
  a penn State scrub top at work for one day. Ouch encouraged by no
• 53:07
  turnovers and not an excessive number of penalties in a hostile environment. Maybe more
• 53:13
  disciplined than past years. He asks, do the three guys shirts fit normal?
• 53:16
  Or do I need to size up? I love the show, three
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  guys. Will you work over there, Daniels? I think I think they're
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  true to size, true to size text or three guys, we got a
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  problem. This is the real Morgan from Morgantown. I don't know who texted
• 53:35
  in saying they're Morgan from Morgantown. I'm a P one listener from the beginning,
• 53:38
  I've never heard any text from Morgan and Morgantown. And then once I
• 53:42
  start getting some publicity from my excellent text, someone else comes out of the
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  woodward claiming to be me. Can Coomax prove that I am the real Morgan
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  from Morgantown? Sign the real Morgan from Morgantown? PS, where's Ryman Ryan?
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  It's a great point. Sometimes when you come up with good ideas,
• 53:57
  people look to emulate take do something similar. Sometimes that happens. It sounds
• 54:05
  like you're trying to send a message. There what you're saying, I'm just
• 54:07
  saying sometimes that happens. What do you mean, like, if we come
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  up with an idea, someone takes it. Sometimes when people come up with
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  fans were very nice, asked us over for food, Pepperoni rolls, Caleb
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  on the edge and the gorge and fable ps. The sky is not falling
• 54:54
  quite yet. A lot of football yet to be played. Pss. We
• 54:58
  didn't get credit for the two touchdown the squirrel on the field scored for us
• 55:04
  uh John from Oklahoma City right scope spreads and the dearly departed Dean he had
• 55:08
  yao hoppy. Garrett Green's eighty grade from PFF suggests he's not one at fault
• 55:14
  for our passing walls. Do you play the responsibility at the feet of the
• 55:16
  old line of the receivers for not getting the ball downfield? Be both room
• 55:22
  for both or all three. I said that the line's got a block and
• 55:24
  which did pretty good job. Garret's got to hit people and they can open.
• 55:27
  The receivers have to get open. It's all those. Was there a
• 55:30
  grade on like a high level, very specific grade on Green? Yeah,
• 55:35
  was the best on the team. One of the best in the big twelve
• 55:37
  of the weekend eighty. Really yeah, he was productive. He was productive,
• 55:43
  and that was to clean up a few passes. But you know what,
• 55:45
  that's critical because what was the concern previously decision making right? Well,
• 55:51
  and we're probably doing what is so typical. I mean, how many times
• 55:53
  did I come on here and talk about it. It's critical that there there's
• 55:57
  no turnovers. Garret Green cannot turn the ball over. Kind didn't have any
• 56:00
  turnovers, and we just gotta say, Garrett, a nice game, no
• 56:01
  turnovers, and we move on to the next thing that they didn't do well.
• 56:05
  I mean, that's a massive point to have no false start penalties in
• 56:07
  that environment and no interceptions. That's that's a hell of a night right there
• 56:10
  on those two sets. If you can pick it, and you can't,
• 56:14
  I know, but if you can pick those performances up and move them forward
• 56:17
  to other multiple games, you're going to be in games that was massive and
• 56:21
  probably under just something you're already on the plus I don't know what it is,
• 56:23
  because but you're already on the plus side by not having any turnovers in
• 56:27
  that game. Well, and there were there were two clear drops of interceptions
• 56:30
  and a third that would have been a great catch, but it could have
• 56:34
  been a pick. So you should be on the positive side of turnover margin,
• 56:37
  which is something we talked about all off season two. So you're around
• 56:39
  it. It's gotta keep moving. It's one game. Disclaimer for all of
• 56:45
  the Texters out there. Unfortunately, it's a good and a bad thing.
• 56:49
  We get so many texts that were not able to use all of them in
• 56:52
  the course of the show. I just wanted to say that, so I
• 56:53
  apologize. Try to get as many as we can, and we get themes.
• 56:57
  I mean, there's a lot of them that you know. I love
• 57:00
  Neil, I don't like Neil. It's just if you read everyone, it's
• 57:04
  the same, right, It's the same old song. Anyway, you were
• 57:07
  doing his Maize with cant Tony. I'm hoping to see you again soon.
• 57:09
  The last time I saw you was at the Big twelve Basketball Tournament twenty twenty
• 57:14
  two. You were drudging down the sidewalk outside of the T Mobile Center in
• 57:16
  the middle of an ice storm. Let's go, Tony chant was met with
• 57:20
  a less than enthusiastic Yeah, let's go. Hoping you have thought out since
• 57:24
  that day, any chance of Kirtual making it further west or am I dependent
• 57:30
  on smoking the bandit run to the great Plain? Tony was not in the
• 57:32
  mood to be and you're normally very very good Tony about engaging people. Yeah,
• 57:38
  that was an exception, I'm sure. Yeah, I mean it's fine.
• 57:43
  Hello, Joe and New Mexico is a possible, just a little smidge,
• 57:45
  and that Neil held Rodney Gallagher out of the game, not to put
• 57:47
  his skills on display in front of James Franklin. Absolutely not, not even
• 57:52
  a smidge. Joe, Charlie and Princeton High three guys. I know,
• 57:57
  if a team goes on the road and takes the way, you give them
• 57:59
  thanks for having us. So I'm sure Colorado give a few of those to
• 58:01
  TCU on their way out. Question is does a home dog give the old
• 58:07
  thanks for coming at the midfield handshake? Would Mike Elco have gave that to
• 58:10
  Dabbo? Hey, thanks for coming, Glad to have you? How about
• 58:14
  that? How about that outcome? Who quarterback for Duke's pretty good, He's
• 58:19
  elusive, He's pretty pretty good player. I got a chance. Yeah.
• 58:24
  After Saturday's game. Turnovers, Yeah, Clempson two turnovers inside the three total
• 58:30
  stops inside the five, they couldn't get any points turnovers and make difference herege
• 58:34
  difference. They won the box scoring in that game, didn't win the game.
• 58:36
  Got drilled. I love this time of year, I do. I
• 58:45
  don't love it. Weird stuff happens and games. I love it. Uh
• 58:51
  p one Jennings and Dunbar says, everyone take a chill pill. Let's see
• 58:55
  what happens, he says, So my advice to fans, let's wait a
• 58:58
  few weeks down evaluate Hoppy, welcome back. Thanks for sharing your experience in
• 59:02
  your commentary. I'm glad you didn't have a major issue, and like your
• 59:05
  last experience, I had a couple of issues. Hey, by the way,
• 59:12
  this was I thought about you guys more than once, but one one
• 59:15
  time was with the one of our guides. His name was Obs, who
• 59:22
  his and he spoke very good English, but his native language clicks tongue clicks
• 59:27
  are part of the language exactly. So when you do that, so his
• 59:30
  name was actually Obs? Really? Yes? What was his name? Ob?
• 59:40
  Obs? Now I assume he doesn't have a text line, but you
• 59:44
  tell him he's gonna if he's gonna get emails that he's clicking when he says
• 59:49
  his name, but yeah, it's just and it really he goes, yeah,
• 59:52
  now he did a lot better than I did it. But what's his
• 59:54
  name? Obs like, oh you b Z or something like, what's the
• 59:59
  name? If you do opts? He was great, by the way,
• 1:00:07
  Charlie from Midlothian, you got everyone got out of the truck. Always had
• 1:00:10
  his rifle with him. I kind of like that. Oh yes, I
• 1:00:13
  like that as rifle. Charlie from Midlothian. Outstanding interview with Josh Eilert.
• 1:00:17
  Maltineer Nations should feel very confident about the season after hearing the way Josh is
• 1:00:22
  taking control of the programs, interactions with the players and coaches. At the
• 1:00:24
  end of the season, his title will be just like Ohio State the head
• 1:00:30
  basketball coach, which Brad and I talked about that this morning. I know
• 1:00:32
  we talked. I don't think we talked about it on the show yesterday because
• 1:00:35
  it would have an embarrassment to Josh, who was to coach who was here.
• 1:00:37
  But that was We spent a total of about an hour and forty five
• 1:00:42
  minutes with him on the year and off the year. What I mean,
• 1:00:45
  and I was told brand I'm a prisoner at the moment, but I came
• 1:00:47
  away really impressed, not that he needs to impress me, but just his
• 1:00:52
  demeanor, the way he carries himself, the answers that he gave Tony and
• 1:00:57
  Brad. You guys have heard so much coach speak over the year that when
• 1:00:59
  you hear someone really try to answer the question honestly and give you specific information,
• 1:01:05
  it is so informative, entertaining and refreshing. He was great. I
• 1:01:08
  thought the scouting reports on each player were a lot of fun. There were
• 1:01:12
  some there were some things Tony I talked about this we've each known him the
• 1:01:15
  full time he's been here seventeen years. He still dropped a nugget on there
• 1:01:17
  that I did not spending two years on a reservation. So yeah, I
• 1:01:21
  thought he was very forthright and he had a good time with us Busted Chops,
• 1:01:25
  which was good. Had had a really good time. Great interview.
• 1:01:28
  If you haven't heard it yet, yeah, yeah, go back and check
• 1:01:30
  that out. Texter. Hey, guys, love the podcast. I watch
• 1:01:35
  every week. It's been a rough stretch for Mountaineer football for a while,
• 1:01:37
  and as important as recruiting is the best recruiter. It's probably at Hurricane High
• 1:01:43
  School. Maybe West Virginia can pick up the phone. I appreciate it.
• 1:01:45
  Keep up the great work. Signed by the Valley Texter. Watching Eilert interview,
• 1:01:54
  I have to say I'm just outright excited to see him on the sideline.
• 1:01:58
  Came across as up to the task and confident. He definitely hyped up
• 1:02:01
  my excitement for the players. I'm really excited to see a new offensive philosophy
• 1:02:06
  this season. Texter P one listener. I'm gonna keep this short. I
• 1:02:10
  live on a non working dairy farm in White Post in Clark County, Virginia,
• 1:02:15
  which borders West Virginia. I know it will hoppy like you. I
• 1:02:17
  hiked two and a half hours but into the jungles of Uganda to see the
• 1:02:22
  mountain gorillas. The only restriction was no touching the gorillas, even though the
• 1:02:28
  juveniles tried to take your hat. It was a wonderful experience. Uganda mountain
• 1:02:35
  gorillas truly live in a rugged jungle. Uganda also offers a chimpanzee safari.
• 1:02:40
  Look at these pictures bright second to last photo. The last picture is he
• 1:02:46
  got better pictures than I did? Oh he did hoppy. Well maybe if
• 1:02:49
  you didn't bring a disposable camera. He brought my film I had. Hey,
• 1:02:55
  well, look go back to the one with the dude. So he
• 1:03:00
  goes last picture of my guide in his new mountineer hat, just about ready
• 1:03:02
  to sing country roads. But like so you see the guy there with his
• 1:03:07
  in the black jacket and then the guy next to him, like that's the
• 1:03:09
  only place you find that outfit, Like like that is the only place those
• 1:03:14
  those dudes where that Like he's not only got like this the equivalent of a
• 1:03:19
  snowsuit and camouflage, but that hat just tops that whole thing off, doesn't
• 1:03:23
  it, Like you can't get that anywhere else? And then boots, Yeah,
• 1:03:28
  so anyway you Gonda also offers the chimpanzee safari and Anthony is his name,
• 1:03:35
  via New York, viat West Virginia. Now and I'm in Virginia on
• 1:03:37
  a retired dairy farm. I still work. Those are un Look at that
• 1:03:42
  picture. That's a great joppy, he blew you away. I'm pictures better
• 1:03:45
  pictures. Wow, that is a wow. Well wait till I gets rest
• 1:03:51
  in my film developed him will as soon as you get that back from photo.
• 1:03:54
  Matt you're gonna be in good shape. Any of those things ever come
• 1:03:58
  up to you. To my Sam, who I was one of the people
• 1:04:01
  traveling with us, Yeah, he was stooped down taking a picture and the
• 1:04:05
  gorilla came up and grabbed the camera, grabbed a camera strap, and Sam
• 1:04:11
  didn't know what to do. It was like, like, what do you
• 1:04:13
  mean grabbed it like yanket or just kind of grabbed it and sort of like
• 1:04:16
  pull on a little bit, and they tell you don't. They don't engage
• 1:04:18
  that. Sam didn't know what to do and finally just let go and then
• 1:04:20
  push Sam asin like push him the gorilla push him in. Gorilla pushed him
• 1:04:25
  out like formed, Yeah, formed him. Sam wanted a cigarette, like
• 1:04:29
  like a guy in a four spot get in position, just like that pushed
• 1:04:32
  him. Other that's awful. Close didn't it was not a foul. Part
• 1:04:39
  of the game. Part of the game play on a Texter says a popular
• 1:04:44
  trend is noting three things, Well, here are my three things after one
• 1:04:48
  game. First, there will be opportunities for this team. I'm not sure
• 1:04:51
  that much will come easy for them, but if they want to go out
• 1:04:55
  and have a solid season, they can. If they want this program to
• 1:04:59
  take some steps for it is possible. Second, I know I'm not alone
• 1:05:02
  in looking forward to college football season. It's far and away the best and
• 1:05:06
  the shortest. But here is my problem. My fellow WV fans are just
• 1:05:12
  sucking the life out of it after just one game. I'm not naive.
• 1:05:15
  I know a change maybe needed to be made, but does it have to
• 1:05:18
  be front and center every second of every bleeping game? We all realize what's
• 1:05:25
  at stake. I don't need reminded. Let's see what happens before we fast
• 1:05:29
  forward to December. I saw one person who wrote they want the next coach
• 1:05:33
  to be anyone except Neil. Seriously, what a dumb way to look at
• 1:05:36
  things. Third, and I say this jokingly because it's a hell of a
• 1:05:40
  lot harder than people think. We know why. Beanie Bishop is a defensive
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  back and actuality. He was in position to make some plays. That's a
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  good thing. He'll have more chances signed by Sean. By the way,
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  if they do change coaches, by definition, it would be anybody except Neils,
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  since he would not be the coach. I am anxious to see where
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  this team goes me too, Again, I'm not sure what people's expectations where
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  I heard all summer, you're you've got no chance to go in and win
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  at Penn State. And they went in and got beat a Penn State by
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  a better team. Okay, now come back, you should take care of
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  business Saturday and then and then it begins, and that's a really massive three
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  game stretch coming with PIT at home, Texas Tech at home, and then
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  at TCU, and then I still say there's winnable games on the rest of
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  that schedule. Well and after the first after where it goes, Yeah,
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  after the first week, and I haven't broken down all those games, but
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  he's like, well, TCU got beat, Texas Tech got beat, Baila
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  got beat So maybe you know that that tells you that maybe this league isn't
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  as dominant. There's just going to be that fourth through ten what we talk
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  about on here. Four through fourth through fourteen, the win total was within
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  two of each. By definition, that tells you there's gonna be a lot
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  of games that could go either way. What you see in weekend number one,
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  Yeah, there were some games that went the other way the way,
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  so let a play out. Let's see what happens here. Text her Charlie
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  Wright's scope spreads and the returning one. MAV was in vogue on several of
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  the last podcast. We still have two table lamps and MAV bases in our
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  living room. Also there it is. There is Also While growing up on
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  the West Side in Charleston, my parents had a trendy harvest gold refrigerator.
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  Let's get a convincing win on Saturday. There it is Man and all of
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  its glory. MOV. So what was the MOV thing? I'm sorry,
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  They said, it's a text or asked. It seemed as though great athletes
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  are always named after great colors, like Pat White and various players. And
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  they and they said, what's the greatest athlete that you know of whose name
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  was a color? And I I thought about a little bit, and I
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  said, in high school, I had a kid named Mark MOV who's four
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  sport letterman, No Mark. He played four sports, basketball, soccer,
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  bass did no football and soccer in the fall, and played baseball in the
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  spring, basketball in the winner. Mark MAV was a great athlete. And
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  Brad, I mean, he thought it was the funniest thing in the world.
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  I don't know why. And I said, and I told him,
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  I said, you know Mark. Mark didn't play in college, but like
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  like the color MOV, he had a great run. I mean it didn't
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  it didn't last a long time, he said. He said, mom had
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  a great run. Look I mean it said. And I think you know
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  that rank up there with the quick hands. I think you know that fight
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  a blue good one of blue is probably can't get it anymore because the run
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  I think is over. But if we could do a MOV colored effort shirt,
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  I think to myself, text or good afternoon. My name is b
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  Miller, not Hager from Hagerstown. After listening to your show reviewing the game,
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  you mentioned stadium environ one hundred and ten thousand fans enthusiasm. I wanted
• 1:09:02
  to add the tail getting next to the stadium Lot thirty one, amazing,
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  eight month pregnant wife wv AL, I'm two year old son and I at
• 1:09:11
  wv L. I'm set up and started chatting while waiting for more family and
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  friends where I have. Several fans came up, introduced themselves, chatted with
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  us, shared advice, asked about our thoughts on the game. Shared there
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  is wonderful, amazing experience. Planning on meeting with them on the thirty first
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  of August twenty twenty four, when Penn State visits. Keep up the great
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  work. Let's go, I hope Penn State does return the game. Oh
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  would you say, I didn't stutter. I didn't hear you. Would you
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  say I said, I hope Penn State returns the game. There's not a
• 1:09:46
  return now there is. Yeah, they're supposed to be here next year.
• 1:09:49
  Things going on in the Big Ten Conference's what's the schedule next year? Do
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  you still play two power fives in the first three games? I would assume
• 1:10:00
  Ren is working diligently too. And then some of those contracts moving forward.
• 1:10:06
  Let me chick you think Wren went into his office first day, looked at
• 1:10:10
  football contracts and said, I didn't sign up for this. I think he
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  did, and I think Neil Brown should have said that. I think Neil
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  Brown's probably been saying that text, Dear, two guys and a sabbatical.
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  He's right, what He's right. It's over scheduled. It absolutely is.
• 1:10:30
  Dear, are two guys in a sabbatical? The first two games are essentially
• 1:10:32
  a preseason. I'll have to remind you that West Virginia only holds a slim
• 1:10:35
  four three one record against the devilish Duquesne. The vaunted series was played regularly
• 1:10:42
  from twenty nine of nineteen to nineteen thirty five. Oh geez. The last
• 1:10:45
  time they played in thirty five, Duquesne conquered WV nineteen to nothing. With
• 1:10:49
  comparative ease. I'll play the Mountaineers both through the air and the running attack.
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  Head coach Christy Flanagan, who coached only one season for the Dukes that
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  year, said, we whipped them good. He retired after that season to
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  work in the shipping industry. Now we whipped him good. Young men came
• 1:11:02
  out hard. It's time for payback. Eighty eight years later, I'll tell
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  you what I saw, Christy Flynn again. I said, Christie, you
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  can't leave the boys now you've done too good of a job for him.
• 1:11:13
  Christy, don't leave him now, you've got him right where you want him.
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  He said. No, I'm going to the stockyards. That's what I'm
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  doing. I'm gonna go to the shipping yards where I can make a day's
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  wage and get a day's meal. Oh no, Christie, don't do it.
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  The Duke's did you. I talked to them on senior he said,
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  he'd raise you. That is droll with you. No, we couldn't talk
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  Christy out of it. Okay, next year you open with Penn State at
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  home, then you play Albany at home, and then you go to Pitt,
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  Penn State, Albany and Pitt. Come on, really, okay,
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  that's not I mean have to hold back When West Virginia was I mean before
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  league play and you had Pitt and Pinn State on the schedule every year,
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  that was that was different. That was part of the regular Rutgers and Temple.
• 1:12:13
  That's why we're like, ok yeah, jeez. Anyway, the rest
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  of this text, in all seriousness, what the hecks are spread for the
• 1:12:20
  game? The reason why listen? I mean, I get the theory of
• 1:12:24
  getting those teams on the schedule because it is it is entertaining, Like we
• 1:12:29
  liked playing Virginia Tech last and end up caught him at a good time.
• 1:12:32
  The pit game last year open the season was an unbelievable environment. I get
• 1:12:35
  the theory behind it. My point on this, which is also Neil's point
• 1:12:40
  on this, I understand what he's saying there. If nobody else is doing
• 1:12:43
  that or very few other schools are doing that, West Virginia is not in
• 1:12:46
  a position where it should be. It shouldn't be the outlier when it comes
• 1:12:50
  to scheduling. Now, when when the time comes that bonus points are awarded
• 1:12:55
  for strength of schedule, then okay, but you shouldn't be playing if if
• 1:12:58
  very few other schools are playing eleven power fives, West Virginia should not be
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  the one doing it because you're beginning with and compared to all other schools,
• 1:13:04
  an inherent disadvantage. You start with an inherent disadvantage because of that. Yes,
• 1:13:11
  I mean, fans would not be just I know. Look I love
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  the game too, I love the big games too. But but look,
• 1:13:16
  you play Let's say you play Penn State and you play Albany, then you
• 1:13:19
  play Ohio University. Just play one a year, that's one of your play
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  one of your traditional rivals a year, yea, then play two other teams
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  you're gonna beat and move on and then go play your your league games.
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  That's all. That's all you need to do. This has been stupid.
• 1:13:38
  This is malpractice of scheduling, is what this has been. And if and
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  if, in fact, Neil Brown loses his job, one of the reasons
• 1:13:45
  he got screwed in a scheduling. One of the reasons will be the scheduling,
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  no question. Not the entire reason, but one of the reasons,
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  no question. Texter, Well, there's no question. And anybody that comes
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  next, whether that's now or a few years down the road, you think
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  their agents going to come in and say, yeah, schedule looks good,
• 1:14:02
  keep it. Think you think that's going to happen. So, and again
• 1:14:08
  I would assume Rent is in the process of trying to get out from some
• 1:14:13
  of those games so you can make it a little more competitive. But that's
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  going to be number one on a wish list. If, if, and
• 1:14:17
  when a change has to be made, whether it's now or in five years,
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  doesn't matter. When that fans, I know, it's a generalization like,
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  look, fans want the pin stick game. Fans want to pick I
• 1:14:27
  get that, and so that's an advantation for the fans. You know what
• 1:14:30
  else? Fans want wins? We want winning seasons. You know who used
• 1:14:35
  to kill themselves on their schedule? Syracuse Really yeah, hey overscheduled cost them?
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  Text her following up on Brad's request last week. You read my text
• 1:14:47
  detailing how my dad, brother and myself got a treehouse Airbnb for the Penn
• 1:14:53
  State game as requested. Here are some pictures from our experience. Our treehouse
• 1:14:59
  was only eight minutes from the stadium, and our host, despite being Penn
• 1:15:03
  State fans, were extremely hospitable. We had a blast on the trip.
• 1:15:08
  The only thing that could have made it better was a mountaineer winch. That
• 1:15:12
  is a treehouse, that's literally a treehouse. That is that there's any sleeping
• 1:15:15
  areas there or any bathroom facilities or well? Yeah, I mean they're sure
• 1:15:19
  they got something there that looks really nice. Man. How about that for
• 1:15:25
  innovation? And my boy makes out an airbnb? Huh, well done to
• 1:15:30
  the state just because we're in a tree hey, just because we're interested.
• 1:15:32
  Send us another text. Tell us what the bathroom situation was? There was
• 1:15:35
  there like an out house sleeping? Yeah? Can you let us know what
• 1:15:40
  the mattress situation was? Running water food? I tell you up there,
• 1:15:45
  I say what mine would have been at three in the morning, Hoppy would
• 1:15:47
  have fell off that dog on thing? Hop were you going? What text
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  or last one? I am getting concerned that you guys might break up before
• 1:16:01
  episode eight hundred, especially now that you have referenced the Beatles, So you
• 1:16:08
  need to do what the Eagles did. Break up. Now act like you
• 1:16:11
  will never reunite. Health freeze is over. Then in two to three years,
• 1:16:14
  shock the world by getting back together for the biggest stardom, and then
• 1:16:17
  you can make it up to episode of thousand. Signed by not Craig in
• 1:16:20
  Craigsville, hashtag break up the Band A couple of things. Program notes,
• 1:16:31
  So West Virginia does play Saturday at home, as y'all know six o'clock six
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  or two. We've reached a we've reached a a hurdle that we cannot overcome
• 1:16:46
  with the food court for this week. Oh reached a hurdle that we could
• 1:16:53
  not overcome for the food court. That boy, you're you're, you're backpedaling
• 1:16:58
  hard this week. A look of look of disgust but also a level of
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  satisfaction that Tony has to back off though tell the story then, well,
• 1:17:14
  regulatory issues, Yeah, I think that would probably be a good way to
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  do it. We're certainly hoping that we can have it for the Pit game
• 1:17:23
  and the Texas Tech Game. And sometimes things just make you shake your head.
• 1:17:35
  Is that you're not gonna go any deeper because I'm hearing this, I'm
• 1:17:40
  gonna wait, I'm gonna withhold judgment. I want to make sure we get
• 1:17:43
  the green light to go and do the pit and the Texas Tech. If
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  we don't, then you're gonna we'll have we'll have details available. Yeah,
• 1:17:53
  we'll have details available. Bread is stoic. I wish you would have said
• 1:17:59
  something when I may that you probably should have tapped me down a little bit,
• 1:18:02
  but instead you were kind of in my court thinking it would all be
• 1:18:05
  done. Brad, No, he wasn't. He was doing what I say.
• 1:18:10
  Brad was the one to saying wait, let's see, and you were
• 1:18:12
  the one like, we're all gonna get together, We're all gonna be there,
• 1:18:15
  it's gonna be great, and brand saying you know, we got to
• 1:18:16
  the hurdles to quin and you're saying, don't worry, you would all be
• 1:18:19
  fun. You'll often jump me for having PTSD for all the bureaucratic stuff I
• 1:18:25
  used to have to go through, including in this particular issue. I'm very
• 1:18:28
  aware of the bureaucratic bs you have to go through to get anything done,
• 1:18:30
  even remotely get anything done, and how many layers you have to go to,
• 1:18:33
  and how many things you have to do, and how many steps are
• 1:18:35
  and how many steps come in after you think you have the steps done that
• 1:18:39
  other people want you to come in and put in place. And then there's
• 1:18:42
  nineteen people that have to get involved in order to get something done. And
• 1:18:45
  I was very aware of the bureaucratic stuff that has to go on. Hoppy
• 1:18:47
  was I not to say there's a million people that want to get in there
• 1:18:49
  and make things harder. Don't make it harder. Don't make people like to
• 1:18:53
  make it harder. People like to make it harder. Just don't make it.
• 1:18:56
  Tell you real quick, I go back to something. Yeah, our
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  yards per route run row Here you go again. Yeah, tight ends in
• 1:19:09
  the NFL. Most targeted tight ends in the NFL. Here's some examples.
• 1:19:13
  You'll probably heard of these these fellas. Travis Kelsey two point two seven yards
• 1:19:18
  per route run, Mark Andrews one point nine seven, George Kittle one point
• 1:19:25
  eight zero. So you see, as you get up to that two,
• 1:19:28
  that's a pretty elite number. Tight ends are going to be lower than the
• 1:19:30
  receivers. But for pass catching tight ends, if you can push up into
• 1:19:34
  that number, that's great. Okay, So we watch those season. Watch
• 1:19:36
  that number see if you can get to And that's not to say that Cole
• 1:19:40
  Taylor's gonna is in the caliber of a Travis Kelsey just yet, but because
• 1:19:44
  this is a team that I think is going to have to use the tight
• 1:19:46
  end in the passing game, he should be able to raise that number up.
• 1:19:50
  They should be able to look for him a little bit more as the
• 1:19:53
  season goes on. As Neil said coming out of Game one that they wanted
• 1:19:56
  to do, you raise that number off of one yard per route run.
• 1:19:59
  That's my point being, that's a key to watch to this passing game if
• 1:20:01
  you're looking for ways to get the ball down the field. I think Cole
• 1:20:04
  Taylor can continue to be a weapon. And that's a stat that puts him.
• 1:20:08
  Now, what if you have we know you have a good offensive line.
• 1:20:12
  You know you have a stable of running backs. Cole Taylor catches two
• 1:20:15
  two point five passes per game. You know Carter, somebody else develops beside
• 1:20:21
  Carter. I mean, you can talk yourself into a better, more productive
• 1:20:26
  offense. Yeah, and I think that's the formula. You can kind of
• 1:20:30
  control the middle of the field. You can run up the middle when you
• 1:20:31
  want to. That Philly eagle push has been excellent. Short yard is situation.
• 1:20:35
  You find Taylor across the middle, Carter around the outsides, and middle
• 1:20:40
  Green taking off. Yeah, I think there's some things there. That's one
• 1:20:43
  of the things you have to look at though, is getting the ball down
• 1:20:45
  field. I think Taylor can be one of those guys. He's not the
• 1:20:47
  seventy yard touchdown play, no, but it'll over in the middle for eighteen
• 1:20:50
  yards. Work in that ten to twenty yard range. He can work in
• 1:20:54
  there. Yeah, so keep it. We'll keep an eye on that numbers.
• 1:20:56
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  don't want someone infiltrating the stats during the game and showing, for example,
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  that like cold Taylor his average per route was like nineteen yards. Hey,
• 1:22:01
  can that could happen? I'm no maxwv dot com. Sorry, yeah,
• 1:22:05
  go ahead. I'm meant to give you one other thing. Yeah, I'll
• 1:22:08
  go ahead find it. Because you know how there's always a West Virginia connection.
• 1:22:12
  You've heard that. Oh gosh, well he's looking. You think that
• 1:22:15
  there should be some kerchivl in some of those tailgating pictures. I would think.
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  What did you have? Just this is we always want the West Virginia
• 1:23:14
  connection, and we's searching for it. Ducane's cornerbacks coach Darnell Richardson is a
• 1:23:18
  Marshall grand and Logan Lots their backup tight end. His dad is Sean Lots,
• 1:23:24
  who played for the Mountaineers. Here we go, so there you go,
• 1:23:27
  always always West Virginia connection. And then that other dude from the nineteen
• 1:23:30
  whatever his name was, it went work in a shipyard. It's a connection
• 1:23:33
  there as well. Christie Christy Christy, Oh Christy flanagain all right, let
• 1:23:39
  me have. The father took him under his wing. We're done. Bye,